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Area Sports: Wins for Salisbury baseball, soccer, boys track; Mustangs outscore Hickory Ridge
Published 2:40 am Thursday, March 31, 2022
By Post Sports
Salisbury's Sutton Webb scored 4 goals on Wednesday. Photo by Wayne Hinshaw, for the Salisbury Post.
DENTON — Salisbury's baseball team pounded South Davidson 13-2 on Wednesday for a Central Carolina Conference victory.
The Hornets (8-4, 4-2) finished a sweep of the Wildcats.
The Hornets scored three runs in the first inning and led all the way.
Kaleb Burleyson pitched three strong innings for Salisbury and fanned six.
Jack Everson, Hank Webb, Aiden Mowery and Cole Price had two hits.
Burleyson ha
d two doubles. Mowery, Evan Koontz and Landon Tucker had two RBIs each.
East Rowan outscored Hickory Ridge 18-11 in a wild non-conference game in Harrisburg on Wednesday.
The Mustangs (11-1) got three hits and four runs from Cobb Hightower. Morgan Padgett drove in three and scored four.
Cameron Padgett had two hits and two RBIs. Aiden Schenck had two hits and scored three runs. Jaxon Trexler had two hits and three RBIs. Austin Fulk knocked in three. Tristan Miller drove in two.
Logan Dyer relieved Dylan Valley in the second and pitched well through the fourth for the win. Nate Hayworth earned a three-inning save.
East trailed early, but scored six in the fourth and six more in the fifth to take charge.
The Mustangs had a chance to end the game via the 10-run rule in the sixth, but the Bulls kept hitting.
HS softball
In CCC softball, West Davidson won 6-2 over Salisbury on Wednesday.
Katie Peeler hit another home run for SHS and pitched a complete game with four strikeouts.
Caroline Cozart had two hits. Rachel McCullough had a double for the Hornets (2-8, 2-2).
Mahla Darnell did the pitching for West Davidson. Macie Harris scored three runs.
East Rowan topped Gray Stone 12-2 in a non-conference game played on Wednesday.
Eleni Miller and Camryn Perkins pitched for East (7-4).
Jaeley Legg and Tiffin Jacobs whacked triples. Chloe Shank had a two-run double.
HS boys tennis
East Rowan added two SPC tennis wins at Concord on Tuesday.
East won 5-4 in the completion of a match that was suspended early in the season with a 3-3 score and won the scheduled match 8-1.
East (6-4, 5-3) has had a good season and is third place in the SPC behind powerhouse Lake Norman Charter and a very good South Rowan team.
HS girls soccer
Four more goals by Sutton Webb powered Salisbury to a 6-0 CCC win against South Davidson on Wednesday at Ludwig Stadium.
Sydney Hlavacek had a first-half goal for the Hornets(7-1, 2-1). Hannah Schmeltzer scored one at the end.
HS girls track
West Davidson (116 points) won a three-team meet on Wednesday in Tyro with Salisbury (38) and Lexington (8).
Winning for Salisbury were Mary Morgan in the shot (26 feet, 9.5 inches), Keeley Robinson in the 100 hurdles (20.3 seconds) and Kendall Henderson in the 100 (13.4).
Salisbury won the 4×100 (55.4).
In a five-team meet at South Davidson, East Davidson (131) won over Forbush (93), North Rowan (79), South Davidson (22) and Thomasville (5).
North's Aniya Brown won the 100 hurdles (16.5) and the triple jump (33-9.5).
Brittany Ellis won the discus (100-2) and shot put (34-10).
North's 4×200 team won in 1:52.9.
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Five teams competed at South Rowan, with West Stanly (168) topping East Rowan (117), Carson (91.5), Lake Norman Charter (77.5) and South Rowan (69).
East won the 4×100 (54.60) and 4×200 (1:59.09).
Individual winners for the Mustangs were Meredith Bonner in the 3200 (13:38), Carmella Raiti in the 100 hurdles (17.33), Peyton Whicker in the 300 hurdles (51.86), Jasmyne Brown in the pole vault (7 feet) and Iyanna Berry Lynch in the triple jump (31-4.5).
Carson winners were Holly Stowe in the shot (30-2) and Emily Kann in the discus (77-8).
South's lone winner was Macy Miller in the high jump (5-2).
HS boys track
West Stanly (178 points) also won the boys meet at South Rowan. Next were East Rowan (123), Lake Norman Charter (119), Concord (82) and South Rowan (49).
East winners were Dominick Dale in the shot (41-3), Daniel Gonzalez in the 800 (2:11.01), Luke Heglar in the pole vault (11 feet) and Cole Eagle in the long jump (17-8.5).
Carson youngsters won the 4×100 (46.31) and 4×200 (1:36.93).
South winners were Eli Julian in the 1600 (4:29) and Marcus Holloman, who posted an elite high jump effort of 6 feet, 7 inches.
In the boys meet at South Davidson, North Rowan won with 90 points. Next were Forbush (81), East Davidson (65), Thomasville (56) and South Davidson (55).
North won the 4×100 (45.1) and 4×200 (1:36.1).
North's only individual winner was Quintin Wilson in the 300 hurdles (46.2), but the Cavaliers had a lot of second-place finishes.
The Cavaliers won despite a zero in the distance events, as Forbush, East Davidson and South Davidson split up the distance points.
In the boys meet at West Davidson, Salisbury won with 96 points to top West Davidson (75) and Lexington (5).
The Hornets took 28 of the 33 points available in the sprints.
Salisbury won the 4×100 (44.7), 4×200 (1:40) and 4×400 (3:49.2).
Jayden Gibson won the 100 in 10.8 seconds, with teammate Deuce Walker also clocking 10.8.
Double winners were Marcus Cook in the long jump (20-3) and triple jump (41-2.5) and Jaden Gaither in the shot put (36-2.5) and discus (110-10).
Robert Moulton won the 110 hurdles (19.7), while Jacob Denhard won the 1600 (5:09).
Jamal Rule won the 400 (53.8). Nate Shaffer won the 300 hurdles (47.7). Sean Young won the 200 (22.9).
Local golf
GARS members played at Warrior Golf Club.
Low 'A' Flight player was Larry Petrea with a net of 65.95.
Low 'B'Flight player was Bobby Clark with a net of 59.39.
Low 'C' Flight player was Buddy Barger with a net of 62.04.
Low 'D' Flight player was Larry Luther with a net of 64.10.
Petrea shot a 72 to win low net, while Clark took low gross.
Super Senior was Ben Moore with a net of 64.35.
Two members beat their age. Clark, 82, shot a 75 and Barger, 87, shot 81.
Wanna step outside: Dove season coming to an end; change in angler recognition program
West Rowan wrestlers advance to Round 3 on Wednesday
Women's college basketball: Catawba wins at Lincoln Memorial
High school girls basketball: Falcons answer rare challenge


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Rocker Sammy Hagar launches Maui-made rum in Waikiki, shares mai tai recipe
Sherie Char,
Former Van Halen front man, part-time Maui resident and celebrity liquor distiller Sammy Hagar is behind the latest addition to an ever-growing list of made-in-Hawaii spirits.
Sammy's Beach Bar Rum, a silver rum made from Hawaii-grown sugar cane, is the result of partnership between Hagar and Haliimaile Distilling Company on Maui. Both partners claim roots in the libations industry.
Hagar personally introduced Sammy's Beach Bar Rum last night at the Hard Rock Café in Waikiki (pictured, below) to a gathering of eager fans and media, including HAWAII Magazine.
We asked Hagar about the origin of the idea to create the new rum. In response, he said: "The Islands inspired me." He adds, "I just love it here. When I get off the plane, I'm bombarded with the warmest, richest feelings. Hawaii affects all of my senses."
Hagar has two homes on Maui and owns five Sammy's Beach Bar & Grill locations nationwide, including one at the Maui International Airport.
Hagar's rum uses sugarcane grown only in Hawaii. Why? "I can get sugar from other places," says Hagar, "but I don't want to because it doesn't taste as good."
Sammy's Beach Bar Rum is distilled in Maui from first-growth, first-press sugar cane. According to a press release, "Unlike other premium rums, which follow a standard one-year maturation period for the cane, (cane used in) Sammy's Beach Bar Rum matures for a full two years, giving the sugar from the cane its intense character."
It is currently available for sale only in Hawaii, but Hagar plans to expand distribution to the rest of the U.S. in early 2012.
"We wanted to launch it in Hawaii first," says Stephen Kauffman, president of Sammy's Beach Bar Rum. He notes that it will be available on the U.S. mainland starting in Spring 2012. Also, he says, plans are in the works to create a pineapple-infused rum and an aged dark rum.
Haliimaile Distilling is the maker of Pau Maui Vodka, premium vodka distilled from Maui Gold pineapples. Hagar has turned the handmade tequila served in his Cabo Wabo chain of nightclubs and restaurants into one of the top-selling premium tequila brands in the nation.
Hagar's favorite way of enjoying his new rum?
"Three ounces of rum, one ice cube (yes, that's just one rock) and a drop of a citrus, whether it's lime, lemon or orange. For an added kick, try adding a quarter grind of pepper," Hagar says.
OK, and how about a hard-rockin' mai tai recipe, Sammy? Here it is.
Sammy's Original Maui Mai Tai
Ingredients: 1½ oz. Sammy's Beach Bar Rum, ½ oz. orange curacao, ¾ oz. lychee juice/syrup, and 1 oz. fresh sour.
Directions: Pour ingredients over ice into a cocktail shaker. Shake, then strain into a rocks glass, drizzle dark rum into the cocktail, garnish and serve.
For more drink recipes and other information about Sammy's Beach Bar rum, click here.
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Q: Joomla: Second external javascript file accessing variables from the first external javascript file I hope the title is not very confusing. I've got the following scenario.
Please keep in mind that this is a question related to Joomla.
I have two external JavaScript files: accordion.js and initialize.js which I include in the index.php file of my template.
accordion.js looks like this:
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This however won't work because of JQuery no conflict. One must do the following:
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})(JQuery)

And it does work. If I type an alert('Hello') in that block, it works.
Now I have an external file initialize.js that was also included into the template.
This file needs to be able to access (and instantiate) the class Accordion. So it looks like this:
(function($) {
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}

Here, Javascript says that it does not know what "Accordion" is.
If I move this piece of code, however, into the accordion.js file, it will work.
(function($) {

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This works.
I believe I understand why it doesn't work. This has to do with scope, right? These two files are basically two different (en)closed blocks that cannot access each other.
My question is now, how do I enable them to communicate? How do I make the script in accordion.js global, so that initialize.js can access its variables and functions?
PS: Let us pretend there is no other way, but to separate the script and its initialisation into two different files. You include the accordion.js script and it's initialization initialize.js. I know there may be better ways of doing this, but I am not allowed to change the HTML Code in order to make the initialization more generic / global and work with only one file.

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I can't speak on how he looked in Arizona or with the Chargers, but here he was always that guy who would make a couple of splash plays here or there (good scheme + he's a gambler), but was otherwise way too inconsistent to be relied on in coverage. Plus he's as bad as any tackler I've seen with the Panthers.
Probably believes he's a starter, which I'm sure he could for some teams, but IMO he's best suited as a rotational/depth player. He's one of those stop-gap guys who will probably be signed right before training camp.
Solid point about the tackling. The Browns had big-time tackling issues last year, and it seems like the guys we've added are good tacklers. Makes sense why we would pass on Boston.
So bias, and when Blaine Gabbert creates turnovers he's a liability.
Gotta wonder if he's a problem in the locker room or thinks he deserves a 50 million dollar deal, because he's too good to not be on a roster.
I think he wants more than he's worth. I likened him to Mike Mitchell in the Steelers Forum. Great front 7? Good safety. Average from 7? Below average safety. Problem is teams know that, so they won't pay him that much.
Teams that want Boston may not want to lose a comp pick so they will wait until after the draft. That could be the case for Suh and Wilkerson and others. They may change the rules on that. Do the Rams and Packers not get a pick now if teams wait?
Are you talking about 2020?
Well....I mean its because its pretty proven giving a QB 25+ million a season is not a great idea to build an overall championship team with long term success.
Meanwhile we just watched a SB with a QB on a rookie contract and another who is notorious for taking less than his market value. Giving a top 12 QB top 3 QB money because you want to have a 'franchise quarterback' is digging your own grave.
If you can convince your young 'franchise QB' that taking 18-20M per year + endorsement money is a great way to live a lavish live but also gives the team room to field a competitive longterm team---then your in business. Its when every top 12 QB in the NFL wants to become the highest paid QB in the league when their deals are up is where problems happen.....like Carr, Stafford, ect.
Who cares about average, I say these 6 highest paid QB's (against the cap) for 2019 will miss the playoffs this year.


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MSP & Cybersecurity Experts: Erie, PA - Velocity Network > Blog > Contact Tracing Apps Explained
Contact Tracing Apps Explained
May 6, 2020 Michael Corbett
One of the biggest concerns about reopening businesses and venues across the country is the risk of reigniting the spread of COVID-19. Up until this point, individuals who test positive are asked to retrace the people and places they recently interacted with. This slow and arduous process, while effective, becomes increasingly difficult to execute as the numbers cases increase. Fortunately, smartphone innovations and adoption rates over the last ten years have prepared us for such a challenge as COVID-19 and future infectious disease outbreaks.
According to 2019 Pew Research data, 81% of American's own a smartphone. Approximately 99% of those smartphones are powered by Apple's iOS operating system and Google's Android operating system. This means the basis for a tool to help slow the spread is literally already in our hands.
Apple (Apple Inc.) and Google (Alphabet, Inc.) are working together to develop a comprehensive Contact Tracing System that relies on Bluetooth rather than on GPS. This short-range wireless contact (or handshake) offered by Bluetooth is very similar to the physical distancing model where people can potentially contact the virus from someone infected. The application programming interface (API) will enable interoperability between iOS and Android devices.
For an illustrated look at how the app works in practice, check out Google's overview of the COVID-19 Contact Tracing system.
If this sounds scary, Apple and Google have stated that they will openly publish information about their work for others to analyze. Apple and Google's software would maintain a central record with identifying information from the phones of those who test positive. Still, they assure the exposed users will remain anonymous.
Some states are working on apps that utilize GPS and Bluetooth. Health officials argue that GPS location data needs to work with the new contact tracing system to better track outbreaks and hotspots. Apple and Google disagree, pointing to privacy issues and battery drain therefore they are not allowing GPS to be used with their API. This draws a line in the sand for developers, government, and health officials for app development.
Other apps in development are designed to help businesses get back to work while keeping employees safe.
One such app called ClearPass from Red Level. With every employee equipped with the app, employees can screen for COVID-19 symptoms and warning signs right on their mobile devices before they enter the workplace. Employees can manage the number of employees admitted to each of the work locations throughout the day to comply with local regulations. They also tout a pre-registration and employees and guests queues for visiting specific areas and automatically alert them when it's their time to enter. Automatically alert HR when a failed self-health declaration has been submitted or share company news and prevention tips with the whole team.
The University at Buffalo is developing an app called PocketCare+. The app also shares some of the self-diagnosing aspects of ClearPass and Apple COVID-19 App, but its primary function is that of a contact tracing system. Utilizing Bluetooth, GPS, and WiFi (to save battery life when available), it only stores location information on your device but records interactions of infected users on a hosted server.
Privacy advocates have concerns over the collection of location data and device IDs related to an individual's health. Such data could be used to ostracize businesses or individuals if it were to get into the wrong hands.
Time will tell whether these developments are embraced enough for them to have a profound impact. Apple and Google's commitment to developing a system together is a great step. Still, it is left up to the individual to participate.
For businesses, in the name of the safety of employees and customers, using an app may become mandatory for employment. After all, drug screening has been a common requirement for many companies and industries for the same reason, the safety of ourselves and those around us. Welcome to the new normal.
pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps/apple-google
reason.com/video/how-to-track-covid-19-without-mass-surveillance/
blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Contact_Tracing_Using_BLE.pdf
apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-covid-19/id1504132184
salesforce.com/work/
Red Level ClearPass
University at Buffalo – PocketCare+ App
Michael Corbett
A native of Erie Pennsylvania, Corbett joined the Velocity Network team in 1997. Since he arrived at the company, he has occupied several roles, including Service Technician, and Web Developer before being named Marketing Specialist. In his role as Marketing Specialist, Mike has established and maintained the VNET and VNET Fiber brands. Michael has four wonderful kids with a beautiful wife that is far better than he deserves.
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A SELECT expression with a subquery that is bound to the outer query over multiple columns returns different results when a constant is used instead of one of the dependant columns.
It can be shown that in the original query, that dependant column maintains a value that is exactly equal to the substituted constant.
So, it was expected that there would be no difference between the results returned by these queries.
It is my hunch that this really has to do with the information schema, because when I copy the data from the information schema to another database, both queries do return the same result.
original query. BTW, it took > 30 secs on my machine - much too long.
The intention of this original query is to find the first column where name is like '%schema%' for each table in the information_schema, and if that does not exist, the first column in the table. You can see that this query returns the right result.
Now, I try to get it faster.
this executes in less than a second, but now the first column for each table is returned - Most probably the subquery does not return any records, after which the coalesce defaults to returning 1.
Verified just as described on 5.0.21-BK (ChangeSet@1.2143, 2006-04-10 08:29:24+02:00) on Linux.
"A wrong result for a simple query with a subquery on information schema".
of null_row to 1 for tables used in the subquery.
by some condition is applied.
powermacg5, which has a very slow file system.


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David Weeks NYC is a visual mastermind from Queens, New York. Best known for his unique broken skateboards and viral mobile installations, the 26-year-old creative is leaping past every bar he raises. David was recently awarded the 2018 Hong Kong Innovative Style Award.
"Taking ideas from my head and putting them into the universe is the best feeling in the world."
In 2017, David set off his "Bridging The Gap" Tour. A 5-city activation that showcased storytelling through art. The success of the tour led to art collaborations with brands such as Jarre Technologies, and commissioned work for celebrities and executives.
Having showcased from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, David uses his art as a vessel to push forward his philanthropic work through his #LunchBagChallenge organization, in which he inspires millennials to take action on poverty and social inequality.
Suggested charity: St. Jude Children's Hospital
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from msrest.serialization import Model

class CloudJob(Model):
    """An Azure Batch job.

    :param id: A string that uniquely identifies the job within the account.
     The ID is case-preserving and case-insensitive (that is, you may not have
     two IDs within an account that differ only by case).
    :type id: str
    :param display_name: The display name for the job.
    :type display_name: str
    :param uses_task_dependencies: Whether tasks in the job can define
     dependencies on each other. The default is false.
    :type uses_task_dependencies: bool
    :param url: The URL of the job.
    :type url: str
    :param e_tag: The ETag of the job. This is an opaque string. You can use
     it to detect whether the job has changed between requests. In particular,
     you can be pass the ETag when updating a job to specify that your changes
     should take effect only if nobody else has modified the job in the
     meantime.
    :type e_tag: str
    :param last_modified: The last modified time of the job. This is the last
     time at which the job level data, such as the job state or priority,
     changed. It does not factor in task-level changes such as adding new tasks
     or tasks changing state.
    :type last_modified: datetime
    :param creation_time: The creation time of the job.
    :type creation_time: datetime
    :param state: The current state of the job. Possible values include:
     'active', 'disabling', 'disabled', 'enabling', 'terminating', 'completed',
     'deleting'
    :type state: str or ~azure.batch.models.JobState
    :param state_transition_time: The time at which the job entered its
     current state.
    :type state_transition_time: datetime
    :param previous_state: The previous state of the job. This property is not
     set if the job is in its initial Active state. Possible values include:
     'active', 'disabling', 'disabled', 'enabling', 'terminating', 'completed',
     'deleting'
    :type previous_state: str or ~azure.batch.models.JobState
    :param previous_state_transition_time: The time at which the job entered
     its previous state. This property is not set if the job is in its initial
     Active state.
    :type previous_state_transition_time: datetime
    :param priority: The priority of the job. Priority values can range from
     -1000 to 1000, with -1000 being the lowest priority and 1000 being the
     highest priority. The default value is 0.
    :type priority: int
    :param constraints: The execution constraints for the job.
    :type constraints: ~azure.batch.models.JobConstraints
    :param job_manager_task: Details of a Job Manager task to be launched when
     the job is started.
    :type job_manager_task: ~azure.batch.models.JobManagerTask
    :param job_preparation_task: The Job Preparation task. The Job Preparation
     task is a special task run on each node before any other task of the job.
    :type job_preparation_task: ~azure.batch.models.JobPreparationTask
    :param job_release_task: The Job Release task. The Job Release task is a
     special task run at the end of the job on each node that has run any other
     task of the job.
    :type job_release_task: ~azure.batch.models.JobReleaseTask
    :param common_environment_settings: The list of common environment
     variable settings. These environment variables are set for all tasks in
     the job (including the Job Manager, Job Preparation and Job Release
     tasks). Individual tasks can override an environment setting specified
     here by specifying the same setting name with a different value.
    :type common_environment_settings:
     list[~azure.batch.models.EnvironmentSetting]
    :param pool_info: The pool settings associated with the job.
    :type pool_info: ~azure.batch.models.PoolInformation
    :param on_all_tasks_complete: The action the Batch service should take
     when all tasks in the job are in the completed state. The default is
     noaction. Possible values include: 'noAction', 'terminateJob'
    :type on_all_tasks_complete: str or ~azure.batch.models.OnAllTasksComplete
    :param on_task_failure: The action the Batch service should take when any
     task in the job fails. A task is considered to have failed if has a
     failureInfo. A failureInfo is set if the task completes with a non-zero
     exit code after exhausting its retry count, or if there was an error
     starting the task, for example due to a resource file download error. The
     default is noaction. Possible values include: 'noAction',
     'performExitOptionsJobAction'
    :type on_task_failure: str or ~azure.batch.models.OnTaskFailure
    :param metadata: A list of name-value pairs associated with the job as
     metadata. The Batch service does not assign any meaning to metadata; it is
     solely for the use of user code.
    :type metadata: list[~azure.batch.models.MetadataItem]
    :param execution_info: The execution information for the job.
    :type execution_info: ~azure.batch.models.JobExecutionInformation
    :param stats: Resource usage statistics for the entire lifetime of the
     job.
    :type stats: ~azure.batch.models.JobStatistics
    """

    _attribute_map = {
        'id': {'key': 'id', 'type': 'str'},
        'display_name': {'key': 'displayName', 'type': 'str'},
        'uses_task_dependencies': {'key': 'usesTaskDependencies', 'type': 'bool'},
        'url': {'key': 'url', 'type': 'str'},
        'e_tag': {'key': 'eTag', 'type': 'str'},
        'last_modified': {'key': 'lastModified', 'type': 'iso-8601'},
        'creation_time': {'key': 'creationTime', 'type': 'iso-8601'},
        'state': {'key': 'state', 'type': 'JobState'},
        'state_transition_time': {'key': 'stateTransitionTime', 'type': 'iso-8601'},
        'previous_state': {'key': 'previousState', 'type': 'JobState'},
        'previous_state_transition_time': {'key': 'previousStateTransitionTime', 'type': 'iso-8601'},
        'priority': {'key': 'priority', 'type': 'int'},
        'constraints': {'key': 'constraints', 'type': 'JobConstraints'},
        'job_manager_task': {'key': 'jobManagerTask', 'type': 'JobManagerTask'},
        'job_preparation_task': {'key': 'jobPreparationTask', 'type': 'JobPreparationTask'},
        'job_release_task': {'key': 'jobReleaseTask', 'type': 'JobReleaseTask'},
        'common_environment_settings': {'key': 'commonEnvironmentSettings', 'type': '[EnvironmentSetting]'},
        'pool_info': {'key': 'poolInfo', 'type': 'PoolInformation'},
        'on_all_tasks_complete': {'key': 'onAllTasksComplete', 'type': 'OnAllTasksComplete'},
        'on_task_failure': {'key': 'onTaskFailure', 'type': 'OnTaskFailure'},
        'metadata': {'key': 'metadata', 'type': '[MetadataItem]'},
        'execution_info': {'key': 'executionInfo', 'type': 'JobExecutionInformation'},
        'stats': {'key': 'stats', 'type': 'JobStatistics'},
    }

    def __init__(self, id=None, display_name=None, uses_task_dependencies=None, url=None, e_tag=None, last_modified=None, creation_time=None, state=None, state_transition_time=None, previous_state=None, previous_state_transition_time=None, priority=None, constraints=None, job_manager_task=None, job_preparation_task=None, job_release_task=None, common_environment_settings=None, pool_info=None, on_all_tasks_complete=None, on_task_failure=None, metadata=None, execution_info=None, stats=None):
        super(CloudJob, self).__init__()
        self.id = id
        self.display_name = display_name
        self.uses_task_dependencies = uses_task_dependencies
        self.url = url
        self.e_tag = e_tag
        self.last_modified = last_modified
        self.creation_time = creation_time
        self.state = state
        self.state_transition_time = state_transition_time
        self.previous_state = previous_state
        self.previous_state_transition_time = previous_state_transition_time
        self.priority = priority
        self.constraints = constraints
        self.job_manager_task = job_manager_task
        self.job_preparation_task = job_preparation_task
        self.job_release_task = job_release_task
        self.common_environment_settings = common_environment_settings
        self.pool_info = pool_info
        self.on_all_tasks_complete = on_all_tasks_complete
        self.on_task_failure = on_task_failure
        self.metadata = metadata
        self.execution_info = execution_info
        self.stats = stats

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The airline is still recovering from losses earlier this year, but with the help of a new stakeholder was able to purchase the jets that the airline believes is needed to foster a growing demand for overseas flights.
Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines signed a $7-billion deal on Tuesday to buy 54 Airbus jets as part of an ambitious plan to overhaul its fleet to meet higher demands for transporting passengers and cargo in Asia, the Middle East and Australia, airline officials said.
PAL President Ramon Ang said the first batch of about a dozen wide-body A330-300s and A321s would be delivered in January while the rest of the aircraft would be put in service in the next three years.
The acquisition will more than double the airline's passenger and cargo handling capacity and signals an expansion phase after Philippine food and beer conglomerate San Miguel Corp. acquired major stakes in PAL and its affiliate budget carrier Air Philippines Corp. earlier this year.
Jean-Francois Laval, center, Senior Vice President for Sales Asia of Airbus, Lucio Tan, left, Chairman and CEO of Philippine Airlines, and Ramon S. Ang, President and COO of Philippine Airlines attend a news conference Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012 in Manila, Philippines. Photo by AP Photo/Bullit Marquez.
PAL, which currently has 39 aircraft, also plans to buy another 46 aircraft from Airbus and other manufacturers, including Boeing, Ang told a news conference.
Twenty-six of the 100 airplanes the airline wants to buy would be for long-distance journeys, like Manila to New York and to Paris, Ang said.
San Miguel, which is led by Ang, paid $500 million in April for a 40-percent stake in PAL and 49-percent stake in Air Philippines. That capital, Ang said, was enough to buy the initial aircraft from France-based Airbus. Both San Miguel and Filipino-Chinese tycoon Lucio Tan, PAL's chairman, are ready to infuse more capital into the airline to finance the acquisition of new aircraft, said Ang, adding that that would not be necessary if the airline continues a recovery.
After struggling against losses, depressed markets, high fuel prices and labor unrest, PAL has begun to rebound and generate profits, most recently in June and July, airline officials said.


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and he used some language that got me ticked off. This isn't about the current topic of guns in National Parks, or about gun control in general; it's about saying "I think <the behavior we're debating> is insane". Actually, about SHOUTING it in all caps.
In your last edit you shout that the opposing viewpoint is insane, which if I were being entirely sensible would just make me quietly walk away, but unfortunately for me and anyone who's still bothering to read this thread, you've gotten me ticked off enough to generally mess up my mood.
Y'see, deep down inside, despite truly overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I really want to believe that rational discussion over time can lead people who disagree to change their opinions and come to an accommodation. Humans, in general, are not rational creatures; they believe and decide things based on emotions and to the extent they use reason, it's to justify what they've already decided, not to figure anything out. I find that ugly; I'm forced to accept it, but it makes me ashamed to be a human. In order to cope with that disgust, I really try to believe that at least some of us, some of the time, are able to actually be better than animals and truly use our rationality to decide rather than just to rationalize. And I hang out in fandom, with people I view as far more rational than the general run of humanity, so that I can cling to my illusion that humanity, though tragically flawed, actually has hopes of getting better.
When you say the idea you argue against in insane, you're saying that it's not merely wrong on the balance of the arguments, not merely very wrong or severely misguided, but so completely indefensible that a fully functional mind must reject it. You're saying that your opponent must be phenomenally successful in his debate to convince you that he's merely wrong and you're merely right, and you nearly imply that your opponent isn't actually capable of rational thought and therefore you have no reason to argue. There are some words that have no place in debate, and 'insane' is one. I didn't really pay attention to your inflammatory language when I first read your post; maybe if I had, I would have correctly gotten the message that you didn't want to have a discussion and I would have just ignored the thread, but unfortunately I didn't. I assumed you were merely using overly strong rhetoric -- as is unfortunately customary in political debate today. But with your last addition, you really succeeded in inflaming me.
I understand you already have a strong opinion, but if you're genuinely interested in rational discussion on the subject, or if you actually hope to sway the opinions of anyone who might be open to compromise, don't throw gasoline on the rhetorical fire by calling the opposing proposition 'insane'.
If, on the other hand, you are using the word with full honesty, you're admitting that your mind is made up and you're not actually willing to discuss it. In which case, let me go sulk in my corner, because you're one of the few people that lets me cling to my foolish illusions that human rationality is more than a misleading veneer.", "url": "https://tigertoy.livejournal.com/288608.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/sign.png" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Phil Parker", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/11799641/2339085" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal tigertoy", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://tigertoy.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/11799641/2339085" } } }
I posted the following rant as a comment in someone else's journal (public). I feel like saving a copy on my own journal.
Specifically, filkertom was ranting about guns in National Parks and he used some language that got me ticked off. This isn't about the current topic of guns in National Parks, or about gun control in general; it's about saying "I think <the behavior we're debating> is insane". Actually, about SHOUTING it in all caps.
If, on the other hand, you are using the word with full honesty, you're admitting that your mind is made up and you're not actually willing to discuss it. In which case, let me go sulk in my corner, because you're one of the few people that lets me cling to my foolish illusions that human rationality is more than a misleading veneer.
Tags: politics, rant


English Premier League games is what it took Manchester City to have the minority of possession under Pep Guardiola for the first time – and only just! City had 49.6 per cent, but Sergio Aguero maintained his record of scoring in every home league appearance against Liverpool to inspire a title-race intensifying 2-1 victory.
years after Matt Busby became the first man to win his first four league games in charge of Manchester United, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer became the second. Romelu Lukaku scored with his fourth touch after coming on against Bournemouth and his first touch after doing so, following just three seconds of action, against Newcastle United.
million euros is what Chelsea paid Borussia Dortmund to make Christian Pulisic the most expensive CONCACAF footballer in history. The fee was the same as the cumulative cost of the next seven costliest American players of all time.
shots is what it took Gonzalo Higuain to end his two-month Serie A goal drought. It helped AC Milan edge SPAL for their first win in six games in all competitions.
games unbeaten is the national-record run on which Vietnam will begin the AFC Asian Cup. The Golden Dragons were 130th on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking in September 2017, but have just won the AFF Cup and finished a calendar year in the top 100 for the first time since 2012.
games is what Newcastle Jets have played from Boxing Day to New Year's Day without having ever tasted victory. Adelaide United's first win at McDonald Jones Stadium in almost four years left the Jets having suffered 13 losses and two draws during the aforementioned period.
years after they last beat Korea DPR – 2-1 away during Germany 2006 qualifying – Bahrain repeated the feat for the first time in six encounters with an emphatic 4-0 victory.
matches is what it took Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers to finally taste defeat in the Old Firm derby. Ryan Jack got the only goal – the midfielder's first in 21 months – to ensure Rangers ended the longest winless run in the fixture's history at 15 matches.
Serie A goals is what Atalanta forward Duvan Zapata exceptionally scored in December – the second-most in a calendar month in the competition's long history. Gunnar Nordahl, one of the sport's most prolific all-time marksmen, netted ten for AC Milan in February 1950.
successive Serie A appearances is what Sampdoria's Fabio Quagliarella became the first player to score in since David Trezeguet – aided by the invention of Pavel Nedved, Alessandro Del Piero and Zlatan Ibrahimovic – did so for Juventus in 2005.
goals is the margin by which Chennai City thrashed Shillong Lajong for the biggest victory in their history. All six of their goals came from Spaniards, meaning it's been two months since a non-Spanish player scored for the Indian club.


The two "Clubs" we offer allow you to buy herbs on an autoship program at a discounted price.
Herbs of the Month Club: As a part of this club you will receive an herbal packet mix each month that is part of our yearly calendar, many of these products being new to the market, or improved formulas.
Loyal Customer Club: Quite of a few of our return customers order the same thing each month as part of their health routine. There were requests for an autoship program, and in response we have created the "Loyal Customer Club". This club allows you to sign up for a monthly renewal (for a discounted price), depending on what your health needs are (ready made glycerites and salves are also available on this program).


General Motors lost $1.2 billion in the first 83 days after it emerged from bankruptcy protection in July, the company announced Monday.
But officials with the nation's largest automaker said the company is far healthier than it was before it was rescued by the U.S. government because it has pared its long-term debt and operating costs.
It will begin repaying its debt to the United States next month, years earlier than required, the company said. It plans to return $1 billion per quarter until the $6.7 billion loan is repaid.
"We've been encouraged by the results we've seen," said chief executive Fritz Henderson, who also noted that the company performed better than its internal post-bankruptcy plan.
"When you come away from it, though, we lost money," Henderson said. "Not satisfactory."
He also predicted significant hurdles ahead.
The company expects to have negative net cash flow in the fourth quarter of 2009, because of payments of $2.8 billion in a settlement with parts supplier Delphi; continuing restructuring costs; and repayments of government loans to the United States, Canada and Germany.
But the vast global company is significantly more stable.
In its last quarterly earnings report in May, the company said it had lost $6 billion. Compared with that, Monday's announcement represents a significant improvement.
Moreover, GM is much smaller and far less burdened by debt.
Global employment at GM has fallen 14 percent since the end of December, from 243,000 to 209,000, the company said. Its U.S. salaried workforce fell 7 percent during that time, to 27,000, and its hourly workforce dropped 23 percent, to 48,000.
By virtue of the government bailout, however, the company's fate may be of broader interest than it once was.


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Flume opens up about 'Hi, this is Flume' in GQ Australia interview
by: Jessica Mao Dec 2, 2019
Every aspect of Flume's career has been a highly gratifying journey—from his humble beginnings as a pioneering future bass producer to his pivotal Grammy win and of course, his return. However, the burden of that success proved to be more difficult than on the surface, as Flume detailed in a new interview with GQ Australia. While in town to play an exclusive Louis Vuitton party, Flume sat down with GQ Australia and opened up about the process behind Hi, this is Flume.
In regards to the profound success of his 2017 album, Skin, the Aussie artist reflected on the subsequent pressures that it came with specifically his ability to create music of similar growth potential.
"Everything I put out just kept growing exponentially, to the point where I freaked out about putting something out that might not grow," the artist said during the interview.
Flume also revealed his motivation behind not only the choice of releasing a mixtape, but also the naming of it. A decision influenced by the pressures of an album as well as his inclination for experimentation, Hi, this is Flume poses the question of fluidity in terms of what exactly an album is supposed to represent in the current music scene.
"I mean, Kanye is releasing seven-track albums, people are releasing 20-minute albums. The mixtape is 40 minutes long, which is the length of a typical album, and apart from the remix [of SOPHIE's 'Is it cold in the water?'] it's honestly no different to an album. It's like, what is anything anymore?" said Flume.
Acutely aware of the necessary business side of the industry, Flume admits the irony assigned to his mixtape's title—a projection of his hatred towards the mechanical process in radio rotation.
He says, "I'd just sit in this room for hours doing all of these lines for radio stations, like, 'Hi this is Flume and you're listening to blah blah blah' and I hated it. I was like, 'what the fuck am I doing? What is my life now? It's like turned into this whole other beast."
Photo credit: 451Photo
Tags: Flume, GQ Australia, hi this is flume
Missy Elliot, Flume, Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala top Governors Ball 2020 lineup
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The Yorkshire Dales is home to outstanding scenery and a breathtakingly peaceful atmosphere.
Even getting there is a treat in itself. We travel via Ribblesdale, which is home to the famous Yorkshire Three Peaks, which is absolutely stunning to pass through with amazing roads, landscape and animals a plenty.
Our main stop – at lunchtime – is in Hawes. Most of our guests choose to have a wander on arrival to decide what and where to eat.
This magical little market town is England's highest, set 850 feet above sea water. Home to the world-famous Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese – some say Hawes is the "home of cheese" - and set amidst breath-taking scenery, it's no surprise Hawes is one of the honeypot tourist attractions of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
You can also discover the 18th Century waterpowered cotton spinning Gayle Mill. Converted to a sawmill and electricity generation with original working Victorian turbines, lineshafting and woodworking machinery.
No need to tell you more. The drive and scenery going and returning are a delight, and Hawes is exquisitely Yorkshire Dales.


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NewsTexas News
Democrats' Austin exit prompts comments along party lines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The departure of the Democrats from Austin to Washington comes as other items up for discussion have been temporarily shelved.
Among them are critical race theory, bail reform, border security funding, social media censorship and a bill aimed at transgender youth in sports.
Gov. Greg Abbott reacted forcefully in his statement on the Democrats' decision to break quorom.
The governor issued that statement Monday after Texas House Democrats "abandoned their responsibilities."
The governor also said the Texas Democrats' decision to leave Austin "inflicts harm on the very Texans who elected them to serve."
Abbott's statement also said Texas Democrats "fly across the country on cushy private planes, they leave undone issues that can help their districts and our state."
The governor says Democrats must put aside what he called "partisan political games and get back to the job they were elected to do."
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn pulled no punches during his speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
The Texas Republican called the lawmakers' move a political stunt.
"They got on two chartered jets, maskless with at least one case of lite beer and hopped on the jets to come to Washington, D.C."
He also said the Democrats' ideals ran counter to those in Texas.
"As Texans, standing up to a fight is part of who we are even if you know in the end you may not prevail," Cornyn said. "But, instead, they turned their backs, hopped on a private jet, and ran from this fight."
Sen. Cornyn's comments did not go unnoticed by the Texas Democratic lawmakers who are in Washington, D.C.
"Our two U.S. Senators wrote the book on publicity stunts," said State Rep. Chris Turner (D-Fort Worth), the chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus. "And what I would say to Senator Cornyn is we'd encourage him to work in a bipartisan manner as the people of Texas elected him to do to pass voting rights legislation to protect 30 million Texans that he says he represents."
The Texas lawmakers arrived in Washington as President Biden made a plea to Congress and the nation to safeguard the right to vote for all Americans.
Those Texas Democrats are now looking to Washington, where Congress is wrestling with national voting rights legislation.
it comes as President Biden issued his most forceful warning about new voting restrictions passed in at least 17 states.
"The denial of full and free and fair elections is the most unAmerican thing that any of us can imagine," Biden said. "The most undemocratic - the most unpatriotic - yet sadly - not unprecedented."
Vice president Kamala Harris will meet with the Texas Democrats sometime this week.
The White House wouldn't say if the president will meet with them as well.


"There comes a day when something inside you snaps, and you can't go on. If I had been alone I would have lived the nightmare of a denied homosexuality, but God never leaves us alone. And I think He has helped me take this important existential step. It's important because of its consequences, but it's also the premise for living honestly, which should be natural for every homosexual. The Church is already behind in tackling the issue, and we can't wait another 50 years, which is why I've decided to tell the Church who I am. I'm doing it for myself, for my community, and for the Church. It is also my duty towards the community of sexual minorities".
"It seems to me that in the Church we are ignorant about homosexuality because we don't really know any homosexuals. We have them all around us, of course, but we never look them in the eye, because they seldom say who they are. I hope that my personal experience will help stir the Church's consciousness in some way. I will personally reveal my identity to the Holy Father in a letter. And I will tell the universities in Rome where I teach who I am; to my great sorrow I will probably no longer be allowed to work in Catholic education".
"The rule was introduced in 2005 when I was already a priest, and only applies to new ordinations. For me it was a shock. It didn't use to be like this, and I think this is a mistake that needs to be corrected". Have you always known you are gay? "Yes, but at first I didn't accept the fact; I submitted zealously to the teaching of the Church and to the life it forced upon me, according to the principle that 'homosexuality does not exist (and if it does, it needs to be destroyed)'".
"I know that the Church will see me as someone who has failed to keep a promise, who has lost his way, and what's worse, not with a woman, but a man! I also know that I will have to give up the ministry, even though it is my whole life. But I'm not doing this so that I can live with my partner. The reasons are much wider-ranging and based on a reflection on Church doctrine".
And a richer example still: just think of the hugeness of what happened when Europeans made landfall in the Americas in the late fifteenth century. The sheer vastness, otherness, of what they had stumbled across by mistake, while looking for a fast trade route to China and Japan, would take decades, even centuries, to sink in. Every single feature of the way Europeans saw themselves underwent a radical shift of perspective in the light of the geological, anthropological, botanical, zoological and cultural "thereness" of something that had of course "always" been there, but of which Europeans had previously had no knowledge at all. But that shift of perspective didn't happen immediately.
t, the above words logically lead to the conclusion that gay people have not just a right to defend themselves, but an obligation to come out, to bear witness to their truth and to articulate it. These are positions I have frequently publicised and argued here on QTC. So which radical gay or lesbian theologian produced those words? Benedict XVI himself, in the recent encyclical "Caritas in Veritate". Of course, in writing them, he wasn't thinking specifically of the dreaded "homosexuals", but that is precisely the point.
But curiously, the very Church whose apparent "truth" in this area I've just recited for you, teaches very strongly ……that there is such a thing as something that is true independently of the perspective and wish list of any of us, and that that truth in some sense imposes itself on us. In other words, the same authorities who told us that we have to go along with their understanding of the homosexual inclination because it is true, are also, thank heaven, insisting that the truth doesn't depend on them, and that they and their teaching are receptive to that which is discovered to be objectively true in whatever field it should emerge.
becoming clear that the whole way of talking about being human which has sustained official Church teaching for much of the time between the apostolic period and now is in deep trouble, here at last we have an objective fulcrum from which to be working out what it is to be Catholic. ……We find ourselves facing up to the fact that we have discovered something objectively true about being human which is going to re-write our maps.
This is where we all come in. …..This seems to me to be the challenge for us now, and as I say continually, it seems to me to be a fun challenge: are we going to dare to be Catholics, not in rivalry with our office holders, grateful that they're there, aware that they're pretty stuck, but delighted to be beginning to take on board the contours of the new discovery about being human that goes with the term "gay"? Are we going to allow ourselves to be empowered to discover ways in which God is much more for us than we had imagined, that God really does want us to be free and to be happy, and to rejoice in what is true as we are stretched toward and stand alongside the weakest and most vulnerable of our sisters and brothers wherever we may find them? Are we going to allow ourselves to discover the potential for Catholicity that is opening up alongside the discovery of the new richness in Creation that shimmers within the little word "gay"?
We have the opportunity at this critical point in history, this Kairos moment, to participate in this exciting, even fun-filled, adventure.


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Neymar Net Worth: What is the net worth of Neymar?
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Neymar Jr. born Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is a professional footballer who plays for the french side Paris Saint-German in Ligue 1 and the Brazil football national team.
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It's 60 not out for Carr Hill High School in Kirkham.
And the school, on Royal Avenue, was not about to let sixty years of educating children pass by unnoticed.
The first students began their studies there in September 1957, but the school was officially opened as Carr Hill County Secondary School by the Duchess of Kent on July 22, 1958.
Sixty years on, staff, students and governors celebrated the milestone with a huge white cake, baked by school technology technician Jane Thompson, and featuring the school logo, the number 60 and a fetching blue ribbon.
Carr Hill also reached out to students past, as well as present, by creating a special online magazine giving them a chance to contribute their memories or photos.
Their response was impressive, with former boys and girls from as far back as the 1960s, 70s and 80s happy to recall key moments and provide a wealth of vintage photographs.
Some of these ex-students now live elsewhere in the UK – or even overseas – but they were keen to get involved.
Meanwhile, many of the current crop of youngsters there are the third generation of their families to attend Carr Hill, which has more than 1,000 students.
Headteacher Andrew Waller said: "Any anniversary is a time to look back and be grateful.
"Current students often talk of their parents and grandparents who came here, and at public events, people often comment on how the school was when they were here.


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To read Part 1 of this series of papers please click HERE
In the second article in the Northern School of Music series, we delve deeper into its origins, its first few years and its most notable characters.
The Matthay School of Music
The school itself was the Manchester Branch for Tobias Matthay's own music school in London, which focused solely on teaching the influential piano playing techniques that Matthay himself developed. However, its origin story is much more than a simple Northern franchise.
In the early twentieth century, the main representative of Matthay in Manchester was a chap called Percy Waller. At the start of the First World War he enlisted and of course left his pupils bereft of a teacher. Reaching out to his other trusted pupil in the area, Matthay called upon Hilda Collens.
After the war, Hilda had developed a plan. The benefit of teaching individual piano lessons could be supplemented greatly, she knew, by lessons in harmony, theory, aural skills and more. The Royal Manchester College of Music did this, yes, but it did not focus on Matthay's techniques and was not overly concerned with training music teachers.
With the support of like-minded people such as Walter Carroll (1869-1955, composer, author, choirmaster, teacher) and Stewart Macpherson (1865-1941, musician, teacher, author), she created a formal training school to serve this wider purpose. Matthay leant his name to it and in 1920 the school opened in a studio room above the Hime and Addison music shop on Manchester's Deansgate. It boasted one teacher (Hilda Collens), nine students and one piano.
Hilda herself
Whilst there is a relatively rich archive of the school, we don't know a great deal about Hilda. She was an extremely private person and as far as we know, left no archive. Most of the information we have is from the Northern School of Music archive itself, Robert-Blunn's book (Northern Accent: the life story of the Northern School of Music, 1972), and the little titbits of her own voice held in other collections.
What we do know, however, explains a lot about the resilience and character of the school she founded.
Hilda Collens with students in the early years of the Northern School of Music, c.1930
Hilda Collens (1883-1956), had always wanted to be a music teacher. Her family were supportive until the tragic drowning of one of her brothers was held responsible for the impediment in her speech; a hesitation which her father apparently tried to persuade her was the end to her dream career. With determination and steady resilience, she strode on through, landing a job teaching piano at Sale High School for Girls.
She discovered Tobias Matthay via the Manchester Association of Teachers (where she met Walter Carroll etc.) and was so inspired that she travelled regularly to London for lessons with him, all the while maintaining her teaching role and private tuition. It's this perseverance that carried the momentum of the school's success so rapidly in its formative years.
The first few years
After just a couple of years, the premises clearly were not cutting it. Hilda moved the school along Deansgate to 3 rooms in the Tudor Galleries and again in 1927 to 260 Deansgate. The best thing about these new premises was apparently the small electric cooker allowing staff and students the benefit of a hot cuppa during the day.
Given that the school only appeared to promote itself from 1925 via short adverts in the Manchester Guardian, this growth is remarkable and speaks to the reputation of the school and Hilda's leadership.
In the early 1930s it was to move again to its final lot of premises on Oxford Road, but the foundations for the school were firmly set in its approaches and traditions. Assemblies were led with a prayer and sometimes a bible reading, students would give public concerts regularly at venues across the city, and of course the holistic curriculum and loyalty to the school's aims pervaded.
So much so that most teachers were happily recruited from their alumni, as well as attracting the likes of Alfred Barker, leader of the famous Hallé Orchestra. Many of the staff throughout the decades certainly left impressions on their pupils. Some more than others.
Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995)
Daughter of Walter Carroll, Ida started as a piano student under Hilda Collens in 1922. As the school progressed, so did the need for more instruments in order to deliver larger performances. When a string orchestra was established, they needed a double bassist and Ida volunteered to learn.
Ida Carroll overseeing a piano student's practice at the school, c.1965
Her dedication to the school matched Hilda's and after graduation she was appointed secretary and, after Hilda's death, principal.
She was a firm believer in fighting for your values and would not be bullied or bargained with. In fact, rumour has it that when the Manchester local authority needed to build a flyover to the new Mancunian Way through the city centre, right in the path of the Northern School of Music, she refused and made them build it around her. Hence the curve as it arcs over the city.
One of the reasons everyone remembers her is possibly because she remembered everything about everyone else. No personal business was sacred if it impacted your studies. According to the experiences of some, she would invite you to her office with the dreaded note "See me, IGC". Standing nervously before her, it would be gently insisted that the "boy troubles" you were convinced you had kept secret, were not worth your education and to knuckle down to your studies instead.
You did not cross Ida, you did not underestimate her, and you certainly did not expect her to move an inch from her loyalty to the school. As the local councils would find out in the 1950s, to do so would lead to almost two decades' worth of meeting agendas. More about that in a later article.
Students staging the opera "L'elisir d'amore" in the Lesser Free Trade Hall, 1959.
Dorothy Pilling (1910-1998)
I invite you now to get to know another remarkable woman. Dorothy Pilling was many things in her time. Not only was she one of the early students of the school but she became one of the most remembered teachers, too.
As a pianist, she 'showed a clean touch and fluency', according to an early review of a student performance. This cleanness is ever so slightly at odds with the seeming chaos she used to inspire in some of her classes. As well as teaching piano, she was also responsible for the school's eurythmics and improvisation classes.
She would apparently turn up to class with fabulous shoes and in full leotard, pick someone to improvise on the piano in a set time signature (4-4, say). The rest of the students would then improvise movement to that melody, travelling clockwise around the room. She would then change the student's signature (3-4 for example) and the others would have to keep in time. As one alumnus put it, "Can you march in 4 yet swing your arms in 3? I couldn't!"
Whilst painfully awkward to contemplate, no one has yet relayed that they regretted the classes. Especially those that went to work with young children as music teachers. Matching movement to key and time signatures is one of the most effective ways for children to absorb music harmony and theory, they insist.
Dorothy was also a composer, one of the few published female composers to come from Manchester's music schools. Her books on music for piano are still used to this day and her instruction books for teaching have been held in high regard by teachers for many years.
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To read Part 3 of this series click HERE
The archive and memories of the students are both full of fascinating features. Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we now have the resources to explore them in greater detail.
In the meantime, to learn more about the archive, head over to the website https://www.rncm.ac.uk/research/resources/archives/
For hundreds of digitised images from the Northern School of Music's various collections, visit our friends at Manchester Digital Music Archive https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/exhibition/688/a-2020-legacy:-the-centenary-of-the-northern-school-of-music
For a sneak peek at more of the history of the school, discover some key dates on the timeline here https://my.visme.co/view/pvge1n44-nsm2020-2
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Heather Roberts is a professional archivist. Currently with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, she's developing RNCM Archives' service to inspire the Arts and generate interest in more of Manchester's music-making history. She studied philosophy at university, so whilst she's not a musician or a historian, she's full of curiosity and questions and loves to share these with others. It's the human stories and their beautiful art in the RNCM Archives that she finds so interesting. Previously she's worked in archives of social and political movements, industrial heritage, community groups, performing arts and more. Alongside her work at the college, she runs her own business HerArchivist, helping primarily non-heritage organisations build their archives from scratch and better control their heritage collections.
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French data protection watchdog the National Commission on Computing and Freedom (CNIL) has fined Google €150,000 ($204,000) for ignoring a three-month deadline it set out in September to clean up its data privacy policies.
The fine will be tiny in Google's eyes, but it is the largest ever handed down by CNIL, and follows several months wrangling between the two. According to the committee, Google failed to adequately inform users about its data collection processes and their purpose, as well as failing to obtain consent or tell users how long cookies would be installed on their machines.
The regulator will also look to publicly shame Google by requesting the company to display a notice within the next week on its Google.fr homepage for two days explaining the decision.
Continuing punishment
Google has had issues with its privacy policy since it collectively merged all the policies covering its many different products, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and GoogleSearch, into one document back in March 2012.
The ruling marks the latest in a series several legal scraps for the search engine across Europe. Six European countries currently have investigations pending into its privacy policies, and although Google has continued to maintain its innocence throughout, it could be forced to amend its policies, at least in Europe.
There has been no official response from Google yet, but yesterday a blog post by its top privacy official, Peter Fleischer, global privacy counsel at the company, railed against the European Union's "flawed" attempt to overhaul data-protection rules, and urged politicians to go back to the drawing board.
"Europe's much-ballyhooed, and much-flawed, proposal to re-write its privacy laws for the next 20 years collapsed," Fleischer writes, "the old draft is dead, and something else will eventually be resurrected in its place."
Whether this outburst will affect the French court's ruling remains to be seen.
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Sanjay Beri, CEO and cofounder of Netskope, a cloud security firm that has raised a new round of venture capital funding. Netskope is now privately valued at more than $1 billion.
Netskope, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in "cloud" security, has raised $169 million in a new round of venture capital funding. The deal vaults Netskope into the so-called unicorn club, a burgeoning class of startups with private valuations of $1 billion or more.
Sanjay Beri, Netskope's CEO and cofounder, and the company's lead investor, Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirmed to Fortune that Netskope's valuation now exceeds $1 billion, but they declined to reveal the exact figure.
"An IPO is definitely on our trajectory," Beri said on a call with Fortune while acknowledging that he has no timeline for such a filing.
Netskope helps businesses—including more than a quarter of the Fortune 100—to secure their data, web applications, and cloud infrastructure from breaches. The company has raised a total of $400 million to date through six rounds of funding, including the latest round.
Netskope has 610 employees, and it recently moved its headquarters a few miles away from Los Altos, Calif. to a new base in Santa Clara, Calif. The 6-year-old company closed its first-ever acquisition a couple of months ago when it bought Sift, a cybersecurity startup that uses machine learning to detect and prevent breaches within cloud computing environments, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Beri said Netskope's subscription-based revenue has risen 75% year over year, though he declined to get specific about the company's sales. He added that making money is not a priority at the moment.
"To be frank, profitability is not our focus right now," Beri said, emphasizing plans to pour funding into research and development, sales and marketing, and potential acquisitions. "You innovate or you die in security," he said.
Lightspeed Venture Partners, an existing investor that controls two Netskope board seats, led Netskope's latest round of funding.
Lightspeed first participated as an investor in Netskope's second round of funding in Oct. 2013. The firm continued to invest in subsequent rounds like Netskope's $100 million raise last year, including as co-leader, along with venture capital firm Accel.
Arif Janmohamed, a Lightspeed partner and Netskope board member, said he first met Beri while the two were working as engineers at tech startups in California during late '90s dot-com boom. He told Fortune that he sees a $17 billion market opportunity for Netskope, which amounts to the IT spend for securing corporate networks "on premise," a segment he expects will shift to the cloud.
Netskope "has all characteristics of a company like Nutanix, AppDynamics, or Mulesoft—that's why we leaned in," Janmohamed said, referring to some of the biggest enterprise software successes in Lightspeed's portfolio. Nutanix went public in a wildly successful IPO two years ago; AppDynamics sold to Cisco for nearly $4 billion on the eve of its IPO last year; and Mulesoft was scooped up by Salesforce for $6.5 billion earlier this year.
The rest of Netskope's existing investors re-upped their investments in the latest round of funding, including Accel, Geodesic Capital, Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, and Social Capital. Base Partners, a new investor, joined the round as well.
The cloud security market remains a hot one for deals.
Microsoft bought Adallom, a Netskope rival, for an undisclosed amount in 2015. A couple months later, Blue Coat, now owned by Symantec, picked up Elastica, another competitor, for $280 million. And last year McAfee purchased Skyhigh Networks, yet another challenger, for an undisclosed sum.
Beri is confidant that Netskope will remain independent and forge ahead with an eventual IPO, he told Fortune. He plans to follow the path of other recent public market debuts, such as Zscaler, Forescout, and Carbon Black.


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As I write this, my 18-year-old son has been at Navy boot camp for about 10 hours. (Maybe 11 "" I don't do well with timezones.) I got the scripted phone call yesterday at 9:08 pm. "I'm supposed to tell you I got here, you'll get a box from me next week, and you'll hear from me again in about a month. And I love you." He sounded confident and strong. Maybe a little nervous, but that could have just been my ear.
Because I'm a Navy mom veteran now, I know the box is what we call the "Kid in a Box." It contains everything "" down to his lucky boxers "" that he had with him when he left home. I picture them standing inside the box, stripping down, then stepping out naked and shivering before they slip on their boot camp clothes.
He'll be there for about two months before he graduates. After graduation, he'll leave Chicago for San Antonio for a couple of months for his training to be a Master at Arms, a Navy cop. He'll have so many options after that, from Counter Narcotics (which I don't think has anything to do with retail sales) to K9 units to Counter Terrorism (again, nothing you can buy) to Fleet Protection Force. Very heady stuff for someone who just earned the right to buy a cigar.
He's kinda following in the footsteps of his older brother Adam who has been in the Navy for a year-and-half, except he is a corpsman "" Navy medic "" stationed in Okinawa.
When Adam left, I was more afraid of the unknown, but with Jeff, I think I'm more nervous about what I DO know.
Some of the things I thought I knew about the Navy have proven to be untrue. For instance, I pictured the young enlisted guys as being in a protective bubble of Navyness. But the reality is that the Navy treats them as the young adults they actually are, free to make mistakes "" big and small "" and take unfortunate risks.
I probably wouldn't know much about that part of Navy life except that Adam divides his time between working at a fire station on the ambulance crew and in the ER in one of the base hospitals.
All of these young men will face severe consequences from the Navy and from their mothers. My heart breaks for everyone involved, but I'm so proud they had Adam to take care of them. I know it affects him, as it does all ER workers. How could it not? I hope he continues to share his work "" the funny stuff as well as the tragic "" with us and with other people and that he's able to keep perspective.
He's a confident, competent, generous and warm-hearted person, both with his patients and with his family. Especially his younger brother. Jeff is lucky to have him to answer his questions about boot camp, solicit his advice about Navy stuff, and as a confidante.
Honestly? I'm not sure how I feel right now. It's hard to see the last little baby bird fly away, but I'm not exactly unhappy about it. I know he's been looking forward to this adventure for a long time. Frankly, it will be nice to have only the two of us non-risk adults on the auto insurance. I can't wait to buy half as many groceries every week and not have anyone say, "There's nothing to eat around here "" only ingredients." I'm looking forward to not having to keep up-to-date on his constantly-changing social schedule. And the whole spare bedroom thing? I'm all over it.
That was his life last week, but this week it's altogether different. And so is mine. Neither of us will ever be the same.
I know I'll miss the little boy who, while packing up his room, found a box of Star Wars action figures and played with them for two hours. He'd just seen Toy Story 3 and felt bad for them. And I'll definitely miss the little boy who, just a few nights ago, wanted to watch a Disney movie to cleanse his palate after watching an über-scary one.
He's a man and a child.
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