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require "spec_helper"
require 'pry-debugger'
describe Stormpath::Rails::Client, :vcr do

  describe ".client" do
    context "given a valid Stormpath API key ID and secret" do
      let(:client) do
        Stormpath::Rails::Client.client
      end

      it "should instantiate a Stormpath Client" do
        expect(client).to be
        expect(client).to be_kind_of Stormpath::Client
      end

      it "should instantiate a Stormpath Tenant" do
        expect(client.tenant).to be
        expect(client.tenant).to be_kind_of Stormpath::Resource::Tenant
      end
    end

    context 'given a composite url' do
      let(:composite_url) { 'http://ASDF1234:ZXCV5678@example.com/foo/bar' }
      let(:application) { double 'application' }
      let(:loaded_client) { double 'client' }
      let(:returned_client) { Stormpath::Rails::Client.client }

      before do
        ENV['STORMPATH_URL'] = composite_url
      end

      it 'loads the client from the application' do
        Stormpath::Resource::Application
          .should_receive(:load)
          .with(composite_url)
          .and_return(application)

        application
          .should_receive(:client)
          .and_return(loaded_client)

        expect(returned_client).to be
        expect(returned_client).to eq(loaded_client)
      end

      after do
        ENV['STORMPATH_URL'] = nil
      end
    end
  end

  describe ".create_account!" do
    context "given a hash of account attributes" do
      let(:attributes) do
        {
          'email' => 'test+foo+bar@example.com',
          'given_name' => 'bazzy',
          'surname' => 'foo',
          'password' => 'P@66w0rd!',
          'username' => 'testfoobar'
        }
      end

      let(:account) do
        Stormpath::Rails::Client.create_account! attributes
      end

      it "should create an account" do
        expect(account).to be
        expect(account).to be_kind_of Stormpath::Resource::Account
        expect(account.given_name).to eq(attributes['given_name'])
      end

      after do
        account.delete
      end
    end
  end

  describe ".authenticate_account" do
    context "given a valid username and password" do
      let(:username) { 'testfoobar' }
      let(:password) { 'Succ3ss!' }

      let!(:test_account) do
        obtain_test_account(
          'username' => 'testfoobar',
          'password' => 'Succ3ss!'
        )
      end

      let(:authenticated_account) do
        Stormpath::Rails::Client.authenticate_account(
          username, password
        )
      end

      it "authenticates the account" do
        expect(authenticated_account).to be
        expect(authenticated_account).to be_kind_of Stormpath::Resource::Account
        expect(authenticated_account.username).to eq(username)
      end

      after do
        authenticated_account.delete
      end
    end
  end

  describe ".update_account!" do
    context "given a valid account" do
      let(:new_name) { "Bartholomew" }

      let(:created_account) do
        obtain_test_account 'given_name' => 'Foo'
      end

      let(:reloaded_account) do
        found_account = nil

        Stormpath::Rails::Client.all_accounts.each do |a|
          found_account = a unless a.href != created_account.href or !found_account.nil?
        end

        found_account
      end

      before do
        Stormpath::Rails::Client.update_account!(
          created_account.href, 'given_name' => new_name
        )
      end

      it "updates the account" do
        expect(reloaded_account).to be
        expect(reloaded_account.given_name).to eq(new_name)
      end

      after do
        created_account.delete
      end
    end
  end

  describe ".find_account" do
    context "given a valid account" do
      let(:created_account) { obtain_test_account }
      let(:returned_account) do
        Stormpath::Rails::Client.find_account(
          created_account.href
        )
      end

      it "returns the account" do
        expect(returned_account).to be
        expect(returned_account).to be_kind_of Stormpath::Resource::Account
        expect(returned_account.href).to eq(created_account.href)
      end

      after do
        created_account.delete
      end
    end
  end

  describe ".send_password_reset_email" do
    context "given a valid account" do
      let(:created_account) { obtain_test_account }
      let(:returned_account) do
        Stormpath::Rails::Client.send_password_reset_email(
          created_account.email
        )
      end

      it "sends the reset email" do
        expect(returned_account).to be
        expect(returned_account).to be_kind_of Stormpath::Resource::Account
        expect(returned_account.href).to eq(created_account.href)
      end

      after do
        created_account.delete
      end
    end
  end

  describe '.verify_password_reset_token' do
    let(:password_reset_token) { 'ASDF1234' }
    let(:application) { double('application') }

    it 'delegates to the application instance' do
      Stormpath::Rails::Client
        .should_receive(:application)
        .and_return application

      application
        .should_receive(:verify_password_reset_token)
        .with(password_reset_token)

      Stormpath::Rails::Client.verify_password_reset_token(
        password_reset_token
      )
    end
  end

  describe '.verify_account_email' do
    let(:email_verification_token) { 'ASDF1234' }
    let(:accounts) { double('accounts') }

    it 'delegates to the application instance' do
      Stormpath::Rails::Client
        .stub_chain(:client, :accounts)
        .and_return(accounts)

      accounts
        .should_receive(:verify_email_token)
        .with email_verification_token

      Stormpath::Rails::Client.verify_account_email email_verification_token
    end
  end
end


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Metrics are indicators, not absolutes. It's very easy to get into the trap of making numbers without addressing the total complexity. So don't refactor just for a better number; make sure it really improves your code.


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THE SECOND AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION FORUM (ATF2018)
Hosted by ACET in collaboration with the Government of Ghana, the second African Transformation Forum (ATF2018), is a unique, policy-focused event that will bring together leading experts and practitioners to share perspectives on how to accelerate job growth, boost investment, and implement transformation policies.
Read About the Forum Download the ATF2018 in Review
Download the ATF2018 Full Report
ATF2018 IN REVIEW
Download the ATF2018 in Review
June 20-21, 2018, Accra Ghana
Hosted by ACET in collaboration with the Government of Ghana
ACET thanks everyone who made ATF2018 such a huge success.
The second African Transformation Forum (ATF2018) – is being hosted by the African Center For Economic Transformation in collaboration with the Government of Ghana
ATF2018 PROGRAMME
Download the Programme
ATF2018 Special Guests
H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo
President of the Republic of Ghana
H.E. Paul Kagame
President of the Republic of Rwanda
H.E. Mahamudu Bawumia
Vice President of the Republic of Ghana
H.E. Daniel Kablan Duncan
Vice President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Vera Songwe
Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa
Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta
Minister of Finance, Ghana
Aliko Dangote
Chairman & CEO of Dangote Group
Reeta Roy
President & CEO of the Mastercard Foundation
Hon. Uzziel Ndagijimana
Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Republic of Rwanda
Tito Mboweni
ACET Board Chairman
Yaw Nsarkoh
Executive Vice President, Unilever Ghana and Nigeria
Sophie Ikenye
BBC News Presenter
ATF2018 Agenda
Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel
DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY JUNE 20, 2018
8:00 am – 8:45 am Registration/Coffee
ACET Board Chairman Tito Mboweni will welcome participants. African Union Deputy Chairperson Kwesi Quartey will discuss the importance of economic transformation to the AU 2063 vision—and how the goals and Pan-African approach of ATF2018 can help support that vision.
Pan-African Coalition for Transformation (PACT) Progress Report
At the ATF in 2016, PACT formed as a platform for countries to close gaps between policy design and implementation of transformation strategies by sharing resources, tools, and knowledge. ACET President and founder K.Y. Amoako will review PACT's progress so far and preview the objectives of the PACT working sessions.
10:00 am – 10:15 am Coffee Break
PACT BREAKOUTS
Parallel Working Sessions
The ATF is an event to mobilize action. It is a chance for countries to define common policy areas where they can excel through mutual support and cooperation. And it is a unique opportunity for non-government stakeholders-in particular the private sector-to engage with governments on this common agenda.
In these parallel working sessions, policymakers and other stakeholders in five PACT Chapters will come together to jointly move their agenda forward. Not every PACT Chapter is at the same stage, so session objectives will differ slightly, reflecting current levels of progress.
13:00 pm – 14:00 pm Lunch
14:00 pm – 15:30 pm
Working Sessions (cont'd)
15:30pm – 17:00 pm
Parallel Panel Discussions
Each PACT working session will conclude with a moderated panel discussion featuring a country minister, representative from the private sector and development partners, and a sector specialist. The panels should summarize the day's discussions, reflect on the way forward, and outline the next steps that will be presented in plenary on Day 2.
18:00 pm – 18:30 pm Cocktails
18:30 pm Buffet Dinner (all ATF participants)
ATF Distinguished Lecture
The inaugural African Transformation Distinguished Lecture, the first in a planned series, will be delivered by Reeta Roy, President and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation.
DAY TWO: THURSDAY JUNE 21, 2018
Opening Remarks & Keynote Address
ACET President and founder K.Y. Amoako will welcome participants and discuss the goals of the ATF as well as future transformation directions. His Excellency Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President, Ghana, will then deliver the forum's keynote address.
PLENARY I
Transformation Perspectives
In this dialogue moderated by BBC journalist Sophie Ikenye, Ghana Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta, Rwanda Minister of Infrastructure Claver Gatete, and UN Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary Vera Songwe will engage on the different perspectives of transformation at the national, regional, and continental levels, including the critical role of global partnerships and the private sector.
In this dialogue moderated by BBC journalist Sophie Ikenye, Ghana Minister of Finance Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta and UN Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary Dr. Vera Songwe will discuss different perspectives of transformation at the national, regional, and continental levels, including the critical role of global partnerships and the private sector.
PLENARY II
Agriculture Powering Africa's Economic Transformation
For many countries, agriculture offers the most direct path to economic transformation. Increasing productivity and outputs in a modern agricultural sector not only would boost food security, it would sustain agroprocessing, expand manufacturing, create employment, and boost incomes. In this session, strategies for how agriculture can power Africa's transformation, as detailed in the recently published 2017 African Transformation Report, will be discussed. Chaired by Simeon Ehui, Director, Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank. Moderated by Bernard Avle, Citi FM and Citi TV.
PACT Working Session D (Agriculture) Report: Additionally, one minister from the Agriculture Chapter will conclude this session with details on Day 1's working session and plan for the way forward. Other Chapters will present at the following plenary.
PLENARY III
Ministerial Reports from PACT Working Sessions
In this discussion featuring Q&A from the floor, one minister from each PACT Chapter will highlight key points from Day 1's working sessions, focusing on areas of agreement and shared learning—and areas requiring more work. Ministers will draw from breakout reports produced to summarize the way forward for their Chapters, including an outline of country action plans and a preview of follow-up activities.
Session A: Extractives (15 min)
Session B: Light Manufacturing (15 min)
Session C: Resource Mobilization & Management (15 min)
Session E: Youth Employment & Skills (15 min)
This session will be moderated by Yaw Ansu, Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Ghana.
14:15 pm – 14:30 pm Heads of State arrival
PLENARY IV
Transforming Africa: A Conversation Between Heads of State and Private Sector CEOs
Africa's economic transformation will require tremendous financial resources, specifically a greater role for the private sector and more effective domestic resource mobilization. In the first part of this session, Excellencies President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Republic of Ghana, President Paul Kagame, Republic of Rwanda and Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, will share their visions for transforming Africa—and how to finance that transformation, including the key role of foreign and domestic business. During the second part of this session, the Heads of State will be joined by two African CEOs, Chairman & CEO of Dangote Group Aliko Dangote and Executive Vice President, Ghana-Nigeria, of Unilever, Yaw Nsarkoh in a lively discussion about the strong partnership that is needed between the public and private sectors to enact—and maintain—a successful transformation strategy, moderated by Sophie Ikenye.
16:30 pm Closing Remarks
The African Transformation Forum (ATF) is a unique, policy-focused event that convenes diverse and distinguished voices from across government, business, civil society, and philanthropy to share solutions—and make commitments—for accelerating job growth, boosting investment, and implementing transformation policies. It is a dialogue built around action, not just ideas. The inaugural ATF, held in March 2016, drew almost 300 attendees from across the continent and beyond. It also received extensive media coverage by regional, continental, and global news outlets, providing broad visibility for the sponsors of the event.
See Past ATF2016 Event
ATF2018 is a dialogue for action. It will:
Offer an unparalleled opportunity for the private sector and other non-state actors to get engaged and help shape the course of economic transformation in Africa.
Take stock of progress made in the Pan-African Coalition for Transformation (PACT). Launched at ATF2016, PACT is a mechanism for high-level government, private sector and civil society stakeholders to collaborate across sectors and borders to speed up implementation of transformative policies and reforms.
Allow attendees to contribute directly to the formation of action plans for several PACT thematic Chapters, including those focused on resource mobilization, manufacturing, agriculture, extractives and skills development.
Feature a private sector CEO roundtable in which a panel of leading executives will share their thoughts and strategies on the vital role of the business community in Africa's transformation process.
Who is attending the ATF2018?
Heads of State (4), ministers (15), and high-level government officials (50).
CEOs and leaders from businesses across the private sector (70).
Heads of international foundations, development agencies and civil society organizations (35).
Experts and entrepreneurs from a cross-section of industries, including finance, agriculture, infrastructure, extractives and manufacturing.
Journalists from global and African media, including print, digital, radio and television.
ATF: A dialogue for action
The ATF is Africa's only continent-wide event devoted solely to promoting transformation strategies. Most importantly, it is a dialogue built around action, not just ideas. As such, it offers an unparalleled opportunity for the private sector and other non-state stakeholders to get engaged and help shape the course of economic transformation in Africa.
At the inaugural Forum in March 2016, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame delivered an inspiring message on the collective pursuit of economic transformation in Africa, urging countries to draw lessons from each other, learning from shared history and experiences to discover the most effective and immediate approaches. "By working together with a common understanding of the strategic environment," he said, "we can speed up progress."
Fittingly, the first ATF, which drew nearly 300 participants from across Africa and beyond, concluded with the launch of the Pan-African Coalition for Transformation (PACT), a mechanism for governments, policymakers, and other stakeholders to join forces and collaborate across sectors-and borders-to drive policy and institutional reform in support of economic transformation.
Attendees took President Kagame's message to heart. The forum closed with a common sense of purpose - to maintain the momentum generated, build on the ideas discussed, and reconvene in two years' time to report on progress and plan the next steps. That time has now arrived.
ATF2016 Consensus Paper
Read more about this
ATF2018: More than talk
The African Transformation Forum 2018 will not be a series of sessions to revisit the general challenges and goals of economic transformation. We have moved beyond that, as the Pan-African Coalition for Transformation (PACT) progress demonstrates. Rather, ATF2018 is an opportunity to hold substantive discussions and debates around key issues that already are well-researched and, in some cases, around action plans for implementation at the country level.
ATF2018 is not asking what, but how:
How do we get over our implementation hurdles?
How do we transfer best practice from one country to another?
How do we ensure the private sector is engaged and contributing at all stages of the process?
How do we hold each other accountable and measure progress along the way?
Among the primary objectives of ATF2018 will be moving from the learning stage to implementation for those PACT Chapters where significant progress has been made, namely Manufacturing, Extractives, and Resource Mobilization and Management. Country action plans will be highlighted, progress and challenges discussed, and next steps for implementation defined. For those Chapters not as far along, ATF2018 will be an opportunity to define the most pressing policy areas and finalize recommendations in order to launch activities, as with the Agriculture Chapter, or to identify the key actors, policy agendas, and partnerships necessary to give initial shape to a Chapter, as with Youth Employment and Skills. In all cases, concrete actions will be taken to move Africa's transformation agenda forward.
In that context, ATF2018 will include a strong focus on the role of the private sector in economic transformation. It will provide a rare opportunity for private sector representatives to directly influence policy prioritization in real-time, and it will present opportunities for private sector participants to lead discussions and provide a corporate perspective.
Likewise, the forum will include representatives of international financing institutions, bilateral partners, development agencies, think tanks and civil society organizations, who will interact directly with senior policy makers from across Africa. These participants will help shape country action plans, with a particular focus on implementation, and provide global experience and examples of good practice.
Almost all G20 Compact with Africa (CWA) countries are expected to participate in ATF2018, hence it will facilitate continued peer learning among CWA countries, and take stock of CWA progress and implementation challenges across sectors. G20 representatives will attend the ATF2018 and CWA side sessions will be organized as appropriate. Because several of the CWA member countries are also members of PACT chapters, ATF2018 is seen as an opportunity to support those dual objectives and encourage CWA/PACT member countries to mainstream both initiatives into their broader policy approaches.
With the active participation of Ministers of Finance, Agriculture, Trade, Education, Industry, Mining, Oil and Gas, as well as the expected participation of Heads of State and Government, the African Transformation Forum 2018 will be a highly substantive, policy-oriented event that will drive the vision and implementation of economic transformation in Africa over the next few years.
About PACT
The Pan-African Coalition for Transformation (PACT) is a mechanism for governments and local policymakers to gain information and support as they design and implement innovative policies related to economic transformation.
Its rationale is simple but powerful: African governments can accomplish more together than they can apart.
It will include five topic-driven chapters with a core membership comprising African countries, as represented by sector ministers and other government officials. Members will include representatives from the private sector, civil society and development partner organizations.
The objectives of PACT
Bringing about collaboration among a select number of governments, the private sector and other stakeholders around a particular policy issue
Policy Design
Facilitating increased consultation, peer learning and advocacy among members
Policy Implementation
Supporting effective implementation of transformative economic policies
There are five PACT chapters organized around economic sectors or thematic areas in which policy actions are required. Countries known for their drive in these particular areas-as well as their potential to bring about catalytic action-will be requested to champion the work of chapters and help coordinate policy efforts. Chapters will meet at least once a year, guided by a set of broad objectives with specific work programs and targets for each country.
Chapter topics, objectives and champion countries are:
To raise agricultural productivity, which is central to all successful transformation strategies, and to improve agricultural value chains.
To promote local content and value addition strategies as a means of increasing the worth of Africa's abundant extractive resources.
Resource Mobilization & Management
To enhance domestic resource mobilization and to improve fiscal resource management, including aid, so that financing for development is more reliable, more efficient and more transparent.
To boost manufacturing production, exports and employment.
Youth Employment & Skills
To respond effectively to rising youth unemployment rates and to address the skills mismatch problem by developing institutional mechanisms that link education and training institutions to the world of work.
The Case for Joining PACT
For government agencies
Participation in PACT will provide access to highly qualified experts on policy themes; opportunities for peer-to-peer learning from countries with relevant experience; channels for engagement with industry and civil society; and access to exclusive funding opportunities that can support the implementation of the transformation agenda.
For industry and civil society
Participation in PACT will provide opportunities to build meaningful relationships with public officials at the national and intergovernmental levels; collaborate with other public and private institutions with similar interests and objectives and learn effective ways to leverage corporate social responsibility efforts, development projects and advocacy campaigns towards economic transformation.
For development partners and foundations
PACT will provide opportunities to direct resources towards high-impact interventions through a transparent, African-led process based on local needs. Donors will have the opportunity to maximize their impact through harmonization with other donors. They will have access to new and actionable ideas as they emerge, providing unique opportunities to support Africa's transformation.
See more about PACT
View the March issue of the online magazine.

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Home » News » BNY Mellon expands broker-dealer services team
BNY Mellon expands broker-dealer services team
By murthyvittala 30 Aug 2010
BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services has named John Vinci as its head of Global Product Management and Andrew Demko as business manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), both are newly-created senior management roles.
Both Vinci and Demko will report to CEO of BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services James Malgieri.
Vinci will be focusing on tri-party, derivatives and exchange collateral management, and clearance product sets.
Vinci was most recently head of the New York Relationship Management Group within BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services. Earlier, he was a client executive within the company's Financial Institutions Group. Prior to joining the company in 1996, he was a relationship manager at JP Morgan Chase.
Demko was most recently served as head of Global Sales for BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services, a position he still holds. He who joined BNY Mellon in 1985, and held various management roles.
Malgieri said that the appointments will significantly enhance the ability to drive innovation and service enhancements across the business and help the company to utilize the global capabilities of the entire BNY Mellon organization to benefit our clients.


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Annette Gibbons 23rd April 2017 0 comments 1673 view
There are no wrong or right's when it comes to opinions, music can divide many. We like to share both sides of a story. Here are two differing opinions on Brad's new album.
Let me say straight away, that I'm a big fan of Brad Paisley. I've seen him live several times & enjoyed his albums, so three years on from his last, the disappointing "Moonshine In The Trunk", I was really looking forward to his new offering. Unfortunately, what we have here is the same old, same old. You know exactly what you'll get with a Brad Paisley album: killer guitar based country rock songs, brilliant lyrics, slow love songs, a couple of humorous numbers & a bit of self-indulgence, but all played brilliantly by Brad & his regular backing band.
But with "Love & War", the tried & tested formula seems to be running down pretty quickly. Don't get me wrong, there are songs on this album which will become Paisley classics in time, concert staples & fan favourites. But it's the fillers which spoil this album. Brad should be aware of the maxim "sometimes less is more" – do you need to put sixteen tracks on an album, especially when one is a pointless reprise of opener "Heaven South?
Of the crackers, "One Beer Can" is typical Paisley, a brilliantly told story song about the perils of having an illicit party whilst parents are away.
"Last Time For Everything" comprises a list of things that come to an end sometimes & is lyrically clever. "Go To Bed Early" is Brad getting horny, a grown up song of lust & quite unlike anything he's done lyrically. The Mick Jaggger co-write "Drive Of Shame" is a song which could be from the classic Stones cannon, complete with a Keith Richards style opening riff, with Brad & Mick trading lead vocals on what will be a real favourite live. "Dying To See Her" reminded me in concept & construction of his classic "Waiting On A Woman", this time with breathy input from Bill Anderson. This is a love song to a lost partner, & describes in Paisley's inimitable way of how this old man is "dying to see her"
The outstanding track though is the title cut, "Love & War" co-written with former Creedence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty. This anti-war song with biting lyrics criticises the treatment of war veterans, & is one of the best protest songs since….Fogerty's CCR song "Fortunate Son", all those years ago. With a driving beat, watch out for the video that accompanies the song.
Of the other songs, the much hyped collaborations with R & B artist/producer Timbaland, are really nothing to write home about. "Grey Goose Chase" has a bluegrassy feel & kicks along, but "Solar Power Girl" is one of those by numbers songs which probably took them no more than ten minutes to write. "Selfie#The Internet Is Forever" which was premiered at this years C2C Festival is just the right side of corny, but doesn't seem as funny after repeated plays. "Heaven South" is musically "Mud On The Tires" part 2, the bluesy "Contact High" is redeemed by some brilliant guitar playing, & "Today", the first single should be known to many by now, but doesn't do anything for me.
"Gold All Over The Ground" probably wouldn't be noteworthy without the back story to it, the lyrics were written by Johnny Cash which he wrote for his then future wife June Carter. Brad has put these words to music. Result? – a nondescript track unfortunately.
"The Devil Is Alive & Well" is Brad's second stab at social comment, & final main song "Meaning Again" is an ode to the woman he comes home to everyday, & is nice enough.
I hoped that the days of self-indulgence would be gone now ( the "Wheelhouse" album was full of it ), so again, why the reprise of "Heaven South" as a closer?
Make no mistake, this album will please long time fans & be gobbled up by those introduced to him by his C2C appearances, but I was hoping for more. All the songs are well written, brilliantly played, the excellent songs are just that, but there's just a little too much filler on this one. That said, the title track is a real belter!
By Simon Aston
Love and War is Brad Paisley's long-awaited follow up to Moonshine in the Trunk and is unmistakable as a Brad Paisley album. Musically it's not a huge move on from previous recordings, in fact you really could take any one track on this album and drop it on any of his back catalogue and it would blend right in. Yet don't mistake that as a criticism nor does it mean the quality has diminished – it really hasn't.
Musically he's on the top of his game and lyrically the songs have a great storyline – whether it's the witty Beer Can about a lad called Bobby who doesn't quite cover his tracks after a house party whilst his parents were away, or the sassy selfie#theinternetisforever which we were treated to at C2C this year. Paisley has the ability to write songs with humour whilst never losing the quality of the music – these aren't whimsical folly's, they're bona fide 3 chords and the truth – it's just that the truth sometimes puts a twinkle in Brad's eye.
However, the standout tracks on this album are those which are a little more serious – the first single Today has surely been heard by all Paisley fans and does sentimental without the mawkishness that affects so much writing.
Go to bed early is another cracker – I often think Country Music artists have the ability to record something which is sexy and provocative and unashamed of its focus on two people 'getting it on' – and yet not be crass, cheap and it certainly isn't blunt – it's the tale of a fella wanting to make love to his beloved – end of!
Love and War the title track is an emotive call for fairness for ex-service personnel and by duetting it with John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame Brad has employed the services of one of Vietnam's most vocally prominent critics. CCW wrote some brilliant political songs in the late 60's – including one of my favourites – Fortunate Son. Love and War is one of the most political songs I can recall ever hearing from Paisley and it's a cracker.
It's a seriously good album, one after another of excellent songs – and don't think that not picking out some of them by name means I don't rate it – I do. I'm a fan of Paisley but I do recognise that many of his albums have a track that I could/do skip – there isn't one on Love and War and that is testament to the breadth of Paisley's talent. We recently heard him on the couch at the BBC or being interviewed by Bob Harris for Radio 2 explaining that he (Paisley) focusses on the song-writing – because he feels that that's what his fans require and what makes him the success. He is (by comparison to many) achingly ordinary – probably the fella you would barely even notice if it wasn't for his ten gallon hat – he isn't hunky, he doesn't squint into a camera like he's about to wrestle a bear and he doesn't smoulder like some stud – he is the chap next door, which for me magnifies his musical ability and his writing.
I can't finish this review without mentioning three more songs.
Gold All Over The Ground will be one of the most talked about tracks on Love and War. It was oringally a poem from Johnny Cash to June Carter before they were married and their son John Carter Cash presented Paisley with the hand-written lyrics! It's a tender love song and Paisley's treatment of such gold-plated material is highly respectful.
Drive of Shame finds Paisley duetting with Mick Jagger for a very Stones driven rocker – reminiscent of the Stones classic Tumbling Dice. It's a romp along, good fun and Jagger and Paisley work well together.
However the award for the Brad Paisley This is Country Music and we do moment on an album goes to the sumptuous Dying to see her.
Victor Hugo once said 'music expresses that which cannot be said and which it is impossible to be silent'– I can only assume Paisley had this in mind when he and Bill Anderson penned this eulogy to a man who was succumbing to death to join his beloved wife in the hereafter. If that isn't sufficient warning as to the raw emotion packed in to 3.45 minutes then you haven't been paying attention. It is a stunningly good song, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to listen to it again!
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Up to date information on the 2012 National Champion Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey team.
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According to multiple sources, junior goaltender Thatcher Demko is set to ink an entry level deal with the Vancouver Canucks, the team that drafted him in 2014. The San Diego native will leave Chestnut Hill as one of the most decorated goaltenders in program history, leading his teams to two Frozen Fours, two Beanpot titles, two Hockey East regular season championships, and a 6-1-1 record against archrival Boston University, among other accolades. Of course, Demko was also a finalist for the Hobey Baker award and took home the Mike Richter trophy just a few weeks ago.
It may be a couple of days until Demko actually puts the pen to paper but he will become the twelfth Eagle to leave school early over the past five years, which is the most in college hockey (Minnesota and Michigan have each had eleven).
For my money, Demko is the best goalie in BC history and I think he will go on to have a long NHL career- he possesses a rare combination of size and athleticism not typically found in netminders. I wish him and his family nothing but the best.
On the bright side, Demko's replacement, Joseph Woll, recorded a shutout at the U18 World Championships tonight, as the United States defeated Switzerland 4-0. Woll has allowed just one goal in two tournament games thus far. Fellow incoming freshman Graham McPhee notched a goal for the Americans.
As for the remaining question marks, I expect Ian McCoshen to leave for Florida at some point in the near future. Out of every player on last year's team, I thought he was the most NHL ready and honestly figured the Panthers would give him a chance to participate in the playoffs. We will see what happens.
They'd be nuts to turn down that kind of money. In addition to Woll, I thought Milosz did fine filling in when Demko had a concussion. Obviously, this is a big loss. This year will be a big test of whether we rebuild or reload. Given Jerry's record, I'm thinking the latter.
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La panleucopenia felina (FPV), anche denominata gastroenterite felina o tifo felino è una malattia infettiva virale che colpisce il gatto e specie feline selvatiche.

Eziologia
È causata dal parvovirus felino (FPV), patogeno appartenente alla famiglia dei Parvoviridae a DNA monocatenario, privo di envelope, virus citolitico strettamente correlato al parvovirus canino di tipo 2 (CPV2). Questi possiedono un'identità aminoacidica pari al 95%, si differenziano per 8 sostituzioni aminoacidiche a livello della VP2 (proteina capsidica coinvolta in fenomeni immunitari, di virulenza e assorbimento).FPV è un precursore di CPV2; le quattro sostituzioni aminoacidiche avvenute a livello della porzione aminoterminale della VP2, coinvolta nel legame con la cellula ospite a livello di transferrina, hanno portato ad una variazione del tropismo con salto di specie (rendendo il virus in grado di infettare il cane); le altre quattro mutazioni sono avvenute a livello degli epitopi immunodominanti, con la creazione di un altro virus in grado di infettare il cane ma non il gatto (i due virus in minima parte cross-reagiscono).
Queste mutazioni sono avvenute in carnivori selvatici (volpe, lupo) in maniera costante, portando alla formazione di sequenze FPV-like e CPV2-like. L'incidenza del CPV2 si è ridotta, in quanto sostituito da 3 varianti: 2a, 2b e 2c dalle quali si differenzia per 6 sostituzioni aminoacidiche. Queste invece, si differenziano tra loro per una sostituzione aminoacidica in posizione 426:
2a, asparagina
2b, acido aspartico
2c, acido glutammico
Distinguibili mediante Ac monoclonali, sono in grado di infettare il gatto (a differenza del CPV-2 originale).
FPV, è privo di enzimi di replicazione, (così come CPV2), motivo per cui replica nel nucleo delle cellule infette, sfruttandone gli enzimi di replicazione.

Epidemiologia
Il virus della panleucopenia felina è principalmente trasmesso attraverso il contatto con fluidi corporei di altri felini, ma anche grazie a vettori quali le pulci. Non è trasmissibile all'uomo. Come tutti i parvovirus, è estremamente resistente nell'ambiente e può sopravvivere anche un anno in un ambiente adatto.

Patogenesi
L'enterite da parvovirus del gatto - analogamente al cane - è una malattia grave, spesso letale. Il principale bersaglio del virus sono le cellule in attiva replicazione: le cripte epiteliali del tratto gastroenterico ed il midollo osseo.

Le lesioni precoci della malattia comprendono una deplezione linfoide e l'involuzione del timo. Le lesioni gastroenteriche sono generalmente limitate all'intestino tenue, con ulcerazione, necrosi ed esfoliazione. Ne consegue una diarrea profusa e solitamente emorragica, con grave disidratazione, malnutrizione, anemia, e spesso morte. L'infiltrato infiammatorio cronico è presente nella lamina propria della mucosa intestinale. Gran parte dei decessi da panleucopenia felina sono causati da una concomitanza di infezioni batteriche secondarie con endotossiemia.

L'infezione intrauterina provoca ipoplasia cerebellare nei gattini.

Clinica
I sintomi primari sono: vomito, febbre, anoressia, disidratazione, congestione e secchezza mucosa orale e faringea, dolore addominale, ingrossamento linfonodale, per poi seguitare con la leucopenia e la diarrea, portando rapidamente alla morte nella maggioranza dei casi. Se la patologia colpisce una femmina gravida si possono, in alcuni casi, avere dei danni cerebrali al feto o anche l'aborto.

Prevenzione
Esiste un vaccino per la prevenzione dell'infezione, che ha tuttavia dimostrato un'efficacia limitata nei cuccioli e non deve essere dato a una gatta gravida perché può dare problemi al feto.

Usi in ecologia
Il virus della panleucopenia felina, a causa della sua specificità, morbosità e letalità è stato ed è talvolta impiegato per le operazioni di eradicazione felina dalle isole. In questi ambienti ecologici unici, sovente ricchi di endemismi e specie introvabili altrove, i gatti sono oramai da tempo riconosciuti come una delle principali cause d'estinzione delle specie autoctone, nonché come principale minaccia alla biodiversità e all'equilibrio biosistemico.
Un esempio riuscito di tale approccio eradicativo è quello delle isole del principe Edoardo. Il virus, in soli cinque anni, ha ridotto a circa un sesto la popolazione felina alloctona. I restanti animali sono stati abbattuti dagli ecologisti, nel corso dei successivi dieci anni, mediante battute di caccia notturne fino al 1991 quando, almeno parzialmente, l'equilibrio naturale dell'isola fu finalmente ripristinato e la popolazione di gatti fu dichiarata ufficialmente azzerata.

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Patologie feline

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Who am I being? How many eyes are shining around me?
Ben Zander gave a TED Talk in 2008 that I just watched today. Lately, I have been reading his book, written with his wife Rosamund Stone Zander, The Art of Possibility, and while I have gained some valuable knowledge from the book already, watching his talk has changed my perspective and will no doubt make the book more valuable, life giving, and inspiring.
Over the summer I have worked hard on a few areas of focus for our upcoming school year, but I am starting to worry about implementing these new ideas and getting all of our teachers on the same page so that all of our students can be successful. How am I going to move the teachers that are hard to move from where they are to where I think they need to be. And who am I to decide where we need to be.
I would encourage you to watch Zander's whole TED Talk, but if not, zoom ahead to the 15:00 mark. Here are the two powerful points that spoke to me most.
If you don't believe the message, then no one else will. This feels incredibly obvious, but it emphasized the importance of me sharing my belief without reserve. I know I believe in the direction our school is going. But if I am not 100% clear on that; if it is not obvious to those to whom I speak, then that belief will diminish, and our journey will fall short. It may fall short anyway, and it may need to be changed, but why not be 100% clear that this is the direction in which our journey must begin.
Which leads to my realization.
Why can't 100% of people be excited about education. Who am I being, how do I talk, how do I walk, if I believe that 100% of people love the power of learning, they just don't know it yet. If I am utterly convinced, than I can convince others. I'm not sure I even want or need to convince others, to be honest. It is about helping them realize what they already know to be true. If I attempt to make change in my school and beyond by only affecting a small percentage of people, then there is little chance at true success. Change might start with a few percent, and we may not achieve 100%, but if the goal is short of that, than the accomplishments will also fall short.
Who am I being that our teacher's eyes are not shining? Who am I being that our student's eyes are not shining? I have a renewed focus for my job – to make teacher's eye shine so brightly that each of their student's eyes are shining. Rather than assuming a teacher I work with is at fault for lacking energy, or that a student is at fault for lacking attention, it allows me to focus on myself, my being. Who am I being to give them the energy, the attention, the focus they need to love teaching and learning.
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Q: How to make wcf service keep the data between ajax calls? Suppose that I have simple WCF Service:
[ServiceContract]
public interface ITestService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(
        Method = "POST",
        BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped,
        ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
    string GetStatus();

    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(
        Method = "POST",
        BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped,
        ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
    string SetStatus(string status);
}

[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class TestService : ITestService
{
    private string _status;
    public string GetStatus()
    {
        return _status;
    }
    public string SetStatus(string status)
    {
        _status = status;
        return "completed";
    }
}

and the Html page that performs two ajax calls to that service:

    <title>Wcf services test</title>

<input type="text" id="txtSetStatus" />
<button id="btnSend" onclick="return btnSend_onclick()">Send status</button>

<button id="btnGetStatus" onclick="return btnGetStatus_onclick()">Get Current Status</button>

If I call SetStatus first(by typing something in txtSetStatus input and clicking Send status button), then call GetStatus(by clicking Get Current Status button), then the returned status is null. I understand that this happens because WCF service instance is created each time when a html page performs ajax request.
But what is the best practice to keep the data between 2 or more ajax calls?

A: Well, I've found the answer. It seems that the best way is setting aspNetCompatibilityEnabled=true for my WCF service and then making use of asp.net Session object in order to keep the values temporarily:
public class TestService : ITestService
{
    public string GetStatus(string id)
    {
        var session = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session;
        var ret= session[id].ToString();
        session.Remove(id);
        return ret;
    }
    public string SetStatus(string status)
    {
        var guid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("D");
        var session = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session;
        session.Add(guid, status);
        return guid;
    }
}

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LA Park told how COVID-19 nearly ended his life
distance infected with COVID-19And the don't park He slowly returns to the ring. However, the fight and the consequences of the virus have been very difficult, which He began to believe that his life was in danger, but at the same time he wanted to die so that he would not continue to suffer.
"It was so strong, I thought I was going to die. I hope I will never give you that tongue. I suffered for four days. I began declaring to God: 'Take me now, I'm tired,'" he explained to the media, this after he was seen running on half gas and for some moments with marks Fatigue, which is a rarity for him." I let my lungs clear so hard, and now I feel it. Although I wanted more, my lungs couldn't," Narrated after an event at Lopez Mateos Arena.
Grateful for starting shows, the wrestler appreciates that there are already more arenas starting to hold events, but criticizes the lack of promoters willing to do shows, and whoever does, pays them less because not all capacity is allowed. What is more, Nobody gave him support when he needed it mostOnly one did.
"I just started, the promoters are talking. Promoters don't want to fight. We already have a date and work. No promoter came to tell me 'LA Park, did you eat?', there was only one", The wrestler commented.
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Green New Deal A Gift to Trump?
For almost a century, electricity generation and distribution were treated as a tightly integrated system: it was designed and built as one, and is meant to operate as designed. However, the chaotic delivery of wind and solar have all but trashed the electricity generation and delivery system, as we know it.
Germany and South Australia are only the most obvious examples.
During an interview at Stanford University late last year, Bill Gates attacks the idiots who believe that we're all just a heartbeat away from an all wind and sun powered future.
Bureau data shows the rate of mean warming since 1960 has risen to 0.2C a decade, putting the more ambitious IPCC target of limiting future warming to 1.5C close to being broken.
Homogenisation of temperature records is considered necessary to account for changes in instrumentation, changes in site locations and changes in the time at which temperatures were taken. But the bureau's treatment of historical data has been controversial. In recent years there have been claims that the organisation was treating temperature records in such a way that left it exposed to accusations that ideological pursuits had trumped good scientific practice.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott unsuccessfully pushed for a forensic investigation into the bureau's methods.
A number of reviews of the bureau's network equipment and its temperature data handling have been carried out. A technical panel found the homogenisation methods used were largely sound.
But a key recommendation, to include confidence levels or error margins in the data, remains unfulfilled.
A BoM spokesman said work was under way on a number of scientific papers looking at uncertainty and confidence intervals for temperature data observations, adjustments and national averages.
"This work will be made available to the public following thorough peer review," the spokesman said.
The bureau had fiercely defended the accuracy of its original ACORN-SAT data. But more recent analysis, including the removal of rounding errors, has effectively increased the rate of warming by 23 per cent, compared with the earlier homogenised ACORN version-one data.
Detailed technical information on the ACORN-SAT update was published late last year, but there has been no public announcement of the revised data, which is now considered the official national average temperature record. A bureau review of the homogenised data said the new version had "increased robustness and greater spatial coherence".
The updating of the ACORN-SAT data coincided with the release last October of a new version of US weather agency NOAA's global land temperature data set.
A bureau spokesman said ACORN-SAT version two was the bureau's "improved official homogeneous temperature data set". The new data set benefited from "the numerous scientific and technological advances which have occurred over the past six years, as well as the insights and recommendations from an independent ACORN-SAT technical advisory forum".
"It also contains new data which was not previously available when the bureau developed the first data set," he said.
The bureau said the updates had been independently peer-reviewed, and the findings were that the methodology was "rigorous and reliable".
Scientist Jennifer Marohasy said that while version two of the data had used the same set of 112 stations as had been used in version one, the data had been remodelled relative to the raw data and also relative to the remodelled version one.
The bureau said the data in version two was subjected to two rounds of homogenisation, as had been the case with version one. "In total, 22 of the 966 adjustments applied in version two of the ACORN-SAT data set arose from this second-round procedure," the bureau said.
A technical analysis of ACORN-SAT 2 by the bureau said 1910-2016 trends in Australian temperature were about 0.02C a decade higher than those found in version one.
It said rounding errors in version one accounted for much of the new trend.
Dr Marohasy said the bureau had not explained how it could have generated a 23 per cent increase in the rate of warming, just through updating the official ACORN-SAT record.
The maximum-temperature trend from 1910 to 2016 at the 112 ACORN-SAT weather stations is now an increase of 0.116C a decade. It was 0.09C a decade in the earlier homogenised data.
The minimum-temperature trend is now an increase of 0.13C a decade, compared with 0.109C in ACORN-SAT 1.
The bureau said improved accounting for the widespread relocation of sites out of towns during the 1990s and 2000s, and the incorporation of recent data from new sites, were also substantial contributors.
Dr Marohasy said movement of sites was meant to be part of the adjustments made in the first version of the data.
The BBC are now trying to backtrack from their report last week of how extreme weather events had rocketed since 2005.
This item was on Radio 4 last night, for the first 5 mins. Click on this link to play.
Even now, Lynas does not give the whole story, that thousands of weather disasters happened in the early decades, but were never properly recorded or registered by EM-DAT.
In the event, the studio discussion was rather uneventful – too short to be informative, and pitched at a rather numpty level – but I did enjoy my discussion with my opponents in the green room beforehand.
Extinction Rebellion is noted for its avowed intention to use civil disobedience as the main tool of its campaigning armoury, and I was therefore expecting its representatives to be rather sinister, if not outright thuggish. In the event though, I found two personable young people who were happy to talk and share views.
And while it's fair to say we didn't agree on anything very much, I think we learned a lot from each other.
The decades of global warming have coincided with the most extraordinary flourishing of humankind. The extraction of hundreds of millions of people from absolute poverty in countries like China and India has been a triumph of the human imagination, and it has been powered almost entirely by fossil fuels. Life expectancy is rising, health outcomes are improving, human happiness is growing. Meanwhile, there is abundant good news from the natural world too.
Manmade carbon dioxide emissions have brought about an extraordinary greening of the Sahel – the arid fringes of the Sahara – a development that is unarguably wonderful news both for nature and for the people who live there.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's now infamous talking points on the Green New Deal are the most unintentionally honest explanation of the neo-socialism now gripping the Democratic Party.
Too honest, apparently. After her office sent the "FAQ" to NPR, The Washington Post and other news organizations, and posted a similar version on her congressional website, they were met with withering criticism — prompting Ocasio-Cortez to furiously backtrack, seeking to disown and discredit documents her office had produced, posted and distributed. Sorry, you don't get to do that. Ocasio-Cortez told us what is really behind her Green New Deal. Now she, and the Democrats who endorsed her plan, have to live with it.
Yet the big untold story is her admission that all of this cannot be paid for simply by taxing the rich. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is campaigning for president on a wealth tax, while Ocasio-Cortez has proposed 70 percent marginal tax rates on wealthy Americans. The message is clear: We'll soak the millionaires and billionaires and mega-rich corporations so we can give you free stuff.
And that covers the price tag only before we even get to the energy and environmental policies in the Green New Deal.
Somehow the Democrats managed to create a shiny, magical rainbow-colored unicorn and immediately impale themselves on it.
How bad is the debut of the Green New Deal looking a week later? "Dead on arrival" makes it sound better than it is. It's more like Zima meets Green Lantern times Bill Simmons's HBO show. It's such a disaster that Democrats and their media allies are calling Mitch McConnell a nefarious schemer for proposing to allow them to vote on their own idea.
The GND got pummeled, pureed, and pantsed from left, right, and center. Bloomberg's Noah Smith: "The Green New Deal Would Spend the U.S. Into Oblivion." Jonathan Chait of New York: "The Green New Deal Is a Bad Idea, Not Just a Botched Rollout." USA Today's deputy editorial-page editor catalogued "Green New Deal's 55 promises that have little to do with climate change: The full list." "A deeply unserious proposal to tackle climate change," ruled The Economist.
Somehow the Democrats managed to create a shiny, magical rainbow-colored unicorn and immediately impale themselves on it. Such a nightmare is the GND that the Democratic-party shills at the Associated Press wrote, "McConnell Wields Green New Deal as Bludgeon against Dems." Who is wielding that weapon, though? It's like watching Edward Norton beat himself up in Fight Club. The Green New Deal proposal is such a merde burrito that it seems likely to kill any Democratic-led climate-change action for the rest of this congressional term.
How did this Hindenburg-crashes-into-the-Titanic-and-unleashes-Chernobyl situation happen? A couple of reasons are apparent. The first is the Dems' obvious and growing Ocasio-Cortez problem. I stress that it is not I who want her to be reined in. I want her on every front page, every podcast, every news program. I want her to host the Grammys. I want her to be the newest Avenger. The more she talks, the better for conservatives, because, six weeks into the 60-year service of "First Citizen AOC" (Ross Douthat), it is obvious that the effective leader of the Democratic party is a moron. But that's being too kind.
The effective leader of the Democratic party is a heedless, arrogant, spotlight-chasing, wrath-threatening ignoramus maximus who is too dumb to have any inkling of how much she doesn't know. Three years after convincing themselves that the ideal presidential candidate was a woman with the personality of an ulcerous Gila monster, the Democrats have once again fallen in line behind "star power," meaning someone who seems like a star only inside the hermetically sealed Village Cinema of Potemkin, a safe space for true believers only.
Which brings me to the second unanticipated problem with the Green New Deal. The progressives didn't understand how their Year Zero fantasy would be received because they have hermetically sealed themselves off from the Right, and even from moderates. They actually leaked a document to their woke friends at NPR without anyone realizing how badly a pledge of support for everyone "unable or unwilling to work" would play outside the bubble, or how inane it seems to grownups when you propose eliminating every combustion engine in the United States in ten years or declare war on cows.
Within Progtown, extremism in the defense of climate-change hysteria is no vice. AOC and Co. probably thought they were moderating their tone by not charging the rich with being malefactors of great wealth and suggesting mandatory sensitivity camp for straight white males. "Trump says whatever he feels, why can't we?" the progressives think. If their aim is to be much less popular than he is, they should keep talking.
Tory peer John Selwyn Gummer spoke in support of measures that would benefit green businesses that paid his private company more than £600,000 during a dozen House of Lords debates, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The former Minister, who has been chairman of the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) since 2012, is being investigated by Standards Commissioner Lucy Scott-Moncrieff over claims that he breached the Lords' Code of Conduct by failing to declare his interest in Sancroft International – his family consultancy – and its green technology clients.
The probe was triggered in part by allegations from five MPs that he had backed measures that could benefit Sancroft's clients in three Lords debates – but our investigation suggests he did so on a further nine occasions.
They include three contributions to a debate on an Energy Bill going through Parliament in July 2013.
During the debate, the former Environment Secretary, who became Lord Deben in 2010, told peers that carbon-free electricity was the 'key to the future' and that it was important not to restrict the activities of companies which made power from biological sources such as food waste and wood.
Such firms include Saria, a biofuel producer, which has paid more than £183,000 to Sancroft. In June 2015, Lord Deben used another Lords debate to call on the Government to 'give security' to companies investing in low-carbon generation.
By then, Sancroft's clients included Temporis Capital, venture capitalists with interests in wind farms and solar energy projects, which paid £50,000 to the consultancy.
That would include the EU Renewables Directive, which says 20 per cent of the country's energy needs must come from renewable sources by 2020.
Sancroft has been paid £15,500 by Drax, a green energy producer that receives £700 million a year in Government subsidies.
The Mail on Sunday has also learned that in his capacity as CCC chairman, Lord Deben wrote to Business Secretary Greg Clark and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to urge the Government to provide more 'financial support' to the electric vehicle industry, and to bring forward the date when all new cars would have to be electric.
But he failed to mention in the letter – dated October 11, 2018 – either his involvement with Sancroft or that the firm had received almost £300,000 from Johnson Matthey, a firm investing more than £200 million in electric vehicle batteries, since 2012.


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Hertel's father Johann Christian was a famous gambist and, until its dissolution in 1741, concertmaster of the Eisenacher Hofkapelle. On the recommendation of Franz Benda, he later got a job as concert master at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His son Johann Wilhelm received music lessons from the Eisenach Bach student Johann Heinrich Heil at a very early age and accompanied his father at the age of twelve as a harpsichord player on his concert tours. The years 1747 and 1748 served to perfect his education, this time in Berlin. There he had contact with the brothers Benda, Carl Heinrich Graun and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and continued to maintain these contacts with the Berlin school. In 1752 Hertel became court composer at the Fürstenhof in Schwerin. In 1767 the court chapel was moved to Ludwigslust, where Hertel taught the children of the princely family and supplied the court with compositions. With the selection of works presented at this album, a highly interesting composer is experiencing a revival and at the same time, thanks to extensive introductions in the booklet, the release offers an insight into the musical life of a typical court in the German province in the second half of the 18th Century.
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Oil Can Henry's is an Oregon-based provider of vehicle maintenance with more than 100 shops located throughout the Pacific Northwest. The chain is widely known for its 20-point full-service oil change – a service performed while customers wait in their cars. To better connect with this captive audience during their service, the company installed digital signage displays in maintenance bays at locations across all of its key markets.
Each service bay now includes a touch-based digital signage display comprised of an ELO 42-inch interactive touchscreen connected to a BrightSign XD1132 digital signage media player. The displays are mounted just outside the driver side window within direct view of the customer. Cameras are mounted under the car and above the hood, giving customers a close-up, real-time view of the maintenance being performed on their vehicles. The remaining screen area, when not touch-activated, shows seasonal service reminders.
The XD1132's two video decoders output a combination of video and point-of-sale motion content. To bypass the need for additional video decoders, IP cameras output MJPEG feeds at 15 frames per second – a high enough frame rate that the feeds appear very close to true full-motion live video, showcasing the true flexibility of the BrightSign media player.
At various points throughout the visit, the service technician utilizes the touchscreen to discuss the vehicle's service history with the customer. The integration includes a POS feed displaying maintenance history that allows the technician to select the applicable service-based content segment. These 1-3 minute video segments visually explain the benefits of having these services performed on the vehicle. The customer can be shown any number of these videos in succession based on their needs.
While the segments are playing, the technician can resume his work and return later to inquire about adding these recommended services.
All of these POS feeds, video segments, camera feeds and touch-screen content components are driven by a single BrightSign media player, and the entire network of media players is hosted on the BrightSign Network.
This digital signage network can support additional future uses, including Bluetooth audio for portable speakers placed in the vehicle during service, along with tablet support of assets being stored and accessed on the media player. Additionally, the media player can be used to distribute content for corporate training and employee communication during off-hours.
This digital integration was implemented in a subset of Oil Can Henry's locations to assess its impact on bottom-line financial growth for the company. The test pilot locations reported average total ticket service increases of nearly $22 per vehicle, compared to existing locations that haven't yet incorporated this solution - this represents an overall increase of more than 20 percent. This successful pilot justifies the business economics for further site implementation.


It still boots or redirects me to philz instead of android. But still the flashing is successful.
And before, I do a factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik/ART cache, reset /system and after flashing, I re-do a factory reset.
(09-12-2018, 08:31 AM)RMT Wrote: It still boots or redirects me to philz instead of android. But still the flashing is successful.
Try flashing Magisk.zip (flashable zip) to re-apply root to the phone.
After reading, I know and I knew that it's unable to mount /vendor partition.
So, as I said before, there's not only /system who has a problem, maybe the /vendor partition has a problem too (is it missing ?).
again when you try powering your phone and it boots directly into philz, does the touch in philz still work?
Before I flash it, are you sure that this recovery will work in my phone ? Because if it won't work, I'll never can access to my bootloader to flash a worked recovery.
And no, touch isn't never working since I flash philz or even twrp.
So, the situation isn't changing. I can't always flash Magisk because of error with mounting /vendor.
And before I flash your philz recovery, I flashed twrp and still it always asks for keeping read-only mode (but now I don't have password screen), and I can,t skip or slide because touch is still not working.
But I actually haven't got an OTG mouse or OTG cable, I don't even know if my phone supports OTG.
(09-12-2018, 06:24 PM)RMT Wrote: So, the situation isn't changing. I can't always flash Magisk because of error with mounting /vendor.
I don't know why but when I flash twrp then reboot as I did before, my phone still boots into philz.


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Grounds and conditions of termination of labour relations in Belarus
Employers and employees are required to comply with the law. The main document combining these obligations is the labour agreement.
One substantive part of the agreement is the part which defines grounds of termination.
Grounds of termination are set out in the Labour Code and other legislative acts.
Termination of labor relations may come from the employer's initiative, the employee's initiative, on common grounds or due to circumstances beyond the control of the parties.
Different kinds of grounds may be applied depending on the type of labour agreement. There are three types of labor agreements:
Permanent Labour agreement
Terminal Labour Agreement
You may find more information in our article "Choices for formalizing a business relationship between a Company and an individual in Belarus".
Let's look at the grounds more detailed:
ON THE COMMON GROUNDS
ON EMPLOYEE INITIATIVE
ON EMPLOYER INITIATIVE
ON THE GROUNDS OF CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE PARTIES
Any type of agreement could be terminated on the grounds of:
1) Agreement of the parties (Art. 35 Sp.1 P.2).
2) Expiration of terminal Labour Agreement (Art. 35 Sp.2 P.2).
3) Transfer, with accords, to another employer (Art. 35 Sp.4 P.2).
4) Refusal of transfer together with employer to another job, to a different place, refusal of prolongation of work in changed conditions, refusal of prolongation work due to change of owner. (Art. 35 Sp5. P.2). Severance allowance is paid in a sum of not less than two weeks average wages.
5) Termination of Labour agreement due to failure of the trial period (Art. 29).
1) Termination of terminal Labour agreement on the employee's decision (Atr.40). The employee can terminate the agreement one month in advance. The employee has the right to withdraw his notice if no one is asked to this job position.
2) Termination of permanent Labour agreement on employee request (Art. 41):
due to reasonable excuse. The employer assess the value of excuse. In case of dispute the valuation is assessed by a court.
due to violation of law by employer. Severance allowance is paid in a sum of not less than two weeks average wages.
ON EMPLOYER INITIATIVE (Art.42)
1) Liquidation of the organization, termination of the representative office, personnel reduction.
Employers have to notify employees about dismissal two month in advance. Severance allowance is paid in a sum of not less than 3 months average wages.
2) Non-conformity to occupied position due to health conditions. Severance allowance is paid in a sum of not less than two weeks average wages.
3) Non-conformity to occupied position due to inappropriate qualifications. Severance allowance is paid in a sum of not less than two weeks average wages.
4) Systematic failure to implement obligations without a reasonable excuse.
5) Unexcused absence.
6) Absence for more than four months due to health conditions.
7) Appearance to work under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or toxic substances, as well as drinking and using drugs at work during working time.
8) Embezzling company property.
9) One-time gross violation of safety rules which leads to injury or death.
ON THE GROUNDS OF CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE PARTIES (Art.44)
1) Military conscription. Severance allowance is paid in a sum of not less than 3 month average wages.
2) Rehiring a previous employee for the same job position. Severance allowance is paid in a sum of not less than 3 month average wages.
3) Non-compliance with rules of hiring.
4) Non-election to the position.
5) Entry into legal force of a sentence under which an employee is sentenced to a punishment that excludes the right to work.
6) The death of the employee, judicial acceptance of the missing or the declaration of the dead.
7) Setting out a limitation that doesn't allow the continuation of work.
Beyond the abovementioned grounds, labour agreements/contracts can be terminated on the grounds of:
For general manager:
1) Declaration of bankruptcy (Art. 258).
2) Owner's decision to terminate labour relations with the general manager (Art. 259). The compensation determined in the labour agreement is paid for dismissal.
3) Early termination of the agreement on the general manager's initiative (Art. 260). The general manager has the right to terminate the agreement, notifying the company one month in advance. He is paid compensation determined in labour agreement.
For a foreign employee:
1) Annulment of permission to attract foreign labor or special permission (of Article 36 Sp. 7 p.2 of the Law on External Migration).
Conditions on which a labour agreement can't be terminated:
It's forbidden to dismiss an employee, by the initiative of employer, during the period of temporary incapacity, vacation, or pregnancy; women with children under the age of 3 years; single mothers with children aged 3 to 14 years. There are exceptions.
It's forbidden to dismiss, with expiration of the contract, persons of pre-retirement age; pregnant women; women on maternity leave; mothers, fathers and guardians on parental leave up to three years old without their agreement.
In cases of termination without legal grounds and non-compliance with the procedure of dismissal, the dismissed employee has the right to sue for reinstatement.
* The article is for informational purposes only. For a complete familiarization with the law, refer to the source. The material was prepared by reference to – The Labor Code of the Republic of Belarus, Decree No. 5, Law On External Labor Migration.
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HR Expert, Minsk
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Empire, racism, and UK foreign policy today
Sunday 26th September11:30am–1pm
Brighthelm Centre - Hannover Room
This interactive lecture will explore how today's UK foreign policy grew out of the structures and ideologies of the British empire. We'll examine the racism of the British ruling class, and how it has both justified and shaped imperial power relations. And we'll discuss the applicability of the concept of "imperialism" to British foreign policy today.
Dr David Wearing
Dr David Wearing is a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, expert on UK foreign relations in the Middle East, and author of "AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters To Britain".