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Football PIX: Getafe close in on Champions League spot
May 06, 2019 10:46 IST
IMAGE: Getafe's Jorge Molino celebrates after scoring against Gerona on Sunday. Photograph: Getafe CG/Twitter
Getafe edged nearer Champions League qualification for the first time with a 2-0 win at home to struggling Girona in La Liga thanks to goals from strikers Jorge Molina and Angel Rodriguez in either half on Sunday.
The victory saw the unfashionable Madrid club tighten their grip on the coveted fourth spot in the table by moving on to 58 points after 36 games, three points clear of nearest challengers Sevilla, who lost to Leganes on Friday.
They are six points ahead of sixth-placed Valencia, who thrashed Huesca 6-0 on Sunday.
Girona, who finished the game with 10 men, later sank into the relegation zone after Real Valladolid beat Athletic Bilbao 1-0 at home later on Sunday, leapfrogging the Catalan side to take 17th spot on 38 points to Girona's 37.
Getafe broke the deadlock in the 16th minute after a misplaced pass from Girona defender Bernardo invited a counter-attack and 37-year-old Molina fired into the bottom corner to score his 14th goal of the season.
Getafe coach Jose Bordalas had to watch from the stands as he was serving a touchline ban for insulting the referee in his side's 2-1 defeat at Real Sociedad which had threatened to derail their hopes of making the top four.
Girona's Borja Garcia was sent off in the 70th minute for dissent and Getafe made the most of their advantage when substitute Angel Rodriguez doubled the lead in the 77th, holding off two defenders before arrowing his finish into the net.
Insigne's late strike secures second place for Napoli
IMAGE: Lorenzo Insigne scored late to help Napoli to a narrow 2-1 win over Cagliari to go second in Serie A. Photograph: Official SSC Napoli/Twitter
Lorenzo Insigne's 98th-minute penalty helped Napoli clinch the runners-up spot in Serie A with a 2-1 home win over Cagliari on Sunday.
Leonardo Pavoletti had put the Sardinian side in front in the second half but Dries Mertens' header for Napoli five minutes from time levelled the scores before Insigne converted the late winner from the spot.
The result means Carlo Ancelotti's side are assured of finishing in second place for a second consecutive season as they moved to 73 points, 10 clear of Inter Milan in third with three rounds of matches remaining.
Cagliari remain in 12th place with 40 points, eight clear of the relegation zone and two behind SPAL and Sassuolo.
Napoli were in stuttering form coming into the game, having won one of their last five league matches.
Their struggles looked set to continue when Nicolo Barella's backheel set up Pavoletti to fire in the opener after 63 minutes.
But the home side cranked up the pressure as Cagliari goalkeeper Alessio Cragno denied Mertens with a superb one-handed save.
However, Cragno was left powerless when the Belgian rose to head in the equaliser from close range with five minutes of regulation time remaining.
Napoli were then awarded a penalty for handball following a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) review deep into stoppage time, resulting in a red card for Cagliari midfielder Artur Ionita for dissent.
Insigne stepped up and showed great composure to dispatch the spot kick and seal the points.
AS Roma held to costly draw, Genoa miss last-gasp penalty
AS Roma's Antonio Mirante saved a stoppage-time penalty to earn a point in a 1-1 draw at Genoa in Serie A although Sunday's result still damaged the capital club's Champions League qualifying hopes.
Roma's Stephan El Shaarawy had put the visitors ahead in the 82nd minute before Genoa defender Cristian Romero headed home from a corner eight minutes later to level the scores.
The hosts then had a glorious chance to complete a remarkable turnaround when Mirante brought down Antonio Sanabria to concede a penalty deep into added time, but the Roma keeper made up for his error by saving the Paraguayan's spot kick.
"Genoa did well not to give up. We knew it was going to be difficult but we let ourselves get surprised on the corner, otherwise we would have taken the win home," Roma coach Claudio Ranieri told Sky Sport Italia.
"This was I think Romero's fourth goal of the season from set pieces. (Patrik) Schick was marking him but he managed to get away and head in at the last second.
"It's a pity, because the three points would have been very useful, but we'll keep going."
Roma are fifth in the standings and needed a win to stay within touching distance of fourth-placed Atalanta, who beat Lazio 3-1 earlier on Sunday.
The draw leaves Ranieri's team three points behind the Bergamo club on 59, while it could prove to be a valuable point for 16th-placed Genoa, who lie four points above the relegation zone with three rounds of matches remaining.
"We were able to get a problematic situation back on track and now we're right up there," Ranieri added, "so whoever picks up the most points in these final rounds will take the Champions League spot."
Genoa keeper Ionut Radu denied Roma an opener midway through the first half when he flew across his goal to claw Federico Fazio's header back off the line.
Romero then failed to direct an angled effort on target at the back post before Nicolo Zaniolo had a powerful strike tipped over by Radu after the break.
The game came to life in the closing stages when El Shaarawy met Edin Dzeko's flick-on to volley the opening goal into the bottom corner against his former club.
Roma's top scorer appeared to have secured a valuable win but Cesare Prandelli's side kept coming and were rewarded when Romero rose to nod in from a corner in the 90th minute.
Substitute Sanabria then won a penalty when he was brought down by Mirante in the fifth minute of added time, only for the striker to see his tame effort saved in a dramatic finale.
Lyon hold Lille to 2-2 draw in top-three thriller
Olympique Lyonnais and Lille both stayed on course for a top-three finish in Ligue 1 and Champions League football next season after battling to a 2-2 draw in pulsating clash on Sunday.
The result left Lille second on 69 points with three matches remaining, six ahead of third-placed Lyon and seven in front of fourth-placed St Etienne, who closed the gap with a 3-2 win at Monaco in the afternoon fixture.
Champions Paris St Germain had last month secured an eighth league title and their sixth in the last seven seasons.
The top two in Ligue 1 are guaranteed automatic Champions League berths while the third-placed team will enter the elite club competition's qualifying rounds.
There were muted celebrations from Lille's former forward Martin Terrier when he fired Lyon into an 11th-minute lead, sweeping the ball home from eight metres after a fine assist by Memphis Depay.
Lille goalkeeper Mike Maignan twice denied Nabil Fekir and his counterpart Anthony Lopes kept out a Loic Remy header on the stroke of halftime, but there was nothing the Lyon keeper could do after some sloppy defending early in the second half.
Remy capitalised on a comedy of errors after Jason Denayer completely missed a clearance and the ball rebounded off Ferland Mendy straight to the striker, who did well to round Lopes and slot the ball home from close range.
Boubakary Soumare then turned the match on its head when he drove the ball home off the underside of the bar from close range, as he got on the end of a floated free kick at the far post in the 69th minute.
But Lyon salvaged a point as right back Leo Dubois equalised with a fine volley from the edge of the penalty area in the 74th minute, drilling his shot in after Moussa Dembele's initial effort was cleared of the line by a Lille defender.
Leverkusen thrash Frankfurt 6-1 to keep top-four hopes alive
Bayer Leverkusen boosted their chances of a top-four finish in the Bundesliga and a place in next season's Champions League after scoring six first-half goals for a breathtaking 6-1 home win over direct rivals Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.
The result left Frankfurt fourth on 54 points with two games to play, ahead of fifth-placed Leverkusen on goal difference. Sixth-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach and Wolfsburg in seventh are a further two points adrift.
Frankfurt, looking bereft of energy after Thursday's 1-1 home draw with Chelsea in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final, were totally overrun in the opening period and lucky not to concede more than six in an astonishing first half.
Leverkusen's Lucas Alario struck twice and Kai Havertz, Julian Brandt and Charles Aranguiz also netted before Martin Hinteregger's own goal completed the scoring after 36 minutes, with Ante Rebic having pulled one back for Frankfurt.
Havertz opened the floodgates with a sweet left-foot shot from the edge of the penalty area in the second minute and Julian Brandt made it 2-0 in the 13th with a deft finish after a second assist by midfielder Aranguiz.
Rebic pulled one back for Frankfurt barely 60 seconds later with a heavily deflected shot but that was as good as it got for the visitors, with striker Alario heading in the home side's third in the 23rd minute.
The lively Aranguiz made it 4-1 when he blasted the ball into the roof of the net from close range after shaking off Makoto Hasebe and Alario grabbed his second with a tap-in after more good work by Kevin Volland.
Hinteregger's spectacular own-goal in the 36th added insult to injury as the centre back beat his own keeper Kevin Trapp with a diving header any striker would have been proud of, summing up Frankfurt's first-half nightmare.
With the game over as a contest, Leverkusen took their foot off the pedal after the break but still dominated with some crisp one-touch passing, as Havertz missed a pair of gilt-edged chances midway through the second half.
Frankfurt were reduced to almost walking pace in the closing stages and Havertz again came close when he fired inches wide from long range.
Earlier on Sunday, Schalke confirmed their place in the top flight with a 0-0 home stalemate against Augsburg while mid-table Fortuna Dusseldorf earned a 1-1 draw at Freiburg.
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Bukit Tigapuluh or "The Thirty Hills" lies just South of the equator in Eastern Sumatra. Approximately 130,000 hectares of lowland and hill tropical rainforest (some intra ecosystems exist inside like swamp and highland) of which the largest part is located in Riau province; a smaller part of 33,000 ha. is located in Jambi province. Bukit Tigapuluh is the most important area of remaining lowland forest on Sumatra These forests represent the biologically richest habitat type on earth, and one of the most threatened. Lowland forests are under severe threat from agricultural encroachment as well as plantation and timber enterprises all over Indonesia.
Bukit Tigapuluh has had the great advantage that the area has been relatively isolated, only inhabited by the local Malay, Talang, Mamak and Kubu tribes. Recently large-scale plantation and timber companies have moved into the Riau and Jambi provinces and threats to the park have intensified.
Bukit Tigapuluh forms part of the globally important Tesso Nilo Complex where some of the highest biodiversity figures on earth have been recorded.
The forests and its surrounding buffer area also provide homes for Orang Rimba (Kubu) and Talan Mamak - forest dwelling tribal communities all of whom have adapted to living in the environment in a sustainable way that has little impact on the ecosystem.
ORANG RIMBA: Orang Rimba, the "People of the Forest" are an indigenous people, numbering 2,500, in Jambi Province. Approximately 364 live in the forests on Bukit Tigapuluh. The Orang Rimba have developed a traditional system of forest resources management, based on enrichment and selective enhancement of many tree and plant species. They generally collect non-wood forest products, hunt, and practice swidden cultivation. The fact that the Orang Rimba base their livelihood on the collection of forest products makes this forest of great importance to them.
TALANG MAMAK: Known as a hinterland tribe, the Talang Mamak number only about 6,000 and depend on the natural resources found in the park in Riau's Indragiri Hulu regency.
The Medicinal Biota Expedition found the Talang Mamak tribe use 110 and the Kubu tribe 101 of medicinal plants and fungi to cure over 50 diseases. Leaves are the most usable part of medical plants after roots, bark and sap. They have long known the plants and fungi as effective cures for common diseases such as rheumatism, dysentery, hepatitis, respiratory ailments, malaria, goiter, skin rashes, coughs and diabetes. Some plants are also considered natural contraceptives.
Usually the parts of the plant are boiled then the water drunk as a herbal extract.
Unfortunately, much of this area, which borders directly on the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, is now designated for conversion to plantation, and the remainder is being degraded at a rapid rate, not merely by licensed logging companies but also by numerous illegal loggers This all puts pressure on their traditional way of life. Resettlement of poor people from Java and other provinces in Sumatra is threatening the survival of the native communities. According to recent studies within four years, "newcomers" controlled 30% of the indigenous people's 3,275 hectares in Talang Lakat village. The transmigrants' activities are environmentally destructive; they exploit the forest and have taught the Talang Mamak to use chain saws to fell trees.
The park is under severe threat from agricultural encroachment as well as plantation and timber enterprises all over Indonesia. However, recently large-scale plantation and timber companies have moved into the Riau and Jambi provinces and now approximately two thirds of the park has been logged.
The main potential threat comes from clearing land around the park for establishing oil palm or Industrial timber plantation, and coal mining planning to north of the park The other threat arise from newly established transmigration area to the north and west of the park. Unfortunately, much of this area, which borders directly on the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, is now designated for conversion to plantation, and the remainder is being degraded at a rapid rate, not merely by licensed logging companies but also by numerous illegal loggers.


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Q: RockPaperScissors Game (Best of 3) using TDD Recently I started to study Java along with TDD.
I started to develop a RockPaperScissors game using maven and junit.... and so far so good.
It was just one round, returning a winner.... so "basically" I have 2 principal classes: RoundTest and Round like below
*class RoundTest
public class RoundTest {

Player player1;
Player player2;
Round round;
Player winner;

@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
    player1 = new Player();
    player2 = new Player();
    round = new Round();
}

@Test
public void player1AndPlayer2ChooseRock_roundIsDraw() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Rock());
    player2.choose(new Rock());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(null, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChooseRockPlayer2ChoosePaper_Player2Wins() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Rock());
    player2.choose(new Paper());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(player2, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChooseRockPlayer2ChooseScissors_Player1Wins() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Rock());
    player2.choose(new Scissors());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(player1, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChoosePaperPlayer2ChoosePaper_roundIsDraw() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Paper());
    player2.choose(new Paper());

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(null, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChoosePaperPlayer2ChooseScissors_Player2Wins() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Paper());
    player2.choose(new Scissors());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(player2, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChoosePaperPlayer2ChooseRock_Player1Wins() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Paper());
    player2.choose(new Rock());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(player1, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChooseScissorsPlayer2ChooseScissors_roundIsDraw() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Scissors());
    player2.choose(new Scissors());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(null, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChooseScissorsPlayer2ChoosePaper_Player1Wins() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Scissors());
    player2.choose(new Paper());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(player1, winner);
}

@Test
public void player1ChooseScissorsPlayer2ChooseRock_Player2Wins() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Scissors());
    player2.choose(new Rock());
    winner = round.play(player1,player2);

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(player2, winner);
}

*class Round
public class Round {

public Player play(Player player1, Player player2) {

    Choice player1Choice = player1.getChoice();
    Choice player2Choice = player2.getChoice();

    if (player1Choice.beats(player2Choice)) {
        return player1;
    }
    if (player2Choice.beats(player1Choice)) {
        return player2;
    }
    return null;
}

Now, I wanna add the "best of 3" functionality using TDD without break the test chain...
So I created the class MatchTest and Match.
The class Match will managed the game where the player 1 and player 2 will play up to 3 times, but I finding a hard time to design it from a TDD perspective.
The first test case will be P1 winning the first and the second round, winning the game.
*class MatchTest
public class MatchTest {

Match match;
Player player1;
Player player2;
Player winner;

@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
    player1 = new Player();
    player2 = new Player();
    match = new Match();
}

@Test
public void test() {

    //Given

    //When
    player1.choose(new Rock());
    player2.choose(new Paper());

    //Then
    Assert.assertEquals(player1, match.getWinner(player1, player2));
}

*class Match
public class Match {

public Object getWinner(Player player1, Player player2) {

    return player1;
}

I really would like some guidance or ideas...
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Thiago

A: Note: check your test -- by the usual rules, Paper beats Rock.
public Object getWinner(Player player1, Player player2) {
    return player1;
}

At this point, there are two different directions you can go.
If you don't have a sense for where you are going next, then try to triangulate.  That means add a new test that will force you to change the implementation of getWinner.  Ideally, you choose a new test that only requires a small change.  For example, if you just switch the plays made by player1 and player2, then you should get player2 as the winner.
So you write that test, and it will fail.  Then make a small change to the implementation to make the test pass.  Then see if you can clean up the code.
If you do have a sense for where you are going next, then before you start worrying the next test, you might think about removing the duplication in your implementation.  In this case, the fact that a player wins is implicitly coupled to the choices that player made.  So make that fact explicit in your code.
So you might end up with something that looks like this:
private Round roundOne = new Round();

public Object getWinner(Player player1, Player player2) {
    return roundOne.play(player1, player2);
}

And that implementation is going to work until you start passing in players that change their choice from one round to the next.  So you will need to figure out what that looks like, and write some tests that implement that behavior.  Then you come back to match, and figure out what a test looks like when players start varying their strategies.
JBrains offers The World's Best Intro to TDD that may help.  The price is right to try it.

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He is implementing his tests and solutions in Java, but it isn't a Java tutorial -- you may occasionally need to look for other resources to clarify what he is doing in the code.

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Just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Mary J.
The conversation was made for many reasons that black women do not get the best health care. Time to talk, Mary J. Let him think We do not discuss such issues in our society.
Blizzard said According to Blavity, he was not very knowledgeable about mammograms until he was 40 years old.
She said, "I didn't know about breast cancer or mammograms until I was 40, and I was in the music business. And I was trying to take care of myself. My body started talking, so I started listening.
Bliss added that she found a doctor who helped her become more diverse because it was not discussed at an early age.
"I found out about it at GYN. They don't discuss it when we're kids. They don't say, 'Go get a mammogram.' You'll learn about it as you get older, he said. "So, they don't talk about it, and that's why they live in the hospital for two weeks. And now you know about it. That's why it's so important to me."
Mary J. Bliss shared that her family members had died of breast cancer in addition to uterine cancer.
"My aunt died of breast cancer. My grandmother died of cervical cancer, and one of my aunts died of lung cancer. He talked about what happened when people found out too late because of wealth and education. "What happens is they end up in the hospital, and no one in our family has anyone to talk to about it when we were little."
When discussing community inequality, Dr. Arlene Richardson said that we develop breast cancer at a young age.
"We develop breast cancer at a young age. About 25-28% of our breast cancers are under the age of 50. Eight percent are under the age of 40," she said. Another 12 to 1,300 black women will die every year. Why should we do that? "
Mary J. "Take care of that. Take care of your health."
Rumiz, what do you think of our community's conversation about breast cancer?
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'Popworld' caught up with The Delays' frontman Aaron Gilbert for a Q&A, and asked the singer if he thought the human race would cope if the internet just stopped. "Yes, but for a while the whole world would just descend into anarchy," he said. "Then we'd figure out that we never used to have it and that things were probably better then. You might actually have to speak to another human face to face then. You know, that would be terrible." Popworld.co.uk has since removed the article.


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Initially focused on supplying innovative components to furniture manufacturers abroad, this will be the first time that GFC will promote its product line domestically.
In addition to having a stand at "Baldai 2017″, Mr. Leonas Kontvainis, an expert in multifunctional furniture components and Managing Partner of GFC will be holding a free of charge lecture on various recliner mechanism systems.
A two-hour introductory lecture will break down different recliner mechanisms by functionality and type, as well as practical implementation in specific furniture designs. Topics relating to adjacent electronic components, recliner frame construction and creation of good seating comfort will also be addressed.
"I am looking forward to sharing my know-how in functional furniture components with Lithuanian producers", Mr. Kontvainis said. "We have some great furniture manufacturers in Lithuania that are still trying to compete on price only. I want to show them how making advanced motion furniture can benefit their business and open path to larger western marketplaces".
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Can you refuse to a hire a transgender applicant because he won't mix well with the customers?
November 3, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer
Image Credit: Pxfuel (Having Doubts – Drawing of a Man on Blackboard – Illustration)
The short answer is no.
The longer answer is no effing way because that's sex (gender identity) discrimination. And if that's actually your rationale for not hiring someone, don't double down on the stupid by admitting it to the applicant.
Perhaps, I should write the press releases for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Alas, that next big step in my career will have to wait. For now, the Commission has its own — more articulate, less snarky — way with words. Peep this press release announcing a $60K settlement to resolve a claim of sex discrimination:
[A] furniture retailer with locations in northern Minnesota, has agreed to pay $60,000 and has committed to providing training and revising its policies to resolve a finding of gender identity discrimination, a form of sex discrimination, by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
An investigation by the EEOC's Minneapolis Area Office concluded that [the company] did not hire a job applicant for a sales position because he is transgender. A hiring official informed him he would not "mix well with the customers." Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, including bias based on transgender status. Title VII does not permit discriminatory employment decisions based on customer preference.
In addition to paying $60,000, the company will also adopt more objective criteria for hiring decisions and utilize a scoring matrix for job interviews.
Here is more from the EEOC on the problems with discriminatory customer preference:
An employment decision based on the discriminatory preferences of others is itself discriminatory. For example, a specific "corporate look" or "image" policy may serve as a proxy for discriminatory customer preference or prejudice, and, accordingly, would not justify hiring, assignment, or promotion decisions that treat individuals in a disparate manner based on their national origin.
And it's not ok to require all employees of a particular protected class to work away from public contact because of an actual or assumed customer preference for interacting with people of another protected class.
But by all means, if you want to have all the Yankees, Lakers, and Cowboys fans work the graveyard shift to avoid customer contact — ain't nothing wrong with that. Heck, I'll even write that policy for you.
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Updated: November 2, 2021 10:46 pm


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Introduced by the revised pharmaceutical legislation in November 2005, consulting target patient groups ("user testing") aims to improve the information provided in the package leaflet (PL) and make it more suitable to patients' and caregivers' needs. EMEA analysed the first year of experience with user testing by reviewing report assessments submitted by the pharmaceutical industry to identify areas where different views have been expressed. These results were shared and discussed with the Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures-Human (CMD(h)) with the objective of harmonising the approach to user testing at the European level. Preliminary results regarding compliance and final outcome are encouraging. However, one of the main conclusions of the exercise is the need for further guidance for both industry and assessors.


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Q: AngularJS form input with Google Places API not saving full string I am trying to capture data from a form input that utilizes the Google Places API.
If I begin typing a location like for instance "Kingst", and I then choose "Kingston ON, Canada" from the drop-down list of related suggestions, the input field populates with "Kingston ON, Canada" as it should.

However, when I hit the save button, only what I originally typed is saved to the database. ie: "Kingst".

Here is a possible hint:
During multiple tests, I have found out that if I put my cursor back into that same input field and then remove it again, the proper full string is saved to the database when I hit the submit button.
I'm not sure how to get the full string to save upon selecting a suggestion from the dropdown, without having to put my cursor into the field and change the string.
In my form I have this input field:
<form>

  <input id="eventLocation" placeholder="Event Location..." class="form-control" name="eventLocation" ng-model="newEvent.location">

  <input type="hidden" id="eventLat" placeholder="Latitude..." class="form-control" name="eventLat" ng-model="newEvent.lat">

  <input type="hidden" id="eventLng" placeholder="Longitude..." class="form-control" name="eventLng" ng-model="newEvent.lng">
 <button type="submit" ng-disabled="fuck.$invalid" class="btn btn-primary pull-right" ng-click="addEvent(newEvent);newEvent = null;">send</button>
</form>

In the HTML below the form I have the following:

In the controller I have:
 $scope.addEvent = function(newEvent) {
    var eventLat = document.getElementById('eventLat').value;
    var eventLng = document.getElementById('eventLng').value;

    if (newEvent) {
        // push a event to the end of the array
      $scope.events.$add({
        location:  newEvent.location,
        latitude:  eventLat,
        longitude: eventLng,
        createdBy: user.uid,
        createdAt: Firebase.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP
      })
      // display any errors
            .catch(alert);
    }
    document.getElementById('eventLat').value = '';
    document.getElementById('eventLng').value = '';
  };

A: I solved this issue by doing the following:
In my controller I added:
var eventLoc = document.getElementById('eventLocation').value;

...

$scope.events.$add({
   location:  eventLoc,
...

A: Better you used this code. Because while using this code circular to json conversion is build inside the js
Controller.js file
.directive('googleplace', function() {
    return {
        require: 'ngModel',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs, model) {
            var options = {
                types: [],
                componentRestrictions: {country: 'in'}
            };
            scope.gPlace = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(element[0], options);

            google.maps.event.addListener(scope.gPlace, 'place_changed', function() {
                scope.$apply(function() {
                    model.$setViewValue(element.val());
                });
            });
        }
    };
});

Note:If u can read on specfic country means , include this tag
componentRestrictions: {country: 'in'}

In HTML file you just add googleplace tag only.


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Kamská nebo také Permská přehradní nádrž ( nebo ) je přehradní nádrž na území Permského kraje v Rusku. Má rozlohu 1915 km². Je 272 km dlouhá (korytem Kamy) a maximálně 30 km široká. Průměrná hloubka je 6,3 m a maximální 30 m. Má objem 12,2 km³. Podél všech hlavních přítoků Kamy (Čusovaja se Sylvou, Obva, Iňva, Kosva, Jajva, Kondas, Čermoz) se vytvořily výrazné zálivy dlouhé 50 až 140 km a široké 10 až 15 km.

Vodní režim
Nádrž na řece Kamě za přehradní hrází Kamské vodní elektrárny u města Perm byla naplněna v letech 1954-56. Úroveň hladiny kolísá v rozsahu 7 m. Reguluje sezónní kolísání průtoku.

Přítoky
 Čermoz
 Čusovaja
 Iňva
 Jajva
 Kama
 Kondas
 Kosva
 Obva

Využití
Využívá se pro energetiku, vodní dopravu a zásobování. Je zde rozvinuté rybářství (cejni, candáti, štiky, okouni, plotice). Na břehu leží města Perm, Dobrjanka, Čermoz, Berezniki, Usolje, Solikamsk.

Literatura

Externí odkazy

Přehradní nádrže v Rusku
Geografie Permského kraje
Povodí Kamy


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America's New Monkeypox Strategy Rests on a Single Study
Will splitting monkeypox vaccines in five work out?
Once again, the United States is messing up its approach to vaccines. Three months into its monkeypox outbreak, just 620,000 doses of the two-injection Jynneos shot—the nation's current best immune defense against the virus—have been shipped to states, not nearly enough to immunize the 1.6 million to 1.7 million Americans that the CDC considers at highest risk. The next deliveries from the manufacturer aren't slated until September at the earliest. For now, we're stuck with the stocks we've got.
Which is why the feds have turned to Inoculation Plan B: splitting Jynneos doses into five, and poking them into the skin, rather than into the layer of fat beneath. The FDA issued an emergency-use authorization for the strategy yesterday afternoon.
This dose-sparing tactic will allow far more people to sign up for doses before summer's end; if successful, it could help contain the outbreak in the U.S., which currently accounts for nearly a third of the world's documented monkeypox cases. But this decision is based on scant data, and the degree of protection offered by in-skin shots is no guarantee. The FDA is now playing a high-stakes game with the health and trust of people most vulnerable to monkeypox—an already marginalized population. Call it a bold decision; call it a risky gamble: It may be the best option the country currently has, but one the U.S. could have avoided had it marshaled a stronger response earlier on.
[Read: America should have been able to handle monkeypox]
Little is known about how Jynneos performs against monkeypox even in its prescribed dosing regimen, the so-called subcutaneous route; the new method, intradermal injection, is a murkier proposition still. "We are in a very data-thin zone," says Jeanne Marrazzo, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The shot was approved for use against smallpox and monkeypox in 2019. But to date, researchers don't have a strong sense of how well it guards against disease or infection or how long protection lasts. Although scientists know that two doses of Jynneos can elicit similar numbers of antibodies as older poxvirus vaccines, no estimates of the vaccine's true efficacy, from large-scale clinical trials, exist; a human study in the Congo hasn't yet reported results. And though firmer data have shown that the vaccine keeps lab monkeys from getting seriously sick, "I don't necessarily trust making the clinical decisions" based just on that, says Mark Slifka, a vaccinologist at Oregon Health & Science University. It's not even clear if Jynneos can stop someone from transmitting the virus, especially now that many cases seem to be arising via skin-to-skin contact during sex, an understudied form of spread.
The emergency switch to lower-dose intradermal administration has been tested with other vaccines, among them the shots that guard against yellow fever and influenza. Skin is rife with specialized defensive cells that can snatch up bits of vaccines and ferry them to other immune fighters, "so you can use a smaller dose and get similar responses" to a full-size subcutaneous shot, says Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, a pharmacist at Loma Linda University, in California.
One lone study from 2015 suggests that this logic should hold for Jynneos—at least among the trial's participants, healthy adults who were mostly young and white. In that group, the subcutaneous and intradermal shots were "quite comparable" at rousing antibodies in the body, which is "very encouraging," says Kathryn Edwards, a vaccinologist at Vanderbilt University who helped conduct the study. But that's not the same as bona fide protection against the virus. And what happened in that single study won't necessarily play out in the real world, especially in the context of the current outbreak, which differs from its predecessors in demographic and size. "I do think these data need to be confirmed," Edwards told me. Most of the cases so far have been in men who have sex with men, many of them living with HIV—a community whose immune systems don't look the same as the population at large, and in whom vaccines may not take as well, or for as long, Slifka told me. And yet the FDA has charged ahead "completely based on" that 2015 study, says Alexandra Yonts, a pediatric infectious-disease physician at Children's National Hospital. In a statement, the agency explained that it had "determined that the known and potential benefits of Jynneos outweigh the known and potential risks" for green-lighting the intradermal route.
Delivering vaccines into skin leaves little room for error. The tuberculosis skin test is also administered intradermally; Marrazzo has seen "dozens of those messed up." People have bled or been bruised. Needles have gone too deep—a mistake that can slash effectiveness—or too shallow, letting liquid ooze back out. Intradermal injections are an uncommon and difficult procedure, requiring additional training and specialized needles. "There is going to be some degree of error," says Kenneth Cruz, a community-health worker in New York. "People are going to wonder if they're protected, and it's going to be difficult to check."
Already, health-care providers are having "issues staffing vaccination clinics for subcutaneous injections," says Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an infectious-disease physician at Emory University; the switch to intradermal will exacerbate those shortages and could raise further vaccination barriers for people without reliable health-care access. Intradermal shots can also come with more irksome side effects, as the 2015 study suggested, including redness and swelling at the injection site that can be "pretty robust and severe," Marrazzo told me. People who get their first doses might not come back for more, defeating the point.
Dose-splitting is still "a much better way to go," Yonts told me, than skipping or seriously delaying second doses—which has already happened in cities such as New York; Washington, D.C.; and San Francisco—in an effort to conserve supplies. Even elsewhere, second appointments are very hard to get. "I do not know anyone who's gotten the second dose," says Nick Diamond, one of the investigators behind RESPND-MI, an LGBTQ-led survey of monkeypox symptoms and networks. Which isn't great: After just one shot, antibody levels "barely budge," Yonts said, leaving people vulnerable until two weeks after the second injection is complete. (Another vaccine, ACAM2000, is available but can cause serious side effects, and isn't recommended for people who are immunocompromised, including those with HIV.)
With no other good choices on the table, dose-splitting is the only road to take. "I don't really see another viable option," Marrazzo told me. That doesn't erase the fact that the nation squandered its chance with Inoculation Plan A: leveraging its considerable resources to deploy the tests, treatments, and vaccines to contain the outbreak early on, and keep subcutaneous shots in contention. Now, with about 9,500 recorded infections among Americans nationwide—a definite undercount—the door to that has slammed shut. Sticking with the strategy of two full subcutaneous doses for all was projected to leave us with "no vaccine by October," Marrazzo said.
Plan B, though, could have real costs, depressing vaccine demand and trust. Already, "we haven't been able to answer questions about the level of protection," Diamond told me, "which makes it really hard for people to make decisions around risk." The best Abdul-Mutakabbir has been able to tell her patients is that "receiving this vaccine will likely protect you more than if you had not," she said. Which doesn't do much to "allay fears and worries," Cruz told me, especially after more than a year of confusing and conflicting messages about COVID vaccination.
[Read: What should worry most Americans about our monkeypox response]
Joseph Osmundson, a microbiologist at NYU and a RESPND-MI investigator, told me that he thinks the Biden administration did not properly consult members of vulnerable communities before plowing ahead with dose-splitting. And he worries that disparities could arise if subcutaneous shots end up outperforming intradermal ones: People who had the socioeconomic privilege to find and access appointments early will have gotten the primo doses, while those already at higher risk skate by on a smaller serving of immunity, exacerbating the inequities the outbreak has already begun to exploit. The numbers alone could leave a bad taste: "If I were standing in line to get a fifth of a vaccine," Diamond told me, "I would wonder why my health is valued less."
Dose-splitting is a stopgap—"not a solution" that's sustainable, says Luciana Borio, a former acting chief scientist at the FDA. The monkeypox outbreak could stretch on for many months, or become endemic in animals. Eventually, boosts may be necessary; ACAM2000 may yet have a larger role to play. The U.S. will need clinical trials to understand which dosing strategies actually work best, and in whom—and the populations most affected, especially men who have sex with men, should be involved in those decisions along the way. Officials must be "transparent about the gaps that exist," Abdul-Mutakabbir told me, "and be intentional about working to fill those gaps."
Still, as news of the dose-splitting decision continues to percolate out into the population, an inadvertent message may already be getting sent: "The government is placing the onus on community members to protect themselves," Cruz said. "But we're in this position because the government failed." Should the administration's big bet on dose-splitting not pay off, Osmundson said, for those who have so far borne the outbreak's brunt, "that will be the nail in the coffin of any public trust."
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Q: Chrome on Ubuntu not playing sound from YouTube Recently I have lost the ability to play sound from Flash-based apps like YouTube through the built in speakers on my Ubuntu 14.04 laptop via Chrome. (When I plug into an external monitor with speakers, it works fine.) I know this issue is with Chrome because my internal speakers work just fine for other apps. I have seen many sites on how to fix this problem (it appears to be a "known"), but none of the fixes I have tried have worked for me. Here are the things I have tried so far:

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*Checked all obvious audio settings (speakers are not muted, youtube is not muted, other sounds from different apps, YouTube sounds come through fine in other browsers like Firefox).

*Consulted the internet. Found about a million hits for ways to fix it (all of which are detailed below). Some of the suggestions came from Google themselves. Other suggestions pointed to YouTube videos (smh).

*Did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade.

*Cleared cache, browser history, etc. dating back to the beginning of time.

*Closed and restarted Chrome.

*Confirmed that there are no other plugins competing for the audio like other incarnations of Flash via chrome://plugins.

*Uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome.

*Tried Chrome Beta.
9.Tried incongnito mode.
Does anyone have any other things I can try? I am getting pretty annoyed by the above not working. Hopefully there is something less obvious that actually will work.
TIA.

A: i was having a similar problem. I ended up purging pulse audio and just sticking with alsaaudio. I got qas mixer to manage the sound card and settings and PNMixer for the tray from software center at this point sound was working again in vlc etc after setting default to analog mixing device (I dont use hdmi I out put through the card to a 5.1 system, if you use hdmi you might set defaults to digital mixing.)
Sound now worked everywhere.
If still issues try cutting /.asoundrc to another directory from the home folder and restarting. If no change go here
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA#Soundcard_only_available_for_one_application
and see if there are any configurations that are wrong


Beneath a vast formation of creamy billowing clouds a heavily armed Dutch merchantman fires a salute. Alarmed by the sudden noise a bunch of seagulls fly up in all directions. The enormous vessel is dangerously close to the shore. Another three-master can be seen in the middle zone and a third is at anchor in the far distance. In the foreground are two transport vessels, probably kaags. The horizon is a coastline with a town. The faint silhouette of a plump tower can be made out.
Aernout Smit was a prolific painter and his preserved output spans a wide range of marine subjects. He depicted seas as well as inland waters. His paintings show a great variety of shipping in different weather conditions. His stormy seas with sweeping clouds are spectacular. In his calms with their silvery tonality, of which our painting is a good example, Smit strikes a completely different mood. Smit only very rarely dated his paintings.iii The present evocative calm is therefore important in tracing the artist's development.
Documentary evidence relating to Smit's life is scarce. He was probably born in Amsterdam. In a notarial document of 1667 the artist lists his age as "about 26", which puts his date of birth in 1640/41. The said document reveals that Smit was employed by the art dealer Laurens Cornelisz de Coninck, for whom he presumably painted. According to the eighteenth-century biographer of artists Arnold Houbraken, Smit studied with Jan Teunisz Blanckerhoff, who worked in Amsterdam between 1659 and 1666. In 1688 the artist is mentioned as a member in the Amsterdam painters' guild records.
i For a discussion for Bakhuizen's influence on Smit and an analysis of Smit's style and motifs, see: G. de Beer, Ludolf Backhuysen: Sein Leben und Werk (1630 - 1708), Zwolle 2002, pp. 192-197.
ii See for this: J. Giltaij & J. Kelch (eds.), Lof der zeevaart. De Hollandse zeeschilders van de 17e eeuw, exh. cat. Rotterdam (Boijmans-Van Beuningen); Berlin (Gemäldegalerie im Bodemuseum) 1996-97, p. 383.
iii Another painting dated 1671, showing four merchantmen scattered across the scene, with smaller vessels, is in a private collection in The Netherlands. A photo and documentation is at the RKD, The Hague (box 596). A marine with shipping before a Mediterranean coast, strongly reminiscent of his teacher Blanckerhoff, in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (inv. nr. 667) is dated 1678. A late coastal view, dated 1697, was with the Douwes Gallery in 1972 (photo at RKD, The Hague, in box 594).


-Do you know if the 12 pack were product ?
-About 30 pack, have you ever seen one other than "sunray set" ?
I have never seen a 12 pack and the Sunray set is the only 30pack I've seen.
ok, thank you Eric, I was wondering if the ninja mites were supposed to be devided into 4 factions : Sunray, Dragon, Samouraï and Shadow, and if all the 30 pack sunray sets contain the same characters.


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"Almost sold out as soon as the reservation opens" Pepper audience doubled ↑ Kim Yeon-kyung effect
Gwangju Pepper Stadium (Yeomju Indoor Gymnasium) where the match between Pepper Savings Bank and Heungkuk Life Insurance took place on the 15th. An hour before the game, cars lined up to park at the entrance of the stadium, and it was crowded with fans who entered early.
Pepper Savings Bank declared that 3,000 people were sold out before the game even started. An official from the Pepper Savings Bank club explained, "As soon as general reservations opened, almost all seats were sold. Even after opening the seats on the 3rd floor, they sold out quickly." Pepper Stadium, which is based in Gwangju Metropolitan City, is receiving a lot of attention from local fans. However, since it is a new team that is still in its second year of existence and the team's performance is not good, it lacks box office power. However, both matches against Heungkuk Life Insurance at home this season were sold out. 3,000 people were sold out at Heungkuk Life Insurance, which was held on December 7 last year, and all tickets were sold on this day, the second matchup. As many fans filled the stands, the concentration of the players also increased, and naturally, a hot fever was formed.
The average number of spectators at Pepper Savings Bank's home games this season is 1,684 (as of January 15). Considering that most games attracted 1,000 spectators, the number of spectators more than doubled only in Heungkuk Life. You can read the considerable interest of the fans.
In particular, despite the fact that the game on 먹튀검증 December 7 was held on Wednesday, the area around the stadium was so crowded with spectators that the nearby roads were paralyzed by the crowds of cars. It is a common sight not only in Gwangju, but also in expeditions on days when Heungkuk Life Insurance matches are held this season. Heungkuk Life Insurance, which recorded an average number of spectators of 4,310 in Incheon home games and ranked first in both male and female divisions, is also recording an average number of spectators of 3,403 in away matches. During the match against Heungkuk Life Insurance, the number of home spectators of the opposing team jumps up. It is no exaggeration to say that Heungkuk Life Insurance is leading the women's box office this season.
Experts see this phenomenon as the 'Kim Yeon-kyung effect'. As 'star player' Kim Yeon-kyung, who chose to return to Korea again ahead of this season, made a big success in the V-League, the interest of all volleyball fans in Heungkuk Life Insurance naturally rose. The percentage of 'intuition' has also increased. In fact, even in the away game, it was easy to see the away fans cheering for Heungkuk Life Insurance or the cheering phrase. Heungkuk Life Insurance recently suffered a great deal of trouble as various misdeeds broke out in the process of hardening former manager Kwon Soon-chan, but rather, the interest of fans did not fall.
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Today marks an incredible moment in the science and art community that has been blooming over on Mad Art Lab. It also is proof that there are a whole heck of a lot of women in science that you may not know about.
Dale at Mad Art Lab has published the 50th edition of his series on Women in Science! This series is brilliant and not only incredibly well researched and well written, the series is also beautifully illustrated.
For number 50 he has chosen, More Than a Prize Unwon: The Manifold Legacies of Rosalind Franklinas his subject. I will put the first two paragraphs in this post for you to read and then you can click through for the remainder and the fabulous drawings on Mad Art Lab. Dale has also taken the first year of his Women in Science posts and turned them into a book, which you really should pick up. I have it and I love it. It's a great gift for anyone, young or old, who wants to learn about the history of science and the contributions that women have made throughout the years.
We are so incredibly happy to have Dale as part of our network and so incredibly proud of the work he has done.
Now, for your entertainment and education, here is the first two paragraphs of the 50th edition of Women in Science! The link to the rest of the story is at the bottom.
When Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) succumbed to cancer at the age of thirty-seven, she left behind monumental contributions to three different fields of science, any one of which would have placed her on the short list of the world's most significant twentieth century scientists. And yet, when we talk about Franklin, we don't tend to say, "She ascertained the structural relation of the protein and genetic content in the tobacco mosaic virus," or, "She discovered the molecular reason that certain types of coal can't be graphitized," but rather, "She wasn't sufficiently recognized for her part in the discovery of DNA's double helical structure."
Unique among scientists, she's remembered for something that happened to her, at the expense of the magnificent things she actually did. Nothing would have irritated her more than to have the stupendous scientific output of her final five years doing virus research at Birkbeck systematically ignored in favor of lascivious conspiracy theories about Watson and Crick stealing DNA's structure from under her nose. For there is much, much more to Rosalind Franklin than a citation scandal.
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Millbrook School seeks a French teacher, capable of teaching beginning through upper-level French, to be part of a vibrant World Language Department at the School beginning in the 2023-24 academic year. The French program promotes student language proficiency through a curriculum that emphasizes authentic languages starting at the novice level, and the School is eager for a collaborative colleague who will embrace its strengths and further its development. Interest in 21st century pedagogy, integrated performance assessment, and continued professional growth are essential. We seek educators who value creating inclusive classrooms and curriculum. In addition to teaching four sections, this position includes coaching or supervising an afternoon program for two out of three seasons and serving as an advisor for up to six students. Housing may be provided and would bring with it residential life duties. Energy for adolescents, adaptability, humor, and integrity are the hallmarks of Millbrook's faculty. Salary is competitive.
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As an equal opportunity employer, Millbrook School does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Moreover, Millbrook School recognizes the value of a diverse faculty and staff, and actively seeks candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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Nestled on 800 acres in the Hudson Valley, Millbrook School resides just 90 miles north of New York City. Home to 320 students in grades 9 through 12 from 22 states and 17 countries, the campus includes state-of-the-art residential, athletic, arts, and environmental science facilities, including the AZA-accredited Trevor Zoo. Everything that Millbrook School does begins and ends with its mission: In a community where every student is known and needed, Millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, stewardship, service, and curiosity. To prepare our students for a life both individually satisfying and valuable to the greater society, we strive to deliberately construct a community that embodies and celebrates the diversity that characterizes the modern world.
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Melissa del Bosque Jul 8, 2015, 11:19 am CST
The unions that represent Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents aren't shy when it comes to speaking out against the Obama administration's immigration policies. But in a new report, "Blurring Borders: Collusion between Anti-Immigrant Groups and Immigration Enforcement Agents," the Chicago nonprofit Center for New Community finds that some union leaders are working in tandem with anti-immigrant groups to undermine immigration policies and promote anti-immigrant views.
The most prominent example, according to Anu Joshi, campaign manager for the center, was a series of tense protests last summer in Murrieta, California, that made national headlines. Anti-immigrant protestors holding signs that read "Stop the invasion of illegals" and "deport illegals" blocked government buses filled with undocumented women and children as they tried to enter a Border Patrol processing center.
The protest organizers had received information about bus routes and schedules from Border Patrol official Ron Zermeno, a fact that came to light from reports in right-wing media outlets such as Breitbart and National Review.
"Murrieta was an ugly example of this collusion with anti-immigrant groups," Joshi said.
According to the center's report, Zermeno, who is health and safety director for the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613 in San Diego, was also "privately coordinating and assisting far-right, anti-government activists in organizing a nine-day 'Border Convoy' along the U.S.-Mexico border" from Murrieta to McAllen to protest the influx of Central American refugees arriving at the border.
ICE agents have also flouted the law, according to the center's report. In June 2012, President Obama issued an executive order called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which provides some undocumented students with legal status in the country. A few days later, 10 agents, led by Chris Crane, president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council 118, filed a lawsuit arguing that the policy was unconstitutional and an executive overreach.
The agents were represented by attorney Kris Kobach, legal counsel for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Kobach helped craft Arizona's controversial anti-immigrant SB 1070 legislation, which required police to check citizenship status.) The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the agents' case in April.
ICE agents have also flouted the law, according to the center's report.
"They should be carrying out public policy set by elected officials," said Mark Potok, a senior fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center. "It's not their job to decide what is the law and what isn't."
But Shawn Moran, vice president and spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council, said the union has every right to be involved in the political process.
"They have a right not to like it," Moran said of the critics. "But not to identify us as members of a hate group or as racists." Moran said his union represents at least 17,000 Border Patrol agents and that it isn't in collusion with anti-immigrant groups.
"I can't speak to what an individual local has done," he said. "But our interactions with those groups have been nothing but professional. There's no behind-the-scenes manipulation. We're very transparent about what we want and how we go about getting it."
Melissa del Bosque is a staff writer and a 2016-17 Lannan Fellow at The Investigative Fund.
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