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Усман Гиязов — советский хозяйственный, государственный и политический деятель, Герой Социалистического Труда.

Биография
Родился в 1921 году в Ферганском районе. Член КПСС.

Участник Великой Отечественной войны, командир отделения 7-й стрелковой роты 710-го стрелкового полка 219-й стрелковой дивизии, а с сентября 1944 года — командир отделения 168-й отдельной роты разведки 115-й стрелковой дивизии 2-го Прибалтийского фронта. С 1946 года — на хозяйственной, общественной и политической работе. В 1946—1977 гг. — варщик, старший варщик Ферганского химического завода фурановых соединений Главного управления микробиологической промышленности при Совете Министров СССР.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 20 апреля 1971 года присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Делегат XXV съезда КПСС.

Умер в Фергане до 1985 года.

Ссылки
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Делегаты XXV съезда КПСС

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Cordy is an iOS and Android game developed by SilverTree Media/SilverTree Holdings LP and released on July 27, 2011. Cordy is a platform game with 27 levels.

After SilverTree was acquired by GSN Games in late March 2013, the app disappeared from the App Store (iOS/iPadOS), then Google Play. It remains visible on the Amazon App Store and Microsoft Store.

Two sequels, Cordy Sky and Cordy 2, were released on March 28, 2012 and February 7, 2013 respectively.

Plot
The story is of a robot exploring their world to find out the cause behind a power outage and fix it.
Currently, the only know enemies are Boogie Bullies and some sort of boss. Any information on them are currently blank.

Gameplay

Reception
The game has a Metacritic score of 82% based on 7 critic reviews.

148Apps wrote " A fantastic platformer and a stellar iOS game. The controls are fluid, the visuals are wonderful and the levels all beg to be played over-and-over again in order to nab a full trio of stars (one each for completion, speed and gear collecting). " VidioGamer said " Cordy is simple enough for beginners yet also packs in a decent challenge for more experienced players. " Multiplayer.it wrote " Cordy is a great platformer, which recalls the style and the gameplay of LittleBigPlanet. The game features some very nice graphics, very accurate touch controls and 26 levels, asking you to complete them in several ways to get all the stars. If you like the genre, this is a must buy. " Pocket Gamer France said " If you're looking for a platform game packed with personality and hooked on great ideas, give Cordy a try. " Modojo said " Unlock the full game and have a blast. We certainly hope more (and free) levels are on the way. " 3DJuegos said " Cordy is a nice and simple platformer crafted with a great style and good graphics. " Touch Arcade said " Cordy doesn't bring a whole lot of innovation to the table, but, even with some slightly off physics, it's a game that makes a lasting visual impression first and plays well-enough second. "

Legacy

Cordy Sky
Modojo gave the game a 90/100, writing " You don't often see free games of such high quality on the App Store, and when you do, a bunch of annoying ads partially ruin the experience. There is no such problem with Cordy Sky, and we applaud SilverTree Media for reintroducing us to such a charming hero while at the same time making Doodle Jump a fond memory. " AppSpy rated the game 80%, commenting " Cordy Sky provides a surprisingly strong distraction thanks to a bouncy challenge that ramps up slowly and keeps introducing new elements to make your journey all the more whacky. " 148Apps rated the game 70/100, writing " The game isn't going to eat up hours, but there is some added replay value in the Game Center achievements. For a casual pick-up-and-play title Cordy Sky is refined and lots of good free fun. "

Cordy 2
The game has a Metacritic score of 84% based on 9 critic reviews.

TouchGen wrote " Cordy 2 plays like a dream with precise controls, excellent level design and all presented in a great style. Who wouldn´t want to stomp on the evil Boogaloo? " Apple'N'Apps said " Cordy 2 is the most deluxe platformer yet on iOS with so much to enjoy making it a must buy as Cordy has become the Mario of iOS. " 148Apps wrote " Cordy 2 offers plenty of in-app purchases but none other than the initial $4.99 outlay for the full game, are actually needed. Instead, they offer customization options that I found unnecessary to my enjoyment of the game. Offering plenty of charm and little reason to criticize, Cordy 2 is an utterly delightful platformer. " Modojo said " Cordy 2 is hands-down one of the finest platform games you can pick up for your mobile or tablet. It looks absolutely stunning, the controls work effortlessly, and those who absolutely must achieve perfection on every level will be kept exploring its incredible depths for weeks to come. Highly recommended. "

Multiplayer.it said " It's really hard to find something wrong with Cordy 2, since it's the perfect sequel to an already solid platformer. " Games Master UK described the game as " A vibrant and accomplished platformer filled with charm and variety." Gamezebo said " Simple objectives, challenging platforming, and an adorable art style make Cordy 2 a worthy addition to your library. It's got a robust set of in-app purchases for those looking to take their game further, and plenty of heart to carry it along. Put this little robot in your pocket and check out the first game while you're at it. " SlideToPlay wrote " If you're looking for a solid platforming experience on the iPhone, Cordy is a great place to start. " Pocket Gamer UK wrote " An entertaining platformer with a decent chunk of content, Cordy 2 will keep you playing for a good while, but it doesn't bring anything new to the platform genre. "

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One of the most affordable ways to add more living space to your house is converting your garage into a room that can be habited by humans. This is way much cheaper compared to moving to a new residence, or even constructing an extension to your current house.
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Scotch bonnet chiles range in color from yellow to red and are very hot. Wear rubber gloves to protect your hands when handling these or any chile pepper.
Sauté onion in hot oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat 3 to 4 minutes or until tender. Stir in garlic and next 3 ingredients, and sauté 2 minutes. Stir in coconut milk and 4 cups water, and bring to a boil. Stir in rice, next 3 ingredients, and, if desired, Scotch bonnet chile; cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Remove and discard Scotch bonnet chile. Garnish, if desired. Serve immediately.
Very good. Really tasty and full of favor. I followed the recipe exactly and had leftovers for another meal. I serve it with Jerk Chicken from the same Southern Living issue and both dishes really complimented each other. I will make it again! Try it, you will like it!


Students desiring a concentration in the identification, documentation and preservation of evidence at crime scenes may pursue a Certificate in Crime Scene Investigation as part of their academic plan.
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To qualify for the awarding of the certificate, each Columbia College course that comprises the certificate must be completed with a minimum grade of 'B'.
A certificate in Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) is available to students completing a Columbia College degree or minor in Criminal Justice or Forensic Science. Law enforcement academy graduates with an associate's or bachelor's degree from another regionally accredited school in Criminal Justice, Justice Studies, or Forensic Science are also eligible to complete the CSI certificate (see below).
Students are required to complete a mandatory 9 semester hour core block of courses with 6 additional discretionary hours chosen from a list of pre-approved courses.
- Students in this category must have declared a major in Criminal Justice Administration (AS, BS, or BA), a minor in Criminal Justice, or a major in Forensic Science (BS).
- The certificate will be awarded only after successful completion of the student's degree program in one of the above areas.
- Students in this category must complete at least 9 hours of certificate coursework at Columbia College.
- Students in this category must have earned a major or minor in Criminal Justice, Justice Studies, or Forensic Science.
- Students in this category must complete 15 hours of certificate coursework at Columbia College.
Students with valid transfer credit for CJAD 201, CJAD 203, CJAD 303 and/or for a designated elective must take 3-9 hours of additional elective coursework from the certificate electives (above) in order to receive the certificate.
The CSI certificate will be awarded after completion of the necessary coursework and submission of appropriate proof-of-degree completion and law enforcement academy certification documentation.
The Crime Scene Investigation Certificate degree is available online and at the following locations. Select one to view the tuition rate.


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Abdelhamid Benhmade
French Coordinator and NERG Fellow, Open AIR
Ph.D. candidate (development studies)
Abdelhamid Benhmade is the French Coordinator and a NERG Fellow at Open AIR at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
As an affiliate of the Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR), Abdelhamid Benhmade is interested in urban innovation systems and informal entrepreneurship. Abdelhamid Benhmade is pursuing his doctoral studies in international development at the University of Ottawa's School of International Development and Globalization. He specializes in development, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Abdelhamid Benhmade focuses on two main areas of research, namely the geo-economics of global cities and international entrepreneurship. His passion for international business led him to conduct a thesis on global cities and their functions in the internationalization of enterprises. His research on the economic functions of African global cities is one of ten research projects selected by the International Policy Ideas Challenge 2020, organized by Global Affairs Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Currently, Abdelhamid Benhmade is the Director of Africa Relations at ICCCASU, an African, Canadian and Chinese think tank on inclusive and sustainable urbanization. In addition, he is a senior researcher with RQMI, a Quebec-based network that acts and advocates for inclusive and sustainable alter-globalization. As such, some of his publications take a critical look at free trade, including his latest article published in Le Devoir and his column published by La Presse.
In addition, Abdelhamid Benhmade works as an external consultant for On Think Tank (OTT) and the Réseau pour l'innovation sociale et écologique (RISE). He has a number of academic publications to his credit, the most recent of which is the co-direction of a collective work entitled: Enjeux et défis du développement international. The result of a successful collaboration between 83 scientists from around the world, it is one of the few French-language works to cover all development issues.

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Start fishing for those rubber ducks with this classic funfair stall from Irvin Amusements.
This really is fun for the whole family, especially the little ones who could win some great prizes.
Duck Fishing is one of a number of amazing Victorian stalls available to hire from Irvin Amusements. If you are interested in this stall or any of our basic stalls, such as the round stall, contact Irvin Amusements.


Could you please include the Kaitake ranges in the next issue of this map. There are some interesting tramps missing from your current map.
The only disadvantage is that the Pouakai Circuit would be split to be partly on both sides of the map.


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Tag: Charter Schools
AEI's Robert Pondiscio on E.D. Hirsch, Civic Education, & Charter Public Schools
Hosted by Gerard Robinson
With guest Robert Pondiscio
This week on "The Learning Curve," Gerard Robinson and guest co-host Kerry McDonald talk with Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He shares his background working with curriculum expert E.D. Hirsch, Jr., who has emphasized the importance of academic content knowledge in K-12 education as well as civic education to develop active participants in our democracy. They discuss why civics and the study of U.S. history have fallen out of favor over the last several decades, and what that means for the health of our representative government and liberties. Pondiscio explains some of the findings of his book, How the Other Half Learns, on New York's Success Academy charter schools network, and how the charter movement can overcome growing political obstacles, especially among Democrats. Finally, they explore his recent National Affairs essay on the need to restore trust in the institution of public schooling.
Stories of the Week: The Economist offers a thought experiment: 20 years from now, will children be taught by artificial intelligence-powered personalized learning assistants? America celebrates the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which helped bring about gender parity in sports, the many women whose lives were changed, and the impact on women in leadership roles in corporate America.
Classics and the Public Sphere
From a WSJ op-ed: "As Tennessee expands possibilities for new charter schools, critics are assailing classical education. Some of these schools teach students about the sages and scoundrels of ancient Greece and Rome." In The New Republic, a public school teacher from New York seems concerned that classics-focused schools promote "retreat from the public sphere" along with sundry bad things such as "nationalistic exaltation of Western civilization."
Now, a little thought and historical reading will demonstrate that study of the classics is entirely consistent with participation in the public sphere, including participation at very high levels–in the US and in other countries as well. But the issue is more fundamental than this. Is participation in the public sphere–which I read in this context to largely mean political activism–really the only thing that matters in life?
Heads Up to Concerned Parents
The Biden Administration is currently seeking to change the federal rules for charter schools, making it harder for them. For parents like us who can't afford private schools and find ourselves in a poorly-rated school and worse have found controversial material being foisted in our public schools on an increasing basis, this makes it harder on us.
Our daughter is soaring in her current charter school. We're constantly amazed at all she's learned by first grade and noting that both her parents weren't that far when we were in public school. Losing this option means losing this progress for her and her brother who would be starting in the same school next year.
Nina Rees on the 30th Anniversary of Charter Public Schools in America
With guest Nina Rees
This week on "The Learning Curve," Gerard and Cara celebrate the 30th anniversary of charter schools with Nina Rees, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. They discuss recent research showing that African-American and low-income students in charter public schools outpace their peers in traditional district schools. Stanford's Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) and other sources have shown that Boston's charter public schools lead all the nation's urban public schools in terms of academic performance and bridging achievement gaps. Yet, special interests and policymakers have been calling for stringent limitations and regulations on these schools and their growth. Nina offers insights on where the right-left charter school coalition stands and how to bridge recent partisan divisions. She shares thoughts on how the sector can grow despite the rising influence of teacher unions in states with some of the highest-performing charters. Nina also describes efforts charter schools have made to become leaders in increasing teacher diversity, and they explore how teacher- and school-driven improvements in charters such as KIPP may hold the key to the future of K-12 education reform.
Stories of the Week: In Maine, a state scholarship program that assists families with tuition for public or private schools – but not religious schools – may become the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case. President Biden's American Families Plan includes $9 billion to address the nation's teacher shortage, providing funding for teacher preparation, professional development, and retention programs, as well as initiatives to increase teacher diversity.
Covid Debacle Should Spur Education Reform
Tom Patterson
The Arizona legislature failed this year to pass a bill that would have required third-grade students to be held back if they failed to learn to read adequately. The unsuccessful bill uncovered some unhappy truths about the state of education.
Third grade is recognized as a critical progression point for reading proficiency. Students through third grade are taught to read, after which they are expected to read to learn. Those unable to do so suffer a lifelong handicap in today's knowledge economy with enormous economic and social consequences.
In 2019, 60 percent of Arizona's third-graders failed to meet our own reading standards. Unfortunately, nothing really new here.
The Washington Post's Jay Mathews on An Optimist's Guide to American Public Education
With guest Jay Mathews
This week on "The Learning Curve," Gerard and Cara talk with Jay Mathews, an education columnist for The Washington Post and author of the recent book, An Optimist's Guide to American Public Education. Jay describes the three key trends in K-12 schooling that he views as cause for hope. They also discuss the tensions between high-profile, college prep-centered school reformers and the dominant pedagogical outlook found across many of the major schools of education. They explore teacher-driven school reforms, whether led by legendary figures such as Jaime Escalante in traditional public schools, or in charter networks such as KIPP, which have established high-caliber teacher preparation programs. Drawing on his decades spent covering K-12 education for The Washington Post, he shares observations about the quality and success of the U.S. Department of Education's policymaking, and the strengths and weaknesses of federal education efforts in contrast to what he has observed in states, districts, and schools. They also talk about the most effective ways to spend the massive infusion of federal money school districts are receiving through COVID relief. Next, he offers insights on American journalism, print media's struggles to adapt to a digital world, the impact on K-12 education coverage, and suggestions for improvement. As someone whose education background and early career focused on Asia, he offers thoughts on U.S.-China relations and the wider implications for America's global competitiveness in K-12 school reform. He concludes with a reading from his new book.
Stories of the Week: Are unnecessarily severe middle school discipline policies and practices that disproportionately target students of color exacerbating the school-to-prison pipeline? Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Education Next's Ira Stoll explores the debate in Boston about changing admissions policies at exam schools, and whether outside organizations, such as the Red Sox baseball team, should weigh in on the issue.
Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy #103
Corey DeAngelis Argues School Choice is A Rising Tide that Lifts All Boats Explicit
Hosted by Bridget Phetasy
Corey DeAngelis is the director of School Choice at Reason Foundation and the Executive Director at Educational Freedom Institute. Corey and Bridget discuss school choice, which would mean allowing a tax payer's education dollars to follow their child to wherever they're getting their education – public school, private school, or charter school – rather than automatically being paid to their local school district. They delve into the effects of Covid and how families are seeing their school system leaving them high and dry while still getting their children's education dollars, why school choice would be good for individual teachers, and where the money being poured into the school system is actually going. They also cover why this shouldn't be a partisan issue since it's a market-based reform in education and an equalizer in society, and they explore some of the arguments against school choice. Don't miss Corey's book School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom.
The Learning Curve #6
Harvard PEPG's Prof. Paul Peterson on Charter Schools, Digital Learning, & Ed Next Polling
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Paul Peterson, the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University. They discuss his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed analyzing NAEP results from 2005-17 to show that charter schools are helping underprivileged students improve at faster rates than their peers in traditional district schools, especially among African-American students. Professor Peterson shares thoughts on the implications of this evidence for charter school expansion, and the challenges from opponents, predominantly in the Northeast, who seek to over-regulate charter schools. They also delve into lessons from COVID-19 with regard to the long overdue embrace of online education, options such as micro-schools and pods that are unfortunately often only available to affluent families, and the effects of school closures on children.
Stories of the Week: In Boston, attending a charter school dramatically narrows achievement gaps between special-education students and English learners, and their traditional public school counterparts, according to new analysis from Tufts Professor Elizabeth Setren. In Kansas, the Education Commissioner stated that both remote and hybrid learning models are not effective and sustainable through the academic year.
President of D.C.'s AppleTree Institute, Jack McCarthy on Charter Schools & Fall Reopening
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Jack McCarthy, president and CEO of AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation and board chair of AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School. Jack shares what animated him to establish this highly innovative early childhood charter public school network that serves the most vulnerable children in Washington, D.C. He discusses AppleTree's unique early childhood focus, the challenges of educating mostly disadvantaged students, and the innovative partnership they have developed with Nickelodeon to continue educating students during the COVID-19 crisis. Jack offers thoughts on the politics of school reform in Washington, D.C. and the surprising proliferation of school choice options there, as well as ongoing barriers to change that he has navigated to deliver excellent results for poor and minority students.
Stories of the Week: In 15 states around the country, including Massachusetts, districts were authorized to pilot voluntary, in-person schooling over the summer for small groups of students. But can they safely bring to scale the best practices they have learned about health and safety protocols, logistics, and transportation? With uncertainty around school reopening plans, "pods" and microschools are growing in popularity among families seeking other options – will these alternatives foster long-term entrepreneurial thinking in education, and what challenges and opportunities do they raise with regard to school funding?
Boston Uni.'s Dr. Charles Glenn on School Choice, Civil Rights, & Espinoza
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara and Gerard are joined by Dr. Charles Glenn, Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Boston University. Dr. Glenn shares his early experiences as an inner city minister involved in the Civil Rights movement in Massachusetts and the South, the METCO voluntary desegregation program, and the expansion of school choice in several districts beyond Boston. He also discusses his support in the 1990s for bringing the charter school concept to Massachusetts. His work was cited in Justice Alito's concurring opinion in the Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue case, and he shares thoughts on the recent decision's potential impact on racial justice and religious liberty. He discusses findings from his decades of research on international education systems, where there is no controversy about government support for faith-based schools, and the lessons for America, where a legacy of anti-Catholicism has impeded school choice. Dr. Glenn concludes with analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of schools of education in preparing effective teachers.
Stories of the Week: Some states such as Florida are grappling with a surge in COVID cases, leaving plans for an August reopening in flux. How should school leaders address questions about virtual learning, outdoor classrooms, and mask and quarantine protocols? Gerard and Cara talked about Dr. Thomas Sowell, the noted Hoover Institution economist, and his recent book, Charter Schools and Their Enemies, on the success and challenges faced by New York City's charter schools.
The Curious Case of 'Gary B'
In Gary B. v. Whitmer, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit last week held that the state of Michigan owed a constitutional duty to ensure that students in the worst-performing public and charter schools in Detroit receive "a basic minimum education, meaning one that provides a chance at foundational literacy." The logic behind this theory is straightforward enough. Illiterate young people have no ability to participate in democratic deliberations and no skills to support themselves or their families. And society overall is made worse off with fewer able participants to join a well-functioning economy.
In the majority opinion, Judge Eric Clay detailed the bankruptcy of Detroit's public school system, whose dismal educational performance, he wrote, was driven by "the absence of qualified teachers, crumbling facilities, and insufficient materials." He then correctly concluded that the state has general oversight and control over the educational system and is thus a proper constitutional target to remedy the bankrupt and derelict Detroit school system. The case was decided on the pleadings, which let the majority define its right to a minimum education without getting into the details of how best to implement the right in practice. One major problem with the decision is its inability to define the content of this positive right to government support. Full disclosure: Judge Eric Murphy, who dissented on these grounds, is my friend and former student.
Gary B. relies on Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act, which enables federal courts to provide a remedy against any Governor or other state officials who have brought about "the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution." That Section covers violations of the Fourteenth Amendment, which provides that no person should be deprived of the protection of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor denied the equal protection of the laws.
CREDO's Macke Raymond on Charter Schools' Quality & Growth
This week, Cara and Gerard talk with Margaret "Macke" Raymond, President of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO). Macke describes CREDO's unique role and methodology in analyzing a wealth of data from state education departments to quantify the effect of charter schools on the amount of learning a student receives in a year's time. They discuss charter performance on average, as well as in pockets of excellence; the performance of urban charters, including Boston; the types of charters that are succeeding consistently and replicating; and the formula for quality both in instruction and policymaking. They also delve into the waning policy support for charters despite favorable public opinion; what the data show about whether charters select or "counsel out" students; "diverse-by-design" charter schools; and the federal role in the charter movement.
Stories of the Week: The New York Times highlights renewed interest in teaching phonics, a long-debated approach, especially in the wake of recent NAEP results showing only a third of American students are reading at proficiency. In Maryland, to address students' declining academic performance and teacher retention issues, a state commission is proposing sweeping reforms – but the billion-dollar price tag is raising concerns about accountability for results.
Lance Izumi on How Charters Are Meeting Diverse Learning Needs
Hosted by Bob Bowdon & Cara Candal
Happy New Year! Co-hosts Cara and Bob talk with Lance Izumi, Senior Director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. He discusses his new book, Choosing Diversity, and the wide range of both the student populations served, and the variety of learning models offered, by the charter schools that he visited. Some schools were geared toward students suffering from autism, or homelessness; others focused on technology and using online platforms, foreign language immersion, and classical learning. They also explore some of the challenges facing charters across the nation, including accountability, parental engagement, California politics, and the fallout from the Los Angeles teacher union strike.
Stories of the Week: A New York Times feature presents what students themselves think about how to improve education – with some surprising insights. In Kentucky, a local school board rejected the state's first charter school application. Is this approval model a conflict of interest, and a bad sign for charter expansion? An upcoming Los Angeles school board election with four open seats raises important questions about the politicization of education.
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Seth Barron talks with four City Journal contributors—Rafael Mangual, Eric Kober, Ray Domanico, and Steven Malanga—about former New York City mayor and now presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg's record on crime, education, economic development, and more.
After years of teasing a presidential run, Bloomberg has entered the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Just a week before his official announcement, he made headlines by reversing his long-standing support of controversial policing practices in New York—commonly known as "stop and frisk." Bloomberg's record on crime will factor heavily in his campaign, but his 12 years as mayor were eventful in numerous other policy areas.
Dr. Howard Fuller on School Choice & Presidential Politics
Cara and Bob talk with the great Dr. Howard Fuller, Distinguished Professor of Education, in this week's Newsmaker Interview, about his passionate activism on behalf of education reform, his concerns about the lack of support among Democratic presidential candidates for charter schools, the power of teacher unions, and recognition of the need to continue organizing and advocating for school choice programs that benefit so many poor and minority children.
Stories of the Week: A year after the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus v. AFSCME ruling, the AFT, a major urban teachers union, is reporting a 4 percent loss in membership. Will the losses continue in coming years, and will this impact their influence? In Massachusetts, U.S. officials have found that the state education department has violated federal law by denying Catholic and Jewish schools $120 million in IDEA aid they were owed for special education services over the past 5 years (see Pioneer research). In Virginia, a high school is requiring students to reflect on their "privilege" in a course on combatting intolerance – but are they being too selective about which forms of "privilege" to include?
Charter Approval in CA, Online Learning in OK, Outsourcing Teachers?, SCOTUS School Choice Case, NYT on Success Academy
ChoiceMedia's Bob Bowdon and Pioneer Institute's Cara Candal talk about charter school authorizing in California and a recent bill that gives school districts rather than the state the authority to approve charter schools; good news for online learning programs in Oklahoma; and is there a shortage of teachers in American schools? Plus, Bob calls out Dale Russakoff for a selective New York Times interpretation of Success Academies.
In their Newsmaker Interview, Bob & Cara talk with Erica Smith of the Institute for Justice, about the history and implications of the Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue Supreme Court case, which could help low-income families access private and parochial schools in over 30 states.
Charter Schools and Teachers' Strikes
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Ray Domanico joins City Journal associate editor Seth Barron to discuss charter schools in New York City, the growing protests by education workers across the country, and Democrats' weakening support for charters.
In teachers' unions protests from West Virginia to California, activists claim that the growth of charters has come at the expense of district schools.
New Iran Sanctions, Warren Calls Justice System Racist, Trump's LeBron Tweet
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America commend the Trump administration for reinstating sanctions on Iran after rescinding the failed nuclear deal, which the rogue regime did not follow. They also denounce Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth's Warren's far-left rhetoric about the criminal justice system and they blame the divisive discourse for the lack of meaningful reforms. And they are frustrated that President Donald Trump tweeted about LeBron James' intelligence rather than thanking the NBA star for funding education and extolling the benefits of charter schools.
Public Education: Trapped by the Progressive Agenda
For years we've been talking about the poor state of education. For conservatives, it's even worse: our children are learning propaganda with a Progressive agenda; the government and teachers control the curriculum and textbooks to the detriment of the students; and there is no indication that anything will change soon.
It's time that we took back education, and we can already see strategies that are beginning to support a balanced agenda for authentic learning.
To highlight one of my major concerns, school textbooks, I was alarmed to read an article by Joy Pullmann in The Federalist about a new textbook being considered for Advanced Placement courses in the 2019 edition. Pullmann reports on some of the content of By the People: A History of the United States:
Matters of Policy & Politics
Charting A Course For Charter Schools
Hosted by Bill Whalen
A quarter of a century since the nation's first charter school opened in Minnesota, a new administration in Washington speaks of "school choice." Eric Hanushek, the Hoover Institution's Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, and Macke Raymond, a Hoover distinguished research fellow and director of the Stanford-based Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), discuss the health of the charter-school movement and what needs to be done at the federal, state and local levels to improve the nation's classrooms.


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PACIFIC HOTEL, ESPLANADE, SOUTHPORT
USED BY THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY
AS AN OFFICER'S RECREATION CLUB
Lieutenant Robert Melloy of Hirings Section, No. 1 L of C, recommended the use of the Pacific Hotel, the Esplanade at Southport for an Officer's Recreation Club for the Australian Army during WW2. It was a two storey hotel which overlooked the Broadwater at the northern end of the Gold Coast.
The existing lessee paid �per week in rent which was considered far too low by Lt. Melloy. Official Hirings Department policy was that the Army would pay no more than the existing rent. Melloy recommended that the Army pay a rental of � per week for the sections of the hotel that it required allowing the current lessee to hold on to the Manager's accommodation room and the bar. The Licensee was very happy with the arrangements, however his solicitor persuaded him to take the issue to the Supreme Court. The Judge determined that the lessee should be paid � per week. Lt. Melloy believed that the Hotel was worth � per week but was bound by Army policy which he had already exceeded by his earlier "generous" offer.
"Time will Tell - Memoirs of a Kangaroo Point Kid - R.S. Melloy"
As told to Diane Melloy
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Q: How to transfer a binary search tree to an increasing order search? This is a question from leetcode.
It says

Given the root of a binary search tree, rearrange the tree in
in-order so that the leftmost node in the tree is now the root of the
tree, and every node has no left child and only one right child.

Example 1,

Example 2,

My code is almost the same as below,
void inorder(struct TreeNode *root, struct TreeNode **newRoot)
{
    if (root == NULL)
        return;

    inorder(root->left, newRoot);
    (*newRoot)->left = NULL;
    (*newRoot)->right = root;
    *newRoot = (*newRoot)->right;
    inorder(root->right, newRoot);
    return;
}

struct TreeNode* increasingBST(struct TreeNode *root)
{
    struct TreeNode *newRoot = calloc(1, sizeof(struct TreeNode));
    struct TreeNode *result = newRoot;
    inorder(root, &newRoot);
    //newRoot->left = NULL;
    //newRoot->right = NULL;
    return result->right;
}

It worked well with several inputs until the input, [2,1,4,null,null,3].
Actually, it returned in the end but I still got "Time Limit Exceeded" error.
I found there is a similar solution but it activates two lines above,
newRoot->left = NULL;
newRoot->right = NULL;

Then it works.
I don't get how come this two lines are that critical.
Please shed some light on it.

A: Well, the algorithm you have posted doing two things one after the another.

*

*First it traverse the tree in INORDER manner

*Second, it appends the visited node at the right node of current node and making the left node disable (assigning it NULL)

Now the following code snippet doing most import thing of your tree:
newRoot->left = NULL;
newRoot->right = NULL;

It is marking the boundary of the tree. For a second, just assume, if you not mark your boundary (by not using the snippet above), you are always in the tree, in other words you are not come out from the tree.
Though, you not posted data-structure of the tree, I can assume, left and right child is not setting to NULL when the value was assigned.

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December calendars have been published!
Mandarin Standard Class on Monday night and Tuesday morning are cancelled this month because the instructors are out of town.
On December 9, Gold Latin and Latin Tech Class are cancelled.
On December 16, Competitor's Practice and Evening Dance are cancelled because we're having our Holiday Dinner & Dance that night.
On December 24, all group classes are cancelled. The ballroom studio will be open until 4:30pm.
On December 25 and 26, the studio will be closed. Merry Christmas!
On December 30, Gold Latin and Latin Tech Class are cancelled.
On December 31, all group classes are cancelled. Evening dance is also cancelled because we're having our NYE Party.


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Char Miller Jun 23, 2000, 12:00 am CST
In February 1955, Corporal Max Frankel was dispatched to Nevada on "an errand of disloyalty." The ambitious journalist, then serving as a clerk in the Army's Office of the Chief of Information, was ordered to Camp Desert Rock in Nevada. It was the training site for 3,000 men who would take part in maneuvers with tactical nuclear weapons, an exercise that the Atomic Energy Commission had classified as top secret. But the Army was convinced that its soldiers' participation in and contribution to this "innovation in modern warfare [was] worth bragging about in releases and recordings sent to the hometown of every G.I.," Frankel remembered in his autobiography, The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times (1999). To insure that the army received the press it wanted, the enlisted newsman was commanded to violate the A.E.C.-imposed silence.
He first had to be illuminated. One dawn, he and a thousand others marched into a series of trenches, crouched down with their eyes closed and heads tucked beneath their arms; at detonation, they were staggered as a "fierce light penetrates clear through our closed and covered eyes and the earth throbs beneath our boots." After counting to ten, the soldiers scrambled out of the trenches to watch as a "great fireball soars skyward"; lighting the way across the eerie landscape were ten thousand flaming yucca shrubs, "torches without bearers." As they made their way to Ground Zero, while whisking off flakes of fallout, the men felt "cheerful, even privileged, to have done something more significant than cleaning tents and latrines."
It was time to leak the government's business. Driven to Las Vegas, Frankel prowled the casinos and bars in search of reporters whom the A.E.C. had barred from the base. To the besotted crowd, he spilled that morning's dramatic events, recounted the "quick, safe deployments across Ground Zero," and promised to return after the next round of test shots. "I assume that my divulgences helped the army to obtain millions more in appropriations for 'tactical' nuclear weapons," Frankel noted, although his reward for breaking the news and the law was "less tangible": he lost ten bucks at the tables and "gained an entirely new appreciation for government 'secrets.'"
Those whose lives are chronicled in Learning to Glow would appreciate Frankel's sense of the absurd and manipulable nature of secrecy in the American nuclear regime. What people knew and did not know, what they could and could not say about the impact of the "hidden holocaust" on their lives dominates the memories woven throughout this often-gripping anthology. The twenty-four essays are not uniformly moving; some are so self-referential or so self-involved or so discursive that they hold little interest. Others are as heart-breaking and thoughtful, as they are enraging, lending credence to historian Paul S. Boyer's cover blurb: "This intensely personal collection captures the meaning of the nuclear age for 'ordinary' Americans."
The meanings are many. The most troubled of these may be the sickening link between the authorities' lies and the public's willingness to believe. It was forged well before The Bomb, and the war it brought to a such shuddering close. There was, for instance, the unsettling matter of luminous dials on wristwatches. How did they glow in the dark? Beginning in the Twenties, when the Radium Dial Company of Ottawa, Illinois opened its doors, two generations of women hand-painted radium and tritium on a variety of timepieces. Assuring their workers that the material was perfectly safe, Radium Dial supervisors "allowed" the women "to place camel's hair brushes between their lips to get a fine point"; with each "lick of her brush, a dial painter swallowed a little radium and added forever to the deadly burden carried in her bones." Turning this killer gloss into make-up only intensified this burden: "We used to paint our eyebrows, our lips, and our eyelashes," Marie Rossiter Hunter remembered, "and then look at ourselves in the darkroom – just for fun." The laughter stopped soon enough: Hunter's were not the only bones "honeycombed with radium"; other women also became dangerously anemic, suffered from bone and mouth cancers, or generated breast tumors. So extensive were the illnesses associated with those who had worked in the unventilated Radium Dial factory (which shut down in 1936 after a worker's compensation lawsuit), and later at its successor plant, Luminous Processes, Inc. (which closed up in the mid-1970s) that the press dubbed the dial painters "The Society of the Living Dead." Only later would these ghosts begin to address the double bind in which they found themselves. "We were very naive," Mary Hougas recognized, a naivete that led them to be "victims of ignorance." But they were also victimized by corporate leaders who knew the risks yet did nothing to protect the workers from them, and by "state officials and inspectors" who failed to safeguard the employees and delayed shuttering these deadly workplaces. "The only reason I speak out now is for my two grandchildren," Hougas asserted. "I think we are going into an era when a lot of radioactive materials are going to be used … and if I can prevent it by talking about it, I will."
The need to reclaim individual moral conscience and to reassert the collective power of speech is central to many of the reminiscences that make up Learning to Glow. The voiceless victims for which journalist Jim Carrier speaks are the innumerable animals who fell to the rain of death. His makes for grisly reading: "When the Cold War began, sheep in Utah died after eating fallout-dusted sagebrush. Ducks landing in Idaho waste ponds flew off with a human's limit of radioactive iodine. Salmon in the Columbia River became radioactive from eating 'hot' insects." Then there were the test animals. Countless rats, mice, and beagles were injected with radioactive chemicals to determine how tumors grew; pigs and other animals were caged or suspended in the air near blast sites to calibrate the rate and degree of flesh burns; "[r]abbits and monkeys were strapped in drone planes and flown through fallout to zap their organs." These were the unheralded "shock troops, bellwethers of the Atomic Age, absorbing the first waves of radiation."
Stunned in turn were some of those humans who caught a glimpse of this carnage. At the height of the A.E.C.-sponsored tests in 1958, just before the test ban went into effect, Ray Winn choppered into a detonation area to recover data and equipment. Amid the jumbled mass of "debris, wreckage and craters," he spotted a mother coyote and her pup. "The baby was dead. The mother had her paws around it, and she was blind." Winn saw what he must do: he waved off the disbelieving pilot, and trekked out across the smoldering, 200-rad site. "I left weapons. I was simply emotionally and physically exhausted. I had nothing left to give."
Other humans could not so easily walk away. In the Four Corners region, Native Americans lost land and life to uranium strip-mining and nuclear testing, and their decades-long pleas for compensation have gone largely unheeded. Utah "downwinders" swallowed governmental bromides about the safety of the radiation that sifted into their homes and food chain, despoiling the domestic circle and haunting its emotional terrain. For Terry Tempest Williams, it was a recurring childhood memory that helped her finally understand the larger context of the breast cancers that killed her mother and six other women in her immediate family. Sharing with her father a recurring nightmare she had of a searingly bright flash in the desert night, she was startled when he assured her she was not imagining things. The family had been driving north from Las Vegas in September, 1957, a dozing Terry resting languidly in her mother's lap, "when this explosion went off. We not only heard it, but felt it," her dad confirmed. Then rising rapidly from the desert floor "we saw it, clearly, this golden-stemmed cloud, the mushroom. The sky seemed to vibrate with an eerie pink glow. Within a few moments, a light ash was raining on the car."
Shrewd enough to know that this single, horrific moment probably did not trigger her mother's demise, Williams knows too that the failure to speculate about the connections between the region's uncommonly high cancer rates and sustained atmospheric nuclear testing is a form of complicity this Mormon daughter could no longer stomach. "I have watched the women in my family die common, heroic deaths," she writes. After years of caring for them and bathing them, watching their strength fade with each injection of radiation therapy, and holding "their foreheads as they vomited green-black bile," she would witness their "last peaceful breaths, becoming a midwife to the rebirth of their souls."
Hers was simultaneously redeemed. Believing that the "price of obedience has become too high," Williams joined with other women in acts of civil disobedience in "contaminated country," challenging the acquiescence and accommodation that had traumatized so many lives. "The time had come to protest with the heart," she concludes: to deny "one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul."
Laughter may also be an essential antidote to the debased condition of "our social and ecological life," an insight from Gary Snyder that closes one of the chapters. It is "too serious just to be angry and despairing," the poet observes, too important because the first step must be to love the world rather than to fear it. Not all the contributors to Learning to Glow would concur, but impelling each one to action, however defined, is the same elusive quest – to find a silver lining in the mushroom cloud.
Contributing writer Char Miller teaches environmental history at Trinity University and is editor of the newly published Water in the West: A High Country News Reader (Oregon State University Press).


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Pherkad   eller Gamma Ursae Minoris (γ Ursae Minoris, förkortat Gamma UMi, γ UMi) som är stjärnans Bayer-beteckning, är en ensam stjärna i den södra delen av stjärnbilden Lilla björnen. Den har en skenbar magnitud på +3,05 och är synlig för blotta ögat där ljusföroreningar ej förekommer. Baserat på parallaxmätningar i Hipparcos-uppdraget på 6,7 mas beräknas den befinna sig på ca 487 ljusårs (149 parsek) avstånd från solen. Tillsammans med Beta Ursae Minoris (Kochab), bildar den slutet av dipperpanen av "Little Dipper", som är en asterism som bildar björnens svans.

Nomenklatur
Gamma Ursae Minoris har det traditionella namnet Pherkad, som kommer från det arabiska فرقد farqad "kalven", kort för aḫfa al farkadayn "den svaga av de två kalvarna", det vill säga Pherkad och Kochab (hela namnet Ahfa al Farkadain används traditionellt för Zeta Ursae Minoris). Gamma Ursae Minoris kallades för det mesta Pherkad Major för att skilja det från Pherkad Minor (11 Ursae Minoris). År 2016 organiserade Internationella astronomiska unionen en arbetsgrupp för stjärnnamn (WGSN) med uppgift att katalogisera och standardisera riktiga namn för stjärnor. WGSN:s fastställde i augusti 2016 namnet Pherkad för Gamma Ursae Minoris, vilket nu ingår i listan över IAU-godkända stjärnnamn.

På kinesiska är 北極 (Běi Jí), Nordpolen, en del av stjärnhimlen bestående av Pherkad, Kochab, 5 Ursae Minoris, 4 Ursae Minoris och Epsilon 1694. Därför är Pherkad själv känd som 北極一 (Běi Jí yī), Nordpolens första stjärna.

Egenskaper
Gamma Ursae Minoris är en blå till vit jättestjärna av spektralklass A2 II-III. Den har en radie som är ca 15 gånger större än solens och utsänder ca 1 100 gånger mera energi än solen från dess fotosfär vid en effektiv temperatur på ca 8 300 K. Den klassificeras som en skalstjärna som har en omgivande skiva av gas vid stjärnans ekvator, vilket kan orsaka att den varierar i magnitud.

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pherkad
 http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/pherkad.html

Stjärnbilden Lilla björnen
Bayerobjekt
Flamsteedobjekt
HR-objekt
Vita ljusstarka jättar
HD-objekt


Charlie's Smoked Trout makes perfect canapés for the Summer party season.
School's out and we're aiming to make the most of the (hopefully) sunny weekends and sultry evenings, catching up on a little bit of social interaction. We don't mean the kind that keeps you huddled round your mobile phone - we're thinking more along the lines of glorious garden parties, al fresco cocktails or Pimms on the patio. Friends, fizz and nibbles are the perfect accompaniments to plenty of laughter and a good old chin wag.
Whether you're lucky enough to have a sprawling garden, complete with gorgeous views and shady corners, you have a simple outdoor space, or you just have a handy local park, getting a group of friends (whatever the size) together of an evening for a little well earned relaxation (particularly if you've spent the day busily entertaining the kids) is hard to beat.
To make your gathering a little bit more special, preparing a few tasty looking nibbles to accompany your cool drink selection can ensure hunger pangs are banned from the party - and that means that everyone sticks around too. We've found that with a little bit of effort and a large pack of Charlie's Smoked Trout, you can quickly rustle up some delicious snack solutions to thoroughly impress your guests.
When it comes to planning a gathering of any kind, Pinterest is always our first port of call. If you're not familiar with Pinterest, it's an amazing on-line album, full of creative inspiration and photographs. They all link back to relevant websites, so when it comes to searching out 'the best smoked trout recipes', 'some smoked trout canapés' or 'party food with smoked trout' (for instance) you're quickly faced with a plethora of ideas.
You can find some of our boards on Pinterest too, including one especially dedicated to Charlie's Trout based nibbles, perfect for parties and gatherings (but which are nice and simple to prepare). Why not try our own classic Charlie's Cold Smoked Trout Blini recipe or have a go at creating a plate of Smoked Trout stuffed Endive leaves?
Opt for Hot Smoked Trout on Sliced Potatoes or our very own recipe for Smoked Trout Terrine (which you can just slice and serve with posh crackers). We've gathered a veritable smorgasbord of smoked trout recipe ideas which would go down a storm at a gathering with friends or any garden based celebration throughout the Summer season.
Why not have a browse here and then head over to the Charlie's Trout shop to stock up.


In accordance with Gurudev's instructions, Navratri and Deepavali pran pratishith poojan packets are being readied. Each of these packets cost ₹. 480. As per Gurudev's instructions, for people ordering both the samagri packets together, the cost will be ₹.900.
Gurudev will shower his special blessings on the entire family that orders both the Navratri and Deepavali poojan together. To obtain this blessing, please send your (or family) member photo along with your form.
You can order both the packets (₹.480 + ₹.480) together for a total price of ₹.900 through VPP. Another easier option is to do direct transfer to Nikhil Mantra Vigyan, Jodhpur bank accounts in Union Bank A/c. 310001010036403 or SBI Bank A/c. 32677736690. Through this we can directly send the Navratri and Deepavali poojan packets through registered parcel.
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Kalamazoo, Mich.--Ridership on Metro Transit fixed-route buses has been climbing every month in 2012.
April through August, 2012, have seen double-digit increases in the percentage of rides provided when compared with the same time in 2011.
In August, 2012, the most current reported month, there was an increase of 15.7% in the number of rides provided compared with August, 2011. There were a total of 211,150 passenger trips provided in August, 2012, an increase of 28,690 passenger trips.
The biggest monthly increase for 2012 took place in July with an increase of 16.1% over the previous year. That equates to 184,254 passenger trips for July, 2012, compared with 158,760 for July, 2011, an increase of 25,494. The two month totals saw 54,184 additional trips taken on Metro Transit buses.
Ridership for the entire Metro Transit System, including fixed-route buses, demand/response service, and specialized services like the Community Service Vans, have increased 10.5% for the year 2012 through August. There have been a total of 1,920,663 passenger trips provided in 2012 through August. This compares with 1,737,475 rides provided January through August, 2011.
This trend on Kalamazoo Metro Transit buses follows trends for increases in ridership on a national level. According to the American Public Transportation Association, nearly 2.7 billion trips were taken on U.S. public transportation in the second quarter of 2012 as ridership increased by 1.6% over the second quarter of 2011. This was the sixth consecutive quarterly increase.
"We are excited to see ridership increasing in the community. More people using public transportation means more people are getting to work, school, healthcare appointments, social activities, and shopping," Bill Schomisch, Metro Transit Transportation Director said.
The mission of Kalamazoo Metro Transit is to provide the community with public transportation services that are dependable, convenient, safe, cost effective, and accessible for all.


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Not even a pandemic can prevent team leaders Traci Shulkin and Jared Wilk of The Shulkin Wilk Group at Compass from achieving their goals. Last year they sold the most expensive homes of their careers, one in Wellesley for $7.8 million and another in Weston (off-market) for $7.825 million. They closed over $110 million in transactions in 2020, making the prestigious Real Trends list of best agents in Massachusetts.
Consistently named top agents throughout their careers, Shulkin and Wilk merged their businesses last year when they joined Compass. Now they run a team of nine agents, assisting entry-level to luxury buyers and sellers in Greater Boston and MetroWest suburbs. Their concierge-style service and "work hard, play hard" philosophy endear them to clients. "People like to see a smile and positivity," Wilk says. "But they also want someone who can roll up their sleeves when necessary."
Lifelong Bostonians, Shulkin and Wilk have lived in many of the towns they serve. A third-generation agent, Wilk regularly holds director and chair positions with the Greater Boston Association of Realtors and Massachusetts Association of Realtors. He has also appeared on HGTV's "My Lottery Dream Home" and WCVB Channel 5's "Chronicle."
A former CPA, Shulkin switched careers in 2004 because design and construction interested her more than debits and credits. "I wanted to work directly with clients instead of behind a desk," she says. From the beginning, Shulkin's goal has always been to become a "forever Realtor" to each client, helping them find homes to suit every stage of their lives.
To support restaurant owners and health care workers during the pandemic, the two raised over $28,000 through a GoFundMe campaign, Heal With A Meal, to purchase meals and gift cards from local restaurants that deliver to hospitals and nursing homes.
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Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia offers nine safari-style tents, whereby eco warriors will get a chance to practise conservation on a real, grassroots level.
The lodge aims to minimise human footprint in the natural world and ensures the land and its biodiversity don't fall into the hands of loggers, poachers and sand dredging operations. These enthusiasts get their hands dirty while being able to be one with nature.
Since opening, the camp has operated under the slogan, "Your Stay Keeps the Forest Standing." Neighbouring areas in and around the 180 sq km concession have been cleared and replaced with mono-culture plantations of palm oil or rubber, with disastrous results for wildlife. By comparison, in its concession, the Cardamom Tented Camp and its partners are making a stand against habitat destruction and the trade in wildlife species by using sustainable tourism as a force for good.
Since opening in 2017, the Cardamom Tented Camp has integrated the role of 12 forest rangers who protect a 180 sq km lowland forest concession into the guest experience. In turn, the camp helps the forest rangers with salary support and physical amenities such as solar power generators at ranger stations. The rangers take turn to lead conservation tourism hikes through the forest. They show tourists confiscated traps, mesh and weapons used by poachers.
Due to the rangers' work, the illegal wildlife trade has been massively reduced in the forest which is now seeing a resurgence in formerly traded mammals such as the endangered clouded leopard, sun bear, northern pig-tailed macaque, pangolin, the Nicobar crab-eating macaque, and the (extremely shy) pileated gibbon, to name a few.
Cardamom Tented Camp has been chosen as one of 15 global finalists in the World Travel and Tourism Council's Tourism for Tomorrow Awards 2019. The camp is one of three contenders in the Changemakers Award category, which, this year, is focussed on fighting illegal wildlife trade through sustainable tourism.
The winners of the 2019 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards will be announced during the awards ceremony at the WTTC Global Summit in Seville, Spain, April 3 to 4, 2019.


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Q: Type 'string[]' is not assignable to type 'string' When I upgrade from angular 8 to angular 9, I am getting a wired error saying that "Type 'string[]' is not assignable to type 'string'." when I run "npm install", below is the code that is getting this error.
let A = "";
if(error instanceof HttpErrorResponse){
...
}else{
  B.fromError(error).then(errors => {
        A = errors.splice(0, 5).map(function(re) {
            return res.toString();
          });
  console.log(A);
}

A: It sounds odd to declare variable A as a string (initializing it to an empty string) and later in the else statement, you're assigning it a string array.

A: On the first line you declare A as an empty string:
let A = "";

Then you try to assign A the value of errors, which is an Array
A = errors.splice(0, 5).map(function(re) {
  return res.toString();
});

You can't do that.  Maybe replace the first line with:
let A: any[] = [];

Or replace any with whatever type the elements of errors are supposed to be.


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Hund on Lobos
"Dr. Hund," like me, a frequent contributor to the No Depression Yahoo group tried to fit this long rambling rebuttal to my recent Los Lobos review into the comment section of this blog. It was way too long.
I couldn't resist posting the whole thing here.
You want interactive? YOU CAN'T HANDLE INTERACTIVE! Check out my scathing rebuttal (which could not fit on that mickey mouse blog):
Steve, you ignorant slut. You miss the whole point of this fun album.
It is not a tribute album, friar's roast, nor Chieftains Syndrome. Nor is Los Lobos getting lazy. The band members (especially Hidalgo & Perez) just like to expand their horizons, experiment (which gave us their best work so far in the Latin Playboys), and keep the music fresh. It's not like they are slackers in original album and song production. Even the old tunes here (totally re-invented and less than half the album) are fresh. And there is some great new writing from Hidalgo/Perez, both as their usual songwriting team and collaborated with others like Luis Torres, Dave Alvin, Tom Waits, and Ruben Blades. Cesar Rosas and Robert Hunter also wrote a song for this diverse album.
BTW...why do you have a blog? You are published constantly in the major New Mexican newspapers, beam a radio show, have a media chokehold on New Mexican politics, and are already all over the internet. By proxy, your words are constantly being delivered by
other Southwest power brokers. You even have your own phraseology that is now coined worldwide and borrowed by many, such as, "Green Chile Diplomacy", "Boomburbs", and "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road".
With New Mexico losing judges, politicos, writers, celebs, and other speak boxes like vanishing desert land – you are now the de facto voice of the entire region - albeit via a "Last Man Standing" scenario. You have more market penetration and exposure in New Mexico than Clear Channel. You need a blog like George W. needs another asshole.
Back to your review. Sure, sometimes its difficult if not impossible to hear Los Lobos on a few of these songs but I like how they gather so many all-star sounds in such an unselfish quest for a unique album recorded with friends which they may never have a shot at again. But make no mistake...there are plenty of new sounds from Los Lobos here within the generous 13 songs. The first song with Café Tacuba is a fun summer tour de force followed by "Rita", which is one of the best Los Lobos songs ever. Both of these are new.
It seems from your review, you like these songs plus "Charmed", "Hurry Tomorrow", "Chains of Love" , "Somewhere in Time," (which you describe as "a duet between David Hidalgo and Dave Alvin, featuring a Drifters/"Spanish Harlem" beat and Leisz's hypnotic steel, almost sounds like a latter-day Righteous Brothers tune with baritone Alvin as Bill Medley and Hidalgo as Bobby Hatfield"...isn't that cool?), the Waits track, "Kitate" (you say "sounds like something off one of the Latin Playboys' CDs. Like the music of that Lobos side project, this tune sounds like a surreal field recording from some Mexican or Central American street festival, with lots of percussion, horns and carnival organ. Waits scats and shams and growls in languages nobody speaks in a near call and response with Martha Gonzalez of the band Quetzal"....isn't that cool?), and the new version of "Wicked Rain" is sung by '70s soul man Bobby Womack, as a part of a medley with Womack's Blaxploitation movie title song, "Across 110th Street" , and "The Wreck of the Carlos Rey," featuring "Hidalgo trading verses with Thompson, is a rocking tune. But with its folk rock riffs and Thompson's guitar, it sounds like something right off a Thompson album -- even though it's written by Hidalgo and Louie Perez." This all sounds sweet and it is!
Terrell, I think you are just pissed with what you call "the one truly misguided song here" (one misguided song out of 13?!) is Elvis Costello's version of "Matter of Time." The best part of your review is this history of this song that you so compassionately describe:
"The song is a conversion between a Mexican man and his wife right before the man leaves her to go to the U.S. to seek a decent future. It's the story of this country and all its immigrants. `I'll send for you, baby in just a matter of time.'
"It's a moment full of tenderness and uncertainty. But in the original 1984 version on How Will the Wolf Survive, the rhythm is upbeat and Steve Berlin`s sax, is jaunty, giving a sense of optimism even when the singer wonders if he's just pursuing an empty dream.
"Costello's version is slow and maudlin. Pretty, yes. But it sounds like a sad dirge. The promise of a new life, which propelled the original version, is completely missing here."
Yes Terrell! They are totally different approaches and versions because of this. I think that was the point. And what the hell is a "dirge"? Is that Latin, Mr. Smarty Pants? You do brilliantly describe the original's "sense of optimism" in such a sad song – which is so typical of Latin music. Even the sad songs seem to have some happy vibe underneath. But Costello is no Latino and sings this slowly with a solo piano accompaniment - and it is much sadder than the original. It also brings new light to the words and the music.
Did you want a rehash here of the original that only Hidalgo and Berlin could deliver in such a way you described? I think you are still pissed at Costello for becoming Mr. Diana Krall. But Steve, I ask you this, have you seen her legs? And at least Elvis is not
pussy-whipped to the point that he could actually be dragged to a Styx concert...for instance.
As you Steve, I do prefer full throttle new Los Lobos (what I would really love is new Latin Playboys) song batches - but the guest list, fun, and hybrid sounds of The Ride makes more than a decent ride.
It is one of the best albums this year.
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Anya Liftig is a "transpecies" artist who is currently in the process of transitioning from human to canine. Her performance will explore the phenomenology of nature through John Milton's maxim, "The way to know were not to see but taste."
Sophia Cleary will present "Female Figure II," a solo performance that cultivates sensitivity to an emotional body by acknowledging a persistent tension between performer and audience. A lecture-performance and dance, "Female Figure II" explores the specificity and nuance related to ways of speaking, and how the quality of the voice can misconstrue or amplify the words that are uttered.
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Q: Initialize Backbone Models based on another Backbone Model I have a config.json that I am going to load into my app as a Backbone Model like:
var Config = Backbone.Model.extend({
    defaults: {
        base: ''
    },
    url: 'config.json'
});

Other models should be dependent on some data contained in Config like:
var ModelA = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    initialize: function(){
        //this.url should be set to Config.base + '/someEndpoint';
    }
});

In above example, ModelA's url property is dependent on Config's base property's value.
How do I go about setting this up properly in a Backbone app?

A: As I see it, your basic questions are:

*

*How will we get an instance of the configuration model?

*How will we use the configuration model to set the dependent model's url?

*How can we make sure we don't use the url function on the dependent model too early?

There are a lot of ways to handle this, but I'm going to suggest some specifics so that I can just provide guidance and code and "get it done," so to speak.
I think the best way to handle the first problem is to make that configuration model a singleton. I'm going to provide code from backbone-singleton GitHub page below, but I don't want the answer to be vertically long until I'm done with the explanation, so read on...
var MakeBackboneSingleton = function (BackboneClass, options) { ... }

Next, we make a singleton AppConfiguration as well as a deferred property taking advantage of jQuery. The result of fetch will provide always(callback), done(callback), etc.
var AppConfiguration = MakeBackboneSingleton(Backbone.Model.extend({
    defaults: {
        base: null
    },
    initialize: function() {
        this.deferred = this.fetch();
    },
    url: function() {
        return 'config.json'
    }
}));

Now, time to define the dependent model DependentModel which looks like yours. It will call AppConfiguration() to get the instance.
Note that because of MakeBackboneSingleton the follow is all true:
var instance1 = AppConfiguration();
var instance2 = new AppConfiguration();
instance1 === instance2; // true
instance1 === AppConfiguration() // true

The model will automatically fetch when provided an id but only after we have completed the AppConfiguration's fetch. Note that you can use always, then, done, etc.
var DependentModel = Backbone.Model.extend({
    initialize: function() {
        AppConfiguration().deferred.then(function() {
            if (this.id)
                this.fetch();
        });
    },
    url: function() {
        return AppConfiguration().get('base') + '/someEndpoint';
    }
});

Now finally, putting it all together, you can instantiate some models.
var newModel = new DependentModel();   // no id => no fetch

var existingModel = new DependentModel({id: 15}); // id => fetch AFTER we have an AppConfiguration

The second one will auto-fetch as long as the AppConfiguration's fetch was successful.
Here's MakeBackboneSingleton for you (again from the GitHub repository):
var MakeBackboneSingleton = function (BackboneClass, options) {
    options || (options = {});

    // Helper to check for arguments. Throws an error if passed in.
    var checkArguments = function (args) {
        if (args.length) {
            throw new Error('cannot pass arguments into an already instantiated singleton');
        }
    };

    // Wrapper around the class. Allows us to call new without generating an error.
    var WrappedClass = function() {
        if (!BackboneClass.instance) {
            // Proxy class that allows us to pass through all arguments on singleton instantiation.
            var F = function (args) {
                return BackboneClass.apply(this, args);
            };

            // Extend the given Backbone class with a function that sets the instance for future use.
            BackboneClass = BackboneClass.extend({
                __setInstance: function () {
                    BackboneClass.instance = this;
                }
            });

            // Connect the proxy class to its counterpart class.
            F.prototype = BackboneClass.prototype;

            // Instantiate the proxy, passing through any arguments, then store the instance.
            (new F(arguments.length ? arguments : options.arguments)).__setInstance();
        }
        else {
            // Make sure we're not trying to instantiate it with arguments again.
            checkArguments(arguments);
        }

        return BackboneClass.instance;
    };

    // Immediately instantiate the class.
    if (options.instantiate) {
        var instance = WrappedClass.apply(WrappedClass, options.arguments);

        // Return the instantiated class wrapped in a function so we can call it with new without generating an error.
        return function () {
            checkArguments(arguments);

            return instance;
        };
    }
    else {
        return WrappedClass;
    }
};


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Gmina Mosina is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Mosina, which lies approximately  south of the regional capital Poznań.

The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 25,098 (out of which the population of Mosina amounts to 12,150, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 12,948).

Villages
Apart from the town of Mosina, Gmina Mosina contains the villages and settlements of Babki, Baranówko, Baranowo, Bogulin, Bolesławiec, Borkowice, Czapury, Daszewice, Drużyna, Głuszyna Leśna, Jeziory, Konstantynowo, Krajkowo, Krosinko, Krosno, Kubalin, Ludwikowo, Mieczewo, Nowe Dymaczewo, Nowinki, Pecna, Radzewice, Rogalin, Rogalinek, Sasinowo, Sowiniec, Sowinki, Stare Dymaczewo, Świątniki, Wiórek and Żabinko.

Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Mosina is bordered by the towns of Luboń, Poznań and Puszczykowo, and by the gminas of Brodnica, Czempiń, Komorniki, Kórnik and Stęszew.

References
Polish official population figures 2006

Mosina
Poznań County


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This show "Kevin Probably Saves the World" season 2 again, under a slightly satirical angle, but all the same Americans have to save the world, and only them. Only in the bowels of this nation are people who are able to carry alone this difficult mission. But if you have it, most of them were people with superhuman powers, or unthinkable trained and prepared physically and mentally special agents, or, at worst, the androids are not the type to kill the terminator Arnold now, in terms of degeneration of the nation, suitable and easy urban a selfish slacker. The plot of the TV series minded and very ignorant young man Kevin is a playboy, which compensates for the lack of sufficient measures of intelligence and talent its incredible exaltation and self-centeredness. No mind, no life experience, nor even desire to somehow understand the global situation, which leads the world to disaster it is not in sight. He was not interested in nothing but himself, and where he was to spend the current night satisfying and fun. So Kevin changed radically, as a creature, is clearly of supernatural origin, who appeared out of nowhere, materialized directly from the air, and posing as a French name Yvette, told potential hero the good news of what on him was the highest selection, and now, it's not just Kevin, and the Messiah and Savior of the human race from destruction flammable and inevitable... And here is the transformation of Kevin, who like wings grew from the realization that he had a purpose in life, and of simple and eccentric loser he will turn into a very significant person. Filled with an awareness of its potential weight in the world of history and politics, he begins with difficulty to understand the real world, but it is not afraid. He energetically and categorically focuses on the global issues of human existence, and each time it ends the next and a horrible failure. Each of his attempt to help turns into a more complex entanglement and worsening problem, but this doesn't stop him. After all, he was told to save the world, though not said, and so he acts to the best of his intelligence and education, and none of the special scale, alas, is no different... So everything becomes even more dangerous and is heading to its fatal brink. So it is quite possible that the disaster really happens, however, blame this will be Kevin. But none of the higher powers is in no hurry to withdraw data this strange and superficial to the subject of powers, and the world is heading for disaster even more accelerated pace.
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