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As South Sudan Violence Intensifies, UN Vows To Step Up Action
By Michael Kaplan @michaeld_kaplan
Ongoing fighting in South Sudan has produced millions of internally displaced persons. Photo: CHARLES LOMODONG/AFP/Getty Images
As South Sudan sinks deeper into its 18-month-long civil war, the United Nation's Human Rights Council has decided to send a mission to assess violence in the fledgling nation. The decision came amid new allegations of heightened human rights violations, the AFP reported Thursday.
A recent report by the U.N. found South Sudan's military responsible of utilizing violence with "new brutality and intensity" during a recent campaign, which included raping then torching girls alive in their homes, according to the United Nations News Center. The investigation, based on testimonies from 115 victims, also found instances of gang-rape, abductions and torture.
"This recent upsurge [in fighting] has not only been marked by allegations of killing, rape, abduction, looting, arson and displacement, but by a new brutality and intensity," the U.N. report said. "The scope and level of cruelty that has characterized the reports suggests a depth of antipathy that exceeds political differences."
In response, the U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to effectively blacklist six generals, three of them affiliated with the government and the three others with rebel groups, who they held responsible for the worsening violence, media outlets reported. The six generals have had their assets frozen and are barred from international travel in an attempt to pressure both sides to quell the violence.
The U.N. mission has been proposed to monitor and assess violence in the country, with the stated intention of holding those responsible for the repeated human rights violations accountable. Some of the language of the report, proposed by American, Britain and other countries, was allegedly softened to win support from African nations, the AFP said.
South Sudan, which became an independent state in 2011, has experienced full-fledged violence since December 2013, when President Salva Kiir accused his former vice president, Riek Machar, of plotting a coup. Since then, the country has been fractured largely along ethnic lines, with more than two million people reportedly having been displaced.
In May alone, more than 129 children were killed according to the United Nations, the International Business Times reported. Around 13,000 children were estimated to have been recruited into various factions, girls were reported to have experienced high levels of rape, and boys experienced castration.
Peace talks in Ethiopia have failed to produce a ceasefire, and amid the worsening violence, the U.N. has vowed to confront the deepening conflict. The council "cannot stand silent in the face of such violations and abuses," U.S. representative Keith Harper, who presented the resolution to send a mession to South Sudan, said in front of the United Nations council.
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If it is true that Henry Rosovsky, who was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University from 1973 to 1984, is ''uncertain what it is that humanists - as opposed to, say, molecular biologists - actually do that's important,'' as Linda Bradley Salamon says in her review of ''The University: An Owner's Manual'' (April 22), this should give rise to more than an ''academic cavil'' on her part. It points to a fatal flaw in American higher education.
The humanities permit, indeed require, students to think about the kinds of value questions that are specifically excluded from the scientific disciplines in their quest for objectivity. Where else but in the humanities do students discover what others have thought and felt about the universal question: how should we live?


The 2011 Chinese Grand Prix was won by Lewis Hamilton of McLaren.
Despite being on pole position in China, Sebastian Vettel could not convert this into a win.
The race in China was round 3 of 19 of the 2011 season.
Weather conditions at 17 April 2011 07:00 GMT (raceday).
The 2011 Chinese Grand Prix (formally the 2011 Formula 1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 17 April 2011 at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. It was the third round of the 2011 Formula One season. The 56-lap race was won by McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton after starting from third on the grid, also becoming the first ever multiple winner of the Chinese Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel finished second in a Red Bull, having started from pole position, and teammate Mark Webber completed the podium, in third place having started eighteenth.
As a consequence of the race, Vettel's lead in the World Drivers' Championship was cut to 21 points by Hamilton, who moved into second place in the championship. Hamilton's McLaren teammate Jenson Button, who finished fourth in China, fell 9 points behind Hamilton in third, a single point ahead of Webber. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull's championship lead was also cut from 24 points to 20 by McLaren, with Ferrari a further 35 points behind in third position after drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso finished in sixth and seventh places respectively.


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Jack is a rather silly horse. And when bored, he takes it upon himself to unlatch his stall and go for an adventure through the farm before escaping into the neighbor's garden for a snack. This rhyming story counts up to ten as Jack makes his way across the farm and then back down as he races home with the neighbor hot on his heels.


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Lego my controller!
First let me say that in MY OWN youth, nothing was better than wasting a whole day away building crazy things out of Lego pieces. I used to build everything from cars to planes to spaceships for hours on end. In Lego's attempt to jump into the era of electronic entertainment, they have started hitting up popular movie series and making them into amazing and hilarious Lego adaptations. Both the Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana Jones movies have been made into video game series with the Batman movies being released soon.
The Lego games follow the movies almost to the letter, but they add hilarious kid-friendly comedy and the game centers around pulling Lego pieces together to perform tasks. So let's talk about the games individually.
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga: (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, DS) ESRB: E10+
http://starwars.lego.com/en-us/videogame/default.aspx
The Lego Star Wars game is pretty amazing if you ask me and follows all of the Star Wars movies from episodes 1-6 in a giant collection. You can play as any character from any of the six movies, with many characters as unlockables. The movies are broken down into episodes (levels) and run the gamut from typical side-scrollers to first-person spaceship flying. Lego pieces are put together using the "force" to build bridges, vehicles and other useful items. Out of the three, the Star Wars version is my favorite, but hey, I'm a Star Wars geek.
Lego Indiana Jones: (360, Wii, PS2, DS, PC) ESRB: E10+
http://indianajones.lego.com/en-US/videogame/default.aspx
Lego Indy is the second game Lego put out in their series and they took everything good from Lego Star Wars and made it better. In Lego Indy there are 60 characters to unlock and play and they can now pick up items and use them as well as climb, swim and do other menial tasks. Lego Indy runs through Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade. Also, for all those concerned (as I was for my son), all of the scary parts of the movie were taken out and replaced with comedic cut scenes making it a hilarious good time.
Lego Batman: (PS3, 360, Wii, PS2, PSP, DS, PC) ESRB: E10+
Release Date Sept 23rd, 2008 (official website not yet available)
Unlike the other two games, Lego Batman has a completely original storyline. Players can choose from a cast of characters such as Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, Scarecrow and many, many more. Lego boasts that this game collection will outdo both of the pervious titles, again with comedic undertones. Expect your kids to fight and laugh their way through Gotham City and it surroundings.
Lastly, to finish off talking about Lego's amazingness, be sure to check out the online Lego community for Lego-based online games, product information and other goodies at www.play.lego.com.
And now, the dreaded Game to Avoid part of the column. This week I'm tackling Mercenaries 2 (PS2, PS3, 360). The ESRB rates it as Teen, but let me give you my two cents. I wouldn't want my teenager playing a game that focuses on killing terrorists while stealing cars, guns and other items. I'm not quite sure why it seems to be acceptable to load up a game and let our kids shoot people down in a very realistic electronic medium. I suggest you put this one back on the shelf.


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Could the deployment of self-driving cars make rides free?
As self-driving technology is improving, there are so many companies developing self-driving cars like Google, Uber, etc. Is it possible that we won't need any private/paid self-driving cars and the "self-driving taxi" becomes ubiquitous in the city? If we assume that there are such taxis everywhere, would transportation become extremely low cost or free? (The self-driving car company could benefit from broadcasting advertisements for advertising agencies.)
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You ask an interesting question. There have been many discussions by industry on this topic. A company called Vugo has their business model based on advertising to passengers. An article about Vugo, "The Quest to Make Ridesharing Free", states:
Flessner is co-founder and CEO of Minneapolis-based rideshare advertising platform Vugo, which uses its patented TripIntent technology to display targeted advertisements to Uber and Lyft passengers on a tablet attached to the back of the vehicle's headrests.
The company's founders predict that within the next few years, all ridesharing vehicles in the U.S. will be driverless, and in-vehicle advertising tailored to passengers' destinations and interests will lead to free transportation. "The idea is to put brands in front of passengers who are en route to make purchases," says Flessner. For example, retailers will sponsor transportation to their stores so they can preview products to customers who are headed their way.
This article "How free self-driving car rides could change everything" makes these comments:
Car data is so lucrative that Ben Volkow -- CEO of otonomo, an Israeli startup that sells vehicle data -- expects automakers to make more money selling data than vehicles by 2020.
If the money made off self-driving vehicle data outweighs the costs of offering rides, then it becomes reasonable for a business to offer free rides broadly.
A paper entitled "Leveraging Adverts in the Coming Autonomous Car Eco-system" published by Berkeley, University of California, proposes "a world where rideshares are free, or in some cases, heavily subsidized through the use of advertisements".
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$\begingroup$ Excellent answer. (Personally, I'd rather pay, if I have the means, than be aggressively advertised at, but I'm not confident this is the majority viewpoint.) I do think it's worth looking at the sci-fi worlds where advertising has run amok--highly dystopian. [File under: "the best minds of our generation are spending all of their time trying to figure out how to sell ads"] George Saunders wrote a great short story on this subject. $\endgroup$ – DukeZhou♦ Apr 24 '18 at 21:26
Oil prices are not cheap, but online advertisement per impression is relatively cheap. Especially given that there isn't much engagement in a taxi, its hard to imagine that ads alone can fully support a taxi service.
From this source, we find CPM for a youtube video about 0.1$:
But keep in mind this value could be lower since user engagement in a taxi is much lower compared to someone on the internet. With smartphones everywhere, how can you entice someone to watch an ad on a moving taxi?
From this source, we see:
For a 5-mile, 10-minute trip going 25 miles per hour the entire way, uberX would cost the $2.55 base fare plus $3.50 for the 10 minutes plus $10.75 for the mileage, for a total of $16.80. It is not customary to tip the Uber driver.
No matter how you cut it, the margins seems to be quite thin. So free taxis seems unlikely for now unless someone comes up with a different business plan.
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$\begingroup$ Yup. Even with electric vehicles, assuming some miracle energy source like fusion power, you still have wear and tear on the vehicles themselves, need to replace batteries, etc. Unclear that ads could cover this, but who knows. We live in a consumption-obsessed society (at least here in the US;) $\endgroup$ – DukeZhou♦ Apr 24 '18 at 21:19
They can definitely be made cheaper, using a combination of techniques. But I doubt if they will be free in the near term. Once the passenger is inside a car, they are bound to be in the car for the duration of the travel. Any company who finds an efficient way to sell things or make them their product during this time creates a business opportunity. Some scenarios that companies will employ to reduce cost of travel are:
Sale of items on board (snacks, soft drinks, liquor etc)
Usage based discount (The ride is free if you purchase $100 on amazon when you are in the car)
Discount for services by passenger (Give us feedback every minute of the car operation, we will discount 50% of cost)
Once self driving is popular, there will be a plethora of companies trying to exploit the passenger; the passenger is bound to be inside the car for the duration.
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USA Today Network - Tennessee - ... In an unanimous 5-0 opinion written by Chief Justice Jeff Bivins, the court agreed with the plaintiff, Ludye Wallace, on the central issue of the case — that there's a distinction between a "general election" and a "metropolitan general election." It came one day after oral arguments on the case.
"The next 'general metropolitan election' is the August 2019 election," the opinion reads. "Because the date of that election is more than twelve months from the date of the mayoral vacancy, (the Metro Charter) requires that a special election be set."


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I am responsible for anything related to Renault power unit operations on track across all Renault-powered teams. That means looking at the composition of the team and its logistics, that is, who will do what on which team and at which races. In parallel I manage the hardware usage and allocation, so deciding on anything from the engine garage equipment to power unit allocation. It is a very interesting job as it is very technical, but I have a lot of personal contact with people at the same time.
As with almost any F1 job, mine is very cyclical and stays more or less the same race after race. If I describe a Saturday, which is my favourite day, I arrive at track at the end of the curfew, which is generally around 09h00. I check my emails (normally not much since we've left not far from curfew the day before…). I grab breakfast and then I go for a check-in with Red Bull and McLaren before P3. If anything goes wrong, I pop in to decide what to do next and get everything ready for Qualifying, which has to be the highlight of the racing weekend. Once qualifying has finished, I go for a final garage visit and then, thanks to the Parc Fermé, I can go out with one of my crews for a beer.
I came over to France from Brazil in 2000 as a mechanical engineer with a master's degree on combustion engines. I had one single idea in mind: be a F1 engine race engineer, which I was very lucky and grateful to Renault to be able to do for 148 races. After that, due to the complexity of the new power units introduced in 2014, Renault changed the way we operated on track and asked me to take the lead in this movement, pushing my counter to more than 200 races.
It is difficult to pick one from my favourite three. I was in Budapest 2003 for the first Renault F1 Team win and Interlagos in 2005 for the first Drivers' Championship, but the factory celebration after the Chinese GP back in 2005 (first Constructors Title) was huge. It was such an immense and powerful feeling of being part of a winning team!
There are many ways to get disappointed in F1. It is horrible to stop a car on track, to finish outside the points, to travel 10 days and work immeasurably, only to get involved in a first lap accident. But the magic of this sport is that all these are in our hands as a team.
Definitely the podium. I love to stay far behind the crowd, eventually climb up the pit wall, and be able to see the joy in the faces of our team members! Very rewarding moments!
I love learning and work on some complex DIY (Do It Yourself) projects like drones and some other 3D printed toys. Right now, I'm working on an electric-powered hydrofoil surf board that flies at 30 kph above the water.
As we travel a lot, I try to keep social contact with my family and friends. I read all WhatsApp messages, I send them some pictures, I call my wife … but time is short and we actually don't have much spare time if you want to sleep more than six hours per night!
Plan B… If you weren't doing your job, what would you have done instead? My first dream as a kid was to be a jetfighter test pilot. I don't like wars and weapons, but I'd love to flight those loud machines on test missions ... just like 'Chuck' Yeager.


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Analysis of Maps and Land
Figure 1: 1878 map with buildings outlined of original settlement and cemetery (bottom left with pentagon-shapes), the two barns from a 1900s Holsinger photo as ovals, and the manor with associated houses in the upper right.
On a map of Albemarle County from 1875, J. W. Garth is named on the Birdwood land parcel (he had been gifted the land by his father, Thomas Garth Jr, between 1802 and 1811 according to land deeds). In 1878, a "Survey and Division" was done on the land parcel entitled the "Birdwood Estate". This survey indicated three land parcels with number one (No. 1) called the "House Lot," which stretched past Morey Creek and Birdwood Pond, and near which the cemetery and the original settlement were located. From the early 19thcentury, the Garths made many land deals, and were significant landowners in Albemarle County. However, through all of these different land exchanges, the House Lot never left the possession of the Garths, passing from Thomas Sr. to Thomas Jr, to Jesse W., and to William Garth.
The Garth family sold the Birdwood property to Samuel Buck and William Chamberlain, who made changes to the property including planting many trees throughout the yard from 1879-1908 some of which still exist today (Figure 1). Hollis Rinehart was the next to purchase the area, working on the land from 1909-1920 (Figure 2). Mr. Rinehart also owned the land on the other side of Ivy Road, now Route 250, where he built other large homes for his children, as well. Following 1920 the land came into the possession of a few different equestrian-focused men and was used for parties as well as foxhunts. The area of land behind the old settlement on the other side of Morey Creek was also owned by equestrians, known as Foxhaven Estate, the historic sections of which still exist today. It was finally purchased by the University around 1970.
The cemetery and the original house fell into disuse sometime in the 20th century. Photos in the Holsinger Collection (from 1917) show the area of the original settlement and graveyard overgrown, while the rest of the land is well maintained. The next map available is from 1928 drawn by Charles Gillette, about 4 years after the addition was supposedly added onto the manor house itself (Figure 3). A 1938 map of the Birdwood parcel indicates that the area in the location of the cemetery included multiple buildings. In the 2003 Historic Land and Building Survey, the cemetery and at least one structure are marked in that same area, that is again shown in the 2005 aerial from Google Maps (Figure 4). We have a photo from Dr. Lynn Rainville, a professor at Sweet Briar College, from 2007 that shows the original settlement house in disrepair. A Google Maps aerial photo from 2009 perhaps shows the house obscured by trees. However, by the 2013 Google Maps aerials, the land - except for an overgrown patch in the location of the cemetery - had been entirely cleared as part of work for the Birdwood Golf Course (Figure 5).
Figure 2: 1900s Picture of the rear of the property as seen from the manor house, including the original settlement house in the rear to the right of the barns
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Figure 3: 1928 Charles Gillette plan of the manor house and proposed gardens
Figure 4: 2005 aerial view of the area
Figure 5: 2013 aerial view


since we can control settings values using snap set and retrieve change using snapctl, sometimes it is required to restart the service for changes to take effect. If snapped application does not have this already built in, there is very little one can do, as systemctl is not accessible from within snap.
Today snapctl only supports set/get and that is about configs and plug/slot attributes.
We could. have a separate .yaml file or some config in snap.yaml or snapcraft,yaml where you can bind config/hook elements to automated restarts. So that a "snapctl set foo" will simply automatically restart the defined/mapped service.
This gives far more security control to the backend than randomly allow snapctl full systemctl abilities and thus pretty much full OS control.
There is no way to call snapctl directly today, you can only execute it from a hook (unless that changed recently), so there should always be a binding possible to some of the hook elements. For actual admin interaction we already have "snap start/stop/restart" implemented.
There are different ways to implement this and it is true that we cannot gives snaps access to systemctl without giving them device ownership, but I interpreted @ondra's request as: allow snaps the ability to restart their own daemons, and this could be exposed via snap/snapctl which will talk to the out-of-process snapd. snapd is then in a position to mediate the requested action against the security label of the process running snapctl/snap (ie, via libapparmor) rather than just passing the options straight through to systemctl.
This idea would work well on all systems that have partial or full apparmor support, but not on systems with no apparmor support (however, on those systems, snaps can simply use systemctl directly, so no practical difference in terms of security today).
We already have service management in "snap" and since snapctl will only operate inside hooks proxied through "snap set/get" i dont see why snapctl itself needs full systemctl capabilities beyond automatically restarting a service if a config option changes via get/set.
Instead of requiring the developer to explicitly add "snapctl stop … process variable change … snapctl start" in the hook it would be way cooler if the service restart happens automagically if the var changes without having the developer to explicitly add such stop start commands.
I agree with @jdstrand here, my understanding of @ondra's request was the same, i.e. give snaps the ability to control (restart) own services only.
The idea of making this automated based on some mappings may look tempting, but I think it would only work for simple cases and not for more sophisticated scenarios where restarts need to actually be guarded by some logic; therefore I think "manual" control via snapctl is more useful.
@ondra That's planned and in fact most of the work has landed already with the implementation of snap start/stop/restart.
@pstolowski Do you want to push forward the implementation of the snapctl side? Should be relatively quick since most of the internal details have been nailed already.
@niemeyer I'm happy to take it, but from the conversations we had on IRC earlier this morning it seemed that @chipaca is going to implement exactly this for snapctl side. John, can you clarify?
@pstolowski Right, exactly. As I said above it was already planned and most of the work has landed. @chipaca has quite a few things on his plate, so the point was that if you want to push it forward sooner, that sounds reasonable too.
Naturally, talk to him so we don't have the same thing done twice.
This is currently in progress. a PR should be up for a review soon.
I believe that "snaps" have a promising future as a clear and easy way of packaging. Unfortunately, at my workstation (Ubuntu 16.04) few snaps work because my user belongs to Active Directory and snaps are unable to communicate with the SSSD service.
Hi there, having a look at some of the snap packages available. I was havign a go with the vscode snap, and on launch I'm getting permissions errors: cannot create user data directory: $HOME/snap/vscode/10: Permission denied I had a look at the permissions in there, and my user definitely owns. Is there something snap specific I'm missing with permissions?
After more testing with this, I realise to take full advantage of this feature, can we add also enable and disable options?
I've came across snap, with optional service, which should be run based on configuration.
Rather that start stop it from service based on settings, configure hook would be ablate to enable/disable it based on settings?
@ondra The service-related commands in snapctl work from any place inside the snap, not just the configure hook. You can also enable/disable by using the options –enable and –disable for the start and stop commands, respectively.
@niemeyer sweet, that should should address the use case.
Are there any examples of start/stop/restart daemons by the daemon?


The judiciary's proactive stance has won the day for the centrality of the South African constitution in our democracy.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng made it very clear that all arms of government should exercise brutal introspection in the interest of our constitutional democracy. He welcomed constructive criticism but he was firm on the need for rational argument in support of such criticism. Generalised and gratuitous criticism of the judiciary of the type frequently mounted by Blade Nzimande will now require the President to slap him down.
Respect for the constitution has to prevail and all arms of government should work to ensure such respect. The mindless denigration of the judiciary is inimical to constitutional democracy. Government must now heed the agreement in all circumstances.
Congress of the People is thrilled that the judiciary has succeeded in getting government to accept that it will act on court orders and to abide by them. If this had not happened, we would have had a constitutional crisis. We see the clear commitment that President Zuma gave on this matter as the most significant outcome of the meeting.
We agree that this meeting was indeed of historic importance. Henceforth the constitution will prevail and the executive will have to tread carefully. It was important to hear President Zuma declare the necessity for all to uphold the rule of law. Now, he must put that into practice without fail and without prevarication.
The Chief Justice was also very firm and very clear about the right of the Judiciary to interpret the Constitution. He asserted that there was no overreach whatsoever on the part of the judiciary. COPE fully agrees with him on this.
Any member of the executive who believes that the judiciary is overreaching itself will have to adduce evidence. Shooting from the hip without making a rational argument will no longer fly.
For years, COPE has been asking the executive and the legislature to adhere to the constitution both in the letter of the law and in spirit.
Now that the two parties formally met and made undertakings carefully captured in the declaration, a compulsion arises on all politicians to abide by the agreement.
The President must lead on this agreement from the front and he must make sure that everyone in government understands the import of the agreement. Those who flout it in any way must face the axe. Otherwise, we will conclude that President Zuma is a hypocrite who says one thing and does something else or alternatively condones his party members breaching the agreement.
COPE will police this agreement with total commitment. We say once again that the judiciary redeems us and keeps our image relatively intact in global society. COPE expresses its deepest appreciation for the manner in which the judiciary stood its ground and the dignified manner in which it won agreement from government for the centrality of our constitution. Hats off to the judiciary!
Judiciary is unlike a rally where rhetoric reigns supreme.
Before the courts or judges facts are required.


The first round of the season will begin at a new venue for the championship in 2019 as the season will visit Barber Motorsports Park from April 5-7. The 2.38-mile, 15-turn course will challenge the field in what should be an exciting pair of 50-minute races to get the season started just outside of Birmingham, Ala.
The next four venues will be familiar stops as all will be run in conjunction with the IMSA WeatherTech Championship.
Drivers will return to their machines for Round 2 at Watkins Glen International in upstate New York the weekend of June 27-30. Round three will then be contested at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on the weekend of Aug. 2-4.
The last two race weekends include Alton, Va.'s VIRginia International Raceway from Aug. 23-25 and then WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California on the weekend of Sept. 13-15.
The final round of the year and the 2019 World Final will be contested in southern Spain at the Circuito de Jerez from October 24-27.
These two rounds mark the end of the season of all of Lamborghini's one-make series which also includes Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It also serves as the ultimate challenge between the best drivers from around the world to decide the world champion of Lamborghini Super Trofeo.
Full 2019 broadcast schedule to be announced in the near future.


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Windows 7 moving toward 2009 release
Denis Gupalo
13:38, February 13, 2009
Microsoft is moving forward with plans to launch Windows 7 this year, although the company still refuses to publicly commit to that goal.
PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S. tell CNET News that they have heard things are on track to launch by this year's holiday shopping season, which has been Microsoft's internal target for some time.
Microsoft is also putting the finishing touches on a program to offer Vista buyers a free or low-cost update to Windows 7. That program could kick off as early as July, sources said.
The company has run such "technology guarantee" programs in the past, typically allowing each PC maker to set the exact rules, but essentially offering buyers after a certain time to get a free upgrade to the next version. (TechArp has a post with even more details on Microsoft's planned Windows 7 Upgrade Program.)
In an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte cautioned that the release still could be pushed into 2010, depending on customer feedback.
"I'm telling them that it could go either way," Veghte said in that January interview. "We will ship it when the quality is right, and earlier is always better, but not at the cost of ecosystem support and not at the cost of quality."
The response to test versions of Windows 7 has been in stark contrast with the issues that dogged Windows Vista, which was a much more fundamental update to the operating system. Although Windows 7 adds things like an improved taskbar and snappier performance, the operating system shares most of the same underpinnings as Windows Vista. (Click on the video at right to hear me talk Windows 7 on CNET Editors' Office Hours.)
Microsoft has reiterated that it plans just a single beta for Windows 7. That beta launched in January and Microsoft this week stopped offering downloads of the test version. The company has said it will have a near-final "release candidate" version, but has not said when that will come.
Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed that it plans to sell at least six distinct versions of Windows 7, although it also said it will focus its efforts around two editions--Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional. (By way of comparison, Microsoft announced the different versions of Vista in February 2006 before ultimately making the code available to business customers in November 2006).
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use Mockery as m;
use PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase;
use Coreplex\Crumbs\Container;
use Coreplex\Crumbs\Components\Crumb as Crumb;
use Coreplex\Crumbs\Renderers\Basic as BasicRenderer;

class RendererTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {

    /**
     * Setup resources and dependencies.
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    public function setUp()
    {

    }

    /**
     * Close mockery.
     *
     * @return void
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    public function tearDown()
    {
        m::close();
    }

    public function testRendererOutputsNonEmptyString()
    {
        $container = $this->makeContainer();

        $container->append('Google', '//www.google.com');

        $renderer = new BasicRenderer;

        $this->assertNotEmpty($renderer->render($container));
    }

    public function makeContainer()
    {
        return new Container(new Crumb, new BasicRenderer);
    }

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    {
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        $method = $reflection->getMethod($methodName);
        $method->setAccessible(true);

        return $method->invokeArgs($object, $parameters);
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Catena Media makes a voluntary partial prepayment of its Outstanding Bonds
February 5th, 2021 08:00 CET
Catena Media plc (Nasdaq Stockholm: CTM)
Catena Media plc ("Catena Media" or the "Company") announces that the Company will make a voluntary partial prepayment (the "Voluntary Partial Prepayment") of its up to EUR 250,000,000 senior secured callable floating rate bonds (ISIN: SE0010832154), with a total outstanding nominal amount of EUR 94,500,000 (the "Outstanding Bonds"), governed by the terms and conditions originally dated 2 March 2018 and as amended and restated on 29 June 2020 (the "Terms and Conditions").
Pursuant to Clause 11.4.2 of the Terms and Conditions (Subsequent voluntary partial prepayments), Catena Media may elect to prepay an amount of up to EUR 4,000 per bond on each interest payment date. The Voluntary Partial Prepayment will be made on 2 March 2021 to the holders holding bonds on the applicable record date, being 23 February 2021.
The Voluntary Partial Prepayment will be made in relation to all Outstanding Bonds, by way of reducing the nominal amount of each bond pro rata with an amount of EUR 4,000 per bond, in aggregate EUR 6,000,000. Following the Voluntary Partial Prepayment, the nominal amount of each bond will be EUR 59,000 and the total outstanding nominal amount will be EUR 88,500,000. The prepayment per bond shall be made at the applicable call option price, which for the relevant period is 101.375 per cent., together with accrued but unpaid interest on the prepaid amount. The total amount to repay (excluding accrued but unpaid interest) is EUR 6,082,500.
In accordance with the Terms and Conditions, a notice stating the amount of the Voluntary Partial Prepayment and the applicable record date for the Voluntary Partial Prepayment has today been sent to the holders. The notice is available at the Company's website, www.catenamedia.com.
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The explosion injured two other officers and an onlooker.
The device was one of two hidden in a bag on a roof by the church in Nasr City outside Cairo.
It comes two days before Egypt's Christians celebrate their Christmas.
About 10% of Egypt's population are Copts, and many say the state discriminates against them and does not offer them enough protection.
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - who declares himself a defender of Christians against extremists - is due to open Cathedral of Nativity on Sunday outside the capital, the day before Coptic Christmas on 7 January.
No group has of yet claimed the attack, but Islamist insurgents have regularly attacked Copts in the past. More than 100 have been killed in attacks by jihadists since 2016.
Last October, 17 people were sentenced to death for their involvement in bomb attacks on Coptic churches.
And the following month, police killed 19 Islamist militants who were accused of attacking Christians in a shoot-out.


....So, in my quest to deal with the recycling issue, I started thinking about a related issue, which was trash in general. When I was part of a larger household, there was always this amazement each time a kid went off to school and the amount of trash created by said household decreased dramatically. This happened to the point where then I started to actively DO things to further decrease the amount of trash created. Things like washing and re-using plastic storage bags (or not using them at all), trying to buy veggies and fruits free style without the packaging, composting more, etc. This was the humble beginning of my personal environmental movement I guess.
That was until I started reading about the transition to a zero-waste lifestyle. HERE is one blog as an example. I'm not advocating one blog over another in this arena, it is just that TIFT seems to be one of the more sustained ones over time.
I think that basically, this type of lifestyle is what we all, those of us considering ourselves environmental friendly, are trying to work toward. Perhaps not to the extreme of all of your trash fitting into a mason jar, but attempting to seriously consider what our household solid waste consists of and limiting our impact on the local landfill.
Plus it can be an issue of economics. As my friend Oraia Helene said yesterday on Facebook, some communities actually charge you for the amount of trash you take to the transfer station. Yes, you heard both parts right. They not only mandate that the citizen transport his/her trash, but they make you pay to have it processed. My brother lives in a community in Maryland that does this as well and has been as long as I can remember. I actually think it is a fabulously forward thinking idea and much more fair than charging everyone the same amount no matter how much trash they toss into the belly of the earth each week.
-washing and reusing sandwich/freezer bags (I only have a few of these, leftover from stuff, not buying any new).
-buying fruits and veggies "loose" (unpackaged).
-making lotion and doing the no shampoo hair cleansing (I started this last year and admittedly due to laziness got away from it so now am trying to start again).
- buying that TP without the cardboard roller (it is hard to find here but when I find it I get it).
-making loose ground coffee with a mesh filter and using a tea ball or tea straw for loose leaf tea.
-stopped buying/using paper towels & paper napkins (THIS.WAS.BIG. and has cut my waste significantly).
-buying local soap w/out packaging (plan to start making this myself too).
**cutting down on recycled items further too and paying attention to what is moving through the market more readily. For instance, as I said in yesterday's post, the current demand is for aluminum and cardboard, so why not further cut back on plastic, whether recycle worthy or not? For me this means getting diet soda (yes I still drink soda on occasion and I know it is bad for you) in cans rather than in bottles or getting a growler refilled with my favorite local brew rather than buying bottles (which I can no longer recycle without pawning them off on my colleague as I said yesterday).


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D A L E E A R N H A R D T N E W S
CLASSIC NEWS:
2003 News AT THE TRACK:
For track reports from Dale's races, visit the Race Reports Archive.
Race Reports.
2 0 0 3 N E W S A R C H I V E
The day Dale Earnhardt died
December 16, 2003 - On the day that Dale Earnhardt died, the rookie Kurt Busch awoke refreshed. His girlfriend Melissa Schaper cooked him a breakfast of bacon and eggs, and then he dressed in shirt, jeans, and a comfortable pair of shoes he'd worn since high school. In five hours, he would compete in one of the world's most famous auto races. Full Story.
Championships highlight new showroom display at DEI
November 26, 2003 - During a career that spanned 22-full Winston Cup seasons, he won 76 races and seven Winston Cup Series championships. He also won Rookie of the Year honors and, along the way, he and Teresa Earnhardt built Dale Earnhardt, Inc. into a championship team.
The new display in the Retail Showroom of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. pays tribute to Dale's championships, the winning ways of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Michael Waltrip and the No. 1 Chevrolet team. Full Story.
Childress makes some emotional laps in Earnhardt salute
October 11, 2003 - The No. 3 Chevrolet was back on the track for the first time since Dale Earnhardt's 2001 death when Richard Childress drove a replica of it during pre-race parade laps.
Childress, the car owner for six of Earnhardt's seven Winston Cup titles, wiped away tears as he waited for the command to start his engine. He gave a thumbs-up sign before beginning the laps, which were part of NASCAR's "Victory Lap" tribute to longtime series sponsor R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Flashbulbs popped and fans stood while flashing three fingers each time the car passed, and Childress closed the brief tribute with a long burnout along the frontstretch. (AP)
10/11 - Victory Lap Photos: Page 1 | Page 2
By the Numbers: Earnhardt and Gordon
October 9, 2003 - In what is sure to be one of the most emotional days in more than two-and-a-half years of NASCAR Winston Cup racing, former champions Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon will be honored Saturday evening at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Full Story.
Victory Laps in honor of Earnhardt
October 8, 2003 - While there is no pre-race show scheduled for this Saturday night's NBC coverage of the UAW-GM Quality 500, this week's Victory Lap ceremony, in which Richard Childress will drive the No. 3 Chevrolet of the late Dale Earnhardt, will be shown.
The Victory Lap program honors R.J. Reynolds' 33-year sponsorship of NASCAR's top division and recognizes drivers who captured a NASCAR Winston Cup championship.
The broadcast hits the air at 7 p.m. ET, with the green flag scheduled to fly at about 7:20. The show will kick off with a live performance from the band "Three Doors Down" to be followed by a few driver interviews and the Victory Lap ceremony.
R e l a t e d :
8/12 - Childress to drive No. 3 car at Lowe's
9/30 - Park out of the 30 for 2004
9/22 - 2004 templates are "B.S." to Childress
No. 3 forever
September 14, 2003 - She says she is Dale Earnhardt's biggest fan, and it is difficult to dispute that claim upon meeting Susie Behler. There is the black wooden sign that reads, "3 we miss u." There is the "No. 1 Fan" T-shirt. There are the earrings worn in tribute to Earnhardt's famous stock-car driver son, affectionally known as "Junior." But, above all, there is this... Full Story.
Infighting lessons as Childress dominates
August 29, 2003 - Don't look now, but as the Winston Cup Series prepares for its last Labor Day weekend Southern 500, the historic importance of this race, Kurt Busch's ongoing problems as NASCAR's newest bad boy and the return of Jimmy Spencer have all overshadowed one of the best racing stories of the year. Although people are aware of it, sort of, the fact that Richard Childress Racing has made a major midseason turnaround, something you rarely see in this sport, has been pushed into the background by Busch, etc. Full Story.
8/16 - Dale Earnhardt Jr interview
8/16 - Richard Childress interview
BMS to dedicate Dale Earnhardt Terrace
August 12, 2003 - Bristol Motor Speedway officially will dedicate the new Dale Earnhardt Terrace Grandstand during Sharpie 500 pre-race ceremonies on August 23. The late Dale Earnhardt joins Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, Alan Kulwicki, Junior Johnson, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough and the Allisons in having a grandstand named in his honor. Full Story.
Childress to drive No. 3 car at Lowe's
August 12, 2003 - Car owner Richard Childress will drive the late Dale Earnhardt's No. 3 Chevrolet in a prerace ceremony at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Childress unveiled the car Tuesday that he will drive alongside four-time Winston Cup champion Jeff Gordon during the parade laps before the race Oct. 11. Full Story.
Richard Childress to unveil No. 3 "Victory Lap" Car Tuesday at Lowe's Motor Speedway
August 9, 2003 - On Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 2:00 p.m., six-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion car owner Richard Childress and four-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Jeff Gordon will have a special press conference concerning the Lowe's Motor Speedway portion of the "Victory Lap" program which is recognizing R.J. Reynolds' contributions to the sport. H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway, and Mark Dyer, vice president of licensing and consumer products for NASCAR, will also participate in the press conference which will conclude with the unveiling of the specially painted No. 3 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that Childress will drive during pre-race festivities for the UAW-GM Quality 500 on Saturday night, Oct. 11. In what promises to be one of the most memorable moments of the "Victory Lap" tour, Gordon will drive a specially painted No. 24 Dupont Chevrolet alongside Childress and the No. 3 during the pre-race festivities. Gordon's "Victory Lap" car will also be on display.
8/7 - Drivers put differences aside, place emphasis on teamwork -- Childress pleased with organization's progress
8/2 - Harvick not too late to chase Kenseth
7/26 - Little E a favorite son
6/29 - Just call him 'Dale'
6/29 - Earnhardt's love of outdoors memorialized
6/29 - Park p's and q's before entering a NASCAR race
2/17 - Dale was destined for greatness
Yeah, the music was a draw, but this was about Dale Earnhardt
June 28, 2003 - This is a story of two women, connected by the memory of one man. One of the women is famous. One of them isn't. But both of them were at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday for the same reason. Full Story.
6/27 - Teresa Earnhardt, Dale Jr., and Performers comment on Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert
6/22 - For fans, Intimidator is eternal
Earnhardt, Childress teams driven apart
June 22, 2003 - One sensitive development since Dale Earnhardt's death in February 2001 has been the dissolution of an alliance between Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), the team Dale owned, and Richard Childress Racing (RCR), the team for which Dale drove.
The teams used to work together closely on technical issues and still consult each other occasionally, but seem to have drifted somewhat apart in Dale's absence. Full Story.
Teresa Earnhardt keeps team on track
June 22, 2003 - Teresa Earnhardt has been to Daytona several times since legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt died three Februarys ago, a sign she has made peace with the place where the couple experienced so much success and immeasurable pain. So Earnhardt's widow will be happy, she says and maybe a little nervous about introducing musical acts from Sheryl Crow to Alabama in front of perhaps 50,000 of her late husband's loyal fans at tribute concert to him Saturday at Daytona International. Full Story.
HIS LEGEND LIVES ON
Dale Earnhardt's impact on racing seems to keep growing even after his tragic death at the 2001 Daytona 500
June 21, 2003 - Lynyrd Skynyrd's Southern rock anthem ''Free Bird'' blares over the loudspeakers as shoppers browse through the NASCAR bazaar that has set up shop at Infineon Raceway. Full Story.
6/19 - Kerry Earnhardt has the name, but he's just learning the craft
Earnhardt lives on through his fans
June 10, 2003 - There are sports fans ... and then there are NASCAR fans. Then there's a whole different level of crazed enthusiast - Dale Earnhardt fans. Full Story.
Memories race through RCR museum
May 16, 2003 - Richard Childress momentarily became speechless as he thought of the past on Thursday. The past was difficult to ignore as Childress unveiled a homecoming for some of the most potent cars in the history of his Winston Cup team's arsenal. Twelve black No. 3 Chevrolets driven by the late Dale Earnhardt again grace the floors of the shops where they were prepared, the show pieces in the expansion of Childress' racing museum. Full Story.
N E W S S T A N D :
Remembering Dale Earnhardt
5/21 - 'The Intimidator' still stirs many
5/21 - The black No. 3
5/21 - A license to make money
5/16 - Childress' shrine simply 'overwhelming'
5/16 - Museum an Earnhardt fan's dream
4/30 - 3 cheers in memory of the Intimidator
4/29 - Earnhardt fans flock to pay homage
4/29 - Got 3 ways to mark Dale Earnhardt Day?
4/29 - Earnhardt fans trek to racing mecca
4/28 - Easley Proclaims April 29, 2003 Dale Earnhardt Day
4/18 - April 29th is second annual Dale Earnhardt Day
4/11 - New RCR Museum to open in mid-May
4/8 - Dale Earnhardt - "Corvette American Legends Tour"
4/5 - Ohio fan has over 80,000 pieces of Earnhardt memorabilia
3/3 - Teresa Earnhardt unveils Highway 3
Flashback: 2001 IROC Round 1 -- Earnhardt gets back at Cheever after IROC incident
2/24 - RCR to continue licensing No. 3
2/14 - Earnhardt's influence still felt at Daytona 500
2/14 - Fans won't forget No. 3
2/14 - 2003 Earnhardt Z06E Corvette Raffle (scroll down) | Z06E Ad
2/12 - Commentary: Like father, like son (also see audio link in right column)
2/11 - Legacy of 'Intimidator' felt in qualifying
1/30 - PEOPLE Exclusive: Life After Dale
2/26 - Mrs. Earnhardt to dedicate N.C. Highway 3
12/3 - McREYNOLDS: A FOX first and one of "Earnhardt's proudest moments"
11/25 - Earnhardt tribute committee to continue as nonprofit
10/25 - Davey and Dale
10/23 - Earnhardt's No. 3 lives on
10/23 - Governor officially recognizes N.C. 3
DEI / RCR / Kerry Earnhardt News
6/23 - Skill won race, not cheating
6/23 - Battle of Gordons turns ugly
6/22 - 11th-place finish best for Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt Inc. Makes Its Mark By Dominating Restrictor-Plate Races
6/3 - The other Earnhardt at career crossroads
5/21 - The road back for RCR
5/21 - Keeping the DEI fires burning
5/16 - Winston Open pole goes to Park on first time out with RCR
5/7 - RCR names Park to drive No. 30 AOL Chevy
3/16 - The driving force behind a racing empire
2/16 - Childress chases title without legend, friend
2/16 - A burden never ending for Little E
2/15 - RCR finds blueprint for success
2/13 - Daytona Twin 125: GM - Dale Earnhardt Jr press conference
1/26 - Inner strength - After recovering from head injury, Park is ready to get his career back on track
1/15 - Earnhardt Jr. says contract with DEI awaiting signatures
1/14 - Childress plans winery, hotel
1/8 - New season, new start for RCR
12/18 - A pivotal season awaits Junior
12/17 - Difficult year puts Childress in a strange place
12/17 - DEI stable looks to capitalize on late-season surge
11/18 - Images: Chocolate Myers' final race
11/14 - Chocolate Myers leaving the pits
11/14 - Chocolate Myers going behind the wall for good
11/10 - Longtime 3 team member Myers to retire
10/23 - Starting over has been hard for Childress' Earnhardt team
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The Kedarnath portals were thrown open for pilgrims on Sunday morning after the six-month-long winter break.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat also extended a warm welcome to the devotees visiting the shrine.
Taking to his twitter handle, Rawat said that the state government ensured all the facility for the people visiting here.
He added that the pilgrims' comfort and safety were their prime agenda.
Adequate electricity, water, health and safety arrangements were made on the trek route from Gaurikund to Kedarnath, the Chief Minister said.
Several new features, like a daily laser show on Lord Shiva, were also introduced for the visitors.
The temple opened at 6.15 am in the presence of scores of devotees.
The gates of these temples are closed every winter due to snow-bound conditions.


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Review: Mama Makes Moviegoers Cringe
March 4, 2013 March 14, 2013 Holly San Nicolas
It's mid-winter once again, and we all know what that means: the time of the year where the fountain of quality movies has seemed to have run dry. However, much like the prospectors of the California Gold Rush, avid moviegoers have to sift their figurative pans through a lot of brackish water before they can find the gold nuggets. Well, your search is over- Guillermo Del Toro's Mama, which crept its way into theatres on Jan. 18, 2013, is that refreshing moment of discovery.
Despite the somewhat unflattering trailers and bizarre, monosyllabic title, Mama surprises audiences with gorgeous scenery, a commanding performance by a convincing cast, and spectacular visuals that are reminiscent of Del Toro's Pans Labrynth. Oh, and one must not forget the sheer thrills and terror that are sprinkled generously throughout the film.
Mama is the story of the relationship between two orphaned girls and a lost spirit, whom they affectionately refer to as Mama. Previously, Victoria and Lilly (exceptionally portrayed by Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse) had been taken to a remote cabin in the woods (we won't spoil too much of it) and were abandoned.
Five years later, they are found and are sent to live with their uncle Lucas and his girlfriend, Annabel. (played by Jessica Chastain) The girls are withdrawn and animal-like. Annabel, who is in charge of taking care of them after Lucas is rendered comatose, discovers that they came with the paranormal baggage that is Mama, the film's main antagonist. She is one of the few creatures in movies whose appearance will continue to make you cringe long after her "pop-up" scenes have come to a close.
Filled to the brim with mystery, suspense, surreal imagery, and scenes where you will literally drop your popcorn and cower on the shoulder of the person next to you, Mama is definitely the must-see movie event of the month.


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Academic and Student Policies›
847-635-1700 Des Plaines Campus
847-635-1400 Ray Hartstein Campus in Skokie
www.oakton.edu/admission
Oakton Community College Admits
Graduates from an accredited high school.
Persons who hold a High School Equivalency Certificate.
Persons over 18 years of age who have neither graduated from high school nor earned a High School Equivalency Certificate.
Concurrent high school students.
Oakton admits students as described above. In addition, Illinois Public Act 86-0954 requires applicants seeking admission to some programs to meet specific entrance requirements, comparable to those at state universities. Applicants who do not meet the requirements may be conditionally admitted.
Admission to Baccalaureate-Oriented Associate Degree Programs in Liberal Arts, Science, Engineering, or Fine Arts
The Illinois Board of Higher Education has established the following high school course distribution requirements for all students seeking to earn an A.A., A.S., A.S.E., or A.F.A. degree. The law requires completion of at least 15 high school academic units in the following areas:
Four years of English (written and oral communication, literature)
Three years of mathematics (Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry or Computer Programming)
Three years of science (laboratory sciences)
Three years of social sciences (history and government)
Two years of electives (foreign language, music, art, or vocational)
Two years of flexible electives (two additional courses from any of the above categories)
Students who do not meet the minimum specific requirements may meet the requirements through placement testing and/or completion of specific college-level courses. Completion of 24 semester hours of college-level course work is also acceptable.
Admission of Students Who Want to Obtain an F-1 Visa
International students must complete the admission requirements in the I-20 Student Application packet. Admission requirements include a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of 68 on the Internet-based test (iBT) or 520 on the written test. Oakton does not offer a full-time ESL major for F-1 students. Applicants must be in valid, non-expired immigration status and have a sponsor in the United States in order to meet admission requirements.
Once the applicant's file is complete, the International Student Operations Specialist will issue the USCIS Form I-20. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will then determine approval for F-1 status. Once accepted, international students must be enrolled full time for at least 12 credit hours in the fall and spring semesters; summer is optional. If a student begins studies in the summer term, six semester hours are considered to be full-time status. Students in F-1 status will pay out-of-state tuition rates, need proof of health/medical insurance, and are not eligible for federal or state financial assistance. Contact the Enrollment Center for further information.
Admission of Students with Disabilities
The College is committed to equal access to educational opportunities for students with disabilities. A student with a disability who needs academic accommodations is encouraged to make an appointment with the Access and Disability Resource Center by calling 847-635-1759.
Limited Enrollment Curricula and/or Health Career Programs
The following curricula at Oakton have specific admission requirements and accept a limited number of students each year. It is strongly recommended that students attend an Information Session prior to applying to a Limited Enrollment program. See Oakton's website or contact the Enrollment Center at 847-635-1700 for dates and times of upcoming Information Sessions, information about admission requirements, application procedures, and deadlines to apply to these programs:
Cancer Registry Management Certificate
Medical Assistant Certificate
Medical Coding and Billing Certificate
Phlebotomy Certificate
All Oakton Community College Health Career students in nursing, physical therapist assistant, medical laboratory technology, pharmacy technician, health information technology, and medical assistant programs must have "clear" criminal background checks and drug screens in order to participate in any and all clinical components of any health career program courses. See the career programs pages for further details.
More information regarding admission can be found in this catalog under the specific program or online at www.oakton.edu/prospect.
Limited Enrollment Appeal Process
Candidates who are denied admission to any of Oakton's Limited Enrollment health career programs may appeal the denial of admission by submitting a written request to the Director of Admission and Enrollment within 10 days of the original decision letter.
Readmission to Limited Enrollment Programs
Students who are dropped from a Limited Enrollment program may be readmitted one time to that program. Students must reapply and interview with the program chair prior to readmission.
Honors at Oakton
Oakton offers Honors courses for students with strong achievement records in high school and for students who have excelled at Oakton. See Special Areas of Study and Concentrations - Honors at Oakton, for more information.
Questions regarding the application process? Call Recruitment and Outreach at 847-635-1835.
General Admission Procedures
Complete and submit the Oakton general online application form at www.oakton.edu or in the Enrollment Center at either campus.
Submit the nonrefundable application fee of $25.
Submit official transcripts. Individuals with an associate degree or higher who do not intend to graduate from Oakton need not submit transcripts.
High School Transcript – Seventh semester transcripts are accepted for students applying before high school graduation.
High School Equivalency Transcript – Test results must be sent directly from the testing agency to Oakton's Enrollment Center.
College Transcript – Submit official transcripts from colleges at which college-level credit was awarded and complete the Evaluation of Credits form, which is available from the Enrollment Center.
4. Submit ACT or SAT test scores. A test is not required for admission, but results are used for placement and advising.
Concurrent High School Students
For high school juniors and seniors only. Students must have achieved a minimum high school GPA of 2.0. A maximum of one course per semester is allowed.
Submit the Concurrent High School Enrollment Form, available at www.oakton.edu, signed by the student's high school counselor and a parent.
Submit official high school transcript.
Students Who Officially Withdrew From or Dropped Out of High School
Individuals under age 18 whose high school class has not graduated may be eligible to attend Oakton, subject to the College's criteria for enrollment. Contact the Office of Student Recruitment and Outreach, 847-635-1981, for information.
Students who wish to return to Oakton after an absence of more than three years must complete an application for admission. An application fee is not required.


Even though the driver is correctly installed and the corresponding hardware (for example CMC series, CC121, MR series) is working, the control panels of both the 'Yamaha USB-MIDI Driver' and 'Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver' (FireWire) are missing from the 'Hardware and Sound' category of Windows' Control Panel.
The issue only occurs if the Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver resp. Yamaha USB-MIDI Driver has been installed on a Windows 10 system that has been updated to Windows Fall Creators Update (v1709) later.
Go to Control Panel and set 'View by:' (at the upper right above the control panels) from 'Category' to 'Large icons' or 'Small icons'.


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Q: Assigning Role Definition to SharePoint Site group through Flow? I'm currently in the process of trying to automate SharePoint site creation, and am looking at doing so with MS Flow, MS Graph, and the SharePoint API - I've created a new role definition permission level - Limited Read (Which is just 'Read' minus the ability to view versioning information) for the client site, and a new client site group titled "Client Users", to go alongside Owners, Members, and Visitors. However, I'm not 100% sure about how I'd actually go about assigning the permission level to the sitegroup itself? I know through PowerShell I'd just use the Set-PnPGroupPermissions cmdlet and the -identity/-addrole params, but I'm not clear on how to do it through Flow - I'm currently giving it a shot through a HTTP action and am getting the below error, I'm guessing it's my authorization or possibly my URI, but I don't even know if I'm using the right action to be honest:
{"error_description":"Invalid issuer or signature."}
See Flow below:
Flow 1
Flow 2
Flow 3
Flow 4
Flow 5
Flow Error
Any help would be appreciated! Alternatively if someone could just point me in the direction of a guide detailing how to assign a role definition to a site group through Flow, I'd be most appreciative!
Thank you!

A: Got this working, turns out I was just using the wrong action. Went with 'Send HTTP request to SharePoint' instead of the HTTP action and it worked first time.
Flow 7
Flow 8

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<?php
/**
 * PhpUnit tests for class JpegImageResizer
 *
 * @author   Guillaume Tissier
 * @license  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php The MIT License
 * @link     https://github.com/guillaumetissier/ImageResizer
 */

namespace ImageResizer;

class JpegImageResizerTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    const INPUT_IMAGE_JPG        = 'phpstorm.jpg';
    const INPUT_IMAGE_PNG        = 'phpstorm.png';
    const OUTPUT_IMAGE_JPG       = 'phpstormOut.jpg';
    const WRONG_INPUT_IMAGE_JPG  = 'phpstormWrong.jpg';
    const ABSENT_INPUT_IMAGE_JPG = 'phpstormAbsent.jpg';

    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $path;

    /**
     * set up test environment
     */
    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->path = __DIR__ . '/images/';
    }

    /**
     * test the function resize
     *
     * @dataProvider getDataToResize
     *
     * @param integer $resizeType
     * @param array   $dimensions
     * @param array   $options
     * @param array   $expectedDimensions
     */
    public function testResize($resizeType, $dimensions, $options, $expectedDimensions)
    {
        $input  = $this->path . self::INPUT_IMAGE_JPG;
        $output = $this->path . self::OUTPUT_IMAGE_JPG;

        $resizer = new JpegImageResizer(
            $resizeType,
            $dimensions,
            $options
        );
        $resizer->resize($input, $output);

        $this->assertTrue(is_file($output));

        $outputSize = getimagesize($output);
        $this->assertEquals($expectedDimensions[0], $outputSize[0]);
        $this->assertEquals($expectedDimensions[1], $outputSize[1]);

        unlink($output);
    }

    /**
     * test the locate function with degree, second, minute unit
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getDataToResize()
    {
        return [
            [
                JpegImageResizer::PROPORTIONAL,
                [JpegImageResizer::RATIO => 50],
                [JpegImageResizer::OPT_INTERLACE => true, JpegImageResizer::OPT_QUALITY => 25],
                [237, 153]
            ],
            [
                JpegImageResizer::FIXED,
                [JpegImageResizer::WIDTH => 50, JpegImageResizer::HEIGHT => 50],
                [JpegImageResizer::OPT_INTERLACE => true, JpegImageResizer::OPT_QUALITY => 50],
                [50, 50]
            ],
            [
                JpegImageResizer::FIXED_WIDTH,
                [JpegImageResizer::WIDTH => 360],
                [JpegImageResizer::OPT_INTERLACE => false, JpegImageResizer::OPT_QUALITY => 75],
                [360, 232]
            ],
            [
                JpegImageResizer::FIXED_HEIGHT,
                [JpegImageResizer::HEIGHT => 81],
                [],
                [126, 81]
            ]
        ];
    }

    /**
     * test the function resize
     *
     * @dataProvider getDataToResizeKo
     *
     * @param string  $input
     * @param integer $resizeType
     * @param array   $dimensions
     * @param array   $options
     * @param integer $expectedExceptionCode
     *
     */
    public function testResizeKo($input, $resizeType, $dimensions, $options, $expectedExceptionCode)
    {
        $input  = $this->path . $input;
        $output = $this->path . self::OUTPUT_IMAGE_JPG;

        try {
            $resizer = new JpegImageResizer(
                $resizeType,
                $dimensions,
                $options
            );
            $resizer->resize($input, $output);

        } catch (ImageResizerException $ex) {
            $this->assertEquals($expectedExceptionCode, $ex->getCode());
        }
    }

    /**
     * test the locate function with degree, second, minute unit
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getDataToResizeKo()
    {
        return [
            [
                self::INPUT_IMAGE_PNG,
                JpegImageResizer::PROPORTIONAL,
                [JpegImageResizer::RATIO => 50],
                [JpegImageResizer::OPT_INTERLACE => true],
                ImageResizerException::WRONG_IMAGE_TYPE
            ],
            [
                self::WRONG_INPUT_IMAGE_JPG,
                JpegImageResizer::PROPORTIONAL,
                [JpegImageResizer::RATIO => 50],
                [JpegImageResizer::OPT_INTERLACE => true],
                ImageResizerException::INVALID_JPG_FILE
            ],
            [
                self::ABSENT_INPUT_IMAGE_JPG,
                JpegImageResizer::PROPORTIONAL,
                [JpegImageResizer::RATIO => 50],
                [JpegImageResizer::OPT_INTERLACE => true],
                ImageResizerException::FILE_DOES_NOT_EXIST
            ]
        ];
    }
}