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Why I Love Taking Summer Courses at U of T
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I've been taking summer courses throughout my program. I noticed that I am motivated and well-focused when I take summer courses. Why is that? It's the summer, how could I even think about school? I started taking summer courses after…
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Why Reading More Helps Me with My Grades (as a Humanities Student)
Humanities students, I know what you're thinking. We have so much readings to do in a week, how could we possibly benefit from more reading? Sounds exhausting just thinking about it, right? But it just works. My recently-graduated Masters friend…
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Balancing School…and a Relationship
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I've had my fair dose of advice for balancing work and play, making time for friends while in school, remembering hobbies during times of stress. But balancing school while in a relationship? It's something I've yet to address. Yet, it's…
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Living in Residence as an Upper Year: What You Need to Know
Posted on: March 23, 2022 Last updated on: March 23, 2022 Written by: Andrea Comments: 0
If you're an international student or a student that requires accommodation for the academic year, you may be considering your housing options for next fall. And if you've lived in residence this year, you may consider re-applying for next year.…
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Thinking of Starting a Bullet Journal? Make It Look Ugly
I started bullet journaling for the first time after seeing my friend using her own. Her journal didn't have detailed drawings, fancy headings, calligraphy, or washi tape—she used a black pen to track down her dates, progress, and deadlines. She…
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Experiencing Guilt When Dropping a Course
Posted on: March 4, 2022 Last updated on: March 4, 2022 Written by: Andrea Comments: 0
Every semester since my first year I've endured this battle of me vs. my course load. There was only one year I managed to successfully to a full course load of five courses a semester, and I honestly think it…
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The Reality of Applying to Prestigious Grad Schools: How Money Descreases My Chances of Getting In
Posted on: February 28, 2022 Last updated on: February 28, 2022 Written by: Andrea Comments: 1
Featured image belongs to Boston University Growing up, I was obsessed with prestigious things; the biggest scholarships, the best schools, the most competitive careers, and so on. If I had the financial means to take the SATs, I would've applied…
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How Video Games Help me Stay Focused on School #JoyatUofT
One day, I was feeling nostalgic for video games that I played growing up. From child-friendly Crash Bandicoot to violent Mortal Kombat (I have an older brother to thank for that), I longed to play these games again but I…
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How Reaching Out Can Save Your Grades: Missed assignments and Falling Behind in Classes
If you've been keeping up with me you'd know I had a chaotic start to this semester. And as a result, I quickly fell behind in all of my classes. I had an extension for an assignment that I still…
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The Woodsworth Alumni Mentorship Program: The Best Opportunity for An Undergraduate Student
Posted on: February 4, 2022 Last updated on: February 4, 2022 Written by: Andrea Comments: 0
Featured image shot by Oliver Zhao Back in September, I was thinking about what I wanted to do after undergrad, and my mind went blank. My dream is to be an author, I knew that. But what will I actually…
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Devoe strikes and the stakes have never been higher for Dibny in the latest Flash
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The team tracked down another one of the metahumans from the bus, and the case gets personal for Dibny. Team Flash also gets a long-awaited callback to the Savitar saga, though it doesn't go nearly as well as planned.
Spoilers ahead for "Subject 9," the latest episode of The CW's Flash, which aired Tuesday, Feb. 27!
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Team Flash failed spectacularly, and it was darn compelling to watch things all fall apart. For an episode about a country-music-singing, cowboy-hat-wearing metahuman with sonic powers, this one went dark and went dark hard. Dibny uses his PI skills to figure out one of the long-lost bus metas is aspiring country singer Izzy Bowen. Despite his hatred of the genre, Dibny makes a connection with Izzy — and Team Flash is fully invested in her when they realize her powers can actually do some damage against DeVoe.
Dibny talks her into staying, but Barry pushes Izzy too hard to master her powers and she leaves to take on DeVoe alone — a decision that has disastrous consequences in the end. As usual, the team epically fails to stop DeVoe after rushing out to try and save Izzy. DeVoe takes out Barry and Dibny with his cocktail of stolen superpowers, then uses his forcefield tech to force Barry and Dibny to watch as he sucks the life out of Izzy with Dibny just a few feet away, trying to offer what little comfort he can while the reaper closes in. He's made sacrifices along the way, but this was Dibny's first true loss since joining the superhero world. Losing a loved one is a crucible within a hero's journey, and Dibny took it right in the heart this week.
But it was the way he handled it that really showed how far Dibny has come this year. The shot of him huddled on the floor, listening to Izzy's demo album, was absolutely brutal. But despite that heartache, he's still thinking about others, as he whips out a "Barry Allen: Private Investigator" card he'd put together for Barry, in the wake of his indefinite suspension from Star City PD. Despite his pain, Dibny knows he's not alone anymore. Instead of spiraling into his sadness, he leans on the people in his life — because he finally has people in his life. He even channels that loss into a drive to stop DeVoe, and takes on that challenge with a vow to stop DeVoe himself. The Flash might be on the title card, but Dibny continues to steal this show.
DeVoe's story also continued to move forward in the most unexpected ways possible, as he jumped once again into a new body, after essentially burning through Becky's body due to the increased strain of having so many powers on tap. Sadly, it stands to reason Izzy's body won't fare much better, and as long as he's wearing that face, it'll almost certainly be a strain for Dibny to try and fight the woman he had feeling for.
Assorted musings
*Harry is back, and hilariously trying to make friends. Pairing Harry and Cecile makes for an interesting dynamic, and though it seems a bit odd on the surface, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Harry's social anxiety has made for an interesting piece of his makeup, and to see him reaching out to Cecile shows real growth. Plus, it helps spark an idea that almost levels the playing field against DeVoe. He's also still struggling with his relationship with Jesse, which is a shame. Here's hoping they can work things out.
*Speaking of DeVoe: Fans will almost certainly remember DeVoe getting a namedrop by future Barry during the Savitar saga last season, as he noted offhand to Barry that they would eventually build a "Cerebral inhibitor" to try and stop the Thinker. Harry inadvertently creates it here, which leads Barry to think they're on the verge of a breakthrough. DeVoe shuts it down almost immediately, though, but it stands to reason this thing will surface again. Harry needs a win, and the 3.0 version can hopefully do some damage.
*Izzy's Southern accent might have been a bit wobbly, but she was an interesting and layered character for a one-off. They did an excellent job of fleshing out her motivations, as she is on the verge of her big break and only wants to get back to her life. Sadly, it seems the world will never get to rock out to that debut album.
*So DeVoe's secret lair is located in its own pocket dimension? That makes a lot of sense, considering the gang couldn't actually find it while searching DeVoe's home. Building in a pocket dimension gives you all the room you could want, though you have to wonder about the property values there.
Next week: Time stops with a bomb threatening the city.
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Ferran Soriano Compte est un chef d'entreprise espagnol né à Barcelone le .

Entre 2003 et 2008, il est vice-président économique du FC Barcelone alors présidé par Joan Laporta.

En , Ferran Soriano devient président de la compagnie aérienne Spanair jusqu'en 2012.

Le , il est nommé directeur exécutif de Manchester City. Il préside également le New York City FC et Melbourne City FC.

Biographie
Ferran Soriano naît dans le quartier populaire barcelonais de Poblenou. Ses parents sont commerçants. Il devient socio du FC Barcelone à l'âge de 13 ans.

Il possède des licences et des masters en Sciences de l'entreprise obtenus à l'ESADE de Barcelone, à la RPI de New York et à .

Il a occupé des postes de responsabilité chez The Mac Group, ReckittBenckiser et Cluster Consulting, entreprise qu'il fonde en 1993 avec Marc Ingla, Javier Rubió, Marcel Rafart et Jordi Viñas. Soriano est également président et membre fondateur de Leqtor.com et 36L, des maisons d'édition. En 2009, Ferran Soriano devient président de la compagnie aérienne Spanair.

Dirigeant du football
En 2003, il fait partie de l'équipe de Joan Laporta qui remporte les élections à la présidence du FC Barcelone. Il devient alors vice-président du club et s'occupe de l'aire économique. Il démissionne en 2008.

En 2010, il s'intègre à la candidature de Marc Ingla à la présidence du FC Barcelone. Cette candidature perd les élections face à celle de Sandro Rosell.

Le , il devient directeur exécutif du club anglais de Manchester City. En octobre de la même année, il recrute l'ancien directeur technique du FC Barcelone sous l'ère Laporta, Txiki Begiristain.

Le , le président du FC Barcelone Sandro Rosell accuse Ferran Soriano et Txiki Begiristain de vouloir recruter de façon déloyale des joueurs et des employés du FC Barcelone, et de mettre à leur profit des informations confidentielles sur le club catalan.

Bibliographie
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Références

Dirigeant espagnol de football
New York City FC
Personnalité catalane
Personnalité espagnole du monde des affaires
Étudiant de l'université catholique de Louvain
Naissance en juin 1967
Naissance à Barcelone

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News Blog How a Teacher Is Opening Up a Whole New World for Seattle Teens
How a Teacher Is Opening Up a Whole New World for Seattle Teens We sit down with Center School teacher Alex Scilletta to find out how a simple snowshoe adventure can make a difference in the lives of students. https://www.wta.org/news/signpost/how-a-teacher-from-new-york-city-is-opening-up-a-whole-new-world-for-seattle-teens https://www.wta.org/news/signpost/how-a-teacher-from-new-york-city-is-opening-up-a-whole-new-world-for-seattle-teens/@@download/image/DSCF6155.jpg
How a Teacher Is Opening Up a Whole New World for Seattle Teens
Posted by HikerUp4Wilderness at Dec 27, 2017 04:47 PM | Permalink
Filed under: Outdoor Leadership Training, Success Story, Youth Outdoors
We sit down with Center School teacher Alex Scilletta to find out how a simple snowshoe adventure can make a difference in the lives of students.
An energetic man of science with a trim beard, Alessandro (Alex) Scilletta admits he took an unusual route to teaching. After working 10 years in active duty Air Force and Air National Guard, he took a chance on teaching (and the Northwest)—and ended up loving both.
Center School students gain skills, confidence and camaraderie on their first, but not last, snowshoe outing. Photo courtesy of Alex Scilletta.
When Alex's students at Center School, a Seattle public high school near the iconic Space Needle, asked him to head their Outdoor Environmental Education Club, he extended his classroom outside into the Pacific Northwest's wild landscapes that he had come to love.
One day, when the club started brainstorming about what more they could do besides day hikes, Alex suggested snowshoeing.
Bingo! None of the kids had ever snowshoed, and were excited at the prospect. But there was the problem of gear. Not everyone has snowshoes. Not everyone can afford boots and other winter equipment.
So Alex did a little research and discovered Washington Trails Association's Outdoor Leadership Training program. The program trains educators and community leaders to take young people outside safely, and then provides tools (like gear or transportation grants) to make those outings possible. This year, the program has supported more than 80 outings for groups of youth and families with more than 2,000 participants
"Lo and behold, if you participate, you have access to a gear library!" said Alex. He joined a Snowshoe Workshop, and was ready to go.
Register today for a Snowshoe Workshop on Jan. 13 or Feb. 10, 2018. Follow Alex's example. Try something on a whim, something you think you could love. Then share it with others.
Make a gift to WTA to support the OLT program to get kids outside with skills and gear year round.
The day of reckoning arrived in the form of a snowy morning in the central Cascades. Alex and eight high school sophomores, juniors and seniors ventured out together on snowshoes for the first time, with all the right supplies.
The teen novices and their fearless leaders started out with a celebratory "toast to water," a great way to remind everyone to stay hydrated in cold temperatures.
After a couple hours of talking, laughing and trekking through the woods, Alex decided to try an activity he learned during his Outdoor Leadership Training workshop called "alone time." It's a rare chance for students to walk by themselves in the woods with their own thoughts, just noticing and quietly enjoying what's around them. Simple, yet powerful.
Alex left the kids with instructions for each one of them to follow him at his signal, starting out every 60 seconds. He snowshoed ahead for several minutes on a small wooded trail until it suddenly opened up onto a huge, snow-covered clearing surrounded by trees, with mountains in the distance.
"This is the place," he thought.
The students' quiet exercise in "alone time" was one of their teacher's aha moments during the Outdoor Leadership Training snowshoe workshop. Photo by Alessandro Scilletta.
It began snowing more heavily. One by one, at their own pace, each teen found their way through the snow-filled forest and, arriving without a word, picked a spot under the sheltering trees to wait for the others.
"Everyone just got it. We sat there for a good half-hour looking out across the field and watching it snow. In silence. It was a great experience," Alex said. It's a memory powerful enough he thinks it will stick with him for the rest of his life.
"If you take a student who prefers to be inside, help them take a chance on themselves and strap on a pair of boots or snowshoes, they can't help but fall in love with it."
Days later, an email arrived from the mother of a young man who had never done anything outdoors. The snowshoe outing had been outside his comfort zone. She thanked Alex for opening up a whole new world for her son, who now participates skillfully in the club hikes and snowshoe trips because his teacher introduced him to the outdoors with an opportunity he wouldn't have had otherwise.
If you're a teacher or youth worker who wants to connect kids with the natural world, Alex says the Outdoor Leadership Training is a slam dunk.
"The WTA leaders were fantastic. If you're worried about safety, don't be. Safety is the highest priority. Everyone's there in the interest of making other people's lives better. That's why I did it."
Alex and the club have done several hikes since, and he hopes to develop plans for the students' first overnight backpacking trip, thanks in part to the training and resources provided by WTA and funding from members.
Alex added, "If you take a student who prefers to be inside, help them take a chance on themselves and strap on a pair of boots or snowshoes, they can't help but fall in love with it."
Outdoor Environmental Education Club leader Alessandro Scilletta photographed by a student during a snack break. Photo courtesy of Alessandro Scilletta.


As a manufacturer of vitamins, mineral and supplements, Swiss NaturalTM wanted to send out a communication regarding the above study which has received quite a bit of media coverage over the past week.
Please be advised that Health Canada meticulously reviews all our vitamin, mineral and supplement products for safety and efficacy. Once a product is deemed safe and efficacious (through various proven clinical evidence published in peer-reviewed publications of scientific merit), Health Canada issues an NPN number. Products with an E-number have been deemed safe and are in queue to be assessed for efficacy to receive an NPN number. Health Canada has their own Monographs (guidelines for all vitamins and minerals) to which we comply with. The RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) and UL (Tolerable Upper Intake) values are established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine in collaboration with Health Canada.
The study suggests that there is a link between women multi vitamin users between 55-69 years of age and an increased mortality rate.
Conclusion: During the 19 year period, approx 40% died. Those who regularly took multi vitamins, iron, vitamin B6, folic acid, magnesium, zinc and copper had a slightly higher risk of death than those who took no supplements at all.
During the Study's 19 years, 41% of multi vitamin users died, compared to 40% of non-users. Given the authors' utilization of the P value, the 1% divide puts into question the statistical as well as clinical significance of this study.
The women in the study were between 55-69 years of age and would have concluded the study between 74 and 88 years of age. This calls into question the cause of death, especially given the advanced age of many of the participants.
The study didn't look at a possible direct cause-and-effect dynamic. It was an observational study based on self-reported supplement use and, even the authors qualify that a range of factors aside from the use of supplements could have impacted the outcome.
The authors say that previous research has shown that vitamin users tend to have healthier lifestyles, in general. They admit that it's possible that some of the women took vitamins to remedy health problems or diseases that may have influenced their death risk.
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package org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime;

import org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.NewTopic;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.TopicDescription;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Callback;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Producer;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RecordMetadata;
import org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException;
import org.apache.kafka.common.header.internals.RecordHeaders;
import org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.Sensor;
import org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.stats.Avg;
import org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.stats.CumulativeSum;
import org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.stats.Max;
import org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.stats.Rate;
import org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.stats.Value;
import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Time;
import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.RetriableException;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.header.Header;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.header.Headers;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.errors.ErrorHandlingMetrics;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.errors.RetryWithToleranceOperator;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.errors.Stage;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.errors.ToleranceType;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceRecord;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceTask;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceTaskContext;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.CloseableOffsetStorageReader;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.ConnectorOffsetBackingStore;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.Converter;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.HeaderConverter;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.OffsetStorageWriter;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StatusBackingStore;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.util.ConnectUtils;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.util.ConnectorTaskId;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.util.TopicAdmin;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.util.TopicCreation;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.util.TopicCreationGroup;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import static org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerConfig.TOPIC_TRACKING_ENABLE_CONFIG;

/**
 * WorkerTask that contains shared logic for running source tasks with either standard or exactly-once delivery guarantees.
 */
public abstract class AbstractWorkerSourceTask extends WorkerTask {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AbstractWorkerSourceTask.class);

    private static final long SEND_FAILED_BACKOFF_MS = 100;

    /**
     * Hook to define custom startup behavior before the calling {@link SourceTask#initialize(SourceTaskContext)}
     * and {@link SourceTask#start(Map)}.
     */
    protected abstract void prepareToInitializeTask();

    /**
     * Hook to define custom initialization behavior when preparing to begin the poll-convert-send loop for the first time,
     * or when re-entering the loop after being paused.
     */
    protected abstract void prepareToEnterSendLoop();

    /**
     * Hook to define custom periodic behavior to be performed at the top of every iteration of the poll-convert-send loop.
     */
    protected abstract void beginSendIteration();

    /**
     * Hook to define custom periodic checks for health, metrics, etc. Called whenever {@link SourceTask#poll()} is about to be invoked.
     */
    protected abstract void prepareToPollTask();

    /**
     * Invoked when a record provided by the task has been filtered out by a transform or the converter,
     * or will be discarded due to failures during transformation or conversion.
     * @param record the pre-transform record that has been dropped; never null.
     */
    protected abstract void recordDropped(SourceRecord record);

    /**
     * Invoked when a record is about to be dispatched to the producer. May be invoked multiple times for the same
     * record if retriable errors are encountered.
     * @param sourceRecord the pre-transform {@link SourceRecord} provided by the source task; never null.
     * @param producerRecord the {@link ProducerRecord} produced by transforming and converting the
     * {@code sourceRecord}; never null;
     * @return a {@link SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord} to be {@link SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord#ack() acknowledged}
     * if the corresponding producer record is ack'd by Kafka or {@link SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord#drop() dropped}
     * if synchronously rejected by the producer. Can also be {@link Optional#empty()} if it is not necessary to track the acknowledgment
     * of individual producer records
     */
    protected abstract Optional<SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord> prepareToSendRecord(
            SourceRecord sourceRecord,
            ProducerRecord<byte[], byte[]> producerRecord
    );

    /**
     * Invoked when a record has been transformed, converted, and dispatched to the producer successfully via
     * {@link Producer#send}. Does not guarantee that the record has been sent to Kafka or ack'd by the required number
     * of brokers, but does guarantee that it will never be re-processed.
     * @param record the pre-transform {@link SourceRecord} that was successfully dispatched to the producer; never null.
     */
    protected abstract void recordDispatched(SourceRecord record);

    /**
     * Invoked when an entire batch of records returned from {@link SourceTask#poll} has been transformed, converted,
     * and either discarded due to transform/conversion errors, filtered by a transform, or dispatched to the producer
     * successfully via {@link Producer#send}. Does not guarantee that the records have been sent to Kafka or ack'd by the
     * required number of brokers, but does guarantee that none of the records in the batch will ever be re-processed during
     * the lifetime of this task. At most one record batch is polled from the task in between calls to this method.
     */
    protected abstract void batchDispatched();

    /**
     * Invoked when a record has been sent and ack'd by the Kafka cluster. Note that this method may be invoked
     *  concurrently and should therefore be made thread-safe.
     * @param sourceRecord  the pre-transform {@link SourceRecord} that was successfully sent to Kafka; never null.
     * @param producerRecord the {@link ProducerRecord} produced by transforming and converting the
     * {@code sourceRecord}; never null;
     * @param recordMetadata the {@link RecordMetadata} for the corresponding producer record; never null.
     */
    protected abstract void recordSent(
            SourceRecord sourceRecord,
            ProducerRecord<byte[], byte[]> producerRecord,
            RecordMetadata recordMetadata
    );

    /**
     * Invoked when a record given to {@link Producer#send(ProducerRecord, Callback)} has failed with a non-retriable error.
     * @param synchronous whether the error occurred during the invocation of {@link Producer#send(ProducerRecord, Callback)}.
     *                    If {@code false}, indicates that the error was reported asynchronously by the producer by a {@link Callback}
     * @param producerRecord the {@link ProducerRecord} that the producer failed to send; never null
     * @param preTransformRecord the pre-transform {@link SourceRecord} that the producer record was derived from; never null
     * @param e the exception that was either thrown from {@link Producer#send(ProducerRecord, Callback)}, or reported by the producer
     *          via {@link Callback} after the call to {@link Producer#send(ProducerRecord, Callback)} completed
     */
    protected abstract void producerSendFailed(
            boolean synchronous,
            ProducerRecord<byte[], byte[]> producerRecord,
            SourceRecord preTransformRecord,
            Exception e
    );

    /**
     * Invoked when no more records will be polled from the task or dispatched to the producer. Should attempt to
     * commit the offsets for any outstanding records when possible.
     * @param failed whether the task is undergoing a healthy or an unhealthy shutdown
     */
    protected abstract void finalOffsetCommit(boolean failed);

    protected final WorkerConfig workerConfig;
    protected final WorkerSourceTaskContext sourceTaskContext;
    protected final ConnectorOffsetBackingStore offsetStore;
    protected final OffsetStorageWriter offsetWriter;
    protected final Producer<byte[], byte[]> producer;

    private final SourceTask task;
    private final Converter keyConverter;
    private final Converter valueConverter;
    private final HeaderConverter headerConverter;
    private final TransformationChain<SourceRecord> transformationChain;
    private final TopicAdmin admin;
    private final CloseableOffsetStorageReader offsetReader;
    private final SourceTaskMetricsGroup sourceTaskMetricsGroup;
    private final CountDownLatch stopRequestedLatch;
    private final boolean topicTrackingEnabled;
    private final TopicCreation topicCreation;
    private final Executor closeExecutor;

    // Visible for testing
    List<SourceRecord> toSend;
    protected Map<String, String> taskConfig;
    protected boolean started = false;
    private volatile boolean producerClosed = false;

    protected AbstractWorkerSourceTask(ConnectorTaskId id,
                                       SourceTask task,
                                       TaskStatus.Listener statusListener,
                                       TargetState initialState,
                                       Converter keyConverter,
                                       Converter valueConverter,
                                       HeaderConverter headerConverter,
                                       TransformationChain<SourceRecord> transformationChain,
                                       WorkerSourceTaskContext sourceTaskContext,
                                       Producer<byte[], byte[]> producer,
                                       TopicAdmin admin,
                                       Map<String, TopicCreationGroup> topicGroups,
                                       CloseableOffsetStorageReader offsetReader,
                                       OffsetStorageWriter offsetWriter,
                                       ConnectorOffsetBackingStore offsetStore,
                                       WorkerConfig workerConfig,
                                       ConnectMetrics connectMetrics,
                                       ErrorHandlingMetrics errorMetrics,
                                       ClassLoader loader,
                                       Time time,
                                       RetryWithToleranceOperator retryWithToleranceOperator,
                                       StatusBackingStore statusBackingStore,
                                       Executor closeExecutor) {

        super(id, statusListener, initialState, loader, connectMetrics, errorMetrics,
                retryWithToleranceOperator, time, statusBackingStore);

        this.workerConfig = workerConfig;
        this.task = task;
        this.keyConverter = keyConverter;
        this.valueConverter = valueConverter;
        this.headerConverter = headerConverter;
        this.transformationChain = transformationChain;
        this.producer = producer;
        this.admin = admin;
        this.offsetReader = offsetReader;
        this.offsetWriter = offsetWriter;
        this.offsetStore = Objects.requireNonNull(offsetStore, "offset store cannot be null for source tasks");
        this.closeExecutor = closeExecutor;
        this.sourceTaskContext = sourceTaskContext;

        this.stopRequestedLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
        this.sourceTaskMetricsGroup = new SourceTaskMetricsGroup(id, connectMetrics);
        this.topicTrackingEnabled = workerConfig.getBoolean(TOPIC_TRACKING_ENABLE_CONFIG);
        this.topicCreation = TopicCreation.newTopicCreation(workerConfig, topicGroups);
    }

    @Override
    public void initialize(TaskConfig taskConfig) {
        try {
            this.taskConfig = taskConfig.originalsStrings();
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            log.error("{} Task failed initialization and will not be started.", this, t);
            onFailure(t);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void initializeAndStart() {
        prepareToInitializeTask();
        offsetStore.start();
        // If we try to start the task at all by invoking initialize, then count this as
        // "started" and expect a subsequent call to the task's stop() method
        // to properly clean up any resources allocated by its initialize() or
        // start() methods. If the task throws an exception during stop(),
        // the worst thing that happens is another exception gets logged for an already-
        // failed task
        started = true;
        task.initialize(sourceTaskContext);
        task.start(taskConfig);
        log.info("{} Source task finished initialization and start", this);
    }

    @Override
    public void cancel() {
        super.cancel();
        // Preemptively close the offset reader in case the task is blocked on an offset read.
        offsetReader.close();
        // We proactively close the producer here as the main work thread for the task may
        // be blocked indefinitely in a call to Producer::send if automatic topic creation is
        // not enabled on either the connector or the Kafka cluster. Closing the producer should
        // unblock it in that case and allow shutdown to proceed normally.
        // With a duration of 0, the producer's own shutdown logic should be fairly quick,
        // but closing user-pluggable classes like interceptors may lag indefinitely. So, we
        // call close on a separate thread in order to avoid blocking the herder's tick thread.
        closeExecutor.execute(() -> closeProducer(Duration.ZERO));
    }

    @Override
    public void stop() {
        super.stop();
        stopRequestedLatch.countDown();
    }

    @Override
    public void removeMetrics() {
        Utils.closeQuietly(sourceTaskMetricsGroup, "source task metrics tracker");
        super.removeMetrics();
    }

    @Override
    protected void close() {
        if (started) {
            Utils.closeQuietly(task::stop, "source task");
        }

        closeProducer(Duration.ofSeconds(30));

        if (admin != null) {
            Utils.closeQuietly(() -> admin.close(Duration.ofSeconds(30)), "source task admin");
        }
        Utils.closeQuietly(transformationChain, "transformation chain");
        Utils.closeQuietly(retryWithToleranceOperator, "retry operator");
        Utils.closeQuietly(offsetReader, "offset reader");
        Utils.closeQuietly(offsetStore::stop, "offset backing store");
        Utils.closeQuietly(headerConverter, "header converter");
    }

    private void closeProducer(Duration duration) {
        if (producer != null) {
            producerClosed = true;
            Utils.closeQuietly(() -> producer.close(duration), "source task producer");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void execute() {
        try {
            prepareToEnterSendLoop();
            while (!isStopping()) {
                beginSendIteration();

                if (shouldPause()) {
                    onPause();
                    if (awaitUnpause()) {
                        onResume();
                        prepareToEnterSendLoop();
                    }
                    continue;
                }

                if (toSend == null) {
                    prepareToPollTask();

                    log.trace("{} Nothing to send to Kafka. Polling source for additional records", this);
                    long start = time.milliseconds();
                    toSend = poll();
                    if (toSend != null) {
                        recordPollReturned(toSend.size(), time.milliseconds() - start);
                    }
                }
                if (toSend == null)
                    continue;
                log.trace("{} About to send {} records to Kafka", this, toSend.size());
                if (sendRecords()) {
                    batchDispatched();
                } else {
                    stopRequestedLatch.await(SEND_FAILED_BACKOFF_MS, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
                }
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // Ignore and allow to exit.
        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
            try {
                finalOffsetCommit(true);
            } catch (Exception offsetException) {
                log.error("Failed to commit offsets for already-failing task", offsetException);
            }
            throw e;
        }
        finalOffsetCommit(false);
    }

    /**
     * Try to send a batch of records. If a send fails and is retriable, this saves the remainder of the batch so it can
     * be retried after backing off. If a send fails and is not retriable, this will throw a ConnectException.
     * @return true if all messages were sent, false if some need to be retried
     */
    // Visible for testing
    boolean sendRecords() {
        int processed = 0;
        recordBatch(toSend.size());
        final SourceRecordWriteCounter counter =
                toSend.size() > 0 ? new SourceRecordWriteCounter(toSend.size(), sourceTaskMetricsGroup) : null;
        for (final SourceRecord preTransformRecord : toSend) {
            retryWithToleranceOperator.sourceRecord(preTransformRecord);
            final SourceRecord record = transformationChain.apply(preTransformRecord);
            final ProducerRecord<byte[], byte[]> producerRecord = convertTransformedRecord(record);
            if (producerRecord == null || retryWithToleranceOperator.failed()) {
                counter.skipRecord();
                recordDropped(preTransformRecord);
                continue;
            }

            log.trace("{} Appending record to the topic {} with key {}, value {}", this, record.topic(), record.key(), record.value());
            Optional<SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord> submittedRecord = prepareToSendRecord(preTransformRecord, producerRecord);
            try {
                final String topic = producerRecord.topic();
                maybeCreateTopic(topic);
                producer.send(
                    producerRecord,
                    (recordMetadata, e) -> {
                        if (e != null) {
                            if (producerClosed) {
                                log.trace("{} failed to send record to {}; this is expected as the producer has already been closed", AbstractWorkerSourceTask.this, topic, e);
                            } else {
                                log.error("{} failed to send record to {}: ", AbstractWorkerSourceTask.this, topic, e);
                            }
                            log.trace("{} Failed record: {}", AbstractWorkerSourceTask.this, preTransformRecord);
                            producerSendFailed(false, producerRecord, preTransformRecord, e);
                            if (retryWithToleranceOperator.getErrorToleranceType() == ToleranceType.ALL) {
                                counter.skipRecord();
                                submittedRecord.ifPresent(SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord::ack);
                            }
                        } else {
                            counter.completeRecord();
                            log.trace("{} Wrote record successfully: topic {} partition {} offset {}",
                                    AbstractWorkerSourceTask.this,
                                    recordMetadata.topic(), recordMetadata.partition(),
                                    recordMetadata.offset());
                            recordSent(preTransformRecord, producerRecord, recordMetadata);
                            submittedRecord.ifPresent(SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord::ack);
                            if (topicTrackingEnabled) {
                                recordActiveTopic(producerRecord.topic());
                            }
                        }
                    });
                // Note that this will cause retries to take place within a transaction
            } catch (RetriableException | org.apache.kafka.common.errors.RetriableException e) {
                log.warn("{} Failed to send record to topic '{}' and partition '{}'. Backing off before retrying: ",
                        this, producerRecord.topic(), producerRecord.partition(), e);
                toSend = toSend.subList(processed, toSend.size());
                submittedRecord.ifPresent(SubmittedRecords.SubmittedRecord::drop);
                counter.retryRemaining();
                return false;
            } catch (ConnectException e) {
                log.warn("{} Failed to send record to topic '{}' and partition '{}' due to an unrecoverable exception: ",
                        this, producerRecord.topic(), producerRecord.partition(), e);
                log.trace("{} Failed to send {} with unrecoverable exception: ", this, producerRecord, e);
                throw e;
            } catch (KafkaException e) {
                producerSendFailed(true, producerRecord, preTransformRecord, e);
            }
            processed++;
            recordDispatched(preTransformRecord);
        }
        toSend = null;
        return true;
    }

    protected List<SourceRecord> poll() throws InterruptedException {
        try {
            return task.poll();
        } catch (RetriableException | org.apache.kafka.common.errors.RetriableException e) {
            log.warn("{} failed to poll records from SourceTask. Will retry operation.", this, e);
            // Do nothing. Let the framework poll whenever it's ready.
            return null;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Convert the source record into a producer record.
     *
     * @param record the transformed record
     * @return the producer record which can sent over to Kafka. A null is returned if the input is null or
     * if an error was encountered during any of the converter stages.
     */
    protected ProducerRecord<byte[], byte[]> convertTransformedRecord(SourceRecord record) {
        if (record == null) {
            return null;
        }

        RecordHeaders headers = retryWithToleranceOperator.execute(() -> convertHeaderFor(record), Stage.HEADER_CONVERTER, headerConverter.getClass());

        byte[] key = retryWithToleranceOperator.execute(() -> keyConverter.fromConnectData(record.topic(), headers, record.keySchema(), record.key()),
                Stage.KEY_CONVERTER, keyConverter.getClass());

        byte[] value = retryWithToleranceOperator.execute(() -> valueConverter.fromConnectData(record.topic(), headers, record.valueSchema(), record.value()),
                Stage.VALUE_CONVERTER, valueConverter.getClass());

        if (retryWithToleranceOperator.failed()) {
            return null;
        }

        return new ProducerRecord<>(record.topic(), record.kafkaPartition(),
                ConnectUtils.checkAndConvertTimestamp(record.timestamp()), key, value, headers);
    }

    // Due to transformations that may change the destination topic of a record (such as
    // RegexRouter) topic creation can not be batched for multiple topics
    private void maybeCreateTopic(String topic) {
        if (!topicCreation.isTopicCreationRequired(topic)) {
            log.trace("Topic creation by the connector is disabled or the topic {} was previously created." +
                    "If auto.create.topics.enable is enabled on the broker, " +
                    "the topic will be created with default settings", topic);
            return;
        }
        log.info("The task will send records to topic '{}' for the first time. Checking "
                + "whether topic exists", topic);
        Map<String, TopicDescription> existing = admin.describeTopics(topic);
        if (!existing.isEmpty()) {
            log.info("Topic '{}' already exists.", topic);
            topicCreation.addTopic(topic);
            return;
        }

        log.info("Creating topic '{}'", topic);
        TopicCreationGroup topicGroup = topicCreation.findFirstGroup(topic);
        log.debug("Topic '{}' matched topic creation group: {}", topic, topicGroup);
        NewTopic newTopic = topicGroup.newTopic(topic);

        TopicAdmin.TopicCreationResponse response = admin.createOrFindTopics(newTopic);
        if (response.isCreated(newTopic.name())) {
            topicCreation.addTopic(topic);
            log.info("Created topic '{}' using creation group {}", newTopic, topicGroup);
        } else if (response.isExisting(newTopic.name())) {
            topicCreation.addTopic(topic);
            log.info("Found existing topic '{}'", newTopic);
        } else {
            // The topic still does not exist and could not be created, so treat it as a task failure
            log.warn("Request to create new topic '{}' failed", topic);
            throw new ConnectException("Task failed to create new topic " + newTopic + ". Ensure "
                    + "that the task is authorized to create topics or that the topic exists and "
                    + "restart the task");
        }
    }

    protected RecordHeaders convertHeaderFor(SourceRecord record) {
        Headers headers = record.headers();
        RecordHeaders result = new RecordHeaders();
        if (headers != null) {
            String topic = record.topic();
            for (Header header : headers) {
                String key = header.key();
                byte[] rawHeader = headerConverter.fromConnectHeader(topic, key, header.schema(), header.value());
                result.add(key, rawHeader);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    protected void commitTaskRecord(SourceRecord record, RecordMetadata metadata) {
        try {
            task.commitRecord(record, metadata);
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            log.error("{} Exception thrown while calling task.commitRecord()", this, t);
        }
    }

    protected void commitSourceTask() {
        try {
            this.task.commit();
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            log.error("{} Exception thrown while calling task.commit()", this, t);
        }
    }

    protected void recordPollReturned(int numRecordsInBatch, long duration) {
        sourceTaskMetricsGroup.recordPoll(numRecordsInBatch, duration);
    }

    SourceTaskMetricsGroup sourceTaskMetricsGroup() {
        return sourceTaskMetricsGroup;
    }

    static class SourceRecordWriteCounter {
        private final SourceTaskMetricsGroup metricsGroup;
        private final int batchSize;
        private boolean completed = false;
        private int counter;
        public SourceRecordWriteCounter(int batchSize, SourceTaskMetricsGroup metricsGroup) {
            assert batchSize > 0;
            assert metricsGroup != null;
            this.batchSize = batchSize;
            counter = batchSize;
            this.metricsGroup = metricsGroup;
        }
        public void skipRecord() {
            if (counter > 0 && --counter == 0) {
                finishedAllWrites();
            }
        }
        public void completeRecord() {
            if (counter > 0 && --counter == 0) {
                finishedAllWrites();
            }
        }
        public void retryRemaining() {
            finishedAllWrites();
        }
        private void finishedAllWrites() {
            if (!completed) {
                metricsGroup.recordWrite(batchSize - counter);
                completed = true;
            }
        }
    }

    static class SourceTaskMetricsGroup implements AutoCloseable {
        private final ConnectMetrics.MetricGroup metricGroup;
        private final Sensor sourceRecordPoll;
        private final Sensor sourceRecordWrite;
        private final Sensor sourceRecordActiveCount;
        private final Sensor pollTime;
        private int activeRecordCount;

        public SourceTaskMetricsGroup(ConnectorTaskId id, ConnectMetrics connectMetrics) {
            ConnectMetricsRegistry registry = connectMetrics.registry();
            metricGroup = connectMetrics.group(registry.sourceTaskGroupName(),
                    registry.connectorTagName(), id.connector(),
                    registry.taskTagName(), Integer.toString(id.task()));
            // remove any previously created metrics in this group to prevent collisions.
            metricGroup.close();

            sourceRecordPoll = metricGroup.sensor("source-record-poll");
            sourceRecordPoll.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordPollRate), new Rate());
            sourceRecordPoll.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordPollTotal), new CumulativeSum());

            sourceRecordWrite = metricGroup.sensor("source-record-write");
            sourceRecordWrite.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordWriteRate), new Rate());
            sourceRecordWrite.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordWriteTotal), new CumulativeSum());

            pollTime = metricGroup.sensor("poll-batch-time");
            pollTime.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordPollBatchTimeMax), new Max());
            pollTime.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordPollBatchTimeAvg), new Avg());

            sourceRecordActiveCount = metricGroup.sensor("source-record-active-count");
            sourceRecordActiveCount.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordActiveCount), new Value());
            sourceRecordActiveCount.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordActiveCountMax), new Max());
            sourceRecordActiveCount.add(metricGroup.metricName(registry.sourceRecordActiveCountAvg), new Avg());
        }

        @Override
        public void close() {
            metricGroup.close();
        }

        void recordPoll(int batchSize, long duration) {
            sourceRecordPoll.record(batchSize);
            pollTime.record(duration);
            activeRecordCount += batchSize;
            sourceRecordActiveCount.record(activeRecordCount);
        }

        void recordWrite(int recordCount) {
            sourceRecordWrite.record(recordCount);
            activeRecordCount -= recordCount;
            activeRecordCount = Math.max(0, activeRecordCount);
            sourceRecordActiveCount.record(activeRecordCount);
        }

        protected ConnectMetrics.MetricGroup metricGroup() {
            return metricGroup;
        }
    }
}

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A Rebuttal to Allen Guelzo's "The Civil War and the Corruptive Effects of Religious Absolutism" – The Atlantic
August 30, 2015 August 30, 2015 / debneill
In The Atlantic Allen Guelzo argues that "the Civil War made it impossible for religious absolutism to address problems in American life—especially economic and racial ones—where religious absolutism would in fact have done a very large measure of good." This is an intriguing but deeply flawed argument. Leaving aside the dubious assumption that moral absolutes are good, I want to challenge only one aspect of his argument: his claim that
"From the Civil War onward, American Protestantism would be locked deeper and deeper into a state of cultural imprisonment, and in many cases, retreating to a world of private experience in which Christianity remained of little more significance to public life than stamp-collecting or bridge parties. Appeals to divine authority at the beginning of the Civil War fragmented in deadlock and contradiction, and ever since then, it has been difficult for deeply rooted religious conviction to assert a genuinely shaping influence over American public life."
Guelzo provides very little evidence for this claim, as well as failing to connect the moral angst created by the Civil War to the retreat of religion in public life.
Contrary to Guelzo's claim, Protestant groups kicked into gear after the Civil War in order to turn America into a Christian nation. For example, the National Reform Association (NRA) was formed in the aftermath of the Civil War. The NRA is best known for its attempt to amend the Constitution to include the phrase "recognizing the being and attributes of Almighty God, the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures, the law of God as the paramount rule, and Jesus, the Messiah, the Savior and Lord of all" after "We, the People of the United States." The amendment failed, but the NRA expanded its mission to include "stricter Sabbath enforcement, the recision of permissive divorce laws, and continuing Protestant religious exercises in the public schools." (1)
The Christian amendment may have failed but other attempts to bring God into the public square were successful. The phrase "In God We Trust" was added to coins in 1864, and several states (Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) changed the preambles in their constitutions to included statements recognizing God. For example, Georgia's 1798 Constitution read: "The constitution of the State of Georgia, as revised, amended and compiled by the convention of the State, at Louisville on the 30th day of May of 1798." This was amended in 1865 to read: "We the people of the State of Georgia, in order to form a permanent government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, acknowledging and invoking the guidance of Almighty God, the author of all good government, do ordain and establish this constitution for the State of Georgia:" (2)
For more efforts by Protestants (mostly Evangelicals) to assert themselves into public sphere after the Civil War see David Sehat's The Myth of American Religious Freedom.
Efforts by religious organizations to insert their religion into the public sphere has not abated. The 1950s saw an upsurge in Protestant efforts to fulfill their vision, bolstered by the Cold War rhetoric against godless communism:
1954 the phrase "one nation under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1956 Congress passed a law declaring that "In God We Trust" was the national motto.
In 1957 the motto "In God We Trust" appeared on paper money.
In 1979, Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority with the intent to lobby for laws in line with their Christian worldview. Since then the number of religious organizations dedicated to inserting their religious worldview into the public square has dramatically increased: Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, Liberty Council, Center for Arizona Policy….(there are too many to list ).
It is hard to come to the conclusion that Protestantism "retreat[ed] to a world of private experience in which Christianity remained of little more significance to public life than stamp-collecting or bridge parties" when these groups have relentlessly pushed their agenda at the federal, local, and state levels.
Attempts (some successful) to put "In God We Trust" in city halls.
Attempts to bring religion back into public schools.
Faith-based initiatives
"Religious Freedom" laws that would allow people to discriminate in the name of religion.
Lawsuits against contraceptive coverage in the Affordable Care Act.
Bans on gay marriage and opposition to anti-bullying laws.
I could go on, but I think that's enough. It's hard to take Guelzo's claim seriously given the overwhelming evidence against it.
(1) Steven K. Green, The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2010) 337.
(2) The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, Part I. compiled by Ben: Perley Poore (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877) 388 and 402.
Source: The Civil War and the Corruptive Effects of Religious Absolutism – The Atlantic
History, Religion, Religious Liberty
Christian nation myth, First Amendment, Protestantism, religion, The Civil War
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Юю́й () — уезд городского округа Шочжоу провинции Шаньси (КНР).

История
При империи Мин в 1409 году был создан Юский караул (右卫). В 1449 году он был объединён с Юйлиньским караулом (玉林卫) в Ююйлиньский караул (右玉林卫). При империи Цин название было сокращено до Ююйского караула (右玉卫), а в 1725 году караул был преобразован в уезд.

После образования КНР уезд был передан в состав провинции Чахар. В 1952 году провинция Чахар была расформирована, и 13 уездов, переданных в состав провинции Шаньси, были объединены в Специальный район Ябэй (雁北专区). В 1958 году уезд Ююй был присоединён к уезду Цзоюнь. В 1959 году Специальный район Ябэй и Специальный район Синьсянь (忻县地区) были объединены в Специальный район Цзиньбэй (晋北专区). В 1961 году Специальный район Цзиньбэй был вновь разделён на Специальный район Ябэй и Специальный район Синьсянь; и уезд Ююй, вновь выделенный из уезда Цзоюнь, опять оказался в составе Специального района Ябэй. В 1970 году Специальный район Ябэй был переименован в Округ Ябэй (雁北地区).

В 1993 году округ Ябэй был расформирован, и уезд был передан в состав городского округа Шочжоу.

Административное деление
Уезд делится на 4 посёлка и 6 волостей.

Ссылки

Уезды Шочжоу


During a recent interview, Big Bang's G-Dragon and T.O.P were asked to pick members who had the most and least interest in women lately.
G-Dragon and TOP recently sat down for individual interviews with 10Asia, and here is the collection from their pictorial on the site. They may be too busy to actually take studio shots so they settled for live pictures. Enjoy!
SBS Gayo Daejun 2010 is almost here but they still have one more awesome news to spread: the YG Family members Se7en, G-Dragon, and TOP are going to have a joint stage as a trio!
YGE never runs out of creative ideas to get fans buying their albums…On December 23rd, one day before GD&TOP's new album release, YG released an official statement about 5 different versions to be released.


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Yet another trip to Chew today.
A few extra species today. Ferruginous Duck & 2 drake Ruddy Ducks, some more usual ducks returning too, Wigeon, Teal, Shoveler & Pintail. Waders there too, Ringed Plover, Dunlin & at least 4 Ruff. All distant though.
A drive along the southern edge of Bladgon lake, didn't produce too much, but the Glossy Ibis was still around.
Nice day too, so a trip to Priddy pools looked good. Common Hawker was the aim. This time it produced too, good stuff….Also there were some Black Darters still on show. Birdlife is always almost non existent there, but 2 Stonechats and 2 Snipe, which were a first there for me, showed.


About a week ago, we had broadcast the program about fraudulent public transportation. In the meantime, the Traffic Department Department had been prompted to stop this problem and terminate it in a few days, but today we were able to get the information about this issue. Even if the conspiracy continues to be constantly frustrated, we were bound to present the same program again when we did not take any action. It has been linked to the kickshaw traffic network of syndicate traffic business. It is difficult to believe everyone, but in the valley alone 50 lakh will be stolen one day and 15 billion in the month and 1 billion 80 million rupees in one year have been deceiving.


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Like many other American success stories, Luminox came from a forward-thinking individual realizing a need in the market and meeting it. Barry Cohen, a watch industry veteran, came across a Swiss self-powered illumination system and knew that it would make watches more visible and easier to read in low or no light situations. He asked his friend Richard Timbo if he would like to join him. Luminox was born in 1989 (Lumi is Latin for light while Nox is Latin for night), driven by a commitment to offer cutting-edge luminescence and readability in its line of high-performance sports watches.
The Navy SEALs and More
The Luminox Navy SEAL watch is the timepiece that made Luminox famous. In 1993, the Assistant RDT&E Officer for the Navy SEALs, Nick North, was asked to seek a more dependable watch for night missions and found the solution at a trade show where he discovered Luminox. He worked with Cohen to develop a watch specifically for them and a revolution was born.
After Luminox provided the watches to the SEALs, Luminox began marketing the same style of watch (Model 3001) across the country and the world. As the watch gained reknown, Luminox was approached by US Air Force pilots flying the F-117 Nighthawk fighter jet in 1999 — Luminox developed a watch for these pilots and then contacted Lockheed Martin, which turned into an exclusive arrangement to produce Lockheed Martin timepieces.
Throughout the following 20 years, Luminox has never strayed from its mission and this has been confirmed and validated by the many elite military and law enforcement units that have adopted Luminox as their own personal "standard equipment". The man on the street has shown particular interest in Luminox, figuring rightly that if Luminox could be trusted to develop a watch for use by Navy SEAL on critical night missions, then its watches have to be able to stand up to everyday use.
From here on, Luminox remains determined to continue combining cutting edge technology, forward-thinking design and extreme performance. Luminox delivers, when and where it counts. It's our frame of mind.
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Armoza singing format "The Four" gets U.S. premiere date on Fox
Singing competition format The Four: Battle for Stardom is slated to premiere Jan. 4 on American broadcaster Fox with leading music industry stars to sit on the judging panel. Originally produced ...
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Singing competition format The Four: Battle for Stardom is slated to premiere Jan. 4 on American broadcaster Fox with leading music industry stars to sit on the judging panel.
Originally produced by Israeli producer-distributor Armoza Formats as The Final Four, the shiny-floor studio entertainment format features four finalists who are announced in the season premiere as selected by the leading music judges. But in every episode, talented hopefuls will try to steal a seat from one of the final four. Anyone can become a contestant at any time via submissions on the dedicated app, but only the best will be able to challenge the four finalists.
The star-studded panel will be comprised of Grammy Award-winning musician and record producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, producer DJ Khaled, Grammy-winning artist Meghan Trainor, and Republic Records president Charlie Walk.
In the U.S., The Four is produced by ITV Entertainment in association with Armoza Formats. David George, Adam Sher, David Eilenberg, Jessica Sebastian-Dayeh, Simon Thomas, Becca Walker, David Friedman, Avi Armoza, Moshiko Cohen and Elwin Viztelly de Groot will serve as executive producers. Sean "Diddy" Combs, meanwhile, serves as a producer on the series.
"This show is going to disrupt the world of competitive television and will revolutionize the format," said Combs in a statement. "This series is about pure competition, fighting for your survival. Do you want to win? Do you want to be great? We're giving fans a genuine look at what it takes to make it to the top and stay there- surrounding these up-and-coming artists, turning them into the next generation of stars."
Since its launch in 2017, the musical format has been picked up by several territories, including France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Russia, Denmark, New Zealand and pan-Asia by Context Media.
The Four: Battle for Stardom will premiere in the U.S. on Jan. 4 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.
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The Last Stand (2013)
Robot and Frank (2012)
The Ultimate Gift (2006)
A Haunted House (2013)
Stand Up Guys (2013)
Jack Reacher (2012)
Blue Like Jazz (2012)
Officer Down (2013)
Parental Guidance (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Sherlock Holmes and The Secret weapon (1943)
Silver Blaze or Murder at the Baskerville (1937)
Casper (1995)
Dressed To Kill (1946)
Terror by night (1946)
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The return of the king is a nice ending to a beautiful trilogy, wining eleven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, this movie is just too good an ending and if you are watching this trilogy, just look forward to the ending where you get to see, the ring destroyed (in the most unbelievable twist, that is if you have not read the book) and Aragon rise to the throne that he was meant to be upon.
Here is what The Fellowship of the Ring movie was heading to, an ending that will remain the minds of movie watchers for years to come.
The movie has a massive number of visual effect shots that triple and double that of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towersrespectively, these shots can be seen clearly as the movie nears the end with the battles at Rohan which were quite filled with many CGI implementations and look forward to when Aragon goes searching for new recruits, there you will another set of visual effects
The film and the novel differ so much but that doesn't deter the film from its professionalism in the master art of storytelling, from the hand of Peter Jackson. The movie show cases an intense directorial work, which you just have to be impressed about. The actors were just charming but in this movie three people stole the show, Elijah Woods (Frodo Baggins), Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee) and Viggo Mortensen (Aragon).
The movie tale continues from where Two Towers left up, Frodo and Sam are nearing Mordo and getting close to destroying the ring of power. The other members of the fellowship (which have united by the end of The Two Towers) went out to save Gondor from the hands of Sauron's army, the battle at Minas Tirith.
As all this is going on, Elrond (Hugo Weaving, Agent Smith from the Matrix and V from V for Vendetta) approaches Aragon and tells him, the only way he can win this fight to save Gondor is if he wills the sword Anduril and claim that, which he has been running from; claim his Kingship.
Hence the name of the film/novel "The Return of the King"
Making over a billion dollars from the box office, The Return of the King, sold more tickets than its previous two counterparts. Although The Fellowship of the Ring is considered by most to be the best of the three, this movie ranks second.
After you are done reading this, it is not complete yet till you go and get the DVD Extended version box set of The Lord of the Rings and make sure you get the novels also.
The Oscar wins for the movie at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004 were: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Make-up, Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.


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European Studies Statement on Collection Development, Access, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19, Issued by CIFNAL, GNARP, and SEEMP [1]
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The Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL), German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP), and Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) have issued the following statement:
In response to the SALALM resolution "European Studies Statement on Collection Development, Access, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19" issued on August 17, 2020
In light of the COVID-19 situation and budgetary reductions, libraries are implementing collecting policies focused primarily on digital formats. The following represents an endorsement and expansion of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) Collection Development and Equity in the Time of Covid-19 Task Force Resolution [7]issued 10 June 2020 — an endorsement and expansion of that resolution by library specialists engaged in the work of collection development and access to support the study of the communities, cultures, and languages of Europe. Members of the three Europe-focused programs administered by the Center for Research Libraries — the Slavic and East European MaterialsProject (SEEMP) [8], the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) [4], the German-North American Resources Partnerships (GNARP) [5]— share the concerns around equity, representation, and access raised by our SALALM colleagues, and hereby reaffirm those concerns as they pertain to the long-term availability to North American researchers and teachers of the documentary record of the peoples, languages, and cultures of Europe — an extensive and enormously diverse geographic category having eastern and western divisions; numerous national and subnational cultures and languages representing many ethnic categories and language families; porous shared boundaries with Africa and Asia; and an abiding cultural and linguistic consanguinity with Latin America.
We list here seven concerns surrounding current challenges and vulnerabilities in the collection development ecosystem for European Studies and scholarship originating from Europe, and three related resolutions.
Whereas, the majority of publications from Europe are available in print only, and cannot be licensed to North American libraries in electronic formats, and many of the ebooks that are available come with unacceptable DRM restrictions, unsustainable price models, and moving walls, hindering access to timely and useful content;
Whereas, collection development policies privileging ebooks generally exclude non-English language materials and a significant portion of the cultural and scholarly production from the region, including small independent presses and the voices of marginalized, minority and vulnerable communities, new social movements, and transnational authors, which are so critical to advancing research of and learning about the linguistic and cultural diversity of the European continent;
Whereas, the inability to lend and borrow European ebooks inter-institutionally further reduces access to critical resources available across North American libraries and directly undermines the numerous existing shared print and other cooperative collecting partnerships formed to guarantee adequate representation of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the European continent;
Whereas the output of small, independent, print-only publishers outside mainstream distribution networks in countries with legacies and/or current practice of authoritarian publishing and media control (including many in Eastern Europe and the territories of the former Soviet Union) represents a crucial category for North American collections supporting research and teaching focused on those regions, and an e-centric collection model jeopardizes adequate capture and preservation of these critical categories;
Whereas, a sudden shift away from collecting research materials available only in print not only threatens the integrity of diverse library collections, but also places a dedicated network of local vendors of scholarly and ephemeral research materials at risk;
Whereas, these vendors are important because of their expertise in specific regions and local publishing practices, and the access they provide to necessary and unique materials for learning, teaching and research that would be overlooked by larger vendors based outside of the region;
Whereas, while pioneering cooperative Open Access models such as the European Commission's OpenAIRE [9], OpenEdition [10] in France, REDIB [11] in Spain, OA2020 [12] organized by the Max Planck Digital Library in Germany, and other initiatives have made scholarly journals from the region widely available, a gap for open monographs still exists across Europe;
Be it resolved, that the Collaborative Initiative for French Language, and the German-North American Resources Partnerships, and the Slavic and East European Materials Project, on behalf of their members:
Urge North American libraries to continue acquiring European print material through a network of regional vendors, often the only available sources, and thereby not limit diversity in scholarly collections.
Encourage collaboration and further discussion with other organizations working with international collections at a national and international level, such as the Africana Librarians Council, other divisions of the Center for Research Libraries, Council on East Asian Libraries, Middle East Librarians Association, the East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections, the Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium, the MidWest Slavic and Eurasian Library Consortium, the Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies Committee on Libraries and Information Resources, and the Seminar for the Acquisition for Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), among others.
Advocate for continued and increased support for Open Access initiatives in European countries through the Center for Research Libraries' Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections, German-North American Resources Partnership, Slavic and East European Materials Project, and other existing collaborative projects.
France [13] Germany [14] Slavic and Eastern Europe [15]
Source URL: https://www.crl.edu/news/european-studies-statement-collection-development-access-and-equity-time-covid-19-issued-cifnal
[1] https://www.crl.edu/news/european-studies-statement-collection-development-access-and-equity-time-covid-19-issued-cifnal
[2] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/highlight_images/Drogi%20zaniku%20poga%C5%84stwa%20u%20Ba%C5%82t%C3%B3w.jpg
[4] https://www.crl.edu/programs/cifnal
[5] https://www.crl.edu/programs/gnarp
[6] https://www.crl.edu/programs/seemp
[7] https://salalm.org/salalm-resolution-collection-development-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
[8] https://www.crl.edu/area-studies/seemp/membership-information
[9] https://explore.openaire.eu/
[10] https://www.openedition.org/
[11] https://www.redib.org/
[12] https://oa2020.org/
[13] https://www.crl.edu/facets/france
[14] https://www.crl.edu/facets/germany
[15] https://www.crl.edu/facets/slavic-and-eastern-europe


I assume most of you probably threw your phone out the window the minute Fallout 4 released. After all, even the slightest chance of someone calling and interrupting your pre-planned 500-hour marathon is not a risk worth taking, and the 'silent' and 'do not disturb' features just leave you with "Why haven't you been to work for three months?" and "You missed your own wedding and this doesn't bode well for our relationship" messages to deal with after you emerge from your couch-vault in 2016. I don't blame your phone-tossing one bit.
But for those of you who held onto your mobile device and just buried it in the backyard, time to get digging: the Pip-Boy companion app lets you turn your phone into a handheld Pip-Boy that interacts with your active Fallout 4 game in real-time. This has a couple of really cool benefits, both for solo-players and anyone with a significant other who likes to "watch" you play (i.e. has been assigned to taking your vitals every 12 hours). First, it lets you access any of the Pip-Boy menu functions from your phone without opening them up in-game. This includes viewing your stats, equipping or using items, checking quests, fast-travelling on the map, and even just changing the radio station. Basically, if you can do it in the Pip-Boy menu in-game, you can now do it on your phone and see the results in Fallout 4 instantly.
While this could come in handy for Rambo wanderers that want to swap guns mid-battle outside the favorites wheel, its best function I've found is as a permanent mini-map. You can open up the world or local map on your phone Pip-Boy while exploring and it will update automatically with your current position and any nearby areas of interest. When you're lost in a mammoth factory or trying to pinpoint a tiny sewer opening, this is a great way to find a path without pausing the game every five seconds.
This also means you can inject some two-player opportunities into a strictly single-player game. Hand the phone off to a couch partner and let them manage your healing and equipment. Ask them to play navigator and choose the next destination on the map. Or, just let them go to town with the holotape mini-games you've found around the Commonwealth: these also show up in the Pip-Boy app and can be played without interrupting your game (the way a random, un-agreed-upon fast travel to Raiderville might).
The holotape games are Fallout-themed variations on classic arcade titles, like Donkey Kong-inspired "Red Menace" or the obviously-named "Atomic Command" reskin of Missile Command. While they're more "fun bonus" than selling feature, it's another nice-to-have when your eyeballs begin bleeding and you have to look away from the TV for a few seconds.
If you don't have an active Fallout 4 game to connect with the Pip-Boy app, you can still download and use it in "demo mode." This gives you a look at the different menu options (which you can't do much with, since there's no in-game character to affect) and lets you play the Atomic Command holotape. There's no real reason to download it if you aren't playing Fallout 4, but it could be a very temporary hold-over if your copy got lost in the mail and you just want to watch Vault Boy walk in place endlessly on the Stats screen, which is strangely soothing.
Fallout Pip-Boy is currently available as a free download on iOS, Android, and Windows phones.


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Speeding now kills as many people as drunk driving does
Speeding deaths are on the rise throughout the country, including in North Carolina.
Most people know that driving while intoxicated is extremely dangerous and that's why drunk driving rates have declined steadily in recent decades. However, when it comes to speeding many drivers don't treat it with the same seriousness as they do drunk driving. Those differing approaches may need to change, especially given that, as CBS News reports, speeding fatalities in the United States are now just as high as drunk driving fatalities. Speeding has particularly been blamed for an increase in deadly car accidents in North Carolina.
Study shows increase in speeding deaths
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a federal government agency, looked at data from fatal motor vehicle accidents from across the country spanning 2005 to 2014. Over that time span the study found that 100,000 people died in accidents that were caused by speeding, which was close to the number of people who were killed by drunk drivers.
The NTSB says that while drunk driving rates have declined, on average drivers will still drive seven to eight miles over the speed limit. A number of states in recent years have also increased their maximum speed limits, which has contributed to the overall rise in speed-related fatalities. The NTSB says that speed cameras are one of the most effective tools for cutting down on speeding, but that they are rare. Currently, speed cameras are only approved in 14 states and the District of Columbia. North Carolina is not one of those states.
Fatalities rising in North Carolina
While there are no plans to introduce speed cameras in North Carolina, due to their unpopularity and concerns about privacy, the state does need to take speeding more seriously. As WTVD News reports, traffic fatalities have been rising in the Tar Heel State, up from 1,385 in 2015 to 1,400 in 2016.
Safety experts say that two factors are primarily responsible for that increase: speeding and distracted driving. With people more pressed for time, speeding seems to be increasing in North Carolina. When those high speeds are combined with more distracted drivers the results are particularly deadly.
Being involved in a serious car accident can be devastating and victims may not initially know where to turn to for help. For those who have been hurt in a crash, it is important to reach out to a personal injury attorney as soon as possible. Financial compensation may be available to crash victims, especially if the accident was the result of another driver's alleged negligent or reckless behavior (such as if they were speeding or driving while distracted). A personal injury attorney can help accident victims understand what compensation may be available and how they can go about pursuing a claim.


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Q: Menu vertical fixo com css e bootstrap gostaria de uma ajuda preciso fazer um menu vertical fixo porem ao lado deles existe uma linha com alguns círculos que vão me indicar em que sessão da página estou porem não faço ideia de como chegar nesse resultado gostaria só de algumas dicas e ou alguns exemplos ou documentação que possa estudar que me auxilie nesse menu lembrando que também estou usando bootstrap3. Segue a imagem do layout do menu:

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Seguinte tá no css basicão aí se adapta. No seu caso acho que vai querer usar imagens ao invés dos tipos de lista padrão.
Daí é só substituir por list-style-image: url('suaimagem.jpg');
Então se precisa 2 imagens uma pra on outra pra of, e no caso eu coloquei evento :hover, aí se põe o que for necessário.

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This week, PSP joined parents, educators, and business leaders across the city calling for increased education funding from the city and state. If paired with common sense financial concessions and reforms to the teachers and principals contracts, increased revenue can achieve better schools for kids, not just maintain the status quo.
Read our testimony before City Council and learn more about our investments in the city schools.
Unlike in the past, this push for increased funding isn't about 'saving' a struggling system. This is about continuing a transformation that is already under way, including cutting costs, closing under-performing and under enrolled schools, expanding the successful Renaissance turnaround program and growing high-performing charter and District schools.
If coupled with reasonable financial concessions and meaningful work rule reforms – such as hiring and assigning teachers and principals based on performance rather than how long they've been teaching, and ensuring new money is invested in improving student achievement – increased city and state funding will help ensure both financial stability and a strong educational foundation for tens of thousands of young people.


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By the end of the 21st century, average global temperature will rise by 1,8-4,0 degrees, according to a recently published in China 'Report on Development of Science in 2008. " Chinese academics confirmed that the main cause of global warming is human activity, which is why the atmosphere is gradually increasing the concentration greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, which leads to the so-called 'greenhouse effect', which results in warming of the planet. As you know, because global warming is gradual rise in global sea level (mainly due to melting glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic). However, it turns out 80 million years ago, the oceans were so at 170 meters above. Such an interesting conclusion reached by Australian scientists.
The water level in the oceans is also largely dependent on global warming. Warming of the climate in turn affects the flora and fauna of our planet. For example, every year fewer whales come to the shores of the Mexican peninsula of Baja California for procreation, due to global warming. The need to develop a national concept for combating global warming and said Russian scientists. In Russia should have its own doctrine climate, scientists say. The method is based on the Russian scientists aerosol effects on the atmosphere, which is 2-3 orders of magnitude cheaper and equally effective over time, while necessary process can be easily stopped or running in the opposite direction. 'Green' advocate pups ECOportal.ru previously reported, on past the end of February stocks 'green', environmental and social activists to protect the population of seals.
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Q: How to specify the part of name used in \cite{} using biblatex I have a Tibetan Buddhist master who is referred to as Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche.
How can I write my .bib file entry, so that biblatex would know to

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*use Khenpo Choga as the part of the name displayed in \cite{}, e.g. (Khenpo Choga 2012)

*not make any changes to the name when printing it into the bibliography list, so Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, not Rinpoche, Dzogchen Khempo Choga

A: Well a real solution should probably setup a tibetan name template. But for one entry you could also use additional braces and the shortauthor field:
\begin{filecontents}{tibetan.bib}
@article{test,
author = {{Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche}},
year =2012,
journal={Journal},
title={Some title},
shortauthor={{Khenpo Choga}}
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To commemorate the occasion, I have 25 numbered headbagdes for our Retrotec bikes. I couldn't leave out the Inglis brand so I made up some new badges for them as well.
Retrotec #1 is already built. You can read about it over at The Radavist .
Frame prices start at $2,200.


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St. Augustine's Lincolnville Among 5 Florida Sites Added To U.S. Civil Rights Trail
WJCT News | By Abukar Adan
Photo via Visit St. Augustine
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is pictured in St. Augustine in the spring of 1964.
St. Augustine is home to one of five sites in Florida recently added to the United States Civil Rights Trail - a tourism marketing creation. The city's historic black district is one of more than 100 locations in 15 states on the trail's website.
The Lincolnville Historic District was at the center of a number of St. Augustine protests and sit-ins in the1960s.
"St. Augustine played a significant role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the push to bring about equality all over the land," said Gwendolyn Duncan, who heads the nonprofit Anniversary to Commemorate the Civil Rights Demonstration (ACCORD). "So we're just excited about it."
Duncan said St. Augustine played a critical yet underappreciated role in Civil Rights history.
"When anyone discusses the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, they always think about Alabama, Mississippi, maybe Tennessee, but no one really knew about the movement that Dr. King led in St. Augustine, which led directly to the passage of the civil rights act," she said.
In the Spring of 1964, civil rights activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organized sit-ins and marches in St. Augustine to desegregate public facilities. Duncan said their arrests and the violence they faced drew international attention, and was a pivotal moment for the movement.
"For anyone that was wavering, they convinced them to vote on a necessity to vote to change the law," she said, referring to the direct impact the incident had on ending a Senate filibuster, which allowed the final vote and passage of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tourism marketing agency Visit Florida joined the U.S. Civil Rights Trail last year at a cost of about $15,000 annually to the southern agency consortium Travel South.
Related: Jacksonville Task Force Paves Way For Florida's Inclusion In U.S. Civil Rights Trail
Each city that wants to apply has to foot to a bill for the $3,500 application fee for each site entered for consideration.
St. Augustine's sites include the Lincoln Civil Rights Museum, Fort Mose, and markers showing the path taken by civil rights activist Andrew Young.
The other four Florida sites featured on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail are:
The Bay County Court County Courthouse in Panama City.
The Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park & Museum in Mims.
The Newtown African American Heritage trail in Sarasota, and the Historic Dodgertown in Vero Beach.
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Abukar Adan
Abukar Adan is a former WJCT reporter who left the station for other pursuits in August 2019.
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