Glycogen storage disease 1a (GSD 1a) is caused by an enzyme deficiency that prevents the liver from breaking down glycogen into glucose. Symptoms appear in early childhood and include dangerously low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), delayed development, recurrent infection, and enlargement of the liver, spleen, and kidneys.
GSD 1a can be managed through careful dietary restrictions.
Approximately 1 in 7l Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of GSD 1a. Screening provides a carrier detection rate of at least 95%.


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package org.activiti.editor.language.xml;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import org.activiti.bpmn.model.BpmnModel;
import org.activiti.bpmn.model.FlowElement;
import org.activiti.bpmn.model.MultiInstanceLoopCharacteristics;
import org.activiti.bpmn.model.UserTask;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

public class MultiInstanceConverterTest extends AbstractConverterTest {

    @Test
    public void shouldConvertXMLToModel() throws Exception {
        BpmnModel bpmnModel = readXMLFile();
        validateModel(bpmnModel);
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldConvertModelToXML() throws Exception {
        BpmnModel bpmnModel = readXMLFile();
        BpmnModel exportedModel = exportAndReadXMLFile(bpmnModel);
        validateModel(exportedModel);
    }

    private void validateModel(BpmnModel bpmnModel) {
        FlowElement flowElement = bpmnModel.getMainProcess().getFlowElement("miTasks");
        assertThat(flowElement)
            .isNotNull()
            .isInstanceOf(UserTask.class);
        MultiInstanceLoopCharacteristics loopCharacteristics = ((UserTask) flowElement)
            .getLoopCharacteristics();
        assertThat(loopCharacteristics)
            .extracting(MultiInstanceLoopCharacteristics::getLoopDataOutputRef,
                MultiInstanceLoopCharacteristics::getOutputDataItem)
            .containsExactly(
                "meals", "meal");
    }

    @Override
    protected String getResource() {
        return "multi-instance-sequence-output-data-ref.bpmn20.xml";
    }
}

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Q: generate_series() not working as expected with sum in PostgreSQL I have some table called classification that contains classification_indicator_id.
I need to sum this ID and put in 1 day series.
I need to add around 20 columns (with another classification_indicator_id).
I modified a bit answer from previous question:
select
data.d::date as "data",
sum(c.classification_indicator_id)::integer as "Segment1",
sum(c4.classification_indicator_id)::integer as "Segment2",
sum(c5.classification_indicator_id)::integer as "Segment3"
from
  generate_series(
    '2013-03-25'::timestamp without time zone,
    '2013-04-01'::timestamp without time zone,
    '1 day'::interval
) data(d)
left join classifications c on (data.d::date = c.created::date and c.classification_indicator_id = 3)
left join classifications c4 on (data.d::date = c4.created::date and c4.classification_indicator_id = 4)
left join classifications c5 on (data.d::date = c5.created::date and c5.classification_indicator_id = 5)
group by "data"
ORDER BY "data"

But still not working properly. sum for each row is to big, and growing when I add additional columns. In second table with 4 columns in segment1 for 2013-03-26 should be the same amount like in first table etc.
 With 3 column                      With 4 columns
data       | Segment1 | Segment2   data       | Segment1 | Segment2 | Segment3
--------------------------------   -------------------------------------------
2013-03-25 | 12       | 16         2013-03-25 | 12       | 16       | 20
--------------------------------   -------------------------------------------
2013-03-26 | 18       | 24         2013-03-26 | 108      | 144      | 180

A: As commented under your previous answer, you are running into a "proxy cross join".
I explained it in more detail in this related answer:
Two SQL LEFT JOINS produce incorrect result
Your query should work like this:
SELECT d.created AS data
      ,c3.segment1
      ,c4.segment2
      ,c5.segment3
FROM (
   SELECT generate_series('2013-03-25'::date
                         ,'2013-04-01'::date
                         ,interval '1 day')::date AS created
    ) d
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT created
          ,sum(classification_indicator_id)::integer AS segment1
    FROM   classifications
    WHERE  classification_indicator_id = 3
    GROUP  BY 1
    ) c3 USING (created)
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT created
          ,sum(classification_indicator_id)::integer AS segment2
    FROM   classifications
    WHERE  classification_indicator_id = 4
    GROUP  BY 1
    ) c4 USING (created)
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT created
          ,sum(classification_indicator_id)::integer AS segment3
    FROM   classifications
    WHERE  classification_indicator_id = 5
    GROUP  BY 1
    ) c5 USING (created)
ORDER  BY 1;

Assuming that created is a date, not a timestamp.
Or, for an even faster query, since this has become a topic:
SELECT d.created AS data
      ,count(classification_indicator_id = 3 OR NULL)::int * 3 AS segment1
      ,count(classification_indicator_id = 4 OR NULL)::int * 4 AS segment2
      ,count(classification_indicator_id = 5 OR NULL)::int * 5 AS segment3
FROM (
   SELECT generate_series('2013-03-25'::date
                         ,'2013-04-01'::date
                         ,interval '1 day')::date AS created
    ) d
LEFT   JOIN classifications c USING (created)
GROUP  BY 1
ORDER  BY 1;

A: No need for joins:
select
    data.d::date as "data",
    sum((classification_indicator_id = 3)::integer * classification_indicator_id)::integer as "Segment1",
    sum((classification_indicator_id = 4)::integer * classification_indicator_id)::integer as "Segment2",
    sum((classification_indicator_id = 5)::integer * classification_indicator_id)::integer as "Segment3",
from
    generate_series(
        '2013-03-25'::timestamp without time zone,
        '2013-04-01'::timestamp without time zone,
        '1 day'::interval
    ) data(d)
    left join
    classifications c on data.d::date = c.created::date
group by "data"
ORDER BY "data"

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Home » Latest News in Nigeria » Metro » Police IG orders arrest of 3 policemen who assaulted innocent citizen, tagged him a 'Yahoo boy'
Police IG orders arrest of 3 policemen who assaulted innocent citizen, tagged him a 'Yahoo boy'
4:31 PM CuteNaija 0 Latest News in Nigeria, Metro
Following the directive of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, three policemen who were caught on video assaulting a young man in Enugu State have been arrested.
In the video, which was shared by a Twitter handle @onyezeme on Saturday, victim identified as Justice Obasi was seen manhandled by three armed police officers.
According to @onyezeme the young man was being manhandled for refusing to be searched and unlocking his phone.
"They labeled the boy fraudster (yahoo boy) without any evidence," the tweet read.
This video sparked outrage, forcing the police to react on Sunday morning saying the IGP had ordered an investigation into uncovering the identities of the policemen.
Speaking through the verified Twitter handle of the Nigeria Police Force @policeNG, the police had promised to bring the erring policemen to book as the IGP condemns all forms of brutality and abuse of human rights.
"The Force PRO is already personally in touch with the victim. Members of the public are implored to be calm as the Force remains committed to protecting and upholding the rights of all Nigerians," the police Twitter handle has read.
In follow up tweet on Sunday afternoon tagged JUSTICE FOR JUSTICE OBASI the police said the three policemen had been identified and arrested.
Although the identities of the policemen were not disclosed, the tweet reads, "Following the directives of the IGP, the Enugu State Police Command has since identified, traced and arrested the three policemen involved in the assault of citizen – Justice Obasi.
"The policemen are currently in custody pending the commencement of their Orderly Room Trial – an internal disciplinary procedure of the Force.
"As we begin the new year, IGP M.A Adamu wishes to restate his zero tolerance for the abuse of the rights of Nigerians and his commitment to running a Citizens' Friendly and Rule of Law compliant Police Force.
"He further assures that citizen Justice Obasi will certainly get justice in this case."

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Trip to Boulder (Colorado): Attending a convention for Human Factors Engineer Society
In: auto-biography | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | social articles | Travel/Excursions/Night out
Trip to Boulder in Colorado
Note 1: Repost from my autobiography to Convention of Human Factors Society in Boulder
Note 2: I opened a special category on my blog "Travel/Excursion" to collect all my trips stories.
During my stay in San Francisco I took the bus Greyhound to Boulder because my adviser sent me a letter that he was to deliver part of my dissertation to the convention of Human Factors Society of 2002
And I wanted to attend this convention for a change in scenery.
It was a long trip of two days and we passed through Salt Lake City and I visited the temple of the Mormons. We crossed a long stretch of salty land.
There was snow and the University of Boulder was lovely.
During the second day of the convention my advisor failed to show up and I had no copy of my dissertation and I felt frustrated for not being prepared to deliver anything.
Actually, I was invited by the chairperson of the session to do the presentation and I felt totally stupid. I declined the offer.
The convention offered my side trips which I accepted. For example, a tour to Palm Spring and the US Olympic training center.
I had the opportunity to tour Denver by night and boarded the spacious and large bus that crosses Main Street.
The return trip was long.
A week later I was to battle a discrimination case.
There was this girl who claimed that I harassed her sexually and the case was dropped after weeks of hassles. She had no one to testify on her behalf.
The girl was pissed off that I got the position of assistant to the manager. I had no hints of the power struggle that went on before I arrived to this hotel.
I wanted to resign but the manager convinced me that when I finish serving the entire year then I would be eligible for unemployment benefits of around $450 a month.
I finished the year and started to look for a steady job commensurate to my education.
I thus joined an office on Van Ness Road and funded by the City of San Francisco that aided with unemployment cases, such as writing CVs and how to tailor make your resume, and checking on the latest openings for work.
This facility was useless since during Bush Senior unemployment was deep and widespread.
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Rape stories in the USA: Golden, Colorado
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 18, 2016
In: Essays | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | short stories/novellas | social articles
Rape stories in the USA
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project December 16, 2015
Ken Armstrong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who previously worked at The Seattle Times and Chicago Tribune, where his work helped prompt the Illinois governor to suspend executions and later empty death row. He has been the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard
A little after 1 p.m. on a wintry day in January 2011, Detective Stacy Galbraith approached a long, anonymous row of apartment buildings that spilled up a low hill in a Denver suburb. Snow covered the ground in patches. It was blustery, and biting cold. She was there to investigate a report of rape.
Galbraith spotted the victim standing in the thin sunlight outside her ground floor apartment. She was young, dressed in a brown, full-length coat.
She clutched a bag of her belongings in one hand. She looked calm, unflustered.
Galbraith introduced herself. Police technicians were swarming the apartment. Galbraith suggested that she and the victim escape the icy gusts in a nearby unmarked patrol car.
The woman told Galbraith she was 26 years old, an engineering student on winter break from a nearby college.
She had been alone in her apartment the previous evening. After cooking green mung beans for dinner, she curled up in bed for a marathon of "Desperate Housewives" and "The Big Bang Theory" until drifting off. At around 8 a.m., she was jolted awake by a man who had jumped on her back, pinning her to the bed. He wore a black mask that seemed more like a scarf fastened tight around his face. He gripped a silver and black gun. "Don't scream. Don't call or I'll shoot you," he told her.
He moved deliberately. He tied her hands loosely behind her. From a large black bag, he took out thigh-high stockings, clear plastic high heels with pink ribbons, lubrication, a box of moist towelettes and bottled water. Over the next four hours, he raped her repeatedly. He documented the assault with a digital camera and threatened to post the pictures online if she contacted the police. Afterward, he ordered her to brush her teeth and wash herself in the shower. By the time she exited the bathroom, he had gone. He had taken her sheets and bedding. She clearly remembered one physical detail about him: a dark mark on his left calf the size of an egg.
Galbraith listened to the woman with a sense of alarm. The attack was so heinous; the attacker so practiced. There was no time to waste. Sitting close to her in the front seat of the car, Galbraith carefully brushed the woman's face with long cotton swabs to collect any DNA traces that might remain. Then she drove her to St. Anthony North Hospital. The woman underwent a special forensic examination to collect more DNA evidence. Before she left with a nurse, the woman warned Galbraith, "I think he's done this before."
Galbraith returned to the crime scene. A half-dozen officers and technicians were now at work. They were knocking on neighbors' doors, snapping photographs in the apartment, digging through garbage bins, swabbing the walls, the windows, everywhere for DNA. In the snow, they found a trail of footprints leading to and from the back of the apartment through an empty field. They spraypainted the prints fluorescent orange to make them stand out, then took pictures. It was not much. But something. One officer suggested a bathroom break. "Just keep working!" Galbraith insisted.
As she headed home that night, Galbraith's mind raced. "Who is this guy?" she asked herself. "How am I going to find him?" Galbraith often volunteered to take rape cases. She was a wife, a mother. She was good at empathizing with the victims, who were overwhelmingly women. Most had been assaulted by a boyfriend, an old flame, or someone they had met at a club. Those investigations often boiled down to an issue of consent. Had the woman said "yes"? They were tough for cops and prosecutors. Juries were hesitant to throw someone in prison when it was one person's word against another's. Rapes by strangers were uncommon — about 13 percent of cases. But there was still the issue of the woman's story. Was she telling the truth? Or fabricating a ruse to cover a sexual encounter gone wrong?
In that way, rape cases were unlike most other crimes. The credibility of the victim was often on trial as much as the guilt of the accused. And on the long, fraught trail between crime and conviction, the first triers of fact were the cops. An investigating officer had to figure out if the victim was telling the truth.
Galbraith had a simple rule: listen and verify. "A lot of times people say, 'Believe your victim, believe your victim,'" Galbraith said. "But I don't think that that's the right standpoint. I think it's listen to your victim. And then corroborate or refute based on how things go."
At home, her husband David had done the dishes and put the kids to bed. They sank down on separate couches in their living room. Galbraith recounted the day's events. The attacker had been cunning, attempting to erase any traces of DNA from the scene. Before he left, he showed the student how he broke in through a sliding glass door. He suggested she put a dowel into the bottom track to keep out future intruders. The victim had described him as a "gentleman," Galbraith said. "He's going to be hard to find," she thought.
David Galbraith was used to such bleak stories. They were both cops, after all. He worked in Westminster, some 15 miles to the northeast. Golden and Westminster were middle class bedroom towns wedged between Denver's downtown skyscrapers and the looming Rockies.
This time, though, there was something different. As David listened, he realized that the details of the case were unsettlingly familiar. He told his wife to call his department first thing in the morning.
"We have one just like that," he said.
The morning after the rape in Golden, Galbraith hurried to work to follow up her husband's lead. At 9:07 a.m. she sent an email to the Westminster Police Department. The subject line was pleading: "Sex Aslt Similars?"
Westminster Detective Edna Hendershot had settled into her morning with her Starbucks usual: a Venti, upside-down, skinny caramel macchiato. She read the email and her mind shot back five months, to a crisp Tuesday in August 2010. She had responded to a report of a rape at a blue-collar apartment complex in the northwest corner of her city. A 59-year-old woman told her that she had been asleep in her home when a man jumped on her back. He wore a black mask. He tied her hands. He stole her pink Sony Cyber-shot camera and used it to take pictures of her. Afterward, he made her take a shower. He picked up a kitchen timer and set it to let her know when she could get out. "I guess you won't leave your windows open in the future," the man told the woman, who had recently been widowed.
There was more. Hendershot remembered that while investigating her case, an officer had alerted her to an incident in October 2009 in Aurora, a suburb on the other side of Denver. There, a 65-year-old woman told police that she had been raped in her apartment by a man with a black scarf wrapped around his face. He tied her hands with a ribbon. He took pictures and threatened to post them on the Internet. During the attack, he knocked a yellow teddy bear off a desk in her bedroom. "You should get help," the woman, a house mother at a local fraternity, told the man. "It's too late for that," he replied.
Cops can be protective about their cases, fearing that information could be leaked that would jeopardize their investigations. They often don't know about, or fail to use, an FBI database created years ago to help catch repeat offenders. Between one-fourth to two-thirds of rapists are serial attackers, studies show.
But Hendershot right away recognized the potential in collaborating and in using every tool possible. "Two heads, three heads, four heads, sometimes are better than one, right?" she said. So did Galbraith. Her department was small — a little more than 40 officers serving a town of about 20,000. It only made sense to join forces. "I have no qualms with asking for help," Galbraith said. "Let's do what we can do to catch him."
A week later, Galbraith, Hendershot and Aurora Detective Scott Burgess gathered around a conference table in the Westminster Police Department. They compared investigations. The descriptions of the attacker were similar. So, too, his methods. But there was a clincher: the woman in Galbraith's case had remained as focused as possible during her ordeal, memorizing details. She recalled the camera that the attacker had used to take photos. It was a pink Sony digital camera — a description that fit the model stolen from the apartment of the Westminster victim.
Galbraith and Hendershot hadn't known each other before the meeting. But the hunt for the rapist united them. As female cops, both women were members of a sorority within a fraternity. The average law enforcement agency in America is about 13 percent female. Police ranks remain overwhelmingly male, often hierarchical and militaristic. But both women had found a place for themselves. They had moved up in the ranks.
The two bonded naturally. Both were outgoing. They cracked fast jokes and smiled fast smiles. Galbraith was younger. She crackled energy. She would move "a hundred miles an hour in one direction," a colleague said. Hendershot was more experienced. She'd worked more than 100 rape cases in her career. Careful, diligent, exacting — she complemented Galbraith. "Sometimes going a hundred miles an hour, you miss some breadcrumbs," the same colleague noted.
Their initial attempts to identify the attacker faltered. Golden police obtained a surveillance tape showing the entrance to the apartment complex where Galbraith's victim had been attacked. A fellow detective sat through more than 12 hours of blurry footage. He laboriously counted 261 vehicles and people coming and going on the night of the incident. There was one possible lead. In the predawn hours, a white Mazda pickup truck appeared 10 times. Maybe it was the attacker waiting for the woman to fall asleep? But efforts to identify the vehicle's owner failed. The license plate was unreadable.
As the weeks passed, the dead ends continued. Hendershot turned to the database meant to capture serial rapists by linking cases in different jurisdictions. It turned up only bad leads. Frustration grew. "Someone else is going to get hurt," Galbraith worried to herself.
By late January, the detectives decided they needed to broaden their scope. Hendershot asked one of her department's crime analysts to scour nearby agencies for similar crimes. The analyst turned up an incident in Lakewood, another Denver suburb, that occurred about a month before the rape in Westminster. At the time, police had labeled the case a burglary. But in fresh light, it appeared very much like a failed rape attempt, committed by an attacker who closely resembled the description of the rapist. The analyst shot Hendershot a message, "You need to come to talk to me right now."
The report detailed how a 46-year-old artist had been accosted in her home by a man with a knife. He wore a black mask. He tried to bind her wrists. But when the man looked away, the woman jumped out of her bedroom window. She broke three ribs and punctured a lung in the 7-foot fall to the ground, but managed to escape.
Investigators at the scene uncovered a few, tenuous pieces of evidence. Thundershowers had soaked the area before the attack. Police found shoe prints in the soft, damp soil outside the woman's bedroom. On a window, they found honeycomb marks.
Honeycomb marks. Hendershot seized on them. Westminster crime scene investigators had discovered similar marks on the window of the victim's apartment. Hendershot asked for a comparison. The marks at the two crime scenes were the same. They also appeared similar to prints from a pair of Under Armour gloves that a Lakewood investigator, on a hunch, had discovered at a Dick's Sporting Goods.
Galbraith checked out the footprints left at the Lakewood scene. They matched the footprints in the snow outside her victim's apartment in Golden. She sent images of the shoe prints to crimeshoe.com, a website that promised to move an investigation "from an unidentified scene-of-crime shoeprint to detailed footwear information in one simple step." The site, now defunct, identified the prints as having been made by a pair of Adidas ZX 700 mesh shoes, available in stores after March 2005.
By the end of January 2011, the detectives had connected four rapes over a 15-month period across Denver's suburbs. The trail started in Aurora, east of Denver, on Oct. 4, 2009, with the 65-year-old woman. It picked up nine months later and 22 miles to the west, when the rapist attacked the artist in Lakewood. A month after that the 59-year-old widow was raped in Westminster, some 10 miles to the north. And then, finally, in January 2011 came the attack on the 26-year-old in Golden, about 15 miles southwest of Westminster. If you drew a map, it was almost like the rapist was circling the compass points of Denver's suburbs.
Galbraith and Hendershot turned to DNA to identify the serial rapist. The detectives had thoroughly examined their crime scenes. Technicians had swabbed window panes, doorknobs, even toilet handles — anything that the attacker might have touched. But the man was familiar with the ways of law enforcement, perhaps even a cop. He knew to avoid leaving his DNA at the scene. He used wet wipes to clean up his ejaculate. He ordered the women to shower. He took their clothing and bedding with him when he left.
He had been punctilious. But not perfect. The attacker had left behind the tiniest traces of himself. The technicians recovered three samples of so-called touch DNA, as few as seven or eight cells of skin that can be analyzed with modern laboratory techniques.
One sample was collected from the kitchen timer in Westminster. A second came from the victim in Golden. And one came from the teddy bear in Aurora.
On Feb. 9, 2011, more than a dozen cops and agents from the FBI and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation gathered in a briefing room at the Westminster police station to discuss the state of the investigation.
The news was not great. After a five-week crush, there were few leads and no suspects. The analysis of the touch DNA produced mixed results. The samples narrowed the field of suspects to males belonging to the same paternal family line. But there was not enough genetic material to identify a single individual. Thus the results couldn't be entered into the FBI's nationwide DNA database to check for a match to a suspect.
Galbraith was hopeful. At least it was concrete now. The same person was at work. "It's huge," she said. "But not enough."
As the meeting drew to a close, a young crime analyst from the Lakewood police department stood up. She had conducted a search for any reports of suspicious vehicles or prowlers within a quarter mile of the Lakewood victim's home for the previous six months. She had turned up something. But she didn't know if it was important.
Three weeks before the attempted rape in Lakewood, a woman had called police late in the evening to report a suspicious pickup truck parked on the street with a man inside. Police checked it out, but the man was gone. The officer filed a brief report on the vehicle. What had attracted the analyst's attention was the location of the pickup. It was parked half a block from the Lakewood victim's house, by an empty field adjacent to her backyard.
The pickup was a 1993 white Mazda.
It was registered to a Lakewood man named Marc Patrick O'Leary.
The investigation instantly turned urgent. Could the detectives connect O'Leary's Mazda with the blurry image of the white Mazda in the surveillance footage from Golden? Aaron Hassell, the detective on the Lakewood case, raced back to his office. Lakewood patrol cars had cameras that automatically took pictures of every license plate they passed. The result was a searchable database of thousands of tag numbers indexed by time and location. Hassell typed in the license plate number from the Lakewood report: 935VHX. He got a hit. A Lakewood patrol car had snapped a picture of O'Leary standing by his white Mazda in the driveway of his house — only two hours after the August attack on the widow in Westminster.
<img src="//static.propublica.org/projects/maries-story/assets/img/generated/mazda-480*489-76dee6.png" alt="" />
1993 Mazda pickup: Surveillance stills show a 1993 Mazda driving around the apartment complex in Golden, Colo. where a 26-year-old engineering student was raped. The passenger-side mirror looked bent. (Golden Police Department)
Hassell transmitted the image to Galbraith. Carefully, she compared O'Leary's white Mazda to the surveillance tape. One freeze frame showed that her white Mazda had a broken passenger side mirror. So, too, did O'Leary's truck. Both vehicles had ball hitches on the back. Both had smudges on the back in the same place — perhaps a bumper sticker that had been torn off.
"That's our guy," Galbraith said.
Hendershot discovered the Lakewood patrol car had snapped its picture as O'Leary was headed to a nearby branch of the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles. DMV records showed O'Leary sat for a driver's license mugshot about four hours after the Westminster attack. The photo showed a 6-foot-1 man with hazel eyes. He was 32 years old and 220 pounds. He wore a white T-shirt. The physical description closely matched the descriptions provided by the victims. And the Westminster widow had told Hendershot that her attacker wore a white T-shirt during her assault.
Hendershot did not want to be too hasty. "I'm encouraged, I'm excited," she said. But "I haven't made my decision yet, that yay, we've got the guy."
Over the next 24 hours, more than a dozen investigators threw their collective effort and experience into finding out everything possible about O'Leary. O'Leary had no criminal record. He was not a registered sex offender. He had served in the Army.
Galbraith and her husband David once again faced each other on the couches in their living room. They used laptops to search for any references to O'Leary, each using a different search engine. Before long, David stumbled onto something. O'Leary had purchased a pornography website in September 2008. They wondered whether it contained photos of his victims.
The investigators decided to try to get a sample of O'Leary's DNA. Though the degraded DNA lifted from the crime scenes could not definitively match O'Leary's DNA, it could show that a male from his family line had most likely committed the crime. If detectives could eliminate O'Leary's male relatives, they could place O'Leary at the scene of the crimes with a high degree of certainty. "We still have to make that definitive identification," Hendershot said.
On the morning of Friday, Feb. 11, FBI agents were surveilling O'Leary's house. It was a small, single-story home with gray siding half a block from a gas station, an auto body shop and a carniceria in a beat-down neighborhood. A low chain-link fence surrounded it. Tall, winter-bare trees towered above the roof. Just after noon, the agents saw a woman and a man who looked like O'Leary leave. They tailed the pair to a nearby restaurant, and watched them eat. When they finished, the agents raced in. They grabbed the drinking cups from the table. The rims would have traces of his DNA.
<img src="//static.propublica.org/projects/maries-story/assets/img/generated/Detectives-033-480*320-1df12a.jpg" alt="" />
The O'Leary house: Marc O'Leary lived with his brother, who closely resembled him. But FBI agents didn't know that when they knocked on the door.
While the agents were following the man believed to be Marc O'Leary, another FBI agent knocked on the door of the home. He planned to install a surveillance camera nearby and wanted to make sure that nobody was around. Unexpectedly, a man came to the door. He looked like Marc O'Leary. Confused, the agent fell back on a practiced ruse. He told the man he was canvassing the neighborhood to warn of a burglar in the area. The man introduced himself. He was Marc O'Leary. His brother, Michael O'Leary, had just left to get lunch with his girlfriend. O'Leary thanked the officer for the information and closed the door.
Michael's appearance was confounding. The investigators hadn't known that Michael lived with his brother. Or that he looked so similar. They decided to run Michael O'Leary's DNA, collected from the restaurant glass, against the DNA found at the crime scenes. Analysts at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation got the samples. Usually, a DNA analysis took months. But in this case, they worked through the night. By 2 p.m. on Saturday, they had a result. The DNA from the cup matched the DNA collected from the victims. An O'Leary man was responsible. But which one?
Galbraith ruled out the brothers' father — he was too old and lived in a different state. But investigators could not yet rule out Michael as a suspect. It was possible that Michael had committed the rapes. Or even that Michael and Marc had worked together. They needed more information.
Galbraith hastily typed up a search warrant to enter the brothers' home. It was dark outside when she finished. She called the judge who was on duty for the weekend. He insisted on a fax. Galbraith rushed to a Safeway near her house to send the warrant. The judge signed it at 10 p.m. on Saturday.
She knew exactly what she was looking for. She trusted her victim's memory. The dark mark on his leg.
She emailed a crime analyst at another police department, "I so want to see this guy's leg! BAD."
At 8:15 a.m., Galbraith knocked on O'Leary's door.
"Police. Search warrant. Open the door," she shouted repeatedly. Seven cops stood behind her, pressed against the house, their guns drawn.
After a pause, O'Leary opened the door. He looked confused and shocked as he stepped out into the bright winter sun. Two dogs, a small pit bull and a Shar-Pei, tumbled out ahead of him. He wore a gray hoodie, baggy gray sweatpants and gray slip-on houseshoes. He was alone.
Galbraith pulled him to the side and patted him down. When she got to his legs, she raised his pant leg to look.
There it was, on O'Leary's left calf: a dark birthmark the size of a large chicken egg.
It was him. He was the rapist. Galbraith flashed a quick thumbs up.
As an FBI agent confronted him, O'Leary immediately invoked his right to an attorney. Galbraith had maneuvered herself to stand behind O'Leary. At 8:35 a.m., she handcuffed him. "You're under arrest for burglary and sexual assault which occurred in the City of Golden on January 5, 2011," she told him. O'Leary was put in a patrol car and transported to the Jefferson County Jail.
She was wearing new boots that day. Whenever she looked at them in the future, she would remember catching O'Leary. For Galbraith, it was important to be the one who made the arrest. "I wanted to see the look on his face, I guess," she said. "And for him to know that we figured you out."
The search of the home validated the detectives' investigation. Investigators found a pair of Adidas ZX 700 shoes in O'Leary's closet. The treads matched the footprints in the snow in Golden and outside the window in Lakewood. They discovered a pair of Under Armour gloves with a honeycomb pattern. In the bathroom was a black headwrap, tied to serve as a mask.
"He was military — so he was very organized," Galbraith said. "This was the cleanest house I've ever searched. It was so organized, we were like, 'Oh, thank God.'"
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Evidence: Police found bindings, a pink Sony Cyber-shot camera, Adidas shoes and a large backpack in O'Leary's house — all consistent with detectives' work and victims' descriptions. (Golden Police Department)
The victims' accounts were also borne out. Most had described a white man with green or hazel eyes, about 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds. They talked about being tied up. They mentioned that he had stolen their underwear. In O'Leary's house, investigators turned up a black Ruger .380-caliber pistol, a pink Sony Cyber-shot camera and a large backpack, along with wet wipes and lubrication. Hidden inside a piece of stereo equipment in his closet, detectives found a collection of women's underwear. Trophies.
That night, Hendershot drove to break the news to her victim, the 59-year-old widow in Westminster. The woman had lost her husband to cancer the previous year. She had no family nearby. She was still emerging from the mental and physical suffering she endured during the attack. Hendershot met her at a Denny's restaurant. She found her in a back corner, eating dinner alone.
"I walked in, and she was super happy to see me, and I told her. I mean, I get shiver bumps thinking about it, just even now," Hendershot said. "I told her, I said, 'It's over. It's over. We have him.'"
By early March, a forensic computer specialist cracked into files that O'Leary had stored on his hard drive. He found a folder called "girls" — and pictures that O'Leary had taken of his victims in Golden and Westminster. Galbraith recognized them by sight.
But then Galbraith stumbled across an image of a woman she didn't recognize. It was a young woman — far younger than the Colorado victims, perhaps a teenager. The pictures showed her looking terrified, bound and gagged on a bed. Galbraith felt sick. How would she identify her? How would she find justice for her?
After looking through the images, she found an answer. It was a picture of the woman's learner's permit, placed on her chest. It had her name. And it had her address.
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Home Home & Office Work Life Productivity
WFH has kept us productive. But it may have made us less creative, too
New research from Microsoft shows that productive employees won't be enough for businesses to remain innovative.
Written by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet, Contributor on Oct. 16, 2020
Employees are saving on overpriced city-center lunch breaks, and employers are cutting costs on office supplies. So far so good, but according to a new Microsoft study, telecommuting might be hindering workers' creativity, getting in the way of innovative new ideas that businesses desperately need to succeed.
The research surveyed 9,000 managers and employees across 15 European markets, and it starts with some good news. While at the start of the pandemic, many companies worried that remote working would be detrimental to productivity, the opposite trend has emerged: an overwhelming 82% of senior executives reported seeing productivity levels either hold steadily or increase as a result of telecommuting.
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In parallel, business leaders see the economic value of extending work-from-home policies. More than half of the decision makers surveyed expect to save costs as they reduce their office footprint and business travel expenditures.
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Businesses are also aware that establishing remote working as a part of company culture will hugely increase the appeal of their organization to prospective top talents, while at the same time acting as a major factor to retain their current employees.
Managers' enthusiasm for telecommuting is generally matched by employees, who see particular appeal in kissing strict office etiquettes goodbye. The majority (69%) of respondents in Microsoft's study cited dressing more casually as one of the top reasons that they enjoy working remotely, along with being able to personalize their workspace, or to work with their pet by their side.
Employees are also productive at home, as their days go undisturbed by casual interruptions, or overhearing colleagues on the phone in shared working spaces. Similar research carried out by Microsoft last year found that workers felt that 52% of their working day was wasted due to unnecessary disturbances; the number has fallen to 41% since the start of the pandemic.
The conclusion that business leaders should draw seems pretty clear: the key to success lies in continuing flexible-working practices even after the COVID-19 crisis has subsided. But although remote working has enabled sustained – and sometimes better – productivity, Microsoft's report warns that this is only one part of the picture.
Michael Parke, assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania, who collaborated in the research, said: "It seems that employees are able to hunker down and get less distracted while working remotely, and they can even enjoy less or no commute times, dressing casually, and take better care of home chores."
"However, the cost seems to be a loss of sense of purpose, which at work, is largely driven through strong and cohesive relationships and seeing how your tasks have impact on others."
Working from home means that it is much harder to bond with colleagues, whether that is in a formal meeting or around lunch. Employees are feeling increasingly disconnected from their company, therefore; and according to Microsoft, this has a direct impact on businesses' ability to innovate.
Last year, says the report, up to 56% of leaders thought that their companies were innovative with their products and services; this was only the case for 40% of respondents in 2020. Without employees sharing a space, brainstorming has become much harder, meaning that new ideas struggle to come about – let alone be acted upon.
What's more: as employees struggle to stay attached to their teams, they are less likely to remain loyal to their company. A separate study recently published by HP showed that the phenomenon is especially prevalent among younger generations, with almost half of Gen Z employees currently reporting that they feel disconnected from company culture. Holding on to top talent, in that context, is likely to become a critical business challenge.
SEE: Top 100+ tips for telecommuters and managers (free PDF) (TechRepublic)
There are various ways in which leaders can address the management issues that the global WFH experiment has brought about. To make sure that fresh ideas continue to be generated, Microsoft recommends that employers empower their employees, by letting them work on tasks with consequences or tp make decisions without a manager.
Microsoft also suggests that senior leaders provide more support to managers, who have often found themselves suddenly having to lead teams virtually for the first time. Over 60% of the managers surveyed said that they felt they had not effectively learned how to delegate and empower virtual teams.
Sarah Fisher, general manager of human resources at Microsoft EMEA, said: "It's hard for many workers to quickly adapt to a new way of remote working. This includes managers and leaders who face the challenge of not only making sure core business objectives are met in times of increased uncertainty, but also ensuring their teams stay cohesive and engaged during a stressful time."
The overnight switch to remote working caused by the global pandemic has certainly come with a set of challenges for employees, who found themselves engaging with day-to-day work in settings ranging from unconventional to uncomfortable. Looking towards the future, however, it would seem that a greater challenge still is mounting up, this time facing business leaders. Fostering an innovative company company culture in 2020 and beyond will be no easy task – no matter how short the morning commute has become.
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Nikhef permits customers to install their own cabling between parties within room H140. Please read the following guidelines.
It is not permitted to install cables underneath the floor without permission from Nikhef.
It is not allowed to remove cables from any ducts or underneath the floor. If cables are to be removed, spool up the cable and place it on top of the rack.
All cabling installed must be registered and labelled. Both the registration book and labels can be found in the entrance hall. The cable ID label should be placed within 20cm from the connectors on both ends of the cable. On breakout style cables, the label must be placed on the jacket next to the fanout point. Please ensure the information entered is accurate.
Side A (the installing party) is responsible for handling cable slack, which should be handled with in the A side rack. On both the A and B side, at least 1 meter of slack should be installed. Additional slack is not permitted on the B side (unless the B side owner has authorized this).
All cables must be properly uncoiled before placed in the duct. Any cable in the duct should end up as a straight cable that will not coil in any way. Cables must be placed without tension in the ducts.
Cable connectors or extension pieces may not be used in the duct. Nikhef reserves the right to remove such cables from the ducts at any given time.
Cables may not be bundled or tied together in the ducts in any form whatsoever.
The duct is intended for simplex and duplex cables. Before installing a breakout type fiber cable that contains more than 2 fibers, please contact Nikhef support staff.
All installed cables must be of a low flammable or inflammable material and must be free of halogen. Cables must meet the Construction Products Regulations (CPR) with a minimum Euroclass Rating of Class D. Class B2 is preferred. Cables to be used should contain one of the following abbreviations on the jacket; LSZH, LSOH, LS0H, LSFH or OHLS.
All cables must be routed into the racks using the existing drop-offs. If it is not possible to use the drop-off for any reason please contact Nikhef support staff for assistance.


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Q: Saving String[] to a bundle to be used when activity is recreated When my activity is ran for the first time it downloads some url strings and sets them to.
a String list...
public   String [] myRemoteImages = {imageUrl,imageUrl2,imageUrl3,imageUrl4};

the imageUrl's inside are 4 url's that are downloaded and set to the variables..
When the activity is closed or destroyed, how can i save these url's to their variables so they wont be erased when the activity is destroyed?
Could i possible save it in a bundle and then onRestoreInstanceState pull them out?

A: If your activity is destroyed you would not be able to save data, but you can use SharedPreferences for example to save some datas like Strings:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#pref

A: If you want to save these strings during activity re-creation use the following method.
public String [] myRemoteImages = /* ... */;
private static final String KEY_URLS = "urls";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    if (savedInstanceState != null) {
        myRemoteImages = savedInstanceState.getStringArray(KEY_URLS);
    }
 }

@Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
    outState.putStringArray(KEY_URLS, myRemoteImages);
}

If you want to keep these string alive when your application is closed by user you'd better use SharedPreferences.
onRestoreInstanceState() is called when the activity is restored. It means that this activity is recreating after configuration change or after a process containing this activity was killed and re-launched. So if you want to save a state before your app closes, use onPause()/onResume() methods to save and restore it.


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Q: Make templateHelpers wait until async function ends in Marionette I'm using the Storage plugin of phonegap in a Marionette ItemView, but could be any asynchronous stuff. I just want to pass a variable throw the template helper, which has to wait until (in this case) DB operations end.
I also tryed putting the asynchronous piece of code inside the templateHelpers function, but it does not wait, and the value variable is empty in the template.
initialize: function(options){
    that=this;
    var db = window.openDatabase("MyDB", "1.0", "My Database", 200000);
    db.transaction(queryDB, errorCB);

    function queryDB(tx) {
        tx.executeSql('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS MyDB (id unique, name, value)');
        var query = "SELECT * FROM MyDB WHERE id="+that.model.get('id')+" LIMIT 1";
        tx.executeSql(query, [], querySuccess, errorCB);
    }

    function errorCB(err) {
        alert("Error processing SQL: "+err.code);
    }

    function querySuccess(tx, results) {
        var len = results.rows.length;
        if(len>0)
            that.value = results.rows.item(0).value;
    }

},

templateHelpers: function(){
    var helperParams = {};
    var val = {"value": this.value };
    _.extend(helperParams, val);
    return helperParams;
},

Any ideas?

A: As discussed in the comments, the solution is to re-render the view after your async load completes. This works because the render method in your Marionette view will call templateHelpers again and specifically will not call initialize again.
function querySuccess(tx, results) {
    var len = results.rows.length;
    if(len>0)
        that.value = results.rows.item(0).value;
    that.render(); // <<< Re-render on success
}


Meetings are held the second Tuesday of every month. Each meeting offers updates on local issues and reports of JDA action, as well as occasional guests from city government departments, businesses, universities and others whose ideas and/or actions are important to the Jewelry District.
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Sycamores On Fire, But Put Away That Extinguisher
Indiana State has established itself over the last month as a potential contender in the Missouri Valley conference. A win over Illinois State on Sunday might have cemented that into reality.
By Benjamin Miraski Dec 30, 2012, 2:48pm PST
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Something sparked in Terre Haute about a month ago. Indiana State had come off two straight losses that left them looking less than ordinary.
But then the Sycamores went on a run, and that run has seen just a single speed bump, a 62-55 loss to San Diego State in Hawaii. The road continued to be smooth, albeit a little slick and scary, Sunday with a 77-75 win over Illinois State, maybe the No. 3 team in the Missouri Valley.
Indiana State did a nice job of corralling Jackie Carmichael, who received some faint praise from ESPN's Andy Katz in his holiday roundup a week ago:
You can pencil in Illinois State's Jackie Carmichael onto some sort of All-American list by season's end. The Redbirds star scored 25 in a win at Dayton and 18 in a win over Austin Peay.
Maybe you should get out that eraser that we have been using on North Texas' Tony Mitchell. Carmichael's 13 points took a great deal of work to accomplish.
The senior was just 4-for-15 from the floor.
OK, it was just a single-game shooting performance, and truth be told, Carmichael's biggest accomplish might have come on the boards, pulling in six on the offensive end and 14 overall. That went with two blocks and two steals.
Rule out that pesky shooting performance, that is a nice day. OK, you can pencil him back into "some sort of All-American list" now. I nominate the scrapper list, at worst. We though Carmichael deserved a second-team mention at the beginning of the year. Nothing has changed that, especially given the performances of some of our higher rated players before the season.
Back to Indiana State, you know, the team that actually won this game.
Start with Jake Odum, who was super efficient in scoring his 17 points that went with his six assists and three steals. Add in a healthy portion of Justin Gant, who scored his second double-double of the season (the first coming against Mississippi in Hawaii), and then a drop of freshman Devonte Brown -- make your free throws, kid; you don't have to be a senior to be good at the line.
This was a great game for the Sycamores, another in which they received an above average performance from more than three players, seemingly a key to victory over the past month. They have had games such as against IUPUI when everyone was clicking. And they have had games when they squeak by, just three players excelling.
But that has been the trend lately. If three players can make everything work, the team will win.
At the beginning of the year, Indiana State was an afterthought in the Valley, but the last month -- and especially this win over the Redbirds -- could lead you to believe that the Sycamores might not be that far off the leaders in the league.
This is a forest fire you don't want to stop.


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NGC 4194 (również PGC 39068 lub UGC 7241) – galaktyka nieregularna (IBm/P), znajdująca się w gwiazdozbiorze Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy w odległości około 110 milionów lat świetlnych. Została odkryta 2 kwietnia 1791 roku przez Williama Herschela. Jest to galaktyka z aktywnym jądrem.

Galaktyka NGC 4194 zawiera czarną dziurę znajdującą się w ogonie pływowym. Zarówno ogon pływowy jak też lokalizacja czarnej dziury są skutkiem zderzenia z inną galaktyką. Na zdjęciu łączącym obraz teleskopu Hubble'a oraz teleskopu Chandra czarna dziura jest widoczna jako jasna niebieska kropka.

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We've become so attached to our screens that we've forgotten how to cherish real moments.
We're all from a technology-based generation. Middle-aged adults had pagers, phones that were the size of bricks with an insanely long antennae, and the earlier versions of computers. My generation grew up with mp3 players (and eventually iPods), newer versions of computers that are still constantly changing, flip phones that eventually transformed into a Blueberry that flipped a different direction, then the smart phones that we have today. Granted, my generation is far more guilty of having a technological addiction. Very rarely do our phones separate from our hands and we barely shift our attention away from a screen. Adults/parents are beginning to be guilty of it as well but only because we, their children, encouraged them to evolve with the times.
Now families sit in the same room and barely say a few sentences to each other. Sure, we can share things to one another on social media and bond with a halfhearted laugh, but where is the basic human interaction that we all crave? We had plenty of it when we were younger and played outside with our friends, threw a ball around with our parents, and had sleepovers at our grandparents' house. But where is it now? Where is the one thing that we had plenty of when we were kids, but eventually let slip away while we created our online profiles?
It's behind your screen. It's in the same room or a few feet away. It's in such a short distance. But what are you doing instead? What am I doing instead? I'm in front of a screen being a hypocrite when I could be relaxing with my friends in a hammock or playing a card game at the lake. I'm in front of a screen, typing and going on-and-on about how disconnected we all are from each other. You're reading this. You're staring at a screen. You're soaking up the words I have put in front of you. You know that I'm correct, yet you're still reading. After this, you'll probably scroll through your various social media accounts. As will I. Why is that?
We're all so disconnected from each other that we don't want to go out and be the social butterflies that we have the potential to be. Instead, we sit in front of our phones, laptops, and TVs to binge-watch Netflix and Hulu instead of going out and experiencing the world. In some way, we've all developed some form of social anxiety because of technology. We're so used to staying indoors and saying anything we want online and in text messages but when an opportunity arises that we could speak to someone, very few people will say what's on their minds; to family, friends, (hopeful) significant others, etc. I can admit, I'm guilty. I'm sure you are too; even in the tiniest way.
We're all so used to portraying the facade that we have created online and focus of the number of friends and followers we have, instead of concentrating on your real friends (which is a significantly lesser amount), and being the amazing people that we truly are, or at least used to be. We spend so much time comparing ourselves to other people on our feeds that we've allowed ourselves to be distracted from the infinite potential around us. Yet we continue to sit in front of our screens sulking at the fact that we're so "lonely", when all we have to do is look around and see everything that we're so desperate for. We're all desperate to have a life, have something to do, and have someone to love. But we still don't look up. We stare into our screens because we feel that they're the only things that we can rely on not leaving us.
Our virtual worlds have sucked us in so much that we can't fully experience life- or at least we're not allowing ourselves to. We take pictures of every moment as if they'll capture the actual emotion behind them. We stray away from actual conversations because we feel like what's on our screen is more important; whether it be memes, pictures, videos, or whatever game is popular. We don't go to concerts, sporting events, or touristy places and purely enjoy them. We look at them through our screens while we record the moments for our Snapchat stories and Instagram feeds. Instead we need to feel the music and understand the meaning. We need to watch the touchdowns, home-runs, goals, and baskets happen with our own eyes. We need to see the architecture, landscape, and cultural differences that are right in front of us. We need to experience life for what it is- NOT what we see through our cameras.
All I ask is that you look up. Enjoy the beauty and art in front of you. Spend time with your family, friends, whoever. Enjoy the uninterrupted moments and lose track of time. The laughter and happiness will be pure. They'll be memories that can't possibly be captured in one picture or video and that'll make you cherish it so much more.
Just get an iPhone already!
Ah, the infamous iPhone vs Android debacle. An argument meant to last for ages. But no matter what any Android owner tells me, I will never switch from the glorious iPhone to a mediocre Android. While this debate affects everyone differently, it's not that big of a deal to me, so this is all in good fun. But I did mean it when I said I'd never switch to an Android.
Here are 33 thoughts an iPhone user has when they find out that someone has an Android.
1. "Don't they realize that an iPhone is so much easier to use?"
2. "How can someone brag about a phone that costs more than an iPhone but isn't an iPhone?"
3. "You can tell me how great your phone is all you want, I'll never switch."
4. "Yeah, I'll admit that's a cool feature, but not as cool as Animoji."
5. "Green text bubbles are the worst."
6. "Am I willing to not date someone with an Android?"
8. "How can people live with distorted emojis?"
9. "And you can't name group chats!"
10. "How do you differentiate from them?"
11. "Are you really going to use GroupMe for group chats for the rest of your life?"
12. "And you need to download a completely diffferent app to see your friends' locations?"
13. "iPhone users have that built in!"
14. "How do you live with your apps all over the place?"
15. "We like them organized in four neat columns."
16. "Sure, you pay for the Apple brand, but the products are just as great."
18. "Hey, Siri, all the way!"
19. "You'll never understand the blessing of Apple Music."
20. "How am I supposed to FaceTime with them?!"
21. "I don't think I could ever downgrade to an Android."
22. "Not after having an iPhone for years."
23. "I don't understand people who do that."
24. "iPhones are just so much easier to use."
25. "There's only one button!"
26. And Apple's making it even easier by eliminating that."
27. "Not having iMessage is tragic."
28. "Don't act like Google has better privacy settings than Apple."
29. "You know it's a lie."
30. "Oh, you want to talk about updates?"
31. "Apple really goes above and beyond with their updates, they're timely and frequent."
32. "Yeah, yeah, you think your phone is amazing."
33. "Just not as amazing as my rose gold, 256 GB, iPhone 8 plus."


KAMPALA – As the excitement and disappointment over the 2018 Uganda Certificate of Education results begins to settle, analysis has now turned to individual subject performance.
According to the results released last Thursday, Namilyango College emerged the best in Physics, scoring an average of 2.93 aggregates.
Gayaza High School outperformed other schools in English Language, with average score of 2.63, History had God's Way High School, Maganjo in Wakiso emerge the best performer scoring an average of 1.56 and CRE saw Seroma Christian High School scoring an average of 1.70 to complete the top position in each subject.
On average, 328 schools scored average aggregate of between distinctions one to 6.9 in Physics, out of 3178 schools. Chemistry had 321 schools scoring between distinctions, Biology had 513 schools and Mathematics 948 schools scored average of between one and 6.9.
In humanities, 1523 schools scored an average of between distinction one and 6.9, out of the total 3119 schools. CRE 1592, Geography 1652, History 1566 and English 1349.
The results saw candidates performing better in humanities than the science subjects, as has been the case for previous years.
While releasing the results on Thursday, the UNEB secretary, Mr Daniel Nokrach attributed disparities on the levels of candidates understanding and language deficiency and candidates' failure to correctly interpret questions.
Mr Nokrach said while the problem is more pronounced in English Language examinations, it also badly reflected in other subjects.
"The challenge of language deficiency is reflected in performance in other subjects, where chief examiners continue to report problems of question interpretation, misunderstanding key words and generally poor language interpretations," Mr Nockrach said.
On the performances in science subjects, Mr Nokrach said candidates experienced problems in handling apparatus during the practical tests and failed to make correct observations leading to drawing poor conclusions. He attributed this to the fact that teachers failed to integrated practical and theoretical teaching and learning.
"Evidence available indicates that in very many schools, practical lessons are not done by the candidates until towards UCE examinations and candidates go into the practical examinations very ill-equipped. This could explain why most malpractices were in science practical papers," Nokrach said.


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English champion Marsh leads in Australian Amateur
England's Nick Marsh is the Australian Amateur Championship medallist after he returned a second consecutive 68 in Sydney to lead the qualifiers for the matchplay.
Marsh, who is the reigning English Amateur champion, finished on eight-under par – and one shot clear of Australian national squad members Ryan Ruffels and Cam Davis.
The number one seed (image © Leaderboard Photography) will be joined in the matchplay stages by Ben Stow and Paul Howard, the other two members of the England Golf squad who are contesting a series of Australian championships.
Marsh, from Huddersfield in Yorkshire, claimed his medallist honours with scoring which included ten birdies and an eagle over the two rounds, the first at The Lakes and the second at The Australian Golf Club.
It's the form he wants for the matchplay, as he explained after his second round:"In matchplay you've got to make birdies … so I tried to do that today to be ready for tomorrow.
"I played all right, drove the ball much better and hit it quite close on the front nine. It was a steady round.
"It shows I'm in good form, but you never know in matchplay – I'm really looking forward to it."
Ben Stow, the English stroke play champion from Rushmore, Wiltshire, qualified in 11th place after shooting a superb seven-under 65 in the second round, the joint low-score of the day.
He started the round with a birdie on the first but, after making bogey on the second and a double on the third, he looked to be in trouble, having shot four-over 76 in the first round.
But he then reeled off nine more birdies, including one on the 18th which brought him home with a back-nine 30.
Paul Howard also produced sparkling form in the second round, fighting back after an opening 78 with a three-under 69 to qualify with a shot to spare. Howard, from Southport & Ainsdale, Lancashire, won the 2014 South American Amateur
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Philly's fave Afrofuturists turned a Fairmount mansion into a time-travel portal
Peter Crimmins
Camae Ayewa (left) and Rasheedah Phillips (right), the artists of Black Quantum Futurism and makers of the film "Write No History" with their work in Philadelphia's historic Hatfield House. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Hatfield House, a preserved 18th century farmhouse in Fairmount Park near Brewerytown, has its own rich history. The Greek Revival building was originally constructed about four miles north, near Germantown, where it had served as a private residence, a boarding school for girls, and a summer retreat for a wealthy Philadelphia doctor, Nathan Hatfield.
It was then moved, piece by piece, to 33rd and Girard where since 1930 the building has been used as a house museum, nonprofit office spaces and now, a community arts space operated by Fairmount Park Conservancy.
What if the house also served as a time-travel portal used by a secret society — the Temporal Disruptors – whose members communicate across centuries?
"The Temporal Disruptors are speculative," said Rasheedah Phillips, one half of the artistic collaboration Black Quantum Futurism. "It's actually based on Black scientists and doctors who lived in Philadelphia, spread out across time and space, who are often left out of history, often left out of the narrative around Black communities and what we've done in history."
A temporal disruptor featuring Mae Jemison, the first Black, female astronaut, an engineer and doctor. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
"It's not imaginary," added Camae Ayewa, also known as Moor Mother, the other artist in Black Quantum Futurism. The Disruptors feature figures such as Mae Jemison, the first Black woman astronaut, and Leon Sullivan, an entrepreneur who developed Progress Plaza, America's first Black-owned shopping center, in North Philadelphia.
"It's drawing on very real histories and, yes, there is speculation in it," Phillips said. "We have to speculate as Black people on our histories and on our futures, because we're so often cut off from the future, so often left out of history, and so often compressed into the present."
What's speculative about BQF's installation in Hatfield House, called "Ancestors returning again/this time only to themselves," is that these Black scientists, doctors, writers, and engineers across wide expanses of time are able to communicate with one another, using messages and artifacts that move back and forth through time.
The time travel portal for the imagined secret society: Hatfield House.
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What is Afrofuturism?
Phillips and Ayewa's artistic practice is rooted in Afrofuturism, a cultural, literary, and aesthetic movement that centers the Black and African Diaspora experience in the context of technology and science fiction.
Both from North Philadelphia, Phillips and Ayewa started working together several years ago, creating a long string of projects in Philadelphia and around the world that have cumulatively built up a complex narrative involving time travel linking the past and present with imagined futures.
Many objects created for previous projects have returned in "Ancestors returning again," including assemblages of shells and tiny watch parts, portraits of African Americans, African textiles printed with mathematical equations and graphs, and pamphlets of printed prose.
The Black Quantum Futurism collective is presenting their Afro-futuristic film "Write No History" and art exhibit at the historic Hatfield House in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, running from August 14 to September 19, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The artists reference the history of Hatfield House, itself, as the former Catherine Mallon Boarding School of Girls. The otherwise empty building has been arranged with furniture where visitors can sit and peruse a photo album of candid pictures of the Temporal Disruptors assembled by BQF. The effect is making the historic house feel more like the home it was for boarding school girls.
"Usually these [photo albums] are kept at some family member's house, so we don't always have access to the photo album,"Ayewa said. "I want people to be able to have agency to flip through and decide what they want to look at, or what makes sense to them."
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Time capsules as messengers
The newest addition to BQF's ongoing Afrofuturist narrative is "Write No History," a three-channel video with sound design featuring the Temporal Disruptors individually preparing communiqués, sending them through time portals and, then, collectively opening a Black history time capsule to explore its contents.
"Black histories are often left out of time capsules, so we have to think about time capsules in a different way," Phillips said. "Time capsules that can reach back to the past, to send messages and share a warning, to talk about histories we know in the future that would come in the past. For example, the Red Summer race riots of 1919."
The Red Summer riots were a series of dozens of attacks by white supremacists on Black neighborhoods across the United States, lasting for most of 1919. The deadliest was the Elaine Massacre in Arkansas, wherein an estimated 200 Black people were killed. Violent attacks in 1919 were also reported locally in Philadelphia, Darby, Coatesville, and Wilmington, De.
The video "Write No History" was shot in Hatfield House and the surrounding area in Fairmount Park. Its title comes from an oral history interview with a former Black slave Henry Blake, recorded in the 1930s by the Federal Writers' Project.
The Black Quantum Futurism collective is presenting their Afro-futuristic film "Write No History" and art exhibit at the historic Hatfield House. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Blake, who was about 80 years old at the time, described life on an Arkansas plantation as a "bad thing," but better than working on Arkansas's notorious prison farm, Cummins, where acts of torture against inmates were later confirmed.
"Out there at the county farm, they bust you open. They bust you up till you can't work. There's a lot of people down at the state farm at Cummins…that's raw and bloody," Blake told an interviewer with the Federal Writers' Project. "They wouldn't let you come down there and write no history."
In the Hatfield house, Blake's words, "Write No History," are engraved on a desk plaque, in front of a portable typewriter arranged on a carved wooden desk with books, a Walkman cassette player, a coffee mug decorated with historic photos of Black people, and a dish filled with BQF's signature blend of seashells, brass keys, and watch parts.
The inviting desk assemblage suggests that this room is where both the past and the future will be written.
The Hatfield House in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
A Black Quantum Futurism photo album, called "the familiar" on display at the Hatfield House. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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So you've done a try dive and loved it—what next? Simple, join the club and start your scuba journey by training as an Ocean Diver.
Ocean Diver is BSAC's introductory qualification, but is it still a comprehensive course. When you've completed the training, you will be a safe, competent diver, able to dive to 20 metres with divers of at least the same ability as you. You will have learned the essential core skills to enable you to dive calmly, efficiently and safely.
The course is made up of three elements: pool training, classroom lessons and open water training.
The pool training takes place on Thursday evenings at Stratford Leisure Centre from 8.00-9.00 PM. Afterwards, there is a chance to 'rehydrate', debrief and chew the fat with other members in the bar of Stratford Town Football Club.
There is no definitive timeframe for this—you should expect to attend the pool and keep practising these skills until your instructor is happy that you can do them to the required standard.
You will also have to reinforce these lessons with some home learning/revision. Once you have completed all the classroom lessons there's a short multiple choice test to get through (don't worry about this, it's really not too hard!). When have passed this, you are ready to move on to the Open Water training (hooray—this is what it's all about!).
You are likely to do your initial open water training at Stoney Cove—a flooded quarry about a 45 minutes drive from Stratford. We are very lucky to have this facility nearby; people travel from far and wide to train at Stoney Cove.
The open water sessions are where the training begins to feel like real diving—rather than just looking at the bottom of the pool, you will encounter fish, varied terrain and other items of interest (such as a disused plane cockpit and 'Nessie'—a fun model of the Loch Ness monster).
Generally you will do 2 dives each time you visit Stoney Cove—a dive in the morning, followed by a break to refill you cylinder, grab a bacon butty and coffee, then on to your second dive. Afterwards there will be a chance for a debrief and some refreshments in the pub on site.
On your first visit you will probably feel a little bit nervous. To help you get used to the new diving environment, your first dive will probably be just an orientation dive. You might do a couple of basic skills during this dive depending on how you feel, but the main point is to have fun!
Once you are feeling comfortable and confident in the water you will practise and develop the skills you learned in the pool and will gradually increase your dive depths until you are able to dive down to 20 metres.


Who is your Parent Support Worker?
I am Jo Foster. I have an extensive background working with children and families within Hampshire and surrounding areas.
I have experience supporting families at home as well as out in the community and within Childcare settings, including schools.
I have worked alongside many outside agencies and have a good knowledge of local resources and support available to families.
My knowledge extends from pregnancy and newborns through to teens and young adults.
What can your Parent Support Worker help with?
I am able to work with both parents and children.
I can come to visit families at home as well as within school and work flexibly around individual needs.
I can help with setting up and maintaining good routines, including mornings and bedtimes.
I can signpost you to local services and support families through this process.
I can offer advice on supporting your child through change.
I can suggest practical tips for managing behaviour and reinforcing positive steps at home.
I work Part time across Padnell Infant, Padnell Junior and Queens Inclosure Schools. Please contact the Infant School Office if you would like to see me or talk to me over the telephone.
Below are the presentations and resources from past Parent Support Groups.


This toolkit is intended to help those who work with the estimated 55 million individuals in the United States who speak a language other than English in their own home (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Reports, Language Use in the United States, April 2010).
Use the following icons to access resources related to addressing language barriers. Instructions for using this website's built-in Google Translate button are also included.
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Use the icon at the bottom of each page.
Use the translation provided only as a guide in general understanding of the page's contents (see disclaimers below).
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Includes multiple translation best practices, information addressing the latest health care compliance issues, and recent industry and government resources related to translation and cultural competence. From ViaLanguage, a provider of online medical translation and localization services.
A free online course to help health professionals acknowledge cultural diversity, address low health literacy, and accommodate low-level proficiency. Two versions of the course are available, one with continuing education credits. From the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration and accredited by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
National standards and a national code of ethics for interpreters. From the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care.
Tools to help health professionals communicate with diverse populations. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Resource for working effectively with interpreters. The resource includes information to help patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) understand that they have a right to an interpreter and tools so they can inform hospital staff of what language they speak. From the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Steps and online resources to help health care organizations implement linguistically appropriate services to meet the needs of individuals with LEP. From the U.S. Office of Minority Health.
A policy brief from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Fourteen federal requirements for all recipients of federal funding. From the U.S. Office of Minority Health.
Guide to help plan and implement language-access services, including interpretation and the provision of written materials and signage to meet the needs of individuals with LEP. From the U.S. Office of Minority Health.
Step-by-step guidance and tools to help all levels of staff who serve adults, children, or both connect with individuals of all literacy levels. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Offers Spanish-speaking patients tips to improve their communication with their medical providers. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Offers bilingual medical glossaries in 24 languages and a medical-interpreter-training program, Bridging the Gap, that prepares bilingual individuals to work as medical interpreters in hospital and clinic settings.
An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,909 known living languages and where they are spoken. The latest print edition was published in 2009. From SIL International.
Multiple languages and multiple topics. From Language Automation, Inc.
A collaboration of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Cross-cultural information and consumer-education materials in a wide variety of languages. Houses digitized consumer-education materials produced as part of the 24 Languages Project. From the Harborview Medical Center.
Education resources in multiple languages for health professionals and others to use in their communities. A collaboration of health-education specialists from four health systems in Central Ohio.
A source of health information in many languages and multiple formats. Partially funded by the National Library of Medicine.
Offers access to hundreds of state and local agency documents used to provide services to individuals with LEP. Searchable by state, language, and service-delivery type. From the Migration Policy Institute.
Resources on cultural competency, dictionaries, health literacy, health information in multiple languages, interpreting, policies and standards, multicultural research, refugee health portals, and other topics. From the National Library of Medicine.
Links to brochures and other media translated into many different languages. From the Medical Library Gateway, Samaritan Health Services.
Materials in many languages. From the online catalogs of the Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Library.
languages on topics such as maternity, infant health, early childhood, injury prevention, and parenting, as well as policies and guidelines for providing health services to a multicultural population. From the New South Wales (Australia) government.
Multilingual health information for refugees and their health professionals. From the Refugee Health Information Network.
Read our disclaimer about automated translations.
Smart phone translation applications (apps) such as iTranslate, SayHi Translate, and Translator with Speech are available through app stores such as Apple iPhone Apps and the Amazon App Store for Android. User ratings and reviews are typically provided.
Google Translate is a free translation service that provides instant translations between 64 different languages. It can translate words, sentences, and web pages between any of these supported languages. The mobile app translates both written and spoken words and is available for use on the Android and iPhone.
This report assesses whether Google Translate is sufficiently accurate to allow researchers to include non-English-language publications in performing systematic reviews. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
This language-services schedule lists contractors that federal agencies can use for obtaining translation and interpretation services. Included are contractors who provide services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and those who are blind or have low vision. From the U.S. General Services Administration.
Describes research on language services; developing a language services plan; and how to find interpreters, translators, and training programs. Also lists multilingual tools and resources; health care symbols, and federal laws and policies. From by the National Health Law Program (NHLP). NHLP also provides additional language access and immigrant health publications including What's in a Word: A Guide to Understanding Interpreting and Translating in Health Care (2010).
A federal interagency website that lists interpretation and translation resources and national interpreter and translator organizations. It includes multilingual materials and I Speak cards that help individuals indicate which language they speak without knowing English. From the Department of Justice.
Resource developed to clarify the translation process and provide a roadmap to help health care organizations improve the quality of their translated materials. From Hablamos Juntos and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Tip sheet from online training and resources for Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Program service delivery and documentation. From the Health Check Provider Education System, Georgetown University, and the District of Columbia Department of Health.
Audio files in nine languages that explain the right to an interpreter in emergency rooms in Massachusetts, and a poster with information in 31 languages that individuals can point to in order to request an interpreter. From the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Translation Toolkit for Health Professionals. (September 2012).
Authors: Beth DeFrancis, M.L.S., and John Richards, M.A., AITP, MCH Library.
Reviewers: Olivia Picket, M.A., M.L.S., Jolene Bertness, M.Ed., MCH Library.
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Home » Entertainment » Bond is back! 'No Time to Die' first trailer debuts
Bond is back! 'No Time to Die' first trailer debuts
Posted on December 4, 2019 by ABC News
© 2019 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED/Nicola Dove(NEW YORK) — The anticipated first trailer for No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond adventure, made its debut on ABC's Good Morning America Wednesday morning, with the film's cast on hand as well.
The trailer shows Daniel Craig as an apparently retired James Bond being pressed into service by his old CIA pal Felix Leiter, again played by Jeffrey Wright. It seems a baddie called Safin, played by Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar-winner Rami Malek, has access to a game-changing terrorist weapon, and super-spy Bond gets back into the action to take him out.
Along the way, Bond runs into Lashana Lynch's Nomi, who apparently has inherited his 007 codename in his absence. "Get in my way and I'll put a bullet in your knee," she warns him. "The one that works."
Bond's MI6 has previously captured fellow Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz's Spectre nemesis, Blofeld, and from his Plexiglas cell they're quizzing him on the new villain. But Bond also learns his former flame Madeline, again played by Léa Seydoux, apparently has ties to Malek's character — who, after suffering facial scars, wears a creepy smashed porcelain mask.
"License to kill. History of violence. I could be speaking to my own reflection," Safin says.
"History isn't kind to men who play God," Bond replies.
And as one might expect, there's no shortage of action in the trailer, with running and gunning by Lynch and Bond, James' armored Astin Martin DB5 taking out hordes of henchmen thanks to machine guns hidden in each headlight, and Craig pitching himself off a towering bridge, suspended only by a single rope. Is it any wonder he always gets hurt on these movies?
No Time to Die, which also stars Ralph Fiennes, Ana de Armas and Naomi Harris, opens April 8, 2020.
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Tom's of Maine Founder Wants to Revitalize the U.S. Apparel Industry
Tom Chappell co-founded Tom's of Maine with his wife, Kate, in 1970 and revolutionized the personal care industry. Over the years, skeptics said there was absolutely no way consumers would buy apricot- or calendula-scented deodorant; the same was said about fennel mixed with propolis and myrrh in order to create toothpaste.
But then the products started to appear at retailers including Trader Joe's and Target. A decade ago, Colgate-Palmolive acquired Tom's of Maine for a reported $100 million.
Soon after the sale closed, Chappell was inspired to establish another company with a similar mission -- only this time within the apparel industry.
During a trek through Wales, he struggled to find a fabric that could wick away moisture, keep him warm, and allow him to go from the trail to town without having to change. Cotton, silk and synthetics were not up to the task. Wool, if woven in a certain way, could do the trick. But sheep in the U.S. are generally raised to produce meat, not wool.
Chappell insisted that he could transform clothing the way he changed personal care, and Rambler's Way was born.
The idea behind Rambler's Way is a high-performance clothing line that looks great with an entirely American supply chain. Chappell developed relationships with ranchers in Western states. He found both a wool-scouring plant and a spinning mill in South Carolina, and partnered with a knitting mill in North Carolina.
But in the decade since Chappell conceptualized his latest venture, he has confronted one huge challenge: the American consumer.
Americans' simmering resentment against manufacturing moving overseas finally bubbled over in the last few years, the result of which led to the insurgent presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders and, now, the insurgent presidency of Donald Trump.
At the same time, Americans want their products fast and they want them cheap – whether they go to the big-box stores like Target and Walmart or have them delivered to their doorstep via Amazon. Hence the struggle for companies that are determined to manufacture clothes in the U.S., from Los Angeles' American Apparel to Massachusetts' Osmium. The 2013 Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh sparked some interest in both domestic and 'ethical' clothing manufacturers, and consumers understand the appeal of locally-made clothes – as long as they don't have to pay for them.
And as a result, the American textile and clothing sector has declined to the point that many of the mills that once employed many workers in the South and New England, as well as their suppliers, are gone.
As profiled in Inc. magazine this month, Chappell had to slowly build his own vertically-integrated supply chain. His journey included cajoling ranchers into raising a particular breed of sheep known for its wool quality. At one point, he even tried to launch his own ranch. Finding a mill that could create the thin and lightweight fabric he coveted was also a daunting task.
Then there was the sales and distribution of Rambler's Way clothing. At first, Chappell tried to rely on independent retailers and consignment agreements. But the lack of interest, as well as the boom in online shopping, almost shuttered the company two years ago. Now, it is making a big push into brick-and-mortal retail stores, running counter to industry trends. The first stores have opened in towns such as Hanover and Portsmouth in New Hampshire, as well as in the company's home base of Kennebunk, Maine. More stores are scheduled for launch across New England.
Chappell believes there is a target market for this line of men's and women's clothing, and the clothes reflect a timeless quality that should appeal to just about every consumer. But unfortunately for American manufacturing, customer's hearts and wallets are far from aligned. Men's shirts, including a classic wool gabardine button-down, are priced as high as $230; a shirt at H&M or Target costs a tenth of that, an easier sell for consumers even if they know how it may affect garment workers in countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh and China.
Image credit: Rambler's Way


Ford really upped the game for family sedans when it unleashed its redesigned Fusion to showrooms in 2013. Stylish, sporty and packed with features, the new Fusion was an immediate hit with car shoppers. Two years later, Ford has revised the Fusion with only minor fiddling of equipment, and that''''s OK, as the Fusion remains one of our top choices in the highly competitive midsize sedan market. The 2015 Fusion''''s appeal goes well beyond its eye-catching design. You''''d be hard-pressed to find another family car that provides a sharper driving experience or as great a variety of configurations. The 2015 Fusion offers three trim levels, four different engines, front- or all-wheel drive and a broad enough array of option packages that you can craft anything from an affordable family workhorse with a combined fuel economy of 29 mpg to an Audi-baiting luxury sport sedan.