A programme is tackling obesity in children and young people by harnessing school nurses' knowledge and skills.
Using her extensive school nurse experience of how to engage young people, and with help from a paediatric dietitian, school nursing practice development lead Chris McDermott designed a bespoke, evidence-based programme to support long-term lifestyle and behaviour change.
Participants and their families are assigned a specially trained school nurse for one-to-one and telephone support throughout the seven-part Healthy Weight, Healthy Lifestyles programme. The initiative covers topics such as diet and nutrition, lifestyle tips and physical activity.
Chris, who works for social enterprise CSH Surrey, has been shortlisted in the Child Health category of the RCNi Nurse Awards 2016 for her work.
The award, sponsored by specialist journal Nursing Children and Young People (NCYP), recognises innovation that improves the care of children and young people.
To embellish the programme, Chris forged partnerships with local leisure centres and identified apps and pedometers that might encourage children and young people to be more active.
Since May last year, 25 children and young people have been referred to the scheme. Parental feedback shows significant evidence of lifestyle changes such as walking to school and reducing sugar, and most have reported stabilised BMIs and weight loss.
Positive early results have seen the pilot extended countywide, with other counties interested in adopting the scheme.
Chris says: 'School nurses make a valuable contribution through innovative practice and partnership working to improve health outcomes for children, young people and their families.
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Update: Read more in-depth coverage of this protest from Global Voices with many more photos here.
Several ten thousands have gathered at Seoul Plaza (as of 3 pm) to protest against the South Korean government's election manipulation scandal and the latest clampdowns on labor groups. The numbers are rapidly growing and the protest will continue throughout the day. Aiming 1 million Koreans to participate in 'the December 28th General Strike', a detailed schedule [ko] of a series of protests held by different groups in major cities across the country has been widely shared in South Korean online venues in last few days.
The December 28 General Strike (and protest) against the fraudulent election is being held at the City Hall Plaza, now as of 3:22 pm.
Actually it can't be said people are 'in' the Seoul Plaza. Even the nearby road s are packed with people.
Wow !! This is, indeed, a massive crowd !!
AWESOME!! FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!!!GOD HELP THE USA!
Dissent in America has been squelched!
I think we are simply too compliant. Possibly a bit lazy too. 'They' have turned most of us against each other is one other big thing……neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother. Both parties lying. Our country is a huge hot mess and we are just sitting back………watching.
right but we should be uniting for the common good. people are to stupid to realize that everything they are using to separate us means nothing if we lose the whole. we should be uniting to fight to save the whole.
The world is waking up & we aren't going to take it anymore!
Please STOP using this wrong image (https://twitter.com/OccupyLA/status/416854377031163904/photo/1) to promote my articles on this protest. It was presumably from 2010 protests and definitely NOT from the Dec 28 protest (2013). Thanks to some sites who have ignored any sort of basic fact-checking and Koreans users who translated a poster image misleadingly, this old photo has been widely circulated by US Uncut and Occupy LA and many more.
noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.
This is what happens when we have people flooding internet with lies and wrong info..We do not know who to believe. As soon as i saw this image i knew it was not happening now..
Dont know why I appear as 'Guest' in that comment. But luckily, US Uncut notified me that they've made corrections to the post.
I've been seeing the description section of the image changed to reflect a correction. I've just decided to copy the first part (with a link to this page) with an image from this page.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is a Tea Party-type movement.
How do you figure? The tea party is anti-union, anti-worker's rights, and propped up by some of the richest people in the US (the Koch brothers). This is a pro-union rally.
Well, I speak and read Korean, and live in Korea, and I'm pretty sure you don't, so I may have a closer vantage point on this.
I do live and work in Korea, and can speak and read Korean. I'm also a socialist, and a past union organizer. And you have failed to answer my question – you've simply thrown around insults you've heard from other people. Again, the tea party is funded by the super rich- the Kochs, the Waltons, and others… and this rally is supported and sponsored by unions. I ask again, how is this in any way related to the tea party?
If you live here, why don't we get together and have a burger and you can insult me to my face?
Really? So what about all the thousands of middle class people like me who are NOT funded by anyone and are pro-Tea Party simply because we are sick of seeing out taxes squandered by huge inefficient government?
You really are desperate if you want to see the 'Koch Brothers' behind everything. Why not face the fact that not everyone shares your opinions?
But that's not the point. I want to know how union workers protesting against the Saenuri party (the equivalent of the Republican party in the US) is in any way similar to the Tea Party. Brendon has actually invited me for a beer rather than answer my question. How about you? Anything other than insults? Peer-reviewed paper, perhaps?
The other word for "peer-reviewed paper" is self-reinforcing circle jerk — so, no, I'll pass on the peer-reviewed paper. Do you want to meet your enemy and look him in the eye, or not? I'm not going to punch you or spit in your face. I'm going to buy you a burger and onion rings, and talk.
Any paper that is published in any scientific journal needs to be peer reviewed. That's actually the way science works. If you get cancer, and you're cured, it is because of the peer review system. This is true in any science – economics, political science, biology, or mathematics. It is actually the major strength of the scientific method, and allows other scientists to re-create an experiment or to check sources to verify the results.
I'm in Changwon-si (about 30 minutes out of Busan), and I'll buy my own burger if you really want to talk, but I don't have any idea why you want to meet. You're not going to like me, and I'm not going to like you. You seem to lack a basic knowledge of economics, government, and now you've shown a distrust of the scientific method. You seem to hate everything that I stand for, and I doubt that you can supply any additional information in person that could not as easily be discussed online. So why waste your time?
Because I'm a likable guy who actually knows a lot more than you give me credit for, and I'm open to discussions. Be a mensch, not a schmuck.
How much are you paid for this dirty job??
The taxes are unnecessary for certain and most of it goes to two things the military and corporate welfare.
what the average Tea Partier doesn't understand, and what the millionaires and billionaires who fund the movement do understand, is that nature abhors a vacuum. So when Tea Partiers clamor for smaller government—or in some cases, no government at all—something must fill the void. And what's always filled the void in the past, from the Gilded Age, to the Roaring Twenties, to Reagan's America, is corporate power and aggregated wealth. So fast-forward nearly 240 years later after the Boston Tea Party, and today's Tea Party is rallying on behalf of some of the very biggest transnational corporations in the world—our own East India Companies.
I love how the utter failure of the free market capitalist system is foisted upon communism, never under estimate the the power of denial. As if a communist could get into power in the US. The US has never been the bastion of freedom it claimed. Straight after the Civil war it was into the Philippines 200,000 dead, and the US has been involved in mass murder and regime change ever since. Pearl Harbor…what a joke. America puts an oil embargo on Japan….and act of war and then waits for the retaliation, sacrificing 2, 0000 of it's own…and then cries blue murder.
How has the free market failed you? Would you really rather be living in 1750?
Freedom is the key. Any economic or political system that doesn't allow it is a fraud. New Capitalism works. For example: In Texas the toll roads are owned by rich insiders foreign and domestic and the profits flow for generations. Why not offer low-cost shares to regular citizens to fund the projects? When you pay your toll, you're paying yourself. Similar to an employee-owned business and Green Bay Packers stadium.
On the political side, nothing will work without energetic citizen involvement at every level of government, with voting being the primary involvement. I say, if you don't vote, you don't count.
But when you do vote and the power-hungry folks still screw you, then you got to demonstrate. Go South Korea, Egypt, Libya.
And finally, you are the first person other than me to use the term "slave," because to enslave is the goal of power-hungry people, and can be found at every level of society from small business manager, city council member, up to the president, including union bosses. The electorate must replace people who want to rule with people who want to serve.
The free market has failed because corporate welfare queens are actually sugar daddies for the president, supreme court and congress. Free markets are not subsidized immortal corporate playgrounds, they are where free people carry out the economic and commercial side of life.
Says the guy who's never lifted a finger to change anything… pardon the assumption, but come on- you've never done anything to change anything, have you? My credentials – I was a union organizer, I ran a branch office of ACORN and was arrested on several occasions, I did service work in Haiti working in orphanages and hospitals, and I continue to protest the wrongs of the US government.
Again, what have you done?
Christopher, good for you for standing up against the Reich-wing jackals (or jackasses) here on this board and around the world. Thank you.
Don't thank me – we all do our part, right? I'm sure that you've helped make the world better, more peaceful, and less full of hate.
And here's a beautiful pic I took this morning, hiking in Changwon, South Korea, with my wife. Have a great day!
I am not liking your post because you ran a branch of ACORN, that's for sure. But I have to admire and respect people who are willing to publicly stand up for their belief system and willingly do something about it too!
The tea baggers are a bunch of radical Koch Brother backed morons.


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Nigeria's Population Boom, Poor Planning Skew Water Delivery
June 13, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Ameto Akpe, Abuja, Nigeria, for the Pulitzer Center
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Vendors fetch water from a water point in Gishiri, a new development in the city of Abuja. It is one of the only two water sources in the entire area. Image by Ameto Akpe. Nigeria, 2012.
"There is no water in Abuja," Chinyere, a resident, laments. "There is no light (electricity) but more importantly there is no water and this makes life hard."
Abuja is a planned city, located in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This territory was conceptualized and created by the federal government in the mid-1970s to be a "functional, model city" and a replacement for Lagos, the nation's former capital, which was suffering decay, congestion and excessive pressure on infrastructure.
While the city of Abuja is one of affluence with dreams of becoming the "jewel of Africa," access to a basic amenity like water is a daily challenge to most residents.
Findings show that between 2008 and 2010, little progress was made in providing safe drinking water through taps and boreholes to most communities in the FCT. A 2010 government survey shows that only seven percent of households in the FCT have access to safe drinking water from the tap while 43 percent depend on rivers and streams and 27 percent depend on boreholes. Officials say that as thousands of people like Chinyere relocate to Abuja, the FCT water utility will struggle to meet the water demands of the rapidly increasing population.
Though well-to-do districts like Asokoro and Wuse enjoy a 24-hour tap water supply, several areas, including the very affluent Maitama district where the wealthiest individuals live, must adjust their routines to fit a system of water rationing put in place by the water board to help deal with the shortages.
The FCT has seen an unprecedented population growth in the last 10 to 15 years. In 2006, population growth rate was pegged at 9.3 percent, the highest rate in the country and way above what the city's planners envisaged. Recently, increased migration to the city has been spurred by terrorism attacks in the North, numerous incidences of kidnappings in the South, and the generally high unemployment rate in the country as millions of young graduates pour into the city in search of the very elusive promise of a "government job".
Jibril Ibrahim, the Director of the FCT water board, the agency solely responsible for the production and supply of water in the territory, admits that the authorities did not see this coming. He says this unexpected population growth has overwhelmed existing water infrastructure and ruined the careful plans for water service delivery in the territory.
"This is what has made nonsense of the design we have in the city," Ibrahim says. "Nobody believed that we were going to have this huge number of people and not even within this space of time."
Patience Achakpa, executive secretary for the Women's Environment Programme, believes that the government should have foreseen the potential attraction a city like Abuja presents to the urban migrant and should have put in place more efficient plans.
This lack of foresight means there is no pipe reticulation in many districts, particularly in peripheral areas. Even government housing projects are routinely built without being connected to the grid, simply lacking the crucial distribution network that would bring water to individual homes. Thus each household is forced to sink its own borehole, which in the long run has obvious implications on ground water.
Satellite towns like Lugbe, Karimu, Nnyaya and Gwagwalada, where the majority of migrants to Abuja settle, are particularly bad off, with many areas lacking clean water. These towns have fast become giant slums with no public space where pipes could be run. The indiscriminate sinking of boreholes without proper surveillance is common and, as a result, many boreholes are close to pit latrines and garbage dumps.
Meanwhile, Ibrahim doesn't anticipate a reprieve for these communities anytime soon. He says that funds are scarce and development will be gradual.
Achakpa warns, "Abuja is already becoming another Lagos. Government authorities and indeed the Abuja plan have not really taken cognizance of the fact that people need to be at the center of planning. If something fast is not done in the next five to ten years you would say I told you so."
A study by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) supports Achakpa's argument. It states that the sustainable development agenda to improve well-being and preserve the quality of the environment cannot succeed without a core focus on population. If the population is not put at the core of the agenda, efforts to improve well-being and preserve the quality of the environment will fail.
In December 2011, Bala Mohammed, the minister of the FCT, said that the administration had perfected plans to stabilize the water supply. He promised that by April 2012 water would be supplied to "all the nooks and crannies" of the FCT. To date there is still no improvement in the FCT's water supply.
Mohammed's promises were partly based on water projects billed to start in the first quarter of 2012. Following this announcement, many residents expressed cynicism on the feasibility of this pledge given the many failed promises of the past and the problems that surround the territory's water projects. In 2008, the FCT administration awarded multi-billion naira (the Nigerian currency) contracts to expand and upgrade the water treatment facilities in the territory; however the projects were delayed and dogged with legal, financial, and technical challenges. They have still not been completed. The minister for Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, revealed that there have been challenges with contractors handling initial projects that would provide water to the territory.
Meanwhile, the consensus among experts is that there are not enough institutional and management efforts to provide sufficient clean tap water to the people. This implies serious problems for the future as the population will continue to grow.
Water, even at the most basic level of human sustainable development, strongly influences economic and social activity. Odiesa Isreal, a civil engineer, says that Abuja's strides to become a model city in the African continent may never truly be realized if the issue of safe and reliable water access is not dealt with in an integrated manner that reconciles growing demands with limited resources.
A version of this article was also featured in BusinessDay.
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Millions of Unusual Creatures Come to America
- by Jacurutu99, 25 August 2016
In the beginning, 2 inch tall mini-figure lines of collectible erasers composed of monsters and aliens became known as Keshi. They came from Japan!
Keshi described what they were generally made out of. Keshi for short, keshigomu were "rubber gum" figures and also referred as "eraser gum" figures, however they were rarely soft enough to be used like that.
Popular Keshi would grow to often feature highly-detailed sculpts, made out of a solid, durable plastic. They were introduced in the 1970s, becoming instantly popular with school-aged children who could easily buy a figure from a vending machine using loose change, With a low price and high collectability factor, as well as the crazy character designs, Keshi caught on quick.
Although vending machine Keshi were often considered as standard size, three different materials are used, hard gum, plastic or gum w/plastic parts. Even though dark salmon matte color mini figures are the quickest types identified as Keshi in western countries, due to the famous M.U.S.C.L.E. line, there are actually a wide variety of gum from matte to bright, from translucent to transparent, from white to black, including the deluxe painted types.
In 1979 Bandai imported a line of Keshi to America, featuring kaiju from the Ultraman franchise. For this new American market, Bandai decided to drop any connection to Ultraman and simply present the figures as random weird creatures. They tossed colorful plastic mini garbage cans into the mix and voilà, Canfull of Monsters was born.
Bandai also released these figures in the U.S. a couple of alternate ways.
Canfull of Monsters. Click on the image to enlarge. Image source: littleweirdos.net.
The first came under the name Monster Toss, and included a little plastic flipper in addition to the figures and can. The idea was that you'd use the flipper to try to fling the monsters into the can (hours and hours of fun). They were also released under the name Handful of Monsters, with six figures in a simple carded blister pack. Handfull of Monsters packages seem to be less commonly found than Canfull of Monsters or Monster Toss.
Meanwhile back in Japan, the "Kinnikuman" Keshi created for the popular pro-wrestling based Japanese manga and cartoon, were extremely popular; so popular that it created its own subgenre of toy, known as Kinkeshi.
The Keshi phenomenon truly sped-up worldwide in the late 1980s, as Kinnikuman Keshi were adapted to become the most popular Keshi franchise ever in M.U.S.C.L.E.("Millions of unusual small creatures lurking everywhere!") in America. They were small pink wrestling figures with the flair of strange, out of this world, fantasy and humor. They, along with bootlegs, started to appear in gumball machines in the states in the mid to late 80's. M.U.S.C.L.E. felt strange, very strange, having swam across the sea with very little information. Japan had anime shows, conventions, a full line of merch, and more to help understand the line, where the states barely had the figures alone. Any Mother who came across the "Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere," within the cushions of the family couch certainly found that name appropriate.
The glory of Kinnikuman. Click on each image to enlarge.
The original M.U.S.C.L.E. figures were sold in packages of four, ten, or 28. Because all of the packages contained a random assortment of figures, collecting the entire 236-figure collection was very difficult. Kids often wound up with dozens of duplicates, which is good for collectors today; large lots of these toys often surface on eBay for reasonable prices. In later years, Mattel began incorporating neon-colored versions of the same figures, and eventually scrapped the flesh-colored figures all together in favor of the colorful neon toys.
In addition to the figures, other M.U.S.C.L.E. merchandise included a board game, Nintendo video game, a toy championship belt and a small ring.
Not all Kinkeshi sculpts were imported into the MUSCLE line! The Japanese Kinnikuman line had over 400 figures available, while we here in America only had 236. That means at least 164 more Kinnikuman exist.
Over the years, rare figures and previously unknown variants began to pop up. As recently as 2009 collectors were discovering obscure M.U.S.C.L.E. toys that were never announced or included on a mailaway poster that also served as a checklist. The most popular of these is a four-armed figure often called "SatanCross," which usually sells in the $50-75 range.
The elusive SatanCross and the mailaway M.U.S.C.L.E. poster. Click on each image to enlarge.
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Odznaczenie im. Ignacego Solarza – odznaczenie ustanowione 16 grudnia 1987 przez Prezydium Zarządu Krajowego Związku Młodzieży Wiejskiej, jako najwyższe odznaczenie ZMW nadawane w uznaniu wybitnych zasług dla tej organizacji.

Odznaczenie zostało zaprojektowane przez Piotra Gorola, jest nadawane do dnia dzisiejszego.

Opis odznaki
Odznaka miała formę okrągłego medalu o średnicy 37 mm, który był srebrzony i oksydowany. Na awersie wyryto prawy profil popiersia Ignacego Solarza, a na rewersie centralnie napisy IGNACY/SOLARZ/1891-1940. Odznaczenie zawieszane było na ciemnozielonej wstążce o szerokości 40 mm z dwoma czerwonymi paskami o szerokości 8 mm każdy, które były umieszczone 5 mm od brzegu.

Zobacz też

 Odznaka Honorowa "Za Zasługi dla ZMW"

Bibliografia

 S. Oberlejtner, Odznaki odznaczenia w polskim ruchu młodzieżowym 1944-1989, Rzeszów 2001.

Przypisy

Odznaczenia Związku Młodzieży Wiejskiej

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Port of Oakland Rejects Coal Shipping and Opens the Door for an A's Ballpark on the Waterfront
Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:15 AM
Business / Sports / Environment
The Oakland Port Commission unanimously rejected three proposed maritime uses for the 50-acre Howard Terminal site near Jack London Square, one of which environmental groups vehemently opposed due to concerns over the proposed shipping of coal and petroleum coke through the port. The decision may also one day lead to a 38,000-seat waterfront ballpark at the site for the Oakland Athletics. A group of local investors unveiled a plan last December for the ballpark, although A's ownership repeatedly has claimed that the venue is not suitable for the team.
The proposed ballpark at Howard Terminal.
The stadium issue, however, was never directly mentioned during Thursday afternoon's port meeting. Instead, members of the Sierra Club and other local environmental groups urged port commissioners to follow a staff recommendation to reject all three proposals for the port. Two weeks ago, commissioners acquiesced to a plea by one bidder, Bowie Resources, LLC, to allow it more time to provide documentation to the port's staff. A representative from Bowie, which sought to export commodities such as coal, petroleum coke, borax, and iron ore through West Oakland, said it was evaluating the potential use of covered transport to carry coal through the East Bay. The extra two weeks, however, did little to reverse the previous recommendation.
Margaret Gordon, a former port commissioner and long-time West Oakland neighborhood advocate, told her former colleagues to remember their social responsibility. "Keep doing what you're doing and don't allow cargo to come in here and have people adversely pay with their health just because there's a port here," she said.
Oakland resident and activist Susan Harman, said, "Coal is the dirtiest of the dirty fossil fuels and the only solution to climate issues is to keep it all in the ground." Harman and other opponents of coal who spoke Tuesday highlighted the global ramifications about the burning of fossil fuels across the globe. "It doesn't really matter at what point of that chain we stop it," added Harmon, "but we have the power to break that chain here in Oakland."
The port commissioners offered little disagreement other than a concern by Commissioner Earl Hamlin about potential legal costs should any of the bidders sue the port. "I don't care about litigation costs, I care about the community," Commissioner Michael Colbruno responded. "Are we really going to export this [coal] to third world countries? Is that what the Port of Oakland is for?"
Colbruno, appointed to the port commission by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, was the lone dissenting voice two weeks ago for postponing the vote on Howard Terminal. The port's determination Thursday sets the early stages for the port to begin contemplating a ballpark at the property or some other types of use for Howard Terminal. The port's ad hoc committee will meet next week, said Commissioner Alan Yee, to further discuss Howard Terminal's long-term future. However, the meeting is not open to the public.
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26 Apr — 29 Sep 2019 at the MOCAK in Krakow, Poland
Nature in Art. Courtesy of MOCAK
Mankind is the only species on Earth to have mastered nature. For thousands of years, this was a domination of the predators rejoicing in their power. Fortunately, human beings began to develop empathy in relation to nature; they recognised its pain, sensitivity and beauty. Some hundred years ago the reflection came that the existence of the human species depends closely on the state of the natural environment. Exploitation of nature gradually shifted towards seeking a balance. This slow process says a lot about our species. No wonder that it has also become an important forum of artistic commentary.
At the exhibition Nature in Art we show contemporary works of more than 70 artists from many countries, in techniques ranging from painting, photography and video to object and installation. The exhibition has been divided into five parts: beauty, ecology, confrontation, matter and symbol.
In works related to beauty artists eternalise picturesque views, imitate processes that take place in nature, evoke the sensation of being in the presence of nature and provide scope for the contemplation of its perfection. Ecology focuses on concern for the predicament of the natural environment, and action on behalf of the preservation of nature but also apocalyptic vis. Confrontation revolves around the clash – or integration – of the artist with the forces of nature, human endeavours to face up to its challenge and comparing their respective strengths as well as making nature part of the creative process. Matter relies on the artists employing organic elements and creating representations that rely on accurate rendition of the structure and expression of the given surface. Symbol predominantly refers to representations of animals that illustrate human stances and characteristics.
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MOCAK's two most important aims are presenting the art of the two last decades in the context of the post-war avant-garde and conceptual art as well as clarifying the rationale of creating art by highlighting its cognitive and ethical value and its relationship with everyday reality.
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Intimidating letter to California Hispanics being investigated
Peter Prengaman
LOS ANGELES (AP) – They've been naturalized U.S. citizens for nearly 20 years, but Benny Diaz says he and his wife felt intimidated when they each received a letter over the weekend warning that some immigrants could be jailed or deported for voting next month.
The letter, written in Spanish and sent to an unknown number of Hispanics in Orange County, also says the government has developed a computer system to track down the names of immigrant voters.
"A lot of Latino families have called me to say they ripped up the letter because they felt so insulted," said Diaz, 49, who is originally from Peru. His wife, Nellie, is from Mexico.
Diaz is running for a seat on the Garden Grove City Council, and he believes the letter could scare many new citizens away from the polls.
"We spend a lot of money to communicate with Latino voters, but do you think they are going to come out now?" he asked.
It's unclear who sent the letter. Meanwhile, authorities say they are investigating, adding those responsible could be charged with a felony.
"Why send something like this?" said state Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles. "The intention is clearly to shed fear and intimidation, and ultimately suppress a vote that is critical in the elections."
In a letter Tuesday to state Attorney General Bill Lockyer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called the letters "racist" and "despicable," and argued the perpetrators should be tried for a hate crime.
Lockyer spokesman Nathan Barankin said the letter was "something we are investigating aggressively right now."
The sender could face as much as three years in state prison, he said.
The note's letterhead resembles that of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, an anti-illegal immigration group based in Huntington Beach, and contained the signature Sergio Ramirez.
The group's founder, Barbara Coe, told the Los Angeles Times she did not know anyone named Sergio Ramirez, adding she did not authorize the letter and was unaware of anyone in her group who did. Over the last several days, Coe said, she has taken dozens of calls from Orange County Hispanics who received a letter.
It "puts a shadow on our credibility, that we would target certain people who might be citizens of our country," she said.
She did not immediately return calls Tuesday from The Associated Press.
Coe's group was investigated by the FBI in the late 1990s because members held signs near polls stating only citizens can vote.
The letter is correct in saying only immigrants who are naturalized U.S. citizens can vote, but many of its other assertions are false.
It also contains several grammatical errors and reads like a literal translation from English to Spanish, suggesting it was not written by a native Spanish speaker.
"Be advised that the government of the United States is installing a new computer system to verify the names of all registered voters. … Anti-immigration organization can ask for information from this new computer system," the letter states.
John Trasvina, interim president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, suggested the letter might have a backlash effect.
"A lot of people will get angered by this and say, 'No you can't take away my right to vote,'" said Trasvina.


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A unique Holocaust story of survival
September 27, 2018 by Leanne Shelton
According to the Red Cross, there was only one family that survived the concentration camps and war as an intact family unit. This was Eddy Boas' family of four.
Eddy Boas
On Wednesday 10 October 2018, Mr Boas, now an author, will be sharing his unique story told within his book, "I'm not a victim, I am a survivor", at North Shore Temple Emanuel (NSTE).
As a special event for NSTE's Boomers & Beyond Book Club, Mr Boas will talk about his journey as a child during World War II, through to his life in Australia where he arrived at age 14. His experiences of those early years and later events have created a challenging, moving and uplifting story.
Despite all challenges, Mr Boas moved beyond them with hard work, ingenuity, entrepreneurship and love to achieve happiness and success.
His story is truly an inspiring and moving one, filled with challenges, miracles, tragedies and uplifting moments.
Now Mr Boas is a loving, devoted grandfather who can truly say "I'm not a victim. I am a survivor."
To hear about Mr Boas' story, you are invited to join him at North Shore Temple Emanuel on Wednesday 10 October 2018 at 2pm in the Valerie Jaye Hall.
Members $12. Non-members $15. A light afternoon tea will be served.
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How do you rate an Ecommerce site as successful?
I would wager that most retailers response to that question is "online sales", however, there is so much more to it than that. Straight up online sales are a big part of a successful Ecommerce website however, the real effect of an Ecommerce site can only be viewed on the bottom line; the overall business profitability.
I have been doing this job for longer than I care to say and as the years roll by, I am lucky enough to see a great many retailer businesses grow. The one thing they all have in common is an Ecommerce site, however they do differ in their use of it. Some drive sales through it by utilising every digital marketing tool in the box, and others will use it to support the bricks and mortar store. Both can be successful models, the important factor is that their stock is visible online for existing and potential customers to see.
Ecommerce sites that do no sales are often considered a failure. However, looking at the overall retail business, there is often a correlation between sales increasing and the implementation of an Ecommerce site. The reason is that we all have easy access to the internet through our mobiles, tablets etc. so, we can look for products 24/7. When we have seen something we like we then look at the options we have to buy those products (when can I get my stuff). Namely; buy it online and get it delivered, Click and Collect it, or simply walk down to the shop and purchase it.
Ecommerce websites improve the quality of customers in store, because they have checked the website for the stock and then walk in to buy it, meaning your conversion rate is higher. Ask yourself and your friends how many of them just walk down to the shops to browse for products? I would argue that in this modern world when we are all super busy we only make journeys that are necessary - ones that will yield the result we actually want, i.e. guaranteeing the purchase we wanted to make.
It's a lot more cost effective to create an ecommerce site than it is to open another store and it has the potential to reach way more people, but more importantly it gives your customers the shopping experience they crave.
So, when you get your calculator out and try to gauge the success of your ecommerce site, or if you are thinking about getting one, make sure you think about the way people shop and deliver the options they need to buy from you.
Customer behaviour is changing and showing your stock as available to buy online is more important than ever. You have to make your store fit your customers lives, as they won't change their lives to fit your store. Ensure you have an excellent ecommerce site with Citrus-Lime, showing all of your products, with flexible delivery options, and click and collect.
To get a demonstration of this in action or just to talk it through please get in touch with our Sales team.
James, July '17. Click & Collect is the (very near) future of retail.


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Q: how can I assign a name to duplicate my data is like this
df<- structure(list(label = c("afghanestan", "afghanestan", "afghanestanIndia",
"afghanestanindiaholad", "afghanestanUSA", "USA", "Argentina",
"Brazil", "Argentinabrazil", "Brazil"), Start = c(114, 516, 89,
22, 33, 67, 288, 362, 45, 362), Stop = c(127, 544, 105, 34, 50,
85, 299, 381, 68, 381)), class = "data.frame", .Names = c("label",
"Start", "Stop"), row.names = c(NA, -10L))

when I want to remove the exact duplicate , I simply do this
df[!duplicated(df[,c('label','Start','Stop')]),]

now the problem is that I want to recognize those that are similar in the label but possibly different in the start and stop. so I would like to generate something like this afterwards
                  label Start Stop NewLab
1           afghanestan   114  127  TRUE
2           afghanestan   516  544  TRUE
3      afghanestanIndia    89  105  FALSE
4 afghanestanindiaholad    22   34  FALSE
5        afghanestanUSA    33   50  FLASE
6                   USA    67   85  FALSE
7             Argentina   288  299  FALSE
8                Brazil   362  381  FALSE
9       Argentinabrazil    45   68  FALSE

A: This would work in a single line of code:
df$NewLab <- df$label %in% df[duplicated(df$label), ]$label

And the output:
> df$NewLab <- df$label %in% df[duplicated(df$label), ]$label
> df
                  label Start Stop NewLab
1           afghanestan   114  127   TRUE
2           afghanestan   516  544   TRUE
3      afghanestanIndia    89  105  FALSE
4 afghanestanindiaholad    22   34  FALSE
5        afghanestanUSA    33   50  FALSE
6                   USA    67   85  FALSE
7             Argentina   288  299  FALSE
8                Brazil   362  381  FALSE
9       Argentinabrazil    45   68  FALSE

Or in dplyr notation:
df <- dplyr::mutate(df, NewLab = label %in% df[duplicated(df$label), ]$label)

A: Here is a somewhat convoluted methods using dplyr
library(tidyverse)

df %>%
  group_by(label) %>%
  mutate(n = n()) %>%
  group_by(Start, Stop) %>%
  mutate(n2 = n()) %>%
  mutate(newlabel = ifelse(n>1 & n2==1, TRUE, FALSE)) %>%
  dplyr::select(-n, -n2)

First create a grouping variable of labels - take a count, then a grouping variable of start and stop times - take a count, use an ifelse to assign True/False, then remove the intermediate columns.

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In this post we are going to take a look on how to add a reviewer to a Review Activity from Orchestrator. This is useful for occasions where you might want to add reviewers based upon the information specified in the parent Work Item. For instance, if a Change Request is related to a certain Business Service, you might want to add the owner of that Service as a reviewer for approving the actual Change Request.
I know there are some blog posts out there that describe this as a small step of the actual post, but I feel like this topic deserves a dedicated post, so here we go.
This might seem right, but it won't work. Why? Let's take a look inside Service Manager to figure it out.
Here's a picture of a Review Activity without any reviewers. This is the object that we are retrieving in the "Get Object (Review Activity)" step in the runbook above.
So let's add a reviewer to this Review Activity by pressing Add. When doing so we are presented the following form.
This is a form for a Reviewer object – and the reason to why the runbook displayed in the beginning of the post won't work. You see, the Reviewer object is used to store properties such as "Has veto", "Must Vote", "Comment", "Voted by" etc. We are actually adding a reviewing user to the Reviewer object, not the actual Review Activity.
So with this knowledge, let's head back to Orchestrator and make a new attempt to add a reviewer to our Review Activity.
For simplicity I'm just retrieving a certain user – in reality you will most likely have this step much more dynamic, such as the user owning the related Business Service.
Again, for simplicity of this demo I'm retrieving a specified Review Activity.
Finally we add the relationship between the Reviewer Object and the Reviewing User. Note that we are using the "Target Object Guid" from the "Create Related Object (Reviewer Object)" step as the Source Object Guid!
Great article. In some cases I may have the same person owning two business services that are associated with a change. Is there anyway to stop the same user being populated into the Review Item multiple times?
I'd use some PowerShell / SMlets logics to do that Robert.
I continue to receive the Source Object Guid is Null or empty when it attempts to Create the Reviewer. Help?
The blog above specifically is using GET OBJECT and filtering for the Review Activity by it's ID. I bet Aaron and Erwin are using either Create Related Object or Get Related Object instead.
— SC OBJECT GUID is the GUID of the relationship itself.
So if you are going to reference your Review Activity's GUID from Get Related Object or Create Related Object, you want to use TARGET OBJECT GUID, and not SC OBJECT GUID.


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#EndSARS Protests in the Niger Delta | October 11-17, 2020
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Women's Rights Online 2020 Report
Published by NDLink Admin at October 16, 2020
Nigerian Police Force
This special edition of the weekly update highlights spiraling protests against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police over allegations of heavy-handedness including unlawful arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings across the country, with a focus on clashes between the police and protesters in the Niger Delta. The 'EndSARS' protests were reportedly triggered by the shooting of a young man by SARS operatives in Ughelli, the headquarters of Ughelli North LGA, Delta State.
Vigilantism and Mob Violence in Imo State – August 2-8, 2020
The protests which started as social media campaigns – #EndSARS – by young Nigerians calling on the government to disband the special tactical unit of the police, has turned violent with several reported incidents of shooting and killing across the country, including the Niger Delta. On October 8, 2020, for instance, a policeman was reportedly killed and another sustained gunshot injuries during a clash between security operatives and 'EndSARS' protesters in Otovwodo community in Ughelli North LGA, Delta State. A rifle belonging to one of the policemen was reportedly stolen and several vehicles destroyed during the incident.
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It's that time. The time when the gym starts emptying out again. When you start giving into your cravings. When all those things that seemed so important January 1st don't seem worth the effort anymore.
Was your goal fitness related? Finding it hard to get motivate to work out after a long day? Try morning workouts. It will boost your metabolism, give you more energy throughout the day and get it out of the way so you can enjoy your evenings. If that idea makes you cringe, try at least getting up 30 minutes earlier. It won't ruin your sleep, but can provide you time to squeeze in a 3 mile run or a quick HIIT workout to start your day off. Still can't do that? Try doing squats while you brush your teeth or take 1 minute to do 10 pushups and 10 sit-ups.
Is working out cutting into your social life? Find people who support your changing lifestyle and try new ways of socializing. Bring a friend to a group exercise class. Instead of meeting to catch up over drinks, go for a walk, a hike or a bike ride. Guarantee you'll relieve stress and feel better that you did something to achieve your goals.
Was your resolution diet related? The biggest thing to remember is "By failing to prepare, you plan to fail". Take the time to have healthy snacks in your fridge to avoid mindless snacking. Prepare healthy meals that you can take with you on the go. Eat out a lot? Try to pick restaurants that have healthier options and avoid appetizers and alcohol. Once again, try to surround yourself with people who are supportive of the changes you are trying to make. Making dinner can be a fun and healthy way to hang out with friends and you have complete control over how healthy the meal is you're making.
Was your resolution non-health related? Get better grades? Be a better friend/mother/father/daughter/son? Read more? Watch less TV? Finally apply for your dream job?
No matter what your goal, make sure you set attainable benchmarks where you can measure your progress in small steps so you don't get discouraged.
Whatever you wanted to improve upon this year, keep going!
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Oct. 17, 2018 2:50 p.m.
Although cannabis became legal as the clock struck midnight across the country on Oct. 17, most B.C. residents won't be able be able to pop into their local pot shop for legal bud.
The only legal bricks-and-mortar location is the government-run BC Cannabis Store in Kamloops, which opened its doors Wednesday morning to a few dozen eager customers.
On the streets of downtown Vancouver, oftentimes called the Wild West of illegal marijuana, not a single legal store opened Wednesday, making for a rather anticlimatic kick-off.
Some illegal dispensaries have shuttered their doors, while others plan to continue business as usual, citing their medical-cannabis customer base and having city license approval.
Paul and Karen McMullin, visiting from Montana to mark their 40th anniversary, told Black Press Media had been reading up on Canada's pending legalization.
"Well it just seems a little odd, but I think with time you will be able to purchase it locally," Paul said.
But the future looks bright for legal pot according to a Research Co. survey of nearly 900 British Columbians, which suggested that 70 per cent were okay with marijuana shops popping up in their cities.
As the pot shops got closer to their homes however, people were less keen on having one nearby: only 56 per cent of those surveyed wanted a cannabis store in their neighbourhood.
When asked about pot shops on their block, respondents got a bit more wary and only 50 per cent approved of having a marijuana shop next door.
"There seems to a NIMBY sentiment when it comes to the future location of pot shops in the province," says Mario Canseco, President of Research Co.
Across the board, millennials were the most okay with having a pot shop nearby and in general, men, homeowners and people living in Southern B.C. and Metro Vancouver were the most accepting of marijuana stores in their region.


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  preset: 'ts-jest',
  roots: ["test"],
  testEnvironment: 'node',
  moduleNameMapper: {
      '^(admin|site|charts|utils|db|settings)/(.*)$': '<rootDir>/$1/$2',
      '^settings$': '<rootDir>/settings',
      '^serverSettings$': '<rootDir>/serverSettings'
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YOB announces a new album
Veröffentlicht am 18. April 2018 von Markus W. in YOB, Doom Metal, Sludge, Alternative Metal, Our Raw Heart, News, Relapse Records
Doom outfit YOB announces a new album entitled "Our Raw Heart". Release date is June 8th and the longplayer comes via relapse Records. This is the track list: 1. Ablaze 2. The Screen 3. In Reverie 4. Lung Reach 5. Beauty in Falling Leaves 6. Original...
CD review ENHAILER "Dumb Enough to Care"
Veröffentlicht am 2. April 2018 von Markus W. in Enhailer, Dumb Enough to Care, News, Doom Metal, Sludge, Stoner Rock, CD Review, Burnout Records
(7/10) Enhailer is a 2014 founded metal outfit that's very much into doom and sludge. The guys debut in 2106 with "Grisaille (Gra-sigh)" and release an EP entitled "Dumb Enough to Care" in 2017. I have to admit that I missed this EP that gets now again...
CD review CORROSION OF CONFORMITY "No Cross No Crown"
Veröffentlicht am 7. Januar 2018 von Markus W. in Corrosion Of Conformity, COC, No Cross No Crown, Sludge, Doom Metal, Southern Metal, Heavy Metal, Rock, Nuclear Blast
(9/10) One of the first highlights in 2018 will hit the shelves mid-January. Southern doom metal pioneers Corrosion Of Conformity will return with a new longplayer, the first one since 2014. Next to a long waiting time of four years it's another fact...
CD review IRON MONKEY "9-13"
Veröffentlicht am 24. Oktober 2017 von Markus W. in Iron Monkey, Sludge, Hardcore, Extreme Metal, Punk, News, CD Review, Relapse
(8/10) Officially Iron Monkey are categorised as being a sludge metal outfit. But the trio from Nottingham has more to offer. Iron Monkey began in 1994 and finished off a first era in 1999. After 18 years of absence it is 2017 which brings Iron Monkey...
Photos VALLENFYRE - live at Gebr. de Nobel, Leiden, NL
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Vallenfyre played a powerful show at Gebr. de Nobel in Leiden, NL a couple of weeks ago. Here are some pics from the awesome concert. Also check out Markus' Heavy Music Blog: mwiemetalblog.over-blog.com
CD review MASTODON "Cold Dark Place" EP
Veröffentlicht am 17. September 2017 von Markus W. in Mastodon, News, Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Sludge, Prog Metal, EP, CD Review
(8/10) After having released the highly successful "Emperor of Sand" album some month ago, Atlanta-based powerhouse Mastodon returns with a new EP, providing four more songs which weren't released earlier. The tunes are the result of work done in sessions...
CD review ANTARKTIS "Ildlaante"
Veröffentlicht am 15. September 2017 von Markus W. in Antarktis, News, CD Review, Sludge, Doom Metal, Post-Rock, Post-Metal
(8/10) The Antarctica is a place that comes with so much beauty, a place where nature evolves without being distracted, destroyed or manipulated by humans. It's a frozen paradise that reveals mind-blowing blue ice schemes being built out of thousands...
New MASTODON EP in late September
Veröffentlicht am 30. August 2017 von Markus W. in Masstodon, Heavy Metal, Sludge, Alternative Metal, Modern Metal, Rock, Prog Metal, Alternative Rock
Mastodon have been intensively on the road recently but also found some time to do a new 4-track EP. "Cold Dark Place will be released on September 22nd, followed by a 10" limited picture disc edition on October 27th. Three of the four songs are coming...
HIGH FIGHTER on tour with CONAN, DOWNFALL OF GAIA and HARK
Veröffentlicht am 28. Februar 2017 von Markus W. in High Fighter, Conan, Hank, Downfall Of Gaia, Heavy Metal, Sludge, Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, Live, Tour
CD review UNEARTHLY TRANCE "Stalking the Ghost"
Veröffentlicht am 21. Februar 2017 von Markus W. in Unearthly Trance, Sludge, Doom Metal, News, CD Review
(7/10) New York-based doom/sludge masters Unearthly Trance might not be on everyone's lips, but this doesn't say anything about their music and the quality of their songs. On the newest longplayer the trio is 'stalking the ghost' and they do this with...
UNDERTOW records new album
Veröffentlicht am 10. Februar 2017 von Markus W. in Undertow, Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Thrash Metal, Sludge, News, Alternative Metal
Undertow is recording their next longplayer. Four years after "In Deepest Silence" the Swabian powerhouse has ten new songs and an intro in their portfolio which they are recording as we speak at the Studio141 in Schwäbisch Hall. MHBM had the chance to...
CD review CROWBAR "The Serpent only Lies"
Veröffentlicht am 26. Oktober 2016 von Markus W. in Crowbar, News, Sludge, Doom Metal, CD Review, Thrash Metal
(8/10) New Orleans sludge and doom master Crowbar are around since almost three decades and no end in sight - fortunately. What Kirk Windstein and his three amigos deliver with "The Serpent Only Lies" is brutal. Windstein wrote another ten songs that...
New CROWBAR album in October
Veröffentlicht am 31. August 2016 von Markus W. in Crowbar, Sludge, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, News
"The Serpent Only Lies" is the title of the upcoming Crowbar album. The longplayer of the New Orleans sludge matsers will be released on October 28th via Steamhammer/SPV. The artwork was done by Eliran Kantor who already worked for bands like Testament...
EARTH SHIP, HIGH FIGHTER and MAMMOTH STORM tour dates
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Bala, B.K., M.A. Hossain, M.A. Haque, and S. Majumder. "Ecological Footprint of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong in Bangladesh". Oecologia Montana 21, no. 1 (June 30, 2012): 36-41. Accessed April 25, 2019. https://om.vuvb.uniza.sk/index.php/OM/article/view/236.


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/**
 * @file   RunFinalQA.C
 * @author Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@master.hehi.nbi.dk>
 * @date   Fri Jan  6 11:46:30 2012
 *
 * @brief
 *
 * @ingroup pwglf_forward_qa_scripts
 */
//____________________________________________________________________
/**
 * Scan directory (and possibly sub-directories) for trending files
 *
 * @param dir        Start directory
 * @param list       List to add file names to
 * @param recursive  Whether to scan recursively
 * @param pattern    Pattern filenames must match
 *
 * @return true on success
 *
 * @ingroup pwglf_forward_qa_scripts
 */
Bool_t ScanDirectory(TSystemDirectory* dir,
		     TList* list,
		     const char* pattern,
		     bool recursive=false)
{
  TString fnPattern = pattern;

  // Assume failure
  Bool_t ret = false;

  // Get list of files, and go back to old working directory
  TString oldDir(gSystem->WorkingDirectory());
  TList*  files = dir->GetListOfFiles();
  if (!gSystem->ChangeDirectory(oldDir)) {
    Error("ScanDirectory", "Failed to go back to %s", oldDir.Data());
    return false;
  }
  if (!files) {
    Warning("ScanDirectory", "No files found in %s", dir->GetName());
    return false;
  }
  // files->ls();

  TList toAdd;

  // Sort list of files and check if we should add it
  // files->Sort();
  TIter next(files);
  TSystemFile* file = 0;
  while ((file = static_cast<TSystemFile*>(next()))) {
    TString name(file->GetName());
    TString title(file->GetTitle());
    TString full(gSystem->ConcatFileName(file->GetTitle(), name.Data()));
    if (file->IsA() == TSystemDirectory::Class()) full = title;
    if (name == "." || name == "..") {
      continue;
    }

    FileStat_t fs;
    if (gSystem->GetPathInfo(full.Data(), fs)) {
      Warning("ScanDirectory", "Cannot stat %s (%s)", full.Data(),
	      gSystem->WorkingDirectory());
      continue;
    }
    // Check if this is a directory
    if (file->IsDirectory(full)) {
      if (recursive) {
	TSystemDirectory* d = new TSystemDirectory(file->GetName(),
						   full.Data());
	if (ScanDirectory(d,list,pattern,recursive))
	  ret = true;
	delete d;
      }
      continue;
    }

    // If this is not a root file, ignore
    if (!name.EndsWith(".root")) {
      continue;
    }

    // If this file does not contain AliESDs, ignore
    if (!name.Contains(fnPattern)) {
      continue;
    }

    // Add
    toAdd.Add(new TObjString(full));
  }

  TIter nextAdd(&toAdd);
  TObjString* s = 0;
  while ((s = static_cast<TObjString*>(nextAdd()))) {
    list->Add(s);
  }
  if (toAdd.GetEntries() > 0) ret = true;

  gSystem->ChangeDirectory(oldDir);
  return ret;
}
//____________________________________________________________________
/**
 * Get the list of trending files
 *
 * @param input Start directory
 *
 * @return List of files
 *
 * @ingroup pwglf_forward_qa_scripts
 */
TList*
GetListOfFiles(const char* input=".")
{
  TList* ret = new TList;
  TString dir(input);
  // if (dir == ".") dir = "";

  TString savdir(gSystem->WorkingDirectory());
  TSystemDirectory d(gSystem->BaseName(dir.Data()), dir.Data());
  if (!ScanDirectory(&d, ret, "tree_", false)) {
    delete ret;
    ret = 0;
  }
  gSystem->ChangeDirectory(savdir);
  if (ret) ret->Sort();
  return ret;
}

//____________________________________________________________________
/**
 *
 *
 * @param dir        Input directory
 * @param prodYear   Production year
 * @param prodLetter Production letter
 * @param useVar     Use variance for errors (rather than min/max)
 *
 * @ingroup pwglf_forward_qa_scripts
 */
void
RunFinalQA(const char* dir, Int_t prodYear=0, const char* prodLetter="",
	   Bool_t useVar=false)
{
   int ret = 0;
   gROOT->SetMacroPath(Form(".:%s",gROOT->GetMacroPath()));
   gSystem->Load("libGpad");
   gSystem->Load("libTree");

   gROOT->LoadMacro("QABase.h+g");
   gROOT->LoadMacro("QAPlotter.C+g");

   Info("RunFinalQA", "Final QA: %d%c (variance: %s)",
	prodYear, prodLetter[0], (useVar ? "true" : "false"));
   QAPlotter p(prodYear, prodLetter[0], useVar);

   TList* l = GetListOfFiles(dir);
   TIter next(l);
   TObject* o = 0;
   while ((o = next())) {
     p.AddFile(o->GetName());
   }

   p.Run();
}
//
// EOF
//


Soundings: Lucas Artists Composer Fellows, presented in partnership with local start up Detour, is a curated guided walk that brings the concert stage to the great outdoors and invites visitors to explore Montalvo's grounds while listening to a diverse range of sonic work by Lucas Artist Composer Fellows and their collaborators. Soundings features works by contemporary composers who have been lauded for their innovative approach to music and sound. This new digital platform allows for synced listening, where visitors can enjoy this immersive auditory experience with friends and family on their personal smart phones.
To experience the tour, download the app Detour to your smartphone and follow the directions from the audio tour guide. You will hear introductions from each composer and be guided to different locations on the grounds in order to listen to their works. When you arrive on site, open the app and search for Soundings, then choose either "Volume 1" or "Volume 2" (they are not sequential, so you can listen to either or both in any order). Find your way to the Box Office to begin your tour. Earphones are recommended.
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Arizona man pleads guilty to terrorism charges in planned attack
Mahin Atif Khan pleaded guilty to inciting or inducing terrorism, financing or managing terrorism, and to manufacturing, possessing or selling a prohibited weapon.
Arizona man pleads guilty to terrorism charges in planned attack Mahin Atif Khan pleaded guilty to inciting or inducing terrorism, financing or managing terrorism, and to manufacturing, possessing or selling a prohibited weapon. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2e0YrNJ
Tyler Paley, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 1:12 p.m. MT Oct. 10, 2016 | Updated 3:26 p.m. MT Oct. 10, 2016
Mahin Atif Khan pleaded guilty to three felony counts and faces seven to 14 years in prison.
Mahin Atif Khan was arraigned July 12, 2016, in Judge Sam Myers' Maricopa County Superior courtroom.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
An 18-year-old Tucson-area man accused of planning jihad-style attacks in Maricopa and Pima counties has pleaded guilty to three felonies and faces up to 14 years in prison, the Arizona Attorney General's Office announced Monday.
In a deal made with prosecutors on Friday, Mahin Atif Khan pleaded guilty to inciting or inducing terrorism, financing or managing terrorism, and to manufacturing, possessing or selling a prohibited weapon, court records show.
Khan's sentencing hearing is set for 10:30 a.m. Nov. 4 in Maricopa County Superior Court.
His was the first conspiracy to commit terrorism case to be prosecuted by the Arizona Attorney General's Office, according to Mia Garcia, an office spokeswoman.
Attorney General Mark Brnovich is working with the FBI to take a proactive approach to arrest and prosecute anyone plotting or planning a terrorist attack in our community, Garcia said.
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Arizona AG's lead in Tucson terror case could set new prosecution standard
Khan will be sentenced to the Arizona Department of Corrections for no less than five years, and no more than 10.25 years, for the crime of conspiracy to commit terrorism, court documents said. The crime of conspiracy to commit weapons misconduct carries a sentence of no less than two years in prison, the documents showed, and the two prison terms will run consecutively.
In regards to the terrorism crime, Khan agreed to be on supervised probation after his release from prison and will be prohibited from traveling outside of Maricopa or Pima counties, court documents showed. He will be required to hand over his passport to authorities.
Khan has been held without bond since his arrest July 1 after an elaborate investigation that included round-the-clock surveillance, undercover agents and communications on a "burner," or disposable, phone.
At a hearing in July, FBI agent Benjamin Trentlage testified about how Khan unknowingly communicated with FBI agents over the course of several months, during which he detailed what he envisioned to be a "lone jihad attack."
At various points, Khan said he was eyeing a Jewish community center and an Air Force recruitment center in Tucson for attacks, as well as the state Motor Vehicle Division office in Mesa, Trentlage said.
FBI: Tucson terror suspect sought 'pressure-cooker bomb'
Tucson terrorism suspect's parents: Son is mentally ill
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A Norse Energy é uma empresa de origem norueguesa, com grande experiência no setor petrolífero e já investiu mais de US$ 170.000.000,00 nos três estados em que mantém operações no Brasil: Paraná, Santa Catarina e Bahia.

A empresa está focada em aproveitar as oportunidades relacionadas à exploração e produção de petróleo, além de outras oportunidades de negócios, atuando também nos Estados Unidos.

A Norse Energy entrou com pedido de análise de oferta pública de ações na CVM (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários),.

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Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities is an international conference that takes place every two years, in different Portuguese cities.
Organized by CVR – Centre for Waste Valorization since 2011, the Wastes Conference aims at bringing together academia and industry experts from the Waste Management and Recycling sectors, from around the world, offering state of the art knowledge and sharing experiences with all in attendance.
The 5th edition of the conference will take place at the Campus of FCT-UNL - Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica - Lisbon, from 4 to 6 September 2019.
Authors are invited to submit their contribution as full or short papers. Only papers will be accepted.
Just as in 2015 and 2017 editions, all full papers accepted will be included in a book (with ISSN) published by CRC Press – Taylor & Francis Group, that will be proposed to Scopus and Web of Science for indexing. Note that the articles included in the Wastes 2015 book are presently available in Scopus, while those from the 2017 edition are indexed in Web of Science (ISI). Also following Wastes previous editions, all short papers will be included in the Book of Proceedings of the Conference (with ISSN).
Articles may be presented as an oral presentation or poster.


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Reed Govert was born in Denver, Colorado in 1986. He studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and later at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Reed Govert moved to Salida in 2014 and started Lotic Gallery and Salon with his sister Rachel. Govert's work is marked by a use of thick, physically present oils on a very large scale. His paintings range from the traditional exploration of the figure in space to conceptualized works formed through compound imagery, always meditating on themes of the human psyche and basic emotion. The work displayed at Lotic are part of a series of 9 large-scale paintings at his home studio in Salida. He also creates detailed paintings of fish found in the Arkansas River. You can see some of Reed's work at Lotic Gallery on 1st Street or visit his website at www.reedgovert.com.
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Ukrainian who posed as teen in US faces sex assault charge
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A 23-year-old Ukrainian national who posed as a teen to attend a Pennsylvania high school was charged Friday with sexual assault over a relationship with a student.
Artur Samarin, already jailed on identity theft and other charges, was arrested on charges of statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors, Harrisburg police said in a statement.
The new charges stem from a sexual relationship in 2014, when the student was 15 and Samarin was 22.
Samarin, using the alias Asher Potts, enrolled in Harrisburg High School as a freshman in 2012 and was a member of the National Honor Society and the school's ROTC and Naval Sea Cadet programs. He was to graduate in June.
Authorities say he came to the U.S. on a three-month work visa then got a tourist visa that expired in March 2013. He enrolled as a freshman six months later.
Police were alerted to Samarin by a tipster in December who alleged Samarin was an adult living illegally in the U.S. and was having sexual relationships with female students.
Two people helped enroll a Ukrainian man in a Pennsylvania high school with a fake identity, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Pennlive.com.
The complaint alleges Stephanye McClure-Potts and Michael Potts helped enroll Samarin with documents that listed his birthday as Sept. 3, 1997. His actual birthday is Sept. 3, 1992.
The complaint says McClure-Potts also helped Samarin get a Pennsylvania driver's license under the name Asher Potts in 2014.
McClure-Potts and Michael Potts haven't been charged. A man who answered the phone at a listing for McClure-Potts hung up on an Associated Press reporter seeking comment.
Samarin graduated from high school in Ukraine, police said Friday, and attended two years of college there.
He was arrested Tuesday and faces charges including theft, identity theft and records tampering. Online court documents don't list attorney information for him.
The investigation is ongoing and additional arrests are expected, police said.


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I guess I should break down the actual way the Greek phalanx worked since that was a thing recently for me. It was before I'd had my morning caffeine and it was also too cold out to run or even get out of bed very quickly, so engaging in an internet argument seemed like a good idea at the time.
I keep meaning to discuss Classical history on this blog anyway since I have no one to talk to about it in real life.
I did it. I finally fought my way through Brandon Sanderson's Oathbringer.
Man, was that a slog. After the other wonderful books of the Stormlight Archive, it was a letdown.
I come not to praise Brandon Sanderson, but to complain lovingly about his latest release.
Video games are quite capable of being art, and the only reason anyone has ever said otherwise is because they'd really like for those kids to get off their lawn. Primordia, developed by Wormwood Studios, is an excellent example. It's a jewel of a game, one of those things I happened upon unexpectedly and was absolutely delighted by.


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Q: why ext4 filesystem choose to use HTree as there extent's tree structure From ext4 wikipedia introduction, I found the Htree was used in ext4 for both Directory organization and the extents organization.
In directory organization scenario, Hash Table Tree can help to balance and improve search.
but what is the benefit to use Htree in extents organization ?
Tanks for your wisdom :)

A: i_block field in ext4_inode structure can only contain 60 bytes. Each extent are 12 bytes long. i_block can contain only 4 extents + 1 header. Ext4 uses tree if need to store more than 4 extents.


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Very Dionne
A wonderful sounding pressing, with excellent Double Plus (A++) sound or close to it from first note to last
This copy is doing most everything right - it's big and open yet still rich and tubey with good vocal presence and a huge bottom end
Play this one for your audiophile friends who own and respect the recordings of Dianna Krall, Patricia Barber and the like - they are in for quite a shock
Incredibly quiet vinyl, Mint Minus to Mint Minus Minus on both sides - you won't find one quieter
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Wonderful sound on both sides of this original Scepter pressing, with relatively quiet vinyl no less. Folks, don't expect to see records like this coming to the site too often. We can't find them anymore in this kind of clean condition, so if you like the lovely Ms. Warwick, consider taking this one home and giving her (the record, not Dionne) a spin on your table.
You know what's shocking about a record like this? The fact that the instruments you hear behind and to the side of the vocalist are REAL instruments, and for the most part they are not really being processed much, they are simply being recorded. How many times do you hear a pop album with sound like that? Almost never in our case, and we play them by the hundreds.
Just played a Linda Ronstadt album that she did with Nelson Riddle earlier today and I can tell you one thing, the sound of that album and this one are on opposite sides of the recording spectrum in terms of naturalness. On a scale of one to a hundred, Linda scores about a two, and Dionne scores 90, maybe more. It's a JOY to hear a record with this kind of sound.
Play this one for your audiophile friends who own and respect the recordings of Dianna Krall, Patricia Barber and the like. Be sure to repeat the phrase "boy, they don't make 'em like they used to" whenever there is a pause in the music or conversation.
You might also want to ask them if they think the invention of digital reverb was such a good idea after all.
If they're good analog buddies that you want to keep being your buddies you might not want to say anything at all. Just keep quiet and let their own ears shame them. This is the record that can do it.
Learning the Record
For our recent shootout, we had at our disposal a variety of pressings we thought would have the potential for Hot Stamper sound. We cleaned them carefully, then unplugged everything in the house we could, warmed up the system, Talisman'd it, found the right VTA for our Triplanar arm (by ear of course) and proceeded to spend the next hour or so playing copy after copy on side one, after which we repeated the process for side two.
If you have five or ten copies of a record and play them over and over against each other, the process itself teaches you what's right and what's wrong with the sound of the album. Once your ears are completely tuned to what the best pressings do well that other pressings do not do as well, using a few specific passages of music, it will quickly become obvious how well any given copy reproduces those passages.
The process is simple enough. First, you go deep into the sound. There you find a critically important passage in the music, one which most copies struggle -- or fail -- to reproduce as well as the best. Now, with the hard-won knowledge of precisely what to listen for, you are perfectly positioned to critique any and all pressings that come your way.
It may be a lot of work but it sure ain't rocket science, and we never pretended it was. Just the opposite: from day one we've explained how to go about finding the Hot Stampers in your own collection. (The problem is that unless you're a crazy person who bought multiple copies of the same album there is no way to know if any given copy is truly Hot Stamper. Hot Stampers are not merely good sounding records. They are copies that win shootouts. This is a fact that cannot be emphasized too strongly.
As your stereo and room improve, as you take advantage of new cleaning technologies, as you find new and interesting pressings to evaluate, you may even be inclined to start the shootout process all over again, to find the hidden gem, the killer copy that blows away what you thought was the best.
You can't find it by looking at it. You have to clean it and play it, and always against other pressings of the same album. There is no other way.
For the more popular records on the site such as the Beatles titles we have easily done more than twenty, maybe even as many as thirty to forty shootouts.
And very likely learned something new from everyone.
Mint Minus Minus and maybe a bit better is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)
The Green Grass Starts to Grow
They Don't Give Medals to Yesterday's Heros
Walk the Way You Talk
Make It Easy on Yourself
The album's wide variety of styles summed up much of what made Warwick's back catalog so universally appealing. In addition to a handful of new Burt Bacharach and Hal David sides, the platter boasts tasteful reworkings of pop music staples... One unmitigated zenith is "I Got Love" from the Ossie Davis Broadway production Purlie. Once again, Warwick — under Paich's direction — equals if not surpasses Melba Moore's stage presentation.


Various organisations can help you find your way around the job market and look for work suited to your skills and aspirations.
Before you can even begin looking for a job, you need to know what you want to do. Various organisations can help you find your way around the job market and look for employment suited to your skills and aspirations.
Often, it's not about knowing where to look, but what type of work you are looking for. It is much easier to find a job that suits you when you have a good idea of what you actually want to do. A number of organisations can help you get your bearings on the job market.
Actiris (FR/NL), the employment agency for the Brussels-Capital Region, helps you to identify what you want to do (FR, NL) and find the right job.
Brussels is home to nine Missions Locales (FR) and three Werkwinkels (NL), job centres that help you in your search for work.
Young people can contact one of the PMS Centres (FR) and the CLB (NL) for advice and assistance with respect to educational and career choices.
The SIEP is an information service specialised in study and career options for young people and adults (FR).
You can also get career guidance (NL) there. Your career counsellor will help you look for the ideal job (NL) and draw up a step plan.
Actiris is the place to go in the Brussels-Capital Region to register as a jobseeker. The Actiris consultants will help you find the job that suits you best. Actiris sends you regular vacancies that match your profile. You can also search their website.
If you would prefer to meet potential employers in person you may want to register for one or more of the job fairs organised by various organisations.
Actiris (FR/NL) organises once a year a Job Week in Brussels.
The studies and careers information service SIEP organises several information fairs (FR) every year.
Citizenjobs (FR/NL) is a non-profit job fair organised every other year by Ideji with the support of the Brussels-Capital Region.


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Young makes key free throws, leads Hawks past Pacers 114-111
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Trae Young made two crucial free throws in the final seconds of the game to help the Atlanta Hawks fend off the Indiana Pacers 114-111 on Wednesday night.
Pacers rookie Chris Duarte came up with a steal late in the game, but was unable to convert a contested layup. Young was subsequently fouled and made the final two of his 33 points.
After the final buzzer, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle yelled at the referees about the lack of a call on the Duarte drive.
Young also had 10 assists and eight rebounds for the Hawks, who shot 51.2% (44 of 86), including 16 of 33 on 3-pointers. Young found backcourt mate Kevin Huerter for several open looks as Huerter finished with 19 points, and John Collins scored 14.
Malcolm Brogdon led the Pacers with 27 points. Domantas Sabonis scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Myles Turner had 17 points and nine rebounds.
The Hawks were hot from the outset, hitting 8 of 10 3s, but the Pacers stayed close on 17-of-31 shooting. Atlanta led 45-42 midway through the second quarter, but Turner sank a pair of free throws to make it 51-all with 4:26 remaining in the first half.
The visitors closed the first half with a 12-4 surge to take a 65-57 lead into the break. The last basket punctuated the run as Young fed Collins for an alley-oop dunk in the final seconds.
Atlanta made 25 of 42 shots (59.5%), including 10 of 15 3s, in the first half.
Young hit a step-back jumper to provide the Hawks' largest lead at 74-62 with 7:45 remaining in the third. The Pacers rallied with a 15-2 run to nudge ahead. Indiana was ahead 88-87 entering the fourth.
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Hawks coach Nate McMillan opted to be isolated - at least temporarily - after his son and assistant coach Jamelle McMillan entered the NBA's COVID-19 health and safety protocols. McMillan said the decision to not coach against his former team was "out of an abundance of caution." He was on the Pacers staff for seven years, the last four as coach, before being fired in 2020.
Hawks: Improved to 4-8 in road games. ... Young has been so successful against the New York Knicks, he received one write-in vote in November's mayoral election, the New York City Board of Elections reported Wednesday. The point guard delivered clutch performances in a playoff series win over the Knicks last spring.
Pacers: Reserve guard T.J. McConnell exited early with a right wrist injury. ... This was the first of six consecutive home games. ... Sabonis had his 17th triple-double. Monday's triple-double at Minnesota included a career-high 25 rebounds, the first time an NBA player has had as many rebounds in a triple-double since Shaquille O'Neal in 1993.
Hawks: Host Philadelphia on Friday.
Pacers: Host Miami on Friday.
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