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Q: Rails -- cookies adds an array I store an array to cookies in someone method:
def someone
  cookies[:test] = JSON.generate [@page.image, @page.title]
end

But I want to cookies[:test] can store more information as "<<" not "=",
like(will get an error):
def someone
  cookies[:test] << JSON.generate [@page.image, @page.title]
end

Now, cookies[:test].inspect is [[@page.image, @page.title], [@page.image, @page.title]].
How to make this?

A: I don't think it's possible to append directly to the cookie; it's stored as a string (which JSON.generate returns), so you need to deserialize, append, then reserialize and store:
current = JSON.parse cookies[:test]
current << [@page.image, @page.title]
cookies[:test] = JSON.generate current

Or a little more succinctly:
cookies[:test] = (JSON.parse(cookies[:test]) + [[@page.image, @page.title]]).to_json


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Oscar winners 2020: Who took home the biggest awards?
By Christine Persaud February 9, 2020
The 92nd Academy Awards took place on Sunday night, February 9, celebrating the year's best in cinema. For the second year in a row, the event did not have a host, though Steve Martin and Chris Rock took to the stage to introduce the first presenter and get the crowd laughing. The program included an upbeat opening performance by Janelle Monae and a showstopping surprise: A performance by Eminem of Lose Yourself from the 2002 film 8 Mile, which was the first hip-hop song ever to win an Academy Award for Best Song.
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The controversial Todd Phillips film Joker led the nominations with a total of 11, followed by Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood with 10 each. Other films that got massive recognition across multiple categories include Little Women, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, 1917, and Parasite.
Here are the winners of cinema's biggest night:
Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood)
Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)
Winner: It would have been the biggest upset of the night if Joaquin Phoenix didn't take home this award for Joker. He was the front-runner and fan-favorite to win thanks to his emotionally charged performance as the deeply troubled Arthur Fleck, the man who becomes one of DC's most vicious villains. Phoenix fully morphed into the warped psyche of the character in such a persuasive way that made you both loathe and sympathize with him. You felt, not just saw, the performance, which included many off-the-cuff improvised moments, like that memorable bathroom dancing scene. This marks Phoenix's first win in four career nominations, and he's the second person to win for playing the character; Heath Ledger posthumously took home the Best Supporting Actor award in 2009 for his interpretation of Joker in The Dark Knight. Phoenix's emotional acceptance speech touched on redemption and second chances, and ended with a lyric his late brother, River Phoenix, wrote when he was 17: "Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow."
Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Renee Zellweger (Judy)
Winner: Renee Zellweger won for her beautiful portrayal of Judy Garland in the biographical drama that followed Garland's chaotic moments in the final year of her life. Her performance has turned heads, which is especially impressive since this has been Zellweger's first major dramatic role in some time. This marks her second win of four total career nominations; she previously won for Best Supporting Actress in Cold Mountain. "Our heroes unite us," she said, speaking of actors like Garland, as well as everyday heroes like first responders and teachers. "When we look to our heroes, we agree. And that matters."
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)
Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood)
Winner: Brad Pitt finally picked up his long overdue, first acting Academy Award despite his lengthy and successful career. His one previous win was as a producer of 2013 Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave. His captivating portrayal of a Hollywood stunt double trying to revive his career finally got the veteran actor the golden statue.
Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell)
Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit)
Florence Pugh (Little Women)
Margot Robbie (Bombshell)
Winner: The ceremonies followed in the footsteps of the Golden Globes and handed the award over to Laura Dern, who plays a fierce and talented divorce lawyer in the touching and emotionally raw Netflix film Marriage Story. This is her first win and third nomination. "Some say never meet your heroes," she said in her acceptance speech, "but I say if you're really blessed, you get them as your parents," giving kudos to her mom and dad, actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. She called the win the best birthday present ever (she was born February 10).
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
Todd Phillips (Joker)
Sam Mendes (1917)
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood)
Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)
Winner: For the first time since 2012, the Director's Guild of America didn't predict the winner in this category as Boon Joon-ho took home the award. Parasite earned the first Academy Award nominations for South Korea in any category. The film also won for Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, and Best Picture, claiming the trophy in four of its six nominated categories. "When I was young and studying cinema," he said during his acceptance speech, "there was a saying that I carved deep into my heart. The most personal is the most creative." He then proceeded to deliver touching thanks to his fellow nominees and inspirations, joking that he would love to get a Texas chainsaw, cut the award in five pieces, and share it with all of them.
Winner: We spotlighted these five nominees for their visual elements in a special series that included interviews with the visual effects artists. But in the end, 1917 emerged victorious for its single-shot style, which was truly revolutionary and presented an eerily realistic look into a compelling World War I battle story.
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Winner: Parasite was the surprise winner of the night, not only winning Best Picture but in three other categories as well. It's a major win for the film, which is the first film from South Korea to ever be nominated for an Academy Award and the first film not in the English language to win Best Picture.
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Marvel's Wolverine: Release date, story, gameplay and more
Marvel's Wolverine shook comic book fans and gamers alike when it was announced at PlayStation's most recent State of Play. Insomniac has been on a roll lately, launching Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart one after the other. Now Insomniac announced Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Marvel's Wolverine back to back. Insomniac is becoming the best comic book game developer around.
Marvel's Wolverine is still in early development, so there's not a lot that we know about it right now, but there are a few details shared after the State of Play in Sony's blog that we'll fill you in on below. There are also a few easter eggs in the trailer that might hint to what the game is about.
Here's everything we know so far about Marvel's Wolverine as well as some things we'd love to see in the next revival of Logan.
Marvel's Wolverine release date
We don't have a release date for Marvel's Wolverine just yet, but we do know that it's "very early in development," according to Ryan Schneider, head of franchise strategy & studio relations at Insomniac Games.
However, we know that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is coming exclusively to PlayStation 5 consoles in 2023. Considering that Marvel's Wolverine is still early in development and we don't have a release date, I don't expect it to show up until 2024 or 2025.
Marvel's Wolverine story
The storyboard creators behind Marvel's Wolverine are likely still brainstorming badass plot points for the hotly anticipated game, but if you look closely at the trailer, you'll find some easter eggs that reference Wolverine's first appearance in Incredible Hulk #181.
(Image credit: Insomniac)
This could just be a cheeky reference to Wolverine's first comic outing, but it's entirely possible that Marvel's Wolverine could be a Wolverine and Hulk adventure. If that happens to be the case, then that would make Wendigo the main antagonist. But that's where this theory falls apart for me; I highly doubt that a villain as basic as Wendigo could be the leading villain in an Insomniac game.
I feel like the world has seen Wolverine's origin story one too many times, and Insomniac didn't cover Spider-Man's origin, so I believe that Marvel's Wolverine will take place well into his career as an X-Men. A story arc I would love to see adapted in video game form is The Brotherhood, which follows Wolverine on a quest to avenge the murder of a young girl who asked him for help. The villains of the story are just normal humans, and I feel like a grounded Wolverine adventure would be as emotionally fulfilling as the 2017 Logan film.
Marvel's Wolverine gameplay
We don't know what Marvel's Wolverine gameplay will look like, but we have a few ideas. Creative Director Brian Horton and Game Director Cameron Christian (who both worked on Spider-Man: Miles Morales) will be at the helm of Marvel's Wolverine project.
It's easy to fall into the trap of the usual hack-and-slash genre for a Wolverine game. That's how the X-Men Origins: Wolverine game was handled. It was surprisingly decent, but it was still only that: decent. Wolverine does quite literally hack and slash his way through enemies, but you can adapt him in a way where the combat feels more impactful.
Think along the lines of melee mechanics in Naughty Dog games like The Last of Us Part II or Uncharted 4. The combat was close up, complex and intense. That is something that Wolverine needs. If you throw the camera far back and have him easily rip through enemies, it's going to feel like an arcade game. You may be thinking the Spider-Man game is like that — and it is — but works for Spidey because he emanates a fun, campy aesthetic.
However, Wolverine is a more grounded and gritty character, so the gameplay should reflect that. I want more Norse God of War versus Greek God of War action, and I think most Wolverine fans would agree (if they disagree, they're wrong).
I'm curious to see how Insomniac will handle Wolverine's healing factor. There's the easy way, which is a slow, simple regeneration, but there's a more complex game mechanic. For example, what if your health regenerates so fast that it's difficult to die, but if you fight dangerous enemies, your health drains out so fast that you die permanently? That would make each fight hella intense.
I suspect that we'll be hearing tons of rumors and theories about Marvel's Wolverine before we actually see any more footage. It's at least three or so years away, and all we have is a brief teaser. We don't even know what Wolverine looks like just yet.
However, we will keep this page updated as more information comes in about Marvel's Wolverine, so stay tuned.
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Song For My Life
a nonlinear romp through the music that influenced my life.
Letters to Heros
2017-07-03 2017-09-24 Rock
I began exploring the alt-country music of Uncle Tupelo which eventually led to Wilco's first album, AM. I was hooked by Wilco's alt-country heritage and vibe, and then I was transfixed by their evolving artistry and sound.
Certain artists or bands will always have a fond home in my heart and music catalog. Reasons vary for these placements. Perhaps I loved the group when I was a kid; for example: Rush. Or, perhaps the artist has deep connections within my home state of Texas, like Guy Clark or Townes Van Zandt or Robert Earl Keen (more on them in future posts).
Several artists arrived in my life coincident with meaningful transitional or page turning events. I discovered Wilco in 2001 or 2002 during one of these life transitions. Quite a painful one, actually — my first marriage was falling apart.
Generally, I find music discovery to be an enjoyable process. I discovered Wilco by first hearing Son Volt's lovely song "Tear Stained Eyes" on KTRU Rice University Radio. This led me to purchase Son Volt's album, Trace, on Amazon.com. Then, thanks to Amazon's recommender algorithm ("People who bought this item also bought…"), I began exploring the alt-country music of Uncle Tupelo which eventually led to Wilco's first album, AM. I was hooked by Wilco's alt-country heritage and vibe, and then I was transfixed by their evolving artistry and sound. It wasn't long before I purchased Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's critically acclaimed genre-bending breakout album which established the group as a creative force. For some reason, this album fit right into my life circumstances, and I became a lifelong fan.
I've seen Wilco live at least seven or eight times, and their concerts never disappoint. Last weekend, I went to Wilco's fourth Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA with an old college buddy. Wilco has a tradition at this festival for surprising fans with something special. For example, back in 2013, they assembled, based upon fan input, an eclectic set of cover songs with artists ranging from The Beatles to Blue Oyster Cult to Daft Punk to ABBA (seriously). This year, similarly, they allowed fans to decide on a Wilco album to be played in its entirety. Wilco's 1997 Being There was the overwhelming favorite, probably because it is a double album with over 20 songs, several not played live often. Based on the pre-festival Facebook chatter, fan reaction ranged from excitement to hear the full Being There album to total disappointment that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot had not received enough online votes.
So, on June 23rd 2017, Wilco surprised everyone by playing both albums back to back. Then, the following night, they played another two plus hour 30-song concert without repeating any songs from the previous night. Wilco is one of the most exciting and innovative live touring bands out there today.
If you've never caught a show, you should.
Tags: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Alt-Country, Rock, Wilco
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The project entailed the design of a new Mission Style 50,000 square foot sanctuary, offices, meeting rooms, and other accessory uses to an existing campus at the southeast corner of Flamingo Boulevard and Eastern. The new building became the focal point for the existing campus. The building was constructed of stucco, masonry, and steel.


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Explore this section... The Programme Meet The Team Case Studies
Youth Ambassador Case Studies
Ben Mitchell - Digital & Vice-Chair
My roles as a Youth Ambassador are Vice-Chair and Digital & IT. Early on in the programme, we made a Twitter page for the group. The idea of this was so that we could connect with young people in a different way. The way we use Twitter has been factored into a "Long term media coverage plan" that is focused around how we can have the most impact on young people through social media. Part of this plan is based around raising awareness of what some young people may see as barriers preventing them being involved in football. We want to inspire them by sharing the experiences of other young people, including our Ambassadors, in the hope that this inspires them to love the game.
I am also involved in attending Scotland National Youth Team games as part of our long-term coverage plan, which is a great experience that allows me to see how the Digital team work. In my other role as Vice-Chair, I have been involved in the planning of Youth Congress and worked with the other Ambassadors, ensuring that they are supported in their various roles. As a Youth Ambassador, I have also been part of the Scottish FA Para-Football working group.
In my time as an ambassador we have been able to reach a wide audience with content we have put on our Twitter page and aimed to show that football can be accessible for anyone. I hope that the young people seeing us in our roles as Youth Ambassadors can be inspired by the work we are doing and that this can keep them involved or encourage them into wanting to get involved in football, in any capacity. We aim to show young people that what they perceive as barriers, we perceive as opportunities to get involved in football.
I believe this programme allows us to provide young people with a platform from which the voices of young people, including me, can be heard within Scottish football. The positive work being done by all the Ambassadors can help inspire more young people to get involved in football.
Vikki Allan - Refereeing
I currently Referee in Scotland domestically and internationally, being a young referee in Scotland I am delighted to have this role and give a voice to the younger people in Scotland. I feel it's important to let the young people in Scotland have a voice to shape the future of Scottish Football.
So far I have been involved in a few projects: International Women's day where this year we showcased the female ambassadors, cerebral palsy awareness month in which a parent got in touch with us to find out where their child could join a cerebral palsy league, a record breaking match on top of Kilimanjaro to raise awareness of gender equality in sports and setting up of the youth representatives across the Referee Associations in Scotland.
These 12 representatives are a great step forward in refereeing for young people, giving them a voice locally which can then feed up to myself to feed directly into Scottish FA. This allows them to feedback positives they see at a local level but also where they think there is room for improvement. This hopefully allows us to recruit but especially retain these young referees when they join the refereeing family. Football is growing at a rapid pace but to have a game of football you need referees so I feel it is extremely important that we support the younger generation coming through to come into this side of the sport.
Lyall Cameron - Football Development
Lyall Cameron – Football Development
My name is Lyall Cameron and I am the Youth Ambassador associated with the Football Development department. When I was first introduced to the department, the objective was to get more people involved in football. This area of participation covered both engagement and retention. It was decided that participation under retention, specifically drop-out of teenagers between the ages of 15-19, would be my area of focus.
Engagement within this category came about for many reasons, specifically when I reflect over previous experiences of being involved in the SFA School of Football programmes between 2010 and 2013. Introduced by the Scottish FA in partnership with the Government, the School of Football programme was a new initiative, which involved boys and girls training every day as part of their school curriculum. Thinking about the boys I trained with day in day out, I realised that out of the sixteen that were selected in the three-year programme, only four remain playing the game. Twelve boys, 75% of the programme who all showed potential to play football at a high level, somewhere along the line made the decision that playing football was no longer for them - all before the age of 19.
Furthermore, researching into the number of registered players within Scotland and discovering that although there is a greater population within this age range compared to younger ages, there are fewer people playing registered football. While I am currently in this age bracket and experiencing the dropout of friends and teammates first hand, this information sparked an interest into the reasons behind their decisions to leave the game.
This identified two questions. Were the reasons mutual with dropouts elsewhere? And what could be done to prevent these reasons becoming a reality for future players?
With the ambition to prevent players leaving the game, over the next few months I intend to thoroughly research this area of participation and hopefully answer these questions. A survey and personal conversations targeting teenagers who have dropped out will be our method of identifying the reasons behind their departure.
Working towards identifying these barriers will hopefully give us a clear indication into what areas of our game need improvement. This will be beneficial for young players that still participate within football. Making changes related to the reasons behind previous dropouts will hopefully prevent or reduce the number of players experiencing the same problems in the future then eventually losing interest in the game. The whole aim of the project is to keep young players involved so that they can enjoy playing the game and develop to the best of their ability.


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Bielek László (Kiszucaújhely, 1744. augusztus 24. – Kőszeg, 1807. november 14.) piarista pap, tanár.

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Nemes szülőktől származott; a humaniorák elvégzése után 1764. október 3-án a kegyesrendiek társaságába lépett és 1773. március 12-én felszentelték áldozópappá. Több évig tanított, mire az egyetemen bölcselettudor lett. 1776–1782-ben a nyitrai gimnázium tanára volt, 1792–1795-ben Máramarosszigeten tanított bölcseletet, matematikát és történetet. Ezután rector, plébános és magyar hitszónok lett Debrecenben, Kalocsán és Nagykárolyban; majd 1800–1803 között Veszprémben, Máramarosszigeten volt vicerector. 1803 augusztusában a nyitrai piarista rendház alvikáriusának nevezték ki. 1805-ben Selmecen volt aligazgató.

Egyebek mellett korának divatos műfaját, az epigrammát művelte. Epigramma-gyűjteményében (Epigrammatum libri III [Epigrammák három könyve], Pest, 1789) főként rendtársai, például Hannulik, Horányi Elek, Pállya István szerepelnek. Voltaire ellen 20 epigrammát írt.

Művei
 Epigrammatum libri III. Pesthini, 1789
 Erkölcsi oktatás. 1. rész. Kassa. 1792
 Mária tisztelője szent István magyar király. Pest. 1795 (Szegeden 1783-ban mondott egyházi beszéd Napraforgó virág szerzője ellen. Kézirata az Országos Széchényi Könyvtárban)
 Szent István magyar király igaz romai katholikus. Uo. 1795
 Majores hungarorum, Pars I. Analecta II. Comit. Bihar. et Trenchin. Liber regius, 1552. Uo. 1796 (Censurai példány az OSZK-ban)
 Ad rev. patrem Joan. Nep. Jankovits. Colocae, 1797
 A t. varbói Kruspér Elisabethahoz, nagy-kászonyi Kászonyi Ferencz úr élete párjához. Uo. 1797 (költemény)
 Rev. dno Martino Takáts in ec cl. Colocensi canonico (Kalocsa, 1797)
 Urnapi beszéd, melyet Debreczen városában tartott az Igazság Pajssa szerzője ellen. Pozsony és Pest, 1797
 Ex parte altera ejusdem arboris trunci, duo genii Hungariae… H. n. (1798)
 Illustr. dno libero baroni Josepho Bernyákovits de Olovatz. Colocae (1798)
 Rev. dno Stephano Katona… Uo. (1798)
 Rev. dno Petro Klobusiczky de aedem… Uo. 1798
 Piramis honoribus excell. ac rev. dni Ladislai e com. Kolonits de Kollegrad. H. n., 1798
 Arany gondolatok. Bécs, 1800 (Németből szabadon ford. Ism. Religio 1870. I. 41. sz.) Online
 Vér szeme a religiónak. Bécs, 1801 (ford.)
 Ad diem onomasticum rev. dni Antonii Kapuvári. Veszpremii. 1802 (költemény)
 Epithaphium ad solennia Josephi Bajzáth de Pészak episcopi Veszprémiensis. Uo. 1802
 Ordinis s. Benedicti postliminio in Hungaria restituti. Uo. 1802 (költemény)
 Elogium ad solennia justa Josephi Tengler episcopi Jauriensis. Uo. 1802
 A kegyes áhitatosságnak tárháza. Vácz, 1803 (Fuchs Xaver Ferenc után ford.)
 Az öreg Tóbiásnak élete. Uo. 1803
 Ad onomasim Emerici Nedeczky canonicii. Schemnicii, 1804
 A róm. kath. catechismus. Nagyszombat, 1804
 Sermo extemporaneus habitus ad Ferd. Grötschel. Uo. 1805
 Oktató és imádságos könyvecske. Nagyszombat, 1805
 Samariai asszony és kegyes édesdeden megtérő Jézus. Ford. Uo. 1806
 Ad excell. archi praesulem Colocensem Ladislaum e com. Kolonits. H. és év n.
 Rövid jelentése a minden esztendőben tartani szokott áhitatosságnak Selmecz városának Kalvária hegyén, 1806 (németből ford.)
 (2. kiadás. Uo. 1837. és kijavítva Pest, 1863)
 Bessenyei Györgyöt dicsérő verse van Debrecen, 1796. január 21.  Milton Elveszett paradicsoma I. darabjának 2. levelén.

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Új Magyar Irodalmi Lexikon.
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Magyar piarista szerzetesek
Debreceniek
Kiszucaújhelyiek
1744-ben született személyek
1807-ben elhunyt személyek
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Whatever you have that's potentially public-facing, you need to protect it. As our technology moves to the cloud, so our need for security transfers from physical appliances to virtual ones. This is the classic Cisco ASA device, virtualised.
Ease of spinning one up: The hourly charge has made demos and testing better because it's a truer representation of a real-life situation.
It has allowed us to reduce costs and to make sure we provide rounded, secure products to customers.
We didn't find any huge issues. Obviously, there are always vulnerabilities that come up and there was one in early 2018 but this was patched with software updates.
Admin rights need to be given out carefully as they give overarching control to all devices - but that's the same for everything.
We went with this solution via the AWS Marketplace because it's been made so easy to use an ASAv on AWS with simple drop downs to set it up. Our demo machines were also in AWS so we wanted a one-stop shop where we could spin them up or down as needed and configure the ASAv before it was launched.
Almost all IT staff have used, or can easily learn how to use, the Cisco ASA appliance because it's been around for years and is so popular (with good reason). For us, we stuck with what we know. It was an easy sell to get it signed off by higher-ups as they'd also heard of the ASA device from their time in IT.
This solution gets an eight out of ten because it is easy, has the features we need, keeps costs low, and provides granular control using appliances that are already familiar to the team.
Among the top features are integrated threat defence and the fact that each virtual appliance is separate so you get great granular control.
There are always vulnerabilities that come up and there was one in early 2018 but this was patched with software updates.


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PRATT & GELSTHORPE
Probably the oldest family owned garage in England
Established in 1919 just after the first world war, it is over 100 years since Bert Gelsthorpe and Frank Pratt began an engineering business on Baldertongate Newark on the Nottinghamshire Lincolnshire border.
Supplying their skills to local businesses they flourished and expanded into motorcycle sales and service, generated electricity for the town before the national grid was established and by 1923 added what was to become their main focus, an Austin car dealership.
The relationship continued with Austin as it evolved into BMC, then British Leyland and finally Rover. But by 1988 in a changing market the decision was taken to part company with Rover.
Which brings us to the present and the successful collaboration with Peugeot, now in its 33rd year .
By 1975 Berts son John found himself in sole control of the company, In 1988 under his management Pratt & Gelsthorpe become the main Peugeot dealer for Newark and surrounding villages.
That decision has never been regretted, and the addition of Peugeot scooter sales and service to the business marked another successful evolution.
With Johns retirement, Richard, his son stepped up and now runs the company, He, his family and staff ensure the personal service that has served the business well for so many years continues to keep generations of our customers happy and attracts many new clients.


Nicolas Roussakis, a composer and a founder of the American Composers Orchestra, passed away in 1994 at the age of 60. He was born in Athens, moved to the United States at the age of 15 and was granted citizenship at 21. He earned a doctorate in music at Columbia University, where he taught from 1968-77, and he studied in Germany on a Fulbright grant. Most recently, he was on the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. He won several awards for his compositions. He received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts and received two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Among his works are the symphonic poem "Fire and Earth and Water and Air," the "Hymn to Apollo" for small orchestra and "Ephemeris" for string quartet. Mr. Roussakis was an energetic promoter of contemporary music. He was the executive director of the Group for Contemporary Music from 1971-85, president of the American Composers Alliance from 1975-81 and vice president of the American Composers Orchestra, of which he was a co-founder in 1976 with Dennis Russell Davies, Francis Thorne and Paul Lustig Dunkel.


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Iran Releases Former UT Physicist
Vivian Abagiu
Iranian authorities released Omid Kokabee, former doctoral student in physics at The University of Texas at Austin, on Monday after more than five years of imprisonment according to reports by multiple outlets including the Associated Press.
Omid Kokabee, Fall 2010. Credit: Kokabee Family
Kokabee was a first-year doctoral student when he was arrested in January 2011 while visiting family in Iran during winter break. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on espionage charges that Kokabee's supporters, including UT faculty and students, long denounced as false, many news sources noted. Around the world, groups such as The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the Committee of Concerned Scientists had called for his release.
"We are very happy and relieved," UT physics professor Herbert Berk told The Alcalde. Berk helped organize advocacy efforts for Kokabee and went on to say that the physics department would welcome him back should he chose to resume his studies at UT.
Read more coverage of Kokabee's release:
Iran releases physicist after five years in jail, Nature
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Vivian Abagiu is the Digital Content Producer for the College of Natural Sciences. She holds a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri and a bachelor's degree in communications from St. Mary's University.


This magnet car mount comes with two thin plate of metal, car mount and the magnet.
First of all, the magnet is very strong and adhesive, I mean I nearly bend the metal plate when I was trying to take them out. And even without the metal plate, I can also stick my iPhone 5 on it. Although it will fall or slip slowly, you can rotate and slightly adjust the angle of the magnet, just to the point that it is not completely vertical and the phone will stay there just fine.
It is extremely easy to install. Simply just peel off the 3M tape attached in the back of the plate, and then stick it either on phone or inside of the phone case. To set it up, insert the grip into the CD slot (I prefer ejecting the CD beforehand), and then twist the tightening wheel few times to secure it. Don't over tight it though, otherwise your CD unit might be damaged. After that, adjust the magnet to the desire angle (don't forget to tighten the bolt on the back of the magnet), and place your smart phone on it.
If you swap you phone case too frequent and don't want to put the plate on the case permanently, I suggest to do the following. Use some transparent tape and tape the metal plate on the back of your phone or phone case. So that you can remove the plate easily and won't leave any mark on the device.
I strongly recommend this car mount, because it provides easy set up and removal of the phone while behind the wheel. Better yet, it can fit any device you think of as long as the metal plate is attached to the object that you are planning to put on the mount.


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Aya Eliza @ Auburn
Taking Auburn to new heights
Located in the heart of Auburn's retail corridor, Aya Eliza is poised to set a new benchmark in residential design for the area and pioneer significant enhancement of the streetscape. As the first residential tower amid the masterplan for the revitalisation of the Auburn town centre, it will become an architectural landmark which will change the face of the area.
Comprising two towers known as Aya and Eliza, the landmark mixed-use development has been designed by award-winning architects Marchese Partners and developed by MERHIS. Encompassing a village square and retail component, this bold undertaking is set to become an icon of design innovation, celebrating Auburn's diversity and community spirit.
A new village square at your doorstep
Aya Eliza encompasses a public square and a retail precinct containing a variety of shops and vibrant cafes, creating a focal point for community life. A site link between Auburn and Harrow Roads provides a thoroughfare to this new village square, which offers the opportunity to play host to attractions such as weekend markets and local events. The surrounding landscaping has been designed to complement the buildings. It also enhances the amenity for Aya Eliza residents by creating a variety of spaces for recreation or quiet contemplation and providing privacy between the apartments and the common areas.
A bustling centre of growth and activity
A busy centre of Sydney's west recognised for its ongoing growth and development, Auburn is blessed with an abundance of lifestyle and recreational amenities and vast green open spaces, making it popular with a broad variety of residents.
30 mins drive to the Sydney CBD via the M4
10 mins drive to Parramatta CBD
Short stroll to Auburn station
30 mins train ride to the CBD
Four schools are within easy walking distance of Aya Eliza, including Auburn Girls' High School
Auburn Hospital and St Joseph's Hospital are also nearby
An abundance of lifestyle and recreational amenities including the picturesque Auburn Botanic Gardens on the Duck River
Sporting enthusiasts can head to a number of local tennis centres, the Auburn Swim Centre or Rosnay Golf Club.
Moments to the world-class facilities of Sydney Olympic Park
Auburn Central is just around the corner, offering a range of shops and services
Local restaurants of all nationalities create an eclectic dining scene.
Established in 1997, MERHIS is a respected force in the property industry, anticipating trends to produce greater efficiency and quality.
The company has built a desirable standing in the field of construction and development.
It has achieved and continues to achieve a multitude of thriving project and development outcomes through its flourishing delivery of services.
Marchese Partners is one of Australia's leading architectural and interior design practices, specialising in medium and high-density residential projects.
With more than 18 years experience in sustainable urban development across local and international markets, the firm continues to set new benchmarks in design and innovation, creating iconic projects.


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Хенрик Жевуский (современное написание имени), Генрих Ржевусский (прижизненное русское написание имени, также Генрих (Генрик) Ржевуский , 1791—1866) — польский писатель из рода Ржевуских, старший сын А. С. Ржевуского, брат А. А. Ржевуского, Каролины Собаньской и Эвелины Ганской.

Биография
Адам Мицкевич, с которым Жевуский познакомился в Риме, был восхищен рассказами его о польском быте времен Станислава-Августа и убедил его взяться за перо, предсказывая громадный успех. Благодаря этому совету явились известные «Pamiątki JPana Seweryna Soplicy, cześnika parnawskiego» (Рим, 1832; П., 1839) — ряд замечательных по яркости красок и задушевности тона картин старошляхетского польского быта. Это произведение имело громадный успех и породило массу подражаний. Описания шляхетского быта, сеймов и сеймиков, шумных пиров и старинных забав на время вытеснили все другие сюжеты из польской литературы. Рассказы Жевуского вдохновили Мицкевича на создание эпической поэмы "Пан Тадеуш".

Поселившись в 1833 г. на Волыни, Жевуский примкнул к кружку писателей клерикально-шляхетского направления (органом которых был «Tygodnik Petersburski») и выпустил собрание сатирических очерков: «Mieszaniny obyczajowe», под псевдонимом Яроша Бейлы (Вильно, 1841—43). Саркастический тон этих очерков поднял в польском обществе целую бурю негодования против автора и вызвал страстную полемику. Возвратившись опять к области исторического романа, Жевуский выпустил «Listopad» (СПб., 1849; здесь обрисованы два главных общественных течения, боровшихся между собой в царствование Станислава Понятовского) и «Zamek Krakowski» (СПб., 1847).

В 1850 г. Жевуский поселился в Варшаве и получил должность чиновника особых поручений при князе Паскевиче, а в 1851 г. начал издавать «Dziennik Warszawski», составивший эпоху в летописях польской прессы: это было первое польское издание, поставленное по образцу западноевропейских. Публика, однако, скоро отхлынула от «Dziennika», так как редактор его с резкой прямолинейностью развивал свои аристократическо-клерикальные взгляды.

Принуждённый оставить редакторство, Жевуский возвратился в 1856 г. на Волынь, где и умер. Другие произведения Жевуского: «Adam Śmigielski » (СПб., 1851), «Łaska и przeznaczenie» (Варшава, 1851), «Rycerz Lizdejko» (1852), «Zaporożec » (1854), «Pamiętniki Bartłomieja Michałowskiego» (СПб. и Варшава, 1857), «Paź złotowłosy, czyli Wieczory sułtana» (Львов, 1858), «Teofrast polski» (СПб., 1851), «Nie-bajki» (1851), «Wędrówki umysłowe» (1855).

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Many brokers provide this facility to retail clients. I have long been a customer of Sharekhan as well and they also provide this facility.
Can Zerodha provide payout option two times in a day? I am a full-time trader and although I keep contingency funds at hand, but still anything can happen and one may need his/her un-used funds during the same day for any exigency.
As part of console.zerodha.com we intend to do this as well. Not just twice, but a facility where we can allow withdrawal of some portion of the funds in trading account instantly.
Thanks. Can you please provide an estimate when can this be completed?
Don't want to give a date right now, but in the next few months.
Any updates on instant fund withdrawal request.
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Deaths | Décès, Uncategorized
rmcclub / October 9, 2017
Feature photo by: Liam Norris
4184 Frederick "Gordon" Forrington (Father of 13621 John Forrington Class of 1982)
FORRINGTON, Frederick "Gordon" – Of London and formerly of Sundridge, passed away suddenly, on Friday, June 30th, 2017, at the St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, at the age of 81. Dearly loved husband of Katherine (Low) Forrington and loved father of John (Patti), Jim and Jane Forrington. Cherished grandfather of Sarah and Katherine. Dear brother of Jack Forrington (Mary), Muriel Shrake (Brian), York Forrington (Catherine), Gerald Forrington, Ray Forrington (Anny) and Leslie Forrington (Christine). Sadly missed by a number of nieces and nephews. Gord was born in Alberta on August 12, 1935, the son of the late Gordon Robert and Cecily (Pennock) Forrington. He taught High School in Aylmer and Sundridge and finished his career at King's College, London. Gord was a former President of the Sundridge Legion and a former member of the Sundridge Lions Club and the London Kiwanis Club. He was also a Past Fire Chief with the Sundridge Volunteer Fire Department. A "Celebration of Life" was held on his birthday, August 12, at King's University College in London,. Ontario.1
Disestablishing the Labor Service—Then Bringing the Service Back
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I taught Mathematics at Almaguin Highlands Secondary School in Sundridge from 1975 to 1992. Gord was the head of the Technical Department for many of those years before he headed to London. He was a respected member of the staff and someone who I(we) could always count on for sage advice. I also taught his son John (13621} who I had the pleasure of meeting at a reunion some 10+ years ago.
John please know I am thinking of you and my thoughts and prayers are with you and all of Gord's family.
8003 Norman Gervais
Mon cher John,
Hélène se joint à moi pour t'offrir ainsi qu'à ta famille nos plus sincères condoléances.Nous sommes de retour à St-Jean, votre visite toujours bienvenu.


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The Cartoons of Dwane Powell
North Carolina politics
UNC politics
Sketchbook images
Onward… to Florida, February 26, 1976: Powell depicts the 1976 Republican primary race. Candidate Gerald Ford defeated Ronald Reagan in the Iowa, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts pramaries, before narrowly defeating him again in Florida on March 9, 1976. Ford was selected as the Republican presidential nominee later than year, ultimately losing to Jimmy Carter in the general election.
Pardon… I finally got mine, early 1977: On January 21, 1977 President Carter granted an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War, four years after the withdrawal of all U.S. troops. President Ford had pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed against the United States as president in September 1974.
Jimmy Carter in High Anxiety, early 1978: Powell spoofs Mel Brooks 1977 film High Anxiety. At the time, Carter was faced with taming high economic inflation, navigating a strained diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, mediating peace between Israel and Arab countries, and negotiating the 1977-1978 national coal strike, led by the United Mine Workers of America.
The Sleaze Factor Game, April 15, 1984: Powell satirizes President Ronald Reagan with this board game spoof. Powell depicts many of Reagan's recent actions as political foibles, including pressuring Anne Gorsuch Burford to resign her post as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, his off-the-record controversial joke about bombing the Soviet Union prior to a radio address, his nomination of Edwin Meese for Attorney General, and his approval of CIA mining operations in Nicaraguan harbors.
We're hoping a little charisma will rub off on George, August 31, 1988: Powell comments on George H. W. Bush's lack of charisma during his 1988 presidential campaign. His predecessor Ronald Reagan endorsed Bush's candidacy in May 1988.
Flagman, June 28, 1989: Powell introduces his Flagman, a character lampooning President George H. W. Bush's call for a constitutional amendment to outlaw flag burning. Bush called for the amendment as a response to Texas v. Johnson, a Supreme Court case that burning the American flag was a right protected by the U.S. Constitution.
GOP 1994, 1994: Powell comments on the changing face of the Republican Party, spoofing retired NASCAR legend Richard Petty's 1994 campaign as the Republican nominee for North Carolina Secretary of State. Petty was ultimately defeated by State Senator Elaine Marshall in the general election.
George W. Bush, March 08, 2006: Powell parodies President George W. Bush, alluding to the president's Texas roots by depicting him astride a horse in stereotypical western attire. Bush's horse chews on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, commenting the expansion of executive powers during the Bush administration, which many Americans believed threatened constitutional rights.
A friendly game of endorse, February 19, 2008: Following John Edwards' suspension of his presidential campaign in January 2008, candidates Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton each meet with him seeking his endorsement. Edwards officially endorsed Obama for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in May 2008.


Somchai Charoen is a Thai born ceramic artist based in Sydney who has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Trained in industrial ceramics design, he was a former lecturer at Silpakorn University, Thailand. Since migrating to Australia in 2002, he has worked commercially as a mould and model maker as well as established his ceramic home ware label Eat Clay.
Charoen is a co-founder of Belmore ITCH, a creative for nonceramic artists to experiment, explore and interpret the medium.
"Ceramic slip casting is a simple technique to create objects of varying complexities of form based upon a mould, and reproduce them in multiples. Somchai likes to challenge his skill by making a mould that will explore the possibilities and limits of what the medium can be.
Jaegun is the Thai name of the vase. This body of work showcases Charoen's moulds that can rearranged or connected in different ways resulting in flexible ever changing arrangements."


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Incident Response Planning saved Little Red Riding Hood
By Sam Glynn|2019-11-13T12:41:44+00:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: approach, cybersecurity|
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I recently told you the story of Little Red Riding Hood and her unfortunate granny.
But the story may not end there.
In one version of the story (what one might call 'The Hollywood Version'), Little Red Riding Hood actually survives.
As described on Wikipedia:
After eating his prey, the wolf falls asleep.
A woodcutter comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed.
What does this tell us about the village?
It's not clear how the woodcutter found out about the incident involving Little Red Riding Hood.
But, assuming he received some sort of alert about the event and he knew how to respond, it turns out that Little Red Riding Hood's village had an incident response plan.
I'm sure no-one in the village wanted to consider the idea of a wolf eating one of their kids.
But they did consider the awful scenario.
And they had a plan to recover from the incident.
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I look at dozens of sources a day on global macroeconomics, but one source I go to every day is my good friends at Gavekal. The Gavekal partnership – father Charles Gave, son Louis-Vincent Gave, and noted economist and journalist Anatole Kaletsky – spans three continents: Charles is based in Paris, Anatole is in London, Louis has set up shop in Hong Kong, and the firm also has an office in the US. And they have an extensive team of outstanding analysts.
For those of you keeping up with the much-discussed energy deal between China and Russia, you know the many reasons, both geographic and political, why it's unlikely to pan out. The geopolitically savvy folks over at STRATFOR told us about it a couple of weeks ago, and have moved their forecasting on to an existing energy relationship, between China and Venezuela—now potentially uncertain due to Hugo Chavez's precarious position in a Cuban hospital.
Whether Chavez gets better or not, a political transition is down the line somewhere, and China could lose its current preferential treatment as primary investor in Venezuelan oil. This is the kind of thing we have to know about as investors. Yes, we all know that Chavez is ill. But what, if anything, does that mean for the South American energy sector? What about the future of oil, China, the U.S., and so on? This is the kind of forward-looking analysis you get from a news publication like STRATFOR. It doesn't get any better than these guys.
Earlier this week, I sent out a piece that talked about the dangers of ignoring the big picture - even for the 'bottom up' investor. Every once in a while, we all have to step away from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, housing prices and other indicators to look at what's going to influence these factors in the long term.
I've mentioned a couple of schools of thought before: those who look at the big picture and those who pore over the details. Often, the major product is the result of its minor pieces. If you use good meat, good buns, and good vegetables- you're going to turn out a pretty good hamburger. The same goes for cars, businesses and portfolios.
One industry in which this methodology really doesn't seem to work is information. Mainstream sources of information almost always fail to connect the world's events. They do a great job telling you that former Iranian president Rafsanjani addressed his supporters, that anti-Ahmadinejad protestors outside chanted 'Death to Russia', and that Israel sent a submarine through the Suez Canal. But they don't show how the incidents fit together in the geopolitical landscape, nor what they mean for the relationships between global powers. They give you the meat, the buns and the vegetables, but there's no hamburger.
This week saw a 2-day summit between the United States and Russia that looks to be the first in a trend of subtle push and pull that will shape economic agendas for both states. Just as at the height of the Cold War, these two superpowers are jockeying for global attention and prospective untapped markets. But while the communication between the two is at the same volume and frequency as it was back in the days of Kennedy and Khrushchev, the tone has taken on a different level - as Obama flexes his newly appointed muscle and plants a possible seed of discontent between Medvedev and Putin concerning the future of the former USSR.
I've been in this business a long time. Some days it feels like a very long time. But never in all the years that I've been in the financial markets have I felt like business per se has less impact on my investment decisions. Let me explain.
GM shares have gone from being a claim on earnings from car sales to being a call option on whether the US government will extend another lifeline. Banks' capital structures have gone from being the province of Boards of Directors and CFOs to the "expertise" of Congressional committees and appointed regulators. Used to be when I thought about Financial Centers New York and London came to mind. Instead now I have to think about Washington and Brussels.
My friend George Friedman and his team at STRATFOR are where I turn when I need help thinking about these new realities. George's team provides me context and understanding of the environment in which financial developments are going to take place. I may tweak him about his ties, but if you saw George speak at my conference in La Jolla, you know that he's an absolutely compelling speaker. And it's small wonder that his latest book spent those weeks on the New York Times bestseller list too.
A long-time religious land bridge between the Islamic and Western worlds, Turkey now finds itself an economic gatekeeper, a US-backed contender for the EU and the only key that could unlock Europe from dependence on Russian resources. The value of your dollar is intrinsically linked to last week's summits—the most important multinational summits in history.


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Growth Boundaries: Counterproductive, Expensive, and Anti-Urban
UGBs make housing more expensive, limit options, and don't even stop sprawl.
In June, I wrote for Catalyst about the high cost of regulatory limits to urban density. Because the regulations block an economically-productive form of development, I called them "America's biggest domestic policy failure." But if housing affordability is a concern, urbanists might be just as interested in limits to what's pejoratively called "sprawl," or growth.
Sprawl limits are referred to as "growth management", and come through various laws—conservation easements; local, state or federal parkland preserves; large-lot zoning; and best known of all, Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs).
UGBs are invisible lines that are drawn around certain metros, and represent where urbanized development must stop. They are generally enforced by regional bureaucracies, since they involve many municipalities working together and require periodic extension. Other localities have alternative forms of growth management that function like UGBs, and that are even less flexible.
There are usually two rationales for growth management. The first is environmental: it preserves natural areas on the metro fringe. That goal seems short-sighted, for reasons I'll state below. The second is that growth management helps contain infrastructure costs. If growth cannot extend beyond a boundary, or does so incrementally, it will prevent excess extension of roads, pipes, etc. That might be a valid benefit, and one I'll explore in a later article.
In this piece, however, I'm more interested in the costs of growth management. The main one is affordability; when governments draw lines where growth can and cannot go, it reduces the supply of buildable land, and thus also the supply of housing.
This makes housing more expensive, according to the economic literature. One study, titled "A Line in the Land", found that in various U.S. cities, growth restraints led to price increases and political manipulation by NIMBYs. Other studies, focusing on Portland, said that pre-UGB the city never had home price medians above the national median. But the UGB caused a price spike in the early 1990s, and has continued, writes Portland State University business professor Gerard Mildner, because of the UGB's rigidity.
"Since 1980," he writes, "the area inside Portland's UGB has expanded by 10%, while the population of the metropolitan area has grown by 78%."
Now Portland's home price medians are $467,000, nearly double the national median. The metro issues far fewer permits relative to population than famously elastic markets like Dallas and Houston.
Growth management advocates often say that metros can maintain their housing elasticity by upzoning the core. But this often isn't allowed either, due to the density limits described above. Instead they become places that can't grow anywhere—up, in, or out.
Randal O'Toole, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, argues that even if these metros allowed ample infill, they would not become affordable with growth containment policies still in place. Because peripheral land is cheaper, and low-rise suburban tract housing easier to build, suburban greenfields are more hardwired for affordability than infill neighborhoods, he believes. In a recent public debate, O'Toole noted that every state has low-density zoning, but only some struggle with affordability. They are generally the ones that instituted strict suburban growth management policies. The suggestion is that these arbitrary lines are part of the regulatory salad that makes housing expensive, and may even be the most significant regulation of all.
Beyond affordability issues, growth management amounts to an oversimplified approach to urbanism. The main reason boils down to the fact that cities are complex. They have millions of people and businesses, all with different needs, and peripheral land is often most suitable for meeting those needs—from industrial companies that want cheap horizontal land, to young families who want quiet places to raise children. It is unsurprising, then, that consumer surveys often show a preference for single-family homes, and that cities have, since the inception of streetcars and automobiles, become decentralized—it is how many Americans want to live.
Growth containment laws posit that all these complex operations should occur inside a narrow boundary, whether or not expensive urban land is the best place for them. This violates "comparative advantage"—an economic principle stating that different land areas have different optimum uses—and is tyrannical to boot.
The expectation, in hand, that land directly outside a major city should be "preserved" also defies comparative advantage. The optimum use for suburban land is usually development—homes, stores, offices, factories—which is why developers build it there. Natural amenities are still available when driving an hour or two outside most major U.S. cities. There's no point in forcing the suburban areas right next to cities also to be farms and forests. It's a bit of agrarian-romanticism that ignores the entire point of urbanization.
But the most ironic thing about growth containment is that it may worsen sprawl.
In Portland, the UGB only extends 10-15 miles east, west and south beyond city limits (Portland's northern boundary is Vancouver, WA). That is a limited buildable area for a 2.2-million-person metro, and causes people to leapfrog to distant cities.
Consider: 8 of Oregon's 10 fastest-growing cities sit right inside the edge of Portland's UGB, showing the demand for suburban sprawl and the desire to live near, but not in, the city. In a free market, Portland's workforce would likely sprawl another 10 or 20 miles beyond the UGB. In its current regulated market, workers don't have this option, and many can't afford housing within the UGB—especially along its border. So, they move to Vancouver, where growth has been faster than in Portland, and where commute times into Portland have increased 300%. Or they move to Salem or Corvallis, which, according to demographer Wendell Cox, both have a sizable percentage of residents who commute into Portland. As a result, Portland's commuter statistical area is now comparable to larger metros like New York.
"Perhaps the greatest irony is that an 'urban containment' policy designed to prevent sprawl could well be accelerating it," wrote Cox in New Geography. "Higher prices, in part due to [the UGB], have forced more people to look ever further for housing that is affordable."
A similar effect can be found in Boulder, CO, Charlottesville, VA, San Francisco, or other cities surrounded by green preserves. Housing within the urbanized core is expensive, and housing on the immediate suburban fringe can't be built. Therefore, the working classes live in far exurban towns and commute in. This negates the apparent "environmental" benefits of growth containment, and thwarts the urbanization process.


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Rabbi helps seniors with life transitions, also serves Reform congregation
With Jewish Family Services, Rabbi Tamar Malino helps seniors and their families transition from more to less independence.
With Reform Congregation Emanu-El, she sees her role as helping offer the Jewish community in Spokane a diverse option for expressing their religion and culture. She values both the Conservative and Reform traditions.
Rabbi Tamar Malino serves Jewish Family Services and Congregation Emanu-El in Spokane
As director of the Spokane Area Jewish Family Services (SAJFS) and part-time rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, she seeks to strengthen the Jewish community in the region.
In October 2010, Tamar began as director of Jewish Family Services, which started in 1998. She shares an office at Temple Beth Shalom with assistant director, Iris Berenstein.
In 2011, she began working at Congregation Emanu-El, creating a religion school program for the 50-family congregation.
The focus of Jewish Family Services is on senior services and their families. Both Tamar and Iris, who began with SAJFS in 2009, go on home visits.
"Both seniors and their families find it tough to acknowledge the senior's increasing frailty," Tamar said. "Today's generation of seniors lived independently and have a fighting spirit that makes the transition harder, sometimes to their detriment."
They struggle with taking medicines and with giving up driving.
"Family members are reluctant to enter into a power struggle with their parents. Family want to respect their parents' dignity as they give up each level of independence," Tamar pointed out.
Those for whom the transition is smoothest planned ahead, making arrangements for when they were less competent. Many left their homes and moved into smaller homes or into living situations with graduated care.
Jewish Family Services also helps seniors know their options financially and how to handle the financial pieces of their lives.
"In our society, we often give the message that 'if you're not useful, you're not worthy.' The message from the religious community is that everyone is created in the image of God, deserving dignity, respect and care at any stage of life," Tamar said.
"Older people can still communicate their love and can focus on the relationships they have and their families," she said.
Similarly, Tamar and Iris help seniors and families see that the love and care they give each other are what's most important.
They serve 90 people, mostly Jewish, filling their needs, providing information and referrals, and helping with transportation to medical visits.
Jewish Family Services also helps coordinate with the Mitzvah Corps, which provides meals, and has a small food pantry. SAJFS also assists some people with rent and utility bills, but mostly does case management and referrals.
Because the Jewish community in Spokane is too small to support a Jewish Federation, which in other communities sponsors cultural events, SAJFS helps sponsor an annual Jewish Film Festival, a PJ Library that sends free Jewish books to children, and includes social and educational programs such as a recent children' sing-a-long in Manito Park.
Tamar then told of her work with Congregation Emanu-El.
"I have an affinity for both Conservative and Reform Judaism. My family was involved in both," said Tamar, who grew up in a Jewish family in Greensboro, N.C.—the daughter and granddaughter of rabbis who are also committed to Jewish pluralism.
"In an area such as Spokane with a small Jewish community—about 400 families—she believes it's important to support everything that is going on. Temple Beth Shalom has about 206 families affiliated, she said.
"I hope there is a place for everyone who wants to be involved religiously and culturally in the Jewish community," she said. "Diversity and choices are good."
The 50-family congregation formed in 2008, a merger of two Reform congregations—Beth Haverim and Ner Tamid. Both began meeting in the 1990s. Each affiliated with the Union of Reform Judiasm in 2001 and 2002 respectively.
In 1965, Spokane's Reform Temple Emanu-El—formed in 1890—and Orthodox Temple Keneseth Israel—formed in 1901—merged to form Temple Beth Shalom. They met at the Unitarian Universalist Church until their building was completed at 1322 E. 30th Ave.
Tamar is the first resident ordained rabbi for Congregation Emanu-El—albeit working quarter time—which meets at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Previously, rabbinical students helped serve the congregation.
After she completed a degree in Judaic, Near Eastern and religious studies in 1994 at Oberlin College in Ohio, she spent a year at the Pardes Institute in Israel, studying Jewish texts, solidifying her decision to enter rabbinical studies.
She studied a year at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York City, but completed her studies in 2001 at the Reform Seminary, Hebrew Union College also in New York.
Tamar then spent eight years serving as rabbi of a congregation of 650 families in San Diego. It was one of 20 synagogues in the city. She served two years in the San Francisco Bay area before moving to Spokane.
"Being small, Congregation Emanu-el is nimble and can experiment," she noted. "We can try something and if it doesn't work, we can change it."
She knows that many Jewish families in the area are affiliated, so there is a role for the Reform congregation reaching out to those who have not found a connection.
Tamar described some of the differences between Conservative and Reform Judaism:
• Conservative Judaism advocates adhering to a historically evolving version of traditional Jewish law, and Reform advocates studying Jewish law and teachings to inform people's choices on their practices.
• There's a difference in worship style and use of Hebrew in worship: "Conservative congregations use more Hebrew, and Reform use English and Hebrew, with more vernacular liturgy and contemporary music and poetry," she explained.
• The Conservative tradition considers someone Jewish if their mother is Jewish or they convert. In the 1970s, Reform Jews began to accept someone as Jewish, if either parent is Jewish and they are raised Jewish.
"Emanu-El welcomes interfaith families, given Spokane's demographics," she said. "A majority of the congregation are in interfaith families."
• There are also differences in celebrating the high holy days. For example, both traditions encourage fasting for Yom Kippur," she said, but Conservative may speak more of "having to" fast and Reform may say people "should" fast.
Another difference is that Conservative Jews usually celebrate one day more for High Holy Days, two days for Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year, compared to Reform celebrating one day.
"Those living outside Israel are to add one day to Holy Days," she said, "but the Reform movement focuses on calculation of time based on the 21st century."
After Rosh Hashanah come ten days of repentance and then Yom Kippur, the "Day of Atonement."
The Jewish faith uses a lunar calendar with a solar correction nine out of every 17 years, shes said, so all the holidays are in the same season. In contrast, she said Muslims also use a lunar calendar without the correction, so their holidays move around the year.
At Emanu-El, Rosh Hashanah services are Sunday evening and Monday, Sept. 16 and 17, Yom Kippur services are Wednesday evening and Thursday, Sept. 25 and 26, a Sukkot celebration is Sunday, Sept. 30, and Simchat Torah is Sunday evening, Oct. 7. Emalnu-El will also offer a "Taste of Judaism" class in the fall.
As a member of Temple Beth Shalom, rabbi of Congregation Emanu-el, and director of SAJFS, she wants to help the Jewish community in Spokane flourish.
For information, call 747-7394 or email director@sajfs.org or Congregation Emanu-el 835-5050. info@spokaneemanuel.org.
Copyright ©September 2012 - The Fig Tree
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Russia?s Foreign Policy
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The United States of Europe Is Obviously Premature.
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I remember trying to explain to my small children what a "country" is. They understood neighborhood because we could walk around those streets. They even understood city because we could drive around such a recognizable entity. It was a little more difficult to understand state and really difficult to understand country. When they were a little older, they played with geography puzzles and learned to recognize the states that made up "the United States" and later "the world" and eventual more...
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If the thugs in ISIS were not so busy decapitating people, we might have been paying more attention to a longer-term hostile force, Russia. Russia has been an important target of Western attention since the 19th century, when this once backward, frozen backwater came to life and proceeded to conquer and colonize all the countries across Central Asia (the old Silk Route), ending on China's border on the Pacific Ocean. They controlled 11 time zones and warranted watching.
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What the Map Can Tell You.
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I am of a generation that remembered geography as one of my favorite subjects in grade school, a subject no longer taught. We learned to read maps, study globes, and learn about the various cultures of the world. In art class, we drew pictures of the various peoples around the world with distinctive clothes (the Dutch with wooden shoes and pointy caps or the Chinese with silk pajamas and long pigtails). Geography was not just memorizing world capital cities.
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Many of us miss the Cold War, not because it was without violence (there was, but nothing like that of the two World Wars), but because the antagonist was so interesting. As Churchill once said, "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." But perhaps it is not as mysterious as we thought then. We only need look at its geography and history to see inevitable continuity---an eternal Russia.
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Pakistan & India second round of talks on Kartarpur corridor, a key border crossing for Sikh pilgrims, ended with positive developments
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Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange
MLDE Issue Brief – Trust
Building Trust for Inter-Organizational Data Sharing: The Case of the MLDE
Written by Heather McKay, Sara Haviland, and Suzanne Michael
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Education and Employment Research Center
The Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange (MLDE) facilitates data sharing between states from K-12 education, higher education, and labor agencies. Its goal is to provide practitioners, policymakers, and researchers with a comprehensive secure data source to understand educational and career trajectories, including those of individuals who cross state lines, to improve policies and programs serving students and provide better consumer information. The exchange, begun as a pilot in 2010, is a collaboration between the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) and state agencies that house education and workforce data in multiple states. The MLDE has been largely funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Education & Employment Research Center (EERC) within the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has conducted research and evaluation on the inaugural years of the MLDE. This EERC brief is one of a series[1] that explores the development of the MLDE and details the lessons learned about building and using longitudinal multistate data systems for policy and practice.
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In today's data-driven environment, decision-makers and the public seek information that is relevant, reliable, and complete as they assess the efficacy of policies and programs already in place and consider new policy options. Public agencies are often called upon to provide the needed information, even though on their own they may lack access to all the data required to paint a complete picture.
There is increasing interest in sharing data across agencies and even between states that was once siloed in separate agencies. Driving this is a need to better understand how people experience education and work, and their pathways through each. A data-sharing approach offers many possible advantages, allowing states to leverage pre-existing data systems to conduct increasingly sophisticated and complete analyses. However, information sharing across state organizations presents a series of complex challenges, one of which is the central role trust plays in building successful data-sharing systems. Trust building between organizations is therefore crucial to ensuring project success.[2]
This brief examines the process of building trust within the context of the development and implementation of the MLDE. The brief is based on research and evaluation activities conducted by Rutgers' Education & Employment Research Center (EERC) over the past five years, which included 40 interviews with state leaders and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) staff, observations of user group meetings, surveys, and MLDE document analysis. It is one in a series of MLDE briefs developed by EERC.
The Foundation of Data Sharing
Data security, the protection of individual anonymity, and the appropriate use of data are the cornerstones of public data policy. Individual agencies are tasked with keeping their data safe, subject to federal and state laws, and accountable to the public. The MLDE is a voluntary exchange; there is no direct mandate for states to participate. Data professionals in each state must make the case to their governing bodies that it is worthwhile to join and that data will be secure, their citizens' privacy will be protected, and data analysis will be used for the public's best interest.
As such, state leaders and their educational and workforce agencies must believe that any data they share will be treated with the same care they would apply and only utilize in a set of narrowly defined and mutually agreed upon research and evaluation purposes. In short, trust is the foundation of any data-sharing agreement between agencies, and data professionals depend on their counterparts in other states to cooperate with a shared set of standards and values – even if they have not worked together in the past. As demonstrated by the MLDE expansion process, trust between organizations can be built using active strategies such as inclusive collaboration in the development of the structures of the exchange and continuous quality assurance efforts that give voice to all members of the exchange. This process of involvement and inclusion mirrors similar processes in intrastate data sharing and development of State Longitudinal Data Systems.
Inclusive Collaboration
Early in the process of expanding the MLDE to more states, WICHE assumed a role as facilitator rather than dictating the terms of the expansion. To ensure that states had an opportunity to help develop the exchange to meet their needs, three working groups were formed:
The Data Exchange Architecture and Design group addressed issues around exchange infrastructure.[3]
The Governance and Sustainability group developed a detailed structure to oversee and manage the process, including processes that invest ongoing decision-making authority for the MLDE in an efficient group of leaders that represents all states and sectors in the exchange.[4] Governance of a complex exchange is as important (if not more) as the technical infrastructure. The proposed governance of the exchange is detailed in an additional brief here: [INSERT LINK TO GOVERNANCE BRIEF HERE]
The Data Use and Reporting group focused on the development of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and the potential uses and publications that might derive from the exchange.
The working groups were comprised of data professionals from states already in the exchange as well as individuals from some states intending to participate. Involving non-committed states early on ensured that multiple state systems were considered in the development process. It also gave actual and potential exchange participants opportunities to get to know one another, and for the newer states to learn from the experience of those who had participated in the original four state pilots. In addition, non-committed states had the chance to share both their visions and concerns, thereby helping to shape the formalization of the exchange and its protocols. As a result, the products of the MLDE working groups are detailed, mutually agreeable, and include plans on how future decision-making will be handled.
The above collaborations created a well-defined governance structure as well as policies that clearly detail how and where data are stored and how data can be used. In practice, this means that states must develop detailed protocols about their own data collection, storage, access, and security, and be open to sharing this information with others. The sharing of data-related information has created a transparent system, which has helped to build further trust between current collaborators. In addition, it has set the stage for new states to join a culture of cooperation, teamwork, and trust.
Further, WICHE and the members of the working groups created and disseminated materials expressly designed to communicate and explain these structures and processes in a clear and understandable format. This transparency has been another important part of the process of building a "culture of trust,"[5] especially among new and potential member states that were not part of the initial collaborations. In addition, WICHE created opportunities for working-group members to socialize together through in-person gatherings and over dinners throughout the project period, which helped to develop a sense of camaraderie.
Continuous Quality Assurance
Quality assurance (QA) is another tool WICHE has used to facilitate trust between itself and state partners, making transparency and collaboration the cornerstone of the MLDE. From the beginning of the four-state pilot phase, WICHE has made a point of disclosing the results of all technology and data-sharing tests conducted throughout the MLDE's development. As a result, the pilot phase informed the expansion phase, and the testing done during the expansion phase – the soft launch of summer 2017 – informed the process of formalizing the MLDE. The feedback that emerged out of each stage enabled current and potential participants to better understand how the MLDE operates while they were actively engaged in the development of mutually acceptable policies and procedures. This has strengthened the trust of stakeholders and increased buy-in about the value of the MLDE.
Finally, throughout the development of the MLDE, WICHE solicited feedback from current and potential stakeholders via anonymous surveys and interviews conducted by EERC in its role as the MLDE's third-party evaluators. These evaluation data have helped WICHE identify and address additional issues or concerns and to alter certain aspects of the exchange in ways that made it more responsive and useful to the states. For example, the EERC found that some states wanted to know more about how the state data contained in the MLDE might benefit them specifically. In response, WICHE modified its recruitment strategy to focus on certain regions where meaningful connections could be made. This recruitment approach was discussed in meetings with the larger coalition of partners and potential joiners.
The building of trust across multiple states and organizations requires a commitment from the beginning to be transparent, collaborative, and respectful. In fact, the paradigm or model used to develop a new entity must mirror the culture best suited to its long-term survival. With regard to trust building, then, it is necessary to engage actual and potential stakeholders in developing mutually agreed upon policies as well as a governance structure that both enables and encourages input and decision-making from stakeholders. Continuous feedback loops, including the use of external evaluators, are also necessary to ensure that stakeholder concerns can be identified and addressed in a timely manner. Such responsiveness further enhances a sense of trust and ownership in the created organization and bodes well for its ongoing success.
For further information about the MLDE, please contact Patrick Lane at plane@wiche.edu, or visit the project website: https://www.wiche.edu/key-initiatives/multistate-longitudinal-data-exchange/. The other briefs in this series include: Building A Multistate Governance System, Diffusion of an Innovation: Lessons from the Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange, Designing the Architecture of a Multistate Data Sharing Model, and Documenting the Value of Non-Degree Credentials: The Potential Role of the Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange.
For further information about evaluation research in data sharing or workforce development, please contact Heather McKay, director of Rutgers' Education & Employment Research Center, at hmckay@rutgers.edu, or visit the Center's website: http://smlr.rutgers.edu/eerc.
[1] The other briefs in this series include: Building A Multistate Governance System, Diffusion of an Innovation: Lessons from the Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange, Designing the Architecture of a Multistate Data Sharing Model, and Documenting the Value of Non-Degree Credentials: The Potential Role of the Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange. Available from the WICHE website at https://www.wiche.edu/key-initiatives/multistate-longitudinal-data-exchange/.
[2] J. Ramon Gil-Garcia and Djoko Sigit Sayogo, "Government Inter-Organizational Information Sharing Initiatives: Understanding the Main Determinants for Success," Government Information Quarterly 33 (2016), 572–582. Wioleta Kurshaska, "Relationships Between Trust and Collaborative Culture in the Context of Tacit Knowledge Sharing," Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation 13, no.4 (2017), 61–78.
[3] Rutgers' Education and Employment Research Center, Designing the Architecture of a Multistate Data Sharing Model (Boulder, CO: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, forthcoming).
[4] Heather McKay, Sara Haviland, and Suzanne Michael, Building a Multistate Governance System (Boulder, CO: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2020).
[5] Gil-Garcia and Sayogo, "Government Inter-Organizational." Kurshaska, "Relationships between Trust."
Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon and Djoko Sigit Sayogo. "Government Inter-Organizational Information Sharing Initiatives: Understanding the Main Determinants for Success." Government Information Quarterly 33 (2016), 572–582.
Kurshaska, Wioleta. Relationships Between Trust and Collaborative Culture in the Context of Tacit Knowledge Sharing. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation 13, no.4 (2017), 61–78.
McKay, Heather, Sara Haviland, and Suzanne Michael. Building a Multistate Governance System. Boulder, CO: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2020.
Rutgers' Education and Employment Research Center. Designing the Architecture of a Multistate Data Sharing Model. Boulder, CO: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, forthcoming.


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(April 18 '15) Smash 4 Wii Tournament, Washington, D.C. (Laughing Man Tavern): D.C. eSports	No rating results yet
By Greg B. on March 21, 2015 on D.C. eSports, Events, Nintendo, Smash Bros, Tournaments
Saturday, April 18 at 1:00pm – 8:00pm
The Laughing Man
1306 G St NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20005
Facebook Event Page HERE:
We've been itching to get back to hosting tournaments here in the area, so we're very excited to announce a Smash 4 event right in the heart of DC!
– Venue Fee: $5* (Part of the venue fee will be going towards the Extra Life Chapter in D.C. to help support the Children's National Medical Center)
– Entry Fee: $5
*First 6 People to commit to bringing a Wii U Setup (Console, Game, Official Nintendo GC Adapter) will receive a $3 refund from their venue fee at the end of the event.
Nearest Metro Stop: Metro Center (Red, Orange & Blue Line). The bar is near the corner of 13th and G.
Payouts:
≤ 32 Entrants
1st: 50%
2nd: 25%
3rd: 15%
4th: 10%
5th: 5% each
> 64 Entrants
7th: 2.5% each
Tournament Format:
– Double-elimination bracket
– Each match will be played in a Best of 3 format except for Winners Finals, Losers Finals, and Grand Finals, which will be played in a Best of 5 format.
– 2 stocks, 5 minutes
– Items are set to "off" and "none"
– Customs are ON. Following the EVO ruleset, we will be using custom pre-sets for each character.
– You cannot re-select a stage you have won on as a counterpick.
– Controller ports will be decided by players. If there is a conflict, a game of RPS should settle the dispute.
– You can switch controller ports on your counterpick only.
– Any controller issues found mid-game is your own responsibility. If you need to reset, your opponent will have to agree to a reset as doing so will require you to pause the match.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CONTROLS ARE CORRECT BEFORE BEGINNING A MATCH.
– Stalling is banned.
– If the game freezes (intentionally or unintentionally) due to the actions of a character, that player loses that game. This is a very rare occurrence, and you are expected to know the boundaries of your character.
– If a player pauses in the middle of a game (unless by request of a TO), that player must lose his/her current stock.
– A match ending in simultaneous death does not go to the initiator. If the result is sudden death from this, use the normal tiebreaking rules (below) to determine the winner. Otherwise use who the game declared the winner.
– If the timer runs out, the winner is determined first by stock, then by percentage. If there is a tie in both stock and percentage, then follow the tie-breaking procedures outlined below.
– Any and all infinites must end at 300%, otherwise it becomes stalling. All infinites are entirely legal otherwise.
– BYOC (Bring your own controller).
– Coaching mid-match is banned.
Match Procedure:
1. Both players select a character (blind pick can be requested)
2. From the "Starters" stage list, Player A strikes 1 stage, Player B strikes 2 stages, Player A strikes 1 stage, resulting in the stage to be played for Game 1.
3. Game 1 is played.
4. Winning player bans 1 stage from the Starters and Counterpick stage list.
5. Losing player picks the next stage to be played on.
6. Winning player chooses character (does not have to stay the same character).
7. Losing player chooses character.
8. Next game is played.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 if the game goes to game 3.
Tie-breaking Procedure:
1. In the event of a tie game (stock and percentages are equal when the clock runs out, or a simultaneous K.O happens that is not resolved by the game), a 1 stock, 3 minute game will be played.
2. If this match results in another tie, a 1 stock, no time limit game will be played to determine the winner.
Stage List
Smashville
(Omega) Palutena's Temple
Lylat Cruise
Town & City
Counterpicks:
Duck Hunt
Castle Siege
Omega Stage (any from the following: Battlefield, Final Destination, Pyrosphere, Mushroom Kingdom U, Wii Fit Studio, Palutena's Temple, Smashville, Wuhu Island)
Banning "Omega Stage" means that ALL Omega Stages are banned.
If a stage in the omega list is banned (i.e. Smashville) it's omega form is also banned.
Recording Setup:
Unfortunately due to venue limitations, the internet isn't sufficient to sustain a live stream of this event. We will, however, be recording as many matches as we can. These recorded matches will be uploaded to YouTube following the event at http://www.youtube.com/DCeSportsLANs.