After all his technical mastery has whipped and cudgeled the demon of inspiration into a worthy picture, the artist is faced with the dismaying proposition of framing it, usually at the last minute–the submission deadline looming with a spectral menace in the haunted house of his slovenly procrastination. However, with just a little advance planning and adherence to a few basic principles, framing is a relatively simple problem to solve. Find a framer whose workmanship and design taste you can trust, KEEP IT SIMPLE, and include the cost of framing in the price you charge for a finished work.
Framing protects a picture from unrelenting environmental pressures, such as air pollution and the ultraviolet spectrum of light, which are usually taken care of by glazing and matting (varnishing is the artist's–not the framer's–responsibility). It also presents the picture in a special "sacred" space, commanding the viewer's shift of focus to a heightened aesthetic awareness, where the frame outlines and isolates that special space from its surroundings. Finally, it makes a picture relatively inaccessible, so that the artist stops working on it, which is the only true definition of "finished". Once these provisions are satisfied, the artist's framing responsibilities are done.
It is an entirely foolish exercise in narcissism to agonize over whether one's drawing or painting is "overwhelmed" by the frame–if that is actually the case, then the picture is certainly a bad one. If someone won't buy because the frame is unacceptable, the artist should be ready to take the picture from the frame at a (slight) discount. Despite normal aesthetic considerations, the artist's presentation should be as simple (and inexpensive) as possible, with the bulk of his care going to the protection of the piece, and the buyer's responsibility is to frame according to their personal decorative taste.


WSSS presents songwriter Christine Lavin. She is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/recording artist who has been based in New York City since 1984. She has just released her 23rd solo album, SPAGHETTIFICATION, which was #5 for the month of September according to the International FolkDJ chart.. Her 22nd album, CHRISTINE LAVIN & FRIENDS LIVE AT McCABE'S GUITAR SHOP was produced by Hillary Rollins, and includes five LA performers (Gary Stockdale, Pat Whiteman, Cynthia Carle, David Lucky, and MaryJo Mundy), and one revered British singer/songwriter, Daniel Cainer. Christine sings seven songs on this album, too.


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Llama Llama y sus amigos
Dewdney, Anna.
32 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
"Based on the bestselling children's book series by Anna Dewdney."
"Disponible en Netflix"--Cover.
Llama Llama-Fiction.
Helping behavior in children -- Fiction.
Surprise parties -- Fiction.
Spanish language materials.
Harrison, J. J.
Added Uniform Title:
Llama Llama and friends. Spanish.
Basada en la serie de libros bestsellers de Anna Dewdney. Llama Llama tiene que hacer recados para Mamá Llama.¡Pero es fácil distraerse cuando tus amigos quieren jugar contigo! Lo que Llama no sabe es que si termina todos los recados de la lista ¡le espera unagran sorpresa! ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Anna Dewdneys best-selling picture book series is now a Netflix original animated series! This charming title introduces readers and viewers to Llama, his Mama, and all of their friends who appear on the show.
Book SPA PICTURE BOOK DEW 1 1
Basada en la serie de libros bestsellers de Anna Dewdney.
Llama Llama tiene que hacer recados para Mamá Llama. ¡Pero es fácil distraerse cuando tus amigos quieren jugar contigo!
Lo que Llama no sabe es que si termina todos los recados de la lista ¡le espera una gran sorpresa!
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Anna Dewdney's best-selling picture book series is now a Netflix original animated series!
This charming title introduces readers and viewers to Llama, his Mama, and all of their friends who appear on the show.
Anna Dewdney was born in New York City on December 25, 1965. She received a bachelor's degree in art from Wesleyan University in 1987. Before becoming a full-time author and illustrator, she worked as a waitress, a rural mail carrier, a daycare provider, and taught at a boys' boarding school for many years.
Her children's book career began in 1994 with her artwork for The Peppermint Race by Dian Curtis Regan. She went on to illustrate other children's chapter books in the 1990s. In 2005, the first picture book she both wrote and illustrated, Llama, Llama Red Pajama, was published. Her other books include Nobunny's Perfect, Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too, Little Excavator, and 10 more books in the Llama Llama series. She died after a 15-month battle with brain cancer on September 3, 2016.

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$7.5 billion water bond could meet…
NewsCalifornia News
$7.5 billion water bond could meet California's needs during drought
By Mike Reicher | mike.reicher@langnews.com and Steve Scauzillo | sscauzillo@scng.com |
PUBLISHED: August 16, 2014 at 10:17 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 7:31 am
The $7.5 billion water bond measure approved by state legislators this past week could help pay for ambitious local projects, from cleaning the polluted San Fernando Valley groundwater basin to recycling treated sewage for drinking water.
The Los Angeles region depends largely on scarce and expensive imported water, and the bond funds could help reverse that dependence by increasing the local supply, experts say. At the same time, the money could help restore native rivers, improve water quality, capture stormwater runoff and even build some parks.
"It makes more sense to the community to increase our local self-reliance," said Nancy Steele, executive director of the Council for Watershed Health in downtown Los Angeles. "This is a good investment by the public in our water infrastructure, and in our natural landscape."
While the bill doesn't earmark specific projects, it sets aside millions or billions for certain categories. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti lobbied for groundwater cleanup, water recycling and river restoration funds. Nothing in the water bond, though, would pay for replacing aging pipes like the one that ruptured and flooded UCLA last month .
Public officials and nonprofit executives are readying their plans, in case the measure passes in November.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has some of the region's most expensive proposed projects. In the San Fernando Valley basin, the DWP plans to spend between $600 million and $900 million on groundwater treatment facilities to clean up chromium and other pollutants left by aerospace companies and others.
"Our projects are large, so they have a big price tag," said Marty Adams, DWP deputy senior assistant general manager. "Because they're large, they also have the broadest benefit."
The basin accounts for more than 80 percent of the city's local water rights, but about half of its wells are unusable because of contamination.
That one project could be large enough to suck up the entire $900 million set aside for the prevention or clean up of groundwater contamination, but the Legislature required that at least half of a given project be paid for with local funds — unless it serves low-income areas. Also, if polluters are able and willing to pay for cleanup, or the EPA has not yet identified polluters, then a project would get a lower priority. Ratepayers would have to make up the difference.
Officials at the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority were rejoicing Thursday because of the groundwater funds. They have been building treatment plants to clean up toxic chemicals like perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel that can interfere with the thyroid.
"This is historic," said Gabriel Monares, a consultant for the WQA. "This is the first time they are able to give us money to actually run our treatment plants."
He estimates the agency needs $600 million over the next 30 years to keep treatment plants operating.
"This increases our water supply. It is drought insurance. And it can keep the cost of actual water low," Monares said.
During the severe drought, as groundwater aquifers drop, local utilities are also increasingly looking to build expensive water recycling facilities and pipelines. The Legislature set aside $725 million for recycled water projects.
Again, the DWP has one of the largest projects in the category, at $400 million, already planned. The Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant Groundwater Replenishment Project would add another layer of treatment to sewer effluent. From its location near the intersection of the 405 and 101 freeways, it would pump or drain water into the San Fernando Valley groundwater basin.
The Commerce-based Central Basin and the nearby Water Replenishment District also will be competing for bond funds to build more "purple pipes," which deliver the treated water. The WRD recently signed a 30-year deal to fill groundwater with recycled water that serves 4 million people, and it will be looking to do more, officials said.
The Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, which supplies wholesale water to 1 million residents, is planning a recycled water project to recharge the basin with 10,000 acre feet a year of recycled water. An acre foot is equal to the water used by two families in Southern California per year.
The $50 million to $75 million project would move treated water from the Sanitation District's San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant in Whittier eight miles north to existing recharging areas that feed the porous San Gabriel River. It would reduce dependency on imported water by 25 percent, said Shane Chapman, USGVMWD general manager.
Legislators also want to see more stormwater conserved, instead of lost to the ocean. The bond measure carves out $810 million for water conservation and stormwater capture, with $98 million of that for the Los Angeles and Ventura subregion.
Stormwater picks up copper, zinc and mercury from streets and parking lots, and bacteria from animal feces, and sends it down urban rivers into the ocean. Untreated stormwater, or urban runoff, is the top source of pollution for the region's beaches and oceans, according to Heal the Bay.
Some of the water floods streets, too. Los Angeles has 400 locations that chronically flood, said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant general manager at the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation. Projects that reuse that water could be ideal for the bond money, he said. Some designs also incorporate grassy bioswales that liven up neighborhoods.
"We're able to come in and improve the flooding and provide them something they can enjoy," Hagekhalil said.
But Monrovia Mayor Mary Ann Lutz, a former member of the Regional Water Quality Control Board, said the stormwater price tag for cities in L.A. County is $120 billion, so the bond measure falls short of a solution.
"Eight hundred million is not enough to make a difference," Lutz said. "It is not the answer."
Conservancies
The bond measure also includes money for local conservancies, which buy, preserve and manage hillside and coastal lands as parks. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, the largest urban conservancy in the nation, and the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy each would be allotted $30 million. The Baldwin Hills Conservancy would receive $10 million.
Mike Reicher
Steve Scauzillo
Steve Scauzillo covers environment, public health and transportation for the Southern California News Group. He has won two journalist of the year awards from the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club and is a recipient of the Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing on environmental issues. Steve studied biology/chemistry when attending East Meadow High School and Nassau College in New York (he actually loved botany!) and then majored in social ecology at UCI until switching to journalism. He also earned a master's degree in media from Cal State Fullerton. He has been an adjunct professor since 2005. Steve likes to take the train, subway and bicycle – sometimes all three – to assignments and the newsroom. He has two grown sons, Andy and Matthew. Steve recently watched all of "Star Trek" the remastered original season one on Amazon, so he has an inner nerd.
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Hannes Trinkl (born 1 February 1968 in Steyr) is an Austrian former alpine skier.

Trinkl was the bronze medallist in the downhill in the 1998 Winter Olympics, finishing 0.01 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Jürg Grünenfelder.

His first World Cup victory was a Super-G in Lech in December 1993, where he won with a bib number of 51, after weather conditions improved after the early starters had completed their runs. This is the highest start number for a male Super-G winner until now.

Trinkl retired from competition in 2004. He subsequently served as race director for Alpine Skiing World Cup competitions in his hometown of Hinterstoder and vice president of the Austrian Ski Federation before being appointed as race director for men's speed events on the World Cup from the 2014-15 season.: As a race director of the International Ski Federation, abbreviated by its French initials, FIS, he also is the course setter for male downhill races in the World Cup, in the World Championships and in the Olympic Winter Games. In the Super-G he will support the course setter who is one of any other nation (but such a course setter is to determine by the FIS early enough; that will happen in regard to all matters of course settings, therefore also for slaloms and giant slaloms, male or female).

World Cup victories

References

External links

1968 births
Austrian male alpine skiers
Living people
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
Olympic alpine skiers of Austria
People from Steyr
Sportspeople from Upper Austria

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Hole depth is determined based upon the frost heave in your area, wind speeds, wall size, building dead load and other factors.
Northern climates frost heave is often 36" to 42" and post embedment is typically 4'.
Uplift is a big concern for pavilion structures and those with open walls. Even if your building will be fully enclosed nail some uplift cleats to the post with 4" nails. Use treated wood and nail them to the bottom of the post at the footer.
Place footer in hole. Make sure everything is level and set post in hole. If your post is a 4x6 the wide part of the post goes perpendicular with the wall (4" parallel with wall / 6" running the other way).
Leave room for the girts by placing the post 1 1/2" inside where the mason lines meet at the building corner (unless you are doing bookshelf girts).
While continuing to check for plumbness nail a temporary brace from the inside of the corner post (at the top) and secure to the ground near the stakes. Do the same thing in the opposite direction too.
Fill hole with dirt or dirt/gravel mix, and tamp solid. Repeat for all corner posts.
Repeat the above steps for each post between the corner posts, bracing and plumbing up as you go. Post spacing is determined by referencing your structural building plans.


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Famouz es el primer álbum de estudio del cantante y productor Jhay Cortez. Fue publicado el 24 de mayo de 2019 a través de N&E Entertainment y Universal Music Latin Entertainment. Producido por el propio cantante junto con la ayuda de Tainy, Sky, Mvsis y con colaboraciones de Zion & Lennox, Almighty, entre otros.

Una edición especial titulado Famouz Reloaded fue publicada el 24 de enero de 2020, la cual incluye nuevas canciones y remezclas, entre ellas se destacan «Como se siente», «Deséame suerte» junto a Karol G, «Imaginaste» junto al dúo Wisin & Yandel, entre otras.

El álbum fue considerado como uno de los mejores álbumes latinos de 2019, según la revista estadounidense Rolling Stone. El artista también fue nominado a los Premios Billboard Latinos de 2020 como "Artista del Año, Debut".

Antecedentes
El cantante-productor ganó reconocimiento con algunas composiciones para otros artistas como «Criminal» de Natti Natasha con Ozuna y «Mi religión» de Yandel, lo cual llamó la atención del sello discográfico Universal Latino, con quienes firmó en 2017 en alianza con House of Haze, un sello musical a cargo del productor Egbert "Haze" Rosa. En primera instancia, publicó un EP en 2018 titulado Eyez on Me, del cual desprenden las colaboraciones «Se supone» con Darell y «All Eyes on Me» con Miky Woodz.

En los últimos meses de ese año, publicó las canciones «Somos Iguales» y «Costear» como promoción para el futuro álbum, mientras el cantante realizaba tours por países como Colombia y Argentina, siendo telonero de J Balvin en su gira por Vibras.

Contenido
El cantante destaca a «Easy» como una de sus canciones favoritas del álbum, ya que le recordaba a su natal Carolina, además de "[la] mezcla de lo viejo y lo nuevo". Durante la promoción de la edición especial del álbum, el cantante reveló información acerca de la composición y producción de algunas canciones, como la remezcla de «No me conoce», donde reconoce que siempre planeó incluir a J Balvin, y que en el día de su cumpleaños, el cantante lo llamó para incluir a Bad Bunny.

El cantante menciona que varias de sus influencias de fusiones latinas con Hip hop y R&B es debido a cantantes como Don Omar, Drake y Travis Scott, siendo seguro del color de su sonido. Varias canciones poseen otros ritmos y sonidos, algunas revistas destacando el uso de pop, pop-rock y hip-hop, por ejemplo «En la mía» posee synths pop con rap o «Subiendo de Nivel» con toques de trap.

Promoción

Sencillos
 «Costear» fue el primer sencillo oficial, publicado el 26 de octubre de 2018. Es una colaboración con el rapero Almighty, contiene ritmos de Trap latino. Tuvo dos remezclas, una con Mariah Angeliq y otra con Justin Quiles, Bryant Myers, Juanka, Joyce Santana, Eladio Carrión, Lyanno y Rauw Alejandro.

 «No me conoce» fue el segundo sencillo oficial, originalmente publicado el 22 de febrero de 2019. Tuvo una remezcla con la participación de Bad Bunny y J Balvin, que debutó en el top diez de la lista Hot Latin Songs y en la posición 95 en la categoría Hot 100 de la revista Billboard, además de recibir doble disco de platino. Un vídeo musical fue exclusivamente grabado para la remezcla, dirigido por Fernando Lugo.

 «Easy» fue el tercer sencillo, publicado el 25 de julio de 2019 junto a un vídeo musical. Una remezcla junto a Ozuna fue estrenado en noviembre del mismo año, promocionado de manera posterior para la edición especial Reloaded. La remezcla alcanzó la posición #33 de la categoría Hot Latin Songs.

Sencillos promocionales

 «Somos iguales» junto al dúo Zion & Lennox, fue publicado el 19 de octubre de 2018 junto a un vídeo musical. La canción fue producida por Alejandro «Sky» Ramirez, y fue una de las varias colaboraciones entre Cortez y el dúo en el año, ya que ayudó en la composición de sus sencillos «Hola» e «Hipnosis».

 «Deséame suerte» junto a Karol G y Haze fue promocionado durante entrevistas relacionadas al álbum, siendo publicada a finales de agosto. Sirvió como promoción a la edición especial Reloaded. Karol G considera a esta canción como algo especial, ya que el cantante fue capaz de "expresar un lado sensitivo, y que eso le permitirá crecer como artista".

Lista de canciones
 Todas las canciones fueron compuestas por Jesús Manuel Nieves Cortes, excepto donde se indique.

Posicionamiento en listas

Semanales

Anuales

Certificaciones
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Referencias

Álbumes debut de 2019
Álbumes de reguetón
Álbumes de Jhay Cortez
Álbumes de Universal Music Latino


The whole family can celebrate the Irish in all of us!
The Theme of this year's Parade is "Celebrating Irish Music".
The Annual San Diego St. Patrick's Day Parade (largest Parade west of the Mississippi) will step off on Saturday, March 16th, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. on Fifth Avenue at Laurel Street as thousands of marchers and spectators gather to celebrate the Patron Saint of Ireland.
We have over 120 Parade entries. See Floats, High School Marching Bands, Police and Fire Department Units, Dancing Groups,Marching and Equestrian Units, Clowns, Dignitaries and Honorees, Representatives from Ireland, Antique Cars, Irish Setters and more.
Following the parade, an event filled Irish Festival in Balboa Park (Sixth and Maple) features live entertainment on 3 Stages. In the morning we have Irish Step Dancers and then we have a full afternoon line-up with Irish Folk singers and bands. All day there are Craft Booths, a Celtic Food Village and other Food Booths, a Beer Garden and a Kids Zone.
The Parade organization, the Irish Congress of Southern California, is a 100% Volunteer organization.
We fund the Parade and Irish Festival solely with event revenue and the donations and grants of many individuals and businesses.
Special thanks to the Pathfinder Organization of San Diego for their continued support and assistance.


Sergey Mavrodi , founder of Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox has pleaded with the Nigerian media to leave him and his subscribers in Nigeria alone.
His plea follows strident media reports on the ponzi scheme, especially warnings from Nigerian authorities over the operation of MMM and reports of its payment suspension to members till Janury next year.
"Dear journalists, "analysts" and all kinds of "experts"! Please stop using MMM to gain cheap popularity. Leave us alone and let us work without interference. I'm just astonished by your irresponsibility and cynical attitude. Interests of millions of people, your fellow citizens are at stake. Don't you have any sympathy for them? Why are you fueling hysteria around MMM and provoking a panic? Why are you doing this so diligently and persistently, what is your purpose? "In fact, absolutely all your provocative and worthless articles and "analyses" (I said "worthless" because you do not have any real information about what happens in the System, and might have never had; you simply invent everything, fabricate it) are merely negative: "MMM has collapsed!!!.. MMM will not be working in January!!!.." etc. "Are you intentionally presenting all of it in such a manner and whipping up tension by any means possible in order to increase the ratings of your publications and attract attention to them? Don't you care about people at all? "So, nothing has collapsed, and MMM will safely resume its work in January, as announced. Suspension of work for holidays is a usual thing, merely working moment, no more than that. It would have remained a normal, just a part of the usual routine, and might have gone almost unnoticed if it were not for your totally cynical and irresponsible attempts to advertise yourself, create a scandal out of nowhere, and make the most of this news topic in any possible way. "Again, leave MMM alone and let us work. Nothing has collapsed, and MMM will perfectly resume its work in January. We Can Change the World!


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Nominet adds machine learning to turing network analytics and monitoring tool
Self-learning capabilities allow the platform to learn and flag anomalous behaviour
Nominet today announces turing 1.3, the latest iteration of its DNS visualisation and analysis tool. The update adds a wide range of capabilities and enhancements to the platform, foremost of which is a new machine learning algorithm that allows turing to learn and understand the network analytics pattern of the user's business.
The new functionality will be of huge benefit to cyber security experts and CIOs as it acknowledges the reality that enterprise networks aren't neat and structured environments where a simple security policy is enough to deliver protection, but a dynamic place where patterns and threats emerge and evolve on an ongoing basis. With these features, turing is the only product offering near real-time DNS traffic filtering and analysis down to the packet level, at enterprise performance and scale.
Machine learning in turing makes use of third-party security feeds, which allows the tool to cross reference IP addresses and query names with known bad actors, and then provide the user with an overview of the top 10 events in their DNS traffic they need to know about at any one time. The user can then take appropriate, targeted action to eliminate threats on their network and protect their customers. Over time, the software will learn from the user's actions and improve the accuracy of reports and alerts.
turing 1.3's new features include:
Dashboard modifications: Qtypes of ANY and TXT, commonly used in Denial of Service (DOS) attacks, have been added to the qtype graph. This presents the user with a clear indication when action is required along with the worst offenders at an IP and domain name level.
Third-party security feeds: turing ingests 3rd party feeds of known bad actors, whether domains or IP addresses, and tracks any occurrences of these in the user's traffic. This presents the user with a clear indication of potential malicious intent in their traffic, which they can then choose to scrub or investigate further.
Expanded 'Top N' functionality: turing's Top N menu options have been expanded to provide the ability to segment the top types of events quickly and efficiently, reflecting end user demand.
Simon McCalla, CTO, Nominet, said: "Rising sophistication in networks means that personalised insight is necessary to get to grips with a specific environment. The new intelligence we've built into turing will simplify the user experience and make it easy to see the DNS events a business needs to know about – whether they be malware attacks or network latency issues. This new update solidifies turing's position as the most fully featured DNS analysis tool on the market and we look forward to delivering further refinements and improvements in the future."
turing 1.3 will be delivered to all existing customers as a free, non-disruptive upgrade. New customers should contact Nominet. VARs and SIs interested in reselling and deploying turing to extend their own network practice, cyber security and analytics capabilities should also get in touch.
Find out more at www.turing.net


Also store the CSRF token in request->params for easier access.
a constant place for the token will be useful.
* is absent a cookie will be set.
* the request is a GET request, and the cookie value is absent a cookie will be set.
* so that application and framework code can easily access the csrf token.
* they set a cookie should it be missing.
* Set the cookie in the response.
* token is available in the request data.
* @param Cake\Network\Request $request The request object.
* @param Cake\Network\Response $response The response object.


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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (Nov. 10, 2016) – PPL Electric Utilities is joining forces with gas and electric utilities across the U.S. and Canada to educate customers about scams.
The industry group designated Nov. 16 as "Utilities United Against Scams Day" and will support it with a week-long informational campaign focused on exposing the tricks scammers use to steal money from utility customers, and how customers can protect themselves. Going forward, Utilities United Against Scams Day will be observed on the third Wednesday in November.
In August, PPL Electric Utilities warned customers to be aware of a phone scam in which calls appeared to come from the utility and mimic the company's call center. Customers were told their account was delinquent and they needed to make an immediate payment or have their electricity shut off. In many cases, customers were told to pay with prepaid debit cards and were instructed to call a phony call center, where they were prompted to enter their account information.
- The caller becomes angry and tells the customer his or her account is past due and service will be disconnected if a payment isn't made – usually within less than an hour.
- The caller instructs the customer to purchase a prepaid debit or credit card – widely available at retail stores – then call back to supposedly make a payment.
- We don't ask for personal information, such as credit card numbers or bank accounts, over the phone.
- We don't accept prepaid debit cards for bill payment.
- We never send representatives to a customer's home to demand payment.
- We never call customers threatening to shut off electric service unless immediate payment is received.
Customers who suspect or experience fraud or feel threatened should contact PPL at 1-800-342-5775 as well as their local police.
PPL is committed to keeping customers informed, and uses the following communication methods: bill messages and alerts, customer letters, online content, advertising, outbound calls and messaging on customer service telecommunication channels.
PPL continues to work with law enforcement, including state attorneys general.


I was up early as usual and the cats were starving... so I decided to get a early start by picking up some kitty food and I also swung over to the farmers Market to pick up the food items. We would stroll back through for some other things such as honey and seedlings when Cassi rolled out of bed later on but I did not want to miss out on anything special... and Im glad I went early!
I also grabbed some spinach at Rippling Waters as well as some fresh picked rosemary and sage to fill our seasoning jars !
Here is Merrimac inspecting my Farmer market grabs as well as hoping there is some kitty food in the bags too !
is your other cat named monitor?
no actually her name is Irie... Merrimac is named after the river I grew up on and Irie is named after the Jamaican term Irie meaning "everything is gonna be alright" No history references here !


On Monday 18 December, former Itchen student Charlie Randall returned to college to give our Dance and Musical Theatre students a series of workshops.
Charlie is currently studying at the prestigious Bird College of Dance in London on the Pre-Professional Foundation Year programme. If completed successfully, she will be auditioned to continue with her studies at Bird on their degree programme.
Former students of Bird College include Melanie C of the Spice Girls and John Partridge, best known for his portrayal of Christian in EastEnders.
Whilst at Itchen, Charlie studied Musical Theatre, Dance and Dance A Level, achieving very impressive grades including two at Distinction*.
Based on her experience, Charlie put on workshops which were based around preparing our current students for future auditions at dance and performing arts institutions across the country, whether that be in employment or further education.
We would like to thank Charlie for putting on the workshops and we wish her luck with the rest of her course.


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Q: some stuff not printed I would like to know the reason why "00" hasn't been printed:
my @compass_points = ('north', 'east', 'south', 'west');
my $direction = 'north-east';
unshift @compass_points, $direction;
# @compass_points contains: north-east, north, east, south and west

print ($west = pop @compass_points)."00";
print "11";
push @compass_points, $new_direction; # put $west back

print @compass_points;

A: With warnings on, Perl would have told you.
It interprets the parentheses after print as surrounding the parameters to it, so the 00 is appended to the return value of print and thrown away, as the print appears in void context.
Either wrap all the parameters into a new pair of parentheses
print(($west = pop @compass_points) . '00');

or use + to tell the parser the parentheses introduce an expression:
print +($west = pop @compass_points) . '00';

You can also take advantage of print taking several parameters:
print $west = pop @compass_points, '00';

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Familiarize yourself with PCB's Code of Ethics. This will give you a point of reference when in doubt. The most obvious red flag could be your "gut" so following it may be helpful. If it does not sit well in your gut, then you are probably correct in your assumption. Talk to your supervisor. Always err on the side of caution. Once you have exposed your concern to your supervisor, it becomes a shared responsibility and he/she can advise you further. If you still need some clarity, you can always contact PCB for further instruction or assistance.
It is always recommended that you speak directly to your colleague as per Rule 10.2 of the PCB Code of Ethics. However, this is based on your professional relationship with the individual. If it is someone you feel comfortable talking to and have a good working relationship with, then, by all means, attempt to address it with them first by showing them the rule within the PCB Code of Ethics you feel they may have violated. This will give them the benefit of addressing your concerns. If there continues to be no change, then follow your agency's organizational hierarchy protocol for additional direction.
You can contact PCB at 717.540.4455 or visit the website at www.pacertboard.org where you will find additional information related to filing an ethics complaint or submitting an ethics question for a response.
Complaints must be submitted in writing using PCB's ethics complaint reporting form or a letter with as much detail as possible. Complaints cannot be anonymous and must contain the name and contact information of the person filing the complaint. Verbal complaints to the PCB Office cannot be accepted.
If the person against whom I'm filing an ethics complaint has a PCB credential and a professional state-issued license, can I assume that one agency will communicate the complaint to the other or should I file the complaint with both organizations? If the certified professional works in a licensed drug and alcohol treatment facility, should I also file a complaint with the licensed facility and/or the Division of Licensing?
If the certified professional against whom you are filing an ethics complaint also holds a professional license from the Commonwealth of PA, you may also file a similar complaint with that licensing board. PCB typically does not forward a complaint against a certified professional on to another licensing board. If the certified professional against whom you are filing an ethics complaint works in a PA Department of Health licensed treatment facility, you may also file a similar complaint with that licensed facility and/or the Division of Licensing.
Where can I get a copy of the PCB Code of Ethical Conduct?
You can obtain a copy of the PCB Code of Ethical Conduct directly from the PCB website at www.pacertboard.org and click on "Ethics." The PCB Office can also provide you with a copy.
Yes, anyone can file an ethics complaint. Typically, complaints are submitted by clients, former clients, co-workers, and treatment facilities. It is always best if the person filing the complaint has first hand knowledge of the incident or allegations. Anyone who believes a person covered by the PCB Code of Ethics and has potentially violated a Code may file a written complaint with the Ethics Committee. The PCB may also initiate complaints internally. Only individuals certified by PCB are subject to the code of ethics. If you are considering filing a complaint, you are encouraged to use a complaint form. A blank complaint form is available on this website. Complaints will be accepted in any form as long as they are in writing. The committee does not accept verbal or anonymous complaints.
A certified professional should promptly alert colleagues informally to potentially unethical behavior, and report violations of professional conduct when the certified professional has violated ethical standards, and failed to take corrective action after the informal intervention. A certified professional is required under the code of ethics to report any uncorrected violation of the Code of Ethical Conduct within 90 days of the alleged violation. Individuals certified by PCB are required to cooperate fully and in a timely fashion with the ethics process. Failure to cooperate may constitute a violation of the ethics code and failure to report a violation may be grounds for disciplinary action.
When I file a complaint, what happens when it arrives at the PCB? Who makes the final determination?
When an ethics complaint is filed with PCB, the Executive Director will determine if there appears to be a violation of one or more of the rules within the Code of Ethical Conduct. If yes, he/she will begin an investigation process. Once the investigation process is completed, the findings will be thoroughly reviewed by members of the PCB Ethics Committee. The members of this committee will either agree with the findings and determine any disciplinary action, request additional facts surrounding the complaint, move to hold an ethics hearing, or dismiss the complaint for lack of substantial findings. The final decision rests with the members of the Ethics Committee.
I want to make sure the person that I'm filing a complaint against gets fired from his/her job. Can PCB make this happen?
Specifically, no. Understand that the role of the Ethics Committee is to investigate and sanction those who breach the PCB code of conduct. Certification is a voluntary process. Therefore, the scope of a sanction is limited to the ability to hold certification. If the Ethics Committee has determined that a respondent has violated a code, sanctions may include: 1) Written Caution, which is a formal, private, non-publicized letter of warning that cautions against certain conduct or behavior. 2) Public Reprimand, which is a formal, written and published reproof or warning to a respondent. 3) Suspension, which results in the temporary forfeit of PCB certification for a period of time (determined by the Ethics Committee). 4) Revocation, which results in the complete and permanent forfeit of PCB certification. If a respondent were to have a sanction imposed, it may impact the current position of employment. Also, the complaint may also be filed with other entities, which may have more of an impact on employment or vocation.
You may contact PCB and make such a request. However, this request may be denied if the complaint is of a significant nature. PCB would be obligated to pursue an investigation as the code of conduct exits, in part, to protect consumers.


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CAB begins search for new chief
Published: 10:36 AM May 6, 2010 Updated: 7:17 AM October 7, 2020
The Yare Valley and District Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) has begun the search for a new chief executive officer. The bureau, which has offices in Wymondham, Attleborough and Yarmouth, needs someone to take the reins after the death of former CEO Lesley Jones.
The Yare Valley and District Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) has begun the search for a new chief executive officer.
The bureau, which has offices in Wymondham, Attleborough and Yarmouth, needs someone to take the reins after the death of former CEO Lesley Jones.
Mrs Jones died last month after a long illness. She was 50.
Will James, acting chairman of the Yare Valley and District CAB, said the board of trustees, staff and volunteers had been working hard to ensure the smooth day to day running of the bureau and clients had not seen any changes in the services provided during Lesley's illness.
'It has been difficult for the board as Lesley was a lovely person who was very switched on and good at relating to our partner organisations' he said.
'We have a board of trustees who are all volunteers, many with day jobs. Since Lesley became ill, we have pitched in to help the senior staff with the day to day management, but we're looking forward to a new CEO. I'm acting as chairman for a couple of months as our usual chairman Judy Watson has become exhausted.'
The new CEO, who would receive a salary of up to �35,000, would in charge of the general management of the bureau, including managing its finances, building relationships with funders and community groups, maintaining its profile and strategically planning how the bureau will cope with today's challenges and those likely to arise in the future.
'We're looking for someone who can manage the organisation and shape its development,' said Mr James.
The closing date for applications is May 10. For an application pack, email chair@yarevalleycab.org.uk


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Q: How can I create a PictureBox with close, maximize, and minimize buttons? I am creating a GUI with C#. I intended to use a ListView to see preview of pictures, and a PictureBox to display the full view. I used a Panel as parent and placed a PictureBox inside of that to have scrollbars appear on the picture box.
What I still can't figure out how to do is to provide close, maximize, and minimize, buttons on the Panel, as seen in many GUI applications.
How can I do this? Any ideas will be appreciated.

A: Those other GUI applications probably use a Form instead of a Panel/PictureBox, assuming that they provide maximize, minimize, and close buttons.
You could add your own buttons to the Panel control, and then write code in their Click event handlers to do whatever you want with the control. This is easy and relatively straight-forward if you just want to be able to close the picture, but it seems like unnecessary work to duplicate all of the functions that are built right into a Form.
I'd ditch the Panel control, add a new Form to my project, place the existing PictureBox control onto the form that I just added, and go from there. You might want to set the form's FormBorderStyle property to something like "SizableToolWindow", depending on how you want it to look.


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On Hospitals in Ships
According to the International Red Cross, the history of hospital ships, at least in the west, starts in the 17th century, when navies began to routinely send ships intended for the care of wounded and sick sailors and soldiers in company with fleet actions. In the 17th and 18th centuries, naval authorities chose veteran combat vessels for hospital use. Typically these tired men-of-war served as warehouses for the sick and wounded–victims of the rigors and deprivations of long distance sailing, or of war. During the 19th century, the procedure of taking ships up from trade–contracting civilian passenger liners or cruise ships and converting them to hospital use–found increasing use among many navies. Even as recently as the war in the Falkland Islands, the British Royal Navy took SS Uganda up from her civilian service as an educational cruise vessel to serve UK and allied troops during that short but violent conflict.
British Hospital Ship Uganda, then returned to civilian service
By the twentieth century, while the vast bulk of ships serving hospital duty were taken up from trade, some nations–the United States in particular–began constructing purpose-built hospital ships, the first example being the USS Relief (AH-1), laid down in 1917 and commissioned in 1919. In World War II, the British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, Dutch, French and German naval services all boasted hospital ships taken up from trade and converted for hospital or sick-transport use. The U S Army commissioned 24 hospital ships, all in hulls converted from civilian use and manned by Navy crews and Army medical staffs. To this day, the vast bulk of ships serving a dedicated hospital role are commercial or transport hulls converted to hospital purpose.
USS Relief
In 1907, hospital ships received explicit international legal status with international legal protections from attack and seizure, under Article Four of the Tenth Hague Convention. In order to receive such international protection, the hospital ship must meet the following standards: they must carry on no military activities, including interference with navigation by enemy ships; they must be painted white and bear large images of the red cross, the red crescent, or the red lion and sun. In order to ensure their protection under the Convention, these ships may be illuminated at night and during periods of poor visibility in order to make their hospital ship status readily apparent. Ironically, it was the Russian Hospital ship Orel (Eagle) that, by being so illuminated, tipped off elements of the Japanese navy to the presence of the Russian Admiral Rozhesvensky's fleet trying to sneak its way under cover of fog and dark through the Tsushima Strait to Vladivostok. This contact led directly to the 1905 epochal naval battle that devastated the combined Russian fleet, and confirmed the ascendancy of Japanese naval power.
Russian Hospital Ship Orel
In World War I, hospital ships continued their traditional role as transports of the sick and wounded, bringing them from far away points of combat back to their home country for definitive treatment. The same can be said for hospital ships in World War II, though by this time, increasingly sophisticated care could be provided aboard these ships. By the time of the Korean War, hospital ships could take the role of stationary hospitals simply located at sea. An example of this is the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia, which, operated by the Danish Foreign Ministry and staffed by Danish volunteers, and with agreement of the United Nations, anchored off the Korean city of Pusan, and later Inchon, to provide medical services to military and civilian casualties and sick alike for three years during the U N's police action in that peninsular nation.
Today, only the U S (Mercy class), Chinese (Type 920)
Chinese Type 920 Hospital Ship
and Russian (Project 320 Ob' Class) navies operate large hospital ships; these are almost inevitably hulls converted or adapted from other purposes. The Spanish Department of Labor operates a large purpose-built hospital ship to serve that nation's commercial and fishing fleet, and many nations, including Argentina and Brazil, operate smaller hospital units afloat in their extensive river waterways to provide care to civilian populations. Given the trend toward delivering nearly definitive care to wounded soldiers very close to, or in, combat action zones, and the extensive use of air evacuation, many are questioning the need for large hospital ships. The American experience is instructive: since 2003, U S hospital ships have been absent in areas of U S combat operations; increasingly, they are seen as assets to provide humanitarian care in areas of natural disaster. The US, Chinese, British, and German navies increasingly use medical and surgical capabilities built into combat or combat support ships to provide at-sea medical support for operations distant from the home country. The US has extensive medical capability in amphibious warfare ships of the LHD, LHA, LPD and LSD classes; the British have the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (Aviation Training Ship) Argus, now designated as a Primary Casualty Receiving Ship) and the Germany navy counts two ships (with a third on order) in its Berlin Class of replenishment ships, designed to support German military forces away from their home ports.
German Berlin Class Fleet Support Ship
It would appear that while the nature of hospital facilities at sea are changing, there is little doubt that soldiers, sailors and Marines can look forward to receiving medical and surgical care "from the sea" for some time to come.
By thomaslsnyder, on 29 Sep 2010 at 13:09, under History, Maritime Medicine, Reportage. 4 Comments
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Neil Louwrens, MD	On 30 Sep 2010 at 08:27
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I found this article very informative and wanted to direct you to two interesting other sources. I recently replied in a letter to the editor to the Annals of Internal Medicine on my experience aboard the M/V Africa Mercy as Crew Physician. This letter was in response to an article in the Annals of the USS Mercy experience in Haiti. This at least highlights the roles of humanitarian 'non-governmental' use of Hospital ships worldwide. Logistical maintenance is high of course, but Mercy Ships is probably a leader in provision of care, with cost containment and efficiency of operation expertise perhaps unrivaled anywhere else, with subsequent maximization
of care to the poor.
See: Annals of Internal Medicine, September 7th, 2010, Volume 153, Number 5. This was in response to ' Practicing internal medicine on board the USNS Comfort in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, Annals of Internal Medicine. 2010; 152:733-7.
Neil Louwrens, MD, FACP
Crew Physician – M/V Africa Mercy, April 2010
Alan Hawk	On 25 Oct 2010 at 12:06
This is a continuation of a trend that began during the Korean Conflict. As aeromedical evacuation has become increasingly reliable with the development of long range transports, hospital ships gradually became more useful as floating hospitals rather than as patient transports. Miniaturization of hospital electonics has allowed for creation of Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT) that provide ICU-level care on non medically equipped transport aircraft. While the value of floating hospitals has declined for treatment of combat wounded, they have proven extremely valuable for humanitarian operations in Military Operations Other Than War(MOOTW).
Neil Louwrens	On 02 Mar 2014 at 18:23
Mercy Ships is currently building the first ever Hospital ship from the ground up, i.e. not a conversion. Can't wait!
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3 Missing Children, Mother Found Safe: Police
The mother is in violation of a visitation agreement, D.C. police say
Published June 23, 2016 • Updated on June 23, 2016 at 9:02 pm
UPDATE: Police say the children and mother have been found in good health.
Police are searching for three young children who they believe have been taken by their mother in D.C.
Nine-year-old Sophia Proctor, 3-year-old Ja'nyla Proctor and 2-year-old Aarick Proctor were last seen about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of 14th Street NW, D.C. police said.
Sophia is four feet, eight inches tall and weighs 50 to 60 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white dress, a white sweater, a white headband and silver shoes.
Police have not provided a description or photos of the other two children.
Police put out a missing persons release about Sophia on Wednesday and announced the two other children were missing on Thursday.
Police believe they are with their mother, Julia Monique Rose Proctor, 27. Police said Proctor is in violation of a visitation agreement.
Proctor is five feet, four inches tall and 100 pounds. She was last seen driving a 1998 four-door Volvo station wagon with D.C. tags EK2268.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at (202) 576-6768 or 911.
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Having one MC makes it clear to the band and the people at the Dance who's in control; BUT it is likely that whoever MC's might not get much dancing done ! If the MC is always the first couple in the middle line they may well be able to MC and dance.
Having more than one MC give the people doing it a chance to dance and enjoy themselves; BUT it can cause confusion over who's in charge and with timing the dance (eg. is there time to repeat a dance). As long as you all know who's doing what, and you've told the band. It's probably a good idea to have a rota of at most 2 or 3 people for the whole night and split each half of that dance into about equal sections. That way the people doing the work get a chance to go and do some dancing (It is very difficult to go and ask someone to dance if you're standing at the front announcing the programme, one way round this is to ask them and then announce the next dance to the rest of the folk.).
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If any (i.e. NEW) dances are going to need calling/walking through prepare these in advance, you may wish to ask one of your class teachers to call, in which case you should give them some warning and ask them beforehand.
Tell people what the arrangements for supper are, if they are not obvious, preferably do this before the last dance of the first half. Keep an eye on how long the supper takes and if people start getting restless (& start stiffening up) restart the dance. Have an idea of the time you're going to allow for an interval, but remember to be flexible if things are taking longer than expected, people won't want to start dancing again immediately after eating ! One solution may be for the MC to eat last and when they are finished restarts the dance.
Treasurer for sorting out tickets etc.
Those who help setup & decorate the hall.
Caller and the other MC's (if appropriate).
Catering Officer and anyone else who helped them.
THE BAND, for the Music.
Try not to overrun, but conversely try not to finish early; people have paid to have an evenings dancing. If the programme is planned well you should have time to repeat dances if people want them. Though be prepared to say NO when time is running short, even if everyone in the hall wants to and it's going to make you unpopular; you don't want to have to pay extra hire fees for overrunning. (This depends on how accommodating the hall owners are about you being late out). Thus it is important not to start repeating dances too early in the evening, to ensure that you have time to repeat danced later on in the programme; i.e. the last few. It might be a good idea to have a few `Extras' available, i.e. listed on the programme, to slip in if time allows. Be sure to announce the inclusion of the `extra' at least one dance in advance, so that people don't get up with the person they asked for the dance you're putting the extra in before. Remember to include time for an encore of the last dance and a polka, or whatever you're ending the dance with; this can take more time than you might at first think.
One of the most important things is to talk and listen to the band! that way they know what`s going on and so do you.
Introduce yourself (i.e. as the President) and the other MC's if there are any.
Tell the about how you've going to do things; i.e. who's going to MC what section of the programme.
Check that they'll play a "polka" or whatever you want to end the dance with at the very end; this is normally a "polka" (strictly speaking it's not a polka it's a `speeded up' polka so make sure that the band are clear on what you want and mean) or `Auld Langs Ayne'.
Politely emphasise that you (the MC) will decide if a dance will be repeated, that way you can keep control of the time. Even if you just indicate the repeat by holding up a finger. (i.e. once each or once and to the bottom of the set).
Find out who the are, names and details, (write it down if needs be) and introduce the members of the band.
If you want to use one of their microphones to do the MCing with make sure they know in advance eg. let them know as the are setting up.
Make sure they are adequately "watered" during the dance.
Ensure prompt payment at the end of the dance so they can clear away and get home as soon as they wish; they often have further to travel than some of the dancers.
This document was written by Ian Thompson, with suggestions from Marion Peutherer (nee Garrett), Peter Hastings and Andrew Turnbull.


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Q: Sum of specific numbers and rounding numbers to two decimal places I am trying to get the sum of certain numbers from a file without changing the file itself
1 #person number
Marlon Holmes  #Name
18.86 # First number
13.02 # Second Number
13.36 # Third Number

For the sum of numbers, it needs to be the #First, #second and #third number
The numbers currently are in cm which have been converted to inches which the two decimal places are necessary for
My code at present is to provide the top 3 people based on the sum of the #first,#second and #third numbers.
Current code:
data = []
names = OrderedDict([('Competitor Number', int),
    ('Competitor Name', str),
    ('Cucumber', to_inch),
    ('Carrot', to_inch),
    ('Runner Bean', to_inch)])

with open('veggies_2016.txt') as fobj:
    while True:
        item = {}
        try:
            for name, func in names.items():
                item[name] = func(next(fobj).strip())
            data.append(item)
        except StopIteration:
            break
sorted_data = sorted(data, key=itemgetter('Runner Bean'), reverse = True)
for entry in sorted_data[:3]:
    for key, value in entry.items():
        print value
    print

There are about 50 records in the file that im reading from, which the sum must be added up for all then put in order to find the top 3 and ideally in two decimal places
Code referring to to_inch:
def to_inch(cm):
    return float(cm) / 2.54

The whole document works around a main menu
To get the sum, I have tried sum(item.entry.items()) but with no success and have also tried "%.2f" for the decimal figures/significant figures but with no success, any help would be appreciated

A: If we disregard reading from the file for now and assume we can put the numbers in a list we can use Python's round(), sum(), and map().
Code:
numbers = [18.86, 13.02, 13.36]

def to_inch(cm):
    return cm/2.54

numbers_in_inches = list(map(to_inch, numbers))
print(numbers_in_inches)

numbers_rounded = list(map(round, numbers_in_inches, [0 for _ in numbers]))
print(numbers_rounded)

sum_numbers = sum(numbers_rounded)
print(sum_numbers)

Output:
[7.4251968503937, 5.125984251968504, 5.259842519685039]
[7.0, 5.0, 5.0]
17.0

What is happening:

*

*Mapped your function to_inch on each of the items in the list numbers

*Mapped Python's round() function onto each the values in numbers_in_inches, the reasoning for the list comprehension on the end is it creates a list of 0's for map() to use for round(number, places)'s places.

*Uses Python's sum() to take the sum of all of the numbers, of course, you can just use round(sum_numbers, 0) if you want to round after the sum. Note: If you want to round after you sum, use math.fsum instead of sum as mentioned by Copperfield in the comments.

Now to parse the file:
import re

numbers_names = {}
numbers = []
player_number = ''
name = ''

with open('file.txt', 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        if '#person number' in line:
            player_number = int(line.split('#')[0])
        elif '#Name' in line:
            name = line.split('#')[0]
        else:
            line_numbers = re.sub(r"[^\d.]", "", line)
            if '.' in line_numbers:
                numbers.append(float(line_numbers))
        if len(numbers) >= 3 and player_number and name:
            numbers_names.update({'player_number': player_number, 'name': name,  'numbers': numbers})
            numbers, player_number, name = [], 0, ''

print(numbers_names)

Output:
{'name': 'Marlon Holmes  ', 'numbers': [18.86, 13.02, 13.36], 'player_number': 1}

How It's parsing the file:

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*First opens the file.

*Next iterates over each line in the file.

*For each line in the file, it sees whether it's a line containing the player's name, the players number, or the numbers that he has.

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*Player Number Splits line into the note and the data then takes the data and sets it equal to player_number.

*Name Splits line into the note and the data then takes the data and sets it equal to name

*Numbers He Has It removes all non-word characters except for . in the file using re's re.sub(). Then, checks to see if there is a decimal in the cleaned-up line. Finally, if so it appends the line to numbers.

*If all three values are present, it appends them all to the numbers_names dictionary and resets the variables for the next player.


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NBC News: HBCU students in Georgia face an extra obstacle in voting
Under Georgia law, public colleges and university students can use their student ID to vote. But those at private schools — including seven out of 10 HBCUs — cannot.
Dec. 4, 2022, 9:36 AM CST
By Adam Edelman
When Lauren Nicks, a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, cast her vote in last month's midterms, she did so in her home state of New York.
Nicks, a 21-year-old international studies major at the historically Black college, had been told months earlier by fellow students about a law that does not allow students from private colleges and universities in the state to use their school ID as identification to vote — a rule she believed would prevent her from casting a ballot in Georgia.
As a result, she wasn't able to vote for her preferred candidate, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, in November, or in next week's runoff election either.
"You can't use that [Spelman] ID," she said in a recent interview. "I just thought I wasn't eligible."
There are about 157,000 registered Georgia voters who don't have an ID number on file with the secretary of state's office, according to VoteRiders, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates for voters who live in states with strict voter ID laws. The Office of the Georgia Secretary of State confirmed the number. There are at least 10,000 students enrolled at private HBCUs in Georgia.
An attempt to educate student voters
To prepare students who may have otherwise unexpectedly encountered the rule at a polling place, groups like Vote Riders put boots on the ground in the months ahead of the general election. The group has remained active in the weeks since, working to make sure that students, particularly at private HBCUs, who are already registered voters know what documents they must bring if they vote in person in Tuesday's Senate runoff, and to remind them they can ask for a provisional ballot if obstacles arise.
"You have a lot of students who came from cities like Philadelphia, or New York and they never needed a driver's license or had a state ID in their state," said Sylvester Johnson, an Atlanta-area organizer with the group. He noted that the only form of photo ID some he'd talked with on various Atlanta campuses currently had was their student ID from the private HBCU they were enrolled in.
"These are the kind of students who are affected," he said.
Johnson and his team of volunteers have been combing the seven private HBCU campuses across the state in recent weeks reminding students what they must bring when they cast their ballot in person.
One such voter, Aylon Gipson, said he, too, was organizing his friends and classmates.
"I got my driver's license when I was 16, but there's so many people I run into that don't have one. A lot of our students don't drive, don't have a passport, it's a problem," said Gipson, a 20-year-old junior at Morehouse College in Atlanta who is originally from Montgomery, Ala.
"I've seen it firsthand. You hear people saying they want to vote, want to be involved, but they don't know if they are even allowed to vote," he added. "It's discourages them from showing up."
Read the entire story here.


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Celebrities are people with all the problems, faults, and difficulties that any of us might deal with. Case in point: infertility issues, being sterile, or being barren. The unfortunate truth is, a lot of time people want children but they genetically can't produce them. Be it a low sperm count, low egg count, an injury, or other health issues, all the famous people on this list have dealt with infertility issues.
Infertility is an uphill battle, but technology is progressing quickly, especially with things such as IVF (in vitro fertilization) and surrogacy becoming more common and more accessible. Some of the celebrities below were even eventually lucky enough to HAVE children through artificial means and assistance. Others adopted their children, after years of struggling with infertility issues.
Which celebrities have dealt with infertility? Read through the list below to find out.
Struggled with miscarriages before a successful IVF with then husband David Arquette.
Ex-wife Courtney Cox struggled with miscarriages before a successful IVF.
Successfully had a daughter after many IVF attempts.
Arnold went through 21 IVF cycles before finally having a child.
Had twins via surrogate with her husband, Courtney B. Vance.
Agu was going to try a round of IVF before deciding to adopt before she and her husband split in 2011.
Wife Nancy Juvonen had a child via surrogate.
Stone adopted after having several miscarriages.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest adopted a child after years of infertility.
Had children through a gestational carrier.
Had twins, after IVF treatment.
Dion went through numerous fertility treatments before finally being able to conceive.
Had a child through surrogacy.
Alley had several miscarriages before opting to adopt her two children.
Had twins via gestational carrier.
Had a daughter through IVF.
Kardashian is currently on hormone treatments after being unsuccessful at becoming pregnant.
Gilpin had a child twins via surrogacy.
Was able to have a child via IVF, after many attempts.
Had a baby via gestational carrier after breast cancer treatments.
Elisabeth Röhm used IVF to have her child.


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All NewsA fairer NDIS: PIAC calls for more transparency re settlements
A fairer NDIS: PIAC calls for more transparency re settlements
PIAC has called for the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to make public the details of appeal cases it is settling with scheme participants, to promote transparency, accountability, and an overall fairer system for people with disability.
This was a key point in our evidence before the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS in October. Our appearance before the Committee follows our submission made on 6 September 2019.
The latest figures published by the NDIA show that approximately 96% of cases that are appealed are settled without a hearing. In these cases, the matters are settled in private, with no information published as to what supports the participant requested, what the NDIA was prepared to give them, and what was ultimately approved after a lengthy review and appeals process.
As reported in the media, the NDIA has, in some cases, significantly increased the amount of funding approved for participants at the settlement stage.
'The lack of transparency around decision-making and appeal settlements makes it hard to understand the NDIA's decisions and to hold it to account', said Chadwick Wong from PIAC. 'It also makes it hard for participants to understand what they can ask for, and what they can expect to be funded.'
PIAC is calling for the publication of all settlement outcomes in a de-identified way. Specifically, information about what supports were sought by a participant, what was originally approved, and what the NDIA ultimately agreed to provide should be made publicly available. The publication of these outcomes can be done in a way that respects the privacy of the individuals involved.
'NDIA decision-making needs to be transparent, accountable and consistent, so that participants and would-be participants can fully exercise choice and control over the supports they want', said Chadwick Wong. 'The publication of this information would go some way towards realising that goal.'
Read our submission here.


Instagram's updated terms of service significantly broaden what the site can do with users' content.
Update: Instagram said Tuesday in a blog post that it will revise its policy updates to make its plans clearer. "It is not our intention to sell your photos," the company wrote.
Instagram shocked users with an update to its terms of service that will let the company sell users' photos to other companies.
Even minors are subject to the new terms: "If you are under the age of eighteen .... you represent that at least one of your parents or legal guardians has also agreed to this provision." Users can't opt out of the new provisions. The only way to avoid them is to delete your Instagram account altogether.
The updated terms significantly broaden what Instagram can currently do with users' content. The current terms simply note that "Instagram may place such advertising and promotions on the Instagram Services or on, about, or in conjunction with your Content."
Hammering the point home, Instagram changed the current language about users granting a "limited license" for use of their content. The new terms make it a "sub-licensable" agreement, again making it clear that Instagram can give content to third parties. It could, for instance, let a major retail chain buy Instagram photos of people shopping in their stores to run in an ad.
The policy changes come three months after Facebook's (FB) $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was finalized. Facebook already has an ad product, called "Sponsored Stories," that incorporates users' Facebook endorsements. It led to a class-action lawsuit; Facebook is currently negotiating to settle the case. In the meantime, it adjusted the controls for Sponsored Stories, allowing users to limit what gets shared. Users can't, however, opt out entirely.
Something like Sponsored Stories appears to be what Instagram has in mind.
"Let's say a business wanted to promote their account to gain more followers and Instagram was able to feature them in some way," the company wrote in its blog.
The rest of Instagram's policy updates focused on items including spam, hacking and bullying. The overhaul adds much more legalese throughout.
What's more, users waive their rights to a class-action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration.
The photo-selling provisions is the one that made the headlines, though, and users took to social networks to complain.
Some people appear to be prepping to delete their accounts. One photo-export program, Instaport, crashed soon after a Wired article linked to it. Instaport's website read: "We are expecting high traffic right now. If you have problems downloading your photos, please try again tomorrow or the next days."


If you are a logo designer, then you have a difficult option to design a logo. Should you follow the logo style trend in the industry? Or should they try to isolate themselves?
For many years, logo design has widely followed extensive trends based on market studies. Researchers have asked the question about what type of scenes are most liked for the girls of 18-25 years? What color schemes do you like for people living in the US. Apart from this, what factors contribute to the appeal of some designs on others?
Six surveys of each logo were presented in this survey, in which the major ones are: icon head, text head, filled, outline, horizontal and only icon The following infographic is the result of those questions asked by the respondents.
Infographic: What Logo Styles Do Consumers Trust Most?
Do men and women like different logo styles?
Do people of different areas like different logo styles?
Are some people styling more reliable than others?
When a logo selects a style, how much of these demographic factors does it matter?


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Twitter Confirms Random Tweets Will Now Appear In Your Timeline
Tweets from accounts that you do not follow will now appear in your Twitter timeline, the social network has confirmed.
The new feature has been added to the company's support page after users first reported the appearance of content from other account last week, with many believing it to be just an experiment.
Normally, a user's Twitter timeline is filled by posts from accounts the user follows, as well as retweets from those accounts.
But this has now changed, as the site's support page explained.
"Additionally, when we identify a Tweet, an account to follow, or other content that's popular or relevant, we may add it to your timeline," a statement on the official site said.
"This means you will sometimes see Tweets from accounts you don't follow. We select each tweet using a variety of signals, including how popular it is and how people in your network are interacting with it. Our goal is to make your home timeline even more relevant and interesting."
The new feature will also mean that favouriting tweets - traditionally a way of saving a tweet without making them public, will start to appear in users' timelines as well. But it has always be possible to view favourites by using the Discover section of the Twitter app or website.
The change is seen by some as an attempt to increase user interest and engagement in the wider content of Twitter, as the site looks to close the gap on Facebook in user numbers.
As of March this year, Twitter had 241 million active users globally, with more than 15 million in the UK. In comparison, rival social network Facebook has more than one billion users active each month.
The move has proved unpopular with users so far, with many taking to the site to voice their frustration at the new, unwanted content appearing within their timeline.
One user from Manchester tweeted to complain he was seeing content related to his deceased stepfather now appearing on his profile.
For the moment, the change does not affect third-party Twitter apps like Tweetbot, which are operated by independent software and present user timelines in alternative ways, as well as offering different features.
But it is likely the apps will absorb this new feature eventually thanks to their connection with Twitter's main servers.
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Andreas Sourisseaux (Partner at Sourisseaux Partners) in conversation with René Esteban
What distinguishes star chefs from calorie counters.
Many factors contribute to the success of transformations in large companies. Is there a single most important point, a single moment that is most critical to success? Yes, says Andreas Sourisseaux: It is the leadership team. How senior leaders think, feel and act determines the success of transformations. The doctor of psychology knows what he's talking about here: For 25 years, his company Sourisseaux Partners has been helping its clients in Europe, Asia, and North America to select the right people and develop leaders at the top level. In this interview, Andreas explains what makes senior leaders make a difference.


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