A homemade bomb explodes in the middle of a raging college party. Lives are ended at the height of discovering just who they really are. Three days before the bomb goes off, we meet some of the key students on this once serene college campus that's beginning to run amok in political divisions. There is Tristan, with his tattoos and raging hormones and a bullhorn to his lips shouting his radical politics and conspiracy theories to the crowds on the Campus Commons. There is Luke, who is deeply aware of the pain his fellow college students' sins cause our One True God, and who is finding himself more and more unable to stand idly by and bear it. There is Ryan, whose anger is growing out of control as he tries to wake his fellow ROTC students up to prepare for the war he believes the new president will lead us into soon. Will one of them do it? Will Kristi find a way to become the "strong woman" she wants to be while also holding onto her Christian beliefs and standing up to her boyfriend Luke's growing extremes? Will Kyle, Tristan's Persian boyfriend, become a suspect because of his skin? Is Jasmine, the Senator's daughter, actually an intended target of the bomb? Will the university's president, Madeline Voorhees, have to abandon some of her liberal beliefs in the interest of safety? PATRIOTS is a series of novels that will take us on the journey of discovering who committed this act of domestic terror and why; experiencing campus on lock-down by the FBI and other authorities as they try to stop the culprit or culprits from attacking again; and feeling the struggles of students who need to fight back against the Police State their campus becomes. The first chapter drops July 4th. Get ready.


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Population 300,000 of city and nature in harmony charming town.
A man in this town founded a unit called "friend100".
Then time of 20 years flows.
You saw a poster to recruit members of the "Friends 100" in the bulletin board of this city.
You've decided to enlist in order to satisfy the bloated curiosity.
Players will join the "Friend 100" and make friends.
The goal of the unit is to make 100 friends.
◆Let's explore the town and find the target.
The first step in making friends is to find targets to become friends.
Let's explore various areas such as high school, Amore Beach, city of night, meetup of game and find the target.
You can also acquire coins necessary for power up in the exploration.
◆"Friendship battle" is starting when you find the target.
Battle can be enjoyed with simple operation.
Let's shoot friendship balls towards the target with the thought of wanting to be friends.
If you win, you get a friend.
◆Let's make many targets friends and complete "Friend info note".
Many targets such as high school student, businessman, police officer, old man, robot etc appear.
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◆Let's power up at the shop.
Power up products that can proceed favorably for battle and exploration are sold at the shop.
Power up products can be purchased with coins earned by exploration.
Activity points can be obtained according to the number of friends and battle evaluation.
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◆Let's challenge the ranking at activity points.
You can challenge the ranking by logging in to the Game Center.
The characters, groups, regions, names, etc. that appear are fictitious and are not related to real ones.


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The solid-state drive market isn't quite as intense as some others, but vendors have been doing well to eke as much performance out of their drives as possible, and also continue bringing high-end performance to more palatable price-points. With its newest SSD, Samsung proves that it's serious about keeping on top, and that drive iterations are the name of the game.
Last year, Samsung launched the top-end 970 PRO, and 970 EVO – the latter of which sacrifices a wee bit of write performance, but is attractive to those trying to save some money and don't need the "ultimate" offering. Today, Samsung has taken the already high-performing 970 EVO and upgraded to a "Plus" model – a replacement, not an addition.
Samsung has kindly provided a specifications table featuring both the 970 EVO and new 970 EVO Plus to fill us in on what's changed. Ultimately, what's changed is "not much", but there are some notable moves, such as a transition from 64- to 96-layer V-NAND. That move retains the peak performance of 3.5GB/s read, but increases the 2.5GB/s write of the EVO to 3.3GB/s on the EVO Plus.
Also notable is that the random QD32 IOPS performance has increased between the two drives, with a 24% boost to 620,000 IOPS seen on the read side, and a 16% increase to 560,000 IOPS for writes. Most other features remain in tact between the two models, including DRAM configurations, encryption options, total bytes written, and also the warranty – which is still five years.
Samsung hasn't revealed pricing for the entire lineup, but did say the bottom 250GB model would kick things off at $89.99. The company also notes that if you want the 2TB model, you'll have to wait until April.


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After serving several years with the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, I realized I needed to follow my calling of caring for those who are grieving from a loss.. As my wife, Kristin, and I searched for ways to pursue this calling, we decided to build a funeral service of our own in hopes of developing our ministry in a business that genuinely cares for the for the families we are serving. We want to develop a business that may carry a reputation, but more importantly displays true character. As the famed UCLA basketball coach, John Wooden, once said, "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." Our true desire is not only to carry a reputation of a funeral service provider that cares for the families we serve, but to also be funeral professionals that display sincere caring and compassionate character in the business world, on downtown streets, or an afternoon walk in the park.
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As the son of a funeral director, I grew up in a business where people are your primary concern. I learned a lot about people and that each person and family experiences losing a loved one differently. As Kristin and I considered our vision for our funeral home we wanted to make each family's service a tribute to the life of their loved one and not just a "cookie-cutter" service. WE designed our facility with the family's comfort in mind: soothing colors and comfortable furnishings; spaces to relax in such as the family reception center, coffee lounge near the staterooms and plenty of natural light. Our multi-purpose chapel can accommodate a traditional service, a concert, a fully catered banquet, or any type of gathering the family envisions. Although I believe our facilities are first class, a building is not what determines our success or who we are. Our overall success in meeting our goals hinges on the simple concept of taking care of people and seeing to it that their every need is not only met, but surpassed as we celebrate the life their loved one lived. As I have heard it said, "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." After all, we celebrate more than just a day in a lifetime, we celebrate a lifetime in a single day.
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Titans has done nothing but prove that the DC is upping the ante for their streaming service shows. Another big one on their slate is none other than a show based around the popular villain, Swamp Thing.
Jordan Peele dropped jaws when his directorial debut, Get Out, hit theaters last year. Since then, fans were anxious to see what he would do next behind the camera. Earlier this year it was announced that he would be directing Us, and would have Winston Duke and Lupita Nyong'o.
It's a good day for comic book lovers. After the chaos of a certain trailer dropping, some may have thought that it'd be quiet the rest of the day regarding CBM news. Well, now we've got news on a new DC movie in the works, based around Plastic Man!
Since his time on Teen Wolf, Dylan O'Brien has shown us that he plans on having a future in the industry, especially with his lead role in the Mazerunner series, and American Assassin alongside Michael Keaton. Well, now he's taking an even bigger leap!
Wes Anderson is the unsung hero of indie films, and this new announcement might just push him farther into the hearts of his fans. Anderson is known for his stacked ensembles, and today he adds to that legend.


Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML; also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia) is an uncommon cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States, with an estimated 8,430 new cases and 1,090 deaths anticipated in 2018 (ACS 2018; NCI 2012).
CML is characterized by the presence of the Philadelphia chromosome, a translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 in humans, resulting in a fusion between the 5' end of the BCR gene and the 3' end of the ABL1 gene. The Philadelphia chromosome was discovered in 1960, but the molecular genetic features were not understood until more recently. In the 1980s it was discovered that the Philadephia chromosome resulted in the BCR-ABL1 fusion gene (Koretzky 2007).
Prior to the approval of imatinib in 2001, CML was treated using interferon-alpha or bone marrow transplant. Since then, imatinib and several additional ABL1 kinase inhibitors have become the most common treatments for CML.
Although the Philadelphia chromosome may be found in other types of leukemias, presence of a BCR-ABL1 fusion gene is an absolute diagnostic criterion for CML, so it is present in all cases. Point mutations in ABL1 can confer resistance to ABL1 kinase inhibitors used to treat CML.
Suggested Citation: Shaver, A., M. Jagasia. 2018. Molecular Profiling of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. My Cancer Genome https://www.mycancergenome.org/content/disease/chronic-myeloid-leukemia/ (Updated March 16).


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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), in the periodical Novy Mir.
After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".
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"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power – he's free again."
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
"The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."
"The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever."
"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."


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2018 Poised to Shatter Record for Female US Senators Seeking Reelection
By Dr. Eric Ostermeier January 8, 2017
Up to 11 women could run for reelection to the chamber in two years; the chamber's all-time record is just six
Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren's announcement last week that she will run for a second term in 2018 adds to the growing number of female U.S. Senators who have committed or are expected to run for reelection in two years.
After the 2016 cycle, which saw the election of four new women to the U.S. Senate (Democrats Kamala Harris of California, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada, and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire), female legislators in the chamber reached an all-time high of 21 members in the 115th Congress.
Eleven of these women are up for reelection in 2018 and indications are that most will try to retain their seat.
Prior to Warren's decision, Democrats Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York all stated late last year that they would run again. Each of these will be seeking a third term.
As for the other seven women facing reelection, first-term North Dakota Democrat Heidi Heitkamp (age 61) passed on a chance to run for her state's open gubernatorial seat in 2016 so is expected to be on the ballot in 2018 in what will be one of many GOP targets.
Three women in their first term (Democrat Mazie Hirono of Hawaii (69), Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska (65), and Democrat Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin (54)) are not expected to retire nor is three-term Democrat Maria Cantwell of Washington (58).
That makes nine female incumbents committed or likely to run in 2018 – three more than in any other cycle in U.S. history.
[Democrats Dianne Feinstein of California (83) and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan (66) have also not yet announced their 2018 plans. Feinstein's long-time fellow delegation member Barbara Boxer retired last cycle at the age of 76].
The largest number of female U.S. Senators to run for reelection in any cycle to date is six – a mark reached three times:
2006: Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
2010: Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Kirsten Gilibrand (D-NY), Patty Murray (D-WA)
2012: Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Amy Klobuchar (DFL-MN), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Kirsten Gilibrand (D-NY), Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Seventeen of these 18 women won their reelection bids (all but Lincoln).
Five female members ran for reelection in 2004 with four doing so in 1998 and 2014.
Overall, female U.S. Senators have won reelection at a slightly lower rate than their male counterparts over the last quarter-century.
Over the last 14 election cycles since 1990 – in which at least one female incumbent has sought reelection – women have won reelection at a rate of 83.3 percent (40 wins against eight losses).
Men have won reelection to the chamber 88.1 percent of the time during this span with 295 wins against 40 losses.
The eight female incumbents who lost their seats since 1990 are:
1996: Appointed Republican Sheila Frahm of Kansas (lost primary to Sam Brownback)
1998: One-term Democrat Carol Mosely Braun of Illinois (lost general to Peter Fitzgerald)
2002: Appionted Democrat Jean Carnahan of Missouri (lost special to Jim Talent)
2008: One-term Republican Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina (lost general to Kay Hagan)
2010: Two-term Democrat Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas (lost to John Boozman)
2014: One-term Democrat Kay Hagan of North Carolina (lost to Thom Tillis)
2014: Three-term Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana (lost to Bill Cassidy)
2016: One-term Republican Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire (lost to Maggie Hassan)
The losses by Hagan and Landrieu in 2014 were the first time in the chamber's history that two female U.S. Senators lost reelection bids.
Prior to 1990, women in the U.S. Senate tallied a record of six wins against four losses dating back to the first such run by an incumbent in 1932: Democrat Hattie Caraway of Arkansas.
Caraway won reelection that cycle and in 1938 but lost her party's nomination to William Fulbright in 1944.
Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith was reelected in 1954, 1960, and 1966 before losing her bid for a fifth term to William Hathaway in 1972.
Six years later, appointed Alabama Democrat Maryon Allen lost her party's nomination to Donald Stewart.
In the 1980s, Republican Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas won her reelection bid (1984) while fellow GOPer Paula Hawkins of Florida was defeated by Bob Graham (1986).
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2 Comments on "2018 Poised to Shatter Record for Female US Senators Seeking Reelection"
nikoli orr | January 8, 2017 at 9:48 pm | Reply
1. Gillibrand shall stand for a) her FOURTH term overall (partial term, appointed; partial term, elected; full 6-year term; not unlike Senator Murkowski of AK); or b) her SECOND full term.
2. Sort of a shame that Klobuchar has -at least for now- decided against a bid for the state chief executive post – traditionally the most common path to 1600 PA Avenue (2024? 2028?).
3. Fischer would be a slam-dunk for another term with "Her" at the White House (even with elpresidentetrump there come 11 of '18, the senior NE senator would rate as at least a slight favourite).
Eric Ostermeier | January 9, 2017 at 8:14 am | Reply
RE Gillibrand: Under no scenario can she be said to be standing for her 4th term. Yes, of course, she is running for her 2nd full term. But the legislative body does not make a distinction between the number of terms someone has served when they win a special election after being appointed to the same unexpired term. She is a second-term Senator.


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Meet Our HHAA Board
Steve Platt
President, Interim Secretary
Steve has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and Anthropology from the University of Vermont and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Montana. He spent 25 years as the archaeologist for Montana Department of Transportation. Steve has been involved in Montana conservation since the late 1980s and has been a member of HHAA since its inception. He and his wife Alicia enthusiastically enjoy the many public land outdoor opportunities that Montana has to offer.
Gary Ingman
Vice President, Treasurer
Gary Ingman is a retired hydrologist/water resources scientist with 25 years experience with Montana natural resource agencies and 17 years of work in the private sector. He was bureau chief with Montana DEQ responsible for statewide water and air quality monitoring, assessment and reporting, and was the water resources group leader for a regional science and engineering company. Gary is a third generation Helenan who has a passion for our local wildlands. He is a founding board member of HHAA.
Rod Bullis
Rod Bullis is a life-long hunter conservationist. As a professional Forester in Montana for 50 years, Rod has diligently fought for habitat enhancement and fair chase hunting. Now in his 70's, he believes "It's all about giving back to wildlife and the land that has given so much to me."
Gayle Joslin
Gayleis a Helena native, avid hunter, and public lands advocate. She is a founding board member of Helena Hunters and Anglers Association and Orion the Hunters Institute. Gayle retired after 32 years as a wildlife biologist for the State of Montana where she worked on projects ranging from trapping and tracking grizzly bears to mountain goat response to energy development and hard rock mining. In addition, through the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society, she organized the compilation of Effects of Recreation on Rocky Mountain Wildlife – A Review for Montana. For that she and her associates received the Wildlife Management Institute's Touchstone Award "recognizing persons in natural resource management whose ingenuity and initiative have resulted in a program or product that has notably advanced sound resource management and conservation in North America." The Cinnabar Foundation Sargent Stewardship Award was presented to her for "outstanding environmental achievement" and the Montana Wildlife Federation awarded Gayle the Fred Carver Sportsman of the Year Award.
Charlie McCarthy
Charlie is a lifetime Montana resident. Born and raised in Anaconda. He moved to the Helena area in 1970. While out in God's country enjoying its fish and wildlife he is constantly reminded to thank his Creator. He retired from 35 years with the State in 1999 and then served for 13 years as an advocate for children and adults with mental illnesses at Montana's private and state-run treatment programs. Charlie encourages all hunters and fishers to "give back" by joining groups and serving on their various Boards of Directors. He says, "This service will fill your life with wonderful people and lifelong friends."
Stephen McEvoy
Steve grew up south of Helena, attended Helena High School, and in 1992 graduated from Montana State University with an Earth Sciences undergraduate degree. He worked various environmental consulting positions in Montana, before taking work in Alaska prospecting for minerals while employed with WGM Inc. In 1997 he returned to MSU to study engineering, and graduated fall 2000 with an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. After working for the DNRC Water Resource Office in Lewistown, he has worked as a civil engineer in Helena since 2005.
He believes the opportunity to experience Montana's wildlands by current and future generations must be ensured through conservation and stewardship
Bill Orsello
Bill has been a member of Helena Hunters and Anglers since its inception and has represented HHAA and central Montana on the Montana Fish and Wildlife Conservation Trust since it was created in 1998. Bill preferred his bio to simply state, "Rode hard and put away wet."
Doug Powell
Passion is protecting public wildlands for future generations to enjoy. Especially appreciating what our past conservationist leaders have done to hang on to the landscape we now enjoy for hunting and fishing.
With a background as a wildlife researcher and fire/wildlife pilot for both the state of Montana and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Doug has worked with some of the great conservationists across the country, who have preserved our landscapes and the wildlife habitats they hold. Throughout the years, he has had the opportunity to listen, and discuss different points of view with highly-experienced wildlife biologists and fire aviation air operation specialists on the effects of management decisions upon our public wildlands.
Education; BA in Environmental Studies/Biology from Carroll College 2010
Past titles; Wildlife Researcher, District Manager for National Wildlife Refuges in Central Montana, Regional Aviation Manager for US Fish and Wildlife Service. Chair for the Rocky Mountain Coordination Center Aviation Committee. Currently aircraft pilot for Montana DNRC Fire Aviation Unit.
Jim Crichton
Jim was born and raised in Deer Lodge Montana, where he took up elk hunting at an early age. He graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in zoology/pre-med. He was accepted into the zoology graduate program and spent the summer after graduation at the Lubrecht Forest in a project to characterize the small mammal population. He then attended medical school and graduate training before starting medical practice in Helena from which he retired a few years ago.
Jim has always had an interest in habitat and wildlife management and served for dozen years on the Elkhorn Working Group until 2018.


With all the decorations, television ads, and carols on the radio, it's not hard to tell that the holidays are upon us. Before you know it, we will all be scouring the malls, trying to come up with the perfect gift idea, or at least cross another thing off of our lists.
You could also pass on a tradition, like teaching someone you love about baking, sewing, knitting, or scrap-booking. You can pass on a skill and perhaps learn about a mutual hobby at the same time.
Another idea would be to adopt a family for the holidays, and rather than buying gifts for each other, purchase things that your adoptive family needs. You could also donate to a charity in the name of someone special on your gift list.
There are many creative and imaginative gifts that don't require giving stuff. You can have fun with your loved ones without creating more clutter in your home.
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a decanter.com promotion The world's top wine tourism experiences were honoured at a gala dinner on November 13 at Vergelegen Winery in the South African Cape, when the Great Wine Capitals announced the winners of its annual Best Of Wine Tourism Awards for 2009.
The Best Of Wine Tourism awards, which this year saw a record 385 entrants from four continents, is organised with the support of wine industry stakeholders in each of its member cities of Cape Town (South Africa), Bilbao-Rioja (Spain), Bordeaux (France), Florence (Italy), Mainz (Germany), Mendoza (Argentina), Porto (Portugal) and San Francisco-Napa Valley (United States).
Now in its sixth successful year, the international renown of the competition reflects the growing stature of wine tourism, as travellers seek niche, tailored vacations instead of the traditional package trips to the beach.
Fundación Dinastía Vivanco of Briones, La Rioja, for its Museum of the Culture of Wine, an extensive wine documentation centre that has catalogued wines and their history and culture around the world from as far back as the 15th century.
Château de Carbonneau, on the slopes of Pessac sur Dordogne in Bordeaux, France, for its stylish five-bedroom chateau accommodation, built in the 19th century and surrounded by 15 hectares of vineyards.
Villa Petriolo in the Tuscan hills, selected for its support of local artists, whose works are exhibited at the winery.
The wine-growers of the Rheinhessen in Mainz, Germany, for their collective offerings of innovative wine tourism experiences.
Bodega Salentein in Mendoza for its cultural centre Killka that combines murals, sculpture and art and includes an 80-seat restaurant. The famous winery is housed in an imposing stone building in the shape of a cross, and has been dubbed the "Cathedral of Wine".
Portugal's Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, an estate owned by cork producers Amorim, for its Wine House. Dating back to 1764, the estate runs along the banks of the Douro River near the waterside villages of Ferrão and Pinhão.
Domaine Chandon for its Etoile restaurant, considered the foremost fine dining winery-based restaurant in California's Napa Valley.
Mont Rochelle Hotel & Mountain Vineyards in Franschhoek, Cape Town, received its 2008 local award on this occasion; the property won in both the restaurant and accommodation category.


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Setting up Versus to meet your scorekeeping needs
2. Add Players
Add New Player screen
For any game or sport that you are going to score or track using Versus, you will need to add details of the people that you play with. Once you have added a player they can then be used in unlimited Versus (i.e. you only have to add a player once).
Adding details of players allows for a full record of results to be built up for everyone that is involved in the games that you play.
This is simply the First and Last name of the player. This should be the real name of the player. You do not need to use this name as the display name within the app (see below) but you will likely find having the person's proper name included useful if / when you export the data from Versus.
Versus allows you to use an alternative name in the app as your 'display name'. Adding a Nick Name gives you more options in terms of this.
Based on the First Name, the Last Name and the Nick Name entered, Versus automatically provides a number of suggested display names.
Note: It is the display name that is selected here that is used throughout the app.
Player Image
For each player you have the option of using an image to represent them. This can either be an image that you take with the camera from within the app or it can be an image you select from your camera roll.
Player Colour
In addition to an image, you can select a colour to represent each player. Using different colours for each player really helps distinguish between players when using the app. Anywhere where the player's name appears will take on the colour selected here.
Alternative Option: Teams
There is no built in way to add teams (at least not yet) but there are various ways that you can set up a 'player' to act as a team. For example, you could add your name as normal to the First and Last name fields (as this would allow you to link your team and individual records together after export) and then add the team name to the Nick Name field - either the actual name of your Team or simply a generic 'My Team' that you could use in multiple Versus. You would then select the Nick Name (I.e the team Name) to be used as the Display Name.
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Florida's fraudulent pool builders
Florida is cracking down on fraudulent swimming pool contractors. This October, the state's Attorney General's Office reported that several unrelated pool building companies were under investigation for accepting payment for new pool construction but failing to deliver.
On October 28, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the arrest of a Florida swimming pool contractor who was charged with racketeering after several homeowners said he took money to build backyard pools but didn't finish the job.
Ricardo Villarroel, owner of Villa Pavers and Pools, operating out of Palm Springs, near Miami, is accused of defrauding nearly 100 homeowners across the state to the tune of $1 million.
Two salepersons, Michael Borego Fernandez and Laura Ballester Alpizar, were also arrested in connection with the investigation.
General Contractor Luis Alvarez Daboin of Conquer Pools is accused of aiding and abetting Villarroel, who is not licensed. Daboin allegedly sold Villarroel the use of his license to present a contractor's license to homeowners and obtain building permits.
Ricardo Villarroel Duerto, Michael Borrego Fernandez, Laura Ballester Alpizar, and Luis Alvarez Daboin are charged with racketeering, scheme to defraud, and grand theft. If convicted, the defendants could face up to 30 years in prison.
Additional arrests related to Villa Pavers and Pools are expected, according to investigators.
The case is being prosecuted by the Florida Attorney General's Office of Statewide Prosecution.
A statement from the Attorney General's office said that the investigation of Villarroel began when their Division of Investigative & Forensic Services received a complaint that the company "collected 80% of the contracted price for the installation of a pool and never completed the job. The investigation revealed that the alleged business model for Villa Pavers and Pools aimed to collect 40% of the initial contracted price to install a pool, with no intent of doing the job, and/or leaving an unusable backyard with a giant hole."
"These defendants intentionally ripped off Florida families trying to obtain pools and better their homes — causing more than a million dollars in fraud," said Attorney General Ashley Moody in the statement.
Some homeowners said they paid up to $40,000 to be left with a hole in their yards.
Diana Decker, of Westlake, said she signed a contract with Villarroel for $35,000 in May 2020, but by the end of the year, the pool was only partially built, and then work stopped.
"It makes you not want to trust anyone anymore," Decker said. "We saved for this; it was a dream. All we wanted to do was get this done, and that was it. For him to take the money and just walk away, it's a disgrace."
The Florida Attorney General's office is currently investigating at least two other pool contractor companies for similar allegedly fraudulent business practices.
In an October 6 statement, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced the arrests of pool contractors Brian and Chrystal Washburn, of Amore' Pools Inc., after uncovering a scheme to defraud homeowners by taking large deposits to build inground residential swimming pools but never completing the projects.
FDLE agents say the Amore' Pools scheme resulted in losses of more than $2 million from hundreds of victims. Investigators say that upon receiving deposit checks from homeowners, the Washburns used a third-party check
Unfinished pools by Olympus Pools.
Image credit: Wfla.com. cashing store to convert the checks into cash in an attempt to conceal the illicit funds.
The investigation began in July, and investigators say the couple provided numerous fraudulent documents and at least one forged signature in their credentialing application packet in 2017.
Using this fraudulent information, Amore' Pools became a registered pool/ spa contractor.
Brian and Chrystal Washburn are charged with false information on an application for contractor's license, working as an unlicensed contractor, organized scheme to defraud, identity theft, money laundering, concealing information to avoid workers compensation premiums, and insurance application fraud.
And on October 13, Attorney General Ashley Moody's office announced it is taking legal action against Olympus Pools, Inc. and owner James I. Staten, Jr. for allegedly accepting payments from hundreds of consumers in exchange for contracted pool services but then failing to perform the services as promised—sometimes leaving consumers with giant holes on their property.
The civil action seeks to permanently ban the defendants from engaging in certain activities related to the pool construction business.
The action also aims to require Olympus and its owners to provide restitution or reimbursement to affected consumers.
In addition, the defendants could be liable for more than $2 million in civil penalties and enhanced civil penalties for violating the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
In addition to the civil action, Attorney General Moody's Office of Statewide Prosecution is assisting local law enforcement with a criminal investigation of Olympus Pools.
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Q: Python Kivy - App that open url in a native web browser I try to make a simple app that open a web page inside Kivy after clicking a button placed on a "Screen One".
I used this topic (Python - Showing a web browser/iframe right into the app) as reference but I didn't understand how to use the code provided by Michael...
So I tried this... and when I launch the apk (build with Buildozer) it didn't work :')
import kivy
kivy.require('1.9.2')

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen

# MICHAEL'S CODE
from kivy.utils import platform
from kivy.uix.widget import Widget
from kivy.clock import Clock
from jnius import autoclass
from android.runnable import run_on_ui_thread

WebView = autoclass('android.webkit.WebView')
WebViewClient = autoclass('android.webkit.WebViewClient')
activity = autoclass('org.renpy.android.PythonActivity').mActivity

class Wv(Widget):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(Wv, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        Clock.schedule_once(self.create_webview, 0)

    @run_on_ui_thread
    def create_webview(self, *args):
        webview = WebView(activity)
        webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(True)
        wvc = WebViewClient();
        webview.setWebViewClient(wvc);
        activity.setContentView(webview)
        webview.loadUrl('http://www.google.com/')
# END OF MICHAEL'S CODE

Builder.load_string('''

<ScreenOne>:
    BoxLayout:
        Label:
            text: "SCREEN 1"
        Button:
            text: "GO GO GO TO GOOGLE !"
            on_press: root.open_browser()

<ScreenTwo>:
    BoxLayout:
        Label:
            text: "SCREEN 2"
        Button:
            text: "GO GO GO TO SCREEN 1"
            on_press:
                root.manager.transition.direction = "right"
                root.manager.transition.duration = 1
                root.manager.current = "screen_one"

''')

class ScreenOne(Screen):
    def open_browser(self):
        return Wv()

class ScreenTwo(Screen):
    pass

screen_manager = ScreenManager()

screen_manager.add_widget(ScreenOne(name="screen_one"))
screen_manager.add_widget(ScreenTwo(name="screen_two"))

class BrowserApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return screen_manager

app = BrowserApp()
app.run()

The app don't crash but just close when I start it.
What I'm doing wrong ? I'm sure that I don't use it the right way...
Log from adb logcat:

06-13 12:54:47.559  7429  7510 I python  :  ImportError: No module named android
06-13 12:54:47.579  7429  7510 I python  : Python for android ended.

A: From the log you posted in the comments I extracted the two important lines:
06-13 12:54:47.559 7429 7510 I python : ImportError: No module named android
06-13 12:54:47.579 7429 7510 I python : Python for android ended.

This basically means that the copied code:
from android.runnable import run_on_ui_thread

won't work because it doesn't detect the android module. The module has a separate recipe, therefore you will need to add it to the requirements, so that it compiles the Cython code and adds it to your app, otherwise the import will always fail.
Basically you always want to search for 3-4 keywords when looking into such a messy logcat → "python", "Traceback", "Python for android", "kivy". There's a filter in buildozer for that if you use it:
android.logcat_filters = *:S python:D

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"The folder path contains invalid character" error has been present on all versions of Windows, and Windows 10 is no exception. This error usually appears usually when you try to install or uninstall a certain software, so let's see how to fix this error.
Press Windows Key + R to open Run window. Type %appdata% and press Enter or click OK.
Navigate to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp. You might have to go one folder "up" in order to access the Temp folder.
Delete everything from Temp folder and try installing the software again.
Press Windows Key + S and type Computer Management. Choose Computer Management from the list of results.
Click Disk Management in the left pane. List of your drives should appear in the right pane.
Find your CD / DVD drive, right click it and choose Change Drive Letters.
Select the drive and click Remove. Make sure to remember the DVD drive letter, you'll need it later.
If you have multiple CD / DVD drives, repeat Steps 3 and 4 for all of them.
When your computer restarts, go to Computer Management again.
Click Disk Management, find your CD / DVD drive.
Right click and choose Change Drive Letters. Click Add.
Now assign the same letter to your DVD drive that you removed in Step 4.
Click OK to save the changes. If you have more DVD drives, you'll have to repeat these steps for all of them.
Open Registry Editor. You can open Registry Editor by pressing Windows Key + R and typing regedit in the Run window. Click OK or press Enter to start Registry Editor.
Find Apple Inc. and Apple Computers Inc., right click them and choose Delete.
Close Registry Editor, and try installing iTunes again.
Open Registry Editor as administrator. To do that, type regedit in the Search bar, right click regedit from the list of results and choose Run as administrator.
Right click Components and choose Permissions from the menu.
From Group or user names select Users and under Permissions for Users select Full Control.
Close Registry Editor and try reinstalling iTunes again.
Open Command Prompt. You can open it by pressing Windows Key + X and choosing Command Prompt from the menu.
Remember to replace PathToMSIFile with the location of your Steam setup file and DirectoryToExtractTo with the location where you wish to extract this .msi file.
Run that command. After the .msi file has been extracted, go to its extract location and run Steam.exe.
When installing Steam, "The folder path contains invalid character" error can be caused by Valve registry keys, so let's try to delete them in order to fix this problem.
Press Control + F and type Valve into the input field.
When Valve key is found, right click it and press Delete.
Press F3 to repeat the search. If you find more Valve keys, make sure that you delete them all.
Close Registry Editor and try to install Steam again.
If you're getting "The folder path contains invalid character" while installing or uninstalling certain software, you might want to try installing it as a different user. To do that, first you need to create a new user on your computer. After you've created a new user account, switch to it and try to install the software again.
Open Registry Editor. When Registry Editor opens, press Ctrl + F.
Now you need to enter the name of the location, for example, if "The folder path contains invalid character" error reports an invalid character in Program Files, type Program Files in the Search field.
Press Find, and if the problematic character is found, remove it.
Press F3 to find the next occurrence of the character. Repeat this step until you've removed all the problematic characters.
After all invalid characters have been removed, close Registry Editor.
We have to warn you that in order to complete this solution, you need to know what is the character that is causing this error. If you remove a wrong character, or you don't know what you're doing, you might cause damage to your registry. Before you attempt this step, make sure that you create backup of your registry on your computer.
Users have reported that tools such as Revo Uninstaller Pro might help you in this case. These tools remove all traces of software from the registry, so if you're having "The folder path contains invalid character" problem while installing or uninstalling certain software, you might want to try one of these tools.
You should see many subkeys. You need to navigate through all of them and delete the ones that have League of Legends references. To delete a key, simply right click it and choose Delete from the menu.
We have to warn you that by deleting these keys you may cause some damage to registry if you delete the wrong keys. In worst case scenario, some programs might stop working if you delete their registry keys by accident, so be careful if you decide to take this step. To avoid any unnecessary damage, you can create backup of your registry before you delete those keys.
Often "The folder path contains invalid character" error occurs during the installation of different software, and users have reported this error while trying to install messaging software on their computers. To fix "The folder path contains invalid character" error make sure that you start installation from administrator account.
Users have reported that they have run installations as administrators (by choosing Run as Administrator option) from their account, but installation was interrupted by "The folder path contains invalid character" error. To fix this issue, it's advised that you switch to administrator account and try to run the setup again. Users report that this method has been successful, so it won't hurt that you try it.
"The folder path contains invalid character" error is mostly related to your registry, and as you can see, it can make installation of new software a lot harder. We did our best to cover most of these issues, and we hope that our solutions were helpful to you.


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Mobil Delvac
7/17/12 11:06 am EDT
Group 1 Automotive Selects ExxonMobil as Preferred Supplier of Engine Oil Products
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties Company, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation has been selected as the preferred supplier of engine oil products for Group 1 Automotive, Inc., a Fortune 500 auto retailer. As a result, Group 1 dealers in the United States will recommend Mobil-branded engine oil products as the preferred lubricant for dealer-based vehicle service, OEM Bulk Oil Programsmore...
6/14/12 9:19 am EDT
ExxonMobil Partners With Massachusetts State Police
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation, announced today a six-year partnership with the Massachusetts State Police to become the sole lubricant provider for the entire 2,500-vehicle fleet. Since March 1, 2012, all Massachusetts State Police vehicles have been using Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy. The Massachusetts State Police's decision to establish the new fleetmore...
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Learn to race from Grand Prix driver Lewis Hamilton and NASCAR's Tony Stewart in Mobil 1 Racing Academy
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2012 motorsports season is off to a thrilling start and the Mobil 1TM team is offering fans across the world the chance to join in on the action with its new online 3D game: Mobil 1 Racing™ Academy. Players have the unique opportunity to follow in the footsteps of 2008 Formula 1™ World Champion Lewis Hamilton and three-time NASCAR® champion, Tony Stewart, as they progress from grassroots series to themore...
Mobil Super Baseball Tour Goes the Distance for ExxonMobil
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties Company, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation, is offering baseball fans exciting ways to learn about Mobil Super™ premium-quality motor oil products while enjoying America's favorite pastime. The 2012 Mobil Super Minor League Baseball Tour is traveling the country this spring and summer, hitting 79 games in 20 states over more than five months. Anchored bymore...
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Mobil Delvac to Sponsor the National Tractor Pullers Association
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Lubricants & Petroleum Specialties Company, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM), today announced that the team behind Mobil Delvac heavy-duty diesel engine oils will sponsor the National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA), America's most competitive truck and tractor pulling circuit, for the 2012 season. The partnership gives Mobil Delvac a unique brand presence at more than 80 NTPA Grand andmore...
3/2/12 6:04 pm EST
"Mobil 1 The Grid" Races into a Fourth Season
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--"Mobil 1 The Grid," a weekly 30-minute television series devoted to global motorsports, returns for a fourth season in the United States on SPEED at 10:30 p.m. ET on Friday, March 9. The popular series will continue to air worldwide and will be broadcasted in 25 languages. Local air times and dates for "Mobil 1 The Grid" episodes can be accessed by fans around the world by visiting grid1.tv/watch-grid1-on-tvmore...
Mobil 1 and O'Reilly Auto Parts Team Up to Offer NASCAR® Fans a Trip to Champions Week in Las Vegas
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties Company, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation, announced that Mobil 1 and O'Reilly Auto Parts will be giving a NASCAR® fan a once-in-a-lifetime trip to join the year's top drivers in Las Vegas for the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champions Week™. The lucky grand prize winner will receive a trip for two to this year's NASCAR Sprint Cup Seriesmore...
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Decker Development Park 2016 Debut
Decker Development Park: 2016 debut
A few years ago, Fort Dodge officials and local economic development leaders were facing a dilemma.
They were getting more and more inquiries from industrial companies interested in coming to Fort Dodge, but there was almost no place where those companies could build.
The solution was found in 195 acres on the east side of town that became the Decker Development Park, also known as the Crosstown Connector Industrial Park.
Officials have said the park could someday be the site of 800 jobs and $63 million worth of new tax value.
"We need this kind of economic development opportunity," Mayor Matt Bemrich said.
Plans for the park were announced in January 2014. By the end of last year, street extensions and other needed infrastructure were completed.
In December, a ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the debut of the site.
The first occupant of the new park may be MidAmerican Energy, which plans to move its service center from South 22nd Street.
"We are planning to relocate our service center this year to the new business park," said Ashton Hockman, a spokeswoman for the utility company. "We are working closely with the city to finalize plans for the new facility."
The industrial park is located north of the Decker Truck Line Inc. campus at 4000 Fifth Ave. S. The property is owned by Decker Investments Inc., of Fort Dodge.
Greater FD Growth Alliance: Growing the area
BILL SHEA The Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance exists to pursue economic development and quality of life efforts to improve the entire region. Dennis Plautz, the alliance's chief executive officer, said it was created in 2011 to "marry up" the twin causes of economic development and quality of life. During 2016, it ha...Continue Reading
AML Riverside exceeds jobs goal
BILL SHEA The local community's global presence in the animal pharmaceutical market grew in early 2016 with the arrival of a new company. AML Riverside LLC, a part of New Zealand based Argenta, took over the site commonly called the Riverside plant in January 2016. The company committed itself to creating 30 job...Continue Reading
Downtown Fort Dodge Renaissance
TERRENCE DWYER Fort Dodge's downtown business district was once the heart of commerce in the community. After decades in the doldrums, Central Avenue and nearby venues are experiencing a significant renaissance. This retail revival features an array of small shops, many of which are unique, heartfelt expressions of the specialized interest...Continue Reading


Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.
Acidocalcisomes are acidic vacuoles present in trypanosomatids that contain a considerable fraction of intracellular Ca2+ [Vercesi, Moreno and Docampo (1994) Biochem. J. 304, 227–233; Scott, Moreno and Docampo (1995) Biochem. J. 310, 789–794; Docampo, Scott, Vercesi and Moreno (1995) Biochem. J. 310, 1005–1012]. The data presented here indicate that Na+ stimulates Ca2+ release from the acidocalcisomes of digitonin-permeabilized Trypanosoma brucei procyclic trypomastigotes in a dose-dependent fashion, this effect being enhanced by increasing pH of the medium from 7.0 to 7.8. The hypothesis that this Na+ effect was mediated by alkalinization of the acidocalcisomes via a Na+/H+ antiporter was supported by experiments showing that Na+ promotes release of Acridine Orange previously accumulated in these vacuoles. This putative antiporter did not transport Li+ and was not sensitive to the amiloride analogue 5-(N-ethyl-N-isopropyl)amiloride. Addition of the Na+/H+ ionophore monensin to intact cells loaded with fura 2, in the nominal absence of extracellular Ca2+ to preclude Ca2+ entry, was followed by an increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i), which was more accentuated in the presence of extracellular Na+. An increase in intracellular pH (pHi) of BCECF-loaded cells was detected after addition of monensin in the presence of extracellular Na+, whereas a dramatic decrease in pHi was detected in its absence, thus indicating the presence of a significant amount of releasable protons in the acidic compartments. These results are consistent with the presence of a Na+/H+ antiporter in the acidocalcisomes that could be involved in the regulation of pHi and [Ca2+]i in these parasites.


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Pence to speak at Knesset on Israel trip
Barak Ravid, author of Axios from Tel Aviv
Pence speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington. Photo: Jose Luis Magana /AP
Vice President Mike Pence is planning to give a landmark speech at the Knesset — the Israeli Parliament — during his trip to Israel in Mid-December. Israeli officials said the initiative for the speech came from the Vice President and his advisers, and received a positive response from the Israeli side immediately.
The Israeli officials said Pence will arrive at the Knesset on December 18th, will be given a formal welcoming ceremony and will have a working meeting with Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein before his speech.
A White House official said: "The Vice President's trip is still in the planning stages. Therefore, we cannot confirm the speaking venues at this time".
The big picture: Pence will use his visit in Israel and his speech at the Knesset to talk about the U.S.-Israel alliance and common threats like Iran. But he will also use it to further boost his foreign policy credentials and Pro-Israel record for a possible presidential run in the future.
Go deeper: Pence is the Trump administration's point man to the Jewish and Pro-Israel community. He will be the first U.S. official to give a speech at the Knesset in almost a decade. The last such speech was given in May 2008 by then-President George W. Bush. President Obama thought about giving a speech at the Knesset during his visit in 2013 but decided to move it to a conference center in Jerusalem to avoid possible protests by Israeli Members of Knesset during the speech. President Trump wanted to give a speech at the mount of Masada but eventually picked the Israel museum in Jerusalem as the venue for his speech to the Israeli people.


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/*
 * i3lock-next-helper.c
 * This program takes a screenshot and blurs it for use with the
 * i3lock-next script.
 * NOTE: should not be run directly by user
 *
 */

/* Standard */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

/* X11 */
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/extensions/Xrandr.h>

/* Imlib2 */
#include <Imlib2.h>

/* Config */
#include "config.h"

/* Debugging Messages */
#ifdef DEBUG
    #define D_PRINTF(fmt, ...) fprintf(stderr, "DEBUG: %s: %d: %s(): " fmt, \
                                        __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__,       \
                                        __VA_ARGS__);
    /* POSIX */
    #include <unistd.h>

    /* Strings */
    #include <string.h>

    #define D_PRINTPERM(file)   {                                                                           \
                                    int exist   = access(file, F_OK);                                       \
                                    int read    = access(file, R_OK);                                       \
                                    int write   = access(file, W_OK);                                       \
                                    int exec    = access(file, X_OK);                                       \
                                    D_PRINTF("%s exists: %s\n", file, exist? "no" : "yes");                 \
                                    D_PRINTF("%s permissions: R|%d W|%d X|%d\n", file, read, write, exec);  \
                                }
#else
    #define D_PRINTF(fmt, ...)  do{ } while (0)
    #define D_PRINTPERM(file)   do{ } while (0)
#endif

static const char * imlib_error_as_str(Imlib_Load_Error e)
{
    switch(e)
    {
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_NONE:
            return "no error";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_FILE_DOES_NOT_EXIST:
            return "file does not exist";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_FILE_IS_DIRECTORY:
            return "file is a directory";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_PERMISSION_DENIED_TO_READ:
            return "permission denied (read)";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_NO_LOADER_FOR_FILE_FORMAT:
            return "no loader for file format";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_PATH_TOO_LONG:
            return "path too long";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_PATH_COMPONENT_NON_EXISTANT:
            return "path component does not exist";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_PATH_COMPONENT_NOT_DIRECTORY:
            return "path component is not a directory";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_PATH_POINTS_OUTSIDE_ADDRESS_SPACE:
            return "path points outside address space";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_TOO_MANY_SYMBOLIC_LINKS:
            return "too many symbolic links";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY:
            return "out of memory";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_OUT_OF_FILE_DESCRIPTORS:
            return "out of file descriptors";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_PERMISSION_DENIED_TO_WRITE:
            return "permission denied (write)";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_OUT_OF_DISK_SPACE:
            return "no space left on device";
        case IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_UNKNOWN:
            return "unknown error";
    }

    return "undefined error";
}

bool isCentreMonitor(int i, int N)
{
    if ((N == 1) || (i == N/2))
        return true;
    else
        return false;
}

int main(int argc, const char **argv)
{
    // NOTE: argv[1] is filename
    //       argv[2] is font path
    //       argv[3] is path for dark lock image
    //       argv[4] is path for light lock image
    //       argv[5] is prompt (prompt is optional and should be set in the script)

    // error messages
    const char i3lockerr[]      =  "i3lock-next-helper: error:";
    const char wrongargs[]      =  "incorrect argument number";
    const char disperr[]        =  "can't open display";
    const char screenshoterr[]  =  "can't take screenshot";
    const char fonterr[]        =  "can't find font";
    const char lockimgerr[]     =  "can't load lock image";
    const char saveimgerr[]     =  "can't save image";

    // only take two required arguments
    if (argc < 5 || argc > 6)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s %s\n", i3lockerr, wrongargs);
        return 1;
    }

    // set main prompt (default: none)
    const char *prompt = (argc == 6)? argv[5] : "";
    D_PRINTF("Prompt: %s\n", prompt);

    // get current display or default to display :0
    const char *disp_name = getenv("DISPLAY");
    if (disp_name == NULL)
        disp_name = ":0";

    // attempt to open the display
    D_PRINTF("Attempting to get information for display %s\n", disp_name);
    Display *disp = XOpenDisplay(disp_name);

    if (disp == NULL)
    {
        // error: can't open display
        fprintf(stderr, "%s %s %s\n", i3lockerr, disperr, disp_name);
        return 2;
    }

    Window root = DefaultRootWindow(disp);
    Screen *dScreen = DefaultScreenOfDisplay(disp);
    int dScreenN = DefaultScreen(disp);

    // set Imlib2 context
    imlib_context_set_display(disp);
    imlib_context_set_visual(DefaultVisual(disp, dScreenN));
    imlib_context_set_colormap(DefaultColormap(disp, dScreenN));
    imlib_context_set_drawable(root);

    // get total width/height of default screen
    unsigned int dw = dScreen->width;
    unsigned int dh = dScreen->height;
    D_PRINTF("Full screen size: %dx%d\n", dw, dh);

    // set number of monitors
    int n = 1;
    XRRMonitorInfo *m = XRRGetMonitors(disp, root, 1, &n);
    XRRFreeMonitors(m);

    // for each monitor, determine the width, height, and position
    unsigned int widths[n];
    unsigned int heights[n];
    unsigned int xcoords[n];
    unsigned int ycoords[n];
    XRRScreenResources *screens = XRRGetScreenResources(disp, root);
    XRRCrtcInfo *screen = NULL;

    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        screen     = XRRGetCrtcInfo(disp, screens, screens->crtcs[i]);
        widths[i]  = screen->width;
        heights[i] = screen->height;
        xcoords[i] = screen->x;
        ycoords[i] = screen->y;
        D_PRINTF("Monitor %d: (x,y): (%d,%d)\n", i, xcoords[i], ycoords[i]);
        D_PRINTF("Monitor %d: %dx%d\n", i, widths[i], heights[i]);
    }

    XRRFreeScreenResources(screens);
    XRRFreeCrtcInfo(screen);

    // take a screenshot of the full screen
    Imlib_Image *im = imlib_create_image_from_drawable(1, 0, 0, dw, dh, 1);

    if (!im)
    {
        // couldn't take screenshot
        fprintf(stderr, "%s %s\n", i3lockerr, screenshoterr);
        XFree(disp);
        return 3;
    }

    // work on a new empty image
    imlib_context_set_image(imlib_create_image(dw, dh));

    // load the font, given like so:
    // /usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Regular/18
    imlib_context_set_font(imlib_load_font(argv[2]));

    if (!imlib_context_get_font())
    {
        // no font loaded
        fprintf(stderr, "%s %s %s\n", i3lockerr, fonterr, argv[2]);
        free(im);
        XFree(disp);
        return 4;
    }

#ifdef DEBUG
    // we have to reformat the font as passed to get the actual file name
    //
    // because these values are hardcoded we only support font sizes
    // (10 <= x <= 99), i.e. double digits
    // other font sizes require chaning these numbers
    const int orig = sizeof(char) * strlen(argv[2]);
    char *font_path = (char*) malloc(orig - 3);
    memcpy(font_path, argv[2], orig - 3);

    D_PRINTPERM(font_path);
    free(font_path);
#endif

    // load the font, given like so:
    // /usr/share/fonts/open-sans/OpenSans-Regular/18
    imlib_context_set_font(imlib_load_font(argv[2]));

    // declare a variable for offsetting the text
    int offset_w;

    // declare dummy varibles for information we don't need
    int dum;
    float dum2;

    // draw the text on our empty image and find out how many pixels we
    // need to offset it by
    imlib_text_draw_with_return_metrics(0, 0, prompt, &offset_w, &dum, &dum, &dum);
    D_PRINTF("Text offset: %d\n", offset_w);

    // discard old image and change context to screenshot
    imlib_free_image_and_decache();
    imlib_context_set_image(im);

    // setup some array of values to figure out whether we need to draw
    // light or dark icons and text
    float values[n];

    // repeat the above for each monitor
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
    {
        D_PRINTF("Attempting to find value for monitor %d\n", i);

        // calculate top left and right corner coordinates
        int tlw = widths[i] / 2 - 150 + xcoords[i];
        int tlh = heights[i] / 2 - 150 + ycoords[i];
        D_PRINTF("Monitor %d: box top left corner (x,y): (%d,%d)\n", i, tlw, tlh);

        // crop to 300x300 square at the center of monitor i
        // and change context
        Imlib_Image *c = imlib_create_cropped_image(tlw, tlh, 300, 300);
        imlib_context_set_image(c);

        // rescale to 3x3 and change context
        c = imlib_create_cropped_scaled_image(0, 0, 300, 300, 3, 3);
        imlib_context_set_image(c);

        // grab center pixel value
        imlib_image_query_pixel_hsva(2, 2, &dum2, &dum2, &values[i], &dum);
        D_PRINTF("Monitor %d: value %f\n", i, values[i]);

        // discard modifications and chage context back to whole screen
        imlib_free_image_and_decache();
        imlib_context_set_image(im);
    }

    // set up a color modifier
    imlib_context_set_color_modifier(imlib_create_color_modifier());

    // adjust gamma by GAMMA_ADJUST
    imlib_modify_color_modifier_gamma(GAMMA_ADJUST);
    imlib_apply_color_modifier();
    imlib_free_color_modifier();

    // scale the image down by 1 / SCALE_FACTOR and change context
    Imlib_Image *s = imlib_create_cropped_scaled_image(0, 0, dw, dh, dw/SCALE_FACTOR, dh/SCALE_FACTOR);
    imlib_context_set_image(s);

    // blur it a few times
    for (int i = 0; i < BLUR_ITERATIONS; i++)
        imlib_image_blur(BLUR_STRENGTH);

    // scale it back up and change context
    s = imlib_create_cropped_scaled_image(0, 0, dw/SCALE_FACTOR, dh/SCALE_FACTOR, dw, dh);
    imlib_context_set_image(s);

    // draw the lock and text on monitor(s)
    // Note: the color that is printed is based on the center monitor in a multi-monitor setup
    Imlib_Load_Error error = IMLIB_LOAD_ERROR_NONE;
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        D_PRINTF("Attempting to draw lock on monitor %d\n", i);

        // prepare to load lock image for this monitor
        Imlib_Image *lock;

        // determine which lock image to load based on monitor colour
        if (values[i] * 100 >= THRESHOLD)
        {
            D_PRINTPERM(argv[3]);
            lock = imlib_load_image_with_error_return(argv[3], &error);
            imlib_context_set_color(0, 0, 0, 255);
            if (isCentreMonitor(i,n))
                puts("000000FF");
        }
        else
        {
            D_PRINTPERM(argv[4]);
            lock = imlib_load_image_with_error_return(argv[4], &error);
            imlib_context_set_color(255, 255, 255, 255);
            if (isCentreMonitor(i,n))
                puts("FFFFFFFF");
        }

        if (!lock)
        {
            // couldn't load lock image
            fprintf(stderr, "%s %s (%s)\n", i3lockerr, lockimgerr, imlib_error_as_str(error));
            free(im);
            XFree(disp);
            imlib_free_font();
            imlib_free_image_and_decache();
            return 3;
        }

        // set variables for prompt string location on monitor
        int promptx = widths[i] / 2 + xcoords[i] - offset_w / 2;
        int prompty = heights[i] / 1.5 + ycoords[i];
        D_PRINTF("Monitor %d: prompt (x,y): (%d,%d)\n", i, promptx, prompty);

        // draw prompt string just below the centre of the monitor
        imlib_text_draw(promptx, prompty, prompt);

        // get width & height of lock image
        imlib_context_set_image(lock);
        int lock_width = imlib_image_get_width();
        int lock_height = imlib_image_get_height();
        // make sure to set context back to s
        imlib_context_set_image(s);

        // set variables for lock image location on monitor
        int lockx = widths[i] / 2 + xcoords[i] - lock_width/2;
        int locky = heights[i] / 2 + ycoords[i] - lock_height/2;
        D_PRINTF("Monitor %d: lock (x,y): (%d,%d)\n", i, lockx, locky);

        // draw lock image at the center of the monitor
        imlib_blend_image_onto_image(lock, 0, 0, 0, lock_width, lock_height, lockx, locky, lock_width, lock_height);
    }

    // save the image and cleanup
    D_PRINTF("Attempting to save image: path: %s\n", argv[1]);
    imlib_save_image_with_error_return(argv[1], &error);

    if (error != 0)
        fprintf(stderr, "%s %s (%s)\n", i3lockerr, saveimgerr, imlib_error_as_str(error));

    free(im);
    XFree(disp);
    imlib_free_font();
    imlib_free_image_and_decache();
}

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Nestled within the DoubleTree by Hilton Alana Waikiki Hotel is Trees Restaurant & Bar, a warm and welcoming eatery that supplies the entire hotel with breakfast, dinner and in-room dining. With a new chef in town creating eclectic culinary delights, Trees Restaurant & Bar is the perfect summertime destination.
WM: As Chef de Cuisine at Trees Restaurant, what do you have planned?
JS: I want to add an even wider variety of entrées to our existing menu. We've made some great changes to the menu selection and given our drinks an upgrade, including putting some favorite beers on tap like Longboard lager, summer ales and IPAs. The service here is excellent already, and that's something people can always count on.
WM: What is your favorite dish on the menu?
JS: They're all amazing dishes to me, but the DT burger is the best seller. It's a 7-ounce beef patty cooked to perfection, with melted bleu cheese, lettuce, tomato and crispy onions served on a warm pretzel bun. It is really delicious. My personal favorite is actually one of the new menu items, the Artisan Pizza. It's got coppa, chorizo, soppressata and pepperoni; just a wonderful assortment of meats, with a generous portion of fresh mozzarella. Get both if you can!
Chef Jory Shinn has been cooking professionally for 10 years. Born on the West Coast and raised on Kauai, Chef Jory trained at the Travel Institute of the Pacific and, with his culinary degree in hand, gained invaluable experience at two distinguished locations: the Trump Hotel and The Modern Honolulu. Chef Jory has been the Chef de Cuisine here since December 2014.
WM: What would you say separates Trees Restaurant from other Waikiki dining destinations?
JS: The food here is outstanding since we use fresh, quality ingredients, but I think what truly sets us apart from the rest of Waikiki is the combination of great food and relaxing ambiance. Other Waikiki venues can be loud and busy, while Trees is perfect for a quality dining experience without the distractions. The warm service we provide here at the DoubleTree with the delicious food and peaceful ambiance is what makes Trees Restaurant a truly unique experience.


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August 1, 2017Press Release
Michael Best Again Honored for its Commitment to LGBTQ Diversity
CHICAGO (August 1, 2017) – Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has been recognized among Illinois law firms for its commitment to LGBTQ diversity and inclusive practices in the 2017 "Raising the Bar" report from Equality Illinois. The firm also received the honor in 2015 and 2016.
"It's gratifying that our firm's dedication to diversity and inclusion has been acknowledged three years in a row," said Kerryann Minton, Michael Best's Managing Partner in Chicago. "We have long understood the value of having a variety of opinions and viewpoints within our organization, and we know our clients are better served because of it."
Equality Illinois publishes the "Raising the Bar: Law Firms Leading the Way to LGBTQ Equality" commemorative program book annually. In addition to listing the top-performing firms, the book provides recommendations for how firms can improve their policies and practices. Michael Best and the other listed firms will be formally honored at the annual "Raising the Bar" recognition breakfast on August 1, 2017, at the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago.
"Michael Best is committed to cultivating an open and accepting environment that welcomes diversity and advocates for equality," said Jorge Leon, chair of Michael Best's Diversity & Inclusion Committee. "Our firm continues to recruit, retain, and develop diverse talent, which provides us with the perspective to succeed and deliver outstanding results for the firm, our clients, and the broader community."
Preview Attorney's Biography
Kerryann serves as a trusted advisor to companies seeking a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach to employment matters. Clients value her depth of knowledge and unfaltering commitment to their business goals. Kerryann is an experienced and effective litigation strategist, successfully defending clients in employment disputes at the federal and state levels. She uses her litigation experience to assess employment practices and to structure personnel polices to increase workplace productivity and minimize the threat of litigation.
Kerryann Haase Minton
khminton@michaelbest.com
Jorge is skilled at successfully managing and staffing the full service benefit and compensation needs of clients ranging from small operations to large multinational companies. Clients have entrusted Jorge and his team to oversee the design and administration of their health and welfare programs, executive compensation arrangements, and retirement plans.
Jorge M. Leon
jmleon@michaelbest.com
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Different Perspectives & Voices
At Michael Best, diversity is one of our core values, and we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture; hiring and retaining diverse professionals; and helping advance their careers. We uphold that commitment through a variety of programs.


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Grace Ahlbom and Willie Stewart on Ouija boards, Record Stores and Heavy Metal
"I've always been drawn to fan culture, relics, shrines and their relationship to consumerism and boredom." Inside Piccadilly Circus tube station in London Grace Ahlbom and Willie Stewart probe at the visual vernacular and meaning of subcultures, as half a million commuters pass by. Words by Charlotte Jansen
If you've passed through Piccadilly Circus lately, you might have noticed something different. Soft Opening, a home for collaborative shows with artists, is the brainchild of curator Antonia Marsh who has spent five years exhibiting itinerantly between the UK and the US. "It's such a relief not to have to constantly relearn the infrastructure of a gallery space, and now I finally get to work one-on-one with artists in a much more intimate way." Taking over a vitrine-like spot underground, Soft Opening also benefits from the half a million or so people who pass through the station every day. The second exhibition at Soft Opening brings two young NYC-based artists, Willie Stewart and Grace Ahlbom, to London to explore the visual vernacular and reimagine the role of subcultures. I spoke with both artists.
Soft Opening isn't a regular gallery space: what did you think when Antonia approached you about this show and how have you worked with the space—both physically and considering the way viewers will see the work?
Willie Stewart: As an artist, I am interested in spaces on the margin of the everyday. These types of outsider places have some type of architectural structure that defies utilitarian logic, and it's this resistance that opens up the opportunity for intervention.
Grace Ahlbom: After Antonia showed me her space I was mostly excited because of how different it was from a typical white cube gallery. Of course, most of the time when you see works in a space as public as the subway it will be government commissioned blockbuster artworks or cultural monuments. While there's something different about showing in the underground, there's also a history tied to it, and I think it was really interesting to play with that. The viewer's access to the space is also different, while we were trying to come up with titles for the show, I kept thinking about how the window is the only way to see into the gallery space. It reminds me a lot of window shopping.
WS: When I think about a space on the edge of a path, I think about the possibility of seeing without looking, and what I mean by this is that by being exposed to something visually in your periphery it ingrains itself unconsciously. You are left with a memory that still has the potential for discovery, and when actually looking, the effect is different when analyzing it—because it is strangely familiar. So they become two different registers of understanding; the real, what you are actually looking at, and the remembered, from your unconscious experience.
What was it like working together on this show?
WS: Working with a group of people on a project is always incredible. The way we recalibrate and align ourselves together to create a type of group brain, which fills the gaps related to experience, helping to mitigate a direction towards a larger intent of understanding what everyone involved cares about without having to be from the same place.
GA: I'm thrilled to see we are now showing together nearly two years after first meeting each other. Willie and I met in New York while we were both studying at art school. Willie was doing his BFA at The Cooper Union and I was doing mine at the Pratt Institute. It was a month before our graduations and we were introduced by a mutual friend who saw a link between our works. We both have the same love for the visual vernacular of American culture and its individualism.
You both address the fetishization of various aspects of American culture in your work, can you tell me more about your interests?
GA: I think we approach the idea of America within a kind of fetish, because America has been delivered to us as fantasy. My most recent work wasn't shot in the States, it was interesting to see the ways my subjects, whether it's the Parisian cowboy or grunge Icelander, identified and embodied themselves through American pop culture. Mostly because they projected the American lifestyle they see through Hollywood and online, as most do. There's a degree of projection on both sides. On one end, they are already performing to the world and bring that with them when I'm shooting, on the other end, I'm also framing that performance within my own lens and projecting my ideas onto them.
"I think we all approach the idea of America within a kind of fetish, because America has been delivered to us as fantasy."
WS: The apparatus of the Ouija board is very simple as an object, a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, numbers, the words "yes", "no" and "goodbye". Modes of automatic writing like that of the Ouija board goes back to 1100AD, in historical accounts of the Song dynasty in China. Although it is the rise of spiritualism in the Victorian era, and the creation of the modern talking board in America in the late-1880s by Elijah Bond, then made famous by William Fuld (an employee of Bond) which cements it in our culture. In 1991 all intellectual property of the Ouija board was sold to Parker Brothers, an American toy and game manufacturer, which re-inscribes the purpose of the object outside of the sincere hope of having a connection between the Ouija board and the user, but as an object situated within the irony of teenage mischief.
I am fascinated by an object that can move through nine hundred years, and morph through modes of use related to the truly sincere and ironic. This morphing gives me hope that there is potential for it to change again into something I can't even imagine today. It is this illegibility of the future that makes me want to create new objects, by virtue of thinking nine hundred years into the future and speculating what something can become.
Speaking of which, you deal with the sometimes nefarious and often mystical pull of objects; how do each of you feel about consumerism?
WS: When I was a kid there were magazines ads for mail-order music clubs, like Columbia House and BMG. These ads would be anchored by a big headline that would say something like, "12 HOT hits for a COOL penny", and the page would be populated with a grid of over one hundred album covers, about half a centimeter in size each, and I would study these intently. What the advertisements were proposing was that you could have twelve cassette tapes for a penny, and you could choose from records like Soundgarden's Superunknown, Michael Jackson's Dangerous, Terence Trent D'arby's Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, and Kick by INXS.
I filled out the order form based on what the images gave back to me based on my own taste and subjectivity at that exact moment. After about four weeks my twelve cassette tapes arrived in a small brown shipping box. What I learned from those twelve tapes is that all songs are written in the past, but we listen to them in the future, even if you listen to a track on the day it is released—a distance we are willing to accept.
We don't think much about the primary, secondary and tertiary processes a cassette tape goes through before we listen to it. However, owning cassette tapes gives us a starting point to investigate the processes they are made from, something we should do with everything we own to understand what is hidden in the banality of its parts.
GA: I started working on this work while on a trip to Norway in the summer, when I stumbled into a record shop that jump-started my curiosity in the fanaticism of the black metal scene. I've always been drawn to fan culture, relics, shrines and their relationship to consumerism and boredom. The shop's basement served as a museum of artifacts where fanatics visit the original meeting place for many emerging Norwegian black metal bands during the 1990s. Not dissimilar to my own basement, which serves not only as an archive of my adolescence, but the fantasy these objects seemed to hold for me at the time. Consumerism is already changing as more toy, book and music stores digitize and exist on screen, distancing themselves from actual objects that age and transform through time. In the record shop, the walls were overwhelmingly lined from floor to ceiling with thousands of records, t-shirts, CDs and props from photo shoots. I was fascinated by the way cultural obsession comes to create landscapes and monuments that occupy and manifest into a tangible space.
You're both based in NYC. What's it like working as an artist there at the moment?
GA: While I'm based out of New York, and produce all of my work out of there, I haven't been there in quite a few months because I have been living at Antonia's house [in London] doing a residency.
WS: New York City is steeped in deep histories of art and music, and as a scene, it has been nomadic, which has allowed it the privilege of influencing many different neighborhoods in the city. I grew up in Tennessee, not Brooklyn, but through stories of the city, I felt like I belonged there before I got there.
"A black leather jacket can be all you need to exemplify forty-five years of an idea related to individualism"
I once read an article about when the Ramones played the Roundhouse in the mid-seventies. Every British punk band that mattered was there: The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Pretenders… and while The Ramones were hanging out backstage no one would approach them. Accounts of the night claimed that Johnny Rotten was terrified that the Ramones were going to beat him up. I have always found this interesting because stylistically as punks the Ramones are really minimal, and were less interested in fitting in. There is something about the speed of New York City that creates an overall personal minimalism that produces unique ways of creating that keeps me utterly inspired by it. A black leather jacket can be all you need to exemplify forty-five years of an idea related to individualism.
Installation views: Theo Christelis, all other images courtesy the artists and Soft Opening
I Can Dream, Can I Not? Dreaming is Heavy Metal
Until 6 May at Soft Opening
How do culture, architecture and history intersect with women's identities across the world? At ARCO Madrid this year, different answers come from the same place: Peru.
Feeling Fifty Shades of Blue in Mexico City
Shades of blue dominate at Material Art Fair, from the coldest ultramarine to the warmest Prussian blue, inventing new modes for the colour of sadness and self-enquiry.
The Instagram Account Celebrating International Women's Day 365 Days a Year
Repaint History demonstrates why we so badly need to celebrate women artists.
The Queer Publication Opposing the Tyranny of "The Normal"
How Materialistic Are You?
Depicting the Black Queer Male Body as Desirable and Desirous
These Self-Taught Artists Are Making an Impact in Morocco
Post-Partum Document
Embracing Our Imperfections Isn't Easy
Exploring Notions of Surrogacy and Love in Times of Technology


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Commissioner Mark Tolbert, President
Bishop Mark Tolbert was appointed by Governor Greitens and sworn in on November 8, 2017. Tolbert is president and pastor of Victorious Life Church, previously known as Christ Temple Church. He was previously president of The Coalition of Concerned Clergy, board chairman of Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, and board member of United Way. Tolbert attended Penn Valley Community College and holds a degree in divinity from Western Baptist Bible College.
Commissioner Cathy Dean, Vice President
Commissioner Cathy Dean was sworn in December 3, 2019. She grew up in Fulton, Mo. and is a long-time resident of Kansas City. She graduated from the University of Missouri with an Arts and Sciences degree in English and Public Speaking, teaching junior high English, Speech and Dramatics for 9 years. She obtained a J.D. from the Univ. of Mo. Law School in 1982. Commissioner Dean has significant state and federal courtroom experience, dealing in cases ranging from anti-trust to product liability. From 1985 until her retirement in May 2013, she practiced at the Polsinelli Law Firm in Kansas City. She served on the Missouri Bar Board of Trustees and Board of Governors; was President of the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater KC; received the Dean of the Trial Bar award from the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association; and served on the Board of the Law Foundation of the University of Missouri School of Law. Missouri Governor Matt Blunt appointed her to the State Government Review Commission; Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver appointed her to serve on his Public Safety Task Force; and Governor John Ashcroft appointed her to the Governor's Task Force to evaluate the management of the KCMO public school system. She also served as the Chair of the Board of Governors and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors with the Urban League of Greater KC. From May 1989 until October 1994, Commissioner Dean served the Board of Police Commissioners as Secretary/Attorney.
Commissioner Dawn Cramer, Member
Dawn was sworn in on August 31, 2021.
Dawn uses her leadership skills to empower women through transition and set them up for financial success in the future.
Dawn retired from the airline industry after a 28-year career to enter the financial services industry in 2007. She relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, from Dallas, Texas, to start Cramer Capital Management with her husband, Bruce. Dawn holds the FINRA Series 7, 66 and AIF. Her securities registrations are through Commonwealth Financial Network®. Her specialty is in working with women who are transitioning from divorce, going into a new career, losing a spouse, and many other circumstances. Dawn uses her leadership skills to empower women through transition and set them up for financial success in the future.
Dawn is actively involved in educating women bringing an awareness to the importance of becoming financially independent and maintaining that through proper planning and investing strategies. She founded the Women's Mastermind Program in early 2012 for women to reach their goals within the many fields of the small business industry.
Dawn completed a high-level leadership program through Klemmer that is known for training Fortune 500 circles. She is a gifted public speaker in advocating for youth to be aware of the importance of making sound life choices as well as encouraging them to say no to violence. In addition, Dawn is currently involved in Clay County Domestic Violence Board and past board member for the Heartland Foundation and Northland Shepherd Center. She is also the founder of the "Let's Get Jazzed" event, benefitting Charities, with Newhouse, an inner-city shelter for women of domestic violence being the main focus. Dawn is a member of the Atkin Johnson Farm and currently of their 5K Charity run committee, which benefits farm and school education programs.
Dawn is highly active in her children's lives and is their greatest advocate. She enjoys engaging in outdoor activities such as, horseback riding, hiking, scuba diving, fitness, nutrition, and natural healing.
Mayor Quinton Lucas, Member
Quinton Lucas was sworn in as Mayor of Kansas City, Mo. on August 1, 2019. An attorney, Quinton earned a law degree from Cornell University and his bachelor's degree from Washington University. Upon returning to Kansas City from school, Quinton started his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Duane Benton of the United States Court of Appeals. He then practiced business law for several years. At 27, Quinton joined the University of Kansas School of Law faculty, where he continues to teach and write. He also volunteers extensively in area schools and organizations, including providing mentorship in area prisons.
Prior to elected office, Quinton served on the city's Charter Review Commission and with numerous other civic, philanthropic, and professional organizations. He now serves as Chair of the City Council Housing Committee, where he works with issues related to affordable housing and the future of the city's housing policy. Quinton also is a member of the committees on Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development; the Airport; Transportation and Infrastructure; Neighborhoods and Public Safety.
Secretary/Attorney David Kenner
The Board of Police Commissioners selected David Kenner as their secretary/attorney in 2010. Kenner is an Instructor with the Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City – business law, commercial transactions, and business ethics. He was previously with the Levy Craig Law Firm serving as President, and Chair of the Transaction Department. He is a member of the Board of Directors of TriCentury Bank, and serves on its Audit, IT, and Compensation Committees. Kenner has been named to The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Banking and Finance Law, The Best Lawyers in Kansas City from 435 Magazine, and Kansas City Business Journal's Best of The Bar. He received the 2016 Law Firm Leader award from Missouri Lawyers Weekly given to chairman, managing partners or other law firm executives who demonstrated extraordinary vision, innovation and leadership, and the 2015 Baron of the Boardroom award from the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association in recognition of a distinguished career representing corporate/business clients.
To contact members of the Board of Police Commissioners, please email BOPC@kcpd.org.