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ARTS NEWS: Books for the stage at Festival, Opera to be performed at power plant, new chief for Glasgow film unit
By Phil Miller Arts Correspondent
David Keenan. Photo by Kirsty Anderson
THE Royal Lyceum Theatre is to once again collaborate with the Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer.
Three books are to be adapted by the theatre, as part of its new season, and be staged at the festival on 10, 17 and 24 August.
This year's titles are This is Memorial Device by David Keenan and adapted by Graham Eatough with music from The Pastels, Under Another Sky by Charlotte Higgins and adapted by David Greig, and Women Talking by Miriam Toews and adapted by Linda McLean.
Keenan's This is Memorial Device, is set in a former mining village just east of Airdrie in 1980s Scotland, is a fictional history of local post-punk band Memorial Device.
Under Another Sky was written after the author set out to explore the Roman occupation of Britain in her VW camper van.
After the 45-minute performance, the actors, musician and director are joined on stage by Higgins to discuss – among other things – how the Caledonians viewed the Roman invaders.
Miriam Toews's story of oppression and resistance in a Bolivian Mennonite community, Women Talking, will be presented as the final instalment of the Playing with Books programme.
After the show the creative team will be joined on stage by Toews herself for a discussion about the ideas in the book.
www.lyceum.org.uk
BYRE Opera, the University of St Andrews opera company, is to perform at the University's biomass plant.
The £25m plant on the east side of the former paper mill site houses a biomass boiler which uses sustainable fuel from sources across Scotland to produce hot water. This water is then pumped four miles underground to St Andrews where it heats University buildings.
The company will perform Vaughan Williams tragic operatic tale Riders to the Sea and the European premier of Madeleine Dring's dark comic opera Cupboard Love. A cast made up of students and recent graduates will perform the operas, both to be sung in English, in the large open space of the plant on June 18-20.
Michael Downes, director of music at the university, said: "We hope the experience of performing close to audiences in an unusual context will draw a new intimacy and level of detail in performance from our singers, while also encouraging new people to attend our productions."
Byre Opera was formed in 2008 to provide stage experience for students, with guidance from performing arts professionals.
The company performs in St Andrews every summer, before touring.
www.st-andrews.ac.uk
THE Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance has announced that Chris Quick will take over as director of the organisation in July.
Quick, who currently serves as the deputy director, will take over the role from Andrew O'Donnell who announced last month he was standing down after nearly eight years in the position.
The Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance is an online database of film and TV professionals based in and around the city of Glasgow.
Mr Quick said: "It is a great privilege to be taking over from Andrew at the Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance. Whilst I don't anticipate being in the role for as long as Andrew has, in my time as director I will strive to make sure that the GFA continues to be a useful tool for independent filmmakers and that we continue to support our emerging talent."
Quick studied television production at the Glasgow Metropolitan College and ran the post production branch of Quick Off The Mark Productions from 2009 to 2016. His editing credits include In Search of La Che, The Greyness of Autumn, Electric Faces and Mountain which he won the Best Editor accolade for at the Dublin Independent Film Festival in 2018.
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Sterling boys fall to Fort Morgan 52-46
By David Wilson |
PUBLISHED: December 18, 2013 at 10:46 am | UPDATED: May 8, 2019 at 2:11 am
The Sterling boys' basketball team played close with Fort Morgan in its road contest on Tuesday, but fell 52-46 to the Mustangs.
"The kids played hard and the effort was great. Just a few untimely defensive lapses and a few costly turnovers hurt us," Sterling head coach Mike Holloway said.
Davis Lebsock led all Sterling players with 12 points, while Dusty Kaan and Ethan Rose had 11 points and 10 points, respectively.
The loss, the Tigers' fourth in a row, was Sterling's last game before the holiday break. They will be back in action on Jan. 11 when they host Estes Park.
Haxtun uses two strong quarters to defeat Peetz 67-57
The Haxtun boys' basketball team closed out both halves strong on Tuesday night en route to earning a 67-57 win over Peetz.
After holding a 17-13 lead at the end of the first quarter, Haxtun ballooned its lead to 33-21 at the end of the first half, but had to survive a run by Peetz as it closed the gap to within one point in the third quarter.
"We tried to run and wear them down. It kind of worked, but it wore us down, too. We kept it close considering the differential in our size," Peetz head coach Bill Fiscus said. "In the third quarter we had the lead cut to one and I really thought we'd get over the hump, but just didn't quite get there. The game was a confidence booster, though. I like our chances when we start going up against the 1A teams we'll see."
Haxtun outscored Peetz 20-14 in the fourth quarter to earn the win and move to 4-0 on the season.
Peetz, now 2-3 on the year, was led by senior Josh Fiscus with 23 points and 15 points from junior Casey Barrett, all coming via five 3-pointers.
Peetz girls rally to beat Haxtun
The Peetz girls' basketball team extended its winning streak to four games on Tuesday with a 54-44 come from behind victory over Haxtun.
Peetz trailed 26-21 at the half, but caught fire in the third to the tune of 19 points and held Haxtun to nine points to take the lead 40-35 at the end of the third and never looked back.
"We got a spark from our bench in the third quarter with some steals and layups. Jodi Schumacher also hit two or three 3-poiners that quarter," Peetz head coach Tera Segelke said. "The girls stuck together and buckled down on defense. It was a great team effort."
Melissa Schumacher led Peetz with 15 points, while Jodi Schumacher added 14 points off the bench.
Peetz will play Prairie at 2 p.m. on Saturday in its last game before the holiday break, while Haxtun won't be in action again until Jan. 3 when it hosts Creek Valley.
Contact David Wilson at 970-526-9285 or dwilson@journal-advocate.com

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Bordering Austria to the North and France and Switzerland to the west, the Italian Alps is a pastoral paradise of edelweiss-covered meadows, terraced vineyards and ancient farming villages.
Framed by a dramatic backdrop of towering summits and ridges, the Italian Alps reaches its zenith on the border with France, rising to a height of 15,782ft at the snow-capped summit of Monte Bianco – Mont Blanc. A hiker's Promised Land in summer, in winter the region shelters some of the finest ski resorts in Europe with some of the best snow in recent seasons to match. Perhaps the most spectacular section of the Italian Alps is the Aoasta Valley, crowned by huge peaks, including the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc, Gran Paradiso and Monte Rosa, with an extensive network of lifts and cable-cars to whisk skiers up the pistes in winter, and walkers up to spectacular trails in summer. Lower down, the Aoasta Valley's ski resorts are connected by cross-country skiing trails, fantastic for walkers in summer. A playground for outdoor adventurers, the area also has some of the best mountain-biking trails in Europe.
To the east are the Dolomites, to the southeast is the Piemonte region, whilst further south are the Italian Lakes. The proximity to these different Italian regions makes the Italian Alps a fabulous summer or winter holiday destination.
Hiking and skiing in the Aoasta Valley; the annual autumn Alba Truffle festival, with more than 40 taking place in various towns and villages in Piemonte. Some Piemonte guesthouses and hotels can also arrange for you to go truffling with a local hound; the baroque piazzas and palaces of Turin, where the Fiat car factory is an interesting visitor attraction in its own right; the Italian Lakes north of Milan, such as Lake Maggiore, Como, and lovely little Orta, which has a Benedictine monastery right in the middle; boat trips on Lake Magiorre to visit the Borromean Islands; the beautiful hilltown of Bergamo, with a funicular railway up to Bergamo Alto to visit its stunning 15th century chapel; the medieval village of Arca on the upper reaches of the Sarca River Valley; boat tours of Lake Lugano; spectacular views from Monte Mottarone above Stresa on Lake Maggiore, reached by cable car; national parks such as the Stelvio National Park north of Orta and the Parco Nazionale della Val Grande above Verbania on Lake Maggiore; Milan, with its magnificent gothic cathedral, famous La Scala opera house and 19th century Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, perhaps the most elegant shopping arcade in the world; Verona's annual opera festival as well as its sights, including the Romanesque church of San Zeno, the Renaissance Loggia del Consiglio and the Roman Arena.
Trains and buses connect Milan and Verona with the villages and ski resorts to the north, as well as the lakes of Lombardy. As with all trains and buses in Italy, the service is fairly efficient and relatively cheap, and buses in particular are a good way of getting between villages once in the mountains themselves. However, as it often requires several changes to reach smaller, remoter destinations, by far the best way to explore this area is by hire-car, which we include with all our holidays to the Alps.
By air: Fly to Turin with non-daily flights with British Airways from Gatwick.
Self-drive: These regions are reached very easily by car all the way from the UK. We can arrange overnight stops for you in locations throughout France.
In addition to holidays by air and by car, you may also be interested in holidays by rail (including the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express and an overnight sleeper service from Paris to Italy).
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Innocent Man Spent 17 Years In Prison For A Crime Committed By His Lookalike
As reported by the Innocent Project, mistaken eyewitness identifications contributed to around 70% of the more than 350 wrong convictions in the United States, overturned by post-conviction DNA evidence. It is the leading factor in wrongful convictions.
In fact, people can end up being in prison for a crime that was committed by another person, who looks similar. That's exactly what happened to Richard Jones back in 1999. He spent 17 years in prison but was released after the real criminal was found.
Richard Jones, in back, is surrounded by family at his mother's home in south Kansas City. Jones spent 17 years in prison but was exonerated pic.twitter.com/QXAKg82rUS
— Toriano Porter (@torianoporter) June 11, 2017
READ ALSO: Duchess Camilla Will Skip Princess Eugenie's Wedding For A Very Unexpected Reason
Even though Richard Jones had an alibi, he was still sentenced for 19 years. Of course, he tried to appeal but lost. After some time, he got an information about the Midwest Innocence Project and the team that investigates and litigates various cases.
Now, the man is looking for compensation and has already filed a petition asking the state to pay him $1.1 million.
His petition reads:
After enduring 17 years of wrongful incarceration for a crime he did not commit, Mr. Jones brings this petition seeking a judicial pronouncement of his innocence and some measure of financial assistance as he seeks to rebuild his life.
Some people think that his financial expectations are too low.
He should sue for more. Others have received higher numbers.
— Lisa (@invisiblevisitr) September 5, 2018
I'd sue for waaayyy more. Almost 2 decades of his life he can never get back.
— ScHoolboy F. (@gamino10) September 5, 2018
Richard Jones is 41 now, and he plans to spend as much time with his family as possible. He gets plenty of support from his relatives. By the way, one of his daughters is only 17 now, and she has never seen her dad before.
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Q: Compound String key in HashMap We are storing a String key in a HashMap that is a concatenation of three String fields and a boolean field.  Problem is duplicate keys can be created if the delimiter appears in the field value.
So to get around this, based on advice in another post, I'm planning on creating a key class which will be used as the HashMap key:
class TheKey {
  public final String k1;
  public final String k2;
  public final String k3;
  public final boolean k4;

  public TheKey(String k1, String k2, String k3, boolean k4) {
    this.k1 = k1; this.k2 = k2; this.k3 = k3; this.k4 = k4;
  }

  public boolean equals(Object o) {
      TheKey other = (TheKey) o;
      //return true if all four fields are equal
  }

  public int hashCode() {
    return ???;
  }
}

My questions are:

*

*What value should be returned from hashCode().  The map will hold a total of about 30 values.  Of those 30, there are about 10 distinct values of k1 (some entries share the same k1 value).

*To store this key class as the HashMap key, does one only need to override the equals() and hashCode() methods?  Is anything else required?

A: The implementation of your hashCode() doesn't matter much unless you make it super stupid. You could very well just return the sum of all the strings hash codes (truncated to an int) but you should make sure you fix this:

*

*If your hash code implementation is slow, consider caching it in the instance. Depending on how long your key objects stick around and how they are used with the hash table when you get things out of it you may not want to spend longer than necessary calculating the same value over and over again. If you stick with Jon's implementation of hashCode() there is probably no need for it as String already cache its hashCode() for you.
This is however more of a general advice, since the mid 90's I've seen quite a few developers get stung on slow (and even worse, changing) hashCode() implementations.

*Don't be sloppy when you create the equals() implementation. Your equals() above will be both ineffective and flawed. First of all you don't need to compare the values if the objects have different hash codes. You should also return false (and not a null pointer exception) if you get a null as the argument.
The rules are simple, this page will walk you through them.
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I have to ask one more thing... You say "Problem is duplicate keys can be created if the delimiter appears in the field value". Why is that?
If the format is key+delimiter+key+delimiter+key it really doesn't matter if there are one or more delimiters in the keys unless you get really unlucky with a combination of two keys and in that case you probably should have selected another delimiter (there are quite a few to choose from in unicode).
Anyway, Jon is right in his comment below... Don't do caching "until you've proven it's a good thing". It is a good practice always.

A: Ask Eclipse 3.5 to create the hashcode and equals methods for you :)

A: this is how a well-formed equals class with equals ans hashCode should look like: (generated with intellij idea, with null checks enabled)
class TheKey {
public final String k1;
public final String k2;
public final String k3;
public final boolean k4;

public TheKey(String k1, String k2, String k3, boolean k4) {
    this.k1 = k1;
    this.k2 = k2;
    this.k3 = k3;
    this.k4 = k4;
}

@Override
public boolean equals(Object o) {
    if (this == o) return true;
    if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;

    TheKey theKey = (TheKey) o;

    if (k4 != theKey.k4) return false;
    if (k1 != null ? !k1.equals(theKey.k1) : theKey.k1 != null) return false;
    if (k2 != null ? !k2.equals(theKey.k2) : theKey.k2 != null) return false;
    if (k3 != null ? !k3.equals(theKey.k3) : theKey.k3 != null) return false;

    return true;
}

@Override
public int hashCode() {
    int result = k1 != null ? k1.hashCode() : 0;
    result = 31 * result + (k2 != null ? k2.hashCode() : 0);
    result = 31 * result + (k3 != null ? k3.hashCode() : 0);
    result = 31 * result + (k4 ? 1 : 0);
    return result;
}
}

A: Just hashCode and equals should be fine. The hashCode could look something like this:
public int hashCode() {
  int hash = 17;
  hash = hash * 31 + k1.hashCode();
  hash = hash * 31 + k2.hashCode();
  hash = hash * 31 + k3.hashCode();
  hash = hash * 31 + k4 ? 0 : 1;
  return hash;
}

That's assuming none of the keys can be null, of course. Typically you could use 0 as the "logical" hash code for a null reference in the above equation. Two useful methods for compound equality/hash code which needs to deal with nulls:
public static boolean equals(Object o1, Object o2) {
  if (o1 == o2) {
    return true;
  }
  if (o1 == null || o2 == null) {
    return false;
  }
  return o1.equals(o2);
}

public static boolean hashCode(Object o) {
  return o == null ? 0 : o.hashCode();
}

Using the latter method in the hash algorithm at the start of this answer, you'd end up with something like:
public int hashCode() {
  int hash = 17;
  hash = hash * 31 + ObjectUtil.hashCode(k1);
  hash = hash * 31 + ObjectUtil.hashCode(k2);
  hash = hash * 31 + ObjectUtil.hashCode(k3);
  hash = hash * 31 + k4 ? 0 : 1;
  return hash;
}

A: In Eclipse you can generate hashCode and equals by Alt-Shift-S h.

A: Have you taken a look at the specifications of hashCode()? Perhaps this will give you a better idea of what the function should return.

A: I do not know if this is an option for you but apache commons library provides an implementation for MultiKeyMap

A: For the hashCode, you could instead use something like
k1.hashCode() ^ k2.hashCode() ^ k3.hashCode() ^ k4.hashCode()
XOR is entropy-preserving, and this incorporates k4's hashCode in a much better way than the previous suggestions.  Just having one bit of information from k4 means that if all your composite keys have identical k1, k2, k3 and only differing k4s, your hash codes will all be identical and you'll get a degenerate HashMap.

A: I thought your main concern was speed (based on your original post)? Why don't you just make sure you use a separator which does not occur in your (handfull of) field values? Then you can just create String key using concatenation and do away with all this 'key-class' hocus pocus. Smells like serious over-engineering to me.

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Jesus was glad Lazarus had died without Him?! What does that mean? We know it doesn't mean He enjoyed knowing that Lazarus had died or that He enjoyed thinking about the family's grief and despair.
Jesus was teaching His disciples—and you and me—a life lesson. And what a life lesson it is! The lesson is this: There is a greater miracle than physical healing! It's the miracle of the Resurrection! Be encouraged!
Even if your prayer is not answered and your loved one is not healed and your marriage is not reconciled and your financial problems are not solved and your child is not found—there is hope! Jesus was glad because He knew God would be glorified to a far greater extent by the death and resurrection of Lazarus than He would have been by Lazarus' healing and recovery from sickness.
Would you rejoice with Jesus for the greater miracle that IS coming to you?
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Man threatens another with baton, gets knocked out
The man holding the baton made some errors:
Allowed his opponent to close the distance when he had a tool which needs more range.
Range can be managed by movement – he's completely stationary.
Flat posture, straight back, very likely standing with knees locked straight, does not appear to be in any kind of stance which would prepare him to respond in the split second required to move, defend or attack. His opponent constantly adjusts.
Allowed opponent to grip his wrist. Difficult to swing baton effectively when grappling starts. The grip even from this position may allow opponent to stay off-centre when the baton swing comes.
Furtive glance made by opponent is a huge warning sign. He has already decided to attack at this point and is looking for witnesses, other enemies or allies which may factor in to his decision to go ahead.
Even if he decided to use the baton, it's a poor weapon. Law enforcement use this as a method of pain compliance, and often need to move to other methods when it fails. Striking the legs is unlikely to instantly shatter kneecaps unless you're very lucky/unlucky to hit that spot. You're only starting the fight, not ending it. Swinging to the head would be a different matter.
Compare the above (pain compliance) to the punches thrown to the head (incapacitation).
Baton man seems to think intimidation is enough to keep him safe. The baton is like some kind of force field, everything else can be ignored.
From this position, when would he decide to use it? Once the fighting starts? Too late, too close. When the man fails to step back? This may be considered unjustified assault. Baton man then made a threat to seriously harm, which prompted an aggressive response. He put himself in a situation which is very difficult to win.
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Soldiers ambushed while on foot patrol with devastating results
On foot, walking down an open road with no cover, no concealment, in a tight group, surrounded by terrain which could easily conceal enemy from any direction. This is how you march on parade, not move through an active warzone.
Man draws gun on robber at close range, both grapple for control of the weapon
Holding a gun to someone at close range means things can get very complicated very quickly. Within arm's reach usually isn't a good range.
Man is stabbed in stomach, knocks out attacker
Knives do not immediately incapacitate – often, a person who has been stabbed is able to continue fighting for long enough to successfully retaliate, even if they die soon after. This makes knives both a poor choice for self defence, and a good choice for murder. A horrific way to fight since ancient times.
An important point to learn from this video: striking is an effective response to a knife attack, assuming that you are a capable striker. Many people tend to focus on the knife and fight to control it, not realising that this is as good a time as any to punch the face.
Teen boys fight, resulting in knockout and seizure.
A brutal outcome as the victor continues to assault the other boy who is having a seizure as a result of serious brain injury. No regard for the potentially fatal outcome.
Belligerent man pushes woman, is stomped by 3 men
Belligerent man attempts to intimidate couple, pushing a female in the process. He seems to regret this a split second later as he reaches to hold and prevent her from falling.
Unfortunately he has already failed miserably to take stock of the situation he is in – alone, drunk, surrounded by bystanders who may not tolerate his behaviour.
Man overdoses and is revived by firefighter, kills the firefighter, uses female bystander as shield, is shot by police
A strong case for handcuffing and searching people who have overdosed before reviving them. Background info:
When the bus arrived at transit center, a bus passenger believed Houston was having a seizure and called 911 for help. Lundgaard arrived with other firefighters and began providing aid to Houston.
Houston regained consciousness after responders determined he likely had suffered a drug overdose and gave him two doses of Narcan.
Houston told responders he had taken some of his wife's morphine. Houston got off the bus on his own, even as responders were encouraging him to seek additional medical care, but he refused.
"They wanted to make sure he got that help," Tempelis said.
Houston drew a small handgun from a small case at his waist, Tempelis said. He stood back and fired twice, hitting Lundgaard in the upper back and Christensen in the upper leg.
Almost simultaneously, Christensen drew his handgun and fired once, striking Houston in the abdomen. Houston ran toward where bystander Brittany Schowalter was and used her as a shield, the district attorney said.
Christensen and Biese both fired multiple times at Houston, also likely striking Schowalter, although Tempelis said it's impossible to know for sure who shot her. She suffered an injury to her leg and to her head, with a bullet grazing her skull, Tempelis said.
Houston eventually went to the ground, which allowed officers equipped with a ballistic shield to arrest him. The officers found Houston's gun under him, Tempelis said.
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How the knife can win vs the gun at close range. The 21 foot rule, also known as the Tueller Drill.
This video demonstrates some of the lesser-known mechanics of close-range combat between knife and gun.
The Tueller Drill is a self-defense training exercise to prepare against a short-range knife attack when armed only with a holstered handgun.
Sergeant Dennis Tueller of the Salt Lake City Police Department wondered how quickly an attacker with a knife could cover 21 feet (6.4 m), so he timed volunteers as they raced to stab the target. He determined that it could be done in 1.5 seconds. These results were first published as an article in SWAT magazine in 1983 and in a police training video by the same title, "How Close Is Too Close?"[1][2]
A defender with a gun has a dilemma. If he shoots too early, he risks being accused of murder. If he waits until the attacker is definitely within striking range so there is no question about motives, he risks injury and even death. The Tueller experiments quantified a "danger zone" where an attacker presented a clear threat.[3]
The Tueller Drill combines both parts of the original time trials by Tueller. There are several ways it can be conducted:[4]
The (simulated) attacker and shooter are positioned back-to-back. At the signal, the "attacker" sprints away from the shooter, and the shooter unholsters his gun and shoots at the target 21 feet (6.4 m) in front of him. The attacker stops as soon as the shot is fired. The shooter is successful only if his shot is good and if the runner did not cover 21 feet (6.4 m).
A more stressful arrangement is to have the attacker begin 21 feet (6.4 m) behind the shooter and run towards the shooter. The shooter is successful only if he was able take a good shot before he is tapped on the back by the attacker.
If the shooter is armed with only a training replica gun, a full-contact drill may be done with the attacker running towards the shooter. In this variation, the shooter should practice side-stepping the attacker while he is drawing the gun.
MythBusters covered the drill in the 2012 episode "Duel Dilemmas". At 20 ft (6.1 m), the gun-wielder was able to shoot the charging knife attacker just as he reached the shooter. At shorter distances the knife wielder was always able to stab prior to being shot.[5]
Victim of robbery uses concealed draw from clinch to shoot robber
Robber reaches to hold victim in an effort to control him which creates and is related to further problems:
No reactionary gap
Reaches with left arm, helping conceal the draw of the victim's right arm
Wearing a hoodie which limits peripheral vision
The victim/victor then immediately transitions to the second robber.
Cop shoots through windshield to stop killers during pursuit
The officer fumbles a reload near the end of the video. This happens when he passes his gun from his right hand into his left, and uses his right hand to unbuckle the seat belt. He then keeps holding the gun in his left hand, pulls out a magazine with his right and attempts to insert it the wrong way around. He has likely never or very rarely trained to reload his gun in this manner as it's a fairly uncommon situation – firing a gun while driving and then unbuckling a seatbelt to exit the vehicle during a reload. Whenever something is attempted for the first time under stress, errors will almost certainly occur.
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About two hours after a man was shot and killed near Eastern and Owens, officers attempted to stop the suspect's vehicle but they did not comply. Officers followed the suspects, exchanging gunfire until the suspects crashed into a wall at Hollingworth Elementary School.
Kelly said one suspect, identified as Rene Nunez, 30, got out of the vehicle and ran up the stairs to the school. The door to the school was locked. The suspect in the passenger seat, identified as Fidel Miranda, 23, moved to the driver's seat and started to move the vehicle back towards the officer's car.
"Regarding shooting at or from a moving vehicle, our policy reads in part, it is policy of this department that officers will not discharge a firearm at or from a moving vehicle unless it is absolutely necessary to preserve human life," Kelly said.
Officer Paul Solomon fired one round from a shotgun at Miranda. He was placed in handcuffs, provided medical attention but was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene.
Nunez, who was also injured in the shooting with police, was arrested and taken to University Medical Center for treatment, Kelly said.
Kelly said the suspects fired 34 rounds at officers. Officer William Umana fired 31 rounds at the suspects and Solomon fired one round.
Both officers were placed on routine paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.


Rosewood is all geared up for Christmas and the winter premiere of Pretty Little Liars, Season 5.
However, things will not go as smoothly as fans expect as the dreaded A is still looming large to spoil the holiday cheer. The liars Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer, all believe Alison to be their tormentor A.
According to the official synopsis released by ABC Family, Mona's death is still haunting the liars and there is not much merry time left for them in Rosewood this Christmas as Spencer will be facing murder charges.
The rest of the group decide to help prove her innocence and are almost convinced that the murder charges are being framed by none other than Ali.
"Christmas is quickly approaching, and all of Rosewood is full of merriment, except for Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer, who aren't feeling much holiday cheer after the loss of Mona and Spencer's murder charge looming over them.
When an opportunity presents itself with the chance to get evidence to clear Spencer's name, the girls and their partners devise a plan to get justice for Mona and finally bring Alison down.
The summer fatal finale of the teen mystery thriller shocked fans with the brutal death of Mona, and the winter premiere will begin with the murder investigation.
The mystery of Alison will continue to haunt the liars as she has formed her own clique before coming to the Rosewood Christmas party.
Pretty Little Liars, Season 5 will air its next episode How The 'A' Stole Christmas, in December this year on ABC Family.


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Hot vampire dreams (no, it's not about Twilight)!
So, I added two more random scenes to the dreams(?) you get after Beatrix gets her fangs in you, worked on placing the two previous scenes in the game properly (I feel like I should start to work more on voluntary scenes, as the night events list is starting to get way too long), I added a new scene related to the Outcast pendant (I reworked one of the inhabitants of the slums to serve a more exciting purpose for this), and I did some work on another idea (still in the slums, involving the temple there), but that's not quite complete yet.
I am considering adding some changes to the way time flows in the game. I brought up this topic before, and I think the best approach might actually be to keep the day/night cycle, but remove the day/month tracker in the menu. I feel like it just feels "unnatural" to track the time so precisely, but do nothing with it, and all the ideas I have for making it relevant are kind of a waste. Instead, I'll introduce a new mechanic were you can take some time off after exploring one of the temples, to compile your notes and observations and that triggers the advancement to a new "chapter" of the game. This way, players can do all the quests before moving on, and I have a simple system to gate content and "tick" time forward (for example, this way I can always know for certain quests which one you did before, or I can make the works near the Zanti farm be finished at the start of a new chapter, etc).
I would still keep track of the moon cycle, and show it in the menu, I feel that's enough info to play around with that part of the game, without requiring months/days to be in.
Do you think you guys would be okay with this? It seems like a good way to still have free exploration, while giving me some breathing room on having to worry about sequence-breaking and similar issues which come from a completely open setting. It would also work toward making temple exploration more important in the game, but let me know what you think.
In other news, this is actually the first month of non-growth for the donations (overall they shrunk a bit, actually), hopefully the support didn't peak here, as I'd like to fund some more content for the game through it. Maybe I'll try to think of something to make the project more enticing (maybe write short stories and make them available only beyond a certain tier?), because I believe I can do a little better on that side.
This month we'll get 2 new artworks, after all (Redjet managed to find the time to work on the second commission this month as well), but one of them is a new title screen, and that needs some additional content to it before I can put it in the game (I'll post a preview on Patreon for it anyway, though, so people can see what we are going to get in the future).
I hope I am not forgetting anything (as usual), but do let me know if I did. See you next week! ^_^
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Today (26th January 2013) the Vernissage of Plotbot KENs solo show took place in the XLAB. A lot of new artworks, installations, a 40 minutes video of Plotbot painting chemical tanks and live music by DJ Gigo da Bwoy made that event a success all along the line. Plotbots exhibition wasn't just frequented by art fans and friends, even a lot of street artist came to enjoy the great art and pay respect to the artist who is slowly becoming a star in the street art scene.
The exhibition will be running until the 22nd of February 2013. For further information check the Website of the XLAB below or the links of Plotbots pages in our posts from the past.
Two Posts that we wrote about Plotbot KEN can be found here and here.
The link for the event on Facebook can be found here.


The birth of the postage stamp dates back to May 6, 1840, when Britain issued its first stamp, the "Penny Black." But, how did people receive mail before this time, and what led to the idea of using stamps?
Primitive message systems have been in place as long as man has been in existence. Until 1840, however, regardless of how primitive or how elaborate, all these systems operated without the benefit of a postage stamp.
In the early days of the postal service, stamps and envelopes did not exist. (For the most part, envelopes were not used because they were considered to be an additional sheet of paper which cost more to send.) When you wanted to send a letter you would fold it up and seal it shut, and the person who received the letter had to pay for the delivery costs. Since rates at that time were very high, many people refused to accept letters. In fact, many people developed secret codes by which they could cheat the postal services. They would place secret marks on the outside of the letter that conveyed their message and all the addressee had to do was read the secret message, refuse to accept the letter, and thus not have to pay for it. Mainly for this reason, postal services turned to a means of prepaying postage.
Post Office Reforms and the Stamp!
In 1837 Sir Rowland Hill, the British Postmaster General, introduced the "Post Office Reforms" whereby the mail could go anywhere in the British Isles at the same rate (a penny a half-ounce); the postage was to be paid by the sender -- not the addressee; and payment was receipted by placing a small piece of colored paper on the outside of the letter -- THE STAMP! Of course Hill's proposal was heavily debated for a few years, but after serious discussion the change was enacted and instituted in 1840. Thus on May 6, 1840 (first date of valid use) the first government-printed postage stamps were born.
Sir Rowland Hill himself designed the first stamp which cost one penny and bore the profile of Queen Victoria. Because the stamp was printed in black, the 1-cent stamp soon became known as the "Penny Black" -- the world's most popular stamp. These first stamps were imperforate, meaning that people had to cut apart the sheets of stamps. The first perforated stamps did not appear until 1854 (1857 in the United States, 1854 in Great Britain).
The popularity of this new system of sending mail and collecting the fee in advance spread fast and it didn't take long for other countries to use similar systems. In 1847, the United States Post Office Department printed its first stamps, a 5-cent stamp picturing Benjamin Franklin and a 10-cent stamp picturing George Washington.
With the birth of stamps came the birth of stamp collectors or philatelists as they have become known. Shortly after adhesive postage stamps were introduced by Great Britain in 1840, people began collecting them. In 1841, a women even placed an advertisement in the London Times in which she requested help in collecting stamps so that she could paper a bedroom wall.
The two terms philately and philatelist, which refer to the collection and study of postage stamps, were derived from the Greek word phileo, meaning "I love" and ateleia, meaning "free of charges", in the sense that postage stamps replaced a cash postal charge. As people began to collect these interesting pieces of paper, no one realized how valuable stamps could become.
The advent of special commemorative stamps greatly increased the popularity of the hobby. The first U.S. stamps issued to specifically commemorate (remember and honor) our history were issued in 1893 to celebrate Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World. A few of those 1893 Columbian stamps are now worth thousands of dollars!
Stamps have undergone many changes since that first stamp in 1840. They have been perforated, coiled, and printed in many different colors. Stamps have been introduced in many types, formats, and designs.


"Urbanite," or waste concrete, is often free for the hauling and can make a good base. When the city required us to redo several sections of sidewalk, we had all the base material we needed for our oven.
Mixing clay and sand for the first layer. >> Because my subsoil was mixed with topsoil, using it to build with would have been very difficult. So instead I got half a dozen buckets of waste clay from a local potter. Together with sand from a nearby quarry, the clay worked great!
I love this oven, but next time I build one I would like to try out the two chamber approach outlined by Ernie and Erica. (They're supposed to make less smoke).
<<Urbanite foundation and the beginnings of cob construction. (Cob is a mixture of clay, sand and--sometimes--straw.) If you live where the ground freezes in winter, you should dig down several feet to start your foundation.
<<Working around the oven door makes it easy to get a good fit. Later on, when you are prepping the fire for cooking, you put the door on to soak in a bucket of water to help slow down the charring process.


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"I am, by right of birth and choice, your true Emperor! Not this Sith usurper, Krayt! It is to me that you all owe your allegiance."
The Empire-in-exile, also known as the "true" Empire, the Imperial Remnant, the Fel Imperium, or the Bastion resistance by Darth Krayt's Empire, was the faction of the former Fel Empire that still remained loyal to Emperor Roan Fel, following the Sith coup in 130 ABY.
During the Second Imperial Civil War, the Empire-in-exile fought the new Galactic Empire of Darth Krayt, eventually allying with the Galactic Alliance Remnant and the New Jedi Order. In 138 ABY, the One Sith were defeated at Coruscant and the Empire-in-exile, Galactic Alliance Remnant, and the New Jedi Order formed a new government known as the Galactic Federation Triumvirate.
As the Sith–Imperial War came to an end, Roan Fel was poised to establish his government on Coruscant. After a few days, the leader of the One Sith, Darth Krayt, arrived with Lords Nihl, Wyyrlok and Maladi and revealed their deception to Emperor Fel, killing his double, and seizing the throne for himself.
The real Emperor Fel escaped the assassination attempt, and after seven years as a fugitive landed on the planet Bastion and formed a government-in-exile to rule the former Imperial Space. Over the next several months of resistance, more and more Imperial military units defected to his territory, subsequently acquiring more, previously stripped, territories. His administration even attempted to form an alliance with the Galactic Alliance Remnant, though the meeting was sabotaged by Jor Torlin and Morrigan Corde, agents of the Empire. As a result, Stazi remained distrustful of Fel's Imperials, while the latter were banned from entering the Wheel.
A short time afterward, Masters Treis Sinde and Sigel Dare of the Imperial Knights planted three sets of bombs on board the prototype Advanced Star Destroyer Imperious, which would explode the moment the weapon systems were activated. However they didn't anticipate Stazi's plan to "liberate" the starship. The saboteurs were dispatched to rescue Monia Gahan from imprisonment on Dac and take her back to Stazi to disarm the bombs.
Fel's Empire-in-exile versus Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire.
However on Monia's demand, the pair rescued the rest of the Rogue Squadron members captured after the battle. Due to this display of good faith and the beginning of genocide against the Mon Calamarians, Admiral Gar Stazi agreed to discuss a possible alliance with Fel in order to fight their common enemy.
The first collaboration between the new allies took place during the Battle of Ralltiir, where the alliance nearly met its end when a Fel loyalist, Admiral Edouard Fenel, threatened with fire on defenseless lifepods in order to force the Sith-loyal Coruscant Third Fleet into surrender. Admiral Stazi did everything within its power to prevent the Fel loyalists to resort to the tactics of the enemy, coming close to open fire on them, also making it clear to Emperor Fel that the Galactic Alliance fleet were allies of the Empire-in-exile and not vassals.
A short time afterward, the Jedi agreed to collaborate with Admiral Stazi, even preventing an assassination attempt on his person. Emperor Fel also arranged to secretly meet with representatives of the Jedi on the planet Agamar.
At the end of the war, the Empire-in-Exile was merged with Darth Krayt's Empire. The Fel Empire became a part of the new government, the Galactic Federation Triumvirate, which consisted of K'Kruhk, Marasiah Fel and Gar Stazi.
The Bastion Second Fleet, one of the fleets loyal to Fel.
Following the Sith coup, the Imperial Armed Forces split among those loyal to Krayt and those loyal to Fel. By 130 ABY, the Stormtrooper Corps was merged with the Imperial Army, during the time of the previous state, the Fel Empire. Elements of the Army and Imperial Navy served Fel, however, their forces were considerably smaller and were not capable of an offensive for most of the Empire-in-exile's existence, until the Battle for Coruscant. The Navy used a variety of vessels, including Pellaeon-class Star Destroyers, Ardent-class fast frigates, and Predator-class fighters. Unlike Palpatine's original military, they accepted non-Humans into their ranks. Admiral Edouard Fenel and General Oron Jaeger were some commanders serving the Empire-in-exile, and many Sith loyalists ended up defecting to them.


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Q: How to change angular-material radio-button components? I tried to change the component radio button by the css in my code but it doesn't seem to work.
The normal behavior of this component is to have the button on the left and the label on the right and i want to inverse this order. I want to have the label on the left and the button on extreme right of my parent composant.
The radio composant in my xxx.component.html looks like that:
<mat-radio-group
   class="radio-group"
   [(ngModel)]="model">
   <mat-radio-button class="radio-button" *ngFor="let element of list" [value]="element.Id">
        {{element.name}}
   </mat-radio-button>
</mat-radio-group>

The radio component in chrome looks like that:
<mat-radio-group class="mat-radio-group radio-group">
   <mat-radio-button class="mat-radio-button radio-button">

...

...

   </mat-radio-button>
   ...
</mat-radio-group>

I tried to change the class "mat-radio-container" and put "left:100%!important" but it doesn't worked.
It seems that i can't change the behavior of subclasses, if i change the classes radio-group or radio-button that i created, i can have an influence on the component but i can't change mat-radio-container or mat-radio-label-content per example.
All the test i made was in the xxx.component.scss
Is someone know how i can put this button on the right or how i can change the "subclasses" of this element only in this component ?
edit: I want the label to be aligned on the left of the parent div and button aligned to the right of the parent div, not label on the left and the button closed to the label.

A: Since, "element.name" is just going to be the label for that particular radio button, Can you to put the interpolation
{{element.name}}

just left to the
<mat-radio-button>

tags, it seems to work, see the example for your reference,
Stackblitz example,

A: So i found the solution with the help of Santa:
HTML:
          <mat-radio-group
            class="radio-group"
            [(ngModel)]="xxx">

                        {{element.name}}

                        <mat-radio-button class="radio-button" [value]="element.id">
                        </mat-radio-button>

           </mat-radio-group>

CSS:
.left-radio-button {
  width:95%;
  display: inline-block;
}

.right-radio-button {
  width:5%;
  display: inline-block;
}


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Home/Music/Trey Songz Accused of Sexual Assault Once again
Trey Songz Accused of Sexual Assault Once again
Trey Songz is the latest public figure to be beneath investigation for sexual assault. The "Neighbors Know My Name" singer is presently under investigation by the state of Nevada right after a woman reported that he assaulted her.
Trey Songz performs in the course of his virtual Specific Valentine's Working day Live performance 2021 | Leon Bennett/Getty Illustrations or photos
This is not the initial time very similar promises have been produced from Songz. Keke Palmer accused Songz of misconduct. An additional girl also alleged that Songz employed his power against her in the course of a consensual come across.
Trey Songz is under investigation for sexual assault in Las Vegas
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told Individuals Journal that they gained "a report of a sexual assault incident alleged to have transpired at a resort in the 3700 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard." As it turns out, the incident included Songz. He is outlined on the report by his total legal identify, Tremaine Neverson, according to law enforcement. The incident continues to be below investigation by the department's intercourse crimes division.
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"Neverson is cooperating with the investigation. At this time, no arrests have been manufactured," the assertion reads. A rep for the singer did not immediately reply to the media outlet's ask for for comment.
A lady accused Trey Songz of sexual misconduct in 2020
In 2020, Songz denied a sexual misconduct allegation. A woman named Aliza claims the singer took her purse and refused to permit her leave his room.
"I saved asking, like, 'When can I go away, what time is it?' " Aliza claimed at the time, as described by Men and women Journal. "And he just, like, would not solution, he would just f——- ignore me. And I'm like, 'Okay.' And then he was like, 'You can go away when I go to my flight,' and I was like, "Kay, when's that?' Would not convey to me."
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She admits to a consensual sexual encounter but promises that Songz urinated on her with out her consent. She promises that she "didn't know what was taking place, he just did it."
Songz tackled the promises on social media, writing Aliza's accusation is "convenient" for somebody who seeks "to damage someone's existence." He included: "I usually remain silent on this but I truly feel that in several means the movement to battle for the gals who really have endured harassment and abuse on numerous degrees, has been hijacked by those people who locate it handy for themselves to appear up as they seek to demolish someone's daily life," he tweeted.
Keke Palmer accused Trey Songz of sexual intimidation
In 2017, Palmer claimed that Songz applied "sexual intimidation" in buy to make her appear in his tunes video clip. Songz introduced the video clip for his remix with Fabolous to the Travis Scott and Youthful Thug song "Pick Up the Cell phone," which highlighted Palmer. Palmer claimed she didn't give her consent for her impression to be applied in the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/enjoy?v=ZAv-NU5GQX0
Palmer states she thought of Songz to be a pal but that he "secretly filmed" her and "put me in the online video from my wishes." She even alleges she hid in a closet all through the video clip shoot to avoid being on digicam. Songz denied Palmer's allegation.
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In 2015, The Stanford Prison Experiment was released in theaters. The movie detailed an infamous 1971 experiment in which 24 college students were "put in prison." While the "experiment" was supposed to last for two weeks, it was terminated after just six days due to the psychological effects it was having on both the "guards" and "prisoners."
So what actually happened during the Stanford Prison Experiment? Why is it so infamous? Does the movie get everything right, or is it just a dramatization? Find out for yourself.
What Was the Stanford Prison Experiment?
After Stanley Milgram's experiment rocked the world of psychology, many people were left with questions about obedience, power dynamics, and the abuse of power. Philip Zimbardo, a professor at Stanford, wanted to explore these questions further. With a grant from the Navy, Zimbardo set up the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Could a person's role influence their behavior? This is the question Philip Zimbardo wanted to answer.
How Was the Stanford Prison Experiment Conducted?
Zimbardo and his team interviewed 70 applicants at Stanford who were willing to participate in the study for 14 days and receive $15 a day. They wanted to make sure that they chose the brightest and most mentally sound participants. After narrowing their applicants down to 24, the researchers flipped a coin and assigned the roles. Half of the participants would be prisoners and half would be guards.
The researchers then set up a basement at Stanford to look like a real prison. They were very serious about treating the experiment like a simulation. Prisoners were "arrested" in public and taken into the prison. (They were even booked, fingerprinted, and strip searched.)
Zimbardo's team also gave prisoners numbers that they were meant to use instead of their real name. They claimed that it would help give the prisoners a sense of anonymity and help the experiment.
Guards had pretty much free reign on how they could treat the prisoner, although they had two main rules:
Guards could not hit the prisoners
Guards could not put prisoners in solitary confinement ("the hole") for more than an hour
Zimbardo played the role of prison superintendent. His graduate students and research partners also played roles as members of the "parole board" and the prison warden.
Prisoners were tasked with certain activities like writing a letter home to their "visitors" and making a case to the parole board about why they should be let off. Guards also subjected the prisoners to "counts" in which they forced the prisoners to do jumping jacks, push-ups, and degrading tasks.
How Long Did the Stanford Prison Experiment Last?
It did not take long for the guards to abuse their power. Within one day, a guard hit one of the prisoners with his nightstick.
On the second day, the prisoners tried to rebel and their beds were taken away. To punish the prisoners, the guards shot a fire extinguisher into the cell. Guards used physical and psychological abuse, including sleep deprivation, to punish and intimidate the prisoners throughout the study.
The prisoners were forced to wear dressings and stocking caps the whole time. At some points, guards would put bags over the prisoners' heads. Since the study has ended, it has been compared to actions at the Abu Ghraib detention center – Zimbardo has written about the case and its parallels to the prison experiment since.
Why Did It Get Shut Down?
Very quickly, the guards started to abuse their power. The prisoners started to spiral. On the third day, Prisoner #8612 started to cry and scream uncontrollably. He threatened to harm himself and call a lawyer. To avoid potential psychological damage or a lawsuit, he was let go. Two other prisoners were let go in the next two days. One had refused to eat.
On the fifth day, Zimbardo's girlfriend (and former student) came to visit the experiment. Zimbardo and his team had been monitoring the experiment, and playing their roles in it, 24/7. When she saw the horrors of what was going on in the prison, she asked Zimbardo to end the "experiment" immediately. She even threatened to break up with him.
On the sixth day, Zimbardo ended the experiment.
Stanford Prison Experiment Movie
In 2015, a movie about the Stanford Prison Experiment was released on Netflix. The movie is no longer streaming on Netflix, but you can order the DVD version if you want to watch it. Although all movies based on true events are seen through a specific point of view, critics say that this is a very accurate portrayal of what happened during the experiment.
Why Was the Stanford Prison Experiment Unethical?
This experiment showed the world just how quickly people can abuse power when it's given to them. But it remains as one of the most controversial experiments in the world of social psychology. There are a few reasons why.
The first obvious one is the psychological abuse that the prisoners endured during the study. Is it ethical to put human subjects through that kind of distress and trauma, so much so that many couldn't endure the experiment?
(Zimbardo claims that none of the participants have suffered long-term psychological consequences from their participation.)
Was The Stanford Prison Experiment Fake?
In more recent years, critics have also come forward to say that the results were not as "natural" as Zimbardo and his team may want you to think. Transcripts and audio recordings from the Stanford Prison Experiment show that Zimbardo's team "coached" guards. They told them to be "tough" for the sake of the experiment.
Even the prisoners may have been "faking" their responses. Prisoner #8612, who is most well-known for his blood-curdling "I'm burning up inside!" has come forward to say that his time in the Stanford County Jail was more of an "improv exercise." Many critics have likened the experiment to a drama rather than a legitimate psychology experiment.
Carlo Prescott, the experiment's prison consultant, has also come forward to say that the experiment's more cruel treatments were not naturally thought up and executed by the guards alone. He wrote the following in an op-ed:
"Ideas such as bags being placed over the heads of prisoners, inmates being bound together with chains and buckets being used in place of toilets in their cells were all experiences of mine at the old "Spanish Jail" section of San Quentin and which I dutifully shared with the Stanford Prison Experiment braintrust months before the experiment started. To allege that all these carefully tested, psychologically solid, upper-middle-class Caucasian "guards" dreamed this up on their own is absurd."
The Lasting Effect of the Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment seems to have raised more questions than it answered. Where should psychologists draw the line when it comes to subjecting participants to distress? How easily can psychologists blur the lines of "experiment" vs. "simulation" or "drama?" And if the Stanford Prison Experiment didn't exactly answer its original questions about power dynamics and obedience, what similar experiments can? How can the Stanford Prison experiment be improved?
These are just some of the questions that psychologists face today. Maybe your work can help to figure out the answers!
Outgroup Bias (Definition + Examples)
Philip Zimbardo (Biography + Experiments)
Bobo Doll Experiment
The Stanford Marshmallow Test
The Milgram Shock Experiment


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Беярд () — місто () в США, в окрузі Моррілл штату Небраска. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Беярд розташований за координатами  (41.757193, -103.323015).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 1,80 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у 484 домогосподарствах у складі 315 родин. Густота населення становила 671 особа/км².  Було 557 помешкань (309/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,3 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 16,8 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 25,9 % — особи молодші 18 років, 54,4 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 19,7 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 40,3 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 98,2 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 92,3 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 13,0 % осіб, у тому числі 13,4 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 18,4 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 387 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 18,6 %, транспорт — 15,0 %, роздрібна торгівля — 12,9 %.

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Населені пункти округу Моррілл (Небраска)

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The aim of this study was to compare beat-to-beat changes in stroke volume (SV) estimated by two different pressure wave analysis techniques during orthostatic stress testing: pulse contour analysis and Modelflow,ie, simulation of a three-element model of aortic input impedance.
A reduction in SV was introduced in eight healthy young men (mean age, 25; range, 19–32 y) by a 30-minute head-up tilt maneuver. Intrabrachial and noninvasive finger pressure were monitored simultaneously. Beat-to-beat changes in SV were estimated from intrabrachial pressure by pulse contour analysis and Modelflow. In addition, the relative differences in Modelflow SV obtained from intrabrachial pressure and noninvasive finger pressure were assessed.
Beat-to-beat changes in Modelflow SV from intrabrachial pressure were comparable with pluse contour measures. The relative difference between the two methods amounted to 0.1±1% (mean±SEM) and was not dependent on the duration of tilt. The diference between Modelflow apoplied to intrabrachial pressure and finger pressure amounted to −2.7±1.3% (p=0.04). This difference was not dependent on the duration of tilt or level of arterial pressure.
Based on different mathematical models of the human arterial system, pulse contour and Modelflow compute similar changes in SV from intrabrachial pressure during orthostatic stress testing in young healthy men. The magnitude of the differnece in SV derived from intrabrachial and finger pressure may vary among subjects; Modelflow SV from noninvasive finger pressure tracks fast and brisk changes in SV derived from intrabrachial pressure.


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Q: Change CSS if number is greater than "x" Not sure if this is possible, or I might be going about it the wrong way. I am iFraming a live data stream from my employer and need to be able to change the color of a specific div if the number contained in it is greater than say 5:00.
So the code for the data stream looks like this

  Firstname.Lastname
  On Call (4:17 mins)
  Company 1

  Firstname.Lastname
  On Call (0:49 mins)
  Company 1

So basically I need to look at what is contained in the parentheses (e.g. On call(0:49 mins)). So if that turns into 5:00 mins or greater, I need the color to be red.
But I really have no idea how to make this happen. Using jQuery contains selector I was able to do it for everyone that said "On Call" but I need it to only look at ones that are greater than 5:00 mins.
Here is the jQuery I currently have:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".rowColour:contains(On Call)").css("color","red");
});

Is this doable? If so, how would I go about doing it? Any help would be VERY appreciated.

A: You have to extract the numbers, and as 5:00 can be converted to the number 500 you can check if it's above or below that etc. inside a filter.
$(document).ready(function(){
    $(".rowColour").filter(function() {
        var td = $('td:contains(On Call)', this);
        if (td.length === 0) return false;

        var time = td.text().replace(/\D/g, '');

        return time >= 500;

    }).css("color","red");
});

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Gbokopeteme is a village in the Lobaye region in the Central African Republic approximately  southwest of the capital, Bangui.

Nearby towns and villages include Zende (4.9 nm), Mbousi (7.3 nm), Dimbanga (7.4 nm), Ndimango (4.1 nm), Tongolo (5.3 nm), Peketo (5.3 nm), Bobangui (9.2 nm), Bogombe (9.0 nm) and Boyama (7.7 nm).

Populated places in Lobaye


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Idaho Press
Lawmakers ask city, other stakeholders for ideas on property tax reform
When Idaho legislators began on a new property tax bill, they brought in city representatives, but the relationship quickly soured, according to one representative.
Credit: Erin Banks Rusby/ Idaho Press
Author: Idaho Press, Erin Banks Rusby
Published: 3:25 PM MDT July 3, 2022
Updated: 3:25 PM MDT July 3, 2022
CALDWELL, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
When Idaho legislators began work on HB 389, a property tax bill, they brought city representatives to meetings for input.
But that working relationship quickly soured, recalled Idaho Rep. Mike Moyle, author and lead sponsor of that bill.
"When the city's representatives came in and the whole thing was, 'No; we're going to kill it in the Senate; we don't care what you do; we killed it in the Senate before; we're going to do it again' … we left them out after that," Moyle said.
Moyle, along with Sen. C. Scott Grow and Sen. Jim Rice, held a roundtable with mayors and county staff from across the Treasure Valley on Thursday to discuss that bill and what can be done to further provide property tax relief that works for cities. City officials from Boise, Caldwell, Eagle, Greenleaf, Nampa, Star, and others attended the roundtable at the Canyon County Public Administration Building.
Grow has been holding meetings with stakeholders such as the Idaho Farm Bureau, the Idaho Association of Cities, and the Idaho Association of Counties.
The effort is being made in an attempt to find solutions on the property tax issue. Property taxes continue to increase in Idaho and are causing a strain on homeowners throughout the state. The topic continues to be hotly debated among locals and those within the state's political sphere.
"We're trying to have a group that can actually move something and not get bogged down by so many ideas, so many conflicts and disagreements between the different groups that we can't do anything," Grow said.
House Bill 389 passed during the 2021 legislative session, despite bipartisan opposition and pushback from local government leaders. The law instigated a variety of changes, including increasing the homeowner's exemption from $100,000 to $125,000, and increasing the "Circuit Breaker" tax, which benefits low-income seniors and veterans.
The bill also specified an 8% cap on city budget growth each year, including a 5% cap on new construction and a 3% overall increase.
Ahead of the bill's passage, some lawmakers argued that it did not offer property tax relief in the way that indexing property taxes to home prices would. And it wouldn't allow tax districts to keep services on pace with growth.
At Thursday's roundtable, legislators expressed skepticism at calls to index the homeowner's exemption. Rice said this tends to affect renters, "which is a problem." Rice said he and legislators are looking to stakeholders and constituents for other solutions. (Rice recently lost the Republican primary race in District 9 to Abby Lee.)
Moyle said he hopes solutions on property tax will come from cities and other local stakeholders, and said the press has "done a good job of blaming the Legislature for the problem."
"As we talk about this, it's important that we all realize that the state doesn't collect (property tax), the state doesn't spend (property tax)," he said. "The only thing we can do is put constraints on it, which is what HB 389 did a little bit of."
City leadership on Thursday expressed concerns with how the law is affecting their communities.
Greenleaf Mayor Brad Holton, who has been a vocal critic of the bill's impact, said it has hurt his town's ability to accommodate desperately needed new housing due to the 8% cap on budget growth.
The law is forcing the city to consider halting building, a move that would help the city avoid creating two classes of people: those funding city services and those who are not, Holton said. The latter group would be above the 8% cap.
"The 8% cap is la-la land for the city of Greenleaf," Holton said. "It was two homes this last time. Two homes. And I will go upside-down past that point on my budget."
Greenleaf's situation is representative of 160 other small communities in Idaho, Holton said. The law has created a divide between large cities that get to benefit from the law and small ones that don't, he said.
"It truly is the defund-the-police-and-fire bill of the Idaho Legislature," he said.
Last year, the city of Caldwell did pass an up-to 120-day moratorium on development following the bill's passage.
Nampa Chief of Staff Rick Hogaboam questioned why legislators would not consider homeowners exemption indexing as a solution, though he acknowledged it would not solve the problem entirely. His father, a Vietnam War veteran, is paying more on his property taxes than he was five years ago, Hogaboam said. Local companies pay less in property taxes than their homeowner counterparts, he said. But indexing would allow his father to pay less and a local Walmart to pay more than they are currently, although the Walmart's taxes would still be lower than they were five years ago, he said.
Having conversations with residents about their property taxes feels fraught, Hogaboam said.
"You've got some bright people who are like, 'OK, what are the variables that are driving those various outcomes?' And we're saying it's assessed values, and the rules are not established by the city, and the county is constrained to do only what it's constitutionally mandated to do, that the rules are established in a way that's created those outcomes ... that's really frustrating," he said.
Caldwell Mayor Jarom Wagoner echoed the sentiment about the stark difference between residential and commercial property taxes.
"The value of our levies is going down, but the (value) of the homeowners' properties have gone up so much faster, that that levy, even though it's lower, they're paying more, and the commercial … has just steadily increased so that lower levy affects them where they pay significantly less," Wagoner said.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean called for looking at assessment policy to decrease the disparity between residential and commercial property tax rates. In some instances, the assessment for some big box stores has not changed in the past five years, she said.
When her office has asked the assessor to explain this, the assessor points to publicly available data on the Multiple Listing Service showing what people are selling their homes for, she said. However, there is not similar data readily available for commercial real estate, she said.
But when McLean has gone to commercial real estate conferences, the sentiment is, "'you got to have cash; things are selling in days; people are lining up; everybody wants retail,'" she said.
This information is not reflected in the valuations being made, she said.
"Many of us are talking about the need to look at assessments because somebody's paying, and right now, it's a homeowner, or retiree, or vet, and not a Walmart," McLean said, suggesting that perhaps state policy on assessments could address this.
Grow said ahead of next year's legislative session is the time for discussing policymaking with legislators. It's when lawmakers have "some time to listen to people," he said.
"The ideas have to be explored before we ever get there so that we have some idea of what we're going to propose," Grow said.
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