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package org.hsqldb;

import org.hsqldb.HsqlNameManager.HsqlName;
import org.hsqldb.error.Error;
import org.hsqldb.error.ErrorCode;

/**
 * Invariant schema objects.
 *
 * @author Fred Toussi (fredt@users dot sourceforge.net)
 * @version 2.3.1
 * @since 1.9.0
 */
public class SqlInvariants {

    /**
     * The role name reserved for authorization of INFORMATION_SCHEMA and
     * system objects.
     */
    public static final String SYSTEM_AUTHORIZATION_NAME = "_SYSTEM";

    /** The role name reserved for ADMIN users. */
    public static final String DBA_ADMIN_ROLE_NAME = "DBA";

    /** The role name allowing schema creation for users. */
    public static final String SCHEMA_CREATE_ROLE_NAME = "CREATE_SCHEMA";

    /** The role name allowing switching authorisation for users. */
    public static final String CHANGE_AUTH_ROLE_NAME = "CHANGE_AUTHORIZATION";

    //
    public static final String SYSTEM_SUBQUERY = "SYSTEM_SUBQUERY";

    /** The role name reserved for the special PUBLIC pseudo-user. */
    public static final String   PUBLIC_ROLE_NAME     = "PUBLIC";
    public static final String   DEFAULT_CATALOG_NAME = "PUBLIC";
    public static final String   SYSTEM_SCHEMA        = "SYSTEM_SCHEMA";
    public static final String   LOBS_SCHEMA          = "SYSTEM_LOBS";
    public static final String   DEFINITION_SCHEMA    = "DEFINITION_SCHEMA";
    public static final String   INFORMATION_SCHEMA   = "INFORMATION_SCHEMA";
    public static final String   SQLJ_SCHEMA          = "SQLJ";
    public static final String   PUBLIC_SCHEMA        = "PUBLIC";
    public static final String   CLASSPATH_NAME       = "CLASSPATH";
    public static final String   MODULE               = "MODULE";
    public static final String   DUAL                 = "DUAL";
    public static final String   DUMMY                = "DUMMY";
    public static final String   IDX                  = "IDX";
    public static final HsqlName INFORMATION_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName SYSTEM_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName LOBS_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName SQLJ_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName SYSTEM_SUBQUERY_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName MODULE_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName DUAL_TABLE_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName DUAL_COLUMN_HSQLNAME;
    public static final HsqlName SYSTEM_INDEX_HSQLNAME;

    static {
        INFORMATION_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME =
            HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(INFORMATION_SCHEMA,
                SchemaObject.SCHEMA);
        SYSTEM_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME =
            HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(SYSTEM_SCHEMA,
                SchemaObject.SCHEMA);
        LOBS_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME = HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(LOBS_SCHEMA,
                SchemaObject.SCHEMA);
        SQLJ_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME = HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(SQLJ_SCHEMA,
                SchemaObject.SCHEMA);
        SYSTEM_SUBQUERY_HSQLNAME =
            HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(SYSTEM_SUBQUERY,
                SchemaObject.TABLE);
        MODULE_HSQLNAME = HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(MODULE,
                SchemaObject.SCHEMA);
        DUAL_TABLE_HSQLNAME = HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(DUAL,
                SchemaObject.TABLE);
        DUAL_TABLE_HSQLNAME.schema = SYSTEM_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME;
        DUAL_COLUMN_HSQLNAME = HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(DUMMY,
                SchemaObject.COLUMN);
        DUAL_COLUMN_HSQLNAME.parent = DUAL_TABLE_HSQLNAME;
        SYSTEM_INDEX_HSQLNAME = HsqlNameManager.newSystemObjectName(IDX,
                SchemaObject.INDEX);

        SYSTEM_SUBQUERY_HSQLNAME.setSchemaIfNull(SYSTEM_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME);
    }

    public static final void checkSchemaNameNotSystem(String name) {

        if (isSystemSchemaName(name)) {
            throw Error.error(ErrorCode.X_42503, name);
        }
    }

    public static final boolean isSystemSchemaName(String name) {

        if (SqlInvariants.DEFINITION_SCHEMA.equals(name)
                || SqlInvariants.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.equals(name)
                || SqlInvariants.SYSTEM_SCHEMA.equals(name)
                || SqlInvariants.SQLJ_SCHEMA.equals(name)) {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    public static final boolean isLobsSchemaName(String name) {

        if (SqlInvariants.LOBS_SCHEMA.equals(name)) {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    public static final boolean isSchemaNameSystem(HsqlName name) {

        if (name.schema != null) {
            name = name.schema;
        }

        if (SqlInvariants.INFORMATION_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME.equals(name)
                || SqlInvariants.SYSTEM_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME.equals(name)
                || SqlInvariants.SQLJ_SCHEMA_HSQLNAME.equals(name)) {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }
}


TheMotion is a stunning, responsive WooCommerce Ready Video Blogging WordPress Theme. This theme can be used for an in-motion or a next upcoming business. With TheMotion Lite, you can blog in a different way – through videos. The theme comes with a slider for featured videos/posts, which is elegant and puts your best works in the spotlight. Apart from that, it brings your site an interactive note and makes the browsing even more pleasant.


The British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2017 will be awarded to the English Faculty's Dr Kate Bennett for John Aubrey: Brief Lives with an Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers (Volume I & II).
In April 1888 Mrs Rose Mary Crawshay established 'The Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Yearly Prize Fund'. In 1914, some years after her death, the Charity Commissioners transferred the administration of the prize fund to the Academy. It is now awarded for a historical or critical work on any subject connected with English Literature by a woman of any nationality.
The Academy will also present a British Academy Medal to Professor Dame Marina Warner DBE CBE FBA for her life's work as an author, historian and journalist.
At its 2017 Prizes and Medals ceremony, to be held this evening (Wednesday 27 September) in central London, the Academy will recognise a host of academics, broadcasters, writers and entrepreneurs for their distinction in – and dedication to – the subjects that make up the arts, humanities and social sciences. Professor Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy, will host the ceremony.


Power management company Eaton today announced the opening of a human resource (HR) services centre in the Philippines. The centre will provide HR services to Eaton's manufacturing, administrative and sales facilities in Asia Pacific and globally.
Located at the First Philippine Industrial Park, the facility was officially opened by Lisa Shen, director, Human Resources Services, Asia Pacific and representatives from government, local organizations and Eaton leadership in Asia Pacific.
HR services is a centralised service organization that provides employees, HR community, and leadership with a comprehensive package of HR services. The shared services model will result in a more integrated and improved employee experience, reduced costs, improved operational efficiency, and access to innovative solutions.
The new Philippines centre currently supports HR activities in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines. Primary areas of support include recruiting, HR management system administration, compensation and benefits administration. It will support all regions with its global back office team in a phased deployment over the next three years. When fully operational, the facility will employ approximately 80 HR professionals.
The Philippines is a key emerging growth market for Eaton in Southeast Asia. Eaton launched its first Philippines manufacturing facility in 2012 to produce electronics products for global markets. Eaton now has two major manufacturing facilities and more than 1,800 employees in the Philippines.
Eaton is a power management company with approximately 97,000 employees. The company provides energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.
Plus: Koshu Raghunandan moves to SBM Asia Services as the HR lead, after leaving the Archer Well Company. ..
Usha Baidya will champion BT's human resources strategy in the Asia, Middle East and Africa region. ..


OTTAWA • As a young man, Justin Trudeau continually sought respite from his father's long shadow.
He debated in university as Jason Tremblay, boxed as Justin St Clair and eventually settled on Canada's west coast - as far in Canada as he could get from being former prime minister Pierre Trudeau's eldest son and still be close to great skiing.
Now 43, Mr Trudeau has come full circle, reviving a moribund Liberal Party amid a new wave of the Trudeau mania that swept his father to power in 1968 - and he gets to move back into his childhood home.
Mr Trudeau's political role model is not so much his beloved "papa", but his maternal grandfather Jimmy Sinclair, a consummate glad- handing, baby-kissing Scottish immigrant to Canada and Rhodes scholar. Mr Trudeau held his final campaign event in the Vancouver constituency his grandfather represented from 1940 to 1958.
"He loved knocking on doors, getting out, meeting people, taking the time to really listen to what they had to say," he said.
He loved knocking on doors, getting out, meeting people, taking the time to really listen to what they had to say.
Mr Trudeau, born in Ottawa on Christmas Day 1971, was the product of a fairy-tale romance and secret wedding between his father Pierre and Ms Margaret Sinclair, a flower child three decades his junior. Two other boys would follow.
Young Justin met Princess Diana, world leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and attended events like Leonid Brezhnev's funeral.
His mother Margaret emerged as a celebrity, singing for Fidel Castro, dancing at Studio 54 and partying with the Rolling Stones, later dating Jack Nicholson and having a relationship with Teddy Kennedy. In her autobiography, she said she was so sexually attracted to Kennedy when they first met that "we couldn't even stand" near each other and "Pierre was not amused". The couple separated in 1977, later divorcing, leaving then prime minister Trudeau a doting, single dad.
The younger Mr Trudeau's career path was restless, studying several subjects, travelling the globe and teaching. He is a longtime boxer, an occasional beer drinker and has a tattoo of a globe with a Haida aboriginal raven on his left shoulder.
Mr Trudeau did not make his move into politics until 2007, then married, when he won a nomination in a poor Montreal district held by the separatist Bloc Quebecois. He won the seat in 2008 even as his party went down in defeat and was re-elected in 2011 as the Liberals suffered their worst defeat in history.
The party was hobbled, in his words, by a "lazy approach to grassroots voters, its neglect of youth and ethnic voters and its general sense of hubris and entitlement".
Mr Trudeau sought the leadership and won it handily in 2013. He quickly overtook Prime Minister Stephen Harper in popularity, baffling the Conservatives who considered him a lightweight.


The Chinese ride sharing service Didi Chuxing, who last month bought Uber's operations in the country, have announced an investment of "tens of millions of dollars" in a bike sharing platform.
Looking to expand and offer their customers more than just on-demand rides in cars, the company have invested in Peking start-up ofo, who specialise in bike sharing.
It's now expected that Didi will include cycling options on their app as part of their ongoing plans to offer 'a full transport ecosystem'. In recent years China has seen a decline in cycling as its middle classes turned more to private cars. However, congestion in cities and a rising trend in health consciousness has seen it begin to increase in busy cities and towns.
ofo, named as such because the text resembles a bike, was a student start-up project at Peking University launched two years ago. Users of the platform can book bicycles for 0.5 yuan a ride (that's about 6p!), and now ofo has become China's largest bike sharing company.
The bike sharing start-up currently has presence in 20 cities across China, with 70,000 bikes used daily between 1.5m members. The company capitalised on university campuses and areas where public transport options were low, quickly growing and overtaking other similar start-ups such as Mobike, who are headquartered in Shanghai.
Didi has the technology infrastructure to support any kind of service that requires logistical organisation, and it already offers taxis, car rental, bus services, chauffeurs, and more — and now bikes!
A spokesperson for Didi said "Didi and ofo will explore strategic cooperation in urban rideshare, including offering quality bike-sharing experience on Didi's platform," confirming that the company has elected to invest rather than buy, at present.
This investment comes just a month after the company acquired Uber's Chinese operations in a $35bn deal, and Apple invested $1bn in the ride sharers.
Have you heard of Didi Chuxing, or ofo? Do you see a similar merge of services happening in the UK? Let us know your thoughts – either in the comments below or at @Liftshare!


Is there a way to remove the Activity Stream on the Workspace and move tasks there? That's just a total waste of space for our needs. Thanks!
No current plans to include a feature to remove the activity stream but we are considering to make the stream more flexible in the future. Just not planned at this point.
If you are not already doing this, I can recommend spending some time to hide the updates not relevant for you personally - this makes the stream more relevant and creates a faster way to get overview of the activity in your company.
We see notifications on things you actively follow as what you need to know, while the stream is a way to discover things in your business you might not know (nice to know) and enable you to follow and participate in discussion, even if you are not directly involved.
Thanks for the feedback, please keep voting.
Agree this would be a great addition to see. Just like how we can move the tiles around on the sidebar would... fingers crossed.
Alternative idea, if a workspace can be set to automatically go to the first app in the workspace straight away, rather than clicking on the workspace and then the app at the top.
Agree - would love to at least be able to move this widget.
+1 I would like to see the option to treat this just as any other widget on the home screen and be able to move it and resize it.
+1.... if not getting rid of it entirely, just being able to resize and move it would be great.
In addition I would like a feature request to disable the statuses for some workspaces. Sometimes we have multiple workspaces and want only one where members can post statuses.
IT takes up more than 80% of the workspace and gives less than 20% info. Please make it optional.
It takes up 50% of the useful screen and adds a pointless stream of dates. I just want the data, not the history. A simple (greyed-out) date against a document or other contribution would suffice, in case I need to check on the status of a document.
It is frustrating because it should be optional like any other "tile" or "widget." In some cases, it is useful but in many cases it occupies screen real estate that would be better used for other dashboard type elements.
I think part of the reason it is given such dominance is Podio's focus on incorporating features and styles that work for social environments like Facebook at Twitter into work processes. That is great for people for whom it works well.
What is puzzling to me is that so much of Podio is built around giving the user flexibility; I cannot understand the insistence and design principle that the Activity Stream must fill half the screen of a user's home screen or workspace home screen whether the user finds it to be a useful element or not.
I see your point. It is also something we are discussing internally - how to make the activity stream more useful, personal and also flexible to give every user the option to customize the space. It is quite a big project though and not something we have prioritized to fix in the short-term roadmap. We are currently working to add even more power (and flexibility) to other areas of Podio.
I understand that offering 'flexibility' to the activity stream might represent something of a project, but for those of us that have no use at all for it, can't you simply allow us to delete it altogether. Isn't that just a simple bit of Code ?
I guess it is not just a question about removing code but also defining the value we believe in (how we think Podio should work) - so far, we still believe the activity stream gives the transparency and knowledge sharing dynamics we believe in and think is valuable for a team working together. So removing it would be a larger decision and we want to make we make it useful for most users if we change it (imagine if Facebook removed their stream - or made it a choice for each user to select the stream feature). But yes, we're discussing different options internally so it is definitely a valid point.
Sara, that is exactly my point. There are times when I want to construct a screen that maximizes the use of the real estate based on how I need it to work, and I don't care (for that dashboard view) whether Podio wants Podio to work in a more Facebook-like or Twitter-like fashion. My whole reason for choosing Podio over other tools and platforms was the flexibility that I could built things in Podio to support my workflow and my team's workflow, rather than having to learn the "built-in" workflow required by other more structured systems and platforms.
I think the "value of the feed" is a Millennial-centric way of approaching the interface design. That is probably very useful to some users, but very off-putting to others. I think that there is something a little bit disingenuous about having a system that is so flexible in every other way, but then tries to force users to use or interact with one component of it in a certain way.
There are some screens and views where I do find the stream to be useful. However, it is clearly (for me) not universally more valuable and useful than every other piece of data or summary report in my workspace, and there are some screens where it does not "deserve" 50% of my screen real estate when I am trying to monitor other things.
That is why I think so many people feel that it is a reasonable thing for the Stream to be available just like any other widget, and to be able to turn it on and off as needed for different screens and views.
Clearly the Activity Stream is not such an all-powerful dashboard and activity monitor that no other information is needed, right? Obvious straw man here, but why not just make the Activity Stream the only thing visible on the home screen if that were the case?


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Cloudera Offers Support for SAP HANA
Cloudera is now offering support for Capgemini's new reference architecture for the SAP HANA platform and Cloudera Enterprise.
"By bringing the power of Cloudera's enterprise data hub offering to the ecosystem in support of SAP HANA, we can enable Capgemini's clients to expand the amount of data they have within their environment in a cost-efficient manner," said Tim Stevens, vice president of corporate and business development at Cloudera. "This will enable exploration for new integrated use cases based on both structured and unstructured data. The result will be that customers gain the ability to drive deeper analytic insight from more complete, longer-term datasets."
Cloudera Enterprise offers businesses a comprehensive framework to transform landscapes into next-generation data management and analytics platforms. By combining reference architecture connectors between Cloudera Enterprise, SAP HANA, and SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions, Capgemini has partnered with SAP, Cloudera and Intel to design and validate a consistent reference architecture that integrates the real-time capabilities of the SAP HANA platform with the broad insights generated by Cloudera Enterprise.
This architecture forms a new data platform capable of handling data of various types where it is located, optimizing business intelligence via Impala, and virtualization through SAP HANA smart data access and real-time integration with business processes running on top of SAP HANA.
"With this unified reference architecture for SAP HANA with Hadoop, SAP customers are able to turn instant insight on massive amounts of data into reality,"said Matthew Zenus, vice president of the SAP HANA Platform Solutions Group at SAP.
To learn more, visit, www.cloudera.com.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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The Bornean ferret badger (Melogale everetti), also known as Everett's ferret badger or the Kinabalu ferret badger, is a small, nocturnal and omnivorous mammal that is endemic to the island of Borneo. It is a member of the family Mustelidae and is one of five species of the genus Melogale. It is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species due to its small distribution range, which includes Kinabalu National Park and Crocker Range National Park.

Bornean ferret badgers weigh up to 3 kg (6.61 lb) and reach a maximum recorded body length of 44cm (17.32 in). They forage on the ground for invertebrates, amphibians, insects, fruit and carrion.

The overall population trend of the Bornean ferret badger is "assumed to be in at least shallow decrease", due to the numerous man-made (climate change and habitat destruction) and natural (natural disasters and epidemics) threats it faces.

Taxonomy
Melogale everetti was the scientific name first used by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1895 to describe the Bornean ferret badger. The scientific name commemorates the British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett. The Bornean ferret badger is also less frequently referred to by the scientific name Melogale personata.

The common names used to describe this species of ferret badger in English are: Bornean ferret badger, Everett's ferret badger and Kinabalu ferret badger. The common name in Malay is Biul Slentek

The Bornean ferret badger has historically been considered by some to be a subspecies of the Javan ferret-badger (Melogale orientalis) and by others as a subspecies of the Burmese ferret-badger (Melogale personata). However, it is now considered to be its own distinct species of the genus Melogale, which has five distinct species of ferret badger.

Description
The Bornean ferret badger is covered by fur that ranges in colour from grey brown to dark black, with its underside covered by a lighter coloured fur. The most recognisable and defining characteristic of this species of ferret badger is the "ferret-like mask" pattern of colouration on its face, that is either white or yellow. This species is also distinguishable from other ferret badgers by a dorsal stripe that runs from the top of its head to the bottom of its shoulders, which ranges in colour from white to red.

The Bornean ferret badger is characteristic of ferret badgers, as it has short legs and broad feet. Its feet are equipped with strong digging claws, as well as with ridges that run along the pads of the feet and partial webbing between the toes that are believed to be climbing adaptations.

Size
The Bornean ferret badger is small and long compared to the other members of the Melogale genus. In general, it can weigh as little as 1 kg (2.20 lb) and as much as 3 kg (6.61 lb). The body of the Bornean ferret badger is between 33 cm (12.99 in) and 44 cm (17.32 in) in length, with a long, bushy tail that can be between 15.2 cm (5.98 in) and 23 cm (9.05 in) in length.

Distribution and habitat
The Bornean ferret badger is endemic to the Island of Borneo and has a very restricted distribution range on the island. Its distribution range is limited to the northern tip of the island of Borneo, specifically Kinabalu National Park, Crocker Range National Park and the surrounding area. This includes the adjacent districts of Penampang, Tambunan and Tuaran in Sabah. A limited number of survey efforts have been conducted in montane forests in north-east Kalimantan, Sarawak and southern Sabah, but there is currently no evidence that the Bornean ferret badger inhabits these regions.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species lists the Bornean ferret badger as endangered, due to its relatively small estimated extent of occurrence of approximately 4,200 km2 (1,622 mi2). This small extent of occurrence is fragmented by roads that run through Kinabalu National Park and Crocker Range National Park, such as the main east-west Sabah highway. Resulting in the area of occupancy of the Bornean ferret badger totalling only 1,100 km2 (425 mi2), considerably smaller than its extent of occurrence.

The habitat of the Bornean ferret badger is predominantly evergreen and montane forests. Although, they have also been observed in surrounding scrubland and slash and burn agriculture fields. They inhabit upland and highland areas, with all reliable recorded sightings occurring between 500 m (1640 ft) and 3000 m (9843 ft) of elevation.

Population
Very little is known about the size of the Bornean ferret badger's population. The only known large scale collection of specimens occurred in the late 1960s to early 1970s, when 57 specimens were collected and are now displayed in the Sabah Museum. Most recorded sightings of the Bornean ferret badger have been of individuals, making population estimates impossible. Two camera-trapping studies have been conducted within the geographic and altitudinal range of the Bornean ferret badger, to determine the relative size of the population compared to other animal species in the area. The first camera-trap survey in Crocker Range National Park detected the Bornean ferret badger at a much lower rate than other similar-sized carnivores in the area. This suggests that even within its core distribution range, the species is rare and potentially occurs at low densities. However, a separate survey in 2016 concluded the direct opposite. Stating that the Bornean ferret badger "may be among the most numerous small carnivore species" in the area. However, camera-trap encounter rates cannot determine the true abundance nor the population size of animals on the ground.

The status of the Bornean ferret badger's population is also relatively unknown. There is no direct information on population trend, but it is "assumed to be in at least shallow decrease." This assumption is based on the extent of habitat conversion and encroachment experienced by the Bornean ferret badger, and the potential inability of it to "thrive in isolated slash and burn agriculture fields not surrounded by old-growth forests."

Behaviour and biology
The Bornean ferret badger is "believed to be nocturnal and ground-dwelling". However, they are also known to be formidable climbers and have been observed foraging in trees. While little is known about the Bornean ferret badger's specific diet, it is an omnivore that forages on the ground for invertebrates, amphibians, insects, fruit, and carrion. It has also been observed that they eat earthworms.

The Bornean ferret badger, due to its nocturnal nature, is mainly active at night and at dusk. It spends most of its time at night foraging for food and when it is not foraging the Bornean ferret badger lives in a burrow. Despite its strong digging ability, the Bornean ferret badger does not dig its own burrow. Instead, it lives in pre-existing burrows dug by other animals.

The Bornean ferret badger is known to exhibit fierce behaviour when it is provoked or cornered. It exhibits the warning colouration of its masked face and dorsal stripe to scare potential predators. It has also been known to emit a pungent odour from its scent glands, not too dissimilar to the behaviour of a skunk.

The breeding season of the Bornean ferret badger is relatively long and occurs annually, as females are able to reproduce at all times throughout the year. Male ferret badgers undergo a period of non-reproduction every year from September to December, during which they cease sperm production. The gestation period of female ferret badgers is between 57 and 80 days, with young normally being born in May and June. Female Bornean ferret badgers give birth to litters of between 1 and 5 offspring. The offspring are weaned and cared for by their mother for between 2 and 3 months in a burrow, until they are able to forage for themselves.

Threats

Natural threats
The major natural threats to the Bornean ferret badger are all linked to the very small extent of occurrence of its population (4,200 km2) and its concentration in a single forest environment. This makes it vulnerable to large scale, unpredictable events such as epidemics or natural disasters. A potential epidemic within the species is a serious threat to its population, as it is concentrated in one area with limited separation between population groups. Similarly, the island of Borneo experiences an extreme monsoon season and occasionally typhoons, that could potentially eliminate the ferret badger population.

Anthropogenic (man-made) threats

Climate change is also likely to negatively impact the Bornean ferret badger population. Climate change increases the likelihood of extreme and unpredictable natural events such as typhoons that threatened the ferret badger. It will also have negative impacts on the Bornean ferret badger population, as higher temperatures result in upslope range shifts. Species such as the Bornean ferret badger that already live at high altitudes are unable to move to higher altitudes as temperatures rise, which could result in extinction.

Human encroachment on the Bornean ferret badger's habitat resulting in habitat degradation, is another threat to the ferret badger population. Kinabalu National Park and Crocker Range National Park are well-protected from human activities, however surrounding habitat has been converted into slash and burn agriculture by local communities. Incidents such as illegal land clearing near Kinabalu National Park in 2011 place increased pressure on the already endangered Bornean ferret badger population. The negative impacts of human activity is reflected in declining incident records (such as road kills), which suggest the Bornean ferret badger's population is already being harmed by the increasing human encroachment on its habitat.

Conservation
The habitat and distribution range of the Bornean ferret badger is protected by several conservation agreements. The Bornean ferret badger is currently listed on the Sabah Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997, as Melogale personata instead of Melogale everetti. This piece of regional legislation covers the state of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo and aims to protect the endangered species in the region. The Sabah Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997 focuses mainly on the threat of international trade, but at present this is not believed to be a conservation priority for the Bornean ferret badger. However, the listing of the Bornean ferret badger in the legislation under an obsolete name could complicate enforcement of its protected status.

Kinabalu National Park
There is no conservation plan specifically for the Bornean ferret badger in Kinabalu National Park, however it benefits from the park's UNESCO World Heritage status. Under the World Heritage Convention (1975), Malaysia has committed to "do all they can with their own resources to protect their World Heritage properties". Legislation protecting Kinabalu National Park was established under the Parks Enactment of 1984 and Amendment of 2007. This resulted in Kinabalu National Park becoming a protected area, which is beneficial to the conservation efforts of the Bornean ferret badger. Kinabalu National Park is described as an "island in a sea of agriculture and developments". Given slash and burn agriculture and human encroachment are major threats to the Bornean ferret badger's population and distribution range, the protected status of Kinabalu National Park is significant to conservation efforts.

Crocker Range National Park
Crocker Range National Park falls within the distribution range of the Bornean ferret badger and plays an important role in its conservation. The park's "national park" status provides protection to the flora and fauna within it, including the Bornean ferret badger. This has and continues to limit the impacts of human encroachment on the Bornean ferret badger's habitat. This is significant to the conservation efforts of the Bornean ferret badger, as Crocker Range National Park is surrounded by numerous settlements of the Kadazan-Dusun and Murut communities, which have moderately fast-growing populations that practice slash and burn agriculture.

Conservation priorities

The Bornean ferret badger is believed to only inhabit Kinabalu National Park and Crocker Range National Park, meaning all conservation efforts should be focused in this region according to the IUCN. The IUCN believes that population surveys are required in north-eastern Sarawak and north Kalimantan to look for additional populations that may require conservation efforts.

Currently, the most significant conservation project that will benefit the Bornean ferret badger population is the Kinabalu Ecolinc Project. This project will restore the ecological linkage between the two fully protected areas of Kinabalu National Park and Crocker Range National Park. These are the sites of the only two known Bornean ferret badger populations and an ecological link between the populations would improve the conservation status of the species. "However, it is unknown if such a linkage is feasible, or if the land between the two national parks is too fragmented and degraded to be used habitually by the species."

Another conservation priority for the Bornean ferret badger is the establishment of a formal buffer zone with clearly specified land-use restrictions around Kinabalu National Park. This would reduce the impacts of human encroachment on the Bornean ferret badger's habitat, which has experienced significant losses of forest cover in the area surrounding Kinabalu National Park.

References

Melogale
Endemic fauna of Malaysia
Mammals of Borneo
Carnivorans of Malaysia
Mammals of Indonesia
Mammals described in 1895
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Mustelidae
Fauna of the Borneo montane rain forests
Fauna of Mount Kinabalu

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Today is the last day for comments on the Public web consultation on WHO's engagement with non-State actors.
SUMMARY OF IBFAN's Recommendations in addition to those sent by Democratising Global Health Coalition and Conflict of Interest Coalition..
WHO must develop a new comprehensive organization-wide policy addressing the avoidance and management of individual and institutional conflicts of interest with the protection of public health as the prime concern.
There is a need for 3 separate policies – for NGOs, private commercial entities (producers of goods and services) and those who represent their interests, and Philanthropies.
In view of the very real risks of undue influence, especially if commercial entities (and their front bodies) systematically violate WHA Resolutions and recommendations or work against them, IBFAN considers that it is unnecessary, risky and inappropriate for such actors to make oral interventions during meetings setting WHO's standard and norms.
Such actors should be invited to take part in web consultations (such as this) and to provide information when needed and appropriate. Written submissions allow for better evaluation of impact, helping Member States make sound judgments.
If further consultation/interaction with such actors is deemed necessary and appropriate it must be in line with the agreed policy (see above).
WHO must publicise its policies on conflicts of interest more widely to create greater understanding of these critical issues and encourage good practice at national and regional level.
WHO should not accept financing from commercial enterprises for activities leading to production of WHO guidelines or recommendations, especially when these entities violate or work against WHA Resolutions.
WHO must ensure that the financing dialogue facilitates open discussion of the risks and benefits of different types of financing.
Contributions from Non-State actors should only be accepted for the Global Programme of Work – ie untied to specific topics. Tied funding can result in disproportionate funding being allocated to fashionable topics at the expense of core work. This has the potential not only to distort WHO's priorities, but to distort public perceptions of what needs to be done to achieve health for all.
WHO should not be involved in the provision of incentives to commercial companies such as bonds or guarantees, especially when they run for several years. This does not allow for the frequent evaluation that is needed to establish and maintain the effectiveness of programmes.
WHO must not equate financial gain for WHO with benefit for public health.
WHO must pay close attention to terminology and wherever possible use non-emotive, descriptive language. Terms such as "partnership" can have strong emotional and commercial value, and should be qualified as to whether the engagement or interaction is a form of a sponsorship, contribution in kind, product development, secondment, information gathering exercise?
In response to the request of the Executive Board of WHO (Decision EB132(11)) to conduct public web-based consultations on the draft principles and policies of engagement with non-State actors, the WHO Secretariat welcomes interested parties to provide comments on the questions and issues related to WHO's engagement with non-State actors (as outlined at the link below).


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Agreeing to Rules of Engagement
By: Paula Musich | December 18, 2000
Pacts between providers and clients set the terms of their relationship.
IT managers signing on with MSPs and other service providers are starting to take those relationships personally, recognizing theyre fraught with temptations and much more complicated than a service that can be switched as easily as one would change a long-distance carrier.
With that in mind, the idea of creating what some industry pundits call a "prenuptial agreement" between service providers and their enterprise customers is beginning to emerge. More than an SLA (service-level agreement), such contracts can define how each party is to behave and what responsibilities each has should either party want to terminate the relationship.
The idea is to think like Donald Trump, according to Ray Paquet, an analyst at Gartner Group Inc., in Lowell, Mass. "Theres a big myth that its easy to switch service providers," Paquet said. "We would argue that its not. If its not easy, but its going to happen, how do you protect yourself?"
Few service providers offer such agreements. StrataSource Inc. provides a service guarantee to customers that simply states that if a customer is unhappy, it can go to another management service provider, and StrataSource will provide up to 20 hours of free consulting to aid the transition.
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"Well help you with switching," said Tom Jones, CEO and president of StrataSource, in Fremont, Calif. "Its important because it takes off the table the issues of What do I get if you dont perform for me?"
One StrataSource customer who was offered the guarantee for free in midcontract was surprised to see how open-ended the clause was. "The nice thing about the service guarantee is its short and simple," said Doug Rathbun, senior IT manager at Everdream Corp., also in Fremont. "Im talking to some other ISPs [Internet service providers], and their SLAs are so convoluted. With StrataSource its easy. The measure is whether youre happy or not."
SLAs differ from prenuptial pacts in their orientation. Usually, SLAs are intended to protect the service provider rather than the customer, said StrataSources Jones: "The whole reason SLAs came up was to define the vendors obligation. But this business is not about penalties. Its about service."
Although StrataSources service guarantee is unique, there is a more common practice of defining within a service contract who is responsible for what costs when a contract is terminated prematurely. "The customer is incurring an expense to establish a service. If we cease to provide it, wed have to reimburse the expense," said Scott Windemuller, general manager at ServOn Inc., in San Francisco. "Similarly, if they want to cancel six months early, we have a mechanism in the contract to gain a percentage of the remaining value of the contract to cover costs. We may have bought hardware to facilitate the service."
New ServOn customer Bravenet Web Services Inc., of Parksville, British Columbia, went beyond the financial considerations to add in a window of time for making any move to another provider. After a not-so-successful transition from Genuity Inc. to ServOn, which is providing co-location facilities for Bravenet servers in addition to monitoring and managing the servers, Bravenet Chief Technology Officer Brad Knorr chose to require a 60-day grace period. "My biggest concern was not to be left with a get out in five days," Knorr said.
Other transition issues that IT should consider include establishing a backup plan from the start that provides for operational support during the transition, establishing communication between the old and the new MSP as well as with the customer during the transition, establishing the ability to run parallel services on the customers infrastructure during the cut-over, and creating well-defined integration points, Gartners Paquet said.
In multiyear service agreements, its also important to include exit clauses so that if the MSP doesnt perform, execute or scale or is somehow disruptive to the customers business, the parties can terminate the contract, he added.
Specific to MSPs is an issue related to gathering data on the customers infrastructure, which is necessary for monitoring and reporting. Such data can become quite extensive and valuable to third parties, Paquet said.
Although its human nature to delay dealing with negative issues in a new relationship, spreading the risk equally between the service provider and the customer is one way to create incentives to make it work. "Nobody wants to enter a contract thinking about what happens if we dont make it. You are immediately creating an awkward situation for each party," ServOns Windemuller said. But providing for financial penalties should either party want to terminate early "is more of an incentive to keep providing the service and for them to stay with us," he said.
At days end, it can still come down to people and money. "You can contract as much as you want and have it signed by 18 million people, but in the end, a contract is only as good as how much you can afford to enforce it," Bravenets Knorr said.
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using StyletIoC.Creation;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace StyletIoC.Internal.RegistrationCollections
{
    internal class SingleRegistration : IRegistrationCollection
    {
        private readonly IRegistration registration;

        public SingleRegistration(IRegistration registration)
        {
            this.registration = registration;
        }

        public IRegistration GetSingle()
        {
            return this.registration;
        }

        public List<IRegistration> GetAll()
        {
            return new List<IRegistration>() { this.registration };
        }

        public IRegistrationCollection AddRegistration(IRegistration registration)
        {
            if (this.registration.TypeHandle.Equals(registration.TypeHandle))
                throw new StyletIoCRegistrationException(String.Format("Multiple registrations for type {0} found.", Type.GetTypeFromHandle(registration.TypeHandle).GetDescription()));
            return new RegistrationCollection(new List<IRegistration>() { this.registration, registration });
        }
    }
}

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Son of Fury (1942)
Director: John Cromwell Writer: Philip Dunne
Film Score: Alfred Newman Cinematography: Arthur Miller
Starring: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders and Roddy McDowall
Through sheer happenstance, I happened to have recently watched three early films of Roddy McDowall: How Green Was My Valley, Man Hunt, (both of which starred Walter Pidgeon) and most recently, Son of Fury. Of course I had known of him through his later work, most notably the Planet of the Apes series, The Poseidon Adventure, and a great later film, Fright Night. It is fascinating to see him not as people of the time did, as a child actor, but as the boy who would eventually become Roddy McDowall as an adult. In this film, however, he only plays the young Benjamin Blake for twenty minutes or so, until the adult role is taken over by Tyrone Power.
Rather than a swashbuckler like the Erroll Flynn films for Warner Brothers, the emphasis in Son of Fury was on fist fighting, beginning with Roddy McDowell brawling in the dirt with a stable boy. The opening scene for George Sanders has him bare knuckle boxing, and twice he and Tyrone Power tangle, including the climactic battle in the mansion. One of the more bizarre bits of casting was Gene Tierney as the exotic island girl. Arguably her best scene in the film is a nighttime dancing scene that was choreographed very well. But for the most part her role is difficult to endure.
The story begins as a Dickensian British family drama, the young Benjamin being discovered to be the illegitimate child of Sir Godfrey Blake, cheated out of his inheritance by his uncle, played by George Sanders. After falling in love with Sanders' daughter, Frances Farmer, he vows to go to sea to find his fortune and return for her. But once in the South Pacific to hunt pearls he falls for the native girl, Gene Tierney, as he and his partner, John Carradine, await the arrival of a ship to take them home so that Power can reclaim his estate. On returning to England, Power enlists the help of an influential lawyer to buy out his home from under his Uncle.
It's not a particularly riveting story, and much of it is derivative of any number of similar British dramas, as well as a bit of Mutiny on the Bounty thrown in. In addition, composer Alfred Newman seems to have copied Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for Captain Blood, especially in its central theme. Still . . . there's something interesting in the way the story plays out and though the ending is also fairly predictable, it's no less satisfying for it. Son of Fury has a great cast that also includes Elsa Lanchester, Mae Marsh, and Halliwell Hobbes, and is certainly worth a viewing even it it's not worth owning.
Labels: 1940s, 20th Century-Fox, Alfred Newman, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Historical Drama, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Tyrone Power
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but the method I came up with, was to use the image OnLoad technique, and put the img on a dashboard page that users access, regularly. Of course, this isn't a precisely timed interval, but QB doesn't have any timer/cron functionality (hint!). I created a saved export template, and am hoping to have the .js, called by the OnLoad, execute the saved export template ... but I dunno how.
Also, since I am new to QB, feel free to point out any issues with my approach..
OK, how can I use Sync to copy from one table to another? I thought it only was to bring in external data? Though, my need is to bring in the data into an *already-existing* table.
QuickBase Sync can use another QuickBase table as its source. But at present, you cannot retrofit an existing table to be Sync'd. I understand though that ability is somewhere on their future development list though.
Ya, the "existing table" restriction is the problem, which is why I went with the onLoad -> .js -> import template route.
But what would I put in the .js to execute the import template?
The method that you are describing I call the "Dashboard Cron". Although you don't get precise control over the time that script executes your users will pass through the dashboard repeatedly and potentially invoke the script a large number of dimes during the day. You will actually have to rate limit the running of the script so it does not fully execute (and move the data) to some type of balance point between how often your users pass through the dashboard.
FWIW, you can also apply the same technique with Service Workers. where you can potentially trap every fetch request and conditionally run the table move portion of the script if it hasn't been run recently enough. For discussion purposes let's call this a "Service Worker Cron".
but how can I execute it in Quickbase ... it doesn't look like .js code.


Pre-K Crazy Week @ QCC Cabot - E. Justice!
We will get to play in the dirt. Which we all love to do. So bring your shovel and pail or any outside toys you would like to play with. Please make sure they are wearing clothes that you don't mind getting messed up.
Wednesday: Field Trip We will be going to Barnyard Friends and Stables.
We will get to feed the animals enjoy pony rides and a hay ride. We will also get to enjoy homemade ice cream. Please bring a sack lunch. The cost will be $12.00.
Each child will be allowed to bring their bikes, or anything with wheels if they don't have a bike, to daycare. We will decorate them and ride them.
We will play in the sprinklers! Bring a bathing suit, towel, and shoes that can get wet. Don't forget a change of clothes.


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About Epigmenio Guzman
Mexican native Epigmenio Guzman came to the US in 1975. Inspired by his mother and grandmother, cooking was all about family and tradition. Epigmenio opened Tu Y Yo Mexican Cuisine Restaurant in 2000 in Somerville, MA, and the success of that location prompted a second restaurant in Needham in 2009. His passion lies in using the very best ingredients and preserving the traditional recipes of Mexico as part of the slow food movement.
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Mexican native Epigmenio Guzman came to the US in 1975. Inspired by his mother and grandmother, cooking was all about family and tradition. Epigmenio opened Tu Y Yo Mexican Cuisine Restaurant in 2000 in Somerville, MA, and the success of that location prompted a second restaurant in Needham in 2009. His passion lies in using the very best ingredients and preserving the traditional recipes of Mexico as part of the slow food movement.

Chicken Tamales w/ Tomatillo Sauce
Plantain Empanadas
Tu Y Yo Mexican Cuisine Restaurant
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Morley Pride opens door to acceptance of Two-Spirit people
Thursday, August 25th, 2016 4:30pm
Drag queen Argintina Hailey. (Photo: supplied)
By Shari Narine
Sweetgrass Contributing Editor
STONEY NAKODA NATION
After years of talking, Argintina Hailey has joined forces with others in her First Nation's community to host Morley Pride this weekend.
"You can say, in some terms, it's our 'coming-out," said Hailey.
It's not a coming-out for Hailey. She's been performing as a drag queen for 16 years – not quite half her life. She created Argintina Hailey in Calgary, where she performs mostly, but has taken her drag queen persona to shows in Edmonton, Vancouver, Houston, Spokane, and Las Vegas.
It's a coming-out for First Nations in Alberta, says Hailey. This is the first time an event that highlights drag queens will be held on a reserve in the province.
It's almost a natural follow-up for the Two-Spirit Nations of the Treaty 7, a group Hailey belongs to, which participated in last year's Gay Pride parade in Calgary.
Hailey says Morley Pride is an invitation to the community to come out and be entertained by two-spirited people. She says family and friends tell her they want to take in her shows but are uncomfortable about attending the gay bars in Calgary in which she performs.
But Morley Pride is about far more than the entertainment value.
"We want the community to know we are part of the community. We live on the same land. We are all from the same Creator. We want to be able to express that to them that we're here," said Hailey. "It's okay to accept us for who we are."
Growing up on Wesley First Nation, Argintina (which is a stage name) says life wasn't as difficult for her as she knows it was for other two-spirited First Nations people.
"It was more a self-doubt about how we were going to be perceived," she said.
While others paved the way before her, Hailey says younger two-spirited people call her "Mama Argintina" and tell her she gave them the strength to be open about who they are.
"There are people who are now openly living together on reserve and they've been accepted as such," said Hailey.
It was this desire to be open that first had Hailey talking to others on the Stoney Nakoda Nation about doing a show like Morley Pride. But it wasn't until she heard that The Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation in Saskatchewan had hosted a Two-Spirit Festival that she decided the time was right.
Hailey has lined up the entertainment for Saturday's show, which will be held at the Stoney Nakoda Resort and Casino. Hailey will be joined on stage for the feature drag show by Miss Ellen Q and the Pumas, out of Banff, and Visa De'Klein from Calgary. Nina Tron is the special guest. Girls Got Rhythme Band, a contemporary music band, will be opening the performance. Two-spirit comedian Dane Cunningham will MC the drag show.
Native dancers will also be showcasing the different styles of pow wow dancing.
Bringing drag queens together in the same show with traditional dancers only underscores that everyone is from the same community, says Hailey.
"We have two-spirited members who dance in the pow wow," she said. "We've always been part of the community and we've always been seen as such."
Hailey is hoping Morley Pride will become an annual event, to take place the last weekend in August.
"We are going to see how this event turns out. If it's big and huge and we have the support we've had so far then we'll do this as an annual event," she said.


On Sunday 25th June, the Church celebrates the first Sunday in Ordinary Time since 26th February. In the intervening four months we have moved through the season of Lent to the high point of the Easter ceremonies followed by seven weeks of Easter Time with its alleluias, sprinkling rites and burning Easter candle.
The liturgical season of Easter actually finished with Pentecost Sunday but on the two Sundays since we have had the feasts of the Most Holy Trinity and the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, so the sense of special celebration has continued.
Rather than seeing this return to Ordinary Time as a going back to the 'same old, same old', we might consider it as the opportunity to resume familiar and settled patterns of liturgical prayer after the busyness of the last several months. It is a bit like getting back into normal rhythms of family life and household routines after the hectic rounds visitors and parties at Christmas time.
The name Ordinary Time that is used to describe that part of the church year outside the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter is rather an unfortunate term. To describe something as 'ordinary' usually suggests that it is unexceptional or uninteresting. However, the word 'ordinary' comes from the word 'ordinal' and is used here in the sense that the Sundays after the seasons of Christmas and Easter are counted in order.
There are two parts to Ordinary Time. The first falls between the end of the Christmas season and the start of Lent, and the second from the Monday after Pentecost to the Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent. In total there are thirty-three or thirty-four weeks of Ordinary Time in a year.
The reformed liturgical calendar restored the central place of Sunday in the celebration of each week and the primacy of Ordinary Time as a whole. Ordinary Time is the foundation of the liturgical year on which the major fasting and feasting seasons build. It is the time based around Sunday, the first holy day of all. It is best to think of Ordinary Time as one of the liturgical seasons – the longest season of the church year.
There is no such thing as 'ordinary time' in Christian worship. While music and decorations used during the high season of the Church year will be scaled down, the basic principles of good liturgy remain – scripture readings that are well prepared and proclaimed, large liturgical symbols that speak clearly of the meaning they carry, and music that supports the rites.
This is the time of the Church year that does not require any great energy in preparation or celebration – just the ordinary commitment by all the faithful to entering into the liturgy with 'full, conscious and active participation'. Ordinary Time enables us to devote ourselves to exploring the mystery of Christ in all its aspects and to celebrate the presence of God in the ordinary patterns of human life.


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"""
Written by Nathan Prziborowski
Github: https://github.com/prziborowski

This code is released under the terms of the Apache 2
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

Simple example for getting the vMotion/relocate events of a VM.
There are additional filters for time that I didn't include as I
didn't want to add time parsing complications.

"""
import re
from pyVmomi import vim
from tools import cli, service_instance

__author__ = 'prziborowski'

def get_dc(si, name):
    """
    Get a datacenter by its name.
    """
    for datacenter in si.content.rootFolder.childEntity:
        if datacenter.name == name:
            return datacenter
    raise Exception('Failed to find datacenter named %s' % name)

def main():
    parser = cli.Parser()
    parser.add_required_arguments(cli.Argument.VM_NAME, cli.Argument.DATACENTER_NAME)
    parser.add_custom_argument('--filterUsers', help="Comma-separated list of users to filter on")
    parser.add_custom_argument('--filterSystemUser', action='store_true',
                               help="Filter system user, defaults to false.")
    args = parser.get_args()
    si = service_instance.connect(args)

    if args.datacenter_name:
        datacenter = get_dc(si, args.datacenter_name)
    else:
        datacenter = si.content.rootFolder.childEntity[0]

    vm = si.content.searchIndex.FindChild(datacenter.vmFolder, args.vm_name)
    if vm is None:
        raise Exception('Failed to find VM %s in datacenter %s' %
                        (datacenter.name, args.vm_name))
    by_entity = vim.event.EventFilterSpec.ByEntity(entity=vm, recursion="self")
    ids = ['VmRelocatedEvent', 'DrsVmMigratedEvent', 'VmMigratedEvent']
    filter_spec = vim.event.EventFilterSpec(entity=by_entity, eventTypeId=ids)

    # Optionally filter by users
    user_list = []
    if args.filterUsers:
        user_list = re.split('.*,.*', args.filterUsers)
    if len(user_list) > 0 or args.filterSystemUser:
        by_user = vim.event.EventFilterSpec.ByUsername(userList=user_list)
        by_user.systemUser = args.filterSystemUser
        filter_spec.userName = by_user
    event_manager = si.content.eventManager
    events = event_manager.QueryEvent(filter_spec)

    for event in events:
        print("%s" % event._wsdlName)
        print("VM: %s" % event.vm.name)
        print("User: %s" % event.userName)
        print("Host: %s -> %s" % (event.sourceHost.name, event.host.name))
        print("Datacenter: %s -> %s" % (event.sourceDatacenter.name,
                                        event.datacenter.name))
        print("Datastore: %s -> %s" % (event.sourceDatastore.name,
                                       event.ds.name))
    print("%s" % events)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()


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It is no exaggeration to say that Norman Foster is one of the goliaths of modern architecture. His practice, Foster + Partners, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has helped to shape our modern urban landscape. In the 1960s, Foster and his late wife Wendy, as well as a small team of associates, wanted to create a more integrated infrastructure through design and construction. Their goal was to improve people's lives through progressive and inspiring design that also harnessed efficient energy consumption, light distribution and ergonomics. It may today sound like a simple concept, but in the late 60s and 70s, the landscapes of European cities were still defined by post-war eyesores that had been built quickly as functional habitats for workers and denizens. Few people were challenging the status quo and championing the idea that places of work, play and sleep should also benefit human interaction, integration and idealism.
One of the firm's first breakthrough commissions was for insurance company, Willis Faber & Dumas in Ipswich. Today, we take open plan offices for granted but in the mid-70s, managerial hierarchy was still very much in place. Work spaces were compartmentalised according to 'rank' and employees did not mix unless their job required it of them. Foster conceived the building as a kind of glass-fronted spiral hub, with open and airy spaces that encouraged democratic movement and interaction between workers. He added a swimming pool and a rooftop garden and restaurant. The Willis Faber & Dumas building marked an evolution in corporate working environments in the UK and simultaneously set the Foster revolution in motion.
Over the past five decades, Foster + Partners has created some of the most impressive architectural wonders of the world: the Millau Viaduct in France (the largest bridge on Earth which still looks positively futuristic despite its completion in 2004); London's Gherkin and Millennium Bridge; Berlin's Reichstag and its equally democratic glass cupola open to visitors; Terminal 3 at Bejing Airport (again, it looks like something out of Ridley Scott sci-fi film) and most recently the new Apple 'spaceship' campus in California. If one design concept links all Foster + Partners buildings – be they great or small, like the elephant enclosure at Denmark Zoo – it is their use of light and space as beneficial to the people (or indeed animals!) who live or work within them; not as individuals, but as a socially active communities.
Lord Foster (he was knighted in 1991) remains an enigmatic character. While he has delivered many public speeches, including a fascinating TED talk about 'green' architecture, he remains relatively media shy, preferring not to talk about his own life outside the studio. He is however known to be a thrill-seeker who has always enjoyed the great outdoors, running marathons, completing cross country skiing circuits and flying all manner of aircraft well into his seventies. Now in his early eighties, Lord Foster shows no sign of slowing down. He has just curated and designed an exhibition for Cartier at the London Design Museum, not a building he can call his own but one that he nonetheless admires for its use of light and spacial integrity.
Cartier in Motion is the perfect fit for Foster who has a boyish fascination with gadgets, vintage cars, aircraft, modernist art, watches and speed in general. The exhibition places Cartier – its timepieces, its jewellery, but also its founders and design heroes – in the wider context of history. Along with Deyan Sudjic, Director of the London Design Museum and co-curator of this exhibition, Norman Foster has created a universe that demonstrates how Cartier watches and jewellery have developed in tandem with aviation, modern architecture, construction and indeed art, from the late 19th century through to today.
The exhibition – designed to be easily transportable and one which will subsequently travel abroad – will focus on early 20th century design and the great pioneers of the modern age including Gustave Eiffel, Roland Georges Garros, George Pullman and the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who was a close friend of Louis Cartier and for whom he created his first male wristwatch in 1904. The exhibition gathers together some spectacular pieces from the Cartier archives including early Tonneau watches and Santos-Dumont's original timepieces. But it's a truly eclectic and eye-opening mix of objects and models – which gives some insight into Lord Foster's ever-curious mind. Highlights include a miniature Eiffel Tower, a replica of the Alberto Santos-Dumont's pioneering Demoiselle aircraft, art by Picasso and Andy Warhol and even one of the solid gold replicas of the Lunar Excursion Module produced by Cartier for the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Small it made be compared to Lord Foster's Apple HQ project in California, but the Cartier in Motion exhibition is nonetheless a fascinating lesson in design history as well as a window into the world of the one of the greatest architects of our time.


Our Nurture Group 'The Busy Bees' takes place every afternoon. The Nurture Group develops children's social and emotional skills building on their self-esteem. We are lucky to have a designated area which provides a home-like, comfortable and secure environment. The sessions are run every afternoon and every child attends three afternoons a week.
Children are assessed using the Boxall Profile, from this we devise social and development targets for each student. The afternoons are structured to meet the needs of individuals participating in activities that are cross curricular, and role modelled by two trained Nurture Group practitioners. During these sessions the children attending will learn and acquire skills to boost their well-being, enabling them to progress academically.
We are having a lovely time in our new home 'The Hive'. Just recently we had Anti-Bullying week and the children collected leaves to make our leaf man picture and came up with a slogan 'Leaf me alone'. The children also enjoyed role-playing professions that help us and making pictures with play-dough.


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Die Eparchie Mariä Verkündigung Strumica-Skopje (lat.: Eparchia Beatae Mariae Virginis in Caelum Assumptae Strummnitzensis-Scopiensis, bis 31. Mai 2018 Apostolisches Exarchat Mazedonien) ist eine in Nordmazedonien gelegene Eparchie für Katholiken des byzantinischen Ritus mit Sitz in Skopje. Die Gläubigen sind größtenteils Albaner.

Geschichte

Nach Union einiger Priestern zwischen 1859 (Union von Kilkis) und 1861 wurde 1881 eine Jurisdiktion der Bulgarisch-Katholischen Kirche erschaffen. Die Jurisdiktion umfasste zwei Apostolische Vikariate Makedonien und Thrakien. Das Apostolische Vikariat wurde 1922 oder nach anderen Quellen 1924 aufgelöst.

Apostolisches Exarchat von Mazedonien
Papst Johannes Paul II. errichtete am 11. Januar 2001 aus Gebietsabtretungen der Eparchie Križevci das Apostolische Exarchat für die Katholiken des byzantinischen Ritus in Makedonien. Formal ist die Mazedonische Griechisch-katholische Kirche eine Kirche eigenen Rechts (sui iuris) und zählt zu den griechisch-katholischen Ostkirchen. Das mazedonische Exarchat verfügt jedoch nicht über jenen Grad an Autonomie, durch den sich die meisten mit Rom unierten Kirchen auszeichnen: zum einen wird der Apostolische Exarch direkt vom Papst ernannt, zum anderen wird dieses Bischofsamt derzeit (2004) in Personalunion vom Bischof der römisch-katholischen Diözese Skopje mitverwaltet.

Eparchie Mariä Verkündigung Strumica-Skopje
Am 31. Mai 2018 erhob Papst Franziskus das Exarchat in den Rang einer Eparchie und ernannte den bisherigen Exarchen Kiro Stojanov zum ersten Diözesanbischof der Eparchie.

Ordinarien

Apostolischer Vikar
 Lasar Mladenow CM (12. Juni 1883–4. März 1918, gestorben)
 Epifanio Scianow (23. Juli 1895–1922, emeritiert)

Apostolische Exarchen von Mazedonien
 Joakim Herbut (11. Januar 2001–15. April 2005, gestorben)
 Kiro Stojanov, (20. Juli 2005–31. Mai 2018)

Bischof von Strumica-Skopje
 Kiro Stojanov, seit 31. Mai 2018

Statistik

Siehe auch
 Teilkirche
 Liste der römisch-katholischen Diözesen
 Apostolische Administratur Südalbanien

Weblinks

 Daten auf Seiten der ceicem.org

 Die Mazedonische Griechisch-Katholische Kirche bei Damian Hungs OT

Einzelnachweise

Mazedonische Griechisch-katholische Kirche
Strumica-Skopje
Strumica-Skopje
Gegründet 1881
Opština Strumica
Organisation (Skopje)
Religion (Skopje)


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Boyd Group Income Fund announces June 2013 cash distribution
Boyd Group Income Fund
Jun 17, 2013, 11:38 ET
/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES./
WINNIPEG, June 17, 2013 /CNW/ - Boyd Group Income Fund (TSX: BYD.UN) today announced a cash distribution for the month of June 2013 of $0.039 per trust unit. The distribution will be payable on July 29, 2013 to unitholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2013.
Boyd Group Income Fund's policy is to pay monthly distributions to unitholders of record on or around the last business day of the month.
Holders of units who are non-residents of Canada will be subject to withholding taxes in respect of any distributions made by Boyd Group Income Fund.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
of Boyd Group Income Fund
Mr. Brock Bulbuck, President & CEO
About The Boyd Group Income Fund
The Boyd Group Income Fund (http://www.boydgroup.com) is an unincorporated, open-ended mutual fund trust created for the purposes of acquiring and holding certain investments, including a majority interest in The Boyd Group Inc. and its subsidiaries. The Boyd Group Inc. is believed to be the largest operator of collision repair centres in North America. The Company operates locations in five Canadian provinces under the trade name Boyd Autobody & Glass (http://www.boydautobody.com), as well as in 14 U.S. states under the trade names Gerber Collision & Glass (http://www.gerbercollision.com), The Recovery Room and Autocrafters. The Company is also a major retail auto glass operator in the U.S. with locations across 23 U.S. states under the trade names Gerber Collision & Glass, Glass America, Auto Glass Services, Auto Glass Authority and S&L Glass. The Company also operates Gerber National Glass Services, an auto glass repair and replacement referral business with approximately 3,000 affiliated service providers throughout the United States.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, other than historical facts, which reflect the view of the Fund's management with respect to future events. Such forward-looking statements reflect the current views of the Fund's management and are made on the basis of information currently available. Although management believes that its expectations are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to these factors and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to the operations, results of operations and financial position of the Fund.
SOURCE: Boyd Group Income Fund
Brock Bulbuck
Tel: (204) 895-1244 (ext. 223)
Renée Lam
Tel: (416) 815-0700 or toll free 1-800-385-5451 (ext. 258)
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The decors at Bun House is just so on point. From the beautiful jade green chairs and checked tiled floors, to the huge steam racks and iconic red stamp on the buns to indicate the fillings inside, all it lacked was some grissly dirt and grime from a real Hong Kong tea house.
It is separated into 2 dining areas, Bun House on the ground floor serving, well... buns and other lighter bites, and the downstairs Tea Room serving more solid mains inspired by cha chaan tengs or fast food cafes from Hong Kong with a focus on high quality ingredients.
We sat upstairs in Bun House and between Hanh and I, we shared a load of small plates. Chilli tripe, daikon pickle pot, house fries with mayo aka deep fried marinaded duck tongue, glass noodle salad and 3 buns.
All the colours and traditional serveware like the teapot and bamboo baskets was such a feast for the eyes alone.
The glass noodles salad and chilli tripe were absolutely sensational. Both were well flavoured yet full of finesse, balanced by not going overboard with seasoning. Duck tongue fries sounded exciting on paper but lacked depth of flavour. Frying them also meant drying the tongue out a little, and the mayo added to the lacklustre of this dish. The daikon pickles were nicely done and lifted any heavy taste of the dishes and complimented the overall meal well.
Now, the buns are obviously the star of the show, but aside from them looking utterly amazing, they fell flat on execution. The steamed buns itself were faultless, but the fillings really need reworking.
The pig bun filled with roasted char siu didn't taste of much and with the added yam to the filling, it gave it a slimy texture. Same with the lamb bun, taste wise it would have worked well had the flavours been stronger and if the filling hadn't been blended to death resulting in yet another slimy finish. Sometimes, a classic like the char siu bao needs to stay a classic for a good reason. Stick to a classic recipe but make it as good as it can possibly be, Royal China have mastered this one.
The salty egg custard bun was my most anticipated bun, I adore this combo when done well. Taste wise, it was great. The problem was in the texture. Where this bun filling is supposed to resemble molten lava - soft and oozy but holds wells together, the Bun House version squirted out into a pile of yellow liquid and should come with the warning "better drank with a straw".
Whilst the buns were disappointing and underwhelming, and I could easily not come back again, there were promising small dishes that made up for this downfall and I'd like to give the Tea Room menu a dig too. So, watch this space, I'll probably be back.
Have you guys been to Bun House yet?


North Carolina superintendents and principals are worried about getting enough teachers in the face of an aging workforce and less interest in college students to enter the profession. One option is to recruit more teachers from other states.
Currently, out-of-state teachers can get licensed in North Carolina without going through any additional hurdles if they passed licensure exams in other states that are identical to what this state uses.
State board policy also now says that a license will be granted if the out-of-state test is comparable to what North Carolina uses. But state Department of Public Instruction staff say they don't have the manpower or knowledge to determine what's comparable.
Tom Tomberlin, DPI director of educator recruitment and support, presented a proposal Wednesday of granting licenses to out-of-states based on where they went to college.
Under the proposal, DPI would look at the SAS EVAAS scores of teachers who came from out-of-state colleges to see if they're above the state's average score. The EVAAS scores are based on the performance of a teacher's students on state tests.
If a licensed out-of-state applicant attended a college with higher-than-average EVAAS scores, Tomberlin said the state could grant a license without requiring any additional testing.
As part of the board's motion on Wednesday, they said the advisory committee could consider the DPI proposal.


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Bout das debate
To say tonight was no pleasure would not quite put the right feel on the event. We'll explain that more at an appropriate time. There were a few surprises, some staged prop uses and some hiding out on the big C word. It did not go unnoticed.
Beth Mason digs up last year's movie satire depiction claiming her victimization. "Putting me as Hitler," she claimed. You see Hitler anywhere on the left with her picture?
The word corruption was raised and the reactions by various candidates was very telling. As in if you play poker you take the pot down but oddly no one quite did to the tremendous relief of some, and the lackadaisical response of others. Too cryptic? You're a smart bunch and Da Horsey will never take that for granted. Ever.
As many know MSV debate policy remains in effect. First you get to view and decide for yourselves. You don't need a horse to steer you.
Seconds later, Beth Mason decried a mailer naming reform candidates with a PAC named. When did she decide against local PACs? Her personally funded one sidesteps individual contribution limits.
Video coming as soon as the hoofs can gallop over the tapes to the lab.
Just a final note to say to all of you, a great big thanks! MSV has smashed it's all time highs since breaking the Mike Russo Bribe Tapes story and then making sure it did not die.
What can be shared with you is the authors of The Jersey Sting," did not hear from any other media source in Hoboken after Mike Russo indirectly called them liars. For the record, MSV is proud they noted this to us and of course we're ecstatic the truth did come out.
Time for the debate video to follow, it's up to you to how it matters. Spread the word on MSV hitting it and we'll have another surprise or two coming real soon.
Thanks again for noticing and for all the kind comments from new faces all over town.
If the gratitude has been low key, it's because the response has been somewhat overwhelming.
And now it's back to the videotape.
Posted by SmartyJones at Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Mayor: Additional bus service on Clinton St. begins
NJ TRANSIT ADDS ADDITIONAL RUSH HOUR BUS SERVICE
Beginning on Wednesday, April 13, NJ Transit will add five additional trips to the #126 bus line along Clinton Street on weekdays. The additional trips were added to address overcrowding concerns and will depart Clinton Street at Newark Avenue at 8:32am, 8:35am, 8:36am, 8:40am, and 8:42am.
"I thank NJ Transit for being responsive to the needs of our growing community by expanding bus service during peak periods," said Mayor Dawn Zimmer.
In March, Mayor Zimmer sent NJ Transit a ridership study conducted by the City indicating that in one instance, five consecutive buses between 8:38am and 8:48am skipped the stop at Willow Avenue and 14th Street because they were already at capacity.
The letter to NJ Transit and ridership study are available on the City website:
http://www.hobokennj.org/docs/mayor/Letter-Zimmer-NJ-Transit.pdf
http://www.hobokennj.org/docs/mayor/NJ-Transit-126-Bus-Study.pdf
Link: http://www.hobokennj.org/news/nj-transit-adds-additional-rush-hour-bus-service/
Closing statements from Hoboken Council Forum
This is the final segment from Tuesday's forum with candidates from the 1st, 3rd and 6th wards. See below for all the complete unedited segments of that night:
Mayor Zimmer announces: 'There's no end yet to fighting corruption'
The effort to move our City ahead and finally put an end to the
corrupt culture of the past wages on.
The recently released FBI surveillance tapes that show Councilman
Russo agreeing to accept money for promising to expedite
development projects highlight that the insidious culture of
corruption did not end with the arrest of Peter Cammarano.
Our City faces a stark choice on May 10th. We must work
hard to make sure that people understand how important this
election is.
We cannot stand by and let our town turn back to its past, in which
Mike Russo's "fundraising meeting" was standard practice, and which brought us an illegal overspent budget, a state takeover and a huge
tax increase.
We must muster the energy to join together to stop this
culture of corruption that benefits the "entitled" few over the vast
majority of Hoboken residents.
Please join me this Saturday in Church Square Park at
11:00 am to celebrate my birthday and to take action to
protect the future of our town.
If you cannot make it, then meet me for a celebratory
birthday drink at One Republik on Washington Street at 5:30.
Yes, I am spending my birthday campaigning because the biggest
gift I could get is to truly shift our City away from its corrupt past.
Please volunteer for one of the six great candidates, including
Eric Kurta, Tom Greaney, Greg Lincoln, Rami Pinchevsky,
Peter Cunningham, Jen Giattino, and/or make a contribution
today – the future of our town truly is in your hands.
Thanks for listening and please pass this along to friends who may
not be on this list.
Hope to see you on Saturday!
Mayor Zimmer issues rebuke to Union City Mayor Brian Stack
From the desk of Mayor Dawn Zimmer:
Mayor Zimmer Responds to Phone Call from Senator Stack
Yesterday, I received an extremely troubling telephone call from Union City Mayor Brian Stack, who is also Hoboken's State Senator. Senator/Mayor Stack, who over the past year has almost never returned my phone calls relating to important governmental matters like our hospital, was calling to threaten me politically. Apparently, Mayor Stack was angry that Politickernj.com had reported on the backroom deal through which he and Hudson County Democratic Party Chairman Mark Smith agreed to try to turn over the Hoboken Democratic Party to the Russo family. This occurred just one week after an FBI surveillance tape revealed that Councilman Michael Russo had agreed to accept illegal campaign contributions while offering to expedite development projects.
Mayor Stack, who has a history of interfering in Hoboken politics by funneling large sums of money into the campaigns of the developer friendly candidates who do his bidding, threatened to get involved in Hoboken politics once again if I continued to tell the truth about the shady deal that was struck at the expense of the honest Democrats of Hoboken. In this case, the Hoboken candidates who Mayor Stack would presumably support are Councilman Russo and his allies. This is the same group that recently voted down anti-wheeling legislation that would have stopped out of town developers and politicos like Mayor Stack from interfering in Hoboken elections for their own personal gain.
I was particularly disappointed by the brazen and inappropriate behavior of our party leaders, who are better described perhaps as "political bosses." Sadly, their actions put machine politics over the important ideals of the Democratic Party that I proudly support. In fact, last Friday during a breakfast gathering, I had the pleasure of hearing Senator Menendez speak directly from the front lines regarding our Country's budget negotiations. During his briefing he highlighted the fact that while the debate may appear on the surface to be about money, it is really about our commitment to women's issues, senior and children's issues, environmental issues and other core Democratic values. His talk sparked a commitment in me to work as hard as I can to support him on women's and environmental issues in particular.
It is ironic, that as the only woman among Hudson County's 12 Mayors, the leaders of our County party have elected not to give me the respect that has always been accorded by the party to Hudson County Mayors. I don't know whether my gender was a factor in Mayor Stack and Chairman Smith's decision to treat me differently than other Mayors have always been treated, but their behavior has been both odd and disconcerting, to say the least. Mayor Smith did not tell the truth about the reason for his endorsement of the Russo family slate, as the politickernj.com article makes clear. Instead he chose to launch personal attacks against Hoboken's Democratic Party Chair Ravi Bhalla. Mayor Stack's threatening phone call to me makes it clear that he, like Chairman Smith, has something to fear from the truth. The dishonesty and old time machine politics is a discredit to our Party and does not help advance the ideals that our party represents.
I am determined to work with the true Democrats of Hoboken to take our local party back to its core values and end, once and for all, the cancer of machine politics that is trying to keep our City from moving forward.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer
6th ward candidate Jen Giatino's opening remarks
At the request of the candidate, 6th ward candidate Jen Giatino's opening remarks have been submitted for publishing here on MSV:
I'm running for City Council because the 6th Ward needs a Councilwoman who is
willing to stand up for the residents of our neighborhoods, and actively address
the needs of the people and the problems that we face.
For too long, the 6th Ward has suffered from a lack of leadership. At City
Hall, we are known as "the forgotten Ward", because the current Councilman has
failed to represent his constituents effectively.
Many people have come to the conclusion that NINO stands for "No ideas, No
Opinions."
We can do better.
I've worked on Wall Street for the New York Stock Exchange before I decided to
raise a family.
I started and run an internet business. I've been active in the community.
I've even been a professional ballet dancer --- and let me tell you, that
takes a tremendous amount of focus and attention to detail -- like a
professional athlete, or a professional in any occupation.
The point is -- that I have the energy and determination to get things done, and
make good things happen. I've proved that my entire life. Now, I want to serve
you, and make this city of ours -- a "better Hoboken".
I will put people first. Not the failed policies of the past. Nor will I
surround myself with political allies who conduct public business in private
like old time politicians FROM the past ---- like those who speak one way "on
the Record", and another way on a recording.
We need a new approach to really get Hoboken moving forward......So we can cut
spending, improve our parks, reduce taxes, clean up our neighborhoods, and find
real solutions to the parking problem.
The residents of the 6th Ward have a clear choice on May 10th. We need new
solutions to old issues. My opponent is part of the problem. You cannot expect
someone who helped create the problem to provide the solution.
I pledge to you that I will do more than just seek out new solutions. I will
help implement the solutions that WORK for Hoboken.
Talking Ed Note: Any candidate wishing to have their opening remarks printed in their entirety from the City Council forum may submit them for publishing with no editorial comment to smartyjones@me.com.
City Council Forum at Our Lady of Grace
Last night, heavy rain did not deter a crowd from showing up for the City Council forum and the discussion among the candidates was easily the best seen in some time.
Tonight it's all the candidates for the 2nd and 5th wards.
Among those present from left seated by moderator Bob Bowdon: Terry Castellano 1st ward councilwoman, Nino Giacchi 6th ward councilman, Jennifer Giatino 6th ward council candidate, Eric Kurta 1st ward council candidate, Greg Lincoln 3rd ward council candidate, Tim Occhipinti 4th ward councilman, Rami Pinchevsky 4th ward councilman, Mike Russo 3rd ward councilman.
MSV will post all parts of the forum discussion as it's unclear if and when it will be appearing online although in a few days it will showing on TV on the city's events channel.
The public will be given time to view and conclude themselves but for now other than a question on rent control, an ordinance already passed recently and not expected to see much change in the near future, the topics were presented thoroughly and professionally with one glaring exception. Not one question appeared on corruption.
The topic found its way into the discussion anyway.
Additional clips unedited, without editorial comment will appear as loaded.
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Pt. 2
Remaining segments at the jump:
Mayor: Additional bus service on Clinton St. begin...
Mayor Zimmer announces: 'There's no end yet to fig...
Mayor Zimmer issues rebuke to Union City Mayor Bri...