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Facing Prospect of Regulation, Twitter Plans New Ad Disclosures
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In an apparent response to mounting pressure in Washington, Twitter said it would give users additional information about ads on the microblogging service, including details about who paid for the ad and the groups being targeted.
Twitter announced what its calling its Transparency Center in a blog post Tuesday, one week before the company's general counsel is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, alongside representatives from Facebook and Google, about how Russian operatives used the platforms to meddle in the 2016 US election. It comes one week after Sens. Mark Warner, Amy Klobuchar, and John McCain introduced legislation called the Honest Ads Act that would impose additional disclosure requirements on online political ads. Like Facebook, which has announced similar policies meant to educate the public about political ads, Twitter is betting that more transparency may be its best defense against potentially burdensome regulation from Washington.
Twitter's Transparency Center goes farther than Facebook's efforts, which are limited to political ads. Twitter's tool will allow users to see information on every ad on the platform, including how long the ads have been running, the content of the ads, and which ads have been targeted at them. Users will be able to comment on the ads, to alert Twitter of any that seem inappropriate. Twitter said the new tool would be available, first in the US, "in the coming weeks."
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The company is also imposing special requirements for so-called "electioneering" ads, which refer to a specific candidate or party. It will require these advertisers to identify themselves, by marking their accounts with a special icon, similar to the way Twitter marks verified accounts with a blue check mark. This is not the first time Twitter has highlighted political ads. Adam Sharp, the company's former head of government, news and elections, says Twitter introduced similar badges on all political ads in 2011. When users hovered over the badge, they could see information about who was paying for the ad, similar to disclosures on TV and radio political ads. But that same year, the Federal Election Commission deadlocked on a request from Facebook for an exemption to rules that would require such disclaimers. Facebook continued to publish political ads without the disclosures, and eventually Twitter and others followed suit. "That lack of resolution made lack of transparency the industry standard," Sharp says.
Now, in the face of both customer and regulatory backlash, the pendulum is swinging in the other direction. Twitter said it will create a section of the Transparency Center that hosts political ads, as well as information on who paid for the ads, how much money advertisers spent on the ads, and demographic details about whom the ad targeted. The company also said it will limit the targeting capabilities of political advertisers, and may prevent some groups from advertising. Depending on how that policy is implemented, that could prevent nonprofit political groups from creating infinite shell organizations to obscure who is really paying for an ad.
In many ways, Twitter's changes are an answer to the Honest Ads Act. If enacted, it would require tech companies to create publicly available repositories of political ads, with information on how much the advertisers spent, who the advertisers are, and contact information for those advertisers. In the blog post, Twitter thanked the legislators "for their foresight in drawing attention to these issues."
In a tweet, Warner called Twitter's move "a good first step," though he reiterated the need for the Honest Ads Act.
https://twitter.com/MarkWarner/status/922916719932219392
Klobuchar said in a statement that the announcement is "no substitute for updating our laws and passing the Honest Ads Act," which would apply to all online platforms. "If Twitter is an advocate for this type of transparency and accountability, I look forward to its support of my bipartisan legislation," Klobuchar said.
Providing more transparency around ads could help with some, but not all of the ways that Russia is believed to have meddled in the 2016 election. Russian-linked actors also posted fake new articles on Facebook, deployed carefully crafted hashtag campaigns that mobilized bots with misinformation on Twitter, used Google ads to help finance the whole operation. The campaign relied in large part on ordinary Americans, who believed in what they were reading and who chose to pass that information on to their social networks.
Cracking down on ads may make it harder for bad actors to instantly spread their messages far and wide. But it's the viral spread of misleading or divisive information from anywhere in the world that these tech companies still need to address.
UPDATE, 5:50 pm: This story has been updated to include Klobuchar's comments on Twitter's plan.
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Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems (Hardcover)
By Valzhyna Mort
12 on hand, as of Jan 14 11:31am
In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.
With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort's Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts
the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?
Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet's voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory.
Valzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.
Valzhyna Mort is the author of Factory of Tears and Collected Body. She has received the Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, the Amy Clampitt Residency, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she writes in English and Belarusian.
Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2020 by The New York Times
"[A] striking study of what Belarus can teach the world about state violence, collective memory, and the role of poetry in fighting tyranny . . . [Mort] captures, through language, the contours of dissent. Soviet monuments remain upright in Minsk, like concrete odes to terror, repression, and silence. And yet Music for the Dead and the Resurrected feels like its own monument, not only to Belarusians but also to victims of state violence around the world." —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker
"Mort is well-known in Europe as a crusader on behalf of Belarusian language and identity. In English, cast in rapid-fire free verse lyrics and sequences, her poems seem to channel her country's complicated and highly pressurized history into a voice that is simultaneously strange, intimate, lonesome, hilarious, surreal and all too real. . ." —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR
"Valzhyna Mort is a spellbinding poet . . . In her new book, The Music for the Dead and Resurrected, she creates a world of images and metaphors that reverberate in our minds long after we are finished reading. How so? Perhaps because these poems about Belarus understand something about us, about our own lives in this moment in time, and they respond to the human grief that manifests itself no matter where it is located." —Ilya Kaminsky, McSweeney's
"[Music for the Dead and Resurrected] asks searing, meditative questions born from war, massacre, and famine . . . The stakes of humanity are central to Mort, who seeks to offer a voice to those denied one throughout history . . . These are poems of reclamation and resurrection; to live in them is to confront the hard work of witness." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Mort's poems are ethereal and personal, poignant and political." —Diego Báez, Booklist
"Hauntingly beautiful . . . Mort is not simply writing another history of the worst crimes of the past century, she is creating a mythology for how we internalize those crimes at the individual level, and, perhaps, more importantly, the ways in which we both silence, remember, and re-create them as a result. . . we live in Mort's lyric poems, and it is here that her mythologizing genius is most profound . . . The historical intertwined with the personal, the brutish and inhumane wrapped up in the all-too human, this is the mythology of Valzhyna Mort." —Peter Grandbois, The New York Journal of Books
"A rich collection with language so sharp it unnerves." —Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions
"Mort refutes the expected wistfulness of elegy in the way her poems speak so urgently, while also exhibiting a peacefulness threatened and a naturalness made dark in lines like, '—wet laundry claps in the wind like gunfire' and 'Like a manly tear, a bird glides across the air.' Her lines are gasping and anguished, but tempered with an inquisitive, tender pragmatism that steadies the tone of Music." —Julia Harrison, The Sewanee Review
"Mort powerfully juxtaposes lyrical with narrative verse, bringing the past and the present, the individual and the collective, together." —Paula Erizanu, The Calvert Journal
"Music for the Dead and Resurrected is a timely antidote to popular over-identifications with nationally-sanctioned narratives, the kind that disappears the nuanced stories that help shape an individual's sense of home and purpose. For Mort, these pravdas, these stories of what-really-happened, are a shield against dictatorial untruth. And to show gratitude, she buries her dead . . . This relationship between Belarus' living and dead is a type of magic. The past is a mysterious power as the dead literally and metaphorically continue to appear within the living: in music, in family, in the sprawling, plentiful Belarusian trees." —Sarah Afshar, Michigan Quarterly Review
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Poetry / Women Authors
Paperback (November 9th, 2021): $16.00

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Q: How to list object using delimeter and sort_by in aws s3 api? How to list object using delimeter and sort_by in aws s3 api?
I used below command to list object using delimeter to print second level folder only -
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket $bucketNameToUse --prefix $prefixToUse --output text --delimiter "/"
COMMONPREFIXES  firstlevelfolder1/
COMMONPREFIXES  firstlevelfolder2/

It worked fine and print second level folders based on prefix that I passed.
And I used below command to list the objects based on last modified date.
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket $bucketNameToUse --prefix $prefixToUse --output text --query 'sort_by(Contents,&LastModified)[*].[Key,LastModified]'
firstlevelfolder1/  2018-12-28T11:41:07.000Z
firstlevelfolder2/  2018-12-28T11:41:18.000Z
firstlevelfolder1/secondlevelfolder1/   2018-12-28T11:41:30.000Z
firstlevelfolder2/secondlevelfolder2/   2018-12-28T11:41:43.000Z
firstlevelfolder1/secondlevelfolder1/test.java  2018-12-28T11:42:28.000Z
firstlevelfolder2/secondlevelfolder2/test.java  2018-12-28T11:42:46.000Z

it worked fine and print the objects sorted by time.
But when I tried to combine both the command I got error -
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket $bucketNameToUse --prefix $prefixToUse --output text --query 'sort_by(Contents,&LastModified)[*].[Key,LastModified]' --delimiter "/"

In function sort_by(), invalid type for value: None, expected one of: ['array'], received: "null"

A: Combination of both delimeter and sort_by by lastModified is not possible because the output of delimeter doesn't contain anything except object name and when we combine both delimeter with sort_by function it throws an error as it does not find any content to sort.

A: Your command is probably returning 0 objects (None value here) but the sort_by method will expect an array
Check if this returns objects or not:
aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket $bucketNameToUse --prefix $prefixToUse --output text --delimiter "/"

If this does not then that's your issue.

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Parkend Ironworks, also known as Parkend Furnace, in the village of Parkend, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, was a coke-fired furnace built in 1799. Most of the works were demolished between 1890 and 1908, but the engine house survived and is arguably the best preserved example of its kind to be found in the United Kingdom.

Background
During the 17th century Parkend had been, at different times, the location of two charcoal-fired Crown furnaces, known as the King's Ironworks; In 1612 James I contracted the Earl of Pembroke to build and run a blast furnace and forge at 'Parke End', bringing with it the first real settlement at what was to become the village of Parkend. The furnace was destroyed on the orders of Parliament, during the Civil War, in 1644. After the war, in 1653, Parliament instructed that another furnace should be built, a short distance downstream from the first. Being located in a royal forest, control of the furnace returned to the Crown after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. It ceased production, and was demolished, in 1674.

Iron was first successfully smelted with coke in 1709 at Coalbrookdale, in Shropshire. Despite there being extensive coal measures in the Forest of Dean, local coal did not produce coke that was ideal for smelting and Forest ironmasters were reluctant to invest in the new technology. It was not until the last decade of the 18th century that coke-fired furnaces began to make an appearance, with Parkend, and its many coalmines, once again considered an ideal location for iron production. It was one of three coke-fired ironworks, Cinderford and Whitecliff being the others, that were built almost simultaneously in the Forest.

History
Work commenced on Parkend Ironworks in 1799. It was the third coke-fired ironworks to be built in the Forest of Dean, but was beset by technical problems and ceased production around 1807. Around 1820, Moses Teague discovered a way to make good iron from local coke, while working at Darkhill Ironworks. To exploit his discovery he formed the 'Forest of Dean Iron Co' and re-opened Parkend Ironworks in 1824.

The lower pond at Cannop was built in 1825 to provide a constant supply of water, and a 1.5 mile long leat constructed to transfer water to the top of a waterwheel, which was installed in 1827 to supply power for the blast. It was 51 ft in diameter and weighed 60 tons – reputedly the largest in Britain at that time. A second furnace was also erected in 1827. Despite the enormous effort expended in creating the supply of water, it proved inadequate and in 1828 a 90 horsepower steam engine and engine house were constructed alongside the works. A year later, a second pond at Cannop was also built to boost the water supply.

By 1835 the site had grown to include workers' cottages, casting houses, blacksmith's and carpenter's sheds, a counting house, offices, a beerhouse, and many other ancillary buildings. In 1849 a second steam engine was added.

Business was booming and in 1871 a third furnace was also added; a 'hot blast' design which was the very latest technology at that time. Just four years later, however, the iron trade went into recession and the ironworks closed in 1877.

Most of the works were demolished between 1890 and 1908, but the engine house and some ancillary buildings survived to become the country's first Forester Training School in 1910. During the Second World War, it was used by the American army as a barracks. In 1971 it was sold to Avon County Council and became the Dean Field Studies centre, now known as the Deanfield Outdoor Centre. In 1984 it was afforded Grade II Listed Building protection. The building is not open to the public, but can be viewed from the roadside.

See also
Cinderford Ironworks
Whitecliff Ironworks
Darkhill Ironworks

References

Further reading

External links

The Dean Field Studies Centre

Buildings and structures demolished in 1890
Ironworks and steelworks in England
Industrial history of England
Forest of Dean
Blast furnaces in England

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BLOG SERIES: Poseidon Principles explained
The concerns over the impact of the shipping industry on the environment have intensified over the last few years with numerous initiatives being undertaken by various stakeholders.
Shipping companies have to consider the impact of environmental, social and governance factors into their strategy, among other challenging factors, if they seek access to shipping capital.
On June 18, 2019, 11 major shipping banks have launched the Poseidon Principles which will enable banks to support the shipping industry's reduction of carbon emissions by 50% by 2050. The Poseidon Principles establish a global framework for assessing and disclosing whether banks' lending portfolios are consistent with adopted climate goals. The objective is all financing sought by ship-owners to be directed to environmentally friendly ships.
The Principles were developed by the banks in collaboration with the Global Maritime Forum, Rocky Mountain Institute, University College London Energy Institute, Lloyd's Register, and other leading shipping players such as ship-owners, brokers, and solicitors. The first banks that have signed the agreement are Citi, DNB, Danish Ship Finance, Danske Bank, ING, Société Générale, DVB Bank, Nordea, Crédit Agricole, Amsterdam Trade Bank and ABN AMRO. Since then another 7 financial institutions have signed and embraced this initiative.
But how will the signatories determine whether their portfolios align with IMO's decarbonisation targets? Since 2019, IMO requires all vessels over 5,000 gross tonnage to collect and report to their flag states the amount of fuel consumption per type of fuel, distance travelled, hours underway, period of calendar year for which the data is submitted (2019 is the first period of reporting) and other various technical characteristics. Flag states will then issue a Statement of Compliance and also share this information with IMO's Ship Fuel Oil Consumption Database. IMO based on the data submitted, will prepare an annual report to present the progress towards shipping industry's decarbonisation.
These same data submitted to the flag states will be used by the signatories to estimate each vessel's carbon intensity in their portfolio and then determine their portfolio's overall alignment with IMO's decarbonisation trajectories for each given year. In short, the signatories will voluntarily report whether their shipping portfolio meets IMO's targets for each year. One important point to note is that the data reported by both IMO and Poseidon Principles will be confidential and will not be traced back to specific vessels.
The adoption of the Poseidon Principles by any financial institution will affect both the institution and its customers. A new covenant has been introduced in the loan agreements which will require that the ship-owners provide the appropriate data (the same data as the ones submitted to the Flag States) in order for the banks to prepare and report the overall climate alignment of their shipping portfolios. This new covenant is standardised and used by all 18 signatories when negotiating new loan agreements.
There is no suggestion that existing loan agreements should be amended. Ship-owners should not find difficult to submit the required data given that their internal systems already collect this information in order to report them the Flag States. The data are required to be verified by qualified Recognised Organisations. A Recognized Organization (RO) is an authorized organization that performs statutory requirements on behalf of a vessel's flag state. So far, the Secretariat accepts ROs that are authorised by IMO DCS, mainly Classification Societies.
Owners whose vessels do not comply with IMO's greenhouse emission targets may find that the pool of available financing is reduced significantly. Currently the 18 banks that have adopted the Poseidon Principles only represent a little more than 20% of the total global shipping portfolio but more banks are expected to join forces and adopt them as well in the coming years. There may be cases of financial institutions to be reluctant to join this initiative as they may find it very profitable to lend money to owners whose vessels do not comply with IMO's greenhouse emissions targets. The owners of non-aligned vessels will see the cost of borrowing to significantly increase as an environmental premium will be sought. The objective is that, in the coming years, vessels are greener and shipping carbon footprint is zero. The owners who will manage to run vessels on alternative fuel sources will have access to a greater pool of funds ("green funds") and potentially achieve a more favourable borrowing rate.
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Breaking News: Six Girls Intercepted from Human Trafficking in Benin
Posted by Love Justice | Jul 11, 2019 9:36:04 AM
Recently, our team in Benin received an anonymous call about six minor girls located at the border who seemed scared and were accompanied by a suspicious-looking adult male.
Immediately, our team went to the police station to tell them about the information they had just received. The police then escorted our team to the location where the girls were last seen. Thankfully, the girls were still there and seemingly unharmed. Unfortunately, the suspected trafficker fled the scene and was unable to be apprehended at that time.
From there, the six young girls were taken to the police station where our team worked with the officers to help contact the girls' parents who had been frantically looking for them for several days. Apparently, the girls had left their village without telling anyone where they were going. After some brief questioning, one of the girls explained that they were promised work as domestic helpers by an acquaintance but were told not to inform anyone of their plans.
The parents were incredibly grateful for the intervention efforts of our team and the authorities. All six girls were reunited with their families, and the police are continuing their investigation in an effort to locate the suspected trafficker.
Through transit monitoring and interception, we attack trafficking at the most strategic moment—while it is in the process of occurring and BEFORE exploitation and enslavement. To date, we have intercepted over 18,000 individuals, just like these six girls, to prevent them from being trafficked.
Watch the following video for a chance to meet our transit monitoring team in Benin and get a little glimpse into the important work they do every day.
We currently have 265 transit monitors working in 45 stations in 13 countries. The dedicated support of our donors makes their vital work in the field possible. Learn how you can get involved and become an integral part of stopping lives from being sold into human trafficking today.
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Carnival, Norwegian announce summer cruise ship restart plans
Norwegian has announced sailings from New York, Los Angeles, Port Canaveral and Miami. Carnival has announced sailings from the Port of Galveston, Texas.
Published: 3:17 PM EDT June 7, 2021
Updated: 3:17 PM EDT June 7, 2021
MIAMI — Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings on Monday announced plans to set sail from two Florida ports requiring passengers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 despite state legislation banning businesses from asking for proof.
Norwegian announced sailings from New York, Los Angeles, Port Canaveral and Miami.
Carnival Cruise Line, also based in Miami, announced July sailings from the Port of Galveston, Texas, with vaccinated guests and was working with Florida officials for a ship to leave from PortMiami.
The cruise lines' plans appear to be at odds with the new state law. The sailings are contingent on obtaining a certificate from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it remains unclear how the plans can be reconciled with Florida law. Norwegian said in a statement that it is contact with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' office on the requirements.
"We are currently in communication with his staff and legal counsel to ensure that we can offer the safest cruise experience for our passengers departing from the cruise capital of the world," said Norwegian's CEO, Frank Del Rio.
In April, DeSantis signed an order banning businesses from requiring customers to show proof of vaccination and prohibiting state agencies from issuing so-called vaccine passports that document COVID-19 vaccinations and test results. The governor argues the legislation was meant to preserve individual freedom and medical privacy.
Royal Caribbean to set sail from PortMiami July 2
CDC approves 2 more Royal Caribbean ships for test cruises out of Florida, cruise line says
Florida lawsuit imperils summer cruises to Alaska, CDC says
Royal Caribbean International said Friday that eight of its ships will resume U.S. voyages in July and August with trips leaving Florida, Texas and Washington state ports. That company said that passengers are "strongly recommended" to get vaccinated, adding that unvaccinated passengers must be tested for the virus and follow other measures.
Disney Cruise Line said last week that the CDC approved a request to conduct a two-night simulation cruise later this month departing from Port Canaveral.


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Mark package as stable. No functional changes.

## 0.10.2

- Fix bug updating resource without embedded resources.

## 0.10.1

- Make prototype properties writable to aid testing using mocks.

## 0.10.0

- Add URI aliases.

## 0.9.0

- Add `Resource.$refresh` and `Resource.$refreshPaths`.
- Remove `Context.refresh`.

## 0.8.1

- Fix gulp build.

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- Add `ts` argument to `Resource.$load` and `Resource.$loadPaths`.

## 0.7.6

- Use `Resource.$merge` in `Context.httpPatch`. (Sergiy Pereverziev)

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- Fix tests.

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- Fix `package.json` for use as an npm module.

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- Annotate vnd.error module dependency injection. (Nikolay Gerzhan)

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- Fix bug in `Resource.$update` when using another resource object.

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- Build distribution. (Last release had old files in dist.)

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FBI Investigates Church Founded by McBirnie
By DENISE HAMILTON
Times Staff Writer
The FBI has announced that it is investigating the Glendale-based United Community Church and affiliated organizations founded by the Rev. William Steuart McBirnie, which has filed for protection from its creditors.
A spokesman for McBirnie declined to comment. However, he said McBirnie no longer controls any of the organizations.
An FBI spokesman said the investigation is in a preliminary stage. He refused further comment.
The United Community Church filed for protection recently under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code after McBirnie, citing poor health, asked church officials to replace him as senior minister. In the past year, three other organizations founded by McBirnie have also filed for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code.
McBirnie founded numerous church organizations that grew to become a multimillion-dollar empire, thanks to his charismatic presence and a nationally syndicated radio show on which he preached anti-communist sermons.
Flurry of Lawsuits
But the church ran into trouble several years ago when former parishioners sued McBirnie and his affiliated organizations for settlement of loans the parishioners said were never repaid. McBirnie said he was unable to repay the loans because of bad investments, rising interest rates and poor financial advice.
At least 17 such lawsuits are pending throughout California.
In another case, a Glendale court commissioner last year ordered McBirnie and his affiliated churches to repay 24 parishioners a total of $200,000 in outstanding loans and more than $1 million in punitive damages. That ruling is being appealed.
In ordering restitution, the commissioner found that the various church enterprises operated under McBirnie's control and were treated "as if they were one." McBirnie, in his defense, said he does not control the organizations and is not responsible for their finances.
Request for Audit
Last month, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development asked the inspector general's office to undertake an audit of the Concord Senior Housing Foundation, one of four McBirnie-founded organizations to file for reorganization within the past year, according to HUD attorney Joseph Gelletich.
HUD did not request the FBI investigation, Gelletich said.
The foundation owes HUD $2.5 million for financing construction of the Concord Senior Housing Facility, a 150-unit apartment building in Pasadena, which the foundation owns.
Gelletich said Concord officials refused to let auditors inspect their books, saying the project was under the jurisdiction of the federal bankruptcy court. Gelletich said HUD has asked the bankruptcy court for authority to audit the Concord.
Four years ago, the senior-citizen housing project paid off $1.7 million it owed on a 50-year, 3% mortgage held by HUD, put the building up for sale and notified tenants that their rents would be doubled.
At that time, McBirnie was chairman of the board of the Concord Foundation.
Because it had not obtained approval from HUD and the prospective buyer did not meet department qualifications, HUD filed suit and blocked the sale, Gelletich said.
Under HUD Program
Church attorneys say they still hope to sell the Concord so that creditors can be paid off, but the housing complex is still owned by the foundation and remains under the authority of HUD's subsidy program.
Two other McBirnie affiliates that have filed for Chapter 11 protection are the California Graduate School of Theology and Community Churches of America, the umbrella organization for McBirnie's religious enterprises.
United Community Church is housed in a Spanish-style, octagonal building that sits on a large lot in downtown Glendale on East Colorado Street. In its 1985 annual report, United Community Church claimed $3.8 million in assets and $907,000 in liabilities.
About 300 parishioners still attend Sunday services each week, and the church recently started an Arabic Community Church with about 100 members, said Joel MacCollam, a church spokesman. "They're not doing badly at all," but bankruptcy proceedings were begun to protect the church's assets from creditors, he said.
Bankruptcy Disputed
Christ Troupis, an attorney representing former parishioners who say they were defrauded by McBirnie and his organizations, said the church is not bankrupt, and he will ask the bankruptcy court to overturn the filing.
Meanwhile, the church has filed a $10-million malpractice suit against its former attorney, Robert Garcin, and his firm, Glendale-based Irsfeld, Irsfeld & Younger. Garcin is a former Glendale mayor and president of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority.
Harry F. Scolinos, a church attorney, said the suit was filed because Garcin "did nothing to protect the interests of the church."


Years ago, when I started this blog, I was using a service called Posterous (some of you may remember it). It was really easy to post anything there—writing, photos, videos—and I had it linked to my Instagram account (which was also new to me at the time). Any time I posted to Instagram, Posterous would automatically grab the title of the picture, the picture itself, and create a blog post on my site. It was a very easy way to photo blog.
But Posterous shut down and I leapt over here, to WordPress. What didn't make the jump were my Instagram photos, which I haven't thought much about sharing here…until recently. I'll be the first to admit that I am by no means, a photographer. Occasionally I get lucky, and I think I have a good eye, but more often than not, the photos I take don't live up to my aesthetic. Still, I like sharing what I see because I think it tells a part of my story that writing doesn't.
I've decided to try and post just one photo a week, on Wednesdays (cause why not?). I'll be pulling some from the vault that haven't previously been shared on this blog, and I'll sprinkle new ones in as well. I hope it will be a fun experiment and I invite you to follow along.


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Life in Ukraine. Live, @ first hand.
Business in Ukraine
Bohdan Yaremenko and Andriy Klymenko on the "Maidan of Foreign Affairs" and Crimean Problems
Kyiv, 7 April 2014 – At a briefing held at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center Bohdan Yaremenko, head of the "Maidan of Foreign Affairs" charitable foundation said: "The Foundation positions itself as an alternative platform for the establishment of new approaches towards Ukraine's foreign policy. Our activities are based on two principles – the priority of human rights and the pragmatic interests of the state."
Mr. Yaremenko also said: "We began to work three weeks ago and we have already suggested an action plan for the government and launched a number of human rights projects. In particular, we have launched an IT project called 'The Righteous Russians' which allows the Ukrainians to thank the Russians for their support. Our next project will be aimed at promoting a law that will make it possible to quickly grant Ukrainian citizenship to those Russians who condemned Russia's aggression against Ukraine."
Bohdan Yaremenko added that the office of the BlackSeaNews previously based in Yalta, Crimea, is now moving to Kyiv: "I can say without exaggeration that since the beginning of the year, the BlackSeaNews website was one of the few resources where I could get timely, objective information about what was going on in Crimea."
Andriy Klymenko said that the events in Crimea came not as a surprise to him: "A year ago, at a conference in Kyiv I referred to the Black Sea Region as a 'break-off region', and in September last year I published an article in the 'Weekly Mirror' about the Abkhazia scenario in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the forecast has come true, and unfortunately, our authorities do not pay close attention to analytical organizations. I hope that the 'Maidan of Foreign Affairs' foundation will contribute more to this."
Also, Mr. Klymenko commented on the problem of citizenship in Crimea: "On March 18, a treaty was signed between the 'Crimean government' and the Russian Federation. In accordance with one of the articles of the treaty, all 2 million Crimeans will be registered as the citizens of Russia by 18 April, unless they refuse. There are only three places in Crimea were you can submit a refusal. Each of those places can only handle 100 – 150 visitors a day, which is only a couple thousand per month. Everything is being done to legitimize the results of the 'referendum'. Another important thing is that this way the Russian Federal Security Service will get hold of the 'fifth column' list. Furthermore, the 'ninety days law' was enacted in Russia on January 1, according to which all non-Russian citizens will be asked to leave the country in 90 days. This means that a process of forceful relocation of Crimeans has begun."
Bohdan Yarmenko is a Ukrainian diplomat, head of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs charitable foundation. In 1995 – 1999, he served as a Vice-Council and then as a Council at the Consulate General of Ukraine in New York, USA. In 2004 – 2005, he was the deputy head of Protocol of the Prime Minister of Ukraine. In 2006-2008, he was the Consul General of Ukraine in Edinburgh (UK). From 2010 to 2013, he served as the Consul General of Ukraine in Istanbul.
Andriy Klymenko is a journalist, editor in chief of the Crimean news agency BlackSeaNews.
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Q: javascript object within object issue I am trying to get the first object within an object.
I have something like
var object = {
     task:{
       config:'auto',
       title :'test'
     },
     prop:'switch',
     time:'5min'
}

My problem is task object could be named differently. so it could be
var object = {
     task2:{
       config:'manual',
       title :'test2'
     },
     prop:'switch',
     time:'5min'
}

I can't use object.task1.config because task name could changed. The task object will always be the first object though.
I want to get the task object no matter what name it has. How do I accomplish that? Thanks!

A: To get the first property value of an object in modern browsers you could use the Object.keys method:
var myObject = {
    whoTheHellKnows: 'foo',
    notUsed: 'whatever'
};

var firstProperty = myObject[Object.keys(myObject)[0]];

Working example
Edit: if you do not trust the ordering of the properties (which you should not) AND the task object is the only nested object in your objects, you can rely on type interrogation to find it:
var myObject = {
    task123215452: { dahKey: 'foo' },
    notUsed: 'whatever',
    somethingElse: 42
};

var taskObject;

for (var key in myObject) {
    if (typeof myObject[key] === 'object' && !(myObject[key] instanceof Array)) {
        taskObject = myObject[key];
        break;
    }
}

Working example

A: If you need to access the first key and you don't know the key name, you should really be using an array instead of an object. Objects don't have the concept of a "first" key.
If that's not an option, you're left with for..in or Object.keys, which may fail on some JavaScript implementations because the language specification does not enforce the order of object key enumerations. However, in practice, it will work on current browsers, as they all iterate the keys in the order they were declaredcitation needed thanks to jbabey.


Since opening its doors in 2008, Thats Haute has quickly become the one-stop shop for Designers and Home Owners from across the nation. Beginning as a dream of this mother daughter duo, Thats Haute's first location opened in late 2008 and a second location will open in the spring of 2017. Thats Haute is an upscale retail boutique with an emphasis on Home Decor and Custom High End Home Furnishings. We feature a unique blend of Furniture, Art, Accessories, Lighting, Gifts, Clothing and Jewelry. From unique Custom Home Furnishings to exquisite Women's Fashion, we will help you express your individual sense of style. Come visit our new showroom and design center to see whats Haute!
ASHLEY BLACK: As a graduate from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Ashley uses her business degree to the fullest extent. With her role as co-owner and manager, she handles the day-to-day operations of the boutique as well as Buying, Marketing, and Customer Relations. Ashley was immersed into the world of home design and decor at a very young age and has continued to thrive on ever changing uniqueness of the industry.
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Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Names Christine Lehnertz as President & CEO
Respected National Parks Leader Takes the Helm at Acclaimed Bay Area Nonprofit
Contacts: Angela Leung, (415) 561-3064
aleung@parksconservancy.org
Veda Banerjee, (415) 561-3082
vbanerjee@parksconservancy.org
SAN FRANCISCO (April 17, 2019) The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Board of Trustees today announced its selection of Christine S. Lehnertz as the organization's new President & CEO. Lehnertz brings extensive experience managing some of America's most iconic national parks and a passion for making parks relevant and accessible to all communities. She will begin work on May 13, 2019. At that time, Greg Moore will become CEO Emeritus and transition into a new role as Special Advisor with the Conservancy.
Lehnertz's distinguished career at the National Park Service (NPS) included serving as superintendent at both Grand Canyon National Park and Golden Gate National Recreation Area, director of the NPS Pacific West Region, and deputy superintendent at Yellowstone National Park.
Her leadership at Golden Gate National Recreation Area and her role as director of the Pacific West Region, headquartered in San Francisco, gave her considerable time working and living in the Bay Area. As General Superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Lehnertz was actively involved in serving the full Bay Area community—giving attention to youth leadership programs, supporting efforts to reach new audiences, and promoting national parks as a vital tool for serving broader civic needs such as education and literacy, wellness, and urban quality of life.
As director of the NPS Pacific West Region, Lehnertz had significant and complex leadership responsibilities, including overseeing 61 national park sites visited by more than 56 million people annually. Her purview included stewardship of resources as diverse as the extraordinary tropical rainforest of the National Park of American Samoa, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial commemorating the tragic deaths of hundreds of African American sailors, and the rich and inspirational history of the César Chávez National Monument.
Most recently, Lehnertz led efforts at Grand Canyon National Park to increase access and participation for traditionally associated Native American tribes, implement strategies for stewarding natural and cultural resources in the face of substantial increases in visitation, and plan for the modernization of failing water and wastewater infrastructure. She was assigned to Grand Canyon in 2016 by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, to address workplace issues associated with a long-term pattern of sexual harassment and hostile work environment. Lehnertz worked with employees at Grand Canyon to provide training and engagement programs, shift to a more respectful and inclusive culture, and reduce the substantial backlog of misconduct cases. Her priority to ensure a respectful and inclusive workplace is an excellent fit with the Conservancy's values.
"After an extensive national search, we have found Chris to be an ideal choice to lead the Conservancy into its next phase," said Colin Lind, Chair of the Parks Conservancy's Board of Trustees. "She is an accomplished and courageous leader, with a clear vision for the future of our national parks, an in-depth knowledge of the Bay Area community, and deep experience and dedication to inclusivity in our public lands. Following on the Conservancy's long history of transforming and restoring parklands, Chris is exceptionally well-suited to broaden who we welcome and serve."
"I am excited to lead the tremendous work of the Conservancy," Lehnertz said. "I have long supported its unwavering commitment to these treasured parklands and its work to enhance recreation and education programs for people who live in the Bay Area and millions of visitors from around the world. The unparalleled access the public has to these Bay Area national park sites is extraordinary. With our partners, I hope we can help instill a sense of joy, stewardship, and community as people visit, utilize, and enjoy these awesome spaces.
"I look forward to working with our staff, trustees, and our many partners, including the National Park Service, the Presidio Trust, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, and our One Tam partners to further the Conservancy's mission and continue to expand our reach to new audiences," continued Lehnertz.
"I am delighted to welcome Chris to the Parks Conservancy," Moore said. "Having worked directly with Chris during her time at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, I can attest to her principled leadership, immense dedication, and humble and caring spirit. I am confident she will bring new energy and insights to our efforts to make national parks relevant to the needs of urban America, and visitors from across the globe."
In Moore's 34 years of leadership, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy has become one of the most successful nonprofit organizations supporting any unit of the national park system. Since its inception in 1981, the Conservancy has provided more than $500 million of support to park projects and programs. Moore and the Conservancy have helped transition the Presidio from military post to park, transform Crissy Field, and usher in San Francisco's next great park, the Presidio Tunnel Tops. Moore will continue to work on the Tunnel Tops and Crissy Field Next projects, and work with Lehnertz to ensure a smooth leadership transition.
Before joining the NPS in 2007, Lehnertz spent 17 years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Denver and Washington D.C., implementing an array of environmental protection statutes including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Her work also included managing partnerships with states and Native American tribes, environmental and natural resource departments, and local government and non-governmental organizations.
Trained as an environmental biologist, Lehnertz started her conservation career in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where she worked as a seasonal wildlife and biological technician for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Lehnertz received a degree in environmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and holds a secondary education certificate from Metropolitan State College in Denver. In Denver, she served on the boards of the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership and Girls Sports International. She and her spouse Shari Dagg will reside in San Francisco. Read more about Chris here.
About the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy is the nonprofit membership organization that supports the Golden Gate National Recreation Area—the most-visited unit in the national park system in the U.S. Since 1981, the Parks Conservancy has provided over $500 million in aid for site transformations, habitat restorations, research and conservation, volunteer and youth engagement, and interpretive and educational programs. Learn more at parksconservancy.org or call (415) 561-3000.
About the National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior charged with managing the preservation and public use of America's most significant natural, scenic, historic, and cultural treasures. The NPS manages the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, as well as 416 other park sites across the U.S. For more information, visit www.nps.gov/goga.
About the Presidio Trust
The Presidio Trust is a federal agency that manages the Presidio of San Francisco—nearly 1,500 acres in a spectacular setting at the heart of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. In partnership with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the Presidio Trust brings alive the park's historic, natural, and recreational assets for the inspiration, education, health, and enjoyment of all people at no cost to taxpayers. To learn more, visit www.presidio.gov.
Press, Staff/Executive Team
Q&A: Getting to know Chris Lehnertz, our new President & CEO
Park E-Ventures Article
OUR MISSION: PARKS FOR ALL FOREVER
To preserve the Golden Gate National Parks, enhance the park visitor experience, and build a community dedicated to conserving the parks for the future.


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Krokodyl krótkopyski (Osteolaemus tetraspis) – gatunek gada z rodziny krokodylowatych (krokodyle właściwe).

Opis Głowa i pysk bardzo krótkie. W nozdrzach występują zewnętrzne kostne przegrody oddzielające każdy otwór nosowy na dwie części. Nad górnymi powiekami kostne twory. Tęczówki oczu brązowe (u innych krokodyli żółtozielone). Grzbiet ciemnobrązowy z czarnymi okrągłymi plamami. Młode osobniki są jasnobrązowe z czarnymi poprzecznymi szerokimi pręgami. Kolor brzucha jest żółtawy z licznymi czarnymi plamami. Na głowie występują żółte wzory. Długość krótkiego, stępionego pyska równa jest szerokości u podstawy. Tylne zęby większe od pozostałych są spłaszczone i otoczone zgrubiałymi pierścieniami co jest wynikiem przystosowania do miażdżenia pancerzy krabów i skorup mięczaków. Ogólnie przypomina małe kajmany z rodzaju Paleosuchus co może być spowodowane, że zajmuje podobną niszę ekologiczną.
Rozmiary Długość do 1,8 m.
Biotop Całoroczne słodkowodne małe zbiorniki wody, bagna wśród lasów deszczowych.
Pokarm Ryby, płazy, skorupiaki, mięczaki oraz inne mniejsze zwierzęta. W czasie pory deszczowej przeważają ryby, a w pozostałym okresie skorupiaki.
Behawior Zwierzę o aktywności nocnej. Dzień spędza w norach, które sam wykopuje. Niekiedy wejście do nory znajduje się pod powierzchnią wody. Zdarza się też, że dzień spędzają w małych zbiornikach ukryte pod korzeniami drzew.
Rozmnażanie Okres godowy zaczyna się na początku pory deszczowej (przełom maja i czerwca). Samica buduje gniazdo w kształcie kopca z roślinnych szczątków, do którego składa ok. 10 jaj. Inkubacja jaj przebiega przez okres od 85 do 105 dni. Młode po wyjściu z gniazda mają ok. 28 cm długości. Samica ochrania gniazdo oraz wylęgnięte młode przez jakiś czas w wodzie.
Występowanie Afryka zachodnia i zachodnio-centralna: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Kamerun, Republika Środkowoafrykańska, Kongo, Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej, Demokratyczna Republika Konga, Gwinea Równikowa, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gwinea, Gwinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierre Leone, Togo. Szacuje się, że dzika populacja wynosi od 25,000 do 100,000 osobników. Na tym samym obszarze występuje też krokodyl wąskopyski.

Podgatunki
Osteolaemus tetraspis tetraspis - zachodni obszar występowania gatunku
Osteolaemus tetraspis osborni - Demokratyczna Republika Konga, dawny Zair; podnoszony przez część autorów do rangi odrębnego gatunku Osteolaemus osborni.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Krokodyl krótkopyski (Osteolaemus tetraspis Cope, 1861) - hodowla w niewoli

Krokodyle
Krokodyle Afryki
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1861 roku


This photo project about Province de Liège is series about the postindustrial past of the region Liège. It's a collection of urbanlandscapes, Belgium Architecture and Street photography . This is an ongoing project that started in 2018.


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Gabby Barrett Records Luke Combs Song For Her Next Project
Gabby Barrett's next album will include a song written by Luke Combs. Although she's still technically on maternity leave following the birth of her son, she's still working on new music.
She told Country Countdown USA that not only did Luke pitch the song himself, but he all but insisted she cut it.
She said, "I'm a big fan of his. As soon as I heard the song, I was like, 'It really strikes a chord with me.'"
Gabby will include it on her next album coming out later this year.
She didn't mention a release date but did reveal that she and her husband Cade Foehner, whose also her guitar player, may record a duet together for her new record.
Luke Combs Shares Album Title, Artwork On Social Media
Elle King Drops Debut Country Album Today
Kelsea Ballerini, Chase Stokes Go On Date Night In Nashville


Bass Bottom Feeder: Primus Sucking/Streaming New Album!
What can I say? I'm a big Primus fan. I'm also a big South Park fan. How ironic that Primus should choose to stream their new album in its entirety on the South Park FaceBook page. I think you have to be a fan of South Park to be able to listen. I am digging it as I type this. Go check it out.


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Home » Irvington apartment, streetscape projects clear hurdles
Irvington apartment, streetscape projects clear hurdles
March 19, 2012 | Tom Harton
Keywords Apartments / Commercial Real Estate / Development/Redevelopment / Historic Preservation / Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission / Project Funding / Real Estate & Retail / Real estate deals / Residential Real Estate / Retail Development / Urban development
Two significant construction projects are closer to starting in Irvington, where the district's East Washington Street commercial corridor is bouncing back even as one of its key buildings faces demolition.
Several restaurants, a microbrewery and an Ossip Optometry office have opened or are about to open in the area, and a new residential project is on the horizon. The not-for-profit Irvington Development Organization learned early this month that it has been approved to sell state-issued housing tax credits that will finance development of an $8.9 million apartment building at 5855 E. Washington St.
The 50-unit building is to be built on the site of the former Indy East Motel, a crime-plagued property that the city shut down in 2009. IDO is developing the apartments with Irvington Partners LLC, a group of investors with ties to Meyer-Najem Construction Co.
IDO will own the project long term and reinvest its income from the project in other Irvington redevelopment projects, said Margaret Banning, interim director of IDO. Construction is slated to commence in September of October.
The next steps are to win approval of the project design from the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, which governs physical improvements in the Irvington Historic Area, and to sell the tax credits.
Tom Peck, a Meyer-Najem principal who is a partner in the project, said the credits will finance about 80 percent of the project. The Irvington project was one of only 14 successful applicants for credits in a year when 60 projects applied.
The apartment project is one of two initiatives IDO has been working on for several years. The other is the Washington Corridor Streetscape Project, the first phase of which could start as early as May.
The $1.6 million phase will include a landscaped median, enhanced walkways, decorative lighting and benches in the core of the Irvington business district, from Ritter Avenue to Audubon Road. The phase extends a few blocks east and west of those boundaries but the improvements won't be as pronounced outside the core area.
Some of the improvements had to be scaled back after construction bids taken last year came in way over budget. The new round of bids just received were within budget and should allow the project to proceed as soon as city and state agencies sign off on the bids, Banning said.
The project, eight years in the planning, is to be funded with a $1 million federal transportation enhancement grant, $380,000 from the city and $253,000 raised by IDO. The IDO portion includes contributions from PNC Bank, The Indianapolis Foundation and Citizens Energy.
"We can now focus on making Irvington a standout destination in the Indianapolis area—one that is pedestrian friendly and celebrates our wonderful variety of locally owned shops and restaurants," Banning said.
Not all of the news in Irvington is positive. Banning and other neighborhood leaders are scrambling to find a way to save from demolition a 109-year-old commercial building at the northeast corner of Washington and Ritter.
The two-story, brick building at 5502 E. Washington St. anchors what was once Irvington's busiest commercial intersection and is one of two such buildings that remain.
The building has been controlled for several decades by entities affiliated with local real estate developer Don Tharp. The owner filed a petition in February with the Historic Preservation Commission seeking permission to demolish the structure, which has been vacant since about 1997.
Eric A. Harvey, the attorney who filed the petition, said it's not economically feasible to invest the $350,000 to $500,000 it would take to shore up the structure and renovate the exterior. But the effort to demolish it and replace it with a parking lot is on hold, at least temporarily.
Harvey said the hearing on the demolition request was pushed back from March to May 2 to give a would-be buyer, whom he would not identify, time to put together a deal. He said the building owner has named a sale price and is waiting for the potential buyer to counter.
Banning said her group is hoping to "find an angel or group of angels" willing to help save the building. It isn't clear if her group has a connection to the potential buyer the owner is negotiating with.
Also not clear is how the city's historic preservation commission would view the request for demolition. Demolition of historic structures is generally not permitted in the districts the commission oversees. But the commission sometimes grants demolition requests in the name of public safety.
The owner's petition includes a letter from a local engineer stating that the building has deteriorated to the point that it is unstable.


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namespace Phine\Locator\Exception;

use Phine\Exception\Exception;

/**
 * Exception thrown for problems with a locator.
 *
 * @author Kevin Herrera <kevin@herrera.io>
 */
class LocatorException extends Exception
{
    /**
     * Creates an exception for an unresolvable service unique identifier.
     *
     * @param string $id The unique identifier.
     *
     * @return LocatorException The new exception.
     */
    public static function idNotResolvable($id)
    {
        return self::createUsingFormat(
            'The "%s" service is not resolvable.',
            $id
        );
    }

    /**
     * Creates an exception for an unused service unique identifier.
     *
     * @param string $id The unique identifier.
     *
     * @return LocatorException The new exception.
     */
    public static function idNotUsed($id)
    {
        return self::createUsingFormat(
            'The "%s" service unique identifier is not in use.',
            $id
        );
    }

    /**
     * Creates an exception for a service unique identifier already in use.
     *
     * @param string $id The unique identifier.
     *
     * @return LocatorException The new exception.
     */
    public static function idUsed($id)
    {
        return self::createUsingFormat(
            'The "%s" service unique identifier is already in use.',
            $id
        );
    }

    /**
     * Creates an exception for a service that is not registered.
     *
     * @return LocatorException The new exception.
     */
    public static function notRegistered()
    {
        return new self(
            'The service is not registered.'
        );
    }
}


This unassuming name of this company belied the exotic nature of its product. Conceived by McLaren's Gordon Murray and racer Chris Craft, the Rocket was an extraordinary motor car. The company also pursued a radical V8 engine project intended for the Lightning road car.


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Q: Can i add extension in my id after using mod_rewrite I am new in PHP I have recently changed my URL
from
www.example.com/page.php?id=1

to
www.example.com/1

by using this code
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ page.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

but I want to add .html extension after id like this
www.example.com/1.html

I don't have more knowledge about URL rewrite
help me, please.....

A: You can achieve this like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?.html test.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

Because you have this optional slash in the beginning of the rule, I can access example.com/1 and example.com//1. Do you need those double slashes? If not, consider changing the rule to this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?.html test.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

A: There is a much easier, and more stable,way now unless you are using a very old version of Apache.
FallbackResource /test.php

And then parse the PATHINFO:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#acceptpathinfo


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Syrian high jumper Majd Eddin Ghazal bidding for his country's third-ever World Championships medal
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Veteran Syrian high jumper Majd Eddin Ghazal will gladly put administrative hassles to one side as he bids for a third-ever world medal for his war-torn country.
Ghazal has been a regular on the global circuit, appearing in the last four World Championships and three Olympics, with his seventh-placed finish in Rio last summer being his best result.
But the 30-year-old admits that life has not been easy in Syria, where he is still based, much to the amazement of many fellow athletes.
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More than 330,000 people have been killed in Syria since the ongoing conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.
"If we didn't face war in Syria, everything would have been different now, from the visa and financial issues to general athlete's facilities like access to coaching and treatment," Ghazal told AFP.
"We're in a huge crisis, which affects the mentality of athletes.
"Daily life in Syria is extremely hard. You can't imagine what we face on a daily basis."
Ghazal added that he encountered problems travelling to compete internationally.
"I have big problems with embassies. They are sometimes afraid I am an immigrant," he said.
"I'm an expert in embassies, where they are, their addresses, when they open, when they close, what documents you need for visas… I'm an administrative expert in this subject."
Ghazal was refused a Moroccan visa for the Diamond League meeting in Rabat, but can now travel unimpeded in Europe thanks to a six-month Schengen visa he managed to obtain through a Spanish embassy.
While his daily training regime is based in Damascus, Ghazal also departs, from neighbouring Lebanese capital Beirut as there is no access to international flights from Syria, for overseas camps, notably in Barcelona and Russia over winter, thanks to financial support from the Syrian Athletics Federation.
"Everyone is surprised when I say I still train and live in Syria, especially as I am among the top six in the world," said Ghazal, nominally employed as a government-paid sports teacher.
With coach Imad Sarraj in tow, Ghazal said the thing he missed when competing was the backroom staff most competitors take for granted.
"I don't have a doctor, a physio, a masseur, I miss that a lot, especially in a championships where fatigue is great and you have to recover quickly," he said.
"Because of minor muscular problems, or cramps, you might lose a championships and your heights may range between and 2.20 and 2.30, a huge gap."
Ghazal, who has suffered pain in his take-off foot, first appears in action in Friday's qualifiers, and he said: "I don't think about nailing a certain height. My whole focus will be on reaching the final."
His best this season has been 2.32m in last month's Diamond League meet in Paris, while 2.36 in Beijing last year remains his personal best.
"I hope to be as ready as I was in Paris," Ghazal said, adding that the overall standard of jumping had dipped in 2017.
"I expect surprises this year," he warned.
Syria has two medals in the world champs, Ghada Shouaa having won heptathlon gold in 1995 and bronze in 1999.
Ghazal, whose first name Majd means "glory", is backing himself to add a third for a country caught in the crosshairs of a bloody crisis.
* Provided by AFP
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Neil Rimer is a founding partner at Index Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in Europe, the United States, and Israel.  He is co-chair of the board of directors at Human Rights Watch.

Early life and education
Rimer was born in Montreal, Quebec, and reared and educated (International School of Geneva) in Geneva, Switzerland. He received a bachelor's degree in History and Economics from Stanford University, and was a General Course student at the London School of Economics. He then took his first job out of school with Montgomery Securities, an investment bank in San Francisco. He then completed a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, and upon graduating, chose to return to Europe. He was later quoted by Fortune as reflecting on this move, "I was excited about the idea of participating in the birth of the VC industry in Europe".

Career
Soon after his return to Geneva, in 1991, Rimer helped his father Gerald exit the bond trading business he had founded, and spent a few years connecting institutional investors with European technology startups, an effort that over time evolved into the official launch of Index Ventures. In 1996 Rimer co-founded Index Ventures in Geneva with his brother, David, and Giuseppe Zocco, helping raise Index' first pilot fund of $17 million, followed by a $180 million fund in 1998. Companies funded during this time include SCM Microsystems (now Identiv) and Virata, a chipmaker, which later entered into a $1.3 Billion merger with GlobeSpan.  Index started investing in Israeli companies in 2003.  As of 2007, Rimer claimed to The Wall Street Journal that "the bulk of our portfolio is in Europe and Israel."

Notable investments by Rimer's company include Betfair () and Skype (acquired by eBay for $2.6 billion, later acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion).  Index Ventures has invested in 21 Israeli companies, including MyHeritage, Outbrain, Lacoon, Adallom, Wiz, Capitolis, and Gong.io.

Rimer has also invested in and served on the boards of directors of Last.fm (acquired by CBS for $280 million), Ofoto (acquired by Kodak), Trolltech (acquired by Nokia for $153 million), Numerical Technologies (acquired by Synopsis for $250 million); Genmab (); and StepStone. Rimer currently sits on the board of directors of a number of companies including Call9, Funding Circle, HouseTrip, MOO Print, PhotoBox, StackExchange, Supercell, Kaggle, Metromile, and The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for approximately $1.1 billion).

Rimer headed the team at Index Ventures that led a $130 million funding round in Supercell, the subject of a May 6, 2013 Forbes article, "Is This the Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever?" In October 2013 Softbank and GungHo Online Entertainment acquired 51% of Supercell for $1.53 billion.

Awards
Rimer was named the number one venture capitalist in Europe in Forbes' inaugural Midas List Europe 2017. He was also featured on the Forbes Global Midas list in 2018 and the 2018 New York Times list of the top venture capitalists worldwide.

Philanthropy and Non-Profit Involvement
Rimer is a member of the board of directors of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and is a founder of the Geneva Committee of HRW which named Israel an "Apartheid State". He has also served on the European Leadership Council of Harvard Business School and on the board of U.C. Sampdoria, a football club competing in the Italian Serie A professional football league competition.

External links

 Index Ventures website
 Neil Rimer on Index Ventures blog

 Meet the man behind Europe's hottest VC firm, in GigaOM (April 13, 2012)
 Neil Rimer Explains Index Ventures' New Seed Program, in Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch (April 26, 2010)
 Europe's start-up backer — Neil Rimer, founder, Index Ventures, in FT (November 28, 2016)

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Q: Concat(first name, " ", lastname) like OR email like causing duplicate output I have an SQL query:
SELECT *
FROM user, user_company, company
WHERE user.user_id = user_company.user_id AND
      user_company.company_id = '$company_id' AND
      user_company.company_id = company.company_id AND
      CONCAT(user.user_first_name, ' ', user.user_last_name) LIKE '%$l%' OR user.user_email LIKE '%$l%'
LIMIT 5

This seems to work on returning the values whether the user inputs something that's similar to the name or the email, however a flaw in this is if the user inputs the email, the record will be duplicated.
user_company doesn't contain any email data; it's only contained in the user table.
How do I stop that from happening?

A: Never use commas in the FROM clause.  Always use proper, explicit, standard JOIN syntax.
Your problem is lack of parentheses.  Try:
SELECT *
FROM user u JOIN
     user_company uc
     ON (user_id) JOIN
     company c
     ON (company_id)
WHERE uc.company_id = '$company_id' AND
      (CONCAT(u.user_first_name, ' ', u.user_last_name) LIKE '%$l%' OR
       u.user_email LIKE '%$l%'
      )
LIMIT 5


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2.Court of Special Judge, Central Bureau of investigation (CBI), Guwahati.
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Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippines
Cabuyao is a small city and a part of Quezon-Manila cities at Laguna province in the Philippines, situated near Laguna de Bay. The first settlement was established there before our epoch, and it saw Spanish, American, Japanese, and other kinds of rulers. Today the city is a home to over 300,000 people, most of whom are Christians and working class people. There are a few annual festivals taking place in the city, which usually attract a great crowd.
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The latitude of Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippines is 14.247142, and the longitude is 121.136673. Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippines is located at Phillipines country in the Cities place category with the gps coordinates of 14° 14' 49.7112'' N and 121° 8' 12.0228'' E.
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Joining a moms' group can help forge connections and support
By Elena Epstein
Michelle Turner says the best advice she received while pregnant with her twin daughters was from a co-worker, advising her to join a moms' group. She found the West L.A. chapter of the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs and signed up. Her daughters, Coco and Aya, are now 3 years old and the moms in that group have become like an extended family for Turner.
"I can't imagine my life without them," she says. "They have been such an incredible support system."
Turner is currently president of her twins club chapter, which boasts 500 members and is open to moms from the greater L.A. area, including the San Fernando Valley and the South Bay. The group has an online forum where moms exchange advice, tips, recommendations and referrals. It also hosts monthly events featuring guest speakers, play dates at the park and moms' night out.
Throughout the sprawling urban and suburban Los Angeles landscape, moms are finding creative ways to connect. They join mommy-and-me classes and online meet-up groups, and plan casual play dates at local parks.
"One of the hardest parts of becoming a new mom is the lack of adult stimulation that many women experience. It can feel very isolating," says occupational therapist Jackie Rosenberg, who, since 1991, has worked with hundreds of moms through her popular Babies First Class in Sherman Oaks. "It's so important for new moms to reach out and be with other moms."
For Lisa Druxman, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley but started her family in San Diego, outdoor fitness was the best remedy for new-mom fatigue and stress. "With motherhood, every day is a challenge, and at first I felt really alone and overwhelmed," she says.
Druxman, whose background is in fitness, decided to gather a few moms for a stroller fitness class 12 years ago. Soon, she was offering formal Stroller Strides classes, and today her Fit4Mom franchise includes 1,300 fitness classes nationwide.
"Our classes are designed to give women strength, both physically and emotionally, for motherhood," says Druxman, a mom of two.
L.A. moms' groups are eclectic, catering to women with diverse interests. They gather in living rooms to discuss favorite books, jog through Runyon Canyon and around the Rose Bowl, meet for coffee in Silver Lake and Larchmont Village, and organize play dates at the Skirball's Noah's Ark and Griffith Park's Travel Town. There are groups for stay-at-home and working moms, for single moms and same-sex moms.
"In many ways, L.A. is a land of transplants," says family therapist Susan Stiffelman, an L.A.-based parent educator and author of Parenting Without Power Struggles (Atria Books, 2012). "Many new parents don't have extended family living close by, so you have to create your own tribe."
Rachel Pitzel's son, Grayson, was 3 months old when she and her family moved back to Los Angeles from Chicago. "It was hard leaving my mom friends and I worried about meeting new moms in L.A.," recalls Pitzel. "In Chicago, you walk everywhere, so it's a lot easier to meet people."
Hoping to create a new community of moms, Pitzel, of Playa Vista, launched Club MomMe in February 2012. The popular group now hosts eight to 10 events each month, ranging from moms' nights out with best-selling authors to couples workshops on baby care basics.
In the San Fernando Valley, Kelly Spears heads up the Valley Moms meet-up group, with 1,200 moms. Every day, several sub-groups come together somewhere in the city, either at a local park, a museum, the zoo or at a child-friendly restaurant.
When Spears first had her son four years ago, she was the first of her friends to have a baby. Suddenly, her life and her schedule were very different than those of her non-mom friends. She joined the Valley Moms when her son was 4 months old and quickly found a connection.
"I met my best friend through this group," says Spears, whose parents live in Florida. "We now have this circle of 10 family friends that we celebrate holidays and birthdays with. They're truly our second family."
New mom separation and isolation was even more intense for Kim Lesak of South Pasadena, whose 15-year-old son, Forest, was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at age 31/2. In order to meet other moms on the same journey, Lesak started a support group nine years ago. The meetings were informal, usually in Lesak's living room, but the connections were strong and immediate.
The group has pool parties and picnics together. They organize an annual free education conference where vendors and speakers provide information and resources for families. They also raise thousands of dollars and are strong advocates within the school district for parents and students.
"What's most special to see is the strong friendships that have been made," says Lesak. "We have created a real community."
Elena Epstein is L.A. Parent's Director of Content & Strategic Partnerships.
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