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Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, née à Sursee le  et morte dans la même ville le , est une peintre suisse.

Biographie
Elle fait partie d'une famille de peintres sur verre. Elle est la fille de Johann Peter Abesch et de Elisabeth Schnyder. Les différents dictionnaires mentionnent plusieurs orthographes pour le nom de famille : Ab Esch, Abäsch, Vonesch, Von Äsch, Von Esch.

Elle apprend la technique avec son père et elle est la première femme suisse à exercer le métier de peintre sur verre. Elle peint principalement des scènes religieuses et mythologiques. Une partie de ses œuvres porte le monogramme A.B.V.E. Plus de 160 œuvres sont signées et 120 lui sont attribuées. Elle aurait ouvert un atelier dans sa ville natale pour répondre aux commandes des couvents de la région.

Collections publiques
On trouve ses œuvres à la Stiftung Stadtmuseum à Sursee, à la Edmund Müller-Stiftung à Beromünster, au Musée national suisse à Zurich (notamment Die Legende vom Pferd des Grafen Rudolf von Habsburg), au Musée d'histoire de Berne, au Toggenburger Museum à Lichtensteig, ainsi que dans des couvents et des églises en Suisse et en Allemagne.
Le Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève possède deux peintures sous verre : La Visitation et Le mariage mystique de Sainte Catherine.

Bibliographie
 Brun, Carl. - Dictionnaire des artistes suisses. - Frauenfeld : Huber, 1905-1917. - Vol. 1,
 Thieme-Becker. - Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. - Leipzig : W. Engelmann : [puis] E. A. Seemann, 1907-1950. - Vol. 1,
 Staffelbach, Georg. - Geschichte der Luzerner Hinterglasmalerei von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. - Luzern : D. Schilling, 1951
 Petteys, Chris. - Dictionary of women artists : an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. - Boston Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1985,
 Sprenger-Viol, Inge. - Anna Barbara Ab Esch : Beruf Hinterglasmalerin. Dans: Luzerner Tagblatt, 30.07.1986, p. 17
 Jolidon, Yves. - Der hl. Eustachius nach Dürer : ein Hinterglasgemälde von Anna Barbara Abesch. Dans: Unsere Kunstdenkmäler. - Bern. - Jg. 44(1993), Nr. 2,
 Dictionnaire biographique de l'art suisse. - Zürich : Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1998. - Vol. 1,
 Bénézit, Emmanuel. - Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. - Paris : Gründ, 1999. - Vol. 1,
 Schmidt-Liebich, Jochen. - Lexikon der Künstlerinnen : 1700-1900 : Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz. - München : K.G. Saur, 2005,
 Fuertes y Koreska, Helena. - Konservierung und Restaurierung des Hinterglasgemäldes "Thronbesteigung des König Joas" von Anna Barbara Abesch. Dans: Die Sammlung : Geschenke, Erwerbungen, Konservierungen. - Zürich. - 2008/2009. -
 Oxford Art Online

Sources

 Markus Lischer, article Anna Barbara Abesch dans le Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse en ligne, version du 30 avril 2001

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Article du projet BAA/Genève
Peintre suisse du XVIIIe siècle
Peintre lucernois
Naissance à Sursee
Naissance en mars 1706
Décès en février 1773
Décès à 66 ans
Femme peintre suisse

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Plastic and paper bag ban passed by NJ Senate — again
TRENTON — Legislation that would eventually ban plastic and paper bags from being used at retail shops and restaurants in New Jersey was passed Thursday by the Senate, putting it back before the Assembly, where it stalled two months ago.
The bill is slightly different than the one that sputtered on the last day of the last session, as the restriction on plastic bags, paper bags and Styrofoam food containers would take effect in 18 months, rather than two years. It also restricts plastic straws at restaurants, unless customers request them.
"The flag is now in the sand," said state Sen. Bob Smith, D-Middlesex. "It goes over to the Assembly. We're going to implore the speaker and the Assembly to, if they need amendments, put the amendments on it and send it back to us. Let's all know what we're doing here."
Smith said he would have preferred a bill that would have moved more quickly to reusable bags and eliminated paper and plastic bags from the waste stream.
"I think you had to start the legislative process. And this bill is not perfect. It's good, but it's not perfect. And there's room for discussion and amendment," Smith said.
One difference on the bill remains the effective date of the bans on plastic and paper bags and whether they should be simultaneous. Another once-controversial provision that would have required stores to give away reusable bags for a period of time has been scrapped, with the state instead planning to spend $500,000 a year for three years from its Clean Communities Fund for that distribution.
"We'll work with the Assembly and see where we can go with it," said Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester. "One of the reasons why we included plastic and paper was that since the plastic bag ban in New York, you can't get paper bags. A lot of these, like the ShopRites of the world, can't get the supplies they need and the prices are going up. And the price will only go up even more."
The bill, S864, passed 22-14. All the votes in favor were cast by Democrats. One Democrat – Nick Sacco, D-Hudson – joined 13 Republican in voting against it.
Four senators were present but didn't vote: Dawn Marie Addiego, D-Burlington; Christopher "Kip" Bateman, R-Somerset; Chris Brown, R-Atlantic; and Nilsa Cruz-Perez, D-Camden. Bateman and Brown had voted in favor of the earlier bill in January, which passed 21-14.
The bill was referred to the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee, which is next scheduled to meet on March 16.
Environmental activists said they hope the Assembly acts on the bill this month, before the budget break idles most other legislation activity for six weeks. They said over 70 cities and towns have now passed ordinances related to plastic bags, Styrofoam and straws.
"Today was important because now the Assembly will be running out of excuses," said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. "Before it was it was the end of the session. Now they don't have that excuse. Earth Day is coming up. It's the 50th anniversary. This would be a great bill to have the governor sign by then."
"We want to ensure that plastics are not the scourge on the community that they are right now," said Doug O'Malley, director of Environment New Jersey.
Filed Under: Bob Smith, Doug O'Malley, Jeff Tittel, Steve Sweeney

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Source code related to StackOverflow question [How Locale could be used in multithreaded application to improve performance](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31987777)

The user [@Erdem Emekligil](https://stackoverflow.com/users/3310251/erdem-emekligil) discovered some performance decrease when using `string.toUppercase()` with a Turkish locale in a multi-threaded application.

```
private Locale locale = new Locale("tr", "TR");

public void calculate(String arg1){
    String uppercase = arg1.toUpperCase(locale);
	...
}
```
The reason for the discovered behaviour was posted by user [@sibnick](https://stackoverflow.com/users/159923/sibnick)

> After short exploring it looks like JDK can't help you. I suggest get `java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing` class, copy it and fix problem with Hashtable. You may replace `Hashtable` with `HashMap`. I do not see any reason for using `Hashtable` here.

The code in this project runs some [JHM](https://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh) benchmarks.

 - upperCaseEN - calls `toUpperCase()` with English locale
 - upperCaseTR - calls `toUpperCase()` with Turkish locale
 - upperCasePatchedTR - `toUpperCase()` in case the string contains a `i` it used the Turkish locale (the upper case `i` will be `İ`) otherwise it uses the English locale

There is also one additional test how the performance is changed when `java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing` would use a `HashMap` instead of `Hashtable` internally.

---

Find below the steps to run benchmarks.

### preparation

In the current directory a sub-directory `./jdk8` with a JDK 8 installation is assumed. (which might be a symlink to an existing installation)

### compile

Compile the benchmarks and the patched version of `java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing` which uses a `HashMap` instead of a `HashTable` with

```
./compile.sh
```

### patch JRE

For running the test `upperCaseTR` executed with a patched `java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing` execute

```
./patch-jre.sh
```

The script creates a copy of the JRE from `./jre8` to `./jre8.patched` and replaces class `java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing` in the `rt.jar`.

### running the benchmarks

Executing

```
./run-benchmarks.sh
```

will execute following benchmarks

**_for JRE 8_**

 - upperCaseEN
 - upperCaseTR
 - upperCasePatchedTR

example result (results will be different on your machine)

```
Benchmark                        Mode  Cnt     Score    Error   Units
MyBenchmark.upperCaseEN         thrpt   25  9510.240 ± 57.932  ops/ms
MyBenchmark.upperCasePatchedTR  thrpt   25  8671.593 ± 80.248  ops/ms
MyBenchmark.upperCaseTR         thrpt   25   982.747 ± 21.723  ops/ms
```

**_for JRE with patched java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing_**

 - upperCaseTR

example result (results will be different on your machine)

```
Benchmark                 Mode  Cnt     Score     Error   Units
MyBenchmark.upperCaseTR  thrpt   25  3563.289 ± 102.668  ops/ms
```

In the log it's also printed that the patched class was used

```
# Warmup Iteration   1: patched class java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing
```

### interesting

Running the benchmarks with JDK 13 increases the performance between about 45% and 60%.

```
Benchmark                        Mode  Cnt      Score     Error   Units
MyBenchmark.upperCaseEN         thrpt   25  15488.625 ± 535.825  ops/ms
MyBenchmark.upperCasePatchedTR  thrpt   25  12624.747 ± 531.672  ops/ms
MyBenchmark.upperCaseTR         thrpt   25   1464.932 ±  43.479  ops/ms
```

### what's not done

There was no kind of investigation if replacing the `Hashtable` in class `java.lang.ConditionalSpecialCasing` by a `HashMap` might have some unexpected side effects in a multi-threaded environment.

---

### disclaimer

See the source as a PoC and not as production ready.

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Birds of a feather: Barkindji artist Kent Morris looks to his past on Australian rooftops
Kent Morris' "Unvanished" is at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection through May 5. Photo by Tom Cogill
Erin O'Hare
Kent Morris stands in the lobby of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection with a big grin on his face. He's just in from a birding excursion through Charlottesville-area marshes, and swiping through photos on his phone: here's a few of a bald eagle, and a few of its nest. Here's one of a native bird perched in a budding tree, and one of Morris himself, standing in shin-deep water, his digital camera slung over his shoulder.
Morris, a Barkindji artist who lives and works in St. Kilda, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, is in town for his photography exhibition "Unvanished," on view at the Kluge-Ruhe through May 5. It's his first full exhibition outside of Australia, and after showing a few more photos, he slips his phone into his pocket and heads into the gallery room.
Standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by colorful, geometric, symmetrical images, he asks if I know what I'm looking at. I do not.
"Birds on roofs!" he exclaims, his laughter echoing out of the gallery.
When I see it, I almost feel silly for not noticing it before—it's right there.
Boon Wurrung (St Kilda) – Rainbow Lorikeet, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist
"I'm trying to make what's unseen, seen," says Morris. "Unvanished" is a story of journey and travel, of connections to country. It is a story of survival via forced adaptation, he says, a story of people whose cultures and histories have been wiped from the physical landscape and survived in objects (such as the shields Morris' images reference) and in people.
Many Aboriginal language, tribal, and nation groups have strong connections to birds—spiritual, ecological—and with "Unvanished," Morris adds one of shared experience. Like Aboriginal peoples, birds have been forced out of their habitats by Western culture and urbanization. They perch not on trees, but on roofs.
"We'll start here," says Morris, crossing the gallery to stand in front of "Barkindji (Bourke)-Magpie-lark," an image of a black and white magpie-lark (or peewee) perched on a corrugated metal roof, a blue cable under its foot.
"This is shot on my country, on Barkindji country," in what is now called Bourke, in the outback of northwestern New South Wales, says Morris.
The peewee is an important figure in the Barkindji creation story. Two traveling rainbow serpents knock the peewee out of his nest and chase him, and in their path leave two rivers, including the Darling River, the lifeblood of the Barkindji people.
While visiting family and walking Barkindji country, Morris spotted a peewee perched on the roof of the local bowling club, which has become a gathering place for Aboriginal peoples in the area. "It was a really classic moment, because, here is the creator, here now, on a contemporary place where we all gather and exchange stories and histories and meet to find each other," he says.
Some of Morris' paternal great great uncles and aunts were forcibly removed from their ancestral land by the government, placed on a truck and carted away; his father, like many other Aboriginal teenagers, was fostered by a white family. When Morris walks this land, he feels connected to it, and it pains him to see that there's "really nothing to recognize" Aboriginal culture here.
Boon Wurrung (St Kilda) – Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist
What's more, Western farming practices are destroying the Darling River. People today are not living in sync with nature, but we should reflect, deeply, on our relationship to the land upon which we live, and aim to live in balance with it, says Morris, explaining his use of mirroring and symmetry.
"Culture and knowledge has been, in areas, really fragmented and displaced," he says, and his work aims to "piece it back together into something that is a whole."
In another image there's a blue-faced honeyeater on the roof of his sister's house in Hervey Bay, in Queensland, on the land of the Butchulla people. The 10th image is of a corella on a roof in Broken Hill, the town where Morris' father grew up. As Morris travels to maintain his ties to family, to country, he creates visible evidence to keep his culture strong.
Morris understands this duty as an artist, and as a Barkindji man. "You are part of something, he says. "You have responsibilities. Your ancestors are watching, your elders are watching."
To people who have not been removed from their land or forced to give up their culture, the story Morris' photography tells might seem remarkable. It is absolutely compelling, and Morris wants people to know it is not unique. It is imperative to acknowledge that this has been done not just to him and his family, he says, but to millions of people all over the world, including here in the Charlottesville area, where it happened to the people of the Monacan Indian Nation.
It is also imperative to acknowledge that many of these identities, these cultures, have not vanished. They have adapted, and art can be an easy way of getting people to begin to understand this.
"There's a lot in these birds on roofs," says Morris, his hearty laughter reverberating through the gallery. "I'm telling ya!"
Kent Morris' "Unvanished" is at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection through May 5.
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The Messer Group is set to build the largest industrial gases production facility in Vietnam after signing a new supply deal with the country's largest steel producer.
Under the contract with Hoa Phat Steel, Messer will construct two plants in the Dung Quat economic zone in South Central Vietnam to supply oxygen (O2), nitrogen (N2) and argon (Ar) to the steelworks by pipeline.
Messer will invest over $90m in the development with both plants due to start operations in November 2018.
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Girls In Charge of Finance
Posted on September 2, 2012 (March 2, 2022) by Veronica Keenan
She could feel the sweat forming on her palms as her heart began to race. It was the same feeling she usually got when Ms. Brown asked her to read aloud in class.
"Sierra, did you hear me?" Ethan asked. "Our business needs a bookkeeper, and I heard you need a
job. Will you do it?"
For a moment, the shy sixth grader was frozen in fear. But after looking up and seeing her classmate Ethan's eyes on her, she nodded slowly.
"Great!" Ethan said enthusiastically. "We'd love for you to start tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" There was the sweat again.
At dinner that evening, Sierra tried to hide her nervousness. She answered her mom's usual
questions with ease.
"How was school?"
"Any homework tonight?"
"Just a science worksheet."
"Did you find any jobs that interest you at Micro?"
"No . . ." her voice trailed off as she pushed a piece of broccoli around her plate. She wasn't exactly lying – it's not like she was actually interested in bookkeeping.
"Well, I know you'll find something soon! Something you really like," her mom patted her on the shoulder as she stood up to clear the dinner table.
That night, Sierra tossed and turned for several hours. All she could think about were the accounting tasks that awaited her the next afternoon. "Why did he pick me?" she thought. "I'm not good at reading or math. I'm just going to mess everything up."
The next day, Ethan could sense his new employee's lack of self-confidence as she struggled with her first assignment. It was a mess of scribbles and eraser marks.
"You're probably wondering why I asked you to do this job," Ethan said.
Sierra nodded; she was almost in tears. Was she going to be fired before her first day was even over? At least she wouldn't have to work on this assignment anymore.
"I – I'm not good at math," she stammered.
"Neither am I!" he laughed. "I hate numbers. But Ali loves them," he pointed to a seventh grade girl across the room. She waved and smiled. "She's our head accountant. And she's going to show you everything you need to know."
"Hi, you must be Sierra," Ali said as they shook hands. She glanced down at the messy worksheet and back up at the sixth grader's forlorn face. "Don't worry," she said reassuringly. "I felt the same way when I started here. But trust me, it'll get easier."
They spent the next hour going over the basics of bookkeeping: how to record sales, purchases, payments and other important transactions. Sierra was surprised to find she was actually interested in the process.
By the end of the second day, Sierra was feeling confident enough to ask questions. "So, this number goes in this column? Then you add these two here?"
Ali nodded. "You're getting the hang of this – even faster than I did!"
Just a few days later, Sierra was processing bank statements and balancing the books at the end of every day, which allowed Ali to focus on other accounting duties.
At the dinner table with her family, she was actually looking forward to the usual questions.
"Geography worksheet."
"How's Micro going?"
"I have a job."
Sierra's mom jumped up to give her a hug. "You found a job!? Tell us more!"
"I'm a bookkeeper," she said proudly.
"Doesn't that involve math?" her older brother laughed. "You hate math."
"Not anymore," Sierra smiled. "I have the best books of any Micro business."
She turned to her mom and dad and handed them a small piece of paper with her name and title on it. "Here's my card. If you ever need any help balancing your checkbook, just let me know."
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Q: Javascript implementation question: how to make this function display values Please forgive me, but I do know js basics and how to write/call a basic function, but in this case I'm trying to match an alpha sorted list of categories from the DB to match against my set (non-alpha) order of said categories as specified below (this is code suggested for use by another user on a question I asked about how to map the order of categories being returned).  However, I can't figure out how to integrate that person's code answer into my own code.
Just seeing it implemented against another example list (to mimic what I would grab from the DB) and how I would call it in a switch case statement to wrap my html around the category names and return them to the web page in the mapped order I want would help a great deal.  Sorry if it turns out to be obvious.  I'm trying to learn what I can as I encounter these problems.  Thanks!
var categories = [ 'F', 'C', 'A1', 'A2', 'A3' ].map(function (category) {
    return businesses.filter(function (business) {
        return business.category === category;
    });
});

A: The code given looks most likely to be using the jQuery JavaScript library that has some useful functions such as map() for manipulating arrays.
The code assumes that you have a jQuery object / array, businesses that contains the businesses that you need to order. If we read it from the outside in

*

*pass each item in the array in turn into the map function. The map function takes a function to say how each item should be mapped.

*The anonymous function function (category)... accepts one argument, the particular item passed to it in this iteration and will return the mapping result.

*the result returned is a function of calling filter on businesses and passing it a function to say how businesses should be filtered.

*The anonymous function function (business)... accepts an argument, the particular item passed to it as businesses is iterated and returns those that match the category argument scoped in the outer function.

*The end result is an array of items ordered by the category array [ 'F', 'C', 'A1', 'A2', 'A3' ]
If we go back to the original problem, you need to order a list of categories based on the client's preference. Let's create a an object literal to map the ordering
var map = {
    F : 5,
    C : 3,
    A1 : 1,
    A2 : 4,
    A3 : 2
}

We can use this map to order the array using the sort method
var array = ['F', 'C', 'A1', 'A2', 'A3'];

array.sort(function(a,b) {
    return map[a] - map[b];
});

This returns us ["A1", "A3", "C", "A2", "F"]

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Grow your own food! Whether you're new to gardening or simply want to expand your knowledge, you'll find plenty of ideas here for a successful vegetable garden.
When you grow a garden, you no longer need to count on the supermarket produce section. Or in my case, the delivery barge.
Taking control of where your food comes from can start right in your own backyard. Or even on a sunny windowsill.
From growing vegetables and fruits to natural pest control and soil improvement, there's plenty of inspiration for new gardeners here. Start small or start big; just get started!
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Death toll from Mexico gasoline pipeline explosion rises to 89
The number of people killed in a gasoline pipeline explosion in central Mexico rose to 89, Health Minister Jorge Alcocer said on Monday. There were also 51 people injured, Alcocer told reporters. Friday's pipeline blast happened after hundreds of people rushed to collect fuel from the leaking pipe. Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said on Sunday that the state oil firm, Pemex, did not close the valve at the leaking gasoline pipeline when first notified because it was not initially thought to be an "important" leak. Durazo said that Mexico's military detected the leak about four hours before Pemex closed the valve, Reuters reports.


A childhood picture of Ivanka sitting on her father's lap flashed on the screen as Bee coached her on how to seduce her own father. "Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f***ing stop it! Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes. Ok?" And that wasn't all Bee had to say about the Trump administration.
After playing a clip of an MSNBC report talking about how Sessions and the DOJ wanted to prosecute 100 percent of illegal border crossers, Bee sharpened her talons. "Wow, 100 percent of people. That's a big goal for someone who's only 25 percent of a person. Tearing children away from their parents is so evil, it's the inciting incident in almost every movie we've ever cared about," she chided.
"If only Trump had as much empathy for Central American kids as I assume he does for a fictional fish who wants to touch a boat, but he doesn't. According to a haunted marionette, Jeff Sessions, these babies are actually baby criminals," she continued.
Bee seemed reluctant to admit the problems with the immigration system predated the Trump administration and there were plenty of inhumane things going on under President Obama. "So, no, Donald Trump didn't invent this issue. He's just making it so much worse. Now everyone who even approaches the border is treated like a criminal," she whined.
She also mocked Melania for valuing her privacy and depicted her as a monster living under a bed at the White House. "It's true, Melania lives in the White House and nobody can find her. It's ok, she's being best under there," he jabbed at the First Lady's initiative by the same name.
It was the latest chapter in Bee's vile smears and perverted rambling directed at President Trump and his family. Given what has happened this week with Roseanne Barr being fired for despicable, racist comments, it's interesting to see if TBS will act. The show is apparently being honored with an Emmy for "advancing social change." What kind of change would that be given this lunacy?
For the record, this sick diatribe was sponsored in part by Orkin, Taco Bell, Apple, Verizon, Haagen-Dazs, Jim Beam, Windows, Febreze, Discover, Geico, Snickers, Diamond Producers Association, Centrum, Outshine fruit bars, and State Farm.
SAMANTHA BEE: We are going to talk about racism and I just popped an Ambien, so buckle up everyone! You know what? Believe it or not, something even more important was on Twitter this week.
STEPHANIE RULE: The trump administration is separating undocumented children from their parents at the border. It is part of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' plan to prosecute 100 percent of the people crossing the border illegally. And this includes potential asylum seekers and undocumented workers.
BEE: Wow, 100 percent of people. That's a big goal for someone who's only 25 percent of a person. Tearing children away from their parents is so evil, it's the inciting incident in almost every movie we've ever cared about.
BEE: If only Trump had as much empathy for Central American kids as I assume he does for a fictional fish who wants to touch a boat, but he doesn't. According to a haunted marionette, Jeff sessions, these babies are actually baby criminals.
BEE: So, no, Donald Trump didn't invent this issue. He's just making it so much worse. Now everyone who even approaches the border is treated like a criminal.
BEE: It's true, Melania lives in the White House and nobody can find her. It's ok, she's being best under there. Because the ORR doesn't keep track of all the kids it's placed, there's no reliable way to make sure they weren't released into the custody of human traffickers as was the case with eight teenagers in 2014 forced to work on a chicken farm in atrocious conditions. How the f**k did that happen?
BEE: Two people following the process to the letter were forcibly separated and spent their first four months in this country detained in different time zones. So now, after decades of ignoring the issue, Americans are finally paying attention. Well, most of us.
Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week. You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c**t. He listens to you! Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f***ing stop it! Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes. Ok?


Art in Bloom can also be seen in the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA's) exhibit pairing flower arrangements as art in front of paintings from which they were inspired. The exhibit is appropriately called Art in Bloom.
Here are just a couple of examples, one with my favorite painting at NOMA.
Interesting to note that you have to be "licensed" to be a flower arranger/florist in New Orleans.


April is over, and so our cherry blossom flash special has come to an end. We got to do so many of them, but nobody got the cockroach one! Oh, well. There's always next year. At least I got to do a couple of the rats.
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Beginning in February, Men's Bible Study will gather to dive into theology leading to life. Studies will be held in the Fellowship Hall every Tuesday morning at 6:30 a.m. No registration is required.
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Women's Bible Study will gather in a large group on the 19th, then meet in smaller groups at various times during the week. Prepare to study the books Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, keeping in mind that the study book costs $15.00. To register, contact Allison...
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We will meet and have lunch Sunday, December 4th after the second service downstairs in the Fellowship Hall. The 2023 budget will be presented and members will vote on Brian Shaffer to continue as an Elder. Please be sure to attend even if you are not a member...
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This week the Senate was all about money. On Tuesday, the Senate unveiled its budget proposal for the fiscal biennium. The bill moved through the Senate this week with final approval on Friday. Things were relatively quiet in the House this week.
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The Senate gave final approval to its budget on Friday after a whirlwind week of committee meetings and floor votes. The bill sparked debate on the floor. The bill will now return to the House. The House is almost certain to reject the Senate version of the bill and the conference process will begin to reconcile the two versions. There are several significant differences between the Senate version of the roughly $24 billion General Fund annual budget and the version passed by the House a few weeks earlier. Key differences include:
The Senate version contains less generous pay increases for teachers than the House version, but more generous pay increases for other state employees.
The Senate version proposes moving the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Service from Raleigh to a location in Granville County. The move would affect approximately 2,300 state employees. Plans were already being considered to move the headquarters to another location. The headquarters is currently located on the old Dorothea Dix Campus, which was sold to the City of Raleigh several years ago for the creation of a public park.
The Senate waded into the dispute between the UNC System and Vidant Health over governance of the Vidant Medical Center in Greenville (the teaching hospital associated with the ECU Brody School of Medicine). The Senate provision could result in a $35 million hit to Vidant Health. Senate leaders are also considering ending the relationship with Vidant Medical Center and the construction of an entirely new hospital in Greenville to serve as the teaching hospital for ECU.
With some anger and some bipartisanship, NC Senate votes for $24 billion budget (WRAL)
Senate and House disagree on raises for teachers, other state employees (Charlotte Observer)
Employees, lawmakers torn over proposal to move DHHS to Granville County (WNCN)
NC Senate considers revoking Greenville hospital's status as ECU's teaching facility (Raleigh News & Observer)
N.C. Senate budget plan includes reducing franchise tax, raising standard individual tax deduction (Winston-Salem Journal)
Hemp Industry
SB 315, North Carolina Farm Act of 2019, received a hearing in the Senate Agriculture Committee this week. Almost two-thirds of the bill deals with creating a regulatory infrastructure regarding hemp in response to federal legislation loosening restrictions on hemp production. Law enforcement officials have warned that the legislation could make it difficult to prosecute crimes with respect to marijuana. Hemp and marijuana are closely related, and law enforcement officials have argued that the enforcement challenges presented by the difficulty in telling the two plants apart could result in an almost de facto legalization of marijuana in the state.
Law enforcement fears NC's effort to boost hemp industry could essentially legalize marijuana (WRAL)
Abortion Veto Override Vote Scheduled
SB 359, Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, was vetoed by the Governor on April 18. The Senate voted to override that veto on April 30. For most of the month of May, a motion to override has been on and off the House calendar. House leaders have questioned whether they had enough votes (a 60 percent majority) to override the veto, and therefore have delayed the vote. On Wednesday, House Speaker Tim Moore announced that the wait is over – the House will vote on the motion to override on Wednesday, June 5. The outlook is uncertain, with the vote expected to be extremely close.
NC House schedules vote on 'born alive' abortion bill (Raleigh News & Observer)
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In a first of its kind installation in the United States, downtown Raleigh businesses will begin using six high-capacity containers to collect trash, mixed recycling, and cardboard as part of a pilot project. The containers will be located mostly underground near the corner of Wilmington and Hargett Streets and will reduce the need for unsightly trash bins located on the street. The City will evaluate the program after six months to determine whether it should be expanded to cover the rest of the downtown area.
City of Raleigh to move its garbage collection underground (WTVD)
New app will let NC middle- and high-schoolers report suspicious campus behavior (Charlotte Observer)
Disaster Aid Bill Delayed Once Again On Capitol Hill (Spectrum News)
UNC Charlotte won't use site of last month's shooting next year, chancellor says (Charlotte Observer)
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Fundamental freedoms generally respected: Observer Group's final report on elections in Nigeria
In its final report, the Commonwealth group observing Nigeria's general elections of 23 February has concluded that the process was transparent and the result was credible:
"While the environment was tense and there were instances of violence, overall, fundamental freedoms of association, expression, assembly and movement were generally respected. Our overall conclusion is that the voting, closing and counting processes at polling units were transparent, and offered Nigerians, for the most part, the opportunity to express their will and exercise their franchise," the report stated.
The Group underscored several positive aspects of the elections, including better youth participation and an increase in the number of women presidential candidates. It also noted that several legislative provisions were implemented to enhance the participation of people with disabilities in the electoral process.
However, the Group's report also acknowledged that "electoral reform is a continuous process, building on what has worked successfully and addressing weaknesses. Our collective view is that there were considerable organisational, logistical and technical difficulties with these elections, which we trust that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)and other national stakeholders will wish to address."
The Commonwealth Observer Group was led by Jakaya Kikwete, former President of Tanzania. These were the sixth elections that the Commonwealth has been invited to observe in Nigeria since 1999.
The Group's report offers specific recommendations to contribute to "the deepening of democracy and strengthening of the electoral processes in Nigeria."
It has been sent to the Government of Nigeria, political parties and other stakeholders. More about Commonwealth elections observation
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"Orphans"
Ben Tanzer is a prolific novelist and an Emmy-award winning Public Service Announcement writer.
He applied the Page 69 Test to his latest novel, Orphans, and reported the following:
"There is Morg, Al B and his girlfriend, lover, muse Shalla, and her flowing hair and raucous, throaty laugh. They hustle and make music, rhyming and stealing." Orphans, Page 69.
The Page 69 Test asks a straight forward question, if you open a book to Page 69, is it representative of the rest of the book, and would a reader skimming that page be inclined to read on? To open Orphans to Page 69 is to land in the middle of a dream fraught with confusion and loss, and the desire to make sense of what our memories mean to us in the present. In the world of Orphans, we are all orphaned by work and family, and a society that is all too happy to replace us. Given all this, do I think someone skimming the page would be inclined to read on? I do. Like the characters' love for the Ramones, the writing is intended to be slamming and propulsive, giving the reader no choice but to read on as they are pulled along blow by blow, page by page, and chapter by chapter, breathless and exhilarated, from the first sentence to the last. What Page 69 may not tell the reader about Orphans, is that a story which is at once bleak and harrowing, is also full of humor, and that despite the fact that clones may actively replace us in the workplace and home, on a good day, you can still score a robot hand job. Which is nice. If that's your thing.
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Q: Python - Problema com df.apply(function) beleza?
tem como me darem uma ajudinha? se liga só.
Eu tenho um dataframe com algumas informações de string e queria mudar elas para texto.
Para simplificar, imagina que a tabela contenha informações do sexo da pessoa, por exemplo, homem ou mulher. Meu programa classificaria como 0 ou 1.
Até que ele consegue fazer isso bem. Mas o problema é quando tenho muita informação dentro da tabela, o programa fica o dia todo rodando. quando fico sem paciência e cancelo, as vezes ele converteu as unidades e outras vezes não.
o meu código python ta assim oh:
```python
y='Indice da Tabela'

def toText(x):
        return(list(train[y].value_counts().index).index(x))

train[y]=train[y].apply(toText)
```

A: Descobri o problema. Provavelmente a função de ficar indexando os índices o tempo todo na variável estava dando problemas. joguei a parte de (train[i].value_counts().index) para fora do loop e dei uma melhoradinha no código.
```python
def transf(df):
    nome=list(df)
    for i in (nome):
        def toText(x):
            return(y_.index(x))
        y_ = list(train[i].value_counts().index)
        if df[i].dtype == 'O':
            train[i]=train[i].apply(toText)

Ficou até que o código ficou atraente no final.


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This sheet, though, detailed a different kind of suffering — the kind that is found at Scavo High School, Des Moines' alternative secondary building at Central Campus.
The scroll was divided into four categories: trauma, avoidance, hypervigilance and re-experiencing.
The trauma circled in red marker includes guns, shootings, sexual abuse, physical abuse, cyberbulling, being robbed, starved and neglected.
"This is an extreme case," said Lyn Marchant, community school coordinator for Scavo, "but it does show the breadth of what students deal with before they even take their seats and try to learn."
That students struggle with issues outside the classroom is hardly news, but how teachers, staff and administrators handle it is evolving.
Scavo recently received a $23,000 grant from the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation's Health Connect Innovation Grant. Scavo officials will use the money to become a "trauma-sensitive school."
In layman's terms, it means Scavo staff will get more training and resources to help recognize the signs of trauma and get resources to the students who need them.
Scavo is already doing a lot. The district calls it a "full service" high school. The school already has a healthcare clinic, food pantry and on-site childcare services.
"This grant is really going to help us with professional development," Scavo principal Rich Blonigan said.
The money won't turn teachers into therapists and psychiatrists, but it will help teachers understand student behavior better and learn how to cope with the stresses their jobs entail.
Students who suffer adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, often manifest their grief and anger with antisocial behavior. In other words, they act out.
"You don't want to ask, 'What's wrong with you?,'" Marchant said. "You want to ask, 'What happened?' Because there is always something that leads to the behavior. There are no bad kids in this building."
Marchant gave me a sheet of paper with seven case studies of Scavo students. Like the scroll mentioned above, the students were not named and identified solely by gender.
The traumas detailed included removal from multiple homes by state officials, miscarriages, the overdose and death of a sibling, mental illness and addiction of parents, suicide attempts, sexual abuse, gang violence, family members in prison and incest.
It's important to note that not every student at Scavo suffers from terrible trauma. Some have fallen behind academically or struggled to find success at their home high schools.
"I still get people who ask me if I'm afraid to be at Scavo," Marchant said. "I have never been afraid here one day. I think the stigma about Scavo is based on a lack of familiarity. One of our missions is improving cultural proficiency both inside and outside the building."
"Cultural proficiency" is a scholarly way of saying we all need to do a better job of understanding where people come from — to put people in context.
Our tendency is to look at others through the perspective of our own experiences.
For example, it's difficult for most Americans to imagine the possibility of roving armed warlords coming into our neighborhoods, killing the men and forcing the children to become soldiers.
Yet there are students who've experienced just that in our schools. And it isn't just Des Moines. Marchant networks with districts across the metro.
"Every problem we face here is in West Des Moines, Waukee, Ankeny and all the big school districts," she said. "It may not be on as large a scale — because we are the biggest district — but it is there."
There's another human factor to remember here, too: our teachers.
One use for the grant money will be to train teachers to realize when they need to take a step back.
That's a big chore. Teachers tend to be naturally empathetic, and emotional investment in their pupils' success comes with the job.
"We don't want to lose highly qualified, dedicated teachers because they are overwhelmed by what they see and deal with," Marchant said.
And remember: Everything I've written about in these paragraphs is about what students face before math, science and social studies.
How hard would it be to concentrate on algebra or world history if you didn't know where your next meal was coming from or you smelled bad because your family had their water shut off?
This year, Iowa lawmakers eagerly constricted the collective bargaining rights of public employees — including the teachers that we Iowans say we so value.
Yet we still ask them to handle every problem society can manufacture, from learning and behavior disabilities all the way to suicides and severe mental illness.
And, again, all this happens before a single lesson is taught.
To modify a line from U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell from Kentucky: "Nevertheless, they persist."
Daniel P. Finney, the Register's Metro Voice columnist, is a Drake University alumnus who grew up in Winterset and east Des Moines. Reach him at 515-284-8144 or dafinney@dmreg.com. Twitter: @newsmanone.


WASHINGTON D.C. � 10 September 2012 � GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®) today released U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2nd Quarter 2012. The report finds that U.S. solar achieved its second-best quarter in history, having installed 742 megawatts of solar power, and the best quarter on record for the utility market segment. Utility installations hit 477 megawatts in the second quarter, with eight states posting utility installations of 10 megawatts or greater: California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New Mexico, and New Jersey. In total, the U.S. now has 5,700 megawatts of installed solar capacity, enough to power more than 940,000 households.
According to U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2nd Quarter 2012, the utility photovoltaic (PV) market will remain strong through the last two quarters of 2012. With 3400 megawatts of utility PV projects currently under construction, and weighted U.S. average system prices 10 percent lower than the previous quarter, GTM Research forecasts an additional 1.1 gigawatts of utility PV to begin operating before year's end. The report forecasts a total of 3200 megawatts, or 3.2 gigawatts, of PV will be installed in the U.S. in 2012, up 71 percent over 2011.
"The U.S. solar industry is rapidly growing and creating jobs across America despite the slow economic recovery," said Rhone Resch, president and CEO of SEIA. "More solar was installed in the U.S. this quarter than in all of 2009, led for the first time by record-setting utility-scale projects. With costs continuing to come down, solar is affordable today for more homes, businesses, utilities, and the military. Smart, consistent, long-term policy is driving the innovation and investment that's making solar a larger share of our overall energy mix."
In addition, the residential segment continues to be highlighted by consumer acceptance of third-party solar ownership models. The major state markets in California, Arizona, and Colorado all saw third-party residential solar account for greater than 70 percent of total Q2 2012 installations. U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2nd Quarter 2012 finds that in the California market, this quarter marks the first time that the average installed price of a third-party-owned system was lower than that of a system purchased outright: $5.64 per watt for third-party versus $5.84 per watt for directly-owned solar systems.
"We're starting to see innovative PV business models take a substantial hold in the U.S. residential market," said Shayle Kann, Vice President of Research at GTM Research. "The success of third-party residential solar providers has attracted more than $600 million in new investments in recent months. This influx of cash into the residential space signifies the growing acceptance of solar leases and power purchase agreements as a secure investment for project investors. We expect that third-party installations will claim even more market share in the coming quarters."
In contrast to the utility and residential markets, the non-residential (e.g., commercial, government, non-profit) segment contracted, falling from 291 megawatts in Q1 2012 to 196 megawatts this quarter. Although California (down 45 percent) and New Jersey (down 35 percent) contributed to a large part of the decline, these states were not alone. Only ten of the 24 states the report tracks individually saw quarterly growth in the non-residential market in Q2 2012. This trend was likely due to a combination of factors. In some individual markets such as New Jersey, it was a result of state-market-specific factors such as SREC oversupply. In other states, Q1 2012 had been bolstered by safe-harbored 1603 Treasury Program installations.
In addition to coverage of U.S. demand markets, U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2nd Quarter 2012 provides insight into the state of PV component manufacturing in the U.S. Global oversupply continues to be the chief challenge to U.S. PV suppliers, as wafer, cell, and module production in the U.S. fell 33, 25 and 28 percent respectively in Q2 2012 as a result.
Today, the U.S. solar industry employs more than 100,000 Americans at 5,600, mostly small businesses, across all 50 states.
*As of the end of Q2 there is a cumulative of 546 megawatts concentrating solar capacity operating in the U.S.
The U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2nd Quarter 2012 report is the most detailed and timely research available on the continuing growth and opportunity in the U.S. The report includes deep analysis of photovoltaic (PV) technology in the U.S., identifying the key metrics that will help solar decision-makers navigate the market's current and forecasted trajectory.
Greentech Media delivers news, research, and analysis in the business-to-business greentech market. Using an integrated platform, we produce high quality products including industry news, market research and networking events. GTM Research, the research arm of the company, produces in-depth market reports, data services, and consulting, and is the publisher of PVNews, a monthly solar market tracker. Greentech Media is headquartered in Boston, MA, with operations in New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit greentechmedia.com, follow us on twitter @greentechmedia, or like us on Facebook: facebook.com/greentechmedia.


In order to get a DS-2019 document (used to apply for a J-1 student visa), exchange students must prove they have sufficient funds to cover estimated costs of their time at Drake. Estimated costs for 2019-20 are outlined below. Students must complete the Proof of Finances for Exchange , showing they have funds to cover these costs, and upload it onto the Terra Dotta application.
-verification of financial aid or scholarships.
You will need to present these same documents when you apply for a visa.
The Proof of Finances form does not need to be submitted with your application and transcripts, but Drake cannot prepare your DS until form and documentation is received.
For undergraduate students this covers a shared room in the Drake residence halls and a full meal plan. Students will receive a Residence Hall Contract when they are accepted for exchange and must submit a $250 deposit with the contract prior to their arrival at Drake. This serves as a damage deposit and is refundable upon completion of the exchange if no damage charges are incurred. For law exchange applicants, Living Expenses includes the estimated cost of an apartment rental, utilities, groceries, kitchen supplies, etc.
Books in the US are expensive. Law students' book expenses will be higher than other students, depending on courses taken.
Drake has an insurance program that exchange students are required to purchase. This is required even if you already have another insurance policy. Fall coverage is August 1 – December 31. Spring coverage is January 1 – May 31. If you travel in the US after your exchange ends, you will be covered within these dates.
This comprehensive estimate includes local transportation, phone, campus activities, medical co-pays, laundry, community events, entertainment, postage/packages/gifts, school supplies and personal needs such as shampoo or aspirin.
The UKZN exchange agreement requires proof of sufficient funds to cover Books, Insurance and Personal Expenses. Living Expenses are covered by the agreement, but UKZN students are required to pay the usual $250 residence hall deposit. The deposit will be refunded upon departure if there has been no damage to the room. Therefore, estimated costs for UKZN students are $2,950 for Fall, $2,950 for Spring, and $4,600 for two semesters; plus the residence hall deposit.


And I get no view of the battle field at all. =( The battles are seemingly run and all. I even get the properties window up when I click on where the battle field would be. Ideas anyone?
I'm running Mac OS X JDK 1.4.1 DP10 if that's a clue to anybody.
I've fixed the tiny battlefield bug. The battlefield now has the same size and aspect ratio as the normal Robocode one regardless of window size, battlefield size, etc.
The .zip file has the compiled .class files and .java source files in it. Just look!
PEZ solved this with /PEZsPatch? Works great, thanks!
Take it back - /PEZsPatch? doesn't seem to load all of the frames of the explosion animation. The explosions are much shorter when it's active because it's missing the later frames.
That's a strange effect. Could it be related to the image type used for bufferedImage? I see that the type BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE is used elsewhere whereas my patch uses BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB.
It seems to work approximately 1 time in 3 if I keep killing & then restarting Robocode (don't you just hate those sort of bugs).
I am running on Windows XP with JDK1.4.1.02 Sun JVM. I can't even get close to the 400fps by the way, more think 80 - 100 Fps what spec is your machine David cos I want one :).
The tiny battlefield bug is fixed in 0.1.4.
The thing about the top menu being drawn twice - it's not being drawn twice, it's just that the JPanel holding the battlefield view wasn't being repainted. That's fixed too.
davidalves.net.DuelistMicroGL? 1.11 (1): Exception: java.security.AccessControlException?: Preventing davidalves.net.DuelistMicroGL? 1.11 (1) from access: (java.io.FilePermission? C:\Games\robocode\.robotcache\davidalves.net.[DuelistMicroGL 1]?.11.jar_\robocode\robocodeGL\GLRenderer.class read): You may only read files in your own root package directory. java.security.AccessControlException?: Preventing davidalves.net.DuelistMicroGL? 1.11 (1) from access: (java.io.FilePermission? C:\Games\robocode\.robotcache\davidalves.net.[DuelistMicroGL 1]?.11.jar_\robocode\robocodeGL\GLRenderer.class read): You may only read files in your own root package directory.
message "gljDestroy failed (free) when exiting RoboCodeGL?"
This is not a major error as RobocodeGLV014 runs without problems, but just to make it perfect.
If I run a battle, and then try to start a new one, after I click Start Battle, it hangs for a while then dies with a Segmentation Fault or a Bus Error. Also, if I click on any of the bots' names on the right to get their info, the window never pops up and the UI stops responding.
Segfaults after printing "Caching resources." using /PEZsPatch?
Also, using RobocodeGLV014, I don'bocode.mansults dialog once the battle is finished. What gives?
I'm afraid that I don't know how to set java to use only one processor - I can't find anything on google or the ADC. If someone can tell me how to do so, I can try.
The standard version of Robocode also has issues with dual-processor systems, so it may not be a problem with RobocodeGLV014's code. Could you try running a regular version and seeing if the bug occurs? Robocode's dual-processor problems can be avoided by setting Java to use only one processor.
RenderElement?.drawStrings() is called when graphical debug is disabled. After looking in the code I think the solution is to clean up everything.
Addendum: It usually only happens after a very extended period of being open. I'm running a Radeon 8500 and AthlonXp? 1900+.
I use jsdk1.4.2_01 with xp and I got this message: I know that GL4Java works fine, I can run the demos. any sugestions?
E:\java\robocode>E:\programs\jdk1.4.2\bin\java.exe -Xmx560M -cp .; robocode.Robocode Preventing unknown thread Application Thread from access: (java.lang.RuntimePermission? loadLibrary.GL4JavaJauGljJNI14?) java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError? java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError?
I am getting some major lockups / pauses when running RGL. It doesnt happen when running the original robocode. I have the latest drivers for my GFX cards etc. I used to run RobocodeGL fine, before I upgraded my PC and OS. The lockups can last anything up to a minute, which slows down every other application I am running, and locks up Robocode. Inbetween the pauses, everything runs fine. Any ideas?
My current system config is: Athlon64 3000+ WinXP Pro with SP2 1 GB Ram, Java 1.4.2_08 Radeon 9800Pro running the latest Catalysts.
I tried running the same setup, but with Java 1.4.0_1, no difference, still get random lockups every 30 seconds or so.


Pollen records from African highlands are scarce; hence, the paleoecology of the Afromontane forest and its responses to glacial cycles are poorly known. Lake Bambili (Cameroon) provides a record of vegetation changes in the tropical mountains of Africa over the past 90,000 years, with high temporal resolution. Pollen data and biome reconstructions show a diverging response of forests to climate changes; the upper tree line was extremely unstable, shifting substantially in response to glacial-interglacial climate alternation, whereas the transition between the montane and lowland forests remained remarkably stable. Such ecological instability may have had a critical influence on species richness in the Afromontane forests.


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Thailand has sought to increase farmers' access to credit by government intervention. In 1966 it created a government agricultural bank to lend solely to farm households, and beginning in the late 1970s it required commerical banks to lend heavily in the rural sector, either directly or by making deposits in the agricultural bank. The result was an enormous expansion of credit in the rural sector. But because formal lenders were either unable or unwilling to solve the information problems involved in the broad range of rural credit transactions, the informal credit sector (which charged interest rates many times higher than the formal sector) continued to thrive. Using household surveys and surveys of moneylenders, this article provides a detailed analysis of the ways in which lenders in the informal sector have solved the information problems of providing credit. The authors argue that the informal sector in competitive, and that high interest rates reflect high information costs, not the scarcity of funds. Copyright 1990 by Oxford University Press.
Siamwalla, Ammar, et al, 1990. "The Thai Rural Credit System: Public Subsidies, Private Information, and Segmented Markets," World Bank Economic Review, World Bank Group, vol. 4(3), pages 271-295, September.
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Adobe's code-signing infrastructure got hacked and now you have to worry about some really bad software out there that your computers will think are valid, safe applications from Adobe. One of them is pwdump which gets Windows passwords.
Information protection gets much attention these days. Many have realized that their data is a treasure, which not only should be treated properly, but should be protected as well. So a few dollars spent on defending against security threats now can reap millions in avoiding future losses due to hacking of your enterprise network.


i have a gigabyte z68xp-ud5 motherboard and 2 corsair gt 120 solid state drives. i run them raid 0 and wanted to add trim support provided by new intel raid orom.
i followed the instructions on anandtech AnandTech | TRIM & RAID-0 SSD Arrays Work With Intel 6-Series Motherboards Too to update the raid orom on my bios.
adding the new orom was pretty straight forward. no problem. updated the motherboard with the new bios and confirmed that the new version was installed.
i did a secure erase on both drives, recreated the raid 0 set. restored my install from previous system image.
installed newest intel rst drivers.
from windows 8, i ran the following command to enable trim "fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0" and verified it with the "fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify" command.
all should be good right?
i've been using the ssd trim check tool from SSD TRIM check tool - CyberShadow?s blog and it keeps telling me trim is not enabled.
ok, that was a long post. any suggestions.
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installed the 11.6 intel rst drivers instead of the newest 12.5 drivers.


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Despite recycling mandate, food waste-to-energy struggles to grow in Connecticut
Dec 4, 2019 1:00 pm GMT
WRITTEN BYLisa Prevost
PHOTO BYTaz / Wikimedia Commons
A leader at the state's only biogas plant says lax enforcement of the law has limited the potential for energy production.
More businesses in Connecticut next year will fall under a 6-year-old law that requires the recycling of food waste at an authorized organic waste recycling facility.
In theory, that should give a boost to the state's only food waste-to-energy plant, Quantum Biopower, which opened in 2016.
But the plant's vice president, Brian Paganini, is not expecting more than a slight uptick in the number of truckloads of rotting foodstuffs rumbling up to the plant's reception bays come 2020. Enforcement of the existing law is minimal, he said. And the concept, still foreign to many, has been slow to catch on.
What would really supercharge the plant's energy generation, Paganini said, is unlocking the residential side of the waste stream, supply that has so far gone untapped.
"It comes down to the cost for collection," he said. "No one has figured out how to make that work yet."
Located in Southington, Quantum uses an anaerobic digestion process to generate about 1.2 megawatts of electricity annually, offsetting an estimated 5,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
The food waste is fermented in an enormous, oxygen-free tank that Paganini refers to as "a giant steel stomach." The process produces a methane-rich biogas, which is used to generate electricity. The leftover material is used to make compost.
About 20% of the power generated is used on-site. The town of Southington purchases the rest through a virtual net metering program, Paganini said.
Companies pay Quantum a disposal fee to recycle their food waste, which Paganini said is typically cheaper than sending it to an incinerator. About a quarter of the 40,000 tons of waste Quantum takes in every year comes from Connecticut businesses captured under the recycling law, as well as a growing number of university dining halls. Most of the rest is from large food manufacturers throughout the Northeast.
State law requires any commercial food wholesaler, industrial food manufacturer, supermarket, resort or conference center to recycle their food waste if they generate at least two tons per week on average and are located less than 20 miles from an authorized composting or anaerobic digestion facility.
The threshold drops to an average of one ton per week on Jan. 1.
The law was intended to act as an incentive for the development of more facilities like Quantum. But while several other proposals have received permits, all have stalled for various reasons, including problems attracting capital, said Chris Nelson, supervising environmental analyst for the waste engineering and enforcement division at the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
"The agency would like to see more capacity out there," he said. "Our energy side might be talking about incentives."
The division has few resources to ensure that the food waste stream keeps growing, however. One part-time staffer on Nelson's team spends a portion of her time looking for businesses that are likely to be generating lots of food waste and helps them get into compliance. Often, businesses are unaware of the requirement, Nelson said.
"And one of the other challenging things is that people don't really know what their food scrap tonnage is," he said. "It's not measured separately, unlike water discharge, so they may never have really thought of it before."
Colleges and universities are not required to recycle their food waste under the law, but about 10 are doing so voluntarily, Paganini said.
The University of Connecticut, for example, diverted more than 330 tons of food waste to Quantum during the 2018-19 school year, according to Mike O'Dea, project manager for dining services. Food service employees separate out food waste at all eight dining halls on the university's main campus in Storrs. The waste is stored in 55-gallon barrels that are picked up by a hauler three days a week.
Food waste barrels have recently been added to the school's catering department, and will soon be placed around the residential areas of campus for voluntary use by students, O'Dea said.
While it's cheaper for the university to dispose of food waste with Quantum than through the general waste stream, those savings are offset by higher hauling costs, due to Southington's distance from campus.
"So for us, it's close to a wash," O'Dea said.
Julie Cammarata, a lobbyist for Quantum and other materials management firms, said she and Paganini are looking for ways to get municipalities into food waste diversion. Residential customers can currently subscribe for food waste pickup through a specialized hauler in Hartford. But she would like to see some state incentives or policies put in place that would make it more attractive for municipalities to divert what she said is the heaviest part of their waste stream.
She is making that case as a member of a newly established Blue Ribbon Panel on Recycling appointed by the speaker of the House. The panel is looking into ways to deal with the collapsing market for recyclables and the financial impact on municipalities.
If sorting out food waste does become more common in Connecticut, Paganini hopes to expand Quantum's existing facility, build additional facilities, and start using biogas to make pipeline-grade natural gas. Bipartisan legislation pending in the U.S. Senate would help ease that path forward by providing a 30% investment tax credit for biogas projects that capture gas for use as fuel.
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Iowa regulators request coal fleet study as part of utility's rate case
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Cleaning up after Ohio's oil and gas industry brings a growing price tag
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Q: How to add application version to Inno Setup startup message? With Inno Setup, if we choose to keep the prompt dialog (DisableStartupPrompt=False) the displayed message is managed by the localization file with the reference SetupLdrStartupMessage. For instance in English locale file:
SetupLdrStartupMessage=This will install %1. Do you wish to continue?

By default the setup will replace %1 by the name of the application defined by the variable AppName. How to make the text display AppVerName instead ?
I would like to get the following text :

This will install MyApplicationName 4.1. Do you wish to continue?

The Pascal function InitializeSetup() is not a correct option for me for two reasons:

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*This section is called after the language selection, called itself after the startup prompt. I want to keep this first popup.

*It imply to re-write as many custom message as language you manage.

A: Make the version be part of the message:
#define MyAppVer "4.1"

[Setup]
AppName=MyApplicationName
AppVersion={#MyAppVer}

[Messages]
SetupLdrStartupMessage=This will install %1 {#MyAppVer}. Do you wish to continue?