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Q: opening another Android app in a 'new window' from Air This is a little involved, so bear with me.
I've got two Android apps - one built in Adobe Air (the 'launcher') and one downloaded from the google play store (the 'target.') At a certain point I want the 'launcher' to open the 'target' and switch to it. Currently I'm doing this via the 'intent' protocol, like so:
navigateToURL(new URLRequest('intent:#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;component=com.magix.camera_mx/com.magix.android.cameramx.main.MainMenu;end'));

... and it works, but when the 'target' (CameraMX in this example) opens, it uses the same 'window' as the 'launcher' app. Here's two screenshots, before and after opening the 'target:'

That's inconvenient, but I could put up with it if it was consistent. However, when I try the exact same process, only launching an arbitrary other app like Kingsoft Office:
navigateToURL(new URLRequest('intent:#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;component=cn.wps.moffice_eng/cn.wps.moffice.documentmanager.PreStartActivity;end'));

The 'target' and 'launcher' exist as nice separate windows.

Why is that? What dictates whether an app comes up as a separate window, or reuses the current one? I've tried it with a handful - notably SoulCraft and Starchart launch in a new windows, but mostly the others all reuse the current window.
Is that something I have control over from within my air app? What's going on here?

A: What you're calling a "window" is referred to in Android as a "task". You should be able to force the target application to open in a new task by setting appropriate flags, namely FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK (note the launchFlags=0x10000000):
intent:#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;launchFlags=0x10000000;component=<your-package-name>/.<your-activity-name>;end

A: The difference between your two scenarios (scenario 1 remains in a single task, scenario 2 starts a new task) is due to each "target" app's intent-filter manifest definition.
If you do not require a result from the Intent you can add flags (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) like below:
navigateToURL(new URLRequest('intent:#Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;launchFlags=0x10000000;component=com.magix.camera_mx/com.magix.android.cameramx.main.MainMenu;end'));


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Biografia
Originario di Arnoldstein e attivo in gare FIS dal dicembre del 2005, in Coppa Europa König esordì il 7 gennaio 2008 a Nauders in slalom speciale, senza completare la prova. Nel 2010 prese parte a due gare di Coppa del Mondo, gli slalom speciali disputati a Zagabria Sljeme il 6 gennaio e a Kitzbühel il 24 gennaio, senza concluderli, e ottenne nella medesima specialità il miglior piazzamento in Coppa Europa, il 22 gennaio a Bansko (10º).

Prese per l'ultima volta il via in Coppa Europa il 24 gennaio 2012 a Zell am See in slalom speciale, senza completare la prova, e si ritirò al termine di quella stessa stagione 2011-2012; la sua ultima gara fu lo slalom speciale dei Campionati austriaci 2012, disputato il 20 marzo a Innerkrems e non completato da König. In carriera non prese parte a rassegne olimpiche o iridate.

Palmarès

Coppa Europa
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 148º nel 2010

Campionati austriaci
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 1 oro (combinata nel 2009)

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Altri progetti

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Finally the Iraqis have done what hey should have been doing ever since their sovereignty was "returned" by the American government... they have revoked the operating license of Blackwater USA, the notorious mercenary corporation (the U.S. calls them security contractors, the reality is they are soldiers for hire, or even corporate militias if you want to use the terminology of this conflict). These 'militias' are used by the Americans to protect non-military assets and high-profile individuals, including the top U.S. diplomats and representatives in Iraq.
They are almost completely unregulated by any government or set of rules except their own. They have the same access to resources as the U.S. military, and many are former members thereof. They are also notorious for killing civilians and opening fire on U.S. and Iraqi forces. Those acts have gone with out recourse or punishment. All of that is about to end, at least if the Iraqi government get its way.
"Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Adul-Karim Khalf said "We have canceled the license of Blackwater and prevented them from working all over Iraqi territory. We will also refer those involved to Iraqi judicial authorities" due to an incident today in which "eight civilians were killed and 13 were wounded when contractors believed to be working for Blackwater USA opened fire in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of western Baghdad."
It is a small ray of hope to see the Iraqis begin to stand up for themselves against the insanity imposed upon them by the U.S. government. Finally there is a bit of reason being forced into this debate. There never has been and is not currently any good justification for this kind of blatantly illegal mercenary warfare.
They only reason they are there is because Bush and Cheney figured out how to fund the military-industrial complex without actually having to put money into the government. This is due to their ideological opposition to the efficacy of government, even the military, rather than nay rational argument. I remain shocked that a government that believes itself to be sovereign (Iraq) would allow such groups to operate within their borders for so long in such a brutal and counterproductive way. That being said this seems to be a case of better late the never.
This action by the Iraqis, as well as the changing sentiment in both America and Iraq , seems to me to be the beginning of the resolution of this war. That doesn't mean that I believe the U.S. should stay or that I think this is going to end, or even get substantially better in the near future. I do think that actions like this will help push sentiment in the places that matter to a point at which everyone agrees it is time for the U.S. to go. Though I personally think it will get worse immediately after the U.S. leaves, once they are gone the catalyst for much of the violence will have been removed. It will be the first genuine chance for them to use their 5000 years of history and cultural wisdom to solve their own problems, which though we may have helped created we are clearly incapable of solving. I hope for the best for these unfortunate people. and I would really like to be able to visit the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of law, and of Abraham, before too long. But before that can happen, we need to stop interfering in their affairs and stop allowing our mercenaries to terrorize their civilians.


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898 F. 2d 687 - Delaney v. Environmental Protection Agency
898 F2d 687 Delaney v. Environmental Protection Agency
31 ERC 1001, 20 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,460
Roberta DELANEY; Gayle Hartmann, et al., Petitioners,
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.
Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted June 26, 1989.
Decided March 1, 1990.
As Amended April 11, 1990.
David S. Baron, Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, Tucson, Ariz., for petitioners.
Alan W. Eckert, Associate General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Petition for Review of Action by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Before TANG, REINHARDT and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.
WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:
Residents of Maricopa and Pima counties, Arizona, petition this court to vacate as arbitrary and capricious the Environmental Protection Agency's approvals of the counties' Clean Air Act implementation plans. We have jurisdiction under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7607(b)(1) (1982). We vacate the EPA's approvals of the plans, and direct the EPA to take further action consistent with this opinion.
The Clean Air Act, as amended in 1970, mandated that states as expeditiously as practicable, but not later than December 31, 1975, reduce the levels of certain ambient pollutants to comply with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards set by the EPA. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7409(a), (b) (1982). Preliminarily, each state had to develop a state implementation plan to achieve this goal. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7410(a) (1982).
After many areas of the country failed to attain some or all of the national ambient air quality standards on time, Congress amended the Act in 1977, providing new deadlines for nonattainment areas. 42 U.S.C. Secs. 7501-7508 (1982). The 1977 amendments required states to submit by January 1, 1979, for each of their nonattainment areas, a revised implementation plan that provided for implementation of all reasonably available control measures to attain the relevant national ambient air quality standards as expeditiously as practicable, but not later than December 31, 1982. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7502. If a state did not submit an adequate revised state implementation plan by the 1979 deadline, the EPA had to promulgate its own federal implementation plan. 42 U.S.C. Secs. 7410(c)(1), 7502(b)(1). The 1977 amendments provided only one exception: If a state demonstrated in its revised implementation plan that the carbon monoxide or ozone ambient air quality standard could not be attained by the close of 1982 despite implementation of all reasonably available control measures, the state could have until the end of 1987 to attain the relevant air quality standard in that nonattainment area. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7502(a)(2). In that case, the state had to submit a second revised implementation plan to the EPA by July 1, 1982. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7502(c).
In 1978, the EPA designated large areas of both Maricopa and Pima counties as nonattainment areas for carbon monoxide. In 1979, Arizona submitted revised implementation plans for both areas. In 1983, the EPA approved the plans subject to certain conditions. Neither area, however, satisfied the EPA's conditions or attained the carbon monoxide standard by the 1982 deadline. Arizona failed in its attempt to extend both areas' attainment deadlines to 1987, but submitted additional revised plans for the areas to attain by the 1987 deadline anyway. The EPA rejected these additional revised plans and we upheld that decision. Arizona v. Thomas, 824 F.2d 745 (9th Cir.1987), later proceeding 829 F.2d 834 (9th Cir.1987).
When Arizona thereafter failed to submit adequate plans for Maricopa and Pima counties, petitioners filed suit in the Arizona district court. That court ordered the EPA to promulgate implementation plans for both counties by March 30, 1988 (later extended to August 10, 1988), unless before this date Arizona submitted, and the EPA approved, adequate state plans. McCarthy v. Thomas, No. 85-344 (D.Ariz. August 10, 1987). Arizona submitted, and the EPA ultimately approved (with revisions), state implementation plans for both counties on August 10, 1988. Petitioners now challenge these approvals.
We will not set aside the EPA's approval of a state implementation plan unless it is arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise not in accordance with law. 5 U.S.C. Sec. 706(2)(A); Arizona v. Thomas, 824 F.2d at 748. We will not set aside an agency's construction of a statute it is implementing unless that construction conflicts with clear congressional intent or is unreasonable. Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Counsel, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842-45, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 2781-83, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984).
I. The EPA's Decision That Delinquent Nonattainment Areas May Take Three Years From Approval of Their State Implementation Plan to Attain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Because the Clean Air Act amendments of 1977 made the 1982 compliance deadline absolute (with the one exception noted above), the amendments did not specify an additional deadline for nonattainment areas that failed to obtain revised implementation plan approval and national ambient air quality standard compliance by the 1982 deadline. In this circumstance, the EPA adopted the policy that it should evaluate the adequacy of the Maricopa and Pima county plans based on whether they provide for attainment by three years from the date it approved those plans, August 10, 1991. Petitioners contend that the EPA's policy is arbitrary and capricious. Now that the 1977 amendments' deadline for compliance has passed, petitioners assert, Pima and Maricopa Counties must attain the carbon monoxide ambient air quality standard as soon as possible utilizing every available control measure.
The EPA contends that Congress expressed no clear intent on the attainment deadline that the EPA should apply in evaluating the Maricopa and Pima county plans because the 1977 amendments did not specify a deadline for nonattainment areas that failed to obtain revised state implementation plan approval and national ambient air quality standard compliance by the 1982 deadline. The EPA argues that this amounts to a "statutory gap." As a result, the EPA believes, we must uphold its policy of allowing compliance within three years of state implementation plan approval because it is a reasonable construction of the 1977 amendments.
The EPA argues that if Congress had considered that some nonattainment areas would not meet the deadline specified in the 1977 Amendments, Congress would have intended that the EPA administratively establish a new three year attainment period from the date of implementation plan approval deadline, like those provided in the Clean Air Act amendments of 1970. The EPA contends that this result is consistent with the language, history, and overall purposes of the Act. The EPA contends that Congress knew some states would not attain by the 1982 deadline and did not intend that states implement draconian measures.
The EPA explains the seemingly absolute nature of the 1977 amendments' 1982 deadline by stating that some legislators felt the need to keep fixed deadlines, even as "somewhat of a legal myth," because they "provide a basis for obtaining maximum progress towards clean air." Transcript, Mark-up, Clean Air Act Amendments, at 13 (May 4, 1977) (Statement of Sen. Domenici), reprinted in State Implementation Plans for Nonattainment Areas for Ozone and Carbon Monoxide: General Preamble and Notice of Future Actions, 52 Fed.Reg. 26,408 (July 14, 1987) [hereinafter "Preamble and Notice"]. If the deadlines turned out not to be realistic, there would be "plenty of time for legislative relief." 123 Cong.Rec. 18,038 (June 8, 1977) (Statement of Sen. Stafford), reprinted in Preamble and Notice, 52 Fed.Reg. 26,408 (July 14, 1987). The EPA contends that petitioners' position would require the draconian measures that Congress allegedly intended to avoid. The EPA argues that, in effect, it is just doing what Congress did in 1977 when, faced with many states' failure to meet attainment deadlines, Congress revised the Clean Air Act, extending those deadlines at least three years.
Although we recognize the EPA's predicament, we cannot accept the EPA's position. As the EPA itself recognizes, Congress explicitly declined to allow extensions of the deadline because it believed an absolute deadline to be necessary. Other circuits have characterized the 1982 deadline as the " 'heart' of the 1977 Amendments," City of Seabrook v. EPA, 659 F.2d 1349, 1357 (5th Cir.1981), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 822, 103 S.Ct. 51, 74 L.Ed.2d 57 (1982), implemented according to a precise schedule to avoid a repetition of the failure of many states to attain the national ambient air quality standards by the deadline specified in the 1970 amendments. Connecticut Fund for the Environment v. EPA, 672 F.2d 998, 1001-02 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1035, 103 S.Ct. 445, 74 L.Ed.2d 601 (1982).
This court has already found the deadlines of the 1977 amendments to be "clear and unambiguous." Abramowitz v. EPA, 832 F.2d 1071, 1079 (9th Cir.1987). We stated:
Because we find the language of the Act clear and unambiguous, we do not believe that EPA has the discretion to ignore the statutory deadline. We are informed by counsel for both sides of their expectation that Congress will extend the deadline once again in the near future, but we must apply the law as it now stands, not as it may become.... Until the Clean Air Act is further considered ... the Agency must "give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress."
Id. (citations omitted).
We, and the EPA, are bound by the statutory scheme until Congress alters that scheme. As the EPA states in one of its national guidance documents:
[T]he legislative history shows that Congress set up the Part D system in order to force communities and industry to do their utmost to bring about attainment as rapidly as possible and expected that a future Congress would change the course it had set, if necessary, to avoid any unacceptable consequences.
... Plainly, the original intention of the committee, which evolved ultimately into the current Part D system, was to generate [state implementation plans] that would provide for attainment by a specific date, even if they contained draconian measures, and to leave the task of making adjustments to a future Congress.
Preamble and Notice, 52 Fed.Reg. 26,407-08 (July 14, 1987).
When Congress has explicitly set an absolute deadline, congressional intent is clear. It is a semantic game to claim that once a state fails to meet an absolute deadline, a statutory gap is created because Congress has not provided a back-up deadline for its explicitly absolute deadline. If Congress had been more lenient and allowed a one-year fall back extension, the EPA would be bound by that directive. The EPA cannot extract leeway from a statute that Congress explicitly intended to be strict.
In any case, the EPA's national guidance documents state that for those areas that qualified for an extension from 1982 to 1987, if their control measures "are not adequate to demonstrate attainment by 1987, additional measures which can be implemented after 1987 must be identified and adopted and attainment must be demonstrated by the earliest possible date." Environmental Protection Agency Criteria for Approving 1982 Ozone and Carbon Monoxide Plan Revisions, 46 Fed.Reg. 7186 (January 22, 1981) [hereinafter "Criteria"]. "The 1982 [state implementation plan] revision ... must demonstrate that all possible measures will be implemented...." Id. at 7188 (listing four examples of additional control measures). We believe that it is unreasonable for the EPA to treat more leniently areas that did not qualify for the 1987 extension than areas that did qualify. We believe that the only reasonable interpretation of the 1977 amendments is that if the 1982 deadline that Congress specified is not met, the national ambient air quality standards must be attained as soon as possible with every available control measure, including those that the EPA identified in its criteria for approving 1982 plans.
II. The EPA's Decision that the Maricopa and Pima Plans Provide for Sufficient Control Measures
The plans that the EPA approved for Maricopa and Pima Counties are similar. Both require that:
(1) gas stations sell only high oxygen content fuel during winter months (when carbon monoxide levels are highest);
(2) large employers reduce the amount of single car commuting by their employees;
(3) automobiles be tested for emission levels while under load as well as while idling.
Petitioners point out that neither the Maricopa plan nor the Pima plan adopts most of the forty-five measures recommended in a study of Maricopa County conducted by the Maricopa Association of Governments, a regional planning organization. Similarly, neither plan adopts most of the twelve measures recommended by Cambridge Systematics, a group that conducted an EPA-Sponsored study of Maricopa County. The excluded measures include major expansion of mass transit, imposition of parking controls, significant use of bus and carpool lanes, reductions in bus fares, restrictions on truck travel during peak periods, application of the Maricopa and Pima county oxygenated fuel program and automobile emission testing program to the entire state, elimination of waivers to the automobile emission testing program, and adoption of year-round daylight savings time. The Maricopa Association of Governments noted that immediate implementation of all the measures it identified could have produced attainment within one year.
Petitioners contend that it was arbitrary and capricious for the EPA to approve the plans without more control measures. The EPA contends that it properly approved the Maricopa and Pima plans with just the three control measures that they contain, because additional control measures "could not be demonstrated to further accelerate the projected attainment date."
The EPA has, however, arbitrarily shifted from Arizona the burden of demonstrating that control measures would not accelerate the projected attainment date. An EPA guidance document explicitly provides that each of the eighteen measures listed in 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7408 is presumed reasonably available; a state can reject one of these measures only by showing that the measure either would not advance attainment, would cause substantial widespread and long-term adverse impact, or would take too long to implement. The document states:
[I]f a state adopts less than all [reasonably available control measures] and demonstrates (a) that reasonable further progress and attainment of the [national ambient air quality standards] are assured, and (b) that application of all [reasonably available control measures] would not result in attainment any faster, then a plan with less than all [reasonably available control measures] may be approved.
State Implementation Plans; General preamble for Proposed Rulemaking on Approval of Plan Revisions for Nonattainment Areas, 44 Fed.Reg. 20,375 (April 4, 1979) (emphasis added).
Neither the Maricopa plan nor the Pima plan contains serious commitment to many of the measures listed in section 7408, including: 1) limiting portions of roads to common carriers; 2) improving transit systems with major changes in existing facilities; 3) controlling on-street parking; 4) establishing auto-free zones; 5) instituting road user fees that discourage single occupant automobile trips; or 6) retrofitting older vehicles with emission control devices. See 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7408(f)(1)(A)(v), (vi), (vii), (ix), (xiii), (xvii). Yet Arizona has made no claim that any of the control measures that section 7408 or the Maricopa Association of Governments identified is impracticable or unreasonable in either Maricopa County or Pima County.
Furthermore, as noted above, for a nonattainment area that qualified for deadline extension to 1987, the 1977 amendments require implementation of not only all reasonably available control measures, but also any additional measures necessary to ensure timely attainment. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7502(b)(11)(C). If such an area failed to attain the relevant ambient air quality standard by 1987, the EPA required implementation of "all possible measures" and more extensive evidence to justify failure to adopt any of the measures listed in section 7408 in order to ensure "the most expeditious [attainment] date beyond 1987." Criteria, 46 Fed.Reg. 7188 (January 22, 1981). The EPA expressly applied these requirements to nonattainment areas that failed to meet the 1982 statutory deadline and did not qualify for deadline extensions to 1987. Guidance Document for Correction of Part D SIP's For Nonattainment Areas, January 27, 1984, at 32-33 [hereinafter "Part D SIP's for Nonattainment Areas"].
We, therefore, conclude that the EPA arbitrarily and capriciously found that the Maricopa and Pima plans provide for sufficient control measures.
III. The EPA's Decision that the Maricopa Plan Provides Adequate Contingency and Conformity Provision
The EPA's published guidelines require post-1982 carbon monoxide implementation plan revisions to contain a contingency plan to be implemented if shortfalls in emission reductions occur during the period covered by the plan. See Criteria, 46 Fed.Reg. 7188 (January 22, 1981) (prescribing the policy for nonattainment extension areas). The contingency plan must provide: (1) a list of planned transportation measures that may adversely affect air quality and that will be delayed while the state implementation plan is being revised, if expected emission reductions or air quality improvements do not occur; and (2) a description of the process that will be used to determine and implement additional transportation measures beneficial to air quality that will compensate for unanticipated shortfalls in emission reductions. Id.
The Maricopa plan contains neither of these. Petitioners contend that the EPA arbitrarily and capriciously waived its contingency plan requirement. The EPA contends that its contingency plan provision applies only to nonattainment extension areas. But as we note above, the EPA expressly applied its nonattainment extension area requirements to nonattainment nonextension areas. See Part D SIP's for Nonattainment Areas, at 32-33. Indeed, it would be anomalous for the EPA not to require as stringent measures for delinquent areas as for areas that qualified for extensions.
The EPA alternatively contends that each plan contains two traffic control measures beyond those necessary to demonstrate attainment by December 31, 1991, and that these additional measures are the functional equivalent of a contingency plan. We disagree. First, we held above that the EPA erred in not requiring compliance before December 31, 1991. Second, the EPA concedes that the two traffic control measures in question--a voluntary no-drive day program and a minimum market share for alcohol fuels--are of such speculative value that the EPA could not assign them any emission reduction value. See Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Arizona State Implementation Plan Revision; Maricopa County Carbon Monoxide Plan, 53 Fed.Reg. 30,232 (August 10, 1988) [hereinafter "Approval of Maricopa Plan"]. Programs of such speculative benefit are not the functional equivalent of a list of specific projects that will be delayed and a description of the specific process that will be used to determine and implement additional transportation control measures if they become necessary. We find that the EPA has arbitrarily and capriciously waived its requirement of a contingency plan.
The Clean Air Act explicitly requires that all federal activities conform to Clean Air Act Implementation Plans. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7506(c). The EPA guidelines direct that to assure compliance with this mandate, each implementation plan "should identify, to the extent possible, the direct and indirect emissions associated with major federal actions...." Criteria, 46 Fed.Reg. 7188 (January 22, 1981). The state implementation plan must contain "[a]dministrative and technical procedures and agency responsibilities for ensuring ... that transportation plans, programs and projects" will conform with the state implementation plan. Id. The EPA does not dispute that the Maricopa plan fails to meet either requirement. Petitioners argue that the EPA arbitrarily and capriciously waived these requirements. The EPA argues, however, that we should sustain as within its discretion, its finding that the plan sufficiently assures conformity "given the flexibility which should be accorded [the EPA's] practical implementation of the [Clean Air Act]'s statutory provisions."
Again, we cannot agree. The EPA must adhere to its own guidelines. Morton v. Ruiz, 415 U.S. 199, 235, 94 S.Ct. 1055, 1074, 39 L.Ed.2d 270 (1974); Service v. Dulles, 354 U.S. 363, 388, 77 S.Ct. 1152, 1165, 1 L.Ed.2d 1403 (1957). Because it is undisputed that the Maricopa plan fails to meet either of the EPA's own requirements and the EPA offers no reason for waiving those requirements, we can conclude only that the EPA arbitrarily and capriciously approved the plan. See Illinois State Chamber of Commerce v. EPA, 775 F.2d 1141, 1147 (7th Cir.1985).
IV. The EPA's Decision that the Maricopa Plan Provides Adequate Maintenance of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards
The Clean Air Act requires that implementation plans provide for maintenance of national ambient air quality standards after attainment. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7410(a)(2)(B). Petitioners contend that the Maricopa provisions for maintenance are inadequate because the plan considers air quality only ten years into the future. The EPA required projections only ten years into the future because it found that projections beyond ten years are unreliable. Of course, this finding would not have justified the EPA's disregard for its rules without a formal revision of the rules in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. But even assuming that the EPA's own rule generally requires maintenance projections twenty years into the future applies to delinquent nonattainment nonextension areas (which the EPA disputes), that rule allows plans to provide maintenance projections only ten years into the future. The rule states:
The time period analyzed shall extend at least 20 years or, if modified under Sec. 51.63, not less than 10 years from the date on which the Administrator identified the area.
40 C.F.R. Sec. 451.42 (1987). Section 51.63(a) adds:
At the request of a State, or under his own initiative, the Administrator, where he determines it appropriate, may approve alternative [air quality maintenance area] analysis and plan development procedures as allowed under Secs. 51.42, 51.44, 51.45, 51.46, 51.48(b), and 51.60(a). He may consider all relevant factors including but not limited to air quality problems, financial and manpower limitations, administrative feasibility, and existing commitments by the State.
40 C.F.R. Sec. 51.63(a) (1987).
The preamble to these regulations specifically states that one of Section 51.63(a)'s "relevant factors" is the reliability of the maintenance projections:
The time periods will be selected by the Administrator, through his Regional Administrators, considering such factors as State resources, other planning programs that may significantly affect air quality, the reliability of projections, and the extent of present and potential air quality problems.
Maintenance of National Air Quality Standards--Summary, 41 Fed.Reg. 18,386 (May 3, 1976) (emphasis added).
In this case, the EPA specifically found that projections beyond ten years into the future "become too speculative to be reliable." Approval of Maricopa Plan, 53 Fed.Reg. 30,234 (August 10, 1988). Petitioners' own contention that traffic projections changed dramatically from February 1987 to October 1987 supports the EPA's conclusion that projections are quite speculative. We, therefore, cannot say that the EPA arbitrarily or capriciously required a maintenance projection only ten years into the future.
V. The EPA's Decision not to Consider Revised, Increased Vehicle Traffic Projections in Evaluating the Maricopa Plan
The Maricopa plan based its projection that Maricopa County would attain the carbon monoxide ambient air quality standard by 1991 on traffic projections made in 1984 and in February 1987. The EPA refused to consider revised, increased vehicle traffic projections for Maricopa County that petitioners presented during the public comment period for the Maricopa plan. The EPA argues that petitioners submitted this new data only four weeks before the approval deadline and thus the EPA lacked sufficient time to incorporate it into the plan. Petitioners contend that the EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously in failing to consider the revised, increased vehicle traffic projections. They also contend that the EPA's decision that the Maricopa plan provides adequate maintenance of the national ambient air quality standards was arbitrary and capricious because it failed to rely on the revised vehicle traffic projections.
We do not determine whether the EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously in its decision not to consider the revised traffic projections. Our holdings on the other issues in this case require the EPA to develop a new Maricopa county implementation plan. To develop that plan properly the EPA and Arizona will, of course, need to consider the most recent vehicle traffic projections currently available. Whether, due to time constraints, the EPA in 1988 justifiably refused to consider the revised, increased traffic projections is now an issue of only academic significance.
We grant the petition for review. We vacate the EPA's approvals of Maricopa and Pima counties' Clean Air Act implementation plans. We direct the EPA to disapprove these plans and to promulgate federal implementation plans consistent with this opinion within six months.1 To summarize, the new plans must utilize all available control measures to attain the carbon monoxide ambient air quality standard as soon as possible. The new plans must contain contingency and conformity plans in accordance with EPA guidelines and must be based on the most recent traffic projections currently available. We grant petitioners' motion for fees and costs and direct petitioners to submit appropriate documentation to this court.
Arizona may, of course, submit proposals to the EPA for its consideration in developing the plans

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Harry and Echo faced several hard cases at one mobile clinic deep in southern Swaziland at a school called Makhwekhweti. However, that's often when God's presence radiates beyond the physical.
Sipho and Harry discuss patients who are testing for HIV.
In one long day 589 patients were treated and received medications, another 146 tested for HIV, and 125 were fitted with eyeglasses.
Swazis waiting for various treatments, counseling, vision testing, and medications wound around three school buildings.
After the autorefractor reading, this man is matched with eyeglasses that allow him to see well for the first time in years.
It was a sight that a camera cannot capture but a mind holds dear. Sounds of excitement and hope filled the air. In the background the Jesus film resonated; it was shown four times that day.
Amid all this stood a 10-year-old boy with rickets. We met him last year. The lack of vitamin D in his diet caused severe deformity in his legs, as they bow out. Operating on him, Echo noted, might cause even greater pain and trauma as he grows into manhood.
Rickets has caused this boy's bones to malform.
Happiness is moving quickly and upright, thanks to a PET cart.
Up walked a young mother with her baby girl whose head was enlarged. Hydrocephalus (when the fluid around the brain doesn't circulate properly) is not uncommon but left untreated causes brain damage and often death.
Echo reviews notes on this baby with an enlarged head, and advises her mother to act immediately.
The mother had been referred to a neurosurgeon in Mbabane but had not taken the 100-mile journey to the city.
An hour later a gogo brought her crying grandchild to Echo. Checking the baby carefully, Harry and Echo could not find anything outwardly wrong. The baby was shaking and rigid. "He's inconsolable," Harry noted, a medical term suggesting a serious problem.
This child could not be consoled, and probably is quite sick. His grandmother cared for the baby and five orphaned siblings.
Grandma was the sole caregiver for the baby and five siblings, all recently orphaned. If she took the baby to the hospital, who would care for the other children?
A family member must stay with a sick child. Fortunately, the baby was watched throughout the day and showed improvement with Tylenol syrup and antibiotic. However, the complications of bush treatment were evident once again.
Swazis line up around three school buildings awaiting treatment.
Meanwhile, waiting in the eyeglass line was a 14-year-old girl with bilateral nystagmus, meaning her eyes dart back and forth involuntarily. "Lenses do not stop the eyes from moving, so we could not help her," said Nick Creasap, 4th year medical student volunteering from Ohio.
Last year The Luke Commission cared for a lady with chronic osteomyelitis. She returned to last Monday's clinic.
An accident in the 1980's mangled her right arm from wrist to shoulder. Infection settled in the bones and oozed through her skin for years. Her body revealed hundreds, if not thousands, of scars from witchdoctor cuts, as she furtively tried to relieve her suffering.
This lady needs TLC's help daily. But getting her out of the bush every day is a big problem.
In 2010 Harry and Echo put her on IV antibiotics for three months. She stayed in Manzini with her sister, and every day went to the TLC campus for treatment.
"Bone infections are hard to penetrate. She probably needs 3 to 6 months more of IV antibiotics," explained Harry.
Harry considers how to assist, again, this woman and her badly infected arm.
That's complicated enough. But more problems surfaced. Treating patients who live in remote communities is usually a logistical nightmare, as this one is turning out to be.
TLC staff members registers this patient and asks many questions. Triage happens everywhere at TLC clinics - under trees, out in the sun, in the shade of buildings, and occasionally inside.
This mother has 7 children, 6 still living at home. "The father is not in the picture," said her pastor. Her sister no longer lives in Manzini. The woman's only income is R10 to R30 ($1 to $4), which she might make on a "good" day selling oranges and buns.
TLC could pay her transport every day to come from the country for IV antibiotics. But it would take hours to get here and be extremely costly. Maybe TLC should rent her a room in Manzini, so she could be close to her daily treatment. Still, what about her children, and how would she earn even a meager living?
Swazis gather and rejoice when TLC team returns. This crowd will grow and grow into the night.
The Luke Commission team also transported an elderly lady from that clinic who is nigh until death from abdominal cancer. Staff leader Sipho checked her into the mission hospital.
Yes, all that could be done has been done, and yet we are reminded how little that sometimes is. Jesus tells us to show compassion to the poor, but He does not say the road will be easy.


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The perfect platform
Development squad face Middlesbrough next week
Game could see mixture of seniors and Under-21s
Lee Bullen hails friendly games as the perfect platform
The Owls Under-21s face their second friendly of the international break next week and Lee Bullen has said the game will provide the perfect platform for both the senior and Under-21 players.
The likes of Lewis Buxton, Kamil Zayatte, Caolan Lavery and Jack Stobbs could well be in line to feature against Middlesbrough at Middlewood Road next Tuesday.
As the Owls quartet continue on their road to full fitness, a run out in the Development Squad will serve the returning players well, as Bullen explained:
"There is a big gap in our 21s league programme so we felt it was vital to arrange these games during the break.
"Our next match is against Middlesbrough and the idea is to get the senior boys some game-time.
"Lewis and Kamil are close and the game will give them the opportunity to feature in a match environment.
"Hopefully we will have Caolan Lavery and Jack Stobbs back available soon.
"Whether they get 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, it can only benefit them in their bid to return.
"For the Under-21 lads, we want them to play as many games as possible so these friendly games serve more than one purpose."


According to Ernest Renan's What is a Nation?, a nation is not a group of people united by language, creed or ethnicity but a group of people with a shared selective collective memory who want to build a future together. This reminds me of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. On a Friday, Muslim protesters in Tahrir Square stopped to pray. Christian protesters formed a human chain around the Muslims to protect them. The Muslim protesters returned the favour on the following Sunday. Egyptians, regardless of creed are united through their shared experience of over 2,000 years of foreign occupation and about 60 years of dictatorship. But more powerful than that is their desire for a better future.
The will to unite did not start with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011: the sentiment was even present in the first half of the 20th century. Plays such as Hassan, Morqos wa Cohen (Hassan, Mark, and Cohen) and songs by Sayyed Darwish called on Egyptians of all religious backgrounds to unite. Symbols implying similar messages can be seen the Sayyed Darwish biopic and the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk. Even though Salafist movements disturbed this unity, it remains.
Although there are pan-Arabic movements and pan-Islamic movements in Egypt, there are also Egyptian nationalism. This nationalism focuses on secular Egyptian culture and Egypt's ancient roots. These elements are common to all Egyptians regardless of creed. I've met Christian Egyptians and I've met Muslim Egyptians; the only difference between them is religion.
Last year, some Christians, in spite of the Palm Sunday attacks, celebrated Easter in the streets because the churches the terrorists attacked were too full. They didn't care if the churches were damaged and about being attacked again: they wanted to celebrate. When reading about the afore mentioned attack on Christmas, it's not surprising the man who protected the Christians was Muslim: Egyptians, regardless of creed, care more about each other than terrorists masquerading as pious Muslims.
Islamic terrorists may attempt another attack this year but I know Egyptians can handle it: they have lived through so many hardships. When seeing how Egyptians are united by the will for a better future and love for their history, it's no surprise Egyptians regardless of religion help each other.
Egypt is, as Nicholas Nassim Taleb would say, antifragile: they benefit from shock.
I know that, as I write these words on Good Friday, I can rest assured Egypt will be fine.


Started the morning with a walk down the beach. Cruised about halfway down to the point then turned back. When we reached the entrance to El Pequeno Paraiso, we jumped in the ocean and enjoyed the cool clean water. First time in the water for my ear and everything feels fine. Koda had a dip then we headed back to the tower and had a bite of breakfast.
PJ is still in organizational mode. The neighbors next door left at around 1:30. We rode our bikes into town while Maria cleaned up the room. Being Sunday, many of the restaurants we were hoping to eat at were closed. We rode out as far as the highway then doubled back and ended up eating quesadillas served up out of some people's backyard.
Satisfied, we picked up a load of groceries at the small store and hauled them back out to Pequeno Paraiso. We couldn't stop the handlebars from turning into the curb in front of the ice cream store. Grabbed a paleta and we sat on the curbside chairs watching life go by on the dusty cobblestone street. A caravan of RVs from Quebec rolled past heading to one of the trailer parks on their way back north. We paused in the town square and took a few pictures then headed for home.
The second studio was cleaned up and ready for us upon our return. We put some of the groceries away then relaxed on the balcony. We decided to take an exploratory walk around some of the back streets and see what was there. The dogs were game and we headed out the door. Quite a few gringo estates along the dusty lanes. We wandered a while then popped back out at the beach and climbed back up the four flights of stairs to the upper deck.
That's us on the top floor!
PJ got serious about swabbing the deck and got a bucket and got busy. I didn't have the same amount of energy or desire so I played a little guitar and read a book. Around sundown, some angry lady from downstairs come up and asked PJ what she was doing. She said the water running off of the balcony was blowing a mist onto her patio. PJ apologized and explained that we had rented the entire upstairs and were cleaning it up to set out our rugs and mats to make an area to do yoga and hang out. The lady tried to claim that the upstairs was public space but PJ wasn't having it. Her fiend below yelled up should she run and get the managers. PJ said by all means if you feel the need, call them over. They disappeared in a huff complaining about not having their place for star gazing.
The encounter threw a total wet blanket on our moods and PJ was clearly bummed. Just looking for some peace and privacy. Subdued evening eating a papaya that was ripened to perfection. We're both a little tired and looking towards a fresh day tomorrow.


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package org.unitedinternet.cosmo.dav.property;

import carldav.CarldavConstants;

/**
 * Represents the Windows DAV:iscollection property.
 */
public class IsCollection extends StandardDavProperty {

    public IsCollection(boolean is) {
        super(CarldavConstants.IS_COLLECTION, is ? "1" : "0");
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
class ContactsController < ApplicationController
  unloadable

  Mime::Type.register "text/x-vcard", :vcf
  Mime::Type.register "application/vnd.ms-excel", :xls

  default_search_scope :contacts

  before_filter :find_contact, :only => [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy, :load_tab]
  before_filter :find_project, :only => [:new, :create]
  before_filter :authorize, :only => [:create, :new]
  before_filter :authorize_contacts, :only => [:edit, :update, :destroy]
  before_filter :find_optional_project, :only => [:index, :contacts_notes, :edit_mails, :send_mails, :bulk_update]

  accept_rss_auth :index, :show
  accept_api_auth :index, :show, :create, :update, :destroy

  helper :attachments
  helper :contacts
  include ContactsHelper
  helper :watchers
  helper :deals
  helper :notes
  helper :custom_fields
  include CustomFieldsHelper
  helper :context_menus
  include WatchersHelper
  helper :sort
  include SortHelper
  helper :queries
  helper :contacts_queries
  include ContactsQueriesHelper
  include ApplicationHelper
  include NotesHelper

  def index
    retrieve_contacts_query
    sort_init(@query.sort_criteria.empty? ? [['last_name', 'asc'], ['first_name', 'asc']] : @query.sort_criteria)
    sort_update(@query.sortable_columns)

    if @query.valid?
      case params[:format]
      when 'csv', 'pdf', 'xls', 'vcf'
        @limit = Setting.issues_export_limit.to_i
      when 'atom'
        @limit = Setting.feeds_limit.to_i
      when 'xml', 'json'
        @offset, @limit = api_offset_and_limit
      else
        @limit = per_page_option
      end
      @contacts_count = @query.contact_count
      @contacts_pages = Paginator.new(self, @contacts_count, @limit, params['page'])
      @offset ||= @contacts_pages.current.offset
      @contact_count_by_group = @query.contact_count_by_group
      @contacts = @query.contacts(:include => [:projects, :avatar],
                              :search => params[:search],
                              :order => sort_clause,
                              :offset => @offset,
                              :limit => @limit)
      @filter_tags = @query.filters["tags"] && @query.filters["tags"][:values]

      respond_to do |format|
        format.html do
          unless request.xhr?
            last_notes
            @tags = Contact.available_tags(:project => @project)
          else
            render :partial => contacts_list_style, :layout => false
          end
        end
        format.api
        format.atom { render_feed(@contacts, :title => "#{@project || Setting.app_title}: #{l(:label_contact_plural)}") }
      end
    else
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html do
          last_notes
          @tags = Contact.available_tags(:project => @project)
          render(:template => 'contacts/index', :layout => !request.xhr?)
        end
        format.any(:atom, :csv, :pdf) { render(:nothing => true) }
        format.api { render_validation_errors(@query) }
      end
    end
  end

  def show
    find_contact_issues
    respond_to do |format|
      format.js if request.xhr?
      format.html { @contact.viewed }
      format.api
      format.atom { render_feed(@notes, :title => "#{@contact.name || Setting.app_title}: #{l(:label_crm_note_plural)}")  }
      format.vcf { send_data(contact_to_vcard(@contact), :filename => "#{@contact.name}.vcf", :type => 'text/x-vcard;', :disposition => 'attachment') }
    end
  end

  def edit
  end

  def update
    if @contact.update_attributes(params[:contact])
      flash[:notice] = l(:notice_successful_update)
      attach_avatar
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { redirect_to :action => "show", :project_id => params[:project_id], :id => @contact }
        format.api  { render_api_ok }
      end
    else
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { render "edit", :project_id => params[:project_id], :id => @contact  }
        format.api  { render_validation_errors(@contact) }
      end
    end
  end

  def destroy
    if @contact.destroy
      flash[:notice] = l(:notice_successful_delete)
    else
      flash[:error] = l(:notice_unsuccessful_save)
    end
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_back_or_default :action => "index", :project_id => params[:project_id] }
      format.api  { render_api_ok }
    end
  end

  def new
    @duplicates = []
    @contact = Contact.new
    @contact.attributes = params[:contact] if params[:contact] && params[:contact].is_a?(Hash)
  end

  def create
    params[:contact].delete(:project_id)
    @contact = Contact.new(params[:contact])
    @contact.projects << @project
    @contact.author = User.current
    if @contact.save
      flash[:notice] = l(:notice_successful_create)
      attach_avatar
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { redirect_to (params[:continue] ?  {:action => "new", :project_id => @project} : {:action => "show", :project_id => @project, :id => @contact} )}
        format.js
        format.api  { render :action => 'show', :status => :created, :location => contact_url(@contact) }
      end
    else
      respond_to do |format|
        format.api  { render_validation_errors(@contact) }
        format.js { render :action => "new" }
        format.html { render :action => "new" }
      end
    end
  end

  def contacts_notes
    unless request.xhr?
      @tags = Contact.available_tags(:project => @project)
    end

    contacts = find_contacts(false)

    joins = " "
    joins << " LEFT OUTER JOIN #{Contact.table_name} ON #{Note.table_name}.source_id = #{Contact.table_name}.id AND #{Note.table_name}.source_type = 'Contact' "
    cond = "(1 = 1) "
    cond << "and (#{Contact.table_name}.id in (#{contacts.any? ? contacts.map(&:id).join(', ') : 'NULL'})"
    cond << " )"
    cond << " and (LOWER(#{Note.table_name}.content) LIKE '%#{params[:search_note].downcase}%')" if params[:search_note] and request.xhr?
    cond << " and (#{Note.table_name}.author_id = #{params[:note_author_id]})" if !params[:note_author_id].blank?
    cond << " and (#{Note.table_name}.type_id = #{params[:type_id]})" if !params[:type_id].blank?

    @notes_pages, @notes = paginate :notes,
                                    :per_page => 20,
                                    :joins => joins,
                                    :conditions => cond,
                                    :order => "#{Note.table_name}.created_on DESC"
    @notes.compact!

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { render :partial => "notes/notes_list", :layout => false, :locals => {:notes => @notes, :notes_pages => @notes_pages} if request.xhr?}
      format.xml { render :xml => @notes }
      format.csv { send_data(notes_to_csv(@notes), :type => 'text/csv; header=present', :filename => 'notes.csv') }
      format.atom { render_feed(@notes, :title => "#{l(:label_crm_note_plural)}")  }
    end
  end

  def context_menu
    @project = Project.find(params[:project_id]) unless params[:project_id].blank?
    @contacts = Contact.visible.where(:id => params[:selected_contacts])
    @contact = @contacts.first if (@contacts.size == 1)
    @can = {:edit => (@contact && @contact.editable?) || (@contacts && @contacts.collect{|c| c.editable?}.inject{|memo,d| memo && d}),
            :create_deal => (@project && User.current.allowed_to?(:add_deals, @project)),
            :create => (@project && User.current.allowed_to?(:add_contacts, @project)),
            :delete => @contacts.collect{|c| c.deletable?}.inject{|memo,d| memo && d},
            :send_mails => @contacts.collect{|c| c.send_mail_allowed? && !c.primary_email.blank?}.inject{|memo,d| memo && d}
            }

    render :layout => false
  end

  def bulk_destroy
    @contacts = Contact.deletable.find_all_by_id(params[:ids])
    raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound if @contacts.empty?
    @contacts.each(&:destroy)
    redirect_back_or_default({:action => "index", :project_id => params[:project_id]})
  end

  def load_tab

  end

private
  def find_contact_issues
    scope = @contact.issues
    scope = scope.open unless RedmineContacts.settings[:show_closed_issues]
    @contact_issues_count = scope.visible.count
    @contact_issues = scope.visible.find(:all, :order => "#{Issue.table_name}.status_id, #{Issue.table_name}.updated_on DESC", :limit => 10)
  end

  def attach_avatar
    if params[:contact_avatar]
      params[:contact_avatar][:description] = 'avatar'
      @contact.avatar.destroy if @contact.avatar
      Attachment.attach_files(@contact, {"1" => params[:contact_avatar]})
      render_attachment_warning_if_needed(@contact)
    end
  end

  def last_notes(count=5)
    scope = ContactNote.scoped({})
    scope = scope.scoped(:conditions => ["#{Project.table_name}.id = ?", @project.id]) if @project
    scope = scope.includes(:attachments)

    @last_notes = scope.visible.find(:all,
                                     :limit => count,
                                     :order => "#{ContactNote.table_name}.created_on DESC")
  end

  def find_contact
    @contact = Contact.find(params[:id])
    unless @contact.visible?
      deny_access
      return
    end
    project_id = (params[:contact] && params[:contact][:project_id]) || params[:project_id]
    @project = Project.find_by_identifier(project_id)
    @project ||= @contact.project
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
    render_404
  end

  def find_contacts(pages=true)
    @tag = ActsAsTaggableOn::TagList.from(params[:tag]) unless params[:tag].blank?

    scope = Contact.scoped({})
    scope = scope.scoped(:conditions => ["#{Contact.table_name}.job_title = ?", params[:job_title]]) unless params[:job_title].blank?
    scope = scope.scoped(:conditions => ["#{Contact.table_name}.assigned_to_id = ?", params[:assigned_to_id]]) unless params[:assigned_to_id].blank?
    scope = scope.scoped(:conditions => ["#{Contact.table_name}.is_company = ?", params[:query]]) unless (params[:query].blank? || params[:query] == '2' || params[:query] == '3')
    scope = scope.scoped(:conditions => ["#{Contact.table_name}.author_id = ?", User.current]) if params[:query] == '3'

    case params[:query]
      when '2' then scope = scope.order_by_creation
      when '3' then scope = scope.order_by_creation
      else scope = scope.order_by_name
    end

    scope = scope.by_project(@project)

    params[:search].split(' ').collect{ |search_string| scope = scope.live_search(search_string) } if !params[:search].blank?
    scope = scope.visible

    scope = scope.tagged_with(params[:tag]) if !params[:tag].blank?
    scope = scope.tagged_with(params[:notag], :exclude => true) if !params[:notag].blank?

    @contacts_count = scope.count
    @contacts = scope

    if pages
      page_size = params[:page_size].blank? ? 20 : params[:page_size].to_i
      @contacts_pages = Paginator.new(self, @contacts_count, page_size, params[:page])
      @offset = @contacts_pages.offset
      @limit =  @contacts_pages.items_per_page

      @contacts = @contacts.scoped :include => [:tags, :avatar], :limit  => @limit, :offset => @offset

      fake_name = @contacts.first.name if @contacts.length > 0
    end
    @contacts

  end

  # Filter for bulk issue operations
  def bulk_find_contacts
    @contacts = Deal.find_all_by_id(params[:id] || params[:ids], :include => :project)
    raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound if @contact.empty?
    if @contacts.detect {|contact| !contact.visible?}
      deny_access
      return
    end
    @projects = @contacts.collect(&:projects).compact.uniq
    @project = @projects.first if @projects.size == 1
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
    render_404
  end

  def find_project
    project_id = (params[:contact] && params[:contact][:project_id]) || params[:project_id]
    @project = Project.find(project_id)
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
    render_404
  end

  def authorize_contacts(action = params[:action], global = false)
    case action.to_s
    when 'edit', 'update'
      @contact.editable? ? true : deny_access
    when 'destroy'
      @contact.deletable? ? true : deny_access
    else
      deny_access
    end
  end

end


M2Web is a software package, created by Jim Self, which provides a CGI connection between a web server such as Apache and a programming system such as MUMPS.
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a standard for running (executing) programs that are not built into the World-Wide Web HTTP server from a web server. CGI specifies how to pass arguments to the executing program as part of the HTTP request. It also defines a set of environment variables that exist in the operating system environment, but which are accessible to the executing program. Commonly, the executing program will generate some text formated in HTML which will be passed back along the HTTP connection to the browser running on the client PC. The executing program can also request URL redirection.
CGI specifies the format of the returned data using MIME types, such as returning HTML, but it can return any type that is usable by the browser, including pictures, Microsoft Office or Open Office documents. Every document type usable on a PC can be returned, provided the browser is setup appropriately. It even can act in an arbitrary way as the result of the HTTP request, such as returning a 404 (page not found) error, or a redirect page response. The CGI program can, for example, access information in a database and format the results as HTML. In general, a CGI program can be any program which can accept command line arguments, such as GT.M or Cache. While, Perl is a common choice for writing CGI scripts, anything which can be provided by a Perl program can also be returned by a MUMPS routine, provided the routine is interfaced properly through M2Web. Some HTTP servers require CGI programs to reside in a special directory, often "/cgi-bin" but better servers provide ways to distinguish CGI programs so they can be kept in the same directories as the HTML files to which they are related.
In order to improve performance, Netscape devised the NSAPI (Netscape Server API) and Microsoft developed the ISAPI (Internet Server API) standard which allow CGI-like tasks to run as part of the main server process, thus avoiding the overhead of creating a new process to handle each CGI invocation.
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Making Hope Happen Foundation Scholarships provide $3,000 and support from a mentor to help graduates of San Bernardino City Unified Schools succeed in their pursuit of a college degree or technical skills certification. Based on the estimated cost of tuition and books for two years of full-time attendance at a California Community College, Making Hope Happen scholarships help students overcome financial barriers that too often prevent good kids from accessing post-secondary education. Your scholarship gift unlocks this opportunity.
The Making Hope Happen Foundation supports the mission of the San Bernardino City Unified School District. Together, the District and the Foundation are committed to equipping local graduates for success in college an beyond.
The Foundation offers scholarships to qualified students to help pay for tuition, books, and other fees and expenses they encounter on their educational journey. To qualify students must have earned a minimum cumulative high school GPA of 2.0 and have applied for Financial Aid (through the FAFSA or equivalent). Scholarships provided by the Making Hope Happen Foundation are funded through charitable donations and given first to students who demonstrate financial need. Students who are also experiencing challenging circumstances (e.g. homeless, foster youth, single parents, from single parent households, or are dreamers) will be considered priorities for awards.
Awardees receive $3,000 to use toward college and college-related expenses. The award will be split across the first two years of full-time higher education attendance (distributions for part-time attendance will be prorated). Additionally, the Foundation connects each recipient with a university student mentor to help navigate the distribution process and college environment successfully.
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Welcome to our Wakefield, Rhode Island page. We provide listings of: women's shelters, family shelters, transitional housing, residential treatment centers and other residential services for women.
A 24 hours a day, 7 days a week helpline is available for those who are in trouble. Trained advocates are available anytime. The number is 1.800.494.8100.
Due to the low number of listings in Wakefield, we have added area listings below.


What we've found with this planter is that not all plastic 3" pots are the same height, and therefore do not uniformly fit below the top of the planters. If you prefer to not have a plastic pot showing, then we encourage you to find a plastic planter with height of 3". If you can't find a plastic pot of that sizing, the most common ones are 3 1/2".
Add some dimension and spray paint the plastic pots to create a colorful addition to your planter! We left the bottoms unpainted because the overspray makes a really cool gradient texture that we grew fond of.
Another simple way to style these planters is to stack them! We did this in our art installation. All of the plants that we tried to flip horizontally stayed in just fine, however loose, dry dirt tends to fall out. Keep your plant watered and the soil will stay more compacted together.


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The A List: Captains of Business in 2020
This article was originally published on LMD. To view the full list, please click here.
Coming on the back of a year that witnessed a national tragedy on Easter Sunday, 2020 proved to be even worse with multiple waves of COVID-19 bringing many industries and sectors to a virtual standstill. As such, there was little respite for the nation's engine of growth. Several corporates grappled with the arduous task of downsizing their organisations in the wake of the fallout from the shutdowns while many others were compelled to work on contingency plans to counter the impact of the pandemic and move forward amid a highly fluid outlook as the months passed by.
Nevertheless, many of the men and women at the helm of corporate establishments demonstrated immense grit to overcome adversity yet again.
HALL OF FAME - This New Year edition of LMD pays tribute to the nation's corporate front-runners in 2020. Dubbed 'Captains of Business,' our A List of Sri Lankan businesspeople is based on nominations received from the magazine's contributors, as well as an in-house think tank led by the editorial and senior management teams.
In the 2020 hall of fame, LMD showcases 100 leaders from among the best in Sri Lanka's corporate and professional communities.
LMD's collective think tank works on the basis of nominating those who helm Sri Lanka's best in class business houses for financial performance (with the LMD 100 being a key point of reference), corporate respect (LMD's Most Respected rankings come into play here) and branding successes (from our Brands Annual, which is compiled in collaboration with Brand Finance).
Indeed, other dimensions including entrepreneurship, the spirit of innovation, major accolades in the recent past and all else that make for inspiring leadership are also taken into consideration in compiling the A List each year.
A LIST PROFILE – In this edition's roll call of the island's leading business personalities, we pay homage to leaders from diverse fields.
The 2020 lineup is led by representatives of Sri Lanka's diversified companies, which are followed by the banking sector. Meanwhile, tea, apparel, construction and engineering, and financial services also feature prominently, alongside domains such as ICT, gems and jewellery, motor, retail and telecommunications.
When it comes to designations, the majority of leading businesspeople are chairpersons, managing directors or members of the corporate C-Suite.
Reflecting the diversity of the private sector, the 2020 A Listers span at least two generations; and on the gender front, only seven out of the 100 strong list are women. Sri Lanka's 'Business Hall of Fame' is also graced by many of those who share 'family ties' with one another.
-LMD
Hanif Yusoof established a strong brand for logistics and supply chains across the globe and leads a team of employees across 18 countries.
Former President of the Freight Forwarders Association of Sri Lanka in addition to being on the UN/ESCAP panel of trainers for freight forwarding
Recipient of the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Special Achievement Award from Enterprise Asia in 2013
Conferred an award for Global Commerce Excellence in recognition of his contribution to the Sri Lankan economy by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 2012
Named one of the 'Ten Outstanding Young Persons' (TOYP) in 1998
Hanif Yusoof EFL CEO LMD 2020


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Houston hit hard and an early 2020 mock draft
By: Steve Melewski
The Houston Astros, as speculated by many, did in fact get hammered for their part in sign-stealing via technology. Major League Baseball suspended their general manager, Jeff Luhnow, and manager AJ Hinch for the 2020 season. Then Astros owner Jim Crane went further than that. He fired both Luhnow and Hinch.
Houston also lost first- and second-round draft picks in both 2020 and 2021. They will also lose the significant bonus pool dollars for each slot of the four picks. That will hurt their entire draft. Plus, the team got fined $5 million.
It should be noted that no current Orioles staff that was employed then by Houston was even mentioned in the lengthy MLB report. They were not implicated in any way, so any fan concerns over that can now be forgotten.
What impact will yesterday's news have?
As I wrote less than a week ago, this was a "Judge Landis" moment for commissioner Rob Manfred. And in my opinion, he handed out a strong penalty. The penalties here should serve as a clear deterrent to any player or team that considers using technology to cheat going forward.
This is likely the biggest impact the Houston scandal has on the rest of the sport. A lot of this cheating was player-driven, per MLB's report. But moving forward, GMs and managers surely will strongly spread the word throughout their clubhouses: Don't even think about it.
The loss of the draft picks will be very significant. For two drafts Houston will have little money to spend on picks and it will hard to produce much impact out of those drafts starting with selections in round three.
One benefit for the Orioles will be moving up a spot in the draft order. Not with their No. 2 overall pick, of course. But they currently hold the No. 31 pick in June, the first pick after round one, which is in Competitive Balance Round A. With Houston losing pick No. 30, the O's move up to No. 30.
Last year the slot amount at No. 31 was $2,312,000, and at No. 30 the figure was $2,365,500, so the Orioles gain a few dollars in their overall bonus pool as well. If Boston gets busted and loses a first-rounder too, the Orioles could move up to No. 29, which last year had a pool amount of $2,424,600.
Baltimore's second-round pick moves from No. 40 to No. 39. And its third-round pick moves up two slots after Houston loses its two picks, from No. 76 to No. 74. So the O's, as of today, will select at No. 2, No. 30, No. 39 and No. 74 with their first four selections.
We can't put any stat on it but the losses of Luhnow and Hinch are big. However you feel about those gentlemen, they proved very talented at what they do. They won. They set a tone for the organization that produced big on-field success. They came close to winning two World Series titles in three years.
But MLB had to take a hard-line against the cheating, and in my opinion it did the right thing with Houston.
Feeling a draft: Speaking of the First-Year Player Draft, Baseball America has posted a rather early 2020 mock draft. It has Detroit, selecting first, taking Vanderbilt shortstop Austin Martin at 1/1. Martin has hit .376/.479/.521 in two years in the Southeastern Conference. It has the Orioles at No. 2 taking right-handed pitcher Emerson Hancock from the University of Georgia. At No. 3, the projection is for Miami to select Arizona State first baseman Spencer Torkelson, who has hit 48 homers over two seasons.
Baseball America notes that, "as with the Tigers, we expect the Orioles to be choosing one of the Martin/Hancock/Torkelson trio at this point. While Torkelson makes sense here as the best hit/power bat in the 2020 class, it's worth noting that Mike Elias and Sig Megdal have always taken up-the-middle hitters or pitchers with top-five picks, going back to 2012 with the Astros."
Hancock made 14 starts last year, going 8-3 with a 1.99 ERA, a .185 average against and a 0.84 WHIP that led the SEC. He fanned 97 and walked 18 over 90 1/3 innings. He went 4-2 with a 1.69 ERA in SEC games.
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by Maine Examiner 09/28/2019 | 7:00 0 Posted in National News, White House
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WASHINGTON D.C. – Former Vice President Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and a group of television hosts from CNN and MSNBC are all featured in President Donald Trump's new ad that launched late yesterday.
Tweeting the video, President Trump added, "I AM DRAINING THE SWAMP!"
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Joe Biden was recorded at a Council on Foreign Relations event bragging that he told Ukraine that if they did not fire the prosecutor investigating his son's company, they would not get $1 billion in United States assistance.
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UPDATE: We have now raised almost $15 million in small dollar donations (including 50,000 NEW donors) since @SpeakerPelosi started this impeachment charade 72 hrs ago! Unbelievable numbers!! Keep it going — you and the dems are handing @realDonaldTrump the win in 2020! 🤛👍🇺🇸
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) September 27, 2019
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2019
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Lintha
The Lintha are a band of pirates and smugglers terrorizing the West and South from their secret port of Bluehaven. However, they are not simply a pirate fleet. They are a criminal family led by an ancient race of primordial origin. The word Lintha is commonly used to refer to this of God-Blooded, while the term Lintha Family is used to describe the extended family of pirate captains that make up this powerful band of cut-throats.
Race of Demons
The Lintha are descended from an ancient race, pre-dating the Primordial Wars. The Ancient Lintha were a glorious, but arrogant and cruel, race of God-Bloods born from the seed of Kimbery. The Ancient Lintha ruled a magnificent Empire in the West from their capital city of T'foor Na, The Blue city. However, the ancient Lintha sided with their mother during the Primordial Wars, and were slaughtered by the Armies of the Solar Deliberative. Only a few Lintha survived the generations of Wars that followed, most of whom were sold into slavery or turned into refugees. At the end of the Wars several dozen Lintha refugees came together with the intention of recreating the Lintha Kingdom, but they were captured and left for dead by the new rulers of the West.
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In the modern era, the Lintha race has been nearly bred out of existence by mixing blood with mortals. However, a careful program of selective marraige, castration, and forced breeding with Demons related to Kimbery, has slowly begun to reinvigorate the Lintha Bloodline. Modern Lintha are tall, but slightly shorter than their ancestors, they have lean long limbs, and fine angular features. Most modern Lintha have gills on their necks as well, which is the most outstanding difference between them and their ancestors.
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When People think of Lintha they usually think of terrible pirates and slavers travelling in long ships without sails, rather than thinking of a race of God-Blooded. The Lintha Family, built around the Lintha race, is made up of a wide variety of people who form the most terrifying band of Pirates in Creation.
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Lintha Swordplay and Martial Arts
After their distinctive ships and well known brutality, the next most recognized feature of the Lintha is the Auhzian, a sword and fighting syle unique to the Lintha Family. In the West and parts of the South, anyone carrying an Auhzian is instantly recognizable as being associated with the Lintha.
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The Lintha fighting style has a ritualistic internal code of honor based on single-combat and respect. However, outside of the Lintha Family this style is considered dirty and dishonorable because of the free use of showy-attacks, underhanded tactics, and vicious maneuvers. Also notable is the Lintha penchant for the use of a Terrestrial Martial Arts style originally employed by their most ancient enemies, the Mosok Dragon Kings. Black Tide Style, which is particularly elegantly deployed while the wielder is submerged, is now primarily remembered only by those cannibal pirates.
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Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli indicted on new money laundering charges in college admissions scandal
By Sasha Savitsky | Fox News
The academic fate of Lori Loughlin's daughter at the University of Southern California is on hold
The academic fate of Lori Loughlin's daughter at the University of Southern California is on hold amid investigation.
Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were indicted on fraud and money laundering charges Tuesday in the multimillion-dollar college admissions cheating scam that has ensnared dozens of wealthy parents trying to get their kids into the nation's most prestigious colleges.
The "Fuller House" star and her husband, along with 14 other parents, were charged in Boston in a "second superseding indictment with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering," the Department of Justice said in a statement to Fox News.
Loughlin and Giannulli were charged last month with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The new indictment adds a money laundering charge for all 16 defendants.
FELICITY HUFFMAN TO PLEAD GUILTY IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL: 'I AM ASHAMED OF THE PAIN I HAVE CAUSED'
Loughlin and Giannulli are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as crew team recruits, even though neither of them played the sport.
In this Aug. 13, 2017 file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, center, poses with her daughters Bella, left, and Olivia Jade at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles. (AP)
A rep for Loughlin did not immediately return Fox News' request for comment. She and her husband appeared in a Boston federal court briefly last week and were not asked to enter a plea. The couple has not publicly commented on the allegations.
More than four dozen people have been charged in the nationwide scam, which is alleged to have placed students in top-tier schools like Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, the University of Southern California, UCLA and the University of Texas. A federal investigation into the matter – dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues" – has been ongoing for more than a year.
Lori Loughlin signs autographs and chats with fans the day before her court hearing in Boston for her alleged role in a nationwide college admissions scam. (Backgrid)
The move comes a day after fellow actress Felicity Huffman, 12 other parents and a coach agreed to plead guilty — signaling an escalation in the case against the parents who are continuing to fight the allegations against them.
LORI LOUGHLIN APPEARED 'ARROGANT' IN COURT WHILE FELICITY HUFFMAN LOOKED 'MORE GENUINE,' SAYS SKETCH ARTIST
On Monday, the "Desperate Housewives" actress announced her decision to plead guilty, explaining that she accepts "full responsibility" for her actions.
"I am pleading guilty to the charge brought against me by the United States Attorney's Office," the "Desperate Housewives" alum said in a statement obtained by Fox News.
"I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions," Huffman continued. "I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community. I want to apologize to them and, especially, I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly.
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"My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her. This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life. My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty," she concluded.
Prosecutors say they will seek a prison sentence that's on the low end of between four and 10 months for Huffman.
You can find Sasha Savitsky on Twitter @SashaFB.