Where Western tradition meets modern luxuries Jackson Hole the *Crown Jewel* of the Northern Rocky Mountains is the gateway to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The new Hampton Inn Jackson Hole hotel is located just minutes from the Jackson Hole Airport and the famous Jackson Town Square where you will find shopping dining and entertainment with a taste of the Old West. Jackson Hole is known best for its stunning scenery clear streams world-class skiing and abundant wildlife. Explore some of the most spectacular landscapes rich with majestic mountains and pristine lakes. Jackson Hole has adventures for all seasons. From fly-fishing at Snake River to snow skiing in the Grand Tetons Jackson Hole offers some of the best experiences in the world. Plan your next vacation and learn why people call Jackson Hole WY their favorite place.
All reservations must be guaranteed with a major credit card or advance cash deposit to hotel regardless of time of arrival. All reservations must be cancelled by 4pm host time unless deposit is required. Policy is subject to change.
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The Flaming Lips reveal Beatles remake details
By Bruce Henne published 13 October 14
Wayne Coyne describes goodies on offer as part of ambitious Sgt Pepper's release
The Flaming Lips are sharing details about the goodies available to fans who pre-order their remake of Beatles classic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Frontman Wayne Coyne has posted a video on the group's Pledge Music page outlining a list of exclusive memorabilia up for grabs, including signed CDs and vinyl, silkscreen posters, t-shirts and a 'making of' documentary.
Coyne says the doc features the "making of this record, some of us being in the studio, and some of us contemplating and considering and thinking and imagining the impact that the Beatles and their music and sometimes the ideas of covering someone else's music and discovering new things about their music and about yourself and about your art."
Available October 28, With A Little Help From My Fwends sees The Flaming Lips joined by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, My Morning Jacket, Miley Cyrus, MGMT, Miley Cyrus and others as they tackle one of the defining albums in music history.
With A Little Help From My Fwends tracklist
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – My Morning Jacket, Fever the Ghost, J Mascis 2. With a Little Help from My Friends – Flaming Lips, Black Pus, The Autumn Defense 3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – Miley Cyrus, Moby, Flaming Lips 4. Getting Better – Dr Dog, Chuck Inglish 5. Fixing a Hole – Electric Wurms 6. She's Leaving Home – Phantogram, Juliana Barwick 7. Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite – Flaming Lips, Maynard James Keenan, Sunbears 8. Within You Without You – Birdflower and Morgan Delt 9. When I'm Sixty-Four – Flaming Lips and more 10. Lovely Rita – Tegan & Sara, Stardeath, White Dwarves 11. Good Morning Good Morning – Zorch, Grace Potter, more 12. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) – Foxygen, MGMT 13. A Day In The Life – Flaming Lips, Miley Cyrus
Somebody has made a mash-up of Aqua's Barbie Girl in the style of System Of A Down and now our brains hurt
Bill Ward: "Black Sabbath were so tight, we'd have the same dreams"
John Lodge - The Royal Affair And After: "a fitting celebration"
Silent Skies release snowbound video for 'dark, brooding' new single Leaving

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Carlton R. "Carl" Lucia
February 22, 1946 ~ February 5, 2019 (age 72)
Carlton R. "Carl" Lucia, age 72, of 92 Scotch Valley Dr., Bloomsburg, passed away at his home at 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 5, 2019.
Born in Plattsburgh, NY, on February 22, 1946, he was the son of the late Richard H. and Grace M. (Burt) Lucia. He resided in the Bloomsburg area for over 45 years.
Carl was a U.S. Army peacetime veteran.
A former truck driver, Carl worked at Bloomsburg Mills, Inc. and also owned a lawn care business in recent years.
In his younger years, Carl was an altar boy. He most recently attended the LCBC church, Bloomsburg. He enjoyed hunting, traveling to New York to visit his sisters, and spending time with his grandchildren.
Carl is survived by his wife, the former Mary L. Hess, whom he was married to for 43 years; son, Carlton R. Lucia, Jr., Camden, Tenn.; two daughters: Tracy Huntington, Berwick, and Janelle, wife of Robert Dunkle, Bloomsburg; eight grandchildren: Zachary Bogart, Anjelica, and her husband Johnathan Bolka, Alondra Fowler, Adalia Fowler, Harlan Lucia, Brandon Lucia, Katie Strong, and Jason Lucia; four great-grandchildren, and two sisters: Caroline, wife of Thomas Sears, Joyce, wife of Richard Kolb, both of Peru, NY.
At his request, there will not be any services.
In memory of Carl, memorials may be sent to Geisinger Home Health and Hospice, 410 Glenn Ave., Suite 200, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
Arrangements have been entrusted into the care of the Dean W. Kriner, Inc. Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 325 Market Street, Bloomsburg
Geisinger Columbia Montour Home Hospice
410 Glenn Ave, Bloomsburg PA 17815


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Occupational Employment and Wages in Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville — May 2020
Workers in the Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $20.10 in May 2020, about 26 percent below the nationwide average of $27.07, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Janet S. Rankin noted that, after testing for statistical significance, 20 of the 22 major occupational groups had average wages in the local area that were significantly lower than their respective national averages, including computer and mathematical, healthcare practitioners and technical, and transportation and material moving.
When compared to the nationwide distribution, Anniston area employment was more highly concentrated in 4 of the 22 occupational groups, including production and installation, maintenance, and repair. Fourteen groups had employment shares significantly below their national representation, including management, business and financial operations, and computer and mathematical. (See table A.)
Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Anniston metropolitan area, and measures of statistical significance, May 2020
Major occupational group
Percent of total employment
Mean hourly wage
Percent difference (1)
Total, all occupations
100.0 100.0 $27.07 $20.10* -26
5.7 3.2* 60.81 49.82* -18
Business and financial operations
Computer and mathematical
Life, physical, and social science
Community and social service
Educational instruction and library
6.1 5.7 28.75 23.36* -19
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
Healthcare practitioners and technical
Healthcare support
2.4 2.0 25.11 (2)
Food preparation and serving related
8.1 10.1* 13.30 10.28* -23
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
Sales and related
Office and administrative support
13.3 12.3* 20.38 17.20* -16
Farming, fishing, and forestry
0.3 0.1* 16.02 (2)
Construction and extraction
Installation, maintenance, and repair
3.9 7.5* 25.17 23.74* -6
6.1 14.4* 20.08 18.29* -9
Transportation and material moving
(1) A positive percent difference measures how much the mean wage in the Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area is above the national mean wage, while a negative difference reflects a lower wage.
(2) Estimate not released.
* The mean hourly wage or percent share of employment is significantly different from the national average of all areas at the 90-percent confidence level.
One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Anniston had 6,060 jobs in production occupations, accounting for 14.4 percent of local area employment, significantly higher than the 6.1-percent national share. The local average hourly wage for this occupational group was $18.29, significantly lower than the national average of $20.08.
Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (1,370); metal and plastic molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders (480); and multiple metal and plastic machine tool setters, operators, and tenders (460). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were first-line supervisors of production and operating workers and also welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers, with mean hourly wages of $32.32 and $23.37, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($11.03) and butchers and meat cutters ($12.97). (Detailed data for the production occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations, go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_11500.htm.)
Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.0 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Anniston area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in most of the occupations within the production group. For instance, computer numerically controlled tool operators were employed at 4.5 times the national rate in Anniston, and machinists, at 3.1 times the U.S. average.
These statistics are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, a federal-state cooperative program between BLS and State Workforce Agencies, in this case, the Alabama Department of Labor.
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Name Change
The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program has changed its name to Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) to better reflect the range of data available from the program. Data released on or after March 31, 2021, will reflect the new program name. Webpages, publications, and other materials associated with previous data releases will retain the Occupational Employment Statistics name.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Impact on May 2020 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
Due to features of the OEWS methodology, the May 2020 OEWS estimates do not fully reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The May 2020 OEWS estimates are based on survey panels collected for May 2020, November 2019, May 2019, November 2018, May 2018, and November 2017. Because 5 of the 6 survey panels used to produce the estimates date from before the COVID-19 pandemic, only the most recent (May 2020) survey panel reflects changes in occupational proportions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The May 2020 OEWS employment estimates are benchmarked to the average of May 2020 and November 2019 employment from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). Although the May 2020 QCEW data reflect the early employment effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the November 2019 QCEW employment data precede the pandemic, and therefore do not reflect its impact.
In addition, as a result of the pandemic, response rates for the November 2019 and May 2020 panels were lower in some areas. Lower response rates may negatively affect data availability and data quality.
More information is available at www.bls.gov/covid19/effects-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics.htm.
Implementing the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System
With the May 2019 estimates, the OEWS program began implementing the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Because the May 2019 and May 2020 estimates are based on a combination of survey data collected using the 2010 SOC and survey data collected using the 2018 SOC, these estimates use a hybrid of the two classification systems that contains some combinations of occupations that are not found in either the 2010 or 2018 SOC. This is the second and final year that the hybrid occupational structure will be used. The May 2021 estimates, to be published in Spring 2022, will be the first OEWS estimates based entirely on survey data collected using the 2018 SOC.
For more information on the occupational classification system used in the May 2019 and May 2020 estimates, please see www.bls.gov/oes/soc_2018.htm and www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm#qf10.
Upcoming Changes to the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Methodology
With the May 2021 estimates, to be released in Spring 2022, the OEWS program plans to begin using a new estimation methodology. The new model-based methodology, called MB3, has advantages over the existing methodology, as described in the Monthly Labor Review article at www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2019/article/model-based-estimates-for-the-occupational-employment-statistics-program.htm. OEWS estimates for the years 2015-2018 were recalculated using the new estimation methodology and are available as research estimates at www.bls.gov/oes/oes-mb3-methods.htm.
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a semiannual survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OEWS data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 580 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-digit, most 4-digit, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels, and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. OEWS data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.
The OEWS survey is a cooperative effort between BLS and the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs). BLS funds the survey and provides the procedures and technical support, while the State Workforce Agencies collect most of the data. OEWS estimates are constructed from a sample of about 1.1 million establishments. Each year, two semiannual panels of approximately 180,000 to 185,000 sampled establishments are contacted, one panel in May and the other in November. Responses are obtained by mail, Internet or other electronic means, email, telephone, or personal visit. The May 2020 estimates are based on responses from six semiannual panels collected over a 3-year period: May 2020, November 2019, May 2019, November 2018, May 2018, and November 2017. The unweighted sample employment of 83 million across all six semiannual panels represents approximately 56 percent of total national employment. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 69 percent based on establishments and 66 percent based on weighted sampled employment. The sample in the Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area included 655 establishments with a response rate of 72 percent. For more information about OEWS concepts and methodology, go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_tec.htm.
A value that is statistically different from another does not necessarily mean that the difference has economic or practical significance. Statistical significance is concerned with the ability to make confident statements about a universe based on a sample. It is entirely possible that a large difference between two values is not significantly different statistically, while a small difference is, since both the size and heterogeneity of the sample affect the relative error of the data being tested.
Metropolitan area definitions
The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
The Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Calhoun County.
Answers to frequently asked questions about the OEWS data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm. Detailed information about the OEWS program is available at www.bls.gov/oes/oes_doc.htm.
Information in this release will be made available to individuals with sensory impairments upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339.
Table 1. Employment and wage data for production occupations, Anniston metropolitan area, May 2020
Mean wages
Location quotient (3)
6,060 2.4 $18.29 $38,050
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers
310 1.7 32.32 67,230
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators
1,370 3.6 15.22 31,660
Butchers and meat cutters
80 1.8 12.97 26,970
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
40 16.1 19.29 40,130
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Machinists
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
480 10.2 (5) (5)
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
Plating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Printing press operators
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators
Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
Computer numerically controlled tool operators
Computer numerically controlled tool programmers
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
Helpers--production workers
(5) (5) 14.27 29,690
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_11500.htm.
(2) Estimates for detailed occupations may not sum to the totals due to rounding, and because the totals may include occupations that are not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.
(3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average.
(4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.
Last Modified Date: Friday, June 25, 2021


A: I'm a cartographer from Newport News, Virginia and have been working in GIS since 1999. I enjoy tinkering with mapping tools, co-organizing @maptimehrva, and paid mapping. I'm most interested in map design, openstreetmap, and civic hacking.
A: The Noland Trail is 5-mile escape from reality located at Mariners' Museum Park in Newport News, Virginia. I've probably ran a gajillion miles out there over the last several years, and wanted to create a great map of one of my favorite spots. I started with some pen & paper field mapping, upgraded to some data collection with the Fulcrum app, and made the first version back in 2013. This second version was an exercise in simplifying and refining the first map, it required minimal data updates and a lot more cartographic heart-burn.
A: The second edition Noland Trail map was made with a combination of QGIS and Photoshop. I threw a ton of information on the first one, probably too much, and it had many 'GIS-y' type elements that were lost on the casual map viewer. With this second edition, I wanted to strip away the bulkiness of the original, maintain a high level of detail, and improve the original design. Since the data remained unchanged, with exception of few items, I was able to dedicate the majority of my time on design elements. I've also created some related projects like Open-Noland-Trail, an open data site for the trail, and Noland-Trail-GL , a Mapbox GL version of the map built in Mapbox Studio.
Regina Obe (@reginaobe) is a co-principal of Paragon Corporation, a database consulting company based in Boston. She has over 15 years of professional experience in various programming languages and database systems, with special focus on spatial databases. She is a member of the PostGIS steering committee and the PostGIS core development team. Regina holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she wanted to build terminator robots but decided that wasn't the best thing to do for Humanity. She co-authored PostGIS in Action and PostgreSQL: Up and Running.
Q: Regina Obe – so where are you in the world and what do you do?
A: I'm located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. I'm a database application web developer, Consultant, PostGIS project and steering committee team member, and technical author on PostGIS and PostgreSQL related books.
Q: So in my prep work I found you have a degree from MIT in Mechanical engineering with a focus in Bioelectrics and Control systems? What's that about? How did you end up in working in databases?
A: Hah you just had to ask a hard one. It's a bit long.
Bioelectronics and control was an amalgamation of all my interests and influences at that point.
My favorite shows growing up were the 6 million dollar man and bionic woman. Like many geeks I loved tinkering with electronic and mechanical gadgets and got into programming at the wee age of 9. I was also very attached to graph paper and would plot out on graph what cells my for loops would hit.
My mother was a forensic pathologist; basically she tore dead people apart to discover how they died and what could have been done to save them. I spent a lot of time reading her books and dreaming about human augmentation and control.
When I came to MIT I had ambitions of getting a BS in Electric Engineering or Mech E., moving on to a PhD, getting my MD, and focussing on orthopaedic limb surgery. MIT's Mechanical Engineering department had a course track that allowed you to fashion your own major. You had to take X amount of Mech E. and could take any other courses you wanted as long as you could convince your advisor it followed some sort of roadmap you set out for yourself. So that said — what else would I fashion if given the opportunity. At the time MIT did not have a biomedical engineering major.
So my course work included classes in bio-electrical engineering like electrical foundation of the heart where I built and programmed electrical models of hearts and killed and revived rabbits. Basic EE courses with breadboards, class in Scheme programming, electro physiology of the brain etc. On the Mech E. side, I took standard stuff like Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics, Systems Control and for my thesis, programming a simulation package that allowed you to simulate systems with some pre-configured blocks. Most of which I can't remember.
I looked around at other people who were following my dream and realized I'm way too lazy and not smart enough for that kind of life. When I got out of college, there were few engineering jobs requiring my particular skill set. I got a job as a consultant focussing on business rules management and control. Business rules were managed as data that could become actionable. There I got introduced to the big wild world of databases, then SQL, cool languages like Smalltalk, and trying to translate what people say ambiguously into what they actually mean non-ambiguously.
I found that I really enjoyed programming and thinking about programs as the rules to transition data and reason about data. It's all about data in the end.
Q: So you dive into databases and SQL and this thing called PostGIS comes along. You're on the Project Steering committee and Development team for PostGIS. What is PostGIS and how much work is it being a developer and a member of the project steering committee?
A: Yes I'm on the PostGIS steering committee and development team.
PostGIS is a PostgreSQL extender for managing objects in space. It provides a large body of functions and new database types for storing and querying the spatial properties of objects like buildings, property, cities. You can ask questions like what's the area, what's the perimeter, how far is this thing from these other things, what things are nearest to this thing, and also allows you to morph things into other things. With the raster support you can ask what's the concentration of this chemical over here or average concentration over an arbitrary area.
Some people think of PostGIS as a tool for managing geographic systems, but it's Post GIS. Space has no boundaries except the imagined. Geographic systems are just the common use case.
Remember my fondness for graph paper? It all comes full circle; space in the database. I like to think of PostGIS as a tool for managing things on a huge piece of graph paper and now it can manage things on a 3D piece of graph paper and a spheroidal graph paper too 🙂 . PostGIS is always learning new tricks.
Being a PostGIS developer and member of PSC is a fair amount of work, some programming, but mostly keeping bots happy, lots of testing, and banging people over the head when you feel it's time to release. I think it's as much work as you want to put into it though and I happen to enjoy working with PostGIS so spend a fair amount of time on it.
Q: I love PostGIS. I spend a lot of time in QGIS/PostGIS these days and people are constantly asking – 'HEY WHEN DO WE GET SOMETHING LIKE ROUTING WHERE I CAN DO TIME/DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS?". You've been working on a piece of software called pgRouting which does?
A: This is a leading question to talk about our new book coming out by LocatePress – http://locatepress.com/pgrouting.
Been working on is an over statement. My husband and I have been working writing the book pgRouting: a Practical Guide, publisher Locate Press. We hope to finish it this year. That's probably biggest contribution we'd done for pgRouting aside from Windows stack builder packaging for pgRouting.
Most of the work for pgRouting is done by other contributors with GeoRepublic and iMapTools folks leading the direction.
My friend Vicky Vergara in particular has been doing a good chunk of work for recent versions of pgRouting 2.1-2.3 (including upgrading pgRoutingLayer for QGIS to support newest features and improving performance of osm2pgrouting) some neat things coming there. She's been super busy with it. I greatly admire her dedication.
You'll have to read our book to find out more. Pre-released copies are available for purchase now and currently half off until it reaches feature completeness. We are about 70% there.
Q: With everything you are doing for work, what do you do for fun?
A: Work is not fun, don't tell me that? My goal in life is to achieve a state where I am always having fun and work is fun. I still have some unfun work I'd like to kill. Aside from work I sleep a lot. Like to go to restaurants. Never been big on hobbies unfortunately. Going to places causes me a bit of stress, so not much into travel I'm afraid.
Q: You've got a few books out and about. How hard is it to write a book for a technical audience? How hard is it to keep it up to date?
A: It's much harder than you think and even harder to keep things up. Part of the issue with writing for technical audiences is you never know the right balance. I try to unlearn what I have learned so I can experience learning it again to write about it in a way that a new person coming to the topic can appreciate. I fail badly and always end up cramming too much. I'm an impatient learner.
I always thought 2nd and 3rd editions of books would be easier, but they have been so far just as hard if not harder than the first edition. We are also working on 3rd edition of PostgreSQL: Up and Running. Piece of cake right, what could have changed in 2 years. A fair amount from PostgreSQL 9.3 to 9.5. PostGIS in Action, 2nd edition was pretty much a rewrite. Might have been easier if we started from scratch on that one. So much changed between PostGIS 1.x and 2.x. That said I think we'll try in future to maybe not write sequels and maybe tackle the subject at a different angle.
Leo wants to write SQL for Kids 🙂 . He thinks it's a shame children aren't exposed to databases and set thinking in general at an early age.
Q: Leo wanting to do a SQL for kids brings up a good question. If you had a person come up and go "What should I learn?" what would you tell them? In the geo world we get beat over the head with Python. You are neck deep in databases. Programming language? Database? What makes the well rounded individual in your opinion?
A: You should first not learn anything. You should figure out what you want to program and then just do it and do it 3 times in 3 different languages and see which ones feel more natural to your objective. Think about how the language forced you to think about the problems in 3 different ways.
The most amazing developers I've known have not thought of themselves as programmers.
They are very focused on a problem or tool they wanted to create, and I was always amazed how crappy their code was and yet could achieve amazing feats of productivity in their overall user-facing design. They had a vision of what they wanted for the finished product and never lost sight of that vision.
Q: Your PostgreSQL Up and Running book is published by O'Reilly. O'Reilly books always have some artwork on the front. Did you get to pick the animal on the front? For your PostGIS book you have a person on the front. Who is that?
A: We had a little say in the O'Reilly cover, but no say on the Manning cover. I have no idea who that woman is on PostGIS in Action. She's a woman from Croatia. She looks very much like my sister is what I thought when I first saw it.
For O'Reilly they ran out of elephants because they just gave one to Hadoop. Can you believe it? Giving an elephant to Hadoop over PostgreSQL? So then they offered us an antelope. Leo was insulted, he wasn't going to have some animal that people hunt on the cover of his book, besides antelopes look dumb and frail. I apologize to all the antelope lovers right now. Yes antelopes are cute cuddly and I'm sure loving. Just not the image we care to be remembered for. We wanted something more like an elephant and that is smart. So they offered us up an elephant shrew (aka sengi), which is a close relative of the elephant – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrotheria . It's a very fast small creature, that looks like it's made of bits and pieces of a lot of creatures. They blaze trails and are very monogamous. What could be more perfect to exemplify the traits of a database like PostgreSQL that can do everything and is faithful in its execution, aside from having to explain "What is that rodent looking creature on your cover?".
Q: Way back when GeoHipster started we more or less decided thanks to a poll that a geohipster does things differently, shuns the mainstream, and marches to their own beat. Are you a geohipster?
A: Yes. I definitely shun the mainstream. When mainstream starts acting like me it's a signal I need to become more creative.
Q: I always leave the last question for you. Anything you want to tell the readers of GeoHipster that I didn't cover or just anything in particular?
A: When will PostGIS 2.3 be out? I hope before PostgreSQL 9.6 comes out (slated for September). I'm hoping PostgreSQL 9.6 will be a little late to buy us more time.
Also – Where is the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial International conference (FOSS4G) going to be held in 2017? In Boston August 14th – 18th. Mark your calendars and bookmark the site.


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package org.mifos.application.servicefacade;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyBoolean;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyObject;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyString;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.never;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.Date;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mifos.accounts.api.AccountService;
import org.mifos.accounts.exceptions.AccountException;
import org.mifos.accounts.fund.persistence.FundDao;
import org.mifos.accounts.loan.business.LoanBO;
import org.mifos.accounts.loan.business.ScheduleCalculatorAdaptor;
import org.mifos.accounts.loan.business.service.LoanBusinessService;
import org.mifos.accounts.loan.business.service.validators.InstallmentsValidator;
import org.mifos.accounts.loan.persistance.LoanDao;
import org.mifos.accounts.loan.util.helpers.LoanConstants;
import org.mifos.accounts.productdefinition.business.service.LoanPrdBusinessService;
import org.mifos.accounts.productdefinition.persistence.LoanProductDao;
import org.mifos.application.admin.servicefacade.HolidayServiceFacade;
import org.mifos.application.master.business.MifosCurrency;
import org.mifos.customers.office.persistence.OfficeDao;
import org.mifos.customers.persistence.CustomerDao;
import org.mifos.customers.personnel.persistence.PersonnelDao;
import org.mifos.dto.screen.RepayLoanDto;
import org.mifos.framework.TestUtils;
import org.mifos.framework.util.helpers.Money;
import org.mifos.service.BusinessRuleException;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class LoanAccountServiceFacadeWebTierTest {

    // class under test
    private LoanAccountServiceFacade loanAccountServiceFacade;

    // collaborators
    @Mock
    private LoanProductDao loanProductDao;

    @Mock
    private CustomerDao customerDao;

    @Mock
    private PersonnelDao personnelDao;

    @Mock
    private FundDao fundDao;

    @Mock
    private LoanDao loanDao;

    @Mock
    private AccountService accountService;

    @Mock
    private LoanBusinessService loanBusinessService;

    @Mock
    private LoanPrdBusinessService loanPrdBusinessService;

    // test data
    @Mock
    private LoanBO loanBO;

    @Mock
    private InstallmentsValidator installmentsValidator;

    @Mock
    private ScheduleCalculatorAdaptor scheduleCalculatorAdaptor;

    @Mock
    private HolidayServiceFacade holidayServiceFacade;

    @Mock
    private OfficeDao officeDao;

    @Before
    public void setupAndInjectDependencies() {
        loanAccountServiceFacade = new LoanAccountServiceFacadeWebTier(officeDao, loanProductDao, customerDao, personnelDao,
                fundDao, loanDao, accountService, installmentsValidator, scheduleCalculatorAdaptor,loanBusinessService, holidayServiceFacade, loanPrdBusinessService);
    }

    @Test
    public void testMakeEarlyRepayment() throws AccountException {
        Mockito.when(loanDao.findByGlobalAccountNum("1")).thenReturn(loanBO);
        MifosCurrency dollar = new MifosCurrency(Short.valueOf("1"), "Dollar", BigDecimal.valueOf(1), "USD");
        Mockito.when(loanBO.getCurrency()).thenReturn(dollar);
        java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(new Date().getTime());
        boolean waiveInterest = true;
        Mockito.when(loanBO.isInterestWaived()).thenReturn(waiveInterest);
        String paymentMethod = "Cash";
        String receiptNumber = "001";

        loanAccountServiceFacade.makeEarlyRepayment("1", "100", receiptNumber, date, paymentMethod, (short) 1, waiveInterest);

        verify(loanBO).makeEarlyRepayment(new Money(dollar, "100"), receiptNumber, date, paymentMethod, (short) 1, waiveInterest);
    }

    @Test
    public void testMakeEarlyRepaymentForNotWaiverInterestLoanProduct() throws AccountException {
        Mockito.when(loanDao.findByGlobalAccountNum("1")).thenReturn(loanBO);
        MifosCurrency dollar = new MifosCurrency(Short.valueOf("1"), "Dollar", BigDecimal.valueOf(1), "USD");
        boolean waiveInterest = false;
        Mockito.when(loanBO.isInterestWaived()).thenReturn(waiveInterest);
        Mockito.when(loanBO.getCurrency()).thenReturn(dollar);
        java.sql.Date date = mock(java.sql.Date.class);
        String paymentMethod = "Cash";
        String receiptNumber = "001";

        loanAccountServiceFacade.makeEarlyRepayment("1", "100", receiptNumber, date, paymentMethod, (short) 1, waiveInterest);

        short userId = (short) 1;
        verify(loanBO).makeEarlyRepayment(new Money(dollar, "100"), receiptNumber, date, paymentMethod, userId, waiveInterest);
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidateMakeEarlyRepayment() throws AccountException {
        Mockito.when(loanDao.findByGlobalAccountNum("1")).thenReturn(loanBO);
        boolean actualWaiveInterestValue = false;
        Mockito.when(loanBO.isInterestWaived()).thenReturn(actualWaiveInterestValue);
        try {
            loanAccountServiceFacade.makeEarlyRepayment("1", "100", "001", mock(java.sql.Date.class),
                    "Cash", (short) 1, true);
        } catch (BusinessRuleException e) {
            verify(loanBO,never()).makeEarlyRepayment((Money) anyObject(), anyString(), (Date)anyObject(), anyString(), (Short)anyObject(),anyBoolean());
            verify(loanBO,never()).getCurrency();
            assertThat(e.getMessageKey(), is(LoanConstants.WAIVER_INTEREST_NOT_CONFIGURED));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldReturnRepayLoanDtoWithAllDataPopulated() {

        String accountNumber = "1234";
        LoanBO loanBO = mock(LoanBO.class);
        Money repaymentAmount = TestUtils.createMoney("1234");
        Money interest = TestUtils.createMoney("100");

        when(loanDao.findByGlobalAccountNum(accountNumber)).thenReturn(loanBO);
        when(loanBO.getEarlyRepayAmount()).thenReturn(repaymentAmount);
        when(loanBO.waiverAmount()).thenReturn(interest);

        Money waivedAmount = repaymentAmount.subtract(interest);

        RepayLoanDto repayLoanDto = this.loanAccountServiceFacade.retrieveLoanRepaymentDetails(accountNumber);

        assertEquals(repayLoanDto.getEarlyRepaymentMoney(), repaymentAmount.toString());
        assertEquals(repayLoanDto.getWaivedRepaymentMoney(), waivedAmount.toString());
    }
}

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text:
Mensen met de naam Mozes:

 Mozes, een profeet uit de Bijbel
 Mozes Salomon Asser, een Joods-Nederlands cacaohandelaar
 Max Tailleur, een Joods-Nederlands humorist
 Mozes Uri Halevi, een middeleeuws rabbijn

Andere artikelen over Mozes:

 Mozes (Michelangelo), een beeldhouwwerk van Michelangelo
 Mozes (Theo van Doesburg), een tekening
 Mozes en Aäronkerk, een Amsterdamse kerk
 Ark van Mozes, een religieuze mand
 Eendagsbloem, plant die ook wel Mozes-in-het-rieten-mandje wordt genoemd
 Tradescantia spathacea, plant die ook wel Mozes-in-het-rieten-mandje wordt genoemd

Zie ook:
 Moesa
 Moses, doorverwijspagina

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On Sunday 1 July we held an afternoon tea to celebrate one hundred years since the Representation of the People Act (1918), which granted the vote to women over the age of thirty who met a property qualification. It was a delightful afternoon with members, family and friends enjoying delicious sandwiches and cakes, friendly conversations and political discussions.
We were fortunate to be joined by four wonderful women who acted as table hosts, making everyone feel welcome and encouraging discussion of all kinds of women's issues. Our hosts were Hannah Aina, a community and choir leader; Bridget Prentice, who was the MP for Lewisham East from 1992–2010; Annette Smith, the Chair of Kent–West Kent Federation of Women's Institutes; and Kate Willoughby, a writer, performer, campaigner and the co-founder of Emily Matters.
The afternoon tea would not have been possible without the help of many of our members. Led by a dedicated sub-committee, volunteers worked behind the scenes and front-of-house to make the day a great success. So thanks to our volunteers for – to name but a few of the tasks – making decorations, decorating and setting up the hall, baking cakes and making sandwiches, helping in the kitchen, serving the teas, selling raffle tickets, running a ballot and, of course, washing up and clearing away at the end of the day. Thanks also to everyone who bought a ticket , came along and made the afternoon such a fun and relaxed affair.


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PC Dummy: Police deploy mannequins to deter traffic offenders
AFP News 31 December 2019
Model officer: police in the Indian city of Bangalore are hoping the dummies will deter traffic offenders
Dummy police are the newest recruits to law enforcement in India's southern city of Bangalore where authorities have adopted an unusual tactic to fight traffic offenders.
Mannequins dressed up as traffic officers -- complete with hats, white shirts and fluorescent vests with police insignia -- are being placed at major intersections in the hope they will prompt drivers to observe the rules.
Some even wear sunglasses and face masks.
With eight million cars plying the notoriously busy roads in a tech hub renowned for its traffic snarls, police say they don't have enough flesh and blood officers to man all the junctions.
"The idea is not to scare anybody, the idea is to increase the compliance," city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao told AFP.
"There are 44,000 junctions in the city but traffic lights are fixed in (only) about 450 junctions, the rest of it is manned manually or not managed at all."
He added that officers use a "hide and seek" tactic -- swapping the mannequins with actual police -- to keep drivers on their best behaviour.
Bangalore, dubbed as the Silicon Valley of India, is home to an estimated 13 million people.
An average of two people die every day on the roads of the megalopolis with 4,283 crashes reported from January to November this year, many blamed on drink-driving, speeding and drivers ignoring traffic signals.
There were 50,457 cases of reckless driving and another 57,394 for drink-driving this year, official figures show.
The model officers have received a mixed reaction from commuters about whether the dummy ploy would work, with some locals praising police for thinking outside the box.
"It's a general human mentality that when you see a policeman, you have fear in your heart, 'Oh I am doing something wrong, I will not do it'," said clothing company director Vijay Shekhar.
Others were more sceptical.
Businessman Rohit Kamalkar said the scheme wouldn't work in a country like India where rules are flouted with impunity.
"We do not follow rules even when they (police) are real (so) how would it work when they are not moving and running after us?," tech consultant Sapan Agarwal added.
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Foster Grant made another red carpet appearance at this year's Primetime Emmy TV awards in Hollywood. Celebrities from all over the world gathered together for this annual event of excellence. Foster Grant sunglasses were a blockbuster hit, with many stars wearing the iconic brand at what was a glittering event.
A Primetime Emmy recognizes outstanding work in US primetime entertainment programming and is the TV equivalent of the Academy (film), Tony (theatre) and Grammy (music) awards.


The Chpt3 C3 Winter Headband is one of those forgotten essentials that make cycling in cooler weather so much more tolerable. It keeps your ears snug and warm and absorbs sweat on the climbs but allows your head to breath and cooling airflow to pass over your head.
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Leverton Fox
In The Flicker
For those with open ears "In The Flicker" offers an immersive and rewarding listening experience. It's an album that the trio can be justifiably proud of.
(Not Applicable NOT062)
Alex Bonney –pocket trumpet, electronics, Tim Giles – drums, electronics, Isambard Khroustaliov – electronics
Leverton Fox is the long running London based electro-improvising trio featuring trumpeter Alex Bonney, drummer Tim Giles and electronic musician and sound artist Isambard Khroustaliov (aka Sam Britton).
The first edition of the group featured Bonney, Giles and electronics specialist Matt Groom and this line up recorded the trio's début album "Country Dances", released on the Gravid Hands label in 2009.
Thus constituted the trio toured as part of a double bill with the Norwegian duo Humcrush (Stale Storlokken, keyboards, Thomas Stronen, drums) in 2010. Former Jazzmann contributor Tim Owen reviewed the joint show at London's Vortex here;
https://www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/humcrush-leverton-fox-the-vortexlondon-16-04-2010
Following the Humcrush tour Groom left the trio and was replaced by Khroustaliov. The band then began their long association with the Not Applicable artistic collective and released their second album "The Human Arm" for the label in 2012. A number of other recordings followed namely "Smart Casual" (2013), "Kanga" (2016), "Velcro Bird" (2016), "Foreign Object Worship – Arhus Rites" (2018), "I Am Zebra" (2019) and "Magascopz" (also 2019).
Khroustaliov has also issued a series of solo recordings on Not Applicable as well as a number of collaborations with other musicians, among them percussionist Maurizio Ravalico, bass clarinettist Lothar Ohlmeier and drummer Rudi Fischerlehner. He has also been a member of the electronic duo Icarus alongside fellow sound artist Ollie Bown.
Bonney and Giles are more deeply rooted in the jazz scene and between them have appeared on the Jazzmann web pages on numerous occasions and in a wide variety of musical contexts, from the comparatively straight ahead to the seriously experimental. In addition to his work as a musician Bonney has also featured regularly in his role as a respected recording engineer and producer.
As Leverton Fox the members of the trio have continued to hone their collective electro-acoustic sound both in the studio and on the road. In addition to Humcrush they have also toured with Polar Bear, Sons of Kemet, Blurt, and Sly and The Family Drone.
Taking its title from a line in the Joseph Conrad novella "Heart of Darkness" "In The Flicker" represents Leverton Fox's 'lockdown album'. It was recorded outdoors in a Sussex woodland on 17th September 2020 and includes the sounds of the natural world alongside the sounds generated by the band members themselves.
The trio also drew inspiration from Karlheinz Stockhausen and his 1971 work "Sternklang" (translation "Star Sound"), a piece for five musician groups designed to be performed outside by night. It has been performed on numerous occasions in a number of outdoor locations in a variety of countries and is frequently referred to as 'park music'.
Leverton Fox describe their own album as being;
"a time and site specific conversation between the musicians, interspersed and influenced by the setting and the surrounding sounds of nature".
Khroustaliov explains the inspirations behind the project thus;
"Holed up in isolation during the pandemic and finding ourselves cherishing the unfolding spring of 2020 in whatever natural spaces we were allowed to visit across London, whilst also revelling in the respite from the constant din of aircraft and traffic we began to hatch a plan, a celebration in a way, to take Leverton Fox out of the studio and the club and into the open air. This album is the documentation of that impulse".
He continues;
"It was the first time we had played together in nine months and the recording captures a moment of cathartic reprieve, an act of 'music-ing' that definitely made the most out of an otherwise traumatic hiatus that was felt the world over. Leverton Fox always had improvisation at its core, but the act of of making this recording was the first time we'd really engaged with the idea that what we do is also in many cases site specific. This record feels like the most brazen acknowledgement of something that is generally normalised under the title ' Live at' etc. Here context is centre stage".
"In The Flicker" features the sound of 'conventional' acoustic and electric instruments such as trumpet, analogue synths, drum machines and percussion alongside found objects and sounds sourced directly from the environment, including the use of trees as percussive objects.
Suggested influences include the Grateful Dead, early Pink Floyd, Jon Hassell, Faust, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Oren Ambarchi, 23 Skidoo, Nurse With Wound, Cabaret Voltaire and the film director Lars von Trier, and particularly his films "Antichrist" (2009) "Melancholia" (2011).
The album booklet includes a number of other Conrad quotes, but one suspects that the titles of the seven pieces that make up the recording come from the band members themselves. These reflect the circumstances in which the album was recorded as evidenced by the opening "Crackle Bracken" which emerges from ambient, wind like sounds, the breeze flowing through the titular bracken perhaps. Gradually some sort of rhythmic pulse emerges alongside a melange of other sounds, the exact sources of which remain largely indeterminate, a mix of the electronic, the acoustic and the found. Some are almost animal like and there's the feeling of being lost in the forest at night. It's unsettling but at the same time is also relaxing, and also innately musical, despite the absence of any 'conventional' instrumental playing.
The ambient mood continues as the opener segues into the eight minute "Amethyst Deceiver", which also includes ethereal synth sounds and the spacey, melancholic ring of Bonney's trumpet. This time the feeling is more one of being lost in deep space as eerie electronic sounds combine with those of birdsong and disembodied sampled human voices. Giles may be credited with drums but there's little in the way of conventional rhythm, instead there's an agreeable sense of weightlessness that reminds this old prog listener of early Tangerine Dream.
Each track segues into the next and we now hear "Bovine Interlude", which features cowbell like noises in addition to mallet rumbles as subtly mutated, but still recognisable, drum sounds find their way into the mix. There are also readily identifiable trumpet sounds within an overall ambience that also includes the sounds of synths, bird song and, of course, the lowing of cattle.
"Cryptozoology" introduces a darker, heavier sound more solidly and obviously rooted in electronica. The music pulses and swirls as the trio set the controls for the heart of the cosmos. It's a piece that more closely resembles Leverton Fox's club performances, a shifting, constantly evolving sonic maelstrom. This segues into the similarly inclined "Lidar Hailing UFO's" which combines glitchy, staccato electronic beats with the clatter of percussion.
Following these voyages to the stars, perhaps inspired by the night skies of Sussex, the trio briefly return to earth with the lengthy "Tagarp Time Travel", which re-introduces the sound of birdsong. Nevertheless there's still a sense of reaching for the heavens courtesy of Bonney's plaintive, pure toned trumpet, which briefly seems to allude to Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra", and thus to Stanley Kubrick's "2001, A Space Odyssey". As the piece progresses the music becomes more spacey and abstract and more obviously 'electronic', eventually seguing into the electronic snap, crackle and pop of the closing "Brackle Cracken", this eventually subsiding as the album plays out with the same ambient, wind like sounds that first introduced it.
Leverton Fox's blend of improvisation and electronica won't be for everybody but for those with open ears "In The Flicker" offers an immersive and rewarding listening experience.
In his review of the album for London Jazz News Tony Dudley-Evans suggested that the album offers the maximum enjoyment when it is listened to as a single entity, and given the skilful way in which one track subtly merges into another he is unquestionably right. In essence "In The Flicker" represents a unified piece of work in which the listener can readily lose themselves.
The music celebrates the rural and bucolic ambience of the Sussex location but also draws inspiration from the wider universe. It's generally less abrasive than some of the trio's earlier work and overall "In The Flicker" has enjoyed a very favourable critical reception. It's an album that the trio can be justifiably proud of.


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Federal appeals court rejects Trump's challenge of Pa. election results
Cassie Miller
(Image via The Pittsburgh Current/Adobe Stock)
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has denied latest attempt by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign to challenge election results in Pennsylvania.
Friday's ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirms last week's decision by a federal judge in Williamsport to reject the Trump campaign's bid to stop or reverse the certification of election results in Pennsylvania, the New York Times reported.
Pennsylvania's election results were certified by Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday.
Pa. certifies election results for Biden, Harris, cementing win in key 2020 battleground state
In the 21-page ruling, Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee, noted that the campaign's claims of fraud "have no merit."
"Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here," Bibas said.
Following the decision Friday, Jenna Ellis, a trump campaign attorney took to Twitter, claiming that the judicial system was covering up "the allegations of massive fraud" and announced that the Trump campaign would appeal the case to the United State Supreme Court.
.@RudyGiuliani and me on Third Circuit's opinion:
The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud.
We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to present proof and the facts to the PA state legislature.
On to SCOTUS!
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) November 27, 2020
A native Pennsylvanian, Cassie Miller worked for various publications across the Midstate before joining the team at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. In her previous roles, she has covered everything from local sports to the financial services industry. Miller has an extensive background in magazine writing, editing and design. She is a graduate of Penn State University where she served as the campus newspaper's photo editor. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in professional journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to her role at the Capital-Star, Miller enjoys working on her independent zines, Dead Air and Infrared.
by Cassie Miller, Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Federal appeals court rejects Trump's challenge of Pa. election results

by Cassie Miller, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
November 27, 2020


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SARA is an effective problem-solving model used by the police to identify and solve the problems within a community. Law enforcers and crime analysts use this model to study the issues that are created from the everyday environment and also to make improvements in the problem-oriented policing. SARA process involves four steps that are scanning, analysis, response, and assessment. Scanning is the first step of the SARA model. This step includes the recognizable proof of issues that are intermittent and of worry to the police and also general society.
Once the issues are distinguished they are organized by the seriousness and are chosen to be examined. For instance, the number of break-ins, street crimes, or other issues of serious concerns are identified. Crime analysts help the force in the determination of serious issues by giving them the data which helps the police to recognize and organize critical issues inside their locale. Moreover, the community members are also imperative in the determination of issues through police-community relations, reviews, interviews and different types of group outreach.
The next step involved in the SARA process is analysis. This progression includes exploring the known data with respect to the particularly picked sort of issue and also figuring out which course to be taken in the comprehension of the nearby setting of the issue and deciding the present state in which that issue is being tended to inside a specific ward. When this data is set up, at that point the way toward creating theories can start with a specific end goal to hypothesize why the movement is an issue and why it is happening.
Information is then gathered so as to test the theories and conclusions in regards to reasons for the specific issue are made by directing factual investigation. Response is the planning and implementation of relevant activities and the third step of the model. It includes the recognizable proof of reasonable reactions in light of progress from other groups, POP aides, and crime aversion strategies. Experts at that point bring this data alongside results and data that is gathered amid the examination advance of the procedure and utilize the data to outline and select new reaction thoughts.
After the reaction technique is picked, goals are built up, and capable workforce is distinguished, the police can start the exercises. The fundamental objective of this step is to enable the experts to plan arrangements to manage the issue, remove the issue as well as decrease the measure of hurt that is made by the issue. Assessment is the final and imperative step in the SARA model and it involves the examination and assurance of whether or not the reactions to the particular issue were effective. For that two things should be kept in mind.
First, the whole process should be assessed to decide whether and how the particular reactions design was actualized and if the objectives were accomplished during the process or not. It helps in figuring out which exercises were and were not directed. The second thing includes the examination of information that was gathered before the actions were implemented and comparing the information gathered after the response step was executed. It is important in determining whether the response step has helped in the reduction of problem or not.