New York Times reports on an audit by San Francisco county officials of about 400 recent foreclosures there determined that almost all involved either legal violations or suspicious documentation. See full article for more.
Anecdotal evidence indicating foreclosure abuse has been plentiful since the mortgage boom turned to bust in 2008. But the detailed and comprehensive nature of the San Francisco findings suggest how pervasive foreclosure irregularities may be across the nation.
But the precise terms of the states' deal have not yet been disclosed. As the San Francisco analysis points out, "the settlement does not resolve most of the issues this report identifies nor immunizes lenders and servicers from a host of potential liabilities." For example, it is a felony to knowingly file false documents with any public office in California.
In an interview late Tuesday, Mr. Ting said he would forward his findings and foreclosure files to the attorney general's office and to local law enforcement officials. Kamala D. Harris, the California attorney general, announced a joint investigation into foreclosure abuses last December with the Nevada attorney general, Catherine Cortez Masto. The joint investigation spans both civil and criminal matters.
The depth of the problem raises questions about whether at least some foreclosures should be considered void, Mr. Ting said. "We're not saying that every consumer should not have been foreclosed on or every lender is a bad actor, but there are significant and troubling issues," he said.
California has been among the states hurt the most by the mortgage crisis. Because its laws, like those of 29 other states, do not require a judge to oversee foreclosures, the conduct of banks in the process is rarely scrutinized. Mr. Ting said his report was the first rigorous analysis of foreclosure improprieties in California and that it cast doubt on the validity of almost every foreclosure it examined.
The report, which was compiled by Aequitas Compliance Solutions, a mortgage regulatory compliance firm, did not identify specific banks involved in the irregularities. But among the legal violations uncovered in the analysis were cases where the loan servicer did not provide borrowers with a notice of default before beginning the eviction process; 8 percent of the audited foreclosures had that basic defect.
Banks involved in buying and selling foreclosed properties appear to be aware of potential problems if gaps in the chain of title cloud a subsequent buyer's ownership of the home. Lou Pizante, a partner at Aequitas who worked on the audit, pointed to documents that banks now require buyers to sign holding the institution harmless if questions arise about the validity of the foreclosure sale.


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package riso.general;

import java.io.*;

/** This class contains a static method to sort a list of objects using Shell's algorithm.
  * This code is a translation of a C program, <tt>shl.txt</tt>, by Thomas Niemann, available at
  * http://epaperpress.com/sortsearch.
  * This program is distributed with RISO under the terms of the GPL by permission
  * of Thomas Niemann. In response to my question:
  *

  *  > Do I have your permission to redistribute the shell
  *  > sort code (which I've translated into Java) under
  *  > the GPL?
  *

  * Thomas Niemann wrote:
  *

  *  From: "Thomas Niemann" <thomasn@epaperpress.com>
  *  To: "Robert Dodier" <robert_dodier@yahoo.com>
  *  Subject: Re: Permission to redistribute shell sort code?
  *  Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:19:24 -0800
  *
  *  Sure, it's okay. No need to reference me or my site.
  *

  *
  * @see Comparator
  * @param a List of objects -- must all be the same comparable by
  *   the argument <tt>cmp</tt>.
  * @param lb Lower bound -- set to 0 for top-level call.
  * @param ub Upper bound -- set to <tt>a.length-1</tt> for top-level call.
  * @param cmp Instance of a class which knows how to compare the objects
  *   in the list <tt>a</tt>.
  */
public class ShellSort
{
	public static void do_sort( Object[] a, int lb, int ub, Comparator cmp )
	{
		int n, h, i, j;
		Object t;

		/* compute largest increment */
		n = ub - lb + 1;
		h = 1;
		if (n < 14)
			h = 1;
		else {
			while (h < n) h = 3*h + 1;
			h /= 3;
			h /= 3;
		}

		while (h > 0) {

			/* sort-by-insertion in increments of h */
			for (i = lb + h; i <= ub; i++) {
				t = a[i];
				for (j = i-h; j >= lb && cmp.greater(a[j], t); j -= h)
					a[j+h] = a[j];
				a[j+h] = t;
			}

			/* compute next increment */
			h /= 3;
		}
	}

	/** This function is a test program for the sorting method;
	  * it asks for a list of integers and sorts them.
	  */
	public static void main( String[] args )
	{
		try
		{
			SmarterTokenizer st = new SmarterTokenizer( new InputStreamReader( System.in ) );
			System.err.print( "give number of numbers: " );
			st.nextToken();
			int i, N = Integer.parseInt( st.sval );
			System.err.println( "give "+N+" numbers: " );

			Integer[] x = new Integer[N];

			for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ )
			{
				st.nextToken();
				x[i] = new Integer( Integer.parseInt( st.sval ) );
			}

			do_sort( x, 0, x.length-1, new IntComparator() );

			System.err.println( "sorted: " );
			for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ )
				System.err.println( x[i] );

		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

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Your granite should be sealed regularly in order to prevent these substances from damaging your granite, but accidents happen. If any of these substances come into contact with your granite for an extended period of time, you'll probably find that they create dull, discolored spots on your countertop. These dull spots are etch marks, and while they can be distressing to discover, they can be removed by a granite restoration professional.
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By: Eleanor Lamb
Colorado Students Discover World Through Mystery Skype
Students at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs walk into library class with the possibility of talking to other students in Australia, Thailand, or Ecuador.
Toni Olivieri-Barton, Library Technology Educator at Fountain Valley, introduced the program Mystery Skype to her students when she joined the school two years ago. Mystery Skype pairs classes from undisclosed locations around the world for video chat sessions. In the span of a class period, students must ask each other "yes" or "no" questions to figure out where their collective Skype dates are from. Olivieri-Barton said common questions include "Are you north of the Equator?," "Does your country end in a consonant?," and "Do you have a coastline?"
Fountain Valley's Mystery Skype pairings can come from within the country or from international schools. Olivieri-Barton said many of the partner classes come from within the United States because it is easier to logistically coordinate the time zones; however, sometimes her students will chat with their peers in Latin America and Asia. She said she tries to partner her students with other students that are roughly the same age. Olivieri-Barton said that many teachers around the world use the application to initiate global learning projects.
"It's such a great skill because it helps students to think big. Mystery Skype is a global collaboration," Olivieri-Barton said. "They might learn that they're more similar or different than they thought they'd be."
Established in 1930 as a school for boys, Fountain Valley's 1,100-acre campus resides on land that originally served as a ranch. The school, which includes grades 9-12, is now coed and the average class size is 11 students. Olivieri-Barton, who first learned about Mystery Skype while teaching at the Shanghai Community International School five years ago, stated that some of the students' interests include mountain biking and prairie ecology.
While Mystery Skype allows for students in Argentina to speak with those in Colorado, sometimes the connections are a little closer to home, according to Olivieri-Barton. Before teaching at Fountain Valley, she taught at an elementary school in Colorado. She said that one time her fourth graders in Colorado were linked to fourth graders in California; after chatting for a little while, the classes discovered that they were both studying the Gold Rush from their state's perspective. At the end of the semester, they called each other back and delivered a presentation on their findings.
Olivieri-Barton said that Mystery Skype is a collaborative effort, especially for younger students. Elementary students would break into groups, studying Google Maps, globes, and atlases as they tried to decipher where their webcast visits were from. One student kept records of questions asked while another asked the questions.
"It's a fun activity and it shows a lot of 21st-century skills," Olivier-Barton said. "We are using each other as primary sources."
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Eleanor Lamb
Eleanor Lamb is a Staff Reporter for MeriTalk covering Big Data, FITARA, Homeland Security, Education, Workforce Issues, and Civilian Agencies.
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Upper Schoolers Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Upper School students paused to honor and reflect on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the Diversity-in-Action Club (DIA) led a 90-minute presentation entitled "Dismantling Oppression: Finding Your Voice" on Thursday, January 24.
Students began by introducing the cycle of oppression — moving from fear of difference, to stereotyping, to prejudice, to discrimination, to institutionalized oppression, and finally, to internalized oppression. They offered strategies to combat and interrupt the cycle, including becoming an ally and breaking the silence that reinforces the oppression.
Facilitators asked students in the audience to agree or disagree (and then elaborate in an open forum) with statements about the Brunswick community, with regard to such issues as racially-charged language in music and respecting people's beliefs and ideologies in spite of their appearance, race, religion, intelligence, or sexuality.
Members of the DIA concluded by sharing their own stories and journeys toward finding their voices and identities throughout their Brunswick experiences — all of which echoed the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the theme of the morning's assembly.


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FBI: Far-right Proud Boys 'Fraternal Organization' designated 'Extremist Group' with ties to white nationalism
Posted on April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 by Curator Bot
Taggedantifa, white nationalism
The far-right "fraternal organization" the Proud Boys has been designated an "extremist group with ties to white nationalism" by the FBI.
The "extremist" designation was included in an August internal affairs report from the Clark County Sheriff's Office in Vancouver, Washington.
The report was posted online Monday by the "good government" nonprofit group Property of the People, and provided to The Guardian news outlet. The Proud Boys is a self-described male-only "western chauvinist" group started by Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes in 2016.
In recent months, group members have been involved in violent clashes at right-wing protests in various cities, including Portland, Oregon, and New York. Several members were arrested after a brawl with left-wing demonstrators, including members of Antifa, outside Republican Party offices in Manhattan in October.
Proud Boys has been designated a "hate group" by the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.
"The FBI has warned local law enforcement agencies that the Proud Boys are actively recruiting in the Pacific Northwest", the Clark County Sheriff's Office document reads.
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TS Forum • View topic - Is the music in ZX Art free to use in other projects?
A friend of mine is developing a new game for Windows with ZX Spectrum graphics. He would like some AY tunes befitting the game. Is the music within the ZX Art database free to use or would the music creator(s) need to be asked if it's ok to use?
Many thanks for any help/advice.
I think it is better to ask the author permission to use his song, but if he doesn't respond then I think you can use with reference to the author and the site where the melody was taken.
Most of works are from period of time when almost nobody thought about copyright really. If author didn't have any works published in last 10 years, then chances are they don't care anymore and mostly cannot even be contacted at all.
You can write the author names here - may be some of us would be able to find some traces.
It would even be better to contact active authors, some of them would be really glad to help and write some music exclusively for the game, I'm sure.


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US helps roughly 5,000 people evacuate from Afghanistan
The US military is hoping to increase the number.
By Sweenie Saint-Vil
Photo: AFP via Getty Images
Roughly 5,000 people have evacuated from Afghanistan with help from the U.S. military. As CNN reported, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley announced the news, adding that the number of evacuees is expected to increase. Military officials say the goal is to get a maximum of 5,000 to 9,000 people out of the country a day, but their lack of access to airports make the intended goal a hard one to meet.
According to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the U.S. military is unable to pick up large groups of Afghans and bring them to the airport.
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby added that conversations were being held with Taliban commanders with hopes to speed up the pace of the evacuations, which must be completed before Aug. 31, per President Joe Biden.
As REVOLT previously reported, thousands of Afghans swarmed airports on Sunday (Aug. 15) in an effort to leave the country after the Taliban took over the government. Since then, the Pentagon announced its intentions to house nearly 22,000 at-risk Afghans in three evacuation sites and transport an additional 8,000 people to a third party nation. Additionally, Biden — who withdrew troops from Afghanistan days before — deployed thousands from the military to help U.S. personnel evacuate.
So far, according to Kirby, about 2,000 people were flown out of the Kabul airport in the last 24 hours. The US military hopes to provide transport to the same amount of fleeing citizens in the next 24 hours.
"Military flights are arriving and departing consistently and there is limited commercial flight operations, as well as some foreign contracted flights that are coming and going," he said. The Biden administration national security officials are not yet sure how US citizens and Afghan allies outside Kabul will be evacuated.
Biden defends decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan
Pentagon to provide protection, transport and more to 30,000 at-risk individuals from Afghanistan


In tonight's Glasgow Lives, John says he hopes he can connect with people who might think they don't understand art.
I'm an artist, DJ and comedian. I like to think that these are all intertwined. Whilst I was studying at Glasgow School of Art I realised that I wanted to be the kind of artist that said something to everyday people. People that maybe think they don't understand art.
My first outdoor work might help to explain this. The work was called 'Superhero Parking Spaces'. I took thirteen parking spaces in a Safeway supermarket car park and made signs that looked like Safeways and changed thirteen parking spaces into superhero only spaces. Like, Batman only, Superman only, Ironman only and ten other super people spaces. I wanted the people that used the car park to change the way they saw the space they parked their car in.
The spaces where at the furthest point in the car park and nobody used them. But after only a week people were intentionally using specific spaces in the superhero area and walking to the market. I would leaflet the cars explaining that they were parking in a piece of art and I only ever got positive feedback. Job done.


Would be great to have a wind speed monitor to go with the sonoff th. Has anyone made one of these. I have a Sonoff th opening and closing my glasshouse windows but want to close the windows if it gets too windy.


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Kvelertak Discuss New Album And American Culture
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 22, 2013
Two years ago, Kvelertak hadn't even played their first show in America. Their debut album, which had been released overseas in late 2010, didn't become available domestically until March 15, four days after their first stateside show in San Francisco. This time, the band is here well in advance of their sophomore album being released, doing press from the offices of their new label, Roadrunner Records. Before Meir's March 25 release, I sat down with singer Erlend Hjelvik and guitarist Vidar Landa to talk about their new label, the influence of America on their music, and how Meir differs from the first album .
Tell me about the bidding war for the second album.
Erland Hjelvik: we talked to a bunch of different labels, but Roadrunner had been at us for awhile. We first met them when we played SXSW.
Vidar Landa: That was in 2011.
EH: We met Dave [Rath, RR VP of A&R] after the first show we played there. He just seemed stoked. We saw them after a couple of other shows we did and talked to them there and they seemed like they really wanted to do it. So it just seemed like the best choice in the end.
It seemed like all of a sudden there was a bidding war. At the Converge tour, everyone came out of the woodwork. Did you know back then you were going with Roadrunner?
VL: No, not really. We just made an album and there was a big interest in it. In the end, Roadrunner seemed like the best option for us. We've been so busy with touring and stuff I don't really know everything that's been going on.
EH: We have a manager that deals with that kind of stuff.
VL: I know the contract and stuff, but I don't know everything that's been going on.
Did you have any second thoughts when Roadrunner consolidated with Warner Music Group and got rid of some of their staff and bands?
VL: We heard about all that, but we've talked to them and they've explained how it is, and the set up they have now seems very good for us.
Let's talk a little bit about America. The first album didn't even technically come out here, it was just licensed. Did you know from the get-go that America was a market that you wanted to conquer?
EH: Yeah, ever since we did the first tour, the reactions and the crowd would really be into us. We just had a blast every time we've been to the states. We've done three US tours now and it just keeps getting better and better. It's going to be cool to release a new album that will be available everywhere.
VL: It has kind of been a bit of a problem that the album came out so late too in the states. So it'll be great this time around to go on tour with a new album and have a record company that is working it from the beginning.
It kind of came out twice, first through The End and then through Prosthetic.
EH: I don't know what happened right there, but it was just unorganized I guess.
Not so much the lyrics, but the band's music, choice of producers and artwork definitely seem informed by America. How much does American culture play into Kvelertak?
EH: We're fans of a lot of American bands. Having John Baizley doing the artwork and Kurt [Ballou] from Converge doing production and recording, I guess it just lumped us in with those kind of bands.
VL: Norway is kind of a small American colony. So we grew up on American movies and American music all the time.
EH: The first tour we ever did was with Converge and Kylesa and ever since then we've just been associated with those kinds of bands. We're fans of bands like that who I just mentioned, and Baroness, I could go on for a little while, but we don't mind being in that kind of company.
Did you consider working with people from Norway?
VL: Not really. Kurt was the one that everyone in the band wanted to do it. He was the first one we asked and he said yes straight away. We probably talked about stuff, but I can't really remember if there was anyone else we were into at that time.
EH: All Norwegians are super expensive anyway.
VL: Flying over to the states and recording here is almost the same price.
EH: Yeah, it's a better alternative.
VL: Plus you get away. You're focused doing a record. You're away from home and don't have to think about dinner and girlfriends and family and stuff.
Obviously you both speak fluent English, yet every song is in Norwegian. Did you ever consider writing in English, or is this just what you do?
EH: When we started out, we had some songs that were 50/50 Norwegian and English. There wasn't really any reason behind it, but I just felt more comfortable writing in Norwegian and singing in Norwegian because that's my own language that I speak every day. There's enough bands out there already that have shitty English lyrics and stuff like that so don't think we need to add another one to that list. It hasn't been a problem for us at all like even if we're in France or Russia whatever, people still sing along to the lyrics even if it's in Norwegian.
VL: It's become a part of our sound too. I think that definitely sticks out from other bands.
EH: I think that our fans would be pissed if we started singing in English now so. The only guy who's told us that we should start singing in English is Happy Tom from Turbonegro. He said that a few years ago, but he hasn't talked about it since then. We're pretty bad at taking advice.
VL: That was before the record came out.
How much does Norwegian culture play into the band? Obviously you're from Norway, but the album and the music itself seems pretty American.
EH: Yeah. It's a good mix. Like the first one, it was really inspired by Nordic culture since it was mostly based on Norse mythology and folklore. I can say that we stayed away from that on the new one though just because I don't want to end up repeating myself every time we do a new album. So I'm trying to broaden my influences I guess.
VL: I think in the music you can hear it on the first album on tracks like "Fossegrim" has this kind of folk thing and some of the Viking chants on "Liktorn."
What are your touring plans?
EH: The plan now is after we release the album by the end of March, we'll do a European tour and then we'll come over to America. Nothing is announced yet, but…
VL: It's in the works.
EH: Yeah. We're just going to be super busy playing live the rest of the year too.
What are your biggest markets?
VL: Right now it feels like it's all over the world.
EH: It's definitely Scandinavia, England, Germany, and hopefully the United States.
Is Kvelerbrau ever going to come out in America?
LV: It was kind of a one night thing. It was our friend in Vienna who made it for us and the tour and some other lucky people.
EH: We sold it from our merch stand that night. I remember some Italians who brought a kid with them.
VL: They traveled from Italy just to get the beer.
EH: They bought it for their kid and were like "oh don't worry she can drink it." I said 'what?'
How old was the kid?
EH: Like 9 years old. Should've called the child protective services, but they seemed pretty nice. It's weird how much buzz we actually get on that beer, if we would've tried to do it for real.
VL: We've been talking about that but we really haven't had time to do it.
Let's talk a little bit about your videos. Did the same person direct both of them? I'm talking about "Mjod" and "Braun Brenn."
VL: They're both from our home town Stavanger. It's two different guys. You can kind of tell that because the videos are pretty different from each other.
How did they get kids to become you?
VL: We had this idea that we wanted kids in the video and the director and the producers kind of took it from there. They contacted music teachers and stuff like that and asked if they had any young kids that were really good at playing and could rock out. So a bunch of kids sent in videos of themselves rocking out in their music and they picked 6 of them and they were just awesome. I went to see when they were filming it. I was going to be there to help them out and show them how we play the songs and stuff, but they knew everything from before and they just went crazy when we started filming.
Were they familiar with the band?
VL: Oh yeah.
That's awesome. Were they actually playing?
VL: Yeah. They had guitars made out of wood and they were just kidding around, but they knew at least parts of the songs. They definitely knew how to play.
EH: We also have a new video on the way that's made by the guy who made our first video "Mjod." The song is "Månelyst."
V:: The plan is that one will be out the same day as we release the record. I've seen about 45 seconds of the film so far, and it's a lot of different scenes like horror kind of stuff. It looks amazing. I can't wait to get that one out.
EH: Yeah it's going to be a crazy horror movie.
VL: Yeah but it looks really good.
How would you say the two albums differ from each other?
EH: When we recorded the first album, we'd barely been in the studio before, so it definitely felt a lot better doing the new one. We had more confidence from all the touring. I think the newer one is definitely more well-played and I think the song writing is better too. Everyone in the band is just better at what they do.
VL: I love the first album and all its songs. But I kind of feel that this record sounds different in a way that the guitar sound is more dynamic. The sound is more open and sounds a bit bigger. There's some cool stuff. Our guitarists Maciek and Bjarte do some really cool solo work on this new record that I really am super psyched about.
EH: It feels like more of a rock album I think than the last one.
VL: Yeah it's even more shameless.
Had you all been in different bands before joining and forming Kvelertak?
EH: Not really. Just copy bands where I grew up, but nothing really to talk about.
VL: it is kind of the first real band with a record and stuff.
It's pretty awesome it came together like it did.
EH: yeah we didn't have any ambitions at all. It was just going to be a fun hobby and then suddenly it gets serious.
So you had no plans on world wide domination when you started out?
EH: when we first started out, the first goal was that we need to play a live show somewhere. I just remember seeing our name on a poster. It was awesome to me.
When did the band form? How long did it actually take to get signed and make a record and all that?
E: We started out in 2006. It was just a bunch of friends getting together basically. I had gone to school with the other guitarist and he had gone to a different school with our bass player Marvin. He played in the band with Vidar and that's how we got him. We kind of had some different angles, but we've had a steady line up since 2009 now. We finally found a new drummer and a new guitarist and they've been in the band since then. Then we got picked up for, it's like a Norwegian SXSW I guess you can say. It's for unknown bands where you can send it demos and we got picked to play that.
Tags: Baroness, Converge, Erlend Hjelvik, Kurt Ballou, Kvelertak, Roadrunner Records, Turbonegro, Vidar Landa
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Home > Hip Hop News > Damon Dash talks potential Roc-A-Fella reunion, shutting it down, saying Jay-Z and Kanye West reunion won't happen, citing "bad memories" [VIDEO]
Damon Dash talks potential Roc-A-Fella reunion, shutting it down, saying Jay-Z and Kanye West reunion won't happen, citing "bad memories" [VIDEO]
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By Jay Rich
Hip-HopVibe.com Staff Writer
Consistency is the reason Roc-A-Fella Records is considered an iconic label. From the label's inception, until Jay-Z's 2003 "retirement," the label put out at least one album a year. These albums were normally releases from Jay-Z, himself.
The story has been told, millions of times over, how Dame Dash ended up being the odd man out. In 2013, he and Jay-Z took a photo together and some assumed this was a reunion. It wasn't Dame Dash's time, as he has now returned, doing reality TV, and film work.
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Sand mining is not only often carried out illegally, it can also have devastating consequences on the environment that can endanger the lives of local populations. Sand mining can lead to the degradation of river beds, erosion of banks, deterioration of water quality, reduction of ground-water availability, reduction of crops yields… In Sri Lanka, it has been convincingly proven that excessive sand mining aggravated the impact of the 2004 tsunami.
Still, as sand is a crucial resource for the construction sector, sand mining is booming and continues to take a serious toll on the health of rivers and coastlines worldwide.
This publication documents the efforts made in Sri Lanka to counter illegal river sand mining. In 2005, a campaign was initiated against river sand mining by the Sri Lanka Water Partnership, the Network for Women Water Professionals (NetWwater) and partners. WIN and GWP provided additional support to their efforts from 2008.
The campaign is a widespread effort to engage with multiple stakeholders from civil society, government, regulatory authorities, law enforcement, religious authorities and the media to raise awareness about the impact of sand mining and encourage action and stronger regulation. This case highlights the role that law enforcers needs to play in protecting natural resources and the environment and how engaging with these stakeholders helped bring about concrete change in how illegal sand mining is addressed and limited.
Already, the impact of the campaign is positive. Illegal sand mining has been banned in two river basins – Deduru Oya and the Maha Oya. A strong network of partners continues to bring awareness to the issue, facilitate change and promote alternatives to the practice.


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Cabinet Office Update
Today's bulletin covers (i) new restrictions in parts of northern England; (ii) requirements for venues to help enforce the rule of 6; (iii) support to prevent business evictions; (iv) changes to travel corridors; and (v) existing guidance on the NHS Test & Trace service for employers, businesses and workers.
(i) The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced the introduction from today (18 September) of new restrictions for parts of north east England, namely Northumberland, North Tyneside, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and County Durham. More information is available at: https://bit.ly/3c7cIrr
Guidance for those who live, work or travel in the affected areas can be found at: https://bit.ly/3iD2WQe
DHSC has also today announced new restrictions coming into force on Tuesday 22 September affecting parts of north west England, the midlands and West Yorkshire. Further information can be found at: https://bit.ly/3mwMi7e; guidance will be published on gov.uk in due course.
A HMGNorth tweet about the restrictions coming into force on Tuesday can be seen here: https://twitter.com/HMGNorth/status/1306973640660078595
(ii) Also from today (18 September), regulations come into force to ensure that businesses comply with the rule of 6 and maintain social distancing between customers. Designated venues will also now have a legal requirement to maintain records of customer contact details and display an official NHS QR poster ahead of the NHS COVID-19 app rollout. Further information is available at: https://bit.ly/32Imn4F
Businesses can download the QR codes at gov.uk/create-coronavirus-qr-poster
(iii) On 16 September the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced extended support to prevent business evictions until the end of 2020. More information can be found at: https://bit.ly/33FDO4X
(iv) From 4am on Saturday 19 September, people arriving in England from Thailand and Singapore will not need to self-isolate for two weeks. See: https://bit.ly/2FLup3G
(v) Current guidance for employers on what to do if staff test positive for COVID-19 can be found at: https://bit.ly/3dysnQx
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require 'spec_helper'

RSpec.describe "CsvPiper::PreProcessors - RemoveExtraColumns" do
  let(:source) do
    {
      "Deal Name" => '',
      ' ' => nil,
      '' => nil,
      nil => nil
    }
  end
  let(:errors_input) { {} }

  describe CsvPiper::PreProcessors::RemoveEmptyColumns do
    it 'removes empty column' do
      new_source, _ = described_class.new.process(source, errors_input)
      expect(new_source).to eq( "Deal Name" => '' )
    end

    it 'does not mutuate erros' do
      _, errors = described_class.new.process(source, errors_input)
      expect(errors).to be(errors_input)
    end
  end

  describe CsvPiper::PreProcessors::RemoveNilColumns do
    it 'removes nil columns' do
      new_source, _ = described_class.new.process(source, errors_input)
      expect(new_source).to eq( "Deal Name" => '', ' ' => nil, '' => nil )
    end

    it 'does not mutuate erros' do
      _, errors = described_class.new.process(source, errors_input)
      expect(errors).to be(errors_input)
    end
  end

  # # For testing performance of different methods
  # it 'benchmarks' do
  #   require 'benchmark'

  #   small_source = Hash[ (0...10).map {|v| [v.to_s,v.to_s]} ]
  #   large_source = Hash[ (0...1000).map {|v| [v.to_s,v.to_s]} ]
  #   orig = CsvPiper::PreProcessors::RemoveEmptyColumns.new
  #   alt = CsvPiper::PreProcessors::RemoveNilColumns.new

  #   n = 1000000
  #   p "10 col * 1M row"
  #   Benchmark.bm(7) do |x|
  #     x.report("empty") { n.times do ; orig.process(small_source, nil) ; end }
  #     x.report("nil") { n.times do ; alt.process(small_source, nil) ; end }
  #   end

  #   n = 10000
  #   puts "\n"
  #   p "1000 col * 10K row"
  #   Benchmark.bm(7) do |x|
  #     x.report("empty") { n.times do ; orig.process(large_source, nil) ; end }
  #     x.report("nil") { n.times do ; alt.process(large_source, nil) ; end }
  #   end
  # end
end


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Derry Workhouse was a workhouse in Derry, Northern Ireland. Located in the Waterside area of the city, the workhouse operated from 1840 to 1948.

History
As a result of the Irish Poor Law Act of 1838, a workhouse with a capacity for 800 people opened in the city on 10 November 1840 and was the first operational workhouse in Ulster. During the Irish Famine (1845-1849), the number of people who were poverty-stricken drastically increased and, like many other workhouses in Ireland at the time, the workhouse experienced severe overcrowding. With the introduction of the National Assistance Act 1948 and the welfare state, the workhouse closed in 1948.

The buildings housed the Waterside hospital until 1991, then were redeveloped as private housing, with the main dormitory area used as a library and museum. During the redevelopment, numerous human remains were found. These remains, believed to be of people who died in the mid-nineteenth century, were later interred in the local Ballyoan cemetery.

The museum opened in 1997. In 2014, the Derry City Council decided to close the museum citing health and safety issues, and decreasing visitor numbers. The council planned to turn the space into apartments.

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Hi, my gut feeling tells me, "I could build a yurt".
. Breathable waterproof membrane for the outside? Not sure yet.
But I need specific info' if my diameter is 9' and my trellis wall is 6' high (has only 3 articulating joints: top, mid and bottom) how do I calculate the angle of the roof to work out the frame plan?
The height of the wall has no bearing on the angle of the roof. The distance between the top of the wall and the ring determines the angle of the roof, so you need to know what size your ring will be. A 30" ring would be ok, but you could go smaller too. The ring diameter will determine the angle of the roof and the length of the poles. The smaller the ring will mean less pitch in the roof, but longer poles.
I design and manufacture yurts as well as make custom yurts.
My yurts are more traditional than most yurts on this forum as they are for permanent living. Mine are for camping, semi permanent accommodation, outdoor living spaces etc. they are designed to be lightweight and portable, and so can be set up in as little as 40mins.
I have plans for 12ft, 14ft, 16ft and 20ft, but also make custom yurts to any size up to 20ft.
While making a yurt might seem complicated, it's really very simple. Decide on the yurt diameter, then the height of the walls. This will determine the ring size you might use. I make yurts with a 54" wall height and also 65". For these two heights I use 6ft lath and 7ft lath respectfully. If you want to go higher, you can add more lath to the wall which will make the lath more vertical, but it will also increase the number of poles required.
For instance, a 54" wall in my 12ft yurt uses 22x 6ft lath. With the 65" wall height it uses 20 x 7ft lath. If you [email protected] to go higher stil, you can add more lath or even go to a 8ft lath.
The only trouble you get with small diameter yurts such as 8ft and 10ft is the tight bend that the lath have to conform to. I usually use a 5/16" thick lath, but with 8ft yurts I use 1/4".
I know this probably doesnt mean much to you, but it shows how a yurt is amazingly versatile. You can tweak them to your own needs. I have done all kinds of odd sizes. I even did a 5ft diameter yurt that had a 6ft high wall. It was used as a kiosk.
So, check my website out and see if my type of yurts are what you might want. I could probably adapt some 12ft plans to suite what you need. I use marine canvas on my yurts rather than vinyl.
Popcornnn have you seen this calculator? You put in your yurt diameter, and click calculat, and it does everything for you, lengths and angles and everything.
Here's one I did for your proposed 9' yurt.
no I didn't see it. I am taken uo with work and family presently. I need to write back when I can. thank you all so much.
Thank you for your patience. I wonder Yurtman, do you still have the construction drawings for the custom 8ft yurt ? Are the drawings made to be followed, I.e. step by step? And how much would you charge me for a copy of them?
Today is the weekend, I have done meditation and feeling it would be ideal if I had a private space to be st peace. I hear the sounds of a PlayStation4 shooting various games NDS and bombs. If I didn't have family, think I would leave city life.
tents on REI. Buying one of those would be cheaper than building even a small yurt. Just an idea.


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'Holy grail' found: Rare penny might be worth $1.7M after it was found in boy's lunch money
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FOX NEWS - Now that's a pretty penny.
A penny that a Massachusetts teenager found in his change from lunch money could be worth as much as $1.65 million (£1.3 million) when it is auctioned off.
The 1943 Lincoln penny is made up of copper and has been described as the "most famous" coin made in error, according to Heritage Auctions, which is auctioning off the coin. Only 20 were ever made and for years the U.S. government denied its existence, but one coin was found by Don Lutes Jr. in his school cafeteria in March 1947.
"Despite relentless searching by eager collectors over a period of more than 70 years, only a handful of legitimate specimens have ever been discovered," Heritage wrote on its website. "PCGS CoinFacts estimates the surviving population at no more than 10-15 examples in all grades. We have compiled a roster of all specimens certified by the two leading grading services below, including an unknown number of resubmissions and crossovers."
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Q: Open Link Clicked on Webview2 on edge browser new window I want to open new edge window on link click on HTML in webview2 popup.
Below code opens the url in same window.
private void webView21_CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted(object sender, CoreWebView2InitializationCompletedEventArgs e)
{
 webView21.CoreWebView2.NewWindowRequested += CoreWebView2_NewWindowRequested;
}

private void CoreWebView2_NewWindowRequested(object sender,CoreWebView2NewWindowRequestedEventArgs  e)
{
    e.NewWindow = (CoreWebView2)sender;

}

A: If you want to open the URI in the end user's default web browser instead of a new window in WebView2 you can cancel the CoreWebView2.NewWindowRequested event and send the URI to the browser:
private void webView21_CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted(object sender, CoreWebView2InitializationCompletedEventArgs e)
{
 webView21.CoreWebView2.NewWindowRequested += CoreWebView2_NewWindowRequested;
}

private void CoreWebView2_NewWindowRequested(object sender,CoreWebView2NewWindowRequestedEventArgs  e)
{
    e.Handled = true;
    // No need to wait for the launcher to finish sending the URI to the browser
    // before we allow the WebView2 in our app to continue.
    _ = Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri(args.Uri));
    // LaunchUriAsync is the WinRT API for launching a URI.
    // Another option not involving WinRT might be System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(args.Uri);
}

I have a CoreWebView2.NewWindowRequested handling sample code, that demonstrates different ways of handling NewWindowRequested.

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Successful direct sellers always book the next meeting from this meeting. At the end of your contact you make an appointment for the presentation. At the end of your presentation you make an appointment for the follow up. At the end of each interaction with your prospects and team members, you make an appointment for the next interaction.
Successful direct sellers use systems to make follow up easier. They use systems like BizRunner to make and keep track of next interactions with prospects, team members and customers.


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5 Special Places in the San Gabriel Mountains That Are Worth a Visit
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Say hello to the pride and joy of Los Angeles ... and the country's newest national monument!
Thanks to a move by President Obama on Oct. 10, a whopping 350,000 acres of the San Gabriel mountains have officially been designated a national monument, after more than a decade of support from residents, lawmakers, environmental organizations and other key players.
Stretching up against the length of the Los Angeles metropolitan area from Santa Clarita to San Bernardino County, this special place is often considered the recreational "backyard" of Los Angeles.
So what does this national monument designation mean for visitors? Well, after enduring years of underfunding and poor visitor services, this gorgeous area will now be equipped with new restrooms, trash cans, visitor information, trail signs and educational programs.
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Of course, the San Gabriel Mountains are more than a pretty backdrop and hiking destination. In addition to aesthetic and recreational value, the San Gabriel Mountains provide one-third of Los Angeles' drinking water. Making sure that this natural monument is preserved for generations to come is important for the daily life of those who live nearby.
The designation is also great news for the flora and fauna that call the range home. Despite its next-door neighbor status to one of the largest cities in the country, the San Gabriel Mountains boast a plethora of thriving wildlife, including mountain lions, coyotes, spotted owls, San Gabriel mountain salamanders and desert bighorn sheep (seen above). These bovids experienced a rapid population decline in the 1980s and 1990s, and it was estimated that less than 100 individuals remained between 1995 and 2002. Today, these desert bovids are on the rebound thanks to focused conservation efforts and volunteer survey work.
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Continue below for a look at just a few of the striking landmarks and attractions found within the San Gabriel range, and you'll see exactly why so many Angelenos are smitten.
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Mount San Antonio
Also known as Mount Baldy, this 10,068-foot peak is the highest point in Los Angeles County. The best way to get to the summit is to take one of three hiking trails (the most notable being the Devil's Backbone trail), or take a ski lift from the Mount Baldy Ski Lifts resort.
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Bridge to Nowhere
Built in 1936, this bridge was originally part of a grand plan to connect the the city of Wrightwood (north of the mountains) to the San Gabriel Valley (south of the mountains). After the great flood of March 1938 washed away the connecting East Fork Road, which was still under construction at the time, the project was abandoned. Today, the bridge remains stranded deep in the Sheep Mountain Wilderness, though it is often visited by intrepid hikers.
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Although they are a bit of a drive from Los Angeles, the striking sandstone formations and canyons of Devil's Punchbowl are definitely worth a visit. The stretch of land is located on the northern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains, and it is managed as a Los Angeles County park. While there are plenty of hiking trails to explore on your own, there is also a nature center, guided tours and educational programs that are worth checking out, too.
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Jackson Lake
The San Gabriel Mountains boast many lakes, reservoirs and other bodies of water. This particular scenic pool, located just west of Wrightwood, was created by the San Andreas fault and is mostly fed by the snowmelt of the nearby mountains. It's a great place to go fishing in the summer, and there are plenty of campgrounds and picnic areas around the area. If you happen to visit in the winter, it's not uncommon to see the surface of the lake completely frozen.
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Ontario Peak
The San Gabriel Mountains are home to plenty of tall, scenic peaks, and this one, named for its proximity to the town of Ontario, is one of them! At 8,693 feet, Ontario Peak is the 10th highest summit in the range. It's located in the San Bernardino Forest, where hikers can test their endurance on a 13-mile trail that features a 4,100-foot elevation gain.
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Q: How to manipulate the output of a loop while the script is running #!/bin/bash

for i in $(seq $1)
        do
                echo -n '.'
                sleep 1
        done

echo

The script prints a dot per second and the number of dots on the screen depending on user's input. What I want to do is that when I press a key (for example, a), the script will run faster like one dot in half a second..so the more I press the same key, the faster it runs.

A: Use a variable for the duration of the sleep:
duration=1
# ... inside loop:
                sleep $duration
# ...

Then each time a call to sleep finishes, have some code to check for new keypresses and alter the value of $duration as needed.
On another note, depending on the version of sleep you have available, it may not support fractional arguments so you might have to use a separate program like usleep.


What kind of dirt do you already have?
Do you just need to add more?
Or do you need to make significant changes to the dirt mix?
Are you trying to correct any problems?
See the dirt analysis and correction sections for further information.
Can you get equipment to spread, till, and roll it?
Do you have experience driving equipment? It's easy to learn, but experienced help does make it go faster.
Can the delivery trucks get access to your field?
filling in holes around the fence areas or general fill needs: reclaimed sand from a cement plant. They wash out the cement trucks and often give away 10 tons of the stuff. It has small pebbles. Definitely not something for topdressing turf, but great stuff for filling in holes or getting rid of puddles outside the playing field.
mound, batter's box, and catcher's box: use unfired clay bricks; dig out about 3 inches deep, place the bricks, tamp, and cover lightly with infield mix. high school size areas will take 200 bricks.
Note: I don't list decomposed granite for the mound or the playing field. This stuff is cheap, but is bad to play on: bad footing, bad for moisture management, does not hold up under competitive play, and players get skinned up sliding on it. What do you expect from grinding up rocks and putting it on the field?
Choose a dirt mix that does not stain white uniforms too much. Some of the more red mixes are horrible on uniforms and almost impossible to get clean. More than one pro team has changed its mix just so they can get their uniforms clean!
Never mix dirt types! Put sand on the infield turf, clay on the mound, clay/sand mixture on the infield dirt.
If you have dirt pits, keep the clay, sand, and crushed brick separated.
Just because the park district or the supplier calls it 'baseball mix' doesn't mean it really is. Some of the bogus mixes will either blow away or players will get skinned up sliding on it.


Some time ago I bought a battered little book from an on-line auction site for a few pounds. It measures approximately 8 x 6.5 inches (10 x 6 cm), the cover was battered and the thin spine had given way completely. The pages inside were loose and covered in handwriting in ink that, in places, had faded badly.
Many pages were difficult to read but I saw at a glance that it was what I had hoped – a book of household recipes and hints that some careful 19th century housewife had collected. But who was she and when did she keep her notebook?
So, I had a Regency housewife's notebook – but if this belonged to Mrs Mills, who was Mrs Bernard Ryan? And why had someone apparently tried to copy Mrs Bernard Ryan's name in wobbly handwriting above it as "Mrs Renard Ry"? A child, perhaps?
Then I turned to genealogy websites and discovered that a George Gillam Mills was resident at North End Terrace, Fulham when he died in May 1844 aged 74. He was buried in the District Chapel of the Parish of St Mary's, North End, Fulham on 17th May. I tried to find North End Terrace on maps but could not pin-point it but but North End Road joins Hammersmith Road just where St Mary's Chapel, now a church, stands. It seems likely that it was at the northern end of the road that Jean and George lived. Until the late 19th century North End was a scattered hamlet of houses along North End Road surrounded by fields and market gardens and included many substantial properties and villas owned by prosperous middle class and aristocratic families.
Now I knew Mr Mills' first names I could chase him further and found that on the 15th May 1815 he had married Jean Ryan, a widow, at St Luke's, Chelsea. They had married by licence and on the bond which he signed to obtain the licence George stated that he was over twenty one years of age, unmarried and living in the parish. It seemed highly likely that Jean Ryan was the Mrs Bernard Ryan named on the inside cover of the book.
I was able to find George's christening record at St Alfege's church in Greenwich on 24th November 1771 with the note that he had been born that month. His parents were Samuel Gillam Mills, a surgeon, and Catherine. So George was from a middle class home and was forty four when he married Jean Ryan.
Could I find 'Jean' marrying a Barnard Ryan? To my delight I found that on 26 August 1805 Lieutenant Bernard Ryan married Miss Jean Forbes in Secunderabad in British controlled India. But sadly the marriage lasted only six years. He died, a Captain in the 12th Regiment of Native Infantry of the Honourable East India Company, aged twenty eight and was buried 17th October 1811 at Fort William in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His will leaves everything to his wife Jean.
This image of the fort is from 1754, but it must have looked very much like this when the Ryans knew it, and having seen it when in Kolkata myself, it is still recognisable today.
In September 1812 the records of the Lord Clive Military Fund Pensions Committee in the Madras (now Chennai) Presidency show that a pension of two shillings and four pence a day was granted to Mrs Jean Ryan, widow. Soon after this she must have set sail for England, a voyage of perhaps a year unless she was very lucky with the weather.
What happened to George? He was a prosperous businessman and civil servant, it seems. In 1815 he was Cashier of Half-Pay at the Army Pay Office in Whitehall and in 1819 had been promoted two steps up to Ledger Keeper. The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for 1817 and 1819 lists him as one of the directors and an auditor of the British Fire Office, "for assuring Houses, Goods and Ships" located at Cornhill in the City. How did he pass the nineteen years of widowerhood? I hope he had a good housekeeper who cooked him some of the familiar recipes from Jean's notebook.
The notebook itself has a wide selection of recipes with notes on who gave them to her, a good selection of curries – not surprisingly perhaps – and notes on everything from making mistletoe grow to polishing a mahogany table. I transcribed the whole book and Mock Oyster Sauce and a Cure For Corns: A Regency Lady's Receipt Book is out in April but available to pre-order now.
Completely fascinating! Quite a journey for Jean herself – and for you in tracking her down. I'm looking forward to reading the book.
What a marvellous find! And you've done some incredible research to track down the histories of the writer and her husband. I'm looking forward to reading her curry recipes!
What a wonderful find, and you must have enjoyed that research journey. I look forward to this book. What an invaluable record!
Very interesting. I wonder if anyone will remember us like this in two centuries time?
What a treasure! It proves there are gems on offer, online.
I am now covered in embarrassment. My only excuse is that despite refreshing my screen AND trying a different browser, nowhere did it ever say "awaiting moderation". Sorry!


What's wrong with Wise Dan? From what I know, there is nothing wrong with the reigning Horse of the Year, although you would not know that from the disparaging comments about the gelding's connections not entering him in dirt routes. It is perhaps a reflection of the America-centric view of racing that only considers dirt races at 1 1/8 or 1 1/4 miles as worthy of attention, but I do not see anything wrong with a superior turf miler. Not only did Wise Dan win the Breeders' Cup Mile – certainly one of the top events in the world – but has now compiled a record of nine wins from ten starts over the past two years. His only defeat came in the 2012 Stephen Foster at Churchill – 1 1/8 miles on the dirt – where he lost by a head to top dirt horse Ron the Greek. In last week's Fourstardave, he was assigned 129 pounds – a number rarely seen this side of the Fall Highweight Handicap – giving 11 to 14 pounds to his opponents.
Quote of the week #1: "it's easy to throw darts when you're uninformed." That was trainer John Kimmel's comment after one-half the crowd at Albany Law School's Saratoga Institute responded in the affirmative to Kimmel's impromptu survey of how many thought horses were over-medicated. While Kimmel's less-than-gracious comment did little to advance the dialogue on a topic that was foremost in all of the racing industry's seminars held in Saratoga in recent weeks, it does typify the level of emotion within the sport on what is clearly its most visible challenge. Included in the legion of Kimmel's uninformed may be Joel Turner, a leading equine law practitioner, who chaired a panel later that day. Turner rhetorically questioned why so-called "super-trainers" seemed to not do well in the Triple Crown races or in the Breeders' Cup when there is heightened scrutiny and drug testing. Or maybe it was Ogden Mills Phipps, Chairman of The Jockey Club who, two days earlier in the same room, threatened to throw the weight of his organization behind federal legislation should states not get on board with the adoption of uniform medication rules. Perhaps he meant the Task Force on Racehorse Safety that, a year ago, concluded that the medications administered to a group of fatally injured horses at Aqueduct may have contributed to their breakdown, and recommended the adoption of more stringent rules – a step later taken by New York's regulatory agency.
Two members of the Task Force appeared on panels later in the day and argued that the sport has made considerable progress in improving medication rules, emphasizing that horse racing is actually a leader among professional sports in addressing the issue of drugs. This is a topic that warrants a more in-depth analysis given its complexity, but Kimmel did make one point that resonates. He blamed much of what he thinks is an inaccurate perception on the mainstream media that fails to distinguish between permissible therapeutic medications and illegal drugs. If further proof were needed, the nation's "paper-of-record" obliged three days later with an editorial referencing their own "report" finding "pervasive doping by owners and trainers." There is, however, little actual evidence that illegal drugging of horses is a widespread problem.
Attendance: At the end of the third week, it looked like the attendance figures were starting an upward trend from the 2012 numbers, but after nine more days the total number remains at about three percent below last year. What is particularly interesting about the decline is that it consists almost entirely of a drop-off on the give-away days, when attendance is inflated by the "spinners" going through multiple times to pick up that day's cheap gift. Yesterday's attendance, for example, was 51,847, significantly below last year's 58,701. The attendance on non-give-away days is down by less than 4,000 over the meet's first 27 days, a decline of less than one per cent. There is a certain irony that if these trends continue, the perception will be of a major disappointment from an attendance standpoint even though it will be attributable almost entirely to NYRA's inflated figures on the give-away days.
I know Kimmel is a vet, but I was commenting on his "policy" statement. Also, NYRA has not changed the way they count attendance between this year and last.


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More than 140 people have been killed in three days of anti-government protests in Sudan, opposition sources said on Thursday.
Medical sources, however, put the death toll at 29. "We have received the bodies of 21 people" since the protests began on Monday, a hospital source in Khartoum's twin city Omdurman told AFP.
Eight other people were killed in other regions across the country, witnesses and families said.
Information Minister Ahmed Bilal told Al Arabiya that the army has been deployed to protect gas stations, power installations and public and private properties.
Calm was later restored in Khartoum after anti-riot units were deployed at major road intersections, but activists called on social media for fresh protests on Friday, the weekly Muslim day of prayers.
The escalating protests are the largest in Sudan since President Omar al-Bashir, whose foreign ministry denied he had called off a visit to the United Nations, seized power in 1989.
Protests called for by activists took off from Inqaz district south of Khartoum, where some 3,000 people marched on the main road and hurled stones at passing-by cars, witnesses said.
Police responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets, they said. No casualties were reported, according to AFP.
Riots broke out in several districts of the capital on Wednesday, some near the city center, and public transport ground to a halt. The demonstrations continued late into the night.
"Freedom, freedom," and "The people want the fall of the regime," chanted the protesters, many of them students, borrowing the refrain of Arab Spring protests that toppled several governments in 2011.
The protests have turned violent in some areas as protesters torched a tourism ministry building in one of Khartoum's southern districts, witnesses said, adding that only its exterior was burnt.
Demonstrations first erupted in Wad Madani in Gezira state south of Khartoum, the scene of the first death on Monday. They have also spread to Nyala, capital of South Darfur state.
The education authorities have announced the closure of schools until next Monday.
The Internet was restored on Thursday, users said, after a one-day cut for unexplained reasons. The social network was filled with calls for fresh protests after midday prayers on Friday.
And young activists called on demonstrators to keep up "the revolution and their protests" until the fall of the regime, urging the security forces to side with the people.
The US embassy has called on its citizens to avoid flashpoint areas, saying it had received "regrettable" reports of casualties and warning Americans of the danger of further protests.
Bashir had been scheduled to speak to world leaders on Thursday, but a UN spokesman, Jerome Bernard, told AFP that Foreign Minister Ali Karti would now address the assembly instead.
The foreign ministry denied the report and urged Washington to "respect its obligations and issue visas" to Bashir and his delegation, and to stop holding up the process.
The International Criminal Court has urged US authorities to arrest Bashir, who is wanted by the court in The Hague on 10 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in the Darfur conflict.
The ICC issued arrest warrants for the Sudanese leader in March 2009 and July 2010, but he has since travelled to several African countries.


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UNTOLD 2021, the first event in Romania with access based on the European digital certificate COVID-19 | FESTIVALPHOTO
UNTOLD 2021, the first event in Romania with access based on the European digital certificate COVID-19
The UNTOLD 2021 festival is the first event in Romania to which access will be made only with the European digital certificate COVID-19 or based on rapid antigen testing, the organizers announced on Monday.
"UNTOLD is the first event in Romania that allows exclusive access with GREEN PASS OR rapid antigen testing. UNTOLD fans will be able to enter the festival perimeter this year only with the EU COVID-19 Digital Certificate or with rapid antigen testing." a statement sent on Monday by the festival organizers.
In this way, UNTOLD organizers remain committed to making it one of the safest events in Europe to become a global model. Thus, the participants will be in the safest place in Romania, in the 4 days of the festival ", it is also shown in the communiqué.
"Those who are tested (rapid antigen) in the centers or clinics of the authorized medical providers of the UNTOLD festival automatically receive after testing the bracelet that certifies the veracity of the test and the negative result.
They must no longer present the EU COVID-19 Digital Certificate upon entering the festival, but must have proof of the negative test result, in physical or electronic format, and the identity card throughout the event. The centers and clinics of the authorized medical providers will be available in the next period on untold.com ".
UNTOLD 2021. Minor access to the festival perimeter
Minors between the ages of 7 and 12 must present the result of a negative test (rapid antigen or RT-PCR) or proof of passing through the disease, as well as the birth certificate.
Those between the ages of 12 and 14 must provide proof of vaccination, passing through the disease or a negative test result (rapid antigen or RT-PCR) and birth certificate.
Participants aged between 14 and 18 can enter the festival with proof of vaccination, passing through the disease or the negative result of a test (rapid antigen or RT-PCR) and identity card.
The UNTOLD festival will take place in Cluj, between September 9 and 12, and is the largest festival this year in Europe. In 2019, Untold had 372,000 visitors. On June 11, organizers announced that more than 11,000 tickets had been sold in one day.
David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, The Script, Parov Stelar, Tyga, Sam Feldt and the Romanian band Vama are expected at this year's edition.


Known as a culture bearer, educator, traditional artist, and performer Leah Hopkins provides professional programs and performances to both Native and non-Native communities, institutions and organizations. Leah is strongly rooted in her traditions passed down through her parents, grandparents and extended family, resulting in a strong passion for educating Native peoples and facilitating programs to increase cultural competency. Her professional work experience includes the proprietorship of her own cultural consultation business as well many years in the museum and tribal youth education field. Leah is a seamstress and beadwork artist as well as a traditional Eastern Woodlands singer and dancer and a founding member of the Kingfisher Theater. She has performed both nationally and internationally and is looking forward to further traveling to share and educate about her Northeastern Native culture. Growing up near in the bountiful Northeast, Leah has used the many gifts of the ocean, forest and field to provide her family with traditional nutrition, and has been preparing feasts of traditional foods for her community most of her life.
Elizabeth James-Perry is an enrolled member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe on the island of Noepe (Martha's Vineyard). Her fine art work focuses on Northeastern Woodlands Algonquian artistic expressions: wampum carving, weaving and natural dyeing. As a member of a Nation that has long lived on and harvested the sea, Elizabeth's is a perspective that combines art and an appreciation for Native storytelling and traditional environmental knowledge in her ways of relating to coastal North Atlantic life.
Author and Professor Drew Lopenzina will be giving a presentation at the Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Ave. A, in Turners Falls, MA on Saturday, February 18, at 1 p.m. The event is free and co-sponsored by the Nolumbeka Project and DCR.
William Apess was born close by, on January 31, 1798 in Colrain, MA.
Drew Lopenzina hails from western MA and teaches Early American and Native American literatures at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. His second book, Through an Indian's Looking Glass (University of Massachusetts Press) is a cultural biography of the Pequot activist and minister William Apess, the first Native American to write and publish his own book length treatises and memoirs in the 1820's and 30's. Advance praise by Barry O'Connell states that Lopenzina "brings Apess nearly fully to life, which no one else, among many scholars, has. I know of no better reader of Apess's own writing."Lopenzina is also the author of Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period. His essays appear in the journals American Literature, American Quarterly, Studies in American Indian Literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies and others.


Page F30: Sochi Olympic stamps to be in six languages.
Sochi Olympic stamps to be in six languages.
This article in Norwegian from Voice of Russia says that the Olympic stamps for the Winter Olympics in Sochi will be in six languages: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, and Chinese, and one stamp costs 15-30 rubles or 0.5 - 1 dollars. Apparently this is the largest number of languages to be included on Olympic stamps.
One other note about the site itself: in some of its many languages you can find audio articles with matching text, which is good for relatively uncommon languages like Czech. See this article for example.


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Dr. Lawrence J. Mandarino to Head new UA Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
Lawrence J. Mandarino, PhD, has been appointed to lead the new UA Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. Dr. Mandarino also will serve as chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson.
Dr. Mandarino comes to the UA from Arizona State University where he has served as director of the Center for Metabolic Biology and director of the Mayo/ASU Center for Metabolic and Vascular Biology at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Dr. Mandarino previously spent more than 12 years at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry and Physiology. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, San Diego, after performing a postdoctoral fellowship in endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic.
"I am extremely pleased to welcome Dr. Mandarino to the UA Health Sciences in these important leadership roles," said Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia, MD, UA senior vice president for health sciences. "As an established scientist with an outstanding record of NIH-funded research and multidisciplinary program building, he will serve as a key enterprise leader in our efforts to advance translational research in diabetes, obesity and endocrine diseases," Dr. Garcia added.
"We are very excited about Dr. Mandarino serving as the new chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism," said Monica Kraft, MD, chair of the UA Department of Medicine and the Robert and Irene Flinn Endowed Professor of Medicine. "He will greatly enhance our research efforts in endocrine and metabolic disorders, extremely important areas of focus for a state where one in nine people suffer from diabetes and where Hispanic, Native Americans and African Americans are twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes. We hope to make a significant impact in reducing the nearly 10,000 hospitalizations a year due to diabetes-related causes in Arizona," said Dr. Kraft.
Former division chief, Craig Stump, MD, PhD, remains as clinical chief for the division and he and Dr. Mandarino will work closely together to expand research into endocrine and metabolic disorders here, Dr. Kraft added.
"It is a great pleasure and honor to join the UA Health Sciences to lead the development of the new Center," said Dr. Mandarino. "I look forward to working with the UAHS campuses in Tucson and Phoenix as well as with other research and clinical institutions across the state to facilitate the discovery of basic mechanisms of diabetes, obesity and metabolic disease and to provide the framework to facilitate the translation of evidence-based diabetes prevention and treatment practices into proven health solutions."
The new UA Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism will serve as a nucleus for interdisciplinary research that forms the foundation for advanced, evidence-based clinical care. A major focus of the center will be innovative approaches to delivery of care and prevention, serving a diverse population in one of the most high-risk yet underserved regions in the nation.
Dr. Mandarino's research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health for more than 25 years. Currently, he is principal investigator on two studies with grant funding totaling more than $5 million. His research interests include the mechanisms of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle and liver and the mechanisms of fatty liver development. His research is aimed at providing new targets for treating insulin resistance syndrome – sometimes referred to as metabolic syndrome – which increases the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other cardiometabolic conditions, all areas of special concern in the Latino population. In 2009, he received the American Diabetes Association's Cure Award, presented to a key researcher who is engaged in basic or clinical research focusing on the treatment, cure or prevention of diabetes and its complications.
An active supporter of the training of physician-scientists and biomedical researchers, he has mentored many post-doctoral and medical research fellows and graduate and undergraduate students. He has more than 140 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He has been associate editor of Diabetes; a reviewer for Diabetes Care, Diabetologia, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Metabolism; and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Proteome Research. His professional memberships include the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, American College of Sports Medicine, American Federation for Clinical Research, American Physiological Society and American Diabetes Association.
Dr. Mandarino earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at ASU. After earning his doctorate in 1978, he joined the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was a senior research fellow and also an assistant professor at Mayo Medical School. He then joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and was core laboratory director of the General Clinical Research Center. From 1987 to 1992, he was assistant professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Physiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He then served as associate professor in the Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry and Physiology and as professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
In 2005, he joined ASU as professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology and founding director of the Center for Metabolic Biology, which brings together basic scientists and physician-investigators to understand the mechanisms involved in the development of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. In 2010, ASU and Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale partnered to create the Mayo/ASU Center for Metabolic and Vascular Biology, to combat obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke and other related conditions, and Dr. Mandarino was appointed director.
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Emigration/immigration: maps, myths and origins
Lozanovska, Mirjana 2004, Emigration/immigration: maps, myths and origins. In Cairns, Stephen (ed), Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy, Routledge, New York, N.Y., pp.184-202.
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Actis & CDC: A New Partnership
by G. Felda Hardymon, Ann Leamon,
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Private equity,Emerging markets
Publication Date: March 24, 2005
The senior managing partner of Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, must decide whether to go into the market to raise money. Actis was spun out of CDC, a 50-year-old division of the U.K.'s Department for International Development, and is guaranteed a substantial flow of capital under the terms of the demerger agreement. Actis management has to decide whether to focus on developing relationships with its chief limited partner and honing its internal processes or to go out into the market to raise funds.
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Popular Music Producer, Don Jazzy Tells Italian Model, Andrea Giaccaglia "Marry Me And Don't Work A Day Again In Your Life"
So foremost Nigerian music producer and Mavin boss Don Jazzy has taken to Instagram to stylishly beg for Italian model, Andrea Manuela Giaccaglia's hand in marriage! This is coming after he publicly begged popular blogger, Linda Ikeji to also marry him!
And Don Jazzy dropped a comment insinuating that the real women will not work again if the marry him.