If your company provides consulting or training services to the federal government, you may want to consider obtaining a GSA Professional Services Schedule (PSS) Contract. PSS contains a subset of services for consulting and training that are classified as Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS).
In fiscal year 2017, government buyers spent over $4 billion on MOBIS related services through the GSA PSS Contract. While federal agencies accounted for the majority of these contract awards, a portion can be attributed to disaster recovery purchasing by state and local government.
What Type of Services Qualify for MOBIS?
Below is a listing of MOBIS related subcategories, known as Special Item Numbers (SINs) under the GSA PSS Contract. Click on the SIN number to view a full description of the SIN on GSA's eLibrary website, along with a listing of companies that currently offer services through that SIN.
Federal Schedules, Inc. has been helping companies obtain and manage their GSA Schedule Contracts for MOBIS related offerings since 1986. We can help you through each step of the process – from strategy development and proposal preparation, to GSA Schedule Contract award and post-award management. For more information, see GSA Schedule Proposal Help, contact us, or call us at 703-709-8700 for a quote.
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A GSA Schedule Contract can be a valuable tool when pursuing government opportunities. However, if your company has less than two years in business or little experience in government sales, a GSA Schedule may not be the best starting point.


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Q: Using Freemarker with Restlet 2.0 in a Java EE server I'm a bit confused with what is written in the documentation(s) for Freemarker and Restlet's freemarker extension.
Here's the situation: The restlet engine serves an HTML representation of a resource (e.g. www.mysite.com/{user}/updates). The resource returned for this URI is an HTML page containing all the updates, that is created with a freemarker template. This application is hosted on a  Glassfish v3 server
Question(s):

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*The freemarker configuration should only be loaded once as per the freemarker documentation:
    /* You should do this ONLY ONCE in the whole application life-cycle:Create and adjust the configuration */
    Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
    cfg.setDirectoryForTemplateLoading(
            new File("/where/you/store/templates"));
    cfg.setObjectWrapper(new DefaultObjectWrapper());

What is the best place to do this in a Java EE app? I am thinking of having it as context-param in web.xml and using a ServletContextListener - but I'm not sure how to go about doing that.

*As per freemarker's documentation we could also add a freemarkerservlet and map .ftl url-patterns to it. But this is already mapped by a Restlet servlet (i.e., the url-pattern of "/"). So having another one for *.ftl doesn't make sense (or does it?)
So the question is basically about how best to integrate with the 'configuration' of Freemarker so that it happens only once and what is the 'entry-point' for that piece of code (who calls it). Has anyone successfully used Freemarker + restlet in a Java EE environment? Any ideas?
Thanks!

A: This was a tricky question - indeed. Required me to go through the implementation of the source files in org.restlet.ext.Freemarker package - Phew!
Here's how you can do it

*

*If you need to create your OWN Configuration Object, set the 'templateLoader' to use and then have TemplateRepresentation 'work' on it for rendering:
Configuration cfg = new Configuration();

ContextTemplateLoader loader = new ContextTemplateLoader(getContext(),"war:///WEB-INF");

cfg.setTemplateLoader(loader);

TemplateRepresentation rep = null;

Mail mail = new Mail(); //The data object you wish to populate - example from Restlet itself
    mail.setStatus("received");
    mail.setSubject("Message to self");
    mail.setContent("Doh!");
    mail.setAccountRef(new Reference(getReference(), "..").getTargetRef()
            .toString());

  Map<String, Object> data = new HashMap<String, Object>();
  data.put("status", mail.getStatus());
  data.put("subject", mail.getSubject());
  data.put("content", mail.getContent());
  data.put("accountRef", mail.getAccountRef());

  rep = new TemplateRepresentation("Mail.ftl", cfg, data, MediaType.TEXT_HTML);

  return rep;

*If you are happy with the default and wish to use a class loader based way of loading the templates
//Load the FreeMarker template
    Representation mailFtl = new ClientResource(
            LocalReference.createClapReference(getClass().getPackage())
                    + "/Mail.ftl").get();
  //Wraps the bean with a FreeMarker representation
return new TemplateRepresentation(mailFtl, mail, MediaType.TEXT_HTML);

*If you want to initialize the Configuration Object once and set the template by calling the  setServletContextForTemplateLoading(...) method on the configuration object. You could always do this in a ServletContextListener

public class Config implements ServletContextListener {
    private static Configuration cfg = new Configuration();

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
        ServletContext sc = sce.getServletContext();
        cfg.setServletContextForTemplateLoading(sc, "/WEB-INF");
    }
    public static Configuration getFMConfig()
    {
        return cfg;
    }
}
And then call the static getFMConfig() and pass it to TemplateRepresentation as in 1
Things to note:

*

*If you do get a protocol not supported Exception it'll be in case 2. Implies that the ServerResource doesn't know what protocol to use to access the file - It'll be the CLAP protocol of Restlet. You may have to set up the init-params for RestletServlet in the web.xml file and have CLAP as one of the param-values

*The TemplateRepresentation has quite a few constructors - if you DON'T pass in a configuration object during instantiation (using another overloaded constructor), it will create a new Configuration() for you. So you don't have to do any configuration set up as in 2 (This may strike you as obvious but I assumed that you WOULD still need to set a configuration or it would 'pick it up from somewhere')

*If you DO wish to have your OWN configuration setup you MUST pass it to one of the constructors

*Have a look at the "war:///" string in the constructor of ContextTemplateLoader in 1. this is important No where is it mentioned what this baseUri reference should be, not even in the docs. I tried for quite a while before figuring it out that it should be "war:///" followed by the folder name where the templates are stored.

*For case 2 you'll probably have to store the templates in the same package as the class file from where this code is accessed. If you see carefully you'll notice a LocalReference parameter as an argument to ClientResource saying that the resource is supposed to be locally present and thus you need to use the custom CLAP protocol (classLoader Access Protocol)

Personal Frustration point - why isn't all this even clarified in the documentation or ANYWHERE :)
Hope it helps someone who stumbles upon this post! Phew!

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SPECIES INFO
The bluebonnet, a name common to several North American species of Lupinus, is the state flower of Texas. They typically grow about 0.3 m (1 ft) tall. The name may come from the shape of the petals of the flower and their resemblance to the bonnets worn by pioneer women to shield themselves from the sun. It may instead be derived from the Scottish term Bluebonnet, for the traditional blue coloured version of the Tam o'shanter hat.
Lupinus texensis is almost exclusively blue in the wild. A random genetic mutation does occasionally create an albino white bluebonnet naturally. Texas A&M University researchers were successful in breeding red and white strains, creating a Texas state flag in bluebonnets for the 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial. Further research led to a deep maroon strain, the university's official color.
Lupinus argenteus var. palmeri (syn. L. palmeri) grows in Texas, California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. It is commonly referred to as a bluebonnet lupine.
Texas traditions
On March 7, 1901, Lupinus subcarnosus (also known as Buffalo clover) became the only species of bluebonnet recognized as the state flower of Texas. However, Lupinus texensis (Texas bluebonnet) emerged as the favorite of most Texans. The flowers' deep blue blossoms can be seen from March through May in many areas of Texas. As a result of this popularity, in 1971 the Texas Legislature made any species of bluebonnet the state flower, including L. subcarnosus, L. texensis, L. concinnus, L. plattensis and L. havardii. Lupinus texensis remains as the iconic Texas bluebonnet.
A popular spring pastime in Texas is photographing children, family members, and pets among the bluebonnets. Many families return to the same spot every year for photographs as part of a family tradition.
Another Texas tradition was started by Lady Bird Johnson, after her return from Washington, D.C. as First Lady to President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Lady Bird persuaded the government of the State of Texas to seed bluebonnets and other wildflowers along the highways throughout the state. Every spring the flowers return as a legacy of the First Lady.
It is a persistent urban legend that it is illegal to pick bluebonnets in Texas, possibly because the bluebonnet is Texas' state flower. In fact, it is perfectly legal to pick them. Part of the confusion may stem from illegal activity associated with the picking of the flower, such as parking along busy highways or trespassing on private property.
A field of Bluebonnets beside State Hwy-6 near College Station, Texas.
A field of Bluebonnets
A Westie being photographed in the Bluebonnets.
A detailed close-up of Bluebonnets
Close-up of a bluebonnet.
Pink and blue bluebonnets
Natural white bluebonnet.
Bluebonnets near Somerville, Texas.
Native Texas bluebonnets mixed with Texas A&M maroon strain
^ How did bluebonnets become state flower?
^ Texas Department of Public Safety (March 26, 2002). Is it really legal to pick bluebonnets?. Press release. http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/public_information/pr032602.htm.
Lupinus texensis on Native Plant Information Network, a source for more information about bluebonnets
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, a source for information about bluebonnets and other native Texas plants.
Details of the Texas A&M University's Red, White, Blue, and Maroon Bluebonnets
TXDOT page listing reports of wildflowers along state highways
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If you commission or produce film and video for the NHS, this article is the quickest way to get an essential overview.
At its best, the NHS on film has set new standards for other producers to follow. For #NHS70, we have selected just seven films from this vast body of work. This article looks at three launch films, while Part 2 looks at four modern films and hears from some of the commissioners and producers who made them.
As a comms professional, imagine the brief in 1947. You have to communicate the launch of a wildly ambitious and unprecedented national initiative. There's very little time before launch. It will quickly become the nation's largest employer by a wide margin, and will have an immediate and ongoing impact on every one of 50 million citizens. And most of your audience don't have a clue how it's going to work.
Film played a key comms role even before launch, mostly through cinema exhibition aimed at the general public. The BFI's Here's Health: The NHS on Film event in June raced through 70 years of NHS film history. The screenings included essential context from a panel of people who commission them and producers who make them.
Faced with such an immense comms challenge, the NHS started with practical messages. If you think short films are a product of social media, think again. Doctor's Dilemma (1948) is 60 seconds of stripped-down, hard-hitting call to action. Commissioned by the recently-formed COI, it was part of an integrated multimedia campaign.
This is social video for the cinema. Modern producers use captions to support mute viewing on mobile devices. Here, the captions reinforce the voice track on a simple core message: 'Don't forget to choose your doctor now'.
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There was so much more to communicate than just registering with your GP.
Engaging the audience in bigger issues was often achieved with drama. In Here's Health (1948), a chain-smoking GP (played by real GP Dafydd Thomas) deals with a case that spans the old world and the new. It's Christmas 1947, and a working-class woman injures her leg hanging decorations. The GP worries about how inadequate medical facilities are, and how much the treatment will cost the patient's family. He looks forward to better healthcare after the NHS is created.
Another COI commission, the film's message overwhelms the drama. But it shows how drama helped deliver the complex messages the public education campaign had to communicate. Writer/producer Budge Cooper and her director husband Donald Alexander made Here's Health to fit the low-budget short feature style.
It even features an in-joke for film-makers. A Dr Grierson appears in tribute to John Grierson, the pioneer of British documentary who invented the word itself.
In complete contrast to the earnest tone of Here's Health, Your Very Good Health hooked the audience with colour, music and humour. It's a brilliant piece of animation that cuts through the confusion in under 9 minutes.
Your Very Good Health was the work of another husband and wife team, Joyce Batchelor and John Halas, who in 1954 produced the animated feature Animal Farm. They had made over 70 propaganda shorts during World War II, and their finely-tuned skills make this film stand out.
What about the NHS on film now?
In part 2, we dive into modern NHS films and hear from some of the commissioners and producers who made them.
Moving Image is deeply grateful to Patrick Russell and his colleagues at the BFI for curating these films. The NHS on Film collection on the BFI Player is a great resource. BFI Player is the best way to enjoy landmark classic and cult film across the decades.
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You find that when you are caught with illegal possession of drug getting out may be hard being that it something that is against the law. Apart from that, you should also be aware that the only way you can earn is by hiring the best drug defense attorney who has proper knowledge in handling drug possession cases. Some of the people may think that hiring drug defense is expensive but what they don't that this will save your time, money as well as earning you freedom which is the greatest of all. Discussed herein are the main benefits of hiring drug defense lawyers.
One of the benefits of hiring drug defense attorney is their knowledge and expertise in the criminal law. You find that drug defense attorneys are better than ordinary men being that they have been educated and trained to understand the ins and outs of the legal system. Because of this, they will be in a position to build a strong case on your behalf. Not only that but they also must protect you against the charges that have been brought up against you, and this will see you out freely.
Apart from that, they also know how to evaluate your case and game plan. This is because they understand the uniqueness of your case and they will do everything to make sure that you win.
Most of the people prefer drug defense attorney since they will protect your right and against heavy penalties. You should know that even if you are a criminal, you have the rights to be protected. Drug defense attorney has to make sure that all your rights are protected. Besides, they will also appeal for your penalty to be reduced.
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How to Use Drizly Reports to Grow Sales
Tap into data insights to maximize online alcohol delivery success
The most successful Drizly retailers have more in common than exceptional customer service and great product selections. They also utilize a secret weapon: Drizly reports. Available to all of the company's partners across the country, Drizly reports can help retailers increase sales and stay ahead of the competition.
"Reviewing reports helps retailers make smarter purchasing decisions and provides insights into what's selling in their area," says Kathryn Lehman, Drizly's director of account management. "I recommend looking at them at least once a week, or ideally, every day."
Following are Lehman's tips for how to effectively utilize Drizly's reports to grow sales and maximize success.
Retailer Score Report
When customers search on Drizly for a product that's available from multiple stores in their area, a numerical rating pops up next to each retailer's name. That number is the retailer score. Ranging from five to 10, the rating is based on factors that affect the customer experience, such as the percentage of orders delivered within 60 minutes, product substitution rates, and individual order ratings.
"If I'm a consumer, I'm using bits and pieces of information on the product display page to make my purchasing decision," says Lehman. "The retailer score gives store owners the ability to compete on more than just price." If, for example, a consumer needs to ensure their order arrives in 60 minutes or less, they may choose a retailer with a higher score to help ensure a timely delivery.
Using Drizly's Retailer Score report, retailers can drill down to view the metrics behind their ratings and see where they may need to make improvements. "They can use the information to identify training and education opportunities for their staff," Lehman says. "They can say to their drivers, 'We're not meeting delivery time expectations, but if we do, our score will increase.'"
My Top-Selling Items Report
This is Drizly's meatiest report, Lehman says, and the one that deserves the most attention. Not only does it rank the retailer's best-selling Drizly items, it includes data for each product on sales gains or declines, as well as best-selling product sizes, sales totals, and the number of units sold. The report can also be filtered to show rankings for a particular product category.
"This is literally telling the store what customers are purchasing most often," says Lehman, "and it's a consistent reminder to always have these items in stock."
Justin George, a Drizly retailer based in Denver, uses the report to refine his store's pricing strategies. If one of his lower-ranking items is priced significantly lower at a nearby shop, he may decide to adjust his pricing to be more competitive.
Top-Selling Items I Don't Carry Report
Along with knowing the online sales rankings of their most popular products, it's important for retailers to monitor hot-selling items they are not currently stocking. With Top-Selling Items, store managers can find out what the best sellers are in their local area, as well as nationally.
"I would definitely encourage all retailers to look at this on a regular basis," says Lehman, "and use the information to make sure they're not missing out on new customers and conversions."
One of Drizly's partners in Boston regularly uses the report to make purchasing decisions. When wine, beer, and spirits representatives come into his store to sell his staff on new products, he checks the Top-Selling Items I Don't Carry report to see how those products are selling in his area.
"It's not just an opportunity for them to buy new items for their store," Lehman says. "It's also a chance for retailers to double check the accuracy of their point-of-sale to ensure that quantities are positive and everything has the right pricing in place."
Drizly retailers may also work with their account manager to request custom reports to help them increase sales and grow their businesses. For example, they may request data on Drizly's top-selling gift items in preparation for the holidays, or ask for rankings of the most popular pumpkin beers for the upcoming fall season.
"We have unlimited data available to us," Lehman says. "The possibilities really span the spectrum."


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New Rail Link For Glasgow Airport
New rail link for Glasgow Airport?
Published: 29th November 2015
Proposals considered for tracks
New proposals have been put forward to revive the concept of a rail link to Glasgow Airport.
One proposal, estimated to cost £144 million, would involve a tram-train link using existing tracks between Glasgow and Paisley and new alignments between Paisley and the airport and in Glasgow city centre.
The other possibility would provide a light rail link between Paisley Gilmour Street station and the airport, at a cost of £102 million.
The previous £120 million concept for a Glasgow Airport Rail Link involved electric trains from Glasgow Central station leaving the Gourock line just after Paisley on a new alignment. That plan was dropped by the devolved Scottish Government in 2009 but work on capacity enhancement went ahead between Glasgow Central and Paisley.
Glasgow and Renfrewshire councils have developed the new proposals. If go-ahead for one is given, it would be part of a £1.13 billion "city deal" for Glasgow and the Clyde Valley, mostly funded by the UK and Scottish governments.
If approved by a "cabinet" representing eight local authorities in the Glasgow and Clyde area, further preparatory work would be done before a final go-ahead.
If the tram-train concept is chosen, construction could start in 2021 with completion possible in 2025.
Abellio ScotRail travelling classroom takes in the Forth Bridge
Under its franchise contract for ScotRail, Abellio has introduced a "travelling classroom" concept for selected schools as part of the Scottish Business in the Community scheme.
The pilot journey involved primary seven pupils from Pitteuchar West Primary School in Fife who travelled across the Forth Bridge to Dalmeny from Glenrothes with Thornton station on 24 November.
A formal launch came on 25 November with an interactive "travelling classroom" experience from Larbert through Falkirk to Edinburgh for 20 S1 pupils and their teachers from Carrongrange School in Larbert.
http://www.scotrail.co.uk/


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what lies in wait: security threats in 2015
December 18, 2014 Security
2015 is the thirtieth anniversary of two significant cybersecurity publications: The Hackers Handbook in the UK, and Phrack Magazine in the US. Both were considered seminal publications in cybersecurity, providing detailed instructions for penetrating and manipulating computer systems when the first edition of Microsoft Windows was only just rolling off the shelves.
Since then, the computing world has expanded beyond all recognition, and the cyberthreat landscape has changed with it. We asked several cybersecurity experts what they thought the critical cybersecurity trends would be like in the coming year.
1. enterprise extortion attacks will rise
2014 was bookended by a big, nasty attack on Sony. The firm was hacked and threatened with data exposure if demands were not met. Expect more of the same in 2015, warns Jason Wood, a principal security consultant at cybersecurity security consulting firm Secure Ideas.
Consumers have endured ransomware attacks for years, in which attackers blackmail them to get their maliciously encrypted data back. Prepare to see enterprise-scale extortion attacks on the rise, warns Wood.
"Destruction of resources on a large scale has happened a few times now, and may become a more frequent issue. Bad guys may actually be able to get some money out of holding an organization's data and systems hostage."
2. two-factor authentication (2FA) will become mainstream
The era of passwords isn't dead, but alternative mechanisms will hit the mainstream in 2015, experts suggest. "We have to see a shift away from passwords. You just have to look at LinkedIn and the compromise that happened," warns Jamal Elmellas, technical director of IT security consulting firm Auriga, referring to a massive data 2012 data breach in which 6.5 million stolen LinkedIn passwords were posted online.
Poor password management meant that at least 60% of the hashed passwords were cracked in days. "Someone accesses a database somewhere, and encryption and hashing is weak. Someone gains access to lots of passwords, and guess what? We're all human beings, and we all use the same passwords."
There are alternatives emerging, argues John Pescatore, director of emerging security trends at the SANS Institute. Until now, users have hated anything other than reusable passwords, he explains.
"That's reached the tipping point, where people are saying 'rather than having to change my credit card numbers all over again, I'm willing to sign up for Google Authentication, where it sends me a text message'," he says.
This is already finding its way into consumer applications, and now he thinks that it will find its way into the enterprise, too. At a recent SANS healthcare security summit, several healthcare firms announced trials of two-step verification via phones.
3. M2M will become an attack vector
It isn't just passwords and data that will be compromised, warns Dr Aditya Sood, author of Targeted Cyber Attacks. Stand by for everything for the Internet's connected sensors to become major attack vectors, too.
"Hot targets will include the abuse and exploitation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) to launch attacks through digital appliances or gadgets," he says, arguing that this will make it harder to gather useful data for analysis and attribution.
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) will also be high value targets, due to the critical operations that they represent, warns Sood. Just recently, Admiral Michael Rogers of US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency said a handful of countries have the capability to mount cyberattacks to shut down part of the electrical grid in the US.
4. software will need to be verified
We can expect to see a greater focus on finding vulnerabilities in widely-used software, and the provability of software security will become more urgent, experts suggested.
2014 saw Heartbleed and Shellshock, a devastating collection of bugs in widely-used open source software that underpinned much of the Internet. Sood said that attackers will spend 2015 targeting critical software that is deployed at large scale in various places on the Internet. "This will be a trend, because detecting a security issue in critical software will have a mass impact on the Internet," he said.
This and other factors will lead to the fleshing out of security verifications for software in the coming year. With companies suspecting backdoors in software and firmware, we can expect to see more pressure on verifying software as loophole-free.
"One trend that we'll see is that all software vendors will start having to prove why someone should trust their software, and why it doesn't have back doors built in. This is already happening," Pescatore asserts. For example, Chinese software vendor NSFocus contracted Veracode, which checks third-party applications for vulnerabilities, to prove that its software was safe.
5. mobile hacking will be a target
Watch out for smartphone botnets that will be almost entirely Android-based, warns Sood. "Botnets will be developed or resurfaced both for mobile devices and standard computed systems," he says. "Android mobile devices will be a favorite attack target for the attackers next year because of ease of exploitation and exfiltration of data."
Another mobile target will be mobile connectivity devices, warns Pescatore. Mobile wireless access points designed to connect several Wi-Fi-enabled devices to mobile networks will become a critical attack vector in 2015, he suggests, as they become tools for people to circumvent enterprise firewalls.
"People can get around URL filters that block them from doing certain things, so now, all of a sudden you have a rogue Wi-Fi access point that doesn't even exit through the firewall," he says. "The scenario I'm really worried about is some cloud datacenter admin who says 'if I leave my Mi-Fi adaptor in the datacenter then I could administer my server remotely over the weekend'."
How best to protect against all of these threats? As always, a healthy combination of end-user education, up to date technology, and proper security processes will provide a layered defense. Adopting security at the heart of organizational processes, rather than as an afterthought, is even more important. Cyberprotection has to become part of an organization's DNA, rather than merely a cosmetic addition.
Find out more about Orange Business Services security solutions, and read about how the Orange CyberSOC can help protect your organization against many of these threats.


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17-year-old girl reported missing in Park County
Posted 3:25 pm, December 2, 2017, by Web Staff, Updated at 05:49AM, December 5, 2017
PARK COUNTY, Colo. -- A teenager has not been seen since Friday after a fire caused significant damage to her home, the Park County Sheriff's Office said.
Maggie Long, 17 of Bailey, was reported missing Friday after she didn't show up to a concert at Platte Canyon High School that she helped organize, the Canyon Courier reported.
Maggie Long's family is asking if anyone had any contact w/her after school (approx 2:30pm) until 8pm to please let them know https://t.co/T802VU2LE5 #MissingPerson @decriture pic.twitter.com/svmmshVEOx
— MyMountainTown (@MyMountainTown) December 2, 2017
Long went home to retrieve something before she planned to return to the school for the concert, the sheriff's office said. Her vehicle was at her home as of Saturday night.
Long's sister posted about her disappearance on Facebook on Friday night.
The fire broke out about 6 p.m. Friday in the 3700 block of County Road 43 that is being investigated as arson, the sheriff's office said.
No search parties are being organized, Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said in a statement.
A sheriff's office spokesman said the home is where Long long lives. There is significant damage to the home, but the spokesman said it's not clear if anyone was inside at the time of the fire.
A message posted to the sheriff's office Facebook page on Sunday apologized for keeping the details of the case under wraps.
The tweet read, "We are sorry we are unable to reveal more information. This is an arson investigation and we don't believe there is a risk to the public. We continue to ask for prayers for the Long family."
Platte Canyon School District RE-1 superintendent Brenda Krage said support in a letter to parents that supports resources will be available for students and staff at the school on Monday morning.
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In July 2009, the City Council agreed on a development plan for the former First Baptist Church that would create a hub for downtown activity with school programs for underprivileged Killeen children and access to health services.
The center would also be a home for arts and civic activities.
The City Council in July and September voted to amend the lease agreements with the organizations by increasing rent and requiring at least one organization to cover utility costs for the first time.
The city also added language in some of the leases that allowed the city to terminate the agreements at any time as long as written notice was provided and time was granted for the organizations to move out.
The aging space was set to become the centerpiece of the city's downtown revitalization plan — a farsighted overhaul of the downtown area that would attract tourists and new business while memorializing the city's history.
But by October 2017, the hub of that dream — the Killeen Arts and Activities Center — will be used for another purpose entirely, and the spirit of the area's revitalization rests in the balance.The council ultimately agreed, and a plan for the center's revitalization was underway and paid for by a number of sources, including block grant funding, and 20 issues of certificates of obligation — a form of debt that does not need voter approval and is most often used after a catastrophic event.THE LESSEES In 2011, the center began to grow into its multiple buildings centered on a garden walkway.Our event venue in Killeen, Texas is ideal for bringing people together for any occasion.Our large ballroom is capable of seating 200 guests theatre style and 100 guests banquet style.So what does this move mean for the ongoing downtown revitalization plan and access to services for downtown residents?


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FBI Agent Timothy Thibault Hid Intel From Whistleblower On Hunter And Joe Biden
Several sources claim that ex-FBI agent Timothy Thibault withheld information on Hunter and Joe Biden from a whistleblower, resulting in several pieces of evidence disappearing from the FBI.
The Washington Field Office assigned Timothy Thibault, the FBI agent suspected of interfering with a Hunter Biden investigation, as the "point man" to handle whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, the first son's former business partner, before the 2020 election. However, sources claim that Timothy Thibault suppressed Bobulinski's damning revelations.
On October 23, 2020, Bobulinski was privately questioned by the FBI for more than five hours on his inside information regarding then-presidential candidate Joe Biden's role in his son's business dealings with China.
According to an email discovered on Hunter's abandoned laptop, the day before, he had revealed in a press conference that Joe Biden was the "Big Guy" entitled to a 10% cut of a profitable joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC.
Along with emails and financial records describing the Biden family's corrupt influence-peddling operation in other countries during Joe's vice presidency, Bobulinski provided the FBI with the contents of three cellphones containing encrypted messages between Hunter and his business associates.
But it appears that his evidence disappeared into the same abyss as Hunter's laptop did at the FBI.
The tale he told
Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to journalists in 2020.
The "Big Guy" message and an email from a Ukrainian energy firm executive thanking Hunter for setting up a 2015 meeting with then-VP Biden in Washington were among the items from the laptop that were published by The Post the week before Bobulinski's FBI interview.
On the day Bobulinski visited the FBI's Washington Field Office, 11 days before the 2020 presidential election, he was instructed to enter by the back entrance of the unassuming, eight-story building in northwest DC, one mile from FBI headquarters, rather than through the front door.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Giulio Arseni and James Dawson, the special agent in charge of the Criminal and Cyber Division at the time, met with him.
They gave him to William Novak and Garrett Churchill, two more young agents, who conducted the recorded interview and issued a receipt for Bobulinski's digital data.
He discussed the work that Hunter, his uncle Jim Biden, and partners Rob Walker and James Gilliar accomplished in Oman, Romania, Georgia, and other countries while Joe was vice president in 2015 and 2016. He revealed to them how Hunter had a lucrative personal relationship with CEFC chairman Ye Jianming at the time the firm was arranging for China to buy Rosneft for $9 billion. Following the collapse of the transaction in 2018, Ye was detained in China.
In order to spread the influence of the Communist dictatorship around the world, CEFC served as the capitalist branch of China's Belt and Road plan.
Additionally, Bobulinski revealed to the FBI Hunter's connections to the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma's owner, oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, the billionaire Romanian Gabriel Popoviciu, and the former FBI Director Louis Freeh, whom Hunter hired as a consultant to help Popoviciu avoid facing corruption charges in his home country.
Several times during the interview, Churchill and Novak took a break to confer with Dawson, claims an insider.
An FBI forensic team and Arseni both occasionally entered the room.
Thibault's cell phone number was provided to Bobulinski and his attorney, and they were informed that he would serve as their "point man" at the FBI going forward.
The following evening, Bobulinski's attorney called Thibault, who promised to give advice shortly on what to do next and whether Bobulinski needs to conduct a follow-up interview.
However, Bobulinski and his attorney were never approached again. Bobulinski was also not summoned before the Delaware grand jury looking into Hunter.
Last July, Dawson relocated to the Little Rock, Arkansas, field office.
The Office of Special Counsel is looking into Thibault's anti-Trump social media statements, and Republican senators have publicly accused him of burying Hunter Biden evidence that may have hurt Joe's candidacy. Thibault left the FBI last week.
'Improperly discredited'
Sen. Chuck Grassley received allegations from whistleblowers that Hunter Biden's alleged "criminal financial and associated activities" was the subject of a closed investigation in the same month as Bobulinski's FBI interview.
In a letter six weeks ago to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley stated: "An avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of ASAC Thibault."
"It's been alleged that the FBI HQ team suggested to the FBI agents that the information was at risk of disinformation; however, according to allegations, [it] was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants … Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason, as required by FBI guidelines [and] it's alleged that FBI officials, including ASAC Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future."
Additionally, according to Grassley, an evaluation opened by FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten in August 2020 was utilised by an FBI headquarters team to "improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease … Verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation."
Timothy Thibault recently retired.
Last week, Thibault refuted Grassley's claims. He "did not supervise the investigation of Hunter Biden which… is being handled by the Baltimore Field Office," according to a statement from his pro bono counsel.
"In particular, Mr. Thibault was not involved in any decisions related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation and he did not seek to close the investigation."
However, Thibault makes no mention of how he used Bobulinski's information in his statement.
Did he give it to the FBI field office in Baltimore, which had been helping Delaware US Attorney David Weiss with his four-year investigation into Hunter for alleged tax evasion, money laundering, and foreign agent violations?
If he did, why hasn't Bobulinski appeared before the grand jury that Weiss called last year?
According to a source, during the testimony of Hunter's other business associates, at least one of them was questioned about "the Big Guy."
A credible source
Given that the FBI has had the laptop since December 2019 and is confident it is legitimate, it is puzzling why Bobulinski, who met twice with Joe Biden in 2017 regarding the CEFC deal and supplied evidence that supports incriminating data on Hunter's laptop, is not a star witness.
It's not like Bobulinski lacks a lot of credibility. He has top secret security credentials from the Department of Energy and the National Security Agency. He is a decorated former officer in the US Navy. He is a wealthy businessman who has given to both political parties.
It was the FBI's responsibility to look into any solid evidence that the future president may have been corrupted by China through millions of dollars paid to his family.
There is no justification for the FBI's failure to follow up with Bobulinski after the 2016 Hillary email scandal, even if the agency was unwilling to take any action that might be seen as political during an election campaign.
The FBI's failure to do so amounts to electoral interference in 2020 by omission.


New iPad multitasking gestures are not so hot with a toddler.
When iOS 5.0.1 came out my original iPad got new multitasking gestures. I was excited because now I could use four or five-finger gestures to swipe up and reveal the multitasking bar, pinch to return to the Home screen, and swipe left or right to switch between apps.
As I was testing them out I was finding it a bit difficult at first. However when Lily took ahold of the iPad, she had no problems; and that was a problem.
She's be playing her piano app and use her whole hand to hit all the keys; which then registered as a five-finger gesture. Before we knew it, her piano app was gone and she was now in Facebook, or Mail, or whatever else I had open.
Turns out, the new multitasking gestures are cool, but I still don't get to take advantage of them unless I remember to turn them off when Lily uses the iPad.
Next Google Music's uploader app finally adds playlist support.
I've found that with the multi-tasking as well, but just remembering to turn it off when the kids are using it is all we need to do! Otherwise we find a tendency for other things we're working on in the background to vanish when we get the iPad back!


I was recently in Staples and the clerk asked if I would like my receipt sent to me. I told him a paper one would be fine and then he said, "I can do both." He was still trying to get my email address. My friend is the manager so I went over to talk with him.
I laughed but realized how seriously they take their emails. Before going to Staples, I was in Home Depot buying a bag of rock salt, and of course I was asked if I wanted an email receipt.
Two famous thought leaders would have loved the concept of email marketing. Peter Drucker said, "If you can't measure it you can't improve it," and American statistician W. Edwards Deming famously said, "In God we trust, all others must bring data." One thing about email marketing, it can be measured.
Email marketing is a real arena for big and small business. If you're not marketing to your customers you can be sure your competitors are. We all know that Home Depot is constantly staying in touch and letting customers know when they are having specials, including flooring.
If you really want to get into the swing of things here are a few email marketing tips.
Sign up with an email marketing company so you can develop a marketing program that will automatically be sent out to your valued customers. This will make sure your campaign will get out on time and that you have assistance with your program. A good company will not only help you plan but will have content for you.
Look ahead, way ahead. You don't want to miss important holidays or events. February is Go Red for Women. The American Heart Association created this event to draw attention to women and heart problems. During this month you can raise money and hold an event for the cause. This is a good way to connect with your female customers, and the American Heart Association might also include your event in their email blast.
Find ways to connect with other businesses that have a substantial email list. You can hold an event with them and share your lists. Hopefully their customers will come to your event and you will be able to put their emails in your database.
Emails can go viral if you have a "share" button on the top. Don't forget to tell your readers to share the event on their social media pages or directly to their friends.
Your emails should drive customers to a specific landing page or offer you want them to see. Create a white paper that they can sign up for. This allows you to see you're your customers are looking at.
If you want to hear more about email marketing I will be presenting "10 Ways to Attract Customers to Your Store" and sharing a "Case Study on After- Sale Marketing" at TISE on Jan. 17 and 18, respectively.


Ninety six (96) dipole-dipole resistivity sounding curves acquired with Mac-Ohm II resistivity meter over the Birimian, Intrusives, Tarkwaian and Voltaian rocks underlying Ashanti Region have been analyzed qualitatively to identify their characteristic shapes over each rock type. Geoelectrical sections have also been modeled from the curves and drill logs obtained close to the sounding points. Four (4) major three (3)-geoelectrical sections were identified. These were characterized by the H, A, Q and K- type curves which corresponded to the resistivity sequence r1>r2r2>r3, r1r3 respectively. Over the Birimian rocks, near surface resistiv-ity values ranged from100-600 ohm-m within the depths from 0-9 m. A moderately resistive stra-tum with values ranging from 200-500 ohm-m formed the second layer, and could be found to the depths of about 25 m. The low resistivity (conductive) zones were encountered at depths be-tween 25-40 m with values ranging from 180-250 ohm-m. The Intrusive rocks indicated resistiv-ity values in the range from 500-600 ohm-m for the first layer with thickness 11 m, overlying a more resistive second stratum with values ranged from 800-1700 ohm-m and of thickness 11 m, This in turn overlay a low resistive zone between 22-40 m depth with values 180-1200 ohm-m. The Tarkwaian rocks recorded the range from 500-1300 ohm-m as the first layer resistivity val-ues between 0-9 m depth, the second layer resistivity values were relatively lower than the upper stratum and ranged from 400-850 ohm-m to the depth of 23 m. The bottom layer resistivity indi-cated values from 200-400 ohm-m within the depths of 23-40 m. Formations over the Voltaian rocks recorded the lowest range of resistivity generally from 60-200 ohm. The top layer values ranged from 60-110 ohm m, the middle layer from 160-200 ohm m and the bottom layer re-cording values within the range from 60 -100 ohm m. The old rocks such as the Intrusives, Tark-waian and the Birimian seem to exhibit higher values of resistivity measurements. However the low values of resistivity close to 40 m depth as well as the significant rise to higher values could indicate the approach of the fractured basement rock which could indicate potential target in groundwater exploration programs.


You can coach yourself to success. Just listen to your inner mantra.
How Success Happens is a podcast featuring polar explorers, authors, ultra marathoners, artists and more to better understand what connects dreaming and doing. Linda Lacina, Entrepreneur.com's managing editor, guides these chats so anyone can understand the traits that underpin achievement and what fuels the decisions to push us forward. Listen below or click here to read more shownotes.
Watching Robin Arzon talking through one of her hard-driving (and explicit) spin classes for Peloton, it's hard to imagine her doing anything else. But just a few years ago, her workday meant sitting in an office, not on a bike, clocking nearly 90 hours a week as a corporate litigator.
After hours and hours of delving into everything from SEC rules to intellectual property law, she lived to run. She got so much enjoyment out of exercising, she realized she'd much rather run for a living. Slowly, she transformed herself into an ultra marathoner, cycler and bestselling author. Today she's also the vice president of fitness programming at the cycling company Peloton, doing everything from shaping content to getting on a bike herself to motivate students who livestream her class from across the country.
She made this transformation, in part, thanks to her ability to use words to coach herself -- and others. During a horrifying near-death experience in her 20s, her use of words to coach and connect helped her defuse a gunman, a connection that saved her life and the lives of others.
Today, inner mantras help her run ultra marathons, with words acting as a sort of drum beat through every step. An understanding of words and story also helps her check in with not just herself, but the students in her classes, providing them with the small adjustments that make big impacts.
Learn more about how Arzon used storytelling and words to transform her life and become a one-woman fitness brand in our latest episode of How Success Happens.
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First, let's make sure that your Nanit will get a strong Wi-Fi signal in your nursery.
1. Place the Wall Mount down in an upright position and attach the Nanit Camera. When you feel a click, the camera is properly connected.
2. Connect the Wall Mount USB to the power adapter, and plug the adapter into your electrical outlet. Within less than a minute, you should see a flashing light from the back of the camera.
3. Open the Nanit app and tap register to create your account, or log in if you already have one. Once you're logged in, follow the in-app instructions to continue the setup process.
4. Once your camera is successfully paired with your Wi-Fi network, unplug the power adapter from your outlet and remove the Nanit Camera from the Wall Mount for an easier installation.
Now that we have your Nanit successfully paired with your Home Wi-Fi we can begin the assembly of your Wall Mount.
1. Use the mounting template to mark the anchor hole on the wall.
2. Drill a hole. Use the anchor and the screw to hang the bracket.
This will help us figure out where the rest of our holes should go!
3. Adjust wall bracket angle by using the included level. Mark the bottom 2 anchor holes.
4. Attach the mounting bracket to the wall using provided anchors and screws.
5. It's time to attach your Wall Mount.
6. Wipe the wall to remove dust from drilling. Then, attach the 6 cable covers to the wall straight down.
7. Choose the left or right elbow joint depending on where your power outlet is located. Attach elbow joint.
8. Start to attach the horizontal cable covers.
9. Repeat for remaining cable covers until complete.
10. Attach the end cap.
11. Snap the Camera into the Wall Mount until you feel a click. Plug the power adapter into your outlet. You should see your Night Light begin to flash and Live Stream return to the Nanit App within a minute.
12. Ta-da! You're up and running, and ready to put your crib back in place. Once your crib is back in place, continue following the in-app instructions to make sure your crib is positioned correctly.
Need to move or remove your Nanit? No Problem.


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Basic Needs and Intergenerational Climate Justice (ongoing)
Workshop - Ruling in a Wanton World: Arthur Applbaum's Work and the Philosophy of Legitimacy Beyond the State (ongoing)
Meaning in Life and the Future of Humanity (ongoing)
JUSTDECARB - Socially Just and Politically Robust Decarbonisation (ongoing)
LEXAT (ongoing)
Doctoral Programme Climate Change (ongoing)
Journal Moral Philosophy & Politics (ongoing)
RefWorks database Moral and Political Philosophy (ongoing)
Climate Justice. The Significance of Historical Emissions (completed)
Critical Ethics (completed)
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European Trans-disciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering (completed)
Rights to a Green Future. (ENRI-Future)
Sustainable Climate Risk Management (SCRiM) (completed)
Adjusting efforts in the global greenhouse (...)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 5th Assessment Report (completed)
Better Writing in Master's Programmes (completed)
Section Moral and Political Philosophy
Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as one of the main areas of concern in the 21st century. Strategies to deal with climate change and its possible consequences are imbued with uncertainty. The DK attempts to reach a better understanding of climate change uncertainties and, while doing so, to develop criteria for thresholds, namely critical points where a small change in a system suffices to induce a qualitative change in the system or in different systems. These considerations will be connected with the development and evaluation of possible strategies to cope with climate change.
For further information please visit the Doctoral Programme Climate Change website.
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Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (UMK3) is a fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series, originally developed and released by Midway Games to arcades in 1995. It is an update of 1995's earlier Mortal Kombat 3 (MK3) with an altered gameplay system, additional characters and stages, and some new features.
Several home port versions of the game were soon released after the arcade original, although none were completely identical to the arcade version. Later home versions emulated the arcade original with more accuracy, including Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, which included the game alongside its predecessors Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II. Some versions were released under different titles: Mortal Kombat Advance for the Game Boy Advance and Ultimate Mortal Kombat for the Nintendo DS. The iPhone/iPod version recreates the game using a 3D graphics engine.
UMK3 was well received and has been considered a high point for the Mortal Kombat series. It was later updated to include more content from previous games in the series as part of the console-exclusive Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
Several ninja characters absent from Mortal Kombat 3 return in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, including Kitana, Jade, Reptile and Scorpion on the prototype version; a new Ultimate Kombat Code was added in revision 1.0 to enable Mileena, Ermac and Classic Sub-Zero as secret characters. Two new gameplay modes were introduced: the 2-on-2 mode which was similar to an Endurance match but with human players on both sides, and a new eight-player Tournament mode.
Several miscellaneous features were added to and changed in UMK3. The original red portal background used for the 'Choose Your Destiny' screen is now blue and an extra Master difficulty is present. In the additional 'Master' difficulty setting, Endurance Matches return, in which the player can face as many as three opponents in a given round; these had not been seen in the series since the first Mortal Kombat. Shao Kahn's Lost Treasures - selectable prizes, of which some are extra fights and others lead to various cutscenes or other things - are introduced after either the main game or the eight-player tournament are completed. Shang Tsung's transformations are accompanied by announcements of the name of the character he is changing into.
To balance the gameplay, some characters were given new moves and some existing moves were altered. Some characters were given extra combos and some combos were made to cause less damage. Chain combos could be started by using a jump punch (vertical or angled) or a vertical jump kick, which creates more opportunities to use combos. Combos that knock opponents in the air no longer send one's opponent to the level above in multi layered levels; only regular uppercuts do this.
The computer-controlled opponent AI was improved in the game. However, three new flaws were introduced along with the revisions: while backflipping away from an opponent, if the player performs a jump kick, the AI character will always throw a projectile; this leaves the computer character vulnerable to some attacks and can easily lead into a devastating combo. If the player walks back-and-forth within a certain range of the AI character, the opponent will mimic the player's walking movements for the whole round and never attack. If the computer opponent is cornered, the player can repeatedly perform punches without the AI character stumbling back, thus allowing the player to win easily.
UMK3 features several new backgrounds: Scorpion's Lair/Hell (this stage also contains a new Stage Fatality, where an uppercut can send the opponent into a river of lava); Jade's Desert (in a reference to his MK3 ending, Cyrax is seen stuck waist-deep in sand in the background); River Kombat/The Waterfront; Kahn's Kave/The Cavern; Blue Portal/Lost (a combination of the background from the UMK3 'Choose Your Destiny' screen, the Pit 3 bridge, and the mountains and bridge from the Pit II in Mortal Kombat II); Noob's Dorfen (based on the Balcony stage, which can now be played using a Kombat Kode without having to fight Noob to see it as in MK3). Before reaching any of the original MK3 backgrounds in 1- or 2-player mode, the game must cycle through all of the UMK3 exclusive backgrounds twice. Scorpion's Lair, Secret Cave and Abandoned River stages are selectable by using a password while on the missing Bank Stage cycle. In Scorpion's Lair, fighters can uppercut each other into Kahn's Kave.
Some elements from MK3 are missing in UMK3. The only biographies featured are those of Kitana, Jade, Scorpion and Reptile (the ninja characters who were not included in MK3), which are the only four shown during attract mode, while all of the biographies and the full-body portraits of the MK3 characters are missing. The biographies that do appear in the game are presented differently from those in MK3, as are the endings. The storyline images and text do not appear. Finally, the Bank and Hidden Portal stages from MK3 were removed (Jade's Desert serves as a placeholder where The Bank stage used to appear once the player reaches the original MK3 level cycle).


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Das Naturschutzgebiet Kammerwoog-Krechelsfels liegt im Landkreis Birkenfeld in Rheinland-Pfalz.

Das etwa 49 ha große Gebiet, das im Jahr 1998 unter Naturschutz gestellt wurde, erstreckt sich in zwei Teilgebieten entlang der Nahe zwischen der Stadt Idar-Oberstein im Norden und dem Stadtteil Enzweiler im Süden. Zwischen den beiden Teilgebieten verläuft die B 41. Beim südlichen Bereich verlaufen die B 41 und die Landesstraße L 176 am westlichen Rand.

Schutzzweck des Gebietes ist die Entwicklung und Erhaltung
 der geologisch-morphologischen Eigenart
 als Standort seltener in ihrem Bestand bedrohter wildwachsender Pflanzen und Pflanzengesellschaften
 als Lebensraum bestandsbedrohter Tierarten.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Naturschutzgebiete im Landkreis Birkenfeld

Weblinks
 Kammerwoog-Krechelsfels (Karte) auf protectedplanet.net
 13424 Rechtsverordnung über das Naturschutzgebiet "Kammerwoog-Krechelsfels" Landkreis Birkenfeld vom 16. März 1998 (PDF) auf naturschutz.rlp.de

Naturschutzgebiet im Landkreis Birkenfeld
Geographie (Idar-Oberstein)
Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) in Europa

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Q: Plot's labels are being cut in ggarrange (Rmarkdown) I'm trying to present two pie plots, one beside another, in HTML report that I create using Rmarkdown.
The problem is, that the labels are being cut in the HTML file.
I know how to solve it when I save the ggarange object into file, but not here...
I also tried to use plot_grid instead, it didn't solve it.
Thank you!
My code:
piePlot <- function(table,title)
{
  colnames(table) <- c("group","numOfSamples")
  table <- table %>% mutate(per = percent(numOfSamples / sum(Info$numOfSamples)))
  ggpie(table, "numOfSamples", fill = "group", color = "group",legend='none',
        label = paste(table$group,table$per,"\n","(",table$numOfSamples,")"),
        label.size=0.05,
        palette = rainbow(length(table$group), s = 0.4)) + coord_polar(theta = "y", clip = "off") +
    ggtitle(title) +  theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5))
}

fruits <- data.frame(c("Apples","Bannana","Orange","Grapes", "lemon", "cherry"),c(12,34,67,23,54,36))
vegetables <- data.frame(c("Onion","Garlic","Tomato","Potato","Carrot", "cucumber"),c(6,3,51,12,16,9))

fruitsPlot <- piePlot(fruits, "fruits")
vegPlot <- piePlot(vegetables, "vegetables")

final <- ggarrange(fruitsPlot, vegPlot)

rmarkdown::render(
  input = "RMD_input.Rmd",
  output_file = stringr::str_glue("htmloutput.html"),
  output_format = "html_document",
  params = list(final = final))

rmarkdown file:
---
title: "test0_analysis_run"
author: "Gil"
date: "6/19/2022"
params:
  final: "no graph"
output: pdf_document
---

<style type="text/css">
.main-container {
  max-width: 1800px;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}
</style>

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)```

## R Markdown

```{r echo=FALSE}
plot(final)```

And my results: (as you can see, the cherry label is being cut)


Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by skeeta, Aug 24, 2005.
Can I change some configuration file to allow 3 letter usernames (ie les, bob & sue) as I am trying to convert an existing site without upsetting the users!
By changing the code above, am I correct to assume that the normal/default login for webmail and ftp can be changed to just a username? Or better yet, firstname_lastname? Please tall me it's possible!?
If you don't want the prefix then you can leave empty the field User Prefix under Management -> System Config -> Settings -> ISP Manager.
Yes, I know where that is. But I was under the impression that the prefix was manditory. Thanks again for pointing this out. I suppose there would be some slight implication by not providing a prefix?
Point taken till. But I don't think that applies to me as I don't have clients. Only friends and family, so I have full control on who I want to register and what names I want to give them.
Others might take heed to your posts though. As for myself, I just want to make this as least painfull to my computer illiterate parents and friends.


An authority and with experience of more than 35 years in tropical soils, Dr. Param runs his own company known as Param Agricultural Soil Surveys (M) Sdn. Bhd. He has served the Department of Agriculture as Head of Soil Survey Division and later on joined in as an Associate Professor at the Agriculture University.
Dr. Paramananthan has been a member of a number of International Soil Classification Committees. He has worked extensively in soil surveys in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. Over the last five years he has carried out soil surveys in Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Cambodia, Madagascar and Timur Leste.
He has authored over 70 publications and is the author of the Field Legend for Soil Surveys in Malaysia which is currently being used in Malaysia. He also published the Malaysian Soil Taxonomy which unifies the soils mapped in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak into a single unified system and the Soils of Malaysia, Vol. 1.


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We got up this morning and decided to do a quick trip to see the Congaree np since we've read about it. It's about 20 miles south of Columbia and has some of the tallest hardwoods in the US. We did the 2.4 mile boardwalk hike through the bald Cypress, loblolly pines and water tupelo's. Very nice walk and saw some huge trees. After we got back to the camper (you can't camp here other than in a tent), we decided to go check out Santee state park instead of going home. Very nice and quiet park with a nice view of Lake Marion.
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Did US beer mergers cause a price increase?
The American football season is here. Bud, Miller, or Coors, the classic American lagers, are the beverage of choice to accompany the big game throughout the US. Despite the recent surge of microbrews and imports, the big three brands still capture more than 60% of the market. With the recent merger of Miller and Coors, only two large national brewers remain. No doubt many beer drinkers have wondered whether this merger has raised the price of their brand.
Football season is here. Bud, Miller, or Coors, the classic American lagers, are the beverage of choice to accompany the big game throughout the US. Despite the recent surge of microbrews and imports, the big three brands still capture more than 60% of the market. With the recent merger of Miller and Coors only two large national brewers remain. No doubt many beer drinkers have wondered whether this merger has raised the price of their brand.
We have recently taken up the task of answering this question. We did this for two related reasons.
We wanted to measure net price increases to beer drinkers.
But we also wanted to see if we could sort out (a) the cost savings that might result from beer production being closer to consumers from (b) the monopolistic pressure on prices that mergers encourage.
As it turns out, breweries make a great place to study these two issues because shipping beer to markets far away is costly.
What did we find? Well, it turns out there were both anti-competitive effects of the merger and cost saving effects. What this means in practice is that whether a beer drinker faced a price increase or a price decrease depended on where the drinker lived. On average prices neither increased nor decreased, with increases in some markets being offset by decreases in others.
In theory, a merger gives the combined firm an incentive to increase price. Some of the sales that would have been lost pre-merger following a price increase are now recaptured because the product portfolio owned by the firm has increased. Simultaneously, the merger can result in reductions in marginal cost that provide the combined firm with an incentive to lower prices.
This cost-versus-margin trade-off has been understood by antitrust economists since at least the publication of Williamson's (1968) classic paper describing the welfare analysis of mergers. It has been included in the US evaluation of mergers since the publication of the 1982 version of the US Department of Justice's and Federal Trade Commission's Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Surprisingly, given their potential importance to policy analysis, there is very little direct evidence that merger specific efficiencies (reductions in marginal cost) can offset the incentive of a merger firm to increase price.
In June of 2008, the US Department of Justice approved a joint venture between Miller and Coors, then the second and third largest firms in the industry. Although the merger substantially increased concentration in an already concentrated industry, it was allowed because of anticipated reductions in shipping and distribution costs (Heyer et al. 2008). Prior to the merger Coors was brewed in only two locations, while Miller was brewed in six locations more uniformly distributed across the US. The merger was expected to allow the combined firm to economise on shipping costs primarily by moving the production of Coors into Miller plants. These are exactly the kind of cost savings that could offset any incentive to increase prices through a loss of competition.
Two features of the beer industry assist us in estimating the effects of the merger.
First, by law beer is sold through a three-tier distribution chain.
With minor exceptions, a brewer must first sell its products to a state-licensed distributor who then sells these products to a retail outlet. These regulations effectively split the US into a number of distinct markets in which brewers can charge different wholesale prices without fear that they will be arbitraged away by transhipment.
Second, there were substantial differences in how the merger was expected to increase concentration and reduce costs across markets in our data.
These two features of beer markets create a natural experiment that allowed us to identify how a merger of firms selling national brands changed pricing.
The basic idea in our paper is to compare price changes across regions that differed in the size of Miller and Coors prior to the merger and how the merger would reduce the distance to the nearest brewery.
Figure 1 demonstrates the approach we took in its simplest form.
The figure compares the average price growth before and after the merger of all lager-style beers to changes in predicted increases in concentration and the reduction in distance.
The first panel shows that average prices grew faster in regions where the merger was expected to increase concentration by more, as measured by the increase in the Herfindhal Index (sum of squared market shares), holding constant the reduction in distance.
On the other hand, price growth tended to be lower in markets where the reduction in distance to the nearest Coors brewery was greater, holding constant the market power effect.
We also explored the timing of these two effects. Firms can likely leverage any increase in market power very soon after the merger is consummated or even after it is announced and management teams begin anticipating combining operations. In contrast, efficiencies gained through shifting production will not be realised until the merger is actually consummated and then may be realised only with some time.
Figure 2 traces out the timing of the effect of the predicted increase in concentration on pricing.
The figure shows that while there is some evidence that the merged firm started increasing prices as soon as the merger was announced, prices increased gradually.
Figure 3 presents the timing of the effect of the reduced distance on pricing. The figure shows that the reductions in shipping costs were not passed through until about a year and a half after the merger was approved, consistent with industry documents describing the operations of the combined firm.
We find that the efficiency effect eventually nearly exactly offset the market power effect in the average market. Despite reducing the number of macro brewers in the US from three to two, the Miller/Coors merger did not harm the average consumer.
Over the past 20 years a large number of studies have studied how mergers have changed pricing. In a meta-analysis, Kwoka (2013) shows that most studies have found that prices rise after competitors merge. However, not all papers find price increases. The evidence in the petroleum industry is mixed, and Ashenfelter and Hosken (2010) found that four out of five large mergers of retail consumer-product manufacturers raised prices. Presumably, cost savings are the reason why some of the studied mergers of competitors did not result in higher prices. Our current work suggests this is the case and takes a step towards getting inside the black box of how mergers change pricing incentives.
Ashenfelter, Orley and Daniel Hosken, "The Effects of Mergers on Prices: Evidence from Mergers on the Enforcement Margin," Journal of Law and Economics, 2010, 53 (3), 417-66.
Heyer, Ken, Carl Shapiro and Jeffrey Wilder, "The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division, 2008-2009," Review of Industrial Organization, 2008, 35, 349-67.


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The role of women in the early film industry, both on screen and behind the scenes, is the focus of a resource that asks class members to analyze movie posters and DVD covers from the 1910s and 1920s. Using examples drawn from the National Women's History Museum's online exhibit Women in Early Film, pupils consider how societal attitudes toward gender, race, and sex influenced impacted the roles women played.
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