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#pragma once
#include <aws/cloudformation/CloudFormation_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/cloudformation/CloudFormationRequest.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace CloudFormation
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   *
The input for the ExecuteChangeSet action.

See Also:

   * AWS
   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_CLOUDFORMATION_API ExecuteChangeSetRequest : public CloudFormationRequest
  {
  public:
    ExecuteChangeSetRequest();

    // Service request name is the Operation name which will send this request out,
    // each operation should has unique request name, so that we can get operation's name from this request.
    // Note: this is not true for response, multiple operations may have the same response name,
    // so we can not get operation's name from response.
    inline virtual const char* GetServiceRequestName() const override { return "ExecuteChangeSet"; }

    Aws::String SerializePayload() const override;

  protected:
    void DumpBodyToUrl(Aws::Http::URI& uri ) const override;

  public:

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetChangeSetName() const{ return m_changeSetName; }

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline bool ChangeSetNameHasBeenSet() const { return m_changeSetNameHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline void SetChangeSetName(const Aws::String& value) { m_changeSetNameHasBeenSet = true; m_changeSetName = value; }

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline void SetChangeSetName(Aws::String&& value) { m_changeSetNameHasBeenSet = true; m_changeSetName = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline void SetChangeSetName(const char* value) { m_changeSetNameHasBeenSet = true; m_changeSetName.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithChangeSetName(const Aws::String& value) { SetChangeSetName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithChangeSetName(Aws::String&& value) { SetChangeSetName(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the change set that you want use to
     * update the specified stack.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithChangeSetName(const char* value) { SetChangeSetName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetStackName() const{ return m_stackName; }

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline bool StackNameHasBeenSet() const { return m_stackNameHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline void SetStackName(const Aws::String& value) { m_stackNameHasBeenSet = true; m_stackName = value; }

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline void SetStackName(Aws::String&& value) { m_stackNameHasBeenSet = true; m_stackName = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline void SetStackName(const char* value) { m_stackNameHasBeenSet = true; m_stackName.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithStackName(const Aws::String& value) { SetStackName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithStackName(Aws::String&& value) { SetStackName(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
If you specified the name of a change set, specify the stack name or Amazon
     * Resource Name (ARN) that's associated with the change set you want to
     * execute.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithStackName(const char* value) { SetStackName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetClientRequestToken() const{ return m_clientRequestToken; }

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline bool ClientRequestTokenHasBeenSet() const { return m_clientRequestTokenHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline void SetClientRequestToken(const Aws::String& value) { m_clientRequestTokenHasBeenSet = true; m_clientRequestToken = value; }

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline void SetClientRequestToken(Aws::String&& value) { m_clientRequestTokenHasBeenSet = true; m_clientRequestToken = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline void SetClientRequestToken(const char* value) { m_clientRequestTokenHasBeenSet = true; m_clientRequestToken.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithClientRequestToken(const Aws::String& value) { SetClientRequestToken(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithClientRequestToken(Aws::String&& value) { SetClientRequestToken(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A unique identifier for this ExecuteChangeSet request. Specify
     * this token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
     * you're not attempting to execute a change set to update a stack with the same
     * name. You might retry ExecuteChangeSet requests to ensure that
     * CloudFormation successfully received them.

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithClientRequestToken(const char* value) { SetClientRequestToken(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
Preserves the state of previously provisioned resources when an operation
     * fails.

Default: True

     */
    inline bool GetDisableRollback() const{ return m_disableRollback; }

    /**
     *
Preserves the state of previously provisioned resources when an operation
     * fails.

Default: True

     */
    inline bool DisableRollbackHasBeenSet() const { return m_disableRollbackHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
Preserves the state of previously provisioned resources when an operation
     * fails.

Default: True

     */
    inline void SetDisableRollback(bool value) { m_disableRollbackHasBeenSet = true; m_disableRollback = value; }

    /**
     *
Preserves the state of previously provisioned resources when an operation
     * fails.

Default: True

     */
    inline ExecuteChangeSetRequest& WithDisableRollback(bool value) { SetDisableRollback(value); return *this;}

  private:

    Aws::String m_changeSetName;
    bool m_changeSetNameHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_stackName;
    bool m_stackNameHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_clientRequestToken;
    bool m_clientRequestTokenHasBeenSet = false;

    bool m_disableRollback;
    bool m_disableRollbackHasBeenSet = false;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace CloudFormation
} // namespace Aws


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South Dakota campaigns rally supporters as election looms
Originally published November 5, 2018 at 10:34 am Updated November 5, 2018 at 4:33 pm
FILE – This combination of Oct. 23, 2018, file photos shows South Dakota gubernatorial candidates in the November 2018 election from left, Republican U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem, and Democratic state Sen . Billie Sutton. (Briana Sanchez/The Argus Leader via AP, File)
JAMES NORD
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Republican Kristi Noem turned to Vice President Mike Pence to help rally supporters in Rapid City as Democratic candidate Billie Sutton had events in the Sioux Falls area to close out the surprisingly competitive race for governor.
The candidates made their final arguments during the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday's election. They were both wrapping up statewide tours capping the race, which recent polls have found to be close despite South Dakota's heavy conservative tilt.
Meanwhile, Republican Sen. John Thune held events for Noem in eastern South Dakota. The four-term congresswoman also benefited from a September fundraiser featuring President Donald Trump.
Noem would be the state's first female governor. Sutton, a state senator and former professional rodeo cowboy, would be the first Democratic governor elected in over 40 years.
In the U.S. House race to succeed Noem, Republican front-runner Dusty Johnson had stops set in western South Dakota including the Pence event. Democrat Tim Bjorkman capped his campaign with a Sioux Falls rally.
Voters will also settle five ballot questions, among them measures that would reshape the state's citizen initiative system and raise tobacco taxes for the first time in more than a decade.
The most active are campaigns on either side of Amendment W, a government ethics overhaul, and a plan to increase tobacco taxes to make state technical schools more affordable called Initiated Measure 25. The tobacco industry has sunk millions of dollars into opposing the tax hike, which was losing in a recent poll.
Americans for Prosperity-South Dakota and the campaign against Amendment W planned to reach 75,000 South Dakota residents in the final days of the election cycle, Don Haggar, AFP's state director, said in a statement last week. Doug Kronaizl, spokesman for pro-amendment group Represent South Dakota, said in a statement that supporters' goal is to drop 10,000 pieces of literature in Sioux Falls to end the race.
An October poll found more people supporting Amendment W, the ethics measure, than opposing it, but a lot of respondents were undecided.
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

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How Collabra is Changing University Press Journal Publishing: Interview with Dan Morgan
Thanks to Dan Morgan for serving as a contributor to "Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, and Open Access"! This blog post features the full transcript of his interview for that paper on the state of academic journal publishing and solutions to make open access sustainable. You can access the paper here.
What will the future of university press journal publishing look like? The University of California Press (UCP) has been pioneering one possibility with its Collabra journals program. Collabra is an open access (OA) journal publishing initiative started by UCP, with a psychology title - Collabra: Psychology - and plans to add more titles in other disciplines under the Collabra name.
Collabra stands out from other university press publishing programs in that it is all digital and is working to keep journal revenue within the academic community. Funded by a below market article processing charge (APC) of $875 an article, Collabra reserves a portion of all revenue for its community subsidy fund, which is allocated towards editor and reviewer compensation and funding for future OA articles and projects. In this way Collabra is helping to support the OA publishing ecosystem.
We caught up with Dan Morgan, digital science publisher at UCP, to learn how Collabra has developed since its launch in fall of 2014 and his thoughts on the current OA journal publishing landscape.
Q&A with Dan Morgan
Collabra started out as a mega-journal. What was your impetus for transitioning it from a mega-journal to an open access journals program with partners? How has your vision for Collabra changed and why?
DM: The original plan for Collabra, even as a multidisciplinary mega-journal, was for it to have well-defined communities within it. Visualize a large house with clearly defined rooms, rather than a large warehouse with one big space full of content. However, we attracted the attention of the psychology community, first, and almost all of our submission were from this field. At a certain point we clearly looked like a psychology journal so we decided to just become one and focus on this field. At the same time, we didn't want to close down our ideas for other fields, so we are still open to them, but we plan on developing ideas in a more discipline by discipline, journal by journal manner. Our focus on partners and communities is just that it is easier to work with existing communities of scholars, rather than create a new brand or community from scratch.
As a more general point, it seems as if the focus on the mega-journal, which in 2014 seemed like the most discussed topic in scholarly communication, is changing slightly. What is the difference between an open access mega-journal with disciplinary sections, and a collection of separate open access journals, one might ask. Apart from the number of ISSNs issued, very little, as long as the content of the separate journals is accessible across all of the communities. For a great blog post, which links to an interesting working paper about the concept of the journal as a "club good," which certainly influenced our thinking, please see this blog post by Cameron Neylon.
How will UCP work with journal partners to launch titles under the Collabra brand? Do you think this approach could work for other university presses? What are the benefits?
DM: It is too early to outline exactly how this will work every time, and we do not want to over-define or limit our options. But we want to a) be open to appropriate scholarly/scientific communities and societies with a journal idea to launch with us, b) affiliate existing scholarly/scientific societies with our existing journals or sections in our journals, if there is a mission fit, and c) acquire existing journals, or have journals transfer to us, if there is opportunity. We stress that we will likely have to be quite selective in what we consider, due to our scale, the existing profile of Collabra as very mission-focused, and assessing what projects we can deliver value to AND make sustainable. The journals market is already hugely crowded.
There is no reason to suggest that other presses could not do this, and in fact I can think of a few that are, in various ways - e.g. MIT Press and Duke University Press.
The benefits to the press are that one can launch or inherit journals with an existing community of readers and authors. The benefits to the community are, hopefully, getting help with their mission of pushing their field forward, with a mission-driven publishing partner.
What do you see for the future of OA journal funding? What do you think needs to happen to make affordable OA possible?
DM: This is a huge question. Whatever works easiest and best, with OA as the outcome! I will limit my answer to a couple of phrases I often use. We must remember that OA is an outcome for a research object, and not a business model (and therefore can be supported by any appropriate model). And, we need to move to business models by design, and not by necessity.
I believe the common APC model is one driven by necessity, because there are few centralized budgets to be able to tap into, certain private funders like Wellcome Trust, HHMI notwithstanding. Anyone that is involved with APC-supported OA journals knows how fussy the micro-transactions of APCs are — so anything that helps not having to charge per article, and being able to tap into centralized budgets, prepayment plans, or clear, known budgets, will be a great leap forward. Right now the subsidy model is centred around funders and institutions, but any income source or fund can subsidize open access. A problem is that many funds and sources of APCs (e.g. libraries) are currently paying for many other things too, like subscription journals or packages.
How do you think journal publishing could be improved under non-profit organizations?
DM: It is interesting that, during the challenge to many publishers to prove the amount of (or defend the lack of) value they add to the publishing process, they often focus on tasks that are becoming ever more automatable, while dropping many services such a copyediting and reference checking, citing "rising costs." Inspired by UC Press' current collaborations with the CoKo foundation I see a real opportunity for a radical lowering of versioning, typesetting, formatting, and hosting costs, and a real opportunity to bring back some of the more human value-add services such as copyediting, developmental editing, instructional design, and other optional services which have fallen by the wayside in high-volume, commercial journal publishing.
If you could change one thing about the current journal publishing landscape right now what would it be and why?
DM: I wish more budgets and funds were freed up to support the communication of science and scholarship in whatever way it is best communicated, rather than simply supporting the ways it has previously been communicated. There is so much money in the industry that is scholarly journals publishing, and so much is currently under-utilized. I would want to change that for sure. And that does not need to be some kind of radical proposition either, which it often gets regarded as!
This post was written by Danielle Padula,
Tags:academic publishingscholarly communicationopen accesscollabrauniversity of california press
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The rhizome and tops of Polypodium vulgare, Linné.
COMMON NAMES: Common polypody, Rock polypod, Fern-root, Rock-brake, Brakeroot, Female fern, etc.
Botanical Source.—Polypodium has a perennial, creeping, irregular, brown rhizome, with membranous scales extending to the caudex or base of the stipe. The fronds are 6 to 12 inches high, distiched, green, smooth, deeply pinnatifid, being divided into alternate segments, nearly to the mid-vein, which are linear., oblong, obtuse, crenulate, the upper ones gradually smaller, parallel, a little curved, about a quarter of an inch wide. The stipe is naked and smooth. The fruit is borne on the lower surface of the frond, in large, distinct, golden dots, sori, or capsules, without any indusium, round, in a double row, and becoming finally brownish (W.—Eaton).
History and Description.—Polypody is common on shady rocks, in woods, and mountains throughout the United States. The root and tops are used in medicine. The root is of some length, 2 to 4 lines in diameter, frequently crooked, with chaffy scales, which are readily removed, and having many delicate, knobby rootlets. It has a peculiar, rather unpleasant odor, and a saccharo-mucilaginous, somewhat sickening taste. Water extracts its properties. Its constituents, according to Hager (Handbuch der Pharm. Praxis), are fatty oil (about 8 per cent), resin, some tannin, mannit, dextrose, dextrin, starch, malic acid, and a sweet substance resembling glycyrrhizin.
Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—This plant is pectoral, demulcent, purgative, and anthelmintic. A decoction or syrup as been found very valuable in pulmonary and hepatic diseases, and a strong decoction is recommended as a purgative, and for the expulsion of taenia and other worms. Dose of the powdered plant, from 1 to 4 drachms; of the decoction or syrup, from 1 to 4 fluid ounces, 3 or 4 times a day.
Related Species.—Polypodium adiantiforme, a West Indian plant, is regarded by the natives as a pronounced antisyphilitic, and medical testimony seems to confirm its reputation in that direction. The Central American fern, Polypodium friedrichsthalianum, is said to possess like virtues, and to be a remedy against the bite of the Mexican insect, toboba (New Idea, 1885; from Dragendorff's Heilpflanzen).


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Le Merle à froc noir (Turdus olivater) est une espèce de passereaux appartenant à la famille des Turdidae.

Habitats et répartition

Son aire s'étend de manière disparate dans le versant nord du massif colombien, la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, de la cordillère de Merida à l'ouest de la cordillère de la Costa et les tepuys du sud du Venezuela.

Son cadre naturel de vie est les forêts humides de montagnes et les zones de broussailles de haute altitude tropicales ou subtropicales et les forêts anciennes fortement dégradées.

Sous-espèces
D'après la classification de référence (version 5.1, 2015) du Congrès ornithologique international, cette espèce est constituée des huit sous-espèces suivantes (ordre phylogénique) :
 Turdus olivater sanctaemartae
 Turdus olivater caucae
 Turdus olivater olivater
 Turdus olivater kemptoni
 Turdus olivater paraquensis
 Turdus olivater duidae
 Turdus olivater roraimae
 Turdus olivater ptaritepui

Liens externes

Turdidae

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Society's Child
$3.4B Indian lawsuit ends, disbursements to begin
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:55 UTC
© AP/Yakima Herald-Republic/Sara Gettys
Elouise Cobell speaks to a group at Heritage University in Toppenish, Wash. on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 about the settlement reached in her class action lawsuit against the U.S. government about mismanagement of Native American land trusts.
After nearly 17 years of courtroom arguments, congressional negotiations and Indian Country bickering, hundreds of thousands of Native Americans could see the first payments of a $3.4 billion U.S. government settlement by the end of the year, plaintiffs' attorneys said Monday.
The settlement between American Indians across the nation and the government over more than a century's worth of squandered and mismanaged land trust royalties became final on Friday, when the appeal period expired.
One of the largest U.S. government settlements in history began with a lawsuit filed in 1996 by Elouise Cobell of Browning, Mont. The Blackfeet leader observed that those who leased Indian land made money from its natural resources, while the Indians themselves remained in poverty with no accounting of the royalties from that land that were held in trust for them by the government
Cobell herself led the fight against the government for more than 15 years before she died of cancer last year.
"We all are happy that this settlement can finally be implemented," lead attorney Dennis Gingold said in a statement Monday. "We deeply regret that Ms. Cobell did not live to see this day."
Approximately 350,000 beneficiaries could start receiving $1,000 checks by Christmas as the first part of the settlement goes forward, plaintiffs' attorneys said.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar released a statement that said the settlement marks a step forward in reconciliation and a new era in how the government administers its trusts.
"With the settlement now final, we can put years of discord behind us and start a new chapter in our nation-to-nation relationship," Salazar said.
The agreement will pay out $1.5 billion to two classes of beneficiaries. Each member of the first class would be paid $1,000. Each member of the second class would be paid $800 plus a share of the balance of the settlement funds as calculated by a formula based on the activity in their trust accounts.
Another $1.9 billion would be used by the government to purchase fractionated land allotments from willing individuals and turn those consolidated allotments over to the tribe. An education scholarship for young Indians also would be established under the agreement.
Congress approved the deal in December 2010 and U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan approved it after a June 2011 hearing. Hogan said that while the settlement may not be as much as some wished, the deal ended the legal deadlock and provided some certainty for the beneficiaries.
Cobell traveled across Indian Country to explain the deal, but there was opposition. One opponent, Kimberly Craven of Boulder, Colo., took her objections to the Supreme Court, saying the settlement did not include an actual accounting for how much money the government lost and that the deal would overcompensate a select few beneficiaries.
The Supreme Court declined to take up her petition.
ozman · 2012-11-29T09:10:56Z
And not once where they called native Americans...............
If they would have been black then they would have sued the govt again because they didnt call them african americans.What is this shithole of a country coming to...oh wait its not what is it coming to,its already there,A SHITHOLE PIECE OF real estate that aint worth the time it will take to save it.
Thanx progressives,thanx liberals,thanx obama and all you obama wanna be's I hope you feel good about ruining this country.
But anyways the native americans have another lawsuit in their hands,the Bama Guvrment called them indians not native americans,I think the native americans should sue the BAMA guvrmint for every dime they can get,before the fiat dollar is worthless,the country is already lost.
Bring on the extinction level event........................................ ......................................


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Fibersort Technology Could Be Game-Changing for Recycling Post-Consumer Textiles
Maxine Perella
Image: Circle Economy/YouTube
The tech can separate collected textiles by fiber composition and color into precise recycling feedstocks and return them to the supply chain — but studies show consumers need to drive the garment industry to use more recycled content in their products.
Back in 2017, the linear nature of the fashion industry was brought sharply into focus when a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) highlighted that one garbage truck of textiles was wasted every second. Three years on, it seems not much has changed.
According to EMF, more than $500 billion of value is lost every year due to clothing under-utilisation and the lack of recycling. Given that global apparel consumption is projected to rise almost two-thirds by 2030, are too few retailers considering social and environmental responsibility as a priority?
Post-consumer textile waste is a particular problem, as new textiles entering the market tend to reach their end-of-use rapidly. In Northwest Europe alone, around 4,700 kilo tonnes of post-consumer textile waste is generated every year. On average, only 30 percent of these textiles are collected separately — the rest is lost within the domestic waste stream.
While some of these collected textiles may get sold in the secondhand clothing market, that market is saturated. So, what doesn't get sold on is effectively considered non-rewearable — and destined for downcycling at best, incineration or landfill at worse.
As a result — given that nearly one-quarter of textiles collected have the potential to be recycled into new textiles but currently are not — a huge circular opportunity is being missed, according to Netherlands-based Circle Economy. The organization says these textiles represent 486 kilo tonnes per year, equivalent to the weight of 50 Eiffel Towers.
One potential solution lies in developing automated sorting technologies that enable non-rewearable textiles to be processed into feedstock for textile-to-textile recycling. Fibersort, a Near Infrared (NIR)-based technology, is one such example — after several years in development, it claims to be market-ready.
Circle Economy has been closely involved in helping to commercialize the Fibersort technology, along with other consortium project partners including textile collectors, sorters and recyclers. Fibersort works by categorizing textiles into different fractions (currently, 45 in total) based on fiber composition and color, and can sort around 900kgs of post-consumer textiles per hour.
"We quickly realized that there is a very diverse range of textile products," Hilde van Duijn, project manager for Circle Economy's circle textiles programme, told Sustainable Brands™ in a recent interview. "The idea of Fibersort has always been to sort in one pass over the machine into all the valuable fiber and color categories. Today, the machine has 45 different categories; and we are looking to further expand the number of categories."
This is what distinguishes Fibersort from other technologies, she adds: "Other projects mostly do binary sorting with multiple machines, sorting only one product category per pass over the machine."
Previous research undertaken by the Fibersort consortium has shown that almost 75 percent of collected, non-rewearable textiles in Northwest Europe are either cotton, polyester or polyester-cotton blends. Other materials such as wool and acrylic are collected in smaller amounts. Fibersort can sort these textiles — including wool, cotton, polyester, acrylic, viscose and nylon — by fiber concentration, including blends, and color.
"The machine is running today with more than 20 different color tones configured, but this number can be much higher," van Duijn says, adding that the machine's camera can distinguish between single and multi-color textiles.
In terms of sorting accuracy, tests have shown that Fibersort is very reliable for most fractions of pure and blended mono-materials, but that the technology may need further refinement to increase reliability for polyamide and viscose.
According to van Duijn, the level of interest in Fibersort from manufacturers, brands and recyclers has been "beyond expectations." She says the technology is aimed at any company that has a need to sort textiles to enable more recycling, preferably textile-to-textile, and adds that it is already being sold into various countries to operate in real-life environments.
But while there are clear opportunities to integrate and scale up such sorting technologies — and their outputs — across global textile value chains, several challenges remain.
"For the Fibersort technology to live up to its full potential, manufacturers and brands need to start incorporating recycled, sorted, post-consumer content into their products," van Duijn maintains.
Unfortunately, she says, the industry's current focus on achieving recycled content targets is mainly centred around using recycled post-industrial textile inputs, rather than post-consumer ones.
Creating market pull for post-consumer inputs will be essential going forward. A recent report published by the Fibersort consortium notes that while several brands are already using recycled textiles on a small scale, the vast majority of them are not sourcing post-consumer textile waste.
The study also highlights a lack of pull from consumers to drive the garment industry to use recycled content in their products, stating: "The interrelationship between brand offer and consumer demand may be key to the success of recycled content integration."
There is also the issue of price parity. Recycled fiber and fabrics made from post-consumer textiles tend to be more expensive than virgin fiber. That said, economies of scale should drive prices of recycled textiles down, but only if there is sufficient uptake of these materials by manufacturers and brands.
With Fibersort now ready and waiting to be adopted more widely, it would appear that all textile value chain stakeholders have a role to play going forward to ensure that such technologies become a key enabler for closed-loop recycling of post-consumer waste. Given the growing mountain of used clothes being discarded, this is one opportunity that shouldn't be overlooked.
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Published Apr 9, 2020 8am EDT / 5am PDT / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST
Maxine Perella is an environmental journalist working in the field of corporate sustainability, circular economy and resource risk.
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NCAA Basketball Tournaments to be Played Without Fans Due to Coronavirus Fears
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The NCAA announced today that upcoming men's and women's basketball tournaments will be held without fans present due to fears related to the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
A NCAA President Mark Emmert reads: "The NCAA continues to assess the impact of COVID-19 in consultation with public health officials and our COVID-19 advisory panel. Based on their advice and my discussions with the NCAA Board of Governors, I have made the decision to conduct our upcoming championship events, including the Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments, with only essential staff and limited family attendance. While I understand how disappointing this is for all fans of our sports, my decision is based on the current understanding of how COVID-19 is progressing in the United States. This decision is in the best interest of public health, including that of coaches, administrators, fans and, most importantly, our student-athletes. We recognize the opportunity to compete in an NCAA national championship is an experience of a lifetime for the students and their families. Today, we will move forward and conduct championships consistent with the current information and will continue to monitor and make adjustments as needed."
Beginning next week the men's Division 1 basketball tournament featuring 67 games will be played in empty arenas at 14 sites throughout the country.
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DPWH opens new portion of Arterial Road to San Rafael, Bulacan
The additional road gives a bridge giving you a scenic view of the Angat River.
Yabee Dee Eusebio on May 10, 2018
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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has opened an additional portion to the Plaridel Bypass Road Project. The two-lane road will connect the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) to San Rafael, Bulacan, traversing key municipalities to cut travel time.
Related: Plaridel Bypass Road Phase 2 to be done by June
This portion will begin at a newly built interchange in Brgy. Burol 2nd, Balagtas and will go all the way to the Philippines – Japan Friendship Highway (also known as Maharlika Highway) in Brgy. Maasim, San Rafael, Bulacan.
It has a distance of 9.96 km that includes a 1.12 km-bridge overseeing the Angat River. In addition, the road will bypass a total of five municipalities in Bulacan namely Balagtas, Guiguinto, Plaridel, Bustos and San Rafael.
With the Plaridel Bypass Road now serving as a key link to the growth corridor connecting the eastern part of Bulacan with Metro Manila and agricultural zones of the adjacent Province of Nueva Ecija, the need to upgrade and expand through widening the carriageway of Plaridel Bypass Road is obvious which DPWH will be already doing under the Build Build Build program of the President Rodrigo R. Duterte administration.
Mark A. Villar
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According to the DPWH, this section of the project will be able to accommodate 15,000 vehicles on a daily basis and cut travel time between NLEX-Balagtas to Maharlika Highway in San Rafael, Bulacan by as much as 30 minutes.
The opening of this phase of the project also begins a new one, which includes widening the road from two to four lanes. When all phases are completed, the Plaridel Bypass Road will be a 24.61 km four lane road with a total of 11 bridges, five overpasses, two interchanges, and an intersection. The final phase of this project is expected to be finished by 2022.
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Chelsea vs Manchester City: Riyad Mahrez Second Half Goal Condemned Chelsea to a Defeat
Sofoluwe Mayowa / January 6, 2023 / Hot Football/Soccer News, News, Premier League
Chelsea vs Manchester City: Riyad Mahrez came in as a substitute to help Manchester City defeat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Manchester City got their first win of the new year in a fashionable way as they condemned Chelsea to the 10th place on the Premier League table.
Arsenal played a goalless draw at the Emirates against Newcastle, and it was an opportunity for Manchester City to reduce the deficit between both teams.
Chelsea substituting young lads against Manchester City
Raheem Sterling, who faces his former club for the second time this season, injured his hamstring and was immediately substituted. Also in the first half, Chelsea lost Christian Pulisic to injury after John Stones denied him a goal.
Erling Haaland celebrates after the final whistle
Manchester City's performance in the first half was below average, the first shot came in the 33rd minute for Manchester City as Kepa denied Kevin De Bruyne from scoring the first goal of the match.
Carney Chukwuemeka's attempt hit the goal post in the 44th minute as Chelsea looked strong in the first half.
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Lewis Hall in action against Riyad Mahrez
After poor performances from Kylie Walker and Joao Cancelo, Guardiola quickly made a change with Rico Lewis and Manuel Akanji coming on in the second half.
The change triggered Manchester City's goal-scoring ability as Erling Haaland's first shot went wide.
Dennis Zakaria in action against Manchester City
A few minutes into the second half, Nathan Ake's header hit the post, with Kepa having no chance of saving the ball.
Manchester City eventually broke Chelsea's stubborn defense after Mahrez put in the low cross from Jack Grealish past Kepa Arrizabalaga in the 66th minute.
Dennis Zakaria pull an impressive performance against Manchester City
At that point, Chelsea's options appeared limited due to the lack of experience on their bench, but rookies Omari Hutchinson, Lewis Hall, and Conor Gallagher brought fresh enthusiasm to the team.
John Stones in action against Manchester City
Haaland narrowly missed turning in a De Bruyne cross, the home team finished on the front foot with Hall blazing over the last Chelsea opportunity.
However, the reaction from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang after he was substituted in the second half sums up what he is going through at his new club.
See also Ben Chilwell is Out Of World Cup Due To Hamstring Injury
Manchester City have won four straight matches against Chelsea since losing the Champions League finals in 2021.
Haaland in a jubliation mood
The Pep Guardiola side has reduced the gap between them and Arsenal to five points as they look forward to Arsenal losing more points.
What Next For Chelsea and Manchester City
Chelsea faces Fulham in the London Derby at Craven Cottage on January 12, 2023. If Graham Potter wants to save his job, he needs to start winning matches before the owner thinks of replacing him.
Manchester City will face its neighbors Manchester United in a Manchester derby on January 14, 2023, at Old Trafford.
It is likely to be a revenge mission for Erik Ten Hag's team, which lost heavily to Manchester City last year.
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Reproducing Eratosthenes
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On June 21st, Schools from all around the world have made a precision measurement of Earth's circumference using the Eratosthenes Experiment (see June's issue). Nonetheless the strategies to achieve its pedagogical goals started in the previous months.
The webpage created by the EAAE for this global experiment (http://www.eaae-astronomy.org/eratosthenes/) gave support to this activity and worked as a meeting point for the participants.
The students from participant schools used it to share information about the methods that were employed, the problems they had while performing the measurements and the results of their calculations.
The EAAE webpage also supplied complementary material about the dynamics of the system Earth-Sun that the teachers used as a background to prepare the experiment.
The goal of this activity was to create an international network that reproduced the Eratosthenes experiment all over the world and supplied the scientific knowledge needed to perform the measurements.
Each participant school made the calculations to infer the Earth's circumference and shared the results through the webpage and two live international videoconferences.
A team of students from Astronomical Observatory at Youth Centre, Haskovo, Bulgaria participating on the project.
Schools from 20 countries belonging to the 5 different continents participated in this activity and the inter-group communication achieved motivated the students, who could better understand the scientific method beyond the experiment.
Caltech Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star
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Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in three of these systems have been found to have two or more planets. Planets, it appears, come in bunches. Most of these systems contain planets that orbit too far from one another to feel each other's gravity. In just a handful of cases, planets have been found near enough to one another to interact gravitationally.
Now, however, John A. Johnson, an assistant professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and his colleagues have found two systems with pairs of gas giant planets locked in an orbital embrace.
In one system—a planetary pair orbiting the massive, dying star HD 200964, located roughly 223 light-years from Earth-the intimate dance is closer and tighter than any previously seen. "This new planet pair came in an unexpected package," says Johnson.
Adds Eric Ford of the University of Florida in Gainsville, "A planetary system with such closely spaced giant planets would be destroyed quickly if the planets weren't doing such a well synchronized dance. This makes it a real puzzle how the planets could have found their rhythm."
A paper by Johnson, Ford, and their collaborators describing the planets and their intriguing orbital dynamics has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal (see http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4552 for a preprint).
All of the four newly discovered exoplanets are gas giants more massive than Jupiter, and like most exoplanets were discovered by measuring the wobble, or Doppler shift, in the light emitted by their parent stars as the planets orbit around them. Surprisingly, however, the members of each pair are located remarkably close to one another.
For example, the distance between the planets orbiting HD 200964 occasionally is just .35 astronomical units (AU)—roughly 33 million miles—comparable to the distance between Earth and Mars. The planets orbiting the second star, 24 Sextanis (located 244 light-years from Earth) are .75 AU, or about 70 million miles. By comparison, Jupiter and Saturn are never less than 330 million miles apart.
Because of their large masses and close proximity, the exoplanet pairs exert a large gravitational force on each other. The gravitational tug between HD 200964's two planets, for example, is 3,000,000 times greater than the gravitational force between Earth and Mars, 700 times larger than that between the Earth and the moon, and 4 times larger than the pull of our sun on the Earth.
Unlike the gas giants in our own solar system, the new planets are located comparatively close to their stars. The planets orbiting 24 Sextanis have orbital periods of 455 days (1.25 years) and 910 days (2.5 years), and the companions to HD 200964 periods of 630 days (1.75 years) and 830 days (2.3 years). Jupiter, by contrast, takes just under 12 Earth years to make one pass around the sun.
Planets often move around after they form, in a process known as migration. Migration is thought to be commonplace—it even occurred to some extent within our own solar system—but it isn't orderly. Planets located farther out in the protoplanetary disk can migrate faster than those closer in, "so planets will cross paths and jostle each other around," Johnson says. "The only way they can 'get along' and become stable is if they enter an orbital resonance."
When planets are locked in an orbital resonance, their orbital periods are related by the ratio of two small integers. In a 2:1 resonance, for example, an outer planet will orbit its parent star once for every two orbits of the inner planet; in a 3:2 resonance, the outer planet will orbit two times for every three passes by the inner planet, and so forth. Such resonances are created by the gravitational influence of planets on one another.
"There are many locations in a protoplanetary disk where planets can form," says Johnson. "It's very unlikely, however, that two planets would just happen to form at locations where they have periods in one of these ratios."
A 2:1 resonance—which is the case for the planets orbiting 24 Sextanis—is the most stable and the most common pattern. "Planets tend to get stuck in the 2:1. It's like a really big pothole," Johnson says. "But if a planet is moving very fast"—racing in from the outer part of the protoplanetary disk, where it formed, toward its parent star—"it can pass over a 2:1. As it moves in closer, the next step is a 5:3, then a 3:2, and then a 4:3."
Johnson and his colleagues have found that the pair of planets orbiting HD 200964 is locked in just such a 4:3 resonance. "The closest analogy in our solar system is Titan and Hyperion, two moons of Saturn which also follow orbits synchronized in a 4:3 pattern," says Ford. "But the planets orbiting HD 200964 interact much more strongly, since each is around 20,000 times more massive than Titan and Hyperion combined."
"This is the tightest system that's ever been discovered," Johnson adds, "and we're at a loss to explain why this happened. This is the latest in a long line of strange discoveries about extrasolar planets, and it shows that exoplanets continuously have this ability to surprise us. Each time we think we can explain them, something else comes along."
Johnson and his colleagues found the two systems using data from the Keck Subgiants Planet Survey—a search for planets around stars from 40 to 100 percent larger than our own sun. Subgiants represent a class of stars that have evolved off the "main sequence," and have run out of hydrogen for nuclear fusion, causing their core to collapse and their outer envelope to swell. Subgiants eventually become red giants—voluminous stars with big, puffy atmospheres that pulsate, making it difficult to detect the subtle spectral shifts caused by orbiting planets.
"Subgiants are rotating very slowly and they're cool," unlike rapidly rotating, hot main sequence stars, "but they haven't expanded enough to be too fluffy and too jittery," Johnson says. "They're 'Goldilocks' stars: not too fast, not too hot, not too fluffy, not too jittery"—and, therefore, ideal for planet hunting.
"Right now, we're monitoring 450 of these massive stars, and we are finding swarms of planets," he says. "Around these stars, we are seeing three to four times more planets out to a distance of about 3 AU—the distance of our asteroid belt—than we see around main sequence stars. Stellar mass has a huge influence on frequency of planet occurrence, because the amount of raw material available to build planets scales with the mass of the star."
Eventually, perhaps 10 or 100 million years from now, subgiant stars like HD 200964 and 24 Sextanis will become red giants. They will throw off their outer atmospheres, swelling to the point where they could engulf the inner planet of their dancing pair, and will throw off mass, changing the gravitational dynamics of their whole system. "The planets will then move out, and their orbits will become unstable," Johnson says. "Most likely one of the planets will get flung out of the system completely"-and the dance will end.
The paper, "A Pair of Interacting Exoplanet Pairs Around the Subgiants 24 Sextanis and HD 200964," was coauthored by Matthew Payne and Eric B. Ford of the University of Florida; Andrew W. Howard and Geoffrey W. Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley; Kelsey Clubb of San Francisco State University; Brendan P. Bowler of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa,; Gregory W. Henry of Tennessee State University; Debra A. Fischer, John Brewer, and Christian Schwab of Yale University; Sabine Reffert of ZAH-Landessternwarte; and Thomas Lowe of the UCO/Lick Observatory.
Planck unveils the Universe - now and then
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ESA's Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came to life after the Big Bang.
"This is the moment that Planck was conceived for," says ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood. "We're not giving the answer. We are opening the door to an Eldorado where scientists can seek the nuggets that will lead to deeper understanding of how our Universe came to be and how it works now. The image itself and its remarkable quality is a tribute to the engineers who built and have operated Planck. Now the scientific harvest must
begin."
From the closest portions of the Milky Way to the furthest reaches of space and time, the new all-sky Planck image is an extraordinary treasure chest of new data for astronomers.
The main disc of our Galaxy runs across the centre of the image. Immediately striking are the streamers of cold dust reaching above and below the Milky Way.
This galactic web is where new stars are being formed, and Planck has found many locations where individual stars are edging toward birth or just beginning their cycle of development.
Less spectacular but perhaps more intriguing is the mottled backdrop at the top and bottom. This is the 'cosmic microwave background radiation' (CMBR). It is the oldest light in the Universe, the remains of the fireball out of which our Universe sprang into existence 13.7 billion years ago.
While the Milky Way shows us what the local Universe looks like now, those the microwave pattern is the cosmic blueprint from which today's clusters and superclusters of galaxies were built. The different colours represent minute
differences in the temperature and density of matter across the sky. Somehow these small irregularities evolved into denser regions that became the galaxies of today.
The CMBR covers the entire sky but most of it is hidden in this image by the Milky Way's emission, which must be digitally removed from the final data in order to see the microwave background in its entirety.
When this work is completed, Planck will show us the most precise picture of the microwave background ever obtained. The big question will be whether the data will reveal the cosmic signature of the primordial period called inflation.
This era is postulated to have taken place just after the Big Bang and resulted in the Universe expanding enormously in size over an extremely short period.
Planck continues to map the Universe. By the end of its mission in 2012, it will have completed four all-sky scans. The first full data release of the CMBR is planned for 2012. Before then, the catalogue containing individual objects in our
Galaxy and whole distant galaxies will be released in January 2011.
"This image is just a glimpse of what Planck will ultimately see," says Jan Tauber, ESA's Planck Project Scientist.(read more)


As our industry and business needs continue to evolve, we have taken time to evaluate the current WinField United structure and the needs of our customer-owners. While our current structure allows us to gain continuity and consistency in sales and market execution and focus on demand creation as our differentiator, some shifts need to be made to enable our goal for WinField United to out-index the market through size, scale and influence.
We've spent the last 100 days learning and planning for our collective future. In that time alone, we've had several large meetings where we've gained valuable feedback from our owner and manufacturer alliances, and our employees. We believe our future will be built around proactively advancing agriculture intelligently through technology.
As we've taken a look at our industry, we continue to face considerable consolidation up and down the value chain, economic uncertainty at the farm gate, our owners' desire for a coordinated account plan and a growing need for e-business adoption. It's important we align our organization to meet these challenges and support our owners' businesses.
Kyle Maple will lead sourcing and procurement alliances. This is a new role combines crop protection sourcing, procurement and rebate responsibilities and adds seed. Kyle's extensive experience in both crop protection and seed, his network and relationships with our major alliances, and this balanced negotiating abilities make him an excellent candidate for this position.
John Romines will take the position as commercial sales lead for all of WinField United. His ability to implement and his knowledge of our owner network and his many years of sales leadership experience will benefit us as he moves into this position. Ryan Klapperich and Brad Stedman will assume key responsibilities on John's leadership team.
Leah Anderson will join WinField United as head of the Ag Customer Team (ACT). Leah currently leads Member Relations and member governance activities at Land O'Lakes. Prior to that role she worked in several IT roles where she was responsible for delivering innovative technology-enabled solutions. Leah's skills will strengthen our focus on E-business and account planning with our owners. Leah's position in Member Relations will be filled in the coming weeks as we take the time necessary to find the right person for the job.
Jim Hedges will take on the role of marketing lead for Seed. Jim's experience includes co-founding a corn and soybean seed production and sales company, which was eventually purchased by Monsanto. Jim joined Monsanto where he led Corn States, their genetics company, and later led part of their row crops business. For the last several months Jim has focused on selling seed by promoting our ag technology products.
Dave Schumacher will continue to head marketing for Crop Protection, Plant Nutrition and Performance, and Catalyst. Dave's experience in seed and crop protection marketing at WinField United and the industry will help us drive our demand creation platforms to drive sales for our owners. His recent experience with Villa in South Africa will provide us with global insights in the crop protection industry.
Nelson Neale will continue to lead our future services platform including Secure and Winsure. He will also lead our ownership dividend program and owner segmentation strategy.
In addition, Dan Hennessy will continue in the role of Villa CEO, reporting to Brett, and Mike Vande Logt will continue to head up Ag Technology, APD and FGI.
E-business is a tremendous innovation Land O'Lakes and our system can leverage to compete in the marketplace even better than we have up to this point. In order to have all the information possible as we move aggressively into this area, Doug Brunt, Senior Vice President of WinField United Sales, will be transitioning to lead a new initiative to gain a comprehensive understanding of this arena. Doug is an ideal choice for this role given his background as a co-op manager, his knowledge of local co-ops and his experience working with customers in his Business Development Services and sales roles.
In total with these changes, WinField United and Land O'Lakes, Inc. are poised to continue delivering the performances that enable us to deliver strong returns to our members and reinvest in the products, services and capabilities that support and drive shared success for our entire network of farmers and independent retailers.


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Billy Vera
Billy Vera & the Beaters began in early 1979. Not long after moving to Los Angeles to write songs for Warner Brothers Music, Billy Vera ran into his former bass player from New York, Chuck Fiore. Chuck had moved to L.A. two years earlier and had been playing around town with some good musicians from the local studio scene.
He suggested that Billy drop by one of the clubs one night to sit in. After renewing their old friendship, the boys found themselves commiserating about their lack of female companionship and figured out that both had "done well" in that department when they were in bands. "Why don't we start a band….we can meet some girls!" became the rallying cry — and the Beaters were born.
It was decided that they model the group on the old Little Richard and Ray Charles 50s bands, which included four horns. For a little spice, Billy thought to make it an '80s version of Bob Wills, not limiting itself to any one genre of music.
To help bring this off, the early version of the Beaters included the steel guitar of Steve Fishell (later Jeff "Skunk" Baxter) to offset the R&B sound of the horns. After several months of gigs at local beach clubs, the Beaters were asked to perform every Monday night at midnight at the world famous Troubadour in West Hollywood. "We took the worst night of the week, Monday at midnight, and purposely did no advertising.
We wanted to create an underground buzz within the hipster community, so that the opinion makers could discover us on their own," says Vera, "we figured it would take around six weeks to see if they wanted what we had to offer." Apparently, they did. By the second week, the Hollywood cognoscenti were lined up at 11:30 outside the Troubadour to see what became, over the next year, the legendary Billy & the Beaters midnight shows.
Soon, every musician worth his salt was begging to join the band or at least sit in. "We didn't want to be perceived as that kind of band; we wanted to be seen for what we were: our own thing," says Vera. Indeed, the only performer to ever join the Beaters on-stage at that time was Rickie Lee Jones. Vera explains his choice: "I sensed in her a kindred spirit. She was one of the few singers I'd seen who approached performance the way I did, from the inside out."
That year, 1980, was the year of the Knack and all those "new wave" bands. Record labels were signing any four piece combo with skinny ties. Interestingly, after their rounds at new wave clubs, A&R men would inevitably wind up at the Troubadour to catch the Beaters' set. "I'd see them out there tapping their feet and digging what we were doing, but nobody was reaching for his checkbook." By the end of the year, "new wave" had run it's course and the record companies were looking for something new and different and the Beaters were nothing if not different.
"Capitol and Polygram began sniffing around, sounding like they were about to make an offer, but I ultimately chose to go with Alfa because [A&R man] Lorne Saifer understood what I was trying to do," recalls Vera. It was decided to record the band "live" because that's where their excitement was best showcased. When a deal could not be cut with the Troubadour's management, the Roxy on the famed Sunset Strip stepped in. For three nights, Wally Heider's recording trucks captured the excitement of Hollywood's favorite sons, playing to a packed house of fans who had come to see them every Monday night for a year. The resulting album, Billy & the Beaters, with it's bold black and white graphic design, was an instant classic, begetting the hit single "I Can Take Care Of Myself."
Meanwhile, Alfa's owners in Japan were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their American management and began to pull the plug, leaving Billy & the Beaters' follow-up single, "At This Moment," to founder on the lower reaches of the charts. A second album, cut in the studio, was deemed unacceptable and remains in the vaults to this day. Billy's old mentor from his Atlantic Records days, Jerry Wexler, was deputized to produce a Billy Vera solo album in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, combining several Beaters with Southern Soul veterans of countless records by the likes of Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett.
By the time of the album's release, US Alfa was a sinking ship, unable to give the record more than perfunctory promotion and it sank with hardly a trace. For the next four years, Billy Vera & the Beaters played Southern California to loyal crowds, until one day came the golden phone call. "This guy calls me and says he'd been to see band the over the weekend," recalls Vera, "He'd heard us do a tune which he wanted to use on this show he was producing called Family Ties. "The song, of course, was "At This Moment." After the first episode in which the song was used, in the fall of 1985, Vera received "a bag full of mail" from NBC. This encouraged him to canvass major labels in hopes he'd be allowed to re-record it as a single.
When he'd been turned down by virtually everyone, a meeting with Rhino Records chief Richard Foos, whom he knew socially, resulted in a commitment by the label to reissue a compilation by Vera of the most requested items from his two Alfa albums. Vera tells it from here: "By the time Rhino released the album, we missed the summer reruns. Then Lady Luck stepped in and, in the first show of the 1986 season, "At This Moment" was used on the episode where Michael J. Fox's character loses his girlfriend. The story of the song: boy loses girl, matched the story on the episode and, bang, America went nuts." In one of those rare instances of a true grass roots uprising, the public responded to the song and propelled it–without promotion or payola–to number one on the national sales charts.
Concurrently, the band had been working on a pair of movies, Blake Edwards' Blind Date, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger, and the ABC movie-of-the-week, Tonight's The Night. Director Bobby Roth recalled editing the film as "At This Moment" barreled up the charts: "I kept getting calls from the network brass, telling me to beef up Billy's footage in the movie. By the time I was finished, it looked like a Billy Vera video!" The success of "At This Moment" changed the lives of Billy and everyone in the band. One of Vera's dreams, of appearing on American Bandstand, finally came true, thirty years after he first watched the show.
Dick Clark and his wife Carrie became staunch fans and supporters, including the Beaters on a number of Clark's productions and utilizing Billy as a presenter on his American Music Awards. Many television and movie appearances followed, including one as a western swing band in the film version of Dan Jenkins' Baja Oklahoma , in which the Beaters back Willie Nelson and Billy was cast as the drunken ex-boyfriend of Leslie Ann Warren. As free agents with a number one record, calls began to pour in from record company presidents. Vera chose Capitol Records after a call from head honcho Joe Smith. Another old Atlantic Records pal, Tom Dowd, was hired to produce the album, Retro-Nuevo, which spawned a top ten Adult Contemporary hit, "Between Like And Love. "The tune, along with Billy's "Hopeless Romantic," from the Rhino album, were used extensively on the NBC soap opera Days Of Our Lives.
Vera performed two other songs from the album, "Poor Boys" and "Ronnie's Song," in his featured role on the CBS series Wise Guy , which concluded with his character being reluctantly shot in the back by one of the show's leads. Despite this exposure, the album failed to ignite and, before too long, Billy Vera & the Beaters were back playing Los Angeles area clubs, playing the music they love for their loyal following. From mid-1990 to early 1991, Billy and the band were tapped to be the house band on ABC's venture into the late night talk show field, Into The Night , starring Rick Dees.
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Q: jQuery click not firing on asynchronously added elements I've seen other questions that were supposed to answer mine, however for some reason, they did not. I am referring to these:
- jquery click event not firing?
- jquery functions dont work on dom elements loaded asynchromously
I first used click() to try to change the color of selected "li" to pink. It worked, but not for the "li"s appended dynamically.  I tried to use on() since live() is now deprecated.
I was surprised that it still did not work.
This is a sample that you can run:
Javascript:

HTML:

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph.

 List item 1

 List item 2

 List item 3

  <button id="btn1">Append list item</button>

Does anyone have a clue?
Thanks a lot!

A: You need to use event delegation based on .on()
$('ol').on('click', '.test', function(el){
    $(this).css("background-color","pink");
})

Demo: Fiddle

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By joining FCSP, you join over 7,000 members of the 29 individual friends groups in supporting the Connecticut State Park and Forest System to help make Connecticut State Parks some of the finest in the nation.
There's two easy ways to join! Either print and mail in the form below along with your check or sign-up using the online form and submit your payment via the secure paypal system.
In partnership with CFPA, FCSP organized and hosted State Parks Day at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. A stunning exhibit of historic park photos, designed and funded by our organization, hung at the Capitol during the month of March. Portions of the exhibit have subsequently been loaned for use at Centennial events throughout the state.
Legislators were invited by FCSP and CFPA to adopt parks in their districts. 56 legislators are now recognized on our Adopt a Park Honor Roll for their commitment to promote and protect their parks.
FCSP has taken the leadership role in fundraising efforts for the Centennial celebration. As well as soliciting and managing contributions, FCSP donated the funds to create Centennial pins. These pins have been distributed to Friends groups and park supporters to heighten public awareness of this landmark anniversary.
Friends are especially proud of lending support to the Centennial Sojourn, an ambitious 10-day trek across Connecticut celebrating our beautiful parks and ending at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, our first State Park.
FCSP provides information and guidance to 29 individual statewide Friends groups, all of whom host special events, sponsor educational programming and bring attention and resources, including volunteers, to meet local park needs. When new groups form, FCSP assistance can be critical to future success.
Friends groups have contributed in excess of $8 million in funds and goods since the inception of our first Friends group. In addition, the annual combined effort of all volunteers from all Friends groups was 79,000 volunteer hours valued at $2.2 million per year.


Komerční banka (KB) newly offers, in cooperation with Česká informační agentura (ČIANEWS), its clients from the Small Business segment advantageous access to ČIANEWS' economic news service. From February 2019, clients will be able to access customised news items on tenders, investment projects and business opportunities from their sector and/or region.
Clients may receive the latest news via e-mail and/or via the online application downloaded into their smartphones. All KB clients may activate the free trial access immediately on KB's website or in the Internet banking service. All users may customise the app settings to receive news and/or sectoral digests according their requirements, objectives and/or business location.
"Our clients have this unique opportunity thanks to the newly established cooperation between Komerční banka and Česká informační agentura. We believe that the ČIANEWS service will help our clients find new business and trade opportunities. We are ready to offer financing and other financial services that they will need for bringing these new transactions to fruition," says Jan Kubálek, responsible for the development of customer services.
"ČIANEWS' news items will offer KB's clients specific tips for new contracts, tenders, investment plans and projects, personnel changes, zoning and building proceedings, custom-selected according to their sector, region or city, thus raising the clients' chances in the current highly competitive environment," ČIANEWS' executive director Radim Duchek comments on the cooperation. He adds: "We appreciate the fact that Komerční banka continues to provide real support to its Small Business clients, for whom access to market information had been significantly more complicated and expensive in the past".
KOMERČNÍ BANKA is the only Czech publicly traded bank, providing complex retail, corporate and investment banking services. KB group serves 2.4 million clients, who may use the extensive network of 382 business points around the Czech Republic. KB operates 760 ATMs. One of the direct banking channels is used by 1.43 million clients. KB is a member of Société Générale group.
ČESKÁ INFORMAČNÍ AGENTURA (ČIANEWS) has gained in more than 20 years of its presence on the Czech market the confidence of readers from top managements of large and medium enterprises. ČIANEWS' news service is used on long-term basis by large banks, incl. Komerční banka, as well as major companies from the energy automotive, development, retail, engineering, logistics or healthcare sectors, as well as hundreds of smaller companies from all industry sectors. The news service is used daily for decision-making by thousands of company managers and owners.


Some signs of your water softener system beginning to lose its momentum may include dry skin, water build up in your sink and bathtub, as well as having to use more soap to get your clothes and dishes spotless. If you are experiencing these symptoms, the best way to resolve the issue is to call your local Culligan Man. Your Culligan Man will come to your home, inspect your system, and diagnose the best solution. Having a Culligan water professional inspect and check your system on a regular basis can prolong the life of your Culligan Water Treatment system as well as save you money. When your water softener system works like it should, it cuts back on money spent on cleaning products and energy bills.
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Volleyball assistant scorer is also referred to as the libero tracker.
In this example, the second libero replaces the starting libero.
Write an R next to the L.
When 12 returns to the court, they must replace the libero.
You will slash numbers of player substitutions.
In this example, 5 substitutes for 12.
3 also comes in for 6. If the second referee doesn't tell you who the new floor captain is, you need to ask the second referee who is the new floor captain.
When you are told it's number 10, you will write a C next to 10.
When 6 comes back into the game, you will slash the C that's next to 10. Whenever the starting captain in on the court, he or she will be captain.
As the volleyball assistant scorer, you need to be alert for improper libero replacements.
The following are improper replacements.
The replacement libero for the first rally of the match is not the starting libero.
The wrong regular player replaces the libero.
There isn't a completed rally between replacements.
These replacements become illegal when the ball is contacted for serve.
At the moment of service contact, notify the second referee that an illegal Libero replacement has occurred.
If a libero is active, that team may not re-designate a new libero.
If a team re-designates a libero, neither of the liberos noted at the beginning of the match may play the remainder of the match.
If a team began the match with two liberos, once re-designation occurs, the team may have only one active libero from that point forward.
If the libero has been re-designated, circle the number of the libero being replaced and record the number of the new libero next to or above the circled number. Repeat these actions for the remaining sets in the match.
A new libero may not be re-designated if there were two designated liberos at the beginning of the match and either of them is still active.
Write the team on your left, on your left and in the far right section.
The team starting on your right goes in the middle section.
Write the appropriate A or B designation next to the team name.
Record the line up numbers in the right boxes.
As the team on the left makes substitutions, subs are recorded on both the left column and right column.
When a team reaches 8 points and teams switch courts, libero replacements may not take place until after the court switch.
If the libero on the left is on the court when the referee directs the teams to switch courts, you will transfer the appropriate libero letter to the far right section.
After the teams switch courts, you can ignore the far left section of the sheet for the remainder of the set.
At the conclusion of a time out, ensure the same players that were on the court at the beginning of the time out return to the court before any libero replacements.
During a timeout, communicate the following information to the second referee.
Whether each team's libero is on or off the court.
Which libero is on the court if the team has designated two liberos.
After the court switch of the deciding set, ensure the correct players are on the court before any libero replacements.


The library of Szent-Györgyi Albert Primary School was founded in 2011 with a support of tender resources. That time it worked as a library chamber for two years. Our library has been working at its present place since 2005 on the first floor of the school. The basic area is 129 square metreswith the reading room, the information technoligical reading rooms and the gallery. The library is made run by two librarians in 22 opening hours a week.
Our library provides free library services for those people and their relatives who are in legal relation with the school. The enrollment passes by registration and issue of the lending card and at the same time the members have to take the responsibility of keeping the rules.
The local use, the loan and the library services for groups are assured in our library. Books and documents can be taken out only by loan.
At the moment the library has 768 registrated readers: 90 adults and 678 students.
Our library collection consists of books, magazines, periodicals, audio cassettes, CDs, DVDs and video documents. 92 per cent of the book stock are available on open shelves where the readers can find a wide range of Hungarian and foreign literary works (novels, poetry, tales), educational books (technical books, encyclopaedias, dictionaries). Up to the present 11 thousand volumes have been registrated by SIREN integrated library software. The textbook repository and the tutorial supplements are about 30 per cent of the full stock.
The library considers its main duty to provide free access to the worth of Hungarian and universal culture, to getting information and knowledge for users. It gives those library services which need to education, learning, further studies, orientation in professional and public life, useful and pleasant free time activities. These services also try to contribute to the improvement of underprivileged children's equal opportunity and making students become regular readers.
Improving reading skills is one of our main task, and in order to carry it out we took part in Zounok II tender as a cooperative partner. We organize the reading competition called "Bibliophile's club" every year, to which half of our students join. We also yearly arrange poetry and nice reading competitions so that we popularize the reading culture.
We have 18 modern computers for the children and the teachers in the IT reading rooms where we also have possibility to teach library IT skills. They use the multimedia computers with pleasure purchased with a tender support. These workstations all have access to the internet so as to help the users with self-learning and getting information via internet.
We have continuously been developing the school photo gallery since 2005 which is available from our website.


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Q: Insert records into SQL Server database from user defined table type using stored procedure Scenario
I have this Datatable which I'm getting from when user assign role to other user:

In the above table, I assign a new role to user mushtaq and through below procedure I want to insert it in my database.
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SP_ROLE_ASSIGNMENT_ASSIGN_ROLES_TO_USER]
    @RoleAssignmentDT _ROLEASSIGNMENTSCHEMA ReadOnly
AS
BEGIN TRY
BEGIN TRANSACTION
    IF EXISTS (SELECT Role_ID
               FROM Role_Assignment RA
               INNER JOIN @RoleAssignmentDT t ON t._Role_ID = Ra.Role_ID
                                              AND RA.Username = t._Username)
    BEGIN
        UPDATE Role_Assignment
        SET Role_Assign = 0,
            Modified_By_ID = t._Modified_By_ID,
            Modified_Date = GETDATE()
        FROM @RoleAssignmentDT t
        WHERE Role_Assignment.Role_ID <> t._Role_ID
          AND Role_Assignment.Username = t._Username
          AND (t._Role_Assign = 1 AND Role_Assignment.Role_Assign = 1)

        UPDATE Role_Assignment
        SET Role_Assign = t._Role_Assign,
            Modified_By_ID = t._Modified_By_ID,
            Modified_Date = GETDATE()
        FROM @RoleAssignmentDT t
        WHERE Role_Assignment.Role_ID = t._Role_ID
          AND Role_Assignment.Username = t._Username
    END
    ELSE
    BEGIN
        INSERT INTO Role_Assignment (Role_ID, Username, Role_Assign, Prepared_By_ID, Prepared_Date)
            SELECT
                t._Role_ID, t._Username, t._Role_Assign, t._Prepared_By_ID, GETDATE()
            FROM
                @RoleAssignmentDT t
    END

    COMMIT TRAN -- Transaction Success!
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
    IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
        ROLLBACK TRAN --RollBack in case of Error

-- you can Raise ERROR with RAISEERROR() Statement including the details of the exception
--RAISERROR('No Record Inserted, Contact to administrator',16,1)
    DECLARE @Msg NVARCHAR(MAX)
    SELECT @Msg=ERROR_MESSAGE()
    RAISERROR('Error Occured: %s', 20, 101,@msg) WITH LOG
END CATCH

Below is my SQL Role_Assignment table's schema

Now, when I assign new roles to other user above procedure only updates user ahmer. Because when my procedure gets the datatable my IF condition run and it finds user ahmer and updates it.
What I want
I want the stored procedure to check and update only those users who exist in the SQL Server table Role_Assignment; if they don't exist, then insert them first.
I think I provide brief information about my current problem. Please help me what modification I need to do in my store procedure so it first check weather user exists or not. Those who not exists before then insert them and update other those who exists.

A: Try the following in place of your t-sql code in the stored procedure
 MERGE Role_Assignment ra
    USING @RoleAssignmentDT t
    ON Role_Assignment.Username = t._Username
    WHEN MATCHED AND
       Role_Assignment.Role_ID <> t._Role_ID
    and (t._Role_Assign = 1 and Ra.Role_Assign = 1) THEN
       UPDATE
        Set Role_Assign = 0, Modified_By_ID = t._Modified_By_ID, Modified_Date = GETDATE()
        From @RoleAssignmentDT
    WHEN MATCHED AND
    Role_Assignment.Role_ID = t._Role_ID  THEN
      UPDATE
        Set Role_Assign = t._Role_Assign, Modified_By_ID = t._Modified_By_ID, Modified_Date = GETDATE()
        From @RoleAssignmentDT
    WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET THEN
      Insert (Role_ID,Username,Role_Assign,Prepared_By_ID,Prepared_Date)
        VALUES (t._Role_ID, t._Username, t._Role_Assign, t._Prepared_By_ID, GETDATE());


Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed when a person has difficulty concentrating, paying attention, sitting still, following directions and controlling impulsive behavior. Children with ADHD have a mix of inattentive and hyperactive or impulsive behaviors which make it challenging to learn at school and often create conflict at home.
About 30 percent of youth with ADHD also have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). These young people are excessively oppositional to authority and rebellious. When a child has ODD, regular daily frustrations may build up over time, damaging the child/parent bond and reinforcing hostile patterns of behavior.
What does an adolescent with ADHD look like? By the teenage years, the impact of hyperactive symptoms may have decreased for some teens, but they still have problems with attention, which interferes with succeeding in school or at work. They also may have trouble socially — they can be alienated from peers because of poor self-regulation and difficulty paying attention to the needs and desires of friends. Their self-esteem can take a hit because of these repeated difficulties — some young adults with ADHD can even be withdrawn or depressed because of this.
ADHD treatment typically consists of medication, behavioral therapy, or a combination of the two.
Medications for ADHD include psychostimulants like methylphenidate (Ritalin) and amphetamine salts (Adderall). These medications have been shown in numerous studies to be effective in about 80 percent of youth with ADHD. These psychostimulants, which increase the accessibility of certain chemicals in the brain, help children focus and curb impulsivity and hyperactivity.
Behavior therapies do not eliminate the core symptoms of ADHD, but they can be very helpful in teaching children to manage them better. In children and pre-teens, the main focus of behavior therapy involves teaching parents and educators how to develop supportive relationships with children with ADHD or behavior disorders, how to implement effective behavioral strategies to promote positive behaviors, and how to make clear, calm and predictable decisions in giving consequences for misbehavior. Importantly, at young ages, research clearly shows that it is more crucial that adults learn techniques to manage the behavior of a child with ADHD than it is for a child to be in individual therapy. As children progress into adolescence, individual cognitive behavioral therapy can be helpful in engaging a young person in taking more responsibility for managing their ADHD symptoms or playing a role in problem-solving around their behavior. As one example, if a teen has trouble finishing things and staying organized, she or he can learn techniques for completing tasks and keeping track of assignments.
Teens and young adults with ADHD are impulsive, sensation-seeking and eager to experiment. They tend to be drawn to substances available in their environment, which may involve low-hanging fruit like nicotine and marijuana. These substances are also attractive because they can temporarily help with core symptoms of ADHD. Nicotine can increase focus in the short term, and marijuana can calm hyperactivity.
Structural and chemical brain differences associated with ADHD also make these young people more responsive to a drug's effects and more likely to take drugs again. They can go quickly from experimentation to habit, and chronic use actually decreases their ability to pay attention long term. Chronic nicotine use can decrease cognitive functioning and attention while increasing impulsivity.
In some, but not all cases, youth may misuse ADHD medications by crushing and snorting them to get high, or they will sell their meds to classmates. For this reason, medication treatment of ADHD should be carefully monitored by a qualified clinician. In some cases, parental monitoring of administration may be required. Immediate release formulations are easier to misuse and should be prescribed with caution in such cases. There are newer formulations specifically designed to deter misuse by crushing and snorting.
Clinicians report that young people with ODD gravitate to more powerful drugs like prescription opioids (Vicodin, OxyContin) or benzodiazepine anxiety medications (Xanax, Valium) that help them numb painful feelings and escape or avoid frustrating peer and family relationships.
Any drugs, even nicotine, can interfere in evaluation and treatment for ADHD. Vaping or Juuling nicotine, for example, delivers very high amounts of the chemical to the brain. The side effects of nicotine (alertness, anxiety, insomnia, loss of appetite) are also associated with stimulant medications, which unfortunately can confuse the picture and potentially lead to poor treatment outcomes. Nicotine, by way of interacting with the enzymes that metabolize the medications in the liver, can lower the effectiveness of some medications. It's important that mental health professionals have as many details as possible in order to provide the best treatment.