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Lynchburg Doctoral Degree Program Designed by PAs for PAs
CHLM Degree Pathway Program Offers Tuition Discount
The University of Lynchburg School of PA Medicine Doctor of Medical Science is one of the first doctoral degrees of its kind in the U.S. targeted specifically to healthcare providers. The Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc) program equips PAs to innovate, lead, and make decisions to improve patient care and its delivery.
Jeremy M. Welsh, DHSc, JD, PA-C, EM-CAQ, DFAAPA, is school chair and senior associate dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Lynchburg.
"This is a unique postgraduate program that is designed by PAs for PAs," said Jeremy M. Welsh, DHSc, JD, PA-C, EM-CAQ, DFAAPA, school chair and senior associate dean of the College of Health Sciences. "The curriculum reflects the extensive education that we each have completed. It builds from there to promote advocacy, scholarship, and leadership within each course.
"We at the University of Lynchburg feel that a doctoral-level education should be a part of the PA educational landscape. It is not the solution to every problem our profession faces, but it significantly helps to have the same academic standing as other decision-makers at the executive level. Health sciences have moved to the doctorate level, and PAs are not exempt from this change."
Allows for seat at leadership table
Alumni Jonathan Sobel, DMSc, MBA, PA-C, DFAAPA, FAPACVS, Senior Administrative Director II of ACPs, North Shore University Hospital, and Immediate Past President of AAPA, agrees. "I believe that it is of the utmost importance for PAs to have a seat at the leadership table when decisions are being made about the future direction of healthcare. Increasingly, those around that table have doctoral degrees in their various disciplines. I pursued this degree in order to maintain an equal footing with my colleagues so that I can advocate for our profession and the patients under our care."
The Lynchburg DMSc program faculty includes national PA leaders who want to see the PA profession advance and meet market demand, Welsh said. The curriculum builds on PAs' existing education and provides in-depth knowledge of how to change healthcare and advocate for the PA profession. The skills taught in the program apply equally to clinical practice along with advocacy and leadership.
Tuition for the 12-month program is approximately $25,000. Through its partnership with the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management (CHLM), students who apply are eligible for a 10-percent tuition discount after they have completed prerequisite courses. CHLM is adding the DMSc program to the other graduate degrees from its already-existing Degree Pathway Program partners.
In order to qualify for the discount through the Degree Pathway Program, students need to first complete eight one-hour CHLM prerequisite courses. Two are required and six are electives. Examples of courses include Billing and Reimbursement, Critical Factors of Leadership, and Evaluating Your PA/NP Workforce. Students can then matriculate to an eligible graduate or post-graduate program with a CHLM partner such as the University of Lynchburg.
Curriculum focuses on healthcare and administration
The DMSc curriculum is focused on improving both medical practice and advanced study of the health care system with a unique focus on PA leadership. It is an online program that has partnerships with local and national health care systems. Courses are tied to core competencies of medicine that are measurable and accessible. Fifty percent of the online curriculum is in health care administration, health law and other areas of instruction that will further advocacy and leadership.
AAPA Immediate Past President, Jonathan Sobel, DMSc, MBA, PA-C, DFAAPA, FAPACVS, completed his Doctorate at the University of Lynchburg's Medical Science Program.
Sobel found the program challenging but enjoyable. "I truly enjoyed the comradery between my classmates in the inaugural cohort. I had the pleasure of learning alongside some of the most accomplished individuals in our profession. I found the intellectual stimulation to be at a very high level. The professors were outstanding individuals and the courses were well designed."
There are currently 320 students enrolled in the DMSc with quarterly starts to classes. Virtually all University of Lynchburg School of PA Medicine master's degree students go on to get their doctorate, Welsh said, and tuition for the master's program is competitive so that doctoral candidates don't incur greater debt.
"We've had very strong support since we started," Welsh said. "We were the first to announce a PA-specific doctorate. It has really gained momentum. PAs are very proud of being PAs. Many have said, 'I want a PA-specific doctorate.'"
Degree helps PAs advance to new positions
According to Welsh, the degree offers a distinct advantage to graduates. "Obtaining a doctoral education is a very important accomplishment and PAs who attain it have added a significant knowledge base," he said. "Education is always powerful. Education is portable. Education is impressive. Completing a terminal degree that educates you in health care law, administration, global health, and scholarly research will open numerous doors for clinically-practicing PAs, educators, and administrators."
Graduates, Welsh said, are using the skills and education to advance into new positions. Between 10 and 15 percent report that they have already accepted a new position or promotion when they start the doctorate program.
"Many of our graduates say that their doctorate taught them how to think critically and look at the problems we face in a 'macro way' versus the 'one patient at a time' way they did before," Welsh said.
Sobel concluded, "I would absolutely recommend the DMSc program at Lynchburg. The curriculum is well thought out to introduce new ways of thinking, to develop leadership skills and to build upon the clinical competencies from our standard PA program education.
"I have been able to apply health law concepts to my work in credentialing, professional regulation, and human resource components of my job. Additionally, I now have an enhanced understanding of research skills and the intersection between evidence and clinical practice to help inform autonomous decision-making and patient activation."
For further information contact Jeremy M. Welsh, DHSc, JD, PA-C, EM-CAQ, DFAAPA, school chair and senior associate dean of the College of Health Sciences, at welsh.jm@lynchburg.edu.
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Eileen Denne is director of Corporate Communications at AAPA. Contact her at edenne@aapa.org.


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CH@T: 'Geology of the Carolinas' explores uniqueness of N.C.'s Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions
CN+R STAFF REPORTS
North Carolina's mountains, Piedmont and coast provide more than just gorgeous landscapes and vacation destinations — they contain geological features that have played an important role in the …
Stewart's book includes 31 'field trips' to sites of geological interest in the Carolinas.
Author Kevin Stewart
Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2021 12:37 pm
North Carolina's mountains, Piedmont and coast provide more than just gorgeous landscapes and vacation destinations — they contain geological features that have played an important role in the human history of the state and region, as well as fascinating places to explore.
This week, we speak with author Kevin G. Stewart, an associate professor in the Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill and the co-author, with Mary-Russell Roberson, of "Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas." The book — subtitled "A Field Guide to Favorite Places from Chimney Rock to Charleston" — is a reader-friendly guide to the geology of North Carolina and South Carolina. It pairs a brief geological history of the region with 31 field trips to easily-accessible (and often familiar) sites in both states where readers can observe firsthand the evidence of geologic change found in rocks, river basins, mountains, waterfalls, and coastal land formations.
Stewart received his Ph.D. from U.C.-Berkeley. His research is focused on the evolution of mountain belts, including the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming, the Apennines of Italy, and the Appalachians. He's won numerous teaching awards.
Your book is entitled "Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas," but it's not just for geologists. Who would benefit from reading the book, and why should anyone who lives in the Carolinas own it?
One of the primary goals of our book is to introduce non-geologists to the amazing geologic stories that are contained in the rocks and landscapes of the Carolinas. Geology is everywhere, and in our book we help people "see" geology that they may have been overlooking. Not only has the rich geologic history of the Carolinas created our mountains, piedmont, and coast, but we also show how geology has played an important role in the human history of the Carolinas. Our book gives non-geologists a new way of looking at the history of the Carolinas.
In the book, you address the state's three geologic regions: the Blue Ridge, the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain. Which is your favorite among those, and why?
I live in the Piedmont, love to fish at the coast, and enjoy hiking in the mountains but I'd have to say that the Blue Ridge is my favorite. My personal research at UNC-Chapel Hill is focused on the origin of mountains and the Blue Ridge is not only a beautiful part of our state but is also the deeply eroded core of a mountain range that once rivaled the Himalayas in elevation. In the Blue Ridge we can see the inner workings of the mountain building process that is usually deeply buried in other mountain ranges.
Your book outlines 31 fascinating field trips among those regions. How did you develop those, and do you have a favorite?
When Mary-Russell Roberson and I set out to write our book we wanted to not just describe the geology but to guide people to places where they could see the geology in person. We chose places that contained an interesting geologic story, were easily accessible, and located on public land, mostly in state parks. The hard part was distilling the field trips down to a manageable number. There are many more places we could have included.
North Carolina has some geologic anomalies and mysteries … one of the most well-known is Pilot Mountain. How did that formation happen?
Although many people think that Pilot Mountain is an ancient volcano, it's not. Pilot Mountain stands as a lone peak because it is capped by a layer of rock, called quartzite, that is very resistant to erosion.
The rocky cliffs near the top of Pilot Mountain started as ancient beach sands that were deposited on the shores of the Iapetus Ocean, which is the ocean that existed in this area about 600 million years ago. Eventually these quartz-rich beach sands were buried and metamorphosed into a rock known as quartzite. As the Appalachian Mountains formed, the quartzite and other rocks were uplifted and exposed to erosion. The quartzite was an extensive layer, and parts of it can still be see in Hanging Rock State Park, near Pilot Mountain. The quartzite at Pilot Mountain has been whittled away by erosion leaving the small cap that we see today.
Colorado's Rocky Mountains are certainly beautiful and spectacular, but what about our own Appalachians Mountains? What's most unique about them?
The Rocky Mountains are young, geologically speaking, which is why they stand taller than our old Appalachians, but our mountains are still remarkably high. Mount Mitchell, at 6,684 feet, is the highest point in the U.S. east of the Black Hills in South Dakota. The topographic relief in the Appalachians, which is the difference in elevation between two nearby points, can be as much as a mile, rivaling the topographic relief seen in many places in the Rockies. Despite their antiquity, they are not a dead mountain range. In August 2020, there was a magnitude 5.1 earthquake in the Blue Ridge mountains near Sparta, where the fault broke the surface. This is the first time an earthquake in the eastern U.S. has produced a documented surface rupture.
You don't specifically address Chatham County in the book, but what can you share about our region? What's unique, what's different, what's noteworthy?
Chatham County has a wide variety of rock types, including volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The volcanic rocks are over 500 million years old and were erupted from ancient volcanoes that were active when this part of the earth's crust was part of what is now South America.
Five hundred million years ago, the earth looked very different than it does today and the rocks that make up a significant part of eastern North Carolina were attached to an ancient continent known as Gondwana, which included large parts of present-day South America and Africa. Eventually these pieces of crust detached from Gondwana and, through the magic of plate tectonics, were able to cross the Iapetus Ocean (see Pilot Mountain, above) and collide with ancient North America. These rocks make up most of western and central Chatham County. The low topography in eastern Chatham County is floored by 200-million-year-old sedimentary rocks that fill an ancient rift basin that was created when the continent was pulled apart as the Atlantic Ocean was created. Chatham County has a truly remarkable geologic history!

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Mexican-style food is staple on the menu in my kitchen. I rarely go a week without preparing burritos, quesadillas or taco salad. I've had a lot of practice preparing Chicken Fajita pizza because I used to make it quite frequently before I started the 52 Pizzas Project. Andrew's graduate school advisor visited us for dinner tonight and he seemed pretty open to eating any type of pizza so Andrew requested this one because we haven't had it in a long time. While having a new pizza every week is great, one of the downsides is we don't often make time for repeats of our favorites.
I think I've mentioned before that I am not very confident when it comes to cooking meat, especially chicken, and it often comes out dry and over done. This habit of mine is improving and tonight the chicken turned out pretty tasty and was juicy when I shredded it with a fork. I spread salsa and marinara on the dough, topped it with cheddar cheese, shredded chicken and sautéed red onions. This was a fantastic repeat and still one of our favorite recipes. We had a night of good food and great company.
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I will attest that it was a friggin AWESOME pizza! And there's something about the dough… SUPER AWESOME!
Thanks Lance! And I will attest that the company was awesome as well. I really enjoyed spending time with you, hopefully again soon!


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Kelepi Tanginoa, né le  à Auburn (Australie), est un joueur de rugby à XIII australien d'origine tongienne évoluant au poste de deuxième ligne, troisième ligne ou de pilier dans les années 2010 et 2020. Il fait ses débuts professionnels les Eels de Parramatta en 2013 en National Rugby League. Il évolue par la suite à North Queensland et Manly-Warringah entre 2015 et 2019 sans parvenir à s'imposer dans une équipe. Il décide en 2019 à rejoindre avec succès la Super League en rejoignant Wakefield. Bien que le club ne dispute pas les premiers rôles, il est nommé dans l'équipe de la Super League en 2020

Biographie

Son frère, Saia Tanginoa, est également un joueur de rugby à XIII ayant évolué en France à Avignon.

Palmarès

Individuel :
 Nommé dans l'équipe de la Super League : 2020 (Wakefield).

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Joueur australien de rugby à XIII
Naissance en mars 1994
Naissance en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

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FROM MAGAZINE: Flying hazardous goods
IATA has drawn out strict regulations and guidelines for best practices and compliances for hazardous materials shipments. It gets challenging when shippers fail to adhere to the set rules or follow the steps in the proper handling of items that fall into IATA's regulated category. The debate surrounding the lithium ion […]
|1 Jun 2017 6:30 PM GMT
IATA has drawn out strict regulations and guidelines for best practices and compliances for hazardous materials shipments. It gets challenging when shippers fail to adhere to the set rules or follow the steps in the proper handling of items that fall into IATA's regulated category. The debate surrounding the lithium ion batteries and the most recent laptop ban aboard aircraft has increased the burden of complexities in the air cargo industry.
Surya Kannoth
In 2016, global e-commerce giant Amazon was slapped with a fine of £65000 by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for attempting to fly lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols. In the same year, a few months earlier, the internet giant was charged a penalty of $350,000 by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for shipping a corrosive chemical by air thus violating federal law. This was the 25th time that the company was found to violate hazardous chemical shipping regulations over the last two and a half years.
The FAA ruled that the shipment wasn't packaged properly, wasn't accompanied by a declaration of dangerous goods, and was not properly marked or labelled as a hazardous shipment. Such rogue practices of shipping misdeclared dangerous goods have been a critical area of concern for the air cargo industry.
And this practice is not just limited to Amazon; with the growth of e-commerce, the industry has been witnessing an increase in the mislabeling of batteries and in non-declared shipments – in particular from e-commerce sites which use normal/standard mail services.
"There needs to be a greater understanding of what people can send, but also more vigilance from the airlines to make sure they screen goods appropriately to ensure "hidden" dangerous goods (DG) doesn't fly undeclared," shares Rob Flood, manager – business development, Air Canada Cargo.
What is also required is proper training of acceptance staff at stations, knowledge of what DG shipments must be segregated from other DG shipments, limits of Dry Ice per flight, limits of radioactive material per flight – these remain key to handling dangerous goods safely.
The constant changing of regulations set out by ICAO/IATA, and the many governmental and regulatory agencies are, by far, the greatest challenge that airlines are currently facing, blamed Flood. "We often see that shippers are not filling out the Shippers Declaration of Dangerous Goods (DGD) properly, or use improper packaging for their DG shipment (correct packing regulations are set out by ICAO) – they are also challenged with keeping up with all the changes," he added.
However, Dave Brennan, IATA insists that the regulations contain very clearly defined requirements that set out the classification criteria for the different classes of dangerous goods. "These classification criteria are harmonised across all of the different model regulations to facilitate multi-modal transport," he said.
"There are significant quantities of dangerous goods that are offered for sale through e-commerce sites globally. Many of the sellers of these products are unaware that what they are selling are dangerous goods. Examples of this are that there are 10s of thousands of lithium batteries that are offered for sale on e-commerce sites and in many cases, they will offer to the mail to get their products their buyers, despite dangerous goods being forbidden in international air mail," he added.
Recounting a fatal accident that occurred 21 years ago, where non-compliance with dangerous goods regulations led to the loss of 110 lives, Brennan gives details. The ValuJet accident that took place on 11 May 1996 was an accident that resulted from the improper shipment of time expired chemical oxygen generators that caught fire inside a ValuJet DC-9 aircraft flying from Miami to Atlanta. The fire burned through aircraft's control cables; the aircraft crashed into the Everglades killing all 110 passengers and crew.
"The accident investigation identified that the people who packed and shipped the oxygen generators had not been provided with dangerous goods training. The generators were not properly packed, marked or labelled and there was no dangerous goods declaration. In short, this was a total failure to follow any part of the dangerous goods regulations that cost 110 people their lives," Brennan revealed.
Brennan believes that regulators need to put more effort in oversight and surveillance of shippers, in particular, those offering dangerous goods through e-commerce sites. "There also needs to be better coordination and cooperation between regulators in different countries to ensure that dangerous goods incidents that are reported by airlines are properly addressed, and where the necessary action was taken against those shippers who fail to comply with the dangerous goods regulations," he asserts.
The lithium-ion battery threat
Perhaps no other product has given the air cargo industry shudders than lithium metal and ion batteries because of its vulnerability to deadly catastrophes from undeclared hazardous materials. Among the most recent instances is the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone where its batteries are prone to overheat, and taking a step further, catching fire.
Given the dangers of flying with such phones, the US Department of Transportation in cooperation with other regulatory authorities worldwide banned the Samsung Note 7 models from air travel as well as air cargo after nearly 100 reports of the devices overheating and sometimes injuring owners. Taking note of the situation, the manufacturer stalled the production of the device after updated versions continued to overheat, following a recall of the first version.
Most people think shipping a smartphone with a lithium battery is no big deal, but there is a risk associated with that LI battery, and it needs to be declared and handled appropriately," Air Canada Cargo's Flood emphasises.
Donald Trump's Yorker: The laptop ban
While the safety concerns related to lithium-ion batteries continues to loom, the Trump administration recently banned laptops in the cabin of some flights from the Middle East and Africa. This has further sparked concerns about the risk of fires from lithium-ion batteries stored in cargo.
According to a report released by FAA in 2015, "the uncontrollability of lithium battery fires can ultimately negate the capability of current aircraft cargo fire suppression systems, and can lead to a catastrophic failure of the airframe."
Aviation experts worry about how lithium batteries are stored because they can produce fires that are tough to put out with on-board fire extinguishers. There has been evidence of risks associated with the storage of lithium batteries. Two Boeing 747 crashes — a UPS freighter in 2010 and an Asiana Cargo plane in 2011 — happened after fires broke out in the cargo holds.
The UPS cargo plane that crashed in Dubai in 2010 contained several large, undeclared lithium ion batteries which originated from China. Shortly after this accident, in July 2011, an in-flight fire and crash of an Asiana Airlines plane in international waters off South Korea. Investigators found out that the cause of the accident was a fire that developed around two pallets containing dangerous goods packages, including hybrid-electric vehicle lithium ion batteries and flammable liquids. They could not find a definitive cause of the fire but said the proximity of the flammable materials and the lithium ion batteries in the plane's hold was a contributing factor in the fire's spread.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) had earlier advised global regulators to ban carrying bulk shipments of such batteries in the cargo holds of passenger jets. It needs to be seen how the aviation industry deals with this all-out ban – an immensely complex issue since the ban on liquids was introduced.
Road ahead
While cargo carriers agree that safe shipment of products classified as dangerous goods largely depends on the involvement of shippers and buyers, the long-term solution lies in stricter enforcement of existing rules, and greater diligence is needed by regulators.
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Coup memo author John Eastman tries to hide 11,000 documents from Capitol riot committee
Andrew Feinberg
February 14, 2022, 9:08 AM ·2 min read
Chapman University law professor John Eastman, next to U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. (REUTERS)
Former Chapman University law professor John Eastman, the author of a controversial memorandum which claimed former Vice President Mike Pence had the unilateral power to overturn ex-president Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is attempting to block the House January 6th select committee from obtaining 11,000 of the 95,153 pages a federal judge ordered him to give the panel last month.
Mr Eastman, a conservative legal scholar, sued the House panel on 20 January to block enforcement of an 18 January subpoena which select committee chairman Bennie Thompson had issued to his former employer to compel production of "all documents and communications ... attributed to [Mr Eastman] that are related in any way to the 2020 election or the January 6, 2021 Joint Session of Congress".
Five days later, a federal district judge denied his motion for an injunction blocking the subpoena, and the next day ordered him to begin reviewing documents and identify any over which he planned to assert claims of attorney-client privilege.
In a court filing early Monday, Mr Eastman said he'd reviewed 46,000 documents — nearly half of what he'd been ordered to review — and provided 8,000 to the select committee.
Of the 46,000, he said he was withholding 27,000 pages because they were mass emails — spam, newsletters, and the like — and was withholding another 11,000 documents under attorney-client or attorney work-product privileges.
Mr Eastman and lawyers for the House committee are set to appear in court on Monday to update the judge on their progress.
House of Representatives Counsel Douglas Letter is likely to tell the judge he is dissatisfied with Mr Eastman's compliance with the court's order, as a Friday court filing revealed Mr Eastman's privilege log — a document detailing what he is purporting to withhold and under what privilege — is rife with vague labels such as "legal arguments" or "proposal to consider".
"The Select Committee's urgent need for resolution of the privilege issues is heightened by the fact that Plaintiff has broadly claimed privileges over a vast swath of documents—many of which appear to be critical to the Select Committee's investigation," Letter wrote.
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The planning and construction of the Beijing Sub-Center is a major measure adopted by the Municipal Government in order to actively implement the major national strategy of the Outline of the Plan for Coordinated Development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, to decentralize the non-capital functions in Beijing, thoroughly optimize and adjust the city pattern, bring the radiation and driving function of Beijing to its surrounding areas into full play, and to complement each other's advantages and realize a benign interaction between Beijing and its surrounding areas. In 2012, the Beijing government firstly put forward the idea of constructing Tongzhou into Beijing's Sub-Center; in 2014, the Central Government of China upgraded the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region to a major national strategy and Tongzhou District was assigned to be the the "bridgehead" of the strategy; and in 2015, the outline was approved and Tongzhou was considered carrying the future of Beijing.
Beijing's Administrative Subsidiary Center is located at Luchen Town in Tongzhou District with 6 km2 land area for office building, and the total floor space construction area is about 3.8 million m2. The planning and construction follows 6 primary principles: being of world level, following international standards, reflecting Chinese characteristics, being high-end oriented, and formulating related plans with the spirit of creating history and pursuing artistic work.
Since June 2016, Beijing has started collecting proposals of the general urban design and detailed design schemes for key areas in the Sub-Center. The general urban design of Beijing's Sub-Center covers an area of 155 km2, and the detailed design of key areas covers 48 km2 that is divided into 6 places with distinct characteristics along the canal.
The Beijing government asked a total of about 50 high-grade design firms to participate in the international bidding. Eventually 26 firms from 10 countries including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, and China were selected. They formed 12 joint design teams in the scheme collection. The candidate design teams submitted their design in the middle of October 2016, after three months' preparation. In early November, the project examination and assessment committee that is organized by 11 senior Chinese experts reviewed these submitted design projects. "The bidding results fulfilled the requirement of using the highest standard to plan and construct the Beijing Sub-Center with the most advanced concept," as stated by the organizer.


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W32.Mydoom.BG@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send out an email message that contains a link to a Web site containing a copy of W32.Mydoom.BG@mm. The worm then downloads Infostealer onto the compromised computer.
Attempts to download a .html file that contains a variant of Infostealer from http://[domain removed]/core.htm. The worm saves it as %System%\temp1.exe and executes it.
Note: The link in the message is a link to a Web site containing a copy of W32.Mydoom.BG@mm.
Run a full system scan and delete all the files detected as W32.Mydoom.BG@mm.
For additional information, and an alternative to disabling Windows Me System Restore, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article: Antivirus Tools Cannot Clean Infected Files in the _Restore Folder, Article ID: Q263455.
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package com.google.gerrit.acceptance;

import com.google.gerrit.extensions.annotations.Exports;
import com.google.gerrit.extensions.events.LifecycleListener;
import com.google.gerrit.server.DynamicOptions;
import com.google.gerrit.server.restapi.change.QueryChanges;
import com.google.gerrit.sshd.commands.Query;
import com.google.inject.AbstractModule;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Singleton;
import com.google.inject.internal.UniqueAnnotations;
import java.util.Collections;
import org.kohsuke.args4j.Option;

public class AbstractLifecycleListenersTest extends AbstractDaemonTest {
  protected static class SimpleModule extends AbstractModule {
    @Override
    public void configure() {
      bind(com.google.gerrit.server.DynamicOptions.DynamicBean.class)
          .annotatedWith(Exports.named(Query.class))
          .to(MyClassNameProvider.class);
      bind(DynamicOptions.DynamicBean.class)
          .annotatedWith(Exports.named(QueryChanges.class))
          .to(MyClassNameProvider.class);
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    @Override
    public String getClassName() {
      return "com.google.gerrit.acceptance.AbstractLifecycleListenersTest$MyOptions";
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    @Override
    public Iterable<String> getModulesClassNames() {
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  public static class MyOptions implements DynamicOptions.DynamicBean {
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The concert includes works by (among others): Hildegard von Bingen, Machaut, Wilbye, Monteverdi, Charpentier, Purcell, JS Bach, Handel, JL Bach, Poulenc, "anon.", and NZ composers, Jack Body, Ross Harris, Carol Shortis, Pepe Becker and Mark Smythe.
Past and present members of Baroque Voices - Pepe Becker (director), Jane McKinlay, Nicola Holt (nee Edgecombe), Sabrina Malcolm, Joanne Hodgson, Fiona McCabe, Andrea Cochrane, Peter Dyne, Phillip Collins, Jeffrey Chang, David Morriss, Craig Beardsworth and Dimitrios Theodoridis - will be joined by guest artists and long-time colleagues, Douglas Mews (harpsichord, organ, piano) and Robert Oliver (bass viol) in some works.


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Update: Big Business Meets Big Brother
Update: Yesterday we told you that Apple and Google were accused of tracking and storing the location information of smartphone users in a secret database. Apple has responded to the allegations today - apparently the company denies that it tracks its iPhone customers, or has any plans to do so in the future.
However, Apple did go on to say that while its not tracking your iPhone per se, it IS tracking the location of any Wi-fi hotspots and cell towers that surround your iPhone - even ones hundreds of miles away from where you're standing. That information is stored for quite awhile, and gets sent to Apple anonymously for data collection...
Apple maintains that this is not intentional -- it's just a glitch in its operating system. What do you think?
With all the privacy violations Google and Apple have been accused of lately, perhaps we should be thankful they don't team up, form a turbo-corporation called Gapple and develop the technology to see directly into our souls.
Last month, researchers found that iPhone and Androids have been tracking your location and then storing that information in an un-encrypted database for possibly months on end.
Well today, a House committee concerned with privacy issues decided to take action. Officials sent out letters to Apple, Google, and several other smartphone operating systems, asking a series of pointed questions,such as: What location data is being tracked? Why is it being tracked? How is it being stored and shared? The companies have until May 9 to respond.
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Amy Glazer Grows Up to Seduce Charlie Barker
Ily Goyanes
Ily Goyanes | November 4, 2010 | 8:30am
Amy Glazer, a true homegrown talent who grew up with fellow Beach High alums Mickey Rourke and writer/producer brother Mitch Glazer (The Recruit, Great Expectations, Scrooged), remembers the "old bubbies and zehties along Washington Avenue pushing their way through the Thrifty market" when Miami Beach was "a bucolic, magical playground."
Her new film, Seducing Charlie Barker, based on The Scene, a stage play written by Theresa Rebeck, will screen at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival tonight.
Follow the jump for our interview with Glazer.
New Times: What was it like growing up in Miami?
Amy Glazer: My two best friends were Mitchell Kaplan (founder of Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair) and Deborah Gordon (a renowned professor and leading scientist at Stanford University) and they're still my best friends today. We went to the Leroy D. Feinberg Elementary School, Ida M. Fisher Junior High School, and Miami Beach Senior High School.
My brother, Mitch Glazer, was friends with Mickey Rourke. My mother, Zelda Glazer, was a star English teacher...My father, who still lives in Miami, Coconut Grove to be more exact, was a consulting electrical engineer in the heyday of Miami Beach and designed the lighting and mechanical engineering for every major hotel along Collins Avenue, most notably Morris Lapidus's Fontainbleu.
What are must-dos for you when you come back to visit?
I usually stay at Grove Isle to be close by my father and friends...but if the truth be told, I'm still in love with South Beach. It's where my roots and my heart live... but it's gotten pretty wild these days. I miss the empty beaches. I remember hanging out on Lincoln Road Mall and eating hot dogs steamed in beer at Lums, going to the Carib movie theater with two live parrots in each entryway and with Mitchell Kaplan and our group of friends. We were the only young people on the tram in those days, the rest were my grandparents and their friends.
Lincoln Road is always a perennial favorite for people watching and the Café at Books & Books is a must. We always mange to scout out the little Cuban family restaurants with Versailles being the penultimate Cubano experience.
Tell us about your new film, Seducing Charlie Barker.
I guess you'd call it a modern day morality tale. A middle-aged man, a talented classically trained actor, goes to a party and meets a young, seemingly insipid, blonde beauty. He free falls. It's a satirical and sad look at celebrity and the entertainment industry and what happens to a culture that values meaninglessness over meaning. It turns on itself in a more surprising way, but the audience is completely invested because they know (sometimes from personal experience) where this is going and they can't stop the trainwreck that is Charlie Barker's life.
What's your advice to indie filmmakers?
Well, Winston Churchill said it but I'll repeat it; never, never, never, never give up. So many people told us this couldn't be done with our very limited budget, that I didn't have enough prep time, it was a play not a film, audiences would lose interest, etc. We smiled, nodded and then my fabulous, tenacious producer, Lynn Webb, and I would take the next step forward. Lo and behold, the film got made and audiences are responding favorably. The other piece of advice I have is to think out-of-the-box; the only reality is what exists in the frame. We "cheated" the locale of San Francisco for New York and one apartment became four... the magic and power of guerrilla filmmaking is truly leveling the field for indie filmmakers. When somebody said no, we said yes.
What can audiences expect from the movie?
A lot of very bad behavior!
Here's a clip from the film:
Seducing Charlie Barker will screen tonight at 7:15 p.m. at Cinema Paradiso (503 SE Sixth St., Ft. Lauderdale) as part of FLiFF. Glazer will attend the screening and the post-screening party at 9 p.m. at the Courtyard Marriott (440 Seabreeze Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale). Tickets for both the film and the party cost $30 and $25 for FLiFF members. Tickets to only the screening cost $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and students, and $6 for FLiFF members. Visit fliff.com.


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10.9.1 Pretty-Printer Introduction
When GDB prints a value, it first sees if there is a pretty-printer registered for the value. If there is then GDB invokes the pretty-printer to print the value. Otherwise the value is printed normally.
Pretty-printers are normally named. This makes them easy to manage. The 'info pretty-printer' command will list all the installed pretty-printers with their names. If a pretty-printer can handle multiple data types, then its subprinters are the printers for the individual data types. Each such subprinter has its own name. The format of the name is printer-name;subprinter-name.
Pretty-printers are installed by registering them with GDB. Typically they are automatically loaded and registered when the corresponding debug information is loaded, thus making them available without having to do anything special.
There are three places where a pretty-printer can be registered.
Pretty-printers registered globally are available when debugging all inferiors.
Pretty-printers registered with a program space are available only when debugging that program. See Progspaces In Python, for more details on program spaces in Python.
Pretty-printers registered with an objfile are loaded and unloaded with the corresponding objfile (e.g., shared library). See Objfiles In Python, for more details on objfiles in Python.
See Selecting Pretty-Printers, for further information on how pretty-printers are selected,
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by Sanath Nanayakkare
Bank of Ceylon Chairman Kanchana Ratwatte expects growth to rebound in 2022 with three main elements driving the economy going forward.
Sri Lanka is forecast to see a notable rebound in revenues from tourism, SME sector businesses and foreign remittances.
Speaking at an event held at its headquarters in Colombo yesterday with a multi-religious ceremony to invoke blessings on the staff of the bank, all of its customers and all Sri Lankans in general, Ratwatte said, "I see a rainbow on the horizon. Sri Lanka is expected to experience a significant rebound in the tourism sector, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sector and the country's foreign remittance base in the first half of the year. The Bank of Ceylan has been a stunt during the Covid-19 pandemic for nearly two years, supporting keeping the national economy in place, and will continue to do so unabated until the country returns to normal, "he said.
Here are some excerpts from his speech.
"Today means an important day in my life. Two years ago, I assumed the role of president of this giant organization which includes a family that is strongly connected to each other. I consider that I can serve for BOC as a great one. fortune in my life.
"Over the past two years, despite the challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, BOC has been able to give promotions to its employees in accordance with due process. Also, we absorbed the trainees who had successfully completed their training in our permanent carder. We were able to promote promotions from junior executives to the CEO level in the midst of the pandemic chaos in recognition of their dedication and loyalty to the bank. "
"In particular, we were able to complete the official process of signing the collective agreement with the bank's unions, laying the foundations for good relations between management and employees.
"That said, our happy workforce is not only due to these motivations, but also because of the positive work environment that encourages collaboration and communication; which is a unique feature of the BOC family.
"BOC's improved strategies to counter the pandemic have resulted in significant resilience of its overseas remittance base. In 2019, remittances amounted to $ 2.5 billion for BOC. In 2020, we managed to reach $ 2.8 billion. Despite persistent external challenges, this year we passed the $ 3.5 billion mark in remittances. "
"We thought the vulnerable conditions of the pandemic would be an opportune time to launch and implement the BOC Export Circle to help the SME sector revive struggling businesses and help survivors take it to the next level. Last year, BOC placed special emphasis on relaunching businesses through Export Circle. A recovery unit has therefore been set up to relaunch businesses hit by the pandemic. I am proud to say that many of these companies stayed afloat and the BOC was able to overturn almost Rs. 35 billion in assets through this exercise. I see a few smiley faces here that have been served by the BOC's wake-up unit.
"BOC has been successful in overcoming most of the problems that the pandemic has presented to us out of the blue by ensuring seamless online banking services for our customers. However, most employees said they are making efforts to minimize the impact of the pandemic on them. "
BOC President Kanchana Ratwatte, KED Managing Director / CEO Sumanasiri and CFO Russel Fonseka yesterday inaugurated the BOC SME Circle at BOC Headquarters in Colombo.
Speaking of the challenges of the external sector, he said, "A 20ft container of a particular item from Shanghai via Singapore for $ 900 in 2019 costs $ 8,000 today. Wheat and oil prices have jumped among other commodities. Today, a liter of oil in India is worth 104 Indian rupees. This is around LKR 270. The state still subsidizes petroleum products. Has consumption declined at current prices? No, this is not the case. Despite the closures, oil consumption has increased. Letters of credit (LC) opened by the BOC for oil imports rose 20% despite coronavirus lockdowns. These must be taken into account in the current situation.
Speaking of tourism revenues, he said: "Until 2019, before the Easter Sunday attacks, tourism generated at least $ 4.5 billion. Due to the pandemic, the tourism sector had to be taken over by other sectors. It was a double whammy for the economy. On the other hand, I now see a bright side emerging as more than 200,000 tourists arrived in the country last year. "
"The livelihoods of Sri Lankan migrant workers came to a standstill for two years due to travel restrictions imposed around the world. Now we are seeing the encouraging trend of them returning to their overseas jobs as well as the students going abroad for higher education. Every day, the BOC receives requests from clients to donate amounts ranging from $ 2,500 to $ 20,000 for their children's higher education needs. We oblige this segment of customers, regardless of which bank they initially did banking with. "
"BOC reached one trillion rupees in its asset base in 2012 – the equivalent of a business worth $ 5 billion when converting from currency to LKR 200 to one US dollar. In 2018, it hit $ 2 trillion, making it a $ 10 billion company. In March 2021, we hit the $ 3 trillion mark, making it a $ 15 billion business. I am proud to say that each year we will add $ 5 billion to BOC's asset base. By next year, we should be a $ 20 billion company. It is the strength on which we continue to serve our customers and the nation as a whole. Dear customers, let me tell you that BOC is tough and strong enough to keep the economy going until the country gets back to normal, "he said.
Stressing the importance of encouraging Sri Lankan SMEs and micro-entrepreneurs, the Bank also launched the BOC SME Circle yesterday.
In addition to this, the Bank launched the BOC fuel card. The BOC fuel refill card is designed to be of benefit to customers who are struggling with managing their fuel expenses. The card is available to legal entities, fleet operators and individuals to facilitate their day-to-day operations.


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import com.productfoundry.akka.cqrs.EntityIdResolution

import scala.reflect.ClassTag

/**
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abstract class ProcessManagerCompanion[P <: ProcessManager[_, _]: ClassTag] {

  /**
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  implicit val ProcessManagerCompanionObject: ProcessManagerCompanion[P] = this
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Jasinski outlines Northwest's plans to address budget shortfalls during testimony to house appropriations committee
Dr. John Jasinski
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Northwest Missouri State University President Dr. John Jasinski on Wednesday testified to the Missouri House Appropriations Education Committee that the University is "poised to execute and succeed in 2011 and beyond" but it will need lawmakers' help to keep higher education accessible and affordable.
Jasinski was one of several University presidents and chancellors to appear at the capitol in front of the house appropriations committee to address issues related to the impacts of funding shortfalls on the state's higher education institutions.
The committee asked university leaders to speak to how their institutions are addressing the impacts of 7, 10 and 15 percent appropriations cuts, as well as the recent academic program review process. Northwest Vice President of Finance Stacy Carrick also testified to the committee on the University's behalf.
To read Dr. Jasinki's complete testimony to the Missouri House Appropriations Education Committee, click here.
During his testimony, Jasinski noted a range of Northwest successes, from high academic success rates - including a freshman success rate of 74 percent and a student-athlete success rate of 83 percent, both of which top other similar institutions - to the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship that has helped create 30 new jobs in the last six months. Ninety-five percent of Northwest graduates responding to a recent employment survey also reported finding employment or continuing their education within six months of graduation.
Additionally, with its innovative textbook rental and laptop programs, Northwest tallied a record fall enrollment of 7,142 students and has experienced 16 percent enrollment growth during the last four years through a managed growth plan.
Jasinski reported Northwest enhanced its financial position last year by making tough choices and collaborating, despite a 5.2 percent appropriations decrease. He said Northwest will continue to respond and transform in the face of proposed cuts.
"We are seeking further efficiencies, enhancing our signature programming opportunities and articulating our multiyear success strategies," Jasinski told the committee. "We in higher education must continue to address our challenges and realities head on and make sure we are laser-focused in what we do and why we do it. Northwest Missouri State University commits to you and the people of Missouri to ensure the public trust of our greatest asset - an educated citizenry."
Jasinski outlined several steps Northwest has taken to address funding shortfalls, including voluntary budget giveback contributions from the entire campus last year and a freeze on spending at the end of the last fiscal year.
"With regard to what we have done to address projected funding shortfalls, we need to mention our Organizational Success Task Force - representing constituencies from across campus - designed to address short-term budget issues and long-term strategic funding issues," Jasinski said. "The group currently is engaging with our executive team in reviewing budgets, programs and processes through the lens of being essential, important and elective. We are addressing budget shortfalls collaboratively and with a long-term focus on multi-year success strategies."
Northwest also realized savings by renegotiating contracts with suppliers to save $500,000, making facility improvements in-house for a savings of $419,000, saving $145,000 through non-replacement or combining of positions and position hiring pauses, refinancing bonds to save $402,000, reducing the number of land-line telephones throughout campus to save $276,000, and changing employees' sick leave and vacation policies to reduce future liabilities by $1.4 million. Additionally, Northwest continues to save money through the use of alternative fuel sources; the initiative has saved Northwest about $13 million since the early 1980s.
Jasinski noted Northwest has enacted numerous partnerships with other state institutions to offer programs designed to increase access, affordability, efficiency and effectiveness. He cited a partnership with Southeast Missouri State University to teach economics as one example. Northwest also has joint admission agreements with North Central Missouri College, Southwestern Community College and Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City that provide students with the benefits of a Northwest education while they pursue associate degrees at the two-year colleges.
Another partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., in St. Joseph, offers a master's degree that fits the needs of its staff scientists while providing new enrollment growth opportunities for Northwest.
In response to the state's academic program review, Northwest has identified seven undergraduate programs and one graduate program for elimination due to low numbers of students graduating from the programs.
"The academic program review should not be merely a cost-savings exercise," Jasinski said, and he encouraged the committee to consider the importance of a broad and diverse educated citizenry as well as the role public higher education plays in the economy.
Addressing how state appropriation cuts might impact Northwest, Jasinski reiterated the University is focused on a solution-oriented approach. However, further reductions in state appropriations, he said, could limit Northwest's ability to position itself for strategic multiyear success. While Northwest has significant deferred maintenance needs, funding reductions also would erode Northwest's ability to attract and retain top-flight faculty and staff, lead to increased tuition and fees, and prompt the reduction or elimination of programs, services and personnel.
"We are working hard to avoid adding to unemployment issues and we are striving to keep higher education accessible and affordable," Jasinski said. "We believe the 10 to 15 percent markers to not be in the state's best interests."
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Le Monument Naturel El Morado est un monument naturel chilien situé dans le Cajón du Maipo, région métropolitaine de Santiago. Le monument est un cirque glaciaire et fait partie de la cuenca du fleuve El Volcán. La Colline El Morado domine le paysage de cette zone protégée.

Le monument naturel El Morado est situé dans la région métropolitaine à 93 km au Sud-Est de Santiago, dans la Province de la Cordillère. À l'est de la localité de Baños Morales dans la commune de San José de Maipo. La principale voie d'accès est la route G-25, qui relie Puente Alto à San José de Maipo-El Volcán. Il a une superficie d'environ 3.009 ha et est administré par la Corporation Nationale Forestière (CONAF).

Visiteurs
Ce monument naturel reçoit une grande quantité de visiteurs chiliens et étrangers chaque année.

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Today the Irish Examiner was announced as title sponsors for the O'Connor Cup with the O'Connor Cup weekend which will now be known as 'The Irish Examiner O'Connor Cup.' The tournament is the biggest competition in Third Level Ladies Football and features the culmination of the four colleges competition which will take place over two days.
The Donaghy Cup, Lagan Cup, Giles Cup and O'Connor Cups will take place across the two days of competition in the Cork Institute of Technology. The semi finals of the Lagan, Giles and O'Connor Cups will take place on Friday with the finals, along with that of the Donaghy Cup will take place on Saturday March 21st.
The University of Limerick will defend their Irish Examiner O'Connor Cup title when they meet NUI Galway on Friday at 3:30pm and the winner will go on to face the winner of the earlier semi final between the University College Cork and Dublin City University. All 4 teams will feature some very big name players with the likes of Sarah Rowe, Laura McEnaney, Olivia Divilly, Niamh O'Dea, Tracey Leonard, Roisin Phelan and Orlagh Farmer competing for their colleges. There will also be deferred coverage of the Irish Examiner O'Connor Cup final on TG4 from 7:15pm.
In the Giles Cup the defending champions St. Patrick's College will get the defence of their title underway when they meet the Athlone Institute of Technology in the semi final whilst IT Tralee will meet TCD in the other semi final. There will be loads of local interest in the Lynch Cup as host college, Cork Institute of Technology meet DCU in their semi final with DIT and WIT meeting in the earlier semi final.
The Lynch Cup final will get the action underway on Saturday at 11:45pm and will be followed by the Giles Cup Final at 1:45pm with the big one, the Irish Examiner O'Connor Cup final throwing in at 3:45pm.


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Q: Unable to add an onclick event to element using JS Hey I have a span element that I am creating with JS and I want it to also have an onclick event that calls a function. I am referring to the function fillSlides() and dotFunction(), but I will show all of my functions.

function openModal() {
        document.getElementById('myModal').style.display = "block";
      }

      function closeModal() {
        document.getElementById('myModal').style.display = "none";
      }

      var slideIndex = 1;
      showSlides(slideIndex);

      function plusSlides(n) {
        showSlides(slideIndex += n);
      }

      function currentSlide(n) {
        showSlides(slideIndex = n);
      }
      function fillSlides(modalID){
        var container = document.getElementsByClassName("modal-content");
        var bcontainer = document.getElementById("myModal");
        var dcontainer = document.createElement('dot_content');

        var slides = {
          "1": ["Images/LS_01.jpg", "Images/LS_02.jpg", "Images/LS_03.jpg", "Images/LS_04.jpg" ],
          "2": ["Images/LS_05.jpg", "Images/LS_06.jpg", "Images/LS_07.jpg", "Images/LS_08.jpg" ],
          "3": ["Images/img1.jpg", "Images/img2.jpg", "Images/img3.jpg", "Images/2.jpg" ]
        };
        var modal_num = modalID.getAttribute('data-modal');
        //alert(slides[modal_num].length);

        for (var i = 0 ; i < slides[modal_num].length; i++) {
          var the_divs = document.createElement('div');
          var s_img = document.createElement('img');
          var s_dot = document.createElement('span');

          the_divs.className = 'mySlides';

          s_img.src = slides[modal_num][i];

          the_divs.appendChild(s_img);

          container[0].appendChild(the_divs);
          dcontainer.className = 'dot-content';
          dcontainer.id = 'dot_content';
          s_dot.className = 'demo';

          dcontainer.appendChild(s_dot);
          container[0].appendChild(dcontainer);
          s_dot.onclick = currentSlide(i);
        }

     }
    /*
      function clearSlides(){

        var myNode = document.getElementById("modal_content");
        while (myNode.firstChild) {
          myNode.removeChild(myNode.firstChild);
        }
      }*/
      function clearSlides() {
        var myNode = document.getElementById("modal_content");
      //use spread operator to convert nodelist to array for using
      // array methods
      var c = [...myNode.children];
      c.forEach(function(item, index) {
        console.log(item)
        // check if the current element have a class using 'contains'
        if (!item.classList.contains('elbutton')) {
          //use remove method to remove the element

          item.remove();

        }
      })

    }

      /*

      function clearSlides(){

        var myNode = document.getElementById("modal_content");
        var childNodes = myNode.childNodes;
        for(var i=0; i<childNodes.length; i++){
          if(childNodes[i].className === "mySlides"){
            myNode.removeChild(childNodes[i])
          }
        }
      }
      */
      function showSlides(n) {
        var i;
        var slides = document.getElementsByClassName("mySlides");
        var dots = document.getElementsByClassName("demo");
        var captionText = document.getElementById("caption");

        if (n > slides.length) {slideIndex = 1}
          if (n < 1) {slideIndex = slides.length}
            for (i = 0; i < slides.length; i++) {
              slides[i].style.display = "none";
            }
            for (i = 0; i < dots.length; i++) {
              dots[i].className = dots[i].className.replace(" active", "");
            }
            slides[slideIndex-1].style.display = "block";
            dots[slideIndex-1].className += " active";
            //captionText.innerHTML = dots[slideIndex-1].alt;
          }
          function dotfunction() {
           var slides = document.getElementsByClassName("mySlides");
           var dotfunctionadder = document.getElementsByClassName("demo");
           for (var i = 0; i < slides.length; i++) {
            dotfunctionadder.onclick = currentSlide(i);
          }
        }

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I tried calling dot function from the onclick of a different element (because the span I want to add it to is being created with JS) within the html but nothing happened. How do I do this and what am I doing wrong?

A: Try putting your script in the head section if you want to bind click handler inside html.
Below is the fiddle that i tested with your chanegs.

"https://jsfiddle.net/ajaygandhi06/smca56fv/"
It works when you put your js inside head tag.


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In France, presented a super-maneuverable manned drone with jet engines
By Ellen Stader
French company Zapata introduced an operated drone. It differs from other analogs because it uses jet engines instead of screw engines. JetRacer is the creator of the device.
Jet engines must be considered. The rest of the JetRacer design is very similar. The control handles and seat are in the middle, while the machines are along the sides. It has a stabilization system that assists with turning. JetRacer's speed is estimated to be 250 km/h, and its maximum altitude of three kilometers. The flight can continue even if one of the ten engines fails.
The company's head demonstrated take-off, landing and normal flight. He also showed sharp turns and a "barrel" figure in aerobatics during the tests. According to the developers, the drone could be used for entertainment and military purposes.
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Grocery Outlet Taps Walmart Veteran to Lead East Coast Expansion
Heather Mayo to prep Pennsylvania as the discounter's next growth front By Jon Springer on Nov. 12, 2019
Photograph courtesy of Grocery Outlet
Discounter Grocery Outlet has charged a former executive of Walmart and Boxed.com with awakening a sleepy store base in central Pennsylvania.
Heather Mayo, who recently was Boxed's chief merchandising officer and spent 12 years with Walmart's Sam's Club division as an operations SVP, and before that more than a decade with BJ's Wholesale Club, joined Grocery Outlet on Oct. 7 as EVP of the company's East region. In this role, Mayo is expected to lead the expansion of a small pocket of independently owned discount stores to serve as a second front of long-term expansion for the Emeryville, Calif.-based company, which is currently doing most of its new-store growth in Southern California.
"Heather brings 23 years of experience in the retail club channel and will lead our efforts to expand our existing Mid-Atlantic store base and future expansion. We look forward to leveraging her operational and merchandising expertise as we develop our long-term plans for this market," MacGregor Read, vice chairman of Grocery Outlet, said during a conference call this week reviewing the retailer's third-quarter financial results.
CEO Eric Lindberg said Mayo has begun a lengthy "immersion" to learn about her new employer, its stores and operators. "We couldn't be more excited to see sort of the progress she'll start making in 2020," he said.
Grocery Outlet operates 337 stores, with all but 20 on the West Coast. The Pennsylvania units came by way of a 2011 acquisition of Amelia's Grocery Outlet, a Lancaster County-based counterpart. Other than a gradual change of company banners, a few new units and assignment of some stores to independent operators—as of earlier this year, six of the 20 sites were still owned by the company—that group of stores has been relatively quiet. But officials see the East Coast as a front for future expansion, joining discounting rivals such as Lidl and Aldi that are already actively expanding there.
The company is currently focused primarily on growing stores in Southern California, after which it will turn to the Mid-Atlantic.
Heather Mayo
"Hiring Heather is a great first step in that direction," Read said. "We fully intend for her to continue to build the infrastructure to support a higher growth rate as time goes on. … But we really believe in … this 'crawl, walk, run' approach. You'll see us open a few stores in 2020 in that [Mid-Atlantic] region and then continue to build from there."
Grocery Outlet officials state they can grow their store based by about 10% annually and envision quadrupling its current store base through expansion to contiguous markets. In filings for an initial public offering earlier this year, the company said it believes the U.S. could eventually support 4,800 stores.
Most of the company's stores are run by independent operators who sell on consignment, giving Grocery Outlet a unique business model it says provides local marketing expertise with the buying power of a large chain. Lindberg said this week the company has been successful finding operators—typically husband and wife teams—who have experience at other chains and want the opportunity to run their own businesses.
For the fiscal third quarter, which ended Sept. 28, Grocery Outlet grew sales by 13.1% to $652.5 million. Comparable store sales increased by 5.8%, matching preliminary figures released last month ahead of a secondary stock offering. Net income was $12.4 million, or 13 cents per diluted share, compared to $7.7 million, or 11 cents per share, in the third quarter of fiscal 2018. The results prompted the company to raise guidance slightly for the remainder of the fiscal year.
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Every You isn't just taking this fundraising thing sitting down
For the uninitiated, Kickstarter.com is one of the smartest ideas for a website since Al Gore invented the Internet. Its goal would probably appeal to our former Vice President: helping creative people get their projects off the ground with equally creative donation solicitation.
In the case of Fort Lauderdale pop-punk quartet Every You, the goal is to raise $4,000 for filming a music video for single "A Change of Scene" in North Carolina, and some ducats to get the guys back into the studio.
There is a widget for the project, and details about how to be in Every
You's music video and get some band-related swag after the jump.
Of course, the donations do yield rewards beyond just doing a nice thing for a nice bunch of local fellas, and some unknown fatcat is matching every buck provided. Everyone who pledges $10 or more will receive a personal letter from Every You, and as you give more, you get more of that sweet exclusive stuff from the band (an acoustic EP! a bracelet!).
From Kickstarter:
Hey! We are Every You, and we've come here to ask for your help in funding our first music video for our single, "A Change Of Scene," as well as trying to raise some money to help us fund our next visit to the studio. Every dollar donated to us will be matched, and we feel these projects together will cost about $4000. We are going to be shooting the video in North Carolina with some great friends at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and recording a few new songs with Tom Denney (ex-A Day To Remember) in June. For every dollar donated, we will be sure to send you some goodies, as well! With your help, we will be able to stay on the road, have a kickass video, and release some new songs for you guys by the end of this summer!
If you would like to be in the video, please e-mail us at everyyouband[at]gmail.com! It will be shot in North Carolina!
Meanwhile, Every You will perform at the Talent Farm in Pembroke Pines on Friday, April 30. More details on that show soon!
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