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Girls with Guns: Palin sports Red Bluff…
Girls with Guns: Palin sports Red Bluff clothiers' products on TV
By Julie Zeeb | jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com and Medianews Group | Red Bluff Daily News
PUBLISHED: December 7, 2010 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: June 3, 2018 at 11:34 pm
RED BLUFF — Products of a Red Bluff clothing business soon going nationwide had a television premier Sunday when they were worn by Sarah Palin.
"We are so pleased with how far Girls with Guns has come in the past two years," said co-founder Jen Adams of Red Bluff.
"We're pretty excited about it," said Norissa Harman, co-founder. "We've been really blessed. We are so thankful for all of the support that we get from everyone in Red Bluff and our family and friends."
Adams and Harman, who are both shooters, formed a partnership in November 2008 and began selling their merchandise at trade shows and online.
"What a year 2010 has been. We went from hand drawing and embroidering and pressing our hats in our garage to now working with a manufacturing company."
In February, the two attended the Shasta Cascade Logging conference, where Sarah Palin was a guest speaker, and at a friend's suggestion put together a package.
"We laughed, saying, 'Hey, maybe one day she'll be in a magazine wearing our clothing'," Adams said.
Not knowing if the package made it to Palin, the girls were surprised and excited to get a call from Mark Burnett Productions to get their permission to use footage of Palin wearing their products in her new reality show.
The show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," featuring Palin wearing Girls with Guns clothing aired Sunday, Harman said.
In the spring, Girls with Guns is planning a launch party for a whole new line, which will include a gun bag line, suitcases, sweatshirts, shirts, hats, beanies and more, Adams said.
The business recently incorporated, becoming Girls with Guns, Inc., and is working closely with its manufacturer, designers and friends Heather Vine and Mark Frawley and shipping manager Courtney Ross.
Harman and Adams met a representative of Scheels stores attending a gun show in Reno, which launched the opportunity to be in the company's 23 stores nationwide.
For more information, visit www.gwgclothing.com.
Julie Zeeb is a reporter with the Red Bluff Daily News.
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» Fr. Bruno M. Tucci – Diocese of Allentown
Fr. Bruno M. Tucci – Diocese of Allentown
Horowitz Law | Oct 22, 2018 | Abuser Profiles, Catholic Church
Father Bruno Tucci
Diocese of Allentown
Retired: 2002
Laicized (removed from priesthood): 2007
1971-1972: St. Margaret (Reading, PA)
1972: Cardinal Brennan High School (Fountain Spring, PA)
1972: Annunciation (Shenandoah, PA)
1972-1974: St. Canicus (Mahanoy City, PA)
1972-1977: Marian High School (Tamaqua, PA)
1974-1975: Ss. Peter and Paul (Lehighton, PA)
1975-1977: Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Nesquehoning, PA)
1975: Marian High School (Tamaqua, PA)
1977-1979: Holy Name High School (Reading, PA)
1977: St. Columbkill (Boyertown, PA)
1977-1978: Most Blessed Sacrament (Bally, PA)
1978-1981: St. Peter (Reading, PA)
1979-1981: Central Catholic High School (Reading, PA)
1981-1986: Immaculate Conception (Kelayres, PA)
1986-2002: Our Lady of Mount Carmel/Immaculate Conception (Nesquehoning, PA)
Summary of Sexual Abuse Allegations against Fr. Bruno Tucci:
Fr. Bruno Tucci was ordained a priest in 1971, who served in multiple parishes in the Diocese of Allentown. According to media reports, in 2018, his name was included on the Diocese of Allentown list of clergy credibly accused of child sexual abuse. He was also named publicly as accused in the 2018 PA Grand Jury report, which stated the "Diocese of Allentown became aware of Fr. Bruno Tucci's abuse of children in 1991."
At that time, a man reported being abused as a 14-year-old boy, but no details are provided as to the date or Tucci's assignment at the time of the alleged abuse. The man alleged he was fondled by Tucci several times under the guise of tickling the boy. Tucci admitted to the allegations when confronted. He sought to minimize his conduct by calling it "just fondling," rather than actual sodomy. Like many other accused priests in the Diocese of Allentown, Tucci was sent to the notorious Servants of the Paraclete facility in New Mexico, and then returned to ministry as if nothing had happened.
According to media reports, in 1993, the same victim approached the Diocese again, outraged that Tucci was still working as a priest. He asked to confront Tucci personally. It did not happen.
Almost a decade later, in February 2002, while several other priests were being confronted with past allegations about their wrongdoing, Tucci reportedly again met with the Chancery of the Diocese of Allentown and admitted his guilt. He offered to retire. Four days later, the Bishop of Allentown accepted Tucci's resignation and his retirement became effective in March 2002.
In May 2002, the Diocese received a letter from another victim stating that he was molested by Tucci between 1977 and 1978 as a child. Tucci did not deny the allegation when confronted, stating only that he did not recall it.
In 2005, Tucci applied for laicization (dismissal from the priesthood). It was granted by the Vatican in 2007.
According to media reports, in 2013, Tucci was arrested by Maryland officials on charges that he sexually abused a boy in August 1981 at an Ocean City, Maryland, motel. There is no statute of limitations on certain sex crimes against children in Maryland. Charges were ultimately dropped, though the court docket is unclear as to the reason why.
Tucci is believed to be residing in the Salisbury, Maryland area.
Horowitz Law is a law firm representing victims and survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and other clergy in the Diocese of Allentown. If you need a lawyer because you were sexually abused by a priest in Pennsylvania, contact our office today. Although many years have passed, those abused by Catholic clergy in the Diocese of Allentown may have legal options against the Diocese of Allentown.
Contact us at (954) 641-2100 or [email protected] today.


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Free and Fair Elections: The Model
Every time there is a major election in the US, pundits reference the 'Florida Recount' that handed the presidency to George Bush instead of Al Gore in the year 2000, clearing the way for a US assault on the Middle East following the attack by Al Queda on September 11, 2001. The tedious…
Trump on the March
Ever since news began to leak that Vladimir Putin had allegedly helped Donald Trump become president of the United States, the media has accused him of kowtowing to 'authoritarians', painting this more as a regrettable character trait than as a threat to America's 'democracy'. Suddenly, Trump has been able to emulate those he admires. What is worse is that he…
Europe Trying to Wing It
Although relatively small in size, 'Europe' or, as I prefer to call it, the Eurasian Peninsula, which has throughout history been a fractious place, is threatened with implosion by several major problems that it appears incapable of handling. First is the near-impossibility of hearing each other's financial woes when East and West…
Trump's Curious Problem with the Media
One of the strangest things about the Trump Presidency is that he excoriates the media for mocking him, claiming that the press is 'the enemy of the people', while for progressives, the press is still not going its job by failing to call out the slide toward fascism. The fact that 'the left' broadly speaking is still seen as the devil incarnate…
The Democrats' Problem with Power Boomerangs
Barely a week after Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder called for Democrats to get tough, both were the targets of pipe bombs, together with several other Democratic political figures, the day after President Trump goaded his followers to go after 'the left-wing mob', using the term by which Republicans have long referred…
The Democratic Party's Problem with Power
With the approval of a conservative, anti-feminist judge to the Supreme Court, the divide between Democrats and Republicans widened, as it does periodically. But this time around, it goes far toward explaining why socialism has never been able to gain a foothold in the United States, notwithstanding that the Democratic party has more members than the Republican Party and wear…
Women Will be at the Head of the Second American Revolution
It's long overdue, partly because for decades, women's liberation was infantilizing American men. If it finally happens, the revolution will be driven by women, Blacks and Latinos, but men will have to join in. For decades after…
We the People and "Our" Democracy
The drama being enacted around the promotion of a sexist, alcohol-prone judge to what is invariably described as 'the highest court in the land' for emphasis, is not only about women's place in society, it's a cringing demonstration of how empty the word 'democracy' is. Since it was designated as…
The Truth about 'Democracy'
The inability of governments to 'get things done' is what is on display in the drama being played out over the threat to the US and the world of an American president who is 'unfit for the office'— whom the American political system should have never allowed to run. The latest revelation is that only a few months after Donald Trump took office, top officials…
1918-2018: The UN Turns East
On the day when the American President delivered his second speech to the United Nations General Assembly, followed by the Presidents of France, Turkey and Iran, the nightly news only reported the fact that the audience laughed when Trump boasted about his domestic accomplishments…
Korea: So Who's in Bad Faith Here?
In 1945, with the surrender of Japan, which had occupied Korea during the second world war, the United Nations put that country under trusteeship. Much like what was happening in Germany, zones of occupation were allotted to the victors. In Germany there were four zones, the US and…
Eastern Asia - North Korea
The Migrant Crisis and the Stubborn Minority
As the world witnesses a hopeless effort on part of its Caucasian minority to retain for as long as possible its supremacy over the other 84% of the world's population, the example of Africans and Middle Easterners fleeing to Europe appears to have served as…


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Hnanisho II (born c.715) was patriarch of the Church of the East between 773 and 780.  His name, sometimes spelled Ananjesu or Khnanishu, means 'mercy of Jesus'.

Sources
Brief accounts of Hnanisho's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), Amr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century).

Hnanisho's patriarchate
The following account of Hnanisho's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus, who was more interested in his influential sponsor Isa the pharmacist than in the patriarch himself:

The catholicus Yaqob died after fulfilling his office for nineteen years, and was succeeded by Hnanisho II, bishop of Daquqa [Lashom].  He was consecrated at Seleucia on the recommendation of Isa the pharmacist, and died after fulfilling his office for four years.  It is said of this Isa the pharmacist that one day while he was sitting in his shop a woman arrived from the caliph's court with a bottle containing a urine sample.  Thinking that he was a doctor, she showed it to him and asked him whether he could diagnose the illness suffered by the urine's owner.  Isa, who had no knowledge or experience of the physician's art, studied the urine and said, purely by way of a guess and with downcast eyes, 'This is not the water of a sick man, but belongs to a woman who carries a male child in her womb who will one day rule this kingdom.'  Now this woman was the maidservant of Kaizaran, the concubine of the caliph al-Mahdi, and she immediately ran to her mistress and told her what she had just heard.  Her mistress replied, 'Run back to that man and tell him that if his prophecy comes true, I will take him into my service and shower wealth upon him.'  And so Isa spent all his time in churches and monasteries, in the company of holy men and miracle-workers, and in fasting and praying, until his prediction came true.  He was then received with great honour in the caliph's court.

Hnanisho and the Nestorian mission to China
Hnanisho is named in both Syriac and Chinese in a conventional dating formula at the end of the main inscription on the Nestorian Stele erected in Chang'an by the metropolitan Adam of Beth Sinaye in February 781.  The Syriac text reads 'In the days of the father of fathers the catholicus-patriarch Mar Hnanisho (b'yawmi aba d'abahatha Mar Hnanisho qatoliqa patrirqis)'.  The Chinese text reads 'when the monk Ning-Shu was governing the brilliant congregations of the East'(時法主僧寧恕知東方之㬌衆也).  The news of Hnanisho's death several months earlier had evidently not yet reached the Nestorians of Chang'an.

See also
 List of patriarchs of the Church of the East
 Nestorian Stele

Notes

References
 Abbeloos, J. B., and Lamy, T. J., Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols, Paris, 1877)
 Assemani, J. A., De Catholicis seu Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum (Rome, 1775)
 Brooks, E. W., Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum (Rome, 1910)

 Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria I: Amri et Salibae Textus (Rome, 1896)
 Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria II: Maris textus arabicus et versio Latina (Rome, 1899)

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8th-century bishops of the Church of the East
8th-century deaths
Patriarchs of the Church of the East
Nestorians in the Abbasid Caliphate
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8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
8th-century archbishops

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Q: PHP: fopen() file pointer at the chosen line How to place a file pointer in the choosen line (e.g. 1 lime from the bottom) when opening file with fopen()?

A: If you know the offset within the file of the data you want you could always fseek () to it.  Of course the problem is discovering where you need to fseek to within the file.  If you can use SEEK_END as an option then the offset will be relative to the end of the file instead of the beginning, which may be helpful for you.
Alternatively, you could use the file () function to load the file data into an array.  Each element on the array represents a line of the file, so the second to last element in the array will be the item you want.

A: You will probably have to read your file counting line endings "\n". Something like:
function fseek_line($handle, $count) {
  while ((--$count > 0) && (fgets($handle, 4096) !== false)) { }
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If you need the last line just open in append mode fopen("file.txt", "a");

A: There is a SplFileObject::seek  method that can position the pointer to Nth line.

A: Unfortunatly there is no easy way for this. Since files are not stored linewise there is no order to jump one line or several.
But check out this thread: fseek() by line, not bytes?

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If you do a search for "Digital Transformation," you will, no doubt, be overwhelmed by the sheer number of blogs, books, research papers, and trade conference presentations that cover some aspect of the topic. Experts and thought-leaders continue to share insights intended to help make sense of the many disruptive forces that are shaping the global economy. But with such a broad subject, it's often difficult for any one article or discussion to give a comprehensive overview that's easy to digest.
Chuck Martin has done just that.
Martin's book, Digital Transformation 3.0: The New Business-to-Consumer Connections of the Internet of Things, brings together a wealth of research from a variety of respected sources to lay out a perspective on the digital landscape of today, including predictions about where things are heading in the next few years. In addition to being impeccably sourced, the inferences and conclusions that Martin draws from the aggregated research add thoughtful commentary that elevates the book from merely being a collection of observed trends to something that is, without a doubt, more than the sum of its parts.
The underlying premise of the book is that we are witnessing the third phase of digital transformation.
The first digital transformation occurred with the advent of the Internet, forever changing the way people and businesses would interact with each other.
The second digital transformation was mobile, with smartphones ushering in a new era where information, communication, and commerce all became portable.
The third digital transformation, which is just upon us, is the result of the Internet of Things (IoT) enabling a level of connectivity and data collection that will fundamentally change things once again.
Just as digital transformation is a broad and deep topic, so is the discussion of the IoT. Martin provides a framework in which to segment the discussion, identifying what he sees as the seven technologically-driven forces that compose the IoT landscape: sensors, artificial intelligence, voice assistants, smart homes, virtual and augmented reality, connected cars, and drones and robots.
The author dives into each of these areas in detail, emphasizing the unique factors of each of these technologies that are shaping the way people interact with each other, with businesses, and with the smart devices around them. He also highlights the combinatorial effect that these forces have on each other. "Rather than being one cohesive, end-to-end phenomenon," Martin writes, "the Internet of Things comprises differing silos of major innovation." These silos interact and interoperate to propel user experiences forward, often by leaps and bounds.
The focus of the book, as the subtitle suggests, is largely about the consumer-to-business relationship. However, it seems clear that many of the observations that Martin makes could be readily applied to the relationship between employees and employers. The influx of IoT devices into people's lives will likely, as Martin says, begin to change consumer expectations for how they interact with business. It stands to reason, however, that these expectations will carry over into the workplace, too. A careful reading of the book with an eye toward the evolution of the digital employee experience can yield insights that go beyond the explicit predictions and observations found in its pages.
Martin's chapter on smart homes, for example, can be easily expanded to a discussion of smart workspaces, as some of the same opportunities for personalization, efficiency, and automation exist in both scenarios. Similarly, the discussion of VR and AR easily translates to an employee experience discussion, with the author actually referencing examples of employers using AR techniques to train their workers to perform tasks. The future of work will be impacted heavily by these forces, and businesses should pay attention to how these consumer trends inform new ways of working.
Such subject matter might seem somewhat dry and a bit dense to process, but this book shines when the author tries to imagine scenarios from the not-so-distant future, in which IoT devices significantly change our experiences. In one example, Martin lays out some theoretical (yet highly plausible) conversations with a digital assistant (such as Alexa, from Amazon) in which brief, natural conversations yield significant, complex outcomes beyond what are currently possible. It's thought-provoking and engaging, and it enjoins the reader to consider what is now (or will soon be) possible in a way that's interesting and fun.
Chuck Martin succeeds in covering a lot of ground in what amounts to a fairly quick, easy read. Digital Transformation 3.0: The New Business-to-Consumer Connections of the Internet of Things is well worth your time and will undoubtedly provide much food for thought.


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Accessibility Club Conference, Berlin 2018
Accessibility Club (or a11yclub) is a regular meetup held in Berlin about all things web accessibility and assistive technology. Today they held their first all-day conference, at the beautiful Spreespeicher, next to the river Spree, looking onto the Oberbaumbrucke (bridge), in the Friedrichshain district.
The first speaker was Molly Watt, a prolific blogger and advocate of inclusive technology. Molly has Usher Syndrome, a condition that causes both Deafness and blindness, and although she has a wealth of knowledge of web accessibility and how it can be enabled, her talk was mainly around her personal experiences of travelling to events (such as today's conference), and the many considerations that need to be factored in. If accommodation needs to be booked, the hotel needs to be contacted directly to ensure they are prepared for accommodating Molly's Guide Dog. Molly also needs to check the route to the hotel/venue to ensure there are grassy areas for the Guide Dog. Travel arrangements also need to be planned carefully and thoroughly, although sometimes factors beyond Molly's control can lead to major issues, such as when a trip overseas resulted in Molly's Guide Dog being quarantined.
Next up was Holger Dieterich, who talked about his company's work on Wheelmap.org, an online map for finding wheelchair accessible places. Thanks to around 70 volunteers, working in 25 different languages, almost 1 million public places around the world have now been ranked in terms of their accessibility. He also spoke about accessibility.cloud, a free-of-charge API (currently in closed beta) providing access to standardised location-based accessibility data.
Leonie Watson gave a technical talk on the subject of web page performance, with a specific focus on assistive technology such as screen readers. She went into detail on the technical factors that can affect performance of different screen readers in particular browsers. The TTI (Time To Interaction) for screen reader users can vary greatly depending on how an operating system and web browser expose a page's content to a screen reader; more detail can be found in Leonie's slide deck, which she has made available here.
Charlie Owen gave an incredibly passionate talk about the issues that might be faced when advocating accessibility in a large organisation, and also very robust arguments in favour of making accessibility a core element of every project. The moral/ethical reasons for making web content accessible to all are not the only reasons. There are other, more commercial factors that should be highlighted, such as contractual obligations (perhaps as part of a Service Level Agreement) as well as legal obligations for certain kinds of organisations (such as Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in the USA).
Last speaker of the day was Alistair Duggin, Head of Accessibility at Government Digital Service, responsible for making sure that GOV.UK is as accessible as possible. He spoke about his 4-part strategy for making digital products accessible, revolving around these four core principles;
Design for ease of use
Design for easy adaptation
Design complementary alternatives
Design to work with assistive technology
Amongst the many observations he made about the accessibility work that's been done at GDS over the last few years, one that I know from personal experience holds true is that baking in accessibility from the beginning of a project is much quicker and easier than having to retrofit or patch it in towards the end, as a release date is looming.
The GDS has a wealth of resources for designing and building accessible products, from the Service Manual, to the Accessibility Blog and the "Do's and Don'ts" posters on designing for accessibility.
To find out more about Accessibility Club and any upcoming events you can follow them on Twitter.
© Robin Parker 2019
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Patients being evaluated for labor (including possible induction).
The Bishop Score for Vaginal Delivery and Induction of Pregnancy was originally developed to predict failure of elective induction in multiparous women.
It is commonly considered for predicting the need for caesarean section after induction and preterm labor.
Some centers recommend using the Modified Bishop Score which was developed in 1982 as an update to Bishop's original 1964 scoring system.
Typically a score ≥ 8 is used to predict spontaneous vaginal delivery without induction and a score ≤5 suggests an unfavorable cervix likely to require induction.
Predicting which women will successfully deliver with induction is difficult, and the Bishop Score is a standardized system used for evaluation.
Induction is often considered at a Bishop Score of ≤5.
Scores ≤ 5 suggest an unfavorable cervix, and that induction may be necessary for successful vaginal delivery.
Scores 6-7 do not definitively predict whether or not induction will be successful. Consider induction or augmentation of labor based on clinical judgment.
Scores ≥ 8 suggest spontaneous vaginal delivery is more likely and augmentation or induction may be unnecessary.
Bishop EH. Pelvic scoring for elective induction. Obstet Gynecol. 1964;24: 266–8. PMID 14199536.
Newman RB, Goldenberg RL, Iams JD et al. Preterm Prediction Study: Comparison of the Cervical Score and Bishop Score for Prediction of Spontaneous Preterm Delivery. Obstet Gynecol. 2008;112 (3): 508–15. doi:10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181842087. PMID 18757646.
Laughon SK, Zhang J, Troendle J, Sun L, Reddy UM. Using a Simplified Bishop Score to Predict Vaginal Delivery. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2011;117(4):805-811. doi:10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182114ad2.
Edward H. Bishop, MD, (d. 1995) was one of the biggest names in obstetrics and gynecology during his lifetime. He was a pioneer in research and clinical practice, working primarily at Pennsylvania Hospital. His research involved re-evaluating exam techniques and predicting delivery outcomes.


Notre Dame finally put offense and defense together and hammered Navy 56-14 in their South Bend encounter yesterday.
Micheal Floyd was the go-to destroyer, as this column predicted in the pre-match round up, throwing to Floyd early and often was the key to a Notre Dame victory.
It helped they played a Navy team that bore no resemblance to last year's squad who hammered the Irish with a massive ground game.
But it was also all about Floyd who was determined to have a big day.
They also put to bed the rumors that the team had begun to fall apart after the USC game.
A Friday evening bare all when coach and players got it all of their chest seemed to have sorted that out.
USC look better in the rear mirror too, They almost defeated Stanford and Andrew Luck -- the Cards needed a triple overtime to win.
The next three games should be easy Notre Dame victories, but then comes the big test against Luck, this Stanford generation's John Elway and Notre Dame in the final game of the season.
If the Irish team that showed up yesterday shows up they have a shot.


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Installation photo of framed pictures in Attic Space (2003) by Ralph Lemon and in collaboration with Eric Stone and F. Randy deCelle.
For his first solo exhibition in New York, Ralph Lemon prepared a multimedia show including works on paper, video, and an architectural sculpture installation. (The efflorescence of) Walter was inspired by and focused on the artist's collaborative relationship with 99-year-old Walter Carter of Yazoo City, Mississippi. The drawings, paintings, and videos shown explored the memory and reality of the American South through a synthesis of popular, political, and personal imagery.


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Canucks sign Ashton Sautner to two-year, two-way contract extension
March 8, 2018, 3:37 PM | Ryan Biech
The Canucks continue to take care of business this week, signing Ashton Sautner to a two-year, two-way contract this afternoon:
#Canucks sign defenceman Ashton Sautner to a two-year, two-way contract extension. https://t.co/YFTaVUNkl2
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) March 8, 2018
The full press release from the organization can be found below:
The former Edmonton Oil King has appeared in 150 AHL games over the past three seasons and has developed into a defensively dependable player at that level. With all the injuries suffered by the Comets, Sautner has earned himself a regular role and has been a big part of their success this season. With that being said, the chances of him carving out an NHL career are likely very limited at this point as he lacks a skill that separates him from other prospects down there.
Sautner ranks second in defencemen on the Comets in shots with 75 on the season.
The Flaxcombe native will require waivers to start next season.
It's fair to believe that this move is done to give the organization some depth at the AHL level and insulate other defencemen like Guillaume Brisebois, Jalen Chatfield and possibly Olli Juolevi next season. Rather than signing unrestricted free agents to fill the role of "AHL veteran", the Canucks have developed their own to ensure that the younger defencemen aren't constantly being thrown to the wolves.
This isn't to say that the soon to be 24-year-old Sautner is old, but merely a different approach to building their AHL team.
With Sautner now signed, the Canucks have 30 contracts on the books for the 2018-19 season.
By Ryan Biech
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Prior to River, every little thing used to be ideal. . . . growing to be up on a Canadian dairy farm under miles from the yank border, fifteen-year-old Natalie Ward understands little of the skin global. yet her loving, close-knit relations is the envy of old and young alike within the close by city of Atwood. Natalie adores her 3 brothers—especially Boyer, the eldest, whom she idolizes. yet every little thing alterations one scorching July afternoon in 1966 whilst a long-haired stranger appears to be like at their door—a soft-spoken American, a Vietnam battle resister, who will try out the family's morals and ideology, and set in movement catastrophic occasions that might shatter Natalie's relationships with these she such a lot dearly loves.
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Bus,' I tell her. 'It should arrive at the junction at nine tomorrow night. ' The turnoff from the Trans-Canada Highway is thirty miles north of Atwood. The bus will only stop on that lonely piece of highway if someone is waiting for connecting passengers. ' Jenny says. ' 'Good,' I say then hesitate. ' she asks. The doctor's voice is gone now, replaced by the whine of a daughter's hurt feelings. 'We have lots of room in our new house, Mom. ' 'I know, and I will. I will. ' I know. I know exactly where her new house is.
The semantics of 30 AFTER RIVER his job pull him back to the reality of the morning as he lifts the sliding luggage compartment doors and begins to throw bags into the belly of the bus. Behind me the bus doors fold open with a mechanical sigh. I put my arms around Vern for a final hug. He hangs on for a moment after I let go. A part of me wants to tell him I'll call for him when the time comes. That I will cry on his shoulder, lean on his strong body. But we both know it wouldn't be true. Besides, I tell myself, there's no need for him to be there.
Well, it's true Boyer is talking to Father Mackenzie about many things,' she said. ' She smiled and pulled me onto her lap.


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Communication and collaboration tools
Email and calendaring
Using shared email accounts via profiles in Google Chrome
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The preferred method of viewing additional email accounts (such as shared departmental accounts) is to have them delegated to your primary email account, and any documents owned by those shared accounts moved to a Google Shared Drive. In some cases, however, this is not possible - for example, Google Forms that use the Upload feature are not supported in Shared Drive.
Google has added the ability in the latest version of Chrome to have multiple separate profile windows. Such a window works like a Chrome incognito window, but has the persistence of a normal Chrome window - you can close Chrome and re-open it, and it will remember your login. You can repeat this process multiple times and be logged into multiple accounts this way.
Google intended this to be used to keep your various work and personal windows separate from each other, including bookmarks and cookies. Even the Chrome settings are unique to a window.
How to set up an additional account window
In Chrome, click on the profile icon in the Chrome toolbar (not in Google's web page):
Click the "+ Add" button at the bottom:
Chrome will ask you to select a color for the new windows' title bar, so you can easily tell the difference between it and your existing account's window. You can also give this new window profile a name:
Now, you can log into the shared account by going to https://mail.google.com. In addition to the different colors, you can tell which account you are in by hovering over the profile icon in the Chrome toolbar:
An important thing to note is that your new window's Chrome settings revert to the default. For instance, if you are used to PDFs downloading when you click on them, they will open in a new tab with this new profile. To change settings for this window, select the three dots next to the profile icon in the Chrome toolbar, and choose Settings.
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Check out this article I found in the IT Support Center knowledge base.

https://servicedesk.mtu.edu/TDClient/1801/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=134167

Using shared email accounts via profiles in Google Chrome

Google has added the ability in the latest version of Chrome to have multiple separate profile windows. Learn how to customize your window to differentiate between multiple profiles.


This is a video, minus the audio, produced from a powerpoint that I developed on the history of vaccinated diseases.
The focus of this presentation is kids or young adults who come down with an immunizable disease.
In the figure provided above, the two pictures present views down the pharynx of a child with diphtheria. The white covering on the mucous membranes is due to dead organisms, respiratory passage tissue, and debris left behind by a bacterial colony residing on the air passage. This debris essentially forms a perfect casting of the lung, and can extending more than a foot into the lung in some sections. For the worst cases, it may extend as far down as the upper to middle bronchioles, stopping just before the alveoli are reached. In the alveoli, oxygen – carbon dioxide exchange takes place.
In severe cases of airway blockage, the best treatment is typically a tracheotomy and/or intubation.


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Fraud represents a significant problem for governments and businesses and specialized analysis techniques for discovering fraud using them are required. Some of these methods include knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), data mining, machine learning and statistics. They offer applicable and successful solutions in different areas of electronic fraud crimes.

In general, the primary reason to use data analytics techniques is to tackle fraud since many internal control systems have serious weaknesses. For example, the currently prevailing approach employed by many law enforcement agencies to detect companies involved in potential cases of fraud consists in receiving circumstantial evidence or complaints from whistleblowers. As a result, a large number of fraud cases remain undetected and unprosecuted. In order to effectively test, detect, validate, correct error and monitor control systems against fraudulent activities, businesses entities and organizations rely on specialized data analytics techniques such as data mining, data matching, the sounds like function, regression analysis, clustering analysis, and gap analysis. Techniques used for fraud detection fall into two primary classes: statistical techniques and artificial intelligence.

Statistical techniques
Examples of statistical data analysis techniques are:

Data preprocessing techniques for detection, validation, error correction, and filling up of missing or incorrect data.
 Calculation of various statistical parameters such as averages, quantiles, performance metrics, probability distributions, and so on. For example, the averages may include average length of call, average number of calls per month and average delays in bill payment.
 Models and probability distributions of various business activities either in terms of various parameters or probability distributions.
 Computing user profiles.
 Time-series analysis of time-dependent data.
Clustering and classification to find patterns and associations among groups of data.
Data matching Data matching is used to compare two sets of collected data. The process can be performed based on algorithms or programmed loops. Trying to match sets of data against each other or comparing complex data types. Data matching is used to remove duplicate records and identify links between two data sets for marketing, security or other uses.
 Sounds like Function is used to find values that sound similar. The Phonetic similarity is one way to locate possible duplicate values, or inconsistent spelling in manually entered data. The 'sounds like' function converts the comparison strings to four-character American Soundex codes, which are based on the first letter, and the first three consonants after the first letter, in each string.
Regression analysis allows you to examine the relationship between two or more variables of interest. Regression analysis estimates relationships between independent variables and a dependent variable. This method can be used to help understand and identify relationships among variables and predict actual results.
Gap analysis is used to determine whether business requirements are being met, if not, what are the steps that should be taken to meet successfully.
Matching algorithms to detect anomalies in the behavior of transactions or users as compared to previously known models and profiles. Techniques are also needed to eliminate false alarms, estimate risks, and predict future of current transactions or users.

Some forensic accountants specialize in forensic analytics which is the procurement and analysis of electronic data to reconstruct, detect, or otherwise support a claim of financial fraud. The main steps in forensic analytics are data collection, data preparation, data analysis, and reporting. For example, forensic analytics may be used to review an employee's purchasing card activity to assess whether any of the purchases were diverted or divertible for personal use.

Artificial intelligence
Fraud detection is a knowledge-intensive activity. The main AI techniques used for fraud detection include:
 Data mining to classify, cluster, and segment the data and automatically find associations and rules in the data that may signify interesting patterns, including those related to fraud.
 Expert systems to encode expertise for detecting fraud in the form of rules.
 Pattern recognition to detect approximate classes, clusters, or patterns of suspicious behavior either automatically (unsupervised) or to match given inputs.
 Machine learning techniques to automatically identify characteristics of fraud.
Neural nets to independently generate classification, clustering, generalization, and forecasting that can then be compared against conclusions raised in internal audits or formal financial documents such as 10-Q.

Other techniques such as link analysis, Bayesian networks, decision theory, and sequence matching are also used for fraud detection. A new and novel technique called System properties approach has also been employed where ever rank data is available.

Statistical analysis of research data is the most comprehensive method for determining if data fraud exists. Data fraud as defined by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) includes fabrication, falsification and plagiarism.

Machine learning and data mining

Early data analysis techniques were oriented toward extracting quantitative and statistical data characteristics. These techniques facilitate useful data interpretations and can help to get better insights into the processes behind the data. Although the traditional data analysis techniques can indirectly lead us to knowledge, it is still created by human analysts.

To go beyond, a data analysis system has to be equipped with a substantial amount of background knowledge, and be able to perform reasoning tasks involving that knowledge and the data provided. In effort to meet this goal, researchers have turned to ideas from the machine learning field. This is a natural source of ideas, since the machine learning task can be described as turning background knowledge and examples (input) into knowledge (output).

If data mining results in discovering meaningful patterns, data turns into information. Information or patterns that are novel, valid and potentially useful are not merely information, but knowledge. One speaks of discovering knowledge, before hidden in the huge amount of data, but now revealed.

The machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions may be classified into two categories: 'supervised' and 'unsupervised' learning. These methods seek for accounts, customers, suppliers, etc. that behave 'unusually' in order to output suspicion scores, rules or visual anomalies, depending on the method.

Whether supervised or unsupervised methods are used, note that the output gives us only an indication of fraud likelihood. No stand alone statistical analysis can assure that a particular object is a fraudulent one, but they can identify them with very high degrees of accuracy. As a result, effective collaboration between machine learning model and human analysts is vital to the success of fraud detection applications.

Supervised learning

In supervised learning, a random sub-sample of all records is taken and manually classified as either 'fraudulent' or 'non-fraudulent' (task can be decomposed on more classes to meet algorithm requirements). Relatively rare events such as fraud may need to be over sampled to get a big enough sample size. These manually classified records are then used to train a supervised machine learning algorithm. After building a model using this training data, the algorithm should be able to classify new records as either fraudulent or non-fraudulent.

Supervised neural networks, fuzzy neural nets, and combinations of neural nets and rules, have been extensively explored and used for detecting fraud in mobile phone networks and financial statement fraud.

Bayesian learning neural network is implemented for credit card fraud detection, telecommunications fraud, auto claim fraud detection, and medical insurance fraud.

Hybrid knowledge/statistical-based systems, where expert knowledge is integrated with statistical power, use a series of data mining techniques for the purpose of detecting cellular clone fraud. Specifically, a rule-learning program to uncover indicators of fraudulent behaviour from a large database of customer transactions is implemented.

Cahill et al. (2000) design a fraud signature, based on data of fraudulent calls, to detect telecommunications fraud. For scoring a call for fraud its probability under the account signature is compared to its probability under a fraud signature. The fraud signature is updated sequentially, enabling event-driven fraud detection.

Link analysis comprehends a different approach. It relates known fraudsters to other individuals, using record linkage and social network methods.

This type of detection is only able to detect frauds similar to those which have occurred previously and been classified by a human. To detect a novel type of fraud may require the use of an unsupervised machine learning algorithm.

Unsupervised learning

In contrast, unsupervised methods don't make use of labelled records.

Bolton and Hand use Peer Group Analysis and Break Point Analysis applied on spending behaviour in credit card accounts. Peer Group Analysis detects individual objects that begin to behave in a way different from objects to which they had previously been similar. Another tool Bolton and Hand develop for behavioural fraud detection is Break Point Analysis. Unlike Peer Group Analysis, Break Point Analysis operates on the account level. A break point is an observation where anomalous behaviour for a particular account is detected. Both the tools are applied on spending behaviour in credit card accounts.

A combination of unsupervised and supervised methods for credit card fraud detection is in Carcillo et al (2019).

Available datasets
A major limitation for the validation of existing fraud detection methods is the lack of public datasets. One of the few examples is the Credit Card Fraud Detection dataset made available by the ULB Machine Learning Group.

See also

 Fraud
 Fraud deterrence
 Profiling (information science)
 Data mining
 Geolocation software
 Neural networks
 Artificial intelligence
 Patterns
 Data clustering
 Statistics
 Labelling
 Decision tree learning
 Regression analysis
 Synthetic data
 Benford's law
 Beneish M-score

References

Fraud
Data analysis
Applications of artificial intelligence


Texas Migrant Tent City To Close By End Of January A tent camp housing migrant children in Texas is due to shut down by the end of January as the federal government releases more detained children to their families.
A controversial government-contracted shelter for child migrants in the West Texas desert will shut down this month. It's a result of changes to the rules that govern the custody of migrant children. Nationally, those numbers have stopped growing and begun to fall. NPR's John Burnett reports.
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: In the last two weeks, some 2,200 immigrant children, mostly teenage boys from Central America, have been released from custody around the country and allowed to join family already in the U.S. At the biggest shelter of them all, the tent city in Tornillo, Texas, they're driving more than a hundred kids a day to the El Paso airport to go be with adult sponsors. The population at Tornillo is down from nearly 3,000 last month to about 1,500 today, Health and Human Services confirms. This is the agency responsible for the care of migrant kids who arrive at the border without a parent or legal guardian. We all feel a sense of relief, said a senior official at the camp who asked not to be named because he wasn't authorized to speak to reporters. The official said he expects all of the children will be discharged by January 15, and the San Antonio nonprofit that runs the sprawling camp plans to vacate the bleak acreage by the end of the month when its contract runs out. They've already begun to demobilize.
JOSHUA RUBIN: I noticed one of the large tents being taken down, and, as of yesterday, another large tent is being taken down.
BURNETT: Joshua Rubin, a Brooklyn software developer turned immigrant activist, has been staying in an RV just outside the Tornillo gate. On his Facebook page, Witness: Tornillo, Rubin has posted photos of the shrinking tent city.
RUBIN: I've noticed that they've rolled out dozens of mobile offices, and I see vans full of kids heading out. These are all really hopeful signs.
BURNETT: Last month, the number of kids in custody nationwide was nearing a record 15,000. The shelter network had surpassed 90 percent capacity, and the contractor at Tornillo was saying they could not keep expanding. More and more protesters were denouncing the adolescent encampment. Child welfare advocates say holding youngsters in these refuges for weeks and months at a time, however well-meaning the care, is deleterious to their physical and mental health. So HHS made an abrupt rule change. They dropped the requirement that everyone in a sponsor's household had to be fingerprinted. That extra vetting slowed down the process. Now only the adult sponsors will get criminal background checks.
At the time, a senior HHS official told NPR the government makes lousy parents. Migrant advocates are cautiously hopeful, but there are still more than 12,000 children in the shelter system. Why haven't more been released, they ask. And why is the government expanding another unlicensed emergency shelter like Tornillo in South Florida? Amy Cohen is a child psychologist in Los Angeles who works with migrant children.
AMY COHEN: If in fact the government is interested in releasing children to sponsors in a more timely manner, there should be no reason for them to be expanding the beds at Homestead.
BURNETT: Health and Human Services confirms that a temporary influx facility located in a vacant Job Corps center in Homestead, Fla., is being expanded by a thousand beds. That's to handle the daily arrivals of unaccompanied migrant children who continue coming to the southern border. John Burnett, NPR News.


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Ayesha, Intelligence Tasking Inspector
Part-time. Working mum. Intelligence Tasking Inspector
In the morning Ayesha could be looking after her young son. In the evening she might be leading a 24/7 team of 50 officers and staff dealing with high-threat, time-critical calls and ensuring that police officers are equipped to go into situations with all the intelligence information they need to understand the risks.
It's all in a day's work for Ayesha, an Intelligence Tasking Inspector. She is one of many Avon and Somerset Police officers and staff successfully combining exciting and challenging careers with working flexibly around family needs.
Ayesha, who has a Master's Degree in Psychology and Criminology, had never encountered a police officer and had little idea what the police force actually did when she applied on a whim in 2004. Sixteen years later, she has never since considered doing anything else.
Develop skills for life
Starting out as a patrol officer, Ayesha developed skills for life such as empathy, listening and building public confidence. Two years on, she joined the burglary team, sparking a passion for investigations. She moved into investigations as a detective constable, later passing her sergeant's exams.
In 2018, three months after passing her inspector's promotion board, Ayesha became a mum and now works part-time hours. "It hasn't been a difficult transition." she says. "This is a caring organisation and that comes from the top down."
"Working part-time doesn't mean I am any less valued or any less ambitious. I am still supported to reach high in my career but here we recognise that home-life balance is also important."
As a mixed-race woman of white and Jamaican heritage, Ayesha is proud of the work being done to recruit people from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience to the organisation. "I would say to anyone, please don't think you won't fit in. Don't worry if you're black, white, brown, male, female, full-time, part-time, LGBT+, have a disability, etc. You will be welcomed for the person you are and the unique mix of skills, knowledge and experience you bring. Look at me – a female, a mum, mixed-race, part-time – and smashing it!"
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The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.


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Sharpen the saw with musical genius
If you've ever operated a chain-saw you'll understand the 7th of Stephen Covey's Habits of Highly Effective People - Sharpen the Saw.
You can keep bashing away at a log with a blunt chain but it's a lot more effective - and less painful - to take the time out, get the file & guide and sharpen her up.
I've needed to do that for a couple of days just to get the mind right for a big task ahead.
Music's always been good to me. I marvel at Bach's genius - here's his Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, written 400 years ago and played here by some kids with the world at their feet.
Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott. On painting.
Dunkirk. One man and his memories.
President Trump presents valour decorations to the special agents and police who took down the GOP baseball gunman
Justin Trudeau follows family tradition - when too much Rolling Stone love is not enough
What is it with Pierre Trudeau's family and Rolling Stones?
But there is a message here. Media and luvvies note.
Red voted @realDonaldTrump. Blue will soon be your only market. Hope you have strong sales in Canada, you'll need it. #BoycottRollingStone pic.twitter.com/S40mZKZbpx
— Deborah (@Deborah8050) July 27, 2017
Justin Trudeau justifies $10M payout to Islamist - takes two minutes to answer "did you call victims families?"
If there were any doubts about Julia Gillard's Welsh roots this press conference should clear them up
PM: I'm getting on with rebuilding the economy through new industries like misogyny and the Clinton Foundation. You won't believe the jobs I've got in the pipeline - thanks Hillary.
JOURNALIST Yes but PM that wasn't the question, have you renounced your Welsh or UK citizenship?
PM: Beth ydych chi ymlaen am Mr Coorey. What about Mr Abbott's sleaze and smear and relentless negativity.
JOURNALIST: Your citizenship, have you checked?
PM: I know that there's been a lot of focus on what I should have reported to electoral authorities. Well you can't report things you do not know. I did not know the Registrar at my birth, I did not see him attend to the paperwork, I do not know the names in his Register. This is a common misreporting and let me clean it up right here and right now.
I have been defamed on a number of occasions with forms of words saying that I did something wrong. Those defamations have been apologised for and retracted or the journalist has disappeared or whatever.
I have done nothing wrong. Any claim to the contrary about me is a defamatory claim and I'd look to this Press Gallery to try and show some leadership in standards and accuracy here.
What I did was I worked the numbers. I got here. I am not Doris Day. I am the Prime Minister and I want to see everyone go home safe. I have friends in the CFMEU. Any questions?
JOURNALIST: Two Greens have resigned, if you still hold Welsh citizenship will you resign?
PM: Two Greens broke the golden rule. Look at the millions that's cost the nation and will potentially cost them as individuals. Their actions, their behaviour has consequences. So will I admit to stuffing up like they did, when I know you won't investigate me anyway? No way. Pussies.
JOURNALIST: You've never produced a renunciation certificate?
PM: I dealt with this extensively at the marathon press conference in August and before I answer your question let me just go to some of the issues here that I've dealt with on the public record.
There has been an emerging kind of consensus amongst the media, perhaps egged on by quoting the Constitution, that I need to give a full and frank account of these matters.
Let me just remind, I first answered these matters when I was still allowed to practice law in 1995.
I then dealt with these matters on the public record again when Martin Ferguson chose life and I was preselected.
I dealt with these matters on the public record in 2006 when I was featured in a beautifully lit Australian Story on women in sensible shoes.
I dealt with these matters on the public record in 2007 after the shopping around of a dirt file - ask Mr Abbott if he still has the negatives.
I dealt with these matters on the public record in a marathon press conference in August, one of the longest prime ministerial press conferences ever held. I only wish I was still being paid by the word. It's an old habit.
I have dealt with these matters at press conferences in Melbourne, in Brisbane. And so let me come to your question.
I refer you to my answers in the marathon press conference where I explained to you what to write and what to report.
I said very specifically, I did not think that reports to the contrary had helped with the understanding of this matter, that my understanding on the instructions provided by consular officials was that this a routine transaction, nothing to see here, nothing extraordinary - read the transcript and get it right.
By the way, Mr McTernan and I have more staff checking up on you than there are journalists. Just saying.
JOURNALIST: One of the allegations made by discredited right wing nut jobs is that you've never produced a certificate of renunciation?
PM: I've said publicly on more than one occasion I did nothing wrong, and I did nothing wrong in this. I have made thousands and thousands and thousands of documents during a - I'll answer your question - I've made thousands and thousands of documents disappear over my career and there is nothing extraordinary about this one.
So it's going to come down to a man in a blue tie's word against me. Let me remind you who he is. He is a man who has publicly said he was involved in fraud - OK you say the only fraud he's fessed up to is the stuff I got him to do but what's your point?
You want documents, I've created heaps on him.
He admits to using the services of prostitutes in Asia - yes, ASIA, the worst kind.
People say he's a complete imbecile, an idiot, a stooge, a sexist pig, a liar and I know all of that because Bruce and I sued them for saying it. We smashed them and then - God I miss him. Sorry, I digress.
So it's going to come down to the word of him or me, the Prime Minister who has done nothing wrong.
I am good friends with The Clintons. Have a quick glance at their list of missing presumed unable to testify.
Cael diwrnod braf.
Halal Certification Head says Australian women need Muslim men to f**** them - it's a Muslim man's duty
Mohamed Elmouelhy is currently milking Australians through his privately owned Halal tax-collecting Certification Authority.
But getting you at the check-out isn't enough for Mohamed The Man.
He thinks Australian women need him and his mates to "f****" them (he used an F word in the post below which has creep-out power way beyond any Anglo-Saxon expletive).
"Australian women need us (Muslim men) to fertilise them - Muslims have a duty to make your women happy"
What a whacky zany funster is Mohamed.
Lead item on his Facebook page this morning is Halal Sam's video.
His Facebook page is replete with reference to Israel as Pissrael, Australians as cockroaches (who he tries to squash) and whacky, zany funster Muslims who just want to have a laugh.
Like the decidedly unfunny Jalal brothers.
Join Us!!! Justin Trudeau races into action after President Trump's military transgender ban
We welcome Cdns of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Join us! #DiversityIsOurStrength #ForcesJobs https://t.co/572KahN2Zh pic.twitter.com/9In7HR4Utj
— Canadian Forces (@CanadianForces) July 26, 2017
Here's CBC Canada's story:
Canada promotes recruitment of transgender troops as Donald Trump imposes military ban
The Canadian Armed Forces are welcoming transgender recruits to the military on the same day U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ban on transgender members from service 'in any capacity.' (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
That's in sharp contrast to the U.S. president's new policy, announced through a series of Twitter posts today, which says transgender individuals will not be permitted to serve "in any capacity."
This afternoon, the Canadian Armed Forces tweeted about its welcoming approach to recruitment.
"We welcome Cdns of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Join us!" it reads, with a photograph of Royal Canadian Navy Band members playing instruments festooned in Pride colours.The photo was taken during Pride Day in Toronto on July 3, 2016.
The Forces' existing policy statement dated Feb. 8, 2011, refers to "transsexual" members and offers guidance for commanding officers and leadership at all levels to prevent discrimination and harassment and to ensure all members are treated with dignity and respect regardless of gender identity.
Department of National Defence spokesperson Dan Le Bouthillier said that policy is currently under review, with an update including revised terminology and further guidelines for supporting transgender members scheduled to be finalized this fall.
Diversity a source of strength
"Diversity is viewed as a source of strength and flexibility, plays a pivotal role in making the Canadian Armed Forces a modern, forward-looking organization, and is imperative to the CAF's operational effectiveness," he said. "To achieve that objective, the CAF is committed to increasing diversity and promoting inclusiveness amongst its personnel."
Trump cited "tremendous medical costs" and "disruption" that transgender members would cause for the military.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ban on transgender military members in a series of Twitter posts.(Chris Kleponis/Getty Images)
In Canada, 19 Forces' members completed sex reassignment surgery between 2008 and 2015 for a total cost of $319,000.
The military also covers costs for hormone therapy, medications, psychological support and financial support for related travel for trans members.
The Defence Department does not track the number of transgender military members, and in the U.S. data is also hard to pin down.
Last year, then U.S. defence secretary Ash Carter cited a study by the RAND Corporation think-tank that said there were about 2,500 active-duty service members and 1,500 service members who were transgender.
'Despicable directive'
NDP defence critic Randall Garrison said Trump's ban is based on ignorance and hate and predicted it will weaken military cohesion.
He called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to condemn the "despicable directive" to show that Canada respects human rights and stands up against discrimination.
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namespace tensorflow {

namespace test {

// Return a NodeDef with the specified name/op/inputs.
NodeDef Node(const string& name, const string& op,
             const std::vector<string>& inputs);

}  // namespace test

// Helpful functions to test operators.
//
// This class will eventually be replaced / heavily modified
// to use the BrainClient interface.
class OpsTestBase : public ::testing::Test {
 public:
  OpsTestBase() : device_type_(DEVICE_CPU) {
    device_.reset(
        DeviceFactory::NewDevice("CPU", {}, "/job:a/replica:0/task:0"));
    CHECK(device_.get()) << "Could not create CPU device";
  }

  ~OpsTestBase() override {
    gtl::STLDeleteElements(&tensors_);
    context_.reset(nullptr);
  }

  void set_node_def(const NodeDef& node_def) { node_def_.CopyFrom(node_def); }

  // Clients can manipulate the underlying NodeDef via this accessor.
  NodeDef* node_def() { return &node_def_; }

  // Initializes an operator that takes in 'input_types' as input
  // and output types as output.
  //
  // Returns the status of initialization.
  Status InitOp() {
    Status status;
    kernel_ = CreateOpKernel(device_type_, device_.get(), allocator(),
                             node_def_, &status);
    if (kernel_ != nullptr) input_types_ = kernel_->input_types();
    return status;
  }

  // Adds an input for every element described by the shape.
  // 'input_mapping' maps an index (0...NumElements(shape)) to a
  // value.
  //
  // TODO(vrv): Replace with something like a BrainClient Feed.
  template <typename T>
  void AddInput(const TensorShape& shape, std::function<T(int)> input_mapping) {
    CHECK_GT(input_types_.size(), inputs_.size())
        << "Adding more inputs than types; perhaps you need to call MakeOp";
    bool is_ref = IsRefType(input_types_[inputs_.size()]);
    Tensor* input = new Tensor(device_->GetAllocator(AllocatorAttributes()),
                               DataTypeToEnum<T>::v(), shape);
    test::FillFn(input, input_mapping);
    tensors_.push_back(input);
    if (is_ref) {
      CHECK_EQ(RemoveRefType(input_types_[inputs_.size()]),
               DataTypeToEnum<T>::v());
      inputs_.push_back({&lock_for_refs_, input});
    } else {
      CHECK_EQ(input_types_[inputs_.size()], DataTypeToEnum<T>::v());
      inputs_.push_back({nullptr, input});
    }
  }

  // Like AddInput but takes in an explicit arrayslice of data.
  template <typename T>
  void AddInputFromArray(const TensorShape& shape,
                         const gtl::ArraySlice<T>& data) {
    CHECK_GT(input_types_.size(), inputs_.size())
        << "Adding more inputs than types; perhaps you need to call MakeOp";
    bool is_ref = IsRefType(input_types_[inputs_.size()]);
    Tensor* input = new Tensor(device_->GetAllocator(AllocatorAttributes()),
                               DataTypeToEnum<T>::v(), shape);
    test::FillValues<T>(input, data);
    tensors_.push_back(input);
    if (is_ref) {
      CHECK_EQ(RemoveRefType(input_types_[inputs_.size()]),
               DataTypeToEnum<T>::v());
      inputs_.push_back({&lock_for_refs_, input});
    } else {
      CHECK_EQ(input_types_[inputs_.size()], DataTypeToEnum<T>::v());
      inputs_.push_back({nullptr, input});
    }
  }

  // Runs an operation producing 'num_outputs' outputs.
  //
  // Returns the context's status after running the operation.
  Status RunOpKernel() {
    OpKernelContext::Params params;
    params.device = device_.get();
    params.frame_iter = FrameAndIter(0, 0);
    params.inputs = &inputs_;
    params.op_kernel = kernel_.get();
    params.output_alloc_attr = [this, &params](int index) {
      AllocatorAttributes attr;
      const bool on_host =
          (kernel_->output_memory_types()[index] == HOST_MEMORY);
      attr.set_on_host(on_host);
      return attr;
    };
    checkpoint::TensorSliceReaderCacheWrapper slice_reader_cache_wrapper;
    params.slice_reader_cache = &slice_reader_cache_wrapper;

    context_.reset(new OpKernelContext(params));
    device_->Compute(kernel_.get(), context_.get());
    return context_->status();
  }

  // Returns the tensor input for 'input_index'.
  //
  // REQUIRES: 0 <= input_index < context_->num_inputs()
  const Tensor& GetInput(int input_index) const {
    CHECK_LT(input_index, context_->num_inputs());
    CHECK(!IsRefType(context_->input_dtype(input_index)));
    return context_->input(input_index);
  }

  TensorValue mutable_input(int input_index) {
    CHECK_LT(input_index, inputs_.size());
    return inputs_[input_index];
  }
  // Returns the tensor output for 'output_index'.
  //
  // REQUIRES: 0 <= output_index < context_->num_outputs()
  Tensor* GetOutput(int output_index) {
    CHECK_LT(output_index, context_->num_outputs());
    return context_->mutable_output(output_index);
  }

  Allocator* allocator() {
    return device_->GetAllocator(AllocatorAttributes());
  }

  const DataTypeVector& output_types() const { return kernel_->output_types(); }

 protected:
  std::unique_ptr<Device> device_;

  std::unique_ptr<OpKernel> kernel_;
  NodeDef node_def_;
  DataTypeVector input_types_;
  DeviceType device_type_;

  mutex lock_for_refs_;  // Used as the Mutex for inputs added as refs

  gtl::InlinedVector<TensorValue, 4> inputs_;
  // Owns Tensors.
  std::vector<Tensor*> tensors_;

  std::unique_ptr<OpKernelContext> context_;

 private:
  TF_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(OpsTestBase);
};

}  // namespace tensorflow

#endif  // TENSORFLOW_KERNELS_OPS_TESTUTIL_H_


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To investigate DNA methylation and expression of imprinted genes and an imprinted gene network (IGN) in neonates conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART).
Two hundred sixty-four cases of cord blood and/or placental villi from neonates.
Placentas were obtained at birth for biopsy and cord blood extraction.
DNA methylation and expression of imprinted genes.
DNA methylation at the PLAGL1 differentially methylated region (DMR) was significantly higher in IVF cord blood (48.0%) compared with controls (46.0%). No differences were found in DNA methylation between conception modes for KvDMR1 and LINE-1 in cord blood and placenta as well as PLAGL1 and PEG10 in placenta villi. PLAGL1 expression was lower in both IVF and ICSI cord blood groups than in controls (RQ of 0.65, 0.74, 0.89, respectively). Analyzing the expression of 3 genes in a PLAGL1 regulated IGN revealed different expression between conception modes and a significant correlation to PLAGL1 expression in only one (KCNQ1OT1).
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Large-scale hotel and townhome development moves forward
By VINCE TROIA
Plans for a 94-unit townhome and 170-bed hotel development for Bellevue advanced this week after they were approved on second reading by Metro Council.
During a marathon meeting that ended close to 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the council voted unanimously following a public hearing for the 29.6-acre mixed use development primarily in the hills above Old Hickory Boulevard and Sonya Drive near Interstate 40. No one spoke in support of, or in opposition to, the proposal at the hearing.
The bulk of the acreage would become the residential townhome component, which initially was planned as an apartment complex — something residents close to the site did not want.
A zoning change was approved to accommodate the mixed-use site plan concept for all four parcels on the site. The mixed-use development incorporates 18,000 square feet of commercial or office space on Old Hickory Boulevard, and the hotel up the hillside, with access from OHB.
District 22 representative Sheri Weiner introduced the bill (BL2019-1678). The plan underwent several revisions after Weiner hosted a pair of community meetings with area residents, first in October 2018 and tgen in February of this year.
"After community meetings with neighbors, the one change that was apparent was changing the residential component from rental apartments to for-purchase townhomes," Weiner said. At the same time, the scope of the project was reduced by two acres, according to the Metro Planning Department.
Owner and developer of the projects is the consortium AM Investors No. 2, LLC, Norwood Manor, LLC, Southfield Properties Limited Partnership, of Brentwood.
If given final approval by Metro Council at its July 16 meeting, the first phase of the project -— building the residential units — could begin.
According to the project's landscape architect, Barge Design Solutions, Inc., it is anticipated that the other two phases of the development, the hotel and lastly, the commercial buildings, will follow in that order. Details about the hotel chain identity or the other parcels are not known at this time.
This area of Bellevue, especially near I-40, has experienced several changes in recent years, including the closing of Sam's Club and a Waffle House restaurant — entry into the hotel and commercial properties will be on the sites that formerly housed Salon 618 and the Waffle House.
New traffic signals are proposed at the entrance, directly across from the access road to Sonic Drive-In and the old Sam's Club, creating a new four-way intersection. A sidewalk to Sonya Drive and an easement for the WeGo 24x bus stop are also planned.
This project would bring the third major residential neighborhood to the dead-end Sonya Drive access road, joining Grand View Apartments and the Highlands at Stonecrest townhomes. In its development proposal to Metro Planning Department, Barge Design representatives said that the plan amendment "seeks to address trends by providing desired housing, restaurants and other appropriate uses for this area."
Increased traffic volume is not new to the area, and several years ago, a traffic light and crosswalk were installed at Sonya Drive and OHB after a young girl (a resident of Grand View) was seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle as she attempted to cross Old Hickory Boulevard.
According to Metro planners, the proposed project is in step with the NashvilleNext Growth and Preservation Map, and the Bellevue Community Plan, adopted in 2015. Also, FEMA confirmed that the parcels are not in any floodplains or floodways.
Plans for two other new hotels along OHB are either approved or pending approval, joining two new hotel properties opening soon in One Bellevue Place on Highway 70 South.
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Arts + Life » Hackie
Good Dads
Hackie
by Jernigan Pontiac
On a random Wednesday afternoon, I found myself en route to Middlebury with a couple of students in the back seat. I had picked up the two young men at the Burlington airport; unruly East Coast weather had canceled their flights home for the weekend. Understandably, they were both in low spirits — one had a girlfriend waiting, the other a wife and 3-year-old daughter.
Stationed as a lure in front of the Ferrisburgh Dakin Farm Store, the blow-up 100-gallon maple syrup bottle beckoned as we blew past. I asked over my shoulder, "Where were you guys trying to fly to?"
To be honest, this innocuous question carried a modicum of self-interest. Through the years, I've learned the value of gently probing my customers to uncover their travel plans. One never knows how and when further cab driving might play a part.
One of the guys told me Brooklyn, the other Hartford, Conn. Hmm, I thought, and began to consider the possibilities. Apt to be a slow night in Burlington with most of the students away on spring break … the cab's been running smooth … why not?
Why not, that is, offer to take these guys all the way? This raises the sticky dilemma of the out-of-town fare. I'm not referring to the near out of town, such as St. Albans, Middlebury or Stowe. We Burlington cabbies hit those locales on a weekly basis. No, I'm speaking of the far out of town — fares that carry you out of state. A hackie can score a big payday if he or she is willing to drive a customer a few hundred miles. So why hesitate? In a word, risk.
When you're driving a cab, bad things can occur that you'd rather not undergo far from home base. Specifically, vehicles break down, even well-maintained ones. And AAA roadside assistance is not available to vehicles licensed as cabs. So, if this happens on, say, the Manhattan Bridge, you're screwed. At that point, you might as well just surrender and take up residence in the Big Apple.
But, for better or worse, I've always been a gambler. What's life without a little risk, I figure? Under the right circumstances — price being the operative factor — I will chance the lucrative out-of-stater.
"Well, gentlemen," I began, "here's an option for you. I can take each of you home tonight — directly to your very door — for 300 bucks apiece."
For the Hartford run, that price was just about right. For the NYC traveler — well, he was getting a great deal, essentially piggybacking on the Connecticut drop-off. Why did I structure it that way? Ahh … if I could simply tell you, Grasshopper. Put in 25 years behind the wheel, and then we'll talk.
"You mean in the cab?" Brooklyn Dad asked incredulously.
"Yup, in this very cab," I affirmed. "Both Hartford and New York are connected to Vermont by land, so it's quite doable."
Brooklyn Dad phoned his wife and — after some impassioned back and forth — they decided it was more than they wanted to spring for. I could respect that. Before hanging up, though, the wife put their 3-year-old on the phone, and father and daughter had a heart-to-heart about a toy horsey, which I gathered was named Jonathan. It might have been an imaginary horsey, which was better still. All right, I admit it — I got a little misty.
The Hartford guy, Brian — who was much younger, a college sophomore, it turned out — called his father, and they decided to go for it. We arranged to rendezvous with the father at the Hartford Hilton Hotel. I glanced at the dashboard clock, figured about four hours drive time, and told Brian to give his father a 10:30 ETA. His dad requested, wisely, that we call when we got within range.
We dropped downcast Brooklyn Dad at his Middlebury quarters and commenced our climb into and over the Green Mountains. Ripton, Bread Loaf, Rochester, Stockbridge and Bethel came and went, each classic Vermont town reminding me, the semi-cosmopolitan Burlington denizen, of the beauty and long history of our modest state.
At Royalton, we hooked onto Interstate 89. With a Boston Celtics game playing softly in the background, Brian told me stories of his life as the son of a Japanese father and Irish mother.
At one point I chimed in, "Jeez, you are talking about two divergent cultures — the Irish, all emotional and over the top, and the Japanese, so reserved and formal. That must have been one heck of an upbringing."
Brian said, "Dude, you don't know the half of it."
We merged onto I-91, and Brian began to speak of his grandfather, who fought in the Second World War with the only all-Japanese American battalion in the European theater. In one decisive battle, he told me, his grandfather's troop earned the most Purple Hearts for bravery ever awarded for a single battle in U.S. military history.
"All this," Brian explained, "while many of his immediate family members, including my dad, were sitting in internment camps on the West Coast. But the amazing thing is, he wasn't bitter in the least. I learned so much from him. He passed away a couple of years ago."
We arrived in Hartford way before Brian's dad, who was caught in traffic. (Yes, big cities have traffic jams at 10 in the evening.) I parked in front of the Hilton while Brian entered to find an ATM to get me the cash. I followed him into the hotel in search of a bathroom. Ambling through the lobby, I suddenly found myself in a crowd of at least 200 black women, all aged about 25 to 35, and all wearing distinctive crimson blouses and hats. The energy in the room was thrilling. I inquired and discovered they all belonged to a national sorority.
The ride back home was draining. Forget about wear and tear on the cab; what about my rickety middle-aged body? Still, the ATM twenties were crisp in my shirt pocket, and the Taurus' motor was humming like Ladysmith Black Mambazo. When, at long last, the lights of Burlington appeared in the distance, my smile was uncontainable.
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