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Spotlight: Caroline Merner
Meet Caroline Merner (BA'17), the first Dalhousie alum to graduate as a McCall MacBain Scholar.
Caroline Merner (BA'17) is the first Dalhousie alum to graduate as a McCall MacBain Scholar. She is part of the initial group of 20 students to receive this prestigious scholarship, which provides full funding to pursue a master's or professional degree in all disciplines at McGill University and access to mentorship, an interdisciplinary learning program and a global community. The scholarship recognizes exceptional students who aspire to lead with purpose and make a positive impact in the world. Merner recently completed her Master of Public Policy at McGill and spoke to Dal Magazine about her experiences.
Q: What are some highlights from your McCall MacBain Scholar experience?
A: The first highlight of my McCall MacBain scholarship experience were the friendships formed with the fellow cohort members. We quickly became a community. Whether gathering for a park picnic, Mont Royal hike, drag brunch or our weekly leadership sessions, our different degrees and diverse perspectives brought us together. I really appreciated the supports built into our scholars' program. Having access to a life coach, mentor, academic advisor, and leadership session facilitators eased the transition in and out of academic life. The scholarship actively expands its support for students in meaningful ways. Another highlight was growing an incredible network of ambitious changemakers. As the first McCall MacBain Scholarship alum, I traveled to New York for the Global Fellowships Forum to meet alumni from scholarships around the world. Our hope was to collaborate on greater impact, through shared programs and best practices. I grew an incredible network of ambitious changemakers, which is invaluable!
Q: How did Dalhousie influence the path you've taken?
A: My time at Dal studying Environment, Sustainability & Society and International Development Studies shaped who I am. I developed my understanding of climate change as a collective action problem that requires systems change and formed the skills I use every day as a leader and organizer for climate justice. From Divest Dal to the IDS student society, I joined like-minded community committed to driving change, locally and globally. In my final year, I co-directed the Dalhousie Student Union Sustainability Office and witnessed the power of collective voice in student advocacy. We supported and funded dozens of initiatives—from the campus farmers' market to a sustainable food cart, the Loaded Ladle to an environmental racism working group. Memories from classes that still stick with me are the evening Sustainability guest lectures, thesis writing, a capstone project, and an international climate negotiation simulation. I've had the honour of coming back as an alum in the audience and to speak.
"Climate change is the greatest threat of our generation. It is an issue of injustice since those most affected contribute the least to the problem."
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A: Climate change is the greatest threat to our generation. It is an issue of injustice since those most affected contribute the least to the problem. We can all play a role, as facing the climate crisis requires collective action. I've always been passionate about connecting people to advocate for change, whether implementing actions on the ground or influencing decision-makers in international negotiations. After graduating from Dal, I moved to Vancouver and met Marina Melanidis, who I travelled with to the Arctic through the organization Students on Ice. We wanted to engage youth in climate action and started a mentorship program called Climate Guides. With dedicated team members, funding, and a couple of years, it evolved into the global organization Youth4Nature, mobilizing young changemakers to lead for nature and climate. While the climate crisis is daunting, mobilized community is powerful and joyful!
Q: What inspired you to decide to return to school?
A: I decided to do my Master of Public Policy to grow a foundation in policymaking and to be a stronger climate advocate. I learned helpful skills for the climate policy space, such as stakeholder management, policy evaluation, evidence-based approaches, and lots of practice writing policy briefs. The lessons from this intensive one-year program will serve me to be a better advocate to decision-makers or as a future decision-maker.
Q: What are your plans after graduation?
A: Since finishing my master's, I've moved to Europe with my partner. I am newly the Project Manager for the Future of Climate Cooperation, based at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and in partnership with the ClimateWorks Foundation. I work at the intersection of climate policy, advocacy, and engagement. I also plan continue my involvement with Youth4Nature, and I'll volunteer on the board of the MakeWay Foundation, an organization that builds partnerships and solutions to help nature and communities thrive together. I'd like to contribute to the climate movement the best I can.
Q: What are your hopes for the future of the planet?
A: My hope for the future is to see world leaders act with the urgency the climate crisis requires, not by 2050, but in this next decade. Collectively, we need to drastically decarbonize, transition off fossil fuels, and support workers to find good green jobs. I deeply believe that effective international cooperation is essential to mobilizing ambitious climate action.
Q: Do you have any advice for potential applicants to the McCall MacBain Scholars program?
A: My advice is to trust yourself and to tell your story. I believe the scholarship is looking for leaders with integrity and potential to grow. If you want to make a difference in your community, whether locally or globally, this program is for you. Be open to sharing and being fully yourself!


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Our mission is to increase the collective impact of community organizations working to end gun violence, save lives and build a stronger Chicago.
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About the Book The recent decades have witnessed a strong assertion of Islamic identity. One of its manifestations is the insistence on the part of Muslims that all institutions of life should be brought in conformity with Islamic principles. This necessitates exploring Islamic principles relevant to such institutions as well as developing clear ideas as to how those principles would be applied in the changed circumstances of the prese...
The recent decades have witnessed a strong assertion of Islamic identity. One of its manifestations is the insistence on the part of Muslims that all institutions of life should be brought in conformity with Islamic principles. This necessitates exploring Islamic principles relevant to such institutions as well as developing clear ideas as to how those principles would be applied in the changed circumstances of the present age. Imran Ahsan Nyazee has addressed himself to these very questions in the present work and has attempted to spell out the Islamic principles on which business enterprise should be based specially in the area of partnership. In this exercise he displays a strikingly acute awareness of Islamic laws on the subject. This, however, is matches by an equally striking awareness of the forms of business organization in vogue in the contemporary world. What is perhaps no less striking is the author's robust confidence in Islamic law and its distinct approach to the problems of life, including business and finance. He feels unhappy with those Muslims who, instead taking up the challenge to build institutions of business and finance in the light of Islamic principles, resort to the less strenuous task of uncritically appropriating Western institutions. Nyazee is convinced that the Islamic legal principles at variance with the contemporary laws and practices in business and finance are instrinsically sound and are preferable to Their counterparts prevailing in the present times. The work primarily represents a serious Scholarly effort to sort out complicated Questions such as those mentioned above, to enunciate Islamic principles relative to business enterprise, and to apply them In the changed context of present - day business
Islamic law, which is rooted in the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be on him), has a chequered history of over fourteen centuries. During this long period the principles embodied in these two sources were elaborated and their legal implications were worked out by some of the finest and most pious minds. Muslim jurists carefully considered the different aspects of Islamic legal theory in great depth. Likewise, the detailed legal prescriptions were examined with great thoroughness. The laws so developed were applied in a variety of Muslim societies which, during all but a few past centuries, were among the most advanced in the world. Thus the legal heritage of Islam is characterized both by legal finese and diversity in addition to its having matured after being tried and tested over a long period of practical application.
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, leadership in most fields of life passed on from the world of Islam to the West. New sources of energy and power were tapped and exploited by Westerners with the result that they eventually acquired almost universal dominance and their institutions became models for all, including the Muslims. This is true of the institutions of business and finance as well. However, like other institutions in the West, these were also developed-consistent with the dominant secularist spirit and orientation of the times-in total disregard of heavenly guidance, a fact which poses some problems for Muslims. For they hold, as a matter of religious belief, that Islam is valid for all times and that it provides the most judicious guidance for different aspects of life. It would follow from these premises that the economic institutions inspired by Islamic principles (1) should be as viable in the present times as they were before, and (2) should be more conducive to human good than the institutions developed in disregard of the principles derived from heavenly guidance.
The recent decades have witnessed a strong assertion of Islamic identity. One of its manifestations is the insistence on the part of Muslims that all institutions of life-be they political, economic or whatever-should be brought in conformity with Islamic principles. This necessitates exploring Islamic principles relevant to the institutions concerned as well as developing clear ideas as to how those principles would be applied in the changed circumstances of the present age.
Imran Ahsan N yazee has addressed himself to these very questions in the present work and has attempted to spell out the Islamic principles on which business enterprise should be based specially in the area of partnership. In this exercise Nyazee displays a strikingly acute awareness of Islamic laws on the subject. This, however, is matched by an equally striking awareness of the forms of business organization in vogue in the contemporary world. What is perhaps no less strikingly the author's robust confidence in Islamic law and its distinct approach to the problems of life, including business and finance. Nyazee feels no need to apologize for the fact that Islamic legal prescriptions come into conflict with some of the business institutions and practices of the present times. In fact he feels unhappy with those Muslims who, instead of taking up the challenge to build institutions of business and finance in the light of Islamic principles, resort to the less strenuous task of uncritically appropriating Western institutions. Such persons tend to gloss over the fact that some of those institutions might be incongruous with Islamic principles, or explain away by adopting an easygoing attitude to Islamic law. Nyazee is convinced that the Islamic legal principles which are at variance with the contemporary laws and practices in business and finance are intrinsically sound and are preferable to their counter- parts prevailing in the present times. The work primarily represents a serious scholarly effort to sort complicated questions such as those mentioned above, to enunciate Islamic principles relative to business enterprise, and to apply these principles in the changed context of present-day business.
We have had the privilege of publishing Nyazee's previous work- which was also his maiden work- Theories of Islamic Law: The Methodology of Ijtihad (Islamabad: 1994). That work was devoted to illuminating the theoretical bases of Islamic law. It was characterized by a boldness of approach emanating from the author's strong conviction in the intrinsic value of Islamic law apart from his re- doubtable breadth of knowledge. We hope that the readers will find the present work equally characterized by those very attributes.
The Nature of Partnership in Fiqh and Law
Definition of Partnership in Fiqh and Law
The Formation of a Sharikah
Fundamental Concepts I: The Firm and its Different Notions
Fundamental Concepts II: Contracts Underlying Partnerships
Fundamental Concepts III: The Boses for Entitlement to Profit
Fundamental Concepts IV: Ownership of the Capital of the Firm
Fundamental Concepts V: Liability of Partners for Debts
The Firts Category of Partnerships in Fiqh: Hanafit School
Hanafit School: General Conditions of 'Inan'
Hanafit School: Special Conditions of 'Inan'
Hanafit School: The Mufawadah Partnership
The First Category of Partnerships in Fiqh: Majority Schools
Maliki School: First Category of Partnerships
Shafi'i School: First Category of Partnerships
Hanbali School: First Category of Partnerships
Comparison Between the Schools
The Second Category of Partnerships in Fiqh
Mudarabah or Qirad
Muzara'ah and Musaqah
Islamic Form of Partnerships for the Modern World
Basic Issues in Corporate Law and Finance for Islamic Law
Partnerships Without Legal Personality: Existing Law
Partnerships With Legal Personality: New Poposals
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Item Code: NAJ619 Author: Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee Cover: Paperback Edition: 2006 Publisher: Kitab Bhavan ISBN: 8171512623 Language: English Size: 9.5 inch x 6.0 inch Pages: 360 Other Details: Weight of the Book: 500 gms
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Q: Why isn't DropOut used in Unsupervised Learning? All or nearly all of the papers using dropout are using it for supervised learning. It seems that it could just as easily be used to regularize deep autoencoders, RBMs and DBNs. So why isn't dropout used in unsupervised learning?

A: Dropout is used in unsupervised learning. For example:

Shuangfei Zhai, Zhongfei Zhang: Dropout Training of Matrix Factorization and Autoencoder for Link Prediction in Sparse Graphs (arxiv, 14 Dec 2015)

A: Labeled data is relatively scarce, and that's why supervised learning often benefits from strong regularization, like DropOut.
On the other hand, unlabeled data is usually plentiful, and that's why DropOut is typically not needed, and may be detrimental (as it reduces the model capacity).
Even gigantic models like GPT-3 (175e9 parameters) are still underfitting after being updated on 300e9 tokens.

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"Brian did a couple gigs with the band in November and will be joining them for a show with DEATH ANGEL in a few weeks. I'll be helping out with the long-distance pre-production when it gets to that stage, offering up my studio for demoing vocal tracks. It's much the same as when I helped Deen Castronovo get into Tony Macalpine's band during the DR. MASTERMIND sessions. In fact, moving Deen to the Bay Area was a part of that deal.
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Maurice Morgann (1725-1802) est un administrateur colonial et un universitaire shakespearien. Il est surtout connu pour son essai sur Falstaff, An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.

Administrateur colonial

Morgann est né à Blaenbylan, un village du Pembrokeshire au Pays de Galles. On a peu de renseignements sur sa famille et sa scolarité, en partie à cause de ses dernières volontés, que ses exécuteurs testamentaires ont respectées en détruisant tous ses papiers personnels après sa mort.  En 1756, il est déjà établi à Londres lorsqu'il est nommé au poste de guichetier et peseur adjoint, une sinécure à l'hôtel royal des monnaies. En 1757, il produit son premier ouvrage publié, An Inquiry Regarding the Nature and End of a National Militia (« une enquête sur la nature et le but d'une milice nationale »). Ce pamphlet fait la promotion du projet de loi sur la milice de William Pitt et expose l'opposition des Torys à une armée permanente et à un accroissement des impôts.

À partir de 1762, Morgann est le secrétaire personnel et le conseiller politique de William Petty FitzMaurice,  comte de Shelburne, qui devient l'année suivante président de la Commission du Commerce. Quand Shelburne redevient secrétaire d'État pour le Sud en , Morgann est l'un des quatre sous-secrétaires, et on lui attribue en novembre une autre sinécure, le poste de secrétaire de la province du New Jersey. En 1767, il est nommé envoyé spécial du Conseil privé au Canada et il visite le Québec en 1768.

Morgann est favorable à la tolérance du catholicisme dans les provinces canadiennes, et il contribue ainsi à l'élaboration de l'Acte de Québec de 1774. Il est également opposé au commerce atlantique des esclaves, pensant que cela apporterait « la terreur et la destruction » en Amérique. Il expose ces opinions dans son Plan for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies (1772).

En 1782, Morgann s'embarque pour New York dans le but de reconcilier la Grande-Bretagne avec ses colonies. Le Congrès refuse de le recevoir, et il est possible que le rapport de Morgann sur la situation en Amérique convainc Shelburne, alors Premier ministre, de conclure un traité avec les commissionnaires américains à Paris, qui reconnaisse l'indépendance des anciennes colonies.

Morgann retourne en Angleterre en 1783 et il se retire du service actif sous Shelburne en 1786. En 1795, il publie ses Considerations on the Present Internal and External Condition of France. Cet ouvrage appelle à une alliance entre les États-Unis et la Grande-Bretagne pour contrer la menace du radicalisme français, que Morgann considère comme une dangereuse forme d'anarchie. Richard Brinsley Sheridan approuve cette analyse.

Il meurt célibataire le .

Critique littéraire

An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff est publié en 1777. Il appartient au genre de critique, bien établi à l'époque, qui défend un des personnages de Shakespeare contre l'accusation d'immoralité. L'étude de personnage de Morgann contredit celle de Samuel Johnson, qui considère Falstaff comme un pleutre ivrogne, ne méritant pas notre admiration. Morgann soutient que c'est l'intention de Shakespeare que Falstaff gagne la sympathie de l'auditoire au détriment du prince Hal. Selon lui, Falstaff est en réalité un homme facile à vivre, lâche en apparence, mais étant en réalité courageux. Par exemple, à Gad's Hill, quand il est dépossédé du fruit de son vol, il ne fuit que lorsqu'il est abandonné par ses compagnons, après avoir échangé quelques coups avec ses assaillants.

Morgann résume ainsi la complexité de Falstaff : « c'est un personnage créé par Shakespeare volontairement paradoxal, un homme à la fois jeune et vieux, audacieux et gras, naïf et plein d'esprit, inoffensif et vicieux, faible dans ses principes et résolu par sa constitution, lâche en apparence et brave en réalité; un fripon sans malveillance, un menteur sans duplicité ; et enfin un chevalier, un gentleman et un soldat, sans dignité, décence et honneur.

Selon Boswell, Johnson tourne en ridicule l'axiome de l'essai de Morgann : « Pourquoi, Monsieur, n'aurions-nous pas cet homme qui, ayant prouvé que Falstaff n'était pas un couard, se présenterait à nouveau pour montrer que Iago était un chic type ? ». Néanmoins, il se trouve que cet ouvrage influence grandement la critique littéraire de Henry IV, inspirant en particulier les approches d'Edward Dowden et d'A. C. Bradley. L'interprétation du personnage de Falstaff par Edward Elgar pour son poème symphonique, Falstaff (1913), doit aussi beaucoup à l'étude de Morgann.

Références

Bibliographie

 Elgar, Edward. "Falstaff", The Musical Times, vol. 54, no. 847 (), pp. 575–578
 Maurice Morgann, Daniel A. Fineman (éditeur), Shakespearian Criticism, Clarendon Press, 1972, 444 pages,
 Brian Vickers, "The Emergence of Character Criticism" in Stanley Wells Shakespeare survey'' , Cambridge University Press, 1981,

Liens externes

 Morgann's An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff texte complet

Naissance en 1725
Décès en mars 1802
Antiesclavagiste britannique

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A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer carries luggage back to their vehicles after a family crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Canada, from Champlain in New York. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A man from Yemen crosses the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 14, 2017. Refugees in the United States fearing a worsening climate of xenophobia in the wake of a divisive U.S. presidential campaign are flocking to Canada in...more
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A man from Yemen crosses the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 14, 2017. Refugees in the United States fearing a worsening climate of xenophobia in the wake of a divisive U.S. presidential campaign are flocking to Canada in growing numbers. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
The Yemeni man was shaking so badly that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer asked if he was cold and he replied 'I am scared'. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
The man had his arms up as he crossed the border. The RCMP officer said he didn't have to do that here, he could put his arms down. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 12,...more
A woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 12, 2017. In Quebec, 1,280 refugee claimants irregularly entered between April 2016 and January 2017, triple the previous year's total. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A man who told police he was from Mauritania drops to his knees with his arms raised, asking for asylum. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
The Mauritanian man then fell and needed to be helped up the hill at the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A man who told police he was from Sudan is confronted by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer as he attempts to cross the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 13, 2017. Some of the group that crossed the border on...more
A man who told police he was from Sudan is confronted by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer as he attempts to cross the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 13, 2017. Some of the group that crossed the border on this day walked about a kilometer through the snow. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A man who told police that he was from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. The photographer witnessed one refugee attempt the...more
A man who told police that he was from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. The photographer witnessed one refugee attempt the border crossing twice turning back when confronted by the RCMP. The refugee finally left by cab but when the RCMP officers headed back to their cars, he left the cab and crossed over before the officer could confront him again. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A family from Yemen crosses the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. Canadian advocacy organizations are bracing for a greater influx of asylum-seekers, driven in part by the contrast between the ruling Liberal government's acceptance of Syrian...more
A family from Yemen crosses the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. Canadian advocacy organizations are bracing for a greater influx of asylum-seekers, driven in part by the contrast between the ruling Liberal government's acceptance of Syrian refugees in Canada with Trump's anti-foreigner rhetoric. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
Luggage sits on the United States side of the border after a woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the...more
Luggage sits on the United States side of the border after a woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A family from Yemen crosses the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A family from Yemen is taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers after walking across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border. The Canada Border Services Agency says in...more
A woman who told police that she and her family were from Sudan is taken into custody by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer after arriving by taxi and walking across the U.S.-Canada border. The Canada Border Services Agency says in January 452 people made a refugee claim at Quebec land border crossings REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A group that claimed to be from Haiti, though their passports said Republic of Chad, are detained by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer after they crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 22, 2017. ...more
A group that claimed to be from Haiti, though their passports said Republic of Chad, are detained by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer after they crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
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DRAINAGE AREA.-279 square miles, 36.6 is non-contributing. Area of Lake Monona, 5.3 square miles.
PERIOD OF RECORD.-September 1915 to current year (fragmentary) in reports of the Geological Survey. For 1856 to March 1917 in reports of Wisconsin Railroad Commission, volume 19.
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The gender pay gap between film stars has been further exposed by analysis that shows the top 10 highest-earning men took home nearly three times as much as their female counterparts.
Estimates by business magazine Forbes released on Tuesday showed the men earned a collective 488.5 million dollars (£381 million), topped by Mark Wahlberg who netted an individual 68 million dollars (£53 million).
But the annual analysis showed the leading women earned 172.5 million dollars (£135 million) during same period, with Oscar-winning La La Land star Emma Stone topping the list with 26 million dollars (£20 million).
The highest ranked man who earned less than Stone was Ryan Reynolds, who in 15th place took home 21.5 million dollars (£17 million), according to estimates of pre-tax profits in the 12-month period leading up to June.
The gap between the top 10 men and women has grown since last year's analysis, which found showed the actors taking home more 2.3 times the amount rather than this year's 2.8 times.
Stone, 28, recently spoke out about the gender pay gap, saying she has only achieved "parity" with male co-stars when they take pay cuts because they consider it "right and fair".
She said: "That's something that's also not discussed, necessarily - that our getting equal pay is going to require people to selflessly say: 'That's what's fair'."
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El Paniōnios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnīs (; traducido como "Asociación de Gimnasia Panionios de Esmirna") es la sección de fútbol de la sociedad polideportiva griega Panionios que juega en Nea Smirni, Atenas y sus colores son rojo y azul. Juega en la Gamma Ethniki.

Historia

Este club fue fundado en 1890 en Esmirna, Turquía). Esmirna tuvo una floreciente población helénica en su época, con clubes atléticos, escuelas, etc. Esta fue la continuación de la presencia y prevalencia de la cultura griega en la zona desde tiempos inmemoriables (cf. ancient Jonia). Tras la catástrofe de Asia Menor, la cual vio la expulsión de la población griega de Anatolia por el prevaleciente ejército turco de Kemal Ataturk en 1922, los refugiados provenientes de Esmirna en Atenas fundaron el suburbio de Nea Smyrni (Nueva Esmirna en griego), y Panionios prosiguió ahí sus actividades deportivas.

Desde diciembre de 2001, se ha cambiado a Panionios N.F.C, para evitar el descenso de la primera división a divisiones más bajas, debido a dificultades financieras (trabajando básicamente alrededor de la legislación sobre bancarrotas). El nombre original del club había sido Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης (Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnhs, PGSS), el cual se traduce a Asociación Gimnástica Paniónica de Esmirna. Este es actualmente el nombre del club de deportes amateur del cual se desarrolló el Panionios NFC.

Panionios ha producido a tres principales atacantes griegos de los años ochenta, a saber Nikos Anastopoulos (más tarde del Olympiakos), Thomas Mavros (más tarde del AEK Atenas FC), y Dimitris Saravakos (más tarde del Panathinaikos FC). Otros jugadores notables que salieron de este club se incluyen Nikos Tsiantakis (más tarde del Olympiacos FC) y Takis Fyssas, (más tarde del Panathinaikos) y miembro de la selección de Grecia que ganó la Euro 2004).

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 Copa de Grecia (2): 1979 y 1998
 Campeonato de Atenas (1): 1951

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How immigration politics is driving some Texas Hispanics to the GOP
Supporters at a rally in The Woodlands, Texas on Feb. 19, 2022. All across the nation, political mapmakers have erected impenetrable partisan fortresses through the once-in-a-decade redrawing of America's congressional lines and Texas is an extreme example of how competition between the two parties has been systemically erased.
By Jennifer Medina
Mayra Flores, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, has done much of her campaigning in South Texas in Spanish. She has heard one phrase repeatedly from voters as she and other candidates try to become the first Republicans to represent the Rio Grande Valley in Congress.
¿Y nosotros?
And what about us?
"I hear every day that they're tired — they feel that there is so much attention and help being given to the immigrants," Flores said. "The attention's on all these illegal immigrants, and not on them."
Grievance politics, it turns out, translates.
Donald Trump's brand of populism has been widely viewed as an appeal to white voters: Republicans around the country continue to exploit the fear that the left is attacking religious values and wants to replace traditional white American culture with nonwhite multiculturalism. But similar grievances have resonated in the Rio Grande Valley in a profound way, driving the Republican Party's successes in a Democratic stronghold where Hispanics make up more than 90% of the population.
The difference is in the type of culture believed to be under assault. Democrats are destroying a Latino culture built around God, family and patriotism, dozens of Hispanic voters and candidates in South Texas said in interviews. The Trump-era anti-immigrant rhetoric of being tough on the border and building the wall has not repelled these voters from the Republican Party or struck them as anti-Hispanic bigotry. Instead, it has drawn them in.
"Our parents came in a certain way — they came in and worked, they became citizens and didn't ask for anything," said Ramiro Gonzalez Jr., a 48-year-old rancher from Raymondville, on the northern edge of the Rio Grande Valley. "We were raised hard-core Democrats, but today Democrats want to give everything away."
For years, the Republican primary in the Rio Grande Valley was an afterthought, a sleepy election overshadowed by a Democratic primary that grabbed all the attention and candidates. But this year, in the run-up to the Texas primary election Tuesday, there has been a flurry of Republican rallies, door-knocking and events, including at the Hispanic community center that the Republican National Committee opened in McAllen four months ago.
The Republican gains run far deeper than Trump and, in some ways, predate him, interviews with Hispanic voters and candidates showed. Republican candidates are building on a decadeslong history of economic, religious and cultural sentiment that has veered toward conservatives. George W. Bush performed even better in his 2004 reelection campaign in the region than Trump did in 2020. Many of those who voted for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama for president and then flipped for Trump had previously backed Bush.
For the moment, Republicans in the Rio Grande Valley remain a minority. Last year, a Republican was elected mayor of McAllen, the Valley's second-most populous city, and a Democratic state lawmaker in Rio Grande City switched to the Republican Party, both of whom earned praise from the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. But Democrats still dominate the vast majority of local elected offices in the Valley.
"It's still relatively insignificant, when you look at Democrat vs. Republican overall," said Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a South Texas Democrat who narrowly won his 2020 reelection. He is now running in a redrawn neighboring district and is likely to face Flores as his Republican opponent in November. Though he said he was confident voters would "come home" to Democrats this fall, Gonzalez criticized the party for not doing more to focus on the region.
"So far I see no action," Gonzalez said. "I've had to rely on myself, not on the national party coming down here to save us, so in that respect, it's sad."
For decades, conventional wisdom held that the more Hispanic voters showed up to the polls, the more precarious the political future would be for Republicans. But the inverse has lately been reshaping South Texas politics: As tens of thousands of new voters have gone to the polls, Republicans have gained more than Democrats. In Hidalgo County, which includes McAllen, Trump received nearly twice as many votes in 2020 as he did four years earlier.
Trump's performance in these border counties was one of the big surprises of 2020, rattling Democrats who had assumed that Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric would alienate Latinos. In this year's midterm elections, South Texas is the setting for the only competitive House race in the state, and both parties now consider Hispanic voters across the country a potentially decisive swing vote.
'I worry about our values'
Joe Cadriel, a 57-year-old veteran of the Gulf War's Desert Storm and a retired social worker, has rarely placed campaign advertisements on his front lawn. But he made an exception for Flores, the Brownsville Republican running for Congress.
Cadriel and his wife, Diana, a retired educator, both voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and then cast their ballots for Trump four years later, convinced that he would best protect the southern border, a mere 10 miles from their Weslaco home.
The couple grew up in the Rio Grande Valley as children of conservative Democrats, and they harbored a proud independent streak. Joe Cadriel has been infuriated by illegal immigration for as long as he can remember — he said he once left a job because he felt too angry seeing food stamps and other benefits going to children of unauthorized immigrants.
"I'm OK with people coming in saying I'm going to do something productive," Joe Cadriel said. "But that wasn't what was happening. You'd have these people claiming they needed food stamps for their children, but their children were babies, so who do you think was benefiting from it? They were just trying to take advantage."
Republican candidates like Flores hope to capitalize on the Cadriels and other former Democrats.
Flores' parents worked as migrant farmworkers, moving each year to pick cotton in West Texas. Though her parents were Democrats, Flores said she was raised with "conservative values" and was drawn to Republicans because of her anti-abortion views. Soon after graduating from South Texas College in 2019, she became involved with the Hidalgo County Republican Party, volunteering as the Hispanic outreach chair while she worked as a respiratory therapist.
Flores' campaign signs do not mention policy or party, but instead highlight three words: "Dios, familia, patria." God, family, country.
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Linear Clinical Research welcomes new CEO
Linear Clinical Research Limited, the clinical trials arm of the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Michael Winlo as its new CEO.
Dr Winlo is originally from Perth and earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with Honours from the University of Western Australia in 2005.
Most notably, Dr Winlo has spent the last six years between Silicon Valley and New York growing the health practice of the highly regarded data analysis firm Palantir Technologies.
Throughout his career Dr Winlo has acquired strong skills in global business development, medical technology investment, health data analysis and project management. He is looking forward to joining Linear.
"Linear is a world-class organisation with a compelling mission to improve patient access to new treatments and accelerate clinical research. I'm thrilled to return home and apply the unique experiences I attained overseas to serve as CEO," Dr Winlo said.
In announcing Dr Winlo's appointment, Linear Chairman Professor Peter Leedman said: "we believe Michael has the energy and talent to build on our successes and ensure Linear remains a global leader in early stage clinical trials."
Dr Winlo earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds multiple patents in health data analysis.
He begins his new role as CEO on Monday, 4 April 2016.
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By Ginny McCabe
Downtown Middletown Inc. has introduced a program to honor health care workers, first responders and essential employees by providing them with free meals.
In the "Lifting UP from Downtown" initiative, the community can say thank you with a suggested donation of $5 per meal.
"This is an easy way to lend a helping hand and show your support by providing a hot, delicious meal for our health care workers and essential employees that go above and beyond, each and every day, for the health of our community," said Jeff Payne, executive director of Downtown Middletown Inc.
Private businesses and individuals are teaming up to match the donated $5 meals, making an even bigger impact. To donate a meal, go to www.downtownmiddletown.org/liftingup. The program relies on donations.
"It's important that we get people to show their support by making the donations or contributions to this effort," Payne said.
Restaurants in downtown Middletown will alternate making food. Food and a card will be delivered to each recipient organization/business with the names of those who donated meals. Atrium Medical Center, for example, received meals from Mockingbird's Café. Mike Stafford of Northwestern Mutual provided the business match.
"We are an organization that promotes and focuses all of our efforts on the revitalization of downtown Middletown, and I think this pandemic situation has put us all in the same boat. So, if we're able to do things for downtown Middletown, we also want to do things for the Middletown community as a whole, so this was an effort to reach out and thank those who are on the front lines - our first responders, nurses, and other health care workers who are dealing with this situation every day that they go in," Payne said.
The program began in May and several deliveries have been made to local organizations and businesses.
"We have all been impacted in some way by this challenge of dealing with this pandemic. We have had to stay home, and we have not been able to go to places we normally enjoy going to. Some of us have had to work from home. Some of us have lost our jobs because of the shutdown. And some of us have had to work even harder because of the shutdown," Payne said.
Hopefully, Lifting UP from Downtown will be one of those positive aspects that will be remembered, he said.
"Not only were people put in difficult or challenging situations, but we saw people come together and try to help each other out," said Payne.


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How Long Will Megan Fox Be On 'New Girl'? Reagan Returns For The Second Half Of Season 6
During Season 5 of New Girl, Zooey Deschanel had to miss a few episodes because of her pregnancy. Filling her place was Megan Fox, who played the gang's fill-in roommate, Reagan, who also became Nick's girlfriend. Now in Season 6, Fox has been MIA on the show due to her own pregnancy, but is now ready to return. During the midseason finale, Reagan will be back in the loft to surprise Nick for Christmas and many fans are wondering how long will Megan Fox be on New Girl now that she's making her grand comeback?
According to TVLine, Fox has a big arc in Season 6 and will be back for at least eight new episodes. This is bad news for anyone that still 'ships Nick and Jess. At the end of Season 5, Jess finally realized she was still in love with Nick, but unfortunately, Nick also realized around that same exact time he wanted to give his relationship with Reagan a real try and left to go be with her in New Orleans. So at the start of Season 6, Nick returned without Reagan, however, their relationship proved to be far from over and has become an on-going part of the show's storyline as they attempt to make long distance work. In the meantime, Jess decided her friendship with Nick was more important than her feelings, so she's been trying to move on ever since. In fact, she's now dating Cece's ex-boyfriend, Robbie.
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Reagan's return to the loft could change up the dynamic in the group, however. Reagan will now be sharing Nick's room, which could still make Jess uncomfortable despite the fact that she's dating Robbie. Also, unless Aly shows up soon, Winston will now be the only person in the loft without their significant other close by. Winston and Nick bonded earlier in the season when they were both in long distance relationships. Now Winston will be going through the struggle on his own.
No matter what happens, though, it'll be great to have Reagan back. Her sarcastic and dead pan nature was a perfect addition to the group. Out of all the people living in the loft, she's probably the most sane and isn't afraid to call out everyone else on their absurd and crazy behaviors. It'll be fun to have her back and see how she and Nick act now that they're in a real, full-fledged relationship.


The government's school performance tables which were released recently place The Queen's School top locally for students achieving AAB or higher in at least 2 facilitating subjects at A-level.
This measure was developed as a way to show which candidates were studying and achieving success in subjects with rigorous academic content and it is testament to the intellectually ambitious nature of the school that no less than 50% of our sixth formers achieved this level, well above all other schools and sixth form colleges across West Cheshire and Wirral.
Facilitating subjects are particularly attractive to universities who rate them most highly when judging applicants for a wide variety of courses. They are Mathematics and Further Mathematics, English Literature, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, History, Languages (Classical and Modern).
The news makes the school's A-level performance last year – the best across Cheshire and Wirral with 20% A*, 59% A*-A and 89% A*-B – even more impressive when you consider that so many of those A* and A grades were in these challenging subjects. Almost a fifth of this year's applicants are on track for Oxbridge or competitive courses too.
Along with other independent schools, we will continue to lobby the government to include iGCSE data in these league tables to enable accurate reading of Key Stage Four data which was also outstanding for Queen's last year.


Update the ordinary with a unique look from Ted Lapidus. This timepiece starts with stainless steel case, a small push/pull crown and fixed black bezel. The slightly askew black dial adds visual interest as it makes room for a crescent moon design. A black leather strap wraps everything comfortably and cohesively to your wrist.


The book is intended primarily to be family history for the next several generations of Minervas. It also contributes to the canon of personal diaries of the Korean War. It presents an aspect of war and army life that families back home would not have considered. Being in the armed service for his country, a young man had to rearrange his daily life in the framework of the circumstances the US Army presented. He was living with other men like himself, in close quarters, moving frequently. There was also in this case a peta puppy dog for company. His room and meals, of various qualities, would be supplied, but he had to arrange for his laundry, housekeeping, and, mainly, recreational activities of some kind for those many hours when his services were not being required by the command that otherwise would be empty and subject to massive stretches of boredom.
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The Smark Henry Pay-Per-Review: Fastlane 2018
By Romeo Moran Tuesday, March 13, 2018
We're at a very interesting point in WWE's history.
Imagine: thanks to a million open-minded free agent signings, the WWE roster is now pretty much at peak talent. Even though the company still wants to sign the world's best wrestlers, the stock they've already got is pretty top-notch. At the lowest tiers of any given card, you'll find some really good wrestling—it isn't like the previous decade, where Ohio Valley Wrestling/Deep South Wrestling/Florida Championship Wrestling alums take forever to get used to performing at the biggest stage and delivering. I never thought it was possible, but under Vince McMahon's watch, the wrestling finally became world-class.
Which is why I think now is a good time to remind the company to never slack on their storylines.
Fastlane wasn't egregious by any means, but it was still clearly a show that had to rely on the wrestling and star power to get across. You know you're winging it when you have to shoehorn John Cena into your main event to draw viewers, recycle a tag team championship match as a bait-and-switch to introduce a new storyline, and relegate your Royal Rumble winner Shinsuke Nakamura into a good-but-ultimately-filler match without much build. The true test of how good a pro wrestling card looks is whether a fan—in this case, me—can still fantasy book it any better; if there's still room for a Nakamura/Cena rematch for a WrestleMania spot, then you know what the answer is.
Sure, good wrestling forgives a multitude of sins, to paraphrase NBA color commentator Clark Kellogg. But a pro wrestling company can only get away with letting the wrestling speak for itself for so long.
The good thing is for the most part, the SmackDown team still understood the importance of the story. Even though almost all the matchups on the Fastlane card were heading in shaky, they still paid off when it comes to the respective aftermaths. The dream WrestleMania main event is still happening. Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens' feud with Shane McMahon is reignited. John Cena's still looking for an opponent. Asuka has her opponent (and is now officially part of SmackDown). The stories that needed to be crystallized were.
The Road to WrestleMania, at least on the SmackDown lane, is clearer than ever. I understand that Fastlane was just the final stop before New Orleans, but with a roster as stacked as SmackDown's, I wish they were still able to make it more compelling. B+ for playing their hands well.
Match of the Night
The main event deserved its main event status. All it did was be the match that most perfectly balanced the best action with the most storytelling—then again, it would have been highly disappointing if it didn't do that, considering it generally has the most airtime on SmackDown episodes over the past few weeks. True to its nature, the six-pack challenge never lets up, and helps to establish AJ's dominance as champ. That WWE title match at WrestleMania is looking really, really good right now.
Other observations
Rusev/Nakamura rightfully got the amount of time they deserved. I just wish something was at stake for Rusev, because between the Infinity Gauntlet on RAW last month and this, there's only so many times they can say a guy will look to gain some momentum by winning this match.
That said, I'd love to see Rusev challenge for the title once Nakamura wins it.
What's the point of having Randy Orton beat Bobby Roode clean and Jinder Mahal come down after the match if Roode is going to get his heat back right away? You don't need to be so antsy to give people their heat back!
Loved the story the Usos and New Day were trying to tell in the ring, resorting to stealing each other's double-team moves. But if they were going to have the Bludgeon Brothers interfere and insert themselves in the SmackDown Tag Team Championship picture, then the Bludgeon Brothers should've just been in this spot instead of the New Day to begin with.
Good go-ahead win for Natalya and Carmella, but at this point, when is Carmella going to cash in? That window's slowly closing as WrestleMania draws near.
Charlotte and Ruby had very little chemistry that night, and it's sad to watch. Both tried to make the most out of each other but it just wasn't gelling. Can't put the finger on who dragged it down.
Photo from WWE
Romeo Moran (@roiswar) is the Editor in Chief of Smark Henry and one of the three hosts of the Smark Gilas-Pilipinas Podcast. He gets by in this hard knock life through working in publishing. Smark Henry was his and Stan Sy's original vision of a watering hole for local wrestling fans. He roots for the undersized guys who hit hard, but really hates Davey Richards with his entire soul. He likes taking your wrestling questions over on his CuriousCat account.
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Q: How to select two or more checkbox based on the value in angularjs? How to select two or more checkbox based on the value in angularjs?
Plunker reference

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*In plunker there are four checkbox inputs each of one values is different but ng-model is same for four inputs, so if I checked Moral Ethics checkbox this value is need to be save in api.

*What I exactly looking is, as now if I clicked any of one checkbox in plunker all the checkbox is checked bcoz of the same ng-model. actually we have mentioned ng-model as array in backend, so if click any of two checkbox that checked values only to be save in backend...
For Example: in plunker I want to click Moral Ethics checkbox and Social network these two values only  need to checked and it should saved as a array json data in backend.
This jsbin link is exactly what we want. We have tried many ways but unable to find the solution. So please check and update my plunker as well to know the exact solution.

function MyCntrl($scope) {
  $scope.questions = [{
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Religion & Culture",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },

    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Moral Ethics",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Environment & Health",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Environment & Health",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Religion & Culture",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Religion & Culture",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Moral Ethics",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    }
  ]
}
<!doctype html>

  <form ng-controller="MyCntrl">

      <input type="checkbox" name="Moral Ethics" data-ng-model="category" value="Moral Ethics" >Moral Ethics

      <input type="checkbox" name="culture" data-ng-model="category" value="culture" >Religion & Culture

      <input type="checkbox" name="Social network" data-ng-model="category" value="Social network" >Social network

      <input type="checkbox" name="Environment logic" data-ng-model="category" value="Environment logic" >Environment logic

  </form>

A: Here's the code snippet that behaves like you want. It actually keeps a seperate array of selected items and maintains it every time you check/uncheck something.

function MyCntrl($scope) {
   $scope.toggleSelection = function toggleSelection(item) {
    var idx = $scope.selection.indexOf(item);

    // is currently selected
    if (idx > -1) {
      $scope.selection.splice(idx, 1);
    }

    // is newly selected
    else {
      $scope.selection.push(item);
    }
  };

  $scope.selection = [];

  $scope.items = ["Moral Ethics", "Religion & Culture", "Social network", "Environment logic"];
  $scope.questions = [{
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Religion & Culture",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },

    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Moral Ethics",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Environment & Health",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Environment & Health",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Religion & Culture",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Religion & Culture",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    },
    {
      "_id": "5863d3aaacaeddc00663bc07",
      "user": {
        "_id": "58072aba0f82a61823c434df",
        "displayName": "Table 1",
        "dob": "2016-12-22T18:30:00.000Z",
        "location": "chennai",
        "religion": "hindu",
        "roles": [
          "admin"
        ],
        "profileImageURL": "./modules/users/client/img/profile/uploads/ac4fbab396c2f725ed5211524f171136"
      },

      "friend_tag": [],
      "emotion": "Confused",
      "category": "Moral Ethics",
      "content": "mani",
      "title": "Who Is the best Player?",
      "created": "2016-12-28T15:00:58.777Z"
    }
  ]
}
<!doctype html>

  <form ng-controller="MyCntrl">

        <input type="checkbox" name="selectedItems[]" data-ng-model="category" value="{{item}}" ng-checked="selection.indexOf(item) > -1" ng-click="toggleSelection(item)">{{item}}

{{selection}}

  </form>


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Q: Why do I get a page not found 404 error when I ran my code with a app? It worked fine without an app When I made my django project using Django(version 1.9.1) and Python (version 3.6.3), a 404 error came. Code follows.
Error Message :
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/music
Using the URLconf defined in website.urls, Django tried these URL
patterns, in this order:

*

*^admin/
The current URL, music, didn't match any of these.

You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.
Main URL file :
    from django.conf.urls import include, url
    from django.contrib import admin

    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
        url(r'^music/', include('music.urls')),
    ]

App urls file:
    from django.conf.urls import url
    from . import views

    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
    ]

"Views" file for the app :
    from django.http import HttpResponse

    def index(request):
        return HttpResponse("<h1> This is the Music Section of the page
    </h1>")


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Q: What is the benefit of using Newey-West when there is no impact on the coefficient estimates in OLS? Since my residuals failed the test for heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation, what is the benefit of using Newey-West when there is no impact on the coefficient estimates in OLS?
Does the Newey-West make any impact on the OLS model?
Should I use GLS instead of OLS due to heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation?

A: If you only want a predictive model where you take the coefficient estimates and apply that regression equation to new data, the Newey-West does nothing for you.
However, Newey-West is a pretty good way of handling unequal variance and autocorrelation in the error terms when it comes to estimating standard errors for the regression coefficients.
If you are interested in testing or writing confidence intervals around regression coefficients, Newey-West could be a valuable tool. Newey-West was first published in an econometrics journal, and much of economics deals with this sort of inference rather than pure predictive modeling.


OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol. It allows users to be authenticated by co-operating sites using a third party service, eliminating the need for webmasters to provide their own ad hoc login systems, and allowing users to log in to multiple unrelated websites without having to have a separate identity and password for each.
You can find more information on the openidexplained.com website.
OpenID is decentralized protocol, which means you can login to any OpenID-enabled website using any OpenID provider. Unlike most popupar OAuth providers such as Twitter or Facebook where you have to implement each provider individually.
This service has support for OpenID 2.0, which is the legacy version of the protocol. But it is the most popular version of OpenID implementation among the websites, which offers OpenID authentication.
This service has enabled Yadis discovery protocol. Yadis is a communications protocol for discovery of services such as OpenID, OAuth, and XDI connected to a Yadis ID.