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Q: Opencv detects pupil but im trying to detect the iris from stock images online

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I'm trying to isolate the iris but the pupil gets isolated in a circle, how can I change it so it surrounds the iris and not the pupil. Also i using stock jpeg files. I tried a lot of stuff but I'm really new to opencv and image processing so any help would be admirable. Also in some images it makes a circle in very weird places which makes me think something else is also up with the code.

#import numpy
import cv2
import numpy as np

class pupil_detection():
    def __init__(self, image_path):
        '''
        initialize the class and set the class attributes
        '''
        self._img = None
        self._img_path = image_path
        self._pupil = None
        self._centroid = None

    def load_image(self):
        '''
        load the image based on the path passed to the class
        it should use the method cv2.imread to load the image
        it should also detect if the file exists
        '''
        self._img = cv2.imread(self._img_path)
        #self._img = cv2.resize(self._img, (300,300))
        # If the image doesn't exists or is not valid then imread returns None
        if type(self._img) == None:
            return False
        else:
            return True

    def show_image (self,img):
        cv2.imshow("Result",img)
        cv2.waitKey(0)

    def centroid (self):
        # convert image to grayscale image
        gray_image = cv2.cvtColor(self._img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        # convert the grayscale image to binary image
        ret,thresh = cv2.threshold(gray_image,127,255,0)
        # calculate moments of binary image
        M = cv2.moments(thresh)
        # calculate x,y coordinate of center
        cX = int(M["m10"] / M["m00"])
        cY = int(M["m01"] / M["m00"])
        self._centroid = (cX,cY)
        cv2.circle(self._img, (cX, cY), 5, (255, 255, 255), -1)

    def detect_pupil (self):
        dst = cv2.fastNlMeansDenoisingColored(self._img,None,10,10,7,21)
        blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(dst,(5,5),0)
        inv = cv2.bitwise_not(blur)
        thresh = cv2.cvtColor(inv, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        kernel = np.ones((2,2),np.uint8)
        erosion = cv2.erode(thresh,kernel,iterations = 1)
        ret,thresh1 = cv2.threshold(erosion,210,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
        cnts, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh1, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
        flag = 10000
        final_cnt = None
        for cnt in cnts:
            (x,y),radius = cv2.minEnclosingCircle(cnt)
            distance = abs(self._centroid[0]-x)+abs(self._centroid[1]-y)
            if distance < flag :
                flag = distance
                final_cnt = cnt
            else:
                continue
        (x,y),radius = cv2.minEnclosingCircle(final_cnt)
        center = (int(x),int(y))
        radius = int(radius)
        cv2.circle(self._img,center,radius,(255,0,0),2)

        self._pupil = (center[0],center[1],radius)
        self.show_image(self._img)

    def start_detection(self):
        if(self.load_image()):
            self.centroid()
            self.detect_pupil()
        else:
            print('Image file "' + self._img_path + '" could not be loaded.')

id = pupil_detection(r'rightlook2.jpg')
id.start_detection()

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On April 23rd, the Department of City Planning began the formal public review for a citywide zoning text amendment that would have far-reaching implications by prohibiting the as-of-right development of hotels in all M1 (light manufacturing districts) and allowing them only by City Planning Commission special permit.
Any hotels proposed under this new special permit would be subject to environmental review and the full land use review process (ULURP). These restrictions would not apply in special mixed use (MX) districts, which are widely mapped throughout the city, as well as certain M1 districts proximate to the airports. Hotels are currently prohibited in M2 and M3 districts which allow heavier industrial uses.
The text amendment proposal was originally envisioned to apply to only those M1 districts within Industrial Business Zones in order to better support the industrial sector in these areas. The zoning text amendment referred for public review, however, now applies to all M1 districts, with the exceptions noted above. M1 districts are located in areas of Manhattan (particularly Midtown South and Garment District area) and throughout the other four boroughs.
The amendment also provides a special exemption for transient hotels operated for a public purpose, such as temporary housing assistance or shelters for the homeless. These would continue to be allowed as-of-right in all M1 districts, including those within IBZs. Under the amendment, all existing hotels would be considered "conforming" and could continue to operate under the prior rules and enlarge by up to 20 percent.
The M1 Hotel Text Amendment proposal was referred out to all 59 community boards, the five borough presidents, and the borough boards for a 60-day review period. Following this period, the City Planning Commission is slated to hold a public hearing sometime in July and consider the text amendment prior to final action by the City Council most likely in September and October.
Under the Zoning Resolution vesting provisions, hotel projects that complete their foundations prior to adoption of these restrictions would be considered vested and allowed to continue to be developed under the prior rules. The text also contains a grandfathering provision that provides hotel projects three years to complete construction if they have received a building permit or a partial permit from the Department of Buildings on or before April 23.
In addition to these proposed restrictions in M1 districts, the City has adopted similar areawide restrictions on hotels as part of its neighborhood rezonings, including East New York, Greater East Midtown, East Harlem, the Far Rockaways, and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. Hotel special permits are also contemplated in conjunction with the Inwood rezoning, and zoning proposals for Gowanus.
If you have an existing hotel in these areas or have a hotel under development, Capalino+Company can assist you in sorting out the implications for your property. Contact Richard Barth at 212-616-5845 or Richard@capalino.com.


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"The diversity of our culture and the talent of our people take the spotlight here at the Solidarity Night of the Bangsamoro Youth Hope Conference. Learning so much from all the beautiful dialects, music, dances, and songs that I've been hearing all night. Also quite honored to have taken a quick photo with the youth of Basilan before they presented traditional Yakan dances and led the youth from other tribes into an impromptu unity dance. Wala na akong masabi pa sa galing ng kabataang Bangsamoro. Mabuhay kayo!
Bangsamoro youth leaders from each province and tribe present their challenges and plans, committing to work together and be the catalyst of change in their respective areas. Tumataya na ang kabataan para sa bayan. Ikaw, anong taya mo?
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Kuya Dan Requejo Bercasio gives the 'Kabataan ang Pag-asa ng Bayan' talk at the Bangsamoro Youth Hope Conference, to a crowd of over 300 youth from 10 Moro tribes all over Mindanao.
Boodlefight at Barira, Maguindanao, one of Gawad Kalinga's stronghold in Mindanao.
According to a local leader, after the all out war in the area, GK was among the first who forged peace.
"Ang saya malaman na marami pala kaming nangangarap ng mas magandang kinabukasan dito sa Mindanao."
"Returning to the GK Village and the school we built 9 yrs ago inside Camp Abubacar in Barira, Maguindanao and has since produce several college graduates was very heartwarming.
"15 years ago, during the all out war, Noronisa, Monaira, and Haula were just 6 years old. They would hear planes approaching or gunfire erupting, and they would scamper in various directions, hide in rice fields or take cover somewhere, anywhere. They would cry out in fear.
Their families sought shelter away from Barira: in neighboring towns, in the mountains, somewhere, anywhere. Only in 2006, when the Camp Abubakar GK Village was built, did they find the courage to finally come home. There was happiness, but there was also hesitation. What if war erupts again? What if more relatives die? But they stayed, and slowly, they started rebuilding their lives.
These 3 girls were part of the 1st batch of Grade 6 pupils in the elementary school inside Camp Abubakar. Their classroom was a makeshift tent and rain would drip on their books. But they persisted.
Today, they are now college graduates. They told me they all took up Education because they want to teach in the community they grew up in, and ensure that the children will have a future full of hope. They told me that their memories of the war are still fresh, but the fear is no longer there. And they will do everything they can to build a kinder, more peaceful world for themselves and the rest of the community.
Building peace, just like ending poverty, does not happen overnight. But I look at Noronisa, Monaira and Haula, as well as all the children we met in the Camp Abubakar GK Village today, and know in my heart that love is the only thing that can drive out fear. And more than the willingness to fight, it's the courage to care that will sow the seeds of lasting peace. Together, we can #endpoverty.
"Pinili ko pong maging teacher para makatulong sa mga kabataan na makapag-aral at magkaroon ng magandang kinabukasan."
"Our day started at 3 AM and we just wrapped up our 6th meeting and traversed countless towns in ARMM, from Sultan Kudarat to Cotabato City. I thought I'd fall asleep after 21 hours, but my heart is restless just recalling all I have seen and heard, and recalling the years when we first stepped into Muslim territory to build bridges of friendship and peace. We did not know what we were doing, we were just guided by our genuine desire to help and we found the right partners whose commitment fueled the work all these years, despite challenges and difficulties.
"Rekindling relationships with Maguindanao Governor Toto Mangudadatu, who used to be the Mayor of Buluan and was one of the first two Mayors (the other one was Mayor Totoy Paglas) who introduced Gawad Kalinga to ARMM.
"GK believes that the battleground for solidarity is in Mindanao."
"Spending the last Sunday afternoon of May in a Gawad Kalinga community brought us back to the heart and soul of this work. Years from now, the vibrant colors of these houses may fade, but I know the smiles in these children's faces won't. I know that they will be free to dream and carve their own future, and it is a future full of HOPE.
That said, the journey out of poverty is not something that can be done overnight. And the problems won't magically disappear. But we will give it our very best. And we will never leave.
"Every time I think of giving up, I always ask myself, what will happen to these children?
"Teachers Katiang, Nenet, and Mels (R-L in photo) have voluntarily run the Sibol (early childhood development) program in their respective GK villages for 10 years, living out their mission to leave no child behind no matter how difficult times get. Their unconditional love and sacrifice have built a future full of HOPE for thousands of children (and parents) in GK Purok Islam, Sultan Kudarat and GK Datu Paglas, Maguindanao.
*This article was published on www.armm-info.com last May 29, 2015. For the online version, click HERE.
Cotabato City (29 May 2015) – Unprecedented in the history of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the Coordinating and Development Office on Bangsamoro Youth Affairs (CDO-BYA) will conduct a youth gathering dubbed as Bangsamoro Youth Hope Conference from June 2 to 4 in Cotabato City.
"It is a joint project of ARMM government and Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation Inc.," said Tom del Monte, executive director of CDO-BYA.
Gawad Kalinga is a nongovernmental movement that aims at eradicating poverty and restore human dignity among the poor. It is currently active in over 2,000 communities nationwide and has been recognized as 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee and 2012 Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship.
The three-day conference gathers active Moro youth from ARMM and nearby provinces to equip them with knowledge in nation-building, poverty eradication, and contribution to peace and development in Mindanao.


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Yemen's socio-political structure has a close connection with the tribes. Unlike the central and southern parts of the country, Yemen's extreme north (Sa'dah, al-Jawf, northern 'Amram) is dominated by tribal norms and customs.
Counter-Radicalisation: Critical Perspectives
The sophisticated terror attacks that followed 9/11, the Madrid train station bombing in 2004, the murder of Dutch filmmaker Teo Van Gogh in Amsterdam, and the 7/7 attacks on the London transport system in 2005 have demonstrated the urgency of changing perceptions and policies on the new agenda in terrorism and counter-terrorism studies. Following these dramatic events, the literature of terrorism and counter-terrorism boomed and expanded. However, most of the new publications have analyzed the phenomenon of 'home-grown radicalization,' which leads to terrorism. Home-grown radicalization refers to the self-starting cell(s) and individual(s) mobilized against their host countries with little or no material support from foreign sources. The onslaught of home-grown radicalization has forged a whole new field of empirical study on radicalization, counter-radicalization, deradicalization, and how to counter violent extremism.
Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Violent Extremism and Education
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By Madeline Cloud | October 30, 2020
AU's new Hall of Science.
This year, American University's STEAM Faire went virtual, featuring an informal virtual tour of the Don Myers Technology and Innovation Building (DMTI) followed by a Q&A session with STEM student group leaders. The event ended with a special opportunity to tour (virtually, of course) the life sciences and chemistry departments in the brand new, 125-square-foot Hall of Sciences. The Hall of Sciences is the latest development in AU's ambitious commitment to further scientific research to address some of the world's most pressing problems, from environmental degradation to disease and health disparities.
The tour of DMTI was hosted by Kathryn Walters-Conte, AU Director of STEM Partnerships and Outreach. Participants got to see the American University Center for Innovation, which showcases student entrepreneurship and is the home of AU's ICorps Program. The tour then went down the hall to see Professor of Physics Nathan Harshman, who talked about the Physics Department, ongoing research, and the Design and Build Lab where students can bring their ideas to life. Finally, the tour ended with Andy Phelps, Director of the AU Game Lab and a Professor of Film and Media Arts in the School of Communication, to discuss innovations in game technology.
After the tour, student leaders of various STEM clubs and groups convened via Zoom to introduce their clubs and answer questions. The clubs cover a wide range of STEM interest and include the Aerospace Society, Not Math Club, BioClub, Public Health Society, Phi Delta Epsilon (Pre-Medical Fraternity), and HOSA: Future Health Professionals. Underrepresented Students in STEM was also present, which aims to address underrepresentation in STEM fields.
Finally, the STEAM Faire concluded with another informal tour led by Walters-Conte, through the life sciences and chemistry departments of the new Hall of Sciences. It began with Meg Bentley, Senior Professorial Lecturer and Director of Biology Teaching Labs, showcasing the amazing new tools and instruments available for students in the introductory biology labs. The tour then went to the Chemistry Department to talk with Matthew Hartings, Associate Professor of Chemistry, about the work being done in the new research labs. Next, the tour moved on to Monika Konikleva, Associate Professor of Chemistry and her research assistant, pre-med post-baccalaureate alum Mari Cohen, to discuss their work in the new facilities. Naden Krogan, Associate Professor of Biology then introduced his work with plant development. Finally, Biology graduate student Maria Ochiai and undergraduate Public Health student Taylor McManus talked about the student research experience in their new lab with Katie DeCicco-Skinner, Associate Professor of Biology.
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KENOSHA, WI [MW Communications] - Several young families with children gathered at St. Nicholas in Kenosha for Great Vespers on the evening of Saturday, October 31st to have a family-friendly alternative to the increasingly ghoulish festivities of All Hallows Eve.
The celebration began in church with the divine service at the conclusion of which the kids heard the moving story of heroic pastoral service and sacrifice of St. John of Chicago and Tsarskoe Selo, whose feast had just concluded. Families were then invited to the Spiritual Life Center for a grand party that included a hearty hotdog supper, hot cider, pumpkin-painting, make-your-own caramel apples, gourd-bowling, goodie bags, near fatal bouts of fake sword fighting, and lots of warm-hearted fellowship. Knights, Cossacks, angels, cats, and even a deviled egg made an appearance.
The kids were invited back into church for a sacred quest, essentially a treasure hunt, in which they competed in teams of two to complete a series of questions based upon information they gleaned from several of the holy items within the narthex and nave of the temple.
"One of our homeschooling families asked me what I thought about Halloween a couple of weeks ago," shares Fr. Stephen Hrycyniak, Rector of St. Nicholas, "and one thing led to another, and the idea of a family-friendly alternative celebration was born—the receptive response among the families to a churchly alternative gathering was surprising and gratifying." The event even drew other homeschoolers from outside the parish, making it that much more of an enriching experience in a safe and wholesome environment for all in attendance.


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John is a corrupt politician wanting to be the Brazil's next president. He receives an enchantment from his grandmother and can't lie anymore. Now he must win the presidential elections telling only the truth.
Heitor is a bachelor who shoots fancy weddings for a living, but gets in trouble when he meets Penélope, a woman desperate to stop her lover's wedding.


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Cape Verde: Sotur invests in urban infrastructure of Porto Novo on Santo Antão Island
Porto Novo, Cape Verde, 30 June – Tourism company Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Turístico e Urbano do Porto Novo (Sotur) plans to invest some 400 million Cape Verdean escudos on building infrastructure in the urban area of Curraletes, on the coast, in the west of the city of Porto Novo on Santo Antão island.
According to Cape Verdean news agency Inforpress, the project, work on which will begin on 5 July, includes creating social facilities, roads and sanitation, water, electricity and telephone utilities.
The chairman of Cabo Verde Investimentos, Alexandre Fontes, will attend the ceremony to mark the start of construction of a project seen as a "model" in Cape Verde and which will contribute to the consolidation of the city of Porto Novo.
A protocol was signed between the city of Porto Novo and Sotur to build the facilities on around 100 hectares of land in the Curraletes area.
In an initial phase Sotur plans to build on just 20 percent of that land.
Sotur, which was set up in March 2007, is the result of a partnership between the Editur/Construir consortium, the Porto Novo City Hall and a group of businesspeople from Santo Antão Island.
The company aims to promote, carry out and develop tourism projects in the city of Porto Novo. (macauhub)
Angola's BNI to open representative office in Lisbon, Portugal
Angola achieves self-sufficiency in butane
Angola's net international reserves continue to fall
Portuguese airline TAP to launch direct flights to Praia, Cape Verde
Subsidiary of Chinese group CITIC builds factory in Angola


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Erbuti ist ein osttimoresisches Dorf im Suco Lausi (Verwaltungsamt Aileu, Gemeinde Aileu).

Geographie und Einrichtungen
Erbuti liegt im Norden der Aldeia Erbuti, am Südufer des Monofonihun, eines Nebenflusses des Nördlichen Laclós. Am gegenüberliegenden Ufer liegen westlich der Suco Fahiria und östlich der Suco Manucassa. In Manucassa liegen einige Häuser nah dem Grenzfluss. Südlich der Siedlung Erbuti steigt das Land auf eine Meereshöhe von über  an.

Im Dorf Erbuti befindet sich mit der Escola Basico Erbuti die einzige Grundschule des Sucos.

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Aileu (Gemeinde)

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Wins vs Top Sides Highlights of Season
Boss hopes Morecambe can continue maintain their good form against League 2's top sides
SHRIMPS' boss Jim Bentley says he hopes his side can maintain their good run of form against League 2's top sides this weekend when they travel to Shrewsbury.
Saturday's victory over Luton added to wins against Bury and Burton have been highlights of the Shrimps' season so far and Bentley is looking for more of the same at Micky Mellon's Shrewsbury this weekend.
He said: "Shrewsbury have a great home record and this will be a stern test
"They've won nine, drawn one and lost one, scoring 22 and only conceding something like three goals.
"It's going to be a real tough one but it's a challenge we're taking a lot of confidence in to.
"We are doing well against the top sides and we want to keep that run going ahead of the bust Christmas period.''
Bentley missed his first game as Morecambe boss on Saturday through sickness and admitted it was tough to be away from the Globe on match day.
He said: "It was horrible on Saturday, sitting there not being able to do anything or even watch the game and hopefully I won't be doing it again."


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Q: How can I create a permalink with two categories, with the order based on the parent category? Basically, I'd like to create a category permalink like example.com/books/adventure without having to make adventure a child-category because it will apply to other categories as well.
So the end result is:
example.com/books/adventure
example.com/movies/adventure
example.com/toys/adventure
The order is based on the two parent categories, with "items" going first, and "genre" going second.
And you could also search the categories separately to see all of the books, or all of the adventure items.
How can I do this?
Thanks!

A: David, welcome to wordpress answers. The answer is: Switch to some other platform. Wordpress can not with what's currently in core produce such a result easily.
Technically spoken it's possible, but folks hate me here to say how (well Apache + PHP) in concrete, so I don't tell it because I fear the negative karma this give on this site.
Just switch to something else if you seriously want to do such stuff and more. Like symfony2 with a database layer. After about one to three month as a single developer you can achieve much more then you can imagine with wordpress.
And the best thing is: You can even add a wordpress blog later on. ;)

A: It is not possible. And if it were, I wouldn't recommend it, because WP cannot handle categories in permalinks well.
But there is a solution: Use custom post types.
Books and movies require a lot of different meta data. You may want ISBN, editor, publisher, number of pages etc. for books and actors, director, screen format for movies. CPTs are made for this; the codex has an example for books.
Both post types may share a custom taxonomy. Justin Tadlock has written a very nice tutorial about this feature, and he has made a website with books and movies and where you can see how the result may look. As an example: You can browse the genre adventure at popcritics.com/genres/adventure.
That's not exactly what you asked for, but it is a solution you probably like more than your initial request, once you've got used to it. ;)

A: There is a plugin to pull custom fields into the permalink, though the problem is if certain content does not have custom fields, then you end up with 2 forward slashes in the url.
http://tec.toi-planning.net/wp/custom-fields-permalink


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Canada's economic growth slows to crawl, but Flaherty vows no new big spending
Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press November 30, 2012
OTTAWA – Canada's economy has hit stall speed with few areas of strong support, setting back any talk of interest rates hikes in the new year and likely restarting calls for more government action.
The economy slumped to 0.6 per cent in the third quarter — below even the gloomy 0.8 consensus and about one third what the Bank of Canada had predicted as recently as the summer — as trouble loomed on the export side, housing and business investment.
In addition, Statistics Canada revised downward the second quarter one notch to 1.7 per cent and September, the final month of the third quarter, was flat, meaning the handoff to the current fourth quarter was weak.
Opposition MPs blasted the government's economic management in the Commons on Friday, but speaking in Victoria, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he remains opposed to any big spending.
That doesn't mean he isn't open to redirecting funds toward measures that promote economic growth, he added.
"It's not as if I don't expect to hear good ideas, I do," Flaherty said of the pre-budget meetings he's holding across the country.
"It's not as if there won't be new initiatives and reallocating of resources. What there won't be is any large, multi-billion dollar spending initiatives which would create a structural deficit for the government of Canada."
Economists said Flaherty likely won't veer off course sharply unless Canada falls back into recession. That is dependent not on domestic factors, but on whether the U.S. avoids its fiscal reckoning in January, and Europe manages to keep the debt wolf at bay.
Still, the third quarter performance is worrying, they said, and not least because, if anything, the details were worse than the bottom-line numbers, which were bad enough.
"Certainly we are seeing strong headwinds. There's not many cylinders firing at all except for the consumer and we don't know how long the consumer can continue to carry the load," said Peter Buchanan, a senior economist with CIBC.
Desjardins Capital Markets economist Jimmy Jean noted that without the inventory build-up of as yet unshipped goods, Canada's third quarter economy would have fallen into a hole.
There was no talk yet of a technical recession — defined as two consecutive three-month periods of contraction — but Jean said the outlook for the last quarter of 2012 is not good. Given the weak handoff from September, he said the economy would need to work hard to eke out a one per cent advance.
The one silver lining in the report was that some of the export decline, particularly in the oil and gas sector, may have been the result of temporary production shutdowns.
The big shock in the third quarter report was that business investment, which the central bank has been counting on to support the economy, fell two per cent per cent annualized, and residential construction dived 4.4 per cent.
Economists lay the steep housing drop on Flaherty's decision to tighten mortgage rules on July 9, which has taken the steam out of Canada's previously hot real estate market.
Jean said he believes the decision was still the correct one, although the economy is paying a price now.
"Yes it is affecting the economy and it's creating a drag, but on a long-term perspective it's still the better outcome than facing a pure housing market crash and not having done anything about it," he said.
Economists said the economy's performance takes any chance of interest rate hikes off the table, likely until 2014.
The federal government is likely to come under pressure to bump up spending, or at least slow down its austerity program, but that is also unlikely barring a far worse outcome in the fourth quarter or early part of 2013.
In a letter to opposition MPs issued Thursday, the finance minister said he was in no mood to receive suggestions that he should increase spending or raise taxes.
"I will continue to stand against costly, new spending initiatives that would increase the size of government and throw Canada off track for balanced budgets," he said.
As expected, net trade also weighed heavily on the economy in the third quarter as exports plunged 7.8 per cent on weak global demand and soft commodity prices.


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What Does A Peony Tattoo Really Mean?
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By Sophie McEvoy/Dec. 20, 2021 3:26 pm EST
Floral tattoos can be presented in a variety of designs and art styles, and are rooted heavily in tattoo history. According to Custom Tattoo Design, flowers and fauna found their origins in tribal tattooing, and served "as a reminder of one's origins," as in "coming from a place where a specific plant grows." Flowers would eventually become a regular staple in American traditional tattooing too, utilizing thick lines and bold colours to depict flora like roses, primrose, and pink cherry blossom (via The Trendspotter).
As has always been the case with tattooing, design trends change. Minimalism is now one of the more popular art forms for tattooing, notes Vivid Ink, and flowers have become a staple of that art style. Whether designed with thin lines and no color, or no lines and a watercolor style, flowers are often the perfect subject. As Outsons notes, people tend to gravitate towards their favorite flower or identify with the meaning that certain flora connote.
This includes the peony, a flower native to Asia, Europe, and North America (via Appleyard London). But what can a peony tattoo symbolize?
The peony flower carries a lot of meanings from around the world
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Known for their large blossoms, the peony is a flower that comes in over 30 different species in a variety of bright colors (via Britannica). While not one of the most common flowers to have tattooed, it has become a popular option thanks the meaning it can carry. According to Bloom and Wild, the peony flower has a variety of meanings across the world including ones rooted in myth and fairytales, as well as wealth in countries like Japan and China. It's also the state flower of Indiana, as noted on the state's official website.
But in general, the flower can mean "prosperity, good luck, love and honor", which are often the cornerstones of tattoo ideas. According to Inked Mag, it can also mean "a happy life, a happy marriage, prosperity, and compassion," while AuthentInk adds that it can be a "strong symbol of beauty, fragility and transitory nature of existence" when made the focal point of a tattoo.


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Azure Confidential Computing and Managed Service Identity Security Protections Preview Releases
Microsoft this week announced previews of two new Microsoft Azure security measures that possibly add assurances for organizations wary of trusting their data and code on outside infrastructure.
One of them is called Azure "confidential computing," which provides protections for data when it gets processed "in the clear" from Microsoft's datacenters, according to an announcement by Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer for Microsoft Azure. Microsoft already provides encryption to protect data when it's stored "at rest" on Azure infrastructure.
The other security measure announced at preview is Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity, a free resource for developers so that they don't have to deal with code credentials when tapping Azure services.
Confidential Computing Preview
Azure confidential computing protects Azure data against the following possible threats, according to Microsoft's announcement:
Malicious insiders with administrative privilege or direct access to hardware on which it is being processed
Hackers and malware that exploit bugs in the operating system, application, or hypervisor
Third parties accessing it without their consent
Typically, Azure datacenters already have internal physical security for the data that's housed there, but the confidential computing element uses a so-called Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to prevent outside parties from viewing the data stored on Azure, "even with a debugger," Microsoft's announcement claimed. The TEE, which Microsoft also refers to as an "enclave," will check code trying to access the data and will disable operations "if the code is altered or tampered."
Microsoft currently has two TEE options for the confidential computing scheme. There's a pure software version known as "Virtual Secure Mode" that uses Hyper-V in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. The other TEE option is the hardware-based Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) solution, which leverages the CPU. Microsoft is working with other parties as well to develop other TEEs.
The TEE or enclave technology is already being used as part of Microsoft's Coco Framework for blockchain electronic ledgers, and that same technology protects "Azure SQL Database and SQL Server," too. It's an "enhancement of our Always Encrypted capability," Russinovich explained. For those who like diagrams, Russinovich explained the Coco Framework in this Microsoft Channel 9 video.
Confidential security is currently just available for organizations that are part of Microsoft's "Early Access" program, so it's still at the test level. They have to fill out a survey here to join the program.
Managed Service Identity Preview
The preview of Azure AD Managed Service Identity is designed as an aid for developers such that they won't have to manage security credentials when using code with various Microsoft Azure services. It creates a so-called "bootstrap identity." Using it, developers don't have to directly access the credentials stored in the Azure Key Vault or put credentials in code, Microsoft's announcement explained.
Microsoft currently offers Managed Service Identity previews for different Azure services, including Azure Virtual Machines (both Linux and Windows), as well as the Azure App Service and Azure Functions. The previews are rolling out gradually worldwide, so they may not be immediately available, a Microsoft document noted.
Microsoft's announcement promised that the Azure AD Managed Service Identity is being groomed to be part of the free version of Azure AD subscriptions, so there'll be no cost for using it.


The increase in mining deaths in 2013 has led MSHA officials to call out for safety training improvements in the mining industry.
Mining deaths in 2013 increased by approximately 1.5 percent from those that occurred in 2012 – jumping from 36 mining fatalities in 2012 to 42 mining deaths in 2013, according to preliminary reports issued by officials at the Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Although 2013 had been on target to reporting less mining deaths, as well as record decreases in the reported number of mining accidents and injuries, than in previous years, the fourth quarter proved disastrous for the mining industry, as 15 new fatalities in the final three months of the year boosted the fatality statistics.
Despite the increase in mining deaths in 2013, there was a decrease in the number of contractor fatalities, with only 4 contractors reportedly sustaining fatal mining injuries last year. According to the MSHA, this marks an all-time low in contractor mining deaths since those that reportedly occurred in 1983.
Machinery accidents and malfunctions associated with powered haulage equipment were the most common causes of mining deaths in 2013.
While the most mining fatalities reportedly took place in West Virginia (with 6 deaths occurring in this state), the second most reported mining deaths occurred in Kentucky (where 4 mining workers lost their lives on the job in 2013).
Some of the specific safety precautions that officials have highlighted as necessary to continuing to try to reduce the number of mining fatalities that occur each year include better safety and health programs, as well as improved safety training for mine workers.


With an ever expanding Windows estate in my lab (and being a former Microsoft SCCM Engineer) I decided that rather than downloading Microsoft patches to every single server in my lab I would install SCCM 2012 R2 and utilise a single source for my downloads. Now sure I could have just gone down the WSUS route but as I haven't actually played with SCCM 2012 (or R2) I decided to have a play with that instead.
The next couple of blog posts are going to detail the installation of the pre-requisites for SCCM 2012 R2 (Active Directory, SQL and the SCCM Host Pre-Reqs) as well as the actual SCCM 2012 Installation.
For obvious reasons I am going to use a couple of posts as this isn't a simple double click to install.
As with SCCM 2007 there is a requirement to make some minor changes to Active Directory, this means using ADSI Edit so please be very careful what you do with this tool as you can completely kill Active Directory if you make a mistake.
The first thing we have to do is connect to something.
Click OK to connect to the Default naming context.
Right Click and click New \ Object.
We are going to create the System Management container, please note that this is System Management and not Systems Management, it's important because if you use Systems Management you're going to be wondering why it's not working.
Click Finish. Now that's the System Management container created, now we need to delegate control of the container to the new SCCM Server.
Run Active Directory Users and Computers and ensuring you have the Advanced Features enabled browse down to the newly created System Management container, right click it.
Click Finish, next we are going to extend the Active Directory Schema for SCCM.
Prior to running the schema extension make sure that the user running the command is a member of the Schema Admins group in AD. Making sure you have the SCCM 2012 R2 media to hand open up an Administrative Command Prompt and browse to the SMSSETUP\BIN\X64 folder, you're going to run the extadsch.exe command. There is no need to copy this to a local drive, just as long as it's run from the Domain Controller that has the Schema Master role.
Browse the log file for more information on success\failure of command (this can be found on the root of your C drive), you want to see a message advising "Successfully extended the Active Directory schema", if it's different read through to see what failed and see if you can resolve it.
In Part 2 of this series I will cover the SQL Server Requirements as well as preparing the SCCM host.
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LYF Wind 5 with 4G VoLTE support launched for Rs. 6599
By Jonathan Pereira	 On Jun 9, 2016
With an aim to increase its affordable smartphone line-up, Reliance has now launched the LYF Wind 5.
Reliance Retail has announced the launch of the LYF Wind 5, which is the company's latest affordable 4G smartphone offering with VoLTE support. The device has a 5 inch IPS display with resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. The smartphone is powered by a 1 GHz quad core MediaTek processor with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage.
The LYF Wind 5 has an 8 MP rear facing auto focus camera with LED flash. There is also a front facing 5 MP camera. The device runs on the Android Lollipop version with a 2000 mAh battery. The phone has dual SIM support with 4G LTE and VoLTE connectivity. The handset is priced at Rs. 6599 and is available in Black and White colour options.
LYF Wind 5 specs:
5.0 inch display
1280 x 720 pixels resolution
1.0 GHz quad core MediaTek MT6735P processor
5 MP front facing camera
Android v5.1 Lollipop
Marshmallow now has 10% share in Android Distribution
Moto Z with 5.5 inch Quad HD display and modular accessories announced


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R. Doug Wicker — Author
Murder in Luxury—The Globe
Murder in Paradise—Decisions
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A Tale of Woe and Misfortune Unlike Any Other
Ever wonder why authors are such a disillusioned lot? Ever ask yourself why so many of them resort to self-publishing what is obviously some really good stuff . . . often better than the stuff garnering traditional publishing contracts nowadays? To those who are fans of tragedy, drama, woe, and misfortune I offer up this very instructive tearjerker. You are hereby forewarned: Get out that box of tissues before getting to the dénouement.
The year was 1995. My second novel, The Kai Tak Cataclysm, was represented by Christina J. Brady at the now-defunct Anita Diamant Literary Agency (Ms. Anita Diamant Berke passed away in January of 1996 at the age of 78). Christina greatly believed in that novel and worked diligently trying to find a home for it at the traditional New York publishing houses. Alas, Christina moved on to other things, the job of marketing my novel fell to another in-house agent, and that agent did not have the same enthusiasm for the project. Anita Diamant and I parted company shortly thereafter.
Then came a new agency, and a new agent. I shopped around for another agent and found one later that same year. Henry Morrison read and fell in love with The Kai Tak Cataclysm, and he agreed to represent me despite the book having already been shopped around the various publishing houses by my previous agent. We changed the title to The One That Wasn't There and Henry started sending it out in early 1996, but after a few rejections Henry opted to go on a different tack. Instead of attempting to sell the novel directly, he decided to offer up the dramatic rights first knowing that publishing houses would come knocking on his door once a movie studio was firmly committed to the project. So, with my concurrence Henry passed along The One That Wasn't There to the team of Howard Sanders and Richard Green at the United Talent Agency.
Within a matter of days Henry and I were call-conferencing with Howard and Richard, who were incredibly enthusiastic and supportive and very sure they would have little difficulty finding a studio willing to purchase the movie rights. It was Spring by now, sometime around mid-April in 1996. The manuscript went out to twenty-two studios, three of which came back and told Howard and Richard they were definitely interested . . . but there was a problem. The One That Wasn't There is a story about the sabotaging of a Gulfstream IV business jet that subsequently collides with a passenger-carrying Boeing 747 in the skies above Hong Kong. The crew of the Boeing 747 is incapacitated. The jumbo jet crashes into an apartment complex, resulting in the deaths of nearly 18,000 people (bear in mind that this story was written some six years before the attacks of September 11, 2001).
So, what was the problem? Control of Hong Kong was slated to transition from Great Britain to the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997—not enough time to film on location. The studios asked if I could change the story's setting. "Not a problem," I replied. "How does Sydney, Australia sound?" Why Sydney? Because I like to write about locations I've actually visited and with I am thus familiar. Howard, Richard, and Henry were all in agreement that Sydney would be perfect. And so I began a three-month rewrite that entailed not only changing the locale, but also much of the plot. Now, instead of an apartment building in Hong Kong, Sydney Centrepoint Tower and the Hilton International Sydney were ground zero. Bad guys changed. New motivations were devised. Old plot elements were discarded and new ones added. Finally, in mid-July, an almost entirely new manuscript titled And the Games Begin was shipped out to both New York and California. Calls came back about a week or two later and Howard gushed that the revised story was even better than the original. And the Games Begin would go up for auction in early September.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the auction. Another author, very famous and whose books were frequently the basis for blockbuster movies, decided to change genres and dabble in the field of aviation. His novel was slated for publication release in December, but the movie rights were being auctioned three months earlier, sight unseen, to an ever-eager Hollywood set. So powerful was this novelist that no studio, even those that bid unsuccessfully for the rights to his much anticipated aviation thriller, dared to acquire the rights to anything deemed to be in competition lest that studio be barred from bidding for the rights to his future works. At least that was the word from a dejected Howard when he called me with the bad news. Oddly enough, our books really weren't in competition, but nobody knew that because they were bidding on a project they hadn't even seen and which wouldn't be revealed for another three months.
The dramatic rights for that movie went for an (at the time) unheard of eight million dollars. But don't waste your time trying to figure out who this author is, what book I'm talking about, and then try to put the movie into your Netflix queue. It was never filmed. But by the time this project died, so had interest in mine. Yes indeed, tragedy on an unprecedented scale . . . at least for me.
I may eventually get around to putting this book out—Book 2 in the Ian Drake series on aircraft sabotage investigation, but it will require yet another reworking before I do.
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10 responses to "A Tale of Woe and Misfortune Unlike Any Other"
Deacon Don
Wow….that explains the resentment that I often hear from some of my writer friends toward big name/celebrity authors.
RDoug
Oh, no resentment here, Don. At least none toward the author. As for Hollywood and those who asked for the rewrite, then backed off . . . .
Karen Wojcik Berner
Gut-wrenching; that is what this story is.
I am so glad the story will be out soon. Thank goodness for indie publishing, huh?
Gut-wrenching it was, indeed. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
Man, I was just describing the episode to a friend, although I didn't recall many of the details.
Yeah, I had to go back through my old correspondence to get the time line correct. But I still have records of the whole sordid affair.
Christina Brady
Love this chronicle of the shopped-around novel. And gee wiz, how nice to see I had a role in the initial trip your manuscript took through the punishing editorial halls of NYC publishers.
Funny thing, I remember your novel like it was yesterday even though it was 15 years ago. Why? Maybe because it reminded me of a Michael Crighton tale, and for me this was a good thing. It sailed along with movie-quality scenes and a natural feeling of suspense. At the time, I read through a slush pile about 30-50 book proposals per day and then dug into the chapters of four or five promising manuscripts per week and usually recommended one for shopping around. Three books chosen by me eventually sold over the course of one year. So for all of the really great material that crossed my desk, only a small portion actually 'made it' into contracts. Sad thing really.
Tell me Doug, is it the Hong Kong or Sydney version you're publishing as an eBook?
Hello, my former agent Christina! When I publish this thing, it'll be the Sydney version. First I have to finish my current work-in-progress and get it out to my agent (Henry Morrison still reps me). After that I'll be resurrecting my three completed Ian Drake novels, the second of which you represented. The first of the series will require some really major reworking, though, because quite frankly it sucked. But, then, it was my first attempt at a novel.
Miriam Minger
Reminds me of my own bad old days of publishing. I'll second the "thank goodness for indie publishing."
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A Guide to the Neale Family Papers, 1835-1873.
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Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco Share Their Views on White Supremacy and Race Relations in America
Posted byBy Tracy | Published on June 23, 2015 CommentsComments (0)
By Sonia Montalvo
Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco are known for being rappers who share their views and opinions on all things current, and this weekend was no different. The Guardian reports both rappers shared their feelings about current race relations in America, in response to the Charleston Church massacre, where Dylann Roof murdered nine people at Mother Emanuel AME Church.
West, who headlined for Hot 107.9's Birthday Bash Block Show in Atlanta, expressed his opinions on the church murders via a freestyle. In his second verse West raps, "See that's the magic of racism, it works on itself/We hate each other, screw each other, kill each other/When we can't kill nobody else/See that's the magic of lackin' resources, it works on itself/500 n-ggas gettin' pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-popped/And North Carolina didn't help/See that's the magic of racism, it works on itself."
Though West refers to North Carolina in the verse, it is believed that he is speaking on Charleston, which is in South Carolina.
Lupe Fiasco took to Instagram to express his thoughts in a three-part open letter he titled, "Dear White Supremacy." The letter is written as a caption under three different photos of shooter Dylann Roof. The first two photos feature Roof burning an American flag and squatting for a pose over the flag as well. Both of these pictures are labeled in big letters "Supreme." The last picture, a mugshot of Roof, is labeled "Regular."
In part one of his letter, Fiasco states, "First of all you are not really that supreme. While throughout history [of] White Supremacy it must be admitted you have achieved some very dominant positions. These positions have been gained mostly through force or some biological agent such as disease that did a lot of the dirty work for you in advance. I mean anybody can use force on an unarmed populous and anybody can have smallpox. Not judging, just wanted to point out that having a disease that native folks aren't immune to because they've never seen it doesn't make you strategically smart or tactically superior, just kind of sick."
The letter goes on to say, "For that matter, there is also nothing about you psychologically, philosophically, cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially that signifies a higher position above any other group," he continues. "And to be diplomatic, there is nothing about you that denotes innate inferiority as well. So what you really are is something in the middle. You are regular."
To conclude his letter, Lupe Fiasco writes, "If you wanted to get really ironic and meta about it, White Supremacy has to validate its own identity based solely on its relationship to other races! I mean now that's what I would call joined at the hip. Without us there is no white supremacy because there would be nothing to be supreme over! That sounds so stupid but sometimes the truth is stupid."
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Le lac Southern Indian (en anglais ) est un lac du nord du Manitoba au Canada situé sur le cours moyen de la rivière Churchill.

On retrouve près du lac la réserve crie de  qui compte environ 800 habitants. Les Cris nomment le lac missi sakahigan, qui signifie « grand lac ».

Le lac est situé dans une région de la forêt boréale composée principalement de pin gris, d'épinette et de mélèze.

Le lac apparaît notamment sur la carte de 1814 de .

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Trump's Proposed Budget Would Cut Support For The Network Leading The Way In Climate Reporting
Special Programs Climate & Energy
Written by Kevin Kalhoefer
Published 03/24/17 9:49 AM EDT
In 2016, PBS NewsHour once again surpassed its nightly news competitors in climate coverage, devoted significant airtime to a range of climate-related issues, and hosted a number of scientists. But President Donald Trump's proposed budget would take aim at the network that has long been the nightly news leader in terms of climate coverage by cutting vital government support for PBS.
Trump's budget blueprint released last week included a proposal to completely defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), an independent agency that partially funds PBS and NPR. CPB CEO Patricia Harrison said the proposed cuts could start "the collapse of the public media system itself and the end of this essential national service."
In addition to funding a portion of PBS' revenue source directly, about half of CPB's $445 million budget goes to PBS member stations that broadcast PBS NewsHour -- with stations in rural areas being especially reliant on CPB funding. In a statement to Media Matters, CPB stated, "The loss of this seed money would have a devastating effect [on stations in rural America]. These stations would have to raise approximately 200 percent more in private donations to replace the federal investment." And Variety reported, "WCTE-TV in Cookeville, Tennessee, is a prime example. ... Station manager Becky Magura told [PBS president Paula] Kerger that the station would shut down if it loses CPB funding, which amounts to about half of its operating budget. WCTE is the only TV station that directly serves the town and surrounding areas in Putnam County, population 73,245 as of 2013."
This loss for viewers would be a shame because, as Media Matters has documented over the years, PBS NewsHour has consistently stood apart from its nightly news counterparts in the scale and scope of its climate coverage, dating back to at least 2012, when Media Matters first identified this trend. Once again, Media Matters' annual report on broadcast networks' climate coverage found that in 2016, PBS NewsHour far surpassed its competitors, airing more climate-related segments (46) than ABC, CBS, and NBC did combined (36) in the same year.
PBS NewsHour also stands apart from the major networks for the content of its coverage. In 2016, it was the only show to air a segment that discussed the ramifications of a Trump or Hillary Clinton presidency on climate change before the election. The other nightly news shows, however, failed to provide any issues coverage of climate change during the campaign. PBS NewsHour also led the networks in coverage of the impacts of climate change -- on extreme weather, plants and wildlife, and the economy -- and important climate-related policies and issues, such as the Clean Power Plan and the Paris climate agreement and UN climate summits.
And at a time when researchers studying climate change are under immense pressure from Trump's anti-science administration, PBS NewsHour also interviewed the largest number of scientists among the nightly news shows and featured the most segments about climate-related scientific research.
To cite just a few examples, PBS NewsHour invited scientists to discuss the news that 2015 was the hottest year on record and the consequences of continued global warming; the significance of the Paris climate accord; and climate change's role in the record-breaking rainfall and flooding in Louisiana last year.
With the nightly newscasts having significantly decreased their climate coverage in 2016, It's alarming to see the network that provides such essential coverage being threatened with funding cuts. Thankfully, there are promising signs of improvement on the broadcast evening news programs. In early 2017, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News are both on their way to far surpass their climate coverage of 2016; in February, CBS Evening News even featured a week of climate segments from Antarctica for its "Climate Diaries" series.
In the meantime, PBS NewsHour still remains the gold standard when it comes to climate change coverage on the nightly news shows.
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Associated Press/Photo by Phelan M. EbenhackOrlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, center right, and Orlando Police Chief John Mina, center left, arrive at a news conference.
In what has been deemed the worst U.S. terrorist attack since 9/11, a gunman opened fire in an Orlando nightclub, killing 50 people and wounding at least 53 more. Before launching his attack, the gunman called 911 and pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
The terror began at 2 a.m. Sunday. After a brief shootout with law enforcement officers, the gunman went inside the club, where more than 300 people had gathered, and held hostages before opening fire.
People in the club used cell phones to tell police about what was happening. Many crawled under tables or tried to escape out the back door.
Officials identified the gunman as 29-year-old Omar Mateen from Ft. Pierce, Fla. Mateen was "on the radar" for U.S. officials but not a target of investigations.
Investigators have "suggestions the individual has leanings towards (Islamic terrorism), but right now we can't say definitely," said Ron Hopper, assistant special agent with the FBI's Orlando bureau. The FBI is investigating Mateen's possible connections to radical Islam. No international terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but officials say it's an act of terror nonetheless.
Mateen held club-goers hostage for three hours until a SWAT team used an armed vehicle to break into the building at 5 a.m. Mateen died in a shootout with police. One bullet struck a police officer in the head, but his helmet saved his life.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer declared a state of emergency in the city. Blood drives are opening and counseling hotlines are available for victims and their families.
Prior to Sunday, the deadliest shooting rampage in American history was the 2007 Virginia Tech attack, which killed 32 and injured 30. Sunday's events now mark the worst mass shooting in American history.
"Confronting the threat of violent homegrown radicalization is one of the greatest counterterrorism challenges our law enforcement and intelligence community faces," said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
The Pulse, where the shooting took place, is popular with the LGBTQ community in Orlando. June is gay pride month, and Orlando recently concluded its annual week-long Gay Days celebration with more than 150,000 persons in attendance. Officials are considering whether the massacre can be deemed a hate crime.
The attack follows the fatal shooting of Christina Grimmie, a former contestant on the popular television show The Voice. According to investigators, a mentally unstable fan shot and killed Grimmie at an Orlando concert late Friday.
"Officials are considering whether the massacre can be deemed a hate crime."
I thought all killing was hateful.
And what's with this "worst terrorist attack" stuff? Deadliest, maybe. But how do you decide which mass killing of innocent people the "worst." All are equally evil.
May God comfort the families of those who died, and heal those who were harmed. May they all come to know the true love of Jesus.
So, the Revolutionary war, Civil war, War of 1812, and Texas Revolution are not apart of American History? Those seem worse to me, I suppose we should forget them now cause they were too long ago.
Grasp at Heel: The article says that this was the "worst mass shooting", a category which generally implies a gunman shooting large numbers of unarmed civilians--distinct from war.
The ACLU is already blaming Christians for this attack. Amazing! You can see the story on the Daily Caller.
Once again attack in a target rich environment commonly called a gun free zone.
@psubrent: Please see https://world.wng.org/2016/06/lawmakers_respond_to_orlando_attack and https://world.wng.org/2016/06/globe_trot_isis_calls_orlando_killer_a_sol.... There will be an additional report on the reaction in Orlando later today.
We haven't heard much about the weapons used. It would be helpful to know the sequence - how does he get in with weapons, how does he shoot 50 and would 53 without a citizen taking him down ? In the VA Tech shooting, it was if they were all lambs at the slaughter, and no one fought back. Not trying to be insensitive, just wondering.
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Sorry ! just tryin' to help . . .
It´s interesting to ponder, when Hitler declared war on the U.S.A., where we´d be today if Roosevelt had, instead of declaring war back at Hitler, ...had reminded us that we have not alway behaved ourselves in the past as Americans, if he had reminded us that all Germans are not bad, if he had reminded us that Germany historically is a great people with great accomplisments, etc. In 1942 had Roosevelt pandered to Germans, instead of fighting them we´d be speaking German today. Short of a major convulsion and repudiation of political correctnes, our grand kids will be speaking Arab, or Persion, and bowing down to Sharia law. What this president has done (not done) is hard to fathom. We´ll need a miracle in order to overcome our enslavement to the political correctness, an enslavement that has mutated into a phenomenum that must be classified as malevolent today. I pray for us.
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Second Design Meeting Set For Lubber Run Community Center
Chris Teale March 24, 2017 at 10:00am
Lubber Run is the oldest county facility designed as a community center
Almost 200 people kicked off the community process last month
Attendees were asked to share their ideas for a redesigned center at the kick-off meeting
Last month's kick-off meeting for the new Lubber Run Community Center
Arlington County will host a public meeting Saturday for residents to help the design of the new Lubber Run Community Center evolve.
Saturday's gathering will be at Barrett Elementary School at 4401 N. Henderson Street from 1 to 3:30 p.m. It comes on the heels of a similar meeting Wednesday.
After a kick-off meeting last month, the next session will present "Big Idea" design schemes, developed from community feedback.
At that kick-off meeting, almost 200 people shared their ideas for the building and park design. Architectural firm VMDO, Inc. has led the process alongside county staff.
The Lubber Run Community Center is the oldest county facility specifically designed as a community center. But a revamp is necessary, said staff, as it is not compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act due to a lack of elevators.
"We need everyone's participation from start to end of the work sessions to hone in on the best possible options," reads a previous announcement. "Together, we'll share what we like and don't like about various schemes, and chart a path forward for the new Lubber Run Community Center."
Ultimately, the new community center will have "a full complement of recreational, social and learning activities for all ages," according to the county.
In addition to the meetings, other work is being done in the area of Lubber Run.
Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. has been hired to do an inventory of all trees, to help guide the design process and reduce its impact on healthy trees. Meanwhile, Toole Design Group is conducting a traffic volume study to determine the number, movements, and classifications of roadway vehicles along the George Mason Drive and Park Drive intersection.
According to a project timeline, the design is expected to be finalized this winter, with construction expected to begin next year.
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