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Trump finally condemns white supremacists: 'I don't know much about the Proud Boys... but I condemn that'
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October 2, 2020, 3:16 a.m. ·1 min read
President Trump called into Hannity Thursday night to clarify comments he made during Tuesday's presidential debate concerning white supremacist groups and the Proud Boys. Instead of condemning, the president told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by."
Trump's failure to condemn white supremacists and violent alt-right groups was the biggest headline from the debate. The next day, when he was asked by the press to explain his comments, he claimed he didn't know who the Proud Boys were.
Almost 48 hours after he made the initial comments during the debate, Trump called into Hannity to set the record straight. "I have to say," said Trump, "I've said it many times, let me be clear again. I condemn the KKK. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys."
While Trump was willing to condemn the groups, when it came to the Proud Boys, he admitted he didn't really know what he was condemning.
"I don't know much about the Proud Boys," said Trump, "almost nothing, but I condemn that."
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Category Archives: Presenters
A glimpse of what's happening at APC12…
Here's just a small selection of some of the many exciting presenters coming to the Convergence in March.
This is in NO way a final program and new people are being added every day.
If you would still like to submit your proposal for consideration, please do so by the 31st January. We will begin developing the full program and timetable from February 1st.
Hannah Moloney & Anton Vikstrom, Tas
The power of making good shit happen: Radical homemaking, community development and digging holes
Hannah and Anton from Good Life Permaculture are part of the younger generation of permies doing amazing work. They will talk about the importance of people DOING positive things (inside and outside of their homes). To answer the question "What are the critical future global and local challenges we are facing and how can permaculture provide solutions?" Hannah and Anton answer: "through doing good stuff, that's how see it!"
April Sampson-Kelly, NSW
How art succeeds in interpreting permaculture ideas
April will be exploring a wide range of art forms: Realism, Semi-Fictional and Fictional forms and how they can be applied to better inform permaculture design and practice. Innovative and inspiring.
Russ Grayson & Fiona Campbell, NSW
The Anthropocene: what role can permaculture play?
This is one of several presentations considering the 'Big Picture' of the place of permaculture in the world. The Anthropocene – the Age of Humanity – recognises humanity's dominating influence on all earth systems. This is something we have to accept, so the question becomes: "what role can and should permaculture play and how"? Russ and Fiona will consider the history and possible futures for the permaculture movement and the challenges it faces in these critical times.
Robin Clayfield, Qld
The ever-popular Robin will treat us to two presentations. The first is
Social design and the culturing of permaculture
Robin will engage the whole group on the first morning through processes for gently 'breaking the ice', discovering patterns and history within the movement, bonding of all sectors of permaculture, honouring of our Elders, using our permaculture principles to embellish and improve our 'social design' for our home regions, groups and time together at the Convergence. This is designed to bring alive the 'culture' in permaculture and inspire ongoing connections and inspiration for the rest of the Convergence.
Secondly, Robin will present on
Expanding the edge of teaching permaculture creatively
This presentation aims to support the continued up-skilling of permaculture teachers in a way that reflects the principles of permaculture.
Robin will also facilitate the traditional jumping activity to close the Convergence.
Gary Burke, WA
A synergistic match: Permaculture and sustainability-informed economics, accounting and policy
Gary's presentation will be one of a number relating to the need to reframe economics and finance. As Gary puts it, "It would be a great chance to spiral beyond the conceptual cage of contemporary economics and accounting"
Bruce French, Tas
Maintaining and using diversity for sustainable food crop production
Bruce has done remarkable work in creating the Food Plants International database, which currently has over 26,800 edible plant species and is the largest in the world. Bruce will discuss the importance of the value of using locally adapted plants that are grown in a sustainable fashion with sound agro-ecological principles.
John Champagne, NSW
Permafund – it's about fair share
John will talk about the Permafund, a charitable trust under Permaculture Australia. The trust gathers funds which are distributed to worthy permaculture projects both in Australia and overseas by the Permafund Committee.
Other presenters focusing on overseas applications of permaculture are Terry Leahy (NSW) who will show his film on permaculture in Zimbabwe, and John McKenzie (Vic) on Sri Lanka.
Guy Stewart, Qld
From Learning to Livelihood
Guy will present his journey from being a student at Djanbung to permaculture project work for grant funds, to achieving now full time stable, ethical employment creating ethical work opportunities to sustain ourselves, our communities and the permaculture movement. Inspiration for us all.
The program will include Open Spaces – times for people to gather for in-depth discussions on:
Permaculture Australia
Permaculture education and APT
Leadership in permaculture
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Call for Presenters – APC12
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Keynote Speakers – Stuart B. Hill
Professor Stuart B. Hill was appointed Foundation Chair of Social Ecology at the University of Western Sydney (Hawkesbury Campus) in 1996. Prior to that he had been at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada since 1969, where he had coordinated McGill's zoology major, and established, in 1974, Ecological Agriculture Projects, Canada's leading resource centre for sustainable agriculture.
He has published over 300 papers and reports, and in Canada was a member of over 30 regional, national and international boards and committees. He is currently on the editorial board of four refereed journals. He has successfully completed projects in the West Indies, French West Africa, Indonesia, The Philippines, and the Seychelles, as well as in Canada and Australia.
Dr. Hill is committed to working for change that improves environmental sustainability, community and personal wellbeing, and our psychosocial co-evolution. He is critical of the still-dominant tinkering responses to problems, as well as their endless measurement, and is a tireless campaigner for the proactive, fundamental redesign of our lifestyles, our institutional structures and processes, our managed ecosystems and our technologies.
His background in chemical engineering, ecology, soil biology, entomology, agriculture, psychotherapy, education, policy development and international development, and his experience of working with change, have enabled him to be an effective facilitator in complex situations that demand both collaboration across difference and a long-term co-evolutionary approach to situation improvement. As this is a focus of social ecology, he is currently in a euphoric state as a member of a dynamic learning and action community (of over 300 staff and students) with overlapping values and mutually supportive projects.
Keynote Speakers – Nicole Foss
We are excited to announce Nicole Foss as a Keynote speaker at the Australasian Permaculture Convergence.
Nicole Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth, you may be familiar with her work under the name "Stoneleigh". She has spent much time writing and interpreting the on-going credit crunch as the most important aspect of the current multi-faceted crisis. The site http://www.theautomaticearth.com/ integrates finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politics in order to explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do about it. Prior to the establishment of The Automatic Earth, she was previously editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Foss runs the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she has focused on farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. While living in the UK she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where she specialized in nuclear safety in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and conducted research into electricity policy at the EU level.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK. She was granted the University Medal for the top science graduate in 1988 and the law school prize for the top law school graduate in 1997.
Join us in welcoming Nicole Foss as a Keynote speakers for APC12.
Calling for Presenters
The APC 12 organising committee invites all permies, young and old, experienced and just starting out, to share your knowledge, your passion, your experience, your stories, your creativity and your commitment to a better world through Permaculture. Presentations, workshops, activities, performance, posters, video, art work etc on all aspects of permaculture are welcome. To help guide your planning we are placing a strong focus on deepening our collective understanding and ability to work across the seven interconnected 'petals' (domains) of the Permaculture flower…
Please visit our Call For Presenters page for more information and contact details OR follow this link… http://www.apc12tas.com/…/call-for-presenters/

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Physics lab encompasses the experiments which lead towards fundamental understanding of physical science. The student's gain practical experience with concepts that are presented in lectures.The student's gain familiarity with physical measurementand equipment. The student will able to analyze data and draw conclusion.
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Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.Chemistry addresses topics such as how atoms and molecules interact via chemical bonds to form new chemical compounds. It is sometimes called the central science because it provides a foundation for understanding both basic and applied scientific disciplines at a fundamental level.
Chemistry lab includes the experiments which tip towards important understanding of chemical science. The student's gain practical experience with concepts that are presented in lectures. The student's gain familiarity with physical measurement and equipment. The student will able to analyze data and draw conclusion.
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Raspberries are often an overlooked fruit, but Mulled Raspberry Tea is a fantastic winter warmer. Combined with spices and lemonade, the taste is incredibly refreshing.
In a saucepan, slightly mash raspberries with a potato masher. Stir in tea, cranberry-raspberry juice, lemonade, water, and allspice. Bring the mixture to the boil and reduce the heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Strain and discard the fruit pulp and spices before serving in heat-proof glass mugs or cups. Sweeten with sugar for taste and, if desired, add lemon slices and additional raspberries.


Haywood, Marshall DeLancey. The Beginnings of Freemasonry in North Carolina and Tennessee. Raleigh, North Carolina: Weaver & Lynch, Printers and Binders, 1906.
Oates, John A. The Story of Fayetteville and the Upper Cape Fear. Charlotte, North Carolina: The Dowd Press, 1950.
Parramore, Thomas C. Launching the Craft: The First Half-Century of Freemasonry in North Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina: Litho Industries, 1975.
Tatsch, J. Hugo. Freemasonry in the Thirteen Colonies. Unknown Printing, 1933.
Wheeler, John H. Historical Sketches of North Carolina, From 1584 to 1851, Compiled from Original Records, Official Documents, and Traditional Statements, with Biographical Sketches of her Distinguished Statesmen, Jurists, Lawyers, Soldiers, Divines, Etc. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851.
Crawford, Dugald. A Sermon Preached Before the Cape-Fear Union Lodge of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Free and Accepted Masons, and a Number of Visiting Brethren, Assembled at Fayetteville on December 7, 1786. Being the Day of St. Jonh [sic] the Evangelist. Fayetteville, North Carolina: Hodge and Blanchard, 1787.
Meroney, William B. A Discourse Delivered to the Phoenix Lodge, no. 8, Fayetteville, North-Carolina, December 27th, 1802. Raleigh, North Carolina: Joseph Gales, Printer, 1803.


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Professionista dal 1974 al 1982, conta la vittoria di un Giro del Lussemburgo e di un Giro dei Paesi Bassi.

Carriera
Corse per la TI-Raleigh, la Ijsboerke e la Kotter's. Da dilettante vinse una tappa all'Olympia's Tour nel 1974, passando professionista nell'agosto dello stesso anno. Nel 1975 vinse una tappa alla Quatre jours de Dunkerque, una tappa al Giro di Svizzera ed una all'Étoile des Espoirs. Il 1977 fu la sua migliore stagione, grazie ai successi al Giro del Lussemburgo ed al Giro dei Paesi Bassi. Partecipò a quattro edizioni del Tour de France, due del Giro d'Italia, una Vuelta a España e quattro campionati del mondo.

Palmarès
1974 (Dilettanti, una vittoria)
5ª tappa Olympia's Tour (Ulestraten > Ulestraten)

1975 (TI-Raleigh, tre vittorie)
4ª tappa Quatre jours de Dunkerque (Saint-Amand > Dunkerque)
4ª tappa Tour de Suisse (Murten > Täsch)
1ª tappa Étoile des Espoirs

1977 (TI-Raleigh, tre vittorie)
4ª tappa, 1ª semitappa Tour de Luxembourg (Echternach > Neuerburg)
Classifica generale Tour de Luxembourg
Classifica generale Ronde van Nederland

Altri successi
1973
Criterium di Scheveningen

1974
Internationale Radkriterium in Wangen

1976
Criterium di Scheveningen

1977
Classifica scalatori Tour de Luxembourg
Classifica scalatori Vuelta a Andalucía

Piazzamenti

Grandi giri

Giro d'Italia
1978: non partito (17ª tappa)
1982: 68º

Tour de France
1976: 26º
1977: 12º
1979: 44º
1980: fuori tempo massimo (1ª tappa, 2ª semitappa)

Vuelta a España
1976: non partito (19ª tappa, 2ª semitappa)

Classiche monumento

Milano-Sanremo
1977: 54º
1982: 81º

Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi
1975: 15º

Competizioni mondiali
Campionati del mondo
Yvoir 1975 - In linea: 28º
Ostuni 1976 - In linea: ritirato
San Cristóbal 1977 - In linea: 18º
Sallanches 1980 - In linea: 6º

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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John received his training at Art Center College of Design and began his career as an illustrator. His paintings have appeared on movie posters, books, billboards, magazines and advertisements throughout the country and around the world. Seeking an additional outlet for his creative vision, John began his Horse Series, bringing together equine beauty and power with emotions of the human spirit. When the publishers of Walter Farley's The Black Stallion saw John's work, they were inspired to re-issue this classic series, commissioning 24 new paintings by John for the covers. He has also been part of the rerelease of the books of Marguerite Henry. He is also responsible for some wonderful finished movie posters, including for the movie "Miracle". "My artwork is meant to recall the beauty, majesty and mystery of the life we live, and the world we live it in. Painting the small delicacy of the light on a child's face, or the overwhelming power and grace of the sky at sunrise, is my attempt to capture some of that wonder. Through my work I hope to remind you and myself how truly wonderful, complex, and vivid life is. Whether we are looking into the eyes of someone we love, or struggling just to breath, life is a priceless gift." John has maintained a successful painting career for nearly 20 years. His studio is in La Canada California, where he lived with his wife and two children. He received his art training at Art Center College of Design, and has worked with clients throughout the United States and around the world. His limited editions of interpretive Disney art are some of the fastest selling images at Disney World and Disneyland.
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Watermelon is synonymous with summer and this island style float captures a perfect cross section of a seeded one. Ample width and closed center make this ideal for sunbathing while floating in the pool. Bright colors and fun design will make this the pool float everyone wants to use!


Saxton Freymann is a New York-based artist who has published his playful creations in several children's books. He creates animal and humanlike features on a variety of fruits and vegetables.
Saxton Freymann has a vivid imagination and really shows this in his fun creations. His books contain several vegetable creations that children would love to see. View the gallery for a short glimpse of some of his work.
Implications - One of the most effective ways a company can engender goodwill from consumers is by creating products that provide them with the ability to alter the way the product looks or is enjoyed. By offering consumers this flexibility, the company establishes a more personal connection between their products and consumers.


Blunted cortisol responses to stress signal social and behavioral problems among maltreated/bullied 12-year-old children.
Evidence from animal and human studies suggests that early-life stress such as physical maltreatment has long-lasting effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and is associated with blunted HPA axis reactivity in adulthood. Few studies have investigated whether blunted HPA axis reactivity observed in children exposed to early-life stress signals social, emotional, and behavioral problems.Participants were 190 12-year-old children (50.5% males) recruited from the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally representative 1994 to 1995 cohort of families with twins. Cortisol responses to psychosocial stress were measured in maltreated/bullied (n = 64) and comparison children (n = 126). We ascertained maltreatment and bullying victimization using mothers' reports and assessed children's social, emotional, and behavioral problems at ages 5 and 12 using mothers' and teachers' reports.Piecewise multilevel growth curve analyses indicated that maltreated/bullied and comparison children showed distinct cortisol responses to stress. Specifically, maltreated/bullied children had lower cortisol responses than comparison children who exhibited a significant increase. Lower cortisol responses were, in turn, associated with more social and behavioral problems among maltreated/bullied children.These findings provide support for the influence of childhood harm on blunted HPA axis reactivity and its potential impact on children's functioning. Our findings emphasize the need to integrate stress biomarkers in guiding prevention efforts for young victims.


Okay, it's my Mom's, but I took the picture.
I've come out ... as a cat lover!
Yep, I've been a total cat fancier since I was a kid.
Our family's almost always had cats, and with the recent death of Aretha, aka Aretha Franklin Kitten, I simply had to blather it online.
Aretha was the sweetest kitty, and she lived to be 18 or 19, 20, depending on who you talk to.
She died after suffering from a loss of appetite, possibly pancreatic cancer or liver failure. Very common among older cats.
I was very lucky to have Aretha in my home for her last few months. After knowing her when she lived in New York and Los Angeles with family, she was always shy and a bit odd.
However, living with me, and having the place to herself, and me catering to her every need, she truly blossomed in her last months.
The folks at All Pets Hospital on South Van Ness in San Francisco were very caring and understanding. It was obvious to them when she got sick that it would probably be fatal. They gave me advise based on the X-Rays. It would have cost hundreds of dollars to operate, give her chemo, etc.
My bro & sis-in-law had been through that with another cat, the somewhat famous Ted (star of MTV and various Sesame Street segments), so we had to make the sad decision to ease her pain.
The night before Aretha was set to be put to sleep, I held her, squirted a bit of the pain medication given me at All Pets into her mouth, with a water chaser, pet her and sang to her until five in the morning. She didn't like it when I cried, so I didn't ... too much.
I made a tape of her purring. She was almost playful, in her limited capacity, that last night, the wind blew in a strange way, and when I woke up, I knew something had happened. She died, politely as ever, in the bathroom.
Did you know that a cat's ashes come in a little box about four by five inches? Very small.
She was a tiny little furry shy gal, but she made life sweet each day. Her scratchy little meow will be missed.
I'm thinking of getting another cat, even though our family has two back in Ohio.
There's just something about cats!


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Food Thickeners Market Exhibit The Highest CAGR Of 5.9% by 2027 | Market Research Future
Elizabeth W. Jernigan April 25, 2022 4 min read
"Food Thickeners Market Analysis"
Food Thickeners Market Scope:
The food thickeners market could anticipate a CAGR of 5.9% over the evaluation period (2020 to 2027), reveals Market Research Future (MRFR). MRFR expects the amplified preference for convenience foods, confectionery, and bakery products worldwide to be a major reason for the strong demand for food thickeners in the food sector.
Key Boosters and Restraints
The dramatic growth of the food sector, especially the bakery and dairy sectors have been quite favorable for the food thickeners market. Factors including frequent product development, soaring consumer preferences for premium quality products, and strict food regulations will further facilitate market growth in the upcoming years.
Food thickeners like hydrocolloids, proteins, and starch have extensive applications within the baking industry, where these are predominantly utilized as stabilizing, gelling, and thickening agents. Additionally, mounting consumption of ready-to-eat, protein-rich snacks will also enhance the demand for food thickeners in the following years.
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Segmental Review
Food thickeners market, with respect to origin, caters to plants, animals, as well as microorganisms.
Food thickeners are available in different types in the global market, some of which include vegetable gums, proteins, starches, and more.
Food thickeners industry, depending on product type, has been considered for alginin, cornstarch, xanthan gum, guar gum, gelatin, collagen, carrageenan, agar, and more.
Food thickeners' major applications are in convenience foods, soups and gravies, confectionery, beverages, bakery, dressings and marinades, dairy products, and more.
Regional Insight
Majority of the manufacturers in North America are focused on conducting exhaustive R&D and cater to the soaring demand for food thickeners in the bakery and dairy sectors. Mounting preference for food products like soups, confectionaries, and marinates, in line with the rising prevalence of a healthy lifestyle among consumers further benefits the regional market. As a result, the global industry is dominated by North America, while the US has been recognized as the highest gainer in the region. The country is a major consumer of carrageenan as well as Xanthan gum, with the demand continuously rising in the food and beverage industry for different functionalities and applications.
In Asia Pacific, the market size is burgeoning at the fastest rate, thanks to the changing food consumption habits of the consumers influenced by the surging disposable income. China should expect to attain the leading position in the region, on account of the extensive use of thickeners in the food and beverage industry. Booming population and the abundance of key raw materials available in the country also add to the market strength. The Philippines happens to be the biggest producer of carrageenan and is one of the leading exporters of the same to other regions.
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Affluent Vendors
Ingredion Incorporated (U.S.), Archer Daniels Midland (U.S.), Kerry Group Plc (Ireland), Cargill (U.S.), E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (U.S.), Tate & Lyle PLC (U.K.), TIC Gums (U.S.) are the top food thickener developers highlighted in the extensive study.
These firms channelize their attempts at developing cutting-edge technologies & products, utilizing innovative techniques to produce cost-effective products. They also strive to bring down risks in their supply chains to strictly adhere to the delivery needs. Big multinational firms are collaborating with smaller vendors to gain a stronghold in regional markets. Another strategic move made by these companies is focusing on expanding their production capacity, to accommodate the rapid increase in the product demand.
To illustrate, in November 2021, CP Kelco introduced Kelcogel DFA Gellan Gum, which is a dual-function, single-ingredient solution for use in dairy alternative beverages. With the company's newly launched gellan gum grade product, manufacturers will be able to deliver a cleaner product label and also bring down the total costs while maintaining the quality.
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Ted Hudson is the chief of detectives at Kingsway. He's a man who came up the ranks the hard way.
He is a decent man, but a tough one. Canny and shrewd, Ted is a survivor.
Richard has had an impressive film and television career spanning many years. Most recently seen in TEN's Heroes' Mountain, Richard also starred in the Australian films Rabbit Proof Fence, Idiot Box, Muriel's Wedding and Stitched.
Richard has earned much praise for his roles in some of Australia's most critically-acclaimed television including, Wildside, G.P and The Flying Doctors to name a few.
Richard has also had a successful career as a stand up comedian, head-lining many tours around Australia and overseas.
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HR briefing - November
Welcome to this month's briefing for HR teams and in-house employment counsel – bringing you this month's employment law highlights in an easy-to-read package. We hope all our readers are safe and well in these troubling times.
In the wake of the new national lockdown, further regulations have been passed setting out the restrictions under which we all now live. For full details of the lockdown as it affects office work, read our article.
In a few short, chaotic days, the Government has made substantial changes to its support packages for business. The Job Support Scheme and Job Retention Bonus scheme have now been shelved, and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (or "CJRS" or "furlough") has been extended. The extension was initially for a month, to line up with the lockdown. It has now been extended further until the end of March 2021. For more details, read our article.
Data protection – subject access requests
One of the most significant aspects of the UK and EU's data protection regime is the right of data subjects (i.e. individuals, including employees) to check their personal data is being properly managed. The Information Commissioner's Office has recently published new guidance on this right, particularly the approach organisations should take if they receive a subject access request or SAR. The new guidance includes some helpful clarifications – for full details, read our article.
New UK Immigration Rules
The UK Government has finally published the rules which will govern the UK immigration system after the end of the Brexit transition period. Coming into force on 1 December 2020, the new rules confirm that all EEA nationals (except Irish citizens) will require immigration permission to work in the UK after 31 December 2020 and include a significant lowering of the skills threshold for the Skilled Worker category which enables UK employers to sponsor migrants to work in the UK.
For further details, please read our article.
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It has been quite in this little corner of the blogosphere lately. Must be because I am not doing anything, right?
As a substitute for becoming a real programmer, I have for years been writing VBScripts and wrapping them up with the Z-Zip Self-Extracting executable. After the release of Windows 8, this model became more difficult. Out-of-box, the 7-Zip self extractor started generating application compatibility troubleshooter pop-ups on clients. Even prior to that, clients would get warnings asking them "do you really want to execute this scary unsigned possibly-from-a-murdering-hacker" when they launched our executables.
The solution for this is, of course, to add an application manifest to the self-extractor, and then to digitally sign the resulting executable. Easy, right?
set SDKPath="C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits10binx86"
set /P CertPath="Enter the full path to the PKCS12/PFX signing certificate:"
set /P CertPass="Enter the password for certificate file:"
We are in the midst of deploying a WPA2-Enterprise wireless network here at UVM. During the testing process we have discovered that although domain-joined computers have no trouble using the network (out-of-box settings don't work very well, but we are pushing profiles using Group Policy to make easy for our clients), stand-alone workstations need very specific WiFi settings that are not overly intuitive.
On Windows XP, uses the free utility "zwlancfg.exe" written by ENGL to install our WPA2-Enterprise wireless profile. The script will install the KB918997 HotFix if it is not already present. This HotFix adds the WiFi API to Windows, allowing programmatic configuration of wireless on XP Service Pack 2 (Note: XP Service Pack 3 includes this HotFix).
to generate the XML profile called by the script.
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China stocks stuck in massive rut
by Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN September 25, 2012: 8:48 PM ET
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Despite a rapidly growing economy, China's marquee stock index has taken an epic drubbing, falling to a three-and-a-half year low.
The Shanghai Composite Index has tumbled 66% over the past five years, 27% over the past three years, and 6% so far in 2012.
The losses are stunning, especially given that the Shanghai Composite is only one of two major indexes to show declines this year. Spain's IBEX 35 is the other (it's down about 5%). But the NIkkei is up more than 7%, the FTSE 100 is up 5%, and Germany's DAX has skyrocketed 26%. In the United States, the S&P 500 has more than doubled from its recession lows, jumping 16% since January.
China's economy is still expanding at a 7% to 8% annual clip, but it has slowed somewhat from pre-recession figures that often exceeded 10%. Even with strong growth, state officials have taken steps to further spur the economy. China's central bank has cut rates twice this year, and a load of infrastructure projects are set to break ground.
Yet the actions have failed to arrest the Shanghai Composite's decline.
Some of the index's slowdown can be attributed to the sharp decline in corporate profits.
"While the economy may be on track for a soft landing, interim results show that corporate earnings growth has already crashed," HSBC economists noted in a research note that details the "disconnect" between the performance of equities and the larger economy.
Ghosn: China market can stand on its own
Analysts also noted that retail investors have abandoned stocks in droves and are instead seeking out higher returns in alternative investments.
"There has been a shift in demand for investors in general," said Winnie Deng, a senior associate at Z-Ben Advisors. "They are moving to short-term investments with more liquidity."
Among the top choices are physical property, wealth management and trust products that sometimes offer more lucrative returns. Equity analysts at Nomura have said that, while lacking hard data, anecdotal evidence suggests retail investors are also diverting funds to underground lending outlets and foreign real estate.
According to HSBC, millions of retail trading accounts have gone idle.
Regulators have loosened market controls in recent years, and reforms have increased the number of foreigners who are able to buy into the index, but there are still legal limits when it comes to foreign investors.
Meanwhile, dividends have been encouraged as a means toward drawing in more retail investors, who account for the majority of the index.
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HSBC's analysts said that "listed companies have raised too much equity capital, but paid out too little in dividends," which supports public criticisms that the "market heavily favors the interests of issuers (mostly state-owned enterprises), brokerages, and the government over investors."
Most observers agree that the once-a-decade political transition scheduled for next month will precede any substantial reforms. The make-up of the new leadership team is not yet known, but there is a chance that economic concerns will rank high on their agenda.
That may offer up a sliver of hope.
HSBC's analysts said that if China's economic growth stabilizes, its new administration commits to substantial structural and regulatory reforms, and foreign investment comes back, the Shanghai Composite could be poised for growth by the second half of 2013.
CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published September 25, 2012: 8:48 PM ET


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7 Production is set for a busy end of the year, as the Dubai-based production company is set to work on plenty of live events and sporting tournaments.
Starting with the Formula 1, the last few rounds will be held in the GCC. The Bahrain GP, where Romain Grosjean suffered a horrific crash on November 29th, is one of many productions the firm was involved in producing.
Shifting focus to the UAE, 7 will be involved in the 49th UAE National Day Celebration at the Burj Park. The celebration is being held by the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing and Emaar in Downtown Dubai.
The events will feature a live performance by the regional artists Balqees Fathi and Mohamed AI Shehhi on the 2nd of December, and Eida AI Menhali and Shamma Hamdan on the 3rd of December. Both events are being produced for MBC, one of 7 Production's major partners.
Camel racing is also set to return to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in December.
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The fly pack system, which 7's managing director Pierre Tabet exclusively unveiled in an interview to DS.com in 2019, was seen in action at the F1 Bahrain GP.
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August | 2018 | Pray for Revival!
This article is an excerpt from my book, The Prayer that Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution. This post is the third in an eight part series on the Lord's Prayer.
Over the past several decades I have noticed that many Christians tend to begin their prayers by presenting their needs. Of course, in some sense, I understand why we naturally turn to petition almost immediately upon entering into prayer. We tend to begin with petitions because prayer reminds us of our deep need for God to sanctify us in our circumstances and save us from our trials. Additionally, our circumstances and trials are often the very thing that drives us to pray in the first place. Thus the tyranny of the urgent has a remarkable way of consuming our intellectual life and our thought patterns. As a result, our prayers, from beginning to end, are often marked by petition.
Do you notice what is stunningly absent? There is no first-person singular pronoun in the entire prayer! Jesus did not teach us to pray, "My father who is heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give me this day my daily bread and forgive me my debts as I also have forgiven my debtors. And lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil." The point is not to deny our own sins or our own needs, but never to leave ourselves there.
One of the besetting sins of evangelicalism is our obsession with individualism. This obsession with individualism chronically besets us as evangelicals. The first-person singular pronoun reigns in our thinking. We tend to think about nearly everything (including the truths of God's Word) only as they relate to me. This is why when Jesus teaches his disciples to pray, he emphasizes from the very outset that we are part of a corporate people called the church. God is not merely "my Father." He is "our Father"—the Father of my brothers and sisters in the faith with whom I identify and with whom I pray.
If we are honest, even many of our prayer meetings fail to take into account Jesus' emphasis on the corporate character of prayer. Yet we must never lose sight of the fact that even when we pray by ourselves, we must pray with an eye toward and with love for Christ's church. We must remember the pattern of our Lord's speech in the model prayer and recall not only the words he used, but the words he didn't use. The first-person singular (I, me, my, mine) is completely absent from the Lord's Prayer. Evidently, prayer should not center on you or me.
Let Us Be Constant in Prayer!
A young lawyer who had just opened his law practice was sitting in his chair behind his new executive desk, waiting for his first client to come in. When he saw a man walking toward his office, he picked up the phone and began talking to his imaginary assistant. He said, "Yes, I am so busy right now. Ask them to call back. I have so many clients, I just don't have time." He hung up the phone, sure that he had just impressed his first visitor.
That's how it is for us when we try to impress God with things we say and do. Jesus told the story of two men who went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee who prayed, "God, I thank You that I am not like other men-extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess" (Luke 18:11–12 NKJV).
The other was a tax collector who simply said, "God, be merciful to me a sinner!" (verse 13 NKJV).
Jesus said of the tax collector, "This man went down to his house justified rather than the other" (verse 14 NKJV). The primary problem of the Pharisees, the religious elite, was that prayer, for them, was theater. It was a performance. They would stand praying on a street corner, and sometimes someone would sound a trumpet. Jesus was saying that God doesn't care about things like that. They were so concerned with impressing people, but God wasn't impressed.
At times I've wanted to answer, "No. Would you be willing to explain it to me?" But the truth is, as a mother of five living children and one that died in my womb, I do know what causes those little humans to exist. Just like I know what caused the person who asks such a question to exist. God does.
Often it isn't the children themselves that bother onlookers, but the impracticality of having so many that gets under their skin. They want to know if the kids share rooms, what the grocery bill is like, how we plan to manage college, and most importantly, why we would subject ourselves to so much work.
The queen of heaven — that nonexistent goddess of fertility and love on whom God's people had set their hearts — was requiring offerings. What did she desire aside from their complete devotion? Drink offerings and fancy cakes with her face on them. The Lord called such idolatry and sacrifices an abomination (Jeremiah 44:4).
Picturing the women of Judah foolishly and sinfully baking cakes for their female fertility idol (Jeremiah 44:19) ought to stir our hearts and have us wondering where the finger should be pointed. If sacrifices of drinks and cakes to a false goddess of fertility kindled the Lord's anger to the point that he forbade Jeremiah to pray for the people (Jeremiah 7:16), then what must God think of a society that has made child sacrifice normal for the sake of elective infertility?
What must he think of a society that goes to such great lengths to do away with children, only to go great lengths to acquire other children when the time is right?
Many worship the false queen of heaven in her cloak of personal autonomy.
One summer I worked for an old Texas rancher, killing mesquite trees on vast acres of uncultivated grassland. With a tank of Roundup on my back and a sprayer in my hand, I walked countless miles through the tall grass of these pastures. It was a boring job except for one thing: rattlesnakes.
I was in the Texas Big Country, an area famous for its annual Rattlesnake Roundup. My one measure of protection was a pair of plastic chaps, hard enough to deflect the fangs of a rattler, worn over my jeans. But the chaps weren't enough to take me off my guard. Like my childhood hero Indiana Jones, I hated snakes (still do!), and I never knew when a rattler would cross my path. One time I came within about two feet of stepping on one. That experience made me vigilant: I watched where I stepped, listening for any faint hint of a rattle, ready to jump at any sudden movement. Danger felt imminent, and I was watchful.
Vigilance is an essential component to the spiritual discipline of watchfulness. To be vigilant is to be on guard. The sentinel of a city is vigilant. He watches for the approach of the enemy. Warriors are vigilant. They're watchful and wary of their antagonist's every move. People become vigilant when they realize they're in jeopardy. As soldiers of the cross, we are surrounded by enemies.
Watchfulness, therefore, is as necessary to a healthy spiritual life as meditation and prayer. Jesus tells his disciples to "watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation" (Matt. 26:41). The letters of Paul, Peter, and John sound the same note, urging us to exercise moral vigilance and watchful prayer (1 Cor. 16:13; Gal. 6:1; Col. 4:2; 1 Tim. 4:16; 1 Pet. 4:7; 2 John 8). And Hebrews commands mutual watchfulness and exhortation while also reminding us to obey those leaders who keep watch over our souls (Heb. 3:12; 13:17).
Yet despite this biblical emphasis, watchfulness is one practice that rarely gets mentioned in contemporary manuals of spiritual disciplines.
That hasn't always been the case. In fact, the 17th-century Puritans wrote often about watchfulness and its practical outworking in our lives.
Richard Rogers, for example, was an early Puritan who published a substantial book called Seven Treatises in 1602. Divided into seven parts, the 900-page compendium on Christian living explores the full spectrum of religious life and experience. In the third treatise, Rogers discusses "the means whereby a godly life is helped and continued" and divides these helps into two categories: public and private. The private means include things you might expect, like meditation, prayer, and fasting.
The implication is clear: neglect watchfulness and you will hinder other spiritual practices. Watchfulness is the whetstone of the spiritual disciplines, the one practice that keeps the other habits sharp.
The discipline of watchfulness includes both negative and positive aspects. Negatively, we're to ruthlessly guard our hearts from sin and temptation, making no provision for the flesh (Prov. 4:23; Matt. 26:41; Rom. 13:14).
This requires the cultivation of self-examination, where we take regular inventory of our personal tendencies towards particular sins, what the Puritan Isaac Ambrose called "Delilah sins." Delilah sins, like Samson's Philistine mistress, like to sit on our laps and whisper sweet nothings in our ears, but they will betray us to our foes in a heartbeat and cut off our moral strength. These are the specific sin patterns we've cultivated through willful and habitual sin. Like deep ruts that furrow a muddy road, these vices are etched into our lives through daily routines, self-justifying rationalization, and continual repetition.
Having identified these sin patterns, we then need to persistently protect the points of entry to the heart. John Bunyan, in his allegory The Holy War, refers to these entry points as five gates to the city of Mansoul: "Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, and Feel-gate." When we fail to watch, temptation clambers into our hearts through an unwatched gate. This means we can't tend our hearts without considering the websites we visit, the books we read, the shows and movies we watch, the places we frequent, and the music and messages that fill our ears.
The discipline of watching is like a home security system. An effective surveillance system includes several components, such as security cameras, motion sensors, floodlights, electric locks, and high-decibel alarms. All these components serve one purpose: protecting the home from dangerous intruders. In similar fashion, watchfulness embraces a variety of practices, such as self-examination, prayer, meditation, and accountability, but all governed by the single intention of keeping the heart.
But there's also a positive dimension to watchfulness. We mustn't only mortify sin and avoid temptation. We must also set our gaze on Jesus. To return to the city metaphor, we mustn't only guard the gates of our souls from dangerous intruders but also store our hearts with the gospel. Our goal in keeping our hearts isn't to keep them empty, but to make room for Christ to dwell in our hearts through faith (Eph. 3:17).


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Gilead Shuts Down Six Zydelig Trials Following EMA Review
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Gilead Sciences halted six trials for its cancer drug Zydelig following concerns of adverse effects and deaths.
March 16, 2016 /by BioSpace
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Experts urge more cautious dosing after fatal French drug trial
Researchers should be more cautious in dosing experimental medicines in early human trials, even when drugs are thought to be low risk, experts reviewing a French clinical study that left one person dead said on Wednesday. The volunteer died and five others became seriously ill in January after being given high doses of a […]
March 15, 2016 /by Reuters Health
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Celator stock soars after leukemia treatment shows survival benefit
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Celator Pharmaceuticals Inc on Monday said its Vyxeos treatment helped older high-risk patients with a deadly form of leukemia live longer than those who received the standard of care regimen in a late stage clinical trial, sending its stock price soaring. Celator shares jumped to $9 in extended trading from a Nasdaq close at $1.68. […]
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Vericel's heart drug successful in mid-stage study
Vericel Corp.'s experimental drug reduced death, hospitalizations and emergency visits in patients who are at risk of a heart failure in a mid-stage study
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Celldex discontinues late-stage study of brain cancer vaccine
Celldex Therapeutics Inc said it would discontinue a late-stage study of its brain cancer vaccine after an independent interim analysis suggested the therapy might not show a statistically significant benefit in patient survival compared with standard chemotherapy. Celldex shares more than halved to $3.76 in premarket trading on Monday. The vaccine, Rintega, belongs to an […]
March 7, 2016 /by Reuters Health
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Novo Nordisk says Victoza helps lower heart risks
Novo Nordisk said on Friday the results from a trial showed that its Victoza diabetes drug significantly reduced the risks of major adverse cardiovascular events. "People with type 2 diabetes generally have a higher risk of experiencing major adverse cardiovascular events. That's why we are very excited about the results from LEADER (trial), which […]
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Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca seek tonic from key drug trials
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Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca, two drugmakers whose financial outlooks disappointed investors last month, are both hoping for a boost in the coming weeks from results of two closely watched clinical trials. AstraZeneca wants to prove its blood-thinner Brilinta can help stroke patients, in addition to those with heart problems, while Novo aims to showcase the […]
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Multiple Failed Trials Lead Chimerix to Slash 20% of Workforce
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In light of three failed clinical trials and disappointing financial statements, Durham, N.C.-based Chimerix (CMRX) cut about 20 percent of its workforce. Chimerix focuses on the development of antiviral medications. At its recent fourth-quarter financial statements, the company reported a net loss of $117.4 million, or $2.67 per basic and diluted share for last […]
March 1, 2016 /by BioSpace
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Otsuka Announces Worldwide Access Plan for Delamanid with Stop TB Partnership's Global Drug Facility
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MUNICH, February 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Recognizing the immediate need for access to new therapeutic options for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), Otsuka Novel Products GmbH (Otsuka) today announced an ambitious new public-private partnership with the Stop TB Partnership (Stop TB) to increase access and scale-up treatment of delamanid (Deltyba™) in low- and middle-income countries. Any country […]
February 24, 2016 /by PR Newswire
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For Clinical Trials, Centralized Imaging Data Collection and Review Is a Must
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By Joseph Pierro, chief medical officer of Biomedical Systems. In many clinical trials, clinical imaging plays an important role in the drug development process. Whether the trial involves drugs, biologics, or devices, imaging may be used to measure the efficacy and safety of the investigational product. An independent assessment based on the centralized […]
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The Ottawa Sugar Bushes are a very popular spot in late winter to early spring when the temperatures become milder and the sap starts to run. It is a great place to bring the entire family for an outing.
Have you ever been to a Sugar Bush? Do you know what they are? If you have ever had maple syrup on your pancakes or waffles then you know that distinct, sweet taste of the syrup. Well, that maple syrup is made at a Sugar Bush.
Lanark County (which is located just west of Ottawa) is nicknamed the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario. However, there are many of other sugar bushes in Ottawa and the surrounding area. No matter where you are coming from, there is sure to be one not too far away.
The season usually runs from about the middle of February until the middle of April. There is no way of knowing the exact dates in advance that the sugar shacks in Ottawa will be open though, as it all depends on the weather.
These are quite a few Ottawa sugar bushes and sugar shacks. Directions to some of the locations are further down the page.
So, how is maple syrup made? The best weather conditions for the production of the sap is +4 degrees Celsius in the daytime and below freezing overnight. Sap is tapped from sugar maple and black maple trees and is then boiled in an evaporator. After the water is boiled out of the sap, the product becomes thicker and turns into a sweet maple syrup.
If you would like to read about the process in more detail, please visit the website for Fulton's Pancake House & Sugar Bush.
Apart from finding out how maple syrup is made, you can also participate in a variety of other activities at the local Ottawa sugar bushes. You can hop on a sleigh ride or you can take a scenic walk along the nature trails.
We recently took some friends of ours from overseas to a sugar bush. We started off trying some of the maple taffy. That is maple syrup that is drizzled onto snow (clean snow) and when it freezes (pretty quickly) it is rolled up onto a stick. Kids of all ages love it! Then we took a stroll around to read about the process in making maple syrup. It was very informative. It is a great place to visit with kids and adults.
A trip is not complete until you have had something to eat in their pancake house. Don't worry, it isn't just pancakes. They have other choices too like maple sausages. It is a very cool feeling sitting there, eating your meal and looking out the window at all the maple trees knowing that that is where your maple syrup came from!
You can also buy some maple products from their gift shop. If you are anything like us, you will be amazed at what they could make with maple sugar. We sure did buy a lot of gifts for our family and friends!
Enjoy your day out at one of the Ottawa Sugar Bushes! Hope you enjoy the atmosphere, the information and the great tasting maple syrup!
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Q: How to generate javascript from Java POJO model classes For my microservice implementation I use POJOs with no implementation to serve as model classes for the service API. Is there a library that can be used to generate javascript POJOs from the JAVA POJOs so that I can use them in my Angular javascript clients? The ideal tool could be invoked from my project's gradle and package the generated javascript into a package consumable by jabascript environment (e.g. npm).

A: So far my research suggests jsweet and the jsweet-gradle-plugin as what will solve my problem nicely:
https://github.com/lgrignon/jsweet-gradle-plugin

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i dont have any favorite sports.
i dont exually like sports at all.
well my favorite games are Super smash bros brawl. i also enjoy super mario, kirby, sonic the hegehog, the Legend of Zelda, Minecraft and pokemon.
i dont really have any favorite movies.
my dad and my mom and my neighbours, and my family. And them there respekts me. and my friends. and of course i respect Geoff.


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'The Chi' Showrunner Addresses Jason Mitchell's Firing, Says 'Everyone Was Well Aware' Of Misconduct Allegations
By Jamie Samhan. 28 May 2019 7:50 PM
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Actor Jason Mitchell was been dropped from "The Chi" along with several other projects, with Variety reporting that Mitchell will no longer be in the Netflix film "Desperados" or the third season of "The Chi". His reps UTA, Authentic Talent and Literary Management also dropped him.
According to Deadline, Mitchell's firing reportedly has to do with an off-set incident during production of "Desperados", noting that the "incident was investigated immediately and thoroughly, leading to Mitchell's termination."
Mitchell has been in high demand after his breakout role in "Straight Outta Compton", but was investigated in 2016 for reportedly slamming a woman into the ground in Boston.
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Following Mitchell's firing, "The Chi" showrunner Ayanna Floyd (who took over showrunning duties from series creator Lena Waithe after the first season) opened up to The Hollywood Reporter, revealing that she and an actress on the show had both reported Mitchell's on-set behaviour to HR.
According to THR, Mitchell's firing from "Desperados" may have been the catalyst for his being fired from "The Chi", but Floyd maintains his conduct on the Showtime series was common knowledge on the set, with both Floyd and actress Tiffany Boone making HR complaints about Mitchell.
And while Waithe has claimed she wasn't made aware of Mitchell's misconduct until after the first season, Floyd says that isn't true.
"When I took the helm in season two, it was Lena who informed me of the issues between Jason Mitchell and Tiffany Boone from season one, and that Tiffany was thinking of leaving the show because of it," says Floyd in a statement to THR. "As a result of this information, I discussed Tiffany's claims with the studio's HR department and set up HR presentations for the writers, cast and crew. Ultimately, everyone was well aware of Jason's behaviour and his multiple HR cases, including Lena, the creator and an executive producer of the show, who is very involved at the studio and network level."
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Floyd adds, "As showrunner, I did everything I could to deal with his behaviour, by speaking with the studio's HR department multiple times and instructing one actress to call HR herself, before I became a target of his rage and inappropriateness, and had to report him to HR, as well."
Waithe has also issued a statement, which doesn't challenge Floyd's account. "I think Tiffany is a wonderful actress and an extremely brave woman. I wish her nothing but success in the future," reads Waithe's statement. "I look forward to getting back to work on season three."
"Told of Floyd's statement, the source close to Waithe said the showwrunner did inform Waithe of the ongoing conduct but said she would handle it," reports THR, noting that Floyd will not be returning to "The Chi" as showrunner for season three.
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In addition to being fired from "The Chi" and being dropped by his agent and management team, Mitchell has now lost out on his MTV Movie & TV Award nomination.
The 32-year-old was originally up for Best Performance in a Show for his role on "The Chi".
"In light of recent developments, we have removed Jason Mitchell as a nominee," an MTV spokesperson told Variety.
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Pavin, Hamilton share 1st-round lead at Allianz Champions
By Craig Dolch
Published on Saturday, February 6, 2016
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — In conditions that more resembled a British Open than South Florida, former major champions Corey Pavin and Todd Hamilton shot 6-under 66s Friday to tie for the first-round lead in the Allianz Championship.
Pavin won the 1995 U.S. Open among his 15 PGA Tour titles. He made four birdies in a five-hole stretch on The Old Course despite 20-mph winds and temperatures in the 50s at the start of the PGA Tour Champions event.
"It played tough today," Pavin said. "The only thing that made the course a little easier was the greens were receptive. If they were firm, it would have been really difficult."
Hamilton, the 2004 British Open champion, reeled off four consecutive birdies on his back nine.
Pavin has won just once in 111 starts on the PGA Tour Champions circuit -- he took the 2012 Allianz Championship, thanks to a left-handed chip with an 8-iron that saved par.
"Never before and never after," Pavin said of that recovery shot. "It's been hard for me to win out here, I'll tell you what. I've played some good golf and not won. On this tour all these guys have won a lot of tournaments. It's not like you're playing against guys who have never won. They know how to win."
This was Hamilton's fourth start in the 50-and-older competition.
"The wind conditions were similar (to the British Open), but the ground conditions weren't because they've had some rain here lately," Hamilton said. "I knew I was climbing the leader board a little bit. I knew whoever shot 6-under would be pleased."
Another major champion, 1996 British Open winner Tom Lehman, birdied his last hole to share third place with Billy Andrade after 67s. Lehman made three birdies in a row on the front nine.
"In these conditions, you have to hit it solid," said Lehman, who won here in 2011. "If you don't hit it solid, you're really going to get eaten up by the conditions."
John Huston, Guy Boros, Kirk Triplett and Esteban Toledo are tied for fifth place at 68.
Defending champion Paul Goydos was tied for 13th with a 70.
This article was written by Craig Dolch from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.


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Die Parlamentswahl in Antigua und Barbuda 2014 für die Abgeordneten des Repräsentantenhauses fanden am 12. Juni 2014 statt. Hierzu traten 41 Kandidaten von sechs verschiedenen Parteien an.

Wahlergebnis
Die Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP, ehemals Antigua Labour Party) kam nach 10 Jahren in der Opposition wieder an Macht und konnte 14 der 17 Mandate erringen. Die United Progressive Party (UPP) des bisherigen Premierminister Baldwin Spencer konnte nur drei, von bisher neun Sitzen. Die ABLP hatte die Politik des Landes bereits seit der Unabhängigkeit vom Vereinigten Königreich 1981 bis zu den Wahlen 2004 dominiert. Der Ehegatte der Enkelin des ehemaligen Premierministers Vere Cornwall Bird, Gaston Browne, führte die ABLP bei den Wahlen 2014 an.

Die Wirtschaft des Landes war in den fünf Jahren zuvor geschrumpft. Im Jahr 2010 hat die Regierung der UPP beim Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) eine Stand-by-Vereinbarung zur Stabilisierung der Schulden des Landes angestrebt. Die Arbeitslosenquote stieg in 10 Jahren von 5 auf 25 Prozent. Die ABLP versprach, die persönliche Einkommensteuer abzuschaffen, mehr Arbeitsplätze zu schaffen und mehr Investitionen ins Land zu holen. Die UPP, die eine dritte Amtszeit anstrebte, versprach, die Wirtschaft durch den Bau eines neuen Hafens und eines modernen Zentrums für darstellende Kunst, sowie die Erforschung von Raumfahrttechnologien zu beleben.

Am 13. Juni wurde Gaston Browne als Premierminister vereidigt und wurde damit der bisher jüngste Amtsinhaber des Landes.

Gewählte Abgeordneten

Einzelnachweise

2014
Antigua und Barbuda


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package whisk.core.controller

import scala.language.postfixOps
import scala.util.Try

import shapeless.HNil
import spray.http.StatusCodes.RequestEntityTooLarge
import spray.httpx.SprayJsonSupport._
import spray.routing.Directive0
import spray.routing.Directives
import spray.routing.RequestContext
import spray.routing.Route
import whisk.common.TransactionId
import whisk.core.entitlement.Privilege._
import whisk.core.entitlement.Resource
import whisk.core.entity._
import whisk.core.entity.ActivationEntityLimit
import whisk.core.entity.size._
import whisk.http.ErrorResponse.terminate
import whisk.http.Messages

protected[controller] trait ValidateRequestSize extends Directives {
    protected def validateSize(check: => Option[SizeError])(
        implicit tid: TransactionId) = new Directive0 {
        def happly(f: HNil => Route) = {
            check map {
                case e: SizeError => terminate(RequestEntityTooLarge, Messages.entityTooBig(e))
            } getOrElse f(HNil)
        }
    }

    /** Checks if request entity is within allowed length range. */
    protected def isWhithinRange(length: Long) = {
        if (length <= allowedActivationEntitySize) {
            None
        } else Some {
            SizeError(fieldDescriptionForSizeError, length.B, allowedActivationEntitySize.B)
        }
    }

    protected val allowedActivationEntitySize: Long = ActivationEntityLimit.MAX_ACTIVATION_ENTITY_LIMIT.toBytes
    protected val fieldDescriptionForSizeError = "Request"
}

/** A trait implementing the basic operations on WhiskEntities in support of the various APIs. */
trait WhiskCollectionAPI
    extends Directives
    with AuthenticatedRouteProvider
    with AuthorizedRouteProvider
    with ValidateRequestSize
    with ReadOps
    with WriteOps {

    /** The core collections require backend services to be injected in this trait. */
    services: WhiskServices =>

    /** Creates an entity, or updates an existing one, in namespace. Terminates HTTP request. */
    protected def create(user: Identity, entityName: FullyQualifiedEntityName)(implicit transid: TransactionId): RequestContext => Unit

    /** Activates entity. Examples include invoking an action, firing a trigger, enabling/disabling a rule. */
    protected def activate(user: Identity, entityName: FullyQualifiedEntityName, env: Option[Parameters])(implicit transid: TransactionId): RequestContext => Unit

    /** Removes entity from namespace. Terminates HTTP request. */
    protected def remove(user: Identity, entityName: FullyQualifiedEntityName)(implicit transid: TransactionId): RequestContext => Unit

    /** Gets entity from namespace. Terminates HTTP request. */
    protected def fetch(user: Identity, entityName: FullyQualifiedEntityName, env: Option[Parameters])(implicit transid: TransactionId): RequestContext => Unit

    /** Gets all entities from namespace. If necessary filter only entities that are shared. Terminates HTTP request. */
    protected def list(user: Identity, path: EntityPath, excludePrivate: Boolean)(implicit transid: TransactionId): RequestContext => Unit

    /** Indicates if listing entities in collection requires filtering out private entities. */
    protected val listRequiresPrivateEntityFilter = false // currently supported on PACKAGES only

    /** Dispatches resource to the proper handler depending on context. */
    protected override def dispatchOp(user: Identity, op: Privilege, resource: Resource)(implicit transid: TransactionId) = {
        resource.entity match {
            case Some(EntityName(name)) => op match {
                case READ => fetch(user, FullyQualifiedEntityName(resource.namespace, name), resource.env)
                case PUT =>
                    entity(as[LimitedWhiskEntityPut]) { e =>
                        validateSize(e.isWithinSizeLimits)(transid) {
                            create(user, FullyQualifiedEntityName(resource.namespace, name))
                        }
                    }
                case ACTIVATE =>
                    extract(_.request.entity.data.length) { length =>
                        validateSize(isWhithinRange(length))(transid) {
                            activate(user, FullyQualifiedEntityName(resource.namespace, name), resource.env)
                        }
                    }

                case DELETE => remove(user, FullyQualifiedEntityName(resource.namespace, name))
                case _      => reject
            }
            case None => op match {
                case READ =>
                    // the entitlement service will authorize any subject to list PACKAGES
                    // in any namespace regardless of ownership but the list operation CANNOT
                    // produce all entities in the requested namespace UNLESS the subject is
                    // entitled to them which for now means they own the namespace. If the
                    // subject does not own the namespace, then exclude packages that are private
                    val excludePrivate = listRequiresPrivateEntityFilter && resource.namespace.root != user.namespace
                    logging.info(this, s"[LIST] exclude private entities: required == $excludePrivate")
                    list(user, resource.namespace, excludePrivate)

                case _ => reject
            }
        }
    }

    /** Validates entity name from the matched path segment. */
    protected val segmentDescriptionForSizeError = "Name segement"

    protected override final def entityname(s: String) = {
        validate(isEntity(s), {
            if (s.length > EntityName.ENTITY_NAME_MAX_LENGTH) {
                Messages.entityNameTooLong(
                    SizeError(
                        segmentDescriptionForSizeError,
                        s.length.B,
                        EntityName.ENTITY_NAME_MAX_LENGTH.B))
            } else {
                Messages.entityNameIllegal
            }
        }) & extract(_ => s)
    }

    /** Confirms that a path segment is a valid entity name. Used to reject invalid entity names. */
    protected final def isEntity(n: String) = Try { EntityName(n) } isSuccess
}

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January 24, 2001 Arts & Culture » Arts
Tender Trapp
St. Louis celebrates one of its favorite things
By Eddie Silva
With habits so popular, maybe the Catholic Church should reconsider Vatican II's loosened directives on sisterly apparel.
More than a half-hour before showtime, the Fox Theatre looks like the downtown Strassenfest. Where in the closets of St. Louis is there room for all these lederhosen? Women dressed as Austrian milkmaids act as giddily as they would if they had just been running in Alpine air. A Tyrolean beat plays as preshow music for Sing-a-long Sound of Music. One couple takes up a dance step that resembles the stiff motions of figures in Bavarian clock towers.
A man and woman enter the auditorium, encased in his-and-hers boxes. They're "brown-paper packages tied up with string," as the lyric from "My Favorite Things" goes, although, the man admits, "I tried to come up with a way to be a goat puppet."
There are so many people dressed as nuns -- men and women -- that if someone from the College of Cardinals were witnessing this, he might call for a reconsideration of Vatican II's loosened directives on sisterly apparel. The Catholic Church has been having a hard time getting women into nunneries lately -- the privilege of wearing a wimple might be worth the price of sexual abstinence.
Many people show up as Von Trapp children dressed for bed. This not only coincides with the costumes for "My Favorite Things" (to assuage the children's fears of lightning and thunder, Maria sings to them in her bedroom, remember?), it allows people to do what probably many moviegoers have always wanted to do -- go to the cinema in their pajamas.
The best entrance of the evening is that of two men who arrive together in an estimated 14 feet of white felt. "We're warm woolen mittens!" they cry. Is this their first time at a Sing-a-long Sound of Music? "Yes, our first time," says the right-hand mitten. And how many times have you seen The Sound of Music? The right hand ponders this question: "I've probably never seen it all the way through."
Since SofM first became a phenomenon nearly four decades ago, millions have seen the story of the novitiate Maria (Julie Andrews) bringing life and song back into the lives of the Von Trapps and, in the bargain, winning the hand of the family's austere patriarch, the Austrian naval captain played by Christopher Plummer. (Austrian Navy?) Despite being ravaged by the press -- legend has it Pauline Kael lost her job as film critic for McCall's because of her review, "a sugar-coated lie" being one of the nicer things she wrote -- SofM is one of those rare films that filled moviehouses for months, with many people going back for repeat viewings. It was the date movie of 1965 (and to show how quickly attitudes changed in the volatile '60s, the next great date movie was The Graduate, in 1967). The picture's box-office success saved the near-bankrupt 20th Century Fox. It was awarded five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Mike Isaacson of Fox Associates (and an RFT contributing writer), who is as responsible as anybody for bringing Sing-a-long SofM to St. Louis, qualifies the picture as one of the hallmarks of American popular culture: "You have the nuns and you have the Nazis, which are these icons of such innocence and such evil." The film is chockablock with archetypes, most notably the contrast between the virginal Maria and the "worldly" baroness (which, perhaps, makes it not all that different from The Graduate and the Katherine Ross/Anne Bancroft dichotomy). There probably is no need for captions (except for the Latin parts), Isaacson asserts, because the score is so familiar, even revered.
The Sing-a-Long SofM phenomenon began at a London gay-and-lesbian film festival in 1998, which is only natural: A film as wholesome and earnest as SofM inevitably moves from family classic to camp classic. When Sing-a-long SofM moved to London's Prince of Wales Theatre, with audience members in costume developing a growing series of routines (when a view of the Alps appears, which is often, everyone yells, "Alps!"; when Rolf appears, everyone barks, "Rolf, Rolf, Rolf"), the experience became known as the Rocky Horror Picture Show version of SofM. One London journalist described the enthusiasm that grew in that small Piccadilly theater: "When Julie Andrews runs into view across the side of a mountain, the cheer goes up like when England scores a goal at Wembley."
Isaacson has seen Sing-a-long SofM in both its London and New York incarnations. He thinks it's natural the British came up with the idea first: "The British actually enjoy being sillier than Americans do. There's the music-hall tradition; there's the pantomime tradition of yelling out and participating. It's part of their culture. I saw that and thought this was never going to work in New York."
But it did, on New Yorkers' terms. "You can look at the film, and the film is unabashed in its innocence," says Isaacson. "You can either roll with that, or you can attack. In New York, they went after it." So when Maria picks up her guitar and asks the children what they would have her sing, the audience call is often ""Freebird'!" When Uncle Max tells the children he has a surprise for them, voices rise from the audience: "I'm gay!"
That's actually fairly tame, considering what can be made of the captain's demands for discipline, or that bedroom scene with the baroness and Maria while the pure governess is changing her clothes, or ...
It all depends on what an audience wants to do to SofM, whether they decide to render it insignificant or to leave it whole, if somewhat mussed. St. Louis audiences, characteristically, treat the film playfully, as one of their favorite things. On Saturday evening, there is even a note of caution provided by emcee Ed Coffield: "Don't say anything you wouldn't want Maria or the children to hear."
When an audience member enters the Fox, he or she receives a bag of props that includes flash cards to accompany "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" (a question mark, a picture of Maria, the word "flibbertigibbet" and a symbol that looks like Casper the Friendly Ghost but is meant to stand for a will-o-the-wisp -- these are raised in the air at the appropriate moments in the song). There is a plastic sprig of edelweiss, an invitation to the captain's ball, a party popper (for the moment when Maria and the captain finally kiss) and a swatch of fabric. (Remember? The captain won't buy Maria fabric for the children's play clothes, prompting the audience to cry, "The curtains, Maria, the curtains.") Directives from Coffield include standing and saluting whenever the captain appears; exclaiming, "Isn't she cute?" whenever Gretl, the youngest Von Trapp, does something cute (which is every time she's onscreen); and hissing the baroness whenever she slithers through a scene. The audience does this one better. Because every gesture by the baroness is accompanied by the lighting of a cigarette, the chorus of hisses harmonizes with a group hacking a mean smoker's cough. As it turns out, the baroness becomes more of a foil than the Nazis (who just get booed). When the captain finally tells her the engagement is over, the crowd joins in a rousing chorus of "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye."
Those audience members who know the film best come up with the most inventive bits, because their references are so obscure. Back in the abbey, for example, one of the sisters suggests that a cowbell be tied to Maria to keep track of her -- the folks who came with cowbells draped around their necks have their moment. The women in top hats and tails explain they are "bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies." The women who look a little out of place in Mardi Gras bird masks justify their costumes: "We're absurd little birds popping up to say, "Coo coo.'"
But the special moment of the evening is provided by the man dressed as an Austrian frau, the precise replica -- as it turns out -- of the singer who receives third prize in the Salzburg Music Festival. (Remember? The awarding of those prizes aids the Von Trapps in their getaway.) When the scene takes place, he runs to the stage and bows right along with his inspiration.
Isaacson is concerned now that the next time the Muny does SofM, the production will be heckled. But then, that might be an improvement. Or maybe Magic Smoking Monkey Theater should tackle Sing-a-long Sound of Music Live.
Or, better yet, Sing-a-long South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
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Press Releases>Technology>Peripherals>Newport Corporation>
Newport Corporation
Newport Expands SA2 Aluminum Breadboard Product Line
Irvine, CA, February 14, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in lasers and photonics solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, introduces an expanded product line of low-cost aluminum breadboards and accessories for basic photonics research and OEM optical assemblies. The new SA2 Series of solid aluminum breadboards includes more diverse sizes to provide a stable yet lightweight platform for optical components and sub-assemblies.
The SA2 Series sizes include 4 in. x 6 in., 6 in. x 6 in., 8 in. x 8 in., 6 in. x 24 in., and 6 in. x 36 in. to offer more flexibility for optical experiments. A standard grid of tapped holes extends to within 0.5 inches of the plate edges, providing more mounting surface than competitive products. The SA2 also features "in-grid" counter-bored holes and generous edge chamfers that make lifting, aligning, and integrating the SA2 onto standard optical tables much easier than competitive models.
Newport's SA2 Series is available in custom sizes and shapes, upon request. The imperial standard models feature ¼-20 tapped holes on a 1-inch grid and metric models feature M6 tapped holes on a 25mm grid. All versions are deep black anodized to minimize surface reflections. Other surface finishes are available upon request.
According to Warren Booth, Vibration Control product line manager, "Customer feedback on the SA2 family has been very positive since its introduction last year. The unique design features have made the SA2 the most popular basic breadboard in the industry. We have received numerous requests to expand the offering and this latest release is a reflection of that customer feedback and our dedication to delivering what our customers need."
For more information on the ultra low cost, highly durable SA2 Aluminum Breadboards and other Newport vibration control solutions, please visit www.newport.com/SA2.
Pete Neely
www.newport.com