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About TUI
What we do best...
When it comes to arranging your holiday, you can click on our website, pop into one of our stores, launch our app or call our contact centre. While you're away, our 24/7 TUI Experience Centre means our global team of travel experts are on hand to help whenever you need us, while the TUI app lets you control your holiday from the palm of your hand. We're committed to protecting the planet, too, by actively looking out for the environment, local people and wildlife in the places you love to visit.
All of our hotels are handpicked. We also offer hotels where we've designed the full experience… TUI SENSATORI is all about luxury, TUI SENSIMAR has been created just for adults, TUI FAMILY LIFE is a hit with all generations, TUI BLUE offers up a touch of authenticity, TUI MAGIC LIFE serves up All Inclusive fun, ROBINSON is spot on for activities and RIU puts service at the centre of things. We've also created collections of holidays – like A la Carte, Platinum, and Small & Friendly – to make it easy for you to find your ideal hotel.
Our holiday portfolio ticks off everything from beach holidays and city breaks through to lakes and mountains getaways. We also offer tours, that let you experience exotic places like Costa Rica, Japan, and Australia in a brand new way, and multi-centre trips with over 5,000 combinations to choose from. Plus, our flexible flight options, taxi transfers and flights from your local airport mean you can design your perfect holiday, just as you want it.
Ocean and River Cruises
From Norway's fjords to the Caribbean's beaches, you can explore over 200 destinations with Marella Cruises. There's the option of flying from 22 regional UK airports, or sailing from the UK. Our growing fleet covers off everything from family-friendly to adults-only ships – plus, they're All Inclusive as standard, with tips and service charges included. TUI River Cruises, meanwhile, explore Europe's waterways, stopping off at big cities and hidden gems along the way. Flights, excursion credit and meals with drinks are all part of the package when you set sail with TUI River Cruises.
Best holiday airline
We've been voted the 'World's Best Leisure Airline' at the World Airline Awards for five years running. Our state-of-the-art 787 Dreamliners have transformed long-haul holidays – far-flung doesn't feel quite so far with roomy seats and no stopovers. And with our highly-trained cabin crew delivering top service, you can be sure of a great start to your holiday no matter which of our 21 regional airports you fly from.
BETTER HOLIDAYS, BETTER WORLD
We're not just here to help you find your perfect holiday – we're also here to help build a more sustainable future. Over 50 per cent of our customers now stay in a hotel that's received a global award for its eco and ethical standards. Our TUI Collection excursions are designed to help you discover the heart of your destination while benefiting the local community. Our airline was ranked the world's most carbon-efficient in the atmosfair Airline Index 2019 and our cruise teams are constantly working to minimise the environmental impact of our ships, too. On top of all that, we're proud to support the TUI Care Foundation – an independent charity that's working to protect holiday destinations. Their projects include everything from elephant protection in Asia, to preserving traditional farming methods in Greece.
TUI in the UK and Ireland in numbers…
• 6 million holidaymakers – we're the UK's leading travel brand
• 12,500 employees – from travel agents to cabin crew, engineers to back office staff
• 80+ destinations– in 30 countries around the world
• 4,000+ properties – from luxury hotels to private villas
• 60+ planes – based across the UK and Ireland
• 600+ travel agencies – including innovative Holiday Design Stores
• 24 regional airports – from Gatwick to Glasgow, Dublin to Doncaster
• 6 cruise ships – sailing under the Marella Cruises banner
• 1 leading website – one of the UK's top digital travel hubs
• 120+ cruise ports of call – from Venice to Havana, Santorini to Singapore
TUI GROUP across the world in numbers…
• No.1 travel company – it's our mission to help you to 'Discover your smile'
• 100+ years' experience – our roots stretch back to the 1800s
• 20 million customers – from families to couples, clubbers to cruisers
• 67,000 travel experts – including travel agents, cabin crew and holiday reps
• 180 worldwide destinations – from Spain to Shanghai, from Croatia to Costa Rica
• 15 core source markets – UK (including First Choice), Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Russia and Canada
• 1,600 travel agencies – including digital holiday stores
• 300 TUI-owned hotels – over 200,000 beds in about 30 countries
• 150 planes – one of the youngest and greenest fleets in Europe
• 16 cruise ships - across TUI Cruises, Marella Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
• 10 million 'greener and fairer' holidays – our sustainability commitment by 2020


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Q: Hibernate : SetMaxResults not working with java.util.Map I am using Hibernate 3.0. Following is the criteria written for fetching data.
1. Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(Document.class);
2. criteria.setMaxResults(10);
3. criteria.setFetchMode("metadata",FetchMode.join);
4. criteria.setFetchMode("activitySchedules", FetchMode.JOIN);
5. criteria.setFetchMode("activitySchedules.activities",FetchMode.JOIN);
6. criteria.setResultTransformer(criteria.DISTINCT_ROOT_PROPERTY);
7. criteria.list();

In this criteria, setMaxResults(10) is not working. It is giving only 1 result for defined 10 limit. For 20 it is giving 2 and likewise.If I comment 4th line, the result is coming in proper manner. I am not getting this weird behavior. Is it the problem with fetching MAP ? If anybody knows about this let me know.
BeanStrucutre :
Document.java
private NormMaster metadata;

private Map<TransactionFlowEnum, ActivitySchedule> activitySchedules;

 public NormMaster getMetadata(){
         return metadata;
}

public void setMetadata(NormMaster metadata){
   this.metadata = metadata;
}

public Map<TransactionFlowEnum, ActivitySchedule> getActivitySchedules() {
        return activitySchedules;
    }

 public void setActivitySchedules(
        Map<TransactionFlowEnum, ActivitySchedule> activitySchedules) {
        this.activitySchedules = activitySchedules;
    }

ActivitySchedule.java
private List<Stage> activities;

public List<Stage> getActivities() {
    return activities;
}

public void setActivities(List<Stage> activities) {
    this.activities = activities;
}

NormMaster.java
private String name;

public void setName(String name){
 this.name = name;
}

public return getName(){
 return name;
}

Edit : If I am putting one more field in Document.java and fetching metadata excluding activitySchedules then the proper data is coming.

A: setMaxResults() limits the number of rows returned from the JDBC resultset coming from the SQL query executed. It doesn't limit the number of objects returned from the Criteria query.
For a simple request without any join fetch, the two numbers are the same. But for a query with a join fetch on a toMany association, the numbers aren't. For example, if a document has 2 schedules, and each of these schedules has 3 activites, your query will return 6 JDBC rows for this single document. So if you call setMaxResults(4), you'll get onlmy one, incomplete, document from your query.
setMaxResults() should not be used with such queries. A workaround consists in executing a query returning only the IDs of the documents, and apply setMaxResults() on this query. Once you have the 10 IDs, you execute a second query, with the fetch joins, returning the documents having one of these 10 IDs (where document.id in (:documentIds)).

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package com.siemens.ctic2.Test61400;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;

import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory;
import javax.xml.datatype.Duration;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException;

import com.siemens.ctic2.iec61850.ING;
import com.siemens.ctic2.iec61850.MV;

import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.AbortResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.AddSubscriptionRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.AddSubscriptionResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.AssociateRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.AssociateResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetDataSetValuesRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetDataSetValuesResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetDataValuesRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetDataValuesResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetLogicalDeviceDirectoryRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetLogicalDeviceDirectoryResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetLogicalNodeDirectoryRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetLogicalNodeDirectoryResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetServerDirectoryRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.GetServerDirectoryResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.IECXMLService;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.ReleaseRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.RemoveSubscriptionRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.RemoveSubscriptionResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.ReportRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.ReportResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.SetDataValuesRequest;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.SetDataValuesResponse;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TDataAttributeValue;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TFC;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TFcdFcdaType;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TObjectClass;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TIEMcls;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TRCBType;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TReportFormat;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1.TTrgCond;
import ch.iec._61400.ews._1_0.ServicePortType;

public class CodeExamples {
	private ServicePortType service;

	private String associate(String user, String pw) {
		AssociateRequest req = new AssociateRequest();
		req.setMaxMessageSize(4096);
		req.setUserName(user);
		req.setPassword(pw);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());

		AssociateResponse resp = service.associate(req);

		if (resp.getServiceError() != null) {
			// TODO error handling
		}

		return resp.getAssocID();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private void release(String associd) {
		ReleaseRequest req = new ReleaseRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());

		AbortResponse resp = service.release(req);
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private List<String> getServerDirectory(String associd) {
		GetServerDirectoryRequest req = new GetServerDirectoryRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
		req.setObjClass(TObjectClass.LD);

		GetServerDirectoryResponse resp = service.getServerDirectory(req);

		return resp.getLDRef();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private List<String> getLogicalDeviceDirectory(String associd, String ld) {
		GetLogicalDeviceDirectoryRequest req = new GetLogicalDeviceDirectoryRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
		req.setLDRef(ld);

		GetLogicalDeviceDirectoryResponse resp = service.getLogicalDeviceDirectory(req);

		return resp.getLNRef();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private List<String> getLogicalNodeDirectory(String associd, String ln) {
		GetLogicalNodeDirectoryRequest req = new GetLogicalNodeDirectoryRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
		req.setLNRef(ln);
		req.setIEMcls(TIEMcls.DATA);

		GetLogicalNodeDirectoryResponse resp = service.getLogicalNodeDirectory(req);

		return resp.getDATAname();
	}

	private List<TDataAttributeValue> getDataValues(String associd, String dataref, TFC fc) {
		GetDataValuesRequest req = new GetDataValuesRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());

		TFcdFcdaType ref = new TFcdFcdaType();
		ref.setRef(dataref);
		ref.setFC(fc);

		req.setRef(ref);

		GetDataValuesResponse resp = service.getDataValues(req);

		return resp.getDataAttrVal();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private MV getMeasuredValue(String associd, String dataref) {
		// Helper method to extract a measured value from a
		// list of TDataAttributes

		List<TDataAttributeValue> data = getDataValues(associd, dataref, TFC.MX);
		return MV.extract(dataref, data);
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private void setDataValues(String associd, String dataref, TFC fc, List<TDataAttributeValue> data) {
		SetDataValuesRequest req = new SetDataValuesRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
		TFcdFcdaType fcd = new TFcdFcdaType();
		fcd.setFC(fc);
		fcd.setRef(dataref);
		req.setRef(fcd);
		req.getDataAttrVal().addAll(data);

		SetDataValuesResponse resp = service.setDataValues(req);
	}

	private void setING(String associd, ING ing) {
		// Helper method to set an Integer setpoint
		List<TDataAttributeValue> data = new ArrayList<TDataAttributeValue>();
		String dataref = ing.getDataRef();
		ing.addTo(dataref, data);

		setDataValues(associd, dataref, TFC.SP, data);
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private List<TDataAttributeValue> getDataSetValues(String associd, String datasetref) {
		GetDataSetValuesRequest req = new GetDataSetValuesRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
		req.setDSRef(datasetref);

		GetDataSetValuesResponse resp = service.getDataSetValues(req);

		return resp.getDataAttrVal();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private void addSubscription(String associd, String rcbref, String rptid, String datasetref) {
		AddSubscriptionRequest req = new AddSubscriptionRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
		req.setRCBRef(rcbref);
		req.setRCBType(TRCBType.BRCB);
		req.setRptID(rptid);
		req.setRptEna(true);

		TTrgCond trgCond = new TTrgCond();
		trgCond.setDchg(true);
		req.setTrgOp(trgCond);
		req.setDatSet(datasetref);

		AddSubscriptionResponse resp = service.addSubscription(req);
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private void removeSubscription(String associd, String rcbref) {
		RemoveSubscriptionRequest req = new RemoveSubscriptionRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
		req.setRCBRef(rcbref);

		RemoveSubscriptionResponse resp = service.removeSubscription(req);
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private void report(String associd, String rcbref) {
		ReportRequest req = new ReportRequest();
		req.setAssocID(associd);
		req.setUUID(UUID.randomUUID().toString());

		DatatypeFactory datatypeFactory;

		try {
			datatypeFactory = DatatypeFactory.newInstance();
		} catch (DatatypeConfigurationException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
			return;
		}

		Duration maxRespTime = datatypeFactory.newDuration(60000);
		req.setMaxResponseTime(maxRespTime );

		Duration minRespTime = datatypeFactory.newDuration(1000);
		req.setMinResponseTime(minRespTime);

		while (true) {
			ReportResponse resp = service.report(req);

			List<TReportFormat> reports = resp.getReportFormat();

			for (TReportFormat report : reports) {
				// TODO handle the reported event
			}

			Duration minRequestTime = resp.getMinRequestTime();
			Date date = new Date();

			try {
				Thread.sleep(minRequestTime.getTimeInMillis(date));
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
	}

	private ServicePortType getService() {
		// create connection to Web Service
		URL wsdl;
		IECXMLService locator;

		try {
			wsdl = new URL("http://192.168.2.215:8080/61400?wsdl");
//			wsdl = new URL("http://localhost:8080/61400?wsdl");
		} catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
			return null;
		}

		ServicePortType srv;

		try {
			locator = new IECXMLService(wsdl, new QName(
					"http://iec.ch/61400/ews/1.0/", "IECXMLService"));
			srv = locator.getIECXMLServicePort(/* feature */);
		} catch (WebServiceException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			return null;
		}

		return srv;
	}

	public static void main(String[] argv) {
		new CodeExamples().test();
	}

	private void test() {
		service = getService();
		String associd = associate("user", "Password");

		ING ing = new ING("C1/DRCT1.DERTyp");
		ing.setSetVal(102);

		setING(associd, ing);

		List<TDataAttributeValue> data = getDataValues(associd, "C1/DRCT1", TFC.SP);

		ING ing2 = ING.extract("C1/DRCT1.DERTyp", data);

		System.out.println("Typ=" + ing2.getSetVal());
	}
}

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You may have heard that last week Unison TAs in Durham, who make up the majority of the workforce, accepted the Council's latest offer in our long-running dispute (62% voted to accept on a turnout of 57%). GMB TAs weren't balloted as they accepted previous offers and ATL TAs voted to reject (56% on a 60% turnout).That is true. You may have heard many other things, some fact, some fiction, some opinion. I was a member of the TA committee, I'm a Unison steward and have been involved in negotiations since last December and this is my personal opinion on some of the things you may have heard.
We haven't given in at all, nor have we left anyone behind, been brainwashed or any of the other things the majority who accepted the deal have been accused of in the last week. I certainly didn't back this deal because I had had enough of fighting or because I wasn't going to lose money. I backed the deal because it is a significant improvement on the previous deal (and all the others before it) and offers clear opportunities to work on eliminating the loss for those who still face one.
It is. The main issue in the summer was that the new grading structure required the vast majority of TAs to teach whole classes. Apart from the fact that many TAs would have to take on a significant extra responsibility, it left no options to mitigate the loss of the largest group still losing (most of whom currently teach whole classes but aren't Higher Level Teaching Assistants).
The new deal includes clarification that, in line with the rest of the country, only HLTAs will be able to teach whole classes. This means the majority now don't have extra responsibilities and we have options to mitigate losses by moving those required to teach classes to a higher grade. We have also identified other options that would work for TAs losing for other reasons but these rely on the new grading structure being in place.
The new deal also includes setting up a Progression Board with the remit of exploring all options to find solutions to the pay losses with the aim that nobody will lose out in 2 years. The Council had never previously put this aim in writing. It also included clarification that, although we will have to work the additional hours, they can be applied flexibly taking into account work done out of school and out of school hours such as staff meetings, planning, marking, finding and making resources, going on residentials etc. For many TAs, this will involve no change to how they were working before this dispute began when all those 'extras' were done on a goodwill basis.
If you have read my blog before (posting as Lions of Durham), you will know that I have had many issues with Unison during this campaign. I thought about leaving early on but was advised that it would be much better to stay and fight to make them fight for us. So I did and that's why I became a Unison steward. Early on, they weren't listening and definitely weren't fighting so TAs organised themselves and waged a brilliant campaign that I am immensely proud to have been a part of.
Through public pressure, we forced Unison to listen to us and we forced them to give us full strike pay because of the wider significance of our dispute (fighting a Labour Council that intended to sack an entire workforce to impose inferior contracts). The Council put several previous offers to us and we rejected them all: until last June, all offers involved 100% of TAs losing money. Unison TA stewards have challenged Unison every step of the way and will continue to do so until no TAs are facing a pay loss. We are now in a position that Unison listen to us and fight when we tell them something is a red line issue. What they can't do is wave a magic wand and make all this go away. The Council would not withdraw their plans to change our contracts so we had to find solutions that would deal with the outcome of those plans, i.e. loss of pay and increase in hours. A solution that addresses the pay loss for 78% now with clear opportunities to solve the pay loss for 22% within the 2 year period plus a flexible approach to the extra hours is a huge improvement on where we were this time last year when the Council was going to sack us and impose the new contracts.
They won't. We have firm, written commitments from the Council and Unison that the priority of the Progression Board is to work on those losses and aim to eliminate all of them before January 2020. I'm not naive enough to think that we can sit back and relax and expect it just to happen. Unison will be holding regular cluster meetings for their members still facing losses to update them on the progress of the Progression Board, the Board will report regularly to the Council so that Councillors will be updated on progress and TAs and the wider Trade Union movement will be watching to ensure that everybody delivers on their commitments.
The number one priority of the Progression Board is to explore options for mitigating pay losses with the clear aim that nobody will lose out after the 2 year compensation period. It will also oversee the implementation of the collective agreement in our schools. Although Headteachers have a great deal of autonomy, they are not able to bypass or ignore a collective agreement between the Council and recognised trade unions.
We have always known that there are inequalities in our schools and our campaign has highlighted the extent of this problem across the county. TAs in different schools (and sometimes the same school) are doing the same job on very different grades but, as the Council do not hold details of individual TAs' contracts and job descriptions, there is no oversight as to whether roles and levels are consistent. The Progression Board will be a forum where, in the future, we can raise such concerns. It will also carry out an audit of training needs as the lack of training specifically for TAs (in particular for teaching whole classes) was raised during consultations and school meetings.
Everybody has a right to join whichever union they choose. However, my personal opinion is that it is better to be in a union that is recognised by your employer to negotiate on your behalf. Then, if you are not happy with your union, get involved, become a steward, challenge them, put pressure on them and make things better. The phrase I have heard often during our campaign is 'we are the union'. It shouldn't just be a service to turn to in bad times or to get a discount on insurance, it should be our voice. If we want to be represented properly, we need to make sure they listen to us and the best way to do that is to get involved. How loud could we roar if every school had a TA steward?
The first offer meant that 100% of TAs would lose money and we would all have to work an extra 4.5 directed hours. Most of us said that the hours weren't the issue as we regularly worked more hours anyway but the pay cut and the lack of recognition of the important part we play in educating the children in County Durham were a huge insult. By refusing 3 offers and taking 4 days of strike action we forced the Council to review our roles and responsibilities. This led to the majority of TAs being regraded to a higher grade: those that weren't will now be looked at individually to see if they can be moved up to mitigate the loss of weeks.
Since the vote in July, we have shown that Durham is out of step with the rest of the country in having TAs below HLTA grade teaching classes on a regular basis and this has now been addressed giving opportunities to regrade many of those who teach classes but are not paid as HLTA. If we had accepted any of the previous offers, this would not have been the case and the pay losses would have happened as there would have been no opportunities to mitigate them.
Although the last 2 years have been immensely difficult and stressful for everyone involved, I will never regret fighting: we stood up to bullying tactics from our employer and apathy from our union and turned them both around. We have achieved a deal that is a significant improvement on the original offer with clear opportunities to improve it further. We have acted with courage, resilience and professionalism and are now in a position where the Council can and will be held to account by us and the wider public. There is still a lot of mistrust and anger and that is understandable but, whichever way TAs voted, we are united in wanting a solution that means nobody will lose money in January 2020.
There has been a lot of talk, speculation and accusations about the motives for people voting to accept this deal. Here is the opinion of Bridget, a TA facing a pay loss who voted to accept.
Unison bulletin advising us of Council review on moving us to Term Time Only pay.
Letter to all TAs from the Council telling us we would be paid 'according to the hours actually worked'. For me, this meant working an additional 3 hours 36 mins (4.5 hrs if full time) for £1,722.40 LESS a year or £3,607.73 less if I stayed on the same hours. As The Council pay protection policy 'does not apply to school based employees' they proposed paying a one off compensation payment equal to the first year's loss. 100% of TAs faced a pay cut.
Council offered the same deal but phased in over 3 years, starting from September 2016. Schools would offer extra hours to mitigate some of the loss 'where they had a business case to do so'. 100% of TAs faced a pay cut. Proposal rejected.
57 Labour councillors voted to fire and rehire all 2700 TAs.
TAs receive S188 letter advising us that we would be dismissed on 31/12/16 and re-engaged on 1/1/17 on the new contracts. The pay loss and compensation would be the same as the Nov 2015 offer. 100% of TAs faced a pay cut.
Durham Trades Council got involved to offer support and advice.
County Durham Teaching Assistant Activists Committee formed.
700 Durham TAs march in the Miners' Gala, the biggest collective of women to march and the biggest single contingent since the Miners' strikes.
Council amended offer to extend compensation to 2 years and put back implementation to April 2017. Proposal rejected by Unison & ATL TAs, accepted by GMB TAs by a narrow margin (53.5/46.5%).
Received 'Formal Notice of Termination of Employment' along with new contract to sign.
Unison & ATL TAs voted overwhelmingly for strike action.
Unison & ATL TAs held 4 strike days, closing many schools and causing disruption to many others. Over a hundred picket lines were organised across the county.
Local labour CLPs pass motions of support for TAs, increasing the pressure on the Council. This is after months of work by members horrified at the treatment of TAs but who have had to fight hard to gain support for motions criticising decisions by Labour councillors.
Council announce suspension of sack and re-engage until September 2017 to allow for negotiations and a full review into the roles of Teaching Assistants.
1st meeting of Project Board (for negotiations).
Full review of TAs' roles carried out, leading to new job descriptions and grading structure. Assimilation process takes place across all schools.
New proposal giving details of new grade and how this will affect pay after 2 years' compensation period. Council commits to a flexible approach to the additional hours, taking into account work done outside of school and outside of school hours. 22% of TAs still facing a pay loss.
After TAs voice serious concerns about the new grading structure and the lack of options for mitigating the loss for those TAs still facing one, Unison and ATL TAs reject the proposal.
New proposal with written clarification from the Council regarding the flexible additional hours, clarification that only HLTAs will be expected to teach whole classes (previously, level 3 Enhanced also taught classes) and a clear, written commitment to work with Unions, Headteachers and TAs to mitigate the losses still faced with the aim that nobody will lose any money at the end of the 2 year compensation period. This Proposal includes setting up a 'Progression Board' which will look at options to mitigate these losses as well as carrying out an audit of training needs and discussing other matters regarding the future of the profession.
Unison TAs accept the deal (62/38%). ATL reject it by a narrow margin (56/44%). As ATL does not have negotiating rights, the new deal will apply to all TAs across the county.
I am one of 472 TAs who are still set to lose after the latest offer from Durham County Council (DCC). Yet I voted to accept the deal, as did the majority of TAs last week.
Currently an Enhanced Level 3, I received as much information as possible about the newly negotiated proposal and feel reassured that the Progression Board will work with myself and others to mitigate our losses, recognising and ensuring my level of work is recognised through the correct grade and salary.
There are a variety of reasons why some TAs are losing pay, but it is not just down to Durham County Council (DCC ). Some schools, for instance, have appointed TAs on ridiculously low grades, so that TAs with differing grades work side by side doing the same job! This has happened for years and now is the time to rectify these inconsistencies through the Progression Board. The new offer also enables TAs to appeal against having been assimilated on too low a grade.
Some have criticised the latest deal, and I have previously been openly critical of both DCC and my union Unison. When in March I spoke in front of over 1000 people at our solidarity march and rally in Durham I expressed my discontent with both. And I felt angry and let down by Unison with the offer in June. But this deal is different.
Firstly, the priority of the Teaching Assistant Progression Board is to explore early solutions for staff who could potentially be financially disadvantaged; and secondly, Level 3 Enhanced TAs will no longer be expected to teach full classes to cover teachers' planning time.
These improvements have been won by our union's negotiating team, and thanks particularly to the two TA Unison Stewards, Helen Cook and Megan Charlton, who worked tirelessly to research and help create the proposal that was finally accepted.
There is still work to be done to ensure the early mitigation of potential losses by some of us. But the decisive ballot result, with 62% unison TAs voting to accept the improved offer, allows us to get back to normality and promises us that we will not lose out.
The bottom line is that this will not be a quick fix. But our magnificent campaign and strike action shows how a determined and unified struggle can win. And let there be no doubt that I and the rest of "The Lions of Durham" will hold DCC and Unison to account if these 'mitigations' do not follow.
Solidarity and peace to all Durham TAs.


Lawmakers Push to Invoke War Powers Act to End U.S. Complicity in Yemen War - BTLWar Power Resolution, enacted after Vietnam War, has been seldom used.
As violence, famine and a deadly cholera epidemic claim ever more lives in the three-year war in Yemen, the United Nations has weighed in with a report accusing Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of committing acts that may be war crimes. UN investigators said the Saudi- led military coalition has killed thousands of civilians in airstrikes, tortured detainees, raped civilians and used child soldiers as young as 8 years old.
The UN blamed coalition airstrikes for causing most of the civilian casualties in Yemen, citing credible reports that Saudi and UAE aircraft had targeted residential neighborhoods, weddings, medical facilities, markets, funerals and jails. The report also accused the Houthi rebels, who the Saudis are trying to oust from territory they control in northern Yemen, of shelling civilians, torturing detainees and recruiting child soldiers.
What many Americans don't know is that the U.S. government has been playing an active role in the Yemen war on the side of Saudis and UAE, supplying weapons, logistical and intelligence support and re-mid-air fueling of military aircraft, some of which have been involved in targeting civilians. Now, several members of Congress are backing the idea of invoking the 1973 War Powers Act in an attempt to end U.S. complicity in the Yemen War. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Paul Kawika Martin, senior director for policy and political affairs with Peace Action, who summarizes the UN's recent human rights report and efforts in Congress to prevent the Trump administration from continuing to supply military assistance to Saudi-led forces in Yemen.
PAUL KAWIKA MARTIN: Well, the UN has been warning over several years, not only about the humanitarian disaster. There is a refugee and internally displaced disaster when people are either fleeing Yemen or have had to flee various parts of Yemen and leave their homes. And they've been talking about these issues for a long time.
But they did put together a big group of very eminent experts, most of them with significant law experience to put a very formal report together. And in that report, they showed Saudi airstrikes causing most of the civilian casualties. Now that's the war casualties, not counting the casualties on the humanitarian side of the disaster caused by lack of medicine and food, water, the cholera epidemic. As we speak, you know, one child is dying every 10 minutes of either starvation or some easily fixed medical condition. So the UN definitely said that there were war crimes that are happening, and they were focused primarily on what was happening inside the country.
It didn't really talk a lot about the U.S. role unfortunately. But we're clearly complicit if we are a supporting country. They did point out UAE; they did point out Saudi Arabia. It did point out the Houthis. And we are funding (war crimes). So I feel like we are complicit by support even if the United Nations hasn't specifically said that we are complicit.
BETWEEN THE LINES: Paul, run down for us who are the Congress (members) that are working toward reining in the United States involvement in the war in Yemen. Explain a little bit about the War Powers Act, how it was invoked during the latter days of the Vietnam War and how it really has just been put on the shelf and not used by members of Congress in all these years since the Vietnam War and during the course of many conflicts our nation has been involved with.
PAUL KAWIKA MARTIN: Over a year ago, there was an attempt to actually block sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia. It's actually never happened in the history of arms sales that the Congress has voted to block – that was led by Sen. Chris Murphy. And that vote came very close. It was 44, needing 51. That surprised a lot of people and did put some pressure on Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. And then, there was an attempt by freshman Congressman Ro Khanna of California to do the War Powers Resolution last year. And he didn't get very much support, definitely no support from the Republican-led House, but even some within the leadership in the Democratic Party was not very supportive of it moving forward. So it ended up turning into rather than get a vote on that, they got to vote on another resolution that did spell out there's not been an authorization of war.
So all of this aid that we're doing is considered hostilities being part of the war in Yemen that is supposed to be declared by Congress. Congress has never voted for a war in Yemen. While certainly one could argue that some work on terrorism that may or may not be going on there is covered under the 2001 AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force), but certainly not the support of the Yemen civil war – it's not covered by any law.
And that is why during the Vietnam War – which was another war that didn't have a declaration of war – after that war ended, groups like Peace Action and others worked to get the War Powers Resolution passed and it was passed over the veto of President Nixon. And that made a lot of different things at the presidential (level), that branch of government needs to do if it sends in troops. So, that is letting Congress know after a certain amount of time, and if there isn't any kind of declaration of war, then those troops are actually supposed to come out after 60 days.
And you're right, it hasn't been used a lot. There's been several times where members of Congress did try to use it for Libya and Iraq and others had been blocked, but it is a way to force a vote. So, once again, Rep. Ro Khanna now (with the) backing of the House Armed Services Committee ranking member Adam Smith and a whole host of other champions are behind this effort. They have not introduced the bill yet and it's unclear if they're going to be able to get a vote or some parliamentarian tricks that can be used to try to stop it, but if they're able to introduce it before this week's out, then we might see some sort of a vote before they recess for Congress by the end of the month.
For more information on Peace Action, visit PeaceAction.org.


The manager position has been empty since last September, when Cindy Beemiller left for a refuge on Long Island, NY. The financially strapped Fish and Wildlife Service doesn't have the funding to fill the position, Pradines said. Beemiller was one of two paid employees assigned to the property; the other, a maintenance worker, is all that remains.
If Congress doesn't appropriate significantly more money for the refuge system for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, Eastern Neck may have to close to the public, she said, adding that it's unclear when agency management would make that call.
The extent of the shutdown would depend on funding availability, Pradines said. The county road that traverses the island would remain open to Bogles Wharf, home to a county-maintained boat ramp and small pier. But the access gate across the road leading into the refuge would be closed, barring access to the visitor center as well as the five walking trails and two boardwalks.
It's possible that trail maintenance and other activities would cease, Pradines added.
At times, the island is devoid of personnel support, save for a lone volunteer clerk manning the front desk, said Phil Cicconi, vice president of the Friends group. Although refuge staff installed a panic button, many of the older, female volunteers feel unsafe.
Shutting down the refuge, he said, would cause it to fall into disrepair and potentially attract relic-hunters who operate "like ninjas in the night." The island is a cache of American Indian artifacts. Cicconi worries that thieves might strip anything of value from the visitor center building, a renovated 1930s-era hunting lodge.
The Friends group's latest task, Baile said, is writing letters and emails to elected officials and Fish and Wildlife staff to keep their beloved refuge open. They have lined up a growing list of allies in the fight, including the Kent County Commissioners, Patuxent Bird Club and Friends of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.
The Friends group also has partnered with their counterparts at Blackwater to create a website to fan public support: friendsofblackwater.org/help-eastern-neck.html.
"We've done everything we think we can do," she said.
But it may not be enough. Eastern Neck is the latest refuge in an expanding slate that has faced cutbacks and potential closure because of a lack of federal investment, said Desiree Sorenson-Groves, vice president of government affairs with the National Wildlife Refuge Association.
Across the country, many refuges over the past 15 years have been forced to shut down visitor centers or cut back on the number of days they're open, she said. The popular J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, for example, was forced to close its visitor center two days a week after it lost two park rangers to budget cuts.
In Rhode Island, the Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge visitor center was closed for three consecutive winters. Supporters raised money to install solar panels, cutting costs enough to allow it to open for the winter of 2008-2009.
The Trump administration requested $473 million in funding for the refuge system in fiscal 2019, a 2.7 percent decrease from current spending. An Interior Department appropriations bill approved by the Republican-controlled House along party lines in July sets aside nearly $489 million, a rise of less than 1 percent. That slight increase, if passed in the Senate, would have little effect on the refuge system's staffing and maintenance woes, Sorenson-Groves said.
But Harris said his hands are largely tied.
Where: An island at the mouth of the Chester River, 15 minutes south of Rock Hall, MD, on Eastern Neck Road.
Notable wildlife: Tundra swans between November and March, bald eagles, Delmarva fox squirrels, Canada geese, diamondback terrapins, white-tailed deer, beavers. To view a list of recent bird sightings, visit ebird.org/places/usfws and search for Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge.
Thanks so much for writing this article. You gave a great overview of not only Eastern Neck's problem, but the overall issue with funding reductions leading to staff cuts and refuge closures in the National Wildlife Refuge System. Americans get a lot of enjoyment out of our refuges, and we want them to protect wildlife and habitat from all the things that threaten them, including invasive species and climate change. But all that costs money. In the end, it's a great investment for ourselves and our children -- keeping our country's amazing natural heritage alive. We're so lucky to have so many natural treasures.
With the state spending so much money at Wye Island, you'd think that enough could be diverted to Eastern Neck to prevent this from happening.


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The coral reef of South Moloka'i, Hawai'i— Portrait of a sediment-threatened fringing reef
Moloka'i, with the most extensive coral reef in the main Hawaiian Islands, is especially sacred to Hina, the Goddess of the Moon. As Hinaalo, she is the Mother of the Hawaiian people; as Hinapuku'a, she is the Goddess of Fishermen; and in the form Hina'opuhalako'a, she is the Goddess who gave birth to coral, coral reefs, and all spiny marine organisms. Interdependence between the reef's living resources, the people, and their cosmology was the basis for management of Moloka'i's coastal waters for over a thousand years.
The ancient residents of Moloka'i built the greatest concentration of fishponds known anywhere, but their mastery of mariculture, something needed now more than ever, was lost after near genocide from exotic Western diseases. Subsequent destruction of the native vegetation for exotic cattle, goats, pigs, sugar cane, and pineapple caused soil erosion and sedimentation on the reef flat. This masterful volume clearly documents that soil washing into the sea is the major threat to the reef today. Abandoned fishponds, choked with sediment, now act as barriers and mud traps, making damage to corals less than it would otherwise would have been.
The role of mud and freshwater from land in preventing coral reef growth, clearly articulated in Charles Darwin's first book, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, is the major theme of this book. All around the tropics, coral reefs have died from huge increases in terrestrial sedimentation that resulted from destruction of hillside forests for cash-crop agriculture and pastures in the colonial era, especially in Latin America, Asia, and the islands of the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific. It is obvious that one cannot manage the coastal zone as a unit separate from the watersheds that drain into it. Yet there has been surprisingly little comprehensive scientific study of these impacts.
In this landmark volume, U.S. Geological Survey researchers and their colleagues have developed and applied a remarkably integrated approach to the reefs of Moloka'i, combining geology, oceanography, and biology to provide an in-depth understanding of the processes that have made these reefs grow and that now limit them. They have joined old fashioned natural history of marine animals and plants with study of the geological evolution of the island, hydrology, meteorology, and land-use history, to an arsenal of new methods of remote sensing, including aerial photography, laser ranging, infrared thermal mapping, seismic reflection, in-situ instrumentation to measure chemical parameters of water quality, and direct measurements of the physical driving forces affecting them—such as wave energy, currents, sedimentation, and sediment transport. They provide a level of documentation and insight that has never been available for any reef before.
A remarkable feature of this book is that it is aimed at the people of Moloka'i to inform them of what is happening to their reef and what they might do to preserve their vital resources. The scientific data and interpretations are expressed in unusually clear and comprehensible language, free of the professional jargon that makes most technical publications impenetrable to the public that most needs to know about them, yet without loss of scientific rigor.
Here readers will see clearly explained the whole path of soil loss, from the impacts of wild pigs and goats at higher elevations, deforestation of the hills for cattle pasture at lower levels, and denudation of low lands for cash crops. The resulting biological impoverishment has bared the soils, which wash away in flash storms, smothering the inshore reefs, whose growth was already limited because they had grown right up to sea level. The data in this book show that the mud doesn't get far if it is washed into the sea during a big storm with heavy waves. Afterwards this mud keeps getting stirred up by every succeeding storm, spreading and affecting corals over wider areas until it is finally washed out of the system—and that only happens if there is no more new mud washing onto the reef.
I saw this myself a few years ago in Pila'a Bay on Kaua'i, where a bulldozed hillside of abandoned sugar cane fields had slumped right on top of a coral reef following exceptional rains. Years later, the algae species were zoned in a way that clearly mapped the distribution of nutrients washed into the bay, most likely from fertilizers bound to the eroded soils. That pattern closely mimics, on a small scale, that shown in Moloka'i in this volume, where the inner reef is covered with algae, zoned by species in a way that points to land-based sources of nutrients, while the outermost reef slope is still coral dominated, and the deep algae seem to indicate deep-water nutrient upwelling.
What of the future? The Hawaiian Islands have been exceptionally fortunate to be spared the worst coral heatstroke death from high temperatures, at least to date. So far, the worst global warming impacts have luckily been small in this region, and the small number of people on Moloka'i has kept population densities, and sewage pollution, low compared to the more developed islands. Nutrients from years of sugar and pineapple fertilization, and the washing of this soil onto the reefs, show clear influences on the pattern of algae on the reef. Even at very low levels of nutrients, well below that which drives algae to smother and kill coral reefs, more algae is present. Soil erosion control is therefore the key to better management of both nutrients and turbidity on Moloka'i reefs. To that end land management actions mentioned in this book, such as suppressing wild fires and eliminating wild goats and pigs, could be made even more effective if supplemented by active erosion control using plants whose roots bind the soil effectively in place. Through all of these efforts, Hina and the people of Moloka'i could be happy again!
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Explore the fascinating undersea world of coral reefs. Learn how we map, monitor, and model coral reefs so we can better understand, protect, and preserve our Nation's reefs.
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Die Ford-Kreise sind Kreise in der reellen Ebene, je einer für jede rationale Zahl und einer zum Punkt unendlich.
Die Kreise sind nach dem amerikanischen Mathematiker Lester R. Ford benannt, der sie 1938 entdeckte.

Definition
Der Fordkreis zum Bruch  mit teilerfremden, ganzen Zahlen  und  wird meist mit  oder  bezeichnet. Er hat für  den Radius  und sein Zentrum liegt im Punkt . Außerdem ist der Fordkreis  definiert als die Gerade  (projektiv gesehen ist dies ein Kreis mit Zentrum im Unendlichen).

Eigenschaften der Fordkreise
Das Innere je zweier verschiedener Fordkreise ist disjunkt, d. h. die Kreise überlappen sich nicht.
Allerdings können sie sich berühren. Außerdem wird jeder rationale Punkt der x-Achse von einem Fordkreis berührt.

Liegt der Bruch  im offenen Intervall , so entsprechen die  berührenden Fordkreise gerade den Nachbarn von  in einer Farey-Reihe.

Ford-Kugeln (3D)
Eine Verallgemeinerung ergibt sich mit Gaußsche Zahlen p=p'+ip'' und q=q'+iq''. Die Division von zwei komplexen Zahlen mit ganzzahligen Koeffizienten ergibt rationale Koeffizienten: Mit ganzen Zahlen |q|²=q'*q'+q''*q'',  n'=p'*q'+p''*q'' und  n''= p''q'-p'q'' lässt sich der Quotient schreiben als p/q=(n'+in'')/|q|². Erstellt man für alle ganzen Zahlen p','p'',q',q'' mit teilerfremden p,q Kugeln mit Radius r= am Punkt ((p/q)',(p/q)'',r) entstehen Ford-Kugeln.

Zwei Kugeln  und  tangieren sich genau dann wenn  .

Siehe auch
Stern-Brocot-Baum

Literatur
John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy: Zahlenzauber – von natürlichen, imaginären und sonstigen Zahlen. Birkhäuser Verlag 1997. (engl. Original: The Book of Numbers, New York 1996, ISBN 0-387-97993-X)

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Every year I reserve tickets for the Broadway Sacramento Series and in the summer, Music Circus.
Music Circus came out on January 11th with its summer schedule. The plays are: My Fair Lady June 9-14, Big River June 23-28, Bye, Bye Birdie July 7-12, Peter Pan July 21-26, West Side Story Aug 4-9 and HAIR Aug 18-23. I was unable to get enough people for the group rate so you will need to go to the box office for tickets.
For the 2015-2016 Broadway Sacramento Series, the following are a list of musicals: November 6-15, 2015 Elf, The Musical, December 29, 2015-January 3, 2016 Pippin, February 2-7, 2016 Little Mermaid, March 9-20, 2016 Book of Mormon, April 12-17, 2016 Newsies, May 18-29, 2016 Motown.
Pippin, Little Mermaid and Newsies are only one week long. I will get matinee tickets for Elf, The Musical and Little Mermaid so children and grandchildren will be able to stay up to see the musicals. I will know at the end of May or the beginning of June the seats I will be able to get and the prices for each play. Stay tuned.


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The amazing numbers behind Emma Raducanu's latest sponsorship deal
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British sensation Emma Raducanu has signed yet another sponsorship deal off the back of her highly successful and award winning season.
After having penned a deal with British Airways last week, her attention has now turned to the communication sector after signing on the dotted line for Vodafone.
Negotiations have been on-going over the past few weeks between the company and the 19-year-old but it's now been confirmed and will be formally announced in February.
It's expected that she'll rake in £3 million a year from this deal alone, making her net worth around the £10 million mark, according to the Daily Mail.
The US Open champion is represented by Max Eisenbud at the IMG talent management company, who also organises Maria Sharapova's lucrative deals.
"The difference between Maria winning Wimbledon and Emma winning the US Open really comes down to social media," Eisenbud explained to The New York Times.
"There was no social media in 2004, but it made things move so fast this time, it's just in warp speed.
"The iron's hot, we're striking."
thrilled to join the @British_Airways family as a global brand ambassador! The airline has already been part of a special time for me, flying me home from the US Open. I look forward to working with the iconic British brand on some exciting projects!#britishairways ✈ pic.twitter.com/TJiQCubFjs
— Emma Raducanu (@EmmaRaducanu) December 21, 2021
It is understood that Raducanu is perfect from a marketing point of view according to experts due to the fact that she's British, "looks the part", and speaks fluent Mandarin as a result of her mother hailing from Shenyang in China, which is becoming increasingly important to big corporations such as Vodafone to help relations in the Far East.
The British No 1 is allowed to have approximately six sponsorship deals as long as none of them clash, the typical amount for most sports stars.
Raducanu went from sitting her A-Levels earlier this year to now embarking on her first full season on the WTA Tour, with deals from Dior, Evian, Tiffany & Co, British Airways and now Vodafone financially supporting her – not that she'll need them if she continues her success on court in 2022.
She netted £2 million for her Grand Slam winning performance at Flushing Meadows alone, if she keeps that up these commercial deals will be nothing but short change for the winner of the 2021 BBC's Sports Personality of the Year.


SINGAPORE (Aug 30, 2018) – Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today announced its Singapore Service Center has expanded jet and turboprop service with additional authorizations from authorities across Asia-Pacific and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These recent authorizations enable the Singapore facility to deliver full service and support to select Citation, King Air and Caravan aircraft registered in Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and the U.S.
In addition to these most recent approvals, the Singapore facility holds authorizations for select aircraft registered in Singapore, Thailand, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and India. With approvals from 11 countries that span across Textron Aviation's product line, the Singapore Service Center boasts factory-direct expertise to support the Citation, King Air and Caravan fleet throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Textron Aviation customers across the region are also supported by Go Teams that dispatch to a customer's aircraft with parts and technicians to deliver expedient resolution in the event of an AOG. Additionally, the service center's parts warehouse and distribution hub expedites parts to customers throughout the region. Parts inventory at the facility has tripled since the beginning of the year, and customers are now able to directly order parts online.
Textron Aviation's Singapore Service Center is part of a robust international support footprint of factory-direct service centers. The service center network equips customers with direct access to a team of expert service representatives delivering timely maintenance, inspections, parts, repairs, avionics upgrades, equipment installations, refurbishments and other specialized services.


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Lysibia nana is a hyperparasitoid wasp that attacks the parasitoid wasp Cotesia glomerata.

L. nana reproduces sexually and only infects hosts in the family Braconidae. Adult females of this species do not feed from their host, but rather rely on sources of nectar in their environment. L. nana females find hosts by detecting chemical signals, such as kairomones (usually intra-specific pheromones of the host) or herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) that are released by plants when they are attacked by herbivores. Females are attracted to plants that have been attacked by caterpillars infected by C. glomerata. Once a suitable host has been found, the L. nana female lays an egg in a C. glomerata larva.

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Florentine Schara (* 1977 in Wuppertal) ist eine deutsche Theater- und Filmschauspielerin.

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Florentine Schara wurde 1997 bis 2000 am Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts zur Schauspielerin ausgebildet. Danach war sie als Schauspielerin überwiegend im Kinder- und Jugendtheater tätig. Sie engagiert sich auch bei den Roten Nasen Deutschland e.V. als Krankenhausclown. Seit 2016 ist sie vermehrt in Film und Fernsehen zu sehen, darunter in Folgen von Tatort und Polizeiruf 110.
Sie lebt in Berlin.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 2016: Schweigeminute
 2017: Tatort: Der scheidende Schupo
 2018: Klassentreffen 1.0
 2018: Extraklasse
 2018: Polizeiruf 110: Für Janina
 2020: Schwartz & Schwartz: Wo der Tod wohnt
 2020: Das Unwort
 2020: Polizeiruf 110: Der Tag wird kommen
 2021: Tatort: Die Kalten und die Toten

Weblinks
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Einzelnachweise

Theaterschauspieler
Filmschauspieler
Clown
Deutscher
Geboren 1977
Frau


The story of the drama is about our society. where a happily married couple celebrates the joy of the birth of their son after many prayers. But the mother leaves her husband and son due to a mortal sickness.


Om detta skriver CNN: Inte allshan var en kommersiell operator. Cylinder och topplock var gjutet i aluminium. However, in recent years, another man, Spyros Melaris, has claimed that he was responsible for the lion share of the work. These magicians are often so credible that audiences are left actually believing that the entertainer has abilities that they do not have and often, do not exist. Bedrijf policy rond social media gebruik Written by Kathleen Published in reputatie management.
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Q: Getting "ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded" when passing query parameter to BigQuery CLI I'm sending a query with query parameter to BigQuery. The simplified query is like:
bq query --nouse_legacy_sql \
--parameter='my_query_param:ARRAY<STRUCT<x INT64, y INT64>>:[STRUCT(90 as x, 1 as y), STRUCT(95 as x, 10 as y)]' \
'SELECT @my_query_param'

But BQ CLI just crashed with error:
== Error trace ==
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/cygdrive/c/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/platform/bq/bq.py", line 1105, in RunSafely
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  File "/cygdrive/c/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/platform/bq/bq.py", line 1982, in RunWithArgs
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  File "/cygdrive/c/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/platform/bq/bq.py", line 5620, in _ParseParameters
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  File "/cygdrive/c/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/platform/bq/bq.py", line 5626, in _ParseParameter
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  File "/cygdrive/c/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/platform/bq/bq.py", line 5639, in _ParseParameterTypeAndValue
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  File "/cygdrive/c/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/platform/bq/bq.py", line 5718, in _ParseParameterValue
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  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
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  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
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  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

What should I do to pass query parameter with BQ CLI?

A: You can get the query work by using:
bq query --nouse_legacy_sql \
--parameter='my_query_param:ARRAY<STRUCT<x INT64, y INT64>>:[{"x":90,"y": 1}, {"x":95,"y": 10}]' \
'SELECT @my_query_param'

Note that query parameter value is passed in as JSON format: [{"x":90,"y": 1}, {"x":95,"y": 10}] instead of SQL literal.
Couple of examples are also available in public documentation.


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James Hoyce "Horsefly" Coffey
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Mr. James Hoyce "Horsefly" Coffey, age 84, of Lexington and formerly of Somerset passed from this life on Friday, February 23, 2017 at St. Joseph Hospital following a brief illness. He was born on July 27, 1932 in Wayne County, Kentucky to the late Mrs. Mabel Coffey Gilmore and Mr. Jamie Brown.
James was a retired Assistant Director of Environmental Services with the A. B. Chandler Medical Center of Lexington, and past President of the Dunbar Alumni Association of Somerset. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the U. S. Army. He was an avid fisherman and sports fan. He enjoyed reading and watching old westerns. James was a magnanimous individual who seemed to never meet a stranger. He was a member of the old Church of God of America of Somerset.
He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years; Doris Ingram Coffey, two daughters; Estel (John) Bailey of Detroit, Michigan and Michel Coffey of Lexington. One son; James T. Coffey of Somerset, five grandchildren; India, Fernando, Jordy, Malik and Braydon. Four great-grandchildren; Fernando, Jalen, Kalijah and Iniyah. Sister; Estel "Essie" Coffey Slaughter of Lexington. Brother; Morse Coffey of Durham, North Carolina, Special niece; Carlnetta "Connie" Brown; special cousin-in-law Sheila K. Hugges of Somerset. Several other nieces, nephews and cousins.
Besides his parents her was preceded in death by his son; Bradley Thomas Coffey; Step-father; George Gilmore, brothers; William Coffey, Woodrow Coffey and sisters; Lucy Coffey and Litha Coffey and granddaughter; Karma Thomas
Visitation will be 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon on Friday, March 3, 2017 in the Chapel of Southern Oaks Funeral Home
Funeral will be at 12:00 Noon on Friday, March 3, 2017 in the Chapel of Southern Oaks Funeral Home with Pastor Wm. Hale and Bishop Eric Barnes, officiating.
Interment will be at the Mill Springs National Cemetery with military Honors by American Legion Post #38 Honor Guards.
In Lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Southern Oaks Funeral Home of Somerset is entrusted with the funeral
Jana and Jonita Davis	on March 1, 2017 at 12:15 am
Our deepest condolences to the Coffey family.


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Welcome New Board Member, Chris Pucillo
Christopher Pucillo founded Solus Alternative Asset Management in July of 2007 and currently serves as its Managing Partner & CEO/CIO. Solus emerged out of Stanfield Capital Partners when Chris spun out the hedge fund business, which he had been managing since January 2002. Chris first joined Stanfield in 2000 as the Head of Trading. Prior to joining Stanfield, Chris was the Head of High Yield Loan Trading at Morgan Stanley from 1996 until 2000 and was instrumental in launching their leveraged loan effort. Chris' credit trading experience began during his seven year tenure at Bankers Trust. From 1989 to 1992, Chris worked on various phases of underwriting leveraged loans, including structuring and negotiating leveraged buyouts. In 1992, in an overall effort to create additional liquidity in the leveraged loan market, he moved to the loan trading desk, where he ran Leveraged Loan Trading, and was one of the four founding members of the LSTA (Loan Syndications and Trading Association), which was created to expand the liquidity of the leveraged loan market. Chris received a BA in Economics from Lafayette College in 1989, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
Chris and his wife Laura starting visiting Telluride in 1998 and purchased their home in 2007. Along with their 3 girls – Julia (22), Alexandra (21) and Sabrina (17) they have spent every Christmas holiday in Telluride since 2006 and nearly every July 4th since 2007. The Pucillo family is a member of the Telluride Ski and Golf Club and in addition to supporting the Telluride Foundation, have been annual supporters of MountainFilm and the Telluride Medical Center.
Chris has served on the board of the Oak Knoll School in Summit, NJ (where his three daughters attended) since 2013. In addition to the board, Chris serves as the Chairman on the Investment Committee and is on the Finance Committee.
Chris has also held several corporate board positions, including most recently MGM Studios and is currently serving on the board of NextWave Telecom.
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What Obama State of the Union show would be complete (complete disaster that is) without a diatribe on Climate Change and further ruination of the coal and oil industries with his call to "accelerate the transition away from dirty energy." However climate weenies lamented that, "there was no laundry list of bold programs and budding proposals this time." That is a shame.
"It's time to not only reform our fossil fuel leasing program, we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground," said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, in a statement. Translation: the federal government must confiscate more and more land and place it off limits to any kind of exploration. Great idea! That will solve our energy needs moving forward.
I've heard from many sources, even conservatives, who say the price of gas is no longer in our control. Maybe it never was. Blaming the president is good politics, but that's all it is.
It is said, there is nothing Obama can say or do to effect the price of gas at the pump. This is a global problem. There are many more competing factions for a finite amount of oil. China, India, etc. They need oil like they have never needed it in the past. We have to compete with them. That drives up the price. Makes sense, I guess.
Then there are all the problems occuring in the Middle East. That whole region could collapse at any moment. That too, is driving up the price. Again, sounds logical.
It is also said by many that we can't simply drill our way to lower gas prices.
So, I guess we're just stuck. Or are we?
Before looking for a solution, let's first take a peek behind the government's regualtory curtain.
In 1972 Congress passed the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act , which provided for the establishment of National Marine Sanctuaries. Oil and gas drilling are prohibited in these areas.
In 1982, the U.S. Congress directed that no federal funds be used to lease federal tracts off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, or central and northern California. Over the years, buried in appropriations bills, Congress was able to add other areas until the prohibited area included all the east and west coasts, and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Congress repeated the effective ban on offshore drilling in these areas every year until September 2008, when an appropriations bill passed the House and Senate without the ban. We'll cover 2008 in a bit. It's an interesting year.
In 1990, President George H. W. Bush issued an executive moratorium restricting federal offshore leasing to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Alaska. The moratorium banned federal leasing through the year 2000 off the East Coast, West Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico (offshore Florida Gulf Coast), and the Northern Aleutian Basin of Alaska. In 1998, President Bill Clinton extended the moratorium through 2012.
The bottom line is, thanks to our government, drilling for our own energy is prohibited virtually everywhere. Now there's an energy policy we can all be proud of.
Ok, so we've established that America's domestic energy policy is suicidal. What was so exeptional about 2008?
In the summer of 2008, President George W. Bush announced that he would veto any appropriations bill that maintained the Congressional moratorium. Without the votes to override his veto, Congress subsequently let the drilling moratorium expire.
In July 2008, President George W. Bush also rescinded those restrictive executive orders that had prevented oil & gas drilling.
So what. Politicians say many things and nothing changes. Everyone knows they never mean it. Spoken or written, these are just words. What effect could these policy changes have had?
Just prior to 'W's' July, 2008 proclamation and action, a gallon of regular gasoline, on average, was a staggering $4.11. By August it was $3.69. A drop of over $0.40 in a month.
Not impressed? How about this. By the end of December, 2008, a gallon of regular plummeted to $1.61. and a barrel of oil went from a high of $147.00 to $30.28.
Am I saying that this precipitous drop was due solely to Bush's actions. No, but I guarantee it played a big part. Why? Because the rest of the world knew someone in this country finally meant it. They knew Bush was serious about domestic drilling.
It's human nature. When the worlds oil producing nations concluded we were actually serious, I mean really serious about exploiting our own resources, the price of a barrel of oil would naturally plunge. They simply couldn't afford for us to produce most of our own energy. Foreign oil would drop just to price out domestic production.
The evil speculators, you know, the ones that always get blamed for jacking up the price of oil. Those same speculators would drive the price down so fast it would make your head spin.
Now, I am not an oil or energy expert. I am neither a foreign policy expert, nor an energy speculator. I don't have to be.
This is not about oil or gas or market speculation. As I said, this is about human nature, which is quite predictable. It happens everywhere & in every industry. With competition comes lower prices. It's really that simple.
So, why didn't the prices stay low, you ask? Well, we had an election and Barack Obama won. He reinstated all the moratoriums and here we are again, at the mercy of foreign suppliers and subject to Middle East upheaval.


Have you been struggling to get successful results from your A/B tests? Do the experiments you run always end up being inconclusive?
Below are five reasons why this might be the case, and some pointers to what you can do to prevent it from happening in the future.
Turn your A/B tests from damp squibs into stellar performers by following these proven techniques.
As I???ve mentioned previously in a separate blog post, at Slipstream we won???t allow an A/B test to be pushed live unless it has a solid hypothesis. There???s a good reason for this. The single biggest cause ??? by far ??? of failed experiments is the lack of a hypothesis.
A hypothesis provides a focus to everyone involved on what the expected result is. It also holds the A/B test to account, and forces you to do proper research, giving the test the best chance of providing meaningful and valuable results.
Your hypothesis should always be based on a strategic business objective.
This follows on from the above point ??? your decision of which A/B test to run should be based not on a general gut feeling, but on rigorous data analysis.
To get meaningful results from your optimisation efforts you need to be able to be confident that the tests you run are ones most likely to make the biggest impact. If you are just choosing test candidates on gut feel alone, then you might strike lucky now and again. However it's highly unlikely you're going to have ongoing success.
By basing your test decisions on qualitative and quantitative insights, you're far more likely to test the right things, and prioritise them correctly.
It???s also far more likely that you're going to have a strategic approach that follows a proper test roadmap.
Don't be afraid to be bold. In CRO there is always the risk of making what???s known as ???meek tweaks???. These are small changes to your site which invariably end up with inconclusive results.
A commonly run experiment is split testing the colour of call to action buttons (e.g. red vs. green). Try to avoid these types of A/B test as much as you can, as they are generally unlikely to make much of a difference.
Put yourself in the customer's shoes, and think about whether the variations you're looking to test would make any difference to you. Would you even notice the difference?
Don't waste time and traffic on tests that will almost certainly prove inconclusive.
Most testing tools these days have built-in confidence score calculators. Some of the better ones also have test duration calculators. Use them!
Don't be tempted to run tests for just a week. As a rule of thumb, run them for an entire sales cycle. 3 weeks is generally about right, although it will depend on the amount of traffic you get. Also, you don't want to impinge on the volume of other tests you can run.??
The best advice would be to use a test duration calculator (just Google it!) and operate on a case by case basis.
The majority of testing tools segment test results by a number of different dimensions, including geo-location, new & returning visitors, and device type.
If you have integrated your tool with an analytics program like Google Analytics, you can usually go deeper still with custom segments.??
Digging into segments and audiences gives you far deeper insight into your results. It can turn what appear on the surface to be losing test variants overall into winners within specific segments.??
We've seen examples where a variation gives minimal/no uplift with a low statistical significance on desktop, but on mobile devices sees a significant CVR uplift with 99%+ statistical significance.
Ignoring these segments denies you access to a wealth of invaluable information. This data can act as the cornerstone of your personalisation strategy too.


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American TV drama Days of our lives are broadcast on NBC. It is one of the longest-running prearranged TV programs, circulating essentially every workday since November 8, 1965.
The personality of Alice Horton (Frances Reid). The authority of the series' Horton family, stayed with the show from its origin to the demise of her entertainer. Even though her last proper appearance happened in December 2007.
Days of our lives Weekly Preview – 1/16/23
Good Bye and See You Again.
Don't Forget to Like The Post.
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