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The sixth collection from Moda with the name Summer Breeze, this beautiful floral range will coordinate with the others but it is also a stunning range in its own right! Featuring pretty flowers in contrasting yellow, blue and white prints, this is a fresh take on a traditional floral theme. This quilting print features tiny flowers in blue and yellow covering a navy blue background, reference number 33374-15.


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Almac to Invest in Analytical Services Capability
The API and drug product provider will invest £375,000 (US$493,000) in additional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrumentation at its headquarters in Craigavon, UK.
In a July 16, 2018 press release, contract development and manufacturing organization Almac Group announced that it will invest £375,000 (US$493,000) in additional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrumentation at its headquarters in Craigavon, UK.
Additional NMR services will be offered to support drug substance and drug product development programs from early phase to commercialization. These services include advanced characterization and purity assessment abilities in line with regulatory requirements, according to the company.
The new 500MHz NMR instrument incorporates Bruker's Avance Neo platform and a Prodigy Cryoprobe within a temperature-controlled environment. Almac states that this setup provides greater flexibility, higher sensitivity, and resolution. The equipment also provides the capability to analyze nuclei from 15N to 31P, in addition to a range of 2D and quantitative NMR experiments, which allows the company to increase its NMR service offering, Almac reports.
Furthermore, software updates will include additional processing capabilities and improved data integrity controls to support regulatory compliance.
Source: Almac Group
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"Without Research, There Is No Hope!"
Widely known as "Mr. Health," Paul G. Rogers was "one of the best friends ever of the National Library of Medicine," states NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D.
Former U.S. Representative Paul G. Rogers, 87, a founder of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM), died October 13, 2008 of lung cancer. A Democrat who represented West Palm Beach, Fla., for 24 years, he was known as "Mr. Health" for his leading role in passing key environmental and health care legislation.
"Paul Rogers was one of the best friends ever of the National Library of Medicine," noted NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D. "A courtly gentleman, he had an uncanny ability to see the potential of medical research and aggressively fought for it. He had big, powerful ideas and always looked to the future. He will be sorely missed."
As chair of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, Rogers racked up an unmatched record of groundbreaking health policy advances for all Americans, including the Migrant Health Act; Clean Air Act; Health Manpower Training Act; National Cancer Act; Heart, Lung, and Blood Act; Emergency Medical Services Act; Community Health Centers Act; Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments; and the National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act. He was honored with the 2004 Distinguished Service Award by the NLM Board of Regents.
Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Rogers was an ardent supporter of the National Library of Medicine on Capitol Hill. Thanks largely to his efforts, the Library established a research center for biomedical communications. This ultimately led to creation of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, in 1968, by joint Resolution of Congress. After retiring from Congress in 1979, he became an advisor to Dr. Lindberg, helping to craft the Library's long-range activities in the mid-1980s.
He was instrumental in helping to establish the nonprofit FNLM in 1986. As chair, he developed a coalition of individuals, medical associations, hospitals, health science libraries, corporations, and foundations into an effective, productive organization. One of FNLM's most important achievements is NIH MedlinePlus magazine, the free quarterly publication you are now reading. It is published jointly by the Friends and the National Institutes of Health, with editorial supervision by NLM. Since debuting in 2006, circulation has risen to 500,000, with a readership of over 5 million. It is distributed to physicians' offices, hospitals, clinics, and libraries nationwide.
In addition to NIH MedlinePlus, visitors to NIH, in Bethesda, can enjoy a lasting, visual tribute to Paul Rogers and his many contributions. In the main plaza, designated in 2000 by Congress as the Paul G. Rogers Plaza, a marker proudly bears Paul's vivid exclamation, "Without research, there is no hope!"
"Mr. Health" is survived by his wife of 46 years, Rebecca, of Washington, D.C.; daughter, Rebecca Laing Sisto of Westfield, N.J.; a brother; and four grandchildren.


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Brutal, brazen crimes shake L.A., leaving city at a crossroads
December 5, 2021 By Stephen Frank 8 Comments
Go to Los Angeles at your own risk. Cops are no longer able, or wanting to stop crime—while the DA is making sure if you are caught committing a crime you are back on the street in a flash.
"While overall city crime rates remain far below records set during the notorious gang wars of the 1990s, violent crime has jumped sharply in L.A., as it has in other cities. Much of the violence has occurred in poor communities and among vulnerable populations, such as the homeless, and receives little attention.
However, since the start of the pandemic and more rapidly in recent months, crime has crept up in wealthier enclaves and thrust its way to the center of public discourse in L.A. — against a backdrop of COVID-19 angst, evolving political perceptions of what role police and prosecutors should play in society and, now, a holiday season upon which brick-and-mortar retailers are relying to stay afloat."
Now that crime has moved from the ghetto's to the mansions, maybe the elites will demand police do their job? But I doubt ity. My guess is that the rich will leave California for a safe State.
Kevin Rector, Richard Winton, Andrew J. Campa ,Los Angeles Times),12/4/21
Crews of burglars publicly smashing their way into Los Angeles' most exclusive stores. Robbers following their victims, including a star of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and a BET host, to their residences. And this week, the fatal shooting of 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant, an admired philanthropist and wife of music legend Clarence Avant, in her Beverly Hills home.
After two years of rising violent crime in Los Angeles, these incidents have sparked a national conversation and led to local concern about both the crimes themselves and where the outrage over the violence will lead.
"The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe," declared Oprah Winfrey, expressing her grief over Avant's killing to her 43 million Twitter followers. "The world is upside down."
Some wonder if this could be a turning point for California, which for decades has been at the center of the movement for criminal justice reform, rolling back tough sentencing laws and reducing prison populations.
Polls in 2020 showed that California voters largely support many of these measures, and both San Francisco and Los Angeles have elected district attorneys with strong reform agendas. However, those concerned about crime and those who believe liberal policies have contributed to its rise have grown more vocal.
It is a discourse defined by glaring differences of opinion and, at times, a yawning disconnect between the perception of local crime and the reality on the ground.
Dominick DeLuca, owner of the Brooklyn Projects skateboard shop on Melrose Avenue, a commercial corridor that has seen burglaries and robberies spike sharply in recent months, said things have gotten so bad that he carries a gun to work — and desperately wants ramped-up enforcement.
"I have never seen anything like it," he said. "In the last two years, I have been broken into three times."
At a Thursday press conference, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said more offenders should be locked up and questioned pandemic-related policies that have allowed many nonviolent arrestees to be released without bail.
Moore said arrests had been made in several high-profile "smash-and-grab" burglaries but lamented that the suspects had all been released pending trial. Garcetti said warehousing criminals in jails without rehabilitating them is not a solution, but neither is ceding the streets to repeat offenders.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, whose progressive policies around prosecution and sentencing many blame for the uptick in crime, was notably absent at the press conference but said through his office that he is working closely with law enforcement partners to hold perpetrators accountable for such brazen crimes.
The heightened rhetoric marks a departure from language shared by many of the same officials just last year, after George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer. This has set off alarms among activists who led protests, want to see progressive justice measures enacted and hear echoes of past eras when, they believe, the overhyping of crime led to overpolicing and excessive incarceration.
"They're trying to move us backward," said Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. "We don't want to move backward; we want to move forward."
Abdullah called Avant's killing "horrific and appalling" and said Black Lives Matter mourns with her family. But she said officials must not be allowed to use Avant's death or recent property crime to push for more policing, cash bail or other tough-on-crime measures that she said have been proved not to work.
"We need to think about what kind of economic desperation actually creates property crime and how do we get people out of that state," Abdullah said. "How do we create livable wage jobs? How do we create affordable housing?"
Abdullah also warned against accepting claims about crime that may not have a basis in reality — which, as it happens, is something police have warned against in recent days, as concern over crime trends has escalated.
For example, while the "follow-home" and "smash-and-grab" trends in L.A., including upticks in robberies in corridors like Melrose Avenue, have caused concern, they are not indicative of a citywide surge in property crime.
According to LAPD data through Nov. 27, property crime this year is up 2.6% over the same period last year but is down 6.6% from 2019. Robbery is up 3.9% over last year but down 13.6% from 2019. Burglaries are down 8.4% from last year and down 7.7% from 2019. Car thefts are a notable outlier, up nearly 53% from 2019.
More concerning is violent crime. Homicides are up 46.7% compared with 2019, while shooting victims are up 51.4%, according to police data. As of the end of November, there had been 359 homicides in L.A. in 2021, compared with 355 in all of 2020. There have not been more homicides in one year since 2008, which ended with 384.
In Beverly Hills, police stress that crime is rare — and killings like Avant's even more so. Police Chief Mark Stainbrook said that despite recent incidents, Beverly Hills remains one of the safest cities in the nation.
Crime across Beverly Hills this year was down 2% as of the end of October. Violent crime in the past two years is up 23% compared with the two years prior, but the total number of such crimes remains tiny: There were just five robberies in the city in October, and homicides are rare.
It's not clear what reforms the concerns about crime in the Los Angeles area will lead to — if any.
A crime spike in the 1990s led California to adopt policies that toughened sentences and increased incarceration. The reform movement was an acknowledgment that those policies went too far and caused their own injustices. A poll of L.A. voters released this week showed that public safety is perceived as less of a pressing problem than homelessness, housing affordability, traffic, climate change and air quality.
Jonathan Simon, a criminal justice professor at UC Berkeley's law school and author of "Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear," said it is unlikely that crime concerns will completely derail the progressive criminal justice reform movement that began with Floyd's killing.
However, such concern could slow those reforms, he said — showing once more "how potent the political value of crime is" and how quickly politicians and others can revert to a "crackdown" mentality.
"It's a powerful trope now for 40 years," Simon said.
On Friday at Beverly Hills' Roxbury Park, a handful of child-care providers sat together over lunch. One woman said she had moved her walking schedule earlier each day to feel more secure.
Norma Guzman, who has worked for two decades as a babysitter in various parts of L.A., said Beverly Hills does not compare to other areas in terms of the amount of crime.
"If I didn't watch TV, I don't think I would have noticed the area was more dangerous," she said. "I don't think it is."
But Janette Waight, a nurse who has worked in Beverly Hills for seven years and was strolling through Roxbury Park with her boss' terrier, felt differently.
"Over the last few years, this area has become more and more dangerous," Waight said. "It's not just crime; it's homelessness, and it's just a desire from people to look for quick cash rather than work."
Ruben Urcis, 90, a 42-year resident of Beverly Hills who walks twice a day along the Beverly Gardens Park walkway, said he was not disturbed by the recent string of high-profile crimes, which he didn't consider anything new.
"People might just be noticing this, but it's happened before," he said, noting that his wife was robbed at gunpoint of a white-gold Rolex more than a decade ago outside their garage. Now she wears a "standard wristwatch of no value," he added.
Urcis said the difference with crime now is that it's occurring in public places and being recorded on camera for all to see.
"The people in this community don't feel safe," he said, "but that's been going on for a long time."
Pete Nichols, co-founder of the community group Melrose Action, said Thursday's press conference offered few concrete solutions — one reason the Melrose retail community isn't waiting for City Hall or the LAPD to address crime for them. Instead, local merchants are trying to obtain cameras that read license plates to help police identify burglars who drive through the area.
Many local merchants and employees saw the August killing of 26-year-old Shoe Palace employee Jayren Bradford outside that store as a tipping point, Nichols said, and have been chipping in funds for the cameras.
"It is a really awful situation," he said.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Ronald Stein says
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón welcomes shoplifters!
San Francisco, and now even Los Angeles County, have decided to NOT prosecute low level crimes such as graffiti and low dollar theft. They have initiatives that changed six low-level, nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. These included simple drug possession and petty theft offenses under $950 in value (petty theft, shoplifting, receipt of stolen property, forgery and writing a bad check).
It is working in San Francisco and LA County, as both have "raised" the bar for criminal tolerance by deciding to NOT prosecute low level crimes such as graffiti and low dollar theft. Now our Democratic policy makers want to make it Statewide so we can all watch the state go into the toilet!
Shoplifters are just abiding by the new law, but the results are that by NOT prosecuting the low-level crimes, "raising" the bar for tolerance motivates those that want to steal or do graffiti can do so with no reprimands from law enforcement!
Whoever thought California would "legalize" shoplifting, with no debit or credit cards required to shop. The new "norm" will be tough on businesses and the communities that can only "watch" their cities go into the toilet!
Jim Coles says
I'm fairly sure I speak now of a common sentiment — non-crazy, non-Liberal/non-Progressive/racist-Comminist Californians will be welcome in nearly any Red State Community.
The rest of the fruits & nuts should stay out there & live in the muck they've permitted the Democrat People's Assembly & the Executive Branch Politburo to create…
Bail out, sane people! Take your skills & dreams; your assets; yourselves & your children to Free, Restorationist America where Federalism & 'the way America should be' are being clawed back from the grip of the insane Left.
Sane people, good people — quit California while you still can
Dr. Trent Saxton says
Isn't that what what they voted for, it's still a Democracy, right? Call it Karma…
Robin Itzler says
Bet if there was an election tomorrow, Los Angeles Democrats and San Francisco Democrats would still elect/re-elect a Marxist Democrat!
Convince me my vote was counted when I voted against every soft-on-crime person or initiative on offer, against every tax increase. I know few or none who voted for them. Tell me your Red State enforces honest elections, and maybe I'll think about a move.
I moved here from Texas in the early sixties, went into sticker shock at the cost of housing, taxes etc. etc. However, I managed to make my way as the owner and sole employee of a small business in LA. I laughed and scorned at the nitwit voter initiatives that did pass. Two things saved me: the Howard Jarvis initiative, the famous Prop 13, then the Reagan rescue from the galloping inflation of the Carter years.
But even in the sixties, the rot had taken hold. Suddenly a California landlord was forced by law to rent to anyone who came to the door. A property owner with no rights over the property, unable to discriminate against criminals, lowlifes, or other undesirables, unable to eject them while the property suffered damage.
Now we lament over housing shortages, soak taxpayers to build government slums. Duh. Who wants to be a landlord – that evil miser, maltreating the poor, defenseless tenant to satisfy his own greed, hang him, I say, hang him!
Well, I don't say that. My one experience renting, my landlord was kind, efficient, worked hard to keep the property nice, with amenities like garages and a laundry room for tenants. I saw what he went through. A property he had developed himself as an investment for future retirement became a ball and chain.
"No pets? Well, we'll ignore that rule, the landlord won't find out until we get thrown in jail (that did happen then) and he discovers my dog has been cooped up in my bachelor apartment for four days without food or water."
"Nighttime power outage? Well, me and some neighbors gotta race downtown to see what we can loot on Market Street."
"Fourth of July? Let's stand in the street and throw fireworks and sparklers into the trees and on the roof!"
"Party time? Everyone enjoys loud music. Right? And a couple of dozen cars parked on the street and blocking the driveway? Right? Dancing and carousing in the driveway? Everyone likes that, and the landlord will pick up the beer cans and mess tomorrow."
"Out of money? We can live here for free until that whole eviction procedure crap goes through. Then clean up? Hell, no."
The naturally fine climate in CA has always attracted people. Including bums and thieves. When no one moves them along and there are no low-cost rentals, they live on the public streets and treat the public like they are the evil landlords, and who cares about their property? Why not live in colonies of grifters making their living unpunished on petty crime.
When property owners regain their rights and criminals are prosecuted and serve their sentences, maybe the flight of the taxpayers will end. Noting works like lowering taxes and incentivizing work.
RBank says
Very well-stated, Betty.
Otis Needleman says
You get what you vote for. As for me, have my ticket…hit the big one and away I go, to a safe, free state.
Don't ever forget why you left. Assimilate and accept your future Free State home or, stay where you are.


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This directory contains examples to demonstrate some capabilities of the tool.

## PostgreSQL example

![ER-Diagram in PNG format](./postgresql_test.png)

* [DDL script for example database](./postgresql_test.sql)
* [Markdown Report](./postgresql_test.md)
* [.dot file for PlantUML](./postgresql_test.dot)
* [ER-Diagram in PNG format](./postgresql_test.png) (created by PlantUML)

## Huge Example

![Preview](./dbvisualizer_preview.png)

The [dbvisualizer.sql](./dbvisualizer.sql) DDL script has been generated with the TestDBGenerator tool. It contains 200
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* [.dot file form GraphViz](./dbvisualizer.dot)
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* [ER-Diagram in PDF format](./dbvisualizer.pdf)

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Artists Home Flashbox Music New Music News & Updates Videos
Harpist Candice Lee Releases Emotional New Single 'How We Used To'
The track follows the American artist's 2020 releases; 'The Charm' and 'Feel the Same'
American harpist/singer-songwriter Candice Lee. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
New Jersey-based harpist/singer-songwriter Candice Lee has had music flowing in her veins ever since she was a kid. In between her parents taking her to concerts, Lee picked up the harp and began using it to write her own material while also covering pop songs. While in the eighth grade, Lee released an EP titled Believe in Yourself and since then she also developed skills to play bass, double bass, piano, and ukulele.
Now, the musician is out with her latest enchanting single "How We Used To." In this interview, the artist talks about the new track, what she has planned next and more. Read excerpts below:
You've put a number of singles since 2018. What can you tell me about your previous material?
I currently have five singles out on all platforms, including one collaboration track called 'Feel the Same' with producer KXA. My debut single 'Magnet' (2018) was written about feeling so attracted to someone and not being able to detach yourself, even if you know it's bad for you. 'Invisible' (2019) is self-explanatory based on the title but was written about feeling ignored and unnoticed. 'The Charm' (2019) is inspired by an actual experience. I was sitting in a restaurant with my friend when a guy sitting at another table, confidently walked over to me and handed me his phone number written on his receipt. I took that idea and made it the cover art. As I was writing this song, it gradually morphed into me expressing my foolish ways regarding multiple past relationships. It became the story of how I tend to fall in love with the idea of a perfect partner only to realize that I've made it all up in my head.
Also See Mumbai Producer-Singer Muks Catches Feelings in Trippy Video For 'Falling'
Talk to me about the new song, 'How We Used To,' and how it came together.
'How We Used To' was inspired by the pandemic, but was intended to endure, as we all long for the stability of what was. The song shifts from anxious feelings to images of hope, as a reminder that although we face common human emotions, struggles, and challenges, we will ultimately transition to a brighter time.
The song features the harp and classical guitar. I love to incorporate the harp in my pop music and I really wanted it to be prominent in this song. The guitar compliments the harp on the track, and I wanted the rest of the production to be powerful, yet stripped-down enough to let the vocals, lyrics, and important message shine through.
Where did you record it and who produced, mixed and mastered it?
Due to the pandemic, I was unable to go into a recording studio, so I actually recorded everything at my house. I recorded my vocals in my parents' closet and set up a mic/direct input to record both my harp and guitar. It was definitely a new and interesting learning experience!
Spencer Dennis produced the track and Kieran Lantier contributed additional production. Ed Kessel mixed and mastered it. All of this was done remotely, again due to the pandemic.
Also See Hear Ilina Hats' Peculiar New Single 'Make It Through'
What's next for you?
Currently, I am focusing on songwriting, recording, and releasing new music. I have been doing lots of virtual sessions via zoom. I've also been live streaming on many different platforms, as a way to perform and to stay engaged with followers. I recently did a livestream concert and plan to do another one this month.
Watch the music video for "How We Used To" below and stream the song on other platforms.
Reggae Icon Bunny Wailer — Founding Member of the Wailers — Has Died at 73
#RSDailyMusic: Here's What We're Listening to Today


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Q: Qt Creator won't open CMake C++ Project in OSX I'm trying to work on an open-source project in Qt Creator on OSX. When I open the CMakeLists.txt like other CMake projects in Qt Creator it doesn't open the project. No folders, source files, not even the CMakeList.txt shows up in Qt Creator, just a completely blank project.

What could cause a project to do this?
Edit: the project opens properly in Ubuntu. It shows the CMakeLists.txt, source files, and everything. It even builds properly when I CMake in the command line on OSX. Qt Creator in OSX just does not open this project properly.
Eit 2: My build settings are completely empty too. There are no General Messages or messages of any kind.

A: Open your Preferences (Cmd+, on Mac) and go to the Build & Run and then CMake tab, do you see any CMake version listed there? For me, I have to add a manual entry because it doesn't automatically find my CMake. My manual entry is set to /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake so compare that with what you have in your settings.

Then restart Qt Creator and reopen your project. Go to Build & Run again and make sure the Kit you have selected for your project has a CMake Tool set (should be automatic if you have just the one CMake entry listed on the CMake tab).

Background Information
It looks like you are using Qt Creator 4.0. With that version, they changed a number of things related to how CMake projects are handled. When you first open a project, it won't create the build directory if it doesn't exist. Instead, it will run CMake in a temporary directory. This would be shown in the General Messages output pane if you had it open. Once you manually create the output directory as it appears in your project's Build Settings, Qt Creator will switch to running CMake in there instead. There's no indication this is happening apart from what is logged in the General Messages output pane, even if there's a problem with your CMakeLists.txt.
In your case, if there's genuinely nothing appearing in your General Messages output pane and CMake is working fine from the command line, that suggests something may be wrong with your Qt Creator settings.

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Jean-Louis Lemoyne (1665–1755) was a French sculptor whose works were commissioned by Louis XIV and Louis XV.

His sculptures are featured in major art museums, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Gallery of Art.  Lemoyne was the pupil of Antoine Coysevox.

His son Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was also a noted sculptor.

Works
 La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour - Metropolitan Museum of Art
 A Companion of Diana - National Gallery of Art

Jacques-Rolland Moreau, 1712, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1665 births
1755 deaths
17th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
18th-century French sculptors
Artists from Paris
18th-century French male artists

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I got tagged by Kristen with a meme.
1. Link to your tagger and post these on your blog.
Ok - so while Claire is resolutely not napping, but reasonably babbling away in her crib, here we go!
1. I lettered in a sport in high school. That sport was badminton.
2. I just moved to a new apartment. I would like to unpack, but am paralyzed by the sheer magnitude of the boxes. Damn, we have a lot of stuff.
3. I cannot stand the taste or smell of yogurt. Consequently, it is the Clairebaby's most favoritest food ever. I have to concentrate very hard not to gag when I feed her every damn morning.
6. I am afraid of heights. Even watching someone do something up high in a movie freaks me out a little.
Boy. Staying in Brooklyn this weekend 'cause I felt like I needed a weekend to see what I completely forgot to do during budget season.
So far "pay gas bill" has been the most inconvenient, with letting half my tax document wander off to play in the junkmail heap running a close second. Things are already looking up, gas is on now & I did retrieve the tax docs tonight.
Welcome to Jackson Heights. I have you beat by about 30 years. Found you thru Frogma. Me and DW grew up on 93 and Northern blvd. First apt together on 91 st and 31 ave. Mark Twain Diner was our favorite. Library is on Astoria Blv. We have been living in Stormville ny for last 30 years.


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Weekend Traffic Advisory: Bridge and Street Closures, Sept. 27 – 28
by Brooklyn Reader September 27, 2014 January 28, 2021
Traffic in New York City
The Brooklyn Bridge will be closed to Manhattan-bound traffic on Saturday from 12:01 am to 7 am. Motorists should consider the Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, or Hugh L. Carey Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (MTA-tolled facility) as alternate routes.
The following streets in Brooklyn will be closed Friday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm for the DUMBO Arts Festival:
* Water Street between Adams Street and Anchorage Place
* Water Street between New Dock Street and Adams Street
* Main Street between Front Street and Plymouth Street
* Plymouth Street between Main Street and Washington Street
* Anchorage Place between Pearl Street and Plymouth Street
* Washington Street between Plymouth Street and Water Street
The following streets will be closed on Saturday:
* 8th Avenue between 14th Street and 23rd Street in Manhattan will be closed from 11 am to 6 pm for the Chelsea Midtown Democrats 8th Avenue Festival
* 6th Avenue between 42nd Street and 56th Street in Manhattan will be closed from 11 am to 6 pm for the Big Apple Performing Arts & Innovative Community Festival.
* 37th Avenue between 83rd Street and 90th Street in Queens will be closed fromnoon to 6 pm for the Jackson Heights Kiwanis Club 37th Avenue Festival.
* 3rd Avenue between 76th Street and 92nd Street in Brooklyn will be closed from 1 pm to 3 pm for the Ragamuffin Parade.
The following streets will be closed on Sunday:
* Lexington Avenue between 42nd Street and 57th Street in Manhattan will be closed from 11 am to 6 pm for the NYC Octoberfest Cathedral High School and Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Festival.
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How The Sexist Politics Of Hair Plays Out In Egypt's Schools
"I'm not against hijab in principle; I myself wear it,' says one mother. 'But I refuse to have my daughter wear it against her will."
Some schools in Egypt were accused of forcing students to wear headscarves
Axiom/ZUMApress.com
Nada Gamal
Egypt Sources Society MADA MASR Countries
CAIRO — The 2020 school year began with a few headlines about schools accused of forcing students to wear headscarves:
"Public row over Egypt school forcing child to wear hijab, Education Ministry investigates' or "Plea to education minister: Principal threatens child with suspension over rasta braids'
The news stories show that some teachers and school administrators pressure students to wear headscarves, although the veil is not mandated in school bylaws or any Education Ministry decree. In several recent incidents, the staff was motivated by a desire to cultivate a uniform appearance among students, using the veil as a way to try to bring in line teenage girls whose hairstyles or general appearance don't fit their prescribed views on what is "decent." With different schools applying different degrees of strictness, and administrators enforcing their own views of what is school appropriate, headscarves have come to be seen by some schools as a tool to solve a problem. In these stories, the girls, with the support of their families, pushed back.
Mada Masr spoke to Mai, a middle school student in Alexandria who did not want to name her school for fear of expulsion. Mai received her kindergarten and elementary education at a convent school. While girls at the old school had varying hairstyles, skin tones, and religions and spoke in different accents, the school codes were strictly adhered to — girls were required to observe good hygiene and respect teachers, support workers and other students. By the time Mai was ready to move on to the next stage of her education, her family had fallen into financial trouble and so she was transferred to a public school for gifted children. This is where her problems began, although she says they are not academic.
Most of the girls at Mai's current school wear headscarves, and those who don't are mostly Christian. The unveiled girls usually come to school with their hair in a bun. In that environment, Mai stands out with her short, curly hair which she wears loose most of the time. At first, Mai said, she didn't understand why the students and teachers at her new school looked at her funny, or why the other girls seemed to avoid her. When she started to prove herself academically and engage more in class, things started to change. Mai says her Arabic language teacher was surprised at her high score on a test, and, the following day, she asked her why doesn't wear a headscarf. "I don't want to at the moment," Mai answered, after which the teacher asked her if her father lived at home.
The teacher told her she and her father would both be held to account for her exposed hair on Judgement Day, Mai said. "If I loved my father, she said, I should start covering my hair for my own sake as well as to honor him and to please God. She added that the fact that my hair is curly should be even more reason to wear a headscarf, as it would hide that ugly hair that looks like a man's and make me prettier."
One day at morning assembly, Mai was called out by another teacher. "Put that mad hair of yours in a bun, Mai." She could not talk back to the teacher, so she just laughed along with her classmates. But the incident made it clear to her just how damaging the situation was, so she decided to start wearing a headscarf to avoid more harassment. Her family intervened, saying she was too young to wear a hijab.
"People at school tolerate me, but nobody thinks much of me," says Mai. "Three years and I haven't made any real friends. Three years of bullying because my hair is curly and I don't want to cover it." Mai says her teachers constantly contrast her academic achievements with what they describe as her lapsed religious duties, attributing the latter to her having gone to a convent school.
I don't hate my hair. But I do hate my school, including the people who work there.
Mai says the discrimination extends to formal events, such as participation in the morning assembly program. "The reason given was that 'discipline" is required of any girl if she wants to take part — and to be honest, I don't know how they define discipline. I go to school in my clean uniform, with white socks and black shoes on. I don't accessorize or wear any makeup because what they view as my ugly curly hair is all I need to look beautiful."
Mai hopes the worst of it is over, and that next year, when she moves onto high school, she will find herself in a more accepting situation.
"Despite all of this," she says, "I don't hate my hair. But I do hate my school, including the people who work there."
In the Sharqiya city of Belbis, a similar case led to a public confrontation between a student's parents and school administrators, ultimately requiring the Education Ministry to intervene.
Lamia Lotfy says her daughter Reem, a middle school student at Sharqiya's Belbis Public Language School, was threatened and bullied for refusing to wear a headscarf. Lotfy, a gender consultant and program coordinator at the New Woman Foundation, a rights group, told Mada Masr that the issue started a year earlier, when Reem was still in sixth grade at the same school. The girls received hints that, once they entered middle school, they would no longer be allowed to come to school without headscarves because they would be "all grown up," and were warned that refusal to adhere would result in disciplinary action.
Lotfy didn't want to act preemptively. But on Reem's very first day of middle school, the 13-year-old was instructed by teachers to wear a headscarf as part of her uniform. Lotfy was adamant in her refusal to make her daughter abide by the new requirement, and when the pressure on Reem continued, she decided to escalate.
In a public Facebook post she wrote about the issue in December, Lotfy quoted statements made to her daughter by three different teachers:
"Wear it to school and take it off when you leave."
"You simply won't be allowed onto the school premises without a headscarf."
"It's not our problem that your mom won't let you wear it. Work it out with her."
The Education Ministry put out a statement that hijab is not part of the school uniform — Photo: Elena Pleskevich
Reem's father lodged a complaint with the school administration. While he was assured that hijab was not a compulsory part of the official uniform, the school pushed back, this time targeting the mother. "Yes, we did tell the mother that a headcover was part of the uniform, but we never said hijab was. This is meant to protect the girls because this is a co-ed school," Vice Principal Manal Aboul Naga posted on Facebook. "What kind of mother reports someone for trying to protect their daughter," she added. In other posts by Aboul Naga, reviewed by Mada Masr, the vice principal claimed Lotfy was seeking fame through the controversy, and made other disparaging remarks about the parent.
Even before her own daughter's experience, Lotfy had been familiar with the practice of imposing headscarves on schoolgirls through her work at the New Woman Foundation. Lotfy "The model, decent girl is expected to dress modestly and wear a hijab to signal her pride in her religious identity, since hijab is what distinguishes her from a Christian girl." Most of the conflicts are resolved amicably once a legal guardian meets with the principal, Lotfy adds. In her particular case, the vice principal's attacks on Lotfy on social media prevented an easy resolution.
Does that include a girl's right to choose her own hairstyle?
Responding to the press and social media attention, the Education Ministry put out a statement that hijab is not part of the school uniform, that girls are free to choose whether or not to wear a headscarf and that school administrators and teachers have no say in the matter. Education Minister Tarek Shawky dismissed Reem's story as an "isolated incident."
The school district launched an investigation into the case. The New Woman Foundation released a letter titled "Citizenship for all in schools — no to imposing hijab" and invited signatories. The government's National Council for Women filed an official complaint, urging the Education Ministry to take the necessary steps to safeguard the rights of all Egyptian girls.
The question remains, does that include a girl's right to choose her own hairstyle?
Malak was just starting her first year of high school at the Wagih Baghdadi School in Giza. She went to school one day with pink highlights rasta-braided into her black hair. The principal of the school, where most girls are veiled, banned her from attending classes and made her stand in the hall as punishment instead, instructed her to wear hijab, and threatened to ban her from the premises if she came to school with the same hairstyle again.
Nagla Siddiq, Malak's mother, who sometimes works as a substitute teacher at the school, said there were early warning signs but she didn't think the issue would get that bad. Siddiq told Mada Masr that when she took Malak to pick up her uniform from school ahead of the start of the school year, some of the teachers told her to mind her daughter's appearance, and that although her daughter was wearing loose-fitting clothes, she would need to cover her hair.
"The code does stipulate that hair may not be dyed or accessorized in bright colors or obscure vision, but it was only sent to me by colleagues after Malak was bullied, humiliated, victimized and psychologically scarred," Siddiq told Mada Masr.
Siddiq says that after Malak's problem began, other unveiled girls at the school confided in her about the bullying they received from staff. Siddiq and the school principal both filed complaints with the school district.
Multiple hearings were held for 16-year-old Malak, both on her own and in the presence of her mother. Malak was told during one hearing: "Either cut it, dye it or cover it during school hours. We're not interested in forcing you to wear hijab."
"The way I see it, all three choices are effectively the same: hijab by force," Siddiq says. "I'm not against hijab in principle; I myself wear it. But I refuse to have my daughter wear it against her will."
The school district concluded that Malak was never forced to wear hijab. The school was only concerned with the inappropriate color of her hair, the district says. The student was asked to dye her hair back to its natural color. She told them that the dye job had cost LE500 and that she could not afford to change the color again, so the administration asked her to wear a headscarf just until her hair reverts back to its natural black color, according to the statement issued by the district. Malak goes to school with her hair in a bun, a compromise that has so far been tolerated by the administration.
Commenting on the issue of hairstyles, Rabab Abdel Salam Abaza, principal of Alexandria's Al-Shahida Om Sabir Girls' Middle School, told Mada Masr "Every girl should check herself in the mirror before heading out for school and make sure that her appearance is appropriate for the educational setting. And it falls to parents to guide their daughters in that regard." Dyed hair falls outside what's appropriate for Abaza, as do shoes that are not black in color. But "setting a code," Abaza adds, "and laying out what is appropriate for school does not amount to forcing non-hijabi girls to wear headscarves."
The veil is of course a non-issue for boys, but it is unclear whether school administrations practice similar patterns of enforcing a uniform appearance among male students. Mada Masr inquired at two Alexandrian all-boys school administrations and found that neither one has ever recorded a complaint, suspension or other disciplinary action against any boy for not wearing his uniform or for what teachers may have viewed as an inappropriate appearance or a violation of the dress code. "Boys have a different reaction from girls when their appearance is commented on," says a boys' high school teacher who spoke to Mada Masr on condition of anonymity. "Of course there are boys who come to school with a completely inappropriate appearance, with unusual hairstyles or even in t-shirts and jeans like they're on a casual outing. But if a teacher comments on something like that, he could bring upon himself all kinds of insults. This is what happens at so many public schools, teachers get humiliated. So we don't speak out."
MADA MASR
Mada Masr is an independent Egyptian online newspaper, founded in June 2013, with content in Arabic and English.


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Q: Find longest repeating substring in string? I came across below program which looks perfect. Per me its time complexity is nlogn where n is the length of String.
n for storing different strings,nlog for sorting, n for comparison. So time complexity is nlogn.
Space complexity is n for storing the storing n substrings
My question is can it be further optimized ?
public class LRS {

    // return the longest common prefix of s and t
    public static String lcp(String s, String t) {
        int n = Math.min(s.length(), t.length());
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            if (s.charAt(i) != t.charAt(i))
                return s.substring(0, i);
        }
        return s.substring(0, n);
    }

    // return the longest repeated string in s
    public static String lrs(String s) {

        // form the N suffixes
        int n  = s.length();
        String[] suffixes = new String[n];
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            suffixes[i] = s.substring(i, n);
        }

        // sort them
       Arrays.sort(suffixes);

        // find longest repeated substring by comparing adjacent sorted suffixes
        String lrs = "";
        for (int i = 0; i < n-1; i++) {
            String x = lcp(suffixes[i], suffixes[i+1]);
            if (x.length() > lrs.length())
                lrs = x;
        }
        return lrs;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String s = "MOMOGTGT";
        s = s.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
        System.out.println("'" + lrs(s) + "'");

    }

}

A: Have a look at this algorithm given in geeksforgeeks, this might be helpful:
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/suffix-tree-application-3-longest-repeated-substring/


AudioQuest shows on its website a few diagrams of how to use JitterBug, but the simple way of doing this is as follows. Use one in series with your USB DAC. Then use another in parallel on the same USB bus. If you can remove other devices to a second USB bus, do so and repeat, running all the devices through the JitterBugged USB inputs. I have exactly two JitterBugs to hand, and a MacBook Pro with two separate USB buses each with one USB port, and the JitterBugs stick out from either side of the keyboard now. I have a USB DAC running from the JitterBug on the right side USB, and the hard drive plugged into the JitterBug on the left side USB. I can't test if more JitterBugs bring extra benefit (always in parallel, never in series, apparently), but I've been informed there is a notional limit of two devices per bus before the JitterBug stops adding any material benefit, and you are into gilding the lily. That being said, I've played around with these quite a lot and there could be an argument to use them as a kind of noise barrier on any spare input, use them to connect to any printers, routers, etc, and especially on USB ports on the back of NAS drives.
How good the JitterBug is does depend on the quality and contention of your USB bus (or buses) on your computer. My 2014 ninja-powerful MacBook Pro is pretty good, and even then improvement was noticeable, but drafting in a nasty old netbook that has such poor USB controller chips I use it as a source of interference for testing DACs was laughably good. No, it didn't raise its game to the point where it would replace a Melco or a ReQuest, it didn't even raise it to the level of the un Bugged MacBook Pro, but it got surprisingly near. And a NAS drive… much better, a seriously competitive source of music: again, not a Melco (the Melco also benefitted, but again mildly so) but a definite game raiser from the £39 AudioQuest JitterBug.
So, precisely what do you get in sound terms for your £40? More realism: vocals seem less pinched and stressed, you are more able to hear the tubes sagging in a wailing guitar amp in full compression, and the sound of an acoustic guitar no longer has that sort of Ovation-guitar electro-acoustic upper mid 'thunkiness'. It's a bit pithy, but live sounds more 'live' and studio sounds more 'lithe'. Through the JitterBug, you can begin to get a bead on why people still feel CD sounds better than computer based audio, because the JitterBug pitches the sound more in that CD-like direction. In fairness, the better the bus, the less the JitterBug seems to do to the sound, but these more natural directions in performance seem consistent in intent, just varying in degree. It's extremely consistent in making more sense of the music and making it seem more natural, but not all USB are created equal. In fairness, the JitterBug helps level the USB playing field somewhat, too.


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The Truth Is Out There - UFO science key to halting climate change
Dane Muldoon
Mar 2nd 2007 at 10:47AM
A former Canadian defence minister, Paul Hellyer, has told a local paper that secret alien technologies (SAT) salvaged from UFO crashes hold the key to halting climate change. Hellyer has demanded that governments worldwide bring the SATs out of their secret facilities and use them for the good of mankind.
The logic is undeniable - alien spaceships must have travelled truly massive distances from their home planets to Earth which means that they must have incredibly advanced fuels and engines. Hellyer, who has reportedly seen a UFO himself in 2005, is quoted as telling the Ottawa Citizen, "I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation ... that could be a way to save our planet."
Analysis: Frankly, I like it. I think of myself as a fairly logical individual and I just can't fault Hellyer's argument. I wonder if the big three automakers are in on the SATs conspiracy?
Skeptical of HyPower's H2 Reactor on-demand hydrogen system? Video should be out today
Camry Hybrid named 2007 Canadian Car of the Year
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Anomaly Detection is an unsupervised Machine Learning task which identifies instances in a dataset that do not conform to a regular pattern. BigML anomaly detector (called anomaly in BigML) is an optimized implementation of the Isolation Forest algorithm that is capable to detect anomalous instances and suspicious patterns in unlabeled datasets given a set of input fields. This means that you do not need to collect a training dataset knowing in advanced which instances are anomalous and which are normal. Anomaly Detection is used for fraud detection, data cleansing tasks, predictive maintenance and intrusion detection, among other examples.
For more details, please find the documentation about anomalies here if you are using the Dashboard, or here if you prefer the API.
Which algorithm does BigML use for Anomaly Detection?
Which types of fields does BigML accept?


Wine tours in Tuscany are generally rightfully focused on the wonderful reds from the region; however, the lesser known and happily excellent whites must have their moment in the sun. The two most commonly planted white grapes in Italy, malvasia and trebbiano, are widely represented in Tuscany, and often found in local blends. Good quality white wines are being produced with these grapes all across the country and Tuscany is no exception. However, the real stand out whites indigenous to the region are vermentino and vernaccia. Vermentino does well along Tuscany's Mediterranean coast, with a crisp fresh acidity and delicious mineral quality, balanced by a haunting, addictive, ever-so-slight salty tang. Perfect with seafood, Tuscan vermentino is loved for its refreshing qualities and it is wonderfully quaffable on a warm summer day. Touring the coast of Tuscany, doing serious "research" on vermentino can fill an entire summer with happy memories of small hidden coves, boat filled marinas drenched in sparkling sunlight, amazingly fresh seafood dishes, dedicated and hardworking cantinas and bijoux vineyards where young white wines are cherished and shared with generous hospitality.
Vernaccia is particularly special because it is a true homebody of a grape. The historic town of San Gimignano is the heart of vernaccia country and wine touring in Tuscany would not be the same without a visit to this beautiful hilltop covered in the remains of medieval towers built by wealthy merchants jostling to show off their riches. Vernaccia grapes grow only in this tiny area and have long been famous for the wines they make, as indicated by tax regulations for their sale as early as 1276. The pale straw yellow wine, redolent of wild flowers and dried fruit, is a delicious surprise to every wine lover who takes their first sip. A rare white with a mellow body and the potential for ageing, vernaccia brings Tuscan whites out of the shadows and San Gimignano's wineries are a delightful surprise in the midst of all the big name red wines so often in the Tuscan spotlight.
Tuscany's allure for visitors is many faceted to be sure, but wine lovers will truly find a profound and abiding connection with this small corner of the world, so ineffably tied to grapes and vines and the mystical results of human effort to extract the best from a single simple fruit. Wine touring in Tuscany is much more than a chance to sample some of Made in Italy's finest, it is the chance to see and smell, breathe and taste the soul of a region that continues to give the global wine industry irreplicable wines of the highest quality, with the greatest history and emotion.


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A coalition of community groups and associations representing local governments and advocacy organizations are partnering to spread awareness about the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census and to encourage Oklahomans to participate. The census exists to take an accurate count of the population within the United States. Based on this survey, the federal government distributes over $675 billion to states and communities.
Census data is used to determine how many U.S. representatives each state is allotted. It is also used by communities to plan for a variety of resident needs, including new roads, schools and emergency services. Businesses also use the data when making decisions on where to locate.
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