On Tuesday, 4 September, Treasurer Rob Lucas delivered the 2018-19 State Budget, which included measures aimed at delivering a more effective approach to gambling regulation in South Australia.
Under initiatives announced in the State Budget, the Government intends to dissolve the Independent Gambling Authority, with the Liquor and Gambling Commissioner to assume sole responsibility for the regulation of commercial gambling in South Australia.
The changes are expected to come into effect on 1 December, and will also include the establishment of a new Gambling Advisory Council, involving both Government and stakeholders, that will work collaboratively to address critical gambling-related matters.
These decisions have been informed by the conclusions of retired Supreme Court Judge Tim Anderson QC in his Administrative Review of Gambling Regulation in South Australia, which was tabled in Parliament on 4 September, 2018.
As the review contains personally and commercially sensitive information that was not relevant to these decisions, that information has been redacted from the review. The Gambling Regulation in South Australia, Administrative Review of – Report 9 December 2016 is now available from the Parliament of South Australia website.


A&E presents "Steven Seagal Lawman," a new Real-Life series that will chronicle martial arts expert and international film star Steven Seagal's extraordinary life in law enforcement on Wednesday, December 2nd at 10PM ET/PT on A&E with back-to-back episodes.
"I've been working as an officer in Jefferson Parish for two decades under most people's radar," said Seagal, "I've decided to work with A&E on this series now because I believe it's important to show the nation all the positive work being accomplished here in the New Orleans area to see the passion, commitment and fine police work that comes from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in this post-Katrina environment."
Until now, Seagal has never sought attention for his work with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. However, over a span of almost two decades, he has regularly gone out on patrol and worked major cases. Each thirty-minute episode will allow fans to ride shotgun with Seagal as he and his hand-selected elite team of deputies respond to crimes-in-progress. Then, when Seagal goes off-duty, the cameras will continue following him as he pursues his many ventures including musical performances and philanthropic efforts in Jefferson Parish and New Orleans.
Steven Seagal is best known for playing the invincible action hero character that defined his career in such films as Above the Law, Hard to Kill, Under Siege (1 & 2) and blockbuster hit Exit Wounds. He just finished shooting the new Robert Rodriguez film "Machete" which will hit theatres in 2010. Steven co-stars with Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Danny Trejo. His familiarity with his signature roles stem from a long personal history with Eastern culture in both studying martial arts as well as practicing Buddhism. He is also a recording artist and guitarist, is founder of Steven Seagal Enterprises that markets his own all-natural energy drink "Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt" and is a dedicated philanthropist and activist for environmentalism and animal rights.
Just seen Clips of New TV show, Told You scence I was 16 or 17yrs old. Back in 1974 or 1975 somewhere around there, you look like a cop and again in Vegus in back 1987 or 1988 you look like a cop are you sure your not a cop. Now you are a cop for 20yrs in fact. Pretty good see you have gone far in your life. good luck and stay safe can't tell you to stay out of trouble because thats what cops do is get into trouble so keep up the good work Mookie. Can't wait to see in Los Angeles at singing your heart out again. Your Friend Rosie.


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Untangling the Secrets of Sea Silk, the Ancient Mediterranean's Elusive Luxury Textile
BY Meg Van Huygen
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In the famous Greek myth, the hero Jason and his band of Argonauts seek a precious fleece, allegedly woven from the wool of a golden ram, to exchange for the throne of Thessaly. Around the same era, stories told of the biblical King Solomon describe him wearing a lightweight tunic that shimmered when he stepped into the sunlight. The New Testament repeatedly describes angels as being clothed in "pure and shining linen," and the apostle Luke as wearing "shining garments." But was this all just metaphorical holy light—or something real and reproducible?
As far as anyone knows, there's never been a sheep whose wool gleamed golden. However, many theories have been concocted to explain the existence of a sparkling gold fabric long before the invention of lamé. It's just a symbol, most say—of wealth, kingship, authority, and so on.
But these stories also share a possible interpretation that's based in reality: They may be referring to byssus.
Also known as sea silk, byssus is an ancient textile woven from the beard of various clams, and which appears dark brown until placed under direct light, when it glitters like gold. Although it can be made from a few different mollusks, the beard of the noble pen shell, Pinna nobilis, has historically been the preferred source. Pen shells are quite large as clams go, growing up to 4 feet in length, and produce thin but very strong filaments—solidified saliva, really—that anchor the mollusks to the floor of the sea. With strands about half the circumference of a human hair, the silken beard of P. nobilis is ideal for weaving, as it's far less coarse than that of its cousins in the pinnidae family.
The threads of the fabric's history are difficult to trace, beginning with the fact that the word byssus itself once referred to any precious textile. The Old Testament reportedly includes 45 mentions, but some of them, judging from the context, almost certainly refer to linen, cotton, or regular silk. The same is true for the cloth that Egyptians used to wrap mummies, which scholars have translated as "byssus." But it's hard to be sure which byssus they're talking about: sea silk, or another precious textile? The silken filaments that compose the pen shell's beard are also called byssus, adding to the confusion.
And fictions have thrived around byssus: In 945, the Book of Tang (Tángshū), a historical work about the imperial Tang dynasty of China, described a golden textile called byssus as being woven "from the hair of the sea-sheep," whatever that might have been. Estakhri, a 9th-century Persian geographer, writes similarly of an animal that runs into the sea and rubs itself against certain stones, whereupon it produces "a kind of wool of silken hue and golden color."
Much later, Jules Verne spoke of it in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. In the original French version, he describes the crew of the Nautilus being dressed in byssus and detailed its aquatic origins. However, "byssus" was called "seashell tissue" or "fan mussel fabric" in English translations, which caused some readers to believe the material was dreamt up expressly for science fiction.
The real, clam-made byssus was highly prized by the ancient Greeks and Mesopotamians, among other cultures, for not only its glittery, color-shifting properties but also for its combination of daintiness and warmth. Stockings and gloves were popular uses for sea silk; a pair of byssus gloves were reported to be so extraordinarily light they would fit folded inside of a walnut's shell, and a pair of stockings inside a snuff box.
Women spinning bysso, from a display in Sardinia. Image credit: Sicco2007, Flickr // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Byssus fell out of fashion for a few centuries, although it enjoyed a short renaissance in the 1800s among the wealthy. But aside from museum and gallery collections exhibiting vintage pieces, it's nearly nonexistent today, and for good reason. P. nobilis is currently endangered—a victim of not just overfishing and trawling in the Mediterranean but also of pollution, to which it's highly susceptible. These factors make the harvesting of the byssus all the more difficult—and the cloth itself perhaps even more expensive than it was in ancient times.
However, Italian weaver Chiara Vigo, who says she has developed a method of harvesting the silken fibers from the pen shell without killing the creature, has been granted special clearance to dive for them in her hometown of Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, while accompanied by members of the Italian Coast Guard. Vigo's family has been weaving byssus for centuries. She learned the trade from her grandmother—although it should perhaps be called a "trade" only loosely, since she's sworn to never sell the cloth (further adding to its scarcity). Vigo believes the cloth is sacred, calling it "the soul of the sea," and claims to have never earned a cent (or lira) from her skill.
As the BBC notes, Vigo also believes that a gift of byssus brings good fortune to families, so she provides her service to those who appear at her studio in person. She gives byssus-embroidered christening dresses to babies, byssus bracelets to pregnant women (or those who aspire to be), and byssus rings to little girls (to bring back to Vigo when they're grown and engaged, whereupon she'll make them a byssus doily for their marriage bed).
Rumor has it that a few elderly women on the Italian mainland still know how to weave byssus, but Vigo is the only known living master. She's only person who can make it shine, using a special solution, and who can dye it in the traditional way. She's also said to be the only person who is legally cleared to harvest it. And Vigo holds a secret, to boot: She's one of the few living people who know where exactly the field of pen shells is located in the waters surrounding Sant'Antioco.
Whatever the truth behind byssus's complicated backstory, the good news is that for now, sea silk is still quietly being woven in an ancient village on a tiny island just off of a larger island in the Mediterranean—and that Chiara Vigo is willing to share her knowledge. In addition to spending a few hours in the evenings teaching students how to weave byssus, she has also taught her daughter the craft, vowing that she'll one day take over the family tradition. Hopefully, in an era where glitter is everywhere but traditional materials are scarce, the fabric will continue to survive, and as more than a myth.
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Created: Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 10:01 am
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing a rule requiring Electronic On-Board Recorders (EOBR) be installed in commercial vehicles that travel long distances. All companies should not be required to have electronic on-board recorders in every commercial motor vehicle because it will hurt small businesses.This new intrusive regulation will place a financial burden on smaller companies.
Hours of service regulations apply to all people driving a vehicle for the purpose of interstate commerce. The FMCSA placed a limit on the amount of hours drivers could drive in 2005. Commercial vehicle operators are allowed to work fourteen hours in a day (Hours of Service of Drivers, 2005). Out of the fourteen hours, professional drivers are only allowed to drive for eleven hours (Hours of Service of Drivers, 2005). If unforeseen events such as bad weather occur, drivers are allowed to work a total of sixteen hours a day once a week(Hours of Service of Drivers, 2005). Drivers can either work sixty hours in seven days or seventy hours in eight days, however, after these times drivers are required to have at least thirty four hours off duty before they can resume working (Hours of Serviceof Drivers, 2005). Regulations to restrict hours of service have been in effect since 1937, however the way that drivers record their duty status might be getting an update for the digital era.
In addition to being limited on the number of hours that truck drivers can drive, drivers must also create a Record of Duty Status (RODS) when they travel long distances (Hours of Service of Drivers, 2005). Currently, drivers whose vehicles are not equipped with EOBRs must track their duty status with the use of a paper grid log. A driver would complete one log for each twenty four hour period regardless if they are driving or not. There is another alternative to the manual RODS, which is an Electronic Onboard Recorder.
EOBR are nicknamed "tattlers" by many drivers, and their purpose is to automate a driver's grid log. The FMCSA currently has regulation in place that dictates some aspects of EOBRs. Electronic Onboard Recording devices must have the same identifiable information that is found on a driver's grid log. Information such as the names of the driver and co driver, duty status, date, time, and location must be recorded with the EOBR. Companies have the option to use 'tattlers' in their trucks, but if the purposed regulatory changes go into effect, the current system of hand written logs will become a thing of the past.
Currently drivers can track their duty status using a grid log, which is essentially a hand written form that shows the drivers RODS(figure 1). During an inspection of these records investigators will comparethe hand written logs to other records such as fuel receipts (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 2008). The current method of recording a drivers duty status is subject to abuse, and that is why the FMCSA wants to make RODS more tamper proof.
Safety is the number one goal of the EOBR mandate according to the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011).According to FMCSA reports, fatigue was a factor in 1.6 percent of all commercial truck accidents (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 2008). Some people in the industry are questioning the motives behind the FMCSA's push for EOBRs because there has been a reduction in fatal crashes(Miller, 2011). Independent studies estimate that fatigue has a causal factor in only 2.1 percent of accidents (Jarossi, Matteson, & Woodrooffe, 2010). Since2005, fatal crashes involving commercial vehicles have decreased, but some industry leaders feel the regulation changes are necessary(National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2009).
Schneider National, Maverick USA, J.B. Hunt Transport, Knight Transportation, and U.S. Xpress Enterprises have joined together to create an organization called the Alliance for Driver Safety&Security(Miller, 2011).The companies that make up this group use EOBRs, which could give them a competitive edge if the proposed rules go into effect(Cassidy, 2011). The companies that make up the "Alliance for Driver Safety&Security" are some of the largest in the nation and don't represent the average company that would have to meet this regulatory change or face stiff penalties (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011).
Another reason for the EOBR requirement is that there are some in the trucking industry who fail to comply with the regulations and the FMCSA believes this causes accidents and deaths (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011). In its Notice of Proposed Rule Making, the FMCSA cites "non-compliance" with the hours of service rules as the reason for changing the rules, but they don't state just how big the problem of non-compliance is (2011). EOBRs have been proven to reduce Hours of Service (HOS) violations by a decent amount, but companies that have no HOS violations should not be required to have these devices installed on their trucks (Cantor, Corsi, & Grimm, 2009). The FMCSA's attempt to bring the trucking industry into the twenty first century might come with a rather high price tag.
Nothing in life is free, and the same goes for the numerous vehicles that will have to be retro-fitted for new on-board recorders. The price tag for a brand new EOBR and installation ranges from $1,500 to as much as $2,000 per vehicle, and the annual service fees that would be collected could be as much as $785 a year for just one vehicle (Miller, 2011). The government feels that the increased expense is just a small percentage compared to the estimated $172,000 in annual revenue that a single truck or power unit can produce (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011). An initial cost of $2,000 and an annual expense of $785 would be a minuscule expense if trucking companies didn't operate on minuscule profit margins.
It is estimated that the average profit margin in the trucking industry is roughly one percent(First Research, 2011). If one power unit can produce $172,000 in annual revenue then the profit that is made from that truck is only $1,720 (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011). At a one percent profit margin a company would need to generate an additional $78,500 in revenue to make up for the cost of the estimated $785 annual service expense(Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011). With this profit margin, acompany would need to generate between $150,000 and $200,000 in additional revenue to cover the initial cost of installation(Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011). In total, one power unit would have to create as much as $278,500 in additional revenue to make up for the $2,785 in potential cost that the new EOBR requirements would bring, however the initial costs are small compared to the proposed cost of non-compliance.
For the companies that would violate the EOBR requirement the FMCSA could impose a civil penalty of as much as $11,000 (Miller, 2011). The government acknowledges that the proposed regulation will have a negative effect on the economy of $100 million (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011). The $100 million economic burden of this regulation will be shared primarily by small businesses that make up ninety-six percent of the industry (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011) . In its current state, the government's solution for the problem of safety and compliance is unjust and needs to be revised.
Requiring that Electronic On-Board Recorders be installed on all commercial motor vehicles is a solution that treats habitual log book offenders and honest compliant companies the same, which places an undue burden on those in the trucking industry who play by the rules. For many companies, safety is the number one priority and the proposed rule making reflects that concern, however, extreme measures would be taken to ensure that companies are following the rules. Increasing compliance also must be taken into consideration when determining an alternative solution to the FMCSAs proposal. There are several ways to achieve the FMCSA's goal of increasing safety and compliance.
Some supervisors and truck drivers alike find it more beneficial to break the rules then to follow them.The fines for violating hazardous materials regulations can be as much as $50,000 per incident, and if drivers and companies faced these kind of fines for hours of service violations, their occurrence would be far less (Penalty schedule; violations and maximum civil penalties, 2007). Currently if a driver receives an out of service order from an office it equates to the driver being put in "time out" several hours before the driver is allowed to continue. If drivers who violated the hours of service rules would receive the same amount of points off of their license as they would for driving under the influence, many more drivers would refrain from log book violations. These are two solutions that would achieve both of the goals without punishing compliant companies and drivers.
The best solution to the problem of Hours of Services violations is to charge companies $50,000 if their drivers violate HOS regulations. Additionally companies should be allowed a reasonable amount of time to pay the hefty fine, or risk being put out of business. Still, drivers who break the HOS rules should be punished with having points taken off their license. To a truck driver their Commercial Driver License (CDL) is their meal ticket. If hours of service violations could actually take a driver's CDL away, then the consequences of a violation would far outweigh the benefits. Companies and drivers would need time to adjust to the changes in these regulations, so these changes would not be able to occur over night.
If the trucking industry was to be held to these new higher standards there would need to be a grace period to allow the information to get out and to implement training. The proposed EOBR requirement has an implementation date that is two years after it is signed into law, which is to allow countless vehicles to be retro fitted with new equipment (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , 2011). If companies did not have to plan for the added expense of installing an expensive EOBR, the implementation time of this proposed plan would be cut in half. Punish the bad behavior of Hours of Service violation, instead of punishing all behavior with an EOBR requirement.
In summation, requiring every trucking company to use Electronic On-Board Recorders hurts everyone who is in compliance with the current regulations. Companies would have to generate too much additional revenue to cover the added expense of installation and service of these gadgets. The more practical solution is to hit companies with stiff penalties if their drivers break the law. Drivers should be held accountable and have as much to lose as their employers if they do not comply, so log book violations should mean drivers could have their CDL taken away. Over regulating honest and compliant drivers and companies will do nothing but hurt the trucking industry.
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Water Authority Board Approves Natural Community/Habitat Conservation Plan
Natural Community/Habitat Conservation Plan
Plan provides for mitigation of endangered species impacted by Water Authority projects
The San Diego County Water Authority Board of Directors today approved several important measures that will ensure that environmentally sensitive habitat and species in San Diego County are protected for decades to come, while facilitating the construction and operation of current and future facilities vital to the water supply reliability of the region.
The measures are the culmination of 15 years of collaboration between the Water Authority and federal and state wildlife agencies. They provide important long-term environmental protections while streamlining the Water Authority's environmental permitting process through 2065.
The cornerstone of today's action was the approval of a Natural Community Conservation Plan/Habitat Conservation Plan (NCCP/HCP) that will help to secure long-term endangered species permits required by state and federal wildlife agencies.
"Today's board action exemplifies the Water Authority's commitment to protecting the environment," said Michael T. Hogan, Water Authority Board Chair. "This plan comprehensively addresses endangered species impacts from our projects. It also will benefit our ratepayers by saving both time and money as we build and operate future water projects. We are grateful to the state and federal wildlife agencies for their guidance and collaboration in completing this important and complex plan."
The state's Natural Community Conservation Program (NCCP) and federal Habitat Conservation Program (HCP) promote coordination and cooperation among public agencies, landowners and other interested parties to minimize conflicts during construction and other activities that may affect endangered or threatened species.
A critical component of the NCCP/HCP was the development of best management practices and mitigation measures for up to 63 endangered plant and animal species that could be affected by existing and future Water Authority capital improvement projects and ongoing operations and maintenance activities. The protocols, which will be integrated into long-term endangered species permits, preclude the need to obtain individual permits for each project and activity, simplifying future compliance with state and federal endangered species regulations.
The board also authorized Water Authority staff to execute an agreement with the California Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to issue the permits, which the Water Authority expects to receive by spring 2011. The board also certified the required state environmental impact report, which describes expected project impacts and the measures required to avoid or substantially reduce potentially significant environmental impacts.
The plan encompasses the western third of San Diego County and the extreme southwestern portion of Riverside County. Under the plan, the Water Authority will preserve 1,920 acres of sensitive land and create or restore an additional 80 acres of vital riparian habitat.
The Water Authority's plan will be compatible with, and complement other existing and planned habitat conservation plans in the county.
A copy of the plan and the EIR is available at: www.sdcwa.org/habitat-conservation.
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Q: Facebook Login - If user account is present (and app is not installed) login fails I have just found this issue whilst testing my application and it is really starting to annoy me. So what the environment is like is as follows :

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*No Facebook App installed

*User is logged into iOS System Account (Under settings -> Facebook)

When my app attempts to authenticate the user for the first time it provides this wall of text : ( I tried cleaning it up a little)
2014-01-30 15:20:31.439 Unifeed[2140:70b] Session is <FBSession: 0xb74f9e0, state:
FBSessionStateClosedLoginFailed,
loginHandler: 0x0, appID: *************, urlSchemeSuffix: ,
 tokenCachingStrategy:<FBSessionTokenCachingStrategy: 0xb73bd90>,
 expirationDate: (null),
refreshDate: (null), attemptedRefreshDate: 0001-12-30 00:00:00 +0000, permissions:(null)>

2014-01-30 15:20:31.440 Unifeed[2140:70b] Session closed
2014-01-30 15:20:31.440 Unifeed[2140:70b] User logged out

2014-01-30 15:20:31.441 Unifeed[2140:70b] Error occured Error Domain=com.facebook.sdk Code=2
"The operation couldn't be completed. (com.facebook.sdk error 2.)"
UserInfo=********
{com.facebook.sdk:ErrorLoginFailedReason=com.facebook.sdk:SystemLoginCancelled,
com.facebook.sdk:ErrorInnerErrorKey=Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=7 "The operation
couldn't be completed. (com.apple.accounts error 7.)",
com.facebook.sdk:ErrorSessionKey=<FBSession: 0xb74f9e0, state: FBSessionStateClosedLoginFailed,
loginHandler: 0x0, appID: ************, urlSchemeSuffix:
, tokenCachingStrategy:<FBSessionTokenCachingStrategy:
0xb73bd90>, expirationDate: (null), refreshDate: (null),
attemptedRefreshDate: 0001-12-30 00:00:00 +0000, permissions:(null)>}

2014-01-30 15:20:31.441 Unifeed[2140:70b] User cancelled login
2014-01-30 15:20:31.445 Unifeed[2140:70b] User logged out

I know thats slightly confusing but my take on it is its erring out because it thinks the user cancelled the login process. The thing is I never see the little pop up asking me if I want to login or to accept the permissions.... So I added the Facebook app to the phone and it worked... well thats great but what if I have a user with not App but they have FB logged in on the phone.... Anyone have any ideas?
My code for authentication is as follows : (Pretty much just a little modified from FB website)
- (void) facebookSessionChange {
// If the session state is any of the two "open" states when the button is clicked
if (FBSession.activeSession.state == FBSessionStateOpen
    || FBSession.activeSession.state == FBSessionStateOpenTokenExtended) {

    // Close the session and remove the access token from the cache
    // The session state handler (in the app delegate) will be called automatically
    [FBSession.activeSession closeAndClearTokenInformation];

    // If the session state is not any of the two "open" states when the button is clicked
} else {
    // Open a session showing the user the login UI
    [FBSession openActiveSessionWithReadPermissions:permissions
                                       allowLoginUI:YES
                                  completionHandler:
     ^(FBSession *session, FBSessionState state, NSError *error) {
         [self sessionStateChanged:session state:state error:error];
     }];
}
 }

 - (void)sessionStateChanged:(FBSession *)session state:(FBSessionState) state error:(NSError *)error
 {

NSLog(@"Session is %@", session);
// If the session was opened successfully
if (!error && state == FBSessionStateOpen){
    NSLog(@"Session opened");
    // Show the user the logged-in UI
    [self userLoggedIn];
    return;
}
if (state == FBSessionStateClosed || state == FBSessionStateClosedLoginFailed){
    // If the session is closed
    NSLog(@"Session closed");
    // Show the user the logged-out UI
    [self userLoggedOut];
}

// Handle errors
if (error){
    NSLog(@"Error occured %@", error);
    if ([FBErrorUtility shouldNotifyUserForError:error] == YES){
        NSLog(@"Error occured %@", error);
    } else {

        // If the user cancelled login, do nothing
        if ([FBErrorUtility errorCategoryForError:error] == FBErrorCategoryUserCancelled) {
            NSLog(@"User cancelled login");

            // Handle session closures that happen outside of the app
        } else if ([FBErrorUtility errorCategoryForError:error] == FBErrorCategoryAuthenticationReopenSession){
            NSLog(@"Session is no longer valid");

        } else {
            //Get more error information from the error
            NSDictionary *errorInformation = [[[error.userInfo objectForKey:@"com.facebook.sdk:ParsedJSONResponseKey"] objectForKey:@"body"] objectForKey:@"error"];
            NSLog(@"Error occured : %@", [errorInformation objectForKey:@"message"]);
        }
    }
    // Clear this token
    [FBSession.activeSession closeAndClearTokenInformation];
    // Show the user the logged-out UI
    [self userLoggedOut];
}
}

// Show the user the logged-out UI
- (void)userLoggedOut
{
    NSLog(@"User logged out");
}

// Show the user the logged-in UI
- (void)userLoggedIn
{
    NSLog(@"User Logged in");
    [_delegate doneLogginginToFb];
}

I have tried changing the way I authenticate but always run into the same problem... Any ideas?
Thanks
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A: I think I did reproduce your error here, your application was denied access to Facebook account in settings (for some reason, maybe you clicked on "don't allow" ...)
after the user deny the access or turn off the switch in Facebook settings, the application will not ask again for the permission and every time you will try to connect it will fail with a FBErrorCategoryUserCancelled state.
To fix this go to Settings > General > Reset, and then reset the Location & Privacy.
After that run your application, you should be able to see the prompt asking for permissions.

A: Go to Facebook developer > Your App > Settings > Basic
Click on + Add Platform
Enter your Bundle ID
Switch on Single Sign On
Save changes.

A: I just had the same problem and it drove me crazy. I was fixed by updating the Facebook SDK to the latest version.
Not sure if this was the issue for you but I hope this helps someone.

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Since making his Olympic debut at Beijing 2008, Sam Weale has become the first British male to win an individual European Championship medal with silver in 2010.
Weale's tenth place at Beijing 2008 marked the best finish by a British male at an Olympics for 16 years while he finished seventh at the 2012 World Cup Final.
He has also made an appearance on the big screen in the 2005 film Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon. His twin brother Chris is a professional footballer, playing in goal for Shrewsbury, and formerly of Leicester City and Yeovil.


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In Which Countries is Homosexuality Most (and Least) Acceptable? A Ranking of 98 Countries
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Robert W. McGee
Fayetteville State University - Department of Accounting
Homosexuality is generally viewed negatively. That is certainly the case in the Jewish and Christian holy books as well as the Quran, although opinions differ as to interpretation. The practice has been condemned by these religions. An Imam in Orlando, Florida, the site of the mass murder of homosexuals, has gone so far as to say that killing homosexuals would be the compassionate thing to do.
It is not the purpose of this paper to review the history of homosexuality, or the pros and cons or moral standing of the practice. Readers can obtain that information by reading the items listed in the reference section of this paper. The goal of this study is more limited, to report the results of various studies conducted by the World Values Surveys on the topic of homosexuality and to rank the acceptability of homosexuality for those countries where the studies were conducted. Those six studies, going back to 1981, asked hundreds of thousands of people in about 100 countries what their views were on homosexuality, specifically the extent to which it could be justified. This study ranks those countries based on acceptability, as measured by their mean scores.
The present study is part of a series on homosexuality. Other studies in the series look at trends on the acceptance of homosexuality and examine specific demographic variables such as gender, age, social class, level of education, religion and region to see whether these variables are significant. Citations to some of those studies (with links) are listed in the reference section of the present paper.
Keywords: homosexuality, homophobia, gay, gay marriage, same sex marriage, sodomy, lesbian, transgender, LGBT, sex, sexual orientation, gender, victimless crime, human rights, women's rights, religion, discrimination, Sharia law, Islam
JEL Classification: A13, B54, D63, J1, J12, J14, J15, J16, K14, K33, K4, M14, O51, O52, O53, O54, O55, O56, O57
McGee, Robert W., In Which Countries is Homosexuality Most (and Least) Acceptable? A Ranking of 98 Countries (June 23, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2799845 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2799845
Robert W. McGee (Contact Author)
Fayetteville State University - Department of Accounting ( email )
HOME PAGE: http://robertwmcgee.com


In the '70s, an off-the-grid cult know as the "Inverts" take four sin-bearing individuals against their will to recruit them for the holy war against the second coming of Christ.
From being on the streets to fighting for his life, he has never lost the big heart he has or his loud personality. He is the friend everyone would want. His confidence is higher than he can hold in his sequined dresses, as he is in drag. He has struggled searching for acceptance for his whole life - now, maybe he has found his home within the cult.
Works directly under the cult leader (Alma Fines) to conduct the several initiations, and pushes their recruits to the fullest level. With her smart, snarky ways, she will never disappoint Alma Fines in this powerful role.
Works directly under the cult leader (Alma Fines) to conduct the several initiations, and pushes their recruits to the fullest level. With her ditzy, playful ways, she will never disappoint Alma Fines in this powerful role.
The daughter of Ronald; seen in several flashback scenes.
The loving grandmother of the lead character, Nancy; seen in flashbacks and a heartbreaking scene.
An unsupportive drunk. He is lost in his own life and his old ways, and he pushes his child away from him.
The boyfriend of the main character, Velvet; shown in several flashbacks.
Shown in large settings in the village of the cult. Several days needed, potential submission may be asked to speak a few lines in another character.
Shown in a flashback scene with his love interest, Frankee, when they first met.


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Getting to the Walls
Protecting the City
Relaxing and Socialising
Walls Quest
Walls Map
Introducing the Walls
Chester is the jewel of north-west England. This beautiful city has a very special atmosphere, and exploring the historic City Walls is one of the best ways to appreciate it to the full. You'll get great views, and you'll discover amazing stories along the way. You'll be following in the footsteps of monarchs and merchants, soldiers and socialites.
Strategic Stronghold
The Romans built the first city walls to protect their fortress of Deva. In the Middle Ages these walls were gradually strengthened and extended to the river, and by around 1500 Chester was one of the most strongly defended cities in the country.
In the Middle Ages people relied on strong walls to keep them and their property safe in a dangerous world, and many cities were surrounded by walls. But by around 1750 the country had become more peaceful, so city walls became less important. Sometimes they even became an obstacle to progress, because they limited space for building within the city, and they made it more difficult for people to travel and trade freely. Many city authorities demolished their old walls, and sadly they destroyed a lot of their cities' heritage and character in the process. Unlike many other cities, Chester has preserved its Walls, and they've become a time capsule. Archaeologists continue to make exciting new discoveries around the Walls, and every find increases our understanding of Chester's past. This rare Anglo-Saxon silver coin was found near the Walls in 1914.
The needs of local people have gradually evolved, and the Walls have been adapted to keep pace with them. The biggest changes took place in the late 18th century, when the old fortifications were transformed into a walkway for genteel promenading. Where soldiers had patrolled in the past, fashionable ladies and gentlemen now strolled.
Local Colour
The Walls have an exotic past. They're built from sandstone blocks that were once loose sand in a tropical desert, 250 million years ago. Sandstone has been quarried and used for building in Chester since Roman times, and its distinctive colour has become emblematic of the city's identity.
The people of Chester have always been proud of their Walls. The Walls are a lasting symbol of the city's identity, and for local people they're part of their idea of home. Chester would not be Chester without its Walls.
The PORTICO Project
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Chesire West and Chester
Chester Renaissance
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The gallery is proud to announce the acquisition of work by David Klamen by the McNay Art Museum (TX). Now included in the museum's permanent collection, "Untitled (Velazquez)" (2009) is an excellent example of the artist's coveted (and somewhat rare) works on paper.
Klamen earned his Bachelor's of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana in 1983 and his Master's of Fine Arts in Painting at the School of the Art Institute in 1985. He is currently is a Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University Northwest. Klamen is represented in the following public collections: the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (IL), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Chazen Museum of Art (WI), and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
For more information about the artist, or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.


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Home / Resource Center / Blog / In Context of Brexit, UK Issues Product Safety Strategy
August 27, 2018 - Kirsten Wallerstedt
In the context of Brexit, the United Kingdom's new Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has published a strategy paper called "Strengthening National Capacity for Product Safety." The strategy covers the objectives that the OPSS plans to take action on from 2018-2020, including reformed regulations and strengthened enforcement.
The OPSS was launched in January 2018. The goal of the office is in part to build national capacity for product safety regulation. The office's objectives include: policy, scientific and risk analysis, testing, monitoring/evaluation, incident management and enforcement, and information for business and consumers.
To execute on these objectives, the office's strategy paper sets out a number of key actions, which include:
Review existing regulations, standards, and guidance, and adapt where needed (see section below);
Establish the first national "Strategic Assessment" to prioritize actions needed to achieve the office's goals;
Publish a "Strategic Research Programme" to set priorities for research investment;
Take a number of enforcement-strengthening actions;
Develop peer review to support local authorities to produce and validate risk assessments;
Strengthen collaboration with stakeholder groups and consumer bodies; and
Establish a "Trading Standards Co-ordination Unit" to lead engagement with local authorities;
Among other actions.
Regulations and product risks
The strategy also sets out actions related to specific regulations and product risks, including:
Carry out post implementation reviews of the Toy Safety Directive and Cosmetics Regulation;
Review the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR);
Move EU product safety directives into UK law;
Review product safety guidance on GOV.UK and produce new guidance to address any identified issues;
Review evidence where existing standards are insufficient;
Develop new digital systems to share data and information about product risks and to handle rapid alert notifications; and
Map external test house capability, and identify any gaps, to inform development of safety and standards in-house test capability;
In the UK, product safety is primarily governed by legislation and regulations set at the UK level. The British Standards Institution (BSI) may publish standards which can help guide product design to be conformant to the legislation. Local authorities in the UK play a large role in ensuring compliance.
Product safety agencies
In addition to the OPSS, the Health and Safety Executive oversees the safety of workplace equipment, the Food Standards Agency governs food safety, the Department for Transport regulates motor vehicle safety, and the Department of Health oversees the safety of medicines and medical devices.
Brexit negotiations
In the context of the pending British exit from the EU (commonly called "Brexit"), the UK is actively pursuing an agreement on a UK-EU free trade area for goods, which is proposed to be supported by a common "rulebook" to include a single set of standards. For more information on the current state of Brexit negotiations, please see the Verisk 3E blog "EU Prepares for "No Deal" Scenario with Brexit."
The UK strategy paper states that the OPSS will produce the first full strategic assessment of the product safety landscape by the end of March 2019. Developments will include the review of current regulations and standards, the facilitation of rapid response, improved product recalls, updated enforcement including at borders, and the prioritization of products for regulatory focus.


Q1. Before hearing about sharing the profit, I would like to hear a bit more clearly what is the exact relationship between Human Wisdom and the people who participate into the making of its books or other products. What can they expect from Human Wisdom? – Are they going to be hired by Human Wisdom, paid as independent workers or what else?
A1. This is a crucial question about a very important aspect and in order to avoid any misunderstandings or false expectations we have to clarify it to the best detail that we can.
As already established, at the origin Human Wisdom is a publishing enterprise. At present time, it has a few staff members and associates who presently work without any remuneration (please see the About us section). Human Wisdom has an opening book - Terra City Book and an original project - Terra City Project. It also has an innovative concept and objective - that of supporting and promoting the creative spirit of all human beings through our synergetic interaction, with the final goal of bringing mankind to a superior level of mentality and civilization and creating what we called a HUMAN ERA on earth.
This is what Human Wisdom is all about - an international forum through which people from all over the world who relate to these objectives can interact and seek creative ways to achieve these objectives. In the process we exchange knowledge and information, write and publish books, create and develop products and projects that respond to various demands worldwide and are in accord with Human Wisdom principles and objectives.
Consequently, the only source of revenue for Human Wisdom is the value of its books, products and projects and nothing else, and as already mentioned, the entire net profit resulted will be shared among all those who participated into the making of those books, products and projects.
This is all there is with Human Wisdom enterprise and if this model will prove its viability and succeed as expected, then it will most probably be replicated in a multitude of forms and versions all around the world creating unlimited possibilities for everyone to develop, perform and benefit to the best of their talent, interest and creative potential.
Q2. So, being a publishing company in the first place, would it be correct to say that Human Wisdom is especially looking for people with book-related talents and affinities, such as writing, editing, illustrating etc.?
A2. Not at all. First, even in the field of books, Human Wisdom is looking for people with life-related interests, people - be they writers or anything else - who have something interesting, wise, useful to share that would enlighten and help all of us in a particular aspect of life and society. Second, in view of its specific way of writing and publishing books – with an initial opening edition then developed into one, or even more, enhanced editions – Human Wisdom books need everyone's questions, comments, opinions and visions, for this is its particular way of searching for truth, and each one of these contributions will be praised and rewarded according to their value and impact. Third, as already mentioned, a part from books Human Wisdom will be supportive to any other constructive product and project that someone could imagine, which is in accord with Human Wisdom principles and objectives.
Q3. Still, let's say that I am a person who is so "shy" or so "untalented" or simply completely unable to express an idea that may bring a contribution in one of Human Wisdom books or in any other products or projects developed at Human Wisdom, yet I sincerely relate to the entire Human Wisdom approach. Will I be able to still be involved somehow or I will just be one of the unfortunate, unfitted people in this program?
A3. This may sound a bit surprising, but there is no way that someone who sincerely relates to Human Wisdom vision and objectives could be left out, for that would simply be a failure of this entire venture. There are at least two important things that even the "shyest" person in the world can do within Human Wisdom and have a substantial benefit. First, one of the roles that Human Wisdom has is to allow the development of every human being into the best that s/he could become. To do that, each of us needs to be exposed to information, to understand things and life as they truly are and not as most of us have been taught before. We need to develop a way of thinking – be it something like the data-goal-way model discussed and applied in Terra City book or anything else that will allow us to analyze, decide and operate increasingly appropriate in future circumstances. This is the first thing that anyone can achieve and benefit from within Human Wisdom – to allow themselves the exposure to our common human wisdom.
The second aspect relates, on one hand, to the very survival and success of Human Wisdom as a worldwide enterprise, and on the other hand, to an objective primary need that every human being has – to have an abundant life. Simply stated, in order to succeed at the global scale, Human Wisdom has no choice but to develop its own worldwide promotion and distribution system for its ideas, books, products and projects, without which it would remain nothing else but a well-intended utopian idea. This is where everyone who relates to the Human Wisdom goals, without exception, can and is welcome to bring their contribution to make it a success. And incidentally, this is also the most substantial and "spectacular" source of financial benefits for everyone, including the shyest person who asked this question. To find out all the details about this subject, please visit the HW P&D System section.
Q4. How will the profit be shared among those who contributed to a Human Wisdom book?
the total revenue generated by this book is $2,000,000 (also an example).
1. What happens if the contributions are not equally valuable? For instance, one person can have a few important comments on a subject while another one has written half a chapter in the book. How do we differentiate between the two of them?
300x150 + 500x270 + 200x350 = 250,000 points awarded.
350 points x $2 = $700 for each contribution.
2. Now the question is: Who will decide how many points each contribution should be rewarded? This is a truly impossible question to be answered in a perfectly fair way. Therefore until a better suggestion is received, analyzed and adopted, Human Wisdom will offer everyone the chance to evaluate their contributions themselves. Each person sending a material to Human Wisdom for publication is also invited to indicate the number of points that he or she considers their contribution is worth. Human Wisdom will have the right to decide if the material is worth being published or not - according to its principles and objectives - but once accepted, Human Wisdom will grant each contribution the number of points requested by the sender. In case Human Wisdom decides for instance to include in the book only half of the contribution submitted, then it will award half of the points requested for the entire contribution. In case the sender does not mention the number of points required for his contribution, then Human Wisdom will grant a number of points according to its own assessment.
Anyone can review at any time the updated LIST OF REWARD-POINTS granted by Human Wisdom to various people's inputs and contributions.
Q5. Let's assume that the Human Wisdom enterprise proves viable and after a while it has published several books and enhanced editions with this synergic participation. Will the net profits resulted from each book be counted separately or together with the other books? Moreover, what about the contributions that people would make not to a book in particular, but to the promotion of Human Wisdom enterprise in general - by designing illustrations for the Web site, logos, cards, posters... for example? All these contributions will have an obvious impact in increasing the Human Wisdom reputation. How will they be rewarded? Also, in this positive scenario, there will be other possible revenues resulting from various sources, such as advertising proceeds from Human Wisdom web site for instance, which will have to be shared among all contributors as well. How will that be done?
A5. By sharing the overall Human Wisdom net profit, regardless of its source, to all valuable contributions, regardless of their nature.
Q6. Provided that Human Wisdom will evolve as wished and after a while a series of books and enhanced editions have been published, for how long will someone's contribution to a particular book, project or Human Wisdom promotion, be considered for the reward? For one year, for two years, for ten years or forever?
A6. This is a very hard to answer question, since each one of these options might undervalue someone. To find the fairest answer to this question and others that people may think of, Human Wisdom definitely needs everyone's opinion and suggestion. Until a better solution will be found, Human Wisdom will offer for each accepted contribution a point-based reward of the overall net profit of Human Wisdom over a period of three years from the moment of publication of each contribution.
Q7. What about instances when more than one person came up with similar ideas and contributions?
A7. In that case, Human Wisdom will credit them all equally.
A8. In that case, Human Wisdom will mention and credit each contributor.
Q9. How do we all know that "indeed" all revenues are accounted for and that Human Wisdom will not use some of its revenue for fancy cars, parties, expensive trips and alike, thus diminishing the net profit to be shared among contributors?
· always keep its operating expenses at the minimum level possible, thus maximizing the net profit. No luxury items or avoidable expenses will be considered in Human Wisdom operation and the eventual salaries of the few staff members who will be working in the future on a regular basis for Human Wisdom will be in no way higher than a fair value.
Moreover, in the spirit of absolute openness and fairness, the Human Wisdom account, containing all revenues, major expenses and the resulting net profit, will be completely open and accessible to all Human Wisdom participants to consult and audit.


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A simultaneous eating algorithm (SE) is an algorithm for allocating divisible objects among agents with ordinal preferences. "Ordinal preferences" means that each agent can rank the items from best to worst, but cannot (or does not want to) specify a numeric value for each item. The SE allocation satisfies SD-efficiency - a weak ordinal variant of Pareto-efficiency (it means that the allocation is Pareto-efficient for at least one vector of additive utility functions consistent with the agents' item rankings).

SE is parametrized by the "eating speed" of each agent. If all agents are given the same eating speed, then the SE allocation satisfies SD-envy-freeness - a strong ordinal variant of envy-freeness (it means that the allocation is envy-free for all vectors of additive utility functions consistent with the agents' item rankings). This particular variant of SE is called the Probabilistic Serial rule (PS).

SE was developed by Hervé Moulin and Anna Bogomolnaia as a solution for the fair random assignment problem, where the fraction that each agent receives of each item is interpreted as a probability. If the integral of the eating speed of all agents is 1, then the sum of fractions assigned to each agent is 1, so the matrix of fractions can be decomposed into a lottery over assignments in which each agent gets exactly one item. With equal eating speeds, the lottery is envy-free in expectation (ex-ante) for all vectors of utility functions consistent with the agents' item rankings.

A variant of SE was applied also to cake-cutting, where the allocation is deterministic (not random).

Description
Each item is represented as a loaf of bread (or other food). Initially, each agent goes to their favourite item and starts eating it. It is possible that several agents eat the same item at the same time.

Whenever an item is fully eaten, each of the agents who ate it goes to their favorite remaining item and starts eating it in the same way, until all items are consumed.

For each item, the fraction of that item eaten by each agent is recorded. In the context of random assignments,these fractions are considered as probabilities. Based on these probabilities, a lottery is done. The type of lottery depends on the problem:

 If each agent is allowed to receive any number of items, then a separate lottery can be done for each item. Each item is given to one of the agents who ate a part of it, chosen at random according to the probability distribution for that item.
 If each agent should receive exactly one item, then there must be a single lottery that picks an assignment by some probability distribution on the set of deterministic assignments. To do this, the n-by-n matrix of probabilities should be decomposed into a convex combination of permutation matrices. This can be done by the Birkhoff algorithm. It is guaranteed to find a combination in which the number of permutation matrices is at most n2-2n+2.

An important parameter to SE is the eating speed of each agent. In the simplest case, when all agents have the same entitlements, it makes sense to let all agents eat in the same speed all the time. However, when agents have different entitlements, it is possible to give the more privileged agents a higher eating speed. Moreover, it is possible to let the eating speed change with time. The important thing is that the integral of the eating speed of each agent equals the total number of items that the agent should receive (in the assignment setting, each agent should get exactly 1 item, so the integral of all eating-speed functions should be 1).

Examples
There are four agents and four items (denoted w,x,y,z). The preferences of the agents are:
 Alice and Bob prefer w to x to y to z.
 Chana and Dana prefer x to w to z to y.

The agents have equal rights so we apply SE with equal and uniform eating speed of 1 unit per minute.

Initially, Alice and Bob go to w and Chana and Dana go to x. Each pair eats their item simultaneously. After 1/2 minute, Alice and Bob each have 1/2 of w, while Chana and Dana each have 1/2 of x.

Then, Alice and Bob go to y (their favourite remaining item) and Chana and Dana go to z (their favourite remaining item). After 1/2 minute, Alice and Bob each have 1/2 of y and Chana and Dana each have 1/2 of z.

The matrix of fractions is now:Alice:     1/2 0 1/2 0

Bob:      1/2 0 1/2 0

Chana:   0 1/2 0 1/2

Dana:     0 1/2 0 1/2Based on the eaten fractions, item w is given to either Alice or Bob with equal probability and the same is done with item y; item x is given to either Chana or Dana with equal probability and the same is done with item z. If it is required to give exactly 1 item per agent, then the matrix of probabilities is decomposed into the following two assignment matrices:1 0 0 0     |||     0 0 1 0

0 0 1 0     |||     1 0 0 0

0 1 0 0     |||     0 0 0 1

0 0 0 1     |||     0 1 0 0One of these assignments is selected at random with a probability of 1/2.

Other examples can be generated at the MatchU.ai website.

Properties
The description below assumes that all agents have risk-neutral preferences, that is, their utility from a lottery equals the expected value of their utility from the outcomes.

Efficiency
SE with any vector of eating speeds satisfies an efficiency property called SD-efficiency (also called ordinal efficiency). Informally it means that, considering the resulting probability matrix, there is no other matrix that all agents weakly-sd-prefer and at least one agent strictly-sd-prefers.

In the context of random assignments, SD-efficiency implies ex-post efficiency: every deterministic assignment selected by the lottery is Pareto-efficient.

A fractional assignment is SD-efficient if-and-only-if it is the outcome of SE for some vector of eating-speed functions.

Fairness
SE with equal eating speeds (called PS) satisfies a fairness property called ex-ante stochastic-dominace envy-freeness (sd-envy-free). Informally it means that each agent, considering the resulting probability matrix, weakly prefers his/her own row of probabilities to the row of any other agent. Formally, for every two agents i and j:
 Agent i has a weakly-higher probability to get his best item in row i than in row j;
 Agent i has a weakly-higher probability to get one of his two best items in row i than in row j;
 ...
 For any k ≥ 1, agent i has a weakly-higher probability to get one of his k best items in row i than in row j.

Note that sd-envy-freeness is guaranteed ex-ante: it is fair only before the lottery takes place. The algorithm is of course not ex-post fair: after the lottery takes place, the unlucky agents may envy the lucky ones. This is inevitable in allocation of indivisible objects.

PS satisfies another fairness property, in addition to envy-freeness. Given any fractional allocation, for any agent i and positive integer k, define t(i,k) as the total fraction that agent i receives from his k topmost indifference classes. This t is a vector of size at most n*m, where n is the number of agents and m is the number of items. An ordinally-egalitarian allocation is one that maximizes the vector t in the leximin order. PS is the unique rule that returns an ordinally-egalitarian allocation.

Strategy
SE is not a truthful mechanism: an agent who knows that his most preferred item is not wanted by any other agent, can manipulate the algorithm by eating his second-most preferred item, knowing that his best item will remain intact. The following is known about strategic manipulation of PS:

 PS is truthful when agents compare bundles using the downward lexicographic relation.
 An agent can compute in polynomial time a best-response w.r.t. the downward lexicographic relation. When there are two agents, each agent can compute in polynomial time a best response w.r.t. expected utility. When the number of agents can vary, computing a best response w.r.t. EU is NP-hard.
Best responses w.r.t. expected utility can cycle. However, a pure Nash equilibrium exists for any number of agents and items. When there are two agents, there are linear-time algorithms to compute a preference-profile that is in Nash equilibrium w.r.t. the original preferences. In some empirical settings, PS is less prone to manipulation. When an agent is risk-averse and has no information about the other agents' strategies, his maximin strategy is to be truthful.
A manipulating agent can increase his utility by a factor of at most 3/2. This was first observed empirically on random instances, and then proved formally.
Note that the random priority rule, which solves the same problem as PS, is truthful.

Extensions
The SE algorithm has been extended in many ways.
 Katta and Sethuraman present Extended PS (EPS), which allows weak ordinal preferences (rankings with indifferences). The algorithm is based on repeatedly solving instances of parametric network flow.
 Bogomolnaia presented a simpler definition of the PS rule for weak preferences, based on the leximin order.
 Yilmaz allows both indifferences and endowments.
 Athanassoglout and Sethuraman present the controlled consuming (CC) rule, which allows indifferences and fractional endowments of any quantity.
 Budish, Che, Kojima and Milgrom present Generalized PS, which allows multiple units per item, more items than agents, each agent can get several units, upper quotas, and bi-hierarchical constraints on the feasible allocations.
 Ashlagi, Saberi and Shameli present another Generalized PS, which allows lower and upper quotas, and distributional constraints (constraints on the probability distribution and not only the final allocation).
 Aziz and Stursberg present Egalitarian Simultaneous Reservation (ESR), which allows not only fair item allocation but also general social choice problems, with possible indifferences.
 Aziz and Brandl present Vigilant Eating (VE), which allows even more general constraints.

Guaranteeing ex-post approximate fairness
As explained above, the allocation determined by PS is fair only ex-ante but not ex-post. Moreover, when each agent may get any number of items, the ex-post unfairness might be arbitrarily bad: theoretically it is possible that one agent will get all the items while other agents get none. Recently, several algorithms have been suggested, that guarantee both ex-ante fairness and ex-post approximate-fairness.

Freeman, Shah and Vaish show:

 The Recursive Probabilistic Serial (RecPS) algorithm, which returns a probability distribution over allocations that are all envy-free-except-one-item (EF1). The distribution is ex-ante EF, and the allocation is ex-post EF1. A naive version of this algorithm yields a distribution over a possibly exponential number of deterministic allocations, a support size polynomial in the number of agents and goods is sufficient, and thus the algorithm runs in polynomial time. The algorithm uses separation oracles.
 A different algorithm, based on an ex-ante max-product allocation, which attains ex-ante group envy-freeness (GEF; it implies both EF and PO), and ex-post PROP1+EF11. This is the only allocation rule that achieves all these properties. It cannot be decomposed into EF1 allocations.
These combinations of properties are best possible: it is impossible to guarantee simultaneously ex-ante EF (even PROP) and ex-ante PO together with ex-post EF1; or ex-ante EF (even PROP) together with ex-post EF1 and fractional-PO.
 The RecPS can be modified to attain similar guarantees (ex-ante EF and ex-post EF1) for bads.

Aziz shows:

 The PS-lottery algorithm, in which the allocation is ex-ante sd-EF, and the lottery is done only among deterministic allocations that are sd-EF1, i.e., the EF and EF1 guarantees hold for any cardinal utilities consistent with the ordinal ranking. Moreover, the outcome is sd-PO both ex-ante and ex-post. The algorithm uses as subroutines both the PS algorithm and the Birkhoff algorithm. The ex-ante allocation is equivalent to the one returned by PS; this shows that the outcome of PS can be decomposed into EF1 allocations.
With binary utilities, the PS-lottery algorithm is group-strategyproof, ex-ante PO, ex-ante EF and ex-post EF1.
These combinations of properties are best possible: it is impossible to guarantee simultaneously ex-ante sd-EF, ex-post EF1 and ex-post PO; or ex-ante PO and ex-ante sd-EF.
 Checking whether a given random allocation can be implemented by a lottery over EF1 and PO allocations is NP-hard.

Babaioff, Ezra and Feige show:

 A polynomial-time algorithm for computing allocations that are ex-ante proportional, and ex-post both PROP1 and 1/2-fraction maximin-share (and also 1/2-fraction truncated-proportional share).
 These properties are nearly optimal - it is impossible to guarantee more than PROP ex-ante, and more than n/(2n-1) truncated-proportional share ex-post.
Hoefer, Schmalhofer and Varricchio extend the notion of "Best-of-Both-Worlds" lottery to agents with different entitlements.

See also
The page on fair random assignment compares PS to other procedures for solving the same problem, such as the random priority rule.

References

Fair division protocols

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Q: select last row from details table for each user We have 2 tables

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*tbl_members
In this table we have all members details like memberId, name, age, etc

*tbl_payment
In this table we have all their payment details like paymentId, memberId, PaymentDate, etc
We want to select all of our user's names and display only their last paymentDate and Amount
Name   PaymentDate   Amount
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Row1   12/12/2011    1200
Row2   12/18/2011    100
Row3   12/16/2011    99
Row4   12/08/2011    1500

How can this be done using linq?

A: You should use grouping to group payments by user and then select top element by its PaymentDate. Take a look at that question: Linq - Top value form each group.
tbl_payment.GroupBy(p => p.memberId).Select(g => g.Order(p => p.PaymentDate).First())

A: Something like:
Members.Select(c => new
{
  Member = m,
  LastPayment = m.Payments.OrderByDescending(p => p.PaymentDate).FirstOrDefault()
})
.Select(x => new { x.Member.Name, x.LastPayment.PaymentDate, x.Payment.Amount })


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As summer turns to fall, the only things guaranteed to be more inescapable than pumpkin spice lattes are ads for new network shows. Fox, for one, has a lot riding on its new Tuesday night schedule, a shiny comedy lineup with an emphasis on some familiar faces. For starters, there's Grandfathered, which stars TV veteran John Stamos as a smooth-talking restauranteur who suddenly finds out that he's not just a dad, but a granddad. Also ranking highly on the "handsome scale" is The Grinder, which finds Rob Lowe playing a former TV lawyer who decides to try his hand at actually practicing law, much to his overshadowed younger brother's (Fred Savage) dismay. And, finally, there's Ryan Murphy's splashy Scream Queens, a horror-comedy (a new genre you're probably not familiar with yet because Murphy "invented" it) set on a college campus, starring Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, and many, many, many more.
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Jonah Barrington (judge)
For other Jonah Barringtons, see Jonah Barrington (disambiguation).
Sir Jonah Barrington
Member of Parliament for Clogher
1798 – January 1800
Member of Parliament for Tuam
Knapton, Abbeyleix, Ireland
8 April 1834 (aged abt 77)
Patriot Party
Trinity College, Dublin
Branch/service
Irish Volunteers
Sir Jonah Barrington (born at Knapton, Abbeyleix 1756/7; died at Versailles, France on 8 April 1834), was an Irish lawyer, judge and politician. Jonah Barrington is most notable for his amusing and popular memoirs of life in late 18th-century Ireland; for his opposition to the Act of Union in 1800; and for his removal from the judiciary by both Houses of Parliament in 1830, still a unique event.[1]
1 Barrington family
2.1 Law and Parliament
2.2 Political legacy
2.3 Admiralty Court
2.4 Bankruptcy and loss of office
3 Duel with Richard Daly
4 Memoirs
5 Criticism and literary resonance
Barrington family[edit]
Barrington was the third son, one of thirteen[2] or sixteen children; six at least, and probably seven, were sons;[3] of John Barrington, an impoverished Protestant gentry landowner in County Laois and his wife Sibella French of Peterswell, co. Galway. He was raised and schooled by his grandparents in Dublin and entered Trinity College Dublin in 1773, aged 16 but he left Trinity College without a degree.[2]
He joined the Irish Volunteers and supported the Irish Patriots in the early 1780s.[4] His father raised and commanded two Corps; the Cullenagh Rangers and the Ballyroan Light Infantry. Barrington's elder brother commanded both the Kilkenny Horse and the Durrow Light Dragoons. Barrington's father, through his correspondence with General Hunt Walsh, then secured him a commission in Walsh's regiment. Upon learning that the regiment was to be sent to America to fight in the ongoing conflict, and fearful of dying on some foreign battlefield, Barrington wrote to Walsh asking him to instead present the commission to another candidate, claiming that he himself was too tender to be of any real use. Barrington's fears proved well founded when his replacement, the only child of one of Walsh's friends, was killed in his first engagement.[5]
Law and Parliament[edit]
He was called to the Irish bar in 1788 and in 1789 he married Catherine, daughter of Dublin mercer, Edward Grogan. They were to have seven children.[2] The following year he entered by purchase of the seat the pre-1801 Parliament of Ireland as MP for Tuam. He accepted a sinecure post in 1793 at the Dublin customhouse worth £1,000 p.a. generally supporting Henry Grattan and he took silk the same year. Barrington was a member of the Kildare Street Club in Dublin.[6] Appointed an Admiralty court judge in 1798 he re-entered parliament the same year as member for Clogher and voted against the Act of Union in 1799–1800, rejecting Lord Clare's offer of the solicitor-generalship in 1799. In 1802 he unsuccessfully contested a seat for Dublin in the UK parliament.
Political legacy[edit]
Barrington's comments on the Act of Union had a continuing resonance with the Young Ireland, Fenian and Irish Parliamentary Party movements, which hoped to re-establish "Grattan's Parliament" in some way. In particular his Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation (1833) provided the basis for this romantic idealisation of Grattan's Parliament adopted by the Irish Parliamentary Party from the 1880s.
Admiralty Court[edit]
Appointed an Admiralty court judge in 1798 at a salary of £500 he found there was little work to be done and his lack of a degree restricted other opportunities to support extravagant tastes. His award of a knighthood in 1807 brought no increased income. His court ordered the sale of two derelict vessels and he gave instructions that the proceeds were to go to his own bank account. In 1810 or 1811 he took his wife and family to England and from that time on his work in Ireland was carried out by surrogates. Still retaining his judgeship and salary he moved to France in 1814 to escape his creditors and never returned to Ireland.[2]
Bankruptcy and loss of office[edit]
In 1828 commissioners learnt of his financial irregularities. Barrington crossed the channel to London and protested that he was innocent but would not answer the charges based on the documentary evidence produced by the commissioners.[2] In 1830 a parliamentary commission recommended that he be removed from office, finding misappropriations of court funds in 1805, 1806 and 1810. Pursuant to a provision[note 1] of the Act of Settlement of 1701, which sought to protect the independence of the judiciary, both Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom voted for an Address to King William IV praying for his removal, and the King duly dismissed Barringtom from office. By then, Barrington's first 1827 volume of memoirs had sold successfully, and they were republished and expanded (see below).
Barrington was the first judge removed from office under the Act of Settlement, and to this day, is the only judge in the United Kingdom to be so removed.
Duel with Richard Daly[edit]
According to one of his sometimes spurious personal memoirs, on 20 March 1780. Barrington travelled to Donnybrook to duel with a Richard Daly.
Daly had fought 16 duels in three years - three with swords and thirteen with pistols. Remarkably, he, and his opponents, had always escaped serious injury. Barrington had no pistols so he and his second, Richard Crosbie, had spent the previous night constructing a pair 'from old locks, stocks an barrels'.[7] At Donnybrook, Daly's second, Jack Patterson, a nephew of the Chief Justice, approached Crosbie, explained that it was all a mistake and asked that the two shake hands. Barrington was in favour, but Crosbie would have none of it. Taking out a duelling handbook, he pointed to rule No.7 - 'No apology can be received after the parties meet, without a fire.'[7]
Taking up their positions Barrington lost no time in pressing the trigger and Daly staggered back, put his hand to his chest, and cried "I'm hit, Sir." The ball had not penetrated but had driven part of a brooch slightly into his breast-bone. Barrington only then thought to inquire why duel was even taking place. This time the rule book noted: "If a party challenged accepts the challenge without asking the reason for it, the challenger is never bound to divulge it afterwards."[7]
Memoirs[edit]
Barrington is most notable today for his memoirs that included scathing but humorous thumbnail portraits of contemporary Irish lawyers, judges and politicians during the last years of the Protestant Ascendancy. Personal sketches also includes vignettes on Irish people from every background. His works were reprinted with frequent additions and renamings as:
Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (London: G. Robinson 1809);
republished with a 2nd volume as: Historic Memoirs, Comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union, with Delineations of the Principal Characters Connected with These Transactions, 2 vols. (London: R. Bentley & H. Colburn 1833 [1809–33])
3rd edn: ..with memoir of the author, an essay on Irish wit and humour, and notes and corrections by Townsend Young; 2 vols. (London: G. Routledge & Sons 1869)
4th edn. in 2 vols, (Glasgow & London: Cameron & Ferguson 1876);
Personal Sketches of his Own Times (3 vols. 1827–32): Vols. 1 & 2 (London: Henry Colburn 1827); Vol. 3 (London: Henry Colburn & R. Bentley 1832)
reissued as (George Birmingham, intro.): Recollections of Jonah Barrington (Dublin: Talbot; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1918);
Historic Memoirs of Ireland, 2 vols. (London: R. Bentley & H. Colburn 1833)
The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation (Paris: G. G. Bennis 1833)
2nd edn. (Dublin: James Duffy 1853)
Criticism and literary resonance[edit]
Since his death Barrington's work has been quoted by a wide selection of editors, primarily following two themes; the political drama surrounding the Act of Union and the colourful nature of life in 1700s Ireland.
Frank O'Connor, ed., Book of Ireland (London: Fontana 1959 & edns.), was impressed by: "Merry Christmas, 1778" uninterrupted match of hard-going till the weather should break up ... hogshead of superior claret' ... 'the pipers plied their chants ... I shall never forget the attraction this novelty had for my youthful mind (p. 139); Sir Boyle Roche ... the most celebrated and entertaining anti-grammarian in the Irish Parliament (p. 183); on duelling Ough, thunder! ... how many holes did the villain want drilled in to his carcass? (p. 262); Crow Street theatre: immediately ... on being struck, he reeled, staggered, and fell very naturally, considering that it was his first death (p. 278).
Roy Foster: the racy Personal Sketches...confirmed him as the chief historian of the "half-mounted gentlemen" of Ireland.[8]
W. B. Yeats: Mrs French, in the first section of Yeats's poem The Tower, is a character from Barrington's Recollections, where it is used to illustrate mutual attachment between the Irish peasantry and their landlords.[9]
James Joyce: Tom Kernan makes reference to Barrington's Reminiscences (recte Recollections) in Ulysses: Must ask Ned Lambert to lend me those reminiscences of sir Jonah Barrington.[10]
John Mitchel quoted Barrington in his History of Ireland, concerning the approach to the 1798 rebellion: Mr Pitt counted on the expertness of the Irish Government to effect a premature explosion. Free quarters were now ordered, to irritate the Irish population; slow tortures were inflicted, under the pretence of forcing confessions; the people were goaded and driven to madness (p. 264).
A Dictionary of Irish Writers (1985), ed. Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, lists his Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1809).[11]
A book of selections was published for the American market in 1967.[12]
Webb, Alfred (1878). "Barrington, Sir Jonah" . A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son – via Wikisource.
Ireland 1691–1801
Personal Sketches online; accessed JUne 2015
^ Judges' commissions are valid (during good behaviour) and if they do not behave themselves, they can be removed . . . This provision was the result of various monarchs influencing judges' decisions, and its purpose was to assure judicial independence.
^ Ricorso
^ a b c d e W. N. Osborough, 'Barrington, Sir Jonah (1756/7–1834)' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
^ Barrington, Amy (1917). The Barringtons: A Family History. Dublin: Ponsonby & Gibbs. p. 386.
^ Memoirs, chapter 7
^ Barrington, John (1830). Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Volume 1. Ireland: Colburn and Bentley. pp. 92–93.
^ Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333
^ a b c J. Barrington (1918),"Recollections of Jonah Barrington, Dublin", archive.org; accessed 20 March 2015.
^ Roy Foster, Modern Ireland (London: Allen Lane 1988)at p.169.
^ See A. N. Jeffares, W B Yeats, A New Biography, 1988, p.276; Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.189.
^ Ulysses, Random House Edn., p.241 (part of the 'Wandering Rocks' episode).
^ Cleeve B., & Brady A., A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985).
^ Hugh Staples, ed., The Ireland of Sir Jonah Barrington: Selections from His Personal Sketches (Washington: Catholic UP, 1967)
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Citrusdal è una cittadina sudafricana situata nella municipalità distrettuale di West Coast nella provincia del Capo Occidentale.

Geografia fisica
Il piccolo centro abitato sorge ai piedi dei monti Cederberg a circa 160 chilometri a nord di Città del Capo. L'area è specializzata nella coltivazione di agrumi, spiegando così l'origine del nome Citrusdal. La zona è inoltre caratterizzata dalla presenza di sorgenti d'acqua calda.

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After a succesful breeding season, the barn owls are roosting in the barn owl box during the day. Holiday makers staying in Minsmere or Meadow cottage will be able to keep an eye them via the 'live' camera feed. We will post occasional updates & pictures the news page and Twitter.


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Pinball 2000
Pinball 2000 was a technology developed by Williams pinball in the late 1990's when the pinball industry was facing major contraction due to the amount of arcades that were gradually disappearing due to the rise of home consoles. Two games were developed from this technology before Williams closed their pinball division, Revenge from Mars and Star Wars Episode One.
1 Revenge from Mars, the first Pinball 2000
2 Star Wars Episode One, the second Pinball 2000 game
3 Pinball 2000 now
4 Buying a Pinball 2000 machine
5 Wrapup
Revenge from Mars, the first Pinball 2000
Revenge from Mars was the first game developed on the pinball 2000 platform, released in January of 1999. It took the pinball industry by storm, the biggest innovation in pinball since it went to digital scoring in the late 70's. Instead of shooting at the usual targets, video targets were now 'displayed' on the playfield. This led to some very cool effects, as instead of just hitting the lit arrow and getting a flash and sound effect, the target would now explode or do some other cool animation. New players in particular were really impressed with the new gameplay, while more traditional players weren't as enthused by the new changes, feeling it wasn't 'real' pinball. Operators really liked it though because the games brought in more money that the previous games Williams had released, plus had a lot of things that made operating easier like swappable playfields and in depth diagnostics.
The general consensus on RFM (acronym for Revenge from Mars) is that it was a great initial game for the Pinball 2000 platform but as good of a game as some of Williams earlier efforts (at least in the eyes of pinball fans). New players really liked the video integration though. If you check out the game at the Internation pinball database here:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4446
You'll see a lot more pictures and information about the game, including a bunch of user reviews.
Star Wars Episode One, the second Pinball 2000 game
The second game developed for the Pinball 2000 platform was Star Wars Episode One. It came out in June of 1999, hoping to ride the wave of Star Wars Mania that was sweeping the nation at that time. Unfortunately, the movie didn't quite meet expectations and neither did the game, as a result. Williams was hoping that after they sold more than 6800 Revenge from Mars, they could sell even more Star Wars. The combination though of the movie not being great plus a price increase caused a lot of people to cancel their orders, leading to a production that was significantly less than Revenge from Mars.
Star Wars was made to cater more to the beginner crowd, which led to a lot of veteran players being disappointed with the game. In fact, if you read the reviews at http://www.ipdb.org you'll see that the reviews are mainly negative on the game compared to Revenge from Mars. I personally find the game decently fun but it does seem like you shoot up the middle a lot. I like the neon light saber on the right side, I think that was a really nice touch on the game.
Pinball 2000 now
After Williams closed the pinball division in late 1999, no new Pinball 2000 games were ever released. One of the biggest disappointments people had about that was that the third game, Wizard Blocks, was never released. There are pictures and video of the game circulating around the web, this video on youtube shows Wizard Blocks:
It was supposed to be the first game that really took the technology to the next level, so it's unfortunate that it never made it to production.
One of the biggest issues that Pinball 2000 owners had was that if the computer in the game went bad, there were no longer replacements because it was PC based rather than the normal custom board. This was solved for a while when a product called Nucore came out, it allowed owners with broken computer boards to get their games back up and running. Production of Nucore was suspend though and has not resumed as far as I know.
Buying a Pinball 2000 machine
If you're going to buy a Pinball 2000 machine, the biggest thing to watch out for is to make sure that the game works (basically that the computer is good) and that the monitor is good. There are replacements for the monitor now that are LCD based, but the computer can be harder to find or repair. The prices aren't too bad for the games, traditional collectors haven't really gone of them. Star Wars Episode One swappable playfields are even available occasionally so you can have two games (if you swap them) and only need one cabinet.
Hopefully this has been helpful for those of you looking for Pinball 2000 information. If you have any questions, please email or check out some of the links I gave in the article. Tilt! the battle to save pinball is also a good documentary if you really want the whole story. I bought the film and really enjoyed it.
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French designer Inga Sempé's Pinorama board is now available at Hay (Denmark). Pinorama was designed as a board "for all the little things you want to keep handy or aren't sure where to put, a flexible wall module that helps you organize your everyday life, providing a functional, charming and versatile storage solution", the designer says. The perforated metal has a cork back to pin up papers and pictures. The system also features optional shelves, cylinders or mirrors that can be attached to the metal grid.
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Liverpool striker Danny Ings could be left out of Tuesday night's League Cup clash with Burton Albion as he continues to build his fitness.
The 24-year-old has remained steadfast in his commitment ever since suffering an ACL injury shortly after Klopp's arrival at the club in October.
But despite coming back to make his first appearance under the German in May's 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion, and taking up a key role in pre-season, he is still behind on his fitness.
That is according to Klopp, who speaking to reporters at Melwood on Monday afternoon, suggested the striker may sit out for the trip to the Pirelli Stadium.
"Sometimes for players it's harder, and it takes a bit longer," he explained.
"Of course, he's improved, and of course he trains good, and Danny is a wonderful guy, a wonderful player.
"But we cannot change everything every two days.
"Sometimes it needs a bit more time, even when you're not in the best position in the squad."
Ings has already turned out for the Liverpool U23s this season against Southampton, and this could be the case again for Monday evening's clash with Chelsea.
The former Burnley striker will be disappointed that his first-team return has been delayed, but with Klopp carefully managing his fitness, can hope to eventually kick on under the German.
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