So if sumo wrestlers, schoolteachers, and day-care parents all cheat, are we to assume that mankind is innately and universally corrupt? And if so, how corrupt?
The answer may lie in…bagels. Consider the true story of a man named Paul Feldman.
The bagels had begun as a casual gesture: a boss treating his employees whenever they won a research contract. Then he made it a habit. Every Friday, he would bring in some bagels, a serrated knife, and cream cheese. When employees from neighboring floors heard about the bagels, they wanted some too. Eventually he was bringing in fifteen dozen bagels a week. In order to recoup his costs, he set out a cash basket and a sign with the suggested price. His collection rate was about 95 percent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight, not fraud.
In 1984, when his research institute fell under new management, Feldman took a look at his career and grimaced. He decided to quit his job and sell bagels. His economist friends thought he had lost his mind, but his wife supported him. The last of their three children was finishing college, and they had retired their mortgage.
Driving around the office parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple pitch: early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to a company's snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the leftovers. It was an honor-system commerce scheme, and it worked. Within a few years, Feldman was delivering 8,400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as much as he had ever made as a research analyst. He had thrown off the shackles of cubicle life and made himself happy.
He had also — quite without meaning to — designed a beautiful economic experiment. From the beginning, Feldman kept rigorous data on his business. So by measuring the money collected against the bagels taken, he found it possible to tell, down to the penny, just how honest his customers were. Did they steal from him? If so, what were the characteristics of a company that stole versus a company that did not? Under what circumstances did people tend to steal more, or less?
As it happens, Feldman's accidental study provides a window onto a form of cheating that has long stymied academics: white-collar crime. (Yes, shorting the bagel man is white-collar crime, writ however small.) It might seem ludicrous to address as large and intractable a problem as white-collar crime through the life of a bagel man. But often a small and simple question can help chisel away at the biggest problems.


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Séminaire : Terahertz sources based on quantum cascade heterostructures – Juraj Darmo
26 April 2017 /in News /by Michèle Miens
In the framework of MNO department, IEMN is pleased to announce the seminar of Dr. Juraj Darmo
Date : thursday 4 mai at 15h00
Location : Salle du Conseil – IEMN-LCI
Pr. Juraj Darmo : Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology Gusshausstr. 27-29, 1040 Vienna (Austria)
The state-of-the-art of terahertz (THz) sources based on quantum cascade heterostructures will be reviewed from the viewpoint of short pulse generation. There are two principal applications of the concept of quantum cascade – for the emission and for the detection of terahertz waves. On the emitter's side, THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are increasingly exploited for sensing and imaging applications. Today QCLs span a frequency range from 1.8THz to 5 THz with record peak output powers of 1 W and CW single-mode average powers in the 100s mW range. Recently, a concept of heterogeneous QCL active region has been successfully implemented leading to broadband emission over one octave and even to frequency comb operation with a 600 GHz bandwidth. Such active medium can be used for the generation of short (bandwidth limited) pulses.
In this work we have exploited broadband QCLs active regions to demonstrate an alternative route to boost the performance of time-domain spectroscopy (TDS), the main spectroscopic technique used in the THz frequency range. The available broad THz QCL gain is used to amplify a weak broadband THz spectrum generated through optical-to-THz low-efficiency conversion. In the 2.0-3.0 THz window this approach leads to an increase of SNR by two orders of magnitude compared to a standard TDS system. Moreover we demonstrate the generation of amplified pulses as short as 2.5 ps and analyse hurdles preventing us from exploiting all the gain bandwidth available from the broadband THz QCL gain medium. The presentation will end with an outlook on the future developments of the presented technology.
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HomeLocal PoliticsBreaking The DeKalb Way: The Playing Field
Breaking The DeKalb Way: The Playing Field
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Find part one of the series here.
The streams feeding the lakes of the Mainstreet Community subdivision have a silting problem. "We've been trying to get DeKalb County out here to fix this for five years," said Nadine Rivers-Johnson, the community manager for the middle-income family subdivision off of South Hairston. "When we try to talk to people at Watershed, it's always someone else's problem."
Rivers-Johnson carefully avoids taking a position on the District 4 election itself. The community management has to be neutral, she said. Also, she serves as Sharon Barnes-Sutton's appointee on boards. Still, "I am happy that there is some competition," she said. "It's important to me. … We expect responses from our elected officials. Responsiveness, responsiveness, responsiveness."
I can guess at what she means. Sharon Barnes-Sutton has grown notorious over the years for how rarely she returns calls or emails.
"When I meet and talk to other people, they say that they can't get anyone from Sharon Barnes-Sutton's office to call them back," said Alesia Brooks, a consultant in Stone Mountain who gravitated to Bradshaw's campaign after voting for Barnes-Sutton twice. "I've known her for years. She was a member of an investment club I started 10 years ago. Sharon, in my opinion, has not served this community well at all. She doesn't have a relationship with the constituents in her district."
The fourth district covers the middle fifth of the county, a four-mile wide patch starting in North Decatur and Avondale, then east to the border through Clarkston, Scottdale, the Memorial Drive corridor, Pine Lake and Stone Mountain. The Memorial Drive and Hairston Road areas have performed a slow-motion fall off a cliff economically. Poverty hovers between 20 and 40 percent. The crime rate in the arc between Ponce de Leon Avenue and Memorial Drive outpaces the rest of South DeKalb.
"We've been neglected," said Jan Dunaway, a former president of Pride Rings In Stone Mountain, a civic group for the Memorial Drive corridor. "We need a responsive person. Memorial Drive should be a main focus, and it's just neglected."
Dunaway served on the PRISM board with Bradshaw a few years back, she said. "He's been around for a long time. He's watched a lot of change. We've all seen the change that this area has suffered."
The economic situations in the southern commission districts are starkly different from those of the north. The real estate recovery largely passed by south DeKalb. A three-bedroom house on a quarter acre north of Ponce might sell for $200,000 or more. South of Memorial Drive, the same house would only sell in a foreclosure at a third of that, even today. While the perimeter around Dunwoody boasts construction cranes and shopping traffic tangles, south DeKalb is largely a ghost town of half-empty strip malls, nail salons and fly-by-night tax shops.
There's weak social connection between both halves of the county, since there's little economic reason for anyone living near Brookhaven to travel to Lithonia and bad transportation options for anyone in Ellenwood trying to get to Dunwoody.
Like many wonky spirits, Bradshaw's been living in a state of Menkenian dissatisfaction for years.
Bradshaw's focus is on corruption, business development and sound government management. DeKalb has infrastructure and access to industry that much of Georgia would cut off limbs to get. "There's nothing wrong with DeKalb County that cannot be fixed by what is right with DeKalb County," he told supporters at his first fundraiser last year.
But he acknowledges that renewal has to start with changes to DeKalb's institutional culture, "not a task for the faint of heart," he said. "Cultural change is a challenging process which requires leadership from the top and the courage to see it through. Absent that, institutional resistance to any change process often carries the day."
He wants to put together a sales team to directly recruit companies to DeKalb, matching fallow property to business needs. But that won't work while the county still looks like a pay-to-play environment, he said.
"We first have to clean the county up. Make the county an easy place to do business. Permitting, procurement, all those things have to be tightened up," he told a forum last week. "The second big attractor to business is safety. Who wants to put a business somewhere where their business, their property, their employees aren't going to be safe. We have a burgeoning crisis in our public safety departments in turnover and retention."
I would normally list all of the policy pronouncements and goals Barnes-Sutton has articulated for her third term as well, in deference to fairness. But she hasn't returned my phone call.
Bradshaw took a shot at Barnes-Sutton in 2012. Barnes-Sutton raised more than five times as much money and used it to carpet bomb the district in direct mail. In a three-way primary, Barnes-Sutton won 73 percent of the vote to Bradshaw's 22. And, frankly, that scares the hell of out some people.
Tomorrow: DeKalb County, in black and white.
George Chidi
Former staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other publications. Former Pine Lake city councilman, Former corporate spy. Occasional contributor to The Guardian.
Davo65
Good stuff, George. Have to say that I had to look up "Menkenian"; twice. Still don't know what it means.
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are."
— H.L. Menken.
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Some days I think Menken was a hopeless romantic. I guess I shouldn't have read Jon's stories on the 9th District debate before I read this.
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Trey A.
Looking forward to part three.
… (a four part endorsement? Should I be writing Bradshaw in for POTUS?) …
TheManUndertheBridge
Harryistic dissatisfaction is greater than Menkenian angst.
Winner.
Saltycracker
H.L. Mencken said democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses and his racist remarks are not worth quoting.
He was indeed a vicious racist, and no one should make excuses for it. Reading Mencken is like trying to read Thomas Jefferson in full knowledge of Sally Hemmings, or reading Charles Bukowski while parsing his drunken life. Some men's wheat is worth the chaff.
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Planet Computer recently updated its Linux Flashing guide page and provided all the files to flash Jolla's Sailfish and Debian/GNU Linux. I downloaded all the necessary files and unzipped them into a single directory, generated my scatter file to have all four boot options i.e. Boot 1: Android as the default booting option when no buttons are pressed; Recovery Mode when the Esc (On) button is pressed during reboot; Boot 2: Sailfish when the silver (side) button is pressed during boot; and Boot 3: Debian, when the Esc(On) and side button are pressed simultaneously during reboot.
All appeared to go well, without any failures or error messages.
When this was over I had to restore 122 Android programs, which ate up about three hours! And then I tried the various options. I had no problem booting 'normally' to Android; also to the recovery option. And the Boot 2 sequence got me successfully to Sailfish.
Once in Sailfish I went through a short tutorial and then registered with Jolla, spent a few minutes trying different things, and downloaded a screen capture program from the Jolla Store since the Gemini shortcut (Fn + R) isn't available.
Using Sailfish I had a couple of immediate issues: First, when I started Sailfish the orientation was 'off' and even after enabling screen rotation in the settings each time I have booted into Sailfish it seems like it has taken several minutes before screen rotation starts to work. Secondly, I could not get the phone to work. Attempting to check voice mail (Sailfish, correctly, showed one voice message) I got the error message "No network connection" although all settings seemed to be appropriate. So, getting the phone working under Sailfish needs to be resolved/worked out. I will need to 'learn' Sailfish and see if it is to my liking! Supposedly, many Android apps are supposed to work under Sailfish, so having the two separate booted OSs many not be optimal. Also, I have seen write-ups such as this one - Goodbye Sailfish OS and Jolla. However, time shall tell!
The next issue I discovered was when I attempted the Boot 3 option to get to Debian/GNU Linux, I had no luck! When I try the boot 3 scenario (i.e. "starting from a switched OFF Gemini, press the Esc (On) key to start the unit until the Gemini vibrates. Once you feel the vibration both Esc (On) key and silver right-end side button are pressed at the same time") I see the planet/tux screen, then it goes dark, then the phone vibrates, then I get the planet/tux screen, then the screen goes dark, then the phone vibrates, then... and I appear to be stuck in an endless loop! So, no Debian yet, will have to try and work this out later.
I am also waiting for my external camera add-on. Back, before I had a camera on my PDAs or phones, I never particularly felt a need to have one but it's quite amazing how quickly one gets used to having one handy when they now comes standard on practically every phone. So, the lack of an external camera is annoying. I will have to see, truthfully I am very underwhelmed by the sample Gemini camera pictures out there!


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Meet Mumbai's Iconic Veggie Burger
By Rathina Sankari
Published November 4, 2016 at 11:45 AM MDT
Sometimes called India's veggie burger, vada pav is indeed just as iconic in Mumbai, the city of its origin, as the burger is in America. But this deep fried, spicy potato patty sandwiched in a small, square roll was invented more than 50 years ago, long before the first burger showed up on the subcontinent.
Traditionally cooked and sold by Mumbai's street vendors, vada pav is loved by people across society and is a symbol of local culinary creativity – combining local flavors with foods (potato and bread) introduced to the subcontinent by Europeans.
But in a country with a growing middle class, with its newly acquired love of foreign foods and greater disposable income, even this iconic dish is being forced to evolve.
Walk through the streets of Mumbai and you can see vendors dunking spicy mashed potato balls into chickpea batter before dropping them into a pan with hot oil. Then, they cut open the pav – the roll – and smear the inside with three different types of chutney: green chutney, made with cilantro and green chilies ,sweet and tangy tamarind chutney and a dry lasoon chutney, made with garlic and spices. Then, they stuff the hot, golden vadas in the rolls and serve them with fried green chilies.
/ Rathina Sankari for NPR
A street vendor frying potato vadas for vada pav in Mumbai's busy Dadar neighborhood.
Touted as a poor man's staple, a vada pav is a quick, grab-and-go meal that can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. No plates — or cutlery — needed.
One can even buy a vada pav on train journeys. In fact, my earliest memories of the snack are of eating it on trains. Having grown up in the neighboring city of Pune, my family would often take the three-hour train journey to Mumbai. As our train approached the city, vendors would climb aboard at several stations and walk through the car calling, " Vada pav! Garama Garam (hot-hot) vada pav!" My parents waited with the exact change to buy the dish served in old newspaper wrappings. For families larger than mine, the orders could range up to a dozen.
This quintessentially Indian dish owes its origins to India's colonial past. Europeans introduced potato to India, says Mohsina Mukadam, a food historian at Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai. And the Portuguese, who once ruled many places on the Indian west coast, introduced their bread, pão, which later came to be called pavby Indians .
"The first restaurant to serve the batata(potato) vada is Mama Kane's," Mukadam says. That was back in 1928, when the restaurant – one of Mumbai's oldest – had a different name.
But it was only in the 1960s when the humble vada pav was born. At the time, there was a regional political movement to promote the cuisine of the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital. Back then, South Indian restaurants ruled the roost in the city. So, Balasaheb Thackeray, the leader of the Hindu supremacist group Shiv Sena, encouraged local people to open eateries selling their state's delicacies, says Mohsina.
In 1966, a street vendor named Ashok Vaidya, who sold snacks from his handcart outside a busy local railway station, introduced Mumbai to the humble vadapav. His son, Narendra Vaidya, a young man in his 30s, has continued his father's business – he sells vada pav and other snacks just outside the railway station in Mumbai's busy Dadar neighborhood. The family's role in the history of this iconic dish was the subject of a recent short documentary.
"The crowd from these areas and the daily train commuters were the initial patrons," says Vikram Doctor, a food writer based in Mumbai. And soon, it became a popular snack, he says.
Vada pav has been a symbol of local ingenuity and pride. As recently as in 2008, the Shiv Sena party conducted the best vada pav contest, says Mohsina, one of the contest's judges.
In 1982, right after a big strike by workers in Mumbai's textile mills, the unemployed workers opened their own vada pav stalls for a source of livelihood, increasing the number of people selling the snack. The humble dish of the masses has also made its way into restaurants and canteens at colleges and offices.
But the recent boom in India's economy has sent the vada pav on a path to modernization. Ever since India opened its doors to multinational fast food companies, like McDonald's and Burger King, vada pavchains like , and have mushroomed across the country. These chains sell modern versions of India's veggie burger to compete with the chicken and paneer burgers sold by the multinationals.
Take for example, Jumboking's Schezwan Vada Pav,which comes with a generous helping of Szechwan sauce, or Goli's Makai Palak Vada Pav,with corn and spinach.
" Vada pavis the single largest-selling snack in Mumbai," says Dheeraj Gupta, the managing director of Jumboking Vadapav. He says his company wanted to turn a largely unorganized industry – run by street vendors and small mom-and-pop food stands – into an organized one.
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Young Indian women eat the popular food snack vada pav at a Jumboking outlet in Mumbai.
Today, Jumboking has 82 outlets and plans to reach the 200 mark in the coming two or three years, says Gupta. Goli Vada Pav, on the other hand, has 350 stores across 90 cities and 21 states in India, according to the company's website. It has been so successful, that it was recently studied by the Harvard Business School as an example of a rapidly growing Indian fast-food company.
The companies outsource the making of their vadas and chutneys. For example, Jumboking produces potato patties from the kitchens of Tasty Bite Eatables, a company that also sells ready-to-eat, packaged foods.
Mohsina says these chains have also tapped into the growing foodie culture in the country. "Chinese, Italian, Thai and many more cuisines have found a place in India's gastronomic scene," she says. "People are adventurous and ready to try new fares. Hence, there is the need for fusion which these vada pav chains are adapting to."
Still, not everyone's rushing to these chains for a taste of their favorite Mumbai snack. " Vada pav is a hard-core, economical street food and is best enjoyed from the local hawkers," says Doctor. So, street vendors and mom-and-pop shops selling the snack are here to stay, he says.
I for one, remain a devoted patron of these small vada pavsellers. Their freshly made vadasare far tastier than the outsourced, frozen and fried ones of chain restaurants.
On a recent work trip to Mumbai, I walk with a friend to Aram Vada Pav, a small shop across from Mumbai's main railway station. I get two orders of vada pav– one to carry back home with me, the other, to eat right away. As I walk back to the railways station to go home, I take a bite of the hot snack and am transported back to my childhood, to the days of train travel with my family, eagerly anticipating my next bite of vada pav.
Rathina Sankari is a freelance writer based in Pune, India.
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My own freelance web design company.
The client wanted a fully custom auction site for a specific niche market of new and used lab equipment. This was a new startup so I also designed their logo across all 3 sites.
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I've had a few freelance jobs with this company over the course of a year or so, helping design and develop websites for clients they take on as well as interacting with the client to ensure their needs were met.


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Q: How to limit hues to two values when using stacked geom_bar I've been using RStudio for about 2 weeks, so I might not explain myself well. I'm plotting the x-axis (hosp_visits_2years) against a ratio of insured v uninsured. The values for the insurance are binary (1 and 0), but for some reason the data set I'm using includes a value of -9 as well in that category. I've tried limiting the fill to "0" and "1" with 2 possible hues, but I get Error: Insufficient values in manual scale. 3 needed but only 2 provided.
I tried increasing the number of hues to 3, but it includes all three values (0,1,-9)
ggplot(oakland_analysis_final,
       aes(x = hosp_visits_2years, fill = factor(uninsured))) +
  geom_bar(aes(y = (..count..) / sum(..count..)), position = "fill") +
  scale_fill_manual(breaks = c("0", "1"), values = scales::hue_pal()(2)) +
  xlim(0, 50)

A: Assuming the factor oakland_analysis_final$uninsured is numeric, the simple solution is probably to exclude any observations where this is equal to -9.  There's a few ways to do that, like by using pipe command %>% from dplyr and filter().  My preference here is to filter within the data= call to ggplot(), so try changing your ggplot() call to the following:
ggplot(oakland_analysis_final[which(oakland_analysis_final$uninsured!=-9),],
       aes(x = hosp_visits_2years, fill = factor(uninsured)))

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I am using ableton with arturia keylab essential 49, normaly when we push the pads, the clip is set to play, but how to configure when i am pushing the same pad for the seconde time it stop playnig the clip. it is possible whitout midi learning as user confirguration in the map select ??


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Каррін Еллісон (, при народженні ; 27 липня 1963, Грейт-Бенд, Канзас) — американська джазова вокалістка. Була номінована 5 разів на Grammy Awards, та отримала позитивні відгуки від кілька видатних джерел, включаючи New York Times, який назвав її «співачка з котячим дотиком та бездоганною інтонацією».

Початок життя та освіта
Каррін Еллісон народилася у Great Bend, Канзас; її батько був лютеранським священиком, а мати психотерапевтом, вчителем та класичним піаністом. Вона зростала у Омаха, та провела роки старшої середньої школи у Сан-Франциско. У молодості вона вивчала класичне фортепіано, співала в місцевій церкві та в музичному театрі, а також почала писати пісні.

Еллісон відвідувала University of Nebraska у Омаха за класом класичного фортепіано; спеціалізацією було класичне фортепіано та додатково французька. Окрім її класичного навчання в університеті, Еллісон була солістом у своєму жіночому рок-гурті Tomboy. У неї також був розвинений жадібний інтерес до джазу, виконуючи, як в джаз свінг хорі University of Nebraska, так і в її власному джазовому ансамблі, який давав концерти на різних майданчиках Омахи.

Музична кар'єра
Після випуску з University of Nebraska у 1986 році, Еллісон переїхала до Міннеаполіс, і сконцентрувалася на джазовій кар'єрі. У 1990 році вона переїхала до Канзас-Сіті (Міссурі), де її джазова кар'єра злетіла. У 1992 році вона записує дебютний альбом I Didn't Know About You, який був так добре прийнятий, що був перевиданий на Concord Records у 1993 році. Згодом вона записала ще вісім альбомів, виданих Concord Records у Канзас-Сіті. У 1998 році вона переїхала до Нью-Йорку з її давнім партнером, ведучим на радіо класичної музики Bill McGlaughlin, з котрим вона зустрілася у Канзас-Сіті (Міссурі) на початку 90х років.

Еллісон співає англійською, французькою, португальською, італійською та іспанською. Вона виконує пісні у різних жанрах, в тому числі bossa nova, blues, bebop, samba, jazz standards, та інших джазових варіаціях, а також ballads, pop standards, Great American Songbook, soft rock, та folk rock. Вона також записала вокальні виступи різних джазових композицій, використовуючи техніки scat та vocalese. Вона записала 12 оригінальних студійних альбомів на лейблі Concord Jazz, а в 2009 році вона випустила альбом, який охоплює «best of» її кар'єри.

Чотири з альбомів Еллісон  — Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (2001), Footprints (2006), Imagina: Songs of Brasil (2008), та Round Midnight (2011) — отримали номінації Grammy як Best Jazz Vocal Album. Еллісон багато гастролює, як в Сполучених Штатах, так і на міжнародному рівні.

 Дискографія
 1992 I Didn't Know About You 1993 Sweet Home Cookin
 1994 Azure-Té
 1996 Collage
 1996 Daydream
 1999 From Paris To Rio
 2001 Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane
 2002 In Blue
 2004 Wild For You
 2006 Footprints
 2008 Imagina: Songs of Brasil
 2009 By Request: The Best of Karrin Allyson (compilation)
 2011 Round Midnight
 2013 Yuletide Hideaway (A Christmas Album)

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Посилання
Офіційні
 Official Website
 Karrin Allyson at American International Artists
 Pops Concerts with Karin Allyson  at BillMcGlaughlin.com
Біографічні
 [ Karrin Allyson] at AllMusic.com
 Karrin Allyson Biography  at MusicianGuide.com
 Biography and Profile in UNO Alumni Association Magazine (Spring 2001), pp. 8–11
 Short Bio in UNO Alumni Association Magazine (March 2003), p. 6
Музичні
 Amazon's Karrin Allyson Store
 Karrin Allyson  at Last.FM
 Karrin Allyson at NPR Music
 Karrin Allyson at Google Music

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Джазові піаністи США

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There have been 325 offensive touchdowns scored through Week 3 of the 2018 season. 235 of those scores (72%) have come on red zone snaps.
Teams have scored touchdowns on 20.1% of the red zone snaps they have run, compared to only 1.3% of snaps outside the red zone. It's hard to overstate the importance of these snaps, from both a real world and fantasy football standpoint.
With these situations being both high-value and tough to nail down, correctly identifying what's going on in the red zone can be a massive edge in fantasy football. So, let's get right into it and look at five things worth noting as we head into Week 5.


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Lepra (Leprosy Relief Association) is a UK-based international charity established in 1924, working to diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate people with leprosy. Lepra currently works in India, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

Lepra is a member of the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP), a federation of international non-governmental organisations committed to creating a world free of leprosy and of The UK Coalition against Neglected Tropical Diseases, a collaborative partnership between UK organisations actively engaged in the implementation and research of neglected tropical disease control. Other partners of Lepra include LEPRA India, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the World Health Organization, and the BIG Lottery Fund, as well as a range of corporate partners.

Lepra's vision is to be a leader in reducing the incidence and impact of leprosy and other neglected diseases, and enabling children, women and men affected by leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (LF), to transform their lives and overcome the prejudice which surrounds these two diseases.

Lepra has said they strive to be people-centred, transparent and accountable, innovative and demonstrating bold leadership, effective and efficient, and collaborative.

History
In 1923 Major General Sir Leonard Rogers, ex-Indian Medical Service, agreed to join Rev. Frank Oldrieve in forming a new association. Sir Leonard Rogers had been working on a treatment for leprosy based on chaulmoogra oil for several years and had recorded good results. On 12 July 1923, the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) was constituted at a meeting at the India Office, presided over by Viscount Chelmsford.

BELRA (1924-1964)
On 31 January 1924, the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association was officially founded by Rogers and Oldrieve, with the financial help of Sir Frank Carter, a Calcutta businessman and philanthropist. BELRA was inaugurated by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) at The Mansion House in London. The association stated its aim as "to rid the Empire of leprosy." It was set up as a medical organisation, spearheading outpatient work instead of the traditional method of (compulsory) segregation. Rogers believed, based on his experience, that it was important to treat leprosy in its earliest stages, and that the segregation system caused people to hide the illness for as long as possible. King Edward VI became the first Patron.

Lepra was founded in 1924 on two principles that, at the time, set the organisation apart. First, it acknowledged that leprosy was surrounded by superstition and myth, leading to prejudice and isolation for those affected by the disease. Lepra sought to move beyond these issues through "evidence-led" policies and practices. Second, Lepra was established as a secular charity, open to all faiths and beliefs, and claiming to favour none above another.

In 1929 Dr Robert Cochrane took over from Oldrieve and became BELRA's Medical and General Secretary.

In 1931 BELRA was recognised as the 'First leprosy prevention organisation' at the International Leprosy Congress in Manila.

In 1935 BELRA launched a Child Adoption Scheme as a method of raising funds for treatment of children who were patients of leprosy hospitals. The child patients were connected with UK sponsors. The royal family would later adopt children through BELRA's Child Adoption Scheme in 1947.

In 1945 BELRA became one of the first organisations to methodically trial Dapsone as a treatment for leprosy and record its impact.

In 1951 Dr Robert Cochrane became Leprosy Adviser to the UK Ministry of Health.

In 1952 The Queen became patron of BELRA.

In 1953 BELRA established the first leprosy research centre in Eastern Africa. The site for the East African Leprosy Research Centre was chosen to be within the grounds of the Itesio Leprosarium in Kenya. In 1959 the name of the centre was changed to Alupe. The Centre is now known as The Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research (CIPDCR) and is one of the 12 centres of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).

At the 1957 Annual General Meeting, following the decolonisation process of the British Empire, the Association changed its name to the British Leprosy Relief Association, retaining the abbreviation BELRA.

In 1961 BELRA helped to develop Clofazimine (B663), which to this day remains a part of the multi drug therapy used for multi bacillary leprosy.

In 1962 A mobile exhibition van started touring the UK, promoting BELRA's work.

LEPRA (1964-2013)
In 1964 the Association changed its name from BELRA to LEPRA.

In 1965 the High Commissioner for Malawi and LEPRA's President, Viscount Boyd, approved an agreement on the Malawi Pilot Leprosy Control project, which subsequently began work.

In 1974 LEPRA moved its headquarters from London to Colchester, where its offices are still based today.

As a result of research, in 1975 LEPRA became one of the first associations to use multidrug therapy for treating leprosy, to increase effectiveness and minimise drug resistance.

In 1976 LEPRA became a full member of the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP).

In 1992 LEPRA funded research into a new surgical technique to restore sense of touch and temperature to damaged feet and hands, in cooperation with the Royal College of Surgeons in London and a leprosy centre in India.

In 1996 LEPRA was chosen to be the partner charity for the BBC Children's Television programme Blue Peter in their 'Bring and Buy Sale' for leprosy. The appeal raised more than £2.8 million.

In 1998 LEPRA extended its work to helping people with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

In 2000 LEPRA joined the World Health Organisation, ILEP, governments of major endemic countries, and other major organisations in the Global Alliance Against Leprosy.

In 2011 A study from the Blue Peter Health Research Centre identified new biomarkers to detect TB early in HIV-positive people.

Lepra (2013-)
In 2013, LEPRA was re-branded as Lepra and in 2014 celebrated its 90th birthday. This was celebrated with a special anniversary edition of its quarterly magazine Lepra News, including a timeline of many of Lepra's achievements over the years.

In 2017 Lepra's Museum was officially opened by Kate Anderson, Gt. Niece of Sir Frank Carter, one of Lepra's founding members.

Leprosy Review
Each quarter, Lepra publishes Leprosy Review, an English-language scientific journal on leprosy. The open-access academic journal includes original papers on all aspects of leprosy, from research into medical, physical and social aspects of leprosy to information relevant to leprosy control.

A forerunner of Leprosy Review, named Leprosy Notes, was first published in 1928. In its first issue, Rev. Frank Oldrieve, as Secretary of the Association, writes that the hope is "that leprosy workers in the British Empire will find these notes of service." He also invites readers to write in with any notes "on the results obtained from the various treatments that are being tried." In total, seven issues of Leprosy Notes are published across two years.

In 1930, the first issue of Leprosy Review is published, a larger and expanded version of Leprosy Notes, with Dr Robert Cochrane as its first editor. Its aim was to "meet the need for a quarterly periodical giving interesting and practical details to workers, especially to those who have made no attempt to specialise exclusively in the field of leprosy."

In 2004, Leprosy Review was cited as one of the top five medicine journals by the Institute of Scientific Information.

In 2017 Leprosy Review published an article arguing for a return to an active case finding strategy in endemic countries to reduce the numbers of people affected by leprosy.

The Leprosy Notes of 1928 and 1929 as well as all Leprosy Review issues from 1930 to 2001 are freely available online thanks to the Full Text Leprosy Project, an initiative of the Lauro de Souza Lima Institute of Secretary of Health of São Paulo, in cooperation with the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information and The International Journal of Leprosy. Issues from 2002 onwards are available on Lepra's website.

Current Work
Lepra takes an integrated approach to reducing the incidence and impact of leprosy and lymphatic filariasis. In addition to treating the diseases, Lepra also aims to enable people to improve their livelihoods and overcome disability, discrimination and prejudice.

Locations
As of 2019 Lepra works in India (as LEPRA Society), Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Lepra's international office is based in Colchester, England.

Over the years Lepra has worked in multiple other countries, including Brazil, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zanzibar.

Bangladesh
In 2000, at the request of the government of Bangladesh, Lepra took over responsibility for leprosy control work in the Sirajganj and Pabna districts.

In 2006 Lepra established a system of "health camps" in Bangladesh to test for TB.

Lepra currently works in 11 districts in the north of Bangladesh, including Bogra, Sirajganj, Pabna and Natore.

LEPRA Society
LEPRA Society is a partner of Lepra, serving the needs of people affected by leprosy across India. While its history dates back to 1925, when Lepra started working in India, it was established as an independent Indian NGO in Hyderabad in 1988 to comply with Indian law. Lepra and LEPRA Society remain closely linked through governance and institutional structures and are a single consolidated charitable entity.

Lepra, through LEPRA Society, works in seven Indian states, namely Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi. Lepra's projects in India include comprehensive referral centres where self-supporting groups in rural areas, across health education, bespoke footwear for disability, active case finding, livelihood support, reaction treatment and support, mental health counselling, health education, reconstructive surgery and training.

LEPRA Society of India held its inaugural meeting in Hyderabad on 3 August 1989.

In 1990 LEPRA began its BOLEP project in Sonepur, Odisha, India, which had the highest prevalence of leprosy in the world at the time. The project continues to this day.

The Blue Peter Public Health Centre, located in Hyderabad, was officially inaugurated in December 1999. It is a research centre as well as training and treatment facility for those with leprosy. It offers a unique combination of high-quality research and clinical practice.

In 2000 LEPRA introduced health education vans in India.

Services

Diagnosing and treating leprosy
One of Lepra's core activities is the diagnosis and treatment of leprosy. When a doctor, health worker or health volunteer suspects someone has leprosy, Lepra will test skin sensations to determine whether the person can feel their skin being touched with cotton wool, feather or a ballpoint. Another way to determine leprosy infection is by taking a skin smear from a nodule on the skin. The skin smear is only positive, however, if many leprosy bacilli are present, meaning that the patient is heavily infected.

Leprosy is treated by multi drug therapy (MDT), a combination of Dapsone and Rifampicin for six months in the case of low infection ("paucibillary"). For higher infection levels ("multi-bacillary"), Clofazimine is added to the MDT and the treatment period is lengthened to 12 months.

Early diagnoses and active case finding
Lepra also recognises the importance of early detection of leprosy. Their active case finding method involves a screening of people around an infected person. While previous methods focused specifically on people sharing a household with a person affected by leprosy, Lepra focuses on both household members and 20-25 households around an index-case and conducts systematic screening of communities, schools or other places where endemicity is thought to be high.

Lymphatic filariasis
Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitic disease contracted through the bite of an infected mosquito. It causes swelling of body parts and altering of the immune system.Although there is no cure for LF, Lepra implements a number of strategies to make the disease manageable for those affected. They travel to remote communities to teach self-care techniques to reduce swelling and pain. If feet are already severely deformed, Lepra provides people with custom-made protective footwear.

Health education and health worker training
In many of the places where Lepra works, basic health information is often lacking, both for the general public and for health workers. Lepra tries to remedy this by providing health education and health training.

Lepra uses health education vans to bring health information to people living in remote and rural areas. These vans visit villages to educate people about maintaining good health and informing them about the symptoms of leprosy, LF and other prevalent diseases.

Lepra has also visited schools to provide health education. This education includes teaching children the symptoms of leprosy so they can recognise the disease in themselves and their families. School visits are also an important step in dispelling leprosy myths and the stigma surrounding the disease.

Lepra works with governments to improve health worker training. Lepra also trains traditional doctors to recognise the symptoms of leprosy and other neglected diseases so they can refer patients to government facilities when needed.

To fill in the gaps in the health service, Lepra also works with community health volunteers who are trained to recognise symptoms and work in their own communities to spread health messages, follow up on cases, and refer suspected cases of illness to the correct health facilities.

Advocacy and fighting prejudice
People with leprosy or other diseases such as lymphatic filariasis often face stigma and prejudice from their communities, the government, or even their families. Such stigma often remains long after a person has been cured. Many people who have leprosy or used to have leprosy are forced to live in leprosy colonies across India and Bangladesh, isolated from their families and communities.

Lepra aims to fight prejudice and stigma by providing health education to the general population, as well as health worker training.

Lepra also provides support to people who face leprosy and other diseases in the form of counselling services at the Munger Referral Centre.

Lepra is actively working with national and state networks of people affected by leprosy and disability across India and Bangladesh to fight legal discrimination. This can involve educating clients about rights to land, disability and old age benefits, and basic human rights, and finding opportunities for clients to meet with government representatives and local authorities.

Self-help groups
In 2012 Lepra began self-help groups in India, Bangladesh and Mozambique for those affected by LF and leprosy. These groups advise people on how to best help themselves with health care and income generation.

At each meeting, members of the self-help groups make a small financial contribution to a group fund. This fund is then used to provide members with an interest-free business loan to finance business initiatives such as a local shop, goat rearing, or tailoring. Members of the group are also trained in group management skills, self-care, or advocacy skills.

Community disability care and protective footwear
Lepra teaches people how to care for their disabilities, so they are not left unable to work, and also provides people with protective footwear so they can get around more easily.

Lepra organises self-care camps in local communities where people can learn how to care for their disabilities through cleaning and physiotherapy techniques that they can then do at home. People with disabilities are invited to demonstrate to others how they can prevent infection and reduce the severity of their disabilities.

Lepra also provides basic self-care kits to people free of charge. These kits include a bar of soap, anti-bacterial ointment, cream to prevent fungal infections, and a towel.

Lepra provides people with leprosy and LF with specialist, made-to-fit shoes designed for each individual. Shoes provide comfort, encourage healing of wounds and ulcers, and prevent further injury and disability. They can also restore a person's dignity and challenge stigma within the community. Several shoe technicians are working in clinics and referral centres, while Lepra also has a few shoe vans driving across India providing the service to local communities.

Referral centres
When Lepra first sett up referral centres, people with leprosy were not allowed into hospitals or did not receive proper treatment due to stigma and doctors not specialising in the disease. Now, Lepra's referral centres provide services in areas where health facilities are lacking or unable to manage neglected diseases like leprosy or LF, and the disabilities they can cause. The services offered at these referral centres include testing, treatment, disability care, physiotherapy, ulcer care, reconstructive surgery and counselling to people affected by diseases as well as their families.

Lepra runs their referral centres in partnership with state and national health systems. They are often located in government health centres and hospitals. Ultimately, the aim is to hand them over to governments to ensure their sustainability.

Research and innovation
Lepra is one of the world's leading authorities on leprosy. Over the years, Lepra has conducted pioneering research in the treatment of leprosy and has been at the forefront of developing a cure and trialling a multitude of drug treatments.

Today research still forms an important part of Lepra's work, carrying out both scientific and field research to further knowledge of neglected diseases and the effects they have on poor communities.

Recent research has focused on active case finding, disability aids, diagnostic tools and the mental health needs of those affected by leprosy.

Awards
In 1998 Lepra received a National Lottery Charities Board award. That same year, Lepra achieved "Investors in People" status.

In 2003 Lepra's contributions to the fight against leprosy were recognised at the Third Meeting of the Global Alliance for the Elimination of Leprosy (GAEL) in Yangon, Myanmar.

Ambassadors and Patrons
Throughout Lepra's history, the reigning British monarch has consistently been a Lepra patron. King George VI became the first of the Royal family to sponsor children through their adoption scheme at the time, and Queen Elizabeth II became Patron of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) in 1952 following his death. The Duke of Gloucester, Prince Richard (KG, GCVO), is the current Vice-President of Lepra.

Lepra currently has multiple ambassadors who help to support and promote their work:

Fiona Duby has worked in 29 countries in Africa and Asia in health and development programmes in both the public and the private sector. She was awarded an MBE for services to Bangladesh in 1992 and an OBE for services to Nigeria in 1999. In 2000, she was invited to join Lepra's Board of Trustees. She became an ambassador in 2015.

Victoria Hislop is an author best known for her novel The Island, which features the island of Spinalonga, Greece's former leper colony. Hislop became an ambassador for Lepra in 2013 and has been to India to visit Lepra's projects.

Stuart Miles was one of the Blue Peter presenters at the time when Lepra was selected as the charity for Blue Peter's annual fundraiser in 1996. Miles has since visited projects, helping to raise awareness of leprosy and Lepra's appeals.

In 2018 Stuart Paver became a Lepra ambassador. He is the managing director of Pavers, the shoe company that has helped fund Lepra's Indian shoe vans.

References

External links

Leprosy organizations
Health charities in the United Kingdom
Foreign charities operating in Bangladesh
Charities based in Essex
Foreign charities operating in India
Foreign charities operating in Malawi
1924 establishments in India


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I had the pleasure of driving a friends 99 328i yesterday ( I have a Z3) There were two thngs that seemed wrong with the car and I was wondering if anyone else encountered these. First is the defroster. It's only fan speed is high. If you push the button to lower it, she shuts off. Is this the way it's supposed to work?
The second problem is the engine light, my friend has had it back to the dealer three times so far. The dealer blamed it on an improperly tightened gas cap. Isn't that supposed to reset after 20 or thirty start ups? The damned light just stays on constantly.Your opinions are appreciated.
According to my dealer, the defogger is supposed to work like that. (It's called an 'instant defogger' or something like that.) Haven't gotten mine yet to play with but I think that's it's only setting.
As far as the other problem... The car I test drove (one of the dealer managers' 328's) had the check engine light on. I asked the saleman what it was about. He said it was the fuel filler cap, but didn't give me the reset info. So I guess it's true that an untighten fuel filler cap makes the CE light go on. As far as resetting it, it seems you have more info.

I was told by my dealer when I picked up the car ('99-328i) two weeks ago that if I filled the gas tank with the engine running, the check engine light would come on, stay on, and that I would have to return to the dealership to have the light reset. He was VERY specific in his warning and explained why it happens (made sense at the time). I traded in a '95-E36, filled the gas tank with the engine running (risky--I know, I know already) and never had a problem.
Sounds like another BMW mystery, like the rough idle after washing the car. Always happened after you started your car, backed it out of the garage and washed the car. It was tough to start after done washing and idled miserably, if at all. I solved the problem by letting the car idle for a few minutes before washing and drove it after. Never had the problem again.


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Q: Hooking with MS Detours crash when hook function is called C++ I wrote a simple program that does 3 things:
It calls MessageBoxA (MBA) with the text "NOT HOOKED"
Then it loads a dll file that I've created that hooks the MBA function and recalls MBA with the text "HOOKED".
After that, it calls MBA again with the same text ("NOT HOOKED").
Of course, the second MBA call should be hooked and display a message with "HOOKED" text it.
Eventually it calls FreeLibrary and exits.
Here is the .cpp file:
#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    //Place the path of the dll file here, "DLLs\\HookDLL.dll" is the default path.
    char dllPath[] = "HookDLL.dll";

    //Display a pop-up message with the "NOT HOOKED" message and title.
    MessageBoxA(NULL, "NOT HOOKED", "NOT HOOKED", MB_OK);

    //Load the dll file
    HMODULE hModule = LoadLibraryA((LPCSTR)dllPath);

    //If hModule is null, then the dll wasn't loaded.
    //An error message will be printed out to the console.
    if (!hModule) {
        cout << "Couldn't load the DLL file!" << endl;

        return 1;
    }

    //This is the tricky part.
    //This should display a pop-up message like before with the "NOT HOOKED" message and title,
    //but the dll that was loaded should hook MessageBoxA function,
    //and call a new one with a "HOOKED" message and title instead.
    MessageBoxA(NULL, "NOT HOOKED", "NOT HOOKED", MB_OK);

    FreeLibrary(hModule);

    return 0;
}

here is the .dll file:
#include "pch.h"
#include "detours.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>

using namespace std;

typedef int(WINAPI* MBA)(HWND, LPCSTR, LPCSTR, UINT);

MBA originalMBA = NULL;

int HookedMessageBoxA(
    HWND   hWnd,
    LPCSTR lpText,
    LPCSTR lpCaption,
    UINT   uType
) {
    return originalMBA(NULL, "HOOKED", "HOOKED", MB_OK);
}

BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HMODULE hModule,
    DWORD  reason,
    LPVOID lpReserved
)
{
    if (reason == DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH) {
        DetourRestoreAfterWith();
        DetourTransactionBegin();
        DetourUpdateThread(GetCurrentThread());

        originalMBA = (MBA)DetourFindFunction("user32.dll", "MessageBoxA");//Pointer the the original MBA (MessageBoxA) function.
        DetourAttach(&(PVOID&)originalMBA, (PVOID)HookedMessageBoxA);

        DetourTransactionCommit();
    }

    return TRUE;
}

When I build and run on Debug mode, it crashes on the second MBA call (in the .cpp file of course):
It displays the hooked MBA with "HOOKED" in it like it should, then the it crashes, printing the error below and the program exits with code 3:

Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call.
This is usually a result of calling a function declared with one calling convention with a function
pointer declared with a different calling convention.

I've checked this error and the exit code and found lots of informative posts and solutions, but I couldn't make any of them work for me (maybe I've done something wrong).
NOTE1:
If I'm on Release mode, I can call as many MBA calls as I want as long as they precedes the FreeLibrary call, and all of them will be hooked fine by the .dll file, and the program will exit correctly.
But if I try to call the MBA function after the FreeLibrary call - the program crashes with this error:

Exception thrown at 0x50011000 in ProgrammingTask.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation executing location 0x50011000.

NOTE2:
I tried detaching the dll using DetourDetouch, but it didn't solve it, maybe I did it wrong.
Also, I tried reading about CreateRemoteThread, but was too messy for me.
Thanks in advance.

A: FOUND IT!
Forgot to add __stdcall to the HookedMessageBox function.
So, instead of  int HookedMessageBoxA
I rewrote it to this:
 int __stdcall HookedMessageBoxA
Thanks all for your help! <3


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HCSA Chief Executive Eddie Saville makes the case for fundamental changes to the STP process if policy-makers are serious about success.
Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships have become one of the most controversial and politicised strands of health policy in decades.
They are held up by some as a way to infuse our health and social care system with the best principles of collaboration – the most efficient way to meet the demographic and health challenges of tomorrow. To others they are a seen purely as a vehicle for service cuts and privatisation. Certainly, to many Trust managers, they represent a liberating, bottom-up process.
But speak with hospital doctors on the front line and the perception is quite the opposite.
By this benchmark, STPs have to date been an abject failure. Only a small percentage of hospital doctors have had any involvement in the process, which has led, perhaps naturally, to scepticism among medical professionals that STPs will see any improvement in care. If the process could bring benefits, it is unclear to hospital doctors what these might be.
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Policy-makers ignore these symptoms at their peril.
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Citizens UK has been "having a conversation" about whether registered charity status is the right model for the organisation, its chair said yesterday.
Kaneez Shaid was speaking at NCVO's Trustee Conference, where she was asked whether the traditional governance model is suited to a charity trying to drive forward a movement.
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In response Shaid said: "We have been having a conversation about whether Citizens UK should stay as a charity."
Shaid said that Citizens UK has been "exploring" other options, because the "red tape" that comes with charity status "is burdensome and is troubling us". But she said the charity does not yet "have an answer to that."
Governing a social movement
Shaid's talk was about governing a social movement. She said Citizens UK is "not perfect" as there are "inherent risks and challenges" that come with "diverse movements tackling social injustices".
But she said: "This is a people led movement. We also enable people who do not have a voice who are experiencing poverty and discrimination to become active leaders. All of our campaigns have at the heart of them someone who has the courage to speak out".
She said that charities can still ensure delivery of charitable objectives "if you pass down decision making and powers to your members".
This is achieved at Citizens UK because it governs "the movement by ensuring 1) the right structures are in place, 2) that the rules and boundaries are clear, and 3) that people are trained and practice desirable behaviours".
She said: "If communication flows, trust comes with it". So through a series of one to one's, face-to-face meetings and active participation in local chapters, governance staff are "well aware of the issues" and can "mitigate some of the risks".
An alternative governance model
Speaking earlier in the day, Philip Kirkpatrick, head of charities and social enterprise at Bates Wells, said that "trustees feel overburdened by regulation", and that "in this environment we need new operating models".
He added: "I think the reason trustees sometimes come up short is that they are often asked to perform a task that is too great in a manner that is too burdensome."
He reiterated his proposal for an "assured unitary governance" model. This would recognise, he said, "that the people 'having the general control and management of the administration of the charity' are those who are actually running it - the senior staff, often with 'director' in their job title".
He added: "Alongside those executive trustees, there would be a non-executive chair, normally recruited externally, and another non-executive 'senior independent trustee'. These would be much more closely engaged in the work of the charity than most trustees, taking on the significant responsibilities and time commitment that society now expects. They would be like the chair and non-executive directors of a large commercial company. They could also be paid but of course need not be.
"Essentially, this would be a unitary board but one with more executives than non-executives on it," he said.
In the model, "the thing that would give assurance and maintain the voluntary principle would be an entirely unpaid 'assurance board'. The members of this board would actually be, or be incorporated within, the membership of the charity. They would not be trustees and would not have trustee responsibilities. Unlike charity trustees, they would not be the decision-makers.
"They would, however, have some serious powers that would enable them to give to the public the necessary assurance while stopping short of turning them into trustees."
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Q: Prevent material button animation on click I have made a page with a button in a button like the following :
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    </button>

</button>

The buttons use angular material design.
When I click on the parent button I want to navigate to a certain page and when I click on the child button I want to display some additional content. This is working.
When I click on the parent button the default angular material animation for button is triggered. That's fine with me. My problem is that when I click on the child button this is as if the parent button has also been clicked and so the default angular material animation is triggered for both button. I would like to prevent that. What I want is for the animation to be trigerred only for the child button when I click on it.
Any lead how I can acheive that ? Thanks in advance.

A: A possible solution would be to remove the nesting of your buttons, thus seperating the click-events.

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A: As WorksLikeACharm posted, do not nest the buttons. If your problem is just positioning, wrap them into a div and use absolute position on one of them.
Like this:

div {position:relative;}
button {background-color:transparent; border:0;}
.edit-library-button {
  position:absolute;
  top:40px;
  left:40px;
}
.edit-library-button img {width:30px;}

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West of Scotland Football Club  est un club de rugby écossais situé à Milngavie dans la banlieue de Glasgow, qui évolue en première division du championnat d'Écosse (Scottish Premiership Division 1 ou Scottish Hydro Electric Premiership Division) lors de la saison 2008-09.

Histoire
West of Scotland RFC fut l'un des plus  grands clubs écossais, participant activement aux premières années du rugby en Écosse dans le dernier tiers du . Fondé en 1865 à partir d'un club de cricket préexistant, il affronte dès 1867 en match aller et retour Glasgow Academicals, ce qui constitue un des plus anciens affrontements encore en existence de l'histoire de toutes les formes de football.

En 1871, West adhéra à la… fédération anglaise de rugby (Rugby Football Union) car la fédération écossaise (Scottish Rugby Union) n'existait pas encore. Celle-ci apparut l'année suivante et West y adhéra tout naturellement. Il fut l'un des quatre clubs (avec Edinburgh Academical RFC, Glasgow Academicals RFC et l'université de St Andrews) qui lancèrent un défi aux Anglais, via le club de Blackheath à Londres, pour les affronter à 20 contre 20. C'est ainsi que sur leur stade de cricket à Raeburn Place eut lieu la première rencontre de l'histoire, remportée par l'Écosse sur l'Angleterre.

Si le club évoluait au début tout en bleu, il adopte un maillot cerclé jaune et rouge en 1871. Celui-ci fut copié et emprunté par les footballeurs du club professionnel de Partick Thistle, fondé en 1876 dans le même quartier de Glasgow (Partick).

Avant la fin du siècle, West remporte plusieurs fois le championnat non officiel et fournit pas moins de… 42 joueurs à l'équipe d'Écosse avant 1914 ! Le club connaît ensuite moins de succès et n'inscrit son nom au palmarès du championnat qu'à une seule reprise. Il évolue un temps en Troisième Division avant de grimper deux niveaux en deux ans (2007, 2008) et de se retrouver en première division.

Palmarès
 Champion d'Écosse (non officiel avant 1973) : 1880-81, 1883-84, 1884-85, 1888-89, 1889-90, 1890-91, 1964-65
 Champion d'Écosse Deuxième division : 2008

Joueurs célèbres

 Sandy Carmichael
 Alastair McHarg
 Gordon Bulloch

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Site officiel

Club de rugby à XV en Écosse


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Inside News
UAMS Holiday Celebration Gains Efficiency...
At this year's Holiday Celebration on Dec. 16, 5,568 people came through the cafeteria line for a no-cost-to-them holiday lunch. Image by Evan Lewis
UAMS Holiday Celebration Gains Efficiency While Bringing Cheer
By Ben Boulden
Dec. 27, 2021 | Smiling faces and the satisfied appetites of thousands of members of Team UAMS showed that university organizers have learned how to efficiently and cheerfully serve holiday meals to about 10,000 employees.
"It was our best year yet for the Holiday Celebration," said Tonya Johnson, MS, RD, executive director of Hospitality & Nutrition Services. "This was our fourth year to do it. I think we've developed a lot of efficiencies. Our first year was really good, but we had some learning curves."
Tonya Johnson hands out desserts to employees during the UAMS Holiday Celebration.
Johnson said the operation had a bump or two in 2020 because so many departments opted to pick up the meals to take back to their offices. The Nutrition Services team had to use chip boxes and other food containers to accommodate the demand. Providing that many meals while abiding by the safety measure required by the COVID-19 pandemic also necessitated stretching the celebration out over five days.
This year, the team not only ordered boxes specifically for the Holiday Celebration meals, they carefully measured and tested them first.
"Complete game changer, we were able to crank out meals for to-go orders, our pickups, very efficiently," Johnson said. "We had boxes and tape, and all the things we didn't have last year. We set up five serving lines, and we had a line stretch out to Parking 2 at the peak, but no one was in line more than 15-20 minutes. You can spend almost that much time in line on a busy day in the cafeteria for regular service."
That's even more impressive given that at this year's celebration on Dec. 16, 5,568 people came through the cafeteria line compared to last year's 3,000.
Three UAMS employees enjoy a sitdown lunch together in the cafeteria during the Holiday Celebration.Evan Lewis
Additionally, UAMS provided 775 meals to its pediatric clinical staff at Arkansas Children's, 1,000 meals to different Regional Campuses on Dec. 15-17 and about 1,250 meals to off-campus clinics and offices in Central Arkansas.
From this year's menu, that meant cooking and serving:
270 turkeys or 1,620 pounds of turkey
154 hams or 1,660 pounds of ham
470 gallons of gravy
1,720 pounds of veggies
1,824 pounds of sweet potatoes
1,786 pounds of green beans
570 gallons of mashed potatoes
6,720 slices of cheesecake
2,880 slices of chocolate cake
2,880 slices of caramel cake
190 gallons of hot chocolate with 8112 marshmallows
"Greg Roberts, our head chef, would come in at 1 a.m. to start cooking," Johnson said. "He and his crew, they cooked all the food. He pulled most of the weight himself to make sure everything was done, everything was fresh. He was a rock star."
Another of Johnson's "rock stars" was Crystal Abel, UAMS Nutrition Services catering manager, who oversaw the desserts, making sure all the cake was cut and packaged properly.
Chancellor Cam Patterson worked a shift during the Holiday Celebration and also helped employees with their dessert selections.Evan Lewis
Annabeth Johnson, special events manager in the UAMS Office of Communications and Marketing, planned the celebration along with Tonya Johnson and the Employee Appreciation Committee. The committee is made up of people on the main campus, Regional Campuses and Arkansas Children's, start planning this event in early September.
The Holiday Celebration is the biggest event of the year given its size, and it takes more than one or two departments to make happen.
"It truly takes a village to pull off, most of that being Tonya's staff, but many other people also help out and make this event such a success each year." Annabeth Johnson said.
The AV team helped to set up a live video stream so off-campus employees could participate in online holidaytrivia.
Shelly Young, Program Manager of Accreditation & Regulatory Compliance, coordinates and organizes all the off-site clinics and locations for delivery or pick-up of their holiday meals.
Assisted by Diana Johnson, right, UAMS mascot, Reddie, volunteered to greet employees during the celebration.Evan Lewis
Lara Woloszyn, social media manager in the Office of Communications & Marketing, provided a photo booth so that everyone could get a photo if they wanted.
"We also had almost 100 volunteers from all around campus help to direct traffic flow, hand out desserts, utensils and water, greet employees as they entered and perform countless other tasks," Annabeth Johnson said.
Both Annabeth and Tonya Johnson also said they were grateful for assistance from Diana Johnson and Julie Russell for bringing decorations from home to decorate the cafeteria.
Diana Johnson is UAMS assistant director of UAMS Hospitality, and Julie Russell is hospitality and health screening manager. Tonya Johnson also contributed her own decorations to the event.


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