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Quijano, Mukherji, Vainieri Huttle, Eustace, Jones & McKeon Measure to Secure At-Risk Nonprofits Clears Legislature
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Pilot Program Would Allow Vulnerable Entities to Receive Security Funding
Legislation Assembly Democrats Annette Quijano, Raj Mukherji, Valerie Vainieri Huttle, Tim Eustace, Patricia Egan Jones and John McKeon sponsored to increase security at New Jersey nonprofit organizations determined to be at an elevated risk for attacks was approved 37-0 Monday by the Senate, giving it final legislative approval.
The bill (A-4253), which would establish the "Nonprofit Security Grant Pilot Program," would provide $1 million annually for three years to help secure eligible nonprofit organizations deemed high-risk targets. Approved organizations may receive up to $10,000 each per year.
The sponsors developed the legislation through meetings with various nonprofit organizations, including synagogues and mosques, that are concerned for the security of their members.
"As I discussed this issue with different nonprofits within and outside of my district, I began to see that members of these communities have a legitimate concern regarding their safety," said Quijano (D-Union). "As chair of the Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee, I believe we have an obligation to ensure that they have personnel on-site who can prevent and protect New Jersey residents from acts of targeted violence."
"If an organization believes that it's in danger, it should receive the necessary resources to protect its people and property," said Mukherji (D-Hudson). "This pilot program will be a boon for public safety in New Jersey."
"New Jersey must take very seriously its responsibility to improve its readiness in protecting against terrorism," said Vainieri Huttle (D-Bergen). "Providing funding to secure at-risk nonprofits will advance emergency preparedness in our state."
"Concerns about local hate crimes as well as global terrorism require our state and our nation to be prepared at all times," said Eustace (D-Bergen/Passaic). "We live in a dangerous world. New Jersey must take every step possible to protect its residents, particularly when they are at high risk for attack."
"Residents of New Jersey should never fear for their lives while exercising their right to worship or learn or congregate with members of their community," said Jones (Camden/Gloucester). "Adequate annual funding for nonprofit security is about not only keeping our residents safe but also preserving freedoms central to the American way of life."
"The recent threats against facilities like the JCC MetroWest in West Orange and hate crimes like the recent shootings of Indian-Americans in Kansas are disheartening reminders that there are those who target certain people and places to act on and spread bigotry," said McKeon (D-Morris/Essex). "Our solidarity with at-risk communities cannot consist only of one-time grants. Unfortunately, this variety of hatred is an on-going problem that demands an on-going response."
While a similar federal program was open only to Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Union, Somerset and Sussex counties for Fiscal Year 2016, the pilot program outlined in the bill would be open to all 21 counties.
Under the legislation, an organization may receive a "high-risk" designation if it meets criteria already used by the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness for the appropriation of funds under the federal Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit Security Grant Program. Any non-profit organization located in New Jersey that has received or is eligible to receive funds from the federal UASI Nonprofit Security Grant Program would be able to apply for this separate grant.
The federal UASI Nonprofit Security Grant Program provides funding for target hardening and physical security enhancement, such as video-security systems, alarm systems, cyber-security systems and physical aspects of properties of nonprofit organizations deemed high-risk targets. While these grant funds may be used for specific training of security personnel, they are explicitly prohibited from funding permanent or temporary security personnel. This bill would provide grants to eligible organizations to hire security personnel.
The Assembly approved the bill 61-10-3 in March.


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Uber settles defamation lawsuit filed by Indian rape victim
Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was sentenced to life in prison over the rape
Uber has agreed to settle a US civil lawsuit with a woman who accused its executives of improperly obtaining her medical records after she was raped by a driver in India.
The lawsuit, which follows on from a crime committed in 2014, cited media reports where officials at the firm were said to have doubted her account.
The Indian woman was living in the US when she filed the lawsuit.
The Uber driver was sentenced to life in prison for the rape in 2015.
In December 2014, the 26-year-old Delhi woman, who later moved to Texas, filed a case anonymously in which she said she had been kidnapped and raped by Shiv Kumar Yadav.
She had used the Uber smartphone app to book a taxi home but said she had been taken by Yadav to a secluded area and raped.
Yadav was sentenced to life in prison following a criminal case in India. As well as the court case, the woman sued Uber and settled out of court.
However, she filed a new suit in the US after reports emerged that Uber had investigated the complaint, obtained her medical records and speculated that she made up the claims to hurt the firm's business.
She alleged in the lawsuit that Uber had violated her privacy and defamed her character.
The lawsuit, which was settled in San Francisco where Uber has its headquarters, also said the company had kept a copy of the woman's medical records.
Several media reports cited in the lawsuit said that senior staff at the ride-hailing company, including Travis Kalanick, the former Uber chief executive who was ousted in June this year, and former executives Emil Michael and Eric Alexander, had questioned the victim's account of her ordeal.
"Uber executives duplicitously and publicly decried the rape, expressing sympathy for the plaintiff, and shock and regret at the violent attack, while privately speculating, as outlandish as it is, that she had colluded with a rival company to harm Uber's business," the lawsuit said.
At the time the later lawsuit was filed, an Uber spokesperson said: "No one should have to go through a horrific experience like this, and we're truly sorry that she's had to relive it over the last few weeks."
Terms of the latest settlement have not been disclosed.
It comes as the new CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, is trying to clean up the image of the company, which has been plagued by scandals and lawsuits.
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Anaheim, located in Orange County, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States, visited by millions of tourists each year. One home, Disney Anaheim, attracts the most visitors, as its attractions include Disney's theme parks, the Anaheim Convention Center and Walt Disney World Resort.
Compared to tourist destinations around the world, the area is more temperate than most, and the temperatures feel very comfortable given the humidity. Rainfall is rare, but falls in the summer months, which mitigates the comparatively warmer temperatures of the season.
If you're looking for a very warm time to visit Anaheim, the hottest months are August, September and then July. If it's dry weather, it's June, August And then July is the warmest month, with temperatures in the mid to late 70s and late 80s for most of the year.
The hottest day of the year is August 23, with an average high of 85 degrees F and a low of 65 degrees F. The hottest day of the year was August 22, and the coldest day before that was August 21.
We regularly see high temperatures of just under 20 degrees Celsius in summer, which makes winter the coldest time of the year with an average low of -20 degrees Celsius. Based on the tourism score, the best time of year for an average tourist to visit Anaheim is the end of May to the beginning of October, with the worst times for visiting Anaheim from the end of July to mid-September, based on our score. The best days to visit Anaheim from late June to late August are mid-July to mid-September, and the hardest days for visitors are from early August to late September. According to our results, the best months for tourists visiting Anaheim are from mid-June to early September, late April to late October.
Although weather authorities report that it has snowed only 10 times since 1852, the winter in Anaheim remains significantly warmer, averaging -20 degrees Celsius.
This winter there has been little to no rainfall, except for a lonely storm in late December, which is rare in a region typically in the rainy season. Rain is forecast through late January, though there is no forecast for precipitation in Anaheim over the next few days or weeks. There are some possible weather changes that will begin next Friday and last until the end of the month, bringing rain, snow or even a few centimetres of snow in some areas.
The daily maximum temperatures are between 91 degrees Celsius (32.8 degrees Celsius) and 23 degrees Celsius, which feels very comfortable in view of the humidity and the wind.
The dew point is 41degF (5degC) and is 31degf (0degc) during the day, with a maximum of 91 degrees Celsius. Morning temperatures will be between an average of 35.6 ° C (92 ° F) and 23 ° C (23.7 ° C), and low temperatures will be 38 ° C (4 ° B) during the night. The daily maximum temperature is between 90 degrees Celsius (32.4 degrees) and a low of 89 degrees Celsius (31.5 degrees). At the minimum daily temperature it is 39 degrees F (4.2 degrees D), with an average temperature of 88 degrees K (29.1 degrees E).
The dew point will be 42 degrees Celsius (6 degrees Celsius) during the day, with an average temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Celsius) and a low of 29 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Celsius).
The dew point will be 34 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Celsius) during the day, with an average temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Fahrenheit) and a low of 29 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Celsius). In the evening the lowest temperature will be 32 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Celsius), with highs of 37 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Celsius). In the early morning hours of Saturday 23 June and Sunday 24 June, it will be 36 degrees in the morning and 31 degrees at night.
The dew point will be 43 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Celsius), with an average temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (38 degrees Fahrenheit) and a low of 29 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Celsius). In the early morning hours of Saturday, June 23, and Sunday, June 24, the dew point will be 35 degrees F (-3 degrees C), and in the evening the lowest temperature will have been 48 degrees C (+ 9 degrees C).
The dew point will have been reached in the early morning hours of Saturday 23 June and Sunday 1 July, with an average temperature of 37 degrees Celsius and a low of 29 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Celsius). On the evening of Monday 1 August and Tuesday 2 August, the lowest temperatures will be 30 degrees Celsius (-3 degrees Celsius) and the average temperatures will be 39 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Celsius).
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Eagles return near Audubon Center on Miss. coast
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A pair of American bald eagles have returned to Jackson County to prepare for this winter's nesting season.
The eagles are nesting adjacent to the Pascagoula River Audubon Center in Moss Point.
"In all likelihood, these are the same male and female eagles we first saw in December of last year and at that time they had two young eaglets in their nest," said Mozart Dedeaux, education coordinator at the center.
Dedeaux said some experts believe these eagles have returned a little early this year. The birds typically return to the same nest for up to five years.
Both sexes of the American bald eagle participate in nest building. The nests may reach enormous dimensions, making bald eagle nests the largest among all bird species.
If visitors are hoping to catch a glimpse of the birds, Dedeaux suggests watching early in the morning.
"People can expect to see the eagles fly in with new materials for their nest, move around up in the tree where their nest is, and build their nest with sticks and large branches," Dedeaux said.
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I am so excited that June is here and we can enjoy some awesome summer dishes on our tables. Our garden is going really well right now and we are able to harvest more and more each week. I am also glad that we can be planning more outdoor grilling and the use of our outdoor kitchen. Sometimes I will have my slow cooker in the outdoor kitchen, it is a lot of fun to cook there. What outdoor meal plans do you and your family have in the summer months?
Thanks so much for stopping by the cottage to spend some time with us. It is a great time of the year to take some time for a nice drive in the country and stop at a Farmers Market, bring the freshness to your kitchen and create a fabulous dish! Hope you have a great week and come back to see us real soon!
Oh mercy me, I'd love to come by on any day, Miz Helen!
It all looks so good - and those grilled potatoes!! I could make a meal on just those! Thanks for sharing on the What's for Dinner link up!
These sound so delicious! Pinned.
All the salads are calling to me, especially with a slice of jalapeno bread and sour cream chocolate cake! Happy dining Miz Helen!


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Q: "Typecast" XmlListModel to Listmodel I have a XmlListModel that fetches data from a webserver, which works great.
However, I want to use that in a CLComboBox (from the Colibri library).
If I set the parameter ListModel to my XmlListModel I get:
Non-existent attached object
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But it does exists; since a ListView-object can use the very same model.
It seems to me that the CLComboBox only accepts a ListModel, so is there any way to transform a XmlListModel to a ListModel easily?

A: You cannot cast QDeclarativeXmlListModel to QDeclarativeListModel because they both direct descendants of QListModelInterface.
In my opinion Colibri should use a QObject (variant property) instead of QDeclarativeListModel. And listen for standard item-based-model signals e.g. I believe it could be fixed with some effort.
If you not willing to contribute to Colibri, I think @sabbour's answer is best option. Consider simple example:
XmlListModel {
    id: xmlModel
    source: "http://forumcinemas.lv/rus/xml/Events/"
    query: "/Events/Event"
    XmlRole { name: "label"; query: "Title/string()" }
    XmlRole { name: "value"; query: "ID/number()"; isKey: true }
    onStatusChanged: {
        if (status == XmlListModel.Ready) {
            for (var i=0; i<count; i++) {
                var item = get(i)
                list_model.append({label: item.label,
                                   value: item.value,
                                   selected: false})
            }
            // CLComboBox doesnt seem to listen for model updates
            combo_box.items = list_model
        }
    }
}

ListModel {
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}

CLComboBox {
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}

A: You can populate the ListModel inside the CLComboBox using a loop.

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What are Swanson Cat's Claws?
As you have probably already gathered, the eponymous Cat's Claw has nothing to do with the razor sharp talons of our furry, feline friends. Rather, it refers to the thorns of a woody climbing vine, indigenous to the Himalayas. Specifically, to the highland rain forests of Peru.
Known as Una de Gato in its homeland, it has been embraced by the locals there for years. The Ashaninka tribe, in particular, has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the Cat's Claw. Enjoying the healing power of both its bark and its roots for centuries.
The plant itself has been known to live in especially hostile environments where it can climb up and around trees reaching up to 100 ft in the air. Originally it was the root bark which was used for local medicine but it has become increasingly rare so Peruvian authorities have now deemed it protected. Allowing only for the harvesting of the upper parts of the plant so that it can re-grow from the root. Fortunately for us, the plant bark is equally teeming with beneficial alkaloids.
So why haven't we heard about the Cat's Claw until now? It took the endeavour of one man in 1974, an Austrian scientist and explorer - Klaus Keplinger - to uncover its secrets. By observing the behaviour of the Ashaninka tribe, he noticed that they would use the Una de Gato plant to make healing teas. They used them to treat all kinds of ailments and its efficacy impressed the Doctor beyond redress. He immediately set about bringing the plant to the attention of the world.
Since its arrival in the West, Swanson Cat's Claw have proven to be a phenomenon, with many suggesting they have unparalleled immune boosting properties.
What are Swanson Cat's Claw used for?
In the long line of Nature's most potent immune system boosters there are a few standout candidates - Echinacea, Golden Seal and Siberian Ginseng. Now, there is increasing evidence to suggest that Swanson Cat's Claw can count itself amongst that hallowed pantheon.
In fact, not since the discovery of Quinine in the bark of Peruvian Trees has a piece of rain forest vegetation received such worldwide acclaim and attention.
Swanson Cat's Claw contain seven different types of active alkaloids, all of which serve a slightly different purpose but all of which help to activate the immune system in their own way. The most immunologically active amongst them is Isopteropodin (Isomer A) which increases immune response and simultaneously acts as an antioxidant.
Not only that but there are also various compounds in Swanson Cat's Claw which can help to kill certain viruses bacteria and micro-organisms capable of forming disease. Swanson Cat's Claw truly is the ultimate healer and all round body booster.
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Nicole Kidman: 2014 Has Been "Really, Really, Really Hard"
8:09 PM PST 12/7/2014 by Abid Rahman
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At the Australian premiere of 'Paddington,' the actress confesses it's been a tough year for her professionally and personally after the death of her father
Nicole Kidman admitted that 2014 has not been her "favorite year," both professionally and personally, following the death of her father, Anthony Kidman, from a heart attack in August.
The Guardian reported that Kidman made the admission at the Australian premiere of Paddington in Sydney on Sunday. "Personally [it's been] really, really, really hard," she said. "My family underwent a massive tragedy. So not my favorite year. But I try not to be ungrateful — I'm grateful to be alive."
Kidman said she would be spending more time in Sydney with her mother and sister after losing her father. "We've gone through a really tough time this year as a family. It's so nice to be able to take care of each other."
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On the big screen, Kidman's year has been mixed, with Grace of Monaco widely panned, The Railway Man receiving muted praise and Before I Go to Sleep also dividing critics and stalling at the box office.
Paddington, however, has been a critical and commercial success thus far, and Kidman acknowledged the up and down nature of not just 2014 but her career. "My whole career is always a roller-coaster," she told The Guardian, adding, "I'm so random and spontaneous and unusual in my choices — I never expect anything."
Kidman, who plays the villain in Paddington, also spoke about why she took the role. "I just wanted to make a film for my kids. … I hadn't made a film that had made people feel good for a long time. I've made films that are darker in tone. So it's really nice to be able to make a film where you can say 'Yeah, bring your kids.' "
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Diners at three Pizza Hut restaurants in the Midlands are enjoying the benefits of state-of-the-art hand dryers in the bathrooms, which are fast, stylish and ultra-hygienic.
The restaurants have been fitted with Mitsubishi Electric Jet Towel hand dryers and more Huts are expected to follow suit as their bathrooms are refitted. Unlike conventional hot air dryers, which evaporate moisture from hands, Jet Towel works by blowing it off using a high-speed air flow, a technique that offers many advantages.
One of the reasons Pizza Hut went for Mitsubishi Electric Jet Towel was their incredible energy efficiency, which is achieved because no excess air is used. In fact, specially shaped nozzles form the air into a thin laminar flow that acts rather like a knife blade to scrape the water off the hands. This is very effective, so hand drying takes from only nine seconds, a fraction of the time most people are used to.
A related advantage of the Mitsubishi Electric Jet Towel principle is that moisture blown off the hands is directed straight into an integral drain, which reduces the risk of bacterial transfer from one user to the next to almost zero. This is in contrast to other dryers that release bacteria to the atmosphere or let water drip onto the floor.
"Jet Towel is also manufactured with an antimicrobial material to further enhance the hygiene performance" says Fawn.
Mitsubishi Electric Jet Towel was developed in Japan and has been a firm favourite globally for over 20 years. Certified for its low energy use, quiet operation and hygiene by relevant bodies worldwide, Pizza Hut is confident that Mitsubishi Electric Jet Towel will prove a success with its restaurant managers and clientele.
Malcolm Merry, Brand Property Manager for Pizza Hut, selected black versions of Jet Towel, as they fit the decor and create a feel of stylish sophistication.
Mitsubishi Electric's first Jet Towel was launched in 1993 and the version now available in Europe is in the eighth generation of its development.
It has proved a winner with installers for its high tech elegance, with operators for its low running cost and reliability, and with users for its convenience, speed, hygiene and innovative design. The Jet Towel has high environmental credentials, avoiding the use of paper towels or rolled cloth and lowering power consumption and noise levels to a fraction of alternative hot air dryers.


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Toronto police call for backup to oust birds from boathouse
The Toronto police marine unit has called in reinforcements in an ongoing battle to rid their boathouse of pesky barn swallows.
Police say droppings from invading barn swallows pose threat to their safety
Paola Loriggio · The Canadian Press · Posted: Mar 03, 2016 8:24 AM ET | Last Updated: March 3, 2016
For years, the Toronto police force's marine unit has struggled to deal with an infestation of barn swallows, which nest in the boathouse and leave it covered in droppings. (Google Street View)
Toronto police are bringing reinforcements in an ongoing battle to rid their boathouse of winged invaders they say pose a threat to officers' — and possibly the public's — safety.
For years, the force's marine unit has struggled to deal with an infestation of barn swallows, which nest in the boathouse and leave it covered in droppings.
The birds are a protected species and cannot be disturbed during nesting season. Moving their nests requires permission from the provincial Ministry of Natural Resources.
In a letter to city officials last year, the Toronto Police Services Board called for prompt action on what it called an issue with "potential impacts on operational resources and public safety, as well as on the health and safety of members of the Marine Unit."
The infestation "necessitates costly cleaning operations and utilizes the resources of the unit unnecessarily," the letter said.
"It can also have an adverse effect on public safety as it can at times impede emergency response due to the need to remove bird feces from boats and equipment."
The droppings can also increase the risk of exposure to some diseases, it said.
Birds slated to stay for one more season
A new three-year project set to begin this month aims to find the birds a new home and discourage them from returning to their current nesting grounds, a spokeswoman for the city said.
Officers will have to deal with their unwelcome guests at least another season, however: the first year of the project consists mainly of consulting with experts and surveying the barn swallow population, Natasha Hinds Fitzsimmins said in an email.
Next year, an alternate nesting site will be set up within a kilometre of the boathouse, as laid out in the ministry's
requirements, she said.
Existing nests will also be removed and additional measures taken to deter the birds from returning, she said.
The last year will be spent surveying the birds to see how they respond to the change.
"The modifications to the nesting situation will need to be monitored year after year to determine the success of the nesting relocation and barn swallow population," Hinds Fitzsimmins said.
Closing the doors? That didn't work
In the meantime, she said, "the best course of action to reduce the chance of bird infestation has been and continues to be to keep the doors closed, especially during periods of bird migration."
Robert Duncan, a program co-ordinator for the Toronto police occupational health and safety unit, said that was "the first thing they looked at" but it didn't work.
"They're quite small birds and unfortunately because the water levels fluctuate the birds were just getting underneath the doors even when they're fully dropped," he said.
"The other problem, of course, is that because they're an emergency response unit, having the doors closed can slow down the response to an emergency call, so that's a public safety consideration we had to make."
He said police don't want to harm the birds, just evict them.


Prospect Elementary School students discuss the messages in the Environmental Dashboard's Community Voices section.
OBERLIN—The college has received a $49,689 grant from the Ohio EPA's Ohio Environmental Education Fund (OEEF) for a pilot project to provide curricular development and teacher training in four Ohio school districts that have already installed or plan to install Environmental Dashboard technology.
Developed at Oberlin College with EPA support, the Environmental Dashboard makes flows of water and energy through buildings and whole communities and environmental conditions visible, engaging and teachable, while also linking these to smart environmental decision-making. The dashboard combines real-time feedback with "Community Voices" to draw attention to positive actions of youth and community members who are already working to build more resilient and sustainable communities.
An Oberlin team will coordinate curricular integration in Akron Public Schools, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), and Toledo Public Schools. Oberlin City Schools, which piloted curricular integration of the Environmental Dashboard with earlier grants, will play a leadership role. The pilot will lay the groundwork for expansion within and beyond these districts.
The grant will support teacher workshops, which will create expertise in Environmental Dashboard technology and engage educators in developing and testing lessons that emphasize authentic and active student learning experiences and community engagement. Resulting instructional units will follow best practices, be aligned with learning goals and standards, and will be hosted on a searchable database accessible to the growing number of schools using dashboard technology.
Partly in response to the successful OEEF-funded Oberlin pilot, the dashboard is proliferating in northeast Ohio. In spring 2015, dashboard technology to monitor electricity was installed in all 42 Toledo public schools. In summer 2015, dashboard monitoring was installed in four Akron public schools. And in June 2016, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District committed to installing the dashboard to monitor and display electricity, water, and gas use in nine STEM-focused schools.
In Cleveland, the dashboard will be used in a cross-section of schools, including a dual language K-8 school, a career tech high school, and several K-8 STEM schools.
"Since fall 2011, the CMSD Department of Science Education has focused on incorporating environmental science at all grade levels in all schools. We feel that environmental science aligns with Ohio's Learning Standards for Science, increases opportunities for experiential learning and provides real world application of scientific skills and processes," says Kirsten Mahovlich, CMSD's curriculum and instruction content manager for science, grades 7-12.
The pilot continues CMSD's efforts to accelerate engagement in innovative and authentic learning experiences where students investigate global issues through the lens of their community, and the real-time data will connect students to problems that are multifaceted, says Tim Sisson, the CMSD's STEM content manager.
For more than a decade the Oberlin community—both college and city—have served as a pilot for developing Environmental Dashboard as a technology and an approach. "For several years we have been working with educators in the Oberlin City Schools, and it is exciting to now be engaging with large urban districts which obviously have their own distinct challenges and opportunities," says John Petersen, creator of the dashboard and Oberlin's Paul Sears Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology. "Using the technology to help students see themselves as connected and empowered decision-makers within their schools and communities is critical at all scales.
As part of the project, Palmer Conservation Consulting, an energy consulting firm headquartered in Toledo, is working with participating Akron and Cleveland schools to complete meter installation and configuration of the building dashboards.
The Oberlin dashboard team includes Petersen along with Cindy Frantz, professor of psychology; Rumi Shammin, associate professor and director of the environmental studies program; Augustus Arthur, project manager of the Environmental Dashboard; and Darrel Tremaine, Oberlin's sustainable technology coordinator.


MEAN WELL's new generation of medical PCB power supply, the RPS family, was well-received by the market, and the demands for miniaturized PCB type medical power supplies continue to increase. As a response, MEAN WELL is expanding the RPS family's 3"x2" product offering to 120W, up from 30~65W of the previously released RPS-30/45/65, by releasing the ultra-high power density RPS-120S series.
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The STMicroelectronics LIS2DTW12 combines a MEMS 3-axis accelerometer and a temperature sensor on a single die for use in space-constrained and battery-sensitive detectors such as shipping trackers, wearables, and IoT endpoints. The sensing accuracy of 0.8°C offers precision comparable with stand-alone standard temperature sensors.


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For the past several Summers I've had my eye on these great popsicle molds, but with work and life, I never got around to buying them.
Since I'm at home this Summer with plenty of time to burn, I bought three sets and every week I try a new recipe.
This recipe is not all that sweet (a big factor in why I love it so much), but if sugar is your thing add more sweetened condensed milk to taste. Combine ingredients in a food processor until smooth, pour into molds, freeze for 8 hours.
This recipe makes about nine pops, and for all you WW fans, each one = 2 points.
I had a toasted coconut, and I must say it was the best popsicle I have every had!!!
mmm...heck, they're all my favorite!


After too much pie at Thanksgiving we're back with more interviews including our chat with Ian Rankin from Bouchercon including a listen to his band, Best Picture, and their first single Isabelle. Also true crime writer Nancy Rommelmann. And Tom Pitts, Marietta Miles and JJ Hensley give you their Crime Writing 101 tips. Sponsored by Down & Out Books.


Simple really does come in all sorts of guises and one of them is food. Here is what we had for dinner on Friday night. It was the end of the working week, we were both exhausted and not keen on creating a huge meal so I pulled this together with what was in the refrigerator and pantry. It took about 5 minutes, presented well and was nutritious and filling.
The tomatoes, figs and pumpkin were from the garden. The pumpkin had been roasted to use on pizza and I had some left over. Cheese, capsicum and cucumber from the refrigerator and finished off with walnuts and dried apricots.
Do you make any truly simple meals?
This is just a quick post as I have been away for a couple of days with my job so no time for blogging. I am working on a new post about my wardrobe. It may be ready tomorrow night so look out for it coming soon.
Yesterday I picked 2 kg of cherry tomatoes from the bushes that grow wild in various parts of our garden.
Firstly, I removed the stalks and rinsed them and then added the 1.5 kg that were already prepared and frozen from a couple of weeks ago. It was time to make some tomato sauce (ketchup). The recipe is super simple and is written near the end of this post.
Home-grown cherry tomatoes have a very short shelf life so unless you are feeding an army, it makes sense to freeze the excess immediately or otherwise they go to waste rather quickly.
You will need a large saucepan or stockpot depending on the quantity of tomatoes that you are processing. Mine is a stainless steel one with a heavy base which helps to stop the food burning. This is important because by their very nature, most jams, pickles and preserves have a high proportion of sugar. Many of the old-style preserving pans are aluminium, however, I do not use aluminium for perceived health reasons.
Apart from the tomatoes, you will need a few other ingredients.
Place the cloves and allspice in a muslin bag. Roughly chop the onions and tomatoes. Place all ingredients in the stockpot and simmer for approximately 2 hours, stirring regularly. Remove spice bag and discard. Strain or process mixture in a blender to required consistency.
Return mixture to a clean saucepan and bring to the boil for 5 minutes before pouring into warm, sterilised jars. Seal jars and store appropriately.
When using cherry tomatoes for this recipe there is no need to chop them.
I used chilli powder instead of cayenne, powdered instead of whole allspice and I always use raw sugar. The powdered spices and raw sugar tend to make the finished product slightly darker.
I use a hand-held stick blender to process the mixture. Whatever method you use, be very careful when handling the hot liquid as it can be unpredictable.
The original recipe can be found here. It is also in Sally Wise's book, 'A Year in A Bottle'.
This is a tasty tomato sauce which bears no resemblance to the commercial varieties. Enjoy!


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Vinhomes Central Park is crowded in one of the three most beautiful ports in Saigon with more than 10,000 apartments and more than 25,000 residents. However, there are only 70 shophouse units with more than one supply. Golden eggs for investors.
– Apartment Building, Landmark 81 top 10 tallest building in the world will be the check in point for foreigners and businessmen when coming to Vietnam.
– Central Park riverside park is located right in the project of 14ha investment 500 billion beautiful city.
– Located next to metro station 5 Metro Ben Thanh Suoi Tien.
– The Mariana 5-star marina is the destination of wealthy merchants.
– It only takes 5 minutes to move to District 1, convenient both by road, waterway and railway.


In Finland everyone can just go to forest and enjoy the nature for free, without a permission, regardless of who owns the land. This is called everyone's right and it applies in vast majority of the forests, excluding conservation areas. The rights come with responsibility: so you should respect the nature and not cause harm with your actions.
Everyone's rights allows you to walk, ski, cycle or ride in nature – in forests, meadows, lakes and seas. You can pick berries and mushrooms. You can stay for a night in the nature, just don't set your tent right next to someone's backyard. You can row a boat, swim and walk, ski or skate on the ice.
There are limitations too: You're not allowed to go to someones yard, plantations or fields. You're not allowed to make fire. You're not allowed to harm or collect trees or branches, nor moss. You're not allowed to drive around with motor vehicles. And of course, you're not allowed to litter, to harm animals, to hunt, nor to let your dog run free.
Now is the perfect time to get yourself into forest and do some not hunting but gathering. The berry season was light due to the hot and dry summer, but the mushroom season is on and rolling! If you're visiting Finland right at this moment, go and join for example a local Facebook group and ask for a local if someone could take you to forest for a little mushroom hunt. There are two rules of thumb in mushroom hunt: 1) get to know the poisonous mushroom 2) pick only the mushroom you know.


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THE CHAINSMOKERS RETURN TO SHANGHAI FOR The CHAINSMOKERS: 2019 LIVE IN SHANGHAI
Grammy award-winning and Billboard chart-topping duo The Chainsmokers are returning to SHANGHAI, performing on September 10, 2019 (Tuesday) at Mercedes-Benz Arena.
Produced by Live Nation, the duo will make stops in five cities this summer, including Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Shanghai.
Tickets for the Shanghai Live range from RMB 480 to RMB 1580 and will go general pre-sale at May 14, 2019 (Tuesday) at 10am through Damai.cn.
Card Members of American Express®, the tour's exclusive presale partner, can purchase tickets from May 13 (Monday) at 10 am through May 14 (Tuesday) at 10 am before the general pre-sale. Live Nation WeChat Pre-sale starts on May 13 (Monday) at 10 am through May 14 (Tuesday) at 10 am. For details, please follow Live Nation and American Express® WeChat and Weibo.
The tour announcement comes on the heels of the duo's latest tracks "Kills You Slowly" and "Who Do You Love" featuring 5 Seconds of Summer from their new building album "World War Joy". Released in February this year via Disruptor Records/ Columbia Records, "Who Do You Love" immediately shot to No. 1 on iTunes and has already accumulated nearly 14 million combined global streams to date. Additionally, the track was added to Spotify's New Music Friday playlist in 37 countries, added to their largest playlist Today's Top Hits and added to Today's Hits on Apple Music.
About The Chainsmokers
Comprised of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, the duo have evolved into a dominating musical force with a diverse repertoire of songs that have led them to become one of music's hottest recording acts. Their signature sound deftly reaches across indie, progressive, and pop realms.
The duo's evolution as producers and as songwriters has seen them develop some of the biggest breakthrough songs over the course of the last few years. In 2016, the duo catapulted to worldwide stardom with three certified Multi-Platinum hits. "Roses" featuring Rozes, from their Gold certified debut EP, "Bouquet", was a 4X Platinum smash that shot to #1 on Billboard's Top Dance/ Electronic Albums chart. "Don't Let Me Down" featuring Daya, included on the duo's second Platinum selling EP titled "Collage", went 4X Platinum and was a top 5 Billboard Hot 100 hit. The duo won the "Best Dance Recording" Grammy for the track at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
In April 2017, the duo released their Platinum certified debut album titled "Memories…Do Not Open" and embarked on their highly successful 40-city "Memories…Do Not Open" arena tour. The album debuted at #1 in the U.S. on the Billboard 200 chart and produced Multi-Platinum certified smash hits "Paris" and "Something Just Like This" featuring Coldplay, of which the latter earned the group a 2018 Grammy nomination for "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance".
Released in December 2018, the duo's second album "Sick Boy" has generated over 1 billion worldwide streams to date and includes the Gold certified single "This Feeling" featuring Kelsea Ballerini and "Side Effects" featuring longtime collaborator Emily Warren.
The duo will maintain their extended Wynn Nightlife Residency in Las Vegas and will continue releasing music and touring across the globe throughout 2019.
Don't miss your chance to witness the duo in action!
About Live Nation Ltd
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, Live Nation Media & Sponsorship and Artist Nation Management. Live Nation currently operates across 10 countries and regions in Asia including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
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Since 1997, American Express has partnered with a select group of leading banks and financial institutions around the world to issue American Express-branded products and acquire merchants on to the American Express merchant network. By leveraging its partnerships, global infrastructure and the powerful appeal of the brand, American Express has gained even broader reach for its network worldwide.
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Usually, we provide payment methods as follows, but for different performances, different sales policies, please refer to the notice of each performance.
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For some big events, seat map cannot be issued when tickets are on pre-sale and since tickets quantity depends on organizers or venues, sometimes the reservation might be canceled, when that happens, we have to arrange refund work to those who have paid successfully. However, we will always try our best to satisfy our customers' demand.
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Nelson Mandela - "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, ..."
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."


The winners at the fourth annual EyesOn Design Awards held at the 2009 NAIAS in Detroit last week read like a serving of alphabet soup, with the top awards going to Audi, BMW and Cadillac. Presided over by 20 top design executives from automotive manufacturers and by academics from transportation design programs, the EyesOn Design awards are presented by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO) - an internationally recognized non-profit organization known for helping the blind and visually impaired. Founding Chairman Tom Gale (former Vice President of Design at Chrysler) selected the following people to head up this year's jury: Chris Bangle, Director of Group Design for BMW; William 'Willie' G.
We promise this will be the only mention of the royal wedding you'll see on autoweek.com, but we just can't resist a beautiful car. Prince William and Catherine Middleton, newly the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, drove away from their humble nuptials in an Aston Martin DB6 Volante with the top down, license plate reading "JU5T WED." Ignore the royals. Check out this car.
The DeLorean DMC-12, one of the world's most iconic cars, is making waves again, re-emerging as an all-electric vehicle. The DeLorean Motor Company, now based in Texas, rolled out the proof-of-concept version of the eDeLorean to customers at its biannual DMC headquarters gathering in Houston over the weekend. "I wanted my customers to see it first," DMC owner Steven Wynne told Autoweek.


… a festival theme with a riot of colour and a lively, fun atmosphere for their son's 21st. We were asked to incorporate the alpaca shelter into the marquee!
… a WOW with a Clearspan marquee which was linked to another marquee with a clear roof, by a cruciform. This provided clearly defined areas – chill out seating, a bar/entrance area and the dancefloor. Festoon lighting, paper lanterns and fairy lights inside along with festival bunting and banners really brought the marquee to life. Bean bags, fold up chairs, pallet furniture and cushions in the chill out area, poseur tables and a feature 'tractor bonnet' table and stools in the bar/dance area. Lulu's even made 'Blue Peter fashion' the crepe paper chandelier decorations! And the alpaca shelter? We turned into a bar with vintage door frontage.
Outside a photo booth, fire pits, straw bales, an area to camp, really created the festival vision. Dodgems would have been included but access excluded them!
A lovely family affair and 'mum' really threw herself into theming the interior of the marquee.
Photographs courtesy of Shuttr Media.


114 Rushmore Ln, Hartford, WI 53027-8639 - Employment relocation forces these sellers to leave their beloved 7 year old home in the newer subdivision of Borlen Farms. Extra spacious rooms accommodate lots of large furniture plus the garage has an additional storage bay. Popular covered front porch, MAIN FLOOR LAUNDRY, pitched ceilings & bedroom ceiling lights are only some of the extras this home offers. The family bathroom has a skylight & big soaking tub. Private bath for main bedroom features double sinks & tub-sized walk-in shower. Landscaping is a delightful surprise & includes a fenced area for little ones (human & pets).


After a massive crush marked by multiple overnighters inside a small number of days, the Hibernate materials were finally finished. My client is happy with them. Personally, I mostly see flaws at this point, separated by large stretches of "not bad" sections. I think after I get a little distance from them, I'll feel better about the whole thing.
Anyway, that marked the end of a major development experience for me. Developing decent training materials is just plain hard. It's easier if I know I'll be there in the classroom and can deal with any issues that come up. It's quite another feeling knowing the materials could be in the hands of an instructor with limited experience in the area who is relying on my materials to bail him or her out of awkward questions.
1. Knowing a technology well enough to play with it and build reasonably simple, self-contained examples, hopefully a bit beyond the old "Hello, World!" level. That means you can write sample apps in real time and solve the labs successfully and much faster than the students.
2. Knowing the material well enough to teach it, which means being able to handle difficult questions like, "my set up is this particularly strange and bizarre system — so what do I do?" Or, "my system has a weird business need that nobody seems to address. You're the instructor. How do I make it work?" Or even, "I did everything the book says but it still didn't work. Why not?" Hey, that's a big reason the students are there. They don't necessarily expect you to know all the answers, but if you can't at least address those sorts of questions, you aren't really ready to teach this stuff.
3. Knowing it all well enough to write materials, which means you know what's important and what isn't and how to get the important stuff across to a wide range of students, even if the instructor isn't really at stage 2 yet.
1. You tell them everything you know.
2. You tell them everything you've learned since then.
3. You tell them what they need to know.
That's quite a different list. It's very hard, especially for a new instructor, to get out of stage 1. In our highly dysfunctional educational system, the old "sage on the stage" model implies that the instructor knows everything and the students listen attentively and worshipfully. It's also one reason why college professors tend to have such enormous egos.
(Aside: that's one the biggest differences between teaching training classes and teaching academic classes. In training classes, I'm not grading them; they're grading me. In an academic class, if I tell the students to do something, they have to do it. I'm the one with the power. In a training class, they're grading me. I have to adapt to the needs of the students instead.
It's important, though, not to overwhelm new learners. I took a golf lesson once and after the pro told me three new things I was very excited and enjoyed hitting the ball. Unfortunately, he couldn't leave well enough alone. By the time he was finished, I was a complete mess, full of what felt like a huge number of contradictory rules. I couldn't hit at all after that. I try to remind myself of that experience when I teach.
Frankly, I'm not sure where I'm going with all this, other than to say it's obviously been too long since I've made a blog entry. I clearly have too much to say at the moment.
With that in mind, let me leave it at this. The Hibernate materials are done. They're pretty good and seem to do the job well. I learned a ton in the process of writing them, and will no doubt learn more as I get feedback on them.
I'll certainly say more later. Heck, I'll probably be posting several times in the next week or two because so much has happened, but this post is already way long enough.


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The Assistant Principal, Facebook and Exceeding Authorized Access
This post examines an opinion a federal district court judge in Oregon issued recently in a civil suit. Matot v. CH, 2013 WL 5431586 (U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon 2013). In his opinion, the District Court judge is deciding whether to adopt the Findings and Recommendations [F&R] filed by the U.S. Magistrate Judge to whom he referred certain motions that challenged the viability of the plaintiff's – Matot's – suit. Matot v. CH, supra.
(As Wikipedia explains, a District Court judge can refer certain issues to a Magistrate Judge to have the latter draft a preliminary opinion analyzing those issues.)
In his F&R, the Magistrate Judge explains that in the lawsuit Matot,
an assistant principal at a middle school in Salem, Oregon, alleges that one or more of the defendants created social media accounts under his name and likeness. Defendants then allegedly invited students to communicate with them under the accounts falsely tied to plaintiff.
[Matot] further alleges that defendants published false and defamatory statements and images about or attributed to [him] using the false accounts. [He] alleges that the parents of defendant CH were negligent in their supervision of [his] internet and computer use causing harm to [him].
Matot v. CH, supra.
Neither the F&R nor the judge's opinion explains what happened in any more detail, but a Complaint Matot filed, apparently before he knew the defendants' names, sheds a little light on what happened. It says that "one or more" of the students named as defendants was/were "known" to use a "procedure" in which they/one/some of them would "create an account" on a social networking site, "include[ing] Twitter and Facebook", "using [Matot's] name and likeness, appearing at least initially to be an account" belonging to him. Matot v. Does 1-5, Complaint ¶ 18, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (6:13-cv- 00153).
"One or more defendants would then send an invitation to communicate to a child-student, appearing at least initially to be a communication from" Matot. Matot v. Does 1-5, supra, Complaint ¶ 19. The Complaint then says that once a student accepted "an invitation to communicate from defendants, third parties, including children, were then exposed to pornographic and obscene material of a prurient nature which was displayed and presented as if it were associated with or from" Matot. Matot v. Does 1-5, supra, Complaint ¶ 19. Matot seems to have filed an amended complaint later, since at least one defendant is identified in this opinion, and it may have added more details.
In the Complaint these judges are dealing with, Matot seeks "damages and equitable relief for alleged violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S. Code § 1030, defamation, negligent supervision, and parental liability pursuant to Oregon Revised Statute § 30.765." Matot v. CH, supra. As the district court judge notes in his opinion, the defendant in this case ("Gary Hill") filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit for "lack of subject-matter jurisdiction." Matot v. CH, supra.
And as Wikipedia explains, subject-matter jurisdiction "is the authority of a court to hear cases of a particular type". As it also explains, most state courts in the United States are courts of "general" jurisdiction, which means they can hear "any case over which no other tribunal has exclusive jurisdiction." And as Wikipedia notes, U.S. federal courts, including district courts like this one, are courts of limited jurisdiction, which basically means that if no federal statute confers jurisdiction on a federal district court to hear certain types of cases, it will not be able to hear those cases.
Here, Gary Hill filed a motion under Rule 12(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in which he claimed the federal court did not have subject-matter jurisdiction. Matot v. CH, supra. Since Matot's claims for defamation, negligent supervision and parental liability arose under Oregon law, the federal court would not have jurisdiction over them unless jurisdiction existed under what is known as pendent jurisdiction. As Wikipedia explains, pendent jurisdiction "is the authority of a United States federal court to hear a closely related state law claim against a party already facing a federal claim". The theory is that it is efficient to decide all the claims in a single case.
Matot argued that the court had pendent jurisdiction because his claim under 18 U.S. Code § 1030 arose under federal law, which gave the court jurisdiction over the "case." Matot v. CH, supra. If he did, in fact, have a valid claim under § 1030, then the Oregon District Court would have jurisdiction over that claim and pendent jurisdiction would give it subject-matter jurisdiction over the related state-law claims. Matot v. CH, supra. In other words, he would be able to keep the case in federal court if he had a viable § 1030 claim.
The district court judge began his analysis of this issue by noting that Matot's § 1030
claim rests on defendants' alleged use `without authorization' of social media services (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) and defendants' alleged use `exceed[ing] authorized access' of social media services, i.e., defendants' violation of the terms of use of the particular social media service. As indicated by Judge Coffin in the F&R, a mere violation of a use restriction, i.e.,`exceed[ing] authorized access,' is not actionable under [18 U.S. Code § 1030] in the [U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit]. Thus, the crux of [Matot's] argument is that defendants accessed social media services `without authorization' under 18 U.S. Code § 1030.
Matot v. CH, supra. (The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon is in the 9th Circuit, which means the 9th Circuit's decisions are binding on it.)
The district court judge noted that Matot's
`without authorization' argument focuses on defendants' alleged use of [his] name and image in creating `forged' social media accounts (e.g. Facebook and Twitter). [Matot] attempts to cast defendants' behavior as analogous to that of hacking proscribed by [18 U.S. Code § 1030].
Matot v. CH, supra. He found that Matot's argument was "unpersuasive in light of" two decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and "the rule of lenity." Matot v. CH, supra.
The first decision was LVRC Holdings LLC v. Brekka, 581 F.3d 1127 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 2009). The judge explained that in Brekka, the Court of Appeals held that someone
`uses a computer "without authorization" under [§ 1030] when the person has not received permission to use the computer for any purpose (such as when a hacker accesses someone's computer without any permission), or when the employer has rescinded permission to access the computer and the defendant uses the computer anyway.' LVRC Holdings v. Brekka, supra (emphasis added). The Court further provided that `a person who uses a computer 'without authorization' has no rights, limited or otherwise, to access the computer in question.' LVRC Holdings v. Brekka, supra.
The judge noted that notwithstanding this
relatively bright-line rule, this Court is reluctant to use it as an absolute bar to [Matot's] claim. To begin with, unlike in Brekka, defendants are not employees of Twitter or Facebook who initially used the service for purposes of employment. Rather, as [Matot] alleges, defendants' relationship with the social media websites was `forged . . . from the ground up,' i.e., the defendants, as social media users, never were authorized because they breached the terms of use at the inception of the relationship. . . .
[T]his court doubts that even the Brekka Court would enforce its `without authorization' language to the extent implicated. For example, if a hacker targeted a United States governmental website for malicious purposes, such a hacker may be `authorized' to access the website under Brekka because many governmental websites are open to the public. In other words, if interpreted strictly, Brekka could preclude [§ 1030] application of `without authorization' to hackers who breach governmental websites that are open to the public. For the same reason, strict adherence to Brekka's bright-line rule outside of the employment context appears to be in conflict with the underlying legislative purpose.
The second decision was U.S. v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 2012), in which the9th Circuit,
in dicta, found that `without authorization would apply to outside hackers (individuals who have no authorized access to the computer at all).' 676 F.3d at 858 (internal quotation marks omitted) (emphasis added). In contrast, the Court found that `exceeds authorized access would apply to inside hackers (individuals whose initial access to a computer is authorized but who access unauthorized information or files).' Id. (internal quotation marks omitted).
The Court further provided that `hacking' colloquially refers to `someone who's authorized to access only certain data or files but accesses unauthorized data or files.' Id. at 856–57. Unfortunately, the Court's colloquial definition provides little insight as to `outside hackers' because `hackers,' by definition, lack authorized access.
Matot v. CH, supra (quoting U.S. v. Nosal, supra).
The judge explained that the Nosal court, in affirming the district court's dismissal of the
claim [in that case], discussed numerous forms of relevant online conduct it was unwilling to criminalize. . . . [M]any dealt with [Matot's] `trespass under false pretenses' scenario. The Court found `lying on social media websites is common: People shave years off their age, add inches to their height and drop pounds from their weight.' U.S. v. Nosal, supra.
The Court referenced U.S. v. Drew, to combat the notion that the government could be trusted to not `prosecute minor violations.' U.S. v. Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449 (U.S. District Court for the Central District of California 2009). In Drew, a mother posed as a 16–year old boy (`Josh Evans') and cyber-bullied her daughter's classmate who ultimately committed suicide. U.S. v. Drew, supra. Although Drew's `Josh Evans' profile was fictitious, it did include `a photograph of a boy without that boy's knowledge or consent.' U.S. v. Drew, supra.
Nosal's extensive discussion of `lying on social media websites' and its subsequent disapproval of prosecution under Drew, indicate that the 9th Circuit is unwilling to recognize [Matot's] claim under [§ 1030].
Finally, the judge relied on the "rule of lenity." As Wikipedia notes, this is a principle of statutory interpretation under which a court "construing an ambiguous criminal statute . . . should resolve the ambiguity in favor of the defendant." He noted that the Brekka court relied on the rule of lenity in interpreting "authorization" under § 1030 "narrowly" and finding that the statute does not apply to "employee breach of loyalty scenarios." Matot v. CH, supra. He also noted the Nosal court explained that it construes criminal statutes
narrowly so Congress will not unintentionally turn ordinary citizens into criminals. [B]ecause of the seriousness of criminal penalties, and because criminal punishment usually represents the moral condemnation of the community, legislatures and not courts should define criminal activity. If there is any doubt about whether Congress intended [§ 1030] to prohibit the conduct in which [defendants] engaged, then we must choose the interpretation least likely to impose penalties unintended by Congress.
Matot v. CH, supra. (quoting U.S. v. Nosal, supra). While this is a civil case, rather than a criminal prosecution, § 1030 is a criminal statute, so the principle would still apply,
The judge then explained that § 1030's
focus is `on hacking' rather than the creation of a `sweeping internet-policing mandate.' U.S. v. Nosal, supra. This court cannot fail `to consider the effect on millions of ordinary citizens caused by' recognizing [Matot's] claim. U.S. v. Nosal, supra. [Matot] alleges that defendants created false social media profiles in his name and likeness.
Yet, as indicated in Nosal, `lying on social media websites is common.' U.S. v. Nosal, supra. For example, in June 2011, Facebook predicted that approximately 83 million of 855 million active users were duplicates, false or undesirable. Twitter is also thought to have a large number of `fake' accounts. More recently, police departments have taken to creating false profiles for the purpose of law enforcement.
Were this court to `adopt the [plaintiff's] proposed [argument], millions of unsuspecting individuals would find that they are engaging in criminal conduct,' in addition to any civil liability. U.S. v. Nosal, supra. This Court "must choose the interpretation [of `authorization'] least likely to impose penalties unintended by Congress.' U.S. v. Nosal, supra (quoting U.S. v. Cabaccang, 332 F.3d 622 (9th Circuit 2003) (quotations omitted)).
The judge therefore found that "the rule of lenity precludes application of [§ 1030] (`access without authorization') to defendants' alleged creation of fake social media profiles in violation of social media websites terms of use." Matot v. CH, supra. For this and the reasons noted above, he therefore granted Hall's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, which meant the case was dismissed. Matot v. CH, supra. Matot can presumably try suing in state court.
If you would like to read a little more about the facts in the case and see a photo of Matot, check out the news story you can find here.
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Is it hard to find a job?
Upon meeting the basic requirements finding a job that fits your needs is very easy.
Most jobs will hire you without experience. They will take the time to train you.
No, knowing the local language is not permitted to get an English teaching job. Most schools provide you with a Teaching Assistant. However, understanding the local language does help with life outside work.
Schools and Global Culture will help you find a place to live.
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Porcelain? If so here is how!
If your water contains tons of minerals like mine, you will need to wipe it out each and every single time you use the sink in order to avoid calcium or lime spots.
I use barkeepers friend on my sink. It works magic! Or just pick up some magic erasers. Those can remove ANYTHING!


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Four Key Takeaways from The Keys by DJ Khaled (For artists!)
Becky Jewell March 7, 2018
Here are my Four The Key takeaways from The Keys:
1. 🔑 Major Key: Stay Fresh.
"If you want to be treated like a boss, you've got to look the part."
DJ Khaled even says it's good to get a haircut twice a week. The logic here is, you never know when you will get a chance to prove yourself. You might meet Jay-Z tomorrow and you should have great hair at all times just in case. Although Khaled does recognize that not all of us can afford twice-a-week haircuts (until we've made it, that is), he is a huge ally for self care and respecting yourself through dress.
This does make sense for your everyday visual artist - while I prefer to have paint-splattered clothes in the studio, it is nice to add a good piece here or there for wearing to shows and museums. 8)
2. 🔑 Major Key: Pick up the Phone.
Khaled tells us: "If you have a situation, you pick up the phone. You set up a meeting and you talk among grown men and grown women."
It's easy to resonate with this major key because... sometimes you can't solve everything through email, Twitter, or chat. It's much better to pick up the phone, take time, listen, and solve problems as grown men and grown women.
While Khaled loves Snapchat, he isn't the biggest fan of social media or the culture of online witchhunts. "I can't imagine a bigger waste of time. Who has all this energy to stir things up? People who aren't successful and people who aren't working hard, that's who."
I loved this piece of advice from DJ Khaled because, as artists, we need to work on our work - stirring up trouble online is a short term game to win attention. Good work and solid art are the keys to longterm success.
The book THEY don't want you to read
3. 🔑 Major Key: Real Talk, Don't Jetski at night.
Just search Youtube for DJ Khaled Jetski Night. You'll see why this is a Major Key.
The incident of the jetski at nighttime also made DJ Khaled more famous. When Khaled got lost on the water and started up his SnapChat app to document the experience, it showed that he cared about his fans and that his fans cared about him. When he was in trouble, he couldn't call the police, he couldn't exactly call home... but he could call his fans in the time where he needed them most. Like the poet Saul Williams once said, Vulnerability is Power.
Yet... be careful about Jetskiing at night.
Art I made in 2015 of DJ Khaled Jetskiing at night
As far as how to not jetski at night as an artist ... I suppose it is a matter of having fun and taking risks, but not taking too many risks.
4. 🔑 Major Key: Keep Two Rooms Cooking at the Same Time.
In this chapter, DJ Khaled reveals that as a producer, artist, and CEO, he knows how to do every job, even the smallest, most menial jobs in his organization. He stays humble. Knowing all the parts of the machine and working on at least two projects at once keeps up the momentum in his production studio.
In our world where focusing is as prized as gold, and where industries push their best and brightest into hyper-specializations, it is nice to know that at the end of the day, it's not only okay to be a renaissance man, or a jack-of-all trades ... but... it's cool. It's a good thing to have experience in every dimension of your business. It's okay to take on more than one project at once. In fact, crossovers of knowledge and overlaps in projects can fuse together and make the most rare and valuable beat of them all: something new.
The practice of keeping two rooms cooking at the same time works for visual art as well. When the paint is drying, it's good to start another painting or pick up a new drawing. With the technology and resources that are available today, artists are able to be so multidisciplined. #D animators can be poets, collage artists are businessowners, and sculptors are painters. Never limit yourself. Or, as Khaled would say "Don't play yourself."
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A Bandeira do Texas, conhecida também como "Bandeira da Estrela Solitária", consiste de uma faixa vertical em azul, é semelhante a bandeira do Chile, de um terço do comprimento no lado esquerdo, com uma estrela branca, e duas faixas horizontais na qual a superior é branca e a inferior é vermelha.

Quando o Texas tornou-se estado americano em 29 de dezembro de 1845 após derrotar o México, sua bandeira nacional tornou-se a bandeira estadual.

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WITHDRAWN: Etidronate for treating and preventing postmenopausal osteoporosis.
BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is a clinical syndrome of reduced bone mass and increased fracture susceptibility. There are now a number of options, including etidronate which can decrease the risk of fractures. OBJECTIVES: To systematically review the efficacy of etidronate on bone density, fractures and toxicity in postmenopausal women. SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched MEDLINE from 1966 to December 1998, examined citations of relevant articles, and the proceedings of international osteoporosis meetings. We contacted osteoporosis investigators to identify additional studies, primary authors, and pharmaceutical industry sources for unpublished data. SELECTION CRITERIA: We included thirteen trials (with 1010 participants) that randomized women to etidronate or an alternative (placebo or calcium and/or vitamin D) and measured bone density for at least one year. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: For each trial, three independent reviewers assessed the methodological quality and abstracted data. MAIN RESULTS: The data suggested a reduction in vertebral fractures with a pooled relative risk of 0.60% (95% CI 0.41 to 0.88). There was no effect on non-vertebral fractures (pooled relative risk 1.00, (95% CI 0.68 to 1.42)). Etidronate, relative to control, increased bone density after three years of treatment in the lumbar spine by 4.27% (95% CI 2.66 to 5.88), in the femoral neck by 2.19% (95% CI 0.43, 3.95) and in the total body by 0.97% (95% CI 0.39, 1.55). Effects were larger at 4 years, though the number of patients followed was much smaller. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Etidronate increases bone density in the lumbar spine and femoral neck. The pooled estimates of fracture reduction with etidronate are consistent with a reduction in vertebral fractures, but no effect on non-vertebral fractures.


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Dismay as Bus Eireann to axe X7 Expressway servicing Kilkenny
Confirmed: Route will cease to operate from April 2
Sam Matthews
sam.matthews@kilkennypeople.ie
There is further bad news today for people in Kilkenny who use the Bus Eireann X7 Expressway service, which connects Clonmel to Dublin.
The transport company has announced that the route will cease to operate from next Sunday, April 2. There had been plans to axe the service earlier this month, but these plans were suspended as talks resumed between the Bus Eireann and the unions.
Now, on a day when it was announced that an all-out strike will come into effect from midnight, it's been confirmed that the X7 Expressway will soon be no more.
"We regret to inform customers that from Sunday, 2 April 2017, Expressway Route X7 will cease to operate," reads a statement on the company's website.
Details of alternative connections between Clonmel – Kilkenny – Dublin and Dublin Airport may be found on the National Transport Authority journey planner at www.journeyplanner.transportforireland.ie.


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Hazlewood's five put Test in balance
Josh Hazlewood takes five-wicket haul on debut as hosts Australia fight back in the second Test against India.
India could only add 97 to their overnight total [EPA]
Josh Hazlewood's five for 68 on debut helped Australia battle back into the second Test against India but the contest remained in the balance when the hosts finished the second day in Brisbane on 221 for four.
India, who had been looking to drive home their advantage after taking charge on day one at the Gabba, could only add 97 runs to their overnight tally before being dismissed for 408 at lunch.
Australia lost three wickets in the second session and it was left to stand-in skipper Steve Smith to steady the innings with a half century to add to the unbeaten knocks of 162 and 52 he made in the first Test victory in Adelaide.
The 25-year-old, deputising for the injured Michael Clarke for the remainder of the series, was 65 not out when stumps were drawn early because of bad light, with Mitchell Marsh alongside him on seven.
All-rounder Marsh was unable to field let alone bowl after suffering a hamstring injury on Wednesday, one of a slew of Australians who ended the sweltering first day of the contest in the treatment room.
"We all came out and bowled to our plan today and picked up the last six wickets for just about where we wanted them, so things are good," Hazlewood said.
Six of India's wickets were caught behind, giving Brad Haddin a share of the Australian record for catches by a wicketkeeper in a Test innings.


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Q: ObjectListView adding items to it I am a bit lost and I would like to add some items to a Fast ObjectListView. what I have is not working, and I cant seem to find anything online with vb.net samples
    Dim LvItm As BrightIdeasSoftware.OLVListItem = lstMain.Items.Add("title")
    With LvItm
        .SubItems.Add("name")
        .SubItems.Add("last")
        .SubItems.Add("phone")
        .SubItems.Add("address")
        .EnsureVisible()
    End With

A: ObjectListView works completely different from normal ListView, usually you dont add individual items.
In short:
- create columns
- set aspect names of created columns to property names of your objects
- point objectlistview to list of objects
See example below:
Imports BrightIdeasSoftware

Public Class Person
    Public Property name As String
    Public Property last As String
    Public Property phone As String
    Public Property address As String
End Class

Dim LvItm As New Person With {.name = "John",
                              .last = "Smith",
                              .phone = "555-69997-44",
                              .address = "Main Str. 1"}
Dim LvLst As New List(Of Person)
LvLst.Add(LvItm)

ObjectListView1.View = View.Details
ObjectListView1.Columns.Add(New OLVColumn With {.Text = "Name",
                                                .AspectName = "name"})
ObjectListView1.Columns.Add(New OLVColumn With {.Text = "Last Name",
                                                .AspectName = "last"})
ObjectListView1.Columns.Add(New OLVColumn With {.Text = "Phone",
                                                .AspectName = "phone"})
ObjectListView1.Columns.Add(New OLVColumn With {.Text = "Address",
                                                .AspectName = "address"})
ObjectListView1.SetObjects(LvLst)

With everything set-up you can add items to the list or manipulate in any way,
hitting ObjectListView1.SetObjects(LvLst) again to refresh view.
You can also add items to ObjectListView directly:
Dim p As New Person
p.name = "Steve"
p.last = "Wilson"
p.phone = "777-888-9987"
p.address = "First Str. 1"
ObjectListView1.AddObject(p)

Remember that items added directly were not added to your List(Of Person)


Introduction: There are nearly 120 million visits to emergency departments each year, one for every three people in the United States. Fifty percent of all hospital admissions come from this group, a marked change from the mid-1990s when the emergency department was a source of only a third of admissions. As the population increases and ages, the growth rate for emergency department visits and the resulting admissions will exceed historical trends creating a surge in demand for inpatient beds.
Background: Current health care reform efforts are highlighting deficiencies in access, cost, and quality of care in the United States. The need for more inpatient capacity brings attention to short-stay admissions and whether they are necessary. Emergency department observation units provide a suitable alternate venue for many such patients at lower cost without adversely affecting access or quality.
Methods: This article serves as a literature synthesis in support of observation units, with special emphasis on the clinical and financial aspects of their use. The observation medicine literature was reviewed using PubMed, and selected sources were used to summarize the current state of practice. In addition, the authors introduce a novel conceptual framework around measures of observation unit efficiency.
Findings and Practice Implications: Observation units provide high-quality and efficient care to patients with common complaints seen in the emergency department. More frequent use of observation can increase patient safety and satisfaction while decreasing unnecessary inpatient admissions and improving fiscal performance for both emergency departments and the hospitals in which they operate. For institutions with the volume to justify the fixed costs of operating an observation unit, the dominant strategy for all stakeholders is to create one.
Christopher W. Baugh, MD, MBA, is Medical Director, Emergency Department Observation Unit, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. E-mail: cbaugh@partners.org.
Arjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA, is Emergency Medicine Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital; and Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, MA.
J. Stephen Bohan, MD, MS, is Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Health Care Management Review36(1):28-37, January-March 2011.


The third lecture was about language models. You discovered how important language models are and how we can approximate real language with them. N-gram models (unigrams, bigrams, trigrams) were discussed, together with their probability modeling and issues. We discussed perplexity and its close relationship with entropy, we introduced smoothing and interpolation techniques to deal with the issue of data sparsity.
In the second part of the class, we discussed the first homework in more detail.