ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited a New Mexico detention facility housing 400 Central American women and children Friday and warned immigrants that "we will send you back" if they try entering the country illegally.
The administration has requested emergency spending of $3.7 billion to open more detention centers, hire more immigration judges and take other steps to deal with the border crisis. But House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, said Friday that the House won't approve it.
"We need to make sure we go after the people who are misleading families," he said.
Johnson was also scheduled to meet Friday with officials in Weslaco, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, which has seen the biggest surge in illegal crossings.
More than 57,000 unaccompanied children and tens of thousands more Central Americans traveling as families have crossed the border since October, overwhelming Border Patrol facilities in South Texas.
The Artesia Center was opened in barracks of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. It now holds about 400 people but eventually will hold about 700 women and children, Johnson said.


We, the America's Best Flowers family, would like to show our appreciation by serving you, our Loyal Customers, FREE pizza on August 6th! What a fun day it will be. Brett Buchanan from Flying Cow Pizza, will be our pizza man between 11:00 – 3:00. Flying Cow Pizza is a portable brick oven on wheels. Please come join us for some really yummy pizza.
Remember to mark your calendar. Gather up the family and head on out to the country for lunch.
While you're here, take a tour of our greenhouses and grounds. The tremendous colors of the summer garden are everywhere. Butterflies and hummingbirds abound. What a great way to spend a Saturday. Please join us for food, flowers and fun!


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Fleetwood Mac invite Big Mac sellers from Fleetwood to Wembley show
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After campaign was launched earlier this year to get Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks to work at McDonald's in Fleetwood, band invite staff to London show.
Earlier this year, Facebook user Be Reet started a campaign to try and get Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks to work a shift at the McDonald's restaurant in the UK town of Fleetwood on September 28 this year.
The campaign – which was introduced by the line "Sell me fries, sell me sweet little fries" – received more than 21,000 likes, prompting the band to invite staff from the fast-food restaurant to Tuesday night's Fleetwood Mac show at Wembley.
The NME report the staff got the chance to meet the band backstage and then watched the set from the side of the stage.
Franchisee of Fleetwood McDonald's Nigel Dunnington told the website: "It was a fantastic evening seeing Fleetwood Mac live and to have the opportunity to share the experience with some of the Fleetwood team.
"Going down to the concert has been an incredible way to recognise some of our amazing employees. And, if Fleetwood Mac ever find themselves in the Fleetwood area, we'd love to return the favour and invite them back."
Earlier this year, Fleetwood Mac were forced to postpone the remainder of their North American tour when Stevie Nicks was recovering from a bout of the flu.
Their live dates will continue in Australia in August.
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We have lots of amazingly talented patients at Hill Country OB/Gyn. Many are small business owners and professionals in and around the community. I have asked Felicia Montgomery, co-owner of Solutions Pharmacy in Dripping Springs to share info about her small business as well as the reasons why she chooses Dr. Eduardo for her care.
Let me tell you about her first and then we'll share her thoughts about Hill Country in her own words. We have been referring to Solutions Pharmacy in Dripping Springs since October of 2017. They offer valuable programs like, FREE Diabetic Supplies, FREE Vitamins and Antibiotics for Kids, while using coupons and discounts to get you the best price on OTC, regular and compounded medications. If it's not on their shelves they will order it for you!! Solutions Pharmacy offers free delivery to most zip codes and has a drive thru for the pharmacy and The Acoffeecary Shop, a full service coffee and smoothie bar. They have a great staff that provides excellent service with a smile.
"I think the best marketing for doctors is word-of-mouth. I asked my sister-in-law and best friends for OB/GYN recommendations and the majority of women I asked used Hill Country OB/GYN. That said a lot to me, so I made the switch because I wanted to have an OB/GYN that I felt comfortable with, could easily talk to and one that help me make decisions.
So let's face it, annual visits and pap smears are not something I look forward to or run to with excitement (I don't think I'm alone in this). Hill Country OB/GYN does such great job of making me feel comfortable and taking the stress out of my appointments. My doctor was patient, not rushed and talked to me in language I understood without making me feel ridiculous (we've all probably had that happen before. Not cool.).
We are truly honored to care for all of our patients and appreciate you choosing us for your healthcare needs. We will feature our current talented patient's in future newsletters and on social media. If you have questions or inquiries please email us at helpme@ahcobgyn.com.
We are pleased to announce that all Hill Country OB/GYN doctors are "in network" GYN providers for Seton Health Alliance/Aetna Whole Health/1st Tier UHC Nexus as of July 1, 2018. We look forward to welcoming our returning patients and new patients to the quality services and new conveniences we have to offer.
All Hill Country OB/GYN doctors now have privileges at Seton Southwest Hospital for Gynecology care only. NO Obstetrics related services will be provided.
Schedule your appointments by contacting Appointments at (512) 462-1936 ext. 293. We also offer Online Appointment Requests!
We've grown with the South Austin area, so be sure to check out our physician biographies and our locations.
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Some people freeze pie crusts before putting them into the oven, but here is an easy alternative. Place your dough into the pie plate and trim away the excess. Line the pie dough with foil and fill the plate with dried beans or rice to weigh down the crust and keep it from shrinking. Bake 10 minutes, or until the crust is firm.
Lift the crust to the counter, and gently remove foil, taking care not to tear the crust. Prick crust with a fork, brush with egg white and bake another 5 minutes, or until pale gold. Cool.
No, it's not a myth. House dust mites are microscope bugs that primarily live on dead skin cells regularly shed from humans and their animal pets (hope you're not eating right now). Dust mites are harmless to most people. They don't carry diseases, but they can cause allergic reactions in asthmatics and others who are allergic to their feces. Winter is a great time to freshen your house by tossing mattresses, stuffed toys, cushions and pillows outside for at least 24 hours. As long as your fabrics are able to withstand moisture, you will be doing the entire household a favor by cleaning with little effort.
Extra tidbit: One ounce of dust contains nearly 42,000 living dust mites.
Note to teenagers who don't like making their bed: A study (Feb 2005) by Kingston University (London UK) showed that leaving your bed unmade each morning, with the sheets exposed to air, allows the sheets to dry out, and substantially reduces the numbers of dust mites.
Get rid of moths using one or a combination of the following: Cloves, dried lavender, peppermint, rosemary, mint, thyme, cinnamon sticks, eucalyptus, peppercorns, dried lemon peel and cedar (chips, balls, planks or essential oil–cedar lined closets, drawers or trunks). These natural fragrances are delightful to humans but will keep moths away. You can make sachets to stash in drawers, trunks or hang in closets using pretty cotton fabrics, plain cheesecloth, muslin, linen or clean nylons (knee highs or cut pantyhose). Or place leftover soap slivers into a vented plastic bag and pack them away. Fabrics will smell great and stay protected.
Dry cleaning or thoroughly washing items in hot water (temperature above 120°F for 20 to 30 minutes) kills all stages of insects. This is the most common and effective method for controlling moths in clothing, blankets, and other washable articles. For items that cannot be hot washed, wrap in plastic and place in the freezer for a day.
Mothballs containing the chemicals naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene are a dangerous solution. The balls produce vapors that, in sufficient concentration, will slowly kill insects. However, if the container is not airtight, the chemicals only weakly repel adults and any larvae already on clothes continue to feed. In addition, the balls give off a distinctive and unpleasant smell that can be very difficult to remove even after cleaning. They are poisonous and must be kept away from children and pets.
Extra tidbit: Change your vacuum bag regularly to ensure that you are getting the larvae out of your home.
I read your article on waterless hand cleaner where you state that in order to be approved by the FDA the product must contain at least 60% alcohol. Just letting you know there are non-alcoholic waterless hand cleaners approved by many of the world authorities such as FDA and Health Canada.
To keep spiders away: Gather fresh chestnuts in the fall. Pierce with a skewer and roll them under furniture and corners of rooms.


The pyramids of the Louvre shine in hard candy, the Guggenheim gleams in solid sugar, and gingerbread makes for convincing concrete on Zaha Hadid's Maxxi museum in this series of edible modern architecture. Photographed in black and white and illuminated from within, the collection of gingerbread museums by photographer Henry Hargreaves and food artist Caitlin Levin looks strikingly like the real deal.
The landmark museums depicted also include the Tate Modern, the Museum Aan de Stroom, Mexico City's Museo Soumaya and the Karuizawa Museum in Nagano, the latter of which is constructed almost entirely of Hershey's chocolate.
Bubble gum, candy balls, taffy, lollipop sticks, icing and licorice help create the illusion of bricks, textured stone, glazed walls and other architectural elements for the scale models.
The pieces go on display today at Dylan's Candy Bar in Miami for Art Basel 2013.


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Buffett to Jhunjhunwala: 15 most successful investors of all time
There are two quick ways to get rich. Either you work hard to earn money, or you make your money work hard for you. The second one appears simple, but investing in stocks or companies is by no means an easy job. There are countless considerations and infinite risks to take care of. Warren Buffett is one of the best examples of a successful investor. Here's a list of individuals who made their fortunes in the stock market
Warren Buffett is the most celebrated investor of all times. The investor's track record is unparalleled.
He started at the age of 20 when he purchased a Sinclair Texaco gas station as a side investment. In 1962, Buffett became a millionaire because of extensive profits from his partnerships. He then invested and later took control of the textile manufacturing firm, Berkshire Hathaway.
From 1965 to 2017, Berkshire Hathaway's rising market value generated a 20.9% annual return compared with the S&P 500's 9.9%, resulting in a cumulative gain of 2,404,748% versus the market's 15,508% return.
Then he diverted his attention towards the insurance sector. In 1988, Buffett started buying shares of The Coca-Cola Company and eventually ended up owning 7% of stake for nearly $1.02 billion. At present, he owns $18.35 billion worth stake in The Coca-Cola Company alone.
Berkshire Hathaway is set to pick up a stake in Paytm. The two companies have been discussing an investment of about $360 million that would value Paytm at around $10 billion.
George Soros is a Hungarian-born US-based business magnate and a prominent philanthropist. He started his career as a railway porter and a waiter before taking up a job at Singer & Friedlander Bank in London.
Soros skyrocketed to fame in September 1992, when he wagered $10 billion on a single bet against the British pound. This single currency speculation netted the investor a whopping sum of $1 billion in profits in a single day, and a total of nearly $2 billion over time.
Much of his wealth comes from hedge fund management, however, as Soros Fund Management LLC commands $26 billion in assets. Besides, investing in all major tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Soros Fund Management has recently invested in cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, dubbed as the Arabian Warren Buffett, parlayed a 1979 inheritance of $15,000 into a $23 billion business empire. He established a number of business ventures, initially focusing on construction and real estate. Over time, his investments rapidly grew and eventually led to the formation of Kingdom Holding Company, which invested in banking, telecommunications, broadcasting & media, entertainment, hospitality, computers and electronics, agriculture, restaurants, upscale fashion, retailing, supermarkets, tourism, travel, and automotive manufacturing.
Alwaleed was arrested on November 4, 2017, in a major crackdown on alleged corruption and was released after 83 days. In this period, his profits and investment witnessed a dip.
Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn is one of Wall Street's most successful figures with holdings in about 10 business segments including automotive, energy, gaming, real estate and food packaging. He has a majority or controlling positions in various corporations, including RJR Nabisco, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, E-II (Culligan and Samsonite), American Can, USX, Marvel Comics, Revlon, Imclone, Fairmont Hotels, Blockbuster and Kerr-McGee. Icahn Enterprises had revenue of $19.4 billion in 2017.
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is an Uzbek-born Russian business magnate who owns 48% of USM Holding company. The Russia-based entity controls Metalloinvest, Russia's largest iron ore producer, and mobile phone company MegaFon.
He's invested in Alibaba, Airbnb, JD.Com and Spotify, and controls Kommersant, a Russian newspaper.
Usmanov's first big tech investment was a stake in Facebook Inc. In recent years, he invested in India's largest online retailer Flipkart, Chinese smartphone producer Xiaomi Corp. and regional Uber clones -- Ola Cabs in India and Didi in China. He recently exited his stake in Arsenal Football Club.
Ronald Perelman
Ronald Perelman is chairman and owner of MacAndrews & Forbes, a closely held investment firm with stakes in a group of businesses including Humvee maker AM General, film services provider Deluxe Entertainment and payments business Harland Clarke. He is also the largest shareholder of cosmetics company Revlon. He invested in a wide range of companies that encapsulate daily products, cosmetics, automobiles, entertainment, security, gaming, apparels, banks, and publishing sector.
Mikhail Prokhorov
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov made most of his wealth by becoming country's leading industrialist, owning major stakes in MNCs mostly in the metals and mining sector. One of the company he heavily invested in was Norsik Nickel, which eventually became one of the largest producer of nickel and palladium in the world. He has stakes in Russian aluminum, power, insurance, banking and media companies. Prokhorov founded Onexim Group, a Moscow-based company with interests in banking, insurance, energy and sports. He controls the Brooklyn Nets, the National Basketball Association team, and the Barclays Center, the Nets home arena. Prokhorov also holds stakes in the Renaissance Capital and VTB banks.
David Tepper
David Tepper is among the few hedge fund managers who has delivered strong returns in the years since the worldwide financial crisis. Tepper co-founded Appaloosa Management, a Florida-based investment advisor with $17 billion in assets under management.
Since it started in 1993, the flagship fund has focused on stocks and bonds of distressed companies, and has averaged 30% annual returns. His bets on Conseco and Marconi also led to huge profits for the company's hedge funds. In 2009, Tepper's hedge-fund earned about $7 billion by buying distressed stocks (including Bank of America), and then profiting from the recovery of those stocks almost a year later. He bought the Carolina Panthers for $2.3 billion in July 2018.
Philip Anschutz
Anschutz is a US-based billionaire entrepreneur who owns or controls many companies in a variety of businesses, including energy, railroads, real estate, sports, newspapers, movies, theaters, arenas and music. Anschutz owns Anschutz Corp, a closely held conglomerate that controls the Los Angeles Staples Center and Kings hockey team. It also has a stake in theater operator Regal Entertainment. Other investments include a concessionaire for hotels and national parks, and Colorado water rights.
Stephen Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman and his partner Pete Peterson started The Blackstone Group with just $400,000 on the company's balance sheet. Schwarzman serves as the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, which is the world's largest independent alternative asset management firm. Initially a boutique merger-and-acquisition advisory business, Blackstone grew into the world's largest buyout firm, with over $450 billion in assets.
August von Finck, Jr.
August von Finck Jr. inherited his grandfather's business, Wilhelm von Finck, set up in 1870. But he rose to fame with his own peerless investment practices. He acquired larger shares of Merck, Finck & Co. Munich Re and Allianz from his father and then sold family-owned bank Merck Finck to Barclays for $150 million in 1990.
Now, Von Finck owns Finck'sche Hauptverwaltung, a Munich-based investment firm. The closely held business owns stakes in Swiss industrial inspection company SGS, insulation manufacturer Von Roll and the Moevenpick hotel and restaurant chain. His 15% stake in Switzerland's Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS), the world's leading testing and certification organisation, alone is worth over $2 billion.
Suleyman Kerimov
Suleyman Kerimov is among Russian's wealthiest businessmen and has built a diverse portfolio of international holdings and investments that have brought him immense success as a businessman, investor and philanthropist. In 1995, Kerimov was appointed by Soyuz Finz, a banking and trading company, to be CEO, where he diversified the company's investment holdings and corporate buyouts.
Kerimov's personal investment activities made him buy out the partners of Fedprombank and also to purchase 50% of the shares in Vnukovo Airlines. He held significant shares in a number of investment companies, such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse and managed to survive their crashes during the financial meltdown of 2008-09.
Guo Guangchang
Guo Guangchang is often dubbed as China's Warren Buffett. Guo is the chairman and largest individual shareholder of Fosun International, an investment firm with revenue of $13 billion in 2017. In 1992, Guo founded Guangxin Technology Development Company, which was among the first to use scientific methods in market research in mainland China.
Since 1994, Guo has been the chairman of Fosun Group and invested in insurance, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, property, steel, mining, retail, services, finance and other investment, and asset management, creating one of the largest non-state owned enterprises in China.
The Shanghai-based company has also invested in lifestyle brands Cirque du Soleil and Club Med.
Yuri Milner is Russia's most influential tech investor and founded investment firm Digital Sky Technologies (Mail.ru Group) and DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner invested in Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Flipkart, Spotify, Zocdoc, Groupon, JD.com, Xiaomi, OlaCabs, Alibaba, Airbnb, WhatsApp, NuBank, Wish and many others.
Milner's personal investments also include a stake in 23andMe, Habito, Planet Labs, minority stake in a real estate investments start-up, Cadre, founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
He later sold those stakes, but invested in new startups like Spotify and Airbnb. The Hong Kong-based venture capital group has retained stakes in Alibaba and Xiaomi.
Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala began investing in 1985 when the Bombay Stock Exchange Index was at 150; it now trades over 38,700.
Dalal Street's big bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwala began trading with just Rs 5,000 in the 80s. His biggest holding is an 8% stake in watch and jewellery maker Titan, worth more than $900 million. In 2017, four of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's stock picks - Titan Company Ltd, Delta Corp Ltd, Dewan Housing Finance and Escorts Ltd - doubled investors' wealth. His favourite Titan Company Ltd's shares returned 161%, Delta Corp Ltd's shares returned 170%, Dewan Housing shares returned 142% and Escorts Ltd's shares surged by 158%.
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It's The 1.1 Patch! The One With World Customisation In!
Today we're serving up the 1.1 patch for you all, which fixes a bunch of minor issues but also adds a custom biome and a global robot manager.
The custom biome means that you can create some non-standard worlds that go way beyond what the five standard biomes allow. You can switch that on in Game Options. But wait! We know that the first thing you'll do is make the maddest worlds you can, so it's important to stress that the permutations this world generator provides are so extreme that they might make teleporter fragments inaccessible to you, which means there's a chance the crazier levels can't be completed.
– NEW: Global robot spawn manager.
– NEW: Added graphics option to disable God Rays.
– NEW: Colour picker for robot visors (Colour blindness support).
– Robot step height tweaked.
– Fences no longer appear over seriously sloped terrain.
– Audio-based distraction of robots now more reliable.
– Robots can no longer spawn inside pylons.
– Shots Fired stat now accurate.
– Starting gear item count now matches menu list.
The lovely Christian Anderson has made us some wallpapers. Click on each for full size. Sir and Madam versions of each!
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As we all know by now the wedge salad went into hiding for awhile before resurfacing. In this installment of our wedge salad series we share a Greek Wedge Salad recipe using all the ingredients you love in a typical Greek Salad.
We've shared the history of a wedge salad in our Iceberg Wedge Salad with Bacon post, how to eat a wedge salad in our BLT Wedge Salad post and today let's talk about dressings and other types of wedge salads you could make.
While not exactly the star of a salad, the salad dressing is a close second. Making your own salad dressing can save time and money once you have invested in all the ingredients you need which could be as simple as extra virgin olive oil, Dijon mustard and a few vinegars.
Store bought dressings are fine, especially these days when you can find dressings that are fairly healthy, however they can still contain extra unwanted sugars, calories and additives you can't spell so be leary when going the store bought route and read your labels.
If you already have extra virgin olive oil and vinegars try adding some new flavours to your pantry. Walnut or pistachio oil is exceptionally tasty and a little goes a long way. White Balsamic Vinegar or Champagne vinegar changes up your vinegar game. Spanish onion, shallots, garlic and fresh herbs all chopped fine or blended add depth to any home made dressing. Of course you can use buttermilk, mayo, sour cream and Greek Yogurt if you please.
We are not referring to a blender wedge salad turned smoothie, but rather more wedge salad ideas to try.
Have you ever tried a wedge salad?! If not, what's stopping you?!
Place wedge on a plate.
Whisk together 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 1 tbsp red wine vinegar, pinch of dried oregano, 1 tsp lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
Spoon dressing over your wedge and serve.


The following SMCCCD faculty members have had obituaries published in The Advocate.
On December 24, 2014, Dr. Irv Witt, emeritus professor of sociology, passed away at the age of 93 in San Rafael, California. He retired in 1993 following 30 years of service to the college district.
Irv received a Ph.D. and bachelor's degree from U.C. Berkeley and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He served in the U. S. Army as a lieutenant in Guadalcanal during World War II.
Prior to joining the faculty at CSM, Irv taught at San Francisco State College (now University). In 1963, Irv was hired at CSM just as the new College Heights campus opened its doors. During his tenure at CSM, he was regarded as a highly respected faculty member; he also served as the chair of the sociology department.
Irv had a passion for local and national politics and was involved in many community organizations, including serving on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union and the San Mateo Senior Commission.
Irv was involved in the early, founding days of AFT Local 1493, serving in various capacities in the leadership of the union. For example, Irv served for many years as a leader in the AFT's Committee on Political Education (COPE) group, always on the lookout for possible faculty-friendly candidates to run for the Board of Trustees.
He is survived by his wife, Josephine, sons Jeremy and Jordan, brother Melvin, and five grandchildren.
During the couple of semesters just prior to my own retirement, while the CSM campus was undergoing renovation, Social Science faculty were grouped together in cubical office space. This unusual arrangement gave me the opportunity to spend quality time with Irv. He and I both had mid-morning classes and would generally arrive on campus around the same time. In the quiet of this early morning time, he and I shared many delightful conversations.
Having transferred to CSM late in my career, I did not have the opportunity to know Irv over a long period of time. Nevertheless, I quickly came to feel close to him and to treasure the time we shared. It was easy to feel close to Irv. That was just the kind of guy he was. His warmth, kindness, and gentleness of spirit led to an immediate sense of genuine, human connection. I remember being very impressed by Irv's gentle nature juxtaposed with his very passionate, unwavering commitment to a progressive social and political perspective.
As I got to know Irv better he came to feel like an old friend. I felt very touched by his respect for me and my views. In hearing stories about Irv, at his memorial, it was clear that many others felt the same. It was not a surprise to hear about the deep love Irv shared with his lovely wife Jo. It was touching to realize that Jo and Irv's love story was the central theme of his life.
In closing, I would be remiss if I did not mention Irv's sense of humor. He always seemed upbeat and happy. I have repeated one of his jokes a number of times, "When a group of older people get together, it quickly becomes an organ recital." Perhaps only those of us up in years will get the humor. There are a few people in my life who I think of as role models of how to age with grace and dignity. Irv is certainly one of those people. My life is better for having known Irv as are the lives of his friends, family and the many students he worked with over a long and fruitful career.
Irv would on occasion place an article from the New York Times in my mail box. It was always on an issue pertaining to economics and was more often than not written by Paul Krugman. The next time we passed in the hall of building 15, he would ask me what I thought of the article. We would then have a conversation about the article. The problem with trying to have a conversation in the hall of building 15 was that anyone walking by could join in (actually that was not a problem but rather one of the most important benefits of having over 100 teachers in the same building). The discussion would then become an interdisciplinary free-for-all with historians, philosophers, anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, sociologists all contributing their two-cents worth.
Until Irv`s memorial service, I did not know that besides a Ph.D. in sociology, he also had a B.A. degree from U.C. Berkeley in Economics!
1. Words Irv Witt would never speak-"no more mr. nice guy". He was always a nice guy no matter how heated a discussion got. He loved the concept of free speech and expression, but he was never in one's face or confrontational.
2. Irv, unlike many of his colleagues, did not suffer from logorrhea. Sometimes at lunch or a meeting he would say nothing at all. But he was always alert, processing, and full of information if asked. He seemed to firmly resist the impulse to convince others of how smart he was.
3. Irv was a real family man, very proud of his wife, two sons and grandkids. Irv and wife Jo were hospitable people and made their home a happy place to be.
4. Irv loved to teach and he was a real mensch. It was so nice to have known him.
Were it not for Irv Witt I would have not had a career at San Mateo. I first met Irv when I was interviewing for a position as a sociology instructor at San Francisco City College. After meeting with several of the social science faculty at City College, I was informed that they were unanimously recommending me for the position but that I had an additional hurdle to clear. I was required to meet with the college president. I met with the president whose name I don't recall although I remember he was a big burly fellow and ex college football star. I felt I had done well in the interview, that the president liked me and I was all but assured the position. I was shocked to learn that the president had vetoed the faculty committee's recommendation. Irv informed me that the president thought that I was coming to San Francisco to do some "left wing organizing and stir up trouble." What had given him this false impression is that when he asked me what I thought of Saul Alinsky, I had said that I admired him. In my naivete I was unaware that he was asking a trick question. Irv, who was on the faculty of both schools, was indignant. Always willing to right injustice, he made sure that I was hired at CSM. Thank you, Irv. I remain grateful.
Irv Witt was an active and contributing member of the San Mateo community. He was active in the San Mateo County Democratic Club and Democratic politics, worked hard on behalf of Democratic candidates. He was also appointed as a member of the San Mateo Senior Commission and was honored by the city of San Mateo for his contributions to the community.
Cal Robinson, longtime Skyline College business and law professor, passed away on August 10, 2014, and will be sorely missed by Skyline and District colleagues. Cal was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, as one of six children. He studied at San Diego State University while serving as student body president, later graduating from UC Davis with a B.A. in Political Science. He went on to obtain an M.B.A. and J.D. at UC Berkeley. Two Skyline colleagues and friends–Katharine Harer and Jeff Westfall–share brief memories of Cal below.
Cal Robinson and I shared the second floor hallway in Building 8 for over twenty years. Cal's office was in a little cul-de-sac around the corner from where Nina Floro and I lived, and he often taught his Business Law classes next door to my English Comp classroom. He'd walk in the door smiling and leave with students chattering by his side. Cal and I were work friends, and although we were in different divisions and only rarely found ourselves in the same meeting, we knew one another.
Cal was infinitely knowable. He never hid behind an officious attitude nor was he distracted by overwork or campus politics, and he never lost his fundamental kindness. Cal was interested in everything: in me, in the teachers' union, in his family, in his students, in life. When we would talk before closing the doors of our classrooms, Cal was completely present – warm, sweet, smart and funny.
Cal often carried huge aluminum pans of homemade food to his classes, and I never saw him happier. He knew that feeding students is a good way to nurture — and educate — especially when the teacher takes the time to cook for his students. The last day I saw Cal, in early June, we were both clearing out our offices – he was moving and I was retiring from full-time teaching. Cal laughed and said, "You're not really goin', Kath? You're too young." I loved that he said that even though it wasn't true. I can't imagine the world without Cal in it.
It is with sadness that I have learned of the passing of Professor Cal Robinson. Prof. Robinson's greatest moments on campus were in the classroom, but it was in a "shared governance" meeting early in our Skyline careers that Cal made a deep and lasting impression upon me. A committee discussion had turned tense, is how I'll put it, and Cal challenged the biases of the chairperson with a courage and insightfulness that demonstrated to every person in the room his quiet integrity. Off campus, surely, Cal's greatest joys were his children, and I am happy, selfishly, to have had him stand with me again years later – at my wedding. Cal Robinson was a very good man, and he is missed.
Joseph Manning McDonough died October 22, 2010 in Palo Alto at age 85 after a full life in academia and social action.
Joe was raised in New York City and Philadelphia. During WW II he served for 3 years in the navy participating in 4 major battles, and won the Purple Heart when his destroyer was sunk by a kamikaze off Okinawa killing 40% of his shipmates.
Joe attended Princeton after the war, where he majored in Psychology. He married Leah Brooks in 1949, after which he earned his MS at U. Miami and they both earned their PhDs in Clinical Psychology at Michigan State. They moved to Palo Alto in 1961.
Joe spent the first half of his career with the VA Palo Alto's Menlo Park division, running psychiatric wards, working with schizophrenics and administering work-for-pay rehab programs helping psychiatric patients return to the community. At age 43, he left hospital work and for the next 25 years was a professor of psychology at the College of San Mateo. He was an early activist in the anti-Vietnam War movement, was president of the teacher's union, AFT 1493, and won the California Federation of Teacher's highest state award in 2000.
He is survived by Leah, his beloved wife of 61 years, his daughter Susan, his son-in-law Warren Mar, and his granddaughter Caroline.
Joe McDonough, longtime AFT Local 1493 leader, died October 22, 2010. A brief overview of his life is presented above. Below we are reprinting an article from the April 2000 Advocate which reported on Joe receiving CFT's highest honor, the Ben Rust Award.
For over three decades, Joe McDonough exemplified activism in AFT Local 1493, the San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers. In politics, in bargaining and in membership recruitment, Joe showed the dedication and commitment that helped build and sustain a strong local union.
Joe thought of himself as a propagandist, not a dirty word in his vocabulary, but defined as someone who knew something about public relations and practical politics. He advocated forming a COPE committee in Local 1493, wanting to see a certain viciously anti-faculty member of the Board of Trustees defeated. Joe helped set up the infrastructure that led to his ouster and to the establishment of the local as a political force.
Although Joe held virtually every position possible on Local 1493's Executive Committee, including two terms as President (1982 and 1987), and terms as Vice-President and Chief Negotiator, the position he held for the longest time was that of Chair of the Membership Committee. In this capacity, Joe's union work became legendary in the district. He kept a list of all the faculty on his office wall, a blue pin next to the name of each non-AFT member. His goal was to remove, one by one, those blue pins. Joe would go to each newly hired faculty member, introduce himself and the Union, answer questions, and almost always return with a signed AFT membership form. Even after Joe was on his post-retirement contract, he kept that list of faculty on his office wall, still added the names of all new hires, and still made his regular AFT membership recruitment visits. As a result of Joe's efforts, almost 90% of the full-time faculty became AFT members, and Local 1493 won three membership growth awards from the CFT in 1984, 1990 and 1991, and a national award from the AFT in 1989.
As a negotiator, Joe took on the crucial function of communicator for the team. Whenever contract negotiations weren't going well, Joe put out the AFT Faculty Times. Known as the "blue sheets" because of the blue paper used exclusively for them, these bulletins contained facts and statistics that always refuted the nonsense the District put out. Joe documented that each year the district overestimated its expenditures and underestimated its income, resulting in large ending balances. In fact, Joe became one of the local's best budget analysts in the course of working on his beloved Faculty Times. He became very adept, for example, at discovering the different areas of the budget where the administration temporarily hid monies in their efforts to claim none existed for decent faculty raises. He once got the CFO to admit that she had hidden over $1 million in a special account. She said she had just "parked" it there. Joe's hard-hitting analyses of the budget and related issues caused the District to lose much credibility. The AFT Faculty Times won first place for Best Bulletin Series in the CFT's statewide Communications awards in 1995.
Before turning to teaching, Joe worked as a staff psychologist in a locked ward in a mental hospital. This served him well in the San Mateo CCD. He put his knowledge of psychology to use as a union recruiter, and as one of the most popular teachers at the College of San Mateo. He amused and delighted, as well as educated, his always-full classes for over three decades. Joe's daughter, Susan, inherited her father's enthusiasm for social justice and the cause of unionism. She works for SEIU Local 715 in Santa Clara. Her husband, Joe's son-in-law, works for the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute in Oakland and teaches community college labor studies classes.
When he retired, Joe McDonough was honored by his Assemblyman with both a ceremony at the College of San Mateo and a proclamation from the California Legislature. It is fitting that the CFT now honors Joe McDonough with the Ben Rust award, its most prestigious honor, for his dedication and commitment over the years to the building of a strong faculty union.
It is with much sadness that we report that long-time AFT Local 1493 leader, Herman Bates, passed away on May 13, 2010.
Herman Bates came originally from Indiana. He began working in the District in 1971, joining the faculty at Cañada College just a few years after the college first opened. Herman taught Psychology for some years at Cañada before moving to Skyline College. When Herman moved to Skyline he became a counselor, and spent the rest of his career in the District as a Skyline counselor.
Later Herman was a member of the AFT Executive Committee from 1987 to 1993, when he retired. He then began working on a Post Retirement Contract from 1993-94 through the 1996-97 academic year. After retiring, Herman became very active in the District Association of Retired Teachers (DART). He was the President of DART from 1992 to 1997.
During the time that Herman served as the President of DART he continued to attend all AFT EC meetings as the representative of all District retirees, regularly bringing to the attention of AFT members issues of concern to retired faculty members. Herman followed all legislation affecting retired teachers very closely, and frequently wrote articles for The Advocate on retiree issues.
After stepping down from the DART leadership, Herman and his wife, Joyce, lived in La Conner, Washington and McMinnville, Oregon.
George Goth, Skyline College Chemistry and Physics Professor, long-time AFT 1493 Executive Committee member and founding editor of The Advocate, died on November 28, 2009, of cardiac arrest with secondary causes of respiratory failure and complications due to Type II Diabetes.
A memorial for George was held on January 15, 2010 at the Berkeley City Club. To see the program from the memorial, including numerous remembrances and photos of George, click here.
Two of the speakers at the memorial were Paul Goodman, fellow Skyline Physics Professor and longtime office mate of George's, and Dan Kaplan, Executive Secretary of AFT 1493. Copies of Paul's and Dan's remembrances are included below.
George and I were colleagues and office mates at Skyline College for about 25 years. In 1980 George had been teaching chemistry at the College of San Mateo and had requested a transfer to Skyline to ease his commute. The first time I met him was when I walked into the physics lab and saw this slightly rumpled and bearded fellow telling a joke to a student. The joke went right over the student's head, but George was having a good hearty laugh anyway. We hit it off immediately. His position at Skyline was to be half physics and half chemistry while mine was half physics and half mathematics. We had both grown up in New York suburbs, probably not more than 10 miles from each other, although we had never met before this. We were both from working class families: his father had been a bus driver and mine sold seafood in the Fulton Fish Market. Neither one of us had much patience with pretension. We both had a New York directness that each of us found refreshing and familiar. We had similar senses of humor and enjoyed telling jokes.
We were Skyline's physics department. George enjoyed teaching the premeds and I took the engineering students. We were both more theoretical than experimental: neither one of us could figure out the business end of a screwdriver, although George did design some ingenious experiments for his students. I recall one, I believe it was called "Hair — The Experiment," not to be confused with "Hair — The Musical." Each student would pull out a hair, mount it along a slit cut in an index card, and then shine a laser light on it. From the resulting diffraction pattern thrown on a distant wall they could calculate the diameter of the hair. The students loved it, and George loved the fact that they loved it. It was always the high point of his semester.
As officemates we were a bit like the Odd Couple: George's Oscar Madison played against my Felix Unger. Fortunately we had a floor-to-ceiling bookcase separating our halves of the office so I didn't have to see his papers strewn randomly about, and he didn't have to see my books neatly lined up in alphabetical order by author.
Our weekly department meetings consisted of lunch at Jo Anne's Cafe on El Camino Real in South San Francisco. George always ordered the soup of the day and nearly always spilled half of it down the front of his sweater. We enjoyed ourselves telling jokes, reminiscing about growing up in New York, and arguing politics. Occasionally we would even talk about the physics curriculum. George always divided the bill proportionately to the penny, and he always kept the receipt so he could claim a deduction on his tax return. The man was frugal.
George had a phobia about driving across the Bay Bridge, actually any bridge; so if he didn't commute with the carpool, he would take a San Bruno bus to the Daly City BART station and then take BART to Berkeley. One semester he had a Monday afternoon lab that didn't finish until 6 pm, and then a Tuesday morning lecture that was scheduled for 8 am. He thought it too much trouble to take a bus and BART home from Skyline and then reverse the procedure early the next morning, so he decided to spend Monday nights sleeping in the office. One particular Monday in February he brings in his sleeping bag, thermal pad, radio, toothbrush, and NY Times, and prepares for his office campout. He strips down to his underwear, crawls into his sleeping bag and settles down for the night. He wakes up at 3 in the morning to go to the bathroom. He opens the office door, steps into the hallway, and watches in disbelief as the door closes behind him, and locks. There is nothing he can do. He sits down on the floor and waits for the inevitable humiliation as students and faculty wander in later in the morning. As luck would have it, there is a janitor in the building doing nightly maintenance work. The janitor comes down the stairs and opens the stairwell door to the hallway where he sees George, on the floor, in his boxer shorts. George jumps up and runs toward the janitor trying to explain what happened. The janitor, who happens to be deaf, freaks out. He turns around and runs back up the stairs with George running after him. This Marx Brothers movie finally comes to an end as George trips and skids along the newly waxed floor. Eventually, with some creative hand gesturing, George manages to convince the janitor to unlock the door. The incident did not dissuade George from continuing to sleep in the office on Monday nights, but now he would always wear a key around his neck.
George's students had a genuine affection for him. They adored the fact that he was a little absent minded, a little disheveled, always had something offbeat but fascinating to offer them, and made himself available whenever they needed him. His patience with students was stuff of legend.
George was emotional — more than you might think. He could cry as easily as he could laugh. When something moved him the emotions would suddenly bubble up, and tears would literally just squirt out. Then it was over, as suddenly as it had begun. He could, at times, seem aloof, but perhaps that was because he knew how easily he could lose control. He became an expert at the fine art of intimacy at a distance.
George loved the Berkeley City Club. After he retired we would get together every few months for lunch in the club's dining room, and then sit in a couple of big leather chairs and catch up. If he were here today, part of him would be horrified at all the attention, but the greater part would be touched by the tribute. He'd be squirting tears all over the place.
So long, George — zichrono livracha.
My name is Dan Kaplan, and I have been the Executive Secretary of AFT Local 1493, the San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, since June of 1994.
By the time I arrived on the scene, George Goth had already made a huge contribution to the history of this union, which is the collective bargaining agent for all of the faculty in the San Mateo Community College District. This means that AFT Local 1493 represents faculty at Skyline College, where George spent most of his teaching career, but also faculty at the College of San Mateo, and at Cañada College. The union represents over 700 Part-Time faculty and slightly over 300 Full-Time faculty members.
George was the founding editor of The Advocate, the newsletter of AFT Local 1493, from the time of its first issue in 1977 until 1988.
But that was not the end of George's union activism. He then became the Secretary of AFT Local 1493, and took the minutes of every one of our 9 meetings each academic year from 1988 until 2004. For all these years, the minutes that George took for each meeting were approved the following month by the entire Executive Committee.
It is interesting to note that George was also, as I just found out, the editor of The Record, the newsletter of the Berkeley City Club. Clearly George enjoyed being involved in the editorial work of every organization that he belonged to.
I used to drive George home from meetings of the AFT Executive Committee because we both lived in Berkeley. We soon discovered that we both were eclectic and voracious readers. On the way home we talked about philosophy, history, literature, poetry, and the theatre, in addition to union issues and politics more generally.
I would like to end by quoting from an article that George wrote for the March/April 1988 issue of The Advocate, shortly before he stepped down as its editor. It is a front-page article entitled "Part-Timers: Qualified, Motivated, & Exploited". Every one here today who knew George will recognize his voice and the values he articulated so well in this article.
And then George says this: "Finally, a word or two hundred to my part-time colleagues. You simply have to get together on this. You've been divided and conquered and nothing else really matters. If you've written a novel, been awarded a prize, been worshipped by your students, it simply does not count. You will be treated like a peon until you and the 500 other peons in this district and the twenty thousand other peons in this state make one hell of a ruckus, in unison. A magic full-time position will not open up for you and you alone. If full-time positions do open up and they should open up in droves, it will be because you have gotten the word out on the situation. Gotten it out to your students, gotten it out to the administration, gotten it out to the public.
"Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The quiet wheel ends up 39 years old wondering if it is too late for a career change.


MUMBAI: Hours after BJP president Amit Shah told his party workers in Maharashtra to prep for a solo fight in the 2019 general election, ally Shiv Sena has struck another combative note. "I'm fighting for the common man's dream, not for (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi's dream," Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray says in an interview published in the party's mouthpiece Saamana on Monday.
"We don't have only one friend. We are friends of the public," Mr Thackeray says in the interview, adding, "I will hunt but don't need to shoot from anyone else's shoulder. Nor will I need a gun for the hunt."
The BJP's acrimony with the Shiv Sena has peaked after its oldest ally stayed away from a no-confidence debate in parliament on Friday and refused to vote in its support.
A day before the no-trust motion, Amit Shah had dialled Uddhav Thackeray, after which the BJP had claimed that the Sena was completely on board and would support the government. The Sena reportedly even put out a whip ordering all party MPs to be present in parliament for the debate and vote.
But the next morning, just before the no-confidence motion was taken up, the Sena declared that its chief Uddhav Thackeray had decided that the party would stay away. What seemed to be an overnight change of heart deeply embarrassed the BJP, which seized the no-trust vote as an opportunity to show off the numbers on its side - not just allies but also other parties. The Sena's decision coincided with a Saamana editorial that said: "Those ruling the country are butchers who save animals but kill humans."
The Sena rubbed it in by praising Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who launched a searing attack on PM Modi during the debate and then walked across the house to give him a surprise hug that rattled the BJP.
The BJP is not calling off the alliance yet but Amit Shah's words at a party meeting in Mumbai reflect the party's toughest stand ever. Sources say Amit Shah told party workers that they should prepare to fight next year's national polls alone in Maharashtra, where the two parties have been allies for nearly three decades.
Mr Shah told booth-level BJP workers to prepare for the possibility of a triangular or even four-way contest with the BJP and the Shiv Sena fighting Lok Sabha polls separately, sources said. "You should start preparing now so that in your booths 51 per cent voters vote for BJP," the BJP president said, according to sources.
The two parties contested the 2014 parliamentary elections as allies, scoring big, but in the assembly elections a few months later, they split and fought alone. The BJP emerged as the single-largest party in the state for the first time ever. Even the Congress and its ally, the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, fought separately in the 2014 assembly elections.
The Sena, which had to settle for the role of a junior partner in their post-poll alliance with 63 assembly seats, had announced earlier that it will fight the 2019 elections alone.


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Order: In the Matter of Peter Robinson and Platinum International Investments Inc.
IN THE MATTER OF THE SECURITIES ACT,
IN THE MATTER OF PETER ROBINSON AND PLATINUM
INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS INC.
WHEREAS on December 18, 2009, the Secretary of the Commission issued a Notice of Hearing, pursuant to sections 37, 127 and 127.1 of the Ontario Securities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.5, as amended (the "Act"), for a hearing to commence at the offices of the Commission at 20 Queen Street West, on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 11 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the hearing can be held;
WHEREAS the Notice of Hearing provides for the Commission to consider, among other things, whether, in the opinion of the Commission, it is in the public interest, pursuant to s. 127(5) of the Act to issue a temporary order that:
The respondents, Platinum International Investments Inc. ("Platinum") and Peter Robinson ("Robinson") (collectively the "Respondents") shall cease trading in any securities;
AND WHEREAS Staff served the Respondents with copies of the Notice of Hearing and Staff's Statement of Allegations dated December 17, 2009, as evidenced by the Affidavit of Kathleen McMillan sworn on January 11, 2009, and filed with the Commission;
AND WHEREAS Staff served the Respondents with a copy of the Affidavit of Lori Toledano, affirmed on January 8, 2010, as evidenced by the Affidavit of Service of Kathleen McMillan sworn on January 8, 2010;
AND WHEREAS on January 11, 2010 Staff of the Commission and Robinson appeared before the Commission and made submissions. Robinson appeared in his personal capacity and as the sole registered director of Platinum. During the hearing on January 11, 2010, Robinson advised the Commission that he consented to the issuance of a temporary cease trade order against himself and against Platinum;
AND WHEREAS on January 11, 2010, Robinson requested an adjournment of the hearing in order to retain counsel;
AND WHEREAS on January 11, 2010, the panel of the Commission considered the Affidavit of Lori Toledano and the submissions made by Staff and Robinson;
AND WHEREAS on January 11, 2010, the panel of the Commission ordered, pursuant to section 127 (5) of the Act, that Robinson and Platinum cease trading in any securities (the "Temporary Cease Trade Order") and that the Temporary Cease Trade Order is extended, pursuant to section 127(8) of the Act, until February 4, 2010;
AND WHEREAS on January 11, 2010, the panel of the Commission ordered that the hearing with respect to this matter was adjourned to February 3, 2010, at 9:00 a.m.;
AND WHEREAS on February 3, 2010, Staff of the Commission and counsel for Robinson and Platinum appeared before the Commission and made submissions;
AND WHEREAS on February 3, 2010, Staff requested an adjournment of the hearing and an extension of the Temporary Cease Trade Order and counsel for Robinson did not oppose Staff's request;
AND WHEREAS the panel of the Commission is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to make this order;
IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to subsection 127(8) of the Act, the Temporary Cease Trade Order is extended until March 8, 2010; and
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the hearing with respect to this matter is adjourned to March 5, 2010, at 10:00 a.m.
DATED at Toronto this 3rd day of February, 2010
"David L. Knight "
David L. Knight, F.C.A.


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Staging the Largest Terrorism-Response Drill in U.S. History
Author: David WolmanDavid Wolman
* Illustration: Jim Stoten * At 9:04 on a cold fall morning, Sharie Sanderlin stands in the Portland, Oregon, drizzle, cheerfully awaiting the attack. When it hits, precisely on schedule at 9:06, she and some 275 other victims will speed-walk to their positions amid carefully strewn debris in the blast zone: a blown-apart bus, metal shards, smashed cars. The volunteer wounded are just as dramatically impressive, thanks to fake blood and makeup. Spreading a garbage bag on the wet ground, Sanderlin, a 51-year-old mother of four from nearby Vancouver, Washington, sits with one leg outstretched and checks to make sure her T-shirt isn'tobscuring the bloody laceration on her chest. "It's show time," she says.
The scene is supposed to simulate the effects of a "radiological dispersal device" — a dirty bomb. It's the highlight of Topoff 4, the largest emergency-preparedness drill in US history. Following an elaborate (and mostly classified) script, law enforcement agencies have spent the past few weeks tracking and chasing a fictional supply of cesium-137 stolen from a foreign country and divvied up among terrorist cells in North America. This led to the attack on Portland, as well as incidents in Phoenix and Guam, where similar mock events are under way.
The volunteers for Portland's exercise gathered at 4:30 am in a park north of downtown. "I can't wait to get moulaged," Sanderlin says, using the term for injury-simulating makeup. "Don't you think I need a little more blood on my pants," she giggles as the makeup artist goes to work.
Victims are given an identity, symptoms, and vital signs, all printed on a card worn throughout the day. Over scrambled eggs and coffee, a group of twentysomethings have a good laugh over one of them being assigned "watery and bloody feces." One woman wants to see a stranger's gaping cranial wound.
Sanderlin says she lucked out in this weird injury sweepstakes. Her card reads "Patient is semiconscious and wheezing with each breath. Chest is bleeding profusely through each penetrating wound." As bomb time nears, she practices a few labored breaths.
A little before 9 am, the victims make their way through ground zero to stake out a spot where they will sit or lie injured after the big blast. The props were created by actually blowing up a bus and a lineup of cars at a site somewhere in eastern Washington. Officials tagged and mapped the location of the debris and then shipped the entire disaster scene to Portland, where it was reassembled for today's event and the mock investigation to follow.
Hanging out of the bus and flung across the ground are blood-stained dummies — the deceased. Pointing to a stray limb and a toddler-sized corpse, Sanderlin says, "It's a lot more sobering once you're out here."
As the police cars and fire trucks arrive, the volunteers — as instructed — begin screaming. They watch as rescuers don hazmat suits, walk bomb-sniffing dogs around a distant perimeter, and clumsily erect decontamination tents. "Why won't you help us?" one actor yells. "Don't let us die!" pleads another. Rescuers finally begin carting the most severely injured from the scene.
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Students Find Courses Online, Classroom Technology Boosts Learning
Amanda McFarland, student at BYU watching her teacher teach her class on her home computer rather than driving 30 minutes to campus to attend class, and she said she loved it.
A recent study published in the American Journal of Surgery found that students preferred to incorporate technology into their curriculum and that the inclusion of technology did not inhibit students' ability to learn the material.
Professors at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine created a program that included an online program to accompany a surgical internship, a six-week program to teach students the principles of surgery.
After completing the program, students were asked about their experience.
"The results of student exams and evaluations performed after the Hopkins program ended revealed that the experience significantly increased student satisfaction with the program, while also resulting in non-inferior academic results," according to the study.
The researchers found the following based on respondents' responses:
66.5% had a positive experience with the online course
77.6% said technology-integrated learning – including online, audio and visual content – helped them better understand complex concepts
73.6% said learning embedded in technology made them more likely to practice the material
69.9% said technology-integrated learning made for better collaboration with classmates
1.6% prefer courses without face-to-face interaction, and all courses are online
53.6% preferred "intensive use of technology" in a course
54.4% said technology-integrated courses improve learning
92% said technology allowed more flexibility in delivering lessons from various locations
David Nilson does his chemistry homework with Smartwork, an online homework software. (Jesse King)
BYU freshman David Nilson took a chemistry course that requires three classroom lectures, two in-person labs, and three online homework on a program called SmartWork. He said SmartWork allowed him to apply what he learned in the classroom.
He said the best feature of SmartWork is that it "gives advice" to help the student answer the question, provides a step-by-step answer if the student answers incorrectly, and allows three chances – which his manual did not.
The downsides to SmartWork were that it had slight variations in the answers that were considered incorrect, even though they were mostly correct, and sometimes the questions didn't make sense, according to Nilson. But he said the combination of in-person class time and working online was a positive experience.
Efficient integration of technology in the classroom
BYU education teacher Royce Kimmons specializes in the use of technology in education. He said the key to using technology effectively depends on what students do with the technology and the impact it has on education.
Kimmons uses the acronym PICRAT to teach teachers how to improve their use of technology in the classroom. The acronym stands for passive, interactive, creative, replacement, amplification, transformation. He said the ideal use of technology combines creativity and transformation. An example would be asking students to use a Powerpoint to create a game to help learn concepts.
Professor Royce Kimmons uses the acronym PICRAT to assess the effectiveness of different types of technologies used in the classroom. The best way to bring technology into the classroom is with creative and transformative technology, according to Kimmons. (Jesse King)
Simmons said there is no better technology to bring into the classroom.
"It's a lot less about the technology itself and a lot more about how we use it," Kimmons said.
Online courses and overcoming obstacles
The study examining how surgical students responded to online learning said those who took the course missed the teacher-student interaction during the online course.
McFarland, a BYU mechanical engineering student, is currently enrolled in a soil course, which includes occasional video lectures instead of in-person lectures. Although she has the option to watch the lecture in class, she said she chooses to watch it at home.
Civil engineering student Skyler Cozzens and others attend a video conference for their soil class. (Jesse King)
Because she works, studies and takes care of her son, she says having an extra hour is convenient for her. However, she said the negative side of watching the video conference is that she can't ask her teacher the questions she has right away. McFarland said she had to find the answer on her own, seek help from a teaching assistant or send an email to the teacher.
Kimmons said there has always been tension among those who study educational technology between caring about the quality of education and shifting lessons to another medium, especially one with the aim of outsourcing to one. larger group.
But he said online courses can include features to overcome the barrier of weakening student-teacher interaction, such as video conferences and group discussion forums.
"We tend to have the mentality that if we can just put content in front of people, they'll learn like magic, and that's not how it works," Kimmons said.
Online courses offer options
McFarland has also taken a few BYU Online courses. She said the classes vary in difficulty, but she loves them.
"I like that they are implementing this more and more – like, for my situation, I think it's really good," McFarland said. "Anytime I can take an online course it's really great for me and my family. "
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Executive remuneration and corporate governance is a broad topic which has drawn tremendous amount of research focus. This paper aims to provide an insightful and up-to-date complement to existing research particularly with respect to short-term executive remuneration and corporate governance practices in the United Kingdom. Drawing on the data from the 2005 financial reports of fifty largest pubic listed companies operating in the UK, the paper aims firstly to provide a snapshot on the general remuneration structure, size and awarding modes. Secondly, various determinants of CEO remuneration are examined in depth. Links between CEO remuneration and firm size, performance and board structure are examined both isolatedly and aggregately. Firm size is found to remain an important factor in determining CEO base salary; however its explanatory power is discounted as to total short-term CEO pay. Performance-pay link is identified stronger than previous findings, whilst board structure is found to be of significant statistical important in explaining CEO remuneration. 9 variables as indicators of firm size, performance and board structure are adopted used to estimate the regression equation for CEO short-term remuneration. However, the fitting effectiveness of the regression equation is still subject to further examination. Light is also shed on related corporate governance issues. Focused discussion and conclusions are presented in the last part of this paper.


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stlou says to (08:30:16): hmm..
stlou says to (08:30:25): wonder how much stock we put in that..
6:23 AM [Adam Montana] Morning!
6:25 AM [Adam Montana] "the easiest way to get them out of Chapter 7 by 2012 is to do it in 2011"
6:26 AM [Adam Montana] there's only two weeks left to do that!
6:26 AM [Adam Montana] fingers crossed things are happening soon!
[tobydinar] Gankans do you agree with Tony from ptr about tomorrow or is it just another day brother?
[gankans] tobydinar I didn't hear what he said. I believe that it is possible for tomorrow.
[gankans] lisa56 Amen to that!
[gankans] tobydinar I think he might be right. Hearing a lot lately. It's tough bringing out the intel, because it is a double edge sword.
[gankans] I'm going to ask for an RV! Who's with me?!
[gankans] jwb Me? Fan Club?!
[gankans] jwb Naughty or Nice? Don't ask Mirty that?
[jwb] gankans did you hear that awesome new "intel" call??
What a fabulous call this evening. It had everything! Hope, Love, Forgiveness, Humility, Excitement, Information, just a really great call. The best I have heard in a long time.
With that said, as Tony told you, things are getting better as the days go by on this journey and we are going to see some things happen tomorrow that will let you know you are almost at the end of this road!
As we prepare for the inevitable end, we want to make sure that we all are prepared for the kind of life that you will see Post RV. You will say, "I am me, and nothing will change" Well my friends, you may be you, but things WILL CHANGE!
Chats from Misc. Chat Rooms emailed to us.
4:50 PM [jonnywg] Bank rates are still showing 0.0000 buy and sell. BUT we await changes and hope they are soon.
DAN STATES he was on phone since 6am and a call started yesterday and wanted to g back about the original reason for this site was to bring together folks who wanted the RV to take place - folks were giving up hope about the RV hearing delays, delays - but recently on sites we see battering against one another - we hear lots of things and a week ago today I made comments about a gentleman last week cause he delivers his stuff it was not my way - I want to apologize.
i do not know this person???? anyone else?
[zapper] tomn If you know 24 hours in advance does that mean it is at least another 24 hours out?..
[ tomn] yes..... , when everyone was calling for it, he told me not yet, thats why i'm at peace with this..
Ok rocks: tomn you said anytime now to the 11th and then you said not today, is that because you did not get a heads up for today?
[soonerfan] banking hours. Without going into a lot of detail, I'll just say this: My statement from yesterday still holds, if we don't have an RV by Midnight Friday, you will not see me back on Chat until post RV.
Dan been on the phone today since 6am this morning.
Talked to Bella yesterday and today still may not totally agree but thats ok and Dan is saying he is sorry to her.
Dan is about to hand it over to Tony.
Not sure what we will hear by NOON TOMORROW ... but Tony said WE WILL BE VERY HAPPY!
2:14 PM [glryan11] BGG thoughts on this? bookings] i just read on forexpros that has the bullish and bear is on. Bull had this to say.said chapter 7 will only be lifted once all articles of it have been met by iraq and things holding them upright now is the issues that exist with kuwait. Said the rv in 2012 at the earliest!!!!
2:23 PM [shalone] BGG so do you believe there is a connection between the RV and CH 7?
2:23 PM [BGG] shalone - sure, but not the kind everyone thinks.
2:24 PM [BGG] They have to RV to get out of Ch 7 not the other way around.
2:26 PM [BGG] all the articles the talk about current exchange rates and "their progress" are mainly from very poorly (economically) educated Middle Eastern points of view. Their currency was not deflated due to decades of war and oppression - that is all bull pucky!!
2:26 PM [shalone] BGG there are many that think that since Iraq is close to being removed from CH 7, that this must also mean the RV is close. 2:28 PM [BGG] Their currency was artificially deflated because we "imposed" a very low "program rate" as enforced by the UN so these a$$ hats couldn't buy bombs and guns while we subdued the subversive terrorists!! If they don't like the last 20 years - don't put up with terrorism in your country.
2:29 PM [shalone] BGG so do we think that Iraq is keeping the rate still low because of the terrorist threat?
2:29 PM [BGG] And one of the conditions of them being allowed a seat back at "the big kids table" is an internationally recognized currency - NOT an 1170 rate!! It will have to reflect the true value of the Dinar.


Friends of the Earth want parent companies to take responsibility for the actions of their subsidiaries.
Friends of the Earth issued a reminder that multinational corporations are often more powerful than the developing countries themselves. "The annual profit of the five largest is equal to the GDP of the 46 poorest countries," they write. The association denounces using subsidiaries to move manufacture out to countries where "environmental and social legislation is often less restrictive", then repatriating "the majority of the profits" earned, bleeding the economies of developing countries dry and rendering them incapable of funding health and education policies or public services.
Outraged by this scandal, the campaign aims to put an end to the "impunity" enjoyed by large corporations. Regretfully, "at international level, the texts relating to human rights and the environment are applicable to states, not to companies", explains the association, which wants head offices to be legally recognized as responsible for the impact of their subsidiaries. "Access to justice will be facilitated for victims in developing countries whose claims for damages will be able to be lodged using the legal system of the host state of the corporation's head office", the environmental advocates specified.


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Sam Woolfe	 April 17, 2014
Is David Cameron Right to Call Britain a Christian Country?
Many were surprised to see David Cameron take on a new persona, that of an evangelical Christian. In an article he wrote for the Church Times, our beloved PM made had the following to say:
I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country, more ambitious about expanding the role of faith-based organisations, and, frankly, more evangelical about a faith that compels us to get out there and make a difference to people's lives.
These claims are very controversial, yet the PM seems to think they are sensible recommendations. When he says we should be more "confident" about our status as a Christian country, he says this very matter-of-factly. On what basis does he think Britain is a Christian country? If he thinks the country's religious history defines the country as 'Christian', then it makes as much sense to call Mexico a 'Mayan' country. The past is the past and the supreme influence the Church used to have in politics and culture does not necessarily spill over into the present.
If the PM thinks the religiosity of people in this country defines the country as 'Christian', then he is clearly unaware of the trend towards more secularism, atheism and non-religiosity. Church attendance is waning dramatically and Christianity is ceasing to become an important factor in people's lives. If anything, it makes more sense to call Britain a 'secular' or 'pluralistic' country, given the obvious (and necessary) separation of Church and State we have, and the diversity of religions and belief-systems.
Cameron's insistence on "expanding the role of faith-based organisations" is highly suspicious. In what way will the PM expand these organisations? Will he offer Christian organisations a public platform and influence in policy-making over and above other religious organisations? Is he in favour of directing more public funds towards Christian schools? Many secularists are up in arms about these anti-secularist sentiments.
Why the PM wants us to get more "evangelical" about Christianity I do not know. If it's because he feels so passionate about his own faith and commitment to the Church of England, then he seems to be disregarding the passions and commitments of other religions. Indeed, as he himself stated, he has personally felt the "healing power" of the Church. But he's really shooting himself in the foot here. If he's being genuine about this, then he will come across as a fanatic and loony to many, but if he's being disingenuous, then he's merely acting as a populist, a puppet pandering to the established Church.
Because of his own biased agenda, he is unconcerned with people getting "evangelical" about their own faith (or lack of faith) or any belief-system for that matter. Surely we should get more "evangelical" about values which make a difference: human rights, liberty, environmentalism, etc. But Cameron doesn't touch on incorporating these values into politics; instead, he wants to "infuse politics" with Christian "ideals and values". And sure, the values he lists (charity, compassion, responsibility, humility, hard work and love) should be promoted, but to claim that these are exclusively Christian values is ignorant and extremely patronising. These values existed before Christianity and they can exist without it. These values should be infused into politics as universal human values – describing them as 'Christian' is religious arrogance at its finest. Many atheists will no doubt take offence at Cameron's claim that religion can help "people to have a moral code" as if religion has a monopoly on morality.
Of course, these surprising claims are not out of the blue. They are clearly tactical. In fact, these claims come after clashes between the Coalition and the Church over the failure to tackle the causes of food poverty, as well as Cameron's decision to introduce deep welfare cuts. It is slightly ironic, then, that the PM is championing values such as compassion, charity and love, whilst simultaneously disadvantaging the poor and vulnerable groups through these cuts.
Earlier this month, we also had the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, saying "militant atheists" should get over the fact that Britain is a Christian country. In 2012, Mr Pickles stopped an attempt by supposed "militant atheists" to ban prayers in public meetings. He argued such a ban would be a form of intolerance. Clearly, the communities secretary does not understand the distinction between intolerance and secularism. Banning Christian prayers in public meetings is not intolerance; it is to ensure the State does not favour or endorse one religion over other religions. It is a position based on fairness and impartiality. British politics must outgrow the views expressed by Cameron, Pickles, and others who are stuck in the past.
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Using a stand mixer, mix the eggs, vanilla extract and salt at a high-speed, until the mixture has a light texture. While mixing, add in the sugar gradually, then continue mixing at a high-speed for about 5 minute, till the mixture is thick and pale and ribbons form in the bowl when the whisk is lifted.
Using a spatula, gently fold in the sifted flour in batches.
Next, slowly pour in the melted butter by the edge of the bowl and add the lemon zest. Continue to fold the batter gently, until all ingredients are mixed well.
Butter and flour a madeleine tray. Use a spoon to distribute the batter into the Madeleine tray's moulds.
Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes or until they turn golden brown.
Serve when the Madeleine are cool. These lovely cakes are best eaten fresh out of the oven!


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The e-Atlas: Risk, Resilience and Response
Project Leader: Katharina Fabricius, AIMS
Why do we need an e-Atlas?
Managing our tropical lands and seas to enhance their resilience, particularly in the face of growing threats posed by climate change, declining water quality and unsustainable use, is a significant scientific, policy and management challenge. Effective collation, analysis, synthesis and communication of credible bio-physical and socio-economic information to policy makers, natural resource managers, scientists and the general public will be one of the keys to successfully meeting this challenge. The Australian Institute of Marine Science with funding from the MTSRF, Great Barrier Reef Foundation and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has developed the e-Atlas and is working with Dr David Souter to coordinate a substantial collaborative effort to populate the e-Atlas and increase its usefulness and useability (http://eatlas.org.au).
What will you find in the e-Atlas?
The e-Atlas currently holds a growing number of text pages that deliver syntheses of the latest scientific thinking on a wide range of issues facing the marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments of North Queensland. These syntheses have been derived from the latest scientific literature, much of which is founded on research conducted within the MTSRF program, and can be downloaded from the e-Atlas, along with images, meta-data, data and KML files for use in Google Earth. The e-Atlas now holds meta-data records for 38 datasets from 11 different national, state and local institutions or agencies. Twenty-seven of these datasets, many of which have been collected over decades and span large geographic areas (e.g. the entire Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics World Heritage Areas), have been incorporated into the e-Atlas mapping system to produce more than 600 maps, all of which can be viewed by anyone online.
The e-Atlas uses a unique and sophisticated interactive mapping system that enables the simultaneous comparison of up to three maps and multiple variables side-by-side. This unique ability enables the e-Atlas to effectively illustrate the numerous characteristics of North Queensland's ecosystems, particularly patterns and hotspots of biodiversity and threats, facilitating the identification and improvement of understanding of the major risk and resilience factors influencing the MTSRF region, and their ecological, social and economic impacts; and enhances capacity to evaluate and implement effective policy and management responses to ensure the long-term sustainability of North Queensland's natural assets.
How does the e-Atlas share information?
The e-Atlas is based entirely on open-source software and integrates several technologies to fulfill the e-Atlas' central objective of sharing and communicating information. For example, the e-Atlas uses internationally recognized standards (WMS feeds) to deliver content to commonly used GIS systems, particularly within federal and state government departments and agencies. In addition, the e-Atlas is linked to a number of external databases enabling the latest information to be communicated from a distributed system of data stores. The e-Atlas also supports an online metadata store that adheres to Australian best practices for spatial data management, 'wiki' capacity to facilitate external contributions of meta-data, data, reports, and images, and finally, downloadable KML versions of many of the maps so that they can be incorporated into your own Google Earth collection.
Demonstrable examples of adoption
Along with the MTSRF website, the e-Atlas is already the major knowledge and meta-data capture and delivery tool for the MTSRF program. Since March 2010, the e-Atlas has attracted 1700 unique visitors (based on IP), more than 7800 page views, and has received more than 410,000 map image requests. The e-Atlas has made a substantial contribution to the first GBRMPA Outlook Report and is currently being trialed internally within GBRMPA as a 'no-cost' GIS platform that provides all GBRMPA staff with the capacity to visualize and interrogate spatial information describing the GBR. Planning is also underway to incorporate the e-Atlas into the Australian Government's Caring for Our Country - Reef Rescue initiative as the major reporting tool for monitoring programs, enabling the evaluation of progress towards improvements in reef condition.
Project 1.1.5 AIMS De'ath, G. (2007) The spatial, temporal and structural composition of water quality of the Great Barrier Reef, and indicators of water quality and mapping risk
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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml;

namespace umbraco.cms.businesslogic.packager.standardPackageActions
{
	/// <summary>
	/// This class implements the IPackageAction Interface, used to execute code when packages are installed.
	/// All IPackageActions only takes a PackageName and a XmlNode as input, and executes based on the data in the xmlnode.
	/// </summary>
	public class allowDoctype : umbraco.interfaces.IPackageAction
	{

		#region IPackageAction Members

		/// <summary>
		/// Allows a documentType to be created below another documentType.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="packageName">Name of the package.</param>
		/// <param name="xmlData">The XML data.</param>
		/// <example><code>
		/// <Action runat="install" alias="allowDocumenttype" documentTypeAlias="MyNewDocumentType" parentDocumentTypeAlias="HomePage"  />
		/// </code></example>
		/// <returns>Returns true on success</returns>
		public bool Execute(string packageName, XmlNode xmlData)
		{
			string doctypeName = xmlData.Attributes["documentTypeAlias"].Value;
			string parentDoctypeName = xmlData.Attributes["parentDocumentTypeAlias"].Value;

			cms.businesslogic.ContentType ct = cms.businesslogic.ContentType.GetByAlias(doctypeName);
			cms.businesslogic.ContentType parentct = cms.businesslogic.ContentType.GetByAlias(parentDoctypeName);

			if (ct != null && parentct != null)
			{
				bool containsId = false;
				ArrayList tmp = new ArrayList();

				foreach (int i in parentct.AllowedChildContentTypeIDs.ToList())
				{
					tmp.Add(i);
					if (i == ct.Id)
						containsId = true;
				}

				if (!containsId)
				{

					int[] ids = new int[tmp.Count + 1];
					for (int i = 0; i < tmp.Count; i++) ids[i] = (int)tmp[i];
					ids[ids.Length - 1] = ct.Id;

					parentct.AllowedChildContentTypeIDs = ids;
					parentct.Save();
					return true;
				}
			}
			return false;
		}

		//this has no undo.
		/// <summary>
		/// This action has no undo.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="packageName">Name of the package.</param>
		/// <param name="xmlData">The XML data.</param>
		/// <returns></returns>
		public bool Undo(string packageName, XmlNode xmlData)
		{
			return true;
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Action Alias.
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns></returns>
		public string Alias()
		{
			return "allowDocumenttype";
		}

		#endregion

		public XmlNode SampleXml()
		{
			throw new NotImplementedException();
		}

	}
}

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Q: Exception (nullreferenceexception) on datagridview - C# My code is always entering the exception, does not matter if I try to "treat" the cell with NULL using IF/ELSE clauses.
My catch System.Exception error is:
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
Situation:
If I enter a NULL value on the Datagrid, an error will occur and the rest of the data is not saved.
       private void ExportToExcel()
    {
        // Creating a Excel object.
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel._Application excel = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel._Workbook workbook = excel.Workbooks.Add(Type.Missing);
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel._Worksheet worksheet = null;

        try
        {

            worksheet = workbook.ActiveSheet;

            worksheet.Name = "ExportedFromDatGrid";

            int cellRowIndex = 1;
            int cellColumnIndex = 1;

            //Loop through each row and read value from each column.
            for (int i = -1; i < dataGridView1.Rows.Count - 1; i++)
            {
                for (int j = 0; j < dataGridView1.Columns.Count; j++)
                {
                    // Excel index starts from 1,1. As first Row would have the Column headers, adding a condition check.
                    if (cellRowIndex == 1)
                    {
                        worksheet.Cells[cellRowIndex, cellColumnIndex] = dataGridView1.Columns[j].HeaderText;
                    }
                    else
                    {

                        if (dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString() != null)
                        {
                            worksheet.Cells[cellRowIndex, cellColumnIndex] = dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString();
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            worksheet.Cells[cellRowIndex, cellColumnIndex] = String.Empty;
                        }

                        // working:
                        //worksheet.Cells[cellRowIndex, cellColumnIndex] = dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString();
                    }
                    cellColumnIndex++;
                }
                cellColumnIndex = 1;
                cellRowIndex++;
            }

            //Getting the location and file name of the excel to save from user.
            SaveFileDialog saveDialog = new SaveFileDialog();
            saveDialog.Filter = "Excel files (*.xlsx)|*.xlsx|All files (*.*)|*.*";
            saveDialog.FilterIndex = 2;

            if (saveDialog.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
            {
                workbook.SaveAs(saveDialog.FileName);
                MessageBox.Show("Export Successful");
            }
        }
        catch (System.Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
        }
        finally
        {
            excel.Quit();
            workbook = null;
            excel = null;
        }

    } // end ExportToExcel

A: if (dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString() != null)

Don't call ToString() here, if your value is null you'll get a NullReferenceException. Simply test Value itself.
if (dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value != null)

In fact, in your case you could shorten it to
worksheet.Cells[cellRowIndex, cellColumnIndex]=dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value?.ToString() ?? "";

?. being the null conditional operator and ?? being the null coalescing operator.

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