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Evelyn R. Hall
Published 5:19 pm Tuesday, February 2, 2021
RICH SQUARE – Evelyn Robbins Hall, 96, of Rich Square, NC, passed on to be with Jesus on February 2, 2021 at Pine Forest Rest Home. She was born October 7, 1924, to Robert and Alma Robbins. She graduated from Rich Square High School in 1941, and she enjoyed keeping in touch with her classmates. She particularly looked forward to each class reunion.
Evelyn is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Lynwood Hall; sisters, Margaret Garvey, Esther Pittman, and Janie Burgess; and brothers, Wilson Robbins, Eugene Robbins, and Haywood Robbins.
Evelyn is survived by her son, Donnie Hall and wife Carol; grandchildren, Daniel Hall (Christi) and Caroline Jones (Brian); and great-grandchildren; Jordyn Hall, Garrett Hall, Brooks Hall, Brogan Jones and Camden Jones. She is also survived by a loving, caring brother, Willie Robbins, and several nieces, great-nieces, nephews and great-nephews. She loved and cherished her family and was always interested in their activities and was so proud of all their accomplishments.
Evelyn loved Rich Square Baptist Church and volunteering with the Flower Calendar ministry there. She also got a lot of enjoyment encouraging and helping others through her greeting cards ministry and her pecan and lemon pie ministry. It was an everyday thing for her to care about other people and try to do things that made life easier for them.
Evelyn worked at Mylcraft Mfg. for many years and she made many good friends there. Some of those dear friends remained in touch with her after her retirement.
The family expresses their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Pastor Bob Rogers for the many years of his faithful ministry to Evelyn and her family; to Dr. Michael Alston for many years of excellent medical care; and to the Staff and Management of Pine Forest Rest Home for taking such loving care of her in recent years.
Due to Covid-19 circumstances, the public is welcome to visit Garrett-Sykes Funeral Service in Rich Square to sign the register and pay their respects on Friday, February 5, 2021 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Masks will be requested, and social distancing will be expected.
There will be a Graveside Service on Saturday, February 6, 2021 at 11 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Rich Square with the Rev. Bob Rogers officiating. Everyone attending will be expected to social distance and wear a mask. Friends are welcome to speak to the family after the service.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions may be made to Rich Square Baptist Church, PO Box 589, Rich Square, N.C. 27869 or to Pine Forest Rest Home, 3277 NC Highway 35, Woodland, N.C. 27897 or online by visiting tmcfunding.com/search then type Evelyn Hall.
Garrett-Sykes Funeral Service – Rich Square Chapel is handling the arrangements for the Hall Family and online condolences can be directed to the Family by visiting garrettsykesfs.com.
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Will Ferrell is an American comedian, actor, and author that has a?net worth of hundred million dollars. Will Ferrell is famous for the numerous comedic movies of his and the years of his as a sketch comedy artist on Saturday Night Live. Ferrell started to be interested in acting during his high school year's, producing comic voices for the school's day morning announcements. Ferrell attended the Faculty of Southern California, reviewing Sports Graduating and broadcasting with a degree of Sports Information. Ferrell joined the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings and produced his improvisation skills.
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The male punched her twice in the face and produced a knife before cutting the victims face.
The woman suffered a broken jaw and is currently at hospital awaiting surgery.
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Officers are appealing for anyone with information about the assault to get in touch.
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Charge polarization in partially lithiated single-walled carbon nanotubes
Yu Fedoseeva, L. L. Lapteva, A. A. Makarova, L. G. Bulusheva, A. V. Okotrub
Лаборатория углеродных наноматериалов ФЕН
Кафедра неорганической химии ФЕН
Кафедра нанокомпозитных материалов
Investigation of carbon/lithium interfaces is of great importance for elaboration of energy storage devices. Here, the effect of vacuum thermal deposition of lithium on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is investigated by in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy. From the XPS data, the composition of lithiated sample is LiC24. That corresponds to the presence of two types of carbon atoms on the SWCNT surface, namely, those located closely and far away from the adsorbed lithium. Quantum-chemical modeling of XPS valence-band spectra and calculation of atomic charges and molecular electrostatic potential map found that the former type of carbon atoms is in strong positive electric field created by lithium, whereas the Li-free SWCNT areas are charged negatively. An alternation of areas of positive potential and negative potential on the surface of partially lithiated SWCNTs can significantly affect processes in an electrochemical cell.
https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp01510d
Опубликовано - 21 сен 2018
10.1039/c8cp01510d
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN) Химические соединения
Lithium Химические соединения
lithium Физика и астрономия
carbon nanotubes Физика и астрономия
Polarization Химические соединения
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X ray photoelectron spectroscopy Химические соединения
photoelectron spectroscopy Физика и астрономия
Fedoseeva, Y., Lapteva, L. L., Makarova, A. A., Bulusheva, L. G., & Okotrub, A. V. (2018). Charge polarization in partially lithiated single-walled carbon nanotubes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(35), 22592-22599. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp01510d
Fedoseeva, Yu ; Lapteva, L. L. ; Makarova, A. A. ; Bulusheva, L. G. ; Okotrub, A. V. / Charge polarization in partially lithiated single-walled carbon nanotubes. В: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2018 ; Том 20, № 35. стр. 22592-22599.
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"The work of NYSUT Health Care Professionals is vital not only to individuals but to society as a whole, the larger labor movement, and to students across New York State."
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Sweet violet. A tiny evergreen perennial from Europe, growing 20 cm (8") high. The leaves, flower buds and flowers are all edible raw, and an oil distilled from the leaves and flowers in used in liqueurs and perfumery. The roots, leaves and flowers are used medicinally. Can be used as a ground cover plant. A woodland floor plant which likes a moist soil and part or full shade; hardy to -25°C. Stratification: ND. Number of seeds: 25.


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Q: the kivymd app freezes when adding a large number of widgets When I try to add add many widgets to MDList, the app freezes. Can I update gui after every widget I add? Is it possible to add widgets without freezing?
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivymd.app import MDApp
from kivymd.uix import Screen
from kivymd.uix.button import MDRaisedButton
from kivymd.uix.list import OneLineIconListItem
kv = '''
ScreenManager:
    id: screen_mng
    Screen:
        name: 'scr 1'
        Button_:
            screen_mng: screen_mng
            text: 'scr 2'
            on_release:
                screen_mng.current = 'scr 2'
    Screen_:
        list: container_
        name: 'scr 2'
        on_pre_enter: self.load_items()
        ScrollView:
            MDList:
                id: container_'''

class Button_(MDRaisedButton):
    screenmanager = ObjectProperty()

class Screen_(Screen):
    list = ObjectProperty()

    def load_items(self):
        for i in range(100):
            item = OneLineIconListItem(text=str(i))
            self.list.add_widget(item)

class Test(MDApp):
    def build(self):
        return Builder.load_string(kv)

app = Test()
app.run()

If I use multithreading, nothing changes, the app still freezes
def load_items(self):
    Thread(target=self._load_items).start()

def _load_items(self):
    for i in range(100):
        item = OneLineIconListItem(text=str(i))
        self.list.add_widget(item)

Help please

A: Thank you to everyone who commented on my question, I did everything I needed to do.
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty, StringProperty
from kivymd.app import MDApp
from kivymd.uix import Screen
from kivymd.uix.button import MDRaisedButton
from kivymd.uix.list import OneLineIconListItem
from kivy.uix.recycleview import RecycleView

kv = '''
<ListItem>:
    IconLeftWidget:
        icon: root.icon

<RV>:

    viewclass: 'ListItem'
    RecycleBoxLayout:
        default_size: None, dp(56)
        default_size_hint: 1, None
        size_hint_y: None
        height: self.minimum_height
        orientation: 'vertical'
<Screen_>:
    BoxLayout:
        Button_:
            text: 'update'
            on_release: rv.update()
        RV:
            id: rv

ScreenManager:
    id: screen_mng
    Screen:
        name: 'scr 1'
        Button_:
            screen_mng: screen_mng
            text: 'scr 2'
            on_release:
                screen_mng.current = 'scr 2'
    Screen_:
        name: 'scr 2'

'''

class Button_(MDRaisedButton):
    screenmanager = ObjectProperty()

class RV(RecycleView):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(RV, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        self.update()

    def update(self):
        self.data = [{'type': i, 'arg': i**2, 'text': str(i + 1)} for i in range(100)]

class ListItem(OneLineIconListItem):
    icon = StringProperty()

    def __init__(self, type=None, arg=None, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(**kwargs)
        self.arg = arg
        self.type = type
        self.icon = self.__return_icon()

    def __return_icon(self):
        self.type = 'android'
        return 'android'

class Screen_(Screen):
    list = ObjectProperty()

    def load_items(self):
        self.list.update()

class Test(MDApp):
    def build(self):
        return Builder.load_string(kv)

app = Test()
app.run()


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In this paper we deal with graph classification. We propose a new algorithm for performing sparse logistic regression for graphs, which is comparable in accuracy with other methods of graph classification and produces probabilistic output in addition. Sparsity is required for the reason of interpretability, which is often necessary in domains such as bioinformatics or chemoinformatics.
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Find out how we transformed the way Sunseeker Charters Poole do business online with a new website, email marketing & a web app too.
Sunseeker Charters, based in Poole Dorset, contacted us to revamp their dated WordPress website and recreate it from the ground up using our bespoke approach. As the project progressed we also recognised further needs for a web application to let their customers manage their charter holiday online and a Sunseeker Broker portal to let staff see yacht availability.
We created an immersive homepage design that really lets the yachts do the talking. The edge to edge nature of the design is really bold and looks great on tablets and mobile phones too.
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Government, Grants, Media, Nonprofits
We imagined foundations would hire us to help improve RFPs/funding guidelines. We were wrong.
December 6, 2015 Jake Seliger	1 Comment
Twenty and change years ago, Isaac was starting Seliger + Associates and expected to be hired by foundations and perhaps even some government agencies who might want help streamlining their RFPs or funding guidelines. Seliger + Associates has unusual expertise on grants, grant writing, and RFPs, which could, in theory, make helping funders part of the firm's regular practice. Isaac imagined that funders would want real world feedback to improve the grant making process, make themselves more efficient and efficacious, ensure their money was being channeled in useful directions, and so forth. Even in the early days of Seliger + Associates, we knew a lot that could help funders, and we waited for the calls to start coming.
I was about ten at the time. Now I'm considerably older and we've long since stopped waiting. Funders, it turns out, strictly follow the golden rule in this respect: he who has the gold makes the rules. Funders routinely ask applicants and other stakeholders about how to make the world a better place, but they have no interest at all in talking to the people who could conceivably help them most with respect to the funding process. Isaac's initial expectation turned out to be totally wrong.
Isaac and I were talking about the vast silence from funders in light of Mark Zuckerberg's recent announcement that he and his wife, Pricilla Chan, plan to donate tens of billions of dollars to nonprofits in the coming decades through newly formed Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) LLC.* That's a laudable effort and we're happy they're doing this. Still, we wonder if they'll talk to people who toil daily in the grant writing mines to make sure that the funding guidelines CZI uses and the RFPs CZI issues are grounded in the reality of what would make it easiest to identify applicants most likely to achieve their charitable purposes with the minimum friction for nonprofits. Based on past experiences, we doubt it.
Despite the headlines you may have read, philanthropy as we know it is quite resistant to change—especially on the government side. On the private sector side, signaling and status are far more important than efficiency. Gates and Zuckerberg may be challenging the signaling dynamic, and we're on their side in that respect, but we think signaling is too ingrained in human nature to have much effect. Overcoming signaling is hard at best and impossible at worst. Look at the way ridiculous SUVs continue to be a status-raiser among many suburbanites for one obvious, easy example of this at work. Geoffrey Miller's book Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior details many others.
* The name of the LLC, "CZI," amuses us: it's an unpronounceable acronym that sounds like a Cold-War-era Soviet ministry. The first rule of developing grant-related acronyms to to make them pronounceable.
Bill Gates, Foundations, Funders, Grants, mark zuckerberg, zuckerberg
Advice, Government
Collaboration is Often Inefficient: The Camille Paglia, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Christie examples
May 17, 2014 Jake Seliger	Comment
Almost all RFPs include requirements for "collaboration" with local entities. Yet I recently read this from Camille Paglia:
After endless quarrels with authority, prankish disruptiveness, and impatience with management and procedure, I now see that hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
Furthermore, in the fascinating article "Schooled: Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's schools. They got an education," Dale Russakoff writes:*
Early in the summer of 2010, Booker presented Christie with a proposal, stamped "Confidential Draft," titled "Newark Public Schools—A Reform Plan." It called for imposing reform from the top down; a more open political process could be taken captive by unions and machine politicians. "Real change has casualties and those who prospered under the pre-existing order will fight loudly and viciously," the proposal said. Seeking consensus would undercut real reform.
Neither hierarchical nor egalitarian decision processes are automatically better. They're different. Highly open, transparent processes work in some situations and don't work in others. You'd never know that from reading contemporary RFPs, however, which make endless consensus building sound like an eternal truth akin the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Many if not most successful companies aren't run on a primarily consensus basis. At Apple, if Steve Jobs said the bezel should be one millimeter, then the bezel was one millimeter regardless of what anyone else thought. He got the right answers, at least in terms of revenue. The bosses at Google appear to get a lot of answers right. As we've said before, nonprofits are more like businesses than is commonly realized. They compete with each other, and within the organization the Executive Director can (usually) fire people at will. That's particularly true when an Executive Director says, "This is the way it's going to be," and a subordinate staff member refuses, or wants to keep litigating after a decision has been made.
Sometimes fast, "wrong" decisions are better than slow, "right" decisions—and open, transparent, consensus-driven projects can be subject to self-interest. In Seattle, for example, it has taken literally decades to build even very simple light rail lines, in part because every constituent along the way first had to be consulted and then had to file a lawsuit, which had to be fought, and only then could the effort proceed. We've got so much process involved that in building that we're too often unable to build anything.
In the real world, organizations collaborate to the extent they need to and don't collaborate to the extent they don't. Smart executive directors ask knowledgable parties for information and input, then they make the best decisions they can based on the information they have.
That can mean telling someone they don't get what they want. That's how life works, as Paglia understands. Subordinates who are sufficiently disruptive might eventually be fired. Those who think current management is dumb can decide that "You Don't Have to be in a Shithole Nonprofit." For most nonprofits in most fields, quitting and starting a new nonprofit is a viable option. There are some situations in which the local powers-that-be can block new entrants to market—as anyone who wants to provide homeless services and gets crosswise with their local Continuum of Care can attest—but in most situations grants, whatever their other flaws, are a market-based system.
Someone who thinks they can do it better than the competition can make a go. We've worked for lots of upstart nonprofits that want to take grants or contracts away from the local heavies. We've also worked for lots of incumbent nonprofits worried about local upstarts (threatening the local power structure is one way to ensure that better proposals get written). Neither upstarts nor incumbents are inherently "better." The situation is always situational. Too bad RFP writers don't realize it.
* We've worked for clients in Camden, albeit smaller but very similar to Newark, and parts of the article read like our needs assessments.
camille paglia, Collaboration, Continuum of Care, hierarchy, mark zuckerberg, pagila, zuckerberg


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A Boulder-Denver 'Power Past Fossil Fuels' bike ride in September served as a rally for an initiative to create in Boulder, Colo. a locally owned power company that would emphasize renewable energy over coal.
The city of Boulder, Colo., has won the right to take its power supply – and carbon emissions – away from corporate control.
The change for Boulder came in November when voters passed two ballot measures that allow the city to begin the process of forming its own municipal power utility.
The city's current electricity supplier, Xcel Energy, is a large corporation that sources more than 60 percent of its power from coal. Colorado climate activists tried for years to persuade Xcel to transition from coal to renewables, arguing that the state's plains, mountains, and 300 days of annual sunshine give it abundant potential for the development of wind and solar power.
But they found Xcel's take-up of renewables was frustratingly slow. Xcel is investing $400 million in its coal-powered plants, and its plans for renewables stops at just 30 percent in 2020, with no further increase until 2028.
City officials were increasingly skeptical about the corporation's willingness to meet their clean energy goals. Analysis showed a municipal utility could work, while prioritizing climate change action over profits to shareholders.
Boulder has long cherished the goal of becoming a leader in tackling climate change. In 2002, the city council passed the Kyoto Resolution on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2006, residents voted for the nation's first city carbon tax to achieve those targets.
"Municipalization" – the legal process whereby the city would form its own utility company – has been on the table since 2004. When Xcel countered with the offer of an ambitious city-wide smart grid in 2008, Boulder accepted. But Xcel and its partners didn't do a cost-benefit analysis prior to starting the project, and the portion of the costs consumers would pay rose from a projected $15.3 million to (at last count) $44.8 million.
Meanwhile, the corporation's reliance on coal affected its use of wind power. Coal plants can't be switched on and off as the wind blows. So when there was more electricity generated than needed to meet consumer demand, Xcel would curtail its wind power purchases in favor of selling power from its own coal plants.
As Xcel's 20-year franchise with Boulder came due for renewal, city officials were increasingly skeptical about the corporation's willingness to meet their clean energy goals. Analysis showed a municipal utility could work, while prioritizing climate change action over profits to shareholders. In 2011, the city drafted two ballots for voter approval: Ballot Issue 2B would increase the utility occupation tax to fund the planning process. Ballot Issue 2C would authorize the city to form the utility and issue bonds to buy the distribution system – providing that the new municipal utility's rates would be equal to or less than Xcel's.
Thus began a closely fought battle between corporate money and grass-roots activism. Xcel financed a "vote no" campaign to the tune of nearly $1 million, buying extensive (and some said, misleading) advertising and hiring door-to-door canvassers.
One development that climate activists found particularly galling was when Leslie Glustrom, research director for climate group Clean Energy Action, was banned from carrying out her watchdog role at the Public Utility Commission – which regulates Xcel.
But the "yes" campaign for 2B and 2C drew on Boulder's strengths – it's a college town populated with progressives and technical experts, a hub for clean energy start-ups and atmospheric research. The campaign support group, RenewablesYes, was able to assemble an impressive and all-volunteer "Citizen Technical Team" who worked out a model that used solar, wind, and electricity use data to analyze Boulder's electricity mix. Then they publicized their analysis – that a local energy utility could reduce the city's carbon emissions by 66 percent, increase its use of renewables to 40 percent, and keep rates the same as, or lower than, those charged by Xcel.
The list of endorsements for 2B and 2C grew, and eventually included dozens of elected officials, a roster of businesses, three local newspapers, and over 1,000 residents. Political action organization New Era Colorado put additional vitality into the effort by mobilizing young people, who worked phone banks and pounded the pavement to counter Xcel's advertising.
Municipal utilities aren't the untested experiments Xcel's "vote no" campaign made them out to be – there are more than 2,000 public utilities serving 46 million customers in the United States. While some of these utilities are in small or rural markets, Boulder is a big, growing market – it generates at least $100 million in annual revenue for Xcel. The revolutionary potential of Boulder's ballots is that producing renewable energy for a municipal utility could keep millions of dollars in the local economy instead of exporting them to the headquarters of an investor-held company.
Boulder officials estimate it will take three to five years to create the power-and-light utility. Climate change activists working on the plan hope it will be a successful model for other cities.
"Everything we are doing," says Ken Regelson, "we plan on sharing as widely as possible … there are lots of lessons to learn and share." As Boulder works out the details, other cities are watching. They may already be planning to "go Boulder," ditch the corporation, and take control of their own local power.
• Valerie Schloredt wrote this article for 9 Strategies to End Corporate Rule, the Spring 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Valerie is associate editor at YES!. John Farrell, at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, contributed to this story.
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I'm the Head of Magical Law Enforcement and I have the right to go wherever I please.
Torquil Travers was Head of Magical Law Enforcement for the Ministry of Magic during the mid-1920s. His swaggering personality was "harsh and mean-spirited" (CG).
When Newt Scamander requested to have his international travel restrictions lifted in 1927 after confronting Grindelwald and an Obscurus in New York City, Travers exaggerated his role, accusing Newt of "destroying half of New York," which was not a fair appraisal. He insisted that Newt either had to become an Auror like his brother, Theseus, or never travel abroad again. Newt declined the invitation, and went abroad to Paris soon after (without permission) to be reunited with American Auror Tina Goldstein.
Travers was just as rough and tough on Dumbledore, who was teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in 1927. He believed that Dumbledore sent Newt to Paris for reasons of his own, and that Dumbledore was plotting against him. However, even though Travers did not like Dumbledore, he believed that he was the only one who could equal Grindelwald's power and stop his rampage across Europe. When Dumbledore declined, Travers implied that it was because he and Grindelwald were once "as close as brothers," and showed all the Aurors a slideshow of pictures of the two boys together in their youth. Getting nowhere with this rude tactic, Travers merely slapped metal Admonitor cuffs on Dumbledore which would keep track of all his spells, and flew off to Paris with the other Aurors to confront Grindelwald head-on. But Dumbledore warned Newt's brother Theseus that this approach to Grindelwald would only cause more deaths, and urged him not to follow orders from Travers.
Torquil is a from the Nordic name "Torcall," referring to Thor, the god of thunder. This perhaps is a comment on Travers habit of shouting orders.
Travers is a common British name with many literary links. There are several characters named Travers in the Jeeves and Wooster books by British author P.G. Wodehouse. The author of the Mary Poppins books, Australian-born writer P.L. Travers worked for the British Ministry of Information during World War II and traveled to New York City, much like Newt Scamander.


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17 under age 15 who died from gunshots
By: Nikki Ferrell
UPDATE: Sadly, we updated this list Oct. 1, 2015 after a 6-month-old child was shot and killed in Cleveland.
17 children under the age of 15 have died from gunshot wounds in Cuyahoga County since 2010.
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Ten of those deaths happened in the city of Cleveland.
In 2015, so far, four children — ages 6 months, 1, 3 and 5 — have died from gunshot wounds. The 1-year-old's death was accidental and the two others were in drive-by shootings. The 6-month-old was shot in a car, but the details surrounding the shooting have not yet been determined by police.
In 2014, six children — including one who died by suicide — were killed by gunshot wounds.
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Alexander Michael Shaide, white male, 14. Gunshot wound to the head in his home on Feb 13, 2010. Origin of violence - homicide, suicide or accidental - never determined by medical examiner.
Chaniya Lanieca Wynn, black female, 1 year old. Gunshot wounds to the head and torso on Feb. 18, 2012. Murder-suicide in a garage.
Camron Roberts, black male, 10. Gunshot wound to the abdomen and pelvis on March 5, 2012. Homicide at his home.
Kerri E. Allen, white female, 10. Gunshot wounds to the abdomen on April 12, 2012. Homicide in the women's restroom at Cracker Barrel in Parma.
Lataevia Lynnae' Williams, black female, 14. Penetrating gunshot wound to the neck on July 28, 2012. Homicide on a Cleveland sidewalk.
Kamiyah Michelle Perry, black female, 6. Gunshot wound to the head on Aug. 13, 2012. Murder-suicide on a Cleveland front porch.
Nevaeh Latrina Benson, black female, 6. Gunshot wound to the head on Jan. 19, 2013. Accidental, happened in a Cleveland home.
Jermani Niambi Lorraine Brooks, black female, 5. Gunshot wound to the head on Jan. 19, 2014. Homicide in a car.
(Name withheld by newsnet5.com), white male, 14. Gunshot wound to the head on April 14, 2014. Suicide at a home.
Derrice M. Alexander, black male, 2. Gunshot wounds to the head and neck on June 10, 2014. Homicide at a Cleveland home.
Davia Alexis Garth, black female, 12. Gunshot wound to the trunk on Oct. 30, 2014. Homicide at a Cleveland home.
Juwan Johnson, black male, 16 minutes old. Prematurity due to fatal maternal gunshot wounds on Nov. 21, 2014. Homicide in the driveway of a Cleveland home.
Tamir Rice, black male, 12. Gunshot wound to the torso on Nov. 23, 2014. Homicide outside the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland.
Braylon Syhir Robinson, black male, 1 year old. Gunshot wound to the head on April 12, 2015. Homicide at a Cleveland home.
Ramon Devionte Burnett, black male, 5. Gunshot wound to the torso on Sept. 4, 2015. Homicide in the rear courtyard of a Cleveland home.
Major Howard, black male, 3. Sept. 15, 2015.
Name not yet released, female, 6 months. Oct. 1, 2015; shot while riding in a car.
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As organizations deploy multiple security solutions to safeguard corporate networks from wide-ranging threats, it becomes increasingly difficult to perform labor-intensive and error-prone tasks such as risk analysis, change management, auditing and compliance checks. Palo Alto Networks and Tufin® have partnered to help customers increase operational efficiency and reduce risk by intelligently automating firewall policy management.
Today's attackers are using exploit kits to automatically find vulnerabilities in common systems. As the use of these attacks increase, so does your chance of being compromised. In order to better protect your organization, you'll need to understand the inner workings of exploit kits.
Palo Alto Networks and Solera Networks are combining next generation firewalls with active network forensics to enable security administrators to "see" critical attacks, uncover their root cause and quickly adapt their infrastructure to prevent recurrence and mitigate risk.
Enterprise Mobility and BYOD trends are causing significant disruption to traditional network security practices. The growth and diversity of mobile device usage combined with the requirement of anytime, anywhere access to applications and data, has presented significant operational challenges and security risk to the IT organization. Typical legacy enterprise LAN infrastructures were not architected with adequate management, visibility, and awareness necessary to adapt to today's application security and mobile provisioning requirements.
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In this video, John Kindervag, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, defines the "Zero Trust" network architecture, the three key concepts, and the architecture elements that make up a Zero Trust network.
The number of smartphones and tablets accessing data on the corporate networks is exploding. Some of these devices are enterprise owned, while many others are user owned. The new IT challenge deals with balancing security with end-user freedom, particularly on personally owned devices. These challenges intensify when considering the increasing demand for application and data access on smartphones and tablets. These devices and apps create new threat vectors that must be addressed by IT executives to prevent data leakage of sensitive corporate information.
As organizations deploy multiple security solutions to safeguard corporate networks from a wide range of threats, they are realizing that the traditional manual process of performing risk analysis, change management, auditing and compliance are labor-intensive and error-prone. To increase operational efficiency and minimize risk, Palo Alto Networks and AlgoSec have partnered to reduce network security policy complexity by intelligently automating firewall policy management, from optimization to risk analysis to change management.
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A Russian athlete's outreach to Ivanka Trump during the campaign raises a slew of new questions about Trump-Russia ties
Sonam Sheth
Jun. 7, 2018, 6:08 PM
Ivanka Trump watches as President Donald Trump delivers remarks after touring the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture on February 21, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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BuzzFeed News reported this week that Ivanka Trump connected Michael Cohen with Russian athlete Dmitry Klokov, who offered to introduce Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 election.
The meeting was meant to help clear the way for a Trump Tower Moscow deal.
A spokesperson for Ivanka's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement to Business Insider that the first daughter "did not know and never spoke to" Klokov directly.
Klokov's outreach to Ivanka Trump and Cohen is one of many instances in which Russia-linked individuals connected with the Trump campaign with offers of assistance.
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Ivanka Trump made headlines on Wednesday when BuzzFeed News reported that she connected Michael Cohen, a longtime lawyer for President Donald Trump, with a Russian athlete who offered to introduce Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin
The athlete, former Olympic weightlifter Dmitry Klokov, reportedly pitched the meeting in late 2015 to help pave the way for the Trump Organization to secure a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen reportedly rebuffed the offer after some back-and-forth with Klokov, presumably because he was already working to push the deal forward with the Russian-born businessman Felix Sater at the time.
Instead, "she received an unsolicited email from his wife (who she also did not know) and passed it on to Michael Cohen who she understood was working on any possible projects in Russia," the statement continued. "She did no more than that."
The spokesperson added that Ivanka did not know about the Trump Tower Moscow proposal until after her father signed a non-binding letter of intent. Trump signed the letter in late October 2015, while he was a presidential candidate, and Ivanka connected Cohen with Klokov in November.
Her lawyer's spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions about why she sought to open up another channel between the Trump Organization and Russia for the deal if she was already aware that Cohen was working on the project through Sater.
The spokesperson also did not respond when asked for more details about the email Ivanka said she received from Klokov's wife.
FBI and congressional investigators are said to be looking into the interactions between Cohen, Klokov, and the first daughter and have asked witnesses questions about it. A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Business Insider on Wednesday that Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the investigation into Russian election interference, has not contacted the White House with document or interview requests related to this.
But regardless of her's or Cohen's role in the matter, investigators' interest will likely be piqued by the fact that Klokov's pitch marks yet another instance of contact between members of the Trump campaign and Russia-linked entities.
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Klokov appears to have no background in real estate, and BuzzFeed noted that it's unclear whether he would have been able to make good on his proposal.
Sen. Richard Burr, who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, however, that he could see how Klokov and other Russian athletes may be drawn to Putin's politics.
"I can't speak specifically to athletes, but you see the oligarchs, and there is a model for them, and they do things on behalf of the country and on behalf of Putin at their own expense — they're not asked, they just assume the responsibility to do it," Burr told BuzzFeed News. "So it's not a stretch to say if Putin allows oligarchs to make money as long as they don't get involved in politics and they do things that are beneficial to Putin — I could see athletes falling into the same category."
Robert Deitz, a former top lawyer at the CIA and National Security Agency, suggested Klokov's pitch could have been part of an attempt to achieve two intertwined goals.
"It seems clear that some number of Russians, including Putin and many of his allies, wanted to encourage the election of Trump, in large measure because he had an interest in building hotels in Russia," Deitz said.
"My instinct is that the motivation was business, not ideological. But of course, Putin strongly disliked [Democratic nominee] Hillary Clinton," he said. "Hence, he and his friends were trying to kill two birds with one stone."
Frank Montoya, Jr., a former FBI special agent who served as the director of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, said that given the timing of the pitch, it "very well could be part of a coordinated effort amongst the Russians."
Putin's government has a finger on many business dealings in Moscow. Trump, meanwhile, has a decades-long history of fascination with Russia and often expressed a desire to do business there.
Putin "would definitely use them to try and gain access and control over someone like Trump (or any important American, for that matter)," Montoya said.
Klokov's outreach to Ivanka and Cohen was far from the only instance of communication between Trump associates and Russia-linked individuals or entities. In fact, Trump's campaign operatives, associates, or family members were in touch with Russia-linked entities, at times for expressly political purposes, at least six other times throughout the 2016 campaign.
'You're essentially trying to put out as many feelers as possible'
Trump (R) and Putin (L)
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"You're essentially trying to put out as many feelers as possible and see what you get back," Deitz said of Russia's efforts.
Not all the Trump campaign's contacts with Russians, including Klokov, occurred with individuals or organizations directly associated with the Kremlin. But Putin has a long history of using outside entities and proxies to do the Kremlin's dirty work as a way to ensure plausible deniability.
What's clear is that the Russians "were casting a wide net," said Glenn Carle, a former CIA operative.
"You go at the target in multiple ways, simultaneously," he said. "You exploit any contact you have, at every level, to see what works."
The biggest unanswered question as it relates to Ivanka's, Cohen's, and Sater's involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow deal is why the project fell through.
Sater told Talking Points Memo in August that his "last Moscow deal" for the Trump Organization "was in October of 2015" but that it "didn't go through because obviously he became president."
"Once the campaign was really going-going, it was obvious there were going to be no deals internationally," Sater said. "We were still working on it, doing something with it, November-December."
But the Trump Organization has pursued a plethora of international deals since he became president.
Montoya floated another possibility as to why the project was never finalized.
"Is it possible that Trump just walked away, perhaps because the 'asking' price was too high?" he said. "The Russians wanted a quid pro quo? If so, why not come clean with that? Why not brag about it in a tweet? Or did something else happen?"
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U.S. Gymnast Jade Carey Wins Gold in Gymnastics Floor Event Final at Tokyo Olympics
By Alice Park/Tokyo
August 2, 2021 6:24 AM EDT
It's been a tough week for the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. Heavily favored to win the team event and the all-around titles, as well as collect up to half a dozen medals in the event finals, those expectations were thrown into a tailspin when defending Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles pulled out of the team competition first, then the all-around and all but one of the event finals for which she had qualified, citing mental health reasons. Biles has since also said that she's experiencing the "twisties," a condition in which gymnasts lose their orientation in the air and can't control how they twist or land.
Biles' exit opened up opportunities for her teammates, not to mention gymnasts from other countries who, for years since Biles has dominated the sport, have been competing for second and third places. Biles earned gold on the floor exercise at the Rio Olympics, and was expected to defend that title—she qualified second before pulling out. Teammate Jade Carey qualified third, and on the second night of event finals, nailed all four of her tumbling passes, propelling herself to stunning heights on her double-double in the second run. Her score of 14.366 was higher than the highest score in qualifying, and enough for gold. Carey inched ahead of silver medalist Vanessa Ferrari from Italy by earning more points for a more difficult routine. Ferrari won silver and Japan's Mai Murakami and Russian Olympic Committee's Angelina Melnikova, who is the Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist in the all-around, tied for third.
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Carey's gold is the first individual medal for the Arizona native, who trains with her father Brian. Carey's gold was especially meaningful since she stumbled in the vault finals the night before; she tripped in running up to her first vault and had to downgrade her skill in the air in order to land safely.
"Coming back from a day like yesterday I'm really proud of myself for being able to put that behind me, and finish with probably the best floor routine I've ever done in my life," she said.
To get to Tokyo, Carey took advantage of a new Olympic qualifying system instituted by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for these Games—she participated in a series of competitions to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Her spot, however was a newly created nominative one, that allowed her to compete in the all-around competition but not in the team event. Her scores in the qualifying round of the all-around in Tokyo earned her one of the eight spots in the floor exercise final.
The U.S. women have two additional chances for medals in the balance beam final on Aug. 3 with both Biles returning to competition and Lee also qualifying.
Percolating under the surface of the happy medals ceremonies for the event finals, however, is a growing movement within the gymnastics community about rules that prevent gymnasts from warming up on the equipment minutes before they compete. While they have a warm up area behind the competition stage, once they are on the podium they compete "cold." Oddly, that rule only applies to the event finals; gymnasts competing in the team and all-around events are each given a "touch" warm up on the equipment. The rule was discussed during a FIG meeting about a decade ago during which the warm up was eliminated because they "undermine entertainment quality" of the event. One strong justification? The four minutes it would take to give the eight gymnasts on each event a 30-second "touch" would slow the pace of the event and make it less entertaining for viewers of the broadcast.
The lack of a touch warmup potentially played a role in sub-par performances on nearly all of the event finals of the first and second of three nights of competition, including uncharacteristic stutters on tumbling passes from the men on floor, hiccups on pommel horse and scaled down routines from some of the women, including newly crowned all-around champion Sunisa Lee, on uneven bars. Most alarming, the lack of warm up possibly contributed to that dangerous glitch for Carey .
"I think that rule is so dumb," said Lee after she competed in the uneven bars final, after skipping some of her more intricate and points-getting connections because she didn't feel comfortable to execute them in the moment.
That sentiment was echoed by gymnasts in the vault event as well. "I feel it would definitely be nice [to have a warmup]," said US gymnast MyKayla Skinner, who won silver in the event on the first day of event finals and was first to go in the lineup. "If we're able to touch the equipment before we went, I would definitely like that for sure."
Vault bronze medalist Yeo Seojeong, who won Korea's first gymnastics medal, agreed. "Warming up first makes us more comfortable and it's less stressful so I think having it would be better," she said.
Whether that changes will be up to FIG, but there is certainly a movement bubbling up pushing for it. Biles's coach Cecile Landi tweeted after the vault and uneven bars finals that "After today I hope that the @gymnastics realizes how important the touch warmup is for the safety and well being of the athletes!" Lee's coach Jess Graba agreed, noting that "you could really get hurt doing this. The routines are too difficult. The skills are too high-level. Every one of those kids fought. That wasn't their normal routine."
On the second day of event finals, the gymnasts still struggled, especially the first ones out of the gate — Russian Olympic Committee's Viktoriia Listunova stepped out of bounds on her first pass and fell forward on her second tumbling run.
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These curious chauffeured bicycles that have recently appeared in large cities like Paris, Lyon and also Toulouse are "taxi-bikes", a new transportation mean that has already seduced more than a few users for short distance trips!
Passengers comfortably seated and protected if needed by a hood, are driven by a cyclist.
The taxi-bikes which have a maximum speed of 25 km/h have the undeniable advantage of being able to get around on the road, on cycling lanes, and also in certain pedestrian streets which allows traffic jams to be avoided and less time to be lost.
It is a new ecological mode of transport, in the spirit of the times, as no CO2 is emitted and certain vehicles are only manufactured from recycable materials.
Chauffeured bike service providers must hold an operating and parking authorisation for public streets as well as an insurance for transporting passengers for payment, which is proof of quality and of security.
Like the other private transport companies, the chauffeured bike services can operate via reservation but they also have the right to exercise their work in public by waiting for clients without advance reservation.
Using monTransport.com gives the opportunity to compare prices between different service providers and to select the best one according to the your needs.
There are many ranges of "bike carriages", depending on the cities and of course the manufacturers.
They can transport two even three people and their comfort constantly increases.
Electric powered tricycles have a comfortable padded leather seat that assures a pleasant trip.
with a hood in case of rain.
The first appearance of the taxi-bike is the second world war. Few people could allow themselves to have a car, due to the high price of petrol at this time.
Fidele Outteryck, 32 years old, creator of this ingenious invention, as he was the first to have transformed a bicycle into a taxi in 1940. By combining the characteristics of a car and of a bike, he came up with the first edition of the tuk-tuk.
Everyone then got to work to produce their own taxi-bike, within their means. The taxi-bikes were at the time of varied quality and more or less sophisticated. Some were simply just "classic" bikes that had a small trailer attached, with some small cushions by way of a bench to sit down on. Others, were completely covered with canvas in plastic given the bad weather and already had the taxi-bike aspect of today.
From 1941, taxi-bike races began to take place in Paris at the Montmartre hill and quickly became very popular.
Follows a period of development until 1950, the era during which these vehicles progressively started to disappear.
It is during this period that they moved to Asia, where the rickshaws were born, noticeably similar, before reappearing in Europe ten years ago.
Reappeared in France in Lyon in 2003, the tricycle bicycle found its place in the capital from 2007.
One of the important factors in its development in France was the decision taken in 2008 to make Perpignan an "ecological" town for 2015.
This mode of transport is not polluting and therefore fits nicely in the current "green trend"! By looking closely the taxi-bike is just a copy of the traditional Thai tuk tuk, this strange taxi made up of a scooter in the front and a car in the back, that we find now in most South East Asian countries. Most tuk tuks are motorised. The taxi-bike, is inspired by the pedal tuk tuks (pedicab), even though some have electronic assistance for ascents. It is therefore easily compared to the Indian rickshaw, non-motorised cart bike, intended for transporting people and merchandise.