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2004 – Open Source Year in Review
Blane Warrene
The start of a new year is, of course, a time to look back and consider the year we're wrapping up — and to prepare for the one ahead. In the technology world, this is happening at a frenzied pace as pundits seek to distill the past twelve months and possibly score big over the next twelve with a bull's-eye prediction or two.
My only prediction is more of a selfish wish — that the Apple iPod would become Bluetooth-enabled, include an 802.11b or g radio function and increase drive capacity to 120 GB. OS X could then be installed on it and the device would become a mobile computer that could link up with Bluetooth-enabled displays, keyboards and mice: a new killer notebook!
2004 began somewhat frightfully for the open source community, as SCO ramped up what, at the time, looked to be serious legal action that could spell disaster for Linux users. We have since seen that, conspiracy theories on funding for the suits they filed aside, no death knell was sounded; instead, the open source world experienced an evolutionary period. Perhaps most surprisingly, we saw Microsoft tentatively join the open source world with a few small releases.
Here are a few of what I see as significant movements in the Linux and open source world that will help advance interoperability and markets and win new "adopters" moving forward.
Live Linux
The year brought a vast expansion in the number of potential users as newcomers to Linux became able to explore the platform without going through an entire system build routine. Live CDs emerged and a variety of folks — from complete technical newbies, to seasoned veterans — booted up Linux from CD to see if they too could join the open source revolution.
These CD-bootable images are valuable for both desktop users and server-side administrators. However, the Linux desktop may have been one of the biggest topics of the year. I personally believe we have a viable 'Linux' desktop in OS X, which will only become of real value if and when Apple releases a sub-$500 desktop box.
The Linux desktop has become such a hot discussion topic that Robin Miller, editor-in-chief for the Open Source Technology Group, which includes the venerable Slashdot as well as Newsforge.com, Linux.com and Sourceforge.net, released Point and Click Linux. The book, aimed at any user seeking to discover Linux and open source, included the SimplyMEPIS live CD and installable distribution.
While desktop discussions are primarily aimed at corporate end users, designers and developers who are new to Linux and are considering adding it to their portfolio will find the book and any of the live CDs invaluable for evaluation purposes.
Rebirth of Novell
The re-emergence of Novell as a serious player in the small-to-enterprise level software market was, in my opinion, the single biggest event of the year. To many, the Novell brand echoed a dusty old time when servers could run on pre-Pentium systems. However, the business world continues to associate the Novell name with stability, reliability and more. Anyone who spent any time administering Netware 4.11 will rave about uptime (in terms of months and even quarters).
The fact that Novell joined the Linux fray with the acquisition of SUSE (Linux distribution) and Ximian (Linux desktop and MS Exchange server connector tools) let everyone know they were serious. This also opened the door for many in the Web business to reinitiate or begin to pitch Linux-based solutions to bigger customers.
The company further legitimized itself by being the first to release enterprise Linux tools using the new 2.6 kernel — a move that showed the power of a development staff that's in transition from the old Netware world to that of Linux. If the team can bring the power and simplicity of the company's own OS to Linux, we should see big gains in usability. This should also open doors to all tiers, from small organizations to large, wherever businesses seek open source solutions.
A Question of Security
Operating system security is (or should be) of critical importance to us all. However, the varying levels of security required are different for each systems administrator.
For those who seek enhanced, tightened security control over their Linux systems, SELinux may be the answer. Standing for Security-Enhanced Linux, SELinux is the result of research projects from the NSA (National Security Agency) in the US. It focuses on mandatory access controls that offer powerful control over users and devices, as well as applications and services.
SELinux is released as a set of kernel patches that wraps into an existing Linux installation. The NSA states that it has tested the package successfully only on Red Hat.
Databases Come of Age
The database certainly came of age in 2004, not from a development or production perspective, but in terms of a blurring of the lines between commercial and open source vendors. Database solutions are now being benchmarked with indifference to their proprietary or non-proprietary nature. Rather, the focus is on performance, stability and scalability. Open source players like Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSQL continue to become legitimized in high-tension production environments.
As formerly missing features on the open source side are integrated (including stored procedures, sub-selects, etc.) by way of maturing roadmaps, databases represent one sector of the application sphere where commoditization would be beneficial to developers. Now, if only commercial vendors could draw closer to pure ANSI SQL compliance.
Copyright and Creative Commons
Copyright has perhaps been one ongoing headache, as the Internet shifts away from being perceived as a new-fangled technology, to become simply another part of society. Questions over the fair use of just about any original content — physical or intellectual — have become serious, pressing issues.
While consumers, companies and the courts battle out new case law and precedent to begin settling disputes, developers often stand by shell-shocked, not knowing what decisions to make during the design process.
Creative Commons hopes to change that by advocating a powerful, new mechanism for publishing original works. The spill-off benefit is a new search resource for those seeking content (audio, images, text and video) for designs and other Web projects, through which one can legally incorporate another creator's original works in various forms and fashions.
The licenses are form-fitted for modern content, as shown below in an excerpt from an earlier column on copyright:
Choosing a Creative Commons license does not forfeit your copyright; rather, it simplifies the process by pre-approving the usage of one's content. The organization offers four types of licenses:
Attribution: Others are authorized to copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work, and derivative works based upon it, but only if they provide attribution to your authorship.
Noncommercial: Others are authorized to copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work, and derivative works based upon it, but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works: Others are authorized to copy, distribute, display, and perform only exact copies of your work, and no derivative works based upon the original authorship.
Share Alike: You authorize others to distribute any derivative works only under a license identical to the license that covers your authored works (similar to open source software licensing).
The New GNU 2005
The Free Software Foundation, led by open source champion Richard Stallman, is planning to revamp the GNU General Public License in 2005, in what will be the first revision in thirteen years. As the digital world has pushed dated laws and legal philosophy to breaking point, license authors are also being forced to reassess the stability and applicability of their premises and text.
The FSF seeks to retain the framework and intent of the GPL, but is addressing global shifts in copyright and patent practices.
After a period of public comment, the organization will finalize and release a new license. This should be a boon not only to existing license users but will perhaps also open the door for hesitant open source users to step forward and begin to explore its use.
A New Frontier
There are several steps to be taken in the near future of open source — steps that could have any number of effects. As Linux becomes more commercially viable, there will be forks in the path of its evolution that may change the nature of at least some portions of the open source world.
Will the open source environment maintain its inherently collaborative nature if billions of dollars begin pouring into the coffers and competition becomes more heated?
Linux and the entire open source sphere have surely joined the day-to-day world of technology at all levels, and have forever modified the landscape we work in. My hope is that interoperability and collaboration will begin to seed itself on a larger scale between open and closed platforms, by way of global standards.
Deepstream: an Open-source Server for Building Realtime AppsWolfram Hempel
Using Git in Open-Source ProjectsShaumik Daityari
Contributing to Open Source – Updating Phalconphp.comBruno Skvorc
Not Your Grandfather's Open-sourceEran Galperin
Elgg: Open Source Social NetworkingRebecca "Ruji" Chapnik
HP Makes webOS Open Source: Can it Survive?Craig Buckler


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Liberal democracy, also referred to as Western democracy, is a liberal political ideology and a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of classical liberalism.
The Eduskunta, the parliament of Finland as the Grand Duchy of Finland, had universal suffrage in 1906 for being the first with universal suffrage
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy.
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, p. 330
Even in the most liberal democracy the artist does not move with perfect freedom and unrestraint; even there he is restricted by innumerable considerations foreign to his art.
Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999
The ascension of the Taliban is, in short, the latest and greatest blow to Western liberal democracy's legitimacy worldwide.
Henry Hogan, Liberalism's Sandy Tomb, The American Sun, 31 August 2021
The Fall of Kabul is, though, perhaps the greatest discrediting of the liberal world order in the 21 st century. Liberalism's inevitability, shattered by previous failures in the Third World and the populist upswing across the West, is finally buried in its sandy Kabul tomb.
Liberal democracy was never actually democratic, in the end. Plutocratic elites often found ways to bend or exploit popular will for their benefit. Unelected kritarchies could easily overturn popular referendums, such as California's Prop 8 and Prop 187. These same courts legalized gay marriage in 2015 and added transgenderism as a protected category to the Civil Rights Act in 2020, all without popular consent. Corporate power often advanced unwanted social agendas using economic blackmail, such as the 2016 boycott of North Carolina following the passage of anti-transgender legislation. Corporate HR departments and social media terms & conditions dictate speech codes, forcing the average man to fear unemployment or deplatforming for non- elite approved opinions. Domestic agencies, such as the FBI, often persecute dissenters with conjured-up falsehoods about "political extremism." Lastly, and perhaps most damningly, most Western politicians are beholden to certain classes of entrenched elite interests through corporate money and blackmail.
Liberal democracy has never dared face the fact that industrial capitalism is an intensely coercive form of organization of society that cumulatively constrains men and all of their institutions to work the will of the minority who hold and wield economic power; and that this relentless warping of men's lives and forms of association becomes less and less the result of voluntary decisions by "bad" or "good" men and more and more an impersonal web of coercions dictated by the need to keep "the system" running.
Robert Staughton Lynd, Foreword to Business as a System of Power (1943), p. xii
Let us confidently declare that Christian democracy is not liberal. Liberal democracy is liberal, while Christian democracy is, by definition, not liberal: it is, if you like, illiberal. And we can specifically say this in connection with a few important issues – say, three great issues. Liberal democracy is in favour of multiculturalism, while Christian democracy gives priority to Christian culture; this is an illiberal concept. Liberal democracy is pro-immigration, while Christian democracy is anti-immigration; this is again a genuinely illiberal concept. And liberal democracy sides with adaptable family models, while Christian democracy rests on the foundations of the Christian family model; once more, this is an illiberal concept.
Viktor Orbán, Tusnádfürdő speech, 28 July 2018
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
Andrew Sullivan, "Of Modern Faith," The Daily Dish (14 December 2008)
An effective defense of the open society must begin with an empirically-minded account of its complex inner workings and its surpassing value. Liberal political order is humanity's greatest achievement. That may sound like hype, but it's the cold, hard truth. The liberal state, and the global traffic of goods, people, and ideas that it has enabled has led to the greatest era of peace in history, to new horizons of practical knowledge, health, wealth, longevity, and equality, and massive decline in desperate poverty and needless suffering. It's clearer than ever that the multicultural, liberal-democratic, capitalist welfare state is far-and-away the best humanity has ever done.
Will Wilkinson, "Revitalizing Liberalism in the Age of Brexit and Trump" (30 November 2016)
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This Yearly Horoscope 2018 Book by gives you the fruits of astrological wisdom. In addition to general guidance on your character and the basic trends of your life, it shows you how to take advantage of planetary influences so you can make the most of the year ahead. For thousands of years, the movements of the planets and other heavenly bodies have intrigued the best minds of every generation. Life holds no greater challenge or joy than this: knowledge of ourselves and the universe we live in. Astrology is one of the keys to this knowledge.
The Complete Guide to Birthday Horoscope Personality is a complete guide for people born on each of the 366 days of the year.
Simply by knowing the date of your birth you can gain insightful and astonishingly accurate luck-making information about yourself—your strengths, weaknesses, health, relationships, destiny, career, and life goals—as well as your friends, family, lovers, colleagues, and even people you have just met. The power of your birthday is determined not just by your ruling planet but by a number of other invisible influences and patterns in place the day you were born. This guide reaches far beyond basic Sun sign horoscopes, looking at these influences and patterns through the lens of psychological astrology, numerology, Tarot, and color theory or chromatherapy To help you understand how your birthday profile has been compiled you'll find the basic principles of these ancient arts and how they have put their stamp on you explained below; but if you want to dive straight into a specific birth date, yours or one of somebody you know, you can always return here another time. However you decide to read this guide, never forget that every person is born unique and full of potential.


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buadhair - a word category which describes nouns, e.g. green, big, sleepy.
co-ghnìomhair - a word category which modifies the verb, e.g. cordially, feverishly, slowly.
Many English adverbs are easily identified by the -ly ending attached to an adjective, e.g. nice+ly = nicely, dark+ly = darkly. In Gaelic, many adjectives are formed by putting the particle gu in front of the adjective, e.g. math - good, gu math - well, luath - fast, gu luath - quickly.
Temporal adverbs express concepts of time, e.g. yesterday, lately, directional adverbs express movement, e.g. upwards, downwards, and locational adverbs express location, e.g. up, down.
analachadh - a puff of air either before or after a consonant. If it comes before the consonant it is often referred to as pre-aspiration.
Nominative Case for subject and object.
Dative Case for the object of a prepositional phrase.
Genitive Case for an expression of possession.
Vocative Case for directly addressing someone or some thing.
fiaclach - a sound which is produced with the tongue and the teeth, e.g. in English - the, though.
boireann - a noun class.
Gaelic nouns are distributed into two groups, boireann and fireann, according to their different behaviours in terms of grammar, for example, with patterns of lenition, in their manner of presenting plural forms, or manner of affecting adjectives.
sèimheachadh - a process by which the nature of a stop consonant is changed to a fricative. A stop, e.g. Gaelic [p] [t] [k], is produced by blocking your speech tract at some point and then suddenly releasing it. For example, the speech tract is blocked at the lips for p. A fricative is produced by constricting the vocal tract without closing it off. This happens with the narrowing of the lips for Gaelic f. Do NOT confuse this with aspiration, which is an entirely different process, although sometimes people confuse these two terms.
fràs - a number or words which form a sort-of independent structure larger than simple words, but smaller than a full sentence.
roimhear - a word category which expresses relations of space, time and modality, e.g. with, through, during, under.
co-chòsach - a sound produced with the back of the tongue and the velum. The is the part of the palate involved in making English g, k.
fuaimreag - A type of speech sound for which no part of your mouth, or further back in the mouth, is constricted or closed up. During a vowel sound, your vocal chords are vibrating, for example, with [e] or [a]. As a rule of thumb, if you can not keep the sound going for more than 3 seconds, it's probably not a vowel. The technical explanation is that a vowel is a resonant, syllabic sound produced when the vocal chords are vibrating and there is no obstruction in any part of the vocal tract.
A vowel produced with the tongue positioned in the front of the mouth. In Gaelic, the front vowels are: [i] [ɪ] [e] [ɛ]. Those front vowels are heard, respectively, in tea, tip, bait, bet. In Gaelic, there is a short and long version of all the front vowels.
A vowel produced with the tongue positioned in the back of the mouth. In Gaelic, the back vowels are: [ɯ] [u] [ɤ] [o] [ɔ] [a]. The back vowels [ɯ] and [ɤ] are not present in English. Those back vowels, in English, are heard in boot [u], boat [o], caught [o], and father [a]. In Gaelic, the long [aː] is normally a back vowel. Short [a] flits between being back or front, depending on the dialect. In Gaelic, there is a short and long version of all the back vowels.
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State v. J.M.F., AC 37200
Court Appellate Court of Connecticut
Writing for the Court MULLINS, J.
Citation 170 Conn.App. 120,154 A.3d 1
Parties STATE of Connecticut v. J.M.F.
Docket Number AC 37200
Decision Date 10 January 2017
170 Conn.App. 120
154 A.3d 1
J.M.F.*
AC 37200
Appellate Court of Connecticut.
Argued September 20, 2016
Officially released January 10, 2017
Moira L. Buckley, for the appellant (defendant).
Michele C. Lukban, senior assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were Richard J. Colangelo, Jr., state's attorney, and David I. Cohen, former state's attorney, for the appellee (state).
Lavine, Mullins and Harper, Js.
MULLINS, J.
The defendant, J.M.F., appeals from the judgment of conviction of attempt to commit murder in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a–49 (a) (2) and 53a–54a (a), assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a–59 (a) (1), and risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53–21 (a) (1). On appeal, the defendant raises the following seven claims: (1) the trial court abused its discretion by imposing a sanction against him that precluded him from raising an affirmative defense of mental disease or defect, ultimately violating his constitutional rights to present a defense and to due process of law; (2) the trial court erroneously concluded that he unequivocally invoked his right to self-representation and that he knowingly, intelligently, and voluntary waived his right to counsel; (3) the trial court deprived him of his right to due process of law by failing to order, sua sponte, that he undergo a competency evaluation; (4) the state unconstitutionally interfered with his right to counsel; (5) the trial court improperly continued to trial despite the existence of an appellate stay, which rendered the results of the trial void ab initio; (6) the trial court abused its discretion by not appointing a special public defender, ultimately violating his constitutional rights to counsel and to due process of law; and (7) the trial court violated his rights to due process of law and to present a defense when it refused his request to instruct the jury on renunciation and diminished capacity. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. After thirteen years of marriage, on January 4, 2010, the defendant's
wife served him with divorce papers.
On January 6, 2010, two days after having received the divorce papers, the defendant asked his wife to
withdraw the dissolution action; she refused to do so, but she did agree that she would file a motion for reconciliation if the defendant would agree to go to counseling. After putting the children to bed for the evening, the defendant and his wife retired to their bedroom.
In the bedroom, they began to discuss the ensuing divorce. As they did so, the defendant became enraged. He tackled his wife, knocking her to the floor, and he put his hands around her neck while slamming her head into the floor. The defendant told her: "I'm killing you." He repeatedly hit her in the face and body with his fists, pulled out her hair and put his hands around her neck. At one point, he threw her to the other side of the bedroom, where she landed in front of the fireplace. She "felt like [she] was dying [and] ... was in incredible pain." The defendant then knelt on top of her and repeatedly hit her in the face and head with a metal flashlight. She lost consciousness approximately three times during the attack.
After this attack, the defendant retreated to the master bathroom where he called to his wife, telling her that he was going to kill himself and that he needed her assistance to do so. She did not go into the bathroom, but, instead, believing she was dying and wanting to save her children, she accessed the security alarm in the bedroom. The defendant again became enraged and tackled her. He then told her that he was going to the kitchen to get a knife to cut his jugular vein. When the defendant went downstairs, she gathered up the children and drove them to the home of a neighbor. The neighbor called the police.
When the police arrived at the defendant's home, the defendant surrendered peacefully. The police located a belt, attached to a pole in the closet, which the defendant said he used to try to hang himself. The defendant was charged with and convicted of attempt to commit
murder, assault in the first degree, and risk of injury to a child. He received a total effective sentence of fifteen years imprisonment, followed by five years of special parole, and the court imposed a full criminal restraining order. This appeal followed. Additional facts and procedural history will be set forth as necessary.
On appeal, the defendant first claims the trial court abused its discretion by imposing a sanction against him for his refusal to sign the authorization forms that were required by the state's expert before the expert would conduct a psychiatric examination of the defendant. In particular, the defendant argues that the sanction improperly precluded him from raising a mental disease or defect affirmative defense,1 ultimately violating his constitutional rights to present a defense and to due process of law.
Specifically, the defendant argues: "Assuming, arguendo, that [he] violated the court's ... order, the trial abused its discretion by precluding him from asserting the mental disease or defect defense. The
court's extreme remedy was unnecessary to protect the state from prejudice. The court failed to weigh the rationale for exclusion against the defendant's right to present a defense. Considering the factors articulated in [State v. Tutson , 278 Conn. 715, 899 A.2d 598 (2006), the defendant's] alleged violation was not substantive, but 'technical.' " The defendant further argues: "In circumstances such as this, preclusion of a defense should not be the court's knee jerk reaction where other less prejudicial remedies are available."
In response, the state argues that the trial court properly granted the state's motion to preclude defense "[a]fter concluding that the defendant had continually engaged in dilatory tactics with the intent of ambushing the state with regard to his defense of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect .... In light of his failure to comply with Practice Book § 40–19,2 preclusion was not abuse of discretion." (Citations omitted; footnote added.) We conclude that the court did not abuse its discretion.
To provide the proper context for the trial court's ruling and ensure a full understanding of the procedural history of this case, we set forth the following detailed facts, which inform our review of the defendant's claim. The defendant was arrested in relation to this case in January, 2010. Shortly thereafter, beginning in early 2010, he retained Attorneys Eugene J. Riccio and Timothy J. Moynahan to represent him. In September, 2010, the defendant requested a continuance to further consider the psychiatric aspects of his case, which the court granted. In April, 2011, the case was placed on the jury list.
On August 20, 2012, the court inquired as to whether the defendant intended to assert a defense of mental disease or defect. The defendant responded that he did not have the funds to be evaluated for such a defense at that time.3 Thereafter, on September 5, 2012, the
defendant filed a notice of defense of extreme emotional disturbance. On November 13, 2012, the state represented that the attorneys in the civil assault action; see footnote 3 of this opinion; had agreed to release $25,000 from the prejudgment remedy attachment. The court continued the matter.
On January 25, 2013, the defendant filed an amended notice of his defense to include the defense of mental disease or defect. On February 1, 2013, the defendant asked for another continuance to work on his affirmative defense, which the court granted.
On March 22, 2013, the defendant informed the court that he was now working with Howard V. Zonana, a psychiatrist, on his affirmative defense, but that he needed more time. He requested a continuance to
April 4, 2013, "to complete that work," which the court granted. The court explained, however, that it had set the matter down for trial to begin in the middle of April.
On April 4, 2013, the defendant informed the court that he now intended to represent himself during his criminal trial. The trial court informed the defendant that it did not want the trial in this matter to suffer any further delays, and it ordered the matter continued for a Faretta hearing. See Faretta v. California , 422 U.S. 806, 835, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975) (requiring inquiry by court when defendant seeks to waive counsel and represent himself).
On April 10, and April 12, 2013, the court conducted a Faretta hearing. On the first day of this hearing, April 10, 2013, the defendant stated that he "would welcome the assistance...
City of Bridgeport v. Grace Bldg., LLC, AC 38174
Appellate Court of Connecticut
...See, e.g., Westport Taxi Service, Inc. v. Westport Transit District , 235 Conn. 1, 43, 664 A.2d 719 (1995) ; State v. J.M.F. , 170 Conn. App. 120, 132, 154 A.3d 1, cert. denied, 325 Conn. 912, 159 A.3d 230 (2017).13 At that time, the plaintiff still had not filed an amended complaint to rec......
JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Holt, FSTCV085009720S
Superior Court of Connecticut
...U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, Docket Number 3:17-CV-1298(JCH) (September 14, 2017, Hall, J.). See State v. J .M.F., 170 Conn.App. 120, 175 (2017) (filing jurisdictionally infirm appeal does not stay trial court proceedings). The October 12, 2017 remand order of Judge Thompso......
Lamb v. Mitchell, FSTCV166027382S
...authorized by Curcio . Independent of this case, the court recently reviewed the recent and relevant discussion in State v. J.M.F., 170 Conn.App. 120, 168-75 (2017), and the cases cited therein. The situations discussed all appear to be instances where a trial court declined to acknowledge ......
State v. J.M.F.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
...senior assistant state's attorney, in opposition.The defendant's petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 170 Conn. App. 120, 154 A.3d 1 (2017), is...


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Q: Not able to read data from excel as it is seen on desktop I am working on an excel workbook. I am using python script for operating on the workbook. But there two issues:
1) There are some cells which have integer values. When I am reading that values and putting the read value into a report file (.txt), it is appending .0 with the number. Eg. if there is value 6, it is giving 6.0 when it is not supposed to do this. I have read that there is nothing as integer in excel. Still, I have 1000s of parameters and thus, I cant convert directly all of them to integer using some python function because that may convert values which are actually float also.
2) And when I am reading boolean TRUE and FALSE, it is giving me 1 and 0. I want to get whatever text I see in the excel workbook on my desktop. I don't want any conversions like that.
I am using xlrd for excel operations in python.
Please tell me what I should do to solve this problem? Note: My excel sheet contains more than 100 sheets and I can't modify "true or false" with "1 and 0" etc

A: for the boolean question you can test ctype:
for rx in range(ws.nrows):
        for cx in range(ws.ncols):
            print ws.cell(rx,cx).value, ws.cell(rx,cx).ctype

if the excel original cell is "TRUE" FALSE" the ctype value is 4

A: xlrd is giving you all your numbers as floats, and your booleans as integers. How you print them out is purely a python matter.
I'll asume you already know which cells contain boolean values. (If you don't,  check the cell's ctype as shown in the answer by Massimo Fuccillo-- see @JohnY's comment below for details.) You can print boolean cells as True and False by simply printing bool(var) instead of var:
>>> var = 1
>>> print bool(var)
True

When writing to a file this will be output as the string 'True' (resp. 'False'), as intended.
Since Excel does not distinguish between ints and floats, we'll assume that by integer you mean any number whose fractional part is zero. When python prints a float it adds .0 to preserve the information that it is a float.
The simplest solution would be to suppress this if you format your numbers for output with "%g":
>>> "%g" % 6.0
'6'

However, "%g" will round real numbers to six significant digits by default (though you can specify a different precision).
>>> "%g" % 2500.03
'2500.03'
>>> "%g" % 2500.003
'2500'

So it's safer if you detect integral values yourself, and print them out accordingly:
if int(var) == var:
    print int(var)
else:
    print var

I recommend doing it this way.

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Метод сходження (; ; ) — метод побудови структурної карти поверхні глибокозалеглого пласта, що розкритий недостатньою кількістю свердловин, шляхом використання даних про форму поверхні добре вивченого верхнього маркувального пласта. Передбачає: побудову структурної карти маркувального пласта; побудову на тому ж планшеті за даними глибоких і мілких свердловин карти ізохор; визначення абсолютних відміток поверхні глибокозалеглого пласта в точках перетину ізоліній двох карт; побудову структурної карти пласта, який підлягає вивченню.

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2018 will see the exciting launch of Skills Direct Care, we have 'The Skills for Care'. This will initially start in and around Bournemouth, Dorset and then roll out across all our existing branches. We will be striving to provide a quality service, concentrating on a personalised approach, tailor made to suit individual needs. This care will be offered through either domiciliary care or within residential and nursing homes.
Skills Direct Ltd is a local independent recruitment agency with 5 branches in Trowbridge, Shepton Mallet, Bridgwater, Yeovil and Christchurch, with Onsite Managed Service contracts in other areas of the UK. We specialise in the provision of temporary and permanent recruitment and primarily cover the Driving, Industrial, Commercial and Care sectors.
We have been using the services of Skills Direct Ltd since they were established in 2007. They have identified how our business operates and have always provided a professional and efficient service.
I've been using staff from Skills Direct for the past couple of years & have always found them to be hard working & enthusiastic. I've even gone on to employ a couple of them full time.


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The Reverend John LaFarge, S.J.
FATHER LaFARGE, WHO CELEBRATED HIS EIGHTIETH birthday on February 13, 1960, refers to himself not as a professional author, but as a working priest-journalist. In that capacity, his life business has been to study and relate the significant events of the day with the deeper moral and theological issues that lie behind them. Many of his ideas, in consequence, have been expressed not in a formal fashion, but in current comment upon the changing scene. His published books have been incidental to his current journalistic writing; all his writing, he insists, is specifically that of a priest, characterized by a priestly perspective as he conceived it.
He was born on February 13, 1880, in Newport, Rhode Island, son of the well-known artist, muralist, and author, John LaFarge (1835-1910), a descendant of early French refugees in this country. His mother, Margaret Mason Perry, a native Rhode Islander, was a granddaughter of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, of Lake Erie fame, and a lineal descendant of Benjamin Franklin.
After his early education, first in Newport and later in New York, he entered Harvard College in 1897, and graduated in the class of 1901. At Harvard he specialized throughout in the Latin and Greek classics, but also did freshman English under Professor Copeland ("Copey"), and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. In the autumn of 1901 he carried out a long-entertained plan, and began his studies for the priesthood at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where the Jesuits of the Austrian Province held the professorship in the Faculty of Theology. Ordained to the priesthood in Innsbruck on July 26, 1905, the following November he entered the novitiate of the New York-Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York. After two years at St. Andrew, and a year's teaching at Canisius College, Buffalo, and later at Loyola College, Baltimore, he took a two-year course and M.A. in philosophy at Woodstock College, Maryland. Ill health, however, obliged him to give up his further plan to spend a full four years reviewing his theology at Woodstock, and instead to devote himself to active pastoral work, one year of which was spent in the penal and hospital institutions of New York City. This was followed by fifteen years of pastoral labor in the Jesuit rural missions of St. Mary's County, in southern Maryland-the oldest English-speaking parish in the New World. The only interruption of this period was the year of prescribed Tertianship, at St. Andrew, 1916-17.
The long years of country missions brought him into intimate, grass-roots contact with many of the problems that confront the Church in this country: the problems of rural life and rural economy; of catechetics and homiletic methods; of community life in a racially mixed (white and Negro) community and the kindred problems of racial prejudice; of the Catholic Church in relation to our nation's historical and cultural heritage; of religious and secular education for people in a backward community; and of the relation of such a community to the nation at large. Most of all, the experience made the young priest ponder long and deeply upon the spiritual ideals which a Catholic should foster in meeting the great moral and religious issues of the time. During these years, too, encouraged by a couple of older Jesuit Fathers, he undertook to set up a complete school system, elementary and secondary, for the white youth and the Negro youth of the local community. His difficult and drastic experiences in carrying out this project brought him into close contact with the larger public, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, and particularly with persons and agencies interested in the education and welfare of the Negro people.
In August 1926, he was appointed an associate editor of America, at the instance of its editor-in-chief, Father Wilf rid Parsons, S.J. This position he has held up till now, except for two years as executive editor, under Father Francis X. Talbot, S.J., and four years as editorin-chief, 1944-48.
His fund-raising work in connection with the educational projects he had begun during the years in Maryland-a work continued after his coming to New Yorkled to his association with leading persons of various racial backgrounds who would be interested in studying the deeper issues involved. His past experiences inspired him to make a special effort to form spiritual lay leaders and to the establishment in June 1934, of the Catholic Interracial Council of New York. This was the parent of similar Councils around the country-numbering 42 in May 1960-and their association, in 1959, in the form of the National Catholic Conference on Interracial Justice. Considerable of his writing has been for the pages of the organ of the Catholic Interracial movement, The Interracial Review.
Since their foundation, he has been chaplain of the Liturgical Arts Society (1933) and the New York Catholic Interracial Council (1934). He has also been chaplain of the Catholic Laymen's Union and of St. Ansgar's Scandinavian Catholic League, both of New York. At various times he has been an officer of the Catholic Association for International Peace and of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference.
Besides his signed and unsigned contributions to America since 1926, he has contributed to Etudes (Paris), Civilta Catolica (Rome), Criterio (Argentina), Stimmen der Zeit (Munich), Streven (Brussels), De Linie (Amsterdam), The Month (England), as well as American reviews: Commonweal, Liturgical Arts, Sign, Catholic World, Saturday Review, etc. He has also contributed many papers on cultural and socio-philosophic topics in the volumes of the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion, of which he is a Fellow, and by the Institute on Ethics, as well as to other symposia, such as Realities (Bruce, 1957), and Wisdom (2nd ser., 1959). His books are as follows:
Jesuits in Modern Times (America Press, 1927), was written chiefly to refute certain distortions of the Jesuit life that had been published in this country and to sum up the main features of Jesuit spirituality.
Interracial Justice (America Press, 1937), was the first book, as far as the author knows, to attempt to present the Christian philosophy of justice and charity between racial groups in the community in a systematically organized fashion, along with a practical plan of action. It was praised to the author personally by Pope Pius XI, at an audience in 1938, as "the best" he had read upon the subject.
The Race Question and the Negro (Longmans, 1953, and later in paperback), was a completely revised form of Interracial Justice, with four new chapters added.
No Postponement (Longmans, 1950), discussed many of the practical problems of interracial action from the general standpoint of President Truman's Point Four proposal and the relation of American activities to the world situation. It also recalled some of the interesting features of this type of work in earlier years in this country, which were within the author's own experience.
A John LaFarge Reader (America Press, 1955), presented an anthology drawn from his addresses and articles.
The Manner Is Ordinary (Harcourt, 1954), is an autobiography, written in response to the urging of his friends and insistence of Superiors. The title was taken from the Jesuit Rules, which describe the manner of life in the Society as being "ordinary," in the sense that it differs very little outwardly from that of any other Catholic clergyman-parish priest or professor-and is not obliged to the recitation of Divine Office in choir, or to special prescribed fasts or other austerities as is the case in the older religious communities. In writing this book, he was greatly aided by the "house diaries" he had kept during his fifteen years in southern Maryland, as well as by a wealth of family letters and the assistance of his sister, the late Miss Margaret LaFarge, of Newport, Rhode Island, and by his niece, Dr. Frances S. Childs, of Brooklyn College. The work was re-issued in paperback as one of Doubleday's Image Books. The expert French version, Un Américain comme les autres (Alsatia, Colmar, 1959; also distributed by America Press), by Jean Minêry, S.J., includes additions and adaptations by the author. In America, February 13, 1960, Fr. LaFarge described some of the philosophy of his autobiography.
Report on the American Jesuits (Farrar, 1956), was made in collaboration with the brilliant photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. The aim of the text and the pictures was to present the scope and drama of the life and the educational formation of the American Jesuits, at home and abroad.
The Catholic Viewpoint on Race Relations (Doubleday, 1956), was the first of the Catholic Viewpoint series projected by Mr. John Delaney of Doubleday. The volume paid special attention to practical action methods, illustrating them from experience. A new edition, greatly revised and brought up to date, was issued by Doubleday in 1960.
An American Amen (Farrar, 1958), is, in a sense, a sequel to The Manner Is Ordinary. The central thought of the book is the problem of personal liberty, of free individual moral choice, and the conditions that affect it and determine it, especially the transcendent dialectic of the Incarnation. Considerable attention is also given to the question of relating scientific method to religious belief, and the author relates some of his personal experiences in discussing this subject with persons not of the Catholic faith. The book, so to speak, is contemplative, and the author, on second thought, would be more easily followed if the ideas were presented in a somewhat different order, and were elaborated in less concise and a more illustrated form. If it were ever his opportunity to add still another volume to those he has already produced, it would probably be something along that line.
He has contributed annually for many years to the Brittanica Yearbook (Chicago), on Catholic matters, as well as to the Encyclopedia Americana Yearbook (New York). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston), a former member of Panel VII (Rockefeller Brothers Report on Foreign Policy, 1947), is one of 147 Electors of the National Hall of Fame (New York University) for 1960; etc. He has been the recipient of such awards as the Religion and Labor Foundation World Brotherhood Award, the Catholic Association for International Peace, the National Catholic Rural Life Association, and the Catholic Press Awards, the American Liberties Medallion of the American Jewish Committee.
He has appeared frequently on radio and television. In 1947, he delivered the Dudleian Lecture in Harvard University Divinity School, and the Phi Beta Kappa Oration at the Harvard College Commencement of 1954. He lectured in Paris several times (in French) on United States democracy, in 1938, and in 1947 and 1951 before German student groups (In German). In 1958, he lectured in French at the Cours International of the Benedictine Monastery of Toumiline, Morocco, and has written prefaces for books dealing with matters of the spiritual life, French and English. In his autobiography he describes particularly his visits to Europe in the summers of 1938, 1947, and 1951 (the last mentioned as a traveling consultant of the United States Department in Germany). He has also written of his experiences at intellectual discussions in Cuba, 1946, and Puerto Rico, 1959.
As a constant book reviewer, some two or three a month for about 35 years, most of his reviews have been for America; but also for Thought, Interracial Review, New York Times, Saturday Review, Herald-Tribune, etc. He has also written several pamphlets for America Press.
He has always considered his writing not so much as a literary production for its own sake, but rather as one of several mediums for expressing his ideas. These ideas his own mind has developed and more or less coordinated through constant discussion with a great variety of persons; not only of the Catholic faith, but many persons outside of it. It is his specific satisfaction to see them taken up and carried on by younger, much better informed minds.
EDITOR'S NOTE: To preclude any misunderstanding in the matter: this chapter was written by Father LaFarge, and expressly for The Book of Catholic Authors.
Originally published in The Book of Catholic Authors, Walter Romig, Sixth Series, 1960.
copyright © 2005 Catholic Authors


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How downtown Manhattan became to go to place for luxury buyers
by Bracha
"The times they are a changin'" said Bob Dylan famously in the '60s. Where New York real estate is concerned, the times are always changin.' Former no go areas in the outer boroughs are now becoming pricey hipster havens and the old money that once made the Upper East Side an exclusive lair to the privileged is now heading downtown to new luxury condos.
According to a recent brokerage report, the median price of a luxury condo — defined as $5-million-plus, fell 27 percent in 2017 with uptown co-ops falling 15 percent since mid 2016. Conversely, the majority of condo sales in 2017, around 57 percent were downtown.
Part of the reason is because the Upper East Side has always been an enclave of exclusive co-ops with a notoriously picky approval process. Condos, though traditionally more expensive, have done away from that inconvenience and so younger, wealthier buyers, fueled by the arts, restaurants and shopping have been flocking to areas like Tribeca, Soho and the Flatiron District turning them into some of the most expensive real estate in the city.
The rate of construction downtown has been alarming with gleaming glass towers racing skyward as cranes cloud the landscape and city blocks are covered in hoardings and work permit signs. Nowhere has the rate of change been more dramatic than in Tribeca with Leonard Street front and center. Known at the "Jenga building,: 56 Leonard currently has a Penthouse priced at the humbling $55,600,000, which rivals the exclusive properties clustered around Central Park (One57, 15 Central Park West). The building also has several other penthouses listed from $17.75 million and up with many now sold. Nearby, 91 Leonard St by the Toll Brothers is bringing 111 condos to the market. The 19-story building features studios up to four-bedroom apartments with prices starting at $795,000 and going up to $10.49 million. Another at 108 Leonard, known at The Clocktower Building, is converting a landmark building into 151 condos. The property was once the HQ for New York Life Insurance Company and more recently The New York City Criminal Court.
Neighboring areas are also benefitting from the building boom downtown. The Noho condo with interiors by Ryan Korban at 40 Bleeker recently launched sales on its 61 apartments, ranging in price from $1.775 million for a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment, going up to $6.31 million for a three-bedroom, three bathroom apartment. Amenities include a 57-foot swimming pool, gym, concierge and bike storage.
Fueled by a celebrity buying frenzy that has seen Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, and in one particular building — at 443 Greenwich St., Justin Timberlake. Jennifer Lawrence, Harry Styles and Jake Gyllenhaal, all neighbors — prices and appeal downtown continues to soar.
"When you start reading about the recent purchases with more than a couple of household names, the attention that the building attracts accelerates," said Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel, a real estate and consulting firm. Along with a slew of top notch amenities a gated paparazzi proof parking garage 443 Greenwich St is a big draw for celebs. Must be nice.


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from ryu.base import app_manager
from ryu.controller import ofp_event
from ryu.controller.handler import CONFIG_DISPATCHER, MAIN_DISPATCHER
from ryu.controller.handler import set_ev_cls
from ryu.ofproto import ofproto_v1_0
from ryu.lib.packet import packet
from ryu.lib.packet import ethernet

def warper(func):

    def new_handler(msg):
        print("Msg : {}".format(msg))
        func(msg)

    return new_handler

class ChangeSendMsg(app_manager.RyuApp):
    OFP_VERSIONS = [ofproto_v1_0.OFP_VERSION]

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(ChangeSendMsg, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    @set_ev_cls(ofp_event.EventOFPSwitchFeatures, CONFIG_DISPATCHER)
    def switch_features_handler(self, ev):
        datapath = ev.msg.datapath
        datapath.send_msg = warper(datapath.send_msg)

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My name is Clayton Carlson. I've always enjoyed driving and going places. My dad was older when I was born, and as I grew up my family and I would go for car rides and have picnics by a stump. Mom and dad weren't into sports or many other activities, but did enjoy exploring the countryside by car. I would drive my brothers old car sitting on his knee so that I could see over the dash. As soon as I could get my licence I did. Bought a car and then I was off.
After I turned nineteen my older brother helped me get my class one licence. Of corse no one would hire me. I was just a dum kid with a new licence, didn't know a thing. Luckily, or maybe not, I was to stupid to be scared. Since no one would hire me as a driver I managed to buy an old cabover truck and went to work. It was easier to get a job if you were willing to wreck your own equipment.
I learned lots the first couple of years. After always repairing my own cars I just mover up to repairing my own truck. I thought it better to do it twice than pay shop rate and maybe get it done right the first time. Nothing worse than paying good money for a bad job. I didn't mind getting dirty and if it was wrong, fixing it the second time was usually quicker.
I've herd it said that when you first get your truck licence you have ninety five percent luck and five percent skill. Then every year after that you loose five percent of your luck, but gain five percent more skill. I think that's pretty close to being accurate. I have done a lot of things wrong and been lucky, and some times not so lucky.
I was an owner operated for about thirteen years. Highway trucks, log trucks, mover modular homes. It was while moving mobile homes that my luck and skill came up short. I was injured in an accident and after I was able to walk again I retrained as a commercial transport mechanic. After about eight years of mechanicing I took a driver training instructor corse. The work for that got spotty so I went back to pulling wrenches. I still enjoyed training so I bought an older truck and over the years slowly fixed it up for driver training as a side business. When it gets to busy for me to do alone I will need to hire an instructor.
My skill set is good for being a driver training instructor because I know why things work, and I can show you how to do it. That is the basis for my driver training school mantra. Teach them why, and show them how. I have found that if you know why things work the way they do, then it is easier to make things work the most efficient way possible. Being the most efficient is the least costly way to operate. From the best way to shift the transmission, to what order should be used when dropping the landing gear and setting the brakes on the trailer. There is an order that is best, and there is a valid reason why it's best. You need someone to teach you why, and show you how.
A lot of the aspects of trucking involve personal preference, some things will work great the way one truck is specked out but be clumsy on a truck with different specks. You will always need to keep learning and adjusting with the changes. But if you understand the reason why you are doing a task a certain way, then when you do change your methods, you can keep the desired objective in tact.
I not only do driver training but I also put on maintenance courses. How to take care of a truck. Things to look for that might go wrong, general maintenance and repair. How to make routine adjustments as needed. Clutch adjustment for example, how and when should it be done. Jump starting a truck, is there a best way to hook up the cables and in what order? These things are nice to know how to do. They won't get you a licence to drive, but knowing the equipment may help you get a job, or keep the one you find.
Being a licensed commercial transport mechanic, as well as a vehicle inspector with experience in the trade I am well qualified to fill the role of maintenance instructor. Again knowing why you are doing a task is more important than just doing it because someone told you to. Just because you were told to do it a certain way on a particular vehicle doesn't mean that it will work that way on all vehicles. But if you understand the reason why you are doing something then as the equipment changes it is easier to keep the intent for doing the action.
For example you may be told that to grease the front suspension of a truck you should jack it up and take the weight off of it. For a solid front axel that would be best practise. But what if the truck you are working on has an independent suspension? Ball joints don't need to have the weight taken off of them for greasing. Knowing why is important so that you can be as efficient as possible.
Most knowledge seems to be remembered best when it is gained through experience rather than only taught. Getting your hands dirty and actually crawling under a truck to see how it works, and possibly how to fix it can not only save you from unscrupulous repair bills, but will fill you with a confidence that those who can only drive won't have. Even if you aren't the one to be doing the repairs. When you are broken down on the side of the road it is good if you can describe over the phone to a repair person what is wrong, and possibly parts that they should bring.
When ever possible I like to teach two students at a time. This doubles the truck time for each student. As well as helping the student to not only practise driving, but to observe the driving actions. The more truck time that you have the better off you are. An individual driving lesson can't contain all of the different scenarios that might occur while driving. The more time that you spend in the truck, the more you will be exposed to those new scenarios. The more exposure that you have, the more experience you will gain. This experience will make you a more knowledgeable driver, and will make you better that you would be without it.
Although this experience can be very valuable I don't charge for it. However the one riding usually has to buy the refreshments for the others in the cab. Since the driving is on a rotation basis, I'm usually the one benefitting the most. The same holds true for learning the pre trip. Having private lessons may sound good, however in practise you can learn just as much by watching someone else do it. While silently looking for the mistakes that they make. It's all memory, and getting the steps done in the most efficient way as possible. When you do it in a group of four or more, usually by the time the last person has completed their pre trip, the first person remembers it and is getting bored.
Group instruction when appropriate, being taught why things work the way they do, along with demonstrating how it should be done. In my opinion makes for the best, most experienced driver for the money spent. I have been criticized by other instructors for telling my students to much. They say that I should, keep it simple. Don't teach the new trainees too much.
I think that probably half of what a person learns about a new skill at the start will be forgotten. You may have to keep reinforcing the points to get them to remember, but if you do they will get it. You never know what or how much a person will remember, so you may as well tell them all of the pertinent information they need in a timely manner.
I don't like to dumb down my instruction to the lowest common denominator, or student. It may take more time at the start but will produce a far better driver. Overall I think that your better off spending time learning why things work at the start. Then it won't be a mystery why it works later on as you do it. Making the entire process quicker. And you the best driver that you can be.
Class One—The rate of $115. Per Hour will be charged for the truck and trailer.
Class Three— The rate of $90. Per Hour will be charged for the truck.
Most Driver Training Schools have packages that students purchase. Within each package there will be a course outline, a list of topics that are to be covered and a list of skills that the student will learn.
I think that as an instructor it is impossible for me to pre judge the ability of any one student. I can't know for sure how long it will take you as a student to learn a particular skill. Or if you will fail your driving test the first time that you take it. So to sell a package of driving lessons promising that you, the student, will learn certain skills by the end of the course would be unethical.
However, I can tell you that the skills to pass your driving test will be taught first.
Once you have the license that you wanted to get, then other skills can be added onto that foundation. How long you would like to take training for, and how quickly you learn will determine how many skills that you gain. We can tell you what the average time has been to learn certain skills. In a well instructed course outcomes depend solely on the students ability to learn the skill being taught.
For example a typical eighty hour course for a class one license will give you your driving license, highway, brake check, steep hill, loading, and some in-class lessons. But if it takes you sixty hours to get your license then the rest of the training will have to be cut back. Or if you can get your license in eight hours then there would be more time to cover other aspects that might not be initially listed in the course outline. The point being, whatever the stated course content may be, it all depends on how quickly you learn each topic and skill. Starting with the most critical and then working to the less essential as you progress within the time that you have purchased.
At Classic Driver Training, I have a flat rate for the truck but I do allow for the rate to be split up when group sessions are practical. This can be very beneficial depending on the group dynamics and lesson content. It also depends on the number of students that need to learn that particular skill. Not all students will have the benefit of group instruction. Every effort is made to provide each student with as much truck time as possible. The more time spent around the truck the more experience gained by the students. The more experience you have the better an operator you will become. Through familiarity comes understanding.
— If a student wishes to purchase a large bank of time at the start, a discount may be applied depending upon the course content that they choose to cover.
— All courses are customized be each student depending upon their ability and interests. We strive to make each course custom fit the students needs and budget.
— Flexibility is maintained throughout the entire program in an effort to make each course fulfill the needs of the student.
Be watchful of signs on the highways. The rules for driving are pretty much the same throughout North America. Although you can find minor regional differences depending where you are. For instance, while I was driving through Pennsylvania I noticed that when coming to the end of a passing lane going up a hill on the highway, it is the left, fast lane that has to merge back into the right, slow lane. I thought it odd that they would have it backwards. The rules every where else that I have driven, seem to make the right hand, or slow lane, merge to the left at the end of the passing lane section, into the faster traffic flow of the left lane.
After miles of consideration, I grew to appreciate their change. Expecting slow moving vehicles to blend smoothly into a traffic flow they can not keep up with, is not realistic. It only leads to driver tension and accidents, as the faster left lane drivers, will perceive themselves to be cut off by the slower right lane ones. After all, the left lane has the right of way because it isn't their lane that is coming to an end. They are not, in some cases, even aware that the slow lane is being asked to merge left into their lane. By changing the rules and having the faster left lane merge into the slower right lane, the onus to blend into the flow of traffic is put onto the driver that has the greatest possibility of making the transition work smoothly. The faster vehicles can slow down to enter into the traffic flow, but a slow moving vehicle, such as a loaded transport truck, has little to no ability to speed up when entering a faster traffic flow. The safest thing to do is be aware of your surroundings and watch out for signs displaying any local variation to the normal driving rules.
Use your mirrors effectively. Most drivers of passenger vehicles don't make the most of their mirrors when backing up, especially when trying to parallel park. Looking out the side or rear window of a car or suv leaves you with huge blind spots close to your vehicle. These blind spots leave you taking your best guess when attempting to parallel park close to the curb without hitting it. By adjusting the passenger side mirror down, so you can see your rear tire and the approaching curb you will be able to see how close you are to where you want to be. Learning to make the most of all the tools at your disposal is a key to safe and efficient driving.
Right of way can not be taken, it must be given. The rules of the road may say that you have the right of way and that others have to wait for you, you may be in the right, but you may end up dead right, if the other traffic can't wait for you. I remember waiting at a green light once. I was entering onto a four lane highway at the bottom of a steep hill. The cars behind me were impatiently honking their horns trying get me to go, but I stubbornly stayed put, not budging and blocking the road. Five seconds more went by before the loaded logging truck that I had seen coming down the hill with its brakes billowing smoke, blew through the intersection and the red light. The honking stopped and I proceeded safely into the intersection and onto the highway. Had I taken my right of way, I could have been dead right.
The last tip that may save your life involves turning left at an intersection. It is a good idea to plan your wrought so you do not have to make a left turn across traffic. At times it can not be avoided, so when you do, make sure you legally enter the intersection on a green light. If you have not crossed the stop line on the green light then you should not enter and wait for the next one. However once you have crossed the stop line and are in the intersection legally, the cross traffic is obliged to wait for you to clear the intersection before they proceed when their light turns green. If possible, pull out to at least the middle of the intersection and leave no doubt in your fellow motorists minds that you will be proceeding before they get to go. Perhaps you have seen traffic driving around a car where the timid driver left themselves stranded, straddling the across the crosswalk. The drivers going around the hapless car are actually breaking the rules of the road, if the stranded car is not disabled.
Once you have taken a commanding position in the intersection, wait for a safe brake in the on coming traffic before you proceed to complete your left turn. If such a brake in traffic should not materialize, you should not feel any pressure to clear the intersection regardless of the traffic light changes. You can not proceed left across the flow of oncoming traffic until you are sure that it is safe to do so. Be aware that oncoming drivers may run their yellow or red light. Your main responsibility is to safely complete your left turn and clear the intersection safely. If you need to wait for the oncoming traffic to stop and your light is red, it does not matter as you had entered the intersection legally and the cross traffic needs to wait for the intersection to clear before they enter.
I hope these tips will help you enjoy safe motoring in the future.


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Green Party Bill to stop Māori land confiscations under the Public Works Act
Parliament will get the opportunity to make the Treaty of Waitangi a stronger part of our nation's laws with a Members' Bill drawn today, the Green Party said today.
"This is a real opportunity to stop any more unfair confiscations of what is left of whenua Māori," Green Party Te Tiriti o Waitangi spokesperson Catherine Delahunty said.
The Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill was drawn from the ballot at Parliament today as a Members' Bill.
"This Bill was inspired by Patricia Grace and her whanau in Kapiti who were threatened with confiscation under the Public Works.
"The Waitangi Tribunal has been clear that Māori have been discriminated against as a result of the Public Works Act. This Bill would amend the Public Works Act to specifically protect land that has customarily been held by Māori from being acquired by a Minister or local authority for public works. This would mean that no Māori land can be taken without consent.
"So much land has been lost, and what is still under Māori freehold and customary title should be protected from more Crown confiscation.
"Compulsory acquisition in the Public Works Act has cut across Article Two of the Treaty of Waitangi, which guarantees rangatiratanga.
"It is time for the Crown to properly honour the Treaty, and I would love the support of all parties across the House on my Bill," Ms Delahunty said.
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Police make more arrests in Chlorakas operation
A Cyprus task force conducted a coordinated operation in the Paphos village of Chlorakas following recent violence involving 150 people and the police.
Paphos police, officers from the Crime Prevention Squad and the Drug Squad launched a coordinated operation in the village at around 5 pm on Monday.
During the operation, searches were carried out on houses, apartment buildings, vehicles, and individuals.
Four people were arrested for violating a decree issued by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris forbidding asylum seekers from residing in the village.
According to the decree issued in early 2021, nobody seeking international protection can settle in Chlorakas, apart from those already living there before the issuance of the decree.
The four arrested aged 19, 21, 25 and 31, were charged in writing and are expected to be summoned later before the court.
They were reportedly living in a residential complex, the scene of clashes two weeks ago, and there were three arrests.
The complex hosts about 600 people, including asylum seekers, Chlorakas community leader Nicolas Liasides said.
A total of 115 vehicles and 137 people were stopped and searched by police.
Liasides, with the support of residents, has called for the closure of a residential complex, which they claim houses a gang of Syrian refugees who have an ongoing feud with a Paphos-based gang.
They argue the overcrowded complex is unfit for living, and the drinking water is unsuitable.
Liasides told Sigma TV the owner of the complex has not been paying the water bills, while he has been "stealing electricity" from neighbouring buildings.
Refugee human rights watchdog KISA said they perceive recent actions taken by the police, the local community leader and the Interior Minister as racially motivated.
"The migrant and refugee community in Chlorakas and more particularly those in the Agios Nicolaos building complex are subjected to an indiscriminate and totally inappropriate attack by the government," said a KISA announcement.
KISA argues that: "The Agios Nicolaos building complex provides much better living conditions than the overwhelming majority of similar private buildings."
The organisation also claims the local authorities illegally cut the water to the complex to push the refugee families out.
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Shining Stars Christian Learning Center to close next week
by: News Channel 11 Staff, Kristen Gallant
Posted: Jul 1, 2019 / 10:56 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 3, 2019 / 03:03 PM EDT
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Director of Shining Stars Christian Learning Center has confirmed with News Channel 11 they will be closing at the end of next week.
According to the director of the learning center, they currently serve 85 children at their location on South Roan Street.
The Facebook page lists their mission statement as the following:
"The mission of Shining Stars Christian Learning Center is to provide a place for children to experience a safe, loving and educational environment. This is achieved though age-appropriate group and individual activities that teach children to love and respect themselves and others. Our goal is to nurture the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual growth of each child."
Shining Stars Christian Learning Center
When we spoke to the director over the phone Monday morning, they could not go into detail about why they were closing but did say they've been open for three years. The director also said a letter of intent for a five-year lease was sent through the mail and verified over the phone by the owner of Shining Stars Christian Learning Center, Mr. Buddy Hardin.
The Building is currently being leased from New Peoples Bank in Abingdon, VA.
The director of the center said that if it was up to her, they would be keeping their doors open.
Many parents of children who go to Shining Stars Christian Learning Center are now struggling to find another option for child care.
Abby Greene has a child that has gone to Shining Stars for the past three years.
"It's one of the nicest facilities I've been in and through my line of work I've been in and out of a lot of centers," said Greene.
Greene is a social worker and says that she even struggles to find childcare for some of her social work cases,
"Occasionally I have to assist families in locating childcare and it's very difficult. There are no facilities in this area that are accepting children."
The Tennessee Department of Human Services lists childcare providers in the state, rating them from one to three stars. Shining Stars Christian Learning Center is listed at three stars on the department's website.
Aaron Jestrab has a child who has gone to the center for a little over a year now. He explained to News Channel 11 the process of how parents were informed about the lease agreement.
"In August they received a letter of intent from the bank stating that they would have a three-year agreement through a lease renewal with another option for a two year additional with renegotiations. So they took that letter with a guarantee of lease," explained Jestrab.
The director of the center told us that the owner of Shining Stars verified the agreement over the phone with the bank. Jestrab said that at the beginning of the year a contract was placed on the property. Parents were then notified about the issues.
"They found out that the other contract buyer pulled out of the agreement due to they had some environmental studies that have been done that they weren't satisfied with. Shining Stars is fully willing to participate in any kind of clean up actions and whatnot to remediate the issues," said Jestrab.
Jestrab said that parents were notified about the environmental study and were informed that the children were not in any danger due to the issue.
Steve Brookins is another concerned parent and is also a broker at his own rental company. He said that anytime a big commercial buy is made, there is always an environmental study done.
However, on June 27 Shining Stars Christian Learning Facility told parents in an emergency meeting that lease negotiations had ended and that they will be closing their doors on July 12.
"This facility was well laid out. The teachers are well educated. They take continuing education credits. They all have degrees. To lose something like this in a market that is completely unsaturated with available daycares is disheartening," said Jestrab.
Brookins saying, "There are hardly any other daycares that will take an infant"
We called several other daycares in the Johnson City area and the Early Learning Center First United Methodist Church in Johnson City told us they have a waiting list of 113 children. They tell us that 54 of those children are under 1-year-old.
We also reached out to New Peoples Bank in Abingdon, VA. Todd Asbury, the President & CEO gave us the following statement over the phone,
"Due to a pending litigation with Mr. Hardin we are unable to make any further comment at this time."
Todd Asbury, President & CEO
Shining Stars sent out a letter to their parents stating,
"For the past three years we have worked to create a business in Johnson City, Tennessee that both provide a safe and loving environment for children and is affordable for people of all classes."
TUSCULUM, Tenn. (WJHL)- A suspect is in the hospital after authorities said he lead them on a chase from Washington to Greene County Thursday night.
According to officials with the Tusculum Police Department, Jacob Salazar, 24, of Elizabethton was driving an SUV that was reported stolen from a Johnson City Walmart parking lot.


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I would gobble these cookies up in a heartbeat! I love Heath Bars :) I just made sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies on Friday so I am stocked up right now, but the minute they are gone I will be making these.
Oh yummy! I don't enjoy eating these candy bars, but I love the flavors and I know that I'd enjoy these cookies.
These cookies look so good..
Mmm, yummy cookies and a pretty teacup, all out doors where one can enjoy the weather! This would be a treat. Thank you Kitty for joining me for tea and have a beautiful day.
Haha, I had been registering 'health bars' and then realized you were referring to a chocolate bar called Heath. I've never heard of them, so perhaps they're not a Canadian goody. Anything you bake is yummy and these look delicious.
These cookies look and sound delicious and always nice with a cup of tea!
I would love to join you! My daughter and I were in your area on Saturday and I thought of you. It would be so neat to meet in person. Thanks for the cookie recipe ~ sounds really good!
Add me to the list of Heath Bar lovers!! YUMMMMM!!
I can't wait to try these cookies, Kitty...thank you SO much for sharing your corrected version with us. I can almost taste them.
What a pretty cup & saucer, too!
I've never had a Heath bar. I had to Google it to see what it's made of! Sounds delish! I'll have to buy several so I can "taste test" them before putting them into cookies! :-) Or maybe I'll just swing by your house and invite myself over!
Pinning this recipe and putting Heath bars on the grocery list!
Kitty, My hubby would love those cookies, Heath bars are one of his favorites!
Tea on the patio with your sweet angel is lovely. That is a stunning blue tea cup! And your cookies look delicious. Heath bars were my favorite when I was a teen.
oooh . . . heath bars are the best! those cookies look yummy!
Love the ironstone and the cookies sound fantastic. PINNED!!!
As a child this was my favorite candy. I didn't get many so it was special. These cookies look terrific. I am printing this out Kitty. After linky failure last week and this morning I switched as you can see to In Linkz and it's working. Thanks for coming by!
At first it looked like "health bars" Heath bars are so much more tasty! Thanks for the recipe and sharing your beautiful teacup!
Heath Bar Cookies after my own heart, love those bars! I love your tea setting, it all looks so peaceful and your "Adams" designed teacup is very special. Have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Your cookies sound delicious, Kitty, and I like your teacup too. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend, Kitty.
Oh my gosh Kitty, I love Heath bars! These would not last long at my house. lol! Thanks for sharing the recipe with SYC.


That is indeed the plan. But, they think we're too stupid to understand their amnesty agenda.
Why would anyone think an illegal alien would come forward and identify himself in order to apply for anything. They will stay hidden until they have a 100% garantee that they will not be deported before they come out. Once they are "identified" then they would have to become part of our society and be accountable like we are. No more fake IDs, and not paying their taxes. No more running up bills under on name and then changing their name and walking away from the bill.. WE CANT DO THAT SO WHY SHOULD THEY. They want their cake and eat it too.
Yes and they aren't finding but a handful of the very violent criminals to put on that show that they're deporting them.
As long as the prizes for breaking the laws are so lucrative, as long as there are no penalties for breaking the laws, and big promises of amnesty as the big jackpot prize they will win for breaking the laws, of course they will continue to come illegally over the border or disregard the terms of their visas.
Why respect the laws? What does that get them? Nothing. But break the laws and the politicians have all kinds of treats waiting for them.
It's as though the politicians are saying: we will have border patrol at the border stopping illegals but hey you illegals -- just find a way through and no matter what other laws you break as far as taking jobs, committing felony fraud, no problem -- you will find yourself very richly rewarded. Break the laws and manage to get past border patrol only at the border, or better yet, get a visa and break the terms of it and you've won the big one, you will be handed citizenship and all that comes with it as your award.
With that attitude, why even pretend to stop them at the border?
All of you are silly.
This is an age old problem for decades upon decades, and the federal government has done absolutely nothing to stop illegal immigration from other countries.
Why is that? Why do you think the law has not been enforced?
Mabey it has something to do with the Farmers lobby? You think?
These people who sneak in here are starving, and many of them don't make it here alive.
So, lets see, why do you think they risk their lives to come here illegallly?
Why do they have jobs? Who is employing them?
Who is lobbying and paying off our Congress to ignore the problem?
the vegtables were rotting on the vine.
Now the Farmers are complaining.
US citizens aren't running for those jobs, i can tell you that.
I wonder why. They don't want to pick veggys and fruits in the hot sun?
The answer to the whole problem is simple.
Make it impossible for them to get jobs. They won't come here.
Have them work all summer outside in the heat picking veggies.
If illegal aliens got amnesty; they would demand and get higher wages so greedy employers would still be where they started compared to having NO illegal aliens here at all.
Those countries where people ARE starving have very few illegal aliens here so what's Mexico's problem? People aren't starving there anymore, now many of them are fat.
You're the one who is being silly if you think we should roll over and accept this illegal immigration mess. There are unlimited visas for crop pickers so the farmers have no excuse hiring illegal aliens. No, most coming here illegally are not starving either and I could give a flying flip if lawbreakers die trying to break the law.
Only 3% of illegals are picking crops while the other 97% are doing jobs that Americans have always done for a fair wage. Educate yourself on this issue. We already take in as many immigrants annually that we can accomodate in jobs and resources. We don't any more coming here to compete for those things with millions of Americans out of work and country nearly bankrupt. These people need to go home and we need to deter anymore from coming here that don't fall within our annual quotas.


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Perfect Dark (Giapponese: パーフェクトダーク) è un software giapponese per la condivisione di file in peer-to-peer anonima. È stato sviluppato con l'intenzione di essere il successore di Winny e Share.

Oltre a consentire la condivisione peer-to-peer dei file, consente anche in modo anonimo di utilizzare forum (schede di messaggi) e ha un gadget per la funzione di scorrimento del flusso di testo corto.

Il suo autore è noto sotto lo pseudonimo Kaichō (会長), il quale è anonimo e molto probabilmente giapponese.

Mentre l'organizzazione giapponese Association of Copyright for Computer Software ha riferito che nel gennaio 2014 il numero di nodi connessi su Perfect Dark (24000) era inferiore a Share (44000) ma superiore a Winny (12000), Netagent nel 2018 ha riportato che Winny possedeva 50.000 nodi, seguito da Perfect Dark con 30.000 nodi e da Share con 10000. NetAgent afferma che il numero di nodi su Perfect Dark è diminuito dal 2015 mentre il numero di Winny è costante. NetAgent riporta che gli utenti di Perfect Dark sono più propensi a condividere libri o manga.

Caratteristiche

DKT + DHT + DU
Queste tre parti compongono l'intera rete:

 "DKT" significa "Distributed Keyword Table"
 "DHT" per le Tabella di hash distribuita
 "DU" per "Distributed Unity" (Unità è il nome della rete di Perfect Dark).

"DKT" è utilizzato principalmente per consentire una ricerca di file efficace mentre "DHT" e "DU" sono utilizzati per la condivisione di file efficaci e migliorare l'anonimato.

Il software utilizza una variante di  ECC su categorizzazione I dati transitori tra gli utenti.

Bandwidth richiesti
Perfect Dark ha requisiti più elevati in larghezza di banda e spazio di archiviazione rispetto ai suoi predecessori Winny e Share. La velocità minima di upload è 100 kb/s.

Spazio su disco richiesto
Il software richiede di condividere almeno 40 GB di spazio su disco rigido, per la necessità della cartella della cache "Unity" (Un enorme "Tabella hash distribuita" utilizzata come "File system distribuito" ).

File system
Perfect Dark richiede file system  NTFS e non FAT32, poiché FAT32 è limitato a una dimensione del file di 4GB, mentre Perfect Dark può scaricare da file con dimensioni a 32GB.

Elenco dei nodi
L'unità è basata su qualsiasi Central Server, se un nuovo client scuro perfetto desidera connettersi ad esso, deve conoscere l'indirizzo di un altro nodo per essere in grado di connettersi (copiando / incolla dall'indirizzo) per scaricare automaticamente da questa prima coppia un elenco di altri colleghi. Ecco perché ci sono alcuni siti Web che pubblicano elenchi di nodi Perfect Dark.

Ricerca dei file
Il concetto di "tree search" porta una forte funzionalità di ricerca dei file. Inoltre, l'uso flessibile degli operatori booleani aiuta l'utente a filtrare i risultati indesiderati.

Flusso di testo
Perfect Dark include una funzione originale denominata "flusso di testo": una finestra in cui hanno luogo le linee scritte degli utenti. Ogni utente può scrivere un (solo) breve messaggio (poche righe e colonne) e verrà visualizzato ad altri peer utilizzando la funzione "flusso di testo".

Aggiornamento automatico
Il software Perfect Dark si aggiorna automaticamente tramite la propria rete (dall'uscita della versione 1.02 nel 2008 sotto il nome del codice "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" e seguente).

Forum
Perfect Dark include una funzione rudimentale dei forum anonimi. Questi forum sono distribuiti attraverso la rete di unità. Per ottenere forum, devono essere cercati con la funzione di ricerca dei file, con (ad esempio) la parola chiave giapponese: ボ ー ド (Forum).

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