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Joy Adowaa Buolamwini (Edmonton, 1989) es una informática y activista digital ghanesa-estadounidense que trabaja para en el MIT Media Lab. Fundó la Algorithmic Justice League, una organización que buscaba desafiar el sesgo del software en la toma de decisiones.

Infancia y educación
Buolamwini nació en Canadá, creció en Misisipi y asistió al Instituto Cordova. A los 9 años, basándose en el Robot Kismet, del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts (MIT), y aprendió de manera autodidacta XHTML, Javascript y PHP. Fue saltadora de pértiga profesional.

Como universitaria, Buolamwini estudió informática en el Instituto de Tecnología de Georgia, donde investigó informática médica. Fue becada en el Programa de Becas Stamps President's Scholar en el Instituto de Tecnología de Georgia en 2012, y fue la finalista más joven del Premio de Tech InVenture de Georgia en 2009.

Consiguió las becas Rhodes, Fulbright, Stamps, Astronaut y la del Instituto Anita Borg. Como becaria de Rhodes, estudió educación y tecnología en la Universidad de Oxford. Durante su beca, participó en el primer Servicio del Año, trabajando en proyectos para la comunidad.  Se licenció por el MIT en 2017 con una investigación supervisada por el ciberactivista Ethan Zuckerman.

Carrera e investigación
En 2011, formó parte del programa Tracoma en el Centro Carter, para desarrollar un sistema de diagnóstico en Etiopía basado en Android para ayudar en la erradicación de la enfermedad en todo el mundo.

Durante su beca del Programa Fulbright en 2013, Buolamwini trabajó con informáticos locales en Zambia para empoderar a los jóvenes de Zambia para convertirse en creadores de tecnología. El 14 de septiembre de 2016, Buolamwini compareció en la cumbre Computer Science for All en la Casa Blanca.

Como investigadora en el MIT Media Lab, identificó el sesgo en los algoritmos y desarrolló una política de responsabilidad durante su diseño; en el MIT, Buolamwini es miembro del Centro de Medios Cívicos de Ethan Zuckerman. Durante su investigación, Buolamwini descubrió que los sistemas de reconocimiento facial tenían dificultades para identificar a las mujeres de piel oscura, preguntando al software identificar hombre o mujeres a partir de 1.000 caras. Su proyecto, Sombras de Género, atrajo la atención de importantes medios de comunicación y formó parte de su tesis en el MIT. Su publicación de 2018, Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification, logró la reacción de IBM y Microsoft, quienes rápidamente mejoraron su software. También creó el Espejo de las Aspiraraciones, un dispositivo que te muestra un reflejo de ti mismo a partir de aquello que te inspira. Su programa, Liga de Justicia Algorítmica, denuncia el sesgo en el código que puede llevar a la discriminación de grupos minoritarios. Ha creado dos películas, 'Code4Rights' y 'Liga de Justicia Algorítmica: Desenmascarando Sesgo'. Es Jefa de Tecnología en Techturized Inc., un compañía tecnológica de cuidado capilar.

Reconocimientos
En 2017, Buolamwini obtuvo el gran premio  en la categoría profesional en la competición Search for Hidden Figures, por la película Hidden Figures en diciembre de 2016. El concurso, patrocinado por PepsiCo y 21st Century Fox, buscaba "dar visibilidad a la próxima generación de mujeres líderes en ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas," y atrajo 7300 inscripciones de mujeres jóvenes de los Estados Unidos.

Dio una charla TEDx en Beacon Street titulada 'Cómo estoy luchando con el sesgo en los algoritmos'. En 2018 apareció en la Hora Radiofónica TED. Fue incluida en la lista Amy Poehler's Smart Girls en 2018. La revista Fast Company la nombró una de las cuatro "heroínas del diseño defensoras de la democracia on-line". Fue nombrada una de las 100 Mujeres de BBC en 2018. En 2018 fue incluida como una de las 50 mujeres de la tecnología más importantes de América por la revista Forbes.

Vida personal
Buolamwini ha vivido en Ghana, Barcelona, Memphis y Atlanta.

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Q: iMac 27" late 2009 running OSX 10.10.4 - please explain time machine to me? I hope you can explain this to me.  I have a 1 TB hard drive on my iMac.  I bought a 2TB external drive for time machine.  It says that it makes backups hourly, daily, and monthly...and then deletes old backups when the disc is full.  Well, I had to wipe my external hard drive and start over tonight because I just kept getting the message that time machine couldn't back up my computer because it was full.  Is my 2TB external drive too small?  It's double the size of my computer hard drive...
Thanks for your help.

A: Two TB should be more than enough. It's a good idea to start with an empty HDD, so if you had any data on it; that could be the problem is. It could also be because the drive was configured for Windows OS.
If you want to use the HDD as time machine and to store other stuff you should partition it. It's simple just open Disk Utility, select the disk, go on partition tap, and the plus button. Make sure the format is Mac OS Extended, then make the new partition of about 1.5 TB. After it's done, you should see two drives connected. The old one (0.5 TB) should still contain all your data from before if it was less than 0.5 TB. You can just format the new one if you like. Then just restart the Time Machine process; from Time Machine Preferences Pane > Select Drive.
You also configure which file you don't want to backup, things which you can just download again, from the options button in Pref Pane.

A: 2 TB is a lot, but, though the initial backup is only 1 TB at most, your Mac will be making daily backups of your files, while keeping the old versions around in case you would want to restore them. Even if you deleted a file off of your Mac, the copy(s) Time Machine made will still exist, (each) taking up space on the Time Machine drive. So, you can see how even 2 TB drive can fill up pretty quickly this way.

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White House and HHS were warned about Obamacare web site problems in April
11/20/2013 Wintery Knight	Leave a comment
NBC News reports.
The Obama administration, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, was warned in April that there was insufficient time to complete testing before launching Healthcare.gov, according to a document released by a House committee investigating the website's botched rollout.
The document, a 15-page slide show obtained by the Energy and Commerce Committee from the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., compares an ideal situation when rolling out a website such as Healthcare.gov with what developers were facing.
According to the committee, the presentation was given April 4 to a group including Sebelius and Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS agency responsible for the rollout.
The document states that an ideal situation would be "end-to-end integrated operations and IT testing," but that the situation at the time was one with "insufficient time and scope of end-to-end testing." The document also says that a "limited initial launch" would be ideal, but that a "launch at full volume" was instead the plan.
Republicans are questioning testimony Sebelius gave to the committee during a hearing two weeks after she got the briefing, when she said development of the site was "on track and on time."
"At this point, our energy and resources are focused on getting it up and running, and we are on track and the contracts have been led and we are monitoring it every step along the way," Sebelius told the committee April 18. "I can tell you we are on track."
In a statement, the chairman of the committee, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said that Sebelius had "appeared before our committee, looked us in the eye, and repeatedly testified everything was 'on track and on time.'"
"We now know that was not the case and the secretary was aware implementation was in trouble," he said.
So you can put this latest Obamacare lie by HSS head Kathleen Sebelius on the pile along with the Benghazi lies and the IRS prosecution of the Tea Party lies and the gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels Fast and Furious lies. Lies, lies, lies.
In fact, CNBC is now reporting that the Obamacare web site is still not complete – it is lacking about a third of its functionality, including payment capabilities.
Another day, another big, bad black eye for HealthCare.gov.
A crucial system for making payments to insurers from people who enroll in that federal Obamacare marketplace has yet to be built, a senior government IT official admitted Tuesday.
The official, Henry Chao, visibly stunned Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) when he said under questioning before a House subcommittee that a significant fraction of HealthCare.gov—30 to 40 percent of it—has yet to be constructed.
"We still need to build the payments system to make the payments [to insurance companies] in January," testified Chao, deputy chief information officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that operates HealthCare.gov.
That so-called financial management tool was originally supposed to be part of HealthCare.gov when it launched Oct. 1, but officials later suspended its launch as part of their effort to get the consumer interface part of the site ready. The tool will, when it works, transmit the subsidies that the government is kicking in for many enrollees to offset the costs of their monthly premiums.
This is not a defect in existing functionality, this is missing functionality. This project should never have been released to Production.
As someone who has worked on electronic payments extensively, let me just tell you that this is not a simple part of a web application. Billing and payment systems are some of the most difficult parts of an insurance application, requiring in depth knowledge of the business as well as technical knowledge. So don't expect this all to be fixed with a wave of a magic want.
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How the ADF kept nurses who wouldn't perform abortions from being fired
11/11/2013 Wintery Knight	2 Comments
In 2011, a story came out about New Jersey nurses being forced to perform abortions (or be fired). I blogged about it, but we didn't really know the details. Well, now the details have emerged and the case has finally been decided. Here's a press release from the heroic Alliance Defending Freedom, which protected the nurses involved from violating their consciences.
Promoted from that team to a supervisory position over all the nurses, the new assistant manager announced that – since she and others had to help with abortions – she saw no reason why every nurse shouldn't help. Hospital officials agreed, and passed a new, mandatory policy to make it so. The assistant manager quickly set up a training program that would give each nurse on the unit hands-on experience in how to assist with and clean up after abortions.
"As long as you work here," she told the 12 nurses who openly protested, "you're going to have to do it. If you don't, you're going to be fired or transferred out."
"We were all shocked," Fe says. "All these years I've been a nurse, I was never told to help kill children."
But the managers remained adamant. Hospital administrators supported them.
[…]"Our jobs were hanging by a string," Beryl says. "We were like, 'All right. If they're going to fire all 12 of us, fine. But this is against what we believe God wants us to do.' We didn't come into this profession to do [abortions]. We told them we weren't comfortable with it and didn't feel they should force us. And if that meant our jobs, well… God was going to provide."
When even their own union declined to help them, Fe wrote a letter to hospital officials saying that she and her coworkers would not participate in abortions. She passed it around for the other nurses; 15 signed it. She gave the letter to her manager, who took it to the director of nursing.. Response was swift. A meeting was called for the next day, with each of the signing nurses, the labor board, a union official, the managers, and "an expert on ethics" scheduled to be on hand.
I think so often in this world today, Christians are on the defensive when it comes to acting on their convictions. My expectation is that we will never win when we do the right thing. The other side is so strong, and we have so few conservative Christians who are intentional about studying well, earning well, and reaching positions of influence. But sometimes we do win, because there are still some Christians left who have paid the price to get the education and training that allows them to do something when the freedoms of Christians are threatened.
This time, it was the Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers who saved the day:
The day of that announcement, Pastor Terry Smith, of Life Christian Church in West Orange, New Jersey, returned from a trip. A staff member told him that one of his parishioners – Fe – had called, shared what was happening at the hospital, and asked for advice. The pastor immediately phoned Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council.
"I'll be all over this," said Deo, who hung up and called Alliance Defending Freedom. Shortly afterward, staff attorney Matt Bowman was on the phone with a local allied attorney, Demetrios Stratis, enlisting him to help defend the nurses. The two immediately called Fe.
[…]Amid all the tension, threats, and growing media coverage, the judge in the case stunned everyone by suddenly announcing, in a preliminary hearing, that a settlement had been reached.
"We had gotten everything [the 12 nurses] requested," Stratis says. "We'd gotten the hospital to agree not to force them to perform these abortions. There would be no retaliatory measures against them, and they could feel free and sleep at night, knowing that the next day they would not have to be trained on the abortion process or help a woman kill an innocent child."
"I was crying – really crying," says Lorna, who heard the news from one of the other nurses. "And very thankful. The next day, I went to work, and all of us were hugging and very happy."
"Before, I used to think that some prayers won't be answered," Fe says. "Sometimes, I'd feel very hopeless. But with this case, I saw how the Lord moves… providing the resources, the people who would help us out. It just strengthened my faith. I really thank God for Alliance Defending Freedom."
Where does this desire to force people to commit murder come from? Well, it comes from the political left. In fact, the Obama administration actively opposes conscience protections for medical workers, and actively opposes conscience protections for military chaplains. This is to say nothing about the HHS mandate, which forces entire organizations and businesses to subsidize abortion-causing drugs.
I think that Christians need to be thoughtful, calculating and realistic about how we are going to deal with threats like this. Although some of us may prefer to study things that are easier, and do jobs that are comfortable, there is a real need for more of us to study hard things and do hard jobs. We need people with the right degrees in the right fields, and we need people who are good at earning and saving money. The truth is that this is the way the world works, and wisdom requires that we do what we have to do (not what we like to do) in order to be ready for the the challenges we are likely to face. The other side is certainly doing their job of getting the degrees and the money that they will use against us.
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How the Obama administration made sure people would lose their health insurance plans
10/30/2013 Wintery Knight	1 Comment
Patrick Brennan writes about the NBC News bombshell from yesterday in National Review.
Much derision has been heaped on White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett's tweet last night claiming that "nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans" (this is a "FACT," she noted). There's actually a little truth to this: Technically, individual-market plans that qualify as grandfathered under the ACA are exempt from some of the law's mandates — but not all of them. As long as a grandfathered plan doesn't undergo any "material changes" after 2010, it maintains its grandfathered status, so it doesn't have to comply with all of the law's strictures as other plans do on January 1. But those material changes are almost inevitable, in large part because of the ACA — meaning the plan will almost certainly be cancelled and replaced with a more expensive, more comprehensive plan, as millions of Americans have learned and continued to learn.
[…][I]nsurers lose their grandfathered status if the plan has a "material change," defined as "(1) eliminating or significantly reducing benefits; (2) raising co-insurance or co-payments; (3) raising deductibles; (4) reducing employer contributions; or, (5) adding or increasing an annual limit"…
That sounds benign. It sounds as if the plans are only going to be changed if insurance companies change them voluntarily. But actually insurance companies must change the plans because Obamacare requires the plans to cover a whole bunch of new treatments, which will necessarily cause the plans to go up in price, as well.
[E]ven these grandfathered plans have to comply with a number of new Obamacare mandates — most important, they have to accept applicants regardless of preexisting conditions and charge them the same premiums, they have to eliminate lifetime-spending caps, and they have to cover dependents under 26 for free (there are other rules that also apply to grandfathered group plans). How, exactly, were health insurers supposed to comply with these new mandates (and other ways the ACA is raising costs) without raising customers' contributions in the way the law says means losing grandfathered status? Obviously, they could have chosen to raise premiums alone — but then customers who don't expect to use a lot of health care would switch to plans with higher cost-sharing, which ruins an insurance pool.
In other words, the ACA did make it incredibly hard for insurers to continue plans for the millions of Americans who don't want comprehensive insurance — financially, insurers almost certainly had to adjust them in such a way that they would lose grandfathered status. This isn't "normal turnover in the insurance market" (though there is plenty of that in the individual market); there's a reason why an exceptionally large number of Americans are getting cancellation notices this fall.
The bottom line is that you can't keep the vast majority of the plans that Obama said you could keep. He lied.
Newsbusters notes that the major news networks are not even talking about the NBC News revelation that the Obama administration knew that their law would cause people to lose their health care. I think the lesson here is that Democrats lie, and the media, being an extension of the Democrat Party, covers up for them. That's why the Democrats win elections.
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NBC News: "Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance"
That's the headline from the actual NBC News article.
Here's the thesis:
President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.
According to recent estimates, it's 16 million. A previous estimate by CBO in 2012 said that up to 20 million could lose their employer-based coverage.
Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC News that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a "cancellation" letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don't meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience "sticker shock."
None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. The law states that policies in effect as of March 23, 2010 will be "grandfathered," meaning consumers can keep those policies even though they don't meet requirements of the new health care law. But the Department of Health and Human Services then wrote regulations that narrowed that provision, by saying that if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date — the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example — the policy would not be grandfathered.
It's the HHS regulations that make it so that "grandfathered" plans cannot be kept – and those are part of this Obamacare project, because the regulations deal with how it is implemented.
Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, "40 to 67 percent" of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, "the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range."
That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.
Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, "if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan," was still saying in 2012, "If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance."
"This says that when they made the promise, they knew half the people in this market outright couldn't keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn't make it either," said Robert Laszewski, of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a consultant who works for health industry firms. Laszewski estimates that 80 percent of those in the individual market will not be able to keep their current policies and will have to buy insurance that meets requirements of the new law, which generally requires a richer package of benefits than most policies today.
Obama knew, when he said those famous words, that they were not true. He's a liar.
Obama administration approves Plan B morning after pill for young girls
The Family Research Council reports on a very disappointing story.
If there's one thing the Obama administration has mastered, it's walking out on their responsibilities in court. Yesterday, the Justice Department sent its Plan B appeal to the same dust heap as its DOMA defense, telling reporters that it would give up its legal campaign after a couple of recent setbacks. The administration's policy, which for two years had been the only thing standing between little girls and a powerful birth control drug, is now a thing of the past, as Health and Human Services (HHS) officially bows out of the battle so many parents willed it to keep fighting. The sudden surrender by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius means that the controversial and potent morning-after pill will be available to anyone — of any age — without a prescription.
Before Monday, the administration took a lot of heat for pitting itself against the President's closest allies — radical feminists and abortion groups who object to even the slightest restrictions on "contraception." In a letter to U.S. District Judge Edward Korman, who authored the scathing ruling against Sebelius's policy, the government's attorneys promised to step aside and allow unlimited sales. As soon as the manufacturers submit a new drug application, the FDA promises to fast-track the pills to drugstore shelves.
Initially, the DOJ had asked Korman to suspend his ruling until an appeals court could weigh in — which it did last week. And although the judges' decision was an obstacle, there were plenty of legal options to overcome it. Instead, the President dropped the case — along with the facade of concern.
Judge Korman, like President Obama, has two children. Yet neither man seems overly concerned that the drug they're both endorsing has never been tested on pre-teen and adolescent girls. Judge Korman called HHS's policy "scientifically unjustified," when in fact, the only thing that's scientifically unjustified is the effect of these high doses of hormones on young girls. The FDA hasn't conducted a single study on Plan B's risks to girls under 17 — but as far as liberals are concerned, nothing should hinder access to anything related to sex, including personal safety.
There was one reaction to this story that I wanted to quote here:
Janice Crouse, also of CWFA, responded: "Once again, those who yell the loudest about caring about the nation's children and youth applaud a decision to place our kids in a special interest experiment. Plan B, popularly called the 'morning-after pill' is a much-higher-dosage version of the regular birth control pill (which used to require a doctor's prescription and continued doctor's supervision). It is irresponsible to advocate over-the-counter use of these high-potency drugs, which would make them available to anyone – including those predators who exploit young girls. Mark my words, it will not be long before we see girls and women forced to purchase Plan B for their abuser to keep them and others enslaved. This is a pimp, predator, and pedophile's dream – unlimited access to Plan B."
She added: "This is a political decision, made by those who stand to profit financially from an action that puts ideology ahead of the nation's girls and young women. Where is the scientific data and solid reasoning behind a decision that endangers minors?"
Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America also weighed in on the decision.
She told LifeNews: "President Obama is waging a War on Girls by allowing young children to get Plan B without a physician or parent's care or knowledge. The morning after pill is a megadose of the birth-control pill, which has been categorized by the World Health Organization as a Group I carcinogen. That's the highest possible ranking – cigarettes are also in Group I. So why are drugstores required to put cigarettes behind the counter and ask for a photo id to stop minors from purchasing them, but President Obama is now ordering the morning after pill be sold over the counter, next to candy bars and packs of gum? This is not reproductive justice, this is child abuse."
Just to be clear, according to the drug manufacturer, Plan B does cause abortions in some situations by preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg.
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Zabol Qaleh (, also Romanized as Zābol Qal'eh; also known as Jānābād and Jahānābād) is a village in Qara Bashlu Rural District, Chapeshlu District, Dargaz County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 60, in 14 families.

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The relationship between perfumers and flavorists has always been interesting, and sometimes it has also been uneasy. For sports fans, it is similar to the relationship between two teams residing in the same city—think Manchester United and Manchester City or the Yankess and the Mets. They have many aspects in common, but, often illogically, the differences tend to dominate the relationship.
Successful perfumers and flavorists share many of the same basic personality traits, and both must possess the same unusual ability to imagine complex odor mixtures. Both disciplines also demand a high level of self-confidence and offer the reward of seeing the result of their creative efforts on store shelves.
The problems start with the way most flavor and fragrance companies are organized. In most companies, flavors and fragrances are in separate profit accountable divisions, and the natural bias is to compete rather than cooperate. This is especially true in larger companies, where politics frequently assume a disproportionately important role and cooperation with "the other side" can easily be equated with disloyalty.


Exemples de phrases de sources extérieures pour "spezialisiert"
We specialize in high quality facial animation for video games and films.
Wir sind auf Gesichtsanimation von hoher Qualität für Videospiele und Filme spezialisiert.
We specialize in high-quality facial animation for video games and films.
When a market expands, we witness industrial specializations in every region and every town.
Vergrößert sich ein Markt, spezialisiert sich die Industrie in jeder Region und jeder Stadt.
Uzbekistan specializes in exporting raw materials.
Usbekistan ist auf den Export von Rohstoffen spezialisiert.
European competition law is both wide-ranging in scope and highly specialised.
Das europäische Wettbewerbsrecht ist zugleich umfassend und sehr spezialisiert.


Stone Creek Builders, a construction company based in Matawan, New Jersey, has started a house lift for a residence in the Monmouth County coastal town of Sea Bright on November 29, 2014. The house lift is the beginning of the renovation and reconstruction process on the building's foundation.
Because of the home's close proximity to water, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requires that a Base Flood Elevation test be performed. This test determines the highest elevation to which floodwater might rise and allows the builder to accurately calculate the height of the new foundation to avoid future flooding. Once the test is completed, soil boring is performed and the proper foundation, either masonry or pilings depending on the strength of the soil, is designed by an architectural engineer.
The reconstruction of the foundation begins with the removal of all steps, stairs and porches and the disconnection of all utilities, then the actual house lift occurs. When the new foundation is in place, the property is back-filled and graded to allow water to run from the foundation rather than collecting around it and causing possible future damage. The house is then lowered onto the new foundation, the utilities are reconnected, and new steps, stairs and porches are added, as well as any other renovation that is needed on the exterior of the house.
In the case of the Sea Bright residence, the soil strength will allow a masonry foundation, and the necessary materials have already been delivered to the location. Because of the uncertainty of weather conditions in late autumn, all involved hope that clear weather will prevail during construction so that there will be no delays and the foundation refurbishing process goes as planned.
Stone Creek Builders has been serving Monmouth County with residential and light commercial construction since 1988. It offers custom home building, reconstruction, renovation and design services, and works closely with its clients to ensure complete satisfaction with the finished project. From building mantels and moldings to creating a dream home for raising a family, Stone Creek Builders is able to create whatever its clients envision.


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Q: predicate that store best solution of comparison i try to write a code that find the best goal that meets my condition
point(1,2).
point(1,10).
point(2,3).
point(5,2).
point(4,4).

best(X, GT, Goal) :-
    once(Goal),
    assert(val(X)),
    fail
;
    Goal,
    once(retract(val(Y))),
    keep_greater(GT,X,Y),
    fail
;
    retract(val(X)).

keep_greater(GT,X,Y) :-
    GT(X,Y), !,
    assert(val(X))
;   assert(val(Y)), !.

once(Goal) :- Goal, !.

examples:
best(Y,>,point(_,Y)).  => Y = 10
best(X,>,point(X,_)).  =>  X = 5
best(X,<,point(X,_)). => X = 1

cant figure out why its not working the code is always crash after keep greater rule.
thanks for your help.


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BagoGames > Articles > Opinion > Why I Believe Destiny 2 Should be Played by all Gamers
Why I Believe Destiny 2 Should be Played by all Gamers
by Zac LaRocque-Walker
Destiny 2, Activision
Destiny 2 is easily my most anticipated release this year. There, I said it. I won't try and hide my love for the series and the setting that Bungie unleashed three years ago. While this year has given us games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Persona 5, the game that I most want to play is Destiny 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxElWwWVFE&t=39s
But, Destiny is dead right? That's what all the comments still say—three years after the original, and people are still pre-emptively faulting the sequel based on their claims that Destiny was flawed.
You see, I have been a fairly dedicated Destiny player since the Alpha and have put about 700 hours into the game. While the game's story has always been a bit lacking, and not what I had hoped for from Bungie, the social experiences have been second to none. Bungie has definitely crafted a fantastic loot shooter. The gunplay mechanics are precise and there are interesting settings and characters, but it's the friendships I've made that really stand out.
Getting ready to take on the Cabal and defend The Traveler (Destiny, Activision)
I moved away from my family about seven years ago, leaving my brothers a good 13 hours away. We chat here and there, or post on Facebook, but we've maintained a little group chat since launch where we chat about the game and other games and set up gaming sessions. The social aspect of Destiny has always provided me with an opportunity to break up the week: I can pop online with my brothers and other buddies, and we can run some strikes, do some Iron Banner, or even raid. We've gone through the Vault of Glass, taken on Crota and Skolas, and taken down Oryx and Aksis. Those raid experiences, especially, are some of my favorite gaming experiences, and it's all thanks to Destiny that I've shared them with my siblings.
That doesn't even take into account the various clans I've been a part of. Meeting like-minded gamers, and gaming with them, has been great. I play at really weird times—usually really early in the morning—and because of that, I've made friends in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and more. Even when Destiny's faced content droughts, we never strayed so far as to stop playing entirely. We would keep our clan culture intact by picking up other games to play together as we awaited new content in Destiny.
New loot to acquire? Sign me up (Destiny 2, Activision).
Now, after a fairly mild year of Destiny playing—going back and replaying a lot of the same content, but just at a slightly higher difficulty—it's exciting that we're about to get a trove of fresh content. And this isn't just any content update; in fact, it's not really a content update at all: it's a full-on sequel. Bungie has claimed that, for Destiny 2, they have learned a great deal, streamlined their delivery, and prepared even more content for players to eat up. There are some things, however, I'm not looking forward to, such as the 4v4 crucible modes—the Beta was a bit disappointing. That aside, there are apparently countless missions to beat, each full of accompanying voice work, and around 60 hours for just the story content. This pleases me greatly, because Bungie definitely did bungle the delivery of their first iteration in the series, a game that should have been remembered for its fantastic sci-fi setting.
I'm well aware that when Destiny came out, it wasn't what a lot of people thought it was going to be, and there were countless design flaws. I know because I played through it, I grinded my way through it, and when Bungie tried to smooth things out, I was there to enjoy the boost in its quality-of-life features. I'm sure that there will be other games that will be better suited to the title of Game of the Year, but really, the only game that matters to me this year is Destiny 2. Hopefully Bungie has learned a lot over the past few years and will have Destiny 2 to show for it—a successful follow-up title that even the haters will want to try.
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I am donating in memory of my beautiful daughter, Alison Gilmore. She passed away in 2011 at age 34 after an 18 month battle with lung cancer. She is still very much a part of my life as I sense her presence through various signs sent often-- via nature, or music or flickering lights. I know that she is at peace and in a beautiful place now!
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Aspect of Corporal Punishment on Maintaining Discipline in Schools in Tanzania: A Focus on Secondary Schools in Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality
Nampoto, Hamza Bakari
http://repository.out.ac.tz/2193/1/Nampoto-Dissertation-09-02-2018.pdf
This study explored the use of corporal punishment on maintaining discipline among students in secondary schools in Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality. The objectives of the study were to find out the reasons why corporal punishment was administered in secondary schools in Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality, to explore the role of corporal punishment on maintaining discipline in secondary schools, to find out different views and opinions on the use of corporal punishment on maintaining discipline among students in secondary schools. The study adopted qualitative research design. The population of the study had 583 partcipants; students; members of school board discipline teachers and heads of schools. The sample involved were 108, participants. 88 were students, 8 discipline teachers, 4 heads of schools and 8 members of school board. Questionnaires, interviews and documentary review were used to collect data. The study had the following conclusions. Firstly, corporal punishment in secondary schools in Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality, were used to maintain discipline. Secondly, heads of school and members of school boards have the views that corporal punishment should continue to administer to students. Basing on the conclusion the study had the following recommendations. Firstly School administration and teachers should administer corporal punishment side by side with other types of punishment so as to gradually introduce students to other types of punishment. Secondly Secondary school leadership should make sure that corporal punishment regulation should be adhered to all teachers.
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Nampoto, Hamza Bakari (2018) Aspect of Corporal Punishment on Maintaining Discipline in Schools in Tanzania: A Focus on Secondary Schools in Mtwara-Mikindani Municipality. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.


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Press Release – Bach Stradivarius Trumpets and Trombones Now Available in New Case Design (2012)
Bach Stradivarius Trumpets and Trombones Now Available in New Case Design
Conn-Selmer and Vincent Bach are proud to announce a new case design that draws on the vintage styling of the builders early '20s era cases with modern features that represents the needs of today's players.
Early Vincent Bach instrument cases included a unique brown leather trimmed exterior and light blue velour fabric interior that became synonymous with the brand image. Owners of vintage era instruments still typically carry their instruments in this renowned case. The new case designs include the elegant brown leather trim with complimenting sturdy handles and gold hardware. Replacing the velour inside is a modern dark blue microfiber padded interior that includes the embroidered Vincent Bach insignia.
Unlike Bach's original cases, today's modern cases are slimmer and provide more storage inside the case for accessories. The interior compartments also include space that will accommodate Vincent Bach Megatone™ mouthpieces which feature a larger dimension on the outer cup.
These new Vincent Bach cases will begin shipping with Bach Stradivarius trumpets and trombones in 2012 and are available as part of the aftermarket accessory offering. For more information on this offering visit www.bachbrass.com.
About Conn-Selmer
Conn-Selmer, under a portfolio of brands, is the leading manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments for student, amateur, and professional use. With a tradition of innovation, and superior musical performance, brands such as Vincent Bach, CG Conn, King, Holton, Selmer, Armstrong, Leblanc, Ludwig, Musser, Scherl & Roth, Glaesel, and William Lewis have earned a legacy of respect unparalleled by any other builders. Conn-Selmer is also the North American distributor of Selmer Paris woodwinds, the US distributor of Yanagisawa saxophones, and the global distributor of the Jiggs pBone (the world's only plastic trombone). With a focus on quality craftsmanship, Conn-Selmer operates US production facilities in Elkhart, IN, Cleveland, OH, Eastlake, OH, Lagrange, IL, and Monroe, NC. Through its educational outreach team, led by Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Conn-Selmer is the industry leader in providing support and advocacy tools specifically tailored to music education. For more information on the complete line of instruments, services, and support available from Conn-Selmer, visit www.conn-selmer.com.


The mayor of Montreal mayor apologized for speaking almost exclusively in English while she was delivering a speech recently about foreign investment. This is ridiculous.
The problem is, there was no mistake. The speech was made to address three British artificial intelligence companies upon their arrival in Montreal. What language should you use to address English companies? English seems like a fairly wise choice.
Besides, many would agree that English is the language of commerce throughout the world. It makes perfect sense for the mayor of a city that wants to be a major player in the world to communicate to the business world in the language they are most likely to understand.
But of course, Mayor Plante capitulated to the identitarian French language lobby and apologized anyways: "French is my native language, it's the language of my heart, and it's a great pride for me to use this language in the biggest francophone metropolis in North America," Plante said. She further pledged to deliver many more speeches in French to atone for her sin.
In terms of cultural experience and political engagement, petty scandals and forced apologies like these ensure that Montreal will continue to get a big, fat, FAIL on the world stage.
If Montreal wants to join the ranks of the great hubs of commerce such as London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, and increasingly Toronto then it will have to grow up and get over these petty language disputes.


The video presents Greenholm Farms near Embro to take a look at Oxford County's first anaerobic digester. The PlanET AD plant is based on cow's manure and converting it into methane and then into electrical energy and feeding it back into Ontario's power grid. Great video in order to understand how a biogas plant works!


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With an official ground breaking ceremony VARTA Microbattery has started the building phase of its new factory for mercury free hearing aid batteries.
By the end of this year, VARTA Microbattery will build the largest and most innovative factory for hearing aid batteries in the world, at its Headquarter in Ellwangen, Germany. This new production hall represents another milestone in our company's history. With optimized processes, we will implement new technologies in our production which will increase our production capacity significantly, as well as the performance and reliability of our product. "We believe we will be able to further enhance our world market share", Herbert Schein (CEO) VARTA Microbattery. VARTA Microbattery expects a strong increase of demand for hearing aid batteries for the next years. With this new manufacturing plant, we prepare for strong and fast growing business, leading to a substantial market share growth. As our society ages, people with hearing loss want to participate in the social life, the same as all others. This is why the hearing aid business unit is one of the fastest growing business units at VARTA Microbattery", Herbert Schein states. VARTA Microbattery develops and produces premium hearing aid batteries selling under the brand Power One. World's most well-known and wellesteemed Hearing Aid Manufacturers are customers of VARTA Microbattery.


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Water pollution control at the Rohm and Haas Houston plant
Water Pollution Control at the Rohm and
Haas Houston Plant
JOHN W. PARROT, Head, Design and Development Group
W. M. SMITH, Pollution Control Engineer
Rohm and Haas Company
Deer Park, Texas
The Houston plant of the Rohm and Haas Company, which is located on the
Houston Ship Channel in Deer Park, Texas, began operations in 1948. The plant has
been expanded numerous times since its initial operation. At the present time it
employs approximately 850 persons and ships about 50 mil of pounds per month of
various organic chemicals. Principal raw materials for the plant operation are natural
gas and air. Intermediates and products manufactured at the plant include ammonia,
methanol, acetylene, alkyl amines, acrylic monomers, and nonionic surfactants.
Like the manufacturing plant, the waste water treatment facilities have been
expanded several times to keep pace with the quantity of wastes to be treated. The
first biological treatment unit, a trickling filter, was installed in 1959. A facility for
collecting and burning waste oils was added in 1967, and a major expansion of the
treatment plant was completed and put on stream near the end of 1968. The expansion included a thirty mil gal aerated lagoon with 1,500 hp of floating aerators.
Figure 1 is a photograph of the lagoon.
Figure 1-     Aerial view of aerated lagoon.
CHARACTERISTICS OF WASTE WATER
The waste water processed in the treatment plant is a complex solution of salts
and organic compounds. A typical chromatogram of a sample of the waste is shown
in Figure 2. The identities of 14 different peaks have been determined; these correspond to raw materials, intermediates, and products from the plant operation. About
60 per cent of the COD in the waste water can be attributed to known peaks; the
remaining 40 per cent is from unidentified peaks and from low molecular weight
polymers that do not elute on the chromatographic column. A summary of properties of the waste water is shown in Table I. About 85 per cent of the COD is
biodegradable, as determined by laboratory tests.
Title Water pollution control at the Rohm and Haas Houston plant
Author Parrott, J. W. (John W.)
Smith, W. M.
Conference Front Matter (copy and paste) http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/u?/engext,18196
Series Engineering extension series no. 137
Title page617
Transcript Water Pollution Control at the Rohm and Haas Houston Plant JOHN W. PARROT, Head, Design and Development Group W. M. SMITH, Pollution Control Engineer Rohm and Haas Company Deer Park, Texas INTRODUCTION The Houston plant of the Rohm and Haas Company, which is located on the Houston Ship Channel in Deer Park, Texas, began operations in 1948. The plant has been expanded numerous times since its initial operation. At the present time it employs approximately 850 persons and ships about 50 mil of pounds per month of various organic chemicals. Principal raw materials for the plant operation are natural gas and air. Intermediates and products manufactured at the plant include ammonia, methanol, acetylene, alkyl amines, acrylic monomers, and nonionic surfactants. Like the manufacturing plant, the waste water treatment facilities have been expanded several times to keep pace with the quantity of wastes to be treated. The first biological treatment unit, a trickling filter, was installed in 1959. A facility for collecting and burning waste oils was added in 1967, and a major expansion of the treatment plant was completed and put on stream near the end of 1968. The expansion included a thirty mil gal aerated lagoon with 1,500 hp of floating aerators. Figure 1 is a photograph of the lagoon. Figure 1- Aerial view of aerated lagoon. CHARACTERISTICS OF WASTE WATER The waste water processed in the treatment plant is a complex solution of salts and organic compounds. A typical chromatogram of a sample of the waste is shown in Figure 2. The identities of 14 different peaks have been determined; these correspond to raw materials, intermediates, and products from the plant operation. About 60 per cent of the COD in the waste water can be attributed to known peaks; the remaining 40 per cent is from unidentified peaks and from low molecular weight polymers that do not elute on the chromatographic column. A summary of properties of the waste water is shown in Table I. About 85 per cent of the COD is biodegradable, as determined by laboratory tests. -617-
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Janet Benton (Lilli de Jong), Camille Di Maio (The Beautiful Strangers), and Sarah McCoy (Marilla of Green Gables) discuss their historic fiction, set in 1883 Philadelphia, mid-twentieth-century Southern California, and Avonlea. Book sales and signing will follow. FREE to attend and open to the public.


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Reps rebound for 6-2 win over TPH
2018 OHL Cup powered by Under Armour Mississauga Reps TPH Thunder
After just one goal on 45 shots last night, the Mississauga Reps unloaded for six Wednesday afternoon as Aidan Hughes (1, 2) and Devlin O'Brien (1, 2) both had two goals and an assist in a 6-2 win over TPH Hockey.
TPH held a 1-0 lead after one period before O'Brien and Matthew Papais (1) responded in the second. Max Dodig (1) picked up the eventual game winner 43 seconds into the third period as the Reps improved to 1-1.
Hughes scored twice in the third while O'Brien picked up his second as the Reps returned to form.
"We had a little more finish today," said Hughes, who earned Player of the Game honours for Mississauga. "Last night was a little frustrating but you have to get beyond games like that.
"The boys pulled together and got us two points today."
Michael Renwick registered three assists for the Reps while Davis Young also had a pair of helpers as they outshot TPH 38-19 and went 3-for-5 on the man advantage.
Carter Rohman (1) and Michael Bishop (1) scored for TPH in their first action of the showcase.
Mississauga (1-1-0) is back in action first thing Thursday morning, squaring off against the cross-town rival Mississauga Rebels (0-1-0) at 8:30am. TPH (0-1-0) gets back to work at 7:00pm against the Mississauga Senators.
Reps – Aidan Hughes (2G, 1A)
TPH – Carter Rohman (1G, 1A)
Devlin O'Brien puts the Reps on the board.


One of the most popular types of flower all over the world is the subject of our free DXF download pack for this week: Roses! This pack contains different perspectives of this well-loved flower that symbolizes many different emotions and occasions to different cultures.
The Roses collection features seven designs from our very own Jay Madison, all available for free download and use. All images are CNC-ready.
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Hi foodies...here is your favorite chicken shawarma recipe. YAAH, the perfect super yummy recipe I must say. I have been trying to replicate the same recipe and flavor of shawarma which we get from Labanese restaurant for months at home. Have tried different recipes and have done with different spice combinations and cooking methods. Honestly saying, the cooking methods like grilling, tossing and baking is not the big issue. The choice of cooking is up to you only. All equally tastes great. But the spice combination, chicken marination, the white sauce or Tahini sauce used makes the real difference. The reason I love to make shawarma at home is that its very simple and ease in preparation when compared to sandwich, chappathi and curry or any other meals. For me, it's an easy and quick dinner meal recipe/ quick dinner idea.
Shawarma / shawurma is a Levantine Arab meat preparation where lamb, chicken, turkey, beef, veal or mixed meat are placed on a spit and may be grilled for as long as a day. Shavings are cut off the block of meat for serving. Shawarma can be served on a plate, or as a sandwich or wrap. It is usually eaten with tabbouleh, fattoush, taboon bread, tomato, and cucumber. It also includes the toppings like tahini (tahina), hummus, pickled turnips, amba and like so.
The preparation of this middle eastern cuisine at home is quite simple but must be very careful in spice combo. Due to the unavailability of roasters at home, chicken shawarma remained as a restaurant dish. But we must change that attitude. Try out this yummy perfect chicken shawarma recipe at home and be the star of your family. Am i Right? Of course, we all love to make such delicious food at home and wanna make our loved one's tummy yummy. Here is the recipe showing how to make the perfect homemade shawarma/shawarma on gas top/chicken shawarma without an oven. Do try and let me know how it turns out for you. Enjoy cooking.
Next, we have to prepare the shawarma white sauce. For this, grind together all the ingredients listed under the preparation of sauce in a mixer to a fine paste. Keep it aside.
Then heat a pan and add 2 tbsp olive oil and fry the chicken slices over a high flame and later reduce the flame and toss until done.
Meanwhile mix together all the chopped vegetables in a bowl .(if anyone needs more creamy shawarma, then mix the vegetables with 1 tbsp white sauce ).
Now we have to assemble the shawarma. For that, take a small kubboos / pita bread and apply some white sauce over it.
Layer with chopped vegetables and then with fried chicken, french fries (optional) and again drizzle some sauce over it.
Roll it in a butter paper tightly.


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#ifndef ALIANALYSISTASKEMCALJETSPECTRA8TEVTRIGGERQA_H
#define ALIANALYSISTASKEMCALJETSPECTRA8TEVTRIGGERQA_H

/**
 * \file AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA.h
 * \brief Declaration of class AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA
 *
 * In this header file the class AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA is declared.
 * This is a jet task that calculates the EMCal triggered spectra and does
 * additional QA for the EMCal trigger for the 8 TeV jet spectra analysis
 *
 * \author Andrew Castro <andrew.john.castro@cern.ch>, University of Tennessee
 * \date April 14, 2018
 */

/* Copyright(c) 1998-2018, ALICE Experiment at CERN, All rights reserved. *
 * See cxx source for full Copyright notice                               */

#include "AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJet.h"
#include "THistManager.h"
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "Tracks/AliAnalysisTaskEmcalTriggerBase.h"
#include "Tracks/AliCutValueRange.h"
#include "AliEventCuts.h"
#include <TCustomBinning.h>
#include <TString.h>

class AliOADBContainer;
class AliEMCALTriggerPatchInfo;
class THistManager;
class TObjArray;

/**
 * \class AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA
 * \brief Implementation of a EMCal spectra task and QA for EMCal triggers
 *
 * This class in an implementation of a trigger QA for the EMCal
 * It derives from AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJet.
 * It also performs a QA of the cluster-track matching.
 * Note: if jets are not used this class can be simplified by deriving
 * from AliAnalysisTaskEmcal and removing the functions DoJetLoop()
 * and AllocateJetHistograms().
 */
class AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA : public AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJet {
public:

    AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA()                                               ;
    AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA(const char *name)                               ;
    virtual ~AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA()                                      ;

    void                        UserCreateOutputObjects()                         ;
    void                        Terminate(Option_t *option)                       ;
    void                        ExtractMainPatch()                                ;

    //setters
    void                        SetUseSumw2(Bool_t b) { fUseSumw2          = b   ; }

protected:
    void                        ExecOnce()                                        ;
    Bool_t                      FillHistograms()                                  ;
    Bool_t                      Run()                                             ;

    void                        AllocateJetHistograms()                           ;///< Jet Histograms
    void                        AllocateTrackHistograms()                         ;///< ITS-TPC Track Histograms
    void                        AllocateClusterHistograms()                       ;///< EMCal Cluster Histograms
    void                        AllocateCellHistograms()                          ;///< EMCal Tower Histograms
    void                        AllocateParticleHistograms()                      ;///< Generator Level MC Histograms
    //void                        AllocateMCJetHistograms()                         ;///< MC truth Jet Histograms

    void                        DoJetLoop()                                       ;
    void                        DoTrackLoop()                                     ;
    void                        DoClusterLoop()                                   ;
    void                        DoCellLoop()                                      ;
    //void                        DoParticleLoop()                                  ;
    //void                        DoMCJetLoop()                                     ;
    //Bool_t                      IsLEDEvent() const                                ;

    Bool_t                      fUseRecalcPatches                                 ;///<                  Switch between offline (FEE) and recalc (L1) patches
    Bool_t                      SelectSingleShowerPatch(const AliEMCALTriggerPatchInfo *patch) const;
    Bool_t                      SelectJetPatch(const AliEMCALTriggerPatchInfo  *patch) const;
    THistManager                fHistManager                                      ;///<                 Histogram manager

    // Sparse Definition
    virtual THnSparse*     NewTHnSparseF(const char* name, UInt_t entries);
    virtual void           GetDimParams(Int_t iEntry,TString &label, Int_t &nbins, Double_t &xmin, Double_t &xmax);
    // Binning helper functions

    //  Utilities

private:

    Bool_t                        fUseSumw2                  ;//!          activate sumw2 for output histograms

    TH1F                          *fHistNumbJets             ;//!          Numb Jets Per Event
    TH1F                          *fHistJetPt                ;//!          Jet Pt Dist
    TH1F                          *fHistJetJetPatchE         ;//!          Jet - Jet Trigger Patch E
    TH1F                          *fHistJetGammaPatchE       ;//!          Jet - Gamma Trigger Patch E
    TH1F                          *fHistJetJetPatchPt        ;//!          Jet - Jet Trigger Patch Pt
    TH1F                          *fHistJetGammaPatchPt      ;//!          Jet - Gamma Trigger Patch Pt
    TH1F                          *fHistTriggerPatchE        ;//!          EMCal Trigger Patch E

    AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA(const AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA&)           ; // not implemented
    AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA &operator=(const AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA&); // not implemented

    /// \cond CLASSIMP
    ClassDef(AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetSpectra8TeVTriggerQA, 7);
    /// \endcond
};
#endif

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<Philly Police Settle Sex Harassment Suit for Over One Million
Police De-Escalation Training Still Falls Short of Federal Guidelines>
Fight Over Release of Officer Names Continues in Harrisburg
Austin Nolenon December 12, 2017 /0 comments
Photo from protest on June 26th, 2017 against the shooting of David Jones. By Kristi Petrillo
By Austin Nolen
The fight between the City of Philadelphia and the Fraternal Order of Police over the release of the names of officers who shoot civilians continued yesterday in a small hearing room in Harrisburg.
The case, presided over by Hearing Examiner John Pozniak of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, stems from the decision of the City to implement changes recommended by the Department of Justice in their police use of force policies.
One of the changes implemented in 2015 was a policy to release of the names of officers who fire their weapons at civilians. Other changes included a greater role for the Police Advisory Commission in shooting investigations and clearer diagrams on the proper escalation of force.
City officials claimed that these policy changes were within their legal rights to manage and set overall policy for government agencies. The FOP, on the other hand, claimed that the release of officer names was a term or condition of employment, because it impacts officer safety.
Pennsylvania law requires police departments to bargain with unions over terms and conditions of employment, and the FOP filed unfair labor practice charges with the PLRB seeking to force the City to the negotiating table.
Though the central issue that the PLRB will resolve is whether the new use of force policies are subject to collective bargaining, both sides also defended their stances on the underlying policy issues.
When Police Commissioner Richard Ross took the stand, he defended his ability to set these policies by explaining his view of the negative consequences the Department would face without them.
"You have to have the opportunity to implement policies that you feel will keep officers safe, the public safe and engender trust," he said. "Without that, you're going to have a problem you can't control. When things go awry, they're coming to me."
Ross defended the decision to release officer names by claiming that it builds community trust, and "without community trust, you subject yourself to volatile situations that don't have to happen."
FOP attorney Stephen Holroyd, however, tried to show that the Department was excessively under the influence of protest groups and unconcerned with officer safety.
When Ross claimed that he wouldn't allow unelected groups such as the FOP to dictate policy, Holroyd asked Ross whether he knew how Black Lives Matter's leaders were elected, implying that the Commissioner was subject to their whims.
FOP vice president John McGrody also took the stand, providing his account of a protest at the home of former Philadelphia Police Officer Ryan Pownall on August 24th, 2017.
Pownall fatally shot a man named David Jones in the back after a car chase and his name was released to the public under the new police policy.
Pownall was fired in September when Ross determined that Jones had dropped his firearm and was running away when the officer fired. A criminal investigation by the state Attorney General is ongoing.
During the hearing, Ross described the actions of the small group of protesters who showed up at Pownall's home after the release of his name as "ridiculous," and said that he doesn't "believe that you have a First Amendment right to protest in front of someone's home," but denied that Pownall was threatened during the protest
He also described the Department's efforts to protect officers whose names are released, which include social media monitoring and stationing officers at the homes of officers who request protection.
McGrody, in his testimony, painted a darker picture of the protest than Ross, stating that "the four main antagonists used disgusting, horrible language that no one should ever hear."
He also claimed that the protesters "took over the block and terrorized it" and that officers on scene were ordered not to make arrests despite probable cause for charges of disorderly conduct, riot and obstructing public highways.
McGrody also alleged that Pownall had received threats after the protest occurred, but the City's attorney, Cara Leheny, told Hearing Examiner Pozniak that McGrody's claims about the threats were not credible.
McGrody, Leheny said, had not mentioned these threats in court during an FOP attempt to obtain a judge's injunction against the release of officer names, even though the hearing in that case came a month after the protests.
The next step in the case is for both sides to file briefs with Pozniak. His eventual decision can then be appealed by either party to the members of the PLRB and then to court.
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Blackjack is a game with origins in ancient Roman, Chinese and Egyptian culture. Today's Blackjack is a direct derivation of an 18th century French casino game called "Vingt-et-Un" (21), and it arrived in America by the hands of European colonists.
Modern Blackjack got its name from a promotion bonus that was offered in early American casinos; the bonus was a payout with 10:1 odds if a player's hand included the Ace of Spades and a black Jack. The promotions didn't last, but the name stuck.
Blackjack became really popular in America during the Great Depression, when Nevada legalized gambling in order to increase its revenue. The simple card game became a fast favorite at casinos in Las Vegas and around the state, until it eventually spread to the other states and was enjoyed from coast to coast.
Like baseball, Blackjack started out as mainly an American pastime, but due to the rise of online casinos, many other people around the world now enjoy playing it. While the game's actual rules haven't changed in the past century, plenty of new versions of the game have popped up – from Online Blackjack to Mobile Blackjack to Live Casino Blackjack for online gamers.
Because Blackjack's origins lie in France, but its main popularity is in America, the game's terminology contains a mix of both French and America flavors.
Blackjack: The name of the game and also, the term for an Ace and any card valued at 10.
Bust: A bust is an automatic loss; it happens when a player gets a hand that totals over 21.
Double Down: This is the doubling of an initial bet, in return for agreeing to stand down after receiving an extra card.
Hit: The term for when a player asks for another card from the dealer.
Holecard: This is the Dealer's second card, usually dealt facedown and not turned over until the players decide what move to make.
Insurance: This is something the player can request if the Dealer has an Ace. Before the Dealer reveals his hole card, the player asks for insurance, which pays 2:1, and covers for the loss of the original bet.
Soft: When an Ace is valued at 11 (and not 1).
Split: If the player's two hands have the same value, he can split them into separate hands. The player then plays both hands at the same time (doubling his chances at winning).
Stand: When a player decides not to accept any more cards.
Surrender: If a player is losing, some casinos might let him stand down and "surrender" at a certain point in the hand. If this happens, the player receives half of his bet back.
Upcard: The Dealer's card that is facing up.
Unlike Poker, where players play against each other, in Blackjack, players play against the dealer. The goal is to reach a total value of 21 or as close as possible. Aces can be played at 1 or 11, and Jacks, Queens and Kings are all valued at 10. Numbers 1-9 are taken at face value.
The game starts off with players placing their bets. Then, every player is dealt two cards facing up. The dealer deals himself two cards, the upcard and the holecard. Once everyone has received their cards, players must choose whether to "hit" (get more cards), "stand" (take no more cards), "double" their bet or "split" two cards of equal value into two separate hands. Once the players have made their choices, the Dealer draws cards until he "busts" (over 21) or gets cards that value 17 or higher.
A game of Blackjack has three possible outcomes: the player can win, the Dealer can win, or there will be a tie (in which case, the player gets his cash back). The best possible scenario? When the player gets blackjack on the first round. Casinos usually offer higher odds of 3:2 if a player gets this.
Blackjack is a fairly straightforward game, as the player doesn't need to focus on other players; only on the Dealer. Of course, there are certainly advanced strategies the players can learn; mathematically inclined players may even be able to count cards (though not recommended!).
But for players just starting out, there is a basic strategy that you need to master; that is, you need to know when to hit, stand, split and double. While of course, you can never predict what card will come your way 100% of the time, the basic rules for these moves are governed by the laws of probability. If you draw any card between 5-16, you should hit, but if you draw any card between 17-21, you should stand. When it comes to splitting and doubling, there are a few more options; splitting is a good choice if you draw two cards of the same value, but you also have to keep an eye on what the dealer has as well.
While the rules of Blackjack don't vary from casino to casino, the odds do. Check out what the odds are before you play at any online casino, and try to find the one with the best payout offer.
Practice makes perfect! Try a demo version of Blackjack before moving on to the real deal. Many online casinos allow their registered players to play Blackjack for free, without time limits. This is a great way to get experience without risking your money.
Stay calm: This is the golden rule for any card game, and while it seems basic, it is actually difficult to maintain. Players in online casinos, however, have a better chance at staying calm than players in real casinos, because in real casinos there are numerous more distractions. In both cases, the more focused you are, the better your chances are of winning.
Educate yourself! Read up about Blackjack, even watch movies such as 21 and Rain Man – these will get you thinking about all the math involved in Blackjack, and can help you get creative in your strategies.
Remember that you are playing against the Dealer. Ignore the players around you; they simply are not relevant to your goal.
Remember that the House has the advantage. While players are still able to – and do – win, it's important to remember this fact.


Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) describes a process used to evaluate the collection of personal data in information systems. The objective of a PIA is to determine if collected personal information data is necessary and relevant.
To accomplish this objective, a PIA is used to identify and address information privacy when planning, developing, implementing, and operating individual agency information management systems and integrated information systems. A PIA will assess "security and privacy risks" associated with operating information systems that collect, access, use, or disseminate personal information.
Previous Version of A&I PIA - June 15, 2009.
Medical Examiner's Certification Integration (Final Rule) - 80 FR 22790, April 23, 2015.
Previous Version of National Registry PIA - August 20, 2012.
Unified Registration System (URS) Final Rule - 78 FR 52608 - August 23, 2013.


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Directed by Andrew Matthews
I was privileged to be involved in this great little film project that won "Best International Film" at the 168 Film Festival in LA. 2017 was the festival's15th annual year.
I played a small acting role at the start of the film and also helped as a crew member. Watch the film above for free. See the IMdB page for this movie >
Max Milford
Max Milford is a delusional infomercial presenter who is promoting his ridiculous Memory-Max Pro CD training series. The CD training series helps people to remember names, places and other things better than a normal brain should. However Max is very forgetful in his own life and is completely unaware of it.
Jump Into Film Making – HOPPER
You will never have everything just right, the right budget, A-list actors, a perfect script, the best equipment, a perfect set location. You might only have a few friends and a junk room.
I played a very small role in this award winning short film. I was the policemen who had to transport the prisoners. Directed by Andrew Thorn.
Hayfever Rap Song
Having been a Hay fever sufferer for as long as I can remember, I have had plenty of time to think about all of the annoying situations and scenarios it causes. It can make your eyes look red and puffy like you are…
ABC TV Mini-Series
To commemorate the 100 years since WWI, the ABC commissioned a TV series depicting the lives of a number of Australians during WWI.
168 Film Festival Script Entry
My script "THIRTY DOLLARS" made it into the semi-finals in the 168film festival's Write of Passage script writing competition.
Children's book coming soon
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Online searches from buyers all over the world for cricket-related products jumped by 130 per cent between February, 2010, and January 2011, said statistics compiled by Alibaba.com, the world's largest business-to-business e-commerce portal.
Indian suppliers received 49.60 per cent of enquiries from cricketing countries like the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand and Pakistan.
Around 12 per cent of the global enquiries came from prospective buyers in countries such as the USA, China and Singapore, all traditionally non-cricket playing nations, the report said.
"The data that we have is extremely interesting and presents an attractive business opportunity for Indian SMEs engaged in production of cricketing gear. SMEs can now explore markets such as the USA and China where the International Cricket Council (ICC) has been actively promoting cricket," Sandeep Deshpande, Alibaba's India country manager told PTI.
According to the search data, countries such as the United Kingdom, China, Pakistan and United States are the major competitors (rpt) competitors for Indian sellers of cricketing products.
"Searches from global buyers for cricket products manufactured by Indian SMEs has increased significantly during major international cricket tournaments," the Alibaba official said.
Global buyer searches on Alibaba.com for cricket products from India grew by 46.1 per cent in August, 2010, a month before Indian franchises participated in the T20 Champions League.
Similarly, searches in January, 2011, saw 34 per cent growth prior to the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup, which began earlier last month.
Cricket products that buyers are looking for include cricket bats and balls, which account for a significant percentage of the buyer searches, followed by cricket bat stickers, jerseys and other cricket wear.


Chennai, April 3 (PTI): The Tamil Nadu government will initiate measures to renovate the northern and southern 'rajagopurams' (towers) of the famous Siva temple in Rameswaram, State Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister, K R Periakaruppan told the State assembly yesterday.
Replying to Congress MLA Hasan Ali, who raised the issue during question hour, the minister said the works for renovation of the two gopurams were taken up during the previous AIADMK regime. The work was later abandoned due to various reasons.
Now,the government had decided to take up renovation of the gopurams with its own funds and it would be started soon, he said.


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Mancini calls for more screening
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has demanded twice yearly medical screenings for Barclays Premier League players after admitting he was worried not enough is being done to protect them.
There has been no further update on the condition of Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba since Monday night, when it was confirmed the 23-year-old was able to answer questions and speak in both French and English. Mancini was relieved at the latest bulletin but cannot understand how the Premier League has allowed a situation that puts the safety of players at risk.
"I was really worried on Sunday," the Italian said. "Today I have read he has improved and I am very happy for him and his family. But if you want to know my opinion, it is that here in England, the best championship in the world, everything is fantastic. But we need to improve the medical side for the players."
Monday's news represents a dramatic improvement for Muamba, whose heart stopped for two hours following his collapse during the first half of his side's FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham on Saturday evening.
Mancini added: "We need to screen the players often, maybe two times a year and they have to be more accurate because they don't do this. When I saw our medical two years ago, I was really worried. I said we need to do them better."
Past problems in Italy led to a far more stringent series of medical tests than the ones which players must undergo in England.
After replacing Mark Hughes as City boss in 2009, Mancini could not believe the Premier League, with all its money and claims of being the best league in the world, did not operate to the same standards.
"It is impossible that a young guy could die on the pitch because they didn't do a medical accurately," he said. "I want all the players, not just ours, to have more accurate medicals.
"And always, not once a year. Every six months. This is really important for the players because it is totally different today than it was 20 years ago. It is very important.
"What happened to Muamba and other players in the past can't happen again."


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Q: Does fopen create a file descriptor? Looking at the man page for fopen I cannot get a definite answer to this question.
FILE *fopen(const char *path, const char *mode);

I understand that fopen returns a file pointer to a stream but is a file descriptor created as a byproduct? I am trying to make sure that I include the flag FD_CLOEXEC on every instance a file descriptor is created. If a file descriptor is in fact created from fopen what is the best way to use fnctl() when there is no "fd" to use as input.
Thanks.

A: On Unix (which I assume you're using because you're mentioning fcntl) it does open a file descriptor, as fopen(3) eventually calls open(2). You can get that file descriptor via fileno(3).


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