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/**
 * Plugin Name: MU Plugin Loader
 * Description: Loads plugins from mu-plugins/pluginname/, won't trigger activation hooks
 * Version: 0.2
 * Author: Michael Pollett props Sebastien Lavoie, Automattic, GigaOm
 * Author URI: http://www.coreware.co.uk
 */

class MUPluginLoader
{
 private static $dirname = 'plugins/';
 private static $plugincount = 0;

 public static function init() {
  add_filter( 'plugins_url', array( __CLASS__, 'plugins_url' ), 10, 3 );
  add_action( 'muplugins_loaded', array( __CLASS__, 'load_plugins' ) );

  add_action( 'admin_init', function() {
   add_action( 'after_plugin_row_mu-plugins.php', array( __CLASS__, 'show_loaded_plugins' ) );
   add_filter( 'views_plugins-network', array( __CLASS__, 'update_plugin_count' ) );
   // clear cache when visit admin plugin page
   add_action( 'admin_print_scripts-plugins.php', array( __CLASS__, 'clear_cache' ) );
  });
 }

 public static function plugin_dir( $name = '' ){
//  $fulldir = trailingslashit( get_template_directory() ) . self::$dirname . $name;
//  return substr( $fulldir, strpos( $fulldir, '/themes' ) );
  return '/mu-plugins/' . $name;
 }

 public static function get_mu_plugins(){
  $plugins = get_site_transient( 'mu-plugins' );

  if ( $plugins !== false ) {
   // Validate plugins still exist
   // If not, invalidate cache
   foreach ( $plugins as $plugin_file ) {
    if ( ! is_readable( WP_CONTENT_DIR . self::plugin_dir( $plugin_file ) ) ) {
     $plugins = false;
     break;
    }
   }
   if ( $plugins !== false )
    return $plugins;
  }

  if ( ! function_exists( 'get_plugins' ) ) {
   require ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php';
  }

  $plugins = array();
  foreach ( get_plugins( '/..' . self::plugin_dir() ) as $plugin_file => $data ) {
   if ( dirname( $plugin_file ) != '.' ) { // skip files directly at root
    $plugins[] = $plugin_file;
   }
  }

  set_site_transient( 'mu-plugins', $plugins );
  return $plugins;
 }

 public static function clear_cache(){
  delete_site_transient( 'mu-plugins' );
 }

 public static function load_plugins(){
  foreach ( self::get_mu_plugins() as $plugin_file ) {
   $pre_include_variables = get_defined_vars();

   require WP_CONTENT_DIR . self::plugin_dir( $plugin_file );

   $blacklist = array( 'blacklist' => 0, 'pre_include_variables' => 0, 'new_variables' => 0 );
   $new_variables = array_diff_key( get_defined_vars(), $GLOBALS, $blacklist, $pre_include_variables );

   foreach ( $new_variables AS $new_variable => $devnull )
    global $$new_variable;

   extract( $new_variables );
   self::$plugincount++;
  }
 }

 public static function increment_plugin_count( $match ){
  $ret = $match[0] + self::$plugincount;
  return $ret;
 }

 public static function update_plugin_count( $views ){
  $views[ 'mustuse' ] = preg_replace_callback( '/[0-9]+/', array( __CLASS__, 'increment_plugin_count' ), $views['mustuse'] );
  return $views;
 }

 public static function show_loaded_plugins() {

  foreach ( self::get_mu_plugins() as $plugin_file ) {
            // Strip down version of WP_Plugins_List_Table

            $data = get_plugin_data( WP_CONTENT_DIR . self::plugin_dir( $plugin_file ) );
            $name = empty( $data[ 'Name' ] ) ? $plugin_file : $data[ 'Name' ];
            $desc = empty( $data[ 'Description' ] ) ? ' ' : $data[ 'Description' ];
            $id = sanitize_title( $name );

            printf( '

                 -   %s

%s

', esc_html( $id ), esc_html( $name ), ( $desc ) );
        }
    }

 /**
  * Filter plugins_url() so that it works for plugins inside the shared VIP plugins directory or a theme directory.
  *
  * Props to the GigaOm dev team for coming up with this method.
  *
  * @param string $url Optional. Absolute URL to the plugins directory.
  * @param string $path Optional. Path relative to the plugins URL.
  * @param string $plugin Optional. The plugin file that you want the URL to be relative to.
  * @return string
  */
 public static function plugins_url( $url = '', $path = '', $plugin = '' ) {
  static $content_dir, $mu_dir, $mu_url;

  if ( ! isset( $content_dir ) ) {
   // Be gentle on Windows, borrowed from core, see plugin_basename
   $content_dir = str_replace( '\\','/', WP_CONTENT_DIR ); // sanitize for Win32 installs
   $content_dir = preg_replace( '|/+|','/', $content_dir ); // remove any duplicate slash
  }

  if ( ! isset( $mu_dir ) ) {
   $mu_dir = $content_dir . '/mu-plugins/';
  }

  if ( ! isset( $mu_url ) ) {
   $mu_url = content_url( '/mu-plugins/' );
  }

  // Don't bother with non-VIP or non-path URLs
  if ( ! $plugin || 0 !== strpos( $plugin, $mu_dir ) ) {
   return $url;
  }

  if ( 0 === strpos( $plugin, $mu_dir ) )
   $url_override = str_replace( $mu_dir, $mu_url, dirname( $plugin ) );
  elseif  ( 0 === strpos( $plugin, get_stylesheet_directory() ) )
   $url_override = str_replace( get_stylesheet_directory(), get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), dirname( $plugin ) );

  if ( isset( $url_override ) )
   $url = trailingslashit( $url_override ) . $path;

  return $url;
 }
}
MUPluginLoader::init();

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Mayor Alex Vargas
Council Member Haidar Awad
Mayor pro tem Olivia Valentine
Council Member Alex Monteiro
Council Member Mike Talleda
"Alex Vargas' newlywed parents decided to call Hawthorne "home" in 1971 and shortly decided to begin building their family. In September of 1971, Alex was born and would later be followed by 3 other siblings. His parents managed to raise the family on a single income with Dad working and Mom taking care of the children. Their work ethic not only spoke of hard work but also emphasized education, family values, and social responsibility.
Mayor Vargas attended St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey, California, graduating in 1989. He attended California State University Dominguez Hills and graduated in 1995 with a bachelor of science in Physics. During his undergraduate studies, he obtained a Physics internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Mayor Vargas then continued his studies at California State University Long Beach where he earned a master of science in Physics.
In 1997, while in graduate school, Mayor Vargas began working in the aerospace industry on laser and optics programs at Hughes and Raytheon. Most recently he has worked at L3 Communications testing satellite components under Space Environment conditions.
From 2004-2009, Mayor Vargas served as commissioner on Hawthorne's Civil Service Commission, where he brought fairness to the review of civil service employee matters. In 2007, he served as founding President for the North Hawthorne Community Association, where he worked with his neighbors to successfully bring peace and security to the neighborhood. He has most recently served on the Centinela Valley HS District Oversight Committee helping the local high schools reach academic success. He is an active supporter of the City's homeowner's associations which include Holly Glenn, North Hawthorne, Ramona, Bodger Park, Holly Park, Fusion, and 360.
Mayor Vargas decided to run for a seat on the Hawthorne City Council in November 2009. After a successful grassroots campaign, he won the city council race and received the highest number of votes. In December of 2010, he was nominated by his city council peers to serve as Mayor Pro Tem of Hawthorne. He currently serves on several governmental committees on behalf of the City.
Bringing business investments and jobs to the City of Hawthorne has been a top priority for Mayor Vargas. He is actively pursuing this by establishing a more cooperative working relationship between the Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce and the City. He has reached out to small business owners providing them with the resources for survival and success. He has organized brainstorming sessions with the community to discuss existing projects and developments. He is an advocate of a General Plan in order to see our City grow economically, which in turn will increase the quality of life for all residents.
Alex Vargas' passion and love for the City of Hawthorne has led him to offer fresh new ideas to fight crime and advance the city's economic renewal plans. Through his careful analysis of the issues at hand, and leadership based on integrity and transparency, Hawthorne will experience the positive change that it greatly deserves and needs."
Mayor Vargas was elected as the Hawthorne Mayor in November 2015.
avargas@hawthorneCA.gov

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FORT WORTH, Texas — In a green camouflage shirt and an AR-15 strapped across his chest, Mark Hughes attended a Dallas demonstration against excessive use of force by police as an activist of open-carry, a recently-expanded Texas law that allows licensed gun owners to openly carry rifles, shotguns and pistols.
Around midnight Thursday, after a sniper — later identified as 25-year-old Micah Johnson — killed five police officers and wounded six other officers and two civilians, the Dallas Police Department tweeted a photo of Hughes, describing him as a suspect and asking for the public's assistance in locating him.
The photo was retweeted hundreds of times.
"The world saw him as a mass-murderer. Why? Because he was a black man carrying a gun," Hughes' attorney, Paul Saputo, told WFAA-TV.
The department later tweeted that the person of interest had turned himself in. Hughes was released a short time later.
Hughes' brother, Cory, was an organizer of Thursday's march. While Hughes was in custody, Cory Hughes told television station KTVT that his brother was not the shooter.
As soon as the shooting started, "I told him, 'Give your gun to this cop because we don't want an accident. We don't want them to come around the corner and see you with a gun and start shooting at you,'" Cory Hughes told CBS 11.
The Hughes brothers claim Mark Hughes was held for 30 minutes before he was released.
Hughes said police questioned him about why he wanted to shoot officers, adding that they told him witnesses saw him firing the rifle. That "is a lie," Hughes said.
Hughes told CBS 11 that he was "defamed" by police. His identification as a person of interest has resulted in "thousands" of death threats on Facebook, he added.
Reached by The Associated Press late Friday, Saputo said Hughes hasn't "ruled out" taking legal action against Dallas police.


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Home Uncategorized My Style: Nene Kisseih, store director at Billy Reid
My Style: Nene Kisseih, store director at Billy Reid
On his favorite ATL neighborhood, the item he can't live without, and his favorite lapel pin
Feifei Sun
Nene Kisseih
Photograph by Ben Rollins
Born in Ghana and raised in Atlanta, Kisseih's style reflects both African and Southern influences. Since 2016 he's been the store director of Billy Reid at Westside Provisions District—and even took a turn down the runway at the designer's spring 2016 show in Florence, Alabama. In 2011 he cofounded Messrs, a collection of men's leather wallets, belts, and other accessories, which he often crafts from rare Ghanaian materials.
Hails from Accra, Ghana. I moved to New York City at four and have been in Atlanta since I was 13.
Favorite neighborhood Decatur. There's so much variety, from the people to the restaurant scene. I go for Value Village and Kimball House.
Style trademark I grew up playing soccer, and I like to wear soccer jerseys with nice slacks. I also wear a lot of Ghanaian beads.
Nod to tradition I'm not afraid to wear bright, bold colors, and I love traditional fabrics like Kente cloth, which is woven by men.
Style icon I don't really have one, but I've been following Yasiin Bey, the rapper who used to go by Mos Def, and I think he's just a really cool-ass dude.
Retail therapy I've been in retail for seven years. I like when customers tell me about their families; I like learning about people.
Item you can't live without I have a pair of burgundy vintage Bali lace-up brogues that I wear with everything; it's like they've become part of my personality.
Style genes I'm always taking things out of my mom's closet. I love this tobacco leather belt with a buckle that reads, "I'm not too sweet."
Collecting Lapel pins. I've been wearing this one lately—let's see if it makes it to print—that says "ABCDEF*CK."
Layer up
Chilly? Nab this reversible rabbit fur and down vest—Kisseih's top pick from Billy Reid this season. $895, multiple locations, billyreid.com
This article originally appeared in our January 2017 issue.
Westside Provisions District
Messrs
My Style: Madolyn Ropell, Director of Accounts at Ampersand
Check out Melissa A. Mitchell's kaleidoscopic new collaboration with Foot Locker


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JEL Code: G18
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The Flash Crash: High-Frequency Trading in an Electronic Market
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Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007
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Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
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Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land Title Theory
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Why Did Some Banks Perform Better during the Credit Crisis? A Cross-Country Study of the Impact of Governance and Regulation
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Andrea Beltratti and René M. Stulz
Bocconi University - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review
Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance after Enron
AFTER ENRON, IMPROVING CORPORATE LAW AND MODERNISING SECURITIES REGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE U.S., pp. 445-496, J. Armour, J. A. McCahery, eds., Oxford (Hart), 2006, ECGI Law Working Paper No. 05/2002, ECGI Finance Working Paper
Klaus J. Hopt
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
The Global Financial Crisis and the Efficient Market Hypothesis: What Have We Learned?
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2009
Ray Ball
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 8-16, Fall 2009
Textual Analysis in Accounting and Finance: A Survey
Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald
University of Notre Dame and University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business - Department of Finance
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Coin-Operated Capitalism
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Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe
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Luca Enriques and Paolo F. Volpin
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Are U.S. Industries Becoming More Concentrated?
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Gustavo Grullon, Yelena Larkin and Roni Michaely
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The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation
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Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh
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Where Did the Risk Go? How Misapplied Bond Ratings Cause Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligation Market Disruptions
Joseph R. Mason and Joshua Rosner
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Graham Fisher & Co.
Modelling Operational Risk
Journal of Risk, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 1-16, 2003
Silvan Ebnöther, Paolo Vanini, Alexander McNeil and Pierre Antolinez-Fehr
Zurich Cantonal Bank, University of Basel, ETH Zürich - Department of Mathematics and Zurich Cantonal Bank
Legal and Economic Issues in Litigation Arising from the 2007-2008 Credit Crisis
PRUDENT LENDING RESTORED: SECURITIZATION AFTER THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN, Chapter 5, pp. 163-235, Yasuyuki Fuchita, Richard Herring, and Robert Litan, eds., Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2009, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 612, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-5
Allen Ferrell, Jennifer E. Bethel and Gang Hu
Harvard Law School, Babson College and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance
Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates
Aleksandar Andonov, Rob Bauer and Martijn Cremers
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The Dark Side of Universal Banking: Financial Conglomerates and the Origins of the Subprime Financial Crisis
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Does Venture Capital Require an Active Stock Market?
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The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership
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Comparative Company Law
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Trends in Earnings Management and Informativeness of Earnings Announcements in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Periods
Daniel A. Cohen, Aiyesha Dey and Thomas Z. Lys
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NYU Working Paper No. 2451/27545
Financial Regulation, Behavioural Finance, and the Global Credit Crisis: In Search of a New Regulatory Model
Emilios Avgouleas
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Importance of Independence and Financial Knowledge for the Board and the Audit Committee
HEC Montreal Working Paper No. 05-03
Georges Dionne and Thouraya Triki
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal
The Effect of SOX Internal Control Deficiencies on Firm Risk and Cost of Equity
Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming 2008
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2008
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins, William R. Kinney, Jr. and Ryan LaFond
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The Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database
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James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine
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Does the Fed Control Interest Rates?
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Hedge Funds, Insiders, and the Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership
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Bank Failure, Mark-to-Market and the Financial Crisis
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Bank Failure, Mark‐To‐Market and the Financial Crisis
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The Impairment of Purchased Goodwill: Effects on Market Value
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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability: Current Policy Issues
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Alfred Hannig and Stefan Jansen
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Sami Ben Naceur and Mohamed Goaied
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Kimani Lawrence Remy Martin Anthony Edwards Alonzo Verge Romello White Tye Fagan Jaelen House Sports Basketball Men's basketball Men's sports Men's college basketball College basketball College sports
Arizona State Pac-12 Georgetown SEC Georgia
Martin, White lead Arizona St to 79-59 over Georgia
By DAVID BRANDT - Dec. 15, 2019 12:47 AM EST
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Romello White admits he was talking a little more trash than normal on Saturday night. The Arizona State forward is from Georgia, so he knew four or five of the opposing Bulldogs and the rhetoric escalated enough that the referees stepped in to cool things down a few times.
White assured the refs that the talking was all in fun. He wasn't upset — everything was all good.
So were the Sun Devils.
White scored 18 points and grabbed 17 rebounds, Remy Martin led all scorers with 23 points and Arizona State pulled away in the second half to beat Georgia 79-59 for its fifth straight win.
"All my family back home was watching the game," White said. "I felt like I had to show out today. Had to do the best I could."
Arizona State (8-2) controlled the entire second half, leading by as many as 24 points. Alonzo Verge Jr. added 15 points on 7-of-11 shooting.
White made three quick buckets early in the second half, using his powerful 6-foot-8, 235-pound body to finish through contact and help the Sun Devils build a 48-37 lead. He finished 7 of 8 from the field and grabbed six offensive rebounds.
Georgia's star freshman Anthony Edwards finished with 13 points, but only one came in the second half and he missed all five of his 3-point attempts. Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley said his team did a good job of using multiple defenders to make things difficult for Edwards.
"A player of that caliber and as gifted as he is, you have to give him that type of attention and hope that you force other guys to beat you," Hurley said.
The Bulldogs (6-3) lost for the third time in five games. They had a brutal night shooting, especially from long range, where they connected on just 2 of 24 shots (eight percent) from 3-point range. Tye Fagan led Georgia with 15 points.
The 6-foot-5 Edwards was productive early, scoring 10 of Georgia's first 15 points and finishing the first half with 12 points on 5-of-10 shooting. The rest of the Bulldogs struggled, shooting 6 of 20 before the break.
Georgia was one of the best offensive teams in the nation coming into the game, averaging 86 points, but Saturday's 59 were a season low. Bulldogs coach Tom Crean said Edwards was "banged up" and dealing with an injury that affected his performance but said "he's got to play better than that. Everybody does."
"Their best players had really good games," Crean said. "Ours didn't."
Arizona State led 39-31 at halftime after White's tip-in banked off the glass and through the hoop as time expired. Martin led the Sun Devils with 15 points in the first half.
Arizona State went ahead by 18 points in the second half on an impressive fast break. Jaelen House jumped in a passing lane for the steal and took off down the court before passing to Verge, who threw a behind-the-back pass to Kimani Lawrence for the finish.
STAYING HOT
White continued playing some of the best basketball of his college career on Saturday. The Atlanta native had averaged 15.7 points and 13.7 rebounds in the three games before facing the Bulldogs.
He went into the game shooting 70% from the field (33 of 47) this season.
"It's just the work I've put in," White said. "Working on my body, getting my body right. Working on my vertical. Just really this summer, I tried to put in as much as work as I could to be as dominate as I could this year."
Georgia: The Bulldogs hadn't played in 10 days, taking a break to get through the fall semester's exams. They looked rusty in their return and Edwards was quiet as Arizona State built its lead in the second half.
Arizona State: It's a nice win for the Sun Devils, who are hitting the tough part of their nonconference schedule with St. Mary's and Creighton coming up in the next week. Arizona State was especially good on defense, using defensive pressure to force Georgia into some bad decisions.
Georgia returns home to host SMU on Friday.
Arizona State faces St. Mary's in Phoenix on Wednesday.


This Opinion aims to inform the European Parliament's position on the legislative proposal for a Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online, presented by the European Commission on 12 September 2018.
The Council of the EU requested this FRA Opinion in its Conclusions on business and human rights. The expert opinion sought from FRA was to look at "possible avenues to lower barriers for access to remedy at the EU level" – the third of three pillars of the UN Guiding Principles.
This opinion underlines the importance of drawing on existing data and information in any assessment of the values in Article 2 TEU, and outlines how this could be done.
FRA's opinions highlight general fundamental rights implications to be considered when applying the safe countries of origin concept. They should be read together with the relevant safeguards the Asylum Procedures Directive establishes. These safeguards provide for minimum guarantees that must also fully apply to applicants originating from countries on the proposed EU common list of safe countries of origin.
The proposal to establish a possible legislative instrument supplementing the existing European Criminal Records Information System with information on third-country nationals convicted in the EU raises a number of fundamental rights issues.
The proposal to establish a European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), mandated to prosecute crimes against the financial interests of the European Union, raises a number of fundamental rights issues.
Drawing on evidence gathered in its surveys and reports, FRA submits a set of opinions aimed at improving the protection against discrimination. These could be taken into account in the implementation and the eventual reform of the EU legal framework on the protection against discrimination.
In relation to the European Commission proposal for a Directive on the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime in the European Union, the European Parliament requested advice from FRA on the extent to which confiscation of proceeds of crime could go without breaching fundamental rights.
On 14 February 2011, as requested by the European Parliament, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) issued an opinion on the draft directive regarding the European Investigation Order (EIO) in criminal matters. The draft directive, aimed at mutual recognition of warrants for both existing and new evidence, is intended to replace an existing 'fragmented regime' with a more comprehensive legislative instrument.
On 16 October the Swedish Presidency presented a "draft of the Stockholm Programme" that is to be adopted at the EU summit in December 2009. Following this publication, the Fundamental Rights Agency has presented the following opinion paper "FRA Comments on the Presidency Draft Stockholm Programme" available for download below.


The Siri Remote comes with a built-in lithium ion battery. To charge the Siri Remote, there is a Lightning connector port on the bottom of the device. Use the Lightning cable that came included with the Apple TV 4G to charge the Siri Remote.
Connect the Lightning to USB cable to a computer or a USB wall charger to charge the Siri Remote. It takes approximately nine hours for a full charge.
The Siri Remote comes with the fourth generation Apple TV. Not only does the Siri Remote include dual microphones for asking Siri natural language questions, but the device features a glass touch panel for gesture input. The Siri Remote connects to the Apple TV 4G using Bluetooth 4.0.
"It takes approximately nine hours for a full charge."
Not even close! According to Apple, it takes 2.5 hours to charge the remote. Where are you getting your 9 hour figure from?


When someone steps into a top position at a company that needs to improve, the pressure is on to get off to a quick start — to deliver early wins to prove yourself. Yet the best way to succeed is to slow things down. Speeding through changes deprives you of insight into people and culture. Slowing down allows you to listen to what people are saying, get a picture of how you are affecting them, understand sources of resistance, and come to a fuller understanding of your actions' ramifications. The result is greater control over your transition to new responsibilities and the company's transition to a new era. Five techniques can help a leader create a measured pace: control the flow (manage the rush of information), reflect (put things in perspective), repeat (play back what others have said), question (ask "What did we just do?"), and use silence (pause before responding).
Question. From time to time, ask summing-up questions such as, "What did we just do?" "What just happened here?" and "What should we learn from that?" Questions like these force a pause, preventing a discussion from rushing to a premature decision or blocking a group from coalescing around what may be the wrong conclusion. Unlike declarative statements, which only require listeners to be polite, questions require them to "go active" as they think of an answer and try to figure out why the boss is asking.
All of these steps would have helped Greg immeasurably. They would have slowed the pace of his interactions and decisions so that he was more aware of how he was being perceived and so that he could have carefully assessed the consequences of his decisions. He would have elevated above the action to a position where he could have exercised better judgment. He would have been more likely to realize that how he achieved early successes was as important as achieving them. If he had slowed things down, Greg would be CEO today.


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East Asian Plants on the University of Kansas Campus
A Cultural and Horticultural Guide
The beautiful KU campus is home to many trees, shrubs, and flowers that originated in East Asia. Below you will find links to a list of these plants, where they are located, and fascinating information about East Asian plants in history, visual art, and literature.
East Asian Plants on Campus
List of plants of East Asian origin found on the KU campus. Horticultural information is available by clicking on the name of each plant. We also provide approximate bloom periods and tips on how to find each plant on campus.
Plants in East Asian Culture
Many East Asian plants found on the KU campus have a rich history in the art and literature from where they originated. This page provides brief overviews of a plant's relevance in art and links to view artwork from collections from all over the world.
Faculty Expertise and Bibliography
East Asian Plants to View in the Region
Reading List and Links on East Asian Plants


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Q: How to migrate tomcat configurations in Eclipse to Intellij Idea? i am still new in configure the tomcat server settings. I am asked to move the tomcat configuration from Eclipse IDE to Intellij IDE Ultimate Edition. I have successfully move and import the projects, but the problem is i can't run the tomcat server, how to import the settings like servers.xml, catalina.policy, catalina properties, ssl, etc to Intellij IDE?I can't see where to import the configuration like this in eclipse
eclipse_settings
This is the tomcat settings configuration:
intellij_settings
But configuration is very different, how to add like the configuration path and web modules for Intellij configuration? Thank you...

A: Please note, that Eclipse server configuration cannot be converted fully to  Intellij IDEA, because they work in different ways.
All you need is Servers/pr-config folder, it seems like it is analog for /conf.
Please try the following:

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*create separate folder, for example, <user_folder>/tomcat8_base/conf

*copy all files from Servers/pr-config to <user_folder>/tomcat8_base/conf

*go to Tomcat Run/Debug configuration -> Server tab -> Configure...

*in Application server dialog select your server and

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*change "Tomcat base directory" value to <user_folder>/tomcat8_base/conf

*ensure that Tomcat home directory is still point to full tomcat installation

*apply changes,

*go to Startup/Connection tab

*ensure that you have default Startup script for Run and Debug modes, default startup script is <tomcat home>\bin\catalina.bat run

*go to Server tab

*you may specify any port values for HTTP and JMX ports (by default, they have values 8080 and 1099, but any free port should be fine).

IDEA will instruct the server to listen on the selected port(s), the field is editable only to allow user to run complex multiple configurations at the same time with different HTTP / JMX ports

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*try to Run Tomcat run-configuration

At this point, if you have any problems, please:

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*create new youtrack, set Subsystem = JavaEE.Tomcat

*attach there:

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*run console output,

*idea.log,

*screenshots of Application servers dialog, Server and Startup/Connection tabs

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a force of 40,000 foot and 10,000 horse should be raised by the Estates of the Empire, including in them the Austrian hereditary dominions. In return for this he promised once more to establish an efficient imperial executive. The Empire was to be divided into four Quarters, over each of which a Captain (Hauptmanri) was to be appointed as responsible chief of the administration. From these Quarters eight princes, four spiritual and four temporal, were to be chosen, who, under the presidency of an imperial Lieutenant, were to act as a central authority. This body was to sit during the Emperor's absence in the same place as the imperial Chamber. While the Emperor was in the Empire, he had the right to summon it to take up its residence at his Court.
This proposal, although it has been described as the most enlightened plan of fundamental imperial reform that the age produced, nevertheless found little favour with the Diet of Augsburg, which shelved it after the traditional fashion by referring its further consideration to another Diet. Fears for their territorial sovereignty may have partly induced the princes to bring about this result. But it seems probable that distrust of Maximilian was the real motive which led to the rejection of the scheme. Bitter experience had taught the Estates that the Emperor could be tied down to no promises, and could be entrusted with the execution of no settled policy. The best proof of this is that, as soon as Maximilian died, the Diet went back to the ideas of Berthold of Mainz and restored the Reichsregiment.
The obligations involved by Maximilian's participation in the Holy League speedily forced upon him once more the necessity of consulting his Estates. In April, 1512, the Emperor travelled to Trier to meet the Diet. Much time was now wasted and finally Max, in despair as to any transaction of business, went to the Netherlands, taking with him many of the assembled princes. A remnant of the Diet lingered on at Trier until Maximilian, returning from the Netherlands, prorogued it to Cologne. Here the Emperor once more brought forward the plan of 1510. As it met with little approval, he proposed as an alternative that a Common Penny should once more be levied after the fashion adopted at Augsburg in 1500, and that, by way of improvement on the Augsburg precedent, a levy of one man in a hundred should provide him with an adequate army. It was ridiculous to expect that the Estates would grant an army four times as large as the levy of 1500, when no great concession like that of the Reichsregiment was offered in return. The Emperor gradually reduced his terms, but after much haggling obtained no permanent assistance and only inadequate temporary help.


Posted by mygiftofcancer in cancer, faith, fear, health, Letters to my Family, medical procedures, prayer.
Thanks for your love, concern and generosity, as always. You are welcome to let others know at anytime. I mentioned that in my first letter as I thought you might receive it Sunday morning and would meet people at church whom you might want to tell. I figure the more people who know, means the more prayer power and that's my first line of defense/attack. Even the unbelieving French doctor encouraged me, when I told him I believe in the power of prayer. He said that it has been proven to be effective! And he didn't say that because he thought there was no other hope as he has a lot of faith in what he's doing (the "slash/burn/poison" method). He also said he thought my prognosis looked pretty good as the tumor is still rather small.


Mr. Malkin counsels clients on patent, trademark, and copyright matters. He represents clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has prosecuted trademark and patent applications from filing to registration. He handles trademark opposition litigation before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board as well as trademark filing and prosecution on a daily basis. Mr. Malkin currently serves as an E-Discovery Special Master for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
For over 18 years, Mr. Malkin has been involved in all types of litigation as lead counsel. He has handled discovery, motions practice, and appellate practice. His cases have included insurance defense, employment disputes, complex business litigation and intellectual property disputes. He has tried cases in federal and state court and represents individuals and large companies, before judges and juries. He also represents clients before Arbitrators and Mediators.
Mr. Malkin has a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV®Preeminent (5.0) for the highest level of professional excellence. He is also an AVVO Super Rated Lawyer.
As a law student, Mr. Malkin clerked for Yablonski Costello Leckie & Chaban, in Washington County. Before moving to private practice, Mr. Malkin began his legal career with the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Bureau and with Judge Rosalia Parker as a judicial law clerk.
In December of 2005 and 2006, Mr. Malkin was chosen as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® Rising Star as one of the Best Young Lawyers Under 40 in Workers' Compensation. This distinction is awarded to less than 3% of all lawyers in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Malkin has served multiple times on the Election Board and as Judge of Elections in Franklin Park. Mr. Malkin is past Chair of the Franklin Park Environmental Advisory Council. He now serves on the Franklin Park Zoning Board.
Mr. Malkin regularly contributes his time to Pro Bono employment matters and is past Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section Council.
Mr. Malkin lives in Franklin Park with his wife, Christina, and his 3 daughters.
Phi Beta Kappa. Former Law Clerk, Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation, 1995.
Attorney Malkin is especially adept at technology matters although I have been pleased with his efforts on everything from personal injury and business litigation to patents and trademarks. Very versatile.
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In what circumstance will I lose the right to patent when provisional patent expires?
Do I need permission to publish a mobile application for a website I do not own?
Can I sue the hospital for falling in the garage because of icy floor?
Can a customer sue owner of a business that is an LLC and go after owner's personal properly or only insurance?
How can I get a attorney that will help you file a lawsuit for free that don't get paid until you are paid?
Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.
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Brian S. Malkin attended University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
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Star Trek reveals TNG cast for Picard and Strange New Worlds crossover with Lower Decks
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Trekkies definitely have plenty to look forward to over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con 2022, with content from several Star Trek properties teased and revealed. Whether you are a fan of Picard, Strange New Worlds, or even the animated Lower Decks, the time to get giddy with excitement is now.
First up was Star Trek: Picard, which is set to enter its third and final season. A one-minute trailer debuted at the show from Paramount+ featured many familiar faces of The Next Generation.
LeVar Burton, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes, and Gates McFadden will be joining Patrick Stewart for the last season with the supposed absence of Brent Spiner (at least in this trailer), and will debut sometime in 2023 on Paramount+.
Strange New Worlds crosses over with Lower Decks
In addition to the Picard news, Paramount+ also announced an upcoming crossover episode between the live-action Strange New Worlds and the animated Lower Decks. With characters such as Ensign Beckett Mariner and Ensign Brad Boimler making the move over to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it remains to be seen just how else the two shows will collaborate creatively.
As for more specific Star Trek: Lower Decks news, the season three trailer also debuted at Comic Con. Such is the premise of the show; expect more crazy adventures in space when the new season lands on the streaming service on Aug 25.
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UK website to offer low cost pet-sitting services
Sam Guiry Send an email Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 8:22
The UK's first social networking website to offer pet-sitting services by pet owners themselves has launched, promising a 'sharing economy' solution to finding local pet care for less.
Butternut Box wins customer engagement award
Pet Around.com is an innovative new approach to the age-old problem of pet care while on holiday. Combing the support of an animal-loving online community with the money-saving principles of the collaborative economy, the website takes away the hassle and stress of finding a pet sitter by allowing pet owners to easily connect with people nearby who are happy to pet sit — often for free.
Pet Around.com offers a 'win-win situation' for all concerned. Many people would love to have an animal around, but just don't have the time to look after a pet on a permanent basis, while pet owners want to have the peace of mind their pet is being cared for in a loving environment while they're away, but if possible avoid the expensive costs of a kennel or professional sitter.
Membership is free and the service allows pet owners to find sitters in their area who have a similar pet themselves, or experience with that animal, to ensure the perfect match. In many cases, the pet sitting is offered at no charge, or on the basis that the favour be returned when required.
Pet Around.com founder Phil Harris, from Cardiff, says that he got the idea for the social networking site — believed to be the first of its kind in the UK — after becoming a dog owner himself.
He said: "I bought my first dog, a beautiful little King Charles spaniel called Minnie, about a year ago. Since then I've met countless dog owners while out walking Minnie and quickly found that they would always make a fuss of her and offer in passing to look after her if I went away.
"Even though I have friends and family who could pet-sit for me I would often run into a situation where they were all busy. My mind would then race through all the people I'd met while walking Minnie who'd offered to pet sit, but there was never anyway to contact them — until now."
Pet Around.com has been launched specifically to help pet owners make contact with people who are happy to pet sit their animal. Pets can be left in a loving home for a fraction of the price of a kennel or expensive pet sitter service and in most cases, they do it for free.
Phil concludes: "When it comes to animal care, the real experts are the pet owners themselves so leaving your pet — be it a dog, cat, bird or more exotic animal — with someone who currently owns, or has owned, the same animal is great peace of mind and a win-win situation for everyone."
For more information visit www.petaround.com


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Open letter to MEP Berlinguer on EU patent
By Ante Wessels | December 10, 2012
I just sent a letter to Member of the European Parliament Luigi Berlinguer on the EU patent.
Dear Mr Berlinguer,
About a year ago, we exchanged some emails on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. You were an early critic of ACTA. Today I write to you to share my concerns about the unitary patent.
The unitary patent proposal shows a fundamental conflict. Should a general court, like the EU Court of Justice, have the last word in patent cases?
The patent incrowd dislikes any interference from a general court on patent law, as general courts also are knowledgeable about third party interests, competion law, public interest and human rights.
The patent incrowd does not want such influences on patent rights. Societies on the other hand, have to ascertain that patent law is given its proper place, that third party interests, competion law, public interest and human rights are taken into account.
Supported by the UK, the patent incrowd has won in the Council. The Parliament is about to agree with this.
The EU will leave the granting of patents to a non-EU organisation, the European Patent Organisation, without a role for the EU or the EU Court of Justice in this.
And the EU Court of Justice will hardly play a role in patent infringement cases, as there is hardly EU law on patents.
Private interests are about to win over the public interest, and unfortunately, you support amendments to that effect.
Patents can be a matter of life and death, like in medicines, seeds and our ability to fight climate change; and innovation is important strategically. The unitary patent, as proposed by the Council, is a charade, as ACTA would have been.
I urge you to support postponing the vote.
Ante Wessels, FFII analyst
See also http://unitary-patent.eu/
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Q: How to set the text of an Auto Suggest box from c# in Suggestion Chosen event? I am trying to set the text of Auto Suggest box from code behind in Suggestion Chosen event but by doing that my suggestion list is getting closed and if i set the text directly to the model name then the suggestion list is not getting closed.
I want to set the auto suggest box text to the model properties but the list is closing if i do that,i don't want to close my suggestion list on this event.
On the other hand if i am setting the text as directly the model name then the list is not getting closed.I am literally getting very confused to make it work.
Suggestion Chosen event:
 private void recipient_SuggestionChosen(AutoSuggestBox sender, AutoSuggestBoxSuggestionChosenEventArgs args)
    {
        var getType = args.SelectedItem.GetType();
        if (getType.Name == "Table_People")
        {
            var selectedItemRecipient = args.SelectedItem as Table_People;
            //By doing this the list is getting closed.
            sender.Text = selectedItemRecipient.FirstName + " " + selectedItemRecipient.LastName;
            recipienterror.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
            _personID = selectedItemRecipient.PersonID;
        }
        else
        {
            var selectedItemRecipientPlaces = args.SelectedItem as Table_Places;
            _placeID = selectedItemRecipientPlaces.PlaceID;
            //By doing this the list is getting closed.
            sender.Text = selectedItemRecipientPlaces.FirstName + " " + selectedItemRecipientPlaces.LastName;
            recipienterror.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
        }

    }

Thanks in advance.

A: As tushargoyal1309 said that you could set the TextMemberPath property to choose which property from your data object to display in the text box. For more, please refer to AutoSuggestBox class Official documentation.
<AutoSuggestBox
     x:Name="asb"
     PlaceholderText="Type a name (e.g. John)"
     DisplayMemberPath="DisplayName"
     TextChanged="asb_TextChanged"
     TextMemberPath="DisplayName"
     QueryIcon="Find"/>


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Q: SVN name conflicts and multiple versions I have a C++ project developed under both Windows (VS2010) and Linux (Eclipse). The non-portable portion of the source is isolated in one non-portable file (NonPortable.cpp). I would like to use SVN to manage the source. Everything works, I can check-in/out/commit from both Windows and Linux, but I don't know how to handle that NonPortable.cpp file. Is there a way to keep both versions and tell the SVN to work with the appropriate one?
I've been using Subversive SVN in Eclipse and VisualSVN in VS.
Thanks.

A: NonPortable.cpp file should have all the code of all the compilers for all the OS'es, and everything should be organized with predefined macros. Each compiler defines a set of macros to deal with such situations. For VS2010 check out this page and macros such as _WIN32 and _MSC_VER.


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Trapt — американская альтернативная рок-группа, созданная в Лос-Гатосе, Калифорния в 1997 году.

История группы
Идея создания группы «Trapt» созревала в голове школьных приятелей Chris Brown и Peter Charell ещё в середине девяностых, под влиянием таких коллективов как «Korn», «Soundgarden» и «Metallica». C появлением гитариста Simon Ormandy, в 1997 году, трио приступило к записи своих первых демо и выступлениям, в окрестностях Южной Калифорнии. В течение года «Trapt» открывали концерты таких групп как «Papa Roach», «Spike 1000» и «Dredg», но приближающееся окончание музыкантами группы высшей школы, ставило под сомнение будущее «Trapt». После выпуска за свой счет очередной записи «Amalgamation» в 1998 году, участники коллектива Simon Ormandy и Chris Brown продолжили своё образование в Санта Крузе. Данное обстоятельство стало испытанием для группы, не сломившим серьёзность намерений участников «Trapt» в продолжении своей музыкальной карьеры. Музыканты встречались по уикэндам проводя время за репетициями и освоением концертных площадок. В начале 2000 года «Trapt» выпустили очередной релиз «Glimpse» в надежде на то, что их все же заметят представители рэкорд лейблов. В конце года, после нескольких концертов, удача вроде бы и повернулась к музыкантам лицом – пошли разговоры о контракте – но они так же быстро закончились, как и начинались, лишь спустя восемь недель музыкантам предложил контракт лейбл «Immortal».

В итоге все участники «Trapt» бросили своё дальнейшее образование, в пользу будущего группы. Вскоре, уроженец Сиэтла Aaron Montgomery прибыл в состав «Trapt» с целью занять место барабанщика. После выступления на благотворительном концерте посвященным Американским событиям 11 сентября музыкантов заметила компания «Warner Bros. » предложившая группе контракт в конце 2001 года. Данное событие, стало подтверждением того, что казалось бы не сбыточная мечта музыкантов все же сбылась. Спустя год, участники «Trapt» приступили к подготовке и записи материала для своего первого официального дебюта, провозглашенного в честь группы, который увидел свет весной 2002 года.

12 октября 2010 года состоялся релиз нового студийного альбома группы "No Apologies".

7 декабря 2011 года группа выпустила первый сингл нового студийного альбома "Reborn" под названием "Bring It". 2 октября 2012 года группа представила второй сингл с нового альбома "Love Hate Relationship". 22 января 2013 года вышел сам альбом "Reborn"

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Дискография

Альбомы

Студийные альбомы

Мини-альбомы

Концертные альбомы

Сборники

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Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 1997 году
Исполнители EMI Records
Исполнители Warner Bros. Records
Хард-рок-группы из Калифорнии
Квартеты
Группы постгранжа из США

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Evelyn Dubrow Photographs
Collection Number: 6036/080 P
ILGWU ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
Evelyn Dubrow Photographs, 1960-2002
6036/080 P
Dubrow, Evelyn International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
0.83 linear ft.
The collection contains informal snapshots, posed photographs, and slides.
Founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States, the ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size, political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing, educational opportunities, and other efforts. In 1995, the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).
For Evelyn Dubrow, a prominent labor lobbyist, activism ran in the family. "Evy" was born May 6, 1911 in Passaic, New Jersey, to socialist parents who emigrated from Russia (Belarus). Her father was a carpenter and active union member, and after arriving in the United States in 1896, sent for Dubrow's mother and older sister Mary. It was her sister Mary though, a suffragist arrested for picketing the White House, who especially influenced Dubrow's interest in labor and liberal causes.
Dubrow received a degree in journalism from New York University, and in the mid-1930s launched her career doing backup work for a friend who was a reporter at the Paterson Morning Call. She later began editing and writing an English section for The Citizen, an Italian-American weekly, and joined the American Newspaper Guild (ANG) in 1935, becoming secretary of the New Jersey organization from 1943 to 1946. Becoming interested in politics and political campaigns, Dubrow was hired by Police Commissioner Don Regner to do his press work and soon earned the nickname "Dynamite." In 1937, Dubrow became an assistant secretary for the Textile Worker's Organizing Committee. During her time there, she worked as an organizer and assistant to the Assistant Regional Director for the Textile Workers in New Jersey, Irving Abramson. After organizing young salesgirls in a Passaic department store, Dubrow orchestrated a successful sit-down strike after management refused to recognize the salesgirls' intent to unionize. Her previous experience with New Jersey politics came in handy when Commissioner Regner arrived to suppress the strike only to learn it was "Dynamite" leading the charge and a contract was soon signed. When Abramson was elected president, Dubrow became his chief assistant and edited the CIO newspaper. Throughout the 1940s, Dubrow held many positions including education director of the New Jersey Textile Workers Union (1940-1942), and secretary to the president of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council (1943) before becoming assistant to the president (1944). Dubrow also aided in the establishment of labor and industrial schools, including Rutgers University in 1947. Shortly after, Dubrow began to help organize the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and became New York State director for the ADA in 1948 where she also took part in political campaigning.
Dubrow's early experience in lobbying the New Jersey legislature proved useful when in 1956, she went to work for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) as executive secretary of the Political Department. ILGWU President David Dubinsky believed it was important for the union to have a voice in Washington, D.C. and felt Dubrow was the right one to represent all of the "girl" members. So at the president's behest and after only six months on the job, in October of 1956, Dubrow headed to D.C. where she would become a fixture on Capitol Hill for the next forty years. In 1961 she became the legislative representative for the ILGWU and elected a vice president of the union in 1977. While the voice for the garment workers and members of her union, throughout her career she also became a formidable voice for social legislation as well as labor. During her time in Washington, Dubrow wore out many pairs of shoes as she covered ground with such social issues as the minimum wage, civil rights, voting rights, occupational safety and health, health care reform, family and medical leave, fair trade, and the improvement of labor conditions for working families. Dubrow was very active in associations; a founding member of the National Consumers Federation of America, vice chairman of the Labor Advisory Council Office of Economic Opportunity, vice president of the Coalition of Trade Union Women and member of many organizations from the National Consumers League, the National Fair Representation Committee, New Jersey State Education Advisory Committee, and American Labor Education Service.
Her ubiquity in Washington was evidenced through the stories of Dubrow's early babysitting activities with young charges including former Vice President Al Gore and Senator Christopher J. Dodd. Her respect in Washington was evidenced by the assigning of a doorkeepers' chair outside the House of Representatives chambers by then Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill so she would not have to stand all day as she waited to catch Representatives entering and exiting the House. Dubrow's job as Legislative Representative and Executive Secretary of the Political Department of the ILGWU continued after the union's merger with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers of America in 1995 that created the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE). She finally retired in 1997 and became Special Assistant to the then President of UNITE, Jay Mazur. In August of 1999, Dubrow was one of ten individuals, including former Presidents Ford and Carter, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton. Evelyn Dubrow passed away on June 20, 2006 at the age of 95.
Evelyn Dubrow's collection of photographs documents her active life as a legislative director in Washington, D. C. The photographs show Dubrow at various functions, events, dinners, meetings and conferences. She is shaking hands, speaking to, and posing with members of Congress, vice presidents, and presidents. In many instances the photographs are signed with a personal note. Her regard and respect is particularly evident through the images of hugs, embraces and smiles with her and those in Washington. Of particular note are the images when she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a series of slides from 1976 that document the day to day activities of a lobbyist.
Dubrow, Evelyn
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Gore, Albert, 1948-
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
O'Neill, Tip
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
Evelyn Dubrow Photographs #6036/080 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections:
5780: ILGWU records
5780/119: ILGWU. Political Department. Evelyn Dubrow papers
5780/142: ILGWU. Political/Legislative Department. Evelyn Dubrow papers
6036/080: Evelyn Dubrow papers
Portraits of Others
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Oversize Photographs and Congressional Record


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Сабин (Савин) () — хан Болгарии с 765 по 766 года.

Имя и происхождение

Хотя и имеются предположения, что хан Сабин мог быть из славянского рода (аргумент в защиту этой гипотезы то, что его имя не фигурирует в «Именнике болгарских ханов»), вероятнее всего Сабин являлся представителем староболгарской, то есть собственно болгарской (тюркской) аристократии, так как славянские элементы в управление болгарским государством стали допускаться лишь после хана Бориса I, то есть в конце IX века. После того, как этим ханом в государстве была насильственно проведена христианизация и в значительной степени (вместе с семьями) уничтожена верхушка правящей болярской (от тюркского слова «байлар», то есть господа, богачи) правящей знати. К тому же само имя Сабин или правильнее Сабан является древним тюрко-болгарским словом и встречается в качестве этнонима, а также употребляется в значении «плуг». У современных поволжских татар «сабан» это и есть собственно «плуг». Хан Сабин был зятем хана Кормисоша, то есть власть вновь перешла к роду Вокил, но уже по женской линии.

Правление
Хан Сабин склонялся к миру с Византией. Сразу же после взятия власти он отправил послов в Византийскую империю прося мир. Сначала переговоры велись тайно. Однако после того как это стало широко известно, начались волнения.

Был созван «народный собор», в котором вооруженные болгары принимали участие с целью решить вести ли войну с Византией или заключить мир. Сторонников войны оказалось больше и хану Сабину было выдвинуто обвинение: «Через тебя византийцы поработят Болгарию».

Жизнь в Константинополе
После такого оборота событий хану Сабину пришлось спасаться бегством через Месембрию в Константинополь. Император Константин V Копроним принял его и позаботился перебросить его родственников в Византию.

Долгое время император хранил веру, что через хана Сабина сможет воздействовать на положение в Болгарии. В 768 году когда хан Паган прибыл в Константинополь, экс-хан Сабин демонстративно стоял возле императора. Константин V напрасно укорял болгарскую знать о своей ненависти к Сабину. Этим становились ясны планы императора, который пытался вернуть на престол хана Сабина с целью влиять на политику Болгарии.

Хан Сабин остался навсегда в Константинополе, где и окончил жизнь.

Первоисточники
 Никифор «Краткая история»
 Феофан Исповедник «Хронография»

ханы Дунайской Болгарии
Правители Европы VIII века
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New, Better, More: Epic's Approach to Gears of War 2
by Christian Nutt [Business/Marketing, Design, North America]
August 29, 2008 Page 1 of 6
This fall, the Epic-created, Microsoft published Xbox 360 Gears of War franchise goes from single, 4.7 million unit-selling game to an expanded franchise, with the launch of Gears of War 2. The team creating the game at Epic Games is keenly aware of the importance of this evolution.
Though the first title was praised for its all-round graphics prowess and slickness of play, it's clear there's room to improve -- especially in story construction and evolution -- for the sequel, and that's just what the team is trying to size up.
For the follow-on, franchise senior producer Rod Fergusson discusses with Gamasutra the execution of an attemped "New, Better, More" philosophy, the meaning of the title in the broader context, and the trials of managing a franchise that has grown well beyond games into other media like comics, novels, and a potential film.
The Xbox 360 system is in a very different place in its lifespan than it was when the original title came out, and as a developer, you have to squeeze more out, as a flagship title. There's a lot of pressure, I'd imagine, as a first-party title. Also pressure on the part of you guys, wanting to push it further yourselves. Pressure, both internally and probably externally, because you just want to make the product as good as you can.
RF: Well, it's a cross between many different dimensions. If you look at it not as the system, in terms of the maturing of the system, but it's also the maturing of the engine, the maturing of the team, the maturing of the gameplay, right? So, it's actually a cross of all those things, where we've actually pushed all the different aspects of it.
We're able to do so much more because the engine has gone through a number of different iterations, in terms of its improvements -- we've shipped a PC product on it; we've shipped a PS3 product on it -- so it's just a more highly optimized engine in terms of all the features that have been added into it, as well.
And then the team went through such a growth process through Gears 1, and had to ship a fixed-ship-date product. We had a publicly announced ship date for the title, and the way that you develop that game, versus a shipping-when-it's-done title, is fundamentally different. And so, it's been basically that whole maturation, across all of those dimensions, that has been really helpful to us, and making sure that we're able to be more successful with Gears 2.
As you moved into planning the sequel, how are things structured in your development process? Do you start with a feature list and go waterfall? "We're gonna have this much done at this point in time," or is it more iterative? How do you set your goals?
RF: It's a mixture of the two. We're very milestone-based, in terms of the way that we plan out our schedule, but we're also firm believers of "the best idea wins", so we get a lot of iteration and organic development. Even though we might have a particular idea about the way that we want to go, a new idea will win out and we'll end up having to make changes and adapt to that. And so we see rapid growth and rapid development in certain areas because of that.
For Gears 2, we really started off with this process called, this idea of just "New, Better, More." We just decided to, across probably 15 different systems in the game, from animation, to gameplay, to story, to weapons -- we just looked at them and said, "What would we like to do new, what would we want to do better, and what would we want to do more?"
And so we went through, and we actually created this huge list of things, and we went through multiple [processes of] narrowing down, and came up with our top list of, you know, "Here's the top 35 things that we definitely want to make sure gets into Gears 2." And it was like, bots was number one on the list for things that we wanted to get in, and be part of that experience; as well as things like the party system, and taking more time to ensure that what we were conveying in the story was actually getting across to the player.
Because that was one of the things that we hadn't realized at the time, that we had a real design goal of "Make all cinematics action-oriented," and in the process of doing that, you can lose a viewer because he's so focused on explosions and muzzle-flashes that he doesn't hear "Oh, I have to get the Resonator, and I have to get to Alpha Squad," and that kind of stuff. We learned the idea of repetition as being really important to get across that, "Hey! You're going to go get the Resonator," "Hey! You're going to go get the Resonator," along the way.
So we went through that whole process, and that really helped us define what our starting feature set was, and then we began hitting the ones that we felt were the critical ones that we had to get, and the riskiest.
And then, again, we find new ideas, like the original curb stomp was just in the middle of a play test. Cliff was like, "I walk up to this guy on all fours, and I look at him, and I want to just stomp on his head! Why can't I do that?" And we're like, "Yeah, why can't you do that?" And so, boom, a new feature that kind of defines the game in some respects.
So we have to be open to those things, and I think that's what it is about maturity; that you have to know when it's good to accept those things, and when is it time to say, "No, it's not going to define the game; it's not fundamental to our success, and therefore it's important to let that go, and maybe put it in for the next one."
How do you manage the project? Because it has a very tight ship schedule, and it has a lot of features, how do you keep it on track in the way you're talking about?
RF: Take a look at where you are, schedule-wise, and feature-wise, effort-wise; it's the joys of Microsoft Project, the joys of Excel, and the joys of having a good team who understand what it takes to ship a game, and when you have to make that compromise.
If somebody goes -- to use the curb stomp again -- "Hey, I want to do curb stomps," then you have to go, "What are you willing to give up?" You have to look at what the balance is for shipping. So it's finding that balance, and monitoring it, and making sure you're on top of the process all the way through.
So those are the tools you use, to manage the project from the production side?
RF: Yeah, we have some internal stuff, too, that we do; Test Track Pro is what we're using currently, and some web-based things that allow it. One of the nice things is that, from Gears 1 to Gears 2, we've got some additional production assistants, and we've got a couple associate producers, which we didn't really have for Gears 1, so it's been great having other people to rely on.
Because the franchise has gotten so big that when you're worrying about comic books, and novels, and movies, and just continuity of the story bible; there's a lot more to worry about in Gears 2 than Gears 1, where we were just focused on gameplay. So yeah, it's nice having those extra production assistants to stay on top of the schedules and those sorts of things.
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OK, I hereby challenge the twitterverse to a cupcake contest … who's in?!
One day on Twitter, @HbgFoodandWine's friend, @jbairy, was tweeting about some yummy cupcakes that she was eating. Mutual tweep, @bostella, chimed in and soon started bragging about how he could bake better cupcakes than the both of them. @HbgFoodandWine smelled a challenge, and the seed was planted for a a community cupcake contest and tasting event to benefit the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank.
After some twelp on names for the event, the twitterverse voted in @KatyHaltertop's suggestion of the "Cupcake Cup." That's how the first-ever Harrisburg Cupcake Cup was born in 2009.
Erica (Streisfeld) Reed, the event founder and organizer, welcomes both cupcake contestants and fans to this annual celebration!


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First World War plaque for first bomb in city
Shekha Vyas
Published: 5:11 PM June 5, 2015 Updated: 10:37 AM October 14, 2020
The new plaque at the unveiling of a new plaque at a house in Alkham Road, commemorating the first World War I bombing raid over London. - Credit: Vickie Flores
A new plaque commemorating the first bombing raid over London during the First World War has been unveiled in Stoke Newington.
On May 31 1915, a bomb from a German Zeppelin fell on the top floor of 16 Alkham Road, the first aerial bomb ever to be dropped in the city.
Beginning shortly after 11pm, this first raid took residents by surprise as high–explosive and incendiary bombs, continued to fall on other areas of Hackney including Nevill, Cowper, Balls Pond, Shakespeare and Allen Roads, causing 41 fires.
Although there were no injuries in Alkham Road, the first raid claimed the lives of seven people and injured 35 more.
Historian Ian Castle, who had approached the council about placing the plaque, said: "I am delighted by the unveiling of this plaque, which not only commemorates an important moment in the history of the borough of Hackney, but also a significant point in the history of London too. While most people are aware of the Blitz of 1940-41, many are unaware that London was bombed from the air in the First World War too."


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Viacom Reports Improved Q2 Earnings, As Revenue Surprises
By Trey WilliamsMarketWatch Pulse
Viacom Inc. [s:VIAB] said on Thursday net earning for its fiscal second quarter hit $303 million, or 76 cents per share, after last year's loss of $53 million, or 13 cents per share during the same period. Adjusted earnings per share were 76 cents, just above the 74 cents per share FactSet consensus. Total revenue for the quarter came in at $3.00 billion, a 3% slide compared with last year's $3.08 billion in the same period, but just above FactSet's $2.98 billion consensus. The company said revenue at its media networks, including Nickelodeon and MTV, declined to $2.38 billion. And revenue for film studio Paramount Pictures, for which Viacom is seeking a minority investor, climbed 6% to $217 million in the quarter, though that was offset by weak home entertainment revenues. Viacom shares were not active in premarket trade, but have gained 5.8% in the year to date, outperforming the S&P 500 index, which is up 2.5%.


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Seminary Celebrates the Audiobook Release of MT Winter's Autobiography
January 15th, 2014 @ 3:44pm
A lively crowd joined Prof. Miriam Therese Winter on Jan. 14 to sing and to celebrate the release of her autobiography, The Singer and the Song: An Autobiography of the Spirit, in audiobook form.
The audiobook, released in November, is narrated by singer-songwriter Janis Ian, who won a Grammy for her own autobiography on audiobook, Society's Child. Ian also sings many of Prof. Winter's most beloved songs on the audiobook, which has already won an Earphones award and been selected as an Audiofile.com Editor's Pick.
Prof. Winter told the story of how Janis Ian became involved in the audiobook project and how the two were "a couple of Jersey broads" who had become soul sisters.
Prof. Yehezkel Landau read a note that Janis Ian sent for Prof. Winter, which said, in part: "She is one of the dearest souls on earth, as dear to own my heart as the strings of my guitar. MT, the only thing better than writing this little note would have been to deliver it in person. I absolutely adore you."
The evening ended with a sing-along of some of Prof. Winter's most well-known songs, including Joy Is Like the Rain, It's a Long Road to Freedom, Spirit of God, and The Wedding Banquet.