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Both sides are bit too tricky when it comes to spending
Economics Editor
May 17, 2019 — 11.55am
A key issue in this campaign has been whether government should be bigger or smaller. But that's not the way either side has wanted to frame it. As usual, both sides prefer to be seen as offering more government spending and tax cuts and a return to big budget surpluses. In election campaigns, the rules of arithmetic are flexible.
A twist this time is that Scott Morrison is using his promised super-mega $300-billion tax cuts to support his claim that the Libs are always the lower-taxing party, whereas Labor is invariably the party of higher taxes.
But such massive tax cuts surely require big cuts in government spending? Oh, gosh no. Where did you get that idea? As he and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg have repeatedly said, they're willing to "guarantee the essential services that Australians need and deserve".
For their part, Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen are promising to reverse a lot of the government's previous alleged spending cuts in health and education, while more than matching the first stage of the government's tax cuts and achieving bigger budget surpluses than it would. They would square this circle by "paying for our commitments by closing loopholes for the top end of town".
Only this week did Labor produce its detailed costings and figurings. We'll come to that.
Apart from this week's last-minute additions, all the government's costings and figurings were outlined in the April budget, of course, and confirmed a few days later in the pre-election update.
Actually, this government has a rather chequered history on the unmentionable subject of whether government should be bigger or smaller. The obvious advantage of a bigger government is that it provides more of the services we love, and doesn't skimp on their quality. The obvious advantage of a smaller government is less tax to pay.
When Tony Abbott came to government in 2013 determined to end debt and deficit ASAP, he pledged to do so solely by cutting government spending and avoiding any tax increases (apart from his temporary budget repair levy on high income-earners).
Trouble is, voters were so appalled by the sweeping cuts to health and education he proposed that his government's standing in the opinion polls plunged, never to recover. The Senate blocked many of his cuts.
The episode revealed what economists call the "revealed preference" of voters (not what they say, but what they do). They may like tax cuts and hate the idea of new or increased taxes, what they really don't want is smaller government.
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In subsequent budgets, the Coalition pretty much abandoned the notion of cutting its way back to surplus (apart, of course, for its regular cuts in things most voters didn't worry about – public servant numbers and payments to people on welfare).
It tried to limit the growth in government spending by following a rule that any new spending proposals had to be offset by equivalent cuts. Apart from that, it sat back and waited for "bracket creep" to raise tax collections to the point where the deficit disappeared.
Except for Malcolm Turnbull's first budget, in 2016. Here he proposed to phase in a cut to the rate of company tax, and covered part of its cost by pinching Labor's plan for huge increases in the tax on tobacco, and doing his own versions of Labor's plans to tax multinational companies and reduce superannuation tax concessions.
In the end, most of the plan to cut company tax was abandoned, but the tax raising measures stayed.
In the end, most of the plan to cut company tax was abandoned, but the tax raising measures stayed – a point to remember when Morrison and Frydenberg try to give you the impression it's only Labor that increases taxes or cuts back tax concessions (or increases taxes via bracket creep).
When Danielle Wood, of the Grattan Institute, looked more closely at Frydenberg's budget, she found the government had fiddled the figures to exaggerate the extent to which it had limited the growth in government spending so far, and now was claiming to be able to limit its average real growth to just 1.3 per cent a year over the next four years – something no government has ever come close to achieving.
The ageing of the population and the huge demands this will make on the budget make it even harder to credit.
Now Dr Peter Davidson, principal adviser to the Australian Council of Social Service, has taken Grattan's work and dug even deeper. He finds that, after you allow for expected population growth, real spending growth per person would be zero.
We're told that, still in real terms, spending on tertiary education is expected to fall by 0.6 per cent each year, while spending on dental health, and on family payments, are each expected to fall by 0.7 per cent.
Spending on employment services is expected to fall by 2.5 per cent and on social housing by 2.7 per cent.
You may believe that would happen should the Coalition be re-elected, but I don't. It's possible Morrison has a dastardly secret plan to "do another Abbott" after the election, but it's much easier to believe the government was just fudging the figures to make it seem it could afford big tax cuts as well as achieve big surpluses.
Meanwhile, Labor's costings reveal that "closing loopholes for the top end of town" is a misleading way to describe its various cutbacks of tax breaks affecting high-income earners and plan to restore the Coalition's budget repair levy for another five years.
But the costings are just that – costings of individual promises. Nowhere are we told what the various tax-raising measures add up to, nor what the various spending measures add up to.
We are, however, told that the former would exceed the latter by $17 billion over the next four years. Oh, well that's OK then.
Bit too tricky for my liking. When it comes to the size of government, neither side wants to spell it out truthfully before the election. Thanks, guys.
Ross Gittins is the Herald's economics editor.
Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.


The Cloud has become a commodity. According to a recent report from Novarica1, over 50 percent of study participants from across the insurance industry indicated that they have either implemented a Software-as-a-Service (Saas)-based core system running in the Cloud, or are considering it for 2016.
The Cloud's growing popularity has generated a multitude of claims and buzz words, yet it's still aimed primarily at one thing: lowering cost. It's not about providing the lowest cost since that often requires that fundamental needs are sacrificed. No, lowering cost implies that you get all the fundamentals for the best value.
It just so happens that the Cloud can effectively address the first three attributes more efficiently than most other environments, while functionality is really a characteristic of the software system itself, and is (mostly) independent of the cloud hosting environment.
Let's break these attributes down a little further.
When you see marketing material that expounds upon "clustering management" or the ability to quickly add nodes, servers, or hybrid/public/private offerings, ask yourself why these details are being emphasized. The Cloud is a commodity, and all offerings should already include these features. Without these items, it's not really a cloud offering, is it? These are the items that allow the Cloud to offer the nearly unlimited scalability in the first place.
All the leading cloud providers deliver a level of security (both physical and virtual) that is way beyond what mere mortals can comprehend, let alone recreate themselves. This is their business and they are really good at it. Good thing, too, because 70 percent of CIOs surveyed by Novarica cited security as their top priority.
Reliability features should be a given, too. Redundant compute servers that can fail over automatically, real-time replication of data, point-in-time-restore, and 99.99% uptime are all capabilities that are common in an enterprise environment, and should be assumed to be there in the Commodity Cloud.
Although the four fundamental features may define the core characteristics of a cloud offering, the means by which a provider accomplishes them will vary. Moreover, cloud hosting environments (and the corresponding SaaS system built on top of them) may change drastically over a period of months or years, based on the experience gained by the host provider. SaaS providers that take advantage of these Cloud offerings have the responsibility to continually adapt their systems to take advantage of the latest features.
At Instec, we chose to build our cloud offering on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. We find that the amazing speed at which Microsoft is innovating provides our customers with an ever-evolving, state-of-the-art environment that gives them the best value for their dollar. This is not to say that it isn't a challenge to keep pace with these innovations, and leverage them when appropriate, but as a vendor with a SaaS offering, we feel this is expected, and it should be as transparent as possible to our customers.
While cloud technology is finally making inroads into insurance, it's nothing new. Other industries have been experiencing cloud-enabled disruption for some time, and the top innovators in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are taking advantage of the Cloud's computing power and flexibility to create valuable SaaS systems for the insurance industry.
So, if the Cloud has become a commodity, providing a continually evolving set of infrastructure capabilities, it's time to shift our focus to the applications that run in it. These are the systems upon which insurers and MGAs will depend to create innovative new products. If you are looking for growth through innovation, is your system as fast and flexible as the cloud?
1 Ruzicka, Chuck, and Tom Benton. Cloud/SaaS in Insurance Core Applications. Novarica, Research Council Study. April 2016.
Mark Strelau has worked with technology since 1985 for companies such as Rockwell International Telecommunications, Argonne National Laboratory and at TRW in the Space and Technology Group (now part of Northrop Grumman). He joined Instec in 1993 to establish the architecture and led the development of Quicksolver, an object technology that provides a development platform and a distributed networked execution platform for Instec software products. He received an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University.


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2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 19. Counties and County Officers
§19-339.7. Community service program assessment.
Universal Citation: 19 OK Stat § 19-339.7 (2017)
A. As used in this section, "community service program" means a structured program for offenders sentenced to community service to work in or on any government property and designed to save public funds or improve the community that has been approved by a majority vote of the board of county commissioners of the county.
B. In any county in this state that has a community service program the county commissioners may, pursuant to a majority vote of the board of county commissioners of the county, impose a community service program assessment as provided for pursuant to the provisions of this section.
C. In every county in which a community service program assessment has been imposed pursuant to subsection B of this section, in addition to the imposition of any costs, penalties or fines imposed pursuant to law by the district court, any person convicted of, pleading guilty or nolo contendere to, or agreeing to a deferred judgment procedure under the provisions set forth in the Oklahoma Statutes for any felony or misdemeanor shall be ordered to pay a community service program assessment of at least Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), but not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), for each felony or misdemeanor for which the person is ordered to complete community service in the community service program of the county.
D. In every county in which a community service program assessment has been imposed pursuant to subsection B of this section, in addition to the imposition of any costs, penalties or fines imposed pursuant to law by the district court, a community service program assessment of at least Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), but not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), shall be levied by the court against the child at the time the child is adjudicated by the court as a delinquent child or agrees to a deferred adjudication, provided the delinquent child is ordered to complete community service in the community service program of the county.
E. In every county in which a community service program assessment has been imposed pursuant to subsection B of this section, in addition to the imposition of any costs, penalties or fines imposed pursuant to law, in any municipal court of record in which the defendant is ordered by the court to pay municipal court costs and to complete community service in the community service program of the county, the court shall levy and collect a community service program assessment of at least Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), but not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00). The municipal court clerk collecting said assessment is authorized to deduct ten percent (10%) of the amount collected for administrative costs.
F. All monies collected pursuant to subsections C, D and E of this section shall be forwarded monthly by the applicable court clerk to the community service program assessment revolving fund of the appropriate county created pursuant to subsection G of this section.
G. There are hereby created community service program assessment revolving funds in each county in which the county has levied an assessment pursuant to the provisions of subsection B of this section. Each such revolving fund shall be designated for use within the county to operate and administer a community service program and shall consist of all monies generated by such assessment. Monies in such funds shall only be expended for the purposes specifically designated as required by this section. A community service program assessment revolving fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations.
Added by Laws 2012, c. 179, § 2, eff. July 1, 2012.
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, form of skepticism that holds that the existence of God cannot be logically proved or disproved. Among prominent agnostics have been Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, and T. H. Huxley (who coined the word agnostic in 1869).
(Clinton Richard Dawkins), 1941– British evolutionary biologist and ethologist, b. Kenya, Ph.D. Oxford, 1966. He was a research assistant under Nikolaas Tinbergen at Oxford until 1967, then was an assistant professor of biology at the Univ.
See T. Whitmarsh, Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (2015).
a denial of the existence of god and of any supernatural being or force, and the concomitant rejection of religion. The content of the conception of atheism has changed in the course of history; it was closely bound up with the nature of the religious doctrines which predominated at different periods. Atheism should not be identified with deism, pantheism, or religious freethinking (the free interpretation of religious dogmas, the condemnation of religious intolerance, the criticism of church rites, and so on), which may have many points of close contact with atheism and may serve in many cases as a transition from belief to unbelief. Philosophical, historical, and natural-scientific critiques of religion are constituent parts of atheism.
In antiquity, atheism in its pure form was encountered rarely (the teachings of the Charvaka school in India, Lucretius in ancient Rome). Various forms of religious free-thinking were evident more frequently. In ancient Greece, people who rejected the gods of popular religions were called atheists (Sextus Empiricus notes the five best-known atheists of antiquity: Protagoras of Kos, Euhemerus of Crete, Protagoras of Abdera, Diagoras of Melos, and Theodorus of Cyrene). Xenophanes counterposed a single world deity to the anthropomorphism of the gods of Greek popular religion, which he criticized; he advanced the idea that it was precisely human beings who created gods after their own image and likeness. Various conceptions of the origin of religion have arisen: the idea, which can be traced back to Democritus, that belief in gods arises out of fear of the terrible forces of nature; the view of religion, ascribed to the Athenian tyrant Critias, as an invention of a cunning politician in order to rule over people; and so on.
In the Middle Ages, open atheism was not found; only anticlerical and freethinking tendencies can be observed in a number of medieval heresies, in the doctrine of double truth of ibn-Rushd and ibn-Sina, in the legend of the "three deceivers" (Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad), and so on.
The formation of the capitalist mode of production necessitated the development of science, which led to conflicts between science and the church and religious dogma. "Science rose up against the church; the bourgeoisie needed science and took part in this rebellion" (F. Engels, in K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 22, p. 307). The anticlerical work of the humanists of the Renaissance (P. Pom-ponazzi, L. Valla, U. von Hutten, and Erasmus of Rotterdam), and the works of N. Copernicus, G. Bruno, G. Galileo, and others, which substantiated the heliocentric picture of the world, played a prominent role in undermining the spiritual dictatorship of the church. The criticism of the Christian ideas of a personal god, of the transcendental nature of god, of the creation of the world out of nothing, and the like led many thinkers to pantheism (G. Bruno, L. Va-nini, B. Spinoza), deism (F. Bacon, T. Hobbes, and I. Newton), and skeptical rationalism in questions of religion (M. Montaigne, P. Bayle, and Voltaire).
Atheism in the 19th century was connected, in large measure, to the achievements of natural-scientific thought. In particular, the materialism of L. Büchner, C. Vogt, and J. Moleschott and the evolutionary theory of C. Darwin served as the ideological basis of atheism. Drawing on Darwinism, E. Haeckel developed his notion of natural-scientific "monism" and organized the Union of Monists to struggle against the religious world view. F. Nietzsche criticized Christianity and religion from the standpoint of an ir-rationalist philosophy of life (for example, his famous words, "god is dead").
In the 20th century, irrationalist criticism of religion was developed in so-called atheistic existentialism (M. Heidegger, J. P. Sartre, A. Camus). In the spirit of his conception of psychoanalysis, S. Freud rejected religion (The Future of an Illusion, 1927; Russian translation, 1930). Bourgeois atheistic associations began to spring up at the end of the 19th century; they published journals and almanacs and held congresses. During the present period, national societies of freethinkers of different countries are joined together in the World Association of Freethinkers (founded in 1880 in Brussels; 34th congress in 1963). B. Russell's work (Why I Am Not a Christian, 1927; Russian translation, 1958) is an example of the present-day elucidative critique of Christianity.
In Russia the development of freethinking and atheism was connected with progressive Russian thought of the 18th and 19th centuries. At its sources stood M. V. Lomonosov and A. N. Radishchev, whose world view took shape in the channel of deism. The Russian revolutionary democrats V. G. Belinskii, A. I. Herzen, N. G. Chernyshevskii, and D. I. Pisarev linked atheism directly with the tasks of the struggle against serfdom. The natural-scientific tradition of the critique of the religious world view was developed in the works of I. M. Sechenov, I. I. Mechnikov, and K. A. Timiriazev.
The materialist conception of history worked out by K. Marx and F. Engels led to the elaboration of scientific views of religion as a social phenomenon. In his work Toward a Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right, Marx showed that it was not enough to reduce religion to false views and errors resulting from limited knowledge of nature; he regarded religion as the realization of objective social necessity in the illusory supplementation of reality. In Marx's words, "religious poverty is at the same time the expression of real poverty and a protest against this real poverty. Religion is the sigh of an oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a callous system. Religion is the opium of the people" (K. Marx and F. Engels, Sock., 2nd ed., vol. 1, p. 415). A false social reality engenders false ideas, the elimination of which is bound up with the implementation of the most profound transformations of real human relations and becomes possible when "the relations of people's practical daily lives are expressed in transparent and reasonable ties among themselves and with nature" (K. Marx, ibid., vol. 23, p. 90). Thus, the problem of overcoming religion and the concomitant analysis of those socio-historical conditions which engender religiosity and those social tendencies and mechanisms which assure the maintenance and reproduction of religious prejudices become central in the Marxist critique of religion.
Developing the teachings of Marx and Engels, V. I. Lenin formulated a conception of the social, economic, historical, and gnoseological roots of religion, demanding "the materialistic explanation of the source of faith and religion among the masses" (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 17, p. 418). Noting the earthly origin of religion as one of the forms of "spiritual oppression" (ibid., vol. 12, p. 142), Lenin writes that "in addition to fantasy, Gemüth [feeling], the practical side, the search for something better, for protection, for aid, etc." (ibid., vol. 29, p. 53) are extremely important in religion. G. V. Plekhanov, A. Bebel, P. Lafargue, J. Dietzgen, and other Marxists played important roles in the dissemination and development of scientific atheism.
After the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the mass withdrawal of believers from religion, the Soviet Union became the world's first country of mass atheism; the right of atheistic propaganda was secured in the Constitution (art. 127). The decree of Feb. 5, 1918, separating church from state and school from church, initiated the actual implementation of freedom of conscience. Emancipation from religious prejudices is a constituent part of the communist education of the people and is carried out by the Party at all stages of socialist construction.
In the USSR, the voluntary League of Militant Atheists was established in 1925. At various times, atheistic publications have been issued; they included the newspaper Bezbozhnik (Atheist, 1922–41) and the journals Bezbozhnik (1925–41), Ateist (Atheist, 1922–30), and Voinstvuiushchii ateizm (Militant Atheism, 1931). The atheistic journals Nauka i religiia (Science and Religion, since 1959) and Liudina i svit (Man and the World, since 1965) are presently published. The course Fundamentals of Scientific Atheism has been introduced into universities and pedagogical, medical, agricultural, and cultural and educational institutions of higher education and specialized secondary schools. Training of cadres in atheistic propaganda is conducted by special atheistic departments of evening universities of Marxism-Leninism, in study groups, and the like. The specialized Institute of Scientific Atheism was established as part of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1964. The current stage of communist construction in the USSR confronts atheistic education with new tasks. Broad dissemination has been given to concrete sociological research on religiosity, which aids in explaining the specific reasons for the existence of religious prejudices under socialism and aids in developing real means to overcome them. The course of social progress is evidence that, despite the power of religious traditions, the process of secularization now involves the most diverse strata of the populations of many countries of the world and is establishing the necessary solid foundation for the development of the atheistic world view. The radical changes taking place in the world, as well as a certain evolution in the social doctrine of Christianity, has created the preconditions for genuine cooperation between believers and nonbelievers in their joint social struggle.
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He cannot protect minorities and is openly biased against atheists.
Myrisa Spencer, 40, is an atheist and separated from her husband.
If being an atheist truly makes people that immoral, the prisons should be flooded with a significantly disproportionate and high number of atheists.
In 2006 Mehta was considering the value of sharing the atheist viewpoint with those who follow various faith traditions, not necessarily to turn them away from religion but to improve their religious practice.
Atheists are a danger to humanity but the others follow a strict interpretation of Islam.
In ancient Roman, early Christians were persecuted as atheists because they worshiped a different god than those officially sanctioned and worshiped by the government.
When it comes to religious groups, in 2015 Gallup poll respondents were significantly more comfortable with candidates from a faith community than they were atheists.
They speak with Hindus turned atheists who are working to rehabilitate temple prostitutes, former Jews who are barricading bulldozers in Palestine, and ex-Catholics fighting the illegal imprisonment of accused "witches" in Africa.
Minnesota Atheists is a 501(c)(3), educational organization that seeks to promote the positive contributions of atheism to society and to maintain separation of state and church.
The inclusion of American Atheists at the event is notable because last year the group was disinvited after its president, David Silverman, made televised remarks that upset some conservatives.
Releasing a written statement about the issue, Ateizm Derney-i argued that Hatipoy-lu, during a Ramadan program titled "Nihat Hatipoy-lu ile yftar Saati" aired in July by the private ATV channel, which is broadcast throughout the country, exceeded the limits of criticism by insulting atheists with the words: "Every atheist in fact resorts to God.
They say the church's large influence in Utah has made atheists in the state reluctant to speak about religious doubts for fear of being shunned.


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Naim Go Deeper: Country
"Country is a broad church, There are hip-hop, R&B and pop influences as well as rock, folk and more." C2C festival director Milly Olykan. This month, we've chosen the country genre as our playlist special.
Country music can divided into 6 generations. 20's, 30-40's, 50-60's, 70-80's, 90's and 2000-now. From early hillbilly, bluegrass, folk and gospel right through to country pop, alt country and country rap… country boasts so much history and many sub-genres.
We've delved deeper into the stories of our top 3 playlist tracks this month.
I Can Get Off On You - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
Waylon & Willie is a duet album by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, released on RCA Victor in 1978. It stayed at #1 album on the country album charts for ten weeks.
Jennings was famously arrested in '77 after a long lasting cocaine addiction which started when he was living with Johnny Cash in the mid 60's. Nelson, also known as a notorious pothead, celebrate the triumph of new love or past vices.
Ain't Leaving Your Love - Townes Van Zandt
Ain't Leaving You Love is on the 1987 released album At My Window. This was Van Zandt's first studio album in the nine years that followed 1978's Flyin' Shoes, and his only studio album recorded in the 1980s.
Ain't Leavin' Your Love features an unusual saxophone solo and the record overall marks Van Zandt's songwriting, described as a 'gentle hard living man, one of the finest songwriters to have ever worked in a country-folk vein'.
'Big Cheeseburger and Good French Fries' is from the 2010 released record Sittin' By The Road which captures Blaze Foley on his earliest known recordings. Described as 'straightforward and strong', the record contains a dozen tracks recorded during Blaze's 'treehouse' days in Georgia. It was recorded in the mid 1970s on a home reel to reel machine.
Foley's music is featured prominently in a feature-length documentary film about him entitled Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah, released in 2011 by filmmaker Kevin Triplett.
From dedicated TV channels, festivals, feature films and award shows - the country music genre goes so deep into the history of popular music and modern culture. We invite you to add your favourite country tracks to our collaborative Spotify playlist.
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Home News Bennett College has advanced to accreditation candidacy status with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS)
Bennett College has advanced to accreditation candidacy status with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS)
Posted by Bennett College
Greensboro, N.C. — Bennett College has advanced to accreditation candidacy status with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS). TRACS candidacy status grants Bennett accreditation privileges—including access to federal funding—as the college proceeds through the accreditation process's final stages.
Bennett's President Suzanne Walsh and the Board of Trustees were informed of the TRACS decision on October 26. TRACS publicly announced new candidates some weeks later.
"This is a momentous day for the entire Bennett family and a major accomplishment for our institution," said President Walsh.
After completing the rigorous application stage that included intensive self-study documentation, financial audits, and site evaluations this summer, the college was commended by TRACS' evaluation team for "the institution's strong leadership team" and for "offering programs and activities to students that have created a dynamic 'Belle Community.'"
"It is significant to note that an accreditation body commended us in two distinct areas, and it affirms that we are on a clear, secure path forward as our students, staff, faculty, alumnae and supporters all work together to reimagine Bennett College," commented Walsh. The completion of the TRACS accreditation process must take place within the next five years.
"TRACS accreditation ensures Bennett continues to be eligible for Title III and Title IV funding, and our students continue to be eligible for federal financial aid, including Pell Grants and federal work-study programs," said Gladys Robinson, Chair of the Board of Trustees of Bennett College. "We are also pleased that our TRACS accreditation ensures the college credits our students earn will remain recognized by other institutions and graduate programs."
With this announcement, Bennett is set to become one of several HBCUs to join TRACS.
"As the first Historically Black College and University member of TRACS, Paul Quinn College is thrilled to welcome Bennett College to the TRACS family," said Paul Quinn president,
Michael Sorrell. "We have steadfastly maintained for the last decade that TRACS represented a unique opportunity for smaller, faith-based colleges and universities, especially those with the historical missions of HBCUs. We trust that Bennett will discover what we have: that TRACS is a wonderful place, filled with supportive colleagues who will push your school to become the very best version of itself."
Other historically Black colleges that are also affiliated with TRACS include Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, which was granted full accreditation in October, and Atlanta's Morris Brown College, which earned approval on its TRACS accreditation application.
The U. S. Department of Education, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) recognizes TRACS as an accrediting body. The college also remains accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Bennett has continued to offer baccalaureate degrees, federal financial aid, and scholarships.
For updates on Bennett College's accreditation status, visit www.bennett.edu/bcau/.
For more information about the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) accrediting commission, visit www.tracs.org.
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Q: How to parse array values from Json in Jmeter For the below response I need to fetch the rideId and pass it to the next request in Jmeter.Also ,the API that generates below response should be executed until the eventType is HANDSHAKE.
 [{"id":90856,"eventType":"HANDSHAKE","parameters":"{\"handshakeExpiration\":1669217518986,\"rideId\":3107}"}]

I am using the code :
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper;
def jsonSlurper=new JsonSlurper();
def apiDetailsArr=jsonSlurper.parse(prev.getResponseData())
def apiDetails=apiDetailsArr.size()>0?apiDetailsArr.get(0):null
def shouldRun = "1"
if(apiDetails!=null)
{
log.info("details",apiDetails.eventType+"")
if(apiDetails.eventType="HANDSHAKE"){
shouldRun="0"
}
def object=jsonSlurper.parseText(apiDetails.parameters)
log.info("xyz",object+"")

def id=object.rideId;
log.info("id",id+"")
vars.put("id", id+"")
}
else{
shouldRun="1"`enter code here`
}

 `Condition for while controller :     `${__javaScript( "${shouldRun}" != "0",)}``

A: *

*All your log.info function calls cause syntax errors, you can see it yourself in (surprise!) the jmeter.log file

*I fail to see where you're assigning shouldRun JMeter Variable which is used in the While Controller

Suggested code change:
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper;

def jsonSlurper = new JsonSlurper();
def apiDetailsArr = jsonSlurper.parse(prev.getResponseData())
def apiDetails = apiDetailsArr.size() > 0 ? apiDetailsArr.get(0) : null
def shouldRun = "1"
if (apiDetails != null) {
    log.info("details", apiDetails.eventType + "")
    if (apiDetails.eventType = "HANDSHAKE") {
        shouldRun = "0"
    }
    def object = jsonSlurper.parseText(apiDetails.parameters)
    log.info("xyz" + object)

    def id = object.rideId;
    log.info("id" + id)
    vars.put("id", id as String)
} else {
    shouldRun = "1"
}

vars.put("shouldRun", shouldRun)

More information on Groovy scripting in JMeter: Apache Groovy: What Is Groovy Used For?

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Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) Receives New Coverage from Analysts at Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company initiated coverage on shares of Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO – Get Rating) in a research report sent to investors on Tuesday, The Fly reports. The firm issued an overweight rating on the oil and gas producer's stock.
A number of other equities analysts have also weighed in on MRO. Citigroup dropped their price target on shares of Marathon Oil from $31.00 to $30.00 and set a neutral rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 13th. StockNews.com lowered shares of Marathon Oil from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 5th. Mizuho reiterated a neutral rating and issued a $32.00 price target on shares of Marathon Oil in a research report on Tuesday, January 10th. Jefferies Financial Group began coverage on shares of Marathon Oil in a research report on Wednesday, October 19th. They issued a hold rating and a $30.00 price target for the company. Finally, Evercore ISI began coverage on shares of Marathon Oil in a research report on Thursday, January 5th. They set an outperform rating for the company. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have given a hold rating, ten have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Marathon Oil presently has an average rating of Moderate Buy and an average price target of $33.44.
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Marathon Oil Stock Performance
Shares of NYSE MRO opened at $27.85 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $28.01 and a 200 day moving average of $26.61. The company has a current ratio of 1.08, a quick ratio of 1.04 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. The firm has a market capitalization of $17.63 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.35, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.30 and a beta of 2.43. Marathon Oil has a 12-month low of $17.84 and a 12-month high of $33.42.
Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, November 2nd. The oil and gas producer reported $1.24 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.19 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $2.25 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.07 billion. Marathon Oil had a net margin of 46.11% and a return on equity of 27.76%. On average, research analysts anticipate that Marathon Oil will post 4.48 earnings per share for the current year.
In other news, CFO Dane E. Whitehead sold 172,230 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $31.86, for a total value of $5,487,247.80. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 205,870 shares of the company's stock, valued at $6,559,018.20. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. In other news, CAO Rob L. White sold 2,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $32.31, for a total value of $64,620.00. Following the sale, the chief accounting officer now owns 41,377 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,336,890.87. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CFO Dane E. Whitehead sold 172,230 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $31.86, for a total transaction of $5,487,247.80. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 205,870 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,559,018.20. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 419,601 shares of company stock valued at $13,493,768. 0.52% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in MRO. Wellington Management Group LLP increased its stake in Marathon Oil by 1,220.4% in the 1st quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 8,754,588 shares of the oil and gas producer's stock worth $219,828,000 after buying an additional 8,091,570 shares during the period. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its stake in Marathon Oil by 60.1% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 7,739,802 shares of the oil and gas producer's stock worth $194,346,000 after buying an additional 2,904,140 shares during the period. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership increased its stake in Marathon Oil by 3,527.3% in the 1st quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership now owns 2,735,575 shares of the oil and gas producer's stock worth $68,690,000 after buying an additional 2,660,158 shares during the period. Encompass Capital Advisors LLC increased its stake in Marathon Oil by 173.0% in the 2nd quarter. Encompass Capital Advisors LLC now owns 3,794,020 shares of the oil and gas producer's stock worth $85,290,000 after buying an additional 2,404,020 shares during the period. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC increased its stake in Marathon Oil by 521.5% in the 2nd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 2,861,046 shares of the oil and gas producer's stock worth $64,316,000 after buying an additional 2,400,700 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 77.30% of the company's stock.
About Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil Corporation operates as an independent exploration and production company in the United States and internationally. The company engages in the exploration, production, and marketing of crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids, and natural gas; and the production and marketing of products manufactured from natural gas, such as liquefied natural gas and methanol.
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The Big British Auk Adventure Part 2 – Brighton Beach Memoir | Great Auk - or Greatest Auk?
The better to get into the spirit of the thing, we took ourselves by train from London to Brighton.
It was a marvelous thing, Brighton; a sort of proto-Coney-Island, only you can see France. That is, I saw a blur that logically had to be France, off on the horizon.
We rented a couple of miserable rusty bikes from a man on the boardwalk. The Inimitable Todd had an idea that we were going to get to Beachey Head and re-enact the cover of 20 Jazz Funk Greats, so off we went.
At first it was lovely. The sun was shining, little birds popped up here and there and whizzed off across the road before I could spot them. We gained some elevation, and were soon biking on a convenient trail along the edge of a cliff – the perfect spot to spot a Kestrel. And so I did.
Kestrels Falco tinnunculus, like the American pocket version Falco sparverius, have a neat trick of hovering while searching for prey. Sometimes, indeed they are referred to as Windhovers. This should have been a clue. But we blithely went on, picking up my life Jackdaws (elegant in their black and grey) soon after.
…. and eventually we realized that the if we went much further our chances of getting the bike back to the rental place before it closed would be in doubt. Stopping at a little bike shop to get some tire air and a map, we discovered that our quest… would fail. We were still an hour away from Beachey Head by the most optimistic estimate. So we turned around.
Then we learned what Windhover already knew: the wind was up. We'd noticed it in a general sort of way when it was a tail wind, but now we were traveling into its teeth. Highly unpleasant.
Thus, tragically, we were forced to stop at the wildlife reserve. It was quieter now; there was absolutely nothing birdwise behind the cunningly-designed bird blind that looked over the small tract of marsh, and the Moorhens had disappeared. I did spot what I was pretty sure was a Greenfinch, but pretty sure isn't good enough to add a bird to the old life list when you're unfamiliar with the avifauna of the entire country.
Shortly thereafter, I veered off the road and crashed into a fence.
Happily, the fence was not electrified and had no pointy bits. It was just a bit of wire strung through some weeds and fixed to posts. I didn't sustain any serious injuries, nor did the bike. It did put a damper on my mood for the rest of the trip back, though.
We got our bikes returned just in time to find the bike shack still open, and just in time to restore ourselves to a civilized state through the judicious application of tea and little sandwiches. Also just in time to miss the last bus that would have taken us directly to our destination had we but known of its existence in the morning, instead of deducing it from passing it a dozen times on the road. Ah well.
There was still another bus that went within a few miles of the Head. It dropped us at the end of a bucolic road, with a sidewalk that quickly tapered out and left us walking through along the sides of vast fields full of shaggy, odd-eyed sheep, or rich stands of what looked like excellent hay. There were few cars, and where the road plunged briefly into the woods we passed a complex of slate-roofed buildings and a pair of large, rather dangerous-looking pigs. A vast crowd of assorted black birds circled overhead, accumulating for their evening roost. For the first time, I really felt England – farmland is flesh, and I finally had some under my shoes.
The great chalk cliffs rose ahead of us. A cheery little pub sat at the bottom, and a lighthouse at the top. Of course, the cliff in question still wasn't actual goddamn Beachey Head, but the sun was going down, and what the hey? We climbed.
At the top, we got blown by the wind and we watched the sun set.
On the way back to the bus stop, a Wood Pigeon called….


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The four UNL students to earn Critical Language Scholarships are (clockwise from top left) Skylar Falter, Christopher Reznicek, Michael Schuster and Zachary Smith.
Four UNL students won highly competitive Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes. The program, through the U.S. Department of State, selected 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students, including UNL's Skylar Falter, Christopher Reznicek, Michael Schuster and Zachary Smith.
The program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering "critical" foreign languages. The scholarships are particularly important because of their highly competitive nature and because they give students intensive, in-country language immersion experience that is so useful for their continuing study. They can also sometimes serve as a gateway to encourage students to other international scholarship programs, like the Fulbright U.S. student program, said Laura Damuth, UNL's director of national and international fellowships.
Falter, of Lincoln, studied Mandarin for four years before traveling to Xi'an, China. After graduating from UNL with a degree in bioengineering with a focus in environmental engineering, Faltar hopes to become a global leader between the United States and China to solve critical issues in energy sustainability and food security.
Reznicek, from Bentonville, Ark., is a recent UNL graduate and studied Korean in Jeonju, South Korea. He chose the Critical Language Scholarships program because he accepted a job at LG U+ in Daejeon, South Korea, and wanted to be as prepared as possible. He will continue to work in South Korea and has hopes to work in the future as a high-level manager in Asia at a global technology or engineering firm.
Schuster, an art history graduate, studied Arabic in Tunis, Tunisia. After studying abroad he plans to attend graduate school with a focus on Middle Eastern studies, where he hopes to study the influence of art and culture on social movements in the Muslim majority world.
With degrees in both music (vocal performance) and political science, Smith traveled to Amman, Jordan, this summer. The Troy, Wis., native had traveled to Jordan previously in summer 2010 under a Boren scholarship where he honed his Arabic language skills. During his most recent stay, Smith wanted another summer of intensive language work to bolster his Arabic before beginning graduate study of Middle East politics. He hopes to work in public service focusing on the Middle East, with likely work in the U.S. Foreign Service or other agencies.
The Critical Language scholarships in 2012 sent students to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangl/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish or Urdu languages. The students spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes in 14 countries where these languages are spoken. The program provides fully funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences. The program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their careers.
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Snowy Owl: Large, white owl with variable black bars and spots. The head is round and lacks tufts, eyes are yellow, and the bill is black. Feathered feet and toes provide protection from the arctic cold. Direct flap-and-glide flight with powerful, deep wingbeats. North America's only all-white owl.
Wood Stork: Large, odd wading bird, mostly white except for black flight feathers and tail. Upper neck and head are featherless and dark gray. The bill is thick, long, and curved downward. Legs and feet are gray black. Alternates between strong wing beats and gliding. Soars on thermals and updrafts.
Sandhill Crane: This large wading bird has a gray body, white cheeks, chin, and upper throat, and a bright red cap. It has a dark bill, yellow eyes and black legs and feet. It has a direct steady flight on heavy and labored wing beats, with a slow down stroke and a rapid and jerky upstroke. Flies in V or straight line formations. Diet is heavy in seeds and cultivated grains. Sexes are similar.
Gyrfalcon
Gyrfalcon: Large northern falcon with three color morphs: dark, white, and gray. Dark morph is dark gray with pale streaks on throat and upper breast. White morph is white with dark spots and markings on wings, nape, and sides. Gray morph is a mix. The eyes, bill, and legs of all morphs are yellow.
Brewer's Blackbird: Medium-sized blackbird with purple gloss on head and neck and green gloss on body and wings. Eyes are yellow. Follows farm tractors and plows. Forages on ground. Feeds on caterpillars, insects, fruits, seeds and grains. Strong, swift and direct flight with rapidly beating wings.
Glaucous Gull: This large white gull has a pale gray back and yellow eyes. The bill is yellow with a red spot on the lower mandible. The wings are white-edged and white tipped; the legs and feet are pink. It is an active predator of seabird nesting colonies. Diet includes fish, insects and birds. It has slow steady wing beats and soars on thermals and updrafts. The sexes are similar.
Glaucous-winged Gull: This large gull has gray upperparts with white underparts, head and neck. The eyes are dark and the bill is yellow with a red spot on the lower mandible. The wings are gray with white edges and spots near the tips. The legs and feet are pink. It feeds on fish, small birds, or almost anything. It has a powerful direct flight and often soars on thermals. The sexes are similar.
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover: This medium-sized shorebird has black upperparts vividly marked with a white spot on each feather. It has a black face, throat and belly and white forehead and crown that extends over the eye, down the back and sides of the neck. Vent and wing stripe visible in flight. Strong direct flight with powerful rapid wing beats. Feeds on marine worms and insects. Sexes are similar.
American Avocet: Long-legged shorebird with long, thin, upcurved bill and distinctive black-and-white back and sides. Head and neck are bright rust-brown during summer. Legs and feet are gray. Feeds on insects, crustaceans, and invertebrates. Strong direct flight with neck extended.
American White Pelican
American White Pelican: Huge, white seabird, enormous outstretched wings show black primaries, outer secondaries in flight. Bill, legs are bright orange, upper bill develops a fibrous keel during breeding season. Slow, deep wing beats. Soars high on thermals. Flies in straight line or V formation.
Eared Grebe
Eared Grebe: This small grebe has black upperparts, dark chestnut-brown flanks and white underparts. The head and neck are black. There are orange feathers on the face, the eyes are red, and the legs and feet are black. It feeds on aquatic insects and crustaceans. It has a direct flight with rapid wing beats. The sexes are similar in appearance.
Red-necked Grebe: This large grebe has dark gray upperparts and cap, white lower face and nape, white underparts with gray flanks, red-brown neck and dark brown eyes. It has a long thick yellow bill with a dark tip and black legs and feet. Dives for small fish and crustaceans. Direct flight on rapid wing beats. Sexes are similar.
Black-necked Stilt
Black-necked Stilt: Large shorebird with sharply contrasting black upperparts and white underparts. Long, thin, upcurved bill. Red eyes with white eye-rings, and white patch above. Legs are extremely long and red-pink. Feeds on insects, fish, worms, small crustaceans and seeds. Swift direct flight.
Brant: This small goose has dark brown upperparts and brown-barred, pale gray underparts. The head is black, and the short black neck has a partial white ring. The tail and vent are white. It has a heavy direct flight with strong wing beats. It flies in a straight line formation. It feeds on green plants including eel grass and sea lettuce. The sexes are similar.
Ross's Goose
Ross's Goose: Small, white goose with black primary feathers and stubby gray-based red-orange bill. Red-orange legs and feet. Eats mostly fresh grasses and grains, often in the company of Snow Geese. Rapid direct flight with strong wing beats. Flies in a V formation. North America's smallest goose.
Trumpeter Swan: Largest swan in the world, completely white but with head and neck often stained rust-brown from contact with ferrous minerals in wetland soils. Bill, legs, and feet are black. Feeds on aquatic plants. Strong direct flight on steady wing beats. Flies in straight line or V formation.
Black Scoter: Medium diving duck, entirely black except for yellow knob at base of black bill. Legs and feet are black. The male is the only all black duck in North America. Dives for food, primarily eats mollusks. Strong direct flight with rapid wing beats. Flies in straight line and V formation.
White-winged Scoter: Medium sea duck, mostly black except for white eye patches, large white wing patches. Bill is orange with large black basal knob. Red-orange legs, feet. Dives to 40 feet, feeds primarily on shellfish. Direct flight with steady wing beats. Flies in straight line or V formation.
Harlequin Duck: Small diving duck, blue-gray upperparts and underparts, rust-brown flanks. Back, breast and neck have vivid black-bordered white bars. Tail is dark and relatively long. Gray legs, feet. Feeds on insects, mollusks and crustaceans. Rapid direct flight, often low over the water.
Magnificent Frigatebird
Magnificent Frigatebird: Large black seabird, orange throat patch inflates into a huge bright red-orange balloon when in courtship display. Long bill is gray, hooked. Wings are long and narrow. Tail is forked; legs and feet are dark gray. Eats fish, crustaceans, jellyfish. High soaring flight.
Barrow's Goldeneye: Medium diving duck with black upperparts, contrasting white shoulder bars, white underparts. Head is large, glossy, and purple-black with golden yellow eyes and a crescent-shaped white patch behind a dark bill. White wing patches are visible in flight. Yellow legs and feet.
King Eider: Large diving duck with black body and white breast, back. The crown and nape are pale blue; distinct bill is orange-red, sweeping upward into a large, orange basal knob outlined in black. Wings are black with large white patches visible in flight. Tail has white patches at the base.
Black Rail
Black Rail: Smallest North American rail, mostly dark gray or nearly black with white-speckled back, belly, flanks. Nape and upper back are chestnut-brown. Eyes are red. Eats seeds of aquatic plants, grasses and grains, insects and small marine crustaceans. Weak fluttering flight with legs dangling.
Black-legged Kittiwake: This is a medium-sized white gull with pale gray back and upperwings and black wing tips. The bill is yellow and the legs and feet are black. It has a swift, graceful flight, alternating several rapid shallow wing beats with a glide. Hovers over water before diving for prey at the surface. It feeds on marine invertebrates, plankton and fish. The sexes look very similar.
Franklin's Gull: This medium-sized gull has a gray back and white underparts. It has a black head, white eye ring, orange bill with a black spot near the tip, and red-orange legs. The wings are short with white spotted black tips. It has a strong direct flight with deep wing beats. It feeds mostly on terrestrial and aquatic insects. The sexes are similar; males are slightly larger.
Iceland Gull: Large, white gull, pale, pearl-gray back and upper wings. Bill is yellow, red spot at tip of lower mandible. Wing tips sometimes marked with pale to dark gray. White tail; legs and feet are pink. Direct flight with strong deep wing beats. Soars on thermals and updrafts. Thayer's Gull, formerly its own species is now a subspecies of the Iceland Gull.
Least Tern: This small tern has slate-gray upperparts, white underparts; crown and nape are black, and the forehead is white. Black leading edge of outer wing is conspicuous in flight. The tail is forked, and the bill and feet are yellow. It feeds on small fish and invertebrates. It has a fast smooth flight with rapid wing beats. Hovers briefly before dipping down to seize prey. Sexes are similar.
Long-tailed Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger: Smallest but most buoyant and graceful jaeger or skua, with gray upperparts, white breast and gray belly. Black cap covers eyes, crosses chin and ends at yellow nape. Upperwings are dark edged. Tail is gray with black edges and long black streamers. Legs are blue-gray and toes are webbed. Sexes are similar. Juvenile is heavily barred and spotted gray; has white patches on underwings, white throat, white belly and dark-tipped gray bill. Dark juvenile is darker overall; has gray throat and lacks white belly.
Purple Gallinule: Medium, chicken-like marsh bird with purple-blue upperparts washed with iridescent green, deep blue underparts. Forehead is pale blue; bill is red and yellow-tipped. Undertail coverts are white. Legs are yellow with very long toes. The flight is labored and slow with dangling legs.
Red-necked Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope: This medium-sized sandpiper has a brown-striped dark gray back, mottled gray breast, white throat and belly, gray head, nape, and flanks, rust-brown neck and upper breast and a thin black bill. Females are larger and more brightly colored than males. Diet includes insects and crustaceans. Flight is swift and swallow like, with rapid wing beats, quick movements and turns.
Sabine's Gull: Small gull with gray back and white nape, rump, and underparts. Hood is solid black and eye-ring is dark red. Bill is black with yellow tip; legs and feet are black. The upperwings are gray with black primaries and white secondaries. Tail is slightly forked when folded.
Yellow-headed Blackbird: Medium-sized blackbird with black body, bright yellow hood and breast, and distinct white wing patches. Bill, legs and feet are black. Forages in low vegetation and on the ground. Feeds on insects, larvae, snails, seeds, and grains. Strong direct flight on rapid wing beats.
Lesser Nighthawk
Lesser Nighthawk: Medium-sized nightjar with gray and white mottled upperparts, white throat, and brown and white mottled underparts with dark belly bars. Wings are dark with conspicuous pale patches visible in flight. Tail is dark brown and has thin white bars across top. Darting erratic flight.
Little Gull: The smallest of all gulls, with pale gray upperparts and white nape, neck, breast, belly, and tail. Hood is black and extends onto upper neck. Underwings are dark. Bill is dark red with black tip. Legs and feet are red-orange. Strong direct flight with deep wing beats.
White-tailed Ptarmigan: Small grouse, mottled brown overall, white on wings, breast, belly, red eye comb, white-edged brown tail, legs covered with white feathers. It is the smallest of the ptarmigans, and the only one that nests south of Canada. Lives most of its life above timberline.
Green-tailed Towhee
Green-tailed Towhee: Large sparrow, olive-green upperparts and pale gray underparts. Crown is rufous, throat is white with black stripes, and bill is gray. Wings and tail are edged with olive-yellow. Rapid bouncy flight, alternates several quick wing beats with wings pulled to sides.
Red Phalarope
Red Phalarope: This medium-sized sandpiper has dark gray upperparts and rufous neck and underparts. It has a white face, black cap, and a thick, straight, yellow bill with a black tip. The female is more brightly colored than the male. Feeds on small fish, insects and aquatic invertebrates. Flight is swift and direct with rapid wing beats.
Bronzed Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird: Small blackbird (aeneus), brown-black overall with blue sheen on wings and tail. Eyes are red and bill is dark and heavy. Feeds on insects, seeds and grains. Often follows cattle to eat insects that are kicked up. Swift direct and swooping flight with rapid wing beats.
Cave Swallow
Cave Swallow: Small swallow (Southwest pelodoma), with steel-blue upperparts, white underparts, rufous wash on breast and sides. Forehead is chestnut-brown and throat and rump are buff. Tail is square. Swift, graceful flight, alternates several rapid, deep wing beats with long curving glides.
Fish Crow
Fish Crow: Medium-sized crow with black body and dark, heavy bill. Very similar to American Crow, but call is different. Feeds on fish, crustaceans, carrion, eggs, insects, larvae,fruits and berries. Flies on stiff wing beats, alternates several rapid wing strokes with long glides.
Gray Vireo
Gray Vireo: Medium-sized vireo with gray upperparts, faint white spectacles, dark iris, and dull white underparts. The wings are dark gray with indistinct white bars. The sideways twitching of the tail is unique among vireos and is similar to gnatcatchers. Forages in low undergrowth.
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: Medium flycatcher with pale gray upperparts and head, white underparts and throat, salmon-pink sides and flanks, and dark brown wings with white edges. Tail is long and scissor-like, black above with white outer edges and white below with black inner edges.
Lark Bunting
Lark Bunting: Large sparrow, nearly black with large white wing patches, short, white-edged tail, and heavy, blue-gray bill. Forages in groung, low vegetation. Strong flight, alternates shallow wing beats with brief periods of wings pulled to sides. It is the state bird of Colorado.
Eurasian Collared-Dove: Medium dove, pale gray overall with darker cinnamon-brown wash over back. Nape is ringed with half-black collar that does not extend to throat. Wings are mottled gray with dark primaries. Tail is long, broad, edged with white (black near base). Pink legs, feet.
Piping Plover: Small, pale sand-colored plover, showy black bands on head, neck. White upertail with white-edged black tip. Short bill has bright orange base and black tip. Legs are bright orange. Eats fly larvae, beetles, crustaceans and marine worms. Feeds higher on the beach than other plovers.
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Coot: Medium, squat marsh bird, all black with white bill, frontal shield. Eye-rings are red, legs are yellow-gray. Feeds on aquatic plants, insects, amphibians, mollusks and small fish. Agressive towards other water birds. Swift direct flight on rapid wing beats, feet protrude beyond tail.
Mute Swan
Mute Swan: Aggressive bird, entirely white, orange bill with large black basal knob and naked black lores. Curved neck is often stained with pigments from iron or algae. Legs and feet are black. Feeds on aquatic plants collected from bottom. Direct flight with strong steady wing beats.
Great Black-backed Gull: World's largest gull. White head, black upperparts, white underparts, large yellow bill with red spot on lower mandible, pale-eyed with red orbital ring, pink legs, feet. Flight is direct and powerful with deep, slow wing beats. Soars on thermals or updrafts.
Sooty Tern
Sooty Tern: This medium-sized tern has long wings, a deeply forked tail, black crown, nape, and upperparts and a broad triangular white forehead patch. The underparts are white; upper tail is black with white outer edges. It has a direct flight with strong, shallow wing beats. It hovers before dipping for prey. It feeds on squid and fish. Sexes are similar.
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck: Large, colorful duck with bright red bill, pink-red legs and feet. Shows white wing patch, black belly, reddish-brown breast, neck and back. Face, foreneck are gray, white eye ring. Feeds on aquatic plants, cultivated grains, seeds. Direct flight on rapid wing beats.
Greater Scaup: This large diving duck has a glossy green-black head, white sides and belly, black tail, neck and breast, barred gray flanks and back. The eyes are yellow and the bill is blue-gray with a black tip. The diet includes aquatic insects and plants. It has a rapid direct flight with strong, quick wing beats. The female is dull brown with a white patch on the face at base of bill.
White Ibis
White Ibis: This coastal species is white overall with pink facial skin, bill, and legs that turn scarlet during breeding season. Black tips on the primary feathers are only seen in flight. Flies in straight line formation with neck and legs outstretched, roosts high in trees and bushes at night.


The 36 modular lessons in the curriculum are designed to be flexible. Many schools don't have dedicated entrepreneurship classes, so with this program you have access to build your lessons appropriate for your class format.
The curriculum was developed with the help of a 30-year tenured teacher at a nationally-ranked, academically rigorous charter school. The initial class was comprised of students spanning all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
In short, the curriculum works in any setting in which it has been applied.
Additionally, the curriculum is visually formatted in a way that integrates seamlessly with the board game. The lessons use icons found in the game to help reiterate points experienced through game play.
Once you complete the order, you will be granted access to the curriculum straight through this website. If you have any pre-sales questions, please email info@knowopportunity.org and we'll be happy to assist you.
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Celebrity News November 14, 2022
Jay Leno Misses Appearance Due to 'Serious Medical Emergency' (Report)
UPDATE: Jay Leno suffered a burn injury to the left side of his face when one of his car's burst into flames in his garage. He is now being treated at the Grossman Burn Center.
Jay Leno, 72, has reportedly suffered a "serious medical emergency," according to People magazine.
The outlet obtained an email announcing the comedian was forced to miss a financial conference called Forum 2022 in Las Vegas on Sunday due to a health problem.
The Financial Brand reportedly sent a message to attendees that said, "His family was not able to provide us very many details, but there was a very serious medical emergency that is preventing Jay from traveling. All we know is that he is alive, so our prayers go out to him and his family tonight."
The former "The Tonight Show" host previously revealed that he suffered from high cholesterol, and teamed up with Cholesterol 911 in 2019 to help raise awareness.
High cholesterol can increase a person's risk of heart attack or stroke, and Jay said, "There's a lot of people walking around like that, they're just time bombs. You've got all this cholesterol, you don't realize it until it actually hits, you know? It's like in a car, if even one piece of dirt gets in the eye of the needle of the jet, and boom and no more gas comes through. And that's what happens with your heart."
Leno said he was managing his cholesterol with medication and monitoring his heart with an EKG device, but wasn't the type to run "five miles a day."
He also encouraged people to get checked out by their doctor, "You go to the doctor, it's a quick visit, he can tell you what you need to do."
He also told "Extra" at the time, "I don't put myself down as some paragon of health — steak, ice cream, chicken, okay? — but I don't drink or smoke. It's not like I'm Mr. Health-Conscious, but I am getting there."
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I don't remember when I first became interested in issues associated with digital heritage… but I know that my interest was piqued after I stumbled upon Seb Chan's Fresh + New(er) blog years ago. Thus when Seb sat near me at a session at MW2011, I decided to introduce myself.
He was mobbed by people immediately after the session finished, and I thought I had missed my chance… but fortunately that wasn't the case. Seb approached the small group I was in not long after and on the spur of the moment, I decided not only to say hi but also to ask whether I could become an intern with the web team at the Powerhouse. And excellently, Seb said yes.
So I'm now interning at the Powerhouse Museum one day a week – something that will be great for my research and hopefully ground it far more in reality (I know I can be an academic idealist at times). I've been there a couple of times already, and got to check out some of the quirky museum objects; do a little bit of work on the Museum Metadata Exchange; and to write a couple of blog posts for the Museum's Photo of the Day blog. This first of these posts is up today, which is pretty awesome. So if you are interested, check it out: Fritzi Scheff demonstrating Magnavox for Fifth Liberty loan in New York City.
This is just the next in a lifetime's worth of internships I've taken on… I have occasionally seriously considered writing my profession as 'intern' on forms. But every single one has led to interesting opportunities and great new knowledge – which is the same reason I do things like volunteer with MCN2011. And which is also why it is very cool to have the chance to work with the same team that first inspired me to pursue this career.


Pune is one of the top 10 cities in India in terms of population, air traffic as well as economy. Pune Airport is primarily a defense airport having frontline fighter squadrons of the Indian Air Force. The small civil enclave struggles to accommodate flights and passengers and limited runway length and apron has meant that wide body aircraft cannot operate from Pune. The airport started international flights in December 2005 with Indian Airlines and Air India launching inaugural flights to Singapore via Hyderabad and Dubai respectively. Since then, Lufthansa launched flights from Frankfurt and was followed by Spicejet launching flights to Sharjah (later shifted to Dubai, where it operates currently) and Jet Airways to Abu Dhabi. While the Singapore flight via Hyderabad was short lived, Air India Express operates flight to Dubai. The connectivity to the east will help offer connections to South East Asia, Indonesia and Australia which are currently offered by the airline via Bengaluru or Delhi.
Pune will be the fourth city by the airline to be connected to Singapore by the airline. The airline flies direct to Singapore from Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Jet Airways offers code share flights to a range of destinations from Singapore offering connections to Indonesia, Australia and other South East Asian destinations with partner airlines like Garuda Indonesia, JetStar Asia and Qantas.


Celebrate love and kindness with a personalized candy heart box. In this workshop, you and your child can build a heart shaped box for Valentine's Day perfect as a gift for someone you love or to stash all your super sweet Valentine's Day goodies and keepsakes. Once the heart is built, your child can customize it with paint and stickers.


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Q: Where to validate in relation to other models I use Django REST Framework and I have a model that represents bookings for a room:
class Booking(models.Model):

    user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)

    begin_date = models.DateField()
    end_date = models.DateField()

Bookings are not allowed to overlap in time. So I have to compare the dates the user wants to book the room for with all previous bookings.
I could validate this

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*in my serializers.ModelSerializer class using a validator, but my validation is not really about sanitizing

*in the ModelViewSet in the create method of CreateModelMixin or

*in the Booking-Model when saving using the save method.

What would be the way the Django REST Framework developers intended for this specific problem?

A: I usually solve this by rewriting my view's create / update to call some business or extra validation steps before calling the serializer's save.


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Royal Monastery of El Escorial
Enjoy a half-day excursion to the Royal Monastery of El Escorial, considered one of the most unique architectures in Europe due to its geometrical severity and the predominance of the horizontal lines. This guided tour includes a tour of the Habsburg Palace, the Kings and Princes Mausoleum, the Chapter House, the Basilica and the Library. At the end of the visit you will have free time to visit the gardens and the Palace of the Borbon family
The Monastery was declared a World Heritage Site.
The Monastery was built as a symbol of the Spanish power in the XVI century that commemorates Spanish victory at the battle of St. Quentin.
It has been considered the eighth wonder of the world, and nowadays it is still considered one of the most singular buildings in Europe.
Bilingual Official guide.
Entrance to the Royal Monastery of El Escorial.
Individual radioguided system.
Lunch, beverages or other services not specified above.
Please keep in mind that the excursion includes several visits on foot, comfortable shoes are recommended.
Royal Monastery of El Escorial visitors are kindly requested to respect the instructions of the Security: Photography and filming are not permitted inside the exhibitions.
This tour starts from Julià Travel Gray Line Spain office at Calle San Nicolás, nº 15 (corner Plaza Ramales) and ends at Plaza Oriente.
Please print your voucher and give it to your guide. E-voucher accepted.
Julià Travel Gray Line Spain contact: 0034 91 559 9605 / [email protected]
In this tour we will visit the Royal Monastery of El Escorial, an architectural ensemble declared a World Heritage Site.
The Monastery was built as a symbol of the Spanish power in the XVI century that commemorates Spanish victory at the battle of St. Quentin. Its construction took 21 years and was promoted by the king Philip II because of the necessity to create a monastery to ensure the veneration of the royal Pantheon. This idea was explicitly expressed on Charles V will, who wanted to be buried with his wife, Elisabeth form Portugal, and his new dynasty far away from the usual royal pantheons.
The architectural design was based on the symmetry and the balance according to the humanist Renaissance style. That's the reason why it has been considered the eighth wonder of the world, and nowadays it is still considered one of the most singular buildings in Europe. The works made in this building by the Spanish architect Juan de Herrera gave place to consider it the paradigm of his architectural style because of its geometrical severity and the predominance of the horizontal lines.
The visit includes the Habsburg Palace, the Kings and Princes Mausoleum, the Chapter House, the Basilica and the library. At the end of the guided tour you will be given free time to visit the gardens and the Palace of the Borbon family. At the fixed time you will meet the bus at the Escorial bus station for the way back to Madrid.
Fast Track Guided Tour Sagrada Familia with Towers


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CLEVELAND -- Infielder Ryan Flaherty has agreed to a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians and will report to big league spring training.
Flaherty hit .217 with two homers and 13 RBIs in 182 plate appearances last year for Atlanta. He played for Baltimore from 2012 to 2017.
Cleveland also agreed Thursday to a minor league contract with 34-year-old catcher Dioner Navarro, who has not played in the major leagues since 2016 with Toronto.