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daughter of Fire Lord Ozai, and l plan to one day rule the Fire Nation -- and the world. l engaged in a fierce battle with the Avatar himself! But first l must take care of my good-for-nothing brother, Prince Zuko. Well, he was good for nothing, till he led me to the Avatar! l headed to the Earth Kingdom, where, with all the aid of Mai and Ty Lee, we tracked down the Avatar and his ragtag band.
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Q: Heat equation steady state boundary condition question consider the following question and the part of the solution to calculate the radial part:

The solution for the R part

Could someone please clarify why c2 = 0 as i am a bit confused as to why this is.

A: Boundary condition 3 and not 1 states that $R(r)$ is finite everywhere. So $R(0)$ must also be finite and it's the case only if $c_2=0$ then $R(0)=0$ and is defined. If $c_2 \neq 0$ then:
$$R(0)=c_1r^l+c_2r^{-l-1}=c_1\times 0 + \frac {c_2} 0$$

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HomeNews911 changes in BC; Service on the brink of catastrophic failure, says...
911 changes in BC; Service on the brink of catastrophic failure, says union
Thursday, Dec. 2nd, 2021
Until further notice, 9-1-1 callers in BC will not have a dispatcher wait with them on hold for ambulance service. The company that manages most 9-1-1 calls in the province, E-Comm, says unprecedented demand for service has lengthened wait times for BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) to pick up.
Usually, the dispatcher stays on the line with the caller, and can pass along vital information if the caller becomes incapacitated. A news release from the company says normally, the wait time is about 45 seconds, but waits have grown dramatically because of increased demand. The union which represents dispatchers reports wait times of about 20 minutes before EHS picks up the call.
"The extended wait times are continuing to result in significant delays for British Columbians calling 9-1-1, which is also difficult for our call takers who are being tied up and are therefore helpless to assist others," explains Oliver Grüter-Andrew, President and CEO of E-Comm.
"This new process puts the safety of all British Columbians first – and we believe this change will take some pressure off the emergency communications system that will allow our staff to potentially help save more lives."
But the union says dispatchers are stunned by the news. In its own news release, it says hanging up on people in crisis is unacceptable, and is calling for government funding for the hiring of over 100 new dispatchers.
"This decision goes against everything we've been trained to do, and every common-sense approach to 9-1-1 service delivery," says CUPE Local 8911 President Donald Grant. "Until now, our operators have never disconnected before voice contact is made, because our role is to ensure that critical information isn't lost during the transfer."
The province has been hit by multiple crises in the past year and a half, including the Covid 19 pandemic, the opioid overdose crisis, a "heat dome" in the summer which killed almost 600 people, and now catastrophic flooding and infrastructure failure.
Grant says the change is a stop-gap measure, adding the company needs an immediate infusion of funding from local governments and development of a new funding model to avoid catastrophic failure. He claims a recent report commissioned by E-Comm by Price Waterhouse Coopers concluded that the organization cannot be successful with the current 153 full-time call takers, and suggests 125 more are needed to meet operational demands.
E-Comm says it has made the change to help resolve call-transfer delays with the full support of BCEHS. Both groups have implemented measures to separate potentially life-threatening calls from less-urgent emergencies. As well, it says, BCEHS is hiring new positions in their dispatch centres to help meet the increased demand. It says both organizations are continuing to carefully monitor call-answer times and make service adjustments, as required.
Numbers released by CUPE 8911:
In January, wait times for police emergency lines reached more than 7 minutes, and non-emergency wait times reached over 63 minutes.
In March, police emergency wait times reached more than 10 minutes, and non-emergency wait times were over 72 minutes.
In June, in the midst of the heat dome, police emergency line wait times reached more than 47 minutes and non-emergency wait times of over 200 minutes.
In August 2021, 9-1-1 wait times were over 4 minutes, and police emergency wait times reached more than 21 minutes, and the police non-emergency reached more than 5 hours.

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Q: How to display only the
* that has a selected
* in it, including all of the
*s in that parent ul, not just the selected ones? I've been reading lots of posts that do similar things using addClass(), parent(), closest(), filter(), how CSS doesn't have a parent selector, etc., and I'm getting nowhere fast so I truly appreciate your help. :-)
Some background:
I have an unordered list that is generated by a CMS, so I can't add or change any of the classes in it. I can only touch the CSS and I can use jQuery.
When the user selects a list item, the CMS adds a class of "selected" to it, and also to that li's parent li, grandparent li, and so on up the tree depending on how far down in the menu the selected item is.
I can only use this one unordered list for both the main nav and a side nav that gets displayed on the left side of interior pages.
What I need to do:
In the sidenav I need to display only the ul that has a selected li in it, including all of the li's in that parent ul not just the selected ones. For example, if my menu has two sections, About Us and Giving, and someone selects a page from the About Us section, I want to display only the About Us li's not the Giving ones. (Later I'll add styling to the top-level li and the li of the page that the user selected.)
I understand how to display the li's that have a class of selected but I need to show all li's if the ul has a selected li anywhere in it. Also, I need to not display any other ul's in the list if those ul's don't have selected li's in them.
Here's my HTML. In this example, the user has gone to the Policies page under About Us->Our Commitment.

About Us

Our commitment

Operating standards

Policies

Annual Report

Giving

What your gift can do

A: This should work:
$('li.selected').show();
$('li.selected').siblings('li:not(.parent)').show();

It will display all of the list items that are siblings of a selected one.
Also, you have some malformed HTML, so I'm wondering if it is a typo or the CMS is actually outputting invalid HTML:

Giving

Fiddle

A: This may be more what you are looking for.
$('li.selected').find('.selected').show(); //get all grandchilden
$('li.selected').find('.selected').siblings().show(); // get all sibling except root

find ignores the root node so 'About Us' sibling 'Giving will not be shown. Additionally, based on your markup, you have a child  tag that need to be identified as well.
jsfiddle


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In enzymology, a 5'-acylphosphoadenosine hydrolase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

5'-acylphosphoadenosine + H2O  AMP + a carboxylate

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are 5'-acylphosphoadenosine and H2O, whereas its two products are AMP and carboxylate.

This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically those acting on acid anhydrides in phosphorus-containing anhydrides.  The systematic name of this enzyme class is 5'-acylphosphoadenosine acylhydrolase. This enzyme is also called 5-phosphoadenosine hydrolase.  This enzyme participates in purine metabolism.

References

EC 3.6.1
Enzymes of unknown structure

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# Copyright 2018 Google LLC
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# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
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# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

"""This script is used to synthesize generated parts of this library."""

import synthtool as s
import synthtool.gcp as gcp
from synthtool.languages import python
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

common = gcp.CommonTemplates()

default_version = "v1"

for library in s.get_staging_dirs(default_version):
    # Escape single '_' which RST treats as target names
    s.replace(library / "google/**/resources.py", '''"(.*?)((SIGN)|(DECRYPT)|(HMAC))_"''', '''"\g<1>\g<2>\_"''')

    s.replace(library / "google/**/*client.py",
        r"(\s+)\*\*JSON Example\*\*\s+::",
        "\n\g<1>**JSON Example**::\n",
    )

    # Rename `format_` to `format` to avoid breaking change
    s.replace(library / "google/**/types/*.py",
        "format_",
        "format"
    )

    s.move(library, excludes=["README.rst", "setup.py", "nox*.py", "docs/index.rst"])

s.remove_staging_dirs()

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Add templated files
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
templated_files = common.py_library(
    samples=True,
    microgenerator=True,
)
s.move(templated_files, excludes=[".coveragerc"])  # microgenerator has a good .coveragerc file

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Samples templates
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python.py_samples(skip_readmes=True)

python.configure_previous_major_version_branches()

s.shell.run(["nox", "-s", "blacken"], hide_output=False)

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The football e-zine Half-Time Heroes has reached its first anniversary, and in the August edition the usual suspects (including your friendly neighbourhood tragic) pick over the opening weeks of the A-League, the appointment of Holger Osieck, and the continuing fallout from the World Cup. Enjoy.
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Originally from East Nashville, Tennessee Jessica Watkins is a New York City based stand-up comedian, actress, and producer. Watkins is a graduate of the The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. She starred and co-produced the feature film Bad Batch, wrote and hosted the web-series Let's Take a Walk With Jessica Watkins and Tiki, has been featured in Accidental Comedy Festival, Chicago's Women's Funny Festival, helped break the 2015 Guinness World Record for longest running continuous standup show (80 hours). Most notably known for her 2014 walk across America, for over eight months Jessica pushed a cart from Lewes, DE to Oceanside, California walking over 2000 miles, performing standup in a dozen states along the way and filming the entire trip for a comedic documentary titled SPECIALish which is currently being submitted to festivals around the globe.
Catch her the 4th Friday of every month, at HomeSpun Comedy! A standup show she hosts at the QED in Astoria, Queens.


KERRY ETB Training Centre and Code Institute are offering 14 fully-funded places on their upcoming Software Development Diploma (Full Stack) qualification which starts on May 27 in Tralee.
In a first for Kerry, this accelerated bootcamp programme is the only classroom version of this highly acclaimed course run outside of Dublin and employment prospects are high – with 86% of Code Institute graduates finding full time work within 6 months of gaining their qualification.
This is a globally recognised Diploma in Software Development for career starters and career changers who wish to qualify as a work-ready software developer in just 12 weeks.
Successful applicants will complete a 5-Day Coding Challenge and Recruitment Interview. Places are being filled on a first come, first served basis.
Professionally, students can come from any background as the course is designed to take people from little or no knowledge of coding to job ready software developer.
The ideal student will have attempted one of the free coding course online tools, like Udemy or Code Academy. This will show a previous desire to learn to become a coder.
Tuition fees are normally €8,900 per learner – but the places on this course are free of charge.


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Gov't Mule release teaser off their new live DVD/blu-ray
As previously reported here at Stargazed Magazine, Gov't Mule have released "Bring On The Music – Live at The Capitol Theatre", their new live CD/DVD package, via Provogue / Mascot Label Group. Filmed at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, on April 27th and 28th, 2018, the 9-camera video shoot was directed by renowned music photographer and director Danny Clinch (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Phish). The release features more than 2 hours of live music, a full-length concert film, interviews with the band, behind-the-scenes footage, photos shot by Danny Clinch over the years, and more.
Watch a teaser for "Bring On The Music – Live at The Capitol Theatre" here:
The release is available in a variety of configurations: a 2 CD/2 DVD deluxe package (the CD and DVD feature entirely different track lists and includes bonus videos of "Soulshine" and "Traveling Tune"), two separate double-vinyl packages, digital, Blu-ray and a 2-CD package (featuring audio from the film). Click HERE to order and for more details on each offering.
Rock titans Gov't Mule have released a teaser off "Bring On The Music – Live at The Capitol Theatre", their brand new live DVD/blu-ray.
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With the Thanksgiving recess upon us, we take this time to contemplate the things for which we thankful.
We are thankful for our wonderful students who are always eager to learn, for our dedicated staff tasked with educating the whole child, and for your continued support because a school district without strong community support cannot survive.
Poet Wilbur Nesbit once said, "Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home." So, whether you are traveling to be with loved ones or are hosting right here at home, during this holiday may your family and friends be the source of great joy and enough cherished memories to last a lifetime.
On behalf of everyone here at Chappaqua schools, we wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving.
Due to legal regulations about putting out a statement from the Board without a public discussion, several sentences were left out of that message and the individual members of the Board were not able to sign it as Board Members. I would like to add a few things to that message here.
First, we are thankful for the opportunity to serve you as members of the Board of Education. Democracy can be messy as we have seen on both the national and local levels. We are volunteers as Board Members and truly seek to serve the students and residents of the community. We are grateful for that opportunity.
Second, we are thankful to the community members that have recognized us in ways both large and small. From the community member that sent us flowers with a heart-felt note to the many that have thanked us personally, we say thank you.
Thank you to the community for your continued support for the students, the District and the Board.
Have a safe and joyous Thanksgiving holiday.
First, the usual disclaimer. I am writing as an individual and as an individual school board member with his own ideas and opinions. I do not speak for the Chappaqua Central School District nor do I speak for the entire Board. I speak for myself only.
The tl;dr is that I support the proposed bond and I am asking you to support it to. I ask that you go to Horace Greeley High School on Tuesday June 14th and vote yes. Vote yes for the students, vote yes for the community, vote yes for youth sports, vote yes for education.
Having said that, while I support the bond, I am not ignorant to the fact that this is not a perfect bond. Know that the initial "wish list", the list of all the projects both infrastructure and educational started at around $55 million. However, the Board of Ed, in its charge to the administration, was very clear that any bond proposal would have to be tax neutral. That is, using various offsets, the maturing of existing debt and cost savings would have to pay for the bond. The board was adamant that it would only put a bond before the voters if it was not going to increase taxes in and of itself. It won't.
What doing the bond now does for the district is it gives us financial flexibility and improves our facilities. The district has spent years driving the curriculum towards this point and years working with our teachers through professional development including during the summers to train them so that we can take advantage of collaborative education. Now, we need the facilities to catch up with the research and training.
What this bond does is support education and support the youth in our community. As it turns out, by supporting education, by working to remain at the forefront of education and the latest research and thoughts on successful education, we help support property values in the district. Maintaining our infrastructure and improving our fields to be on par with virtually every other district in Westchester also helps property values.
I could go on for a while, but my former fellow Board Member, Gregg Bresner wrote a letter to his friends and neighbors and to the community that I think sums it up much better than I could. I support the bond. Vote yes on June 14th.
Thank you to all the residents of the Chappaqua Central School District for once again putting your trust in me. I am humbled by being re-elected to the CCSD Board of Education for a fourth term. I very much appreciate the faith you have shown in me. I pledge to once again work tirelessly on behalf of the students, the parents, and those without children in the district.
Congratulations to Warren Messner for also being re-elected. I consider the re-election of two incumbents to be confirmation of and a mandate for the past and future direction of the district.
Also, thank you to Rhonda Kaufman for her willingness to volunteer. It is not easy and not something that comes naturally to run for public office. Hopefully, she will start attending Board meetings and contribute her time and effort to helping the district.
The Examiner article, linked here, resulting from the questions posed to the candidates has been published.
For my complete answers, see my previous post here. In the Examiner article, my opponent, new comer Rhonda Kaufman, seemingly endorses the school board, the direction in which the district is heading, the budget, the bond and everything else about the CCSD. I can only take it as a ringing endorsement of the sitting board. Thank you Rhonda for your endorsement. Thank you for the good things you had to say about the district.
I would like to thank the League of Women Voters for sponsoring and arranging this debate, everyone in the audience for participating and my fellow candidates.
It has been said that one definition of a volunteer is someone who didn't understand the question. This is my fourth time running for the Board of Ed and I know what it takes.
When I first ran for the Board, I was warned about the time commitment and the incredible learning curve. I was warned about the volumes of reading, the additional committee work and the public scrutiny. I can safely say that no amount of warning prepared me for the reality of being a board member.
Being a Chappaqua school board member is not a ceremonial position. It is not something that you can show up to when it is convenient. There are only five of us and we are all expected to be prepared and to participate.
For the past nine years I have worked tirelessly on behalf of the members of this community. The role demands a person with a passion for education. It requires a person with an extensive and detailed knowledge of the district, a complete understanding of the budget and the structural budget issues the district faces, a person who can make practical and reasoned decisions, a person who is flexible and can build consensus, a person who can balance competing community interests, and a person with vision and conviction. It is recognizing we have a fiduciary obligation to all the tax payers, not just the ones with students in the schools.
I am quite sure that all three candidates will agree tonight that the major challenge facing the district and the Board in the next 3 years is finding a way to maintain academic excellence while continuing to exhibiting fiscal discipline and responsibility.
With respect to that, I point to the previous 8 year's budgets. For the fifth year in a row we will not exceed the tax cap. In fact, this year there is ZERO increase to the tax levy, yet we have maintained or expanded our core programs at all three levels of the district. We continue to be highly ranked both within the state and nationally by countless publications. Going forward, I will continue to work for ALL members of the community to reach responsible budgets. I will continue to support openness and transparency.
I also believe that experience plays an important role in being a successful Board Member. Intimately knowing the district, its policies and practices, having a good working relationship with both your fellow Board members and the administration, understanding NY State Ed law, NYS rules and regulations is a material positive attribute to bring to the table. I have experience and a track record. I proudly stand behind it.
As a candidate, I uniquely offer the community my experience, knowledge, district expertise, and time. I offer consensus building skills, concrete suggestions and practical solutions.
I offer common sense with an uncommon commitment.
Again, I would like to thank the League of Women Voters, the community and my fellow candidates.
I'm glad that I had the opportunity to talk about my experience as a Board member, my years of service and all of our accomplishments. Even Rhonda has publicly acknowledged that the Board has produced a good budget, that the bond makes sense from both what is in it and how to pay for it, she supports turf, and she thinks the district is on the right path academically. For that I thank her.
Our school district serves our children, but we cannot ignore our role in the community. I never have. The strength of our schools is a direct function of our property values.
The community needs to have the proper balance between fiscal austerity and maintaining our academic excellence in order to support the premise on which our community rests. I continue to be unwavering in my belief that the community we serve is the broader community of not just parents with children in the schools, but residents without school children too.
I applaud Rhonda for running, but I believe that any candidate should not run on a platform of change for change's sake. Rhonda said she brings new ideas, yet she has presented none of that.
And if Rhonda believes that the board is homogeneous in thinking, she clearly hasn't been to very many meetings. As anyone who had attended our meetings or even watched them on TV knows, I am on more sides of a 4-1 vote than I care to remember.
I offer not just rhetoric but actionable suggestions. I offer nine years of direct experience and a deep knowledge of district programs and personnel. I offer leadership and consensus building skills.
Common Sense with an Uncommon Commitment.
After much thought and consideration, I have decided to run for a 4th term on the CCSD Board of Education. I think the best way to explain this decision is to post my responses to both the League of Women Voters (LWV) and to Martin Wilbur editor of the Northern Westchester edition of the Examiner. Both posed a few questions to all the candidates. I have co-mingled the questions below for continuity. In parenthesis after each question, I indicate who asked it. I note that the LWV imposed a 100 word limit to our answers to each of their questions.
I have been advised by the district's counsel that I can comment on both the budget and the bond if I make it very clear that I am speaking as an individual, as a resident and that I DO NOT speak for the district or the board when answering these sorts of questions. So, any answer I give here is my own opinion. While these opinions may or may not be consistent with district or board opinions, I do not speak for the board or the district. I am speaking only as an individual.
The first time I ran for the CCSD Board of Education, I said I chose to run for four fundamental reasons. Those reasons remain true today. I wrote then and I repeat now, I am passionate about education and its importance to our future. I believe in the obligation to serve or contribute to your community. I believe my life experience, professional experience and education give me a unique but fundamentally important viewpoint needed on the Board. I (continue to) want to give voice to the silent majority; to those who live in the community but are not part of the 1,200 who typically vote for the budget and the Board. I want to represent the interests of the students, the parents and as important, those without children in the schools.
I also believe that experience plays an important role in being a successful Board Member. New York Education Law says that the only qualifications to being a school board member is to be able to read and write, you must be a resident of the district for one year prior to the election and you cannot be employed by the board on which they serve. Not a very high bar. Intimately knowing the district, its policies and practices, having a good working relationship with both your fellow Board members and the administration, understanding NY State Ed law, NYS rules and regulations is a material positive attribute to bring to the table. I have experience and a track record. I proudly stand behind it.
For the last nine years as a Board Member, I have worked tirelessly on behalf of the community. It requires an extensive knowledge of the district, a passion for education, a complete understanding of the budget and its structural issues, a person who can make practical and reasoned decisions, who can build consensus, who can balance competing community interests, and vision and conviction. It is recognizing we have a fiduciary obligation to all the tax payers, not just ones with students in the schools. There is no experience like direct experience and a proven track record. I stand on mine.
We must ensure the quality of the education remains at a superior level while maintaining fiscal discipline and responsibility, we must continue to challenge unfunded mandates and non-productive state testing, as well as ensuring that we continue to invest in our operating plant through maintenance, repair, and upgrade. We need to continue to invest in teacher professional development. We need to facilitate student challenges, not limit them. We need to continue to have fiscally responsible budgets such as this year's zero tax levy increase while expanding educational and extracurricular programs. We need to be transparent and responsive to the community.
By almost any measure, Chappaqua schools are continuously ranked among the top districts in the county, the state and the country. Without question, overall, we provide a top notch education to our students. That, however, does not mean we cannot improve or change.
In general, I think we have to always be evaluating our educational offerings to ensure that we are at the forefront of both curriculum and methods of teaching that curriculum. The major asset of any district, and certainly here in Chappaqua, is the teachers. What I appreciate about our staff is that as a whole they all are lifelong learners themselves. The teacher's contract addresses professional development. It is a mutual, two way section. They want us to guarantee opportunities for professional development and we want to require it. I think we are on the right path with that, but we need to continue to provide opportunities such as with our Innovation Fellows and the other summer programs where all the teachers in the district have an opportunity to explore and incorporate the latest ideas and methodologies in teaching.
More specifically, I think we need to look at the barriers we impose on student course selection. For example, we have a combined objective and subjective hurdle to a student signing up for AP American History (AHAP). We say that we only want students to be in a position to succeed, yet we do not give a definition of success nor do we consider other factors. Structurally, because of what I believe to be artificial criteria, rather than asking students to challenge themselves, we are doing the opposite and telling them they should not strive to reach for higher goals. It seems to me that the goal of the schools should be to challenge the students to learn, not quash that desire. To me, we should be encouraging our students to try, to challenge themselves, even if that means they ultimately fail. If we are about holistic learning, there are many lessons learned in trying and failing, maybe more than in unchallenged success.
Finally, as always, we need to constantly be reminded of our mission to educate all the district's students whether that means students with special needs, students who need extraordinary additional challenges, or that majority in the middle that risks getting lost as we focus on the two distributed tails.
First, let me state up front that I support the bond. I do think it is the best way to realize the improvements the district thinks necessary to be able to be at the forefront of education for years to come, and I also think it is necessary to be able to make the appropriate repairs, perform needed maintenance, and to upgrade various parts of our operating plant. It will help us comply with the State mandated Building Condition Survey (BCS).
The rationale for and the timing of the bond is clear and simple. One, unlike the town or county, we are required by law to present it to the voters for approval. Two, the timing is right based on both need and ability to pay for it within the constraints of a tax capped budget.
Is the bond perfect? No. The decision by the board to limit the bond to one that creates no marginal increase in taxes is a fiscally responsible decision but one that necessitates tradeoffs. As a community, we need to appreciate that we are neighbors and that while we may not approve of every item in the bond or may wish there were something else included that is not, overall, the bond does a very good job of addressing the needs of so many of your friends and neighbors.
While taking advantage of historically low interest rates coupled with the district's AAA credit rating, NY State 30% capital cost reimbursements, maturing debt, and the sale of district property, the district is able to address infrastructure and educational needs while also addressing the needs of the library, youth sports teams, the downtown merchants, and the tax concerns of the community.
I support the bond. I think it addresses our infrastructure needs as well as helps us stay at the forefront of education, all in a fiscally responsible manner. Is it a perfect bond? No. The decision by the board to limit the bond to one that creates no marginal increase in taxes is a fiscally responsible decision but one that necessitates tradeoffs. As a community, I think it important we appreciate that while we may not approve of every item in the bond, the bond does a very good job of addressing the needs of so many in this community.
I think this year's budget is a terrific budget. It both supports education and the taxpayer. The district continues to expand and enhance our offerings while maintaining fiscal responsibility. This year's budget includes ZERO increase in the tax levy. In the aggregate, the taxes collected from our residents will not increase. In this budget we were able to include everything the administration thought appropriate while not only remaining below the tax cap, but also having no increase to the tax levy.
For the sixth year in a row, for every year the tax cap has been in effect, the district's budgets and tax levies have come in under the tax cap constraints. This compliance has given our taxpayers, those who qualify for the STAR exemption, NY State rebates on any increase.
First, the district is very active in lobbying for mandate relief. We work on many levels to effect change or mandate relief. We lobby to address both educational mandates such as state testing and financial mandates such as unreimbursed aid.
One, the administration has a very good working relationship with our local state representatives. Second, the administration has met with and continues to discuss with members of the board of regents and the NYS Commissioner of Education various issues that affect us negatively here in Chappaqua.
Two, the Board itself has written letters, passed resolutions and spoken directly to our representatives regarding the various mandates. We have teamed up with other local Boards, with the Westchester-Putnam School Boards Association (WestPut) and are a member of the NY State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) which itself seeks to use our collective influence to lobby state legislators, the NY State Education Department and the Governor himself. We have also worked with the Town's mandate relief committee.
Three, Victoria Tipp, a sitting Board Member is the Board's Legislative Advocate. She sits on the Board of the WestPut which is very active in lobbying for mandate relief. She is a member of the NY Suburban Consortium for Public Education. She also coordinates with the PTA which is itself very active in lobbying for mandate relief.
Finally, I think the Board and the district need to continue our lobbying efforts, but know that our most effective voice would be one whereby the residents also participated directly by writing letters, calling and contacting our legislators. We will continue to fight, but we need your help.
Let's start with the premise that anywhere we can legally save money while maintaining services, we will explore. To be clear, we currently do work with other districts and the town to save money. For example, as a member of the Putnam/Norther Westchester BOCES, we work with BOCES and the other 17 component districts to aggregate our buying power for goods and services. The list of items we purchase through BOCES that reduces our costs are too extensive to list here, but know that the very premise of a BOCES is for districts to join together to aggregate purchasing power whether that is for goods, services or even teaching.
Also, for the past several years, the district has worked closely with the Town of New Castle Administrator with the cooperation and support of both the CCSD Board of Education and the New Castle Town Board to increase our cooperation in areas in which we can support each other. We have jointly bid on paving contracts and other similar types of contracts. Both Boards have publicly stated and proven through action that we will continue to seek ways to join together to both cut costs and to provide services to all members of the community.
School Board Member, Chappaqua Central School District.
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University: MBA, Finance and Real Estate.
· 9-year School Board Member, Chappaqua Central School District.
· Volunteer Coached over 20 teams, Chappaqua AYSO, CYSC, NCYBBA, NCBSA.
· Participant in New Castle Roundtable Forum regarding Empty Nesters.
· CCSD representative to the PNW BOCES.
· SHARE Midnight Run participant/chaperone.
· Commissioner, Billy's Basement Boys.


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Debra Wallace, DNP
Emily P. Moye, PhD
Emily Moye (Skuban), PhD became interested in human behavior and early childhood during her first class in psychology as a freshman at Yale College. She went on to work prior to graduate school with two psychologists whose were conducting an epidemiological study of social-emotional development in early childhood. She obtained her doctoral degree in Clinical and Developmental Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she worked on a longitudinal study of the development of antisocial behavior in high-risk, low-income children, as well as two other related longitudinal studies. For her Master's thesis, she focused on understanding the relationship of parent-toddler synchrony on children's emotion regulation and maternal nurturance in a sample of high-risk, low-income toddlers. The results of her Master's Thesis were published in Infant Behavior and Development. During graduate school, she took a number of elective courses on Structural Equation Modeling, Advanced Regression, Trajectory Analysis, and Growth Curve Analysis, and still has a strong interest in methodological design. Her dissertation focused on the bidirectional relationship between language delays and externalizing problems, and the moderating influence of emotion regulation and maternal nurturance on this relationship.
As part of her clinical training, Dr. Moye worked in a Community Mental Health Center in Metro Atlanta, where she worked with the low-income, chronically mentally ill population of all ages. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Auburn University in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and later worked as an Assistant Research Professor as part of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. In addition to being interested in the development of behavior problems in young children, she also developed interest in the benefits of healthy relationships on family structure and sexual risk-taking in adolescence. She is currently working with colleagues on a project focused on the benefits of the Semantic Web in higher-education ELearning. Dr. Armando Paladino in the Center for Educational and Instructional Technology Research heads the project.
As CHER fellow, Dr. Moye's "The Benefits of Access to Healthcare on Mental Health" will utilize a large-scale public health dataset to study the benefits of access to affordable healthcare on the mental health of American adults in national dataset. Unlike most of the developed world, the United States does not currently have publically available health insurance for its citizens, and policymakers currently debating the best way to implement and fund health insurance. There is a fairly large body of data that has shown that having access to health insurance is associated with improved physical health and decreased mortality (Hadley, 2003; McWilliams, 2009); however, relatively little research has focused on the benefits of having access to affordable healthcare options on the mental well-being and stress of American adults (Alang, McAlpine & Henning-Smith, 2014).
Research has demonstrated that chronic health problems (Egede, 2007; Pinquart & Shen, 2011), pain (McWilliams, Cox & Enns, 2003), and financial strain (Zimmerman & Katon, 2005) are associated with higher levels of depression and anxiety in adults. One preliminary study using retrospective data collection on individuals obtaining health insurance after the Affordable Care Act demonstrated that access to healthcare was associated with the perception of greater physical and mental well-being (Sommers, Gawande, & Baicker, 2017). However, no data has clearly demonstrated if individuals with health insurance and the ability to access and afford medical care report greater psychological well-being and decreased stress when compared to uninsured individuals.
Dr. Moye's initial project will focus on using archived data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS; Mokdad, 2009), an ongoing community health collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state departments of health. Using hierarchical linear regression analysis, she will examine how access to healthcare is associated with overall mental health and psychological well-being. It is hypothesized that individuals who have health insurance, lack financial worry over healthcare and will report better mental health, lower levels of stress, and less functional impairment than those without health insurance.
Dr. Moye anticipates at least one follow-up project that will look at differences across a cross-section of states following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Given the ability of states to selectively vary the level and type of healthcare coverage, a natural ex post facto study of the relationship between well-being and healthcare coverage over time across a selection of states seems a logical next step in this research agenda.
Alang, S. M., McAlpine, D. D., & Henning-Smith, C. E. (2014). Disability, health insurance, and psychological distress among US adults: An application of the stress process. Society and Mental Health, 4(3), 164-178.
Egede, L. E. (2007). Major depression in individuals with chronic medical disorders: prevalence, correlates and association with health resource utilization, lost productivity and functional disability. General Hospital Psychiatry, 29, 409-416.
Hadley, J. (2003). Sicker and poorer—The consequences of being uninsured: A review of the research on the relationship between health insurance, medical care use, health, work, and income. Medical Care Research and Review, 60, 3-75.
McWilliams, J. M. (2009). Health consequences of uninsurance among adults in the United States: Recent evidence and implications. The Milbank Quarterly, 87, 443–494.
McWilliams, L. A., Cox, B. J., & Enns, M. W. (2003). Mood and anxiety disorders associated with chronic pain: An examination in a nationally representative sample. Pain, 106, 127-133.
Mokdad, A. (2009). The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: Past, present and future. Annual Review of Public Health, 30, 43-54.
Pinquart, M., & Shen, Y. (2001). Depressive symptoms in children and adolescents with chronic physical illness: An updated meta-analysis. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 36, 375–384.
Sommers, B. D., Gawande, A. A., & Baicker, K. (2017). Health insurance coverage and health—what the recent evidence tells us. The New England Journal of Medicine, 377, 586-593.
Zimmerman, F. J., & Katon, W. (2005). Socioeconomic status, depression disparities, and financial strain: what lies behind the income‐depression relationship? Health economics, 14, 1197-1215.
Frances Dunniway, DNP
Lorna Kendrick, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC
Louise Underdahl, PhD, MPA, MSLS
Dr. Louise Underdahl earned the BA (English Literature) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) followed by the MSLS, MPA, and PhD at the University of Southern California (USC). She served UCLA from 1978 to 1992, UCLA Health Risk Management from 1992 to 2017, and University of Phoenix Online since 2004. She is currently Lead Faculty Area Chair, University of Phoenix - School of Advanced Studies, Health Administration doctoral program; her research interests focus on work attitudes.
As CHER Fellow, Dr. Underdahl's "Reframing Physician Engagement: An Analysis of Physician Resilience, Grit, and Retention" will explore physician engagement and retention. From 2011 to 2014, overall physician burnout rates in the United States increased by 10%, with specialty-specific burnout rates ranging from 37% to 61%. Physician turnover creates financial burdens for healthcare organizations, sabotages patient safety, disrupts continuity of patient care, and undermines institutional profitability. Grit has emerged as a more reliable and accurate predictor of retention than intelligence, physical aptitude, personality traits, or job tenure and represents a promising lens for identifying opportunities to strengthen physician engagement and retention and promote the culture of safety requisite to quality healthcare. Innovative institutional, departmental, and leadership initiatives promoting resilience, engagement, and Grit may effectively mitigate social, economic, and cultural factors contributing to physician burnout. Physician staff of a healthcare system in the southwest United States will complete a short Grit survey; results will be analyzed in the context of attrition, burnout, and turnover patterns to identify factors that may contribute to engagement and retention. Findings will be presented/published in a peer-reviewed venue; co-authors include Dr. Lunthita Duthely, a CEITR affiliate and UOPX alumna, and Terri Jones-Meineke, a CHER affiliate and current DHA doctoral student.
Dr. Underdahl looks forward to expanding her intellectual horizons through collaboration on meaningful research.
Margaret Avila, PhD, APRN
Susan A. Orshan, PhD, RN
Susan A. Orshan, PhD, RN earned her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and her MA and PhD from New York University in New York City, NY. Dr. Orshan's private practice, "Healthy Matters LLC", focuses on the health education needs of women and their families. A sample of the offerings include stress management workshops, classes in Lamaze and Feldenkrais, and therapeutic touch sessions.
Dr. Orshan has been on faculty at the University of Phoenix since 2001. She currently serves as a Lead Faculty-Area Chair for Nursing in the School of Advanced Studies as well as a University Research Methodologist. Dr. Orshan's research interests of cultural diversity and reproductive health reflects her background in women's health/maternity nursing.
As a 2017-2018 CHER Fellow, Dr. Orshan hopes to use her study of "The Relationships among Spirituality, Power as Knowing Participation in Change, and Self Concept Clarity in Women Diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency" to gain additional insight into the experience of these women as they move forward with their lives. Dr. Orshan is looking forward to working with her colleagues in CHER and throughout the University. She is both honored and grateful for this wonderful opportunity.
T. Ray Ruffin, DBA, MHA, MS, MA
Dr. T. Ray Ruffin strives for excellence in all endeavors. He valiantly served the nation for over two decades in the United States Navy where he amassed valuable leadership experience. Upon retirement, he transitioned to higher education where he uses his leadership skills to support students across all levels—undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate. Dr. Ruffin's educational background is unparalleled. His educational journey culminated in the acquisition of five distinct degrees---Bachelor of Business Administration from Northwood University; Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership, Master of Science in Human Resources, and Master of Health Administration from Chapman University; and an earned Doctorate of Business Administration with an Information Systems concentration from Argosy University. Dr. Ruffin also completed a Post Doctorate Certificate in Health Care Management and Leadership at Colorado Technical University.
Since 2015, Dr. Ruffin has proudly served the University of Phoenix community in the School of Advanced Studies as Dissertation Chair and Committee Member. Excelling in research with a strong national reputation, he has published numerous articles in refereed journals and has been invited to present research at several Tier One institutions. Dr. Ruffin is a former member of the Center for Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Research and currently serves the Center for Health Engineering Research. Dr. Ruffin is represented in both academia and the community at large. Two of his many philanthropic outlets includes sponsoring the Jack and Argavick Scarboro (grandparents) Memorial Scholarship and the Dr. T. Ray Ruffin Scholarship.
As CHER Fellow, Dr. Ruffin's "Qualitative Study on Augmenting Rural Health Care Access: The Patient Perspective" will explore patient perspectives to propose viable approaches to augment health care access in rural communities within Johnston County, North Carolina. The goal is to serve CHER by optimizing research in the areas of healthcare design, delivery, and access for rural communities.


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TNPSC has notified two new exams on 19/07/2013, which are the recruitment exams for group 8 and group 7 b services. Aspired candidates who belong to Hindu religion can apply for this post.
tnpsc planned to conduct these exams in the October month, as like all previous exams applications are invited only in online mode. Online registration is opened for the eligible candidates till 16/08/2013. Interested candidates should submit the online application form before the given date.
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Select your desired exam and select click here link, it will takes you to a new page where you find online application, fill all necessary details and upload all required documents to finish registration process.


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Jan 6.: Key Moments Leading Up to the Attack on the Capitol
With 'Stop the Steal' push ahead of the riot, Trump and allies rejected Biden's election win
Supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. leah millis/Reuters
By Scott Patterson
June 9, 2022 1:37 pm ET
Here is a look at the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the subject of a series of public, televised hearings in June. This timeline is based on reporting by The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets, congressional investigations and other public documents.
The Beginnings of 'Stop the Steal'
2016: Stop the Steal, a political group launched by Trump associate Roger Stone, begins warning that voter fraud will sway the Republican primary in favor of competitors to Donald Trump. After Mr. Trump wins the Republican nomination, the group turns its focus to the general election and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. Mr. Stone says its aim is to produce evidence of a rigged election that the Trump campaign could use in court. Mr. Trump wins the election.


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Packing your children's lunches and thinking about including a special treat from Entenmann's? Hit pause and read this article first! You might be about to pack a recalled product and a choking hazard in your kid's lunch.
Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. has initiated a voluntary recall of Entenmann's Little Bites Fudge Brownies (5 pack), Chocolate Chip Muffins (5 pack and 10 pack boxes) and Variety Pack (20 pack) due to the presence of small pieces of plastic caused by a manufacturing failure at a contract manufacturer's bakery in Illinois. The product being recalled has "Best By" dates, UPC codes and was distributed in the states identified below. In each case, the code number "3098" is printed next to the Best By date on the outside of the box.
If you find that you have one of these Little Bites products in your home, you can take it back to the store where you originally bought it for a full refund, or you can call the 24-hour Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. hotline at 1-800-984-0989. If you choose not to do so, you should still throw the product away to avoid the potential choking hazard.
It is unclear exactly how the plastic made its way into the snacks. The statement from Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. simply says it was due to a "manufacturing failure at a contract manufacturer's bakery in Illinois," but does not detail what that manufacturing failure was. Regardless, we should no longer be seeing these particular products listed above on shelves. So if you have any at home, simply double-check the UPC code and the best buy date to see if they match the ones recalled. If they don't, you're all set! If they do, return for a refund, or throw it out. Simple, safe, and better than sorry.
Read more about this Entemann's Little Bites recall over on Fortune.


A retail robbery occurred at the CVS on 4314 Locust Street Monday afternoon.
The robber was armed with a weapon. Penn students, faculty and staff members received a UPennAlert about the incident around 4:00 p.m. While the robbery occurred a few blocks west of campus, it still occurred within the Division of Public Safety's patrol zone.
Police and Allied Barton security guards patrolled the area, according to a follow-up alert at 4:25 p.m. that declared the area all-clear.
The alert was the second safety alert issued by DPS in three days. A robbery with a "simulated weapon" prompted another UPennAlert on June 10.


A Calvinist Loving On Process Theology?
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Paul Capetz – a real deal Calvinist, professional theologian, & Fuller Family Christmas Guest decided to replay to my sovereignty smack talking this week with a Calvinist rejoinder. This is awesome and I am sure it will inspire you to get his book on the history of the doctrine of God (it's awesome & for general audience) and check out the podcast 500th birthday we threw for Calvin. Now…here's Paul!
I applaud Tripp Fuller for initiating this stimulating and provocative discussion about Calvin's theology and the question of metaphysical determinism. As someone with a deep appreciation for Calvin (I have taught 6 seminars on Calvin at my school in the past 20 years as well as written a book on Calvin's understanding of religion), I hope I can add some words that are intended not polemically but thoughtfully, thereby giving expression to some of the issues with which I have had to wrestle as a student and teacher of Calvin.
Let me begin by stating that of all the premodern theologians, Calvin best captures the whole of what is important in my understanding of Christian faith. He is deeply indebted to Luther in his doctrine of justification, he is profoundly Augustinian in his understanding that religion is a matter of the heart and its affections, and he veers in the direction of Wesley with his emphasis upon sanctification. Moreover, his high view of the Old Testament and his belief that the third use of the law is its primary purpose account for his oft-noted affinities with Judaism and thus make him an important bridge between Jews and Christians. Finally, one cannot help but notice that Calvin is also vitally concerned with the political life and the shaping of society in the direction of greater justice for all and care for the needy. In each of these respects, I follow Calvin without reservation!
But there is another side of Calvin that explains the stereotypically negative picture of him. First, there is his utterly deterministic view of divine providence. Not only does God allow events we deem evil to occur but God is the active agent behind each and every event. Of course, Calvin strives valiantly not to impugn God's character by accusing God of injustice. Still, it is hard for even the most sympathetic reader of Calvin's theology not to find a logical problem in his theology at this point. Second, his doctrine of election means that before creation God has predestined who is to be a recipient of salvation and who is to be damned. Again, it is hard not to suspect that his position here leads to insuperable problems. After all, what is the point of preaching the gospel if some people (indeed, the majority of people!) are incapable of responding to it by virtue of God's decision to damn them before they are born?
As a theologian I employ an existential hermeneutic, if I may call it that. What I mean is that I always look for the existential question being addressed behind any particular theological statement of doctrine. So, for example, it is clear in the above two cases that Calvin is addressing two concerns near and dear to his heart. First, his doctrine of providence is concerned to assure us that the events of personal life and history are meaningful because God is actively involved in all events. Second, his doctrine of election is concerned to uphold the priority of God's grace in human salvation. But, having identified the motivating questions behind his formulations of these doctrines, we have to ask: are there other ways we could affirm these religious points without Calvin's problematic interpretations of these doctrines? This is how I believe we should approach the question of whether metaphysical determinism is really as essential to Calvin's theology as most of those who call themselves "Calvinists" believe to be the case.
Process theologians and others with related viewpoints have correctly pointed to the influence of Greek metaphysical assumptions upon all classical Christian theology, whether Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, or Protestant. There can be no serious doubt, I think, that the classical tradition is guided by an unquestioned axiom regarding God's impassibility. I have found process theology particularly helpful in offering new ways to think about this issue, especially its insistence that there can be a perfect exemplification of receptivity in God. If we let go of the classical bias that looks upon change and passibility as imperfections—and I think we should—then there might be another way of working through the problematic aspects of Calvin's theology identified above.
There is, in my judgment, one other problem with Calvin's theology and that is a formal or methodological one. Calvin, like all the premodern Protestants, believed it is necessary to account for every single statement within the Bible and to make them cohere with one another in a "system" of doctrine. Calvin's Institutes of 1559 is probably the finest achievement in the era of the Reformation of this form of biblical theology. Two centuries of historical-critical labor, however, have sufficed to demonstrate that there are multiple theological perspectives in the Bible that cannot be harmonized apart from doing damage to the integrity of the biblical text itself. Let's take the example of divine determinism. Obviously, Calvin has plenty of exegetical support for his deterministic doctrines of providence and election in both testaments. Yet the Bible itself also offers counter-examples where the emphasis is precisely to assert human responsibility and hope for a redemptive outcome of even the most desperate circumstances if only sinful human beings will repent of their destructive ways. I believe that an honest reckoning with the Bible requires us to leave behind Calvin's basic methodological assumption of a unitary biblical theology and to think systematically about the various possibilities offered to us by the Bible for thinking about providence and election. But agreement with my view means that we have to move away from the understanding of exegesis and theology bequeathed to us by the sixteenth-century Reformers and to grapple with the difficult issues of modern theology that have arisen of necessity from the historical-critical study of the Bible.
In sum, I believe that there is much of importance to retrieve in Calvin's theology but that it cannot be salvaged in its entirety. But is this a betrayal of Calvin? I think not. If Calvin was able to adopt a critical posture toward Luther, why cannot Reformed theologians today adopt a critical posture toward Calvin? I might note in closing that two of the finest heirs of Calvin's tradition in the modern world have done precisely that: Schleiermacher and Barth.


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Planned Parenthood videographers to go on trial
Local // Houston
Indicted activists reject plea deal in clinic recording
1of5David Daleiden, left, with attorney Jared Woodfill, also declined the offer of low-level probation. Melissa Phillip/StaffShow MoreShow Less
2of5Sandra Merritt leaves court with her attorney, Dan Cogdell, after rejecting the county's plea offer. Melissa Phillip/StaffShow MoreShow Less
3of5David Robert Daleiden leaves a courtroom after a hearing Friday, April 29, 2016, in Houston. The anti-abortion activist is accused of record tampering for using a fake driver's license to conceal his identity while dealing with Planned Parenthood. He's also charged with misdemeanor attempting to buy human organs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)Pat Sullivan/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
4of5Attorneys talk with Judge Brock Thomas in the 338th District Court at the Criminal Courthouse, 1201 Franklin, about the case involving David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, both of California, who were indicted in February on charges of tampering with a governmental record shown Friday, April 29, 2016, in Houston. The case stems from secret videotaping of Planned Parenthood employees.Melissa Phillip/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
5of5Surrounded by her attorneys Sandra Merritt arrives at a courtroom for a hearing Friday, April 29, 2016, in Houston. The anti-abortion activist is accused of record tampering for using a fake driver's license to conceal her identity while dealing with Planned Parenthood. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)Pat Sullivan/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
Anti-abortion activists accused of falsifying records to secretly videotape Planned Parenthood officials in Houston will fight the case in court.
David Robert Daleiden, 27, and his colleague, Sandra Susan Merritt, 63, both of California, have rejected a plea deal that would have effectively put an end to the criminal charges against them, their lawyers confirmed Friday.
"I don't advise my clients to accept responsibility for cases that they haven't done anything wrong in," said Dan Cogdell, Merritt's attorney.
The pair were charged in January with tampering with a governmental record, a second-degree felony with a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison. Daleiden also faces a misdemeanor charge of attempting to buy human organs.
After a brief status hearing Friday, attorneys said they will not accept offers of pretrial diversion, a low-level probation that would have allowed the charges against them to be dismissed if they did not break the law for a year. It's commonly offered by the Harris County District Attorney's Office to first-time offenders with minor charges such as shoplifting.
Earlier this month, attorneys for Daleiden filed motions to quash the indictments against him, arguing that the Harris County grand jury that handed down the indictments was not properly empaneled.
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His attorneys, Jared Woodfill and Terry Yates, have said the indictments are "fatally flawed."
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson, a Republican, responded in a brief statement in that she had faith the charges were proper.
"These matters will be thoroughly reviewed by a judge and jury," she said. "I am confident that the actions of the DA's office in this case will withstand any scrutiny."
Daleiden and Merritt are accused of using fake driver's licenses in dealings with the women's health organization.
The grand jury also charged Daleiden with the same misdemeanor he had accused the organization of - the purchase or sale of human organs - presumably because he had offered to buy organs in an attempt to provoke Planned Parenthood employees into saying they would sell.
The grand jury had been convened to investigate whether a Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast clinic had sold the organs of aborted fetuses. The grand jury cleared the clinic and instead indicted the undercover videographers.
Prosecutors declined to comment.
With several reporters in attendance, Daleiden took the opportunity to blast Planned Parenthood, which recently has been targeted by a Republican-led congressional panel called the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.
Officials with Planned Parenthood have denied any wrongdoing since Daleiden and Merritt released the videos last July.
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package progen.kernel.tree;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Map;

import progen.context.ProGenContext;
import progen.context.UnknownPropertyException;
import progen.kernel.grammar.Grammar;
import progen.userprogram.UserProgram;

/**
 * Clase que representa un árbol y los distintos métodos de acceso a él.
 *
 * @author jirsis
 *
 */
public class Tree implements Cloneable, Serializable {
  private static final String HALF_HALF_LITERAL = "half&half";

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 5043645528729444176L;

  /** Nodo raíz del árbol. */
  private Node root;

  /** Método de inicialización del árbol. */
  private InitializeTreeMethod initMethod;

  /**
   * Constructor de copia que recibe por parámetro otro árbol del que copiar los
   * datos.
   *
   * @param tree
   *          El árbol a copiar.
   */
  public Tree(Tree tree) {
    this.initMethod = tree.initMethod;
    this.root = tree.root.clone();
  }

  /**
   * Constructor de la clase. Se configura el método de inicialización
   * definiendo en el fichero de configuración del usuario la propiedad
   * progen.population.init-mode, admitiendo como valores válidos:
   *

   *
full

   *
grow

   *
half&half

   *

   *
   */
  public Tree() {
    final String init = ProGenContext.getOptionalProperty("progen.population.init-mode", HALF_HALF_LITERAL);
    if ("full".equals(init)) {
      initMethod = new Full();
    } else if ("grow".equals(init)) {
      initMethod = new Grow();
    } else if (HALF_HALF_LITERAL.equals(init)) {
      initMethod = new HalfAndHalf();
    } else {
      throw new UnknownPropertyException(init + "? progen.population.init-method=grow|full|half&half");
    }
    root = null;
  }

  /**
   * Forma de generar un árbol a partir de una gramática pasada por parámetro.
   *
   * @param grammar
   *          de la que se usarán las producciones para generar el árbol.
   */
  public void generate(Grammar grammar) {
    root = new Node(grammar.getAxiom());
    initMethod.generate(grammar, root);
  }

  /**
   * Devuelve el nodo raíz del árbol.
   *
   * @return Node raíz del árbol.
   */
  public Node getRoot() {
    return getNode(0);
  }

  /**
   * Representación del árbol como si fuera un programa de Lisp
   *
   * @return String con la representación del árbol con formato de
   *         Lisp
   */
  public String toString() {
    return root.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Evalúa el árbol de tal forma que se devuelve el valor después de ejecutar
   * todo el programa almacenado en este árbol.
   *
   * @param userProgram
   *          Definición concreta del dominio del problema que necesitará el
   *          árbol para ser evaluado.
   * @param returnAddr
   *          Dirección de retorno de las llamadas a ADFs.
   * @return Object con el valor de la ejecución del programa.
   */
  public Object evaluate(UserProgram userProgram, Map<String, Object> returnAddr) {
    return root.evaluate(userProgram, returnAddr);
  }

  /**
   * Devuelve el nodo que está en la posición en preorden indicada como
   * parámetro.
   *
   * @param position
   *          La posición dentro del árbol.
   * @return El nodo que está en la posición solicitada o null la
   *         posición está fuera de los rangos válidos.
   */
  public Node getNode(int position) {
    Node node = null;
    if (root != null) {
      node = root.getNode(position);
    }
    return node;
  }

  @Override
  public Tree clone() {
    try {
      super.clone();
    } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
      // ignore this exception
    }
    return new Tree(this);
  }

  /**
   * Devuelve el método que se utilizó para generar este árbol.
   *
   * @return El método de inicialización del árbol.
   */
  public InitializeTreeMethod getInitializeTreeMethod() {
    return initMethod;
  }
}


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Q: Error: attempted to assign id from null one-to-one property [com.dbtest.springboot.db_model.Family.user] Tell me how to correctly add a collection consisting of information objects to the database (a table, for example, a family) and so that these objects refer to one user in the user table. At the moment, an error occurs, tried different save options, the error continues:
Request json:
[

{
"name":"luda",
"surname":"Petrova",
"phone":"2353636",
"bus":"black"
},
{
"name":"dima",
"surname":"Petrov",
"phone":"23536336",
"bus":"red"
},
{
"name":"ivan",
"surname":"Petrov",
"phone":"2353",
"bus":"blue"
}

]

RestController :
 @RequestMapping(value = { "fam/{id}" },method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public User addyfam (@PathVariable Long id, @RequestBody List<FamReq> fammreq){
        User usr = userRepo.findById(id).get();
                var arr = new ArrayList<Family>();

        for(FamReq f : fammreq ) {

             arr.add(new Family( f.getName(),f.getSurname(),f.getPhone(),f.getBus()));

        }

        usr.setFamily(arr);

        userRepo.save(usr);
        return usr;
    }

Entity 1 :
@Entity
@Table(name="usr")
public class User {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name="name")
    private String name;

    @Column(name="surname")
    private String surname;

    @OneToOne(
            mappedBy = "user",
            cascade = CascadeType.ALL,
            orphanRemoval = true,
            fetch = FetchType.LAZY
        )
    @JsonManagedReference
    private Passport passport;

    @OneToMany(
            mappedBy = "user",
            cascade = {CascadeType.ALL},
            orphanRemoval = true
        )
    private List<Family> family = new ArrayList<>();

  /**get/set and constr **/

}

Entity 2:
@Entity
@Table(name="family")
public class Family {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name="name")
    private String name;

    @Column(name="surname")
    private String surname;

    @Column(name="phone")
    private String phone;

    @Column(name="bus")
    private String bus;

    @ManyToOne(
            fetch = FetchType.LAZY
        )
    @MapsId
    @NotFound(action = NotFoundAction.IGNORE)
    private User user;

   /**get/set and constr **/
}

Since the primary key identifier is identical to the foreign key, it is necessary that the family table contains only the secondary key, and the user table contains only its primary key.
UPDATE :
    @RequestMapping(value = { "fam/{id}" },method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public User addyfam (@PathVariable Long id, @RequestBody List<FamReq>
 fammreq){
    User us = userRepo.findById(id).get();

    var arr = new ArrayList<Family>();

    for(FamReq f : fammreq ) {

    Family savedFamily = famRepo.save(new Family(f.getName(),f.getSurname(),f.getPhone(),f.getBus()));

       arr.add(savedFamily);

    Family(f.getName(),f.getSurname(),f.getPhone(),f.getBus()));
   }
    userRepo.save(arr);

    return us;
   }

If, in essence, the family indicates this:
@ManyToOne( cascade = CascadeType.ALL,
                fetch = FetchType.LAZY
            )
        @JoinColumn(name="user_id", referencedColumnName = "id")
        private User user;

Error:
ERROR: NULL in column "user_id" of relationship "family" violates NOT NULL constraint
   Details: The error line contains (sdgsgsgsegf, luda, 2353636, Petrova, null, null)

If you indicate this:
@ManyToOne(
                fetch = FetchType.LAZY
            )
        @MapsId
        @NotFound(action = NotFoundAction.IGNORE)
        private User user;

then
Error:
Error: attempted to assign id from null one-to-one property [com.dbtest.springboot.db_model.Family.user]

UPDATE:
the controller is currently in use :
@RequestMapping(value = { "fam/{id}" },method = RequestMethod.POST)
        public User addyfam (@PathVariable Long id, @RequestBody List<FamReq> fammreq){
            User usr = userRepo.findById(id).get();
                    var arr = new ArrayList<Family>();

            for(FamReq f : fammreq ) {

                 arr.add(new Family( f.getName(),f.getSurname(),f.getPhone(),f.getBus()));

            }

            usr.setFamily(arr);

            userRepo.save(usr);
            return usr;
        }

Repo:
@Repository
public interface UserRepo extends JpaRepository<User, Long >{
User findByname(String name);

void save(ArrayList<Family> fm);

}
full error :
Hibernate: insert into family (bus, name, phone, surname, user_id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
Hibernate: insert into family (bus, name, phone, surname, user_id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
Hibernate: insert into family (bus, name, phone, surname, user_id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
2021-11-14 23:31:06.693 ERROR 13192 --- [nio-9091-exec-2] o.a.c.c.C.[.[.[/].[dispatcherServlet]    : Servlet.service() for servlet [dispatcherServlet] in context with path [] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.NotReadablePropertyException: Invalid property 'id' of bean class [java.util.ArrayList]: Could not find field for property during fallback access!] with root cause

org.springframework.beans.NotReadablePropertyException: Invalid property 'id' of bean class [java.util.ArrayList]: Could not find field for property during fallback access!
at org.springframework.data.util.DirectFieldAccessFallbackBeanWrapper.getPropertyValue(DirectFieldAccessFallbackBeanWrapper.java:58) ~[spring-data-commons-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.JpaMetamodelEntityInformation.getId(JpaMetamodelEntityInformation.java:162) ~[spring-data-jpa-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
at org.springframework.data.repository.core.support.AbstractEntityInformation.isNew(AbstractEntityInformation.java:46) ~[spring-data-commons-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.JpaMetamodelEntityInformation.isNew(JpaMetamodelEntityInformation.java:246) ~[spring-data-jpa-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.SimpleJpaRepository.save(SimpleJpaRepository.java:596) ~[spring-data-jpa-2.5.6.jar:2.5.6]
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:na]
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:na]
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:na]
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:564) ~[na:na]

A: The problem here is that you try to make a relation by Id but new Family( f.getName(),f.getSurname(),f.getPhone(),f.getBus()) does not assign any Id to your Family.

*

*Create Family Object and store it into a variable.

*Save your Family with the help of .save(familyObject) only then your Family is assigned with an Id.

*Save your User with a Family attached to it.

Your controller should look like this:
        for (FamReq f : fammreq ) {
             Family savedFamily = familyRepo.save(new Family(f.getName(),f.getSurname(),f.getPhone(),f.getBus(), us.getId()));
             arr.add(savedFamily);
        }
        us.setFamily(arr);wq21`
        userRepo.save(us);

You also should have a FamilyRepository like so:
@Repository
public interface FamilyRepo extends JpaRepository<Family, Long>{

}

NOTE: Do not forget to create injection of this class in your Controller.
NOTE: Never override the .save() method in the Repositories.
Plus you have to insure that your user is found by id otherwise throw an exception that will be caught by Global Controller Advice. Because if you do not your JPA will try to create a relation while referring to a NULL value.


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Lawyers protest against the contempt of court action against Member Punjab Bar Council Rana Asif
December 5, 2022 December 7, 2022 bulletin 0 Comments contempt of court action, Court News, Court News from Pakistan, Lawyers news, Lawyers News from Pakistan, Lawyers protest, Lawyers protest against the contempt of court action against Member Punjab Bar Council Rana Asif, Member Punjab Bar Council Rana Asif, National News, National News from Pakistan
Lahore: According to the details, today lawyers from across Punjab are protesting to show solidarity with Member Punjab Bar Council Rana Asif.
Today the lawyers boycotted the courts and did not appear in their cases. Also, a large number of lawyers protested at the Lahore High Court and stopped the proceedings of the courts. The lawyers raised slogans and demanded the resignation of Mr. Justice Malik Shahzad who initiated contempt proceedings against Rana Asif Advocate.
The lawyers' protest was led by Farooq Khokhar, Member Executive Committee of Punjab Bar Council and Rao Sami, president of the Lahore Bar Association. While past President Lahore High Court Bar Association Shafqat Chauhan, presidential candidate Lahore Bar Association Rana Intizar Hussain, presidential candidate Lahore High Court Bar Association Ishtiaq A. Khan and other candidates of LBA and LHCBA cabinet participated in this protest.
Why did this problem occur?
The reason for the controversy is that a junior lawyer appeared in the court of Lahore High Court Judge Mr. Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmed without gown to argue one of his cases.
According to the rules of the court, every year from October 1st to March 31st, black gowns are mandatory to appear in the higher courts
The judge ordered the lawyer to go out and come back wearing a gown and then appear in his case.
When the lawyer went to leave the court to put on the gown, Rana Asif Advocate, who is a member of the Punjab Bar Council, got up and took off his gown and started dressing the lawyer. On which the judge said to go outside and wear a gown. On which the lawyer went out of the court with a gown and returned wearing the gown and appeared in his case.
According to reports, the judge also decided the case of this lawyer in his favor.
Thereafter, Member Punjab Bar Council, Rana Asif took back his gown in court and tried to wear it. On which the judge remarked that this is not a dressing room. You go out and wear a gown and come to court twenty minutes later.
On which Rana Asif left the court and after twenty minutes when his case was called, he returned to the court.
After hearing his case, Rana Asif told the judge that I am a member of the Punjab Bar Council, you have disrespected me. After that, the matter escalated, the result of which was that the judge ordered Rana Asif to sit in the court, taking contempt of court proceedings against him.
Opinion of Senior Lawyers
Senior lawyers say that they tried hard to resolve this matter, they apologized to the judge, Chief Justice of Lahore High Court was asked to play a role in this matter. But he refused to settle the matter, while Mr. Justice Malik Shahzad refused to accept the excuse of the lawyers and said that it was a matter of his honor. Now the Supreme Court of Pakistan should play its role in this matter and solve the problem.
Because lawyers do not have the slightest faith in the Lahore High Court, these courts are making decisions based on stubbornness and ego instead of law.
Apart from this, according to the opinion of senior lawyers, the decision of the judge of Lahore High Court is not in accordance with the rules and regulations. When a High Court judge orders the suspension of a lawyer's license, he sends an order to the Punjab Bar Council about it, he cannot automatically cancel the license of a lawyer. Similarly, contempt of court is also a procedure. The court first issues a notice of contempt of court, after which a formal hearing is held in the contempt case. Then the sentence is pronounced. While here both these cases have happened without any due process of law.
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Kiwis Worldwide Can Return Home This Week Without Quarantine
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the beginning of the end of border controls in New Zealand.
Megan Zara Walsh - Staff Writer • February 28, 2022
Photo Credit: Unsplash
The border is reopening in New Zealand to both New Zealanders and other eligible travellers from this month. Wonderfully, fully-vaccinated travellers can enter New Zealand from Australia, without having to quarantine, from Thursday, March 3. Likewise, Kiwis globally can return home from midnight Friday, March 4.
This opening promotes a return to somewhat normality for travel, after two years of COVID-19 restrictions. Excitingly, it also means that both New Zealanders and tourists alike can finally connect with loved ones and enjoy New Zealand once they step off the plane, says COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins.
However, the prime minister stated that testing will remain vital for travel. Therefore, every traveller will need to do a pre-departure test and a RAT on the day they arrive. Equally, MIQ isolation will still be used for travellers who are unvaccinated.
"We will still require every traveller to undertake a rapid antigen test on the day they arrive and on the day five or six. All positive RATs must be registered with a follow up PCR test." Ardern stated.
Previously, fully vaccinated Kiwis globally would have to wait for border reopening in New Zealand, to return home without self-isolation, on March 13.
However, international students, visa holders and non-citizens worldwide still need to wait until April and July to visit New Zealand.
Delightfully, New Zealand has a 95% second dose vaccination rate, which is one of the highest in the world. Certainly, the positive news we need to hear.
COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China in early December 2019. Since then, it has spread across the globe, infecting over 435 million people, with 5.95 million deaths as of February 28, 2022.
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2021 Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, Portfolio finalist
Policing and Racial Injustice in the United States
Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, Portfolio
The summer of 2020 was a season of reckoning. In the days and weeks after George Floyd was murdered in the waning light of Memorial Day, an estimated 15 million to 26 million people participated in about 4,700 demonstrations across America, accounting for the largest movement in the country's history.
That moment had been building; the air was already charged. A killer virus was ripping through Black communities. Bullets, too. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. And then George Floyd, whose encounter with a white police officer who pressed his left knee on Mr. Floyd's neck unleashed one of the most explosive trials of American racism in modern times.
Violence against African-Americans is a familiar song in this country. But never before had the cries carried this kind of muscle. Among American voters, support for the Black Lives Matter movement grew in the first two weeks of protests almost as much as it did in the preceding two years.
Within 24 hours of Mr. Floyd's death, demonstrations were organized in a half-dozen U.S. cities, with protesters chanting the names of Black people subjected to police brutality. The number of places doubled. Then tripled.
The New York Times immediately responded. Deploying a range of journalistic tools, Times journalists chronicled in real-time the unfolding unrest and the demonstrations against systemic racism. Across the country, the police responded with force. In New York, where thousands took to the streets night after night, the New York Police Department said it used restraint during the protests. But officers were repeatedly recorded punching, tackling, beating and shoving demonstrators. Times journalists found more than 60 videos that show police using force on protestors during the first 10 days of demonstrations in the city after the killing of Mr. Floyd.
The Times also peeled back the layers of entrenched abuses, with ground-breaking reporting that used data, documents, interviews and videos to reveal the pervasiveness of police misconduct across the United State and, specifically, in Minneapolis, where the police used force against Black people at a rate at least seven times that of white people.
Through its live coverage and a series of articles, videos and maps, The Times put readers at the core of its strategy and invited them to participate in the reporting, helping them better understand the scope of the moment.
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18 May 2010 // Market Trends // Comments OFF
China's airlines report 17% jump in Q1 traffic; Beijing moves to become world's busiest airport; American coming soon
Beijing Capital Airlines was launched on May 3 in a lavish ceremony within the Forbidden City hosted by major national TV celebrities, Tao Zhou and Gang Wang. The new carrier, led by led CEO Yi Liu (also pictured), is centred on a re-named Deer Air, part of the Hainan Airline Group, with added new investment from the city authorities.
The first quarter of 2010 has again seen demand for air travel in China booming. Passenger numbers on Chinese airlines in the period January to March rose by 16.7%, with domestic demand rising 15.9% to almost 57 million passengers and international traffic up 27.8% to 4.4 million. International traffic was up over 40% in February though it should be noted that last February international traffic was down 25%. As a result, international traffic was only up 5% compared with 2008 while domestic traffic was actually up 37% compared with February 2008. For March, the corresponding figures are 13% and 38%.
Source: CAAC
Load factors have also risen with the CAAC reporting that average load factors in March were above 81%.
Beijing sees rapid growth in new services from Chinese carriers
With Beijing having its sights fairly set on becoming the world's busiest airport in the next few years, it is worth examining how the airport's scheduled services have developed so far this year. A comparison of OAG data for Beijing airport for January and May reveals a range of new or changed services.
Beijing Capital Airlines is the new name for Deer Air, an airline with a fleet of over 20 A319s that is part of the Hainan Airline Group. The local government in Beijing has decided to invest in the carrier and as a result it has been renamed. According to OAG the airline now operates at least daily on six domestic routes from Beijing to Baotou (BAV), Erenhot (ERL), Hailar (HLD), Hohhot (HET), Jixi (JXA) and Lijiang City (LJG).
Air China has also apparently launched six new routes so far this year to Chaoyang (CHG), Dunhuang (DNH), Manila (MNL), Song Pan (JZH), Ulanhot (HLH) and Zhanjiang (ZHA). With the exception of Manila these are all domestic services. China Eastern has added Changchun (CGQ) and Jeju (CJU) in Korea, while China Southern has added Anshan (AOG) and Xian (XIY).
Other new routes added from Beijing by Chinese carriers are daily services by Hainan Airlines to Wu Hai (WUA) and Xining (XNN), Shenzhen Airlines to Wuhan (WUH) and Zhengzhou (CGO), and Tianjin Airlines to Hailar (HLD).
Foreign carriers tweak services; American's O'hare flights to start soon
Among non-Chinese carriers, the former Northwest service to the airline's mini-hub at Tokyo Narita is now rebranded as a Delta service, while United re-started non-stop Washington Dulles flights at the end of March after a five month suspension. Etihad's non-stop service from Abu Dhabi now carries on to Nagoya in Japan, while Garuda's previous one-stop service from Jakarta via Singapore has now become a non-stop service.
Finally, after some apparent last minute issues regarding its slots at the airport, American Airlines now plans to start non-stop flights from Chicago O'Hare to Beijing on 25 May. Initially, the service will be operated four times weekly rising to daily from the beginning of July. The airline won the right to operate the route as long ago as 2007, but has now finally taken the opportunity to start the route.
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