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/**
 * CLogRoute is the base class for all log route classes.
 *
 * A log route object retrieves log messages from a logger and sends it
 * somewhere, such as files, emails.
 * The messages being retrieved may be filtered first before being sent
 * to the destination. The filters include log level filter and log category filter.
 *
 * To specify level filter, set {@link levels} property,
 * which takes a string of comma-separated desired level names (e.g. 'Error, Debug').
 * To specify category filter, set {@link categories} property,
 * which takes a string of comma-separated desired category names (e.g. 'System.Web, System.IO').
 *
 * Level filter and category filter are combinational, i.e., only messages
 * satisfying both filter conditions will they be returned.
 *
 * @author Qiang Xue <qiang.xue@gmail.com>
 * @version $Id: CLogRoute.php 2799 2011-01-01 19:31:13Z qiang.xue $
 * @package system.logging
 * @since 1.0
 */
abstract class CLogRoute extends CComponent
{
	/**
	 * @var boolean whether to enable this log route. Defaults to true.
	 * @since 1.0.7
	 */
	public $enabled=true;
	/**
	 * @var string list of levels separated by comma or space. Defaults to empty, meaning all levels.
	 */
	public $levels='';
	/**
	 * @var string list of categories separated by comma or space. Defaults to empty, meaning all categories.
	 */
	public $categories='';
	/**
	 * @var mixed the additional filter (eg {@link CLogFilter}) that can be applied to the log messages.
	 * The value of this property will be passed to {@link Yii::createComponent} to create
	 * a log filter object. As a result, this can be either a string representing the
	 * filter class name or an array representing the filter configuration.
	 * In general, the log filter class should be {@link CLogFilter} or a child class of it.
	 * Defaults to null, meaning no filter will be used.
	 * @since 1.0.6
	 */
	public $filter;
	/**
	 * @var array the logs that are collected so far by this log route.
	 * @since 1.1.0
	 */
	public $logs;

	/**
	 * Initializes the route.
	 * This method is invoked after the route is created by the route manager.
	 */
	public function init()
	{
	}

	/**
	 * Formats a log message given different fields.
	 * @param string $message message content
	 * @param integer $level message level
	 * @param string $category message category
	 * @param integer $time timestamp
	 * @return string formatted message
	 */
	protected function formatLogMessage($message,$level,$category,$time)
	{
		return @date('Y/m/d H:i:s',$time)." [$level] [$category] $message\n";
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieves filtered log messages from logger for further processing.
	 * @param CLogger $logger logger instance
	 * @param boolean $processLogs whether to process the logs after they are collected from the logger
	 */
	public function collectLogs($logger, $processLogs=false)
	{
		$logs=$logger->getLogs($this->levels,$this->categories);
		$this->logs=empty($this->logs) ? $logs : array_merge($this->logs,$logs);
		if($processLogs && !empty($this->logs))
		{
			if($this->filter!==null)
				Yii::createComponent($this->filter)->filter($this->logs);
			$this->processLogs($this->logs);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Processes log messages and sends them to specific destination.
	 * Derived child classes must implement this method.
	 * @param array $logs list of messages.  Each array elements represents one message
	 * with the following structure:
	 * array(
	 *   [0] => message (string)
	 *   [1] => level (string)
	 *   [2] => category (string)
	 *   [3] => timestamp (float, obtained by microtime(true));
	 */
	abstract protected function processLogs($logs);
}

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Axel Public School is an English medium, a co-educational school set in the serene, quiet, lush green surroundings of Lokhra, which is 10km away from the capital of Assam, Dispur. Renowned for its excellence in both scholastic and co-scholastic areas, Axel Public School has provided the students with a curriculum which is dynamic with special stress on communication skills, scientific and creative enquiry, community service, art and aesthetics and health and value education. A co-educational school with low student- teacher ratio we offer the nationally established CBSE curriculum and aim at nurturing responsible citizens with a sense of patriotism and global perspective.


The latest performance figures show 89.6 per cent of services arrived at their destination on time in September, the best performing month since December 2016.
V/Line CEO James Pinder said the Ballarat line punctuality result improvement of more than four percentage points since August was pleasing.
"Improving our performance has been a key focus and it's great to see continued improvements on the Ballarat line," he said.
Mr Pinder said the new V/Line timetable introduced at the end of August had helped performance by improving the pathways for Ballarat line services.
"The changes we made in the August timetable have helped with on-time running on the Ballarat line, particularly in the morning peak where we've seen significant improvement," he said.
The main reasons for delays to Ballarat line services last month was due to trains stopping longer than the time allocated in the timetable and trespassing incidents that meant trains had to be held until given the all clear.
For reliability on the Ballarat line, 97.2 per cent of services were delivered last month exceeding the 96 per cent target, and up on the August result.
Ararat and Maryborough services ran on time a combined 86.9 per cent of the time and delivered 99.4 per cent of services.


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Q: Div on the bottom of fancybox popup I am using Fancybox (fancyapps.com) to use popup ajax windows. I need to place a div in the lower right corner of the popup but I do not know how to do it.
I tried position:fixed but then the div aligns to the bottom of the screen not the popup bottom. I am using Ajax and not iframe to show content in popup.
Thankful for all input!

A: First you need to place the div inside the outer popup div. Assuming the div has id="lower-right-corner". Then the css would be:
#lower-right-corner{

position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom:0;

}

That is assuming that the popup outer div has a position other than static.
You can find more info about css positioning here:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp

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[spoiler]Aha! A good old-fashioned comic puzzler, served in an almost-nearly-traditional old-fashioned puzzle glass, with nice cover art. Possession/bodyswapping is laborious to write, since effectively there are no pure NPCs and every character needs to have at least one continuity-congruent conversational response to absolutely every other character, no matter how unlikely the idea that they would exchange chitchat in reality. To play – nevermind code – a possession game that was fully implemented in terms of what you know, what you must conceal that you know, who you can safely talk to, and where you can safely bodyswap would (to borrow an old quote) make your brains turn to guacamole and drip out of your ears.
Sensibly, BdS keeps things relatively simple (it also boasts a map). As a rookie demon, you can bodyhop in a room full of people and no-one will be any the wiser, neither does anyone suddenly come to several rooms away from where they last were, and wonder what the literal Hell just happened, and why they're now carrying some random and/or disgusting trinket.
A lot doesn't make sense, in the traditional way mad puzzle games don't: Repellent Habits are so rare that everynun can't have one…but the only known example is worn by a mere librarian? I must collect three random ingredients, just because I must. Someone in this otherwordly convent has a crush, and the way to find out who that crush could be…does not make much narrative sense, but it's cute.
Yep, it's all very tongue-in-cheek. Only the romance-based puzzle got me resorting to the walkthrough, but otherwise I didn't have any particular difficulties, although I did leave one possessee walking around with a certain puzzle-critical jar, then forgot who I'd left it with. Curse my defective memory.
For whatever reason, the interpreter slowed to a dead crawl during the climactic scene and frustratingly crashed just as I was about to possess my final target. I was also expecting to use the fact that one possessed character is effectively blind to do battle with something that sends humans (and even demons) round the bend if they gaze upon it, but on looking at the walkthrough, that doesn't seem to be relevant.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed the game plenty. It was witty, neatly-engineered in puzzle terms, and respectful of the player's time: in short, it was written with the deliberate intent that it should to be fun to play. That gets a solid score from me.
I had a lot of fun with this one. I've posted a review of it on my blog here.
Is anyone else having problem playing this game ? If I play it online, it works decently at first, but it eventually freezes (I'm still able to type things, but the game no longer responds). If I download it and try to play it with Quest, it freezes right from the start.
It's a pity, because it does look interesting.
Do you have the newest version of Quest? 5.8 came out a few months ago and I couldn't get it to work on 5.7, so you might have an older interpreter.
Yes, I downloaded Quest just for this entry, and I've just checked that it is indeed version 5.8.
Anyway, if no one else has encountered the same problem, then there's only one reasonable explanation : my computer is being possessed. Where is my exorcism manual ?
Don't splash holy water on it! Newbie mistake.
I'm possessing the old blind nun, since she's the only person able to carry all three spell ingredients to my Mother. I give the ingredients to Mother, and the game switches to the climactic scene where all the eldritch nuns are all present, and I have to work out what to do next to stop them summoning a Dagonesque abomination. And then, as you experienced yourself, the game crashes: I can type instructions, but nothing happens.
If I have time, I may download the newest Quest version and zip through BdS again to see if it freezes at the same point when I'm playing offline.
That is the one major thing that averted me from wanting to use Quest despite its cool features - big games run slow if played online, and there is no offline runner for MacOS.
Hello, I'm having trouble with this game as well. You mentioned a walkthrough, could you give me a link to it? Thanks.


I want to introduce the Open Beta phase of our exciting new Predictive Support Alerts offering from SAP Product Support. For those of you that don't know me, I have been in Support @ SAP (out of our Vancouver, Canada office) for over 17 years now and most of that time has been spent working with our BI Platform Customers and Partners.
Over the last few years, SAP has been hard at work trying to evolve our support offerings and find new ways to assist our customers and accelerate the resolution time for what we classically refer to as Incidents. One of our innovative new offerings is called "Predictive Support Alerts" (PSAs) and I am happy to be the program lead for this new offering.
So what are PSAs exactly?
From a high level, PSAs are essentially personalized alerts that are sent to you via email. These alerts are based off of Landscape Reports that created using the BI Platform Support Tool that are sent to SAP Product Support from the tool itself. SAP then analyses the landscape data that is uploaded and determines if any known issues are present in your environment. If a known issue is discovered, you will receive a personalized email alert that tells you exactly how the issue affects you and most importantly, how to resolve it!
What is the Open Beta all about?
We did a closed beta with 12 customers/partners back in March/April. This helped us uncover a few issues that we are currently working on. These issues are documented in the above wiki and can be worked around for the most part. We now want to open this program up to a wider audience before opening the flood gates so we can catch any other issues or suggestions that you may have. So, we invite our SCN community members to participate in this open beta and provide your feedback.
How do you participate in the open beta?
That's it. As soon as you send us a report, you are entered in the program and will be eligible to receive these proactive alerts!
Here is an example of the type of alerts you would receive. Yours of course would be customized to include your environment details!


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Expelled Coast Guard cadet sues over policy banning parents
by: PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 8, 2021 / 02:57 PM MST / Updated: Dec 8, 2021 / 02:57 PM MST
A former cadet who was expelled from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy after becoming a father filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the school's policy that prohibits students from being parents.
Isaak Olson was two months from graduating from the academy in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering and a commission as an officer when he disclosed that his fiancee had given birth to their first child several months earlier, according the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut.
The academy expelled Olson under a regulation that requires cadets to either resign or be "disenrolled" if they incur a "parental obligation" from a pregnancy over 14 weeks, according to the lawsuit.
"The decision to become a parent is deeply personal, and no school or job should be able to interfere with that choice," Elana Bildner, an ACLU of Connecticut staff attorney representing Olson, said in a statement. "The U.S. Coast Guard Academy's archaic regulation, which forces cadets to choose between parenthood and their degrees, has been morally wrong and unconstitutional since its inception."
The ban was introduced in the late 1970s, just after the academy began admitting women, Bildner said.
"It is likely no accident that the academy instituted its arcane ban on parenthood only after it began admitting women," she said. "This policy has no place in Connecticut or elsewhere, and it must end."
Messages were left Wednesday seeking comment from both the school and the Coast Guard.
Olson learned of his fiancee's pregnancy in April of his junior year, according to the lawsuit. She decided not to have an abortion and he decided not to resign because that would have meant allowing the academy to recoup the cost of his education, estimated at up to $500,000, according to the lawsuit.
His fiancee gave birth in August 2013. Olson disclosed that he had a child on a duty screening application in March 2014, which was the first time he had been asked about dependents, according to the lawsuit.
The couple, in an effort to resolve the matter and allow him to graduate, had Olson's parental rights terminated, according to his attorneys. The couple is now married with two children, according to the lawsuit.
He was never given a hearing and was "disenrolled" from the academy, according to the lawsuit. He decided to sue after going through a lengthy administrative process in a effort to get his status restored, Bildner said.
Olson enlisted in the Coast Guard shortly after his expulsion and is currently an aviation maintenance technician stationed in Alaska. He is seeking his commission and back pay as part of the lawsuit. The academy ultimately did not seek to recoup the cost of his education.
Olson and his family receive about $3,000 less per month than they would have if he had been granted his commission as an officer, according to the lawsuit.
The case is expected to have implications at other service academies,which have similar policies, according to the ACLU.
"We believe such bans are wrong for every military service academy and that the academies should strike them from their regulations," said Linda Morris, a staff attorney with the ACLU Women's Rights Project.
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this summer by Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, would mandate an end to policies that force students in military academies to withdraw or give up their children if they become pregnant.
"This policy is unfair, antiquated, and unacceptable," Cruz said at the time.
Under the bill, military academies would treat pregnancies in line with the rest of the military.

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Green Bay Packers vs San Francisco 49ers betting odds and tips
Betting Planet > Sports Betting Tips > Green Bay Packers vs San Francisco 49ers betting odds and tips
By: Jason G
Kickoff at 5:20pm PT (8:20pm ET)
Moneyline odds: +135
Betting line: +3 at -111.11
Record (ATS): 8-2 (7-3)
Moneyline odds: -153.85
Betting line: -3 at -111.11
The Green Bay Packers are coming off a bye week and head to the left coast to take on the San Francisco 49ers in a huge Sunday night primetime game in NFL Week 12.
The Packers are at 8-2 and tied with the Seattle Seahawks for the second spot in the NFC behind the 49ers at 9-1. Green Bay have won five of their last six games and while in first place in the NFC North they only lead the Minnesota Vikings by one game.
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The 49ers are coming off a 36-26 win over the Arizona Cardinals that was much closer than the score indicated. They scored a late TD to take the lead and then returned a fumble for a score at the very end. The result ensured San Francisco stayed one game up on the Seahawks in the NFC West.
These teams met last season in Green Bay where the Packers beat the 49ers 33-30. While the Packers did not cover in last season's matchup, they are 11-5-2 ATS in their last 18 games against San Fran.
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The Packers are coming off a 24-16 win over the Carolina Panthers where they stopped Christian McCaffrey at the goal-line as time expired to preserve the win. Green Bay had fewer overall yards (401-388) but forced two turnovers and did not commit any. They also rushed for 163 yards.
Aaron Rodgers passed for 233 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions in the win over the Panthers, which was at Lambeau Field in snowy conditions. He has eight touchdowns in his last four games and has not been picked off in that run.
The Packers had a great ground attack in the last game with Aaron Jones rushing for 93 yards and three touchdowns and Jamaal Williams rushing for 48 yards.
In their last game the 49ers outscored the Cardinals 19-7 in the fourth quarter and narrowly won even though they outgained Arizona 442 yards to 266. Jimmy Garoppolo had a big game, passing for 424 yards with four touchdowns and two interceptions.
Garoppolo needed to play well, as he got no help from the run game. Although SF rank second in the league in rushing yards per game, they managed only 34 in the win over Arizona. Tevin Coleman led the team with 14 rushing yards in the absence of leading rusher Matt Breida, who missed the last game and is doubtful for Green Bay.
Compared to the early rounds of the season, the Packers' defense has not looked nearly as good in the last few games. They rank 23rd in the NFL in pass defense and 25th in run defense, while the 49ers have the NFL's top-ranked pass defense and sit 20th in run defense.
Green Bay Packers betting trends
Packers are 4-1 ATS in their last five road games
Packers are 5-0 ATS in their last five games facing teams with a winning record
Packers are 7-3 ATS in their last 10 games
Packers have an Over record of 20-8 in their last 28 road games
San Francisco 49ers betting trends
49ers are 1-3-1 ATS in their last five games
49ers are 9-20-1 ATS in their last 30 games facing teams with a winning record
49ers have an Over record of 4-0 in their last four games
Packers vs 49ers head-to-head trends
Packers are 11-5-2 ATS in their last 18 games against the 49ers
Packers are 6-2-1 ATS in their last nine road games against the 49ers
In the last nine games between these teams the Over record is 7-2
Packers @ 49ers NFL betting predictions
Green Bay Packers to win – +135 at Bovada
While the 49ers are a solid team, they are not the cream of the crop like the Packers are. The cream will rise to the top in this NFC matchup, as Rodgers will have a solid game with help from the ground. Green Bay will definitely cover the spread, but they should be good enough to clinch the win as well.
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Nothing is more romantic than Roses to women.
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Suns star Devin Booker leaves Game 2 loss to Pelicans early with hamstring injury
The Phoenix Suns lost their best player on Tuesday night, and it may end up costing them more than just Game 2. The New Orleans Pelicans pulled off the 125-114 upset to even up their opening-round playoff series with the top team in the Western Conference at the Footprint Center on Tuesday.
That win, however, came after Suns star Devin Booker went down with a hamstring injury in the second half. Booker left the game late in the third quarter following a massive first half performance and went right to the locker room. He returned to the bench for the final period, but the Suns quickly ruled him out of the rest of the game with what they called right hamstring tightness.
Suns coach Monty Williams didn't have much of an update after the game, but said he thinks Booker tweaked his hamstring on one particular play in the third quarter when trying to chase down Jaxson Hayes at the rim.
It's unclear how severe that injury is, or how long he may be out. Booker missed seven games earlier this season with a hamstring injury, but it was on his other leg. Booker finished the night with 31 points while shooting 7-of-10 from the 3-point line, all of which came in the first half.
Despite his heroics, however, the Suns held just a five-point lead at halftime. That lead, after Booker left the contest, disappeared almost instantly. New Orleans snagged a seven-point advantage headed into the fourth quarter and then closed the game out on a 28-16 run spanning the final 7:30. The Pelicans held Phoenix to just one point in the final 2:25 of the game, too.
The Pelicans' critical win came thanks to a huge outing from Brandon Ingram, who was just shy of recording his first career triple-double. Ingram finished with 37 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists on the night after shooting 13-of-21 from the field. C.J. McCollum added 23 points with nine assists and eight rebounds, too, while making six 3-pointers. They shot nearly 55% from behind the arc while draining 17 3-pointers, too.
Mikal Bridges added 19 points for the Suns, and Chris Paul finished with 17 points and 14 assists. Paul has now lost 14 straight playoff games that have been officiated by Scott Foster, too. The Suns were out-rebounded by 10 and had 12 turnovers on the night.
Though it's unknown how serious Booker's injury really is, it couldn't have come at a worse time for the Suns — who will now head on the road with their first series of the postseason tied up 1-1. If Booker is out for an extended period of time, the Pelicans could take full advantage.


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Distress in the terminally ill
Providing quality palliative care (PC) is based on a deep understanding of patient experience and potential causes of end-of-life distress. Most attempts to better understand this distress prioritized the physical and, to a lesser extent, psychological sources of the distress. Fewer efforts were made to identify the existential and spiritual challenges terminally ill people face.
Psychological distress is universal among patients at the end of their lives, and is something that patients want to have addressed within the context of PC. Even though many sources of distress may not be readily visible or easily expressed by patients, the degree to which distress shapes end-of-life experience is profound.
A psychometric tool — the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI) — was developed to measure and track a broad variety of end-of-life distress. Using this tool, patients have identified diverse problems.
• The most commonly recognized problems included a combination of:
- physical challenges (distressing symptoms)
- functional limitations (not able to continue usual routines; not able to perform tasks of daily living; not able to carry out important roles), and
- existential concerns (no longer feeling like themselves).
Although few of these, aside from symptom distress, are routinely evaluated, their importance suggests that within the context of end-of-life care, they should be acknowledged; they should not be misunderstood as unimportant.
• Being younger, male, an inpatient, more educated, and having a partner or living with someone was associated with a greater likelihood of certain kinds of distress.
The problems that younger patients identify indicate that anticipation of death raises various existential worries: feeling a loss of control, generalized psychological distress, and a sense of unfinished business. Additionally, these patients have had less time to realize their life goals or ambitions and may, more than older patients, sense that their death is premature or untimely.
• Age, gender, partner status, and living arrangements are strongly correlated, in that older individuals were more likely to be female, have lost their partners, and to be living alone. Controlling for any three of these variables, therefore, substantially reduces the impact of the remaining variable. Partner status, however, continued to be very significantly associated with feelings of not having control, even after controlling for all the other demographic variables.
• Education and inpatient/outpatient status retained highly significant associations with individual sources of distress, after controlling for all the other demographic variables, implying that these variables operate independently of the age/gender/partner status/living arrangements complex. Being more educated, having a partner, and being an inpatient each had an independent and significant predictive influence on poorer coping. Perhaps more education correlates with a cognitive style, whereby intellectual processing, in the face of overwhelming life-threatening circumstances, allows for rumination without, necessarily, resolution.
• Cancer inpatients tend to report more distress than do outpatients; inpatients demonstrate a poorer quality of life, with more physical and psychological distress, than patients being looked after in the community.
• There is an association between general notions of spirituality and end-of-life distress. A heightened sense of spirituality and lack of symptom distress would appear to go hand in hand. Faith, in itself, may have less to do with end-of-life distress, relative to issues of existential wellbeing, such as feeling at peace with oneself or having a sense of meaning and purpose.
Understanding and identifying the diversity of distress in PC is a critical step for acknowledging its importance within the area of human suffering. A clear articulation of the typography of distress, including insight regarding those who are most at risk, should pave the way toward more effective, dignity-conserving end-of-life care.
Adapted from Sinclair S et al. The landscape of distress in the terminally ill. Pain Symptom Manage, Vol 38, #5, 2009; 641. Internet. Accessed on January 22, 2020.
Distress Suffering Suffering: intolerable, refractory
Distress in the terminally ill. IAHPC Pallipedia. https://pallipedia.org/distress-in-the-terminally-ill/. Accessed


Full Moon's Bunker of Blood is an eight-part feature film series designed to shock and scare. Drawing from nearly three decades of cinematic splatter and freakish filmmaking, Bunker of Blood is a gory "Greatest Hits" of the legendary studio's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new, outrageous narrative. Using lavish illustrated comic book panels to tell the twisted tale of the masochistic drifter and the mad "guru of gore," the series will drive viewers deep into the dark, dank depths of a madman's macabre lair. This stomach-churning adventure starts off with Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre, in which The Gore Collector culls the sickest moments from the 11-film-deep Full Moon series, mashing them together with macabre music and brand new moments of body-breaking mayhem.
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre is available now on Amazon Prime and Full Moon Streaming. DVD releases of each Bunker of Blood title will follow soon after, which, when all eight are collected, will reveal a secret mural painting on the spine.
In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high-tolerance for pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of M.D.'s (that's medical deviants) who are experimenting with human suffering. Suddenly, our shackled hero hears the call of The Gore Collector, a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Escaping from the lurid lab, the drifter enters the underground lair of The Gore Collector – there the perverse programmer pops in a vile videotape and begins the process of trying to warp the man's mind with some of the goriest and most gruesome moments from Full Moon's iconic film franchises. It's an all-out assault to the senses that makes A Clockwork Orange's "Ludivico Technique" look like outtakes from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood!
Can our hero survive the Bunker of Blood?


If traveling by air, The Pittsburgh International Airport is the most conveniently located and is served by most airlines. When traveling to and from our office, allow yourself two hours. Please make certain that your travel plans do not conflict with your interview schedule.
Follow I – 68 West merging to the right onto I-79 North.
Take exit 155 (Star City / WVU). Turn right at the end of the exit ramp.
Follow the road past Sheetz (on your right). The road curves to the right.
Cross the Star City Bridge and continue straight ahead until you reach the 5th traffic light.
At the light, turn left onto Campus Drive.
At the next light, turn right onto University Avenue.
If you are picking up a parking pass, you will find Area 5 immediately on your left. You can meet a CCD staff member there and they can provide you with your pass. If you already have your parking pass, you can make the next left onto Falling Run Rd.
You will then pass Vandalia Apartments on your left, immediately after you will see Area 3 on your right, where you will find "Center for Career Development" parking spots.
Parking is available free of charge in Area 3, located on Falling Run Road off of University Avenue. If you are coming from the College of Business & Economics, you will veer right onto Falling Run Rd and pass Vandalia Apartment complex on your left. The parking lot will come up immediately on your right.
In order to obtain your parking pass for Area 3 you can meet a CCD representative at the Area 5 parking lot.
A list of recommended hotels is available on the WVU Visitors Resource Center website.
Morgantown is home to several delicious Dining Options.
The Mountainlair Food Court provides you with numerous dining options, including: Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Taziki's, Hatfields (cafeteria-style dining), J.A.C.S (convenience store), Sbarro, and The Side Pocket Pub. There is also a Starbucks located in the WVU Bookstore connected to the Mountainlair.


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HSE accused of 'charging people for being ill' as car park bill tops €22million
Hospitals in Ireland made a cash-grab of €60,000 a day from parking charges
Trevor QuinnSenior News Reporter
The HSE was accused of "charging people for being ill" over sky-high car parking charges, which have topped €22 million.
And there were calls for the "unfair" costs to be scrapped altogether to ease the stress and strain on sick patients and their families.
The shocking new figures, which were compiled for the latest available year of 2017, revealed hospitals here made a cash-grab of €60,000 a day from parking charges.
Sinn Fein health spokesperson Louise O'Reilly, who obtained the data through a Dail question, slammed the health service on Wednesday.
She said: "When a patient is sick, the last thing they or their loved one's need is a hefty car parking bill; it is extremely unfair and adds to stress and strain at a very difficult time.
Sinn Fein health spokesperson Louise O'Reilly slammed the health service (Image: Gareth Chaney Collins)
Politicians slam 'stomach-churning' reports of dead bodies left to rot on trolleys in University Hospital Waterford
"Charges for car parking at hospitals are a charge on people who are unwell and levied on them because solely because they are sick.
"Patients have told us that they simply can't manage the cost of parking on top of other expenses they face as they battle their illness."
The HSE figures revealed that hospitals here made €22.4 million in 2017 from parking charges.
The health service admitted in its reply that just nine Irish hospitals offer free parking, with most charging a fee.
And out of the 47 hospitals where a charge is levied, over 33% (16) used an external third party company to manage the costs.
Cork University Hospital pulled in the most money, with €3.1m collected in 2017, while Dublin hospitals filled five of the top 10 spots.
The Munster facility is one of only two of those nationwide that looks after the management of its own car park.
Cork University Hospital pulled in the most money
HSE spent €76,000 per day on taxis in 2018
Other hospitals which raked in pot loads of cash for themselves or the HSE included St Vincent's University Hospital (€2.5 million) and St James's Hospital (over €2 million) in the capital.
And the top five list is made up of Galway University Hospital (almost €1.45 million) and Dublin's Beaumont Hospital (€1.25 million).
Deputy O'Reilly added: "The Irish Cancer Society have pointed out that cancer patients are paying up to €63 a week in car parking charges as they attend hospital to receive their treatment; this is a serious burden to many, many patients with cancer and other illnesses.
"The Minister for Health should be working with hospitals to phase out car parking charges in the interest of sick patients - this was done by the NHS in Wales and to an extent in Scotland, so there is a blueprint for how this can work.
"We should be making sure the patient experience is as smooth as possible and (we are) not charging people for being ill."
The HSE were contacted about the story, which broke on Wednesday morning, but a spokesperson said they would be unable to provide a response until Thursday.
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Historian of ideas, semiotician and writer.
Teaches psychology, philosophy, social studies and politics.
I graduated from Aarhus University. Ever since then, I have worked on passing on delicious knowledge and cool theories and discussing the world.
In my spare time I am with my family, write about this and that and give lectures around the country every now and again. I have always been interested in how we humans have come to be, how we differ between good and evil, and why we love and hate each other alternately, and why we create communities.


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Jacó, filho de Leí é um personagem do Livro de Mórmon.

Jacó foi um dos filhos de Leí e Saria que nasceu no deserto, durante a trajetória de sua família à Terra da Promissão. Jacó foi um grande profeta de Deus. Era irmão de Néfi, Sam, Lemuel, Lamã e José.

Néfi, seu irmão, antes de morrer transferiu os reistros a Jacó. Ele foi responsável por continuar com os relatos do Livro de Mórmon, e assim escreveu o livro de Jacó que se encontra atualmente no Livro de Mórmon. Jacó e José foram consagrados sacerdotes e mestres do povo por Néfi.

Jacó também ensinou sobre a vinda de um Messias, um Redentor e apresentou alguns motivos pelos quais os membros da casa de Israel não o aceitariam em sua vinda.

Personagens do Livro de Mórmon
Movimento dos Santos dos Últimos Dias

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Butterfly enthusiasts record new altitude for Peacock Pansy Junonia almanac butterfly
Gangtok, 20 Apr:
Naturalist Nosang M Limboo and his team have come up with a new altitudinal record for the Peacock Pansy Junonia almana butterfly species.
Peacock Pansy is a common species of Nymphalid butterfly found in forests and grasslands of Southern Asia.
It has been recorded in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Peacock Pansy is active almost throughout the year [January-December] and it has been recorded at elevations upto 2,100 meter. The caterpillar of the butterfly feeds on Acanthus, Barleria and Gloxinia.
A specimen of Peacock Pansy was photographed at Chipchipey, a small glade at 3,289 meter in extreme western part of Sikkim towards Singalila Range on 04 Apr, according to Nosang. The remote location is under Barsey Rhododendron Sanctuary in Uttarey.
"A single species was observed basking in the grass patch in the middle of Rhododendron forest. The butterfly was observed for more than 30 minutes. The butterfly seemed to have needed the warmth to raise its temperature for flight. During the encounter both the upper side and underside were clearly photographed to confirm the identity of the butterfly. The Junonia almana has a distinct difference from other Pansys in coloration and pattern. No other butterflies were on the wing at that time," said Nosang M Limboo.
Nosang M Limboo said the Peacock Pansy butterfly has not been recorded at such altitudes before. The previous elevation where the butterfly has been recorded was at 2,100 meter.
According to Nosang, with this sighting the known altitudinal distribution of the butterfly has now been extended up to 3,289 meter in India. It is normally active at lower elevations [2,100 meter] and was not recorded at this altitude before.
"It will be a huge contribution to the scientific study of this butterfly species. Now it is recorded that the butterfly is found at higher altitudes also," he added.
"The Himalayas have herbaceous plants which might have attracted the butterfly," he informed.
However Nosang said that it needs to be confirmed whether the butterfly breeds in the area, or whether it was migrating or whether it was merely a straggler blown unwillingly to that elevation.
He thanked all his trekking team members consisting of Manisha, Sikha, Gunjan, Shivangi, Shamim, Natasha, Bharati, Ramya, Jyoti, N.B. Chettri, Kinzong Bhutia, Piran Elavia.


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West Loop Carjackers Fire Shot Before Stealing Minivan Sunday Night, Police Say
The 18-year-old was standing near his minivan in the 600 block of West Lake Street when two men walked up and demanded this keys, police said.
9:32 AM CDT on Oct 28, 2019
A man was carjacked in the 600 block of West Lake Street in West Loop Sunday night, police said.
WEST LOOP — A gunman fired a shot Sunday night during a carjacking in the West Loop, police said.
No one was hurt, but the shooter and his accomplice commandeered a minivan and drove away.
It happened just after 10 p.m. Sunday in the 600 block of West Lake Street. The two carjackers walked up to an 18-year-old standing near his 2006 Chevy Uplander, police said.
They demanded his keys and one of the carjackers fired a shot before driving off, police said.
Controversial Blackhawks Star Bobby Hull Dies At 84
The Blackhawks picked Hull as a team ambassador in his later years, despite allegations of racism and domestic violence.
The Ballot LIVE: Ja'Mal Green Discusses Mayoral Candidacy With Laura Washington
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Three 1st Ward Aldermanic Candidates To Speak Wednesday At Wicker Park Meeting
Ald. Daniel La Spata, Proco Joe Moreno and Stephen "Andy" Schneider will speak and take questions from voters.
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Monday will have a high near 16 degrees — but wind chills will make it feel as low as one degree below zero during the day and as low as 11 degrees below zero at night.


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Robbins is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

History
A variant spelling was "Robins". A post office called Robins was established in 1892, and remained in operation until 1904. The community has the name of Henry Clay Robbins, an early settler.

References

Unincorporated communities in Johnson County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri


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Hygiene school loses Approval after Infection Control Lapses
The Dental Hygiene Committee of California (DHCC) withdrew the state's approval for the dental hygiene program at Concorde Career College-Garden Grove campus in California after lapses in infection control surfaced during an investigation.
The decision was announced during a DHCC committee meeting in Sacramento on Aug. 20. The DHCC is the governing board for dental hygiene in California.
Between April 8 and July 13, spore tests were not conducted in the clinic, and no faculty could be identified as overseeing the sterilization procedures. When testing did resume, the first test failed and Concorde Career College (CCC) was notified on July 15, according to testimony given.
Although a seal was replaced on one sterilizer after the failed test, no instruments were pulled, and no consumers were notified of the failed tests. An estimated 3,400 to 4,000 patient visits occurred at the clinic during the time period of the lapse in spore testing.
The patients still have not been notified of a possible exposure to bloodborne pathogens and the need for evaluation. The DHCC informed both the county and state health department of the issues.
The withdrawal of approval was effective immediately. Concorde Career Colleges can appeal the DHCC decision.


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void CSSVariableResolver::resolveFallback(CSSParserTokenRange range,
    Vector<CSSParserToken>& result, CSSVariableResolver::ResolutionState& context)
{
    if (!range.atEnd()) {
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    } else {
        context.success = false;
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}

void CSSVariableResolver::resolveVariableTokensRecursive(CSSParserTokenRange range,
    Vector<CSSParserToken>& result, CSSVariableResolver::ResolutionState& context)
{
    Vector<CSSParserToken> trash;
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    // Cycle detection.
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{
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{

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void CSSVariableResolver::resolveVariableDefinitions(StyleVariableData* variables)
{
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{
}

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{
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So I do this thing called Advent Knowledge, which is a thing where some people post interesting and informative things every day during Advent, and some other people (including the first people) read it and become informed and it's all lots of fun.
And this year we have a website, which is very exciting, because we haven't had a central place to collate things before, and that means we can throw submissions open to anyone who wants to come and play. So come and play! Because everybody knows something and learning is cool.
See Skyfall, that's the one that got pretty much all of that stuff right.
Sometimes it's almost distracting how much they're trying to go "this James Bond film is an honest-to-Glob James Bond film", but then something really cool happens to bring you back in.
And of the non-M characters, one of them is actually really good, and my objection comes mostly in the form that I think she's just not given a name until the very end (and even that is kind of okay considering the gag they make out of it at the very end).
It countermands a fair bit of the good, in my eyes.
If I do see any, it would be that one. Or any future ones that remember they're supposed to be over-the-top wish fulfillment fantasies.
Though you're making me think I'll be wanting to throw stuff at my TV over parts of it.
The Pierce Brosnan movies had the best M. And the Craig ones as well, so far.
Edited a short story that I'm planning to submit to tor before the long weekend is over. It's about a violinist who learns that she's from another world, where music has magical power, and she needs to go back to that world to save it. After another edit today, I hope to get it sent in.
Preparing for a trip to Asia to present some of my research at a conference. I'll be doing a tour of several major cities in japan and Korea, and this is the first time I've done my own scheduling for a cross-ocean trip, so working out the logistics is ... a new experience. But I did get my Japan Rail Pass today, so that's one worry taken care of.
Came up with an idea for a YA fantasy novel, which I want to mull over and see if it's worth turning into an actual work.
A Song of Ice and Fire or Game of Thrones is a narrative where I don't really feel incentivized to like the characters so much as be entertained by their actions.
By which I mean... I -enjoy- reading the characters, because they generally act in interesting and entertaining ways, while being largely unconcerned with whether or not they're particularly decent people.
If only in my experience of reading the books; it would matter more in discussions of related issues, but that's a different stack of suger cubes, I think.
For my own part thus, I don't find it difficult to know whether or not I'm enjoying the characters, so there's that.
Happy Thanksgiving yesterday! I ate tooooooo much pie. It did not help that the Grommit kept taking bites out of pie that I then felt obligated to finish.
My Nano floundered badly and will not be a winner this year. That's ok though, I decided to go back and put the finishing touches on last year as an exercise and that's been rewarding in its own way.
So I watched the first part of the Breaking Dawn film adaptation--the first piece of anything Twilight-related I've completed--and paradoxically, it managed to feel both boring and engrossing. Bella, absent the additional context provided by the rest of her story, managed to come off as rather sympathetic throughout, which cannot be said for Edward, Jacob, Charlie, or the plurality of male characters, really. I also really liked Alice, and would have liked to have seen more of Jessica, because Anna Kendrick is awesome.
I also watched A Separation, the Iranian film about the couple whose separation serves as the backdrop for a truly spectacular legal and moral fustercluck. It is amazing, complex, and a fascinating showcase of what happens when parties who have both been wronged (to steal a phrase from Melissa McEwan) worry more about being right than about doing the right thing. Possibly the best film I've seen all year. (Content Note: A significant part of the film deals with a miscarriage [ETA: and Alzheimer's]).
ETA: Also, I've begun a deconstruction series for Mark Crilley's Miki Falls, a graphic novel whose plot parallels Twilight's, and is still to a degree very problematic, but has the benefit of a stronger creator at the helm. It only has two entries for now, but give it a look-see, if you'd like.
Here's the sort of post I would have put up in the Acacia Moon forums a bit ago: musics!
From the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack.
I'm posting from a tablet and apparently Disqus won't let me log on with OpenID.
I'm visiting my mom who is definitely inclined to policing my diet. I have to monitor my carb intake due to diabetes, but she is not helping with her "ZOMG DEATHFATS!"
We're actually having the feast tomorrow to accommodate my sister who is in fire/rescue and prone to volunteering to work on major holidays.
Hello, Ramblites. It's about food time here on Harvest festival day. Been watching the padded rugby squads today, mostly, although it took several hours to get through one game...and then they lost.
Mostly, though, it's the beginning of the session where I start wishing people to have a better year than the last.
I had a lovely Thanksgiving and I hope everyone else who was celebrating did too.
My happy introvert day involved staying home and not talking to anyone, aside from my father who lives here, ;-p. He went to my sister's and tried to nag me into going as well.
Lemme tell you about a conversation my father told me about hearing today at my sister's. He mentioned how in ye olden days they added livermush to the dressing, which my sister dutifully added. Her husband piped in with, 'SiL won't eat it--he hates livermush'. Daughter (ie wife of SiL) says: 'What he doesn't know won't hurt him.' And much merriment was had. And SiL ate livermush, either none the wiser or wise enough not to diss his MiL's cooking.
As someone who would spend the night vomiting after eating some of my no-go (for, I will admit, purely psychological reasons) foods... yeah. I'll pass on the festivities, which also include food policing, if past experience is any indication. I'll eat my 'birdlike' meal or my 'surprisingly large' meal or whatever it shakes out to be in peace. Well, in as much peace as possible with a cat who loves turkey underfoot.
And tomorrow I will go to my other sister's, bearing pies and ham and possibly turkey if I can sneak it out of the house.
The characters in AGoT are very strongly three-dimensional creatures. You think you know them and they'll turn some new angle of themselves into the light. Just goes to show what you can do when you put your mind into creating a world. Not that it's a nice world.
I've blogged about clothes and shoes of historical persuation. Mostly in Finnish though, although I do try to include an English condenced version in the bottom of the post.
And now I need to take the dog out before going to bed. Good night, or day, all.
Happy Thanksgiving to those in the US, and to Japan as well, which is happening at kinda sorta the same time. My niece and nephew are goofy, and their interaction reminds me a lot of being the oldest child growing up and how younger siblings, no matter how much you love them, can really seem to be a pain. >_< Especially when you're a little kid.
And I'm a bit worried, as my cat has worms. We've given her roundworm meds as well as updating her flea and tick meds, but I've got this terrible paranoia of parasites. Ugh.
Well inspired by you, Ana, as well as awesome folks like Fred Clark and Something Short and Snappy I've started doing my own "Read Along" series. I'm reading Pride & Prejudice and writing commentary but because the book is out of copyright I'm including the whole text of the book so anyone can read along and not miss anything. Anyway if you think that's cool, you could check it out on my blog. Hopefully my name will link to my blog, I don't really know how this works.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating today!
And to the cooks--may you be able to convince someone else to do the dishes!
Is anyone else having a hard time deciding if you like the characters or not? I keep flopping back and forth on these people. I think that the only character that I like and have liked consistently is Jon, and maybe Arya(I withhold judgement on Arya until she develops a bit more) and even then I don't always enjoy being around Jon.
I have trouble disliking characters consistenly too. Characters I don't like suddenly do something that I enjoy.
I'm only in the first book so far so there's a lot left to get through, so maybe I'll make up my mind eventually.
Oh, this isn't a complaint. I love reading complex characters and I love being suprised by their actions or thoughts. I just find it really unusual that a book with so many characters is managing this when most books can't even keep a single character ambiguous for me.
If you're still on A Game of Thrones, there are various bits of character development and new information to learn about them, so flip-flopping may well occur all the way up to A Storm of Swords at least. As for actually liking anyone... most characters have aspects of themselves that are likeable, I guess? (Some more than others.) There are a few characters in A Feast for Crows who seem like genuinely decent people.
Happy Thanksgiving, USians! Happy Thursday, everyone!
I'm spending my morning pretending to Nano, trying to catch up. Of course, I say pretending, because the brand new video game that Husband just bought, and is now playing, is fascinating, and I'd much rather watch him play than write.
I figure, if I tell enough people that I am writing with the intent to catch up for Nano, maybe eventually it will magically be true.
I hope everyone's day goes well.
The URL for advent knowledge is missing something - it tries to go to somewhere on Ana's site. If you don't mind, let's try again - Advent Knowledge: How Does This Work? Hopefully, this goes to the right place.
Looks like a good content policy. One thing: "Derp and variations are..." has no consequence, although I assume it's going to be bad, possibly bannably so.
And she becomes even better under the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen interpretation. Pity the Avengers movie sucked.
So I drafted a comment policy for my secret blog, and given that I have little to no confidence in my judgement when it comes determing what constitutes a problematic statement, I'd really appreciate some feedback on it, from those with the spoons to give it a read.
Re: Skyfall: Without spoiling anything, I feel that the film's ending will give hope to those that don't like the Craig Bond that future films will be more to their liking, as it very much brings things full circle. Unfortunately, when I mean "full circle", I mean all the way back to Dr. No and From Russia With Love (which, by the way, is an excellent film, problematic aspects aside), with all that entails.
Yay! I'm not the only one.
With what is almost definitely the WORST treatment of its women characters (apart from M) of any of them.
Considering this is a Bond movie, that's really saying something!
Depends on how you're defining "like" - one of my very favorite characters in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 is Gul Dukat, who spends much of the show being a villain and is demonstrably racist against Bajorans. I'd never want to spend time around someone like him in real life, but as a fictional character he's tremendously entertaining to me, and so I'm always delighted to see him show up.
Something weird going on with your comment, in the email notification I got the whole thing was there, but looking at it here I can only see what you quoted, not what you said regarding the thing you quoted.
Ah Disqus, how we all loathe thee.
I commented that I was failing at NaNo, also. Even though my actual goal was merely to write every day.
"(I have been managing to keep up with NaNo so far,"
I am failing utterly as well. And my goal was simply to write some every day this month. *sigh* You'd think I could manage that, at least.
Hello various Ramblites! I am speaking to you from the future. At least, it's probably your future, because I am in New Zealand and there aren't a lot of places closer to the International Date Line (I'm 17 hours ahead of my usual time zone, which was a bit of a dizzying change). It is gorgeous and there are volcanoes everywhere and I will be visiting various Lord of the Rings filming sites in the coming weeks, so life is pretty much amazing. Sadly, my internet access is limited (I have enough time every day to check my email, update my NaNo wordcount, and maybe a few news sites) so I will not be posting much for the immediate future, but I will drop by to see what's up if I can. Yay for everything and everyone elsewise.


The fire at 314 E. Main St. killed one man and displaced four other occupants.
STAFF PHOTOS/JEFF HORVATH Fire crews douse flames at the scene of a fatal house fire in Dalton on Saturday.
A 31-year-old disabled man is dead after flames tore through a borough home early Saturday afternoon, displacing four others and sending three firefighters to the hospital.
Fire and ambulance crews from various departments responding to 314 E. Main St. shortly before 1 p.m. were met with flames that quickly engulfed the home.
The first firefighters and police to arrive on the scene tried to help the victim's mother, who also lived in the home, get him out, but they were unable to do so as the flames intensified, Lackawanna County Coroner Timothy Rowland said.
The victim's mother was not injured, borough Police Chief Chris Tolson said.
Of the three firefighters taken to the hospital, two were from the Dalton Fire Company and suffered smoke inhalation. The third was from the Factoryville Fire Company and suffered unknown injuries, Dalton Assistant Fire Chief Ron Stacknick said.
While the extent of their injuries is unclear, Stacknick said he believed all three were to be released from the hospital Saturday.
Conditions at the burning home devolved quickly and little was left of the structure after the flames were doused. A gas meter "in close proximity" to the flames exploded during the blaze and about two-thirds of the building collapsed roughly 30 minutes after the fire started, Stacknick said.
Dalton firefighters on a ladder truck continued to spray water through what was the roof of the home until around 4 p.m. A largely undisturbed "Lackawanna Trail Lions" flag hung from the home's charred front porch.
As crews worked through the afternoon, members of the Clarks Summit Fire Company Auxiliary brought them coffee, doughnuts, sandwiches and other food.
It's unclear how many occupants were inside the home when the fire broke out, but the American Red Cross is providing food, clothing assistance and temporary lodging for four people displaced by the blaze.


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In Brief: Miles' Nisocor
Miles' Nisocor: Firm considering outlicensing the calcium channel blocker extended-release nisoldipine, which was approved Feb. 2. Miles says it is "reviewing various commercial options in addition to directly marketing Nisocor," including copromotion and out-licensing. Nisocor was given a "1S" rating by FDA, designating a new molecular entity receiving a standard review. The NDA (20-356) for Nisocor was originally submitted on March 31, 1993. Miles resubmitted the application on Aug. 3, 1994 after receiving a "not approvable" letter from FDA in March 1994. Reasons for rejecting the initial application cited by the agency included inadequate stability data to establish shelf-life of the product and the lack of a stereochemical identity test to demonstrate that the drug is a racemic mixture. Nisocor was approved in tablet strengths of 10 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg and 40 mg...
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Mikel reveals scary moments during the kidnap of his father
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Super Eagles skipper John Obi Mikel has stated that he had worries over the safety of his father.
The former Chelsea midfielder went through emotional trauma following the news that his dad was kidnapped by men of the underworld in Nigeria.
The scary incident happened during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
It will be recalled that this is not the first time Mikel's father has been reported to be kidnapped. On the two occasions, the ex Tianjin Teda star paid to secure his release.
"I thought I was going to lose my dad, I thought he was going to be shot because of the demands and stuff," John Obi Mikel told Sportsworld.
"They said they would shoot him and in the back of my head during the game I thought that after the match I would probably find out they had decided to shoot him.
"It's life. It's made me stronger as a person. I can look at so many things and say 'this is not going to shake me because I've been through worse'. I just hope that it never happens again and my dad can enjoy the rest of his life in peace."
Mikel is currently on the books of Middlesbrough in the SkyBet Championship.
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Home News and Views News Releases First industry-wide post-Budget annuity provider survey
First industry-wide post-Budget annuity provider survey
23% of experts warn that up to 20% of pensioners could exhaust their funds
Research from Equiniti Paymaster, one of the UK's largest pension service providers, shows that the annuity market recognises the need for significant change. Although the overwhelming view (75% of respondents) was that annuities remain fit for purpose at retirement, respondents were split 50/50 as to whether annuities will remain as the product of choice for retirees.
80% agreed, a quarter strongly, that Drawdown products should be a compulsory part of the open market option (OMO) debate with 80% believing that Drawdown should be given an equal profile to annuities as alternative retirement products.
However, many respondents raised concerns that an increased use of Drawdown could see pensioners exhausting their retirement funds.
Post-Budget the overwhelming view, 97%, was that we will see an increase in the cashing in of small pots for individuals to use for a multitude of purposes. Furthermore, 87% thought that as a result of the budget, more pension savings will be withdrawn as lump sums and used for purposes other than retirement income. Talk of reckless spending such as buying the Lamborghini was dismissed by half of the respondents, but 35% were of the view that some people would spend their money recklessly.
The survey reflected that over 50% of the experts believe that the housing market could be impacted with only 8% who 'didn't think so', and the rest being undecided. However, only 18% of our experts expected a buy to let boom with 36% expecting no change.
A contributing factor, albeit welcomed by 90% of the experts, was the fact that post-Budget pension savings and retirement income vehicles remain tax efficient. Pensioners would be able to access any or all of their retirement funds at their marginal rate of tax as opposed to the current 55% charge for full withdrawals. Allowing further development of new products.
Suzie Rudzitis, Managing Director, Pension Services Division, Equiniti " Our 2014 survey saw 40 of the most influential people in the annuity market share their views of the changes required following the Chancellors spring Budget. It is clear that a radical rethink is already happening."
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HomeFed backs out of university development
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The city of Chula Vista is left without a master developer after HomeFed Corp. decided it no longer wanted to be involved with the development of the city's much anticipated University and Innovation District.
Earlier this year the city and HomeFed hammered out a memorandum of understanding explaining how the two entities would work together on the 375-acre project, but city officials said when HomeFed took the MOU back to its board of directors for review, that's when they decided to pull out.
"At some point there was a decision within HomeFed that this issue of creating a university was just not part of their expertise or what they do," said Chula Vista Councilwoman Pat Aguilar. "So they made an internal decision, as I understand it, that this didn't make sense for them. It's just not who they are."
Aguilar said HomeFed's expertise is in housing development, not in creating and developing universities.
Paul Borden, president of HomeFed, did not want to go into specifics as to why HomeFed backed out but simply said it couldn't come to terms with the city.
"It has nothing to do with HomeFed not being interested in working with the city," Borden said. "It has nothing to do with anything having to do about the confidence in a university being developed. That's just the contrary."
Borden said he was "disappointed" that an agreement couldn't be reached and said he hoped to work with the city again in some capacity with the University and Innovation District.
In 2013, HomeFed entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Chula Vista to become the developer of the University and Innovation District.
Borden said HomeFed still maintains a great working relationship with the city of Chula Vista.
HomeFed, a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, already has a heavy presence in Chula Vista, owning land since 1998 in the Otay Ranch General Plan Area. HomeFed owns open space and areas of development such as Village Nine and Village Eight West in Otay Ranch.
"Our intention is to move forward with actual development of land in 2016," Borden said.
City Manager Gary Halbert said he has his beliefs as to why HomeFed no longer is involved.
"Ultimately, their board just decided it wasn't a good enough business deal for them," he said.
The city manager said HomeFed was probably concerned they wouldn't get any returns from their investment.
Halbert said the city currently isn't talking to other developers about the University and Innovation District. He said the city is keeping its options open on the development front, including possibly going back to HomeFed.
The city has retained two consultants that HomeFed and the city had jointly agreed on to help with the university. U3 Advisors is helping to create a work plan to attract a university to Chula Vista, while a team of architectural and environmental consultants is focused on drafting the site plan and environmental studies.
Right now the plan for the University and Innovation District is to finish a specific plan for the university, Halbert said,
In 2016, Halbert expects a specific plan will be presented to council for approval, form a committee that will serve similarly to a board of directors, and start recruiting universities to open a campus in Chula Vista that would accommodate about 20,000 students.
One idea is to bring a Mexican university to Chula Vista, Halbert said.
It remains unclear how Chula Vista will fully fund a university, but since the city already has the entitlements for the land, Aguilar's wish is for a "prestigious university" that could fund itself as a satellite campus in Chula Vista.
Halbert said the city won't talk about financing until a developer is secured.
"The city has got the ball at this point and we're moving forward," he said. "Universities don't get built over night."
The university project has been in the works for more than 30 years.
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The purpose of this letter is to notify you of the most recent information on COVID (+) cases in the District. While we can expect additional positive cases this week, we have no known school transmission of the virus. If the public health department determines the virus is being transmitted in school, all appropriate measures, up to and including school closure, will be instituted.
The District was notified that that members of the school community, one at Branford High School, one at Walsh Intermediate School, and one at John B. Sliney School, tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of COVID (+) cases to 31 since September 10, 2020. The affected persons were last in school on November 3, 2020, November 10, 2020 and November 19, 2020 respectively. Each has been instructed to remain on home isolation for 10 days. Anyone considered a "close contact" of these people has already been contacted by school officials and/or public health officials and provided with instructions on the appropriate steps to take. Per our reporting procedures, all COVID (+) cases of employees or students are reported to the Connecticut State Department of Education. Starting after Thanksgiving COVID (+) cases will be reported to families and the public via the District's dashboard.
We ask that parents/guardians, students, and staff continue to follow CDC guidance for healthy practices, to monitor their health, and to stay home and contact their medical provider should they experience any of the symptoms below.
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Please continue to adhere to the State of Connecticut travel restrictions. Our school district will continue to monitor the evolving crisis and appreciates your partnership in making choices that help to keep our staff, students, and community safe.


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My current research is defined by three overarching themes. First, how do domestic and international factors shape the strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs)? More specifically, I use unique firm and project level micro data to study how domestic and international political factors shape the decisions as well as experiences of MNCs abroad. I am also interested in how the effect of these variables may vary according to firm characteristics. This line of research is most salient in my job market paper, which uses original project level investment data to study how interstate relations interact with domestic political institutions in an MNC's home country to shape (1) probability of MNC investment, (2) probability of host country expropriation of MNC assets, and (3) whether MNCs decide to use formal arbitration when faced with expropriation.
Second, what determines the choice of national financial safety measures such as capital controls and reserve accumulation? I have two co-authored papers with Phillip Lipscy (Stanford) examining the effect of the IMF on reserve accumulation. I have also been contributing to an IMF-sponsored project that seeks to code capital controls in 80 countries across time. We plan to use this original data to understand the determinants and consequences of financial liberalization.
Third, how do firms help shape an individual's preferences on trade policies? My paper with Yu-Ming Liou (a graduate student at Georgetown) examines how firm characteristics interact with an individual's position in a firm to shape trade preferences.
I hold a regional specialization in East Asia and use both language skills and regional expertise in Japan and Korea to derive generalizable theoretical implications that can be applied in other developed economy contexts. Detailed descriptions of my current projects can be found below:
(Job Paper) Why Arbitrate?:
The Role of Home State Economic Institution in Investor-State Arbitration
Why do investors from certain countries exhibit a higher tendency to file investor-state arbitrations compared to investors from other countries? Existing studies have not addressed this question due to the inability to identify a full universe of potential arbitration cases. In this paper, I create an original data set that allows for the study of investment, expropriation, and arbitration initiation stages to account for the selection process into investor-state arbitration. I show that a firm's country of origin (home country) plays an important role in that firm's usage of ISDS, as the home country's state-to-state relations and state-business ties both influence the probability of expropriation and potential subsequent arbitration. Investors from countries with strong state-firm ties are less likely to experience expropriation when they invest in host states that share strong common interests with their home state. This is likely a result of the host government's reluctance to make decisions (e.g. expropriation) that would damage its relationship with the home government given potential benefits from future cooperation. Moreover, once expropriation takes place, investors from countries with strong state-business ties are less likely to use ISDS to resolve disputes if home and host states hold strong common interests. The findings of this research imply that MNCs are not stateless entities unrestrained by home characteristics. Moreover, this study suggests that ISDS may not "depoliticize" investment disputes as believed by many.
"The IMF as a Biased Global Insurance Mechanism"
(With Phillip Lipscy) Forthcoming at International Organization
Scholars have debated whether the International Monetary Fund (IMF) generates moral hazard – encouraging irresponsible behavior by reducing the costs of risky lending and policies. However, this has been difficult to test empirically. We argue that the IMF creates a biased global insurance mechanism – distributing moral hazard unevenly across the international system. Using a panel data set covering 1980-2010, we show that IMF members expected to exercise strong influence over the institution's decisions tend to be associated with outcomes indicative of moral hazard: more generous treatment by the IMF, lower reserves, and more frequent currency crises. Countries that lack such influence behave very differently, pursing aggressive self-insurance through reserve accumulation. We support our causal claims by using the synthetic control method to examine Taiwan's expulsion from the IMF in 1980: consistent with our theory, expulsion led to a sharp increase in international reserves.
Where You Work Is Where You Stand: A Firm-Based Theory of Trade Opinion
(With Yu-Ming Liou) Revise & Resubmit at International Organization
What determines public support for trade liberalization? IPE scholars have generally focused on the effects of openness on employment. However, standard distributional theories of trade preferences do not reflect recent developments in trade economics suggesting that the primary distributional impact of openness is felt at the firm, rather than at the skill, sector, or occupation level. To address this theoretical disconnect and drawing on insights from transaction cost economics and the theory of heterogeneous firms, Co-author Yu-Ming Liou and I present a firm-based theory of individual trade preferences. We argue that differences in firm productivity produce variations in firm preferences of economic policy, in turn influencing employee preferences. Using the only available large-scale survey data that combines trade opinion with measures of employer productivity (2008 Japanese General Social Survey), we show that employees of more-globalized firms are significantly more supportive of trade than employees of domestically-oriented firms, regardless of the comparative advantage of their sector of employment. Moreover, we find that this effect is conditioned by employees' relative position within their firms. Those who are more likely to benefit directly from firm success - e.g. permanent employees, headquarters employees, or managers - hold the most pro-trade preferences.
A Liberal Reward?: How Do State Foreign Policy Preferences Condition Investors' Perception of BITs Compliance?
Why have some states withdrawn from bilateral investment treaties (BITs) after being challenged with an investor-state claim while other states in a similar situation have continued to participate? In this paper, I argue that this discrepancy is attributable to the disproportionate accrual of benefits of BITs depending on the host country's systematic foreign policy alignment. When investors believe that a country generally abides by the rules and norms of the liberal international system, they view BITs as credible commitments that states will refrain from expropriation. However, investors are more suspicious when countries who do not typically accept the rules and norms of the liberal international system ratify BITs given that these countries may do so merely as a window dressing, as seen in other issue areas such as human rights. I find strong quantitative evidence for this hypothesis. My results show that BITs increase investment flows only in countries who typically accept liberal proposals in the UN General Assembly. Moreover, pending or settled investor claims lead to reductions in investments only in those countries that typically vote in an illiberal manner. These illiberal countries experience only the negative side of the investment system: dispute claims provide negative information about an investment climate that leads to the perception that the signing of the BIT is an empty signal.
Complements or Substitutes?:
Evaluating the Relationship between Domestic Capital Controls and BITs
(With Dennis Quinn)
Past research shows that laws and treaties liberalizing FDI – i.e. loosening of domestic capital controls and ratification of investment treaties – are only weakly correlated with increases in actual FDI inflows. We argue that this is because domestic capital controls and investment treaties interact in a complex manner to shape firms' FDI decisions. We find that BITs effectively function as a substitute for capital outflows openness in countries with a policy of open capital inflows, thereby leading to greater FDI in such countries. BITs raise the appeal of investing in host countries with heavy restrictions on capital outflows since BITs enhance foreign investors' ability to exit their investments by generally providing repatriation and other guarantees for investor capital return or resale. Some have argued that investors find BITs to be more credible – and thus invest more in a country – when that country already has a policy of open capital outflows. We find no evidence for this argument, as our data show that FDI does not increase upon BIT signing for countries with open capital outflow policies.
The Political Economy of International Reserve Accumulation: Self-Insurance or Mercantilism? (With Phillip Lipscy)
Why do countries accumulate international reserves? The massive accumulation of reserves by many Asian countries in recent years has been associated with global imbalances such as the US current account deficit and perverse capital flows from developing to developed countries. However, the reasons for this reserve accumulation remain contentious. In this paper, we evaluate two leading hypotheses about Asian reserve accumulation. First, reserve accumulation may be a consequence of Asian countries pursuing export-led development policies that deliberately undervalue their currencies. Second, countries underrepresented in the IMF may pursue precautionary reserve accumulation as a means of self-insurance. Using the synthetic control method, we examine whether reserve accumulation accelerated for countries when: 1. they transitioned to export oriented industrialization, and 2. when they experienced political or economic events that affected their relationship with the IMF. The results call into question the mercantilist account and suggest reserve accumulation is primarily motivated by precautionary concerns.
Do BITs Attract Foreign Investment?: Measuring FDI as Firm Investment Decisions
While many studies have evaluated the effect of BITs on FDI, they have relied on measures aggregated to the country-year level, This has made it impossible to study FDI at the firm level, but perhaps more importantly, has produced inferential challenges even for testing of structural theories with implications at the country level. In this paper, we employ a novel dataset of Korean firms' foreign investments (measured at the level of affiliate-parent-country-year) to investigate a persistent question in the IPE literature on FDI: do BITs increase bilateral investment levels? In so doing, we are able to overcome many of the inferential challenges due to omitted variable bias that have dogged the literature on FDI as well as to identify heterogeneous treatment effects on firm investment choices according to, for example, productivity. We present some preliminary evidence that consistent with the expectations of the theory of heterogeneous firms, the positive effect of BITs on investment is primarily felt among more-productive firms..
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haillienlee@gmail.com


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