With a view to uplift the living standards of the underprivileged people living in the Jaffna Peninsula, Sri anka Army troops launched a project to build toilet facilities for a group of needy families there. Under the project, 27 new toilets were built with support from an expat living in Australia, states Army media.
Accordingly, these sanitary facilities were built by Army troops in Jaffna with the support of Dr Uma Nataraja. A ceremony was held at the Kaleivani Community Centre in Velvetithurai, Jaffna on Friday (15 February) to announce the completion of the project. The occasion was also made more memorable as 50 chairs were also donated to the particular community centre.
Meanwhile, troops in the Wanni region facilitated the donation of wheelchairs and walking stands to a group of disable people living in the region. This initiative was taken by the Security Force Headquarters - Wanni (SFHQ-W) with the generous support of provided by Crystal Martin Garments PLC under their CSR project.
12 wheelchairs and 10 walking stands were distributed to needy beneficiaries. The distribution ceremony was held at SFHQ-W auditorium on Tuesday (19).
In Kilinochchi, 55 flood-affected students received school accessories during a programme held at the Kilinochchi Thampirasa Vidyalaya on Friday (15). In addition, a computer, electric water pump and buckets were also donated to the school. This public welfare programme was carried out by the Security Forces Headquarters- Kilinochchi with support from "Manusath Derana TV'.


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Will Climate Change Shrink the Global Economy?
Oct 28, 2019·11 min read
Climate change is on course to do a lot of harm to our planet. That is why concerned economists like myself advocate measures that would slow the warming give us more time to adapt. But will climate change actually shrink the global economy? Probably not — at least not if we go by the consensus of mainstream, peer-reviewed economic analysis and climate science.
That might come as a surprise to many readers, including those who take an active interest in the reporting on climate and the economy that appears in mainstream news media. But the story is more complex than the headlines make it look.
Readers may, for example, have seen a 2018 headline on the CNN website read "Climate change will shrink US economy and kill thousands, government report warns." The report in question was the U.S. government's just-released Fourth National Climate Assessment. CNN went on to say,
A new US government report delivers a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts, saying the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars — or, in the worst-case scenario, more than 10% of its GDP — by the end of the century.
Or consider a story in Science Daily based on a 2019 study by Matthew E. Kahn and colleagues, which was published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. According to the Science Daily version,
Under a "business as usual" emissions scenario, average global temperatures are projected to rise over four degrees Celsius by the end of the century. This would cause the United States to lose 10.5% of its GDP by 2100 — a substantial economic hit, say researchers.
Perhaps readers also remember a widely publicized 2017 article by David Wallace-Wells in New York Magazine, which described an uninhabitable earth and a devastated global economy by the end of the century. According to Wallace-Wells,
The most exciting research on the economics of warming has also come from [Solomon] Hsiang and his colleagues, who are not historians of fossil capitalism but who offer some very bleak analysis of their own: Every degree Celsius of warming costs, on average, 1.2 percent of GDP (an enormous number, considering we count growth in the low single digits as "strong"). This is the sterling work in the field, and their median projection is for a 23 percent loss in per capita earning globally by the end of this century (resulting from changes in agriculture, crime, storms, energy, mortality, and labor.)
Tracing the shape of the probability curve is even scarier: There is a 12 percent chance that climate change will reduce global output by more than 50 percent by 2100, they say, and a 51 percent chance that it lowers per capita GDP by 20 percent or more by then, unless emissions decline. By comparison, the Great Recession lowered global GDP by about 6 percent, in a one-time shock; Hsiang and his colleagues estimate a one-in-eight chance of an ongoing and irreversible effect by the end of the century that is eight times worse.
The scale of that economic devastation is hard to comprehend, but you can start by imagining what the world would look like today with an economy half as big, which would produce only half as much value, generating only half as much to offer the workers of the world.
(The research attributed to Hsiang was published by Marshall Burke, Solomon Hsiang, and Edward Miguel in Nature in 2015.)
What the research actually says
The problem is, none of these stories accurately represent the research on which they are supposedly based. None of that research projects that the global economy at the end of the century will be smaller than it is now. Instead, what it actually says is that the economy will be smaller than it would be without climate change, or with less climate change. But according to the standard models, world GDP will be a lot bigger than it is today.
When you think about it, the forecasts of continued global warming and continued economic growth are hardly surprising. After all, there is a fundamental causal relationship between the two. In the standard models, economic activity is the principle source of the carbon emissions that drive climate change to begin with. Given the structure of those models, if the economy were to begin shrinking rather than growing, then other things equal, climate change itself would slow.
Just how large would we expect the economy be by the end of the century if we were to ignore the effects of climate change? That depends on a number of assumptions about technology, population, and economic policies. For example, the OECD thinks the total output of the global economy will grow at three percent for the next 50 years. Projecting that rate to the end of the century would make global real GDP about fourteen times higher in 2099 than in 2010.
Burke et al. assume, somewhat more conservatively, that without climate effects, per capita GDP in each country would grow from 2010 to 2099 at the same rate it grew from 1980 to 2010. That implies an unweighted average annual growth rate of 2.35 percent, which would make per capita global GDP about eight times higher in 2099 than in 2010. If, as they estimate, climate change were to cut real GDP by 23 percent relative to what it otherwise would be, total output of the global economy would still be six times higher in 2099 than in 2010. If we instead use the OECD growth estimate as our baseline, it would be eleven times higher, even after deducting a 23-percent climate penalty.
In their NBER paper, Kahn et al. compare the impact on global GDP of a scenario in which global temperatures increase by 4⁰ C between 2019 and 2100, rather than the 2⁰ C called for by the Paris Agreement. Their estimate is that the higher rate of warming would reduce global GDP by 7.22 percent relative to the value it would reach under the lower rate. Applying the OECD growth estimate, that would mean that with 4⁰ of warming, world GDP would be about 13 times higher in 2100 than it is now, rather than 14 times higher. Under the lower growth rate baseline used by the Burke team, global GDP would be about 7.4 times larger in 2100 than it is now rather than 8 times larger.
Kahn et al. provide the following chart, which compares estimates of the economic impact of climate change from a number of previous studies. Their own estimate is given as a range shown by the gray wedge in the diagram. Note that the estimate by Burke et al. is the most pessimistic among the studies included in the chart.
A country-by-country perspective
Global averages do not tell the whole story. Some countries will be impacted much more strongly by climate change than others. Data that Burke has posted online allow a complete country-by-country comparison of growth with higher and lower degrees of global warming. The following chart, based on those data, shows the ratio of estimated 2099 GDP per capita to 2010 GDP per capita for 165 countries with less climate change (blue dots) and with more severe climate change (red dots). The points are arranged along the horizontal axis according to 2010 GDP per capita, so for each country, the blue dot lies directly above or below that same country's red dot.
Although most countries experience slower growth under greater warming, the methods used by the Burke team suggest that some countries would actually grow faster. Those countries are shown in the diagram by the red dots that lie above their corresponding blue dots. The biggest winners would be countries that were both cold to begin with and grew rapidly in the base period, with Mongolia, Finland, Iceland, and Russia at the top of the list. (It is worth noting that although the Kahn team project higher average growth rates, they doubt that any countries would actually grow faster with warming than they would otherwise.)
At the other extreme of the scale, some countries (those red dots below the horizontal "1" line) would experience absolute declines income. The biggest losers are countries that were hot to begin with and grew slowly in the base period. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates are projected to have the largest losses from climate change. According to Burke's projections, India, despite its fast growth early in the twenty-first century, would also suffer an absolute loss of income by 2099. Under a scenario of 4⁰ warming, it would have the lowest per capita income of any country by the end of the century.
As Burke and colleagues put it,
[O]ur findings indicate that if climate change proceeds unmitigated, many people in the future will actually be poorer than they are today . . . we can't just assume that everyone will keep getting richer.
Still, to say that some people in some countries will be poorer than they are today is a lot different from saying that climate change will devastate the global economy as a whole. It also assumes that rich, fast-growing countries will block immigration from poorer, hotter countries. That is certainly a possibility, but one that is driven by politics, not by science or economics.
So, does all this mean that we can complacently look forward to a world that is warm but rich ? That our journey to the future will be as comfortable as that of an upstate New Yorker of today who decides to spend the winter in Florida? Not so fast. Three major caveats stand in the way of complacency.
The first caveat is that the standard models only promise us a future with a higher GDP — not necessarily a future with a higher standard of living. GDP, after all, stands for gross domestic product. It is called "gross" because it includes investment in new buildings, factories, and infrastructure, but does not subtract the depreciation or premature destruction of investments made previously.
If a hurricane washes away a thousand homes, and those homes are rebuilt on higher grounds, GDP counts the value of the new homes built but does not subtract the value of those that were destroyed.
If a coastal city has to spend a billion dollars to build massive seawalls to keep out the ocean, the seawalls count as an addition to GDP, even though, without warming, the same capital could have built enough low-income housing to end homelessness.
If, to slow but still not stop global warming, we shut down coal- and gas-fired power plants that, technically speaking, have years of service life remaining, and spend billions on a crash program to replace them with wind turbines, GDP counts the turbines as a plus but deducts nothing for the usable, but abandoned, fossil fuel plants.
In short, to the extent that we will have to spend a big chunk of our future, larger, GDP playing defense against a warming climate, there will be that much less left over to fund a higher standard of living.
The second caveat is that a warmer but wealthier world is only the most likely outcome — not the only possible one. There are many low-probability but really scary scenarios that could make things much worse than the standard models used by the Burke or Kahn teams envision. Those include the "methane gun" hypothesis , which foresees a massive release of greenhouse gases from the deep oceans or Arctic permafrost. They include a catastrophic collapse of the Greenland icecap, instead of the slow drip-drip that standard models predict. A new study of "missing economic risks" by a large international team of researchers provides a sobering catalog of things the standard models leave out.
That is why serious economists view the problem of climate change as one of risk management. Among the best-known advocates of that approach are Gernot Wagner of the Environmental Defense Fund and the late Martin Weitzman of Harvard. A website that provides numerous links to their books and articles summarizes their thinking this way:
If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future–why not our planet?
In their view, measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change policies are worth the costs they entail now in order to avoid small risks of large future losses. They point out that prudent business firms pursue such risk management strategies all the time, diverting resources from short-term profits to increase the chance of long-term survival. Farmers insure their barns, bankers set aside a cushion of capital against loan losses, hospitals install backup generators in case the power goes out in the middle of someone's open-heart surgery.
Finally, there is a third, purely subjective caveat: We simply might not like a future world with great wealth but widespread environmental devastation. To me, such a future sounds uncomfortably like life in, say, today's United Arab Emirates — a world where you can ski, but only on artificial snow sprinkled on artificial indoor mountains; where you can smell the flowers, but only in a garden; and where you can see exotic animals, but only in a zoo.
Economics is supposed to be about trade offs. Personally, I'd be happy to trade some future GDP for a greener, healthier planet. It has always seemed strange to me that opponents of action on climate change should think that the goal of government should be to maximize GDP without considering other values.
So, what is the answer to our question? Will climate change shrink the global economy?
Probably not, at least not in this century and not according the models used most widely in economics and climate science. If we pursue business as usual, a world of greater economic wealth amid a severely degraded environment is the most likely outcome.
Those of us who favor action on climate change need to remember that our credibility rests, in large part, on our intellectual honesty. We love to repeat the mantra that "the vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists — 97 percent — agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change." But we should be honest — 97 percent do not support the methane gun hypothesis, a near-term collapse of the Greenland ice cap, or other events sufficiently catastrophic to send the entire global economy into a nosedive. Such tail risks may well be worth thinking about — but we should be careful to distinguish worrisome tail risks from the predictions of mainstream, peer-reviewed science.
At the same time, we should not succumb to complacency. If we don't like the warmer, wealthier, stormier, and less environmentally diverse future that the standard models predict, we can do something about it. Neither economics nor climate science actually doom us to such a future. Instead, we are choosing to be doomed. We could instead choose to invest now in measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
This story is adapted from an earlier commentary published at NiskanenCenter.com. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.com.
Addendum (11/04/19): In a more recent publication (Business Insider, Feb. 2019) Wallace-Wells offers a revised interpretation of research done by Hsiang, Burke, and colleagues, making it clear that they are warning that climate change will make the future economy smaller than it would be without climate change, not smaller than it is now.
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A computer programmer is a person who writes code for building computer programs.
If you are a computer programmer or someone who writes a lot of codes, here are some things that you should consider getting.
at least a 8GB of RAM.
at least a 256GB of SSD space.
Get a desktop computer if you want more performance per dollar spent. However, get a laptop computer if you foresee yourself participating in hackathons and programming workshops.
Programmers constantly switch between different application windows while they code. For example, we switch between the browser and IDE while trying to make the HTML search button and text box appear within a same box.
A second computer monitor screen allows you to see two applications at once without switching them back and forth. This can help reduce fatigue from switching windows within the same screen.
An even better way to reduce fatigue is to display two applications, side by side, within the same computer screen. This is an area where an ultrawide screen monitor does pretty well.
Programmers spend most of their time typing on the keyboard.
Typically, mechanical keyboards are accurate, responsive and very durable. Therefore, as compared to normal keyboards, typing on a mechanical keyboard is less tiring.
If you are still using a non mechanical keyboard, invest in a mechanical keyboard to help you reduce typing fatigue. Since mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches are the quietest, they are most suitable for use in the office as well.
Unless you are using a headless operating system to code, a mouse is something that can improve your productivity. Therefore, you should consider getting a mouse that can help you copy and paste code segments between different windows quickly.
Obviously, you are going to need a computer desk to hold your programming tools. Choose one with ample space so that you can have enough distance between your computer screens and your eye.
Unless you like to stand while you code, getting a comfortable chair is a good move to reduce your coding fatigue. So get a chair with arm rests that keep you seated in a comfortable posture.
When you need a server that serves you 24-7, you can utilize a Raspberry Pi 3. In addition to taking up little space, this single-board computer has decent performance and has little energy footprint.
Many devices, including your smart phone, can be charged with a USB connection. Therefore, you can consider putting a Multi Port USB Charger on your computer desk.
A programmer's work desk will have a number of electronics that require power. Therefore, you may want to get one to supply power to your electronics. In addition, you should be looking for a power strip / extension with surge protector.
Presently, gigabit ethernet cables give the fastest network connection for devices within your home network.
Although a typical home router provides 4 ethernet switch ports, it is barely enough for programmers with several networked devices.
For example, you will use up the ethernet switch ports if you connect a Synology DS418 NAS, a Raspberry Pi 3 reverse proxy server and your computer to your home router.
So, get a computer switch so that you can connect more devices to your home network.


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Wednesday night training on Playchess
12/9/2009 – Since Ruslan Ponomariov has made it to the finals of the 2009 World Cup, it seems like an auspicious moment to have a look back at prior success of his career. At eighteen he won the FIDE knockout world championship, ahead of Anand, Adams, Morozevich and Ivanchuk. In this week's Playchess lecture by FM Dennis Monokroussos we see one of his great and instructive games. Be there and watch.
Playchess training with FM Dennis Monokroussos
In early 2002, when he was still just 18 years old, Ponomariov managed to win the FIDE world championship in a similar knockout event, defeating his countryman Vassily Ivanchuk in the final.
He was considered a great talent at the time, and a few years earlier had set the (then-) record for becoming the youngest GM ever. But no one expected him to win the title when players like Viswanathan Anand, Michael Adams, Alexander Morozevich, Vassily Ivanchuk, and other greats were playing. In fact, Ponomariov was only the 19th seed, but despite this he plowed through the opposition, defeating Li Wenliang, Sergei Tiviakov, Kiril Georgiev, Morozevich, Evgeny Bareev, Peter Svidler and then Ivanchuk. Very impressive!
We'll look at one of his games against Morozevich, both because of the game's own merits and because it's typical of Ponomariov's style. It's combative and he doesn't shy away from complications, and once the game reaches the technical phase he's extremely efficient. Morozevich is also known as a great endgame player, but he was never given the chance to show what he could do. Add to it that Ponomariov outplayed "Moro" in one of the latter's favorite openings, and you've got a game worth seeing.
And how does one do that? It's simple: log on to the Playchess server at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday night (= 3 a.m. CET Thursday morning), go to the Broadcast room and double-click on Ponomariov-Morozevich under the Games tab. The show is free for Premium members and available for a fee for those interested in checking it out, "a la carte". Hope to see you there!
Dennis Monokroussos' Radio ChessBase lectures begin on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST, which translates to 02:00h GMT, 03:00 Paris/Berlin, 13:00h Sydney (on Thursday). You can find the times for different locations in the world at World Time and Date, with exact times for most larger cities here. And you can watch older lectures by Dennis Monokroussos offline in the Chess Media System room of Playchess:
Enter the above archive room and click on "Games" to see the lectures.
Monokroussos in Mexico: World Championship 2007
Dennis Monokroussos is 43, lives in South Bend, IN, where he teaches chess and has worked as an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University-South Bend.
At one time he was one of the strongest juniors in the U.S. and has reached a peak rating of 2434 USCF, but several long breaks from tournament play have made him rusty. He is now resuming tournament chess in earnest, hoping to reach new heights.
Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for ten years now, giving lessons to adults and kids both in person and on the internet, worked for a number of years for New York's Chess In The Schools program, where he was one of the coaches of the 1997-8 US K-8 championship team from the Bronx, and was very active in working with many of CITS's most talented juniors.
When Dennis Monokroussos presents a game, there are usually two main areas of focus: the opening-to-middlegame transition and the key moments of the middlegame (or endgame, when applicable). With respect to the latter, he attempts to present some serious analysis culled from his best sources (both text and database), which he has checked with his own efforts and then double-checked with his chess software.
Playchess Training with IM Merijn van Delft
Everyone is invited to join this weekly training hour on Wednesday evening. Together we will have a look at the most recent grandmaster games. Recurring themes during our analyses and discussions are the latest opening developments and how to work on your own chess.
A word about myself: I was born (March 13, 1979) and raised in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. In 1995 I won the Dutch U16 Championship and played the European Championship in Poland and the World Championship in Brasil. In 1998 I moved to Amsterdam to study psychology and had a great time there. In 2003 I met my wife Evi Zickelbein and ever since we've been living together in Hamburg, Germany. In 2004 I made both master titles: one at the university and one in chess. Since 2005 I've been working fulltime in the chess world: training, coaching, writing, organizing and still actively playing myself. By now I have about fifteen years of experience as a chess trainer. Together with my dad I wrote a book about chess training (Schaaktalent Ontwikkelen), of which the Dutch version is already available and the English version will follow April 2010.
IM Merijn van Delft's lecture starts at 20:00h Central European Time (Berlin, Paris, Rome), which translates to 19:00h London. You can find the times for different locations in the world at World Time and Date. Exact times for most larger cities are here. The lecture is in the "Broadcast" room of Playchess. It is free for Premium Playchess members (50 Ducats for others).
The lectures are broadcast live on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse PGN games. New and enhanced: CB Light 2009!


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Q: Issue with multiline TokenInputTransformer in IPython extension I am trying to use a TokenInputTransformer within an IPython extension module, but it seems that there is something wrong with the standard implementation of token transformers with multiline input.  Consider the following minimal extension:
from IPython.core.inputtransformer import TokenInputTransformer

@TokenInputTransformer.wrap
def test_transformer(tokens):
    return tokens

def load_ipython_extension(ip):
    for s in (ip.input_splitter, ip.input_transformer_manager):
        s.python_line_transforms.extend([test_transformer()])
    print "Test activated"

When I load the extension in IPython 1.1.0 I get a non-handled exception with multiline input:
In [1]: %load_ext test
Test activated

In [2]: abs(
   ...: 2
   ...: )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/anaconda/bin/ipython", line 6, in <module>
    sys.exit(start_ipython())
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/__init__.py", line 118, in start_ipython
    return launch_new_instance(argv=argv, **kwargs)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 545, in launch_instance
    app.start()
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/terminal/ipapp.py", line 362, in start
    self.shell.mainloop()
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.py", line 436, in mainloop
    self.interact(display_banner=display_banner)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.py", line 548, in interact
    self.input_splitter.push(line)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/inputsplitter.py", line 620, in push
    out = self.push_line(line)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/inputsplitter.py", line 655, in push_line
    line = transformer.push(line)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/inputtransformer.py", line 152, in push
    return self.output(tokens)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/inputtransformer.py", line 157, in output
    return untokenize(self.func(tokens)).rstrip('\n')
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/utils/_tokenize_py2.py", line 276, in untokenize
    return ut.untokenize(iterable)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/utils/_tokenize_py2.py", line 214, in untokenize
    self.add_whitespace(start)
  File "/Applications/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/utils/_tokenize_py2.py", line 199, in add_whitespace
    assert row >= self.prev_row
AssertionError

If you suspect this is an IPython bug, please report it at:
    https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues
or send an email to the mailing list at ipython-dev@scipy.org

You can print a more detailed traceback right now with "%tb", or use "%debug"
to interactively debug it.

Extra-detailed tracebacks for bug-reporting purposes can be enabled via:
    %config Application.verbose_crash=True

Am I doing something wrong or is it really an IPython bug?

A: It is really an IPython bug, I think. Specifically, the way we handle tokenize fails when an expression involving brackets (()[]{}) is spread over more than one line. I'm trying to work out what we can do about this.

A: Kinda late answer but, I was trying to use it in my own extension and just had the same problem. I've solved it by simply removing NL from the list (it's not the same as NEWLINE token which end statement), NL token only appears inside [], (), {} so it should be safely removable.
from tokenize import NL
@TokenInputTransformer.wrap
def mat_transformer(tokens):
    tokens = list(filter(lambda t: t.type != NL, tokens))
    return tokens

If you are looking for full example, I've posted my goofy code there: https://github.com/Quinzel/pymat

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The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) were held last night at the Forum in Inglewood, CA. The show has given us some classic moments since it's inception in 1984 (think Kanye and Taylor Swift – the feud that keeps on giving!) The award show has also given us some ICONIC looks on the red carpet. I'm talking Britney and Justin in that denim combo and the purple Lil' Kim booby 'fit.
This year was no exception! With sparkles and sequins seeming to be the trend, our favorite celebs threw on their Sunday best and hit the red carpet. Although some took it a liiiittle too far (yes, I'm talking to you Jared Leto), most of them killed it!
Check our favorite VMA looks below!


A landlord and property management company in Massachusetts were hit with a $25,000 penalty after they allegedly failed to protect a tenant from harassment.
The harassment was coming from other tenants and their guests.
The Attorney General's office concluded that it was the landlord's responsibility to protect the tenant from the other menacing tenants, which may have required transferring the tenant to another one of their apartments in a different neighborhood.
According to a statement, the tenant began complaining of harassment shortly after moving into his new apartment. He claimed he was a victim of "sexual orientation-based harassment" which is prohibited by Massachusetts law. When the tenant felt his complaints were not addressed, he enlisted the help of a local fair housing center. The case was then referred to the Attorney General.
The harassment included vandalism, homophobic slurs and threats of violence.
The apartment owner claimed no wrongdoing, but agreed to pay $20,000 to the tenant, $2,500 to the state and $2,500 to the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center to settle the allegations. Furthermore, the owner and management must now adopt a tenant harassment policy and have all workers complete fair housing training.
The Attorney General said in a statement that the actions of the other tenants created a "hostile living environment", and that the landlord's failure to address the tenant's emotional and physical safety concerns constituted discrimination.


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Q: Change the menu color at one point of one page site I am making a one page portfolio. The content of the site will be horizontal scrollable, only the menu is fixed. The first 2 pages are black and last one is white. But the 3rd page is half black and half white, it's kind a seperator of the two backgrounds.

This is so far the best solution for my question: http://jsfiddle.net/a5a7x/1/
I only have problems to make it horizotnal not vertical.
This is the page content where i want to put the split: http://jsfiddle.net/n3FGr/
Remember, i only need to split the menu, because it will be fixed, so only the menu will have the split, when the content wil slide left and right.

A: Quick&Dirty rather close solution

I have explored the way to achieve your goal and have the some experiments:

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*Text in middle-center

*Text in left-top angle

*Menu in left-top angle

I have not full solution, but the result is pretty good: (demo on dabblet)
HTML:

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CSS:
div {
    background: linear-gradient(45deg, black 52%, white 52%);
}

ul {
    background: linear-gradient(45deg, white 52%, black 52%);
    -webkit-background-clip: text;
    -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
}

Method of work:
Sync percents in each gradients:
52%:
62%:
Pros:

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*Plain html&css;

Cons:

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*Only webkit support;

The Canvas-way
Pros:

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*Cross-browser (mobile too)

Cons:

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*Javascript needed

The SVG-way
Pros:

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*Cross-browser

*Javascript free (in static)

*More semantical then Canvas

A: Couldn't you do a diagonal gradient in css3 with say black for 50% and then white at 51%?
background-image: linear-gradient(left top, rgb(0,0,0) 54%, rgb(255,255,255) 55%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left top, rgb(0,0,0) 54%, rgb(255,255,255) 55%);
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A man named as a suspect in a fatal shooting has been arrested in Florida.The U.S. Marshals' Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Michael Prewitt on Monday.Cincinnati police said Prewitt, 40, shot two people on Dec. 8. One, Keisha Jendrysik, later died of her injuries.Authorities received information that Prewitt was in the Orlando area, and the FCRFTF arrested him.Prewitt will be extradited back to Hamilton County, police said.
A man named as a suspect in a fatal shooting has been arrested in Florida.
The U.S. Marshals' Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Michael Prewitt on Monday.
Man admits to East Price Hill murder
Man arrested in Florida indicted on Price Hill murder charge
Cincinnati police said Prewitt, 40, shot two people on Dec. 8. One, Keisha Jendrysik, later died of her injuries.
Authorities received information that Prewitt was in the Orlando area, and the FCRFTF arrested him.
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Q: CSV python database I am trying to make it so I can compare what the user enters as name and space with what is already on the database. If it is there it doesn't enter the users name and space, but if it isn't there it does enter the users name and space on a new row. But I cant get it to work.
This is my code so far:
name = entry2.get()
space = entry3.get()
file1 = open("database.csv", 'r')
lines = file1.read()
with open("database.csv", 'a+', newline='') as fp:
    if name or space in lines:
        print("No")
    elif:
        writer = csv.writer(fp)
        writer.writerow([name, '9:00am-10:00am', space])

Any help would be much appreciated.

A: Since you are dealing with a CSV file, I recommend using the Pandas library. With it, you can read the CSV file into a DataFrame which is pretty easy to manipulate.
import pandas as pd

file1_df = pd.read_csv('database.csv')
# if the columns in your csv are also called name and space
if name in file1_df.name or space in file1_df.space:
   print('No')
else:
   new_row = {'name': name, 'time': '9:00am-10:00am', 'space': space}
   file1_df = file1_df.append(new_row, ignore_index=True)
   file1_df.to_csv('database.csv', index=False)


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Q: A series resistor behind a reverse biased zener diode

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
If the Zener is rated at 4V, and the resistors R1 R2 are both 300ohm, may I know what is the value for Vout?
I know this is a silly way of regulating voltage, but please temporary put aside the practicality. Does zener diode drop voltage like other individual resistors do - and hence we get something out of Vout node?

A: Although it's not quite clear from your circuit as drawn, it's likely that \$V_{out}\$ is just the voltage across the \$300\Omega\$ resistor.
If so, and assuming \$V_{ZD} = 4V\$, the output voltage is found simply by voltage division.
Let the value of the top resistor be \$R\$, then
$$V_{out} = \left(12V - 4V\right)\frac{300\Omega}{R + 300\Omega} $$

A: No, 8V is not correct. Ignore any current that might be flowing out of the node labeled "Vout" and calculate the current through the three components. Now calculate the voltage drop across each one.
BTW, EE.SE has a built-in schematic editor. Just edit your post and hit control-M to bring it up. It will create a schematic that's much easier to read and less ambiguous, and it will label the components so that we can talk about them. It's also a simulator, so you can get your answer that way, too.

A: Using Kirchoff's Voltage Law we find:
$$-V_{SS}+i*R_1 + 4V + i*R_2 = 0$$
$$i = \frac{V_{SS} -4}{R_1 + R_2}$$
Where finally, the voltage at the node of interest is:
$$V = i*R_2 = (V_{SS}-4)*\frac{R_2}{R_1 + R_2}$$
With the known values we can find the solution as:
$$V = \frac{8*300}{R_1 + 300}$$
Depending on the value of the resistor you have before the zener.


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Free Pizza for San Francisco
Published: October 24, 2005 Last Updated: August 9, 2018
In junior high, a friend imparted some wisdom to me by way of his grandfather: "If something's free, take it." (His pops also advised, "If there's a chair, sit down," as well as a third axiom that has been lost to time.) Anyway, residents of San Francisco should be advised that Yahoo! will be giving out free pizzas on from 11 a.m. to midnight on Wednesday, October 26.
Where? At North Beach Pizza.
What's the deal? It's a stunt to promote the Web portal's "Best Of" campaign. Show up at North Beach Pizza at the designated time, and you'll get a free medium Yahoo! North Beach Pizza. More info after the jump.
NORTH BEACH PIZZA
Location: 1499 Grant Avenue (at Union Street)
From the press release:
YAHOO! TREATS SAN FRANCISCO TO A FREE LUNCH
PEOPLE ACROSS THE US IDENTIFY BEST BUSINESSES IN THE COUNTRY – FROM PIZZA PARLORS TO DRY CLEANERS – VIA YAHOO! 'BEST OF' CAMPAIGN
Yahoo! Celebrates North Beach Pizza Voted 'Best Of' Pizza in San Francisco
Who: Yahoo! and North Beach Pizza
What: Yahoo! Best Of voters have spoken and North Beach Pizza has been declared the best pizza in San Francisco by those who know the City and its best pizza.
To celebrate, Yahoo! will host an all-day pizza party for the public at North Beach pizza in San Francisco's North Beach district.
Pizza lovers are invited to come to the restaurant for a FREE Medium Yahoo! North Beach Pizza and judge for themselves.
When: Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 11 a.m. to midnight
Where: North Beach Pizza in San Francisco, 1499 Grant Avenue at Union Street
What's the Hook?: > Tony Gemignani: The pizza dough throwing champion (6-time World Champion, 2-time National Champion) will be onsite from 12-3 p.m. showing his pizza-throwing skills and entertaining the crowd. Tony has recently performed on television programs including The Tonight Show, The Today Show and CNN. > It's National Pizza Month: Nearly twenty years ago, October was designated as National Pizza Month to honor pizza lovers everywhere and the 100 acres of pizza that are consumed every day in America. Join us to celebrate! > Premier of New Pizza: North Beach Pizza is launching a new line of thin crust pizza. The "Yahoo Pizza" is one of the pizzas being introduced and is topped with the most searched toppings on Yahoo!, veggies.
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Abbott Loosens Restrictions but Bars Remain Closed
JP Published: September 17, 2020
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a press conference today and spoke about loosening restrictions. Governor Abbott is allowing some businesses to increase their capacity. This announcement comes as the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have steadily declined in the state of Texas. However, some businesses must remain closed.
In his press conference, Abbott mentions Victoria specifically. Abbott said that state leaders will use the hospitalization rates related to coronavirus in the state's 22 hospital regions to guide their decision making. He said all but three of those regions – Laredo, Victoria, and the Rio Grande Valley – have brought their coronavirus-related hospitalizations below 15% for at least seven days.
Let's continue to work together Crossroads, to bring these numbers down. As of now, here are the guidelines for the REST OF THE STATE.
Here are the specifics of his latest announcement:
Restaurants, retail shops, gyms, office buildings, and factories are allowed to increase to 75% capacity starting Monday.
Hospitals will be able to resume elective procedures.
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities can begin allowing visitations again, but they must continue to observe certain health protocols. Also, there must not be an outbreak of COVID-19 at the facility.
Bars must remain closed for now.
Abbott said that is because bars are nationally recognized as places where COVID-19 spreads. He still remains focused on opening bars safely, just not at this time.
Abbott said people should remain vigilant and continue to follow CDC guidelines for reducing the spread of the disease, including wearing a mask, sanitizing your hands, maintaining your distance from others, and staying home when you're sick.
Click below to see the full video of Governor Greg Abbott's press conference.
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Planners okay new site for Rutgers Hillel
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New Brunswick's Zoning Board of Adjustment approved plans for a new Rutgers Hillel building at the university campus in New Brunswick.
The June 24 approval of the plan, which revolves around a land swap with the university, means that Hillel's current College Avenue building will be demolished in one to three months, said Hillel executive director Andrew Getraer.
Hillel will be temporarily relocated to a nearby structure now being used by the university. Ground is expected to be broken on the new building shortly thereafter, and Hillel hopes to move into the new facility for the start of the 2015 academic year.
"The construction schedule is still being worked out," said Getraer.
Hillel is a partner, along with the university, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and the New Brunswick Redevelopment Corporation (DEVCO), in the $300 million College Avenue Campus Development Project.
The partnership gave Hillel the opportunity to move its planned $18 million new home from the site of a former fraternity house on the corner of Bishop Place and George Street to 70 College Ave., diagonally across from Seminary Place.
The frat house was demolished almost four years ago, with plans to break ground a year later. However, the site remained vacant as fund-raising stalled in a tough economy.
"The university is very excited about the new Hillel property, which is right in the heart of campus," said Getraer. "We are excited about working so well in partnership with DEVCO, the seminary, and university, which demonstrates the centrality of the Jewish community to the Rutgers community."
Plans for the new facility include a 400-seat kosher dining hall, prayer space for Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Sephardi communities, a kosher cafe, Israel resource center, classrooms, and a computer lab.
The architectural design is being reconfigured because of the larger size and shape of the College Avenue lot.
"Rutgers is home to the nation's second-largest Jewish student population and is one of the finest universities in the country," said Hillel board president Roy Tanzman. "Our state deserves a world-class Hillel, and that is precisely what our new plans will deliver."


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PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Comparing how parties in N.S. election would tackle family doctor shortage
Paul Schneidereit | Posted: Aug. 3, 2021, 12:22 p.m. | Updated: Aug. 4, 2021, 1:21 p.m. | 5 Min Read
From left, Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston, NDP leader Gary Burrill and Liberal leader Iain Rankin debate various issues and answered several guests' questions during last week's televised provincial leaders debate in Halifax.
Is there a doctor in the house?
As of July 1, the answer was "no" for almost 70,000 Nova Scotians.
That's how many people were on the province's registry, saying they need, but can't find, a family doctor.
The problem has been getting worse. Since the start of the year, that list has grown by close to 30 per cent.
Bottom line: primary health care in Nova Scotia is hurting.
So, how do the main political parties in this election campaign plan to address problems with primary care?
All three focus on three areas:
virtual health care
increased use of complementary health care providers
training, recruiting and retaining family physicians
Here's a comparison of their platforms:
To address immediate need, all three parties say they'll open up virtual health care.
This past spring, the Rankin government launched a $3-million virtual care trial for patients on the registry in northern and western zones of the province to access primary care remotely. The Liberals say almost 30,000 were helped.
The Liberals would spend $6 million to expand virtual health care to people on the waitlist across the province.
Progressive Conservatives
The PCs would immediately give everyone on the provincial waitlist access to primary health care through virtual care/telehealth.
They would also expand telehealth services to enable Nova Scotians to access other primary care providers, like physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
The NDP would introduce legislation, the Virtual Health Care Optimization Act, to make telehealth a permanent option for all patients who want remote access to primary care.
They would also support physicians in employing safe, secure hardware and software.
Complementary providers
All three parties say other health-care providers can help fill the gap:
The Liberals would commit $1.5 million to double funding for the Nurse Practitioner Education Incentive. That program, begun in 2018, covers salaries of RNs who take Dalhousie's nurse practitioner program full time. In return, these new NPs commit to five years of providing primary care in specific rural communities.
They'd also add another $500,000 to expand the number of seats in the NP program.
The PCs say they recognize it takes a health-care team to care for a patient and all play a valuable role.
They say all frontline workers, including nurses, continuing care assistants, paramedics, pharmacists, mental health clinicians, etc., are needed to address the complex challenges in health care.
The PCs ask who knows better than health-care workers what works and what doesn't work in the health-care system?
The NDP says they would widen access to primary care through increased use of health care professionals like nurse practitioners, family practice nurses, physician assistants, occupational therapists and social workers.
They specifically point to the need to integrate physician assistants (PAs) into primary care in this province, citing a Conference Board of Canada report that found PAs could free up almost 30 per cent of doctors' time.
Training, recruiting and retaining family doctors
Finally, the nub of the problem: How to have enough doctors entering the profession in Nova Scotia — and, importantly, how to keep them:
The Liberals would establish a new Primary Care Council, led by the premier, with representatives from key stakeholders inside and outside government, to guide strategic integration and delivery of primary care services, including training, recruiting and retention of physicians.
They'd invest $1 million a year in a new, community-based physician integration program to help local groups support new doctors and their families.
They'd consolidate physician recruitment and retention efforts in a new office — doubling current efforts with an initial $5 million budget — in the Department of Health and Wellness.
Finally, the Liberals would work with Doctors Nova Scotia to develop a new payment model to motivate family doctors to take on more patients.
The PCs would bring in a focused strategy to support internationally-trained graduates, including expanding the number of medical residency seats for Canadian students trained abroad. They'd also create mentoring relationships for new grads with established doctors.
They say current health-care providers would be respected and valued through better pay and increased local decision-making. They'd establish a physician pension fund tied to return-of-service agreements.
They'd also establish a clinical health services plan in every region, to assess local staffing needs and do succession planning.
The NDP say they'd increase investments in recruitment and retention, making it a top priority.
They'd retain physicians by listening to their needs, offering a variety of work models to choose from and working with them locally to improve health care. They'd ensure they have the support they need from other health-care providers, such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Party officials say that would include respectfully negotiating competitive wages.
They'd also invest in community health centres to work with communities on primary care needs.
PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Nova Scotia NDP health plans bold, but blurry on some costs
Updated Jul. 31, 2021 |7 min read
PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Houston takes credible stab at solving Nova Scotia's health-care crisis
Family doctor wait list growing in N.S. but virtual, collaborative care models fill some of the void


The Horn of Africa is once again emerging as a hot spot in the battle for power in the periphery. On April 3, Eritrea accused Turkey, Qatar and Sudan of colluding to undermine the 2018 peace agreement it signed with Ethiopia. Whether or not there's any truth to the allegation, it's clear Eritrea wants the world to know that it sees Turkey's intervention in the region as a threat to its interests – which include, most importantly, maintaining a detente with Ethiopia. Beyond this latest development, there is a network of state interests that are driving countries to form into new blocs, creating alliance structures in the Horn that look very different than they did a few years ago.


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Jason Delacey September 19, 2019
Greedfall is a massive RPG game from the folks at Spiders. They have made games like this in the past, but with Greedfall they really did craft something special. Many say this is a throwback to mid-00's RPG games and I would agree with that, but also suggest it has a little bit of games like The Witcher 3 sprinkled on top.
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The Game Review
What really grabbed my attention at first was the story and the setting. The game has a very 1700-1800s kind of look to it, kind of like what you would see in an Assassins Creed game. In its architecture of buildings and even places like islands, it is grounded in reality. However, there is a real fantasy element to the game with all kinds of creatures. It is hard to explain, but it works very well.
Greedfall has four different factions in it. These are very different from each other and have vastly different views and values on things. The game has some pretty heavy themes running through it and I would not say that there is anyone side that is clearly good or bad. It makes the choices you make more of your own and not just like you are playing a role.
The story lasts about 60 or so hours and thanks to the excellent writing and voice acting you will be hooked. It is a tale of conquest, politics and even fantasy elements too. Just when you think you have it figured out something horrible or heavy-hitting will happen and make you think long and hard about the morality of the choices you are making.
In terms of the game's presentation, I think that Spiders have done a decent enough job. I like how things are grounded in reality and the voice acting brings the characters to life. My only real gripe is the facial animations. They look kind of odd and this can sometimes take you out of a moment if it is pretty heavy.
One of the best aspects of Greedfall is the combat. If you watch a trailer you may think that it is just all hack and slash, but it is far deeper than that. You have a nice array of weapons to use and you will have to think about how you attack. Using a ranged weapon to knock off armor or weaken an enemy before rushing in and using your sword is not only fun, you actually feel like you are being skillful as you do it.
While the main quests that you go on are fun. I was very surprised at how much of the side content felt like it mattered. A huge reason for this is how the characters deliver their lines, but even more, simple fetch style quests felt like they were important because of this. I am sure there will be many people who get so into this that they want to complete every single quest that the game throws their way.
If you are a fan of large and engrossing RPG's then Greedfall is something you can really sink your teeth into. I was surprised at how mature and morally intriguing the story was and I would say the less you know about it going in the more rewarding it will be. It does have a couple of technical issues, but nothing major enough to stop you enjoying the game.
GreedFall is an action RPG set in an open world to 17th century but with fantasy elements. Download it now and set for an adventure.
9 Total Score
GreedFall Review Summary
I really do love the world that they have created
Lots of interesting creature designs
There are no clear cut good or bad sides in the game
It makes you really think about your choices
The combat is excellent and a ton of fun
Some of the facial animations make the characters look like robots
It can crash on occasion which is annoying so save often
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YYC has broken a record for 2018 passenger numbers, surpassing 2017 numbers by over one million guests. Working together we served 17.3 million guests, a 6.6 per cent increase from the previous year making our airport one of the fastest growing in Canada.
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Bangkok, Thailand – 20 February 2018 - Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical producer, today announced its fourth quarter and full year results for 2017.
For the full year, the Company delivered solid revenue of US$ 8,438 million, an increase of 17% year-on-year (YoY), led by ongoing strong growth in all business segments. Revenues for the PET segment grew 12%; the Fibers segment increased 15%, while the Feedstock segment grew by 28%. Core EBITDA was up 30%, while production grew by 4% reflective of a 3 dimensional improvement of product and geographic mix and the overall quality of earnings. IVL had accretive ROE at 16.5%, a strong surge over the 12.5% in 2016. Operating cash flow was healthy and rose 24% to US$ 918 million. Core Net Profit after Tax and NCI has grown by 68% YoY to US$ 459 million. Audited Net Profit was $615 million partially boosted by US tax reforms.
The on-going restructuring by two of the leading PET producers in key markets of Americas and EMEA in the second half of 2017 has resulted in a structural change in the business outlook of PET, and is an opportunity for well-managed and committed producers like IVL to align supply reliability to customers. We believe that our regional manufacturing business model helps secure strategic alliances and helps take our innovative platform global.
Indorama Ventures continued to make progress on its HVA platform in 2017 by acquiring new businesses with high growth potential. The acquisition of Glanzstoff, Europe's leading tire cord and single-end cord manufacturer, alleviated and broadened the HVA portfolio mix beyond Polyester, Polypropylene and Nylon 6.6 into Rayon. The Company completed the acquisition of DuraFiber in Mexico and France, a leading producer of durable technical textiles for industrial, tire reinforcement, and specialty applications globally. The Company's HVA portfolio forms a new growth engine with the addition of tire cord fabrics in North America and Europe, enlarging and making global Indorama Ventures as a fiber partner to the automotive industry.
Our overall leverage ratio (Net Operating Debt to Equity) stands at 0.54 times, a significant reduction of 39% over previous year which gives IVL flexibility and strength to deploy capital in meaningful businesses in markets and products which have strong fit to our core competencies. Projects currently under construction and slated for completion in 2018 include the 450,000 ton gas-based, dual-feed cracker in USA, the 700,000 ton PTA plant in Portugal and the expansion of HVA automotive fibers in China. We have completed various debottlenecking projects in 2017 which will add to our volume and margins in 2018 and 2019.
The dividend yield rose in line with 63% growth in Core EPS. As a reflection of continued confidence in the operational performance and growth prospects, the Board of Directors proposed a final dividend of THB 0.55 per share, which, including the first interim of THB 0.45 per share, provides a full-year dividend of THB 1.00 per share.
"This has been a transformational journey and the Company has put in place the building blocks to ensure sustainable and profitable growth that we are uniquely positioned to capture. In 2017 we had our maiden listing in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index as the 5th most global chemical company. We have raised the bar and the challenge for us now is to continue to do so going forward. This is a very exhilarating time for us, and we could not be more excited about our future and the journey ahead." Mr. Lohia concluded.
The Company will hold its Capital Markets Day on 22 February to discuss the details.


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Abiotic Release New Song "Smoldered" featuring Chaney Crabb from Entheos
December 14th, 2020 at 2:00pm
Abiotic have released "Smoldered," a new single from their forthcoming album Ikigai. You can check out the track, which features a guest appearance by Entheos vocalist Chaney Crabb, below. It originally debuted on No Clean Singing.
Last month, the band debuted another Ikigai track, "Souvenir of Skin," which features The Black Dahlia Murder's Trevor Strnad.
Other guests set to appear on the album include Brandon Ellis (The Black Dahlia Murder), Scott Carstairs (Fallujah), Jared Smith (Archspire), and Jonathan Carpenter (ex-The Contortionist).
Ikigai will be released on February 12 via The Artisan Era. Pre-order it here (physical) or here (digital).
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At a certain age it becomes important to take care of yourself, usually right after your set of baby muscles falls out. Be stronger than your baby self with this voucher.
Along with access to the facility's free weights and cardio and functional-training equipment, members get access to indoor and outdoor boot camp, cardio boxing and kickboxing, spin, yoga, and a variety of group exercise classes—check the schedule for times. There are over 150 classes each month, and all classes are drop-in, but personal-training sessions require appointments.
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Multiple fitness disciplines converge at Studio 4 Athletics. The heritage-style facility that was ranked number one in the Best of the City Gym/Fitness Studio category by the Victoria News houses three floors and eight training areas, each dedicated to a distinct purpose. The cardio area whirrs with the sound of treadmills and ellipticals, and the strength-training area clinks with the sound of free weights and functional-training equipment. In a cycling room, trainers lead a stationary Tour de France. Other studios play host to yoga, dance fitness classes, and boot camps. Within a boxing ring, instructors teach students how to duel their way to tighter forms, or mix fighting and creative movement into art forms known as capoeira and slap-hopscotch.


While volunteering with refugees, Mehraz Rahman witnessed a young boy crying because he thought all Americans were bad from his previous experiences in Iraq. Now, with help from Rahman and other volunteers, he experiences the opposite.
Rahman, a Plan II and marketing sophomore, said this was one of the many eye-opening experiences she's had while volunteering with Interfaith Action of Central Texas for Refugees.
On Tuesday, Rahman will be honored with the iACT Hope Award for her work with refugees. Other honorees at the event, which will focus on "Celebrating a Place of Refuge," include Austin ISD and the Bullock Texas State History Museum.
The iACT for Refugees program teaches English as a second language and cultural skills to refugees. Rahman has been volunteering with iACT since middle school and plans to attend law school with the hope of practicing immigration law.
Rahman said sometimes it feels like people she is working with aren't making any progress despite continued efforts to teach them. Rahman said this honor showed her she did in fact make an impact in some way. Not only has Rahman made an impact on refugees, but they have also changed her own outlook.
Executive director Simone Talma Flowers said she first noticed Rahman's level of organizational and leadership skills during a iACT Thanksgiving event one year.


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Kim Chandler is considered one of the UK's leading contemporary singing specialists, teaching singing since 1995 to literally thousands of singers, both institutionally and privately. As a highly regarded industry vocal coach, she runs a busy private studio where she teaches and mentors an elite team of professional singers, recording artists and other vocal coaches.
Kim has been an endorsed coach with top international vocal technology company TC Helicon since 2007 being a 'Vocal Coach in Residence' twice for their popular Voice Council Magazine. She works regularly at the legendary Abbey Road Studios leading their exclusive "Record a Song" sessions and was part of the coaching team on the UK Audition Tour for Series 3 and 6 of "The Voice UK".
Academically, Kim was a Principal Lecturer in Contemporary Voice at Leeds College of Music and a Senior Lecturer at the London College of Music, the institution from where she also holds a Masters degree (with Distinction) in performance. She was also the Academic Head of the UK's oldest, most established pop vocal college "Vocaltech" for two years (now BIMM London).
Now completely freelance, Kim is regularly invited to lead vocal workshops & masterclasses and is a regular presenter at national & international vocal conferences, including as a keynote speaker in Australia in 2010 [read more]. Kim is the Head of Communications of the The British Voice Association but also served two terms as a Director and is a recent past President.
Kim's vocal pedagogy writing features in two internationally published books: The Ultimate Guide to Singing and Teaching Singing in the 21st Century. She also has a keen interest in the latest voice research, methodologies and pedagogy and, in addition to extensive reading on the subject, attends regular ongoing training [read more].
Vocal Production In The Studio
Because of Kim's dual working life as a session singer and vocal coach, she has the perfect combination of skills and experience to make her very useful in helping artists to lay down their best vocal takes in the recording studio. If a vocal technique issue arises, then she draws on the coaching side; conversely, if it's a musical or interpretive issue, then she draws on her decades of session experience. She also speaks the 'language' of the producers which can be different to that of the singers and vice versa, making her the ultimate 'translator'.
Industry Coaching
Kim is a highly respected industry vocal coach working directly with artists and artist management. She has coached a wide variety of high profile clients, including the following:
Courtney Love (Bush Hall, London and "Later with Jools Holland", BBC Centre, London)
Sarah Brightman as part of BBC1's primetime duet show "Just The Two Of Us"
Beverley Knight as part of BBC1's primetime duet show "Just The Two Of Us"
Dave McCabe from the 'ZUTONS' (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Paloma Faith (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Jack Penate (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Kevin Rowland from Dexy's Midnight Runners (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Katy B (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Danny McNamara from Embrace (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Eva Spence from Rolo Tomassi (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Members of the Swingle Singers (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Nat Weller, son of Paul Weller from "The Jam" and "The Style Council" (Kim Chandler Vocal Studio, London)
Media Work
Kim's media work as a vocal coach has included:
"X Magazine"
Kim was interviewed for an article about her life as a vocal coach. [Click here to read article]
Cristo Foufas show , LBC 97.3
Kim was the "resident" vocal coach for the Cristo Foufas show interviewed live on LBC 97.3 each Sunday evening throughout Oct to Dec 2009 for her expert opinions on the "X Factor" live shows.
"The No.1 Family", ITV1
Kim coached the finalists of this prime-time GMTV competition and subsequently the winners in the recording of their album through Universal.
"Just The Two Of Us", BBC1
Kim was one of an elite team of vocal coaches brought in to help the contestants prepare their songs for BBC1's prime-time series featuring celebrity duets.
Rock Around the Block, ITV1
Kim's vocal coaching expertise was featured on ITV's prime-time Saturday night series as one of a team of 5 "makeover" experts.
[Click here to view some clips from the show]
MTV Europe, coaching presenter Alex Zane on "Have Boy Bands Gone Busted?"
British Satellite News
BBC5 live (radio)
Radio 1 live events & website
"Trading Places" and "Life's Too Short" (BBC1)
"The Stage" magazine
Celebrity magazine "Now"
"Classic Rock" magazine [Click here to read the article]
Teen magazine "Bliss"
Teen magazine "Inside Out"
"Music Teacher" magazine
"The One and Only" – KATY WON!
One of Kim's private clients, Katy Setterfield, won the BBC's prime-time TV competition "The One and Only". Kim was invited to screen test as a vocal coach on the show which is how Katy found out about it. She sang her heart out week after week as Dusty Springfield and went on to star in the "Legends" show in Las Vegas. Congratulations Katy!
"Kim's infinite knowledge and endless enthusiasm for vocal coaching is an inspiration. I've been touring solidly for over a decade and, within a year, she has rejuvenated my technique, tone and sheer love of singing. Without Kim's expertise I would never have entered, let alone won 'The One & Only'",
Katy Setterfield (winner "The One and Only", BBC1, 2008)
Kim was the proof-reader for the latest English edition of the ground-breaking vocal text "Complete Vocal Technique" by leading Danish vocal coach/researcher Cathrine Sadolin. Cathrine is one of a new breed of evidence-based coaches with the courage to explore and teach all voice qualities including those previously thought damaging to the voice, i.e. vocal distortion. She also invited Kim to conduct a day-long vocal masterclass at her "Complete Vocal Institute" in Copenhagen in December 2008.
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Kim is female singer on "Sound of Music" (U-Nam) - No.1 in UK Soul Buzz Chart
Kim in support band for SISTER SLEDGE at new Marbella Arena
Kim main female singer on "California Funk Machine" Vol. 1 album (U-Nam) - Top 10 in UK Soul Charts
Kim's solo vocal features in song for new TV series "Wheel of Time" soundtrack (Amazon Prime)
Kim features in new book "Teaching Contemporary Commercial Singers" (Compton)
Kim in support band for THE JACKSONS concert in Marbella
Kim leads vocal session for "Tomb Raider - The Dark Angel Symphony"
Kim sole backing vocalist on new "Banzilla Rises" album featuring Leo Sayer & Randy Brecker
Kim on vocal coaching team for "The Voice UK" audition tour
Kim sings on theme song for "Kung Fu Panda 3" movie
Kim exclusive interview in "The Vocalist Magazine"
Kim feature vocalist on new smooth jazz album "Surface Level" (U-Nam)
Kim interviewed on BBC Radio 2 for the "Simon Mayo Show"
Kim MDs choir for charity single at Abbey Road Studios for "Save The Children"
Kim has chapter in new book "Teaching Singing in the 21st Century"
Kim feature vocalist on Beat 100 award-winning track
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Toponymes

 Authie, commune française du Calvados ;
 Authie, commune française de la Somme traversée par le fleuve Authie.

Hydronymes

 l'Authie, fleuve côtier français entre les régions Nord-Pas-de-Calais et Picardie.

 Baie d'Authie dont une partie du territoire a été acquise, entre 1986 et 2003, par le Conservatoire du littoral, abrite un milieu naturel diversifié.

Toponymes composés
 Authieule est une commune française, située dans le département de la Somme et la région Hauts-de-France.
 Dompierre-sur-Authie est une commune française, située dans le département de la Somme et la région Hauts-de-France.
 Frohen-sur-Authie est une commune française, située dans le département de la Somme et la région Hauts-de-France.

 Raye-sur-Authie est une commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais et la région Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
 Saint-Léger-lès-Authie est une commune française, située dans le département de la Somme et la région Hauts-de-France.
 Vauchelles-lès-Authie est une commune française, située dans le département de la Somme et la région Hauts-de-France.

 Villers-sur-Authie est une commune française, située dans le département de la Somme et la région Hauts-de-France.
 Vitz-sur-Authie est une commune française, située dans le département de la Somme et la région Hauts-de-France.

Homonymie de communes et d'anciennes communes en France

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Q: Overloading functions by return type in C# I am currently studying C#, and someone told me that can you can actually overload a methods return type using the explicit keyword, but he never explained how. I google all over the place , and read some questions and answers on stackoverflow as well, but nowhere did I find such a thing , moreover, in most cases the people that answered said that it is not possible to overload methods by return type. After all this I am beginning to think that there is no such possibility.  Does anybody actually now how can you overload a method return type by using the explicit keyword or is it even possible ?
Thank you in advance.

A: You can't oveload by return type. However, you can define multiple methods that differ only by the return type. That's two different things, often mistaken.
The explicit keyword relates only to operators. I think that's not what he meant, and one of you might also misuse/mishear the actual term.
He might mean explicit interface implementation instead.
That's the only (well, maybe except for conversion operators, but they are somewhat special methods) that allows to define many normal methods that differ only by return type. The most common is the GetEnumerator that is irritatingly required both by IEnumerable and IEnumerable<T>:
public class Foo : IEnumerable<Bar>, IEnumerable
{
    public IEnumerator<Bar> GetEnumerator() { return null; }

    // IEnumerator GetEnumerator() { return null; } // IMPOSSIBLE

    IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() { return null; }
}

Note how class Foo defines GetEnumerator that returns a generic iterator. Normally, it's not possible to define now another GetEnumerator that will satisfy the classic IEnumeratble.
However, with the last line, with explicit interface implementation, it is possible. Note how the method name was prefixed with interface name.
Also, be careful: all explicit implementations are PRIVATE, that's why there's no access specifier on it. This means, that despite successfully defining them, you will not be able to overload upon that. The explicit one will always be hidden and never used, unless you cast the Foo up to plain IEnumerable.
So:
Foo foo = ...; //
foo.GetEnumerator();   // calls normal typed GetEnumerator<>
((IEnumerable)foo).GetEnumerator();   // calls untyped GetEnumerator

word of warning: the rule is held ALSO in the class' body, what can be very misleading sometimes:
public class Foo : IEnumerable<Bar>, IEnumerable
{
    public IEnumerator<Bar> GetEnumerator() { return null; }

    private void test()
    {
        // relatively obvious:

        this.GetEnumerator(); // calls GetEnumerator<>() !
        ((IEnumerable)this).GetEnumerator(); // calls plain GetEnumerator()
    }

    IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
    {
        // very inobvious:

        return this.GetEnumerator(); // calls GetEnumerator<> ! no recursion!!

        // ((IEnumerable)this).GetEnumerator(); // would call itself recursively
    }
}

A: i don't think you ca overload on return types. the return type is not included in the method signature. the compiler determines the overload before it checks whether the return value will cause an error in a larger context (this is if you actually use the return value).
what would happen if you're not using the return value. the compiler will have no idea what overload to use. one such example is below.
string func(int i){return "";}
int func(int i){return 0;}

void main(){
    func(1);//what happens here??? which method gets called??
}


One of the more fascinating stories in Gotti's Rules (39-40) describes the times John Gotti Sr. took John Alite, a non-made, non-Italian 'kid' in his 20s on two trips as back-up to former Gambino boss Paul Castellano's house.
The first was in late November, 1985, the second around a week after, and during both trips Alite said John Gotti Sr. drove the car and then went in the house for close to an hour while Alite stayed in the car (on the first trip with John Gotti Jr., the second with Bobby Boriello who replaced John Jr.).
Paul Castellano's mansion in Staten Island, New York was under 24-7 FBI surveillance in November, 1985 and up until he was killed on December 16th, 1985 and no pictures of Alite in the car outside were presented as evidence in the two trials where he testified. At the same time, this story did not even come up in his trial testimonies just as it did not come up in the FBI-302 memos of Alite's debriefings, the same as Alite's name does not appear in the FBI logs of all the people who went in and out of Castellano's mansion.
If Alite's Castellano story was true it would have been brought up by the prosecution along with the surveillance photos/video of him outside the house to make him more credible for the jury, and, to make him more credible for the book one of those photos would have made it to the photo section if not the cover of Gotti's Rules.
But upon asking John A. Gotti about Alite's claim that his father brought him as "back-up" to Castellano's, Gotti said: "If my father had brought Alite, not just a kid, a non-made member, but, an Albanian, not even an Italian to his house? Paul would have killed my father." Especially since it is believed Castellano was looking to kill Gotti anyway after Gambino underboss Neil Dellacroce died on December 2nd, 1985 and this would have made the perfect excuse.
« Pedophiles are lower than rats.
look into this and make a article regarding this fairy tale.
Hi Roman, I saw that too. Don't know if you've seen it but if not please check out the following post where I dissect the "shootout" Alite said he got into on his property that he discussed during the Trevor show also. It never happened.
As to the son being there for the other shooting, I'm trying not to bring his kids into anything unless it's absolutely necessary. None of this is their fault. Has to be terrible having John Alite for a father.
his kids if it benefited him and maybe he already has.
Everyone is slowly cutting him loose, he has nothing and no one. Only other RATS touch base with him, however even they keep him at a distance. The author here has done the public a great service. Our youth must be protected from this criminal.


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Hi Member,
We are excited to announce this year we will be hosting the first ever Purley Bury winter tennis tournament.
We will be organising the competition in 4 different disciplines:
Ladies' Doubles
Non-Team Players Unisex Doubles
For the first three competitions, you cannot enter with a partner you played with in the Summer tournament. Club team players are also encouraged to pair up with a partner from a different team at the club, although that will not be enforced.
For the last discipline, club players who have not represented Purley Bury in Surrey leagues are encouraged to enter with pre-arranged pairings of any gender combination. You can also enter without a partner though and if numbers allow, organisers can pair players off. To clarify, this discipline is only for people who have not played for the Ladies' (1st – 3rd) Teams, the Men's (1st – 4th) Teams or the Mixed Doubles (1st – 3rd) teams in the last year. For a full list, please find attached.
The competitions will start in February and run until the end of March. There will be no plates running alongside the main draws. There should be ample court time to get the matches played, specifically on Saturday afternoons, but we encourage members to book via ClubSpark as normal. The format of the matches will be fast and fun with the following rules:
The first to FOUR games wins the set. First to 2 sets wins the match.
Tie breaker at 3 – 3 in any set.
No advantage scoring. If the score reaches deuce, it's a sudden death point. The receiver choses which side to take the serve on.
We will make the draw at the end of January and there will be a kick-off session on Saturday the 4th of February where we encourage you to come down and play some first round matches. Because of the format, you could even play more than one match. You do not have to be available to play on the 4th to enter though.
Finals day to be confirmed, but likely to be Sunday 26th of March. England will be playing Ukraine so after tennis we could watch some football!
Please enter by emailing pbtctournament@gmail.com by the 11PM 27th of January. If entering with a pre-arranged partner, please indicate that in the email and include a mobile number to be used for arranging matches.
The Tournament Committee
Purley Bury Tennis Club
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There's an Official Petition for Call of Duty 4 Remastered to be Sold Separately at Launch
Ever since the release of the Infinite Warfare trailer, there's been a large number of people expressing doubt over the title and Call of Duty's continuing success as a franchise. The reception for the trailer is currently one of the worst for a game trailer ever, and even the Battlefield 5 developers said the game looked "10 years old," which is a pretty ballsy thing to say as Call of Duty's main competition.
Now a petition has been created by fans of the series demanding that the remastered version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare be sold separately from its current package deal arrangement with Infinite Warfare.
The petition states:
"By signing this, you promise to NOT purchase Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, in-game microtransactions or DLC (across all Activision titles) unless Activision makes the Call of Duty 4 remaster available to consumers at launch separately, for a fair price."
That's a pretty harsh course of action. There may only be around 300 signatures on the page as I write this, but the fact someone went to the effort of actually making this happen, and that 300 out of the thousands of people who have seen the petition have pledged themselves to it, really shows the loss of faith of fans in the series.
The petition also seems to be designed more as a plea than anything else, as the petition creator began with a statement appearing to come from a sense of wounded loyalty:
"Activision/Infinity Ward: please stop gouging the people who have supported your company for years"
Clearly, all that these fans want is for Call of Duty to continue delivering excellent experiences like the ones they had from the first Modern Warfare. Call of Duty games do continue to sell extremely well (yes, even Ghosts did pretty good), but surely its a sign of a problem when fans feel so jilted by what you've done to a series that they create something like this.
Now, it's not all bad news. The remaster for the original Modern Warfare has been faring extremely well. Included below are some comparison images of the original game against the remaster.
Source: Youtuber cycu1
Source: Youtuber MrDalekJD
It's clear to see the significant visual improvements the remaster has achieved. Lighting effects are now far more dynamic (as is evident particularly in the first image), and environments now display a much greater level of detail. Fuel drums are no longer simple silver cylinders, but are now uniquely coloured, dented and rusted. Debris from the chaos of warfare now litters the environment, and buildings and walls show in greater detail the scars of battles that have occurred around them.
The effort developers have put into the remaster is to not change, but simply improve the original experience that Modern Warfare provided, and that is very apparent. Hopefully, the praise for this from fans over Activision's latest installment will help them understand better what fans truly desire, and remind everyone why the series became great in the first place.
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Hello everyone! My name is Genaveve Davis, and I'm a sophomore from Tucson, Arizona. I am currently studying sociology and museum studies. I can't begin to explain how much I have enjoyed my time here at CC so far. This block, I will be taking Kathy Giuffre's Art and Society course and am beyond excited to be sharing my experience with all of you.


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PLEASE place August 9, 2018 from 5-9pm on your calendar.
August 9th is the annual Movies in the Park night at Brooklyn Park, and US Bank along with the GBBA are making plans to sponsor a free neighborhood BBQ on Franklin Street right before the movie from 6-8pm. Free hamburgers, hot dogs, and veggie burgers will be served along with all the fixings, music will be playing, activities will be there to enjoy with the kids, and plenty of potential customers will be there to meet.
It is also National Night Out week so we will be using the Block Party resources for exposure and advertising in addition to our traditional ways. We hope to get fire and police officials there for everyone to meet and greet! Don't miss this opportunity to promote your business to the local community as they have dinner before the movie and enjoy some entertainment.
This is FREE for all GBBA members!
Join us and set up a table!
We'll have Franklin street blocked off but table/booth space is limited!
Not a member yet? Come join the fun and look below to sign up now!
We'd love to have all our members involved in our biggest event so far!


A 15-year-old teen-terrorist has been arrested on suspicion of planning an 'imminent' attack on Paris – the second ISIS-related plot foiled in France in one week.
The youngster was suspected of preparing 'violent action' on the French capital, according t0 two judicial sources.
He has been placed under house arrest after he was thought to be planning an attack in a public place in Paris, one of the sources said.
The second judicial source added that the teen-terrorist had been in contact with French Islamist terrorist Rashid Kassim.
They said that Kassim also guided one of the women arrested last week in the plot to attack a train station in Paris.
French newspaper Le Monde reported that Kassim is in Syria and has used Telegram, the messaging service, to call for more attacks in France.
Last Sunday, a car loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame Cathedral which resulted in the discovery of a plot to attack a Paris railway station under the direction of ISIS.
Seven terrorists, including four women, were arrested.
One of the women, arrested on Thursday stabbed a police officer during her arrest.
Another woman, who was arrested with her partner on a motorway on Tuesday, Ornella G, was formally placed under investigation on Saturday in connection with the car found last Sunday near Notre Dame Cathedral.
One of the sources said Kassim, 29, inspired two terrorists who carried out an attack in July in a French church during which they slit the throat of the elderly priest.
The attack shocked France, coming less than 12 days after another ISIS terrorist drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.


Man's Chan accepted the invitation from Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC) to attend the 3-day Cognac Educator Course held in Cognac, France on 9 December 2012. A total of 14 experts in the Cognac industry from France, UK, German, US and India were invited to participate in this internationally known Cognac qualification course. Those who pass all strict professional requirements and standards will be awarded with the qualification of Cognac Educator and certificate will be given, and Mr. Chan has obtained the highest rank of the qualification - Gold Medal. He is the first Chinese person ever to get Gold Medal, and also the second Chinese person to be awarded with the qualification of Cognac Educator out of totally 44 qualified Cognac Educators in 3 years since the course started.
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Studying barrel-making processes and different types of wood species.
Discussing quality of Cognac with other participants.


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