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Elijah McClain's family to receive $15 million from the city of Aurora in son's death
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Attorneys representing Elijah McClain's family and the City of Aurora have reached an agreement that the city will pay out $15 million in the civil rights lawsuit filed over McClain's violent arrest and subsequent death, an official briefed on the matter told ABC News.
This will be the highest police settlement in the history of Colorado, the official said.
The agreement comes over a year after the family filed a 106-page federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Colorado that accused several first responders involved in the incident of violating Elijah McClain's civil rights and causing his death.
The money will be divided between Elijah McClain's mother and father. ABC News has reached out to their attorneys for comment.
McClain, 23, was confronted by police on Aug. 24, 2019, while walking home from a convenience store after a 911 caller told authorities they had seen someone "sketchy" in the area.
McClain was unarmed and wearing a ski mask at the time. His family says he had anemia, a blood condition that can make people feel cold more easily.
According to an independent review of his death, officers placed McClain in a carotid chokehold that restricts the carotid artery and cuts off blood to the brain.
The independent review found that McClain had pleaded with officers, crying out in pain, apologizing, and attempting to explain himself.
When EMTs arrived, he was administered a shot of 500 milligrams of ketamine and placed in an ambulance where he had a heart attack, according to officials. He died on Aug. 30, three days after doctors pronounced him brain dead and he was removed from life support, officials said.
The legal battle over McClain's death is not over: A state grand jury filed a 32-count indictment against the three officers and two paramedics in September, accusing them of several charges, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
The defendants' next court date is on Jan. 7, when they are expected to enter their pleas on the charges.
The Aurora Police Association Board of Directors has defended the officers, saying in a past statement: "There is no evidence that APD officers caused his death. The hysterical overreaction to this case has severely damaged the police department."
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Godefroid Niyombare (born 1969) is a Burundian military officer who led a coup attempt against President Pierre Nkurunziza on 13 May 2015. At the time of the coup attempt, Niyombare was a Major General. He previously served as military chief of staff and as Burundi's Ambassador to Kenya, and he was head of the National Intelligence Service (Service national de renseignement, SNR) from December 2014, when he replaced Adolphe Nshimirimana, until February 2015, when he was dismissed by Nkurunziza and replaced by Major-General Moïse Pasteur Bucumi.

Military career
During the Burundi Civil War, he was a Hutu commander in the CNDD-FDD rebel group and was involved in peace talks with the FNL rebel group.

After the civil war, Niyombare was a top army officer under President Nkurunziza, who nominated him as army chief of staff. Niyombare was confirmed in that post by a vote of the Senate on 16 April 2009. He was the first Hutu to head the army.

During the African Union Mission to Somalia, Niyombare oversaw military efforts, with 4,400 Burundian troops deployed in March 2011. Niyombare said on 14 March 2011 that the soldiers had been deployed a week before.

In late 2014, Niyombare was appointed as head of the National Intelligence Service (SNR). He served in that post for only three months, as he was dismissed by Nkurunziza in February 2015. His dismissal occurred after the leaking of a 10-page memo he wrote arguing against Nkurunziza's controversial plans to run for a third term.

May 2015 coup attempt

In the midst of protests against Nkurunziza's bid for a third term, which many viewed as unconstitutional, Niyombare announced from a private radio station on 13 May 2015 that he was deposing the President, who was at the time at talks in neighboring Tanzania. Speaking alongside other top officers, he blamed Nkurunziza for causing the situation by pursuing his controversial presidential candidacy. On the streets, people opposed to Nkurunziza celebrated the announcement, and despite government denials, initial reports suggested that Niyombare's coup had been successful. Nkurunziza promptly tried to return home, but was apparently unable to do so due to rebel control of the Bujumbura airport.

Nkurunziza loyalists resisted and declared that the coup had been defeated. On 14 May, rebel soldiers attacked the state radio and television broadcaster, but they were repelled by loyalist forces. In the wake of this failure, the coup crumbled. Early on 15 May, Niyombare said that he and the other coup leaders had decided to surrender to government forces. Niyombare said that he hoped the loyalists would not kill them. The government announced that he had been captured but that statement was retracted later that day.

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Hutu people
1969 births
Living people
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Q: Converting 8 bits in binary to 1 byte I have a string of 8 bits and I want to convert it into 1 byte. I am not sure why my function is not working properly. I have 8 bits stored into an array of 8 unsigned chars. This is my method so far:
unsigned int bitsToBytes(unsigned char *bits)
{
  unsigned int sum = 0;
  for(int i = 8; i >= 0; i--)
  {
    sum += bits[i];
    sum<<=1;
  }
  return sum;

}

int main()
{
  unsigned char bits[8]='01010111';
  unsigned int byt;
  byt = bitsToBytes(bits);
  cout << byt; //doesn't give me the right result
}

Could anyone help to get correct result? Thanks alot!

A: There are multiple problems:

*

*the loop in your code iterates 9 times, from 8 to 0 inclusive,

*you read bits[8] which is an invalid access.

*you add bits[i] which is a character with value '0' or '1', not a bit value.

*the bits are probably shifted in the wrong order.

*in main(), the initializer for the array is incorrect: unsigned char bits[8] = '01010111'; should be unsigned char bits[8] = "01010111";
Here is a modified version:
unsigned int bitsToBytes(unsigned char *bits) {
    unsigned int sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
        sum = (sum << 1) + (bits[i] - '0');
    }
    return sum;
}

int main() {
    unsigned char bits[8] = "01010111";
    unsigned int byt;
    byt = bitsToBytes(bits);
    cout << byt;
    return 0;
}

A: Issues:

*

*bits is to short to accommodate 8 chars + null char

*shuft of the sum has to be done before adding the value

*Strings are enclosed in " not '
unsigned int bitsToBytes(unsigned char *bits)
{
  unsigned int sum = 0;
  while(*bits)
  {
    sum<<=1;
    sum += *bits++ - '0';
  }
  return sum;

}

int main()
{
  unsigned char bits[]="0101011101100101010101";
  unsigned int byt;
  byt = bitsToBytes(bits);
  std::cout << (unsigned)byt; //doesn't give me the right result
}

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Multicolored hair dye gets more imaginative by the day. From crystal-inspired geode hair to full-blown hair tapestries, the Internet has no shortage of ideas when it comes to cramming as many colors as possible into a single dye job. With a new mane makeover hitting our feeds every day, you'd think every idea has already been explored (but you would be wrong). We've seen both rainbow roots and hidden rainbow hair on their own, but we never before considered what happens when you combine the two. And thanks to Australian salon Blondies of Melbourne, we finally know the answer.
The salon took to their Instagram account recently to show the start-to-finish process of creating hidden rainbow roots. Turns out hiding the technicolor accents is all in the placement. By applying them on the underside of the hair, the stylists created a rainbow that's only visible when the hair is braided or brushed back from the forehead (yes, they essentially turned rainbow roots into a rainbow hairline, and we're here for it). If you're wondering how to hide a typically eye-catching dye, this technique turns the trend on its head in the coolest way. See it in action below!


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Celtics, 76ers may both want to avoid a first-round meeting equally
While it's about as close to a consensus as one can get in the Boston Celtics media sphere that the Philadelphia 76ers are probably the team the Celtics would least want to face in the first round of the 2020 NBA playoffs, it seems the feeling may be mutual.
Philadelphia Inquirer NBA writer David Murphy believes the Sixers ought to do their best to avoid the Massachusetts franchise at the end of the resumed 2019-20 NBA season as well.
The reasoning? It's a pretty compelling case, when you get down to it — Boston, when healthy, is a very dangerous team.
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Despite their record against the Celtics, Murphy is emphatic that Philadelphia do all it can to avoid the Celtics.
"Their first order of business will be winning enough games to avoid facing the Celtics in the first round," he began. "This might seem like a counter-intuitive place to start, given that the Sixers have won three of their four meetings against Boston this season while losing five of seven to the Heat and Pacers combined."
This is of course a fair point, but the logic is sound. Why?
"Heading into the shutdown, they'd won 17 of 23 games. During that stretch, they were 8-1 against Eastern Conference opponents and 3-0 against the Heat, Sixers, and Pacers. They also beat the Lakers, Clippers, Thunder, Trail Blazers and Jazz. Five of their seven losses came against Western Conference playoff teams."
It's hard to say what version of either team will be suiting up for postseason action by the time the playoffs actually arrive. Both teams have players with injuries that can flare up suddenly and without notice that take time to calm down again.
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Both teams have seen chemistry — or its lack — affect play.
It's conceivable either team could hit their stride and make quick work of the other, depending on how a lot of hard-to-predict factors end up playing out. So, in at least that sense, it may make as much sense for the 76ers to want anyone but Boston as much as the reverse holds true.
"Take away the Celtics' three losses to the Sixers and they are 6-3 against the East's Top 6," notes Murphy. "There's an argument to be made that they are the greatest threat to the Bucks."
"Avoiding them in the first round should be a priority," he argues; no argument here.
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PrecisionPath Consortium for Large-Scale Manufacturing Conducts First Working Meeting
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WEATHERFORD, TX — The Coordinate Metrology Society, in collaboration with UNC Charlotte, announced the completion of the first working meeting of the PrecisionPath Consortium for Large-Scale Manufacturing.
The new project is funded by an Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech) Grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. At the 2015 CMSC (Coordinate Metrology Society Conference) in July, the PrecisionPath Consortium held their inaugural meeting to discuss team building strategies, short- and long-term goals, and project timelines. The group is tasked to identify and prioritize the technology needs of the aerospace, defense, energy, and other industries that manufacture large-scale, high accuracy parts and products.
"The PrecisionPath Consortium is building a solid foundation to identify barriers that hinder progress in the large-scale manufacturing sector," said Ron Hicks, CMS AMTech Committee Chair. "This working meeting was the first step in prioritizing the technology needs of the aerospace, defense, energy, and other industries that manufacture large-volume, high accuracy parts and products. The partnership between the Coordinate Metrology Society, UNC Charlotte, and leading industry players is critical to locking down the practical knowledge needed to move manufacturing and metrology forward in a meaningful way. This is a trailblazing project laser-focused on building a roadmap for both short-term and long-term objectives."
Roadmap for Innovation
The PrecisionPath Consortium held their Planning and Visioning Council during the Quality Show in late October at the Rosemont Convention Center in Chicago, IL. The first session of the meeting focused on refining the project scope and boundaries. The Council discussed the critical challenges in producing large products to precision tolerances, and then transitioned into identifying metrology technology families used by industry. This segment was followed by the team compiling the most important attributes of these systems for measurement and inspection.
The afternoon session progressed with dynamic group interactions and the use of sophisticated meeting facilitation technology to capture the input. The Consortium took up usage scenarios and amassed data on how portable metrology is being used to support diverse applications across different disciplines. The group proceeded to pinpoint sources of expertise and data for use in the roadmapping process, and firmed up the framing and vision of the PrecisionPath Roadmap project. The organizational structure and operational model were finalized, and the meeting concluded with the election of a Board of Directors and an overview of marketing objectives.
Representatives from leading manufacturing companies attended the meeting including Michael Jones, Siemens; Bob Elliott, Lockheed Martin; Chris Barrow, Lockheed Martin; Glen Cork, Spirit AeroSystems; Matthew Ilardo, Brookhaven National Labs, and Mons Lee, The Boeing Company. OEMs and metrology service providers were represented by Ron Hicks, Automated Precision (API); Patrick Welch, New River Kinematics (NRK), Joel Martin, Hexagon Metrology; Rina Molari, Hexagon Metrology and 2016 CMSC Chair; Ray Ryan, ECM Global Measurement Solutions; Eric Brandt, Nikon Metrology and Ron Rode, Planet Tool and Engineering. Consortium organizers are Ron Hicks, CMS AMTech Chair and UNC Charlotte representatives Ed Morse, John Ziegert, Ram Kumar, and Antonis Stylianou. Other supporting attendees included Tom Lettieri, NIST; Danuta McCall, Facilitate.com; and Belinda Jones, HiTech Marketing.
The next meeting will be held in February 2016 in the Charlotte, NC area. Interested metrology professionals from the large-scale manufacturing sector who can commit to attending PrecisionPath technical meetings and associated conferences in the next two years are invited to contact Ron Hicks, CMS committee chair at ron.hicks@apisensor.com.
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We are currently booking select shows in New England for late winter and spring 2016.
We wrote some music for the interior of Oatman's long-term installation, a photovolatiac-enabled airstream trailer that has crash landed at the museuem's industrial space. -----> We'll be playing at the opening, under the airstream, wearing unisuits that Michael fashioned out of the orginal awning fabric from the trailer.
show/exhibit is up at Gallery 51, 6-8PM. We'll start around 8:30PM.
Playing with Jason McNair on bass.
Playing with Christian McNeill (formerly of Hybrasil).
Reception: Saturday, July 8. 4 ?7 p.m.
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The Burdens play for the Berkshire Biennial Preview Party.
Samuel T. Adams, Linda Mieko Allen, Edward Cating, Paul Chojnowski, Peggy Diggs, Peter Dudek, Barbara Groves and Adam Zaretsky, Julie McCarthy, Michael McKay, Meleko Mokgosi, David Ricci, and Nick Zammuto.
New York, NY one set; 9pm very sharp.
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The Berkshire Arts Festival: 7:30-8:45pm, Main Stage.
We'll be warming up for The Moth, a national storytelling performance group based out of New York City.


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To the north of the Zambezi River, its narrow coastal strip gives way to inland hills and low plateaus, ideal for agriculture. Its rugged highlands are further west, which is sparsely populated compared to the northern regions.
Mozambique offers a tropical climate with two seasons, a wet season from October to March and a dry season from April to September. Climatic conditions, however, can vary depending on altitude; as rainfall is heavy along the coast and decreases in the north and south.
A long civil war and recurrent droughts have resulted in more and more people migrating to urban and coastal areas, with adverse environmental consequences.
Natural hazards: Severe droughts; devastating cyclones and floods in central and southern provinces.
Mozambique's government has a strong interest in improving the country's telecommunications sector. The sector is regulated by the Instituto Nacional das Comunicações de Moçambique (INCM), which falls under the authority of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Demand for telecommunications services is growing rapidly at both corporate and individual levels. This offers excellent business opportunities for telecommunications businesses with regard to both network infrastructure development and service deployment in regions of the country that have been poorly developed in the past.
Since 2014, Mozambique's mobile market has shown strong growth on the back of the launch of the country's third mobile operator (Movitel). Before the arrival of Movitel there was limited competition between mCel and Vodacom.
The country stands out as one of the dynamic and higher-performing markets, in Africa, in terms of mobile penetration and 3G/4G developments. It showed an estimated year-on-year growth of 32.5% in the number of 3G and 4G phone subscribers in 2014, with this sector making up 10.3% of the mobile market.
Fixed-line telecoms, however, is lagging behind. The country has one of the smallest fixed-line markets in Southern Africa and not much progress is expected in this sector due to the cost implications and the existing high rate of mobile substitution. Experts believe that the only way faster growth in the fixed-line market could be achieved is through a rival entrant.
Because of the lack of investment and development in Mozambique's fixed-line market, the country's Internet sector depends more on wireless access technologies. Mobile operators in the country are taking advantage of this and attracting data users to their mobile broadband networks.
It is expected that the country's fixed-line broadband penetration rates will remain below 1% to the end of 2019, as people will keep using mobile to access voice and data services.
The low penetration levels in the country's large mobile market leave room for significant growth.
Mozambique has one of the smallest fixed-line markets in Southern Africa.
The country's internet sector depends more on wireless access technologies. Mobile operators in the country are taking advantage of this and attracting data users to mobile broadband networks.
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Christmas is so close to and we all want to devote it with the household. It is my favored time of the year and I attempt to make it the best time for my loved ones and pals as properly. What is Christmas devoid of a correctly decorated home? We shell out the winter holidays close to the table in the living room, so this year I decided to renovate the living room and give it a new appear.
When we make a decision to refurbish our home a question usually arises – how significantly will that price? It all depends on what you want to do with the living space. What I chose to do with the area is to paint the walls in a various color, change the floor tiles with laminate and place new furniture. The marketplace is flooded with very good offers close to Christmas and according to me, this is the best time to shop.
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These ceramic bowls were brought back from Kigali, Rwanda made by local artisans. The artisans who made these are working to provide a home and education for their families and children.
This listing is for one bowl. The bowls are 5" in diameter. Each product is handmade and color/exact look will vary.


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Published: November 6, 2015, 5:50 am
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Proposed wind farm in Botetourt County continues to be hot topic
BOTETOURT COUNTY (WSLS 10) - We're learning more details about a proposed wind farm in Botetourt County.
It's a controversial issue that has sparked continues debate. Charlottesville company Apex Energy proposes to place up to 25 wind turbines along a three-and-a-half mile stretch of North Mountain.
Apex officially filed for a special exceptions permit with the county recently.
The company says the mountain ridge here in Botetourt generates enough wind to produce around 75 megawatts of electricity. That's enough to power around 20,000 average homes.
The company had to comply with Botetourt County's new wind ordinance supervisors put into place in July. That restricts the height of the windmills to 550 ft. tall and the sound they produce to 60 decibels or below. Company representatives say if they get to go-ahead, the biggest part of the project people will notice in the construction.
"Construction is the most disturbance that happens. Once the construction is over, everything is reclaimed and the access roads will remain, and there will be turbines and sub-stations at the base of the mountain, but during construction, there will be some more traffic for trucks to get in here. That's something that we anticipate to be as limited as possible."
If built, the wind farm would be the first of its kind in the State of Virginia.
This past July, several homeowners filed a civil suit against the county for that ordinance allowing the wind farm proposals - saying it wasn't restrictive enough.
The attorney representing those homeowners, Tammy Belinsky, says that case will be heard in Botetourt Circuit Court on December 16. Apex says it plans to host an Open House for the community here in early December. It hopes supervisors will come to a decision on whether or not to approve the project early next year.


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Collective race discrimination outlawed in clear ruling of European Union's highest court
In predominantly Roma districts across Bulgaria, a major electricity company put all the electricity meters at the top of very high poles, a potent symbol that stigmatized the entire community. The electricity company, CEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD (CEZ), did this to every consumer in the district, regardless of their payment history, and only in Roma districts. On a complaint by a local shopkeeper, Anelia Nikolova, the Bulgarian Anti-Discrimination Commission (ADC) ruled that the practice was race discrimination and ordered it to end. CEZ appealed to the Sofia Administrative Court, which referred questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The CJEU confirmed that the EU Race Equality Directive. It ruled that if the Roma ethnicity of the residents had led to the practice, it was unlawful direct discrimination. If CEZ proved that its decision had been entirely a response to safety concerns, and in no way related to ethnicity, the practice would still be – in the judgment of the CJEU – unjustified indirect discrimination. The stigmatizing effects of a practice applied without distinction to every person in the district was so harmful it could not be legally justified. The case returned to the national court for a final decision. Before judgment was given, CEZ reached an agreement with the Bulgarian legal NGO, Equal Opportunities Initiative, to change the meters to an acceptable height, through discussion with the affected communities.
CEZ supplied electricity to a shop run by Anelia Nikolova in Gizdova, a mainly Roma district in the town of Dupnitsa, Bulgaria. Until 1999, electricity meters in Gizdova were easily accessible, as anywhere else in Bulgaria. Then, across Bulgaria, the electricity company put electricity meters out of easy reach of householders on tall poles (as high as 7 meters, or over 22 feet) but only in districts seen as the home of Roma communities. Unable to read their meters, electricity users could no longer check that their electricity usage was being correctly recorded. This change, supposedly to address theft and interference with the meters, was opposed by residents of the districts affected as unfairly stigmatizing all of them as thieves.
In 2008, Ms. Nikolova protested her electricity bill to CEZ . Believing the bill was inflated, she asked the company to relocate her meter to a normal height, so that she could monitor her electricity consumption. CEZ refused, informing her that she could request an additional check of her meter by the company's staff or could have it placed at her home for an extra fee. Ms. Nikolova complained to the ADC. Though not herself Roma, she argued CEZ's practice was discrimination on racial or ethnic grounds, because CEZ did this to every resident in Gizdova, as a Roma district, but nowhere else in Dupnitsa. The practice implied all the citizens of Gizdova were not trustworthy enough to access and read their own meters and so stigmatized a whole community. Armed with material in which CEZ had cited Roma ethnicity as a factor for its decisions, the ADC agreed with Ms. Nikolova and upheld her case. CEZ appealed to the Sofia Administrative Court, which decided the case raised questions of EU anti-discrimination law.
Open Society Justice Initiative Involvement
The Justice Initiative represented Ms. Nikolova in the proceedings before the CJEU in Luxembourg. When the case returned to the Bulgarian court, the Justice Initiative worked with Equal Opportunities Initiative, Bulgaria's leading legal NGO for Roma people, to implement the decision.
In submissions to the Court, the Justice Initiative argued for an inclusive, effective interpretation of EU race-equality law.
Concept of "discrimination based on racial or ethnic origin" in the EU Racial Equality Directive 2000/43 and the EU Fundamental Rights Charter. This must be interpreted to include discrimination based on race, color, descent, national or ethnic origin, and membership of a national minority, and prohibits discrimination based on Roma origin. Discrimination is "based on" racial or ethnic origin, when it is based on actual, perceived, or even assumed racial or ethnic origin. A practice based on the racial or ethnic origin of persons living in a specific district is prohibited even if some of the people living in the district are not from the minority group. Any person affected by such a practice can claim to be a victim of discrimination based on racial or ethnic origin.
Threshold for discrimination. Any measure which leads to less favorable treatment or a disadvantage is capable of amounting to discrimination. It is not necessary to show that there was particularly serious or demonstrably significant disadvantage. The practice adopted by the electricity company amounts to less favorable treatment and is a disadvantage for electricity users and residents of the districts affected.
Direct discrimination. The practice explicitly targeted actual or perceived "Roma districts," so the electricity company has the burden of proving that this choice was not "based on" Roma racial or ethnic origin. The Justice Initiative argues that the national court was correct to decide that the electricity company had not disproved this, and so there was unlawful direct discrimination.
Indirect discrimination. Even if the company's choice of district was based exclusively upon considerations other than racial or ethnic origin, the practice inevitably promotes racist assumptions against Roma people, such that is contrary to the founding principles of the EU and thus is incapable of being justified. The policy has had the effect of disproportionately and negatively affecting the Roma community living in Gizdova mahala, for which there is no objective and reasonable justification. Any legitimate concerns about theft and interference with meters must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, in a reasonable and proportionate way, rather than by stigmatizing entire communities.
The case was the first time the Court of Justice had considered discrimination against a district of residents. The Court made a number of significant findings:
The EU Race Equality Directive prohibition on "discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic origin" applies not only to persons of the ethnic origin in question, but also to anyone who suffers less favorable treatment or a particular disadvantage on account of a discriminatory measure.
It amounts to unlawful direct discrimination where ethnic origin determined the decision to impose a less favourable treatment.
The CJEU advised the national court that, even if the CEZ practice is not direct discrimination, it nevertheless does put Roma at a particular disadvantage compared to people living in districts where the meters are at a normal height, so is indirect discrimination unless it can be properly justified on the basis of the legitimate aims of preventing and combatting fraud and abuse and ensuring the security and quality of the energy network.
In January 2016, CEZ adopted a plan to pilot alternative metering for affected Roma communities. In February, CEZ began replacing meters in Dupnitsa and Ihtiman with accessible 'smart meters', for more than 900 households, including Ms. Nikolova's. In two other Roma communities, in Sofia and Byala Slatina, CEZ planned to pilot secure boxes accessible only to customers, each with 25 smart meters inside.
Equal Opportunities and the Justice Initiative accepted this plan at a hearing in January 2016 at the Sofia Administrative Court. Equal Opportunities has continued to meet with CEZ to ensure that the communities are consulted and to monitor implementation of the plan.
CEZ plans further meetings with affected Roma communities to plan relocating remaining meters.
CEZ completes pilot of relocating meters.
CEZ begins relocating meters for 900 homes in Dupnitsa and Ihtiman districts.
Sofia Administrative Court adjourns hearing for CEZ to pilot relocating meters.
CEZ meets with Equal Opportunities and Justice Initiative.
CJEU rules in favor of Nikolova.
Opinion of Advocate-General Kokott of CJEU delivered in the case.
CJEU held oral hearing.
Justice Initiative files observations with CJEU on behalf of Nikolova.
Sofia Administrative Court refers questions to CJEU in Nikolova case.
June 5, 2014. Justice Initiative files observations with CJEU on behalf of Nikolova.
CJEU dismisses Belov reference as inadmissible.
Commission upholds Nikolova's complaint again.
Supreme Administrative Court sets aside Commission decision and directs it to reconsider.
Commission upholds Nikolova's complaint.
Nikolova complains to Commission at failure of company to relocate meter.
Nikolova requests electricity company to relocate her meter.
Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, July 16, 2015 Download the 34-page document. (Updated: April 3, 2018) Download
Written Observations of Anelia Georgieva Nikolova Download the 22-page document. (Updated: December 5, 2014) Download
Written Observations of Anelia Georgieva Nikolova (Bulgarian) Download the 25-page document in Bulgarian. (Updated: December 5, 2014) Download
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To be in control of costs, reactive and innovative, to anticipate customers' needs, to use carefully designed communication: companies have a plethora of ideas when the point is to ensure their performance and development. One dimension is often overlooked however: the well-being of employees. Wrongly perceived are superfluous, if not as downright sentimentality, this should on the contrary be brought to light for all to see how much beneficial its impacts can be. The survey carried out in 2014 by the Department of Economics at Warwick University showed this clearly: being happy would appear to increase productivity by almost 12%.
We would have here an answer to the need to find new development springs in our global, uncertain world in search of re-enchantment. No wonder then that the notion of 'Happiness at work' should increasingly fuel debates between experts in corporate management! But then, how to get collaborators smiling, how to make them happy and find fulfilment at work?
Dr Sabrina Tanquerel, a Lecturer-Researcher in Human Resource Management at EM Normandie, who has authored several articles on benevolent management, explains that "managers have a paramount role to play in the quest for happiness and well-being at work. They must know how to infuse teamwork dynamics but also valorise their employees individually and challenge them every day. People feel well when they have challenges to meet! They mobilise their competencies and a high level of focus that generate naturally a feeling of self-satisfaction….which proves beneficial to the company".
On the same topic, check Dr Sabrina Tanquerel's column on the Courrier Cadres website.
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The deeper the season has gone, the better St. Paul Saints starter John Straka has been and Major League organizations have taken notice. The Toronto Blue Jays saw enough talent in the Chaska native that they purchased his contract and will send him to High-A Dunedin.
The 26-year-old Straka is 10-3 with a 4.48 ERA in 17 games (16 starts). In 94.1 innings pitched he has walked just 22 and struck out 77 while opponents are hitting .281 against him. Over his last four appearances, which have included a rain shortened start and a 1.0 inning relief appearance on Thursday, he has allowed just one run in his last 18.0 innings of work.
Straka is currently tied for second in the league in wins and fifth in games started. In his last start on August 8 he hurled 7.0 innings allowing one run against the Gary SouthShore Railcats. His finest outing of the season came on July 31 at Lincoln when he tossed 7.0 shutout innings allowing just two hits while striking out seven. On July 17 against Fargo-Moorhead at CHS Field he struck out a season high 11. He's gone at least six innings nine times and allowed three or fewer earned runs eight times.
Straka came over in a trade with the Sioux City Explorers on May 16 and was 11-3 with a 3.27 ERA in 20 starts last season for the league runner-up Explorers. In 129.1 innings pitched he walked just 36, struck out 110 while opponents hit .247 against him. He finished fifth in the league in strikeouts and fanned at least six in 10 of his 20 starts including double digits twice. He struck out 11 on July 4 vs. Sioux Falls and in his last start of the season he tossed 7.0 innings allowing two unearned runs on one hit while striking out 12 Grand Prairie AirHogs. He went at least 6.0 innings in 14 of 20 starts and at least 7.0 innings in 11 of 20 starts. He threw 15 quality starts, defined as throwing at least 6.0 innings and giving up three runs or fewer. One of his best starts came on July 29 at Lincoln when he tossed 8.0 shutout innings allowing three hits while walking two and striking out nine.
Straka becomes the 119th contract sold, which includes 113 total players including six who had their contract sold twice. Of the 119 contracts sold eight were sold to international teams and a total of 21 have made it to the ultimate level of baseball following their time with the Saints (Julio DePaula, who played for the Saints in 2011, made it to the Major Leagues in 2014, never pitched in a game, but does not show up on the list below because his contract wasn't purchased directly from the Saints).


John T. (Tom) Maloney, Jr. is a partner and co-founder of the firm. He graduated from law school at the College of William and Mary, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and received the Faculty Award for Exceptional Achievement. Tom received a BA, with honors, from University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The birthday of the Soviet automobile industry is considered to be November 7, 1924. For it was on that day, during a parade marking the anniversary of the October Revolution, that ten trucks built at the AMO plant made their way across Red Square.
Editor - Elena Potapova; photos - Lori/Legion Media, ITAR-TASS; music - BoxCat Games "Epic Song".
The first Soviet automobile — the AMO F15 — was based on the Italian FIAT 15 Ter truck. It proved its reliability during a rally immediately after the parade. In 1925, the vehicle went into serial production. The first Soviet passenger car was produced in 1927. It bore the name NAMI-1. Its 20 b.h.p. engine could notch up a speed of 70 km/h.


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Joachim Hess (* 21. November 1925 in Gelsenkirchen; † 4. Juli 1992 in München) war ein deutscher Schauspieler und Theater- und Fernsehregisseur.

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Joachim Hess war der Sohn eines Lehrers und einer Cellistin. Nach dem Abitur besuchte er eine Schauspielschule, ehe er 1943 zum Wehrdienst eingezogen wurde. Nach Kriegsende begann Hess seine künstlerische Laufbahn an den Städtischen Bühnen Kiel, wo er Unterricht von Bernhard Minetti erhielt. In Kiel arbeitete Hess als Inspizient und Regieassistent, ehe er ab 1948 auf Hamburger Bühnen stand und erste Regiearbeiten übernahm. In Hamburg wirkte Hess am Deutschen Schauspielhaus und dem Ernst-Deutsch-Theater. Weitere Stationen seiner Laufbahn als Regisseur waren unter anderem das Berliner Schillertheater, das Theater am Gärtnerplatz in München, ferner die Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen, die Festspiele Heppenheim und die Burgfestspiele Jagsthausen, denen er 1982 als Intendant vorstand.

Ab Mitte der 1950er-Jahre begann Joachim Hess auch für das Fernsehen zu arbeiten, zunächst als Regieassistent, später dann sowohl als Regisseur als auch als Drehbuchautor und in der Produktion. Zwischen 1951 und 1969 stand er gelegentlich auch selber in kleineren Rollen vor der Kamera. Zu Hess' bekannten Regiearbeiten zählen Filme wie Sparks in Neu-Grönland und Bismarck von hinten oder Wir schließen nie, zu denen Helga Feddersen die Drehbücher schrieb, das dokumentarische Fernsehspiel Der Fall Hau oder die Familienserie Heidi nach den Romanen von Johanna Spyri. Mehrfach inszenierte Hess auch Opern- und Operettenfassungen für das Fernsehen.

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Hörspiele

Als Regisseur
 1964: Die wahren Fälle (4. Folge: Jagd auf Dr. Crippen) – Autor: Nikolai von Michalewsky

Als Sprecher
 1954: Lord Mountdrago – Autor: William Somerset Maugham – Regie: Julius Gellner

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Geboren 1925
Gestorben 1992
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I recently bought some one-step Black and White developer from Cinestill thinking that a chemical that develops, stops, and fixes all in one step was pretty genius. Not sure how I've never seen anything like this before. This isn't an ad or anything, I just finally got to try it out this morning.
Good news, the stuff works and takes no time at all. I decided to test it on a roll that I knew would not have anything great on it, although that will never be confirmed because I'm pretty rusty at winding film on a reel in the dark. Basically, I screwed up winding the film so only parts of it got developed, and the rest got exposed to light when developing was over. It was my point-and-shoot car cam so I'm not going to cry over it.
I'll make a post where I show my film scans (the above scan was jerry-rigged on a window) because my scanner doesn't want to cooperate at the moment. I'll have to go use the ultra-hi res scanner at Art Warehouse sometime later this week.
Why do I do all this when I can pop an SD card from my camera into my computer and not deal with the possibility of severe mistakes and great frustration? Seriously, photography now has an "easy button", and it's called digital photography. Why bother with standing around in a dark room adding 20 steps to your Instagram post? Not only that: if your goal as a photographer is to start a business, why shoot photos that do the opposite of help you make a living?
I'm taking the devil's advocate stance on this because I really hate when people ask me that. My usual answer, if I wasn't concerned with being rude or not would be: "Why do you watch Netflix? You're never going to make money from sitting in front of the TV." Why do we do anything that doesn't make us money?
Because enjoying things is nice sometimes.
First is somewhat obvious: I once heard the king of entrepreneur motivational speaking, Gary Vaynerchuk, talk about how he basically understands UI/UX (User interface and user experience on the internet and in apps) because he understood the psychology of the average buyer. How did he understand the psychology of the average buyer? By working in retail and watching what people do, which to me seems like the most analog way to understand human psychology. I believe it, because if you've stood behind a cash register for an extended period of time, you begin to understand many people's motivations in a way you wouldn't have otherwise.
Basically, by understanding an analog style of shooting photos, you will, by extension, have a greater understanding of a digital style of shooting photos. The terms carried over: you still crop, burn, dodge, etc, in Adobe Photoshop. It all still kinda works the same. It never hurts to understand where everything comes from. Understanding the history and finding out why things are the way they are is something that is valuable in just about everything in existence.
Digital photography, arguably, has almost zero stakes. You can "machine-gun" photos and never miss a second; you're not limited to 24 or 36 exposures. You can see photos as you take them, so you know you're getting the right shot and not finding out that you missed the moment long after said moment has passed. Upping the stakes by shooting film is almost like putting on a blindfold in some sort of Karate Kid scenario. At the end of the day, doing things the hard way makes the easy stuff even easier. It just makes your work better and makes you more appreciative of how things are.
Stuff just happens. The physical world has an incredible say on how your photo will look, not just in taking the photo, but in editing as well. You can't scratch or bend or spill something on a RAW file. You can't screw up development (see earlier black and white photo) of a RAW file, and you'd be hard-pressed to accidentally shoot a double-exposure digitally out in the field (although I do it all the time but that's neither here nor there). You can really screw up and it may turn out kinda cool. When I was shooting film for a photography class once, I accidentally shot a double-exposure because I forgot to wind the film forward. Later on, my whole senior project was a double-exposure series. Now, I shoot them in-camera digitally all the time. All because I was wasting time and screwing up an expensive roll of film.
Third, I'm not shooting film for money, so I can have lower expectations and just relax.
Fifth, when the EMP hits, I'll have all my negatives to remember my past life, before the apocalypse.
I kid, I kid. But really, I've fallen victim to lost hardrives like any average citizen of the digital world. My future grandkids will be able to dig through my negatives and polaroids and get an idea as to what my life was like, just in case I fail to back up my files and archive them somewhere before I croak. It's kind of neat to think that I can make something that could out-last me.
I can tell you right here and now before I even scan these suckers that they are going to be waaaay over-exposed. I'm not shooting for perfection, maybe just some memories and some cool mistakes that give me inspiration for my next project or give me an idea for a new style of shooting. Who knows? THAT'S THE POINT!
At the end of the day, everything I do to practice and experiment with my skills is good for my business. Money is important, but there would be no money in photography for me if I hadn't shot film in the first place.
Basically, here's a hard answer to the title question of this psuedo-listicle: Why do I shoot film in a digital world? Because I love it.
I will sometimes will post my film stuff here or on my main Instagram account (@willmalone), but I've created a separate Instagram account exclusively for my film stuff. Go follow @will_on_film if you want to enter the next level of Will Malone Photography, or just want to see my mistakes, snapshots, and general weirdnesses.


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Home » Celebrities » Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell announces pregnancy after miscarriage
Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell announces pregnancy after miscarriage
Shay Mitchell has announced she is pregnant, six months after revealing she had suffered a devastating miscarriage.
The 32-year-old Canadian actress, best known for her role in Pretty Little Liars, shared her news with fans on Friday.
She shared the happy news by posting a topless photo on Instagram in which she showed off her baby bump.
Shay captioned the pic with: "Does this mean I'm allowed to drive in the car pool lane at all times now?"
She also recorded a video for YouTube, titled 'Guess Who's Preggers', in which she revealed she is expecting with boyfriend Matte Babel, six months after their heartbreaking loss.
They have been dating since 2017 and in January Shay revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage in 2018.
Shay revealed the devastating news on her Instagram Stories, where she posted a sonogram photo along with a broken heart emoji.
Shay told her fans at the time: "We all have to deal with various struggles and challenges in life.
"The support and affection that so many of you show me lifts me up during even my darkest days, one of which happened last year after I miscarried and lost the child of my hopes and dreams."
The actress did not reveal how many weeks pregnant she was and no due date was given.
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Seattle Mariner pitcher Charlie Furbush waves to students and staff as he arrives in the Katzie Elementary School gym.
Seattle Mariners players visit students as part of DREAM Team caravan.
Members of the Seattle Mariners baseball team visited Katzie Elementary last week as part of their DREAM Team caravan.
The school held a special assembly on Thursday (Jan. 28) for the DREAM Team that included pitchers Charile Furbush and Steve Cishek, along with Mariners' mascot Mariner Moose.
The players spoke to the students about the importance of the DREAM Team principles of Drug-free, Respect yourself and others, Education, Attitude and Motivation.
The presentation launched Katzie's Kindness Month in February.


The CT910 is an excellent choice for a portable network emulator supporting speeds up to 45Mbps (bi-directional). It can insert latency, packet loss, bandwidth constraints, packet reordering, duplication and corruption, and other impairments in a controllable manner. The CT910 has no moving parts and will fit into a small travel bag or briefcase for easy portability. It is also completely silent, so you can include it in your customer demos and presentations. It should be managed by the LANforge-GUI running on a separate machine (laptop, etc). The CT910 can also be managed over a serial console in text mode. For more powerful systems, consider the CT913 or CT963.
Connect Management Ethernet port to Management network or management PC.
Connect Client to eth1 and Server to eth2. The eth1 <-> eth2 interfaces will be bridged and this bridge will inject the network emulation.
Connect power brick to standard US or European AC power source.
Install the LANforge-GUI on a separate management PC or Laptop. Windows and Linux GUIs are supported: Select the correct one from the CDROM or Candela Technologies Download page, or visit the LANforge appliance IP address with your web browser, and install it.
The CT910 should now boot. If DHCP is enabled on the Management network, the CT910 will automatically acquire an IP address. If DHCP is not available, the IP address will be set to 192.168.1.101 by the LANforge scripts.
Start the LANforge-GUI on the management PC and click the 'Discover' button. It should find the CT910 appliance and add the IP address to the drop-down box in the Connect widget. Press 'Connect' and you will be connected to the CT910.
Able to simulate DS1, DS3, DSL, CableModem, Satellite links and other rate-limited networks, from 10bps up to 45Mbps (full duplex).
Affordable Appliance with no fans.
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Educators have long called for more rigor and engagement in classroom work, alongside calls for enhancing equity. Yet classroom practices and student outcomes have been slow to change.
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"AIW is an instructional game changer. It has brought coherence across our district's schools as we help our teachers help students become 21st-century learners."
"While the public is clamoring for added rigor and relevance in schools, educators are grappling with determining the definitions of these concepts. Authentic Intellectual Work standards and criteria allow educators to have deep and meaningful discussions. The AIW Framework and accompanying protocols have transformed professional development and learning communities by providing a common language of effective, research-based, rigorous and relevant education. This work fully supports the changes required in classrooms to reform and improve outcomes for students of all subgroups."
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Includes richly-detailed examples of AIW implementation at the state, district, building, and classroom levels.
Guides readers in the design of professional learning that leads to effective transfer back to the classroom.
Although this is meant to serve as a companion piece to the core book on AIW, the introductory chapter offers a concise description of the core principles of AIW that would also enable facilitators to use this as a stand-alone text.
AIW has been validated by research conducted over more than two decades. Most recently, it has been the focus of a state-wide initiative.


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Welcome to Casa Luna! By The Sea Vacation Villas is pleased to offer this exceptionally private 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom Heated Pool & Spa beach home getaway to the luxury vacation rental market. Casa Luna is situated in the picturesque, seaside, community of Lauderdale by the Sea and comes equipped with a key to access the private beach entrance that is situated less than two blocks from the home.
Upon entering Casa Luna, you are greeted by a spacious open floor plan revealing a meticulously updated home that begins with beautifully lined marble flooring throughout. The recently updated kitchen is both expansive, nothing short of spectacular and offers granite counters, custom wood cabinetry and stainless appliances. The kitchen is fully equipped with everything you will need while on vacation (dishes, silverware, glasses, coffee mugs, pots & pans, coffee maker, toaster, etc.) and offers granite counter dining for Five (5). The adjacent dining area offers seating for Six (6). The open living area provides a warm, comfortable, feeling and is equipped with a spacious leather sectional sleeper sofa, an oversized reading chair that offers direct, unobstructed, views of the outdoor covered lanai patio and heated pool lounge area and a 60 Inch LED High Definition Television with DVD entertainment center.
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The private Heated Pool & lounge area is quite arguably as private as it gets. The poolside lounge area offers dining for Four (4) and chaise lounge chairs for sunbathing. The spectacular, spacious, outdoor covered lanai has recently been lined with marble flooring and offers a full-size outdoor sofa, two outdoor reclining chairs, a glass coffee table and a built-in stainless BBQ.
As previously stated, another spectacular feature that sets Casa Luna apart from virtually all other vacation homes is the fact the property comes equipped with a key to access the private beach entrance situated less than two blocks from the home. You do have the option of both walking, or driving, to the private beach entrance. The walk is less than five minutes and, should you be required to carry a large amount of items to the beach (trust us... we know), the drive is even less and there is private parking that is limited to the homes that offer the private beach access. This is a wonderful feature!
Casa Luna is ideal for individuals and families in search of a relaxing getaway with the convenient accessibility to the beach and everything Lauderdale by the Sea and the Greater Fort Lauderdale / Pompano Beach areas have to offer! The home is fully equipped with wireless internet, cable television and phone service. The home also provides additional linens, pillows, and towels. An air mattress and pack-n-play are available upon request. Some of Florida's finest restaurants and shopping are a short distance away from this spectacular beach home getaway!
Property is in a great location. Villa is nicely decorated, loved the pool. Will return again someday. Thanks to the management team at By The Sea Vacation Villas for for a wonderful stay.
"Outstanding property for a vacation stay"
My family and I stayed at Casa Luna over the holiday. The Master Bedroom is quite comfortable and opens out to the pool. Quiet neighborhood on a small island surrounded by the intracoastal waterway. P...read more.
Pompano Beach (where Atlantic Boulevard meets the ocean) has been beautifully renovated with all new restrooms, lifeguard towers, a spectacular children's playground (including a water fountain play area) and offers private cabana rentals, is situated slightly over one mile from Casa Luna. The area offers ample parking and many options for dining, including Houston's, which is situated on the direct Intracoastal waterway. The public beach provides lifeguards 7 days a week from 9:00 am to 4:45 pm. All are welcome.
Lauderdale by the Sea (where Commercial Boulevard meets the ocean) has been beautifully updated and offers pedestrians a wonderful experience by providing a new oceanfront pavilion, a new oceanfront lounge area with multicolored adirondack chairs and a multitude of first-class dining options, including Aruba Cafe, The Village Grille, 101 Ocean, Mulligans, Burger Fi. etc. Children will certainly want to visit Kilwins Ice Cream or Sloans Ice Cream, which are both excellent dessert options. The beaches in Lauderdale by the Sea are known for being wide and offer families a wonderful, relaxing experience. Anglin's Fishing & Observation Pier has been open since 1963 and offer patrons 24 a day accessibility.
Casa Luna is located within, approximately, fifteen (15) minutes from Downtown Fort Lauderdale, including Las Olas, within, approximately, fifteen (15) minutes from downtown Boca Raton and within, approximately, forty (40) minutes from Miami and South Beach.


Following the success of the inaugural Alice Springs Bronco Branding at Undoolya Station in 2016, and an equally successful event in 2017, Alice Springs is poised to host the 2018 National Championships. Watch this space for more information or contact Robbie Schmidt on 0427 809 082.
We need the dates for the Bronco Branding finals on Alice Springs.
Sorry for the delay in replying. The Alice Springs National Bronco Branding will be on September 15th 2018. I hope that gives you enough time to organise your travels.


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Wyoming State Bar > News & Publications > CLE > June 30, 2020 – The Ties That Bind: Avoiding Inappropriate Entanglements in the Practice of Law
June 30, 2020 – The Ties That Bind: Avoiding Inappropriate Entanglements in the Practice of Law
June 30, 2020 - CLE
Sponsored by Mesa CLE
Time: 12 – 1:00 p.m. (Mountain Time)
Credit Approval: 1 CLE Credit including 1 Ethics Credit
To be an effective advocate, a lawyer must maintain a fair degree of dispassionate objectivity. The lawyer who becomes personally involved in the representation does the client a disservice. This is even truer for the lawyer who becomes personally involved with the client. In this webinar, legal humorist Sean Carter will explain the importance of avoiding this most basic conflict of interest and will relate the tragic (but sometimes fascinating) tales of lawyers who learned this lesson too late.
Sean Carter is a Harvard Law grad, who spent a decade practicing securities law before leaving the practice of law to pursue a career as the country's foremost Humorist at Law.
Since then, Mr. Carter has crisscrossed the country delivering comedic professional educational seminars for more than 350 legal organizations in three dozen states. His presentation topics run the gamut from legal ethics to stress management to diversity. Yet, all of his presentations have one thing in common — humor and plenty of it.
In fact, in 2003, Mr. Carter was dubbed "America's Funniest Lawyer" by The Radio and Television Interview Report.
Finally, Sean lives in Mesa, Arizona with his wife and four sons.


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Q: Prove on the circle $z=Re^{i\theta},|e^{iz}|=e^{-R\sin{\theta}}$ Question :
Prove on the circle $z=Re^{i\theta},|e^{iz}|=e^{-R\,\sin{\theta}}$
My work :
$\begin{aligned}
|e^{iz}|,\quad R=1,\quad \theta=z\\
|e^{iz}|=\sqrt{\cos^2{z} +\sin^2{z}}=1
\end{aligned}
$
What now? Please give me a help...

A: For a complex number $z$ it is not true that $|e^{iz}|=1$.
Let $z=x+iy$ where $x$ and $y$ are real. Then $|e^{iz}|=|e^{ix} e^{-y}|=e^{-y}$. Now just apply this with $x=R\cos \theta, y=R\sin \theta$.


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Gallup asked almost 180,000 Americans if they would trust someone who found their wallet to return it. The darkest states on the map indicate the most trusting states. Gallup concluded that states with higher of levels of well-being and access to services are more trusting. They seem to be hinting that collectivism breeds trust.
Collectivist California and New York are two of the most untrusting states in the country. And D.C. has half the level of trust seen in Utah--that bastion of liberalism.
It goes with out saying that percent white and ethnic homogeneity were not mentioned.
Americans are taught to judge people individually, and in situations where you can get to know someone, this makes sense. But the truth is that you can predict aggregates better than individuals.
Using General Social Survey data, I calculated the correlation between a measure of IQ (WORDSUM) and income (REALINC) for almost 17,000 people born in the U.S. It turned out to be .28. If you square that number, you get .08 which is called R-squared. It is interpreted as the proportion of variation in income that can be explained by your IQ. In other words, if I know one thing about a person--his IQ square--I am not going to be able to predict his income level with any accuracy at all.
But the situation changes dramatically if I calculate mean IQs and mean incomes for the 29 ethnic groups which have at least 30 respondents in each group. Now the correlation jumps all the way up to .77. If we square that, we get .59, which means that 59 percent of the variation in mean income is explained by the variation in mean IQ scores. So if I've got a random group of, say, Americans of Russian descent, chances are their average IQ is high, and I can make a pretty good bet that the group will earn an above-average income as well.
This is why Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen's approach is so effective in IQ and the Wealth of Nations. You grab a random guy in Japan, he might be smart or dumb; he might be rich or poor. But tell me the mean IQ of the country is 106, and I'm putting my money on it being a wealthy place.
HBD-ers are criticized for focusing on groups, but reality is most predictable at that level, and being scientific is being concerned with prediction.
This graph from a recent Pew study shows that 62 percent of working women would prefer to work part-time. This leaves out housewives, most of whom presumably prefer their status.
So to all the women out there who would like to stay home but get the message from others that, "Everyone wants to have a career now, and you must be a loser if you don't," politely tell those people to go to hell.
In a recent post on unhappiness on immigration, I was told that I should have assessed how happy immigrants would have been if they had remained in their home countries (and that I lied because I didn't do that). I guess since I'm religious, readers assume I have access to God or something because He's probably the only one that can answer that question.
Bound as I am to the mortal sphere, I put together a table that lists the numbers from the earlier post in the left column, and the percent of those in the home country who are "not very happy," or "not all all happy" (as opposed to very or quite happy). These data are from the World Values Survey. You can see that some countries were not asked the question that their counterparts in America were asked.
In 7 of the 11 eleven countries, a higher percentage of immigrants are unhappy than folks back home. In only 4 of 11 countries are people happier here.
Of course, these immigrants might actually have been more miserable had they remained home, so let's get it out there that I'm a liar in this post too.
Among Mex-Ams, is there a relationship between race and education?
I get very few Mexican American students who are Amerindian looking. Is that a reality or is it just me?
I looked at GSS data for Mexican Americans from this decade between the ages of 30 and 49 (N = 382). The mean years of education for those who give "other" as their race is 10.93. For self-described white Mex-Ams, it's 11.78. The difference disappears, however, if I limit the analysis to those born in the U.S. The racial gap is created by less educated, non-white immigrants.
I checked, and there is no racial gap in mean IQ (WORDSUM) for the two groups if we limit the sample to American-born people of Mexican descent.
Notice how educational levels stink for both the white and non-white groups. The average Mex-Am, white or brown, can't seem to finish high school.
Mormonism is an interesting faith. On the one hand, you would expect the church to have a difficult time holding onto its members since its claims are so bold. On the other hand, few members should leave because the church does such a great job of developing commitment. Religion becomes the center of a Mormon's world; they can't imagine life without it.
Recently, I joined Facebook and within days had about a zillion friends. Many were Mormons who were childhood friends. I counted a total of 28 and proceeded to see how many had switched religions. Thirteen out of thirteen women have stuck with the faith--not one dropout in the bunch. The men are more independent: while 12 are the same, two described themselves as unaffiliated, and one has converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. (I'm not surprised that the first two say they're liberals, while the third one is conservative).
So 89% still call themselves Mormon. Now, I didn't know the beliefs of many of my schoolmates, and perhaps I was more likely to learn the religion of a devout person. If this is true, perhaps a higher percentage of mediocre Mormons have switched. Still, I'm impressed at the high level of retention.
Paleocons, HBD-ers, or whoever can learn something from Mormons. If you want to be successful with an unpopular image and message, be organized as hell--or should I say heaven?
Leaving your family, friends, and way of life to come to America is bound to take its toll on you. Imagine living the rest of your life in, say, Japan. You'd be a fish out of water for a very long time.
Groups differ a great deal. Germans and Irish immigrants are just as happy as native-born Americans, but Puerto Ricans and Africans are 2 1/2 times as likely to suffer from unhappiness. People who are educated and speak English do better.
Immigrants lose more than familiar customs and proximity to loved ones over here. At Secular Right, Heather MacDonald recently described how African immigrants are mistreated by native-born blacks, and I know that some Mexican Americans do the same thing to immigrants from Latin America.
People argue that immigration might not be particularly good for Americans, but it's good for the immigrants. Says who? For an extra buck, you make yourself miserable? You cut your children off from relatives back home? You exchange one mess for another, and lose your way of life in the meantime. Think twice about it, folks.
The World Values Survey asked a number of Muslim countries the following question: "If a woman wants to have a child as a single parent but she doesn't want to have a stable relationship with a man, do you approve or disapprove?" Only 2.4% of respondents said they approved.
The same question was posed to Americans. Fifty-two percent of them approve. Liberal approval of father absence finds its way to the Islamic world through the global spread of American popular culture. Liberal degeneracy is one reason why so many Muslims don't like us.
Blacks and the subculture of violence: In Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Thomas Sowell argues that the South developed a violent culture because of Scotch Irish immgrants. Blacks supposedly absorbed these values from their white neighbors and still have them, regardless of what region of the country they now live in. Among the values is a touchiness on matters of honor and manhood. If someone offends you, you don't walk away. You teach him a lesson. Sowell points to culture and thus avoids any biological explanations for the higher rate of violence among blacks.
General Social Survey data, however, don't back up his assertion. Of course, it would be nice if respondents were asked a long list of questions about the appropriate use of violence, but we have at least one question: is it okay--yes or no--for a man to hit a drunk who bumped into his wife on the street?
A violent orientation among white Southerners should be most concentrated among the lower classes, and I would expect attitudes to differ from American norms most in the East South Central (ESC) part of the South which includes Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. 15.5% of these people agree with the statement about hitting a drunk man. It's 18.9% if only men are included.
How does that compare to low-status blacks who live anywhere in the country? Only 7.9% of them said yes to the question, and the number for males is only 9.1%. The number for all blacks does not differ significantly from the estimate for all Americans: 8.6%. By contrast, low-status whites from the ESC region are significantly more likely (at the 95% confidence level) to hold this violent attitude when compared to other Americans or to poor blacks.
So, it's possible that white Southerners are more prone to assault than Northerners because of their views toward the appropriate use of violence, but how do we explain the high level of violence among blacks? Liberal researchers will instruct us that a racist society makes blacks angry, and anger leads people to vent physically. A biological explanation is an obvious possibility--I mean, racist whites, and the Scotch Irish for that matter, don't live everywhere blacks do around the globe--but it hasn't been investigated much because it might be true.
*Row variable treated as the dependent variable.
White General Social Survey respondents were asked how warmly they felt toward 1) other whites and 2) blacks. The cross-tab above shows the results.
The finding that really jumps out at you is that if you answer warm about one race, you are very likely to answer warm about the other. There is a strong tendency among whites to either like everyone or to dislike everyone.
Let's call those who dislike both blacks and whites Misanthropists, and those who like both Philanthropists. We'll call those who are neutral towards everyone Neutralists. To keep things simple, we'll label a white person a SWPL (pronounced "swipple") if they give a warmer answer for blacks than for whites. Racialists will be those who give whites a higher score than blacks.
It is clear from the table that the majority of whites are Philanthropists--55 percent to be exact. (Taking the cell totals, I get: 1199/2162 = .55. I calculate subsequent percentages the same way). Seventeen percent are Neutralists, and only three percent are Misanthropists.
Four percent of whites are SWPLs, and 22 percent are Racialists.
It is interesting that the observed pattern contradicts the image of whites who like their race. We're told that Caucasians who are pro-white hate non-whites, but the vast majority of whites who feel warmly towards other whites feel the same way about blacks. Philanthropists are by far the largest category. And even if we look at Racialists, a majority of them like whites and are neutral toward blacks (271 out of 466). Only 11 percent of whites who feel warmly about others in their race say they have cool feelings about blacks.


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Council to stop putting the word 'the' into names of streets to help emergency services
Bethany Whymark
Published: 9:55 AM November 23, 2016 Updated: 1:47 PM October 9, 2020
Street sign - Credit: Archant
Choosing a name for anything – from a new baby to a new car – can prove a challenge.
Sailing in the Broads. Picture: James Bass - Credit: Eastern Daily Press © 2015
However one district council is overhauling the way it names its streets following complaints that the current system is confusing the emergency services.
Breckland Council is to make changes to its policy including to stop putting the word 'the' into names of streets and properties.
A report to the council's overview and scrutiny commission says this change follows a request by the emergency services.
It claims 'valuable seconds are lost' as 999 operatives debate whether or not to include 'the'– from a property name or street address – in address searches, causing 'unnecessary confusion and delay in finding the address'.
The Forum in Norwich. - Credit: Archant
The council is also to stop using 'parent shells', a name associated with a collection of properties e.g. a block of flats.
The report makes the example of a flat complex called 'Eastgate House', which had its own street address – 5 Eastgate Street – and separate numbered flats within.
It is claimed that confusion arising between the neighbouring properties – for example 1 Eastgate Street compared to Flat 1, 5 Eastgate Street – was causing 'unnecessary distress and upset' to residents as medical professionals, delivery drivers and even debt collectors found themselves knocking on the wrong door or utilities bills were sent to the wrong property.
Another policy change in the report is to stop naming streets after people, due to the 'ramifications' of seeking appropriate permission from relatives.
If the changes are implemented, they will only apply to new houses and roads, not those already in existence.
A spokesperson for the East of England Ambulance Service said it was common practise on an emergency call for call handlers to check a person's address twice and ask for a postcode, although very common names such as 'The Street' could cause confusion.
A spokesman for Norfolk Police said the issue had not caused any problems for staff.
The council has an obligation to ensure all streets and properties in the district are named and numbered and keeps a record of all addresses, known as the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG).
A Breckland Council spokesperson said: 'The proposed changes aim to make it easier for blue light services to quickly and easily identify the exact location of people calling them for help so they can respond as swiftly as possible.'
'Making addresses simpler will also benefit residents on a day to day basis, as addresses with multiple numbers and details can potentially cause confusion, particularly when placing online orders, completing forms, or speaking to people who don't know the area well.'
The proposals will be considered by the overview and scrutiny commission before a recommendation is put forward to the council's cabinet.
What do you think? Email newsdesk@archant.co.uk


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Facebook's Zuckerberg to testify before Congress: source
Published: Wednesday, 28 March 2018 01:48
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify before U.S. Congress, a source briefed on the matter said on Tuesday, as he bows to pressure from lawmakers insisting he explain how 50 million users' data ended up in the hands of a political consultancy.
Lawmakers in the United States and Europe are demanding to know more about the company's privacy practices after a whistleblower said consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed data to target U.S. and British voters in close-run elections.
Facebook said the company had received invitations to testify before Congress and that they were talking to legislators.
Facebook shares closed down 4.9 percent on Tuesday and have fallen almost 18 percent since March 16, when Facebook first acknowledged that user data had been improperly channeled to Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
The tech sector is down 5.2 percent for March and on track for its worst month since April 2016. The data breach has raised investor concerns that any failure by big tech companies to protect privacy could deter advertisers and lead to tougher regulation.
House Energy and Commerce Committee spokeswoman Elena Hernandez said "The committee is continuing to work with Facebook to determine a day and time for Mr. Zuckerberg to testify".
On the same day, Zuckerberg turned down British lawmakers' invitations to explain to a British parliamentary committee what went wrong.
The company said it would instead send one of his deputies, suggesting that Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer or Chief Product Officer Chris Cox had the expertise to answer questions on the complex subject.
FILE PHOTO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, appears on stage during a town hall at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 27, 2015. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo
The head of the committee called Zuckerberg's decision "astonishing" and urged him to think again.
Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who once worked at Cambridge Analytica, said on Monday that Canadian company AggregateIQ had developed the software that used the algorithms from the Facebook data to target Republican voters in the 2016 U.S. election.
AggregateIQ did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wylie's remarks. Cambridge Analytica said it had not shared any of the Facebook profile data with AggregateIQ.
Cambridge Analytica has said it did not use Facebook data in Trump's campaign, and that it had deleted all Facebook data it obtained from a third-party app in 2014 after learning the information did not adhere to data protection rules.
In full-page advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers this week Zuckerberg said the app built by a university researcher "leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014".
He apologized last week for the mistakes the company had made and promised to restrict developers' access to user information as part of a plan to protect privacy.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Monday it had invited Zuckerberg,
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Third wave scare: Lagos inspects Synagogue ahead of Joshua's burial
Posted on July 5, 2021 by Swift Wave Reporter
Days after the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread massively around the world, up to 96 countries as of June 29, a delegation from the Lagos State Government led by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi and the Director General of the Lagos Safety Commission, Mr. Lanre Mojola, yesterday, visited the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
The visit was to inspect facilities at the church for COVID-19 safety and prevention protocols compliance as part of efforts to halt the importation of COVID-19 variants into Nigeria, especially during the burial of Prophet Temitope Joshua this week.
This is coming one week after the Federal Government said the deadly Delta variant had not yet been discovered in the country, though the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded an escalation in COVID-19 infections at the weekend, with 71 recorded on Saturday as against 40 on Friday.
Of the 71 new cases, Lagos reported 63, while Oyo logged four cases, Ogun had three and Kano one. "A total of 167,803 infections have been confirmed so far, 164,378 of the cases have been discharged and 2,121 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)," NCDC said, adding that the country has so far tested over 2.3 million samples from its roughly 200 million population.
Speaking during a virtual media briefing on COVID-19 at the weekend, the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said globally, there is a lot of concern about the Delta variant.
As some countries ease public health and social measures, we are starting to see increases in transmission around the world. More cases mean more hospitalisations, further stretching health workers and health systems, which increases the risk of death," he warned.
In his reassurance last week, Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said the Delta variant, first identified in India, is more contagious than the UK variant and as such, Nigeria needs to tighten its borders to prevent the influx of passengers with the Delta variant.
"The four major variants of concern are now classified as Alpha (UK), Beta (South Africa), Gamma (Brazil) and Delta (India). The Delta variant, which has wreaked devastating havoc, is not yet found in Nigeria, hence the need to tighten our borders and be more vigilant," he said.
Not leaving anything to chance, the Lagos State government, yesterday, inspected facilities at the Ikotun center of SCOAN as it prepares to host visitors from across the world beginning from today for the week-long funeral activities of its late founder, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua.
Speaking after the inspection of the church facilities and meeting with the church officials, Abayomi said the inspection was in line with the third wave mitigation strategy of the Lagos State government to prevent the importation and spread of new deadly strains of COVID-19 into Lagos and Nigeria.
Abayomi added that the inspection and meeting with officials of SCOAN was to limit any possibility of the introduction of foreign COVID-19 variants among the congregation and by extension to the community.
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