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Ah, what do they want?
Lined up, waiting to visit.
Each fall, we are visited by a flock of vultures. I'm not sure specifically what bird this is, but since it looks like a vulture and acts like a vulture, we call them vultures. Our barn is covered with them in the morning, and I know our house roof is, as well, because they look in the sky lights in our bathroom, perch on the chimney and talk down it, and generally make a nuisance of themselves.
I wonder what passerby think when they see a house and yard covered with vultures? Do they think someone is dead in the house? We think they like the sheep. ( Or, the sheep deposits, which we see them eating….) Once, last year, I saw one of my sheep with one of these huge birds perched on her back, with its wing over its head. It was creepy looking.
Last week, as the sheep were sleeping on the ground, the birds started taunting them, picking at their wool and annoying them. I'm not sure what all of this means, if it is an omen, or a sign, or just disgusting.
For whatever it's worth, they are turkey vultures – not the prettiest of raptors, but they are carrion eaters, so you shouldn't have to worry about the sheep!! They are related to eagles, hawks, falcons, and probably condors. I've seen them near Conti's farm in Tabernacle – it's a little weird to be cyling past a group of them -makes you feel like they're just waiting for you to fall off!


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Q: remember radio button selections I have the following code that works perfectly. It allows the user to 'like' or 'dislike' each post with radio buttons. The checkboxes are switches that allow the user to show/hide all liked or disliked posts.
The problem is, I need the page to remember the radio button selections when the user leaves and returns. Would this require cookies? If so, how do i implement it?

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>Unhide on checkboxes/radio buttons</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_styles.css" media="screen" />

<form action="" method="post">
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Unhide Layer Form</legend>

<input id="show_likes" name="show_likes" type="checkbox" value="1" checked="checked" onclick="toggleLayer(this.form);" />Show Likes:

<input id="show_dislikes" name="show_dislikes" type="checkbox" value="1" checked="checked" onclick="toggleLayer(this.form);" />Show Disikes:

    Email:

        <input type="email" />
    </fieldset>

    <fieldset>
        <legend>Posts</legend>

    Post #1

    Content of post #1

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Any pointers?

A: You can use localstorage:
$(function()
{
    $('input[type=radio]').each(function()
    {
        var state = JSON.parse( localStorage.getItem('radio_'  + this.id) );

        if (state) this.checked = state.checked;
    });
});

$(window).bind('unload', function()
{
    $('input[type=radio]').each(function()
    {
        localStorage.setItem(
            'radio_' + this.id, JSON.stringify({checked: this.checked})
        );
    });
});

localstorage is supported in all modern browsers, including IE8.
For older versions of IE, you can add support easily (before the above script).
Here's the fiddle. Play around with the radio buttons, close the window, then re-open it (or just refresh). You'll see that they retain their state.

A: Instead of cookies, a better approach would be to implement this as a database solution. Cookies can be deleted and thus this will become a inconsistent solution. If your desire it to persist this selection for as long as the user is active in your system, then save you user selection in the database and implement your rendering logic around their save likes & dislikes.

A: If you want others to see the likes (as in a count) look into using AJAX to send the data to a storage database somewhere. This was it can be loaded with the page. If you are only interested in storing the individual users choices I would still recommend AJAX but instead of saving a counter save the yes/no answer for each user and post into a table in a database. To save space it would be better perhaps to only store the yes answers and assume the others to be a no.

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BCH Lions () is a Mongolian professional association football club that competes in the Mongolian Premier League. The current manager is Badarch Chin-Orgil.

History
BCH Lions was founded in 2018 as it broke away from Premier League club Selenge Press FC under the guidance of former Selenge Press coach Badarch Chin-Orgil. The following year, the team won the National Amateur Cup.

As a result of its Amateur Cup title, the team competed in the inaugural season of the Mongolia 2nd League later in 2019. The season ended with the club earning the championship and promotion to the Mongolia 1st League in 2020. At the end of the season, BCH Lions players were named the league's best defender (Sasaki Mizuho), goalkeeper (Nakane Hiroki), and midfielder (B. Itgel).

During its first season in the second division, the club earned a third-straight championship and promotion. Lions striker Batkhüyag Munkh-Erdene won the Golden Boot that season  with 32 goals and his bicycle kick goal against Khoromkhon earned international attention from Portugal's Desporto ao Minuto.

The club will competed in the Mongolian Premier League for the first time in 2021. They avoided relegation in their first season, finishing in 8th position. First-year BCH striker Tetsuaki Misawa won the league Golden Boot award as top goal scorer that season with seventeen goals and five assists in sixteen appearances.

Domestic history
Key

References

External links
Mongolian Football Federation profile
Official Facebook profile
MyCujoo channel

Football clubs in Mongolia
Sport in Ulaanbaatar
Organizations based in Ulaanbaatar
2018 establishments in Mongolia
Association football clubs established in 2018

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The Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax fleayi) is an endangered bird of Tasmania. It is a subspecies of the more common wedge-tailed eagle.

Description

Aquila is a genus of large eagles that have long, rounded wings with deeply emarginated tips. They also have very strong legs and claws and ear-shaped nostrils. The subspecies A. a. fleayi is the largest of the wedge-tailed eagles.

A. a. fleayi has a total body length between 100 and 110 cm with wingspans of 1.9–2.3 m, and weighs 3.5–5.5 kg.  Females are larger (longer with a much larger beak) and are about 15% heavier than the males.  They become sexually mature at 4–6 years of age.

The largest wingspan recorded for an eagle was that of the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, a female killed in 1931 had a wingspan of , and another female was measured barely smaller at .

Fledged juveniles are tawny brown with a dark blond nape and dark tail and flight feathers.  The plumage darkens after many months until it is almost black.  The bases of adults' primary feathers are pale silver, giving a 'window' appearance when viewed from below.  Males are sooty brown with a reddish-golden nape.

Outside the breeding season, Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles are usually quiet, although they produce a range of specific, rather gentle calls.  They are usually found in pairs or as a family.  During the breeding season, aerial displays are a common sight.

Behaviour

Wedge-tailed eagles are territorial, top-order predators with very large home ranges which are evenly dispersed in suitable habitats.

Breeding
Wedge-tailed eagles generally pair for life and remain together throughout the year. When courting and pair-bonding, they perform spectacular aerial displays. Courtship usually starts in late June, from this time onwards there is a gradual increase in aerial displays and nest repairing behaviour which peaks in late August. During August, the month prior to egg laying, the nest is liberally adorned and lined with greenery. This behaviour continues throughout breeding and may even be exhibited by single adults in territories.

One or two eggs (usually one) is laid in late August or early September.  Eggs appear whitish-grey with a few brown spots and are approximately  in size. The female will incubate the eggs for 43–45 days and during this time is fed by the male.

For the first few weeks after hatching the chick is fed by the female. By six to eight weeks of age the chick is capable of feeding itself and both parents bring food direct to the nest. Chicks take up to 90 days to fledge, after which will remain near the nest for several weeks. Juveniles are dependent on their parents for food for at least three months and may accompany parent birds until the next breeding season. Juvenile birds disperse widely after abandoning their parents.

Diet
Wedge-tailed eagles are carnivorous birds of prey that hunt over a wide range of habitats, including open heath, pasture and grassland, but may also scavenge on carrion when available. They feed mainly on rabbits, hares, birds (such as nativehen), wallabies and possums. Immature birds that lack hunting experience are particularly dependent on carrion as a source of food, although adults will also feed heavily on carrion during winter. In rural Tasmania, the diet of A. a. fleayi has been recorded to consist of rabbits, hares and cats (which comprise approximately 45% of items consumed); wallabies, possums, echidnas and wombats (approximately 30%); birds (approximately 10%); sheep and goats (approximately 7.5%); and reptiles (approximately 5%) (the remaining 2.5% of the diet is composed of other items).

Hunting technique
The wedge-tailed eagle captures most of its live prey by sallying. This typically involves a bird launching itself from a perch and then attacking prey on the ground or, less frequently, in flight. Hunting usually takes place during the day, and prey is usually eaten where it is captured, except during the breeding season when much of the food is taken back to the nest and is fed to the young. Eagles typically do not bring carrion back for the nestlings to consume.

Although it is capable of killing prey much larger than their own body weight, most prey items taken are much smaller (approximately 50% or less of the eagle's mass). Wedge-tailed eagles cannot carry more than about one third of their own body weight.

Distribution and habitat

Distribution
A. a. fleayi is distributed throughout Tasmania with only very few sightings on King Island and the smaller islands of Bass Strait.  The species forages in all habitats from coastal dunes to mountain peaks. There is no known movement between Tasmania and mainland Australia of wedge-tailed eagles, however a single bird was sighted over Curtis Island circa 1985.

Although the species is capable of foraging in forest, the density of the sub-canopy and ground vegetation will influence the availability of prey.  Eagle density is therefore understood to be lower in the western and southwestern areas of Tasmania (less than half that in the east), where forests tend to be lower and scrubbier. Densities of the species are highest in areas providing mosaics of forest, farmland, grassland, wetlands and rivers. Estimated densities range from a minimum of one pair per  in western and south-western Tasmania to one pair per  in eastern and northern regions.

Nesting habitat
Wedge-tailed eagle nesting habitat is generally restricted to predominantly closed canopy old-growth native forest, almost exclusively in tracts of tall eucalypt forest greater than  in area. However, nesting habitat can range from rainforest to isolated eucalypts in Acacia forest. Trees selected for nesting are among the largest in the locality, typically greater than  in height, with few exceptions. Nest trees normally occur on leeward slopes sheltered from prevailing strong winds. The top of the tree is usually lower than ground level of the top of the adjacent ridge.

The territory of a wedge-tailed eagle pair can contain up to three or five nests with one being favoured each year. Eagles will return to previous nesting sites, with some nests having been used continuously for at least 50 years. Nests are usually spaced about  apart, but they can be separated by more than  in areas where habitat is patchy or restricted.

Conservation
Reasons for the decline of the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle are lower breeding success from disturbances of nests, loss of habitat, a small breeding population,
a decrease in the number of mature individuals, and an unnaturally high mortality rate due to persecution and other factors.

The wedge-tailed eagle is wholly protected and killing one is illegal. About 20% of the eagles occur on designated reserves.  An increase in breeding success on private property was pursued through the establishment of individual agreements and management plans.  Throughout Tasmania, 60 landowners were contracted and 20 made agreements.

The vast majority of known nests (over 80%) occur on State Forest and private property. This is partly due to the majority of suitable eagle habitat occurring on State Forest and private land but also due to the majority of nest site searches conducted as a result of forestry activities.

A. a. fleayi will not nest in areas that have high human densities, the eagles are very timid while breeding and are likely to desert a nest if disturbed.

Population trends
Tasmania's wedge-tailed eagles have less genetic variation than their mainland relatives and have been isolated from the mainland for 8,000-10,000 years, since the last trans-Bassian land bridge.  No historical measures of population size in Tasmania are known, but records suggest that the eagle is widespread but uncommon.  It may have benefited from rabbit plagues, but poisoning has killed numbers of eagles, along with persecution.

Breeding success has decreased to the point where, on average, 95 pairs are successful each year. About 69% of territories had active nests or all nests were known to have produced at least one egg and 53% were successful in raising a fledging.  Annual mortality rates are about 50% for juveniles, 30% for other immature birds, and 5% for adults.  Tasmania has only 220 nesting territories.  However, not all territories are occupied by two adults and replacement times for adults 'lost' from territories seems excessive, suggesting a dearth of non-territorial floaters and an adult population less than 440.

Gallery

See also
 White-bellied sea eagle - the Tasmanian population of this bird of prey is considered vulnerable.

Notes
With effort made to state otherwise, within this article:
 The term 'wedge-tailed eagle', etc. refers to the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax fleayi).
 Attributes and characteristics of Aquila audax fleayi may also be common to the superspecies, Aquila audax.

References

Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle
Endemic birds of Tasmania
Endangered fauna of Australia
Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle


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Outcome and Aftermath
Firenze 10+10
03 Dec 12 Posted under: Social Forums
Initiated and organised by social movements, ten years after the first European Social Forum in Florence, the Firenze 10+10 assembly took place. Along the five thematic axes: Democracy / Finance, debt, austerity / Labour and social rights / Commons and public services / Europe in the Mediterranean and the world, many seminars, convergence meetings and discussions were held. Also networks and campaigns have been initiated, among them the newly built European Progressive Economists Network in which transform! europe takes part (find the respective press release below).
There have also been made first steps towards a solidarity campaign proposed by Greek activists, called "Solidarity for All" – a call for supporting and cooperating with Greek grassroots solidarity initiatives and for organising medical support (watch out for more information on transform's website or contact: solidarityforall@gmail.com).
transform! europe organised two grand discussions with participation of social movement activists, political actors and trade unionists entitled: "How to Found Europe Anew? - Which Construction? Which Political Strategy?" and "A Dialogue between Social Movements and Political Actors: Coping with the Challenge Posed by the Crisis". Among the speakers of the latter discussion for the first time also the ETUC Deputy General Secretary, Patrick Itschert, took part (for more details see the last special edition vol. 13a of our newsletter).
Furthermore a merged workshop on "How to Oppose the Extreme Right" together with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Prague Spring 2 Network with activists from all over Europe took place.
transform! was also present with a stand in cooperation with the Party of the European Left and the member organization transform!Italia which presented the Italian edition of the transform! journal #10: "Democrazia: una sfida per l'Europa".
Find below the call for common action and the proposed roadmap emerged from the final convergence meeting of Firenze 10+10 and the press release of the newly founded European Progressive Economists Network:
Firenze 10+10 Final Declaration
"Joining Forces for a Common Europe – Our Democracy instead of Their Austerity"
More than 4,000 participants, 300 networks and organisations from 28 countries from all over Europe and beyond, met at Fortezza da Basso in Florence from 9 to 11 November, to debate and strategize together for another Europe. Over 100 meetings took place and many new networks and campaigns were launched.
Social organizations, social movements, trade unions and citizens working against austerity and debt, for natural and social commons, for social and labour rights, for democracy, global justice and peace, for gender issues and migrant rights have gathered in Florence 10+10.
We call for a European permanent mobilization to support the fights against the crisis and build a future for everyone in Europe and in the world. This mobilization will include both convergence and decentralized actions.
The first unifying initiative towards a European-wide convergence is the general strikes and mobilisations against austerity in many countries in Europe on 14 November 2012.
We propose to have a common day of action on the occasion of the EU Spring Summit, which will take place in Brusselson 23 March. The format and final call for this common mobilization will be discussed and agreed upon in the following months in an open and participatory process.
We call for endorsement of the following actions and mobilizations:
18 December 2012: World Migrants Day
23-27 January 2013: Action against finanzialization of life and commons (actions against banks)
8 March 2013: European action affirming women emancipation against austerity and debt
26-30 March 2013: World Social Forum in Tunis
May 2013: Blockupy in Frankfurt
7-9 June 2013 (proposal): Alter Summit in Athens
June 2013: G8 Counter Summit in UK (tbc)
Concrete solidarity actions to support the people hit by austerity policies as well as the victims of racist violence and abuse
All organisations and movements may endorse the actions in which to participate and the forms for doing so.
Reports from the 5 alliance spheres, appeals and other documents will be posted on the website www.firenze1010.eu as they are sent to: info@firenze1010.eu
European Progressive Economists Network
Common Call for Another Economic Policy for Europe
Press Release, 9 November 2012
The European Progressive Economists Network has been launched at the Firenze 10+10 forum meeting promoted by EuroMemorandum, Économistes Atterrés from France, Sbilanciamoci! from Italy, and Another Road for Europe, bringing together a variety of groups of economists and think tanks including Econosphères from Belgium, econoNuestra from Spain, the Transnational Institute, the network Critical Political Economy, transform! europe and many other organisations.
The European Progressive Economists Network has launched the following document on policy alternatives for Europe and will participate in the initiatives and events emerging from Firenze 10+10:
"The European Progessive Economists Network brings together groups of economists and other researchers, institutes and civil-society coalitions who are critical of the dominant economic and social policies that have brought Europe to the current crisis. We seek to promote a European wide debate on policy alternatives based on the following six points.
1. Austerity policies should be reversed and the drastic conditionality imposed on countries receiving EU emergency funds must be radically revised, starting with Greece. The dangerous constraints of the "fiscal compact" need be removed, so that countries can defend public expenditure, welfare and wages, while the EU assumes a greater role in stimulating demand, promoting full employment and taking a new course of sustainable and equitable progress. European policies should reduce current account imbalances by obliging surplus countries to also adjust.
2. Policies must favour a redistribution that reduces inequalities, and move towards fiscal harmonization, putting an end to tax competition, with a shift of the tax burden away from labour and towards profits and wealth. Policies must favour public services and social protection. Labour and collective bargaining have to be defended; labour rights are a key part of Europe's democratic rights.
3. Facing Europe's financial crisis – marked by the interaction between a banking crisis and the public debt crisis – the European Central Bank must act as a lender of last resort in the government bond markets. The public debt problem has to be solved with a common responsibility of the Eurozone; debt should be assessed by a public audit.
4. A radical downsizing of the financial sector is needed, with a financial transaction tax, the elimination of speculative finance and the control of capital movements. The financial system must be brought under social control; it must be transformed so that it promotes socially and environmentally sustainable productive investment and employment.
5. A fundamental ecological transition provides a way out of Europe's crisis. Europe must reduce its ecological footprint and its use of energy and natural resources. Its policies must enhance new ways of producing and consuming. A major investment programme promoting sustainability can provide high quality jobs, expanding capabilities in new innovative fields and enlarging possibilities for action at the local level, especially on public goods.
6. Democracy has to be expanded at all levels in Europe. The European Union has to be reformed and the concentration of power in the hands of few states and unaccountable institutions that has taken place during the crisis has to be reversed. The aim is to achieve greater citizens' participation, a major role for the European Parliament, and a much more significant democratic control over key decisions.
Facing a risk of collapse, Europe's policies need to change course. An alliance between civil society, trade unions, social movements and progressive political forces is needed to lead Europe out of the crisis created by neo-liberalism and finance. The European Progressive Economists Network seeks to contribute to this change."
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With the "graphical inventory plan" you can even graphically rebuild the equipment of your rooms.
You position your objects and then see at a glance, where, for example, tablet, couch or PC are placed in the room.
Each room plan starts with a standard layout, as a rectangular room, which you can customize according to your measurements.
Now you can place and arrange your equipment and furniture in it. To do this, the objects from the Asset.Desk tree can be simply dragged and dropped into the room. If you have previously maintained the dimensions of the objects, they will be displayed in the plan with the correct dimensions.
Properties of the object, such as length, width or also the rotation of the object, can be simply enterd or changed in the plan directly with the mouse. Furthermore, general properties such as e.g. the inventory number or the IP address of the PCs can be listed.
Walls can be edited, split and moved. You have the ability to place windows and doors – all with graphical support and a mouse click. Wall elements in the room are selectable, movable – and interactive.
The "graphical inventory plan" is linked to the Asset.Desk database. By clicking on an object you go directly to its details, and you can check and edit all the information from the inventory database, to equipment to purchase price, guarantee periods up to invoice number and supplier.


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2 Dead, 5 Injured in Shooting at San Antonio Club
Residents Raise Concerns About Flashing-Lights Intersection
Drivers say intersection at Interstate 30, Dalrock Road is dangerous
By Tammy Mutasa	• Published at 5:04 pm on September 11, 2012
Drivers are raising concerns about the flashing lights at a busy intersection near Lake Ray Hubbard.
Rowlett and Rockwall residents say they want a permanent solution for the intersection at Interstate 30 and Dalrock Road.
Cars exiting on Dalrock from either direction of Interstate 30 are met with flashing lights. Often drivers don't stop or slow down.
Dallas 1 hour ago
Dallas 2 hours ago
Kristine Tawater, of Rowlett, and several residents say the flashing traffic lights are not enough to safely control traffic along the busy and high-speed interstate.
"It's the cars going east and west -- that's where you're going to get hit," she said. "It's taking your life in your hands."
Steve Jordan said the design of the intersection is very confusing.
"I've seen several accidents at this intersection over the last few years," he said.
"It's just, just a mess," said Bailey Jones, of Rockwall.
Drivers said they have seen dozens of wrecks. The Dallas Police Department, which has jurisdiction over the intersection, said the actual crash numbers are not currently available.
Tawater said the intersection had a traffic light about a decade ago but was redesigned because traffic started to back up for miles.
"It used to be really bad," she said. "The traffic does flow better; it's just a little more dangerous."
The Texas Department of Transportation said it was aware of the problem.
A traffic study is already on the docket to decide the best solution for signaling traffic at the intersection, TxDOT said. It will not take more than a few months after the study is finished to put up permanent traffic signals if that's what is needed.


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Horace Porter (April 15, 1837May 29, 1921) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant. He also was secretary to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905.

Early life

Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on April 15, 1837, the son of David Rittenhouse Porter (1788–1867), an ironmaster who later served as Governor of Pennsylvania, and Josephine McDermott.

His paternal grandfather was Andrew Porter, the Revolutionary War officer and his paternal uncles included George Bryan Porter, the Territorial Governor of Michigan, and James Madison Porter, the Secretary of War.  Among his first cousins was Andrew Porter, a Mexican–American War veteran and Union Army brigadier general. His aunt, Elizabeth Porter, was the grandmother of Mary Todd Lincoln.

Porter was educated at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (class of 1856) and Harvard University. He graduated from West Point July 1, 1860.

Career
Porter was commissioned a second lieutenant on April 22, 1861 and a first lieutenant on June 7, 1861.  During the American Civil War, Porter served in the Union Army, reaching the grade of lieutenant colonel by the end of the war.

During the war, he served as Chief of Ordnance in the Army of the Potomac, Department of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland. He was distinguished in the Battle of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, at the Battle of Chickamauga, the Battle of the Wilderness and the Second Battle of Ream's Station (New Market Heights). On June 26, 1902 or July 8, 1902, Porter received the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Chickamauga as detailed in the citation noted below. In the last year of the war, he served on the staff of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, later writing a lively memoir of the experience, Campaigning With Grant (1897).

From April 4, 1864 to July 25, 1866, Porter was aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant with the grade of lieutenant colonel in the regular army. On July 17, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Porter for appointment as brevet brigadier general, to rank from March 13, 1866, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on July 23, 1866. From July 25, 1866 to March 4, 1869, Porter was aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant with the grade of colonel in the regular army.

Grant administration

From 1869 to 1872, Porter served as President Grant's personal secretary in the White House. At the same time, he held the grade of colonel and an appointment as aide-de-camp to General William T. Sherman.

Porter had refused to take a $500,000 vested interest bribe from Jay Gould, a Wall Street financier, in the Black Friday gold market scam.  He told Grant about Gould's attempted bribery, thus warning Grant about Gould's intention of cornering the gold market.  However, during the Whiskey Ring trials in 1876, Treasury Solicitor Bluford Wilson claimed that Porter was involved with the scandal. Porter testified before the committee investigating the scandal and was never formally charged with wrongdoing. Porter resigned from the U.S. Army on December 31, 1873.

Later life
After resigning from the Army, Porter became vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company, and later, president of the West Shore Railroad. He was U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905, paying for the recovery of the body of John Paul Jones and sending it to the United States for re-burial. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from the French government in 1904. In addition to Campaigning with Grant, he also wrote West Point Life (1866).

Porter was president of the Union League Club of New York from 1893 to 1897. In that capacity, he was a major force in the construction of Grant's Tomb.

He was elected an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati in 1902.  He was also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Sons of the American Revolution and a Hereditary Companion of the Military Order of Foreign Wars by right of his descent from Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Porter who served in the American Revolution.

In 1891 he joined the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, where he served as President General from 1892 through 1896.  He was assigned national membership number 4069 and state membership number 69.

He died in Manhattan, New York and is interred at the Old First Methodist Church Cemetery in West Long Branch, New Jersey.

Personal life
In 1863, Porter was married to Sophie King McHarg (1840–1903), the daughter of John McHarg (1813–1884) and Martha Whipple Patch. Together, they were the parents of:

 Horace Porter Jr., who died at the age of 23 of typhoid fever.
 Clarence Porter, who died after the first World War.
 Elsie Porter, who married Edwin Mende of Berne, Switzerland.
 William Porter, who died in infancy.

After a period of suffering, Porter died at New York, New York, May 29, 1921. He was buried in West Long Branch Cemetery, West Long Branch, New Jersey.  In his will, he left the Grant Association $10,000 and the flag that flew at General Grant's field headquarters during the Civil War.

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and Organization:
Captain, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. Place and date: At Chickamauga, Ga., September 20, 1863. Entered service at: Harrisburgh, Pa. Born: April 15, 1837, Huntington, Pa. Date of issue: July 8, 1902.

Citation:
While acting as a volunteer aide, at a critical moment when the lines were broken, rallied enough fugitives to hold the ground under heavy fire long enough to effect the escape of wagon trains and batteries.

See also

List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P
List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)

Notes

References
Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 McFeely, William S. Grant: A Biography (1981).

Further reading

, contains a number of speeches by Porter.

Porter, Horace. Campaigning With Grant. New York: The Century Co., 1897. Time-Life Books reprint 1981. . (deluxe)

External links

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Ambassadors of the United States to France
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
Grant administration personnel
Harvard University alumni
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This coin is considered among the most beautiful US coins because of the complexity of the design and consequently, the difficulty in minting which is partially why this coin was replaced in 1948 by the Franklin.
Prominently displayed on the front is the coin's namesake, Lady Liberty, who is crossing a field to greet the rising sun. She is depicted holding a bundle of oak and laurel branches in one arm and beckoning an invitation with the other. She embodies the generosity of hope and freedom that America extends to those who come here. Engraved to the right of her is the phrase "In God We Trust."
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Due to the extremely detailed rendering of the artwork, some of the branches of the United States Mint found it difficult to execute this design unto the coin itself. As a result, the Walking Liberty Half-dollars would feature a number of errors during its mintage. One such error occurred in 1942, when the front of the coin displayed an "overpunching "or overlapping "D" and "S" in the "In God we trust" motto. Another error was in 1942, when the reverse side of the coin exhibited a double die. However, flawed pieces such as these are now classified as collectibles.
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You watch a great movie and it really moves you. You think to yourself, what was the best part of the movie? Many times it's the music. How often do you get a chance to buy those soundtracks that really move you or can you usually figure out a way to look up who produced those tracks? Today we are bringing you one of those albums of tracks that you usually hear in very moving scenes in movies. A total of 17 tracks. Lost Words by Roger Subirana Mata from Spain. These are all instrumental tracks and are considered soundtracks as used in movies if they have not been already. Play them. Download any you want or down them all. You can use these in YouTube videos as long as the video is not for any kind of commercial use and you give credit to the artist. You can buy a commercial license if you want to use any of these tracks in a commercial way.


Dublin, Ireland / Toronto, Canada - December 4, 2014 - Mooreland Partners, the leading independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital advisory services to the global technology industry, today announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to OpenJaw Technologies on its sale to GuestLogix Inc. (TSE:GXI).
Dublin, Ireland / Toronto, Canada – December 4, 2014 – Mooreland Partners, the leading independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital advisory services to the global technology industry, today announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to OpenJaw Technologies on its sale to GuestLogix Inc. (TSE:GXI). The acquisition of OpenJaw, which offers a market leading e-commerce platform technology to the travel industry, marks the 18th transaction advised by Mooreland Partners this year and further solidifies its position among the most active advisors to the digital media sector. The transaction is expected to close on or about December 22, 2014."We are pleased to be part of such a transformative transaction in the travel technology space, which combines two of the leading travel e-commerce and merchandising providers," said Larry Phillips, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners.
The combined company will be able to deliver end-to-end solutions for travel retailing, from the first point of interaction with the traveler throughout the entire customer lifecycle and across all major verticals, according to GuestLogix (see press release). The acquisition was financed via a bought deal public offering, and also involved an equity rollover component by existing OpenJaw shareholders.
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Ohio Judge Orders Hospital to Treat Ventilated COVID-19 Patient with Ivermectin
Matt Couch September 1, 2021	1 Comment
A Butler Country judge in Ohio has seen enough and ordered a hospital to administer Ivermectin to a ventilated Covid-19 patient, granting an emergency relief filed by the patient's wife. It's absolutely criminal that hospitals are refusing to follow the wishes of their patients.
Butler County Common Please Judge Gregory Howard ruled last week that West Chester Hospital, part of the University of Cincinnati's health network UC Health, must "immediately administer Ivermectin" to patient Jeffrey Smith following his doctor's prescription of 30 mg of Ivermectin for 21 days, the Ohio Capital Journal reported.
Smith who is 51, is a Verizon Wireless engineer in Butler County. According to the lawsuit filed by his wife Julie Smith, Smith tested positive for Covid-19 on July 9, and he was admitted to West Chester Hospital on July 15. On the same day he was admitted he was moved to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)
Smith's condition continued to decline, and he was placed on a ventilator on August 1. By August 19, the ventilator was operating at 80 percent volume, with Smith's chances of survival dropping to less than 30 percent, court documents show.
At the time, the hospital lied and claimed to have exhausted all options for Covid-19 treatment protocol.
"At this point, there is nothing more the defendant can do, or will do, for my husband," Julie wrote in an affidavit included in her complaint.
"However, I cannot give up on him, even if the defendant has," Julie continued. "There is no reason why the defendant cannot approve or authorize other forms of treatments so long as the benefits outweigh the risks."
Julie had read about some lawsuits reported by Chicago Tribune and The Buffalo News where patients in severe condition from COVID-19 later recovered after being given Ivermectin.
These patients had won lawsuits forcing their hospitals to treat them with Ivermectin. The plaintiffs in these cases were all represented by attorney Ralph Lorigo, chairman of New York's Erie County Conservative Party, who later became one of Julie's attorneys.
According to court documents, Julie requested that the hospital treat her husband with Ivermectin, but the hospital refused to even though she offered to release them from "any and all" responsibility.
Julie then sought medical advice from Dr. Fred Wagshul, who later prescribed Ivermectin to her husband. But the hospital still refused to do so, prompting her to file a lawsuit against the hospital.
"With absolutely nothing to lose, with little to no risk, and with the defendant likely to begin palliative care, there is no basis for it to refuse Dr. Wagshul's order and prescription to administer Ivermectin," Julie said in the affidavit.
Wagshul is a founding member of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a nonprofit organization that is working during the pandemic to develop effective treatment protocols to prevent COVID-19 infection as well as treat patients with COVID-19.
In October of 2020, FLCCC adopted Ivermectin as a core medication in its protocols for preventing and treating COVID-19. Its website references many recent studies reporting Ivermectin to be a safe, effective, and inexpensive drug against COVID-19, the disease caused by CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
"Ivermectin is so safe," Wagshul told Dayton247Now. "It essentially has no drug interactions and no side effects."
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Naby Keita: To Stay or To Go?
Liverpool has normally been a club that has had no issue trying to get some of the top young talent in the world. But it seems one of their top targets this summer looks set to either stay or head over to Manchester City or Manchester United. Naby Keita is one of the top targets around with his incredible season in the Bundesliga for RB Leipzig.
Since he had such a hugely impressive season, he has become a top target for clubs in England and even the German giants in Dortmund and Bayern Munich have been keeping tabs on the Guinea national team star. The fee that RB Leipzig are reportedly looking for is 50 million euros.
Naby Keita has completed more take-ons (80) this season than any other central midfielder in Europe's top 5 leagues.
During this season, Keita was a part of 32 matches and was able to slot home 8 goals while notching 7 assists during the campaign. He was able to create loads of chances all year and his play in the midfield was crucial to Leipzig qualifying for the Champions League with a second place finish in the Bundesliga. Granted it was a 15-point difference between Bayern and RB Leipzig, but the team finished higher than anyone thought they ever would this year.
As we have seen so many times before, when a team makes the Champions League for the first time, it becomes increasingly harder to find success as all of your eggs are not in one basket anymore, they are spread all over and players are playing a lot more matches than they are used to. If he moves away to a club that can qualify every year or at least have the chance to, then Keita could be involved in the top club competition in the world, every single year.
On the flip side, he could stay and become one of the top players in the world while increasing the clubs footprint in Germany and in Europe as a whole. If I had to take a guess right now, I think that he will stay at RB Leipzig this season then move abroad next summer in a similarly priced deal. Now to where I do not know, but it would seem according to BILD a few days ago, he prefers a move to Manchester City to work with Pep Guardiola instead of Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool. If that is to be believed, then it looks like we will have yet another talented midfielder at the Etihad.


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Q: Can't find the true url in a php project using Yii2 I'm new in php coding and I'm using Yii2 framework
I'm trying to make a simple project as follow:
I added a .php file named "PostController.php" in the backend/controllers and I wrote this codes in this file:
<?php
namespace backend\controllers;
use yii\web\Controller;
class PostController extends Controller

{
    public function actionIndex()
    {
        return $this->render('index');
    }
}
?>

and I created a file in beckend/views named "post" and in this folder I created a.php file named index.php
then I just wrote one line in index.php for test as bellow:

Hello World

Now I want to see this index file (Hello World) in my browser. Which url I should enter in my browser to see that? I tried the bellow url and it didn't worked!:

projectname.loc/index.php?r=post/index

A: if pretty url is true then you have to access the controller like
localhost/projectname/backend/web/index.php/controller/action

if pretty url is false then you have to access the controller like
localhost/projectname/backend/web/index.php?r=controller/action

if you project is in your local machine, if its on your server then you have to write server name instead of localhost

A: You should go to projectname.loc/post (or projectname.loc/post/index), to be in this action. before that you have to turn on the "prettyUrl" in your urlManager
If you use basic tamplate from yii2 your namespace must be app/backend/controllers and you should go to projectname.loc/index.php?r=backend/post/index
"backend" it will be a path to your controller, not a module


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With the hot sunny days teasing us from around the corner, we can't help but to day dream about what to wear to the beach or pool party. This collection has got it all.
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Home Family Law and Divorce Divorce: Who Gets What? Alimony Adultery and Alimony
Adultery in West Virginia: Does Cheating Affect Alimony?
If you're getting divorced in West Virginia and you or your spouse has cheated, you'll need to know how the adultery will affect the judge's decisions about your case, including alimony, child custody, and child support.
By Melissa Heinig, Attorney
If you or your spouse has committed adultery during your marriage and you're anticipating a divorce, one of the best things you can do to make this difficult time a little bit easier is to familiarize yourself with your legal rights and responsibilities.
This article will explain how adultery might affect your divorce and any alimony award in West Virginia.
Adultery and Divorce in West Virginia
When couples decide to file for divorce, the initial paperwork (the divorce petition) must include a statement of why the marriage is ending.
In a state that recognizes "no-fault" divorces, you don't need to provide any specific reason for why you want to get divorced—it's enough to tell the judge that your marriage is so badly broken that you can't fix it.
In a state that recognizes fault-based divorces, you can tell the judge why you want to divorce your spouse. For example, if your spouse is addicted to drugs, you can note in your divorce petition that this is the reason (ground) why the marriage is ending.
West Virginia is a hybrid state: You can choose whether you want a no-fault or fault-based divorce. To get a no-fault divorce in West Virginia, you'll state in your petition that you and your spouse have "irreconcilable differences" (meaning you can't get along anymore). You do not have to prove or corroborate that you have irreconcilable differences. (W.Va. Code § 48-5-201 (2021).)
To get a fault-based divorce in West Virginia, you can request a divorce for any of the following reasons:
voluntary separation (this can be a fault or no-fault ground; the court can consider marital misconduct if appropriate for the case) (W.Va. Code § 48-5-202 (2021))
cruel or inhuman treatment, which can (but doesn't have to) include physical abuse (W.Va. Code § 48-5-203 (2021))
adultery (W.Va. Code § 48-5-204 (2021))
a spouse was convicted of a felony after the marriage (W.Va. Code § 48-5-205 (2021))
permanent and incurable insanity (W.Va. Code § 48-5-206 (2021))
habitual drunkenness or drug addiction (W.Va. Code § 48-5-207 (2021))
desertion (W.Va. Code § 48-5-208 (2021)), and
abuse or neglect of a child (W.Va. Code § 48-5-209 (2021)).
West Virginia defines adultery as "the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married man or woman with a person other than the offender's wife or husband." If you or your spouse have committed adultery, you can tell the judge about it and obtain a divorce that specifies that adultery occurred. (Adultery is not a criminal offense in West Virginia, meaning the state can't prosecute you in criminal court for an affair.)
Bringing fault-based grounds into your divorce might have major ramifications on other areas of your divorce, like child custody. If you're thinking about filing a fault-based divorce, consider consulting with an attorney to discuss the pros and cons of no-fault versus fault-based divorce.
Alimony in West Virginia
West Virginia's legal code uses the term "spousal support" to describe alimony. Alimony is the payment of money from one spouse to another so that both can live separately, at a relatively equal income level, without either spouse becoming impoverished. The court sometimes refers to the paying spouse as the "obligor" while referring to the receiving spouse as the "obligee." Judges can order a paying spouse to pay alimony all at once (known as "lump sum alimony") or in regular, periodic installments (for example, one payment per month).
One important restriction on alimony awards in West Virginia is that judges can't award alimony when the spouses live together. Neither spouse is eligible to receive or pay alimony until they are living "separate and apart" (in separate residences and no longer behaving like a husband and wife).
There are four kinds of alimony in West Virginia:
Permanent alimony. The paying spouse has to pay alimony regularly, with no end date. This kind of alimony typically lasts until one of the spouses dies or the receiving spouse remarries.
Temporary alimony. Also called "alimony pendent lite," this kind of alimony doesn't last forever. It's awarded for an amount of time long enough for the receiving spouse to recover financially from the divorce. The court can award it during "the pendency of the proceedings" (meaning, while the divorce is ongoing and the judge hasn't finalized the divorce) or after the divorce is final, or both. Judges can even award it while a spouse appeals the divorce case.
Rehabilitative alimony. This is a sub-class of temporary alimony intended to help the receiving spouse become gainfully employed. Judges order these payments for only a limited time—just long enough, in the court's opinion, for the receiving spouse to become self-sufficient. This kind of alimony funds rehabilitation, training, or academic studies geared toward future employment.
Alimony in gross. A special kind of alimony that the paying spouse gives to the receiving spouse in one lump sum instead of spreading it out through payments.
(W.Va. Code § 48-8-101 (2021).)
How Adultery Affects Alimony in West Virginia
In many states, the judge decides the amount and duration of alimony by applying the facts of the case to a list of factors written into state law. But West Virginia is somewhat different—the West Virginia Legislature has given judges a lot of discretion to decide alimony.
Instead, West Virginia judges can consider whatever evidence they believe is relevant to deciding alimony in the specific case they are hearing. The main restrictions are that judges can't award alimony in a way that is disproportionate to the paying spouse's ability to pay, and any award shouldn't exceed the receiving spouse's level of need. An alimony award also has to be fair and reasonable.
West Virginia law is very clear that in fault-based divorces, the judge shall (must) take adultery into account when making alimony decisions. The judge can adjust the amount or duration of an alimony award when a spouse has committed adultery.
West Virginia judges can even deny alimony altogether when a spouse has committed adultery: Judges must consider and compare the fault or misconduct of either or both of the spouses and the effect of the fault or misconduct as a contributing factor to the breakdown of the marital relationship. (W.Va. Code § 48-8-104 (2021).)
How Adultery Affects Child Custody and Support in West Virginia
In most cases, adultery will not impact a judge's child custody or child support decision. When it comes to allocating child custody and parenting time in divorce cases, the judge's primary concern is always what is in the child's best interest. (W.Va. Code § 48-9-102 (2021).)
Although a custody evaluation may consider the child's age and preference, the parent's wishes, and the child's relationship with each parent, it does not consider either parent's marital misconduct. (W.Va. Code § 48-9-206 (2021).) However, when a parent's bad behavior during the marriage carries over after the divorce and impacts the child's well-being, the court may consider it when awarding custody. For example, when a parent is in a relationship with an abusive partner and the child witnesses the abuse while spending time with a parent, the court may limit parenting time until the parent resolves the situation.
West Virginia law requires judges to apply a specific set of guidelines to determine the appropriate amount of child support. The child support guidelines require the judge to calculate each parent's income and apply it to the state's worksheets. (W.Va. Code § 48-13-301 (2021).) In general, the court will only consider each parent's income, the number of children, the custody arrangement, and whether the parent or child has extraordinary expenses each month before determining support. (W.Va. Code § 48-13-401 (2021).) Judges do not consider marital misconduct when deciding child support.


Each year, Eastpointe partners with Licking Heights West Elementary to help needy children in our community. The BackPack Weekend Meal Program was created to provide food for children who are part of the free lunch program at Licking Heights who obtain free lunch on school days, but who often go hungry on the weekend. This program ensures these children have food to eat on the weekend by sending them home with a backpack of food on Fridays.
At the beginning of the school year and again after the holiday break, Eastpointe seeks volunteers to purchase food and to help deliver it to the school. If you would like more information, please contact the church office.
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[London] The Duck and Rice at Berwick Street, Soho is undoubtedly a pretty restaurant.
Carrying the reputation of Alan Yau, the man behind Wagamama, Hakkasan and Yauatcha, there tends to be certain expectations of delicacy and luxury associated with the décor of his restaurants.
But it must be said that in terms of the food, one can justly assert that there are far better places to eat Chinese food in London.
This not to say that the experience at The Duck and Rice is necessarily a bad one, far from it, but the restaurant coheres to a different kind of clientele.
For example, if one is in London and is both desperately in need of a pint as well as a hearty meal of Chinese food, they will soon find that The Duck and Rice is perfect for their needs.
The place itself, as aforementioned, is well decked up.
Pretty ceramic wall tiles of blue and white patterns, geometric metal partitions and window panes, brass beer barrels stacked atop each other as you enter, and a spiral staircase made with ornately designed iron that leads to the restaurant on the upper floor.
Now, while I did infer that the cooking at the establishment is not remarkable per se, their food is tasty and comfortable for casual diners.
At the gastropub, you get a large menu sheet with a pencil, requiring you to tick off what you would like and then hand it in to the waitress.
From small chow, chop suey and bao buns to rice, noodles and dim sum, there is a vast selection of Chinese and Taiwanese options to choose from.
My partner and I ordered a selection of meat and vegetarian dishes to test the variety and were both pleased and disappointed.
In terms of dim sum, the restaurant does quite well. Scallop Shu Mai (£8.20, SGD14.30) come in three pieces, steaming hot and succulent.
The vegetable dumplings (£5, SGD8.70) that are filled primarily with soy marinated mushrooms are scrumptious too, offering a sweet savoury flavour that charms you into ordering more.
The five-spice fried chicken (£6, SGD10.50) looked incredibly inviting but was lacking in some regards.
While the chicken itself was immaculately cooked, the actual flavour of the spices did not quite come through.
It is amusing that perhaps the best and most disappointing dishes came alongside each other.
The smoked mock duck bao buns (£13 for 3, SGD22.70) did have all the makings of a dish set to please, but unfortunately the sauce that accompanied the mock duck was too smoky to stand.
After a bit of the bao, it was very difficult to taste much else.
I will say, however, that the texture of the vegetarian duck equivalent was pretty spot on. If they tweaked the sauce, I'm pretty sure it could be a hit.
For me, the duck and rice (£15.50), the restaurant's namesake dish was the best of the lot.
The quarter portion of Cantonese roast duck came perfectly cooked, with crisp skin, fat well rendered and sauce perfectly balanced, sitting atop a mound of steaming hot rice and chunks of cool cucumber.
If I ever visited again, I probably would only order a bowl of duck and rice, with some dim sum besides.
The Duck and Rice exhibits a concept that is different from most in the Soho area.
It offers a unique combination of Chinese food with pints of Pilsner beer for those who drink that invites plenty of warranted interest.
While the food itself is just a tad above average, the experience of the restaurant itself seems to excite London foodies.


On the 8th of October 2013 Renful has conducted a one-day workshop on the subject of Selection, Training, Testing and Monitoring of Security Personnel with the participation of senior management of Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan.
Participants were introduced to Renful's comprehensive approach and range of products designed to emphasise the importance of the human factor in aviation security. Renful believes that security personnel should be carefully selected, trained and monitored continuously while being challenged extensively throughout their employment. Renful is recognised as the industry leader in the area of pre-employment assessment, computer based training and simulation, operational compliance and screening efficiency management.
Since 2012 Renful has provided several courses to government agencies in Kazakhstan under the US State Department Export Control and Related Boarder Security (EXBS) Programme.


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Texas Not the Only State Impacted by Barrage of Hail Lawsuits
By Denise Johnson | May 31, 2016
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In the last few years, hail damage lawsuits have crowded Texas courts. Using the same model employed in the Lone Star state, hail damage litigation is beginning to impact other states where large hail events have occurred, including Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota.
Colorado, in particular, has seen a significant uptick in insurance claims and suits relating to hail damage. One reason is that Colorado, like Texas, has favorable consumer protection laws. In fact, Colorado allows contractors to file bad faith lawsuits against insurance companies resulting from disputes on a claim, according to Steven Badger, a Dallas-based partner with Zelle LLP.
That's similar to the situation giving rise to all the lawsuits in Florida, he explained.
"Florida recognizes a formal assignment of benefits that allows insureds to assign claim benefits to the contractor. In Colorado, the contractor is considered a party with an actual remedy under the bad faith statute when the carrier doesn't fully pay for the alleged roof repairs," Badger said.
In addition, Colorado is seeing increasing use of the appraisal process, with increasing abuses during the process by certain public adjusters. professional appraisers and attorneys, Badger said.
"Interestingly, we are seeing a significant influx of individuals from Florida getting involved in Colorado claims and appraisals," Badger said. "For whatever reason, most of the disputed claims and appraisals that we are working on for our clients in Colorado involve individuals from Florida."
This may be due to minimal hurricane activity in Florida in recent years, as well as the fact that Texas already has a ripe market of appraisers, public adjusters and policyholder attorneys, he said; whereas Colorado does not.
"It's a market where they can come in from Florida and set up shop," he said.
'Badger's firm has taken an aggressive and vocal stance on behalf of the insurance industry in not only defending hail litigation, but also in responding to improper conduct by those involved in the claims and litigation process. Recently, Badger filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of homeowners against a North Texas roofing contractor alleged to be involved in improper claims handling conduct.
Several of Badger's articles on the subject have been published by Claims Journal.
In one article, he offered several possible solutions to the problem in Texas. He said these same solutions can be applied in other states as well.
"One idea that would be applicable anywhere is to mandate the use of Class 4 hail rated roofing products in areas of severe hail exposure. There are products out there that are more hail resistant and would not fail in small hail events," Badger said.
In fact, Underwriters Laboratories recently submitted a proposal to the International Building Code drafters, proposing a revision to the codes that would require hail rated products in areas of severe hail exposure, he explained. That proposal was voted down as a result of overwhelming opposition from roofing contractor and roofing manufacturer trade groups.
"Another solution is stronger enforcement in the various states of what I call the "no negotiate" statutes that prohibit contractors from involving themselves in the insurance claims process," Badger said. "Most states already have statutes or insurance regulations in place that prohibit such conduct, but unfortunately the conduct remains rampant.
Contractors routinely act on behalf of building owners in negotiating insurance claims. Laws in place prohibiting such conduct should be enforced."
If the barrage of hail damage lawsuits continues, there is the possibility that insurers will exclude these type of claims, Badger said.
"It's something that's already happening," he said. "In Hidalgo County, where there were over 10,000 lawsuits filed after the 2012 hailstorms, at least two major insurers have completely pulled out of the market. We will continue to see this market response wherever hail lawsuits are proliferating."
Badger said he wouldn't be surprised to see a Texas Hailstorm Insurance Association created, much like the windstorm insurance association.
"Will it happen? It could. But I'd sure like to see another solution to this crisis, and that can be achieved by restoring some balance and fairness to claims and litigation process," he said.
"If we could address the problems without changing any laws or having to restrict coverage, that would be ideal," Badger stated.
Badger said that he doesn't see that happening in this current climate.
One positive trend in the right direction is that courts are beginning to take notice, he said.
"There are federal judges writing opinions clearly indicating that they understand what's happening in these lawsuits and they don't like it," he explained. "To bring an end to this problem without legislative action or policy form changes will require assistance from the courts, from the Texas Department of Insurance, from the State Bar of Texas and from local criminal authorities."
As a result of the articles Badger has written on the subject and his recent class action lawsuit filing, he has had numerous communications with investigators from the Texas Department of Insurance, the State Bar of Texas and a couple of local district attorneys.
"They are paying attention to the complaints being filed and are beginning to take action against illegal conduct," said Badger.
Badger recommended that insurers facing an onslaught of hail damage lawsuits seeking damages that are clearly not covered should stand by their policy forms and applicable law.
"They need to break the model where a public adjuster or lawyer knows that if they can get someone to sign a contract allowing them to file a lawsuit, all they have to do is file the suit and the insurance carrier will pay something regardless of merit. That model has to come to an end," explained Badger. "Also, the carriers need to spend the time to root out the illegal conduct going on in some of these claims and report that bad conduct to the authorities."
These days, Badger has a team of coverage attorneys spending their days defending hail damage lawsuits.
"That's allowing me to spend all of my time in focusing on addressing the fraudulent and illegal conduct we are seeing," he said. "This includes the class action we just filed against a roofing contractor for the unauthorized practice of public adjusting, reporting building owners to the authorities for fabricating replacement cost invoices and working with reputable lawyers who are bringing lawsuits against other lawyers for illegal case running."
While it may all seem negative, Badger said he is encouraged by the calls of support he has received from reputable contractors who are tired of dealing with fellow contractors that illegally waive deductibles; from experienced public adjusters tired of new entrants into their industry who have no desire to actually adjust and settle a claim, but just want to get their matters into the hands of a lawyer; and from real policyholder attorneys who are ashamed to see what is happening within their ranks.
"Everyone knows there is a problem in Texas and that the problem is spreading to other states," Badger said. "We just haven't agreed yet on the solution to the problem."
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Q: Parse date-time for input in AngularJS I need to initialize the input date to a datetime in specific format. How should I do it.
Currently I am using:
<input type="datetime-local" ng-model="myDate" ng-init="myDate = '2015-10-03T03:42:00.000+0000'"/>

but it gives an error:
Error: [ngModel:datefmt] Expected `2015-10-03T03:42:00.000+0000` to be
a date

A: Its because that is not a valid date according to Angular. Check out the doc on input[date] for their note on date validation.
And here the description of about the error.Basically it is  because it cant validate 'myDate' as date and its getting it as string.
The issue is there is no Date() in scope, so bAsically rewriting Date as method:
$scope.Date = function(arg){
   return new Date(arg);
};

And then you can call it from ng-init .
Below is the sample code I tried to test it
<!doctype html>

  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Example - example-datetimelocal-input-directive-production</title>

<form name="myForm" ng-controller="DateController as dateCtrl">
  Pick a date between in 2013:
  <input type="datetime-local" id="exampleInput" name="input" ng-model="example.myDate"
  ng-init="example.myDate = Date('Tue Feb 18 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (CEST)')"
      placeholder="yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss" min="2001-01-01T00:00:00" max="2013-12-31T00:00:00" required />

        Required!

        Not a valid date!

  <tt>value = {{example.value | date: "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss"}}</tt>

  <tt>myForm.input.$valid = {{myForm.input.$valid}}</tt>

  <tt>myForm.input.$error = {{myForm.input.$error}}</tt>

  <tt>myForm.$valid = {{myForm.$valid}}</tt>

  <tt>myForm.$error.required = {{!!myForm.$error.required}}</tt>

</form>

A: You have to write a function for converting your date string to a valid date:
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title></title>

   <input type="datetime-local" ng-model="myDate" ng-init="myDate = parseDate('2015-10-03T03:42:00.000+0000')"/>

codepen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/MajGaj


Factors that predict student performance in dual credit courses in Kentucky community and technical colleges.
This research addresses the problem of productivity in the P-16 system of education, emphasizing the repetition of the senior year of high school with the first year of postsecondary education. This study analyzes this integration through dual credit courses in the context of both P-12 and higher education reform in Kentucky. An analysis of these factors is critical in light of the deregulation of dual credit in Kentucky since 2000 and the increased enrollment of high school students in college courses both nationally and in Kentucky. Dual credit courses in Kentucky community and technical colleges are evaluated based on the learning productivity in transition from secondary to postsecondary education for students according to their gender, race, residence, socio-economic status, high school performance, and a student preparation for college. The design incorporates methods prevalent from the literature in research conducted on dual credit programs. Student performance in dual credit courses is the criterion variable, while high school performance and preparation for college are the primary predictor variables. Gender, race, residence, and socio-economic status are examined as demographic variables. The population for this research includes high school students taking dual credit courses in Kentucky community colleges and technical colleges. The sample extracted from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System database consists of high school students admitted with ACT placement scores in English and mathematics to Kentucky community and technical colleges in the Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, and Spring 2002 semesters (N = 3,822). Chi-square was used to evaluate the change in student participation in dual credit courses by demographic variable. Multivariate multiple regression was used to predict the factors that influence performance in dual credit programs. The results indicated no significant changes in the proportion of students from each demographic variable taking dual credit courses, despite a significant increase in the overall numbers of students taking these courses from Fall 2000 to Fall 2001. The results of the regression analysis indicated that demographic variables such as gender, race, residence, and socio-economic status significantly predict, both at the multivariate and univariate level, student achievement in dual credit courses. The demographic variables of gender and residence were the most consistent predictors of the criterion variables, however, high school preparation, as measured by the ACT English subtest was the strongest predictor of student performance in dual credit courses.
Brake, Nicholas L., "Factors that predict student performance in dual credit courses in Kentucky community and technical colleges." (2003). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 139.


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Journalists can help corporate America achieve its goals when companies understand how to use them
P> In the third part of this three-part series, we examine how corporate America can affect their press coverage. By working with the press and spreading the word of the importance of your industry, people in and out of your community can learn about what's going on.
The press can make a difference in helping you accomplish your goals. It also can do the exact opposite and inflict a painful bite. You have to know how to work with them.
If you become a "source" for a reporter, you need to know that good journalists protect their sources at all costs. I rarely tell someone where I heard a story. But if you feed a reporter a controversial or important story and tell him to hush up about where he heard it, probably the only person who can get your name out of him is his editor. And often times, out of respect for the reporter, the editor doesn't ask. The best reporters have the best sources. It's what gives us a competitive edge. Even courts have a hard time getting reporters to divulge sources.
Don't Lie To Reporters
You don't have to tell a reporter everything, but don't lie because reporters have great memories. Here's why:
If I interview somebody or go to a press conference, I usually use a tape recorder. I listen to the presentation or engage the subject in a conversation, go back to my office and transcribe the tape. Then I read through the transcript and mark it up with notes and start writing the story, referring constantly to the transcript. After my first draft, I read through the transcript of the interview once more to see if I missed anything important.
The next step is to read the article, touch it up and check facts. After that, I'll read it two or three times for clarity and rhythm and make sure everything is okay. Then it's handed to an editor (or editors) who reads it two or three times, asking for clarification on issues. The story is typeset. I read the final version to make sure the editor hasn't put a wrong slant on things, and then it's published.
In all, I have poured over the words of the person interviewed eight to 10 times. I'm closer to those words than the person who spoke them. There is an absolute bond between me and the person interviewed. That person may not know it, but I sure do.
If six months or a year pass and I hear that person speak or answer questions once again, and what he says doesn't fit with his earlier comments, a flag goes up. This is a very common occurrence when dealing with politicians or presidential appointees running huge government organizations.
Reporters have very good memories, and if you're in the rare position where you are quoted regularly in the press, you better be honest. Reporters don't like people who lie.
In its most basic form, a reporter's job is to take the spoken word and write it down. The spoken word written down is very different from the written word written down. Most people struggle mightily when they're writing because they're constantly asking if they really mean what they're writing. "This statement is a little strong... maybe I should tone it down. I don't want to offend anybody."
But when people speak, this is not an issue. The spoken word is effervescent and disappears immediately, except when it's written down by a journalist.
So when you're interviewed by a reporter, be conscious of what you're saying. A reporter can see your words written on paper as you're saying them. He knows when he hears a wonderful quote.
Don't Take Any News Story for Granted
Virtually everything you see on television or read in the newspaper took a great deal of work to get it there. Getting the news requires an activist effort. If there weren't a few brave reporters in Sarajevo, how would we ever know the details of the war going on there? Very little flows to a reporter -- particularly business reporters and those covering government. Reporters must go out and work like mad to get stories.
Public relations is an important job in any organization, and a good PR person is a rarity. Hire someone with experience working in the media, preferably the print media. They know how to write and understand deadlines. Don't hire a kid fresh out of college. They have an awful urge to pester reporters and editors to cover stories, and will turn reporters off to stories more often than they'll turn them on.
It's important for the person dealing with the media to recognize a news story. A PR person who has five to 10 years of deadline experience will be one of your greatest assets. Not only can they deal with the press, which can be touchy, but they can polish writing produced by people who don't write for a living.
A bad PR person will hurt you more than help you, and you may never know it. Their enthusiasm to make you look good can backfire. I have seen numerous cases where PR people, or press secretaries without experience in the media, put words in their boss' mouth, or work so hard at presenting a positive image, trying to take credit for things, that it makes the person look like a power-hungry, publicity-starved idiot. A good PR person will develop relationships with important reporters, which is the best way to get a fair shake in the press.
Put out press releases every once in a while, and give your list a wide circulation. Press releases are important, and we use them. Every one of them is read. It's impossible for us to know everything that is going on, and we depend on you to tell us. So tell us. There is a lot of good information in press releases -- things that we don't know. And that is what we report.
Don't be disappointed with a small press turnout at your press event. That is the norm, and reporters don't think anything of it. I only go to a few press conferences a year where there are large showings. Most of the events I attend in the National Press Club or elsewhere attract only five or six journalists, and often times only two or three. Schedule a press conference only if you have something to say.
A Good Job for Your Son or Daughter
There are thousands of entry-level jobs that open up in the media every year. They don't pay great, but they get people on the first rung of the career ladder. Unfortunately, too many young people nowadays think they deserve to be on the sixth or seventh rung of the ladder and refuse to work for $20,000 or less fresh out of school. The best students see this wage and decide not to go into journalism. But they are missing an incredible opportunity. As a young journalist, I was amazed by the fact that most every door on the planet is open to you, all you have to do is invite yourself in. No one else has that access -- the front-row seats that are saved; the back-stage passes; the first-hand account of history being made. There are few careers as rewarding, and I know lots of people who were low-paid, overworked journalists who moved into great jobs in a variety of organizations -- including the mainstream press -- and are doing extremely well due to the training they received and the understanding they have of a baffling diversity of subjects.
Richard McCormack is editor and publisher of Manufacturing News, based in Annandale, Va. He has been a reporter covering science and technology from Washington, D.C., for the past 13 years. He can be reached by phone at (703) 705-2664, or by e-mail (rmccorma@bmpcoe.org).
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