Having a current Kansas cosmetology insurance policy is a good idea for any cosmetologist. Not only will this shield you from claims and different types of problems that can occur, it will also help you make payments in the event you are found liable to the client that you have injured. While some employers may carry their own insurance, it may not cover you. Having a personal cosmetologist policy is the only way to assure yourself you're covered. Such policies will cover the expenses, fees, and other costs which are associated with a claim, should you be found at fault for a client's injury while that he or she is in your care.
Your personal policy will cover you against liability claims. If you make a major mistake when styling or cutting hair, clients might file for emotional distress or damage claims, due to the way they look after you have worked on them. Or, if you injure a client with hair dyes, other chemicals you use, or even faulty equipment, these types of claims can really end up costing you quite a bit to settle them. But, with a personal insurance policy, you are going to shield yourself from these liabilities, as well as the cost that comes along with them.
Loss of license is another major problem if you are dealing with different types of claims in this field. Having an insurance policy in place will help shield you from certain liabilities and prevent you from losing the license you worked so hard to achieve. To earn your license in Kansas, you have completed 1500 hours and passed the state board and licensing exams. You've also stayed up to date by renewing your license every two years, so it's in your interest to protect it, though it may seem unlikely to you that you'll have to someday. Even if an incident occurs because of equipment malfunction or other problems with the salon you are working at, you may still be liable to the client for the problems that have occurred if that client pursues legal action. Your cosmetologist policy will protect you, though the salon may still be found at fault.
It is highly likely issues will occur even if you are experienced and have worked in the field for many years. There are possibilities you are going to make mistakes and are going to do something a client doesn't like. Since you can't protect yourself from the claims being filed, you might as well protect yourself from liability if they are filed. The best way to do this is to buy in to the personal insurance liability claims, so you know you are at least covered financially for such claim types.


A US nurse held in quarantine in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa says she will challenge her confinement in a federal court.
Kaci Hickox said she was made to feel like a criminal after returning from Sierra Leone last Friday.
Her lawyer says the case has raised "serious constitutional and civil liberties issues".
The new rules in New York, New Jersey and Illinois require a mandatory 21-day quarantine period for all health workers who have had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa and just returned to the US.
On Sunday New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced an easing of the quarantine restrictions in his state.
Under the latest guidelines, returning health workers who have displayed no symptoms can return to their homes for the quarantine period, where they will be monitored twice daily. Compensation will be offered for loss of earnings.
Governor Cuomo was later quoted by Reuters as saying that the state wanted to encourage health workers to go to the Ebola outbreak zone.
The US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said that all returning US health workers should be "treated like conquering heroes and not stigmatized for the tremendous work that they have done".
She was speaking on the first leg of her tour of the three countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Ms Hickox, of medical charity Doctors Without Borders, described the experience of being put into quarantine at Newark airport in New Jersey as "frightening" and a "frenzy of disorganisation".
Her lawyer, Norman Siegel, said her isolation raised civil liberty issues given that she has displayed no Ebola symptoms and did not test positive for the virus.
But New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defended the quarantine measures on Sunday, saying it would "become a national policy sooner rather than later".
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has described Ms Hickox as a "returning hero", but said that she had been "treated with disrespect" when put into quarantine.
"We owe her better than that and all the people better than that," he told reporters outside New York's Bellevue Hospital, where an American doctor, Craig Spencer, is being treated for the virus.
The stricter measures were put in place after Dr Spencer tested positive for Ebola on his return from Guinea last week and unwittingly moved around the city before the symptoms developed.
The White House has warned that such restrictions could put off aid workers and others travelling to West Africa to help mitigate the crisis at its source.
Meanwhile, the US ambassador to the UN criticised the level of international support for nations hit by Ebola.
Some nations who had offered backing "haven't taken responsibility yet" in supplying aid and doctors, Samantha Power said shortly before arriving in Guinea.
Ms Power last week said the international community "isn't just losing the race to Ebola. We are getting lapped", and even praised Cuba – under a US embargo for decades – for its supply of doctors to Sierra Leone.


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/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
** This software is in the public domain, furnished "as is", without technical
** support, and with no warranty, express or implied, as to its usefulness for
** any purpose.
**
** PPMOut.cpp
** Pulse Position Modulation Output functionality
**
** Author: Daniel van den Ouden
** Project: ArduinoRCLib
** Website: http://sourceforge.net/p/arduinorclib/
** -------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

#if defined(ARDUINO) && ARDUINO >= 100
	#include <Arduino.h>
#else
	#include <avr/interrupt.h>
	#include <wiring.h>
	#include <pins_arduino.h>
#endif

#include <PPMOut.h>
#include <Timer1.h>

namespace rc
{

PPMOut* PPMOut::s_instance = 0;

// Public functions

PPMOut::PPMOut(uint8_t         p_channels,
               const uint16_t* p_input,
               uint8_t*        p_work,
               uint8_t         p_maxChannels)
:
m_pulseLength(500),
m_pauseLength(10500),
m_channelCount(p_channels),
m_channels(p_input),
m_channelTimings(reinterpret_cast<uint16_t*>(p_work)),
m_timingCount((p_channels + 1) * 2),
m_timings(const_cast<uint16_t*>(m_channelTimings) + p_maxChannels)
{
	s_instance = this;
}

void PPMOut::start(uint8_t p_pin, bool p_invert)
{
	// stop timer 1
	rc::Timer1::stop();

	// Fill channelTimings buffer with data from channels buffer
	update();

	// Fill timings buffer with data from channelTimings buffer (set up a complete PPM frame)
	updateTimings();

	m_timingPos = p_invert ? 0 : 1;

	pinMode(p_pin, OUTPUT);

	// First disable the output compare match A interrupt
	rc::Timer1::setCompareMatch(false, true);

	// Configure timer1 Toggle OC1A/OC1B on Compare Match
	if (p_pin == 9 || p_pin == 10)
	{
		rc::Timer1::setToggle(true, p_pin == 9);
	}
	else
	{
		m_mask = digitalPinToBitMask(p_pin);
		uint8_t port = digitalPinToPort(p_pin);
		m_port = portInputRegister(port);
	}

	// set compare value
	OCR1A = TCNT1 + m_timings[p_invert ? m_timingCount - 1 : 0];

	// enable timer output compare match A interrupts
	rc::Timer1::setCompareMatch(true, true, PPMOut::handleInterrupt);

	// start the timer
	rc::Timer1::start();
}

void PPMOut::setChannelCount(uint8_t p_channels)
{
	m_channelCount = p_channels;
}

uint8_t PPMOut::getChannelCount() const
{
	return m_channelCount;
}

void PPMOut::setPulseLength(uint16_t p_length)
{
	m_pulseLength = p_length << 1;
}

uint16_t PPMOut::getPulseLength() const
{
	return m_pulseLength >> 1;
}

void PPMOut::setPauseLength(uint16_t p_length)
{
	m_pauseLength = p_length << 1;
}

uint16_t PPMOut::getPauseLength() const
{
	return m_pauseLength >> 1;
}

void PPMOut::update()
{
	for (uint8_t i = 0; i < m_channelCount; ++i)
	{
		m_channelTimings[i] = m_channels[i] << 1;
	}
}

void PPMOut::handleInterrupt()
{
	if (s_instance != 0)
	{
		s_instance->isr();
	}
}

// Private functions

void PPMOut::updateTimings()
{
	uint16_t* scratch = m_timings;

	// copy all pre-calculated timings
	for (uint8_t i = 0; i < m_channelCount; ++i)
	{
		// set pulse length
		*scratch = m_pulseLength;
		++scratch;

		// set timing
		*scratch = m_channelTimings[i] - m_pulseLength;
		++scratch;
	}

	// set final pulse length
	*scratch = m_pulseLength;
	++scratch;

	// set pause length
	*scratch = m_pauseLength - m_pulseLength;

	// update number of timings
	m_timingCount = (m_channelCount + 1) * 2;
}

void PPMOut::isr()
{
	// set the compare register with the next value
	OCR1A += m_timings[m_timingPos];

	// toggle pin, pins 9 and 10 will toggle themselves
	if (m_port != 0)
	{
		*m_port |= m_mask;
	}

	// update position
	++m_timingPos;
	if (m_timingPos >= m_timingCount)
	{
		m_timingPos = 0;

		// we're at the end of frame here, so there's plenty of time to update
		updateTimings();
	}
}

// namespace end
}

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//// [tsxElementResolution.tsx]
declare namespace JSX {
	interface IntrinsicElements {
		foundFirst: { x: string };
		'string_named';
		'var';
	}
}

class foundFirst { }
class Other {}

module Dotted {
	export class Name { }
}

// Should find the intrinsic element, not the class element
var a = <foundFirst  x="hello" />;
var b = <string_named />;
// TODO: This should not be a parse error (should
//        parse a property name here, not identifier)
// var c = <var />;
var d = <Other />;
var e = <Dotted.Name />;

//// [tsxElementResolution.jsx]
var foundFirst = /** @class */ (function () {
    function foundFirst() {
    }
    return foundFirst;
}());
var Other = /** @class */ (function () {
    function Other() {
    }
    return Other;
}());
var Dotted;
(function (Dotted) {
    var Name = /** @class */ (function () {
        function Name() {
        }
        return Name;
    }());
    Dotted.Name = Name;
})(Dotted || (Dotted = {}));
// Should find the intrinsic element, not the class element
var a = <foundFirst x="hello"/>;
var b = <string_named />;
// TODO: This should not be a parse error (should
//        parse a property name here, not identifier)
// var c = <var />;
var d = <Other />;
var e = <Dotted.Name />;


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Why Chemists Invent Green
News – Why Chemists Invent Green
Chemistry is central. It is the molecular building blocks of all the products we use and consume. Everything around you (and in you!) has some type of chemistry in it – or even has a chemical process happening! Chemistry has historically had a bad reputation due to the unintended consequences of some chemical products and processes. Today, we are finding that chemistry is central to intentionally solving problems with health and environment in mind.
"Chemistry is the alphabet of science. The alphabet has 26 letters and you can take those 26 letters and you can write really nasty horrible stuff or you can write really beautiful poetry or novels. With the tools of chemistry, as the alphabet of science, you can either create something beautiful or you can create something hazardous. It's a choice" – John Warner, Co-Founder of Beyond Benign and President & Chief Technology Officer of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry (WBI)
Green chemistry gives scientists the framework to design "something beautiful" using chemistry as a tool. By definition, green chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and/or generation of hazardous substances.
Learn more about the importance of green chemistry education in this short video from our past Beyond Benign Fellow Michael Shen from Northeastern University and join the community in making green chemistry just the way we do chemistry!
Our society is currently facing enormous environmental challenges, from a planet that is getting warmer every day, to the fact that there might be more plastics in the oceans than fish in a not-that-far-away-future. A sustainable future can only be achieved if the foundation of products around us are built sustainably, and that is where green chemistry comes in! Green chemistry invention has the power to improve people's lives by intentionally designing more sustainable, safer, less-hazardous molecular building blocks and creating inherently safer products and processes. So how can we use chemistry to create beautiful products and processes that are beyond benign? By practicing sustainability through green chemistry!
Over the next four months, we are unveiling a Chemists Invent Green campaign to celebrate amazing scientists that are putting our environmental and societal health first. These scientists are incorporating green chemistry principles to invent solutions that are beyond benign. Besides designing solutions that are beyond being environmentally benign, these scientists are also designing inventions that have comparable or superior economics and performance, allowing for their inventions to be successful in the marketplace. However, do not be mistaken: the process of inventing is not simple. It requires failure, teamwork, creativity, persistence, and the list goes on. New to invention education? Learn more here!
Chemists Invent Green will highlight the critical role held by chemists in the design and invention of products and processes that our society uses every day. Moreover, we hope our campaign will inspire the next generation to invent green!
Chemists in the laboratory invent new chemistry and materials, while the chemists and educators at Beyond Benign invent resources to pioneer the shift in science education to equip educators with the tools to teach and learn green chemistry with their students. Beyond Benign will launch a new invention education guide resource in February 2020. The first open-access sustainable invention student guide is being created in partnership with Lemelson-MIT, for teaching green chemistry and invention to K-12 students. The JVInvenTeams Sustainable Plastics student guide empowers students to invent sustainable products and processes through hands-on green chemistry activities based on developing bioplastics using renewable resources.
Follow our Chemists Invent Green campaign as we unveil our remarkable inventors leading up to the guides release in February!
Sign up for our newsletter to learn more about our community and how you can engage with us! Spread the word about Green Chemistry by posting this green chemistry infographic in your classroom and/or laboratory.
This infographic was created by Compound Interest in collaboration with The Green Chemistry Initiative at the University of Toronto, one of our Green Chemistry Commitment signing institutions.
About Beyond Benign
Beyond Benign, a world-renowned leader in green chemistry education, is pioneering a paradigm shift in science education to ensure the chemical building blocks of products used every day are healthy and safe for humans and the environment. Utilizing professional learning communities across the education continuum, we have empowered a community of educators, who are change-makers and innovators in their fields, to practice sustainability through chemistry.

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Arts & Life Arts & Entertainment Movies
Raising the right questions
Teenage coming-out film avoids preachiness
By: Alison Gillmor
There are teen movies made just for teens. Then there are teen movies made for teens and people who remember being teens. This affecting, delicate Canadian drama from filmmaker Keith Behrman (Flower & Garnet) falls into the latter category.
While not as accomplished as Lady Bird or Eighth Grade, Giant Little Ones avoids the usual high school clichés, crafting an honest and nuanced 21st-century coming-out story.
Behrman's kids are navigating a world in which gender and sexuality are fluid. For the teenage characters in GLO — and even some of the grown-ups — adulthood is less about claiming a fixed identity and more about recognizing the wondrous complexity of desire and love.
While most teen movies focus on underdogs, outcasts and oddballs, Giant Little Ones starts out, at least, with high school royalty. Franky (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas (Darren Mann) are carelessly handsome swim team stars. They date popular, pretty girls and throw big parties.
Rumours about Franky's (Josh Wiggins) sexuality swirl around his school. (Mongrel Media)
Things get a bit more complicated when the dynamic between these lifelong friends shifts after a late-night incident at Franky's 17th birthday bash.
Rumours about Franky's sexuality swirl around school, a development that gets even more layers of emotional complication from the fact that his father, Ray (Twin Peaks' Kyle MacLachlan), has recently left his mother, Carly (Maria Bello of NCIS), for another man.
Behrman recognizes that the traditional teenage coming-out tale is operating on shifting terrain.
Franky's liberal household talks openly about sex. Franky's school has an anti-harassment policy that coaches and teachers try to enforce. Franky can get advice from his hilariously world-weary gender-queer friend Mouse (Niamh Wilson), who's basically been out since elementary school.
Official enlightenment is one thing, though. The sneaky cruelty of adolescence, as teens try on and test out their sexual identities, is another. The word "slut" still shows up on a girl's locker; the openly gay kid on the swim team is still bullied in the locker room.
Franky's mother Carly (Maria Bello) is separated from her husband after he left her for a man. (Mongrel Media)
Behrman extends a tender respect to his teen characters, while being generous to their parents, who are shown as loving and involved, but also occasionally confused. (It's refreshing to see that confusion isn't just an adolescent thing.) A long, lovely interchange between Franky and his father is an effective emotional encapsulation of the film's intentions.
Behrman does have a message, but the film avoids preachiness through authentic, underplayed performances and crafted filmmaking. As caught by Behrman, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is all leafy streets where you can ride your bike down the middle of the road.
As Franky comes to terms with his 17-year-old self, GLO raises topical questions, but remains open-ended, kind of like its characters.
alison.gillmor@freepress.mb.ca
Alison Gillmor
Studying at the University of Winnipeg and later Toronto's York University, Alison Gillmor planned to become an art historian. She ended up catching the journalism bug when she started as visual arts reviewer at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1992.
Starring Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Maria Bello and Kyle MacLachlan
Cinematheque
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Finally, a film about teenage sexuality and its inherent fluidity that has something authentic and intelligent to say.
— Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star
Despite its lapses into self-consciousness, the movie presents us with a set of characters that we end up believing and caring about — not tremendously, but enough to keep watching to see how they all turn out.
— Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Where many coming-of-age films build their stories around the discovery of a fixed selfhood, Giant Little Ones succeeds when it chooses to treat youthful identity as open to shift with accumulated experience.
— Teo Bugbee, New York Times
The film belongs to Wiggins, who brings an openness and sincerity to Franky's struggles that help suggest to what extent his character's specific story has elements that everybody will be able to relate to.
— Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter


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Carrie hails HK's grit despite protests
Protests escalated in June over a since-withdrawn bill which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China
By Reuters in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam (AP)
Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam and top finance officials praised the Chinese-ruled city's resilience as a global financial hub on Monday amid more than six months of often violent pro-democracy unrest.
Protests escalated in June over a since-withdrawn bill which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party. They have since broadened to several demands, including universal suffrage.
Speaking at the opening of a regional financial forum, Lam said the city's financial system remained stable thanks to lessons learnt since the 1998 Asian financial crisis. Lam cited the listing of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd as a boon for other listings by mainland companies.
The city's "strengths and resilience, just like our financial systems, have not been undermined despite (the fact) that we experienced considerable social unrest and challenges", Lam said.
She added she was confident the former British colony, which returned to China in 1997, would bridge divisions and realise its goals of a reunited community and "flourishing" economy.
Pro-democracy protests
Nonstop chaos at immigration courts across the US
Ukraine prime minister Oleksiy Honcharuk resigns after recordings published
Starbucks, home of the $4 latte, is moving into poor areas across the US
Donald Trump's trial begins, senators vowing 'impartial justice'


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tri-Ace to Announce New Game at Tokyo Game Show 2018
Published on September 14, 2018 Shu
Home » News » tri-Ace to Announce New Game at Tokyo Game Show 2018
Dengeki Online has released a schedule detailing an announcement of developer tri-Ace's next game project at Tokyo Game Show 2018. This will take place via Dengeki's TGS Special Broadcast on Sept. 20 at 10pm JST.
Apart from announcing its latest project, tri-Ace will also be providing gameplay footage of said title. tri-Ace's Shingo Mukaitouge and Takayuki Suguro, who have worked on titles such as Resonance of Fate, Valkyrie Profile 2, and Frontier Gate, will be presenting the information. Not much else is known about this mysterious game, but we won't have to wait long to learn more.
tri-Ace is a small but fairly known creator of JRPGs with unique gameplay. It has created both popular and cult classics such as Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean, and Resonance of Fate. Though the company has been active in developing mobile titles in recent days, it has still kept some focus on developing for home consoles. Its most recent console release was Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness, which launched for Playstation 3 and 4 in 2016.
The latest title from the developer is Star Ocean: Anamnesis, a free-to-play mobile title for iOS and Android. The game launched in the West last July for iOS and Android.
Tokyo Game Show will take place from Sept. 20 to Sept. 23 2018.
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The Maryland Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Colonial Maryland between June 1654, and October 1712. It was not unique, but is a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period, which took place also in Europe.

Colonial Maryland had a unique relationship to Christianity, the Calvert family established Maryland as a safe-haven for Catholic refugees from Europe and insisted on the need for the Maryland Toleration Act. Enacted in 1641, the act protected the Catholics from prosecution. But as the century went on, Puritan immigration displaced the Catholics and turned the state into an overwhelmingly Protestant British colony. From 1644 to the 1670s, a series religious conflicts in the state eventually lead to the Protestant Revolution, and as a result Catholicism was made illegal in the province, and Puritans took control of the Maryland government. This provides some additional context to the political system in the province as the witch trials progressed.

Along with the Maryland Witch Trials, the Connecticut Witch Trials which had started in 1647, and the Salem witch trials in 1692, were the first executions in the United States for Witchcraft in the 17th century.

Background
The documented history of witchcraft in Maryland dates back to June 1654. The ship 'Charity of London', arrived to St. Mary's City where the death of passenger Mary Lee was reported to the officials. Through testimonies held on June 23, 1654, it is revealed that Mary Lee was executed for being a witch three weeks prior to arriving. Word of her being a witch spread through the colony, resulting in various civil suits of slander.

In 1657, another woman on a ship bound for the colonies was executed as a witch. Her name was Elizabeth Richardson, and her death would go on to result in lawsuit brought forth by John Washington, great-grandfather of George Washington, against Captain Edward Prescott for her death.

In the later part of the 17th century criminal trials of witchcraft became more prevalent. In 1674, John Cowman marked the first judicial conviction of witchcraft by a Maryland court. Judicial witch trials lasted until 1712, when Virtue Violl was accused and found not-guilty. Historian Francis Neal Parke believed that the jury held a similar belief to that echoed by Joseph Addison in The Spectator from 1711.

In 1810, Chancellor William Kilty gave a report to the General Assembly, he was convinced that the statute of James I had been in use in the province.

Accusations and executions

Mary Lee

The earliest surviving documentation of witchcraft in the colony of Maryland dates back to the June 23, 1654 depositions of Captain John Bosworth, captain of the 'Charity of London', Henry Corbyn, a young merchant from London, and Francis Darby, a gentleman who was a passenger on the ship. In front of William Stone they detailed the ship's departure from Europe for St. Mary's City, Maryland, and described Mary Lee's conviction of witchcraft and execution. While at sea, a rumor spread amongst the sailors that passenger Mary Lee was a witch. Captain Bosworth initially refused to try Mary Lee, but eventually relented. Bosworth expressed interest in dropping her off in Bermuda, but cross winds prevented it. Mary Lee was captured by sailors, her body was searched for the Witch's mark, when they were satisfied they found the mark Captain Bosworth was called to examine it. According to testimonies Mary Lee confessed she was a witch. Captain Bosworth was unwilling to sentence her to death, and retired to his cabin. Francis Darby, who helped search Mary Lee's body, recalled how she was hung to death by the sailors.

The Charity of London, would go on to be seized by the British in 1681.

Richard Manship's wife
Word of Mary Lee's execution spread through the colony, as proof of witches in Maryland. At Peter Godson's plantation, Richard Manship confronted Peter and his wife about rumors they had been spreading claiming Richard Manship's wife was a witch. Richard demanded Peter support his claims that Mrs. Manship was a witch. Peter claimed Mrs. Manship in a "jesting way said, they Say I am a witch." On another evening John Killey, a 25-year-old, claimed that at the house of Phillip Hide, Richard asked Peter to prove his wife was a witch again. The conflict escalated and a case of slander was brought to the Provincial Court on October 16, 1654. It was determined that Peter Godson and his wife had defamed Richard Manship's wife in saying she was a witch in addition to other slanderous speech against her. Speaker Richard Preston required Peter Godson and his wife apologize, and were ordered to pay damages.

Elizabeth Bennett
In October 1665, Elizabeth Bennett was brought before the Provincial Court in Saint Mary's County. Bennett was charged with Witchcraft, Burglary, Murder and Trespassing. On October 11, 1665, the court, presided over by Phillip Calvert, determined the case against Elizabeth Bennett, was "...not presentable," and on October 16, she was, "...cleared by proclamation."

John Cowman
John Cowman was the first judicial conviction under the Statute of James I witchcraft, conjuration, sorcery or enchantment upon the body of Elizabeth Goodale, and sentenced to be hanged. He was saved by the intercession of the deputies and delegates of the Lower House of the General Assembly, who petitioned Charles Calvert, the Lieutenant General and the Chief Judge of the Provincial Court for clemency. The Upper House on February 17, 1674, granted the reprieve.

Rebecca Fowler

On September 30, Rebecca Fowler was tried by the provincial court of St. Mary's County. The widowed Rebecca was accused of performing witchcraft at Mount Calvert Hundred among other places in Calvert County. She was accused of using magic to harm Francis Sandsbury, in addition to other residents. She was indicted, and pled not guilty. Attorney General Thomas Burford declared her guilty and sentenced her to hanging until death. She was hanged on October 9, 1685.

Rebecca was the only person legally executed as a witch by a Maryland court.

Hannah Edwards
On April 29, 1686, Hannah Edwards was brought to the court in St. Mary's County. Her husband Richard Edwards, a planter, had died prior making her a widow. Starting February 6, 1685, Hannah was accused of using witchcraft, enchantments, and charms, against Ruth Hutchinson. It was claimed Ruth was consumed, and pined for by Hannah. Edwards was indicted and pled not guilty. She was later found not guilty.

Virtue Violl
On October 5, 1712, the provincial court met in Annapolis, Maryland with justice Thomas Smithson presiding. Sheriff Foster Turbutt of Talbott County brought Virtue Violl to the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County to face the court. Virtue, a spinster, was accused of using witchcraft starting August 19, against Elinor Moore (also documented as Ellianor Moore) who was rendered speechless. Virtue pled not guilty to the charges. On October 17, 1712, Virtue Violl was found not guilty, based on the testimonies of the witnesses.

Moll Dyer

Legend says Moll Dyer was accused of being a witch, and was banished from Leonardtown, Maryland. She was later found dead, frozen to a rock in the forest.

Due to fires in both St. Mary's County and Calvert County archives in 1831, no legal records exist verifying the story of Moll Dyer.

In media
The conviction and execution of Moll Dyer went on to be used for the backstory for the Blair Witch franchise's fictional Maryland witch 'Elly Kedward'.

See also
 Maryland Religious War
 List of people executed for witchcraft
 List of people of the Salem witch trials
 Modern witch-hunts
 Salem witchcraft trial (1878)
 Witchcraft and children
 Witch trials in the Early Modern period

General
 Colonial history of the United States
 Hanging in the United States
 List of wrongful convictions in the United States
 Moral panic

References

Witch trials in North America
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Modern gardens are all about leisure, but the idea of a garden being a place of recreation for working people is a relatively new idea. In earlier times, only the wealthy could afford to have land filled with ornamental trees. For most a garden was a productive space, devoted to growing fruit, vegetables and herbs. Where flowers were grown they were usually cultivated for medicinal or utilitarian reasons. Even the wealthier families, who could afford pleasure gardens, had kitchen gardens to keep the house supplied with produce.
In the second half of the last century improvements in living standards, the wider availability of food, refrigeration and improved storage techniques and changing eating habits meant that fewer people were including productive areas in their gardens. It now seems that gardens are viewed very differently – rather than being an area of economic value, they are seen more as extensions of the living areas of the house.
Thankfully, we are started to see changes. More and more people are asking that a veggie garden be part of the new design. The dazzling array of produce available in our supermarkets has a hidden cost. Often food is transported long distances, and the resultant impact in terms of pollution is a factor that is troubling more and more people. The bounty in the supermarket is also made possible by the intensive use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Information about the chemical inputs into farming is not widely disseminated, and consumers can be troubled by the largely unknown health risks that combinations of these chemicals may have. Growing food at home means that much more control can be exercised over the chemical input into the produce.
So how can we add productive elements to the garden? Firstly, we have to be honest about how much time we want to spend actually tending the garden. Growing palatable fruit and veggies takes a lot more time and effort than many people realise. A garden full of tasty veggies and fruit is not only appealing to us, but to a whole host of other animals. Birds, bats and possums can strip a laden fruit tree in the wink of an eye. Succulent salad leaves will stand no chance against a hungry hoard of slugs and snails, caterpillars and grubs. Most fruit and veggies wont crop well if subject to water stress, so irrigation is also a factor.
The easiest entry into food production are herbs, many of which, coming as they do from around the Mediterranean basin, are tough and adaptable. They can also be worked into ornamental gardens without much effort. Rosemary, particular prostrate, is a reliable performer as a ground cover. Care needs to be taken that it is trimmed regularly to avoid woodiness. Bay tree (Laurus nobilis) makes a handsome, if slow growing, hedge. Sage, like Rosemary, is a good choice as long as it is kept regularly trimmed. Low growers like Oregano and Thyme can also be used as groundcovers.
Other plants can be included into ornamental borders and will do double duty being attractive to the eye and useful in the kitchen. Italian and curly parsley can be clumped to provide a soft green foil for other plants. Trim the leaves as you need, and allow a few to go to seed, both because they have attractive flowers and it ensures a supply of seedlings. Coriander can be used in the same way, and even carrots and parsnips can be grown in borders. All part of the same family, they can be cropped as needed or left to flower and spread. Swiss chard is an easily grown plant that can give a good display of deep green leaves. And don't forget nasturtiums. Both the leaves and flowers are edible, they cope well with heat and neglect, and the spread rapidly through a garden, but are easily controlled. The various members of the onion family can also be planted amongst ornamentals, some having interesting flowers. Chives makes a great clump, a good alternative to small grasses.
If a dedicated vegetable plot is needed, care should be taken in the siting of the space. Almost all food crops need plenty of sun. Hygiene is also important, so plots should be site away from areas where dropped leaves build up, and where it is easy to erect barriers such a meshing for trees and to avoid possum damage. Container growing of vegetable crops is often a good idea in small spaces, or even in larger gardens where integration into the main garden isnt easy. Growing in containers means that optimal conditions can be created for growing different crops, and when the crops are not looking their best, they can be sited out of the way of important views of the garden.
We can only hope that an upsurge in interest in veggie garden might herald a new trend overall in gardens. Encouraging home owners back into their gardens, as a place where they actively take part in the nurturing and development of the garden ,rather than simply enjoying it passively, has got to be a good thing.


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Impact of lymphovascular invasion on lymph node metastasis for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy with negative resection margin
Yong Jin Kang, Hyun Soo Kim, Won Sik Jang, Jong Kyou Kwon, Cheol Yong Yoon, Joo Yong Lee, Kang Su Cho, Won Sik Ham, Young Deuk Choi
Background: The association between lymphovascular invasion and lymphatic or hematogenous metastasis has been suspected, with conflicting evidence. We have investigated the association between the risk of biochemical recurrence and lymphovascular invasion in resection margin negative patients, as well as its association with lymph node metastasis. Methods: One thousand six hundred thirty four patients who underwent radical prostatectomy from 2005 to 2014 were selected. Patients with bone or distant organ metastasis at the time of operation were excluded. Survival analysis was performed to assess biochemical recurrence, metastasis and mortality risks by Kaplan-Meier analysis and multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression. Odds of lymph node metastasis were evaluated by Logistic regression. Results: LVI was detected in 118 (7.4%) patients. The median follow-up duration was 33.1 months. In the Kaplan-Meier analysis, lymphovascular invasion was associated with significantly increased 5-year and 10-year BCR rate (60.2% vs. 39.1%, 60.2% vs. 40.1%, respectively; p < 0.001), 10-year bone metastasis rate and cancer specific mortality (16.9% vs. 5.1%, p = 0.001; 6.8% vs. 2.7%, p = 0.034, respectively) compared to patients without LVI. When stratified by T stage and resection margin status, lymphovascular invasion resulted in significantly increased 10-year biochemical recurrence rate in T3 patients both with and without positive surgical margin (p = 0.008, 0.005, respectively). In the multivariate Cox regression model lymphovascular invasion resulted in 1.4-fold BCR risk and 1.7-fold metastasis risk increase (95% CI 1.045-1.749, 1.024-2.950; p = 0.022, 0.040, respectively). Lymphovascular invasion was revealed to be strongly associated with lymph node metastasis in the multivariate Logistic regression (OR 4.317, 95% CI 2.092-8.910, p < 0.001). Conclusion: Lymphovascular invasion increases the risk of recurrence in T3 patients regardless of margin status, by accelerating lymph node metastasis and distant organ metastasis.
Published - 2017 May 8
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Lymphovascular Invasion Medicine and Dentistry 100%
Lymph Vessel Metastasis Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 100%
Metastatic Carcinoma Medicine and Dentistry 62%
Lymph Node Metastasis Medicine and Dentistry 62%
Metastasis Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 62%
Surgical Margin Medicine and Dentistry 50%
Biochemical Recurrence Medicine and Dentistry 37%
Kang, Y. J., Kim, H. S., Jang, W. S., Kwon, J. K., Yoon, C. Y., Lee, J. Y., Cho, K. S., Ham, W. S., & Choi, Y. D. (2017). Impact of lymphovascular invasion on lymph node metastasis for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy with negative resection margin. BMC cancer, 17(1), [321]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3307-4
Kang, Yong Jin ; Kim, Hyun Soo ; Jang, Won Sik et al. / Impact of lymphovascular invasion on lymph node metastasis for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy with negative resection margin. In: BMC cancer. 2017 ; Vol. 17, No. 1.
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In: BMC cancer, Vol. 17, No. 1, 321, 08.05.2017.
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It's an attractive solution with package options designed for SMBs. It's worth considering it and understanding how it can help your business run smoother.
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Some main features of the Office 365 package are full installed Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook etc.), cloud storage, business class hosted mailbox, Skype for business and SharePoint Online. These services can stack up quite well when compared to their individual outright licensing costs, minimal on-site infrastructure required to run the services, scalable user licensing options, and always being eligible for the latest versions of the services offered. This can provide your SMB with a cost effective professional solution that achieves your requirements.
It's quite easy to see the up-front costs of an Office 365 subscription are much less than purchasing Microsoft licensing outright, before even starting to look at infrastructure. However, does it stack up in the long run? Paying $20 per month per user over 3 years adds up to a significant investment! The answer to this depends on your requirements and size of your business. If you're looking to only take advantage of 1 feature within an Office 365 package, doing the calculations over 3 – 4 years (even under the basis you are purchasing brand new licensing outright every 3 years), Office 365 will more than likely end up more expensive. Where you start to see a saving is when you take advantage of the other features within the Office 365 packages, like Skype, SharePoint, cloud storage, hosted email and Office licensing. To achieve an on-site solution for all those services, you will find the outright licensing costs plus the infrastructure they need to run on ends up being very expensive.
Depending on the number of users you have, especially if your numbers are high, some investigation and calculations are required to determine what is right for you.
Does the number of staff in your SMB fluctuate? On most monthly subscriptions, you can increase or decrease the amount of Office 365 licensing you have so you will not have to pay for licenses that are not in use. You can also change the Office 365 plan depending on what services are required by your users.
As Office 365 is a subscription based service, you are always eligible for the latest licensing that Microsoft releases for those products you are subscribed to. For example, Office 2016 was recently released, if you had a subscription to Office 365 which provided you with full Office 2013 products, you automatically have the option to download and re-install the new 2016 version of Office for free on your devices. This differs from purchasing MS Office outright, where you'd have to re-buy the licensing when the new version comes out. This can be an expensive exercise, especially at the rate that technologies are now advancing and having reliance on new software and services to provide stable solutions and systems.
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Q: Are those two theories equivalent? Lets denote any set that is "the set of all strictly smaller subsets of it" as size- unreachable. Formally: $$\operatorname {size-unreachable}(X) \iff \\\forall Y (Y \in X \iff Y \subset X \land |Y|<|X|)$$Now $V_\omega$ qualifies for such a set.
I gave this definition in a prior posting, where I asked about examples of such sets, the answer given is an $H_\kappa$ set where $|H_\kappa|=\kappa$, (where the $H$ function is defined as: $H_\kappa=\{x:|x|<\kappa\land \forall y\in \operatorname{trcl}(x)\; |y|<\kappa\} $).
My question is about the equivalence of the following two theories:

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*ZFC + every set is an element of some size-unreachable $V_\kappa$ stage.

*Extensionality, Separation, and Unreachable Reflection.

Unreachable Reflection: if $\phi$ is a formula (defined terms allowed) that doesn't use $V_\kappa$, and $\kappa$ is not free, then: $$\phi \implies \exists \kappa : \operatorname {size-unreachable}(V_\kappa) \land V_\kappa \models \phi$$

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Q: JavaFX: Pass arguments from JavaScript to JNLP I am trying to deploy JavaFX 2 app using Java Web start (generated by NetBeans) and I need to pass some args to my app using JavaScript.
First question: Is it even possible?
Second question: If it is possible, how can I do it. :-)
My JNLP file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp spec="1.0" xmlns:jfx="http://javafx.com" href="MD.jnlp">
  <information>
    <title>MD</title>
    <offline-allowed/>
  </information>
  <resources>
    <jfx:javafx-runtime version="2.2+" href="http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/GetFile/javafx-latest/windows-i586/javafx2.jnlp"/>
  </resources>
  <resources>
    <j2se version="1.6+" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se"/>
    <jar href="MD.jar" size="675286" download="eager" />
    <jar href="lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar" size="519899" download="eager" />
  </resources>
<security>
  <all-permissions/>
</security>

  <applet-desc  width="800" height="600" main-class="com.javafx.main.NoJavaFXFallback"  name="MD" >
    <param name="requiredFXVersion" value="2.2+"/>
  </applet-desc>
  <jfx:javafx-desc  width="800" height="600" main-class="com.blabla.MD"  name="MD" >
    <fx:param name="jmeno" value="hodnota"/>
  </jfx:javafx-desc>
  <update check="always"/>
</jnlp>

And my web page has this code:
<SCRIPT src="./web-files/dtjava.js"></SCRIPT>
<script>
function launchApplication(jnlpfile) {
    dtjava.launch(            {
            url : 'MD.jnlp',
        },
        {
            javafx : '2.2+'
        },
        {}
    );
    return false;
}
</script>

Thx. :-)

A: SOLVED:
function launchApplication(jnlpfile) {
            dtjava.launch({
                url: 'MD.jnlp',
                params: {'name':'value'}
            },
            {
                javafx: '2.2+'
            },
            {}
            );
            return false;
        }

and in JavaFX app, parameters are not in String[] args, but you have to get with method:
getParameters();

This is documented in the JavaFX Deployment Guide documentation for the Java Deployment Tookit (dtjava.js) as well as the JavaFX Application getParameters method JavaDoc.

A:
First question: Is it even possible?

Yes, in general it is possible. I have done something similar but not directly from JavaScript to JNLP.

Second question: If it is possible, how can I do it. :-)

In my scenario I have done only JNLP part and not JS. But think this way: user logins at web page via one of social networks (JS is involved). JS and Ajax passes required values to server side and redirect user to a page where JNLP applet is deployed.
At server side there is a jnlp file template:
<fx:param name="jmeno" value="{value}"/>

then since server got a value via Ajax it can generate proper jnlp file using PHP or JSP and give it to a user's browser.


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After the banking course, the candidates can expect to get a career in banks as officers, cashiers, or in specialized departments such as merchant banking, foreign exchange, currency values, treasury management etc.
Candidates get recruited at the clerical level and officer level. The procedure of selection varies with nationalized banks.
The entry point for clerical staff is in the cash department as examiners of coins and notes. They are promoted to the next grade when they successfully clear the relevant examinations after 5-10 years of service.
Paper I is a written test comprising General Mental Ability (Objective type).
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Almost all the deemed and general university offer Bachelor degree in Banking.
An individual who has completed the banking course and has good knowledge can get a very good job with attractive salary abroad. They can find their dream jobs in banks like ABN AMRO, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Plc, HSBC, Citi Bank, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland etc.
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Definition - What does Psychrometer mean?
Psychrometer refers to a device for determining relative humidity in the atmosphere by the reading and comparing of two thermometers: the dry-bulb and wet-bulb air temperatures. The psychrometer is one kind of hygrometer.
A psychrometer has many uses both in the home and industry. Apart from measuring relative humidity and weather forecasting, it is also used for air conditioning maintenance and appropriate humidity levels for manufacturing. Meteorology departments rely on psychrometers to forecast weather and precipitations.
Wet-bulb thermometer – measures temperature by the bulb being dipped in liquid. Its bulb is covered with a jacket of tight-fitting muslin cloth that can be saturated with distilled water.
Dry-bulb thermometer – measures temperature by being exposed to the air.
It is easy to determine the relative humidity of the surrounding area by computing the difference between the two bulb temperatures in a psychrometer. Some precautions must be taken during the use of a psychrometer. Avoid heating the thermometer or placing it somewhere in extreme weather. This could give a misleading reading of temperatures.
Sling psychrometer – the thermometers are linked to a grip or span of rope and spun around in the air for some time. It is seldom used for field computations. It is now substituted by more suitable electronic sensors.
Whirling psychrometer – two thermometers are fixed up into an instrument that looks like a ratchet or football rattle.
Psychrometers are mostly used in meteorology, and in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industry for correct refrigerant charging in both residential and commercial areas. Psychrometers are fabricated from stainless steels, which are resistant to corrosion.


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Excerpts from MySuburbanlife.com:
The Elmhurst Fire Department has three firefighter vacancies it hasn't replaced because of state budgetary concerns.
Elmhurst City Manager Jim Grabowski addressed the issue at the April 18 City Council meeting after residents spoke about the vacancies at the April 4 and 11 meetings.
Elmhurst resident Geoff Gaebel spoke during the public comment portion of the April 18 meeting. Gaebel, a firefighter in another municipality, said the Elmhurst Fire Department has been short three firemen for about a year, bringing the staffing down to the lowest level since 1999.
The problem with the shortage, Gaebel said, is either the fire trucks are operating below standard levels or firefighters are working overtime to make up for the staffing insufficiency.
"When the apparatus runs with less than three personnel, bad things happen," Gaebel said. "Bad things happen to the firefighters; bad things happen to the city, to the residents, to the buildings, to the lives of this town."
Gaebel cited a National Fire Protection Association document and a City Managers Association study that states at least a four-person crew is needed to pump and deliver water and perform search and rescue.
Grabowski provided the city council and residents with the reasoning behind not hiring firefighters for the three vacant positions. He emphasized that despite the shortage the fire department is performing at the expected standards.
"I want to stress that the residents of Elmhurst are safe right now as we were nine months ago and nine years ago," Grabowski said.
He went on to say he has not authorized hiring the three replacements because of the state budget crisis.
"The potential direct effect of [the Illinois budget crisis] to Elmhurst is a proposal to eliminate $2.2 million of Elmhurst revenue," Grabowski said. "This is revenue that we would normally receive unless the General Assembly approves legislation to change the funding formula and withhold this from Elmhurst."
The city manager said the biggest expense for the city is personnel, so if there is a reduction in revenue, the city may have to consider layoffs … adding that a clause in the collective bargaining agreement with the fire union prohibits layoffs to firefighters during the contract period, which lasts through May 2017.
To make up for the shortage, firefighters are being paid time-and-a-half to cover all three shifts.
Alderman Mark Mulliner spoke after Grabowski, saying he believes the reduction in staff negatively affects the firefighters.
"By placing firemen in overtime and requiring them to be on overtime you are putting an undue burden on those firefighters as far as expecting them to be there on double shifts during certain times," Mulliner said. "There is a grave concern about that."
He also said Grabowski's cost argument for not replacing the firefighters was invalid because paying firefighters overtime is also a great cost to the city. Additionally, Mulliner said, there have been other hires in the last year that contradict the potential revenue reduction from the state.
"I'm gravely concerned about the fact that we continually say we are not going to hire these three firefighters," Mulliner said. "By the way, it is actually four [vacancies] because we are down a chief right now. "
Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:
Comments by a resident at a recent Elmhurst City Council meeting have focused attention on fire department staffing levels.
Geoff Gaebel, who said he is a lifelong Elmhurst resident and a firefighter in a nearby town, has criticized the city's decision not to hire additional firefighters to replace two who retired and one who is on medical disability.
"The Elmhurst Fire Department is currently short three members and has been for about a year, bringing the department down to its lowest staffing level since 1999," Gaebel said.
City manager James Grabowski noted the city contracts with Metro Paramedic Services, Inc., part of Superior Ambulance Service, for two advanced life support ambulances and 12 paramedics who average seven years of experience, and that the department was covering the three vacancies with overtime.
"None of the three shifts is running a firefighter short," Grabowski said. "Each shift is being covered by an Elmhurst firefighter being paid time and a half."
He cited uncertainty over Illinois state finances and provisions of the firefighter union contract for not hiring replacements for the three positions.
"We'd just like to see our manning (restored) to replace the three guys and anyone additional that retires," said Ed Siuzdak, an Elmhurst firefighter and member of the executive board of the Elmhurst Local 3541 of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Siuzdak said union representatives had discussed with Grabowski removing the no layoff provision, but didn't get a clear commitment from him that he would then hire firefighters to fill the vacancies.
Siuzdak said union representatives had also talked with Grabowski about upgrading fire engines with advanced life support equipment, including monitors, telemetry, and advanced life support level drugs as backups when ambulances are out on other calls or far from a medical emergency.
According to Siuzdak, about a third of firefighters are paramedics but aren't functioning in that role.
Grabowski indicated Tuesday he was still concerned with budget and revenue issues. The offer to drop the no layoff provision also involved several other issues and would have applied only to possible layoffs of new hires for the three existing vacancies, he said.
He added that discussions over upgrading engines to advanced life support levels had not covered possible additional personnel costs or questions about how many certified paramedics would be available on any given shift to cover the upgraded apparatus.
thanks Dan
Tags: Ed Siuzdak, Elmhurst FD staffing, Elmhurst Fire Department, Elmhurst Local 3541 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, Geoff Gaebel, Metro Paramedic Services Inc., Superior Ambulance Service
New use for old Chicago fire station (more)
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Excerpts from Michiganavemag.com:
Unique Places to Get Married Around Chicago
Firehouse Chicago
Though it's now a quaint and beautiful event space, Firehouse Chicago was once—you guessed it—a firehouse. The Northside building was home to Engine Company 70 for more than 100 years, and included four horse stables in addition to its high ceilings and white glazed brick. The building was renovated to maintain its original character and beauty, including antique doors and lighting, making it not only a unique and spectacular wedding venue, but also an unforgettable setting steeped in history. 1545 W. Rosemont, 773-850-1545
Tags: Chicago FD Engine 70, Engine Company 70, firehouse is wedding venue, former Chicago fire station has new tenants, former fire station is wedding venue, new life for old Chicago firehouse, new use for old fire station
Chicago Still Alarm, 4-29-16
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This from Steve Redick:
5347 Delphia, an area of the city that sees virtually no fires. Top floor job in a large U-shaped apartment building. Engine 119 led out a 4-inch feeder line to Engine 11 who was positioned at the closest entrance to this huge complex. There were at least two smoke inhalation victims that I saw. This had the potential to be a major event but was all over very quickly.
Steve Redick photo
Tags: Chicago FD Engine 11, Chicago Fire Department, Steve Redick
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Excerpts from FireRescue1.com:
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released the 2016 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2016), providing first responders firefighters and other emergency personnel with an updated manual to help contend with hazardous materials transportation accidents during the critical first minutes.
PHMSA will distribute more than 1.5 million free copies of the guidebook to firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law enforcement officers across the nation who will use it to identify specific risks associated with compromised hazardous materials, and the recommended safety measures and procedures they should take to protect themselves and contain the incident as quickly as possible.
The ERG contains an indexed list of dangerous goods and the associated four-digit United Nations identification numbers. The ERG also identifies the general hazards those dangerous goods pose and recommends safety precautions in remediating a hazmat incident.
The 2016 version of the ERG includes general revisions, expanded sections and added guide pages for absorbed gases. Updated every four years as a collaborative effort of the USDOT, Transport Canada and Mexico's Secretariat of Transport and Communications, the ERG2016 is available free to public safety agencies in all states, territories and Native American Tribes through designated state emergency management coordinators' offices.
PHMSA has also partnered with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to provide a free Smartphone version of the ERG2016. NLM also develops and distributes the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders. The mobile application will be available this spring.
A copy of the new ERG2016 is posted online. Print copies of ERG2016 are available for sale to the general public through the U.S. Government Printing Office Bookstore and other commercial suppliers.
Tags: 2016 Emergency Response Guidebook, ERG2016, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
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7/18/13 Homework 3-4 is available, as are the rest of the slides. Enjoy!
7/16/13 We've continued to add new slides, as announced.
7/3/13 All past slides and lab materials are now posted below, some of them with post hoc improvements.
7/3/13 The second homework is now available. Due on Saturday, but please do the first two parts before Friday's lecture.
6/25/13 Thanks for an enjoyable first class. Slides and the first homework are posted below. Please do as much of the first homework as you can before the next lecture; you may work together.
6/5/13 Please enroll for the Piazza discussion site.
6/5/13 Please bookmark this page (http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/licl).
This class presents fundamental methods of computational linguistics. We will develop probabilistic models to describe what trees and sequences are likely in a language. After estimating the parameters of such models, it is possible to recover underlying structure from surface observations. We will examine algorithms to accomplish these tasks.
We will also survey a range of current tasks in applied natural language processing. Many of these tasks can be addressed with techniques from the class. Some previous exposure to probability and programming may be helpful. However, probabilistic modeling techniques will be carefully introduced, and programming expertise will not be required. We will use a very high-level language (Dyna) to describe algorithms and visualize their execution.
Office hrs: TBA, in Mason Hall 2475 or 2455. May include a weekly dinner with interested students.
 Or are these statistics? What are "statistics" anyway? How are they different from "information"?
Note: Lecture schedule below is tentative. Assignments and readings will be added.
Note: Additional slides plus more computationally intensive assignments are available from my NLP course at Johns Hopkins, which is more than twice as long and assumes more computational background (but no prior linguistic background). Here's an old list of other NLP courses.


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Brandywine Realty Trust: "Make No Little Plans"
By: Ron Derven, contributing editor, Development magazine Fall 2014
Brandywine Realty Trust closed 2013 with the best results in its 20-year history. Using a multiyear portfolio repositioning strategy, it pivoted almost seamlessly from its suburban office roots of the 1990s to focus on urban centers. Today, its urban and town center properties (those located in mixed-use areas and/or with access to transit) represent 48 percent of its portfolio and over 67 percent of its net operating income.
Sustainable Development,
DaVita World Headquarters: New Corporate Office Tower Promotes Healthy Living
By: William E. Mosher, senior managing director, Trammell Crow Company's Denver office Fall 2014
Situated at the base of Denver's Millennium Bridge, across from Denver Union Station, sits DaVita's new corporate headquarters. The iconic building, standing 14 stories in the Central Platte Valley District, has reshaped the downtown skyline and set a new precedent for world-class office accommodations.
Maple Leaf Foods Distribution Centre: Overcoming Challenges with Integrated Project Delivery
By: Robert Skinner, president, McKay-Cocker Construction Ltd. Margaret Knowles, David Ward and Rina Zigler Gerson are, respectively, senior vice president, development; director, acquisitions; and analyst and project coordinator, development, with Morguard Investments Ltd. Ward also is a past president of NAIOP Greater Toronto (2012). Fall 2014
Switching sites, revising drawings and redesigning systems three months into the project schedule for a complicated, 282,000-square-foot state-of-the art distribution center should have stressed the project's schedule and budget. Yet the refrigerated, LEED Gold facility in Puslinch, Ontario, was completed on schedule and on budget.
Distribution Centers,
No Objections: Kilpatrick Townsend Reimagines the Law Office
By: Brian Parker, AIA, senior associate, Cooper Carry Fall 2014
The way people work is changing, and law firms like Kilpatrick Townsend are leading the charge in creating workspaces that accommodate advances in technology and meet employees' new expectations of office space. Law firms must abandon traditional workspace in order to work more efficiently and to attract and retain clients and top talent.
The View From I.CON: Everyone Loves Industrial
The good news coming out of I.CON: The Industrial Conference, held in Jersey City, New Jersey, on June 5-6, is that everyone loves industrial. The not-so-good-news is that there is fierce competition for properties and continuing cap rate compression is driving the numbers into the 4s.
Logistics,
A Coworking Center for Scientists
By: Julie D. Stern, managing editor, NAIOP Fall 2014
LabCentral, a shared incubator space for biotech startups that first opened for business in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November 2013, could serve as a model for a new type of building tenant. Founded by doctor-turned-entrepreneur Johannes Fruehauf and life science investor Peter Parker, with help from the Cambridge Innovation Center, the facility offers researchers shared laboratory facilities as well as offices, conference rooms, seminars and professional services.
Biotech,
Going Solar With PACE
By: Sam H. Black, attorney and past chairman of the Washington, D.C., Smart Growth Alliance Fall 2014
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a new approach to financing clean energy generation and energy-efficiency improvements. With PACE, a local property tax jurisdiction can help finance these types of projects.
Walkable Urbanism and the End of Sprawl
Office space in walkable urban areas commands a 74 percent price-per-square-foot premium over rents for office space in suburban business parks accessible only by cars, according to "Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America's Largest Metros." And that rent premium is growing. "Rent premiums of this magnitude reflect pent up demand for walkable urban office space," the report notes.
Development/Ownership


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Q: My buttons are all attached together via state I am currently working on a liking feature for posts, as well as replies and shares. Whenever I hit like or reply on one post, all other posts also get highlighted - how can I fix this so only the post that i like gets liked versus all posts getting liked?
My code in question:
<InfiniteScroll height='100%' dataLength={numberOfPosts.length} next={fetchMoreData} hasMore={hasMore} loader={<Loading style={{position: 'absolute', left: '50%'}}/>}
       id='all-post-container' scrollThreshold={0.5} endMessage={

       That's all folks!

}
       style={{position: 'absolute', top: '25%', left: '20%', backgroundColor: '#F7F9FE', height: '72%', width: "54%", borderRadius: '30px'}}>
      <Grid
        container
        direction="column"
        justifyContent="center"
        alignItems="center"
        spacing={45}
      >
      {numberOfPosts.map((key, i) => {
      return (
        <Grid container item>

          <Avatar src={<AvatarPicture/>} style={{position: 'absolute', left: '1%', top: '3%', height: '60px', width: '60px'}} size='lg'></Avatar>

@{state.posts[i].username}

{state.storage.location}

{state.posts[i].date}

{state.posts[i].text}

          <TextField InputProps={{
            startAdornment: (
              <InputAdornment>
                <Avatar src={state.storage.profileImageURL} />
              </InputAdornment>
            ),
            classes: {
              notchedOutline: 'notched-outline-border-radius'
          }
          }} maxRows={10} inputProps={{maxLength: 500}} multiline style={{position: 'absolute', left: '5%', top: '78%', width: '90%', background: '#F8FAFF', border: '1px solid #D9E1F9', borderRadius: '16px'}} placeholder='Write your comment'></TextField>
          <IconButton onClick={() => setLike(!like)} style={{ position: 'absolute', top: '60%', left: '5%'}} onMouseLeave={() => setMouseOver(false)} onMouseOver={() => setMouseOver(true)}>{like && mouseOver ? <HeartBrokenIcon style={{color: 'red'}}/> : like ? <FavoriteIcon style={{color: 'red'}} /> : <FavoriteBorderTwoToneIcon /> }</IconButton>

{state.posts[i].likes}

          <IconButton onClick={() => setReply(!reply)} style={{ position: 'absolute', top: '60%', left: '13%'}}>{reply ? <MessageIcon color="primary"/> : <MessageOutlinedIcon/>}</IconButton>

{state.posts[i].comments}

          <IconButton style={{ position: 'absolute', top: '60%', left: '23%'}}><IosShareOutlinedIcon /></IconButton>

{state.posts[i].shares}

        </Grid>
      )})}
      </Grid>
      </InfiniteScroll> :
<Loading size='lg' style={{position: 'absolute', left: '50%', top: '50%'}}/>
}

A: You need to have a separate state to include all the like states in the numberOfPosts array.

*

*Add a state to hold likes.

const [likes, setLikes] = useState([]);

*Add a useEffect to change the array length of like state when array is expanding in infinite scroll

useEffect(() => {
    setLikes(numberOfPosts.map((_, i) => (likes[i] === undefined ? false : likes[i])));
}, [numberOfPosts])

*Add a function to change the like state in the particular index.

const handleLike = (index) => {
    setLikes(likes.map((val, i) => index === i ? !val : val));
}

*Change the handle like function in the button.

{numberOfPosts.map((key, i) => {
    ...
    <IconButton onClick={() => handleLike(i)} ... >{likes[i] && mouseOver ? <HeartBrokenIcon style={{color: 'red'}}/> : likes[i] ? <FavoriteIcon style={{color: 'red'}} /> : <FavoriteBorderTwoToneIcon /> }</IconButton>
    ...
}


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You don't say
Does refusing to bake a wedding cake count as speech?
Only under a misunderstanding of the Supreme Court's First Amendment doctrine
by S.M. | NEW YORK
ON DECEMBER 5th the Supreme Court takes up its first major gay-rights battle since the landmark 2015 decision opening marriage laws nationwide to gay and lesbian couples. The case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission, has spurred ample media coverage, more than 90 amicus or "friend of-the-court" briefs (evenly split between the two sides) and a queue snaking around 1 First Street, NE of people hoping to claim one of the few dozen public seats in the courtroom.
This attention is not surprising. As your blogger's first preview of the oral argument explained, two sides of a cultural battle are colliding before a court that is fractured along ideological lines. Four conservative justices are expected to incline toward Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who declines to create cakes for wedding ceremonies he considers sacrilegious; four liberal justices will probably favour the right of Charlie Craig and David Mullins, under Colorado's public-accommodations law, to be treated equally in the marketplace. The looming question mark is Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, author of Obergefell v Hodges from 2015 and three other major gay-rights cases, whose support for LGBT Americans may be tempered by his tendency to vindicate plaintiffs' First Amendment claims and take an expansive view of both freedom of speech and religious liberty.
The post last week observed that Mr Phillips's religious-liberty claim flies in the face of both reason and the Supreme Court's long-standing position that neutral laws of general applicability do not violate the constitution when they only indirectly impinge on an individual's religious practice. The baker's complaint with regard to freedom of speech, however, has a bit more to recommend it. As Mr Phillips's lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) observe, Mr Phillips is no ordinary baker. He is, instead, "an artist using cake as his canvas", with creations that go well beyond crumby, frosted confections. The Supreme Court sees "protected artistic expression [as] a broad category", the brief says. The term embraces "unintelligible 'paintings of Jackson Pollock'" as well as "atonal instrumentals,...sexually explicit materials,….tattooing....[and] custom-painted clothing".
In light of the wide berth the First Amendment affords artistic speech, the ADF lawyers claim, "Phillips is as shielded by the Free Speech Clause as a modern painter or sculptor, and his greatest masterpieces—his custom wedding cakes—are just as worthy of constitutional protection as an abstract painting like Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, a modern sculpture like Alexander Calder's Flamingo, or a temporary artistic structure like Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence".
One can forgive Mr Phillips's lawyers for perhaps overstating the artistic company with which their client's fondant-and-flour creations belong. But it is less forgivable to elide an obvious distinction: Mondrian and Calder were not operating shops open to the public and refusing to sell certain pieces of art to a class of people whose life rituals they deemed sinful. Christo and Jeanne-Claude did not erect their monumental 25-mile art installation on the condition that gay couples would be banned from coming near it. Both Mr Phillips and his fellow artists have a right to artistic freedom, but where a law prohibits turning people away on the basis of their sexual orientation (among other identity markers), that freedom does not trump a requirement to afford gays and straights alike the "full and equal enjoyment" of the all their goods and services up for sale.
This reasoning forms the heart of a short, powerful brief signed by Floyd Abrams, America's foremost First Amendment lawyer who nearly always stands on the side of the party clamouring for free speech. (He argued, successfully, on behalf of corporations challenging campaign-finance rules in the controversial Citizens United decision of 2010.) Masterpiece Cakeshop is a different story for Mr Abrams, because Colorado's public accommodations law "regulates conduct, not speech". Wedding cakes carry some general message of celebration, but the law does not require Mr Phillips to sell them. It only asks that he "sell[s] customers whatever expression may be inherent in a wedding cake" in an evenhanded way, without turning away "African Americans, women, gays, interracial couples, persons of Irish descent, and so on".
Mr Phillips's free-speech claim falters whether one considers the cake's message to lie in the creator's intent or in the view of the average wedding party attendee. The logic of the former is axiomatic: if Mr Phillips does not approve of gay marriage, then he does not communicate a message of approval by agreeing to bake a wedding cake. And as Mr Abrams's brief notes, "[a] churchgoer does not understand the printer of her church bulletin to be welcoming her to the 10:00 Mass"; a youngster celebrating a birthday "does not believe that Carvel wishes him a happy birthday" when he dives into an ice-cream cake. Whatever message a cake may transmit is likely received by the party-goer as coming from the customer who ordered it, not from the baker who was paid to supply it. But as the court below and Mr Abrams noted, a baker who is particularly worried about being misinterpreted could include a disclaimer near the cake laying out his true belief, or stating that he made the cake in deference to Colorado's civil-rights protections.
For all the swirling controversy, Masterpiece Cakeshop could be a relatively easy case for the justices to decide. Given the rather damning set of facts—Mr Phillips categorically refused to bake a wedding cake for the gay couple, before any discussion of adorning words or symbols arose—it's possible a comfortable majority of the court could rule against the baker.
But such a win for LGBT equality could prove to be skimpier than it sounds when the next legal question inevitably arises: must a baker decorate a cake with whatever message a protected class of individuals instructs him to? Mr Abrams demurs here, as he should: the Colorado law "does not compel a baker to inscribe a cake with a unique message he has not produced and would not produce for any other customer—say, 'God Bless This Gay Wedding'". Such a requirement would probably not survive constitutional scrutiny. A narrow win for the gay couple, then, may not amount to much. It would prohibit a wedding cake proprietor from shutting down a discussion the minute a gay couple enters his store, but allow the baker to balk as soon as the prospective customer requests specific messages—or even just rainbow colours.
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