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Rams up for the challenge at CCAA soccer championship
Joey Smith · Journalist | Posted: Nov. 7, 2017, 7:25 p.m. | Updated: Nov. 7, 2017, 7:25 p.m. | 4 Min Read
ACAA player of the year Shanice Maxwell will lead the Dal AC Rams into action today at the CCAA women's soccer championship in Halifax.Submitted
BIBLE HILL, N.S. – There's no easing into the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association women's soccer championship for the Dalhousie Rams.
The No. 8-seeded Rams hit the pitch Wednesday for a first-round match against three-time reigning national champion and No. 1-ranked Elans de Garneau of Quebec.
"It's definitely going to be a tough opening game," acknowledged Rams coach Jackie Ryan. "Clearly, they're a strong program and we're just looking at it as a good experience for the girls and the program and we're going to do our best to stay organized and composed and just see what we can do."
The teams meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Mainland Common field in Halifax.
Garneau has won nine Canadian titles and 13 medals in the program's history – the most by any team in the CCAA. They breezed through the Quebec conference this season with a 7-0-3 record before blanking Champlain Saint-Lambert 1-0 in the conference final.
Indeed, the Rams face a daunting task, however, they're not about to throw in the towel.
"It's sport – upsets happen all the time," said Ryan. "I would never count anyone out. We know we have a big challenge but I think there's always a possibility."
The Rams had a fine season of their own. They were the class of the Atlantic conference (8-1-3) and for the first time in 11 years they returned to the playoffs.
At the conference championship tournament two weeks ago in Saint John, N.B., Dal AC lost a heartbreaking semifinal game 1-0 to the Kings Blue Devils on penalty kicks.
"I think that we've recovered from that and if nothing else it's motivated us a bit to just do better," said Ryan. "And they continued to work hard in training after that and we set some new goals for ourselves and we're just moving forward from there. We still have lots to play for and we knew that."
In preparation for their opening match, the Rams have watched game film on Garneau. Ryan said there are certain adjustments her team will need to make, including formation changes and getting players in the right spots to be successful against a formidable opponent.
"We have to stay organized and we have to trust in each other and we need to make sure everyone is pulling their weight all around the field because when you play a team that's as good as Garneau it's not going to be individual efforts; it's going to be an entire team playing at their best," she added.
The ACAA champion St. Thomas Tommies will meet the Grande Prairie Wolves of Alberta Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Other first-round matchups are: Algonquin (Ontario) vs. Saint Lambert (Quebec), 12:30 p.m., and Douglas (B.C.) vs. NAIT (Alberta), 3 p.m.
Semifinals will be played Thursday. The bronze game is Saturday at 3 p.m., followed by the gold medal match at 5:30 p.m.
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I'm not sure where to go with the focusing studies on the GFX. Maybe it's time to gather my thoughts and tell you all what I think I've discovered. I'll cover manual focusing first, then autofocusing.
The controls for the GFX focus magnification are ergonomically excellent. Press the back thumb wheel to enter magnified view, and spin it to change magnification. Unfortunately, the maximum magnification is not enough for critical focusing. That means that you have to use peaking. Peaking seems to have a bad name because it's such a blunt instrument when you're looking at the full image, but as the magnification goes up, it becomes more and more useful. However, with the GFX you only have two peaking sensitivities available (not counting off), and that's not enough. With a sharp lens and a high-contrast target, even at maximum magnification, setting the peaking to low will still light up the finder too much when the image is close to being in focus. With mechanically-focused lenses, you can find one side of sharp and then the other side, and split the difference. That doesn't work with focus-by wire lenses, since a given amount of twist of the focusing ring translates to different amounts of lens element motion depending on how fast and how far you move the ring.
All the things above conspire to make critical manual focusing fairly good (but far from great) with adapted helicoid lenses and barely acceptable with the native focus by wire lenses. I'd put the focusing with adapted lenses about the same as the D810 (that only applies if you turn peaking on in the GFX, though — the D810 doesn't have peaking). With the two native lenses I've tried — the 63 and 120 macro — the focusing experience is better than the D800, but short of the D810. In no case does the GFX provide manual focusing that's the equal of the a7R, or even the a7RII. The standard of focusing tolerance is not the same across those cameras, since the GFX is capable of so much greater sharpness when the image is in focus; I'm being harder on the GFX because it can do so much more, and thus the consequences of a small focusing error are greater. Here is a focusing strategy that works well with the GFX.
The best strategy for manually focusing the 63 mm f/2.8 lens is to focus wide open. That doesn't work with the 120. The best way to deal with the 120 macro is to focus at taking aperture, or maybe slightly open from there.
With both native lenses, autofocus works will wide open. It also works well stopped down a fair amount. But, with some subjects, it gives inconsistent and inaccurate results at f/4 and f/5.6 with the 63 mm lens, and at f/5.6 with the 120 macro. If you know that, you can work around the issue.
Since f/8 on the GFX is about like f/5.6 on a full frame camera for diffraction and depth of field, stopping down that far is not much of a privation, and you can always use both lenses wide open if you want to blur the heck out of the background.
By the way, I don't find the GFX MF/AF mode that useful. If you've enabled it, you can autofocus the lens, then twist the focusing ring. That immediately gets you magnified view, and you can tweak the focus. However, you can't get back to viewing the full frame without losing your focus point. Or at least I can't figure out how to do it. It's probably something involving back-button focusing. I'll play with it some more.
Let me put this in perspective. There are many uses for the GFX — perhaps the majority of them — for which the present autofocus performance is just fine. This autofocus issue is only important if you're trying to get the most of the great sensor and the sharp natives lenses. I think this situation is a little like the a7R shutter shock. There are many people who said that the effect didn't exist. They said that because they thought their pictures looked just fine to them. There will be many GFX users who feel the same way about the autofocusing on their cameras. As a proportion of the user population, the satisfied GFX users may be even higher, since the absolute level of performance is so high.
Is auto focus performed wide open by default or is the default the selected aperture? Thanks for your great testing program.
I can't tell for sure. In the case of the 120, it produces results that you couldn't get focusing wide open, so it must be stopping down. The defaut for manual focus is wide open but you can stop the lens down before focusing.
Fuji Tech Support confirms that AF is performed at the shooting aperture by default and that the only way to AF wide open is to set the lens to the wide open aperture. They said that setting the shooting aperature by using the aperture ring on the lens or setting the lens to "C" and adjusting the camera thumb to the desired aperture has the same functionality with respect to always performing AF at the shooting aprature. How do Nikon and Canon handled AF?
Every SLR I've owned has focused ith the lens wide open, but the aperture used by the phase detection system is less than that for fast lenses. When lenses reach narrow maximum openings, PDAF usually ceases to work at all.
Hopefully Fuji will listen to its users.
1. Change available magnifications, or add more including 100%, or make them adjustable.
Seems that both might be acomplished in firmware updates.
Does shooting tethered make any difference in what is available to help in manuall focusing?
Could it offer more than just what is available on the camera alone?
Shooting tethered with a big screen makes everything bigger, which helps. I have shot other cameras tethered to a Atomos display, and used the peaking in the display, and that works.


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Will Canada Unravel? Plotting a Map if Quebec Secedes
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Ever-louder rumblings north of the border should not be dismissed as another Canadian nonevent. Potentially, they portend much greater consequences for American interests than many nationalist breakups around the world. Canada's dilemma, typically put, is the separation of Quebec. At least since the abortive rebellions of 1837-38, Quebecers seemingly have been revolting against Canada. The question has always been, "Will Quebec separate?" After a recent referendum in Quebec almost answered yes, Canadians have begun to ask other questions in more heated tones, such as, "Should Quebec be partitioned?" "For other Francophones and the rest of us," wrote Diane Francis, editor
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From 1998 to 2003, Kushnarev was the chief specialist on restructuring the coal industry and, later, head of the investment Group at the administration of Belaya Kalitva. In 2004-2010, he headed the coal industry restructuring department, then the industry and construction department in the administration of the Belokalitvinsky District. He left the post to become the assistant to the governor of the Rostov Oblast Vasily Golubev. In 2014, he was appointed Minister of Transport of the Rostov Oblast. From 2016 to 2019, Kushnarev headed the administration of Rostov-on-Don. Since September 2021, he has served as deputy of the 8th State Duma.

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The Fitbit Versa Lite is a low-cost version of the company's existing smartwatch designed to appeal to a broader audience than the pricier standard Versa and Versa Special Edition. (image: Daniel Howley)
FIT) on Wednesday announced four new fitness wearables: the Inspire and Inspire HR trackers, the Versa Lite Edition smartwatch, and the Ace 2 children's fitness tracker. Both the Inspire and Inspire HR were originally only available to Fitbit's Health Solutions partnership customers, but are now being rolled out to general consumers.
Versa smartwatch (the standard Vera costs $199 while Versa Special Edition costs $229). The Lite Edition is targeted at consumers who are interested in smartwatches, but haven't made the leap due to price constraints. The Ace 2 is the follow-up to Fitbit's previous children's tracker, the Ace." data-reactid="23″>The $159 Versa Lite Edition, meanwhile, is a less expensive version of the company's existing Versa smartwatch (the standard Vera costs $199 while Versa Special Edition costs $229). The Lite Edition is targeted at consumers who are interested in smartwatches, but haven't made the leap due to price constraints. The Ace 2 is the follow-up to Fitbit's previous children's tracker, the Ace.
recent earnings announcement during which the company reported lower average selling prices per device sold and weak guidance." data-reactid="24″>The new wearables are all part of Fitbit's strategy to turn around its business, which has seen its stock price tumble following its recent earnings announcement during which the company reported lower average selling prices per device sold and weak guidance.
The hope is that these new wearables will bring more users into Fitbit's services offerings before rolling out a premium health coaching service later this year.
Inspire and Inspire HR
Inspire and Inspire HR, which will cost $69 and $99, respectively, are the exact devices you'd expect from Fitbit. They provide you with all-day step tracking, monitor your calories burned, and provide you with your active minutes. They also offer sleep tracking, automatic exercise detection, smartphone notifications, swim tracking, up to 5 days of battery life, and more." data-reactid="27″>The Inspire and Inspire HR, which will cost $69 and $99, respectively, are the exact devices you'd expect from Fitbit. They provide you with all-day step tracking, monitor your calories burned, and provide you with your active minutes. They also offer sleep tracking, automatic exercise detection, smartphone notifications, swim tracking, up to 5 days of battery life, and more.
Fitbit's new Inspire and Inspire HR will replace several existing trackers to make the shopping experience easier for customers. (image: Daniel Howley)
The HR model, however, boasts a heart rate monitor, hence the HR monicker, and can give you a cardio fitness score, guided breathing sessions, and more in-depth sleep tracking. Those extras make the HR slightly thicker than the standard Inspire, but it's not enough to make it feel bulky.
In fact, the Inspire and Inspire HR are surprisingly small. When I used a demo unit at Fitbit's press event, I was surprised to see how thin and light they are. The company has come a long way in designing trackers that are functional without getting in the way.
Both units feature responsive touchscreen displays and a single button on their left sides to navigate you back to the home screen. The Inspire is available in black and a color Fitbit calls Sangria, but I'll call maroon. The company also chose to make the maroon version's touchscreen the same color as its band, which is a nice touch. The Inspire HR is available in black, white, and purple. Yes, the purple version's screen is also purple.
According to Fitbit CEO James Park, the Inspire and Inspire HR are meant to replace several other trackers in Fitbit's lineup.
"Over the past two years I've spoken publicly about trying to streamline our tracker lineup," Park told Yahoo Finance. "We used to have the Fitbit Zip, Fitbit One, Flex 2, Alta and Alta HR, so that's five trackers that we've consolidated down to two. Now we actually have three total trackers: Inspire, Inspire HR, and Charge 3."
The Fitbit Inspire is available in a number of colors with interchangeable bands. (image: Daniel Howley)
Park said that by offering three trackers, the company will make it easier for consumers to distinguish between the trackers in its product line.
"The whole strategy there is by streamlining, we feel it can boost sales in the tracker lineup, because it will make things much easier for consumers to understand which product is right for them. So we have a good, better, best, with Inspire, Inspire HR and Charge 3," Park said.
Fitbit Vera Lite and Ace 2
new Versa Lite smartwatch is meant to serve as an entry point for first-time smartwatch shoppers and consumers looking for a low-cost device that still offers fitness tracking and app notification capabilities." data-reactid="62″>Fitbit's new Versa Lite smartwatch is meant to serve as an entry point for first-time smartwatch shoppers and consumers looking for a low-cost device that still offers fitness tracking and app notification capabilities.
The lower price point means Fitbit will be able to reach a larger portion of the smartwatch market. Smartwatch sales for the company have been steadily increasing, which makes the addition of the Versa Lite even more important.
The main differences between the Versa Lite and Versa is that the Versa Lite won't be able to track floors climbed or laps swum, store music, offer on-screen workouts or let you make mobile payments. But outside of that, the Versa Lite provides the same long battery life, fitness and sleep tracking, app notifications, female health tracking, and clock faces as the standard Versa.
The Versa Lite line. (image: Daniel Howley)
The Versa Special Edition is the only one of the three watches that includes Fitbit's mobile payments and includes two watch bands in the box.
The company's Ace 2 is an improved version of the original Ace. It is now available for children 6 and up rather than 8 and up like its predecessor. Park explained that's simply because the Ace 2 was designed specifically for children's smaller wrists, while the original Ace was more or less a modified version of the company's Fitbit Alta tracker." data-reactid="77″>The company's Ace 2 is an improved version of the original Ace. It is now available for children 6 and up rather than 8 and up like its predecessor. Park explained that's simply because the Ace 2 was designed specifically for children's smaller wrists, while the original Ace was more or less a modified version of the company's Fitbit Alta tracker.
Updates to the Ace 2 include water resistance up to 50 meters and smartphone notifications for older children. The company says that the Ace 2's straps can also be changed out as your child ages so they can choose from the adult line of bands when they hit their tweens.
Fitbit's turnaround
Fitbit reported positive results in its Q4 earnings, but it's not out of the woods yet. The company reported that it saw year-over-year device sales growth for the first time since 2016. And it's expecting further sales and revenue growth from its devices, as well as its burgeoning health solutions offering to reach $100 million in revenue 2019.
"A large part of the growth in our health solutions business is now being powered by Fitbit Care, which is all about software, and about both digital and human coaching," Park explained.
"And so what we're seeing resonate with healthcare partners, both employers and health plans, is actually, you know, it's now using the devices, but having that level of software and intelligence on top that allows them to help manage several chronic disease conditions whether it's diabetes, hypertension, etc."
Park said the company is continuing to push into the healthcare space, which has opened up a secondary revenue stream for Fitbit.
"We're really leaning into that. It's not only on the healthcare side, but on the consumer side. Our whole strategy there is to increase our number of active users, and then roll out a paid premium offering in the second half of this year," he said.
The best way to get more active users? Offer less expensive devices like the Inspire, Versa Lite, and Ace 2.
But Fitbit also issued weaker guidance for Q1 2019 during its earnings report, saying that it will have greater losses than analysts expected and that its average selling price for units will fall.
But if the drop in ASP can be made up in the upcoming premium service offering, Fitbit might be poised for a greater turnaround.
@DanielHowley. Follow Yahoo Finance on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.finance.yahoo.com/" data-reactid="95″>Email Daniel Howley at dhowley@oath.com; follow him on Twitter at @DanielHowley. Follow Yahoo Finance on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.finance.yahoo.com/


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(Daniel) Heinrich Ludwig Behrens (* 20. August 1787 in Hagenow; † 20. März 1839 in Lübeck) war ein deutscher Kartograph, Topograph und Offizier.

Leben
Behrens wurde als Sohn des Mecklenburg-Schweriner Kartographen Ernst Christian August Behrens und dessen Ehefrau Dorothea Elisabeth, geb. Ahlendorf, geboren. Über seine Kindheit und Jugend liegen keine Aufzeichnungen vor; bekannt ist nur, dass er von seinem Vater schon frühzeitig zur Mitarbeit an Kartierungsaufgaben herangezogen wurde.

Wie sein Bruder Carl Georg Behrens trat auch Heinrich Ludwig Behrens in das Lübecker Militär ein und führte auch als Offizier Vermessungsarbeiten durch. Nachdem er frühzeitig im Rang eines Hauptmanns pensioniert worden war, widmete er sich vollständig der Kartographie und Topographie. In den Jahren 1820 bis 1825 führte er eine kartographische Aufnahme der Lübecker Vorstädte durch. 1824 veröffentlichte er die erste Karte der Lübecker Innenstadt, die auf präzisen Vermessungen beruhte und im Maßstab 1:4600 die Geographie der Altstadt zuverlässig wiedergab. Eine aktualisierte Fassung erschien 1840 nach Behrens' Tod. 1827 folgte eine detaillierte Karte des Territoriums der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck auf Basis des trigonometrischen Netzes von Heinrich Christian Schumacher.

Bereits 1818 hatte Behrens eine Topographie des Stecknitzkanals nebst Vorschlägen zu dessen Modernisierung herausgebracht. 1829 veröffentlichte er gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder den ersten Teil einer umfassenden topographischen und statistischen Darstellung Lübecks, der auch Informationen zu Verfassung, Regierung, Verwaltung und Rechtswesen der Stadt enthält.

Familienleben
Heinrich Ludwig Behrens hatte am 18. Februar 1818 Friderike Caroline Düsenberg (* 12. Juni 1795; † 10. Juli 1852), die Tochter des Lübecker Marktvogts Johann Philipp Düsenberg, geheiratet. Aus der Ehe gingen vier Töchter und ein Sohn hervor. Behrens war Pächter eines Hofs in Arfrade.

Auszeichnungen
  Orden des Heiligen Wladimir, Ritter

Werke
 (mit Carl Georg Behrens) Topographische Karte des Gebiets der freien Hansestadt Lübeck von H. L. u. G. Behrens. 1827. 1:91700
 2. Ausgabe, berichtigt von G. Behrens, 1843.
 (mit Carl Georg Behrens) Topographie und Statistik von Lübeck und dem mit Hamburg gemeinschaftlichen Amte Bergedorf: Ein Beitrag zur topographisch-statistisch-historisch-politischen Beschreibung der freien Hansestadt Lübeck und dem Landgebiete derselben.
 Band 1: Topographie und Theile der Statistik von Lübeck und dem Amte Bergedorf. Lübeck: Rohden 1829
 Digitalisat, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
 Topographie des Stecknitz-Kanals, und Darstellung eines Projects zu einer besseren Einrichtung desselben, Hamburg 1818
 Grundriss der Freien Stadt Lübeck, 1824
Berichtigte Ausgabe, 1840
 Statistisch-topographische Tabellen über das Gebiet der Freien Stadt Lübeck – Ein Repertorium zur Landeskarte, 1825
 Topographisch-statistisch-historische Bemerkungen über die Freie Stadt Lübeck und deren Gebiet, 1826

Literatur
 Gerhard Meyer: Behrens, Heinrich Ludwig, in Alken Bruns (Hrg.): Neue Lübecker Lebensläufe. Neumünster: Wachholtz 2009 ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6, S. 34.

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Träger des Ordens des Heiligen Wladimir
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from django.test import TestCase, RequestFactory
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, AnonymousUser
from roommatemanager.api.models import Group, GroupProfile
from roommatemanager.api import api
import json

class DemoteAdminTestCase(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.factory = RequestFactory()
        self.user = User.objects.create_user(
            username='test', email='test@test.com', password='testing123')
        self.group = Group.objects.create(group_name="test_group")
        self.group_profile = GroupProfile.objects.create(user=self.user, group=self.group, accepted=True, admin=True)
        self.user2 = User.objects.create_user(
            username='test2', email='test2@test.com', password='testing123')
        self.group_profile_2 = GroupProfile.objects.create(user=self.user2, group=self.group)

    def test_accept_invitation_unauthenticated_user_fails(self):
        request = self.factory.post(reverse("accept_invitation", kwargs={"group_id": self.group.pk}))
        request.user = AnonymousUser()
        response = api.accept_invitation(request, group_id=self.group.pk)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 403)

    def test_decline_invitation_unauthenticated_user_fails(self):
        request = self.factory.post(reverse("decline_invitation", kwargs={"group_id": self.group.pk}))
        request.user = AnonymousUser()
        response = api.decline_invitation(request, group_id=self.group.pk)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 403)

    def test_accept_invitation(self):
        request = self.factory.post(reverse("accept_invitation", kwargs={"group_id": self.group.pk}))
        request.user = self.user2
        response = api.accept_invitation(request, group_id=self.group.pk)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        gp = GroupProfile.objects.get(group=self.group, user=self.user2)
        self.assertTrue(gp.accepted)

    def test_decline_invitation(self):
        request = self.factory.post(reverse("accept_invitation", kwargs={"group_id": self.group.pk}))
        request.user = self.user2
        response = api.decline_invitation(request, group_id=self.group.pk)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        try:
            gp = GroupProfile.objects.get(group=self.group, user=self.user2)
        except GroupProfile.DoesNotExist:
            gp = None
        self.assertTrue(gp is None)

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Turcot Interchange – Dynamic and smart stormwater management
The project included construction of numerous water management structures, including surface retention ponds, line retention, flow controllers and two pump stations.
KPH Turcot
Located in the heart of Montreal, the Turcot interchange was built more than 50 years ago. Some 300,000+ vehicles rely on it each day. Its structures were nearing the end of their useful life and needed to be rebuilt. WSP was awarded the detailed design, including the stormwater management structures, for the Turcot project. Consequently, planning began for the construction of numerous water management structures, including surface retention ponds, line retention, flow controllers and two pump stations.
The Turcot interchange drainage network relies on the City of Montreal's rainwater collection and domestic water collection system, and more specifically on the Saint-Pierre high and low-level sewer network (combined sewer network). This raised several challenges related to the hydraulic capacity of the City of Montreal's collection system, the control of overflows (particularly from the combined sewer) to the St. Lawrence River, and the impact of flooding in neighboring areas. In particular, WSP had to ensure that the planned Turcot interchange stormwater management system met the environmental and municipal storm sewer network requirements, in terms of peak water flows and piezometric level to the collectors and annual report.
During stormwater management design, it was identified that it would be beneficial to incorporate the two planned Turcot project pumping stations into the city's intelligent sewer management system in a Design Build process. On the island of Montreal, the intelligent sewer management system operates all interception works based on precipitation forecasts. The goal being to optimize the use of available retention and reduce overflows to the river. Thus, by integrating the two pumping stations with the city's automated dynamic management system, it was possible to optimize the available retention volume for overflow control and reduce overflows to the river.
Concepts and installations
The goal of the dynamic pump station management system is to optimize stormwater management structures to protect highway and municipal infrastructure while reducing the volume of overflow discharged into the Saint Lawrence river.
Two outlets were planned for the pump stations: the Saint-Pierre collector and an artificial wetland. Water would be pumped to the wetland to maintain its balance. An overflow pipe was planned from the wetland toward the Saint-Pierre sewer network. When the wetland is saturated, an automated diversion chamber (part of the pump station dynamic management system) diverts the water to the outlet into the Saint-Pierre sewer network.
For successful, smart management of the pump stations, several specific installations were necessary:
The pump stations were integrated with the city's automated dynamic management system, thereby enabling control of the stations based on weather forecasts;
Level sensors were installed inside the pump stations, the storm sewer and the wetland in order to provide real-time information on water levels in the retention structures and receiving environments;
4 high-flow pumps were installed at each pump station;
2 low-flow pumps were installed at the SP-01 station to pump water into the wetland.
Together, these installations create a smart system for dynamic pump station management. For example, this system makes it possible to increase the discharge flow rate to the stormsewer when the latter is not at full capacity, in order to free up unused volumes in the water retention pond ahead of heavy rainfalls. Conversely, it is possible to retain water in the water retention ponds when the collector is full.
Inside view of the wet well
Pressure line 1200mm
Pump base
Pump control panel
Openness and collaboration to protect the environment
Completion of these structures would not have been successful without the close collaboration between parties -- MTQ, MDDELCC City of Montreal and KPH Turcot. Indeed, to move forward with this concept, several stakeholders had to work together to come to a consensus on an innovative concept exceeding design standards. The openness of the interested parties enabled completion of this environmentally-friendly and future ready project.
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OTHER CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE OVERCOME
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The tram network in Stockholm is undergoing a major expansion. Tramway City is expected to carry 63,000 passengers per day in 2030 and will supply the new Royal Seaport district with efficient and environmentally friendly public transport.
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Bukit Timah campus opens its doors in August 2018 and is a full-fledged campus for K - Y13 students. Our East campus was closed down in June 2018 as the piece of land had been returned to the Singapore government for redevelopment purpose.


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NICs and termination payments
The National Insurance Contributions (NICs) Bill was introduced into Parliament on 25 April 2019. The Bill will see the introduction of a new 13.8% Employer Class 1A NIC charge on termination payments and sporting testimonials that are already liable to Income Tax from 6 April 2020. The government announced this change at Budget 2018.
This means that from next April, termination payments over £30,000 and sporting testimonials of more than the £100,000 limit will be subject to Employer Class 1A NIC charge. These changes will ensure that termination awards and sporting testimonials have the same Income Tax and NIC treatment. It will also close a commonly used loophole where employers disguise final payments as compensatory termination payments that benefit from the current NIC exemption.
The government had previously confirmed that the £30,000 tax free exemption on termination payments would be retained but that certain payments will no longer fall within the allowance. It is expected that any employer NIC ue on these termination payments will be collected in 'real-time', as part of the employer's standard weekly or monthly payroll returns and remittances to HMRC.
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Q: Which file system gives me the best speed? Most of my user data stay on an external HDD. Currently, it is FAT32 formatted, because at first thought I might want to connect it to my Windows 7 laptop sometimes.
Now I started sorting my e-books using Calibre. Calibre makes its own copies of the books on import, using author names, series names and titles in the file and directory names, which results in the creation of lots of directories and the copying of lots of small files. Then I correct the details Calibre got wrong, and this results in the directory and file names being changed too. Exporting the books to another format means the creation of lots of new files. After several dozens of books all this started getting really slow. Defragmentation helps somewhat, but not for long.
As I noticed that I usually don't use the HDDs on the laptop (except for the defragmentation itself!) I thought that maybe using another file system will speed things up, and possibly eliminate the need for defrags. So is there a file system which you'd recommend?
I only want to change if there will be a noticeable speed gain. If other filesystems only have the advantage of less corruption chance, I'll stick with FAT32 because of the compatibility.
Edit: Forgot to say, my home PC runs Ubuntu 10.4

A: ReiserFS seems to be the best choice to manage an huge amount of small files.

A: For lots of small files within a directory, ext3 or ext4 with the dir_index capability gives excellent performance.

A: Default options for XFS might be bad, but I think it can be tuned to your benefit based on what you are describing.  It depends on how much man page reading and testing you're interested in doing.
Besides the filesystem, you should consider putting this data on a separate filesystem (with whatever format) and using mount features like 'noatime' and 'nodiratime' to improve performance.  From the use you describe, this could be a big win.
I think you'll get a significant benefit from using a non-FAT32 filesystem on Ubuntu.

A: It depends.
In general, ext3/ext4 are the most "stable" file systems. Everything is pretty fast. I'd suggest using ext4 for what you are doing.
However, a lot of other file systems will beat ext3/ext4 by huge margins in some tests, but lose badly in others.
Personally, I'm formatting all my new disks with Btrfs, now that the disk format is supposed to be stable and the performance is already better than ext4 in some cases.
Some other file systems you might consider are reiserfs, and XFS.
Phoronix often does bencharks of file systems, such as this one, in which Btrfs beat ext4 in nearly every test.

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Q: Why does the application crash when trying to select text? When I try to select text many times in the TextView, the application crashes with the error.
Does anyone know what could be the problem?
Error Stacktrace:
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: *** PID: 11481
    java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: setSpan (-1 ... -1) starts before 0
        at android.text.SpannableStringInternal.checkRange(SpannableStringInternal.java:442)
        at android.text.SpannableStringInternal.setSpan(SpannableStringInternal.java:163)
        at android.text.SpannableStringInternal.setSpan(SpannableStringInternal.java:152)
        at android.text.SpannableString.setSpan(SpannableString.java:46)
        at android.text.Selection.setSelection(Selection.java:76)
        at android.widget.Editor$SelectionModifierCursorController.resetDragAcceleratorState(Editor.java:5790)
        at android.widget.Editor$SelectionModifierCursorController.onTouchEvent(Editor.java:5627)
        at android.widget.Editor.onTouchEvent(Editor.java:1416)
        at android.widget.TextView.onTouchEvent(TextView.java:9922)
        at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:11843)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2981)
        ....
2019-07-28 16:00:53.369 11481-11481/? E/AndroidRuntime:     at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.apply(ViewRootImpl.java:4650)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.deliver(ViewRootImpl.java:4623)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.deliverInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:7222)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doProcessInputEvents(ViewRootImpl.java:7196)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.enqueueInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:7157)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl$WindowInputEventReceiver.onInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:7379)
        at android.view.InputEventReceiver.dispatchInputEvent(InputEventReceiver.java:193)
        at android.os.MessageQueue.nativePollOnce(Native Method)
        at android.os.MessageQueue.next(MessageQueue.java:379)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:144)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7383)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:469)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:963)

Here is the markup for TextView:
<TextView
        android:id="@+id/list_item_message_text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="6dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="6dp"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:inputType="none"
        android:linksClickable="true"
        android:singleLine="false"
        android:text="TextView"
        android:lineSpacingExtra="3dp"
        android:textIsSelectable="true"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

In the code I set the attribute: messageView.setMovementMethod (LinkMovementMethod.getInstance ());

A: I was able to reproduce only on android O and android N, in the following scenario:

*

*Given a RecyclerView which presents a ViewHolder containing a TextView

*That TextView as .setTextIsSelectable(true) and .setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance())

*Selecting a text from TextView and scrolling away from that particular view will cause crash. In particular, scrolling away while having presented that system overlay which offers "Copy", "Cut", "Paste", etc
So, my workaround (not a real solution but it will prevent crashes and it doesn't take users out of my app) was not allowing text selection on affected builds:
       val selectable = when {
           Build.VERSION.SDK_INT <= Build.VERSION_CODES.M -> true
           Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.P -> true
           else -> false
       }
       textView.setTextIsSelectable(selectable)
       textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance())

A: remove this
         android:lineSpacingExtra="3dp"

A: Try to specify android:inputType="text". As well, you can add android:autoLink="all"

A: I think this is a problem in the Android Framework. Similar to the one described here:
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: getChars (7 ... 0) has end before start
Because and I have a similar error too. Thank you all.


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Do Jews Believe in Demons?
By Ashley Ann Lewis in Demonology
Though the idea of demons raises concerns about divine providence, belief in demons developed among some Jews throughout history.
Demons are supernatural, malevolent beings with the power to cause hurt to humans. Beliefs in Demons though not very pronounced in Jewish life and thought, is still prevalent, in a semi-comical way, at the level of folklore. Even some of the learned feel compelled to accept, perhaps not too seriously, belief in demons because this belief is implied in the Talmud in many places.
The Babylonian Talmud, in particular, produced against a Zoroastrian background in which the belief was strongly rooted, contains stories of visitations by demons and spells to ward them off.There is even a report of a rabbi conversing with a demon prince.
It is completely unhistorical to maintain, as did Krochmal, that all these references were inserted into the Talmud by ignorant copyists or by those influenced by folk-beliefs said to have been repudiated by the rabbis themselves.
Medieval Rationalists
Some of the medieval thinkers accepted the belief in demons. Others rejected the belief as contrary to the doctrine of divine providence. Why should God have surrendered His control of the universe, on some occasions, into the power of such creatures?
Abraham Ibn Ezra rejects entirely the notion that demons really exist. Maimonides either ignores the talmudic references to demons or gives these a rationalistic explanation; as, for example, when he understands the mishnaic reference to an 'evil spirit' against which a light can be put out even on the Sabbath, to mean a spirit of melancholy.
Menahem Meiri generally follows a similar demythologizing tendency when he understands the talmudic reference to warding off the demons by reciting the Shema before retiring as meaning that evil thoughts invade the mind at bedtime and these can successfully be dispelled through the recitation of the Shema. Meiri also understands the talmudic reference to Joseph the demon, who was able to traverse great distances through the air, to mean that there was a skilled acrobat who could vault over great distances and who was known as 'Joseph the devil' in the sense that he was a devil-may-care character.
Source: http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/do-jews-believe-in-demons/
Dybbuks, demons and exorcism in Judaism
Rabbi Isaac Luria, one of the greatest of Jewish mystics, would walk in the hills of 16th century Safed and point out to his students the souls of the dead, often standing on their graves. In the same city at the same time, the great legal scholar Joseph Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, the great code of Jewish Law, was composing another book dictated to him by an angel.
These visions were not as exceptional as modern Jews like to believe. Dybbuks and demons, possession and magic are woven throughout Jewish history. Amulets to ward off the evil eye, spitting, touching a mezuzah for good luck and a thousand other practices attest to the deep current of folk belief in Judaism. The next time someone persuades you that everything about Judaism is rational, logical and clear, you do not even need to tell them the story in rabbinic literature about the town that beat the river until the blood of the unwelcome water demon appeared. Just ask them to stand in a congregation while everyone is waving a lulav and spinning the etrog; the explanation may be logical, but the atmosphere is redolent of magic.
And yes, we Jews performed exorcisms, too. Anyone who spends time with rabbinic literature (or, for that matter, with the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer) is familiar with demons. Jewish demons, like their counterparts in other traditions, like to inhabit people or simply upend them from time to time. Not only are there many discussions of demons in rabbinic literature, but also, as a result of demonic activity, there are many spells directed against them, as where there are demons, there must be defenses and antidotes. Some demons are granted names. (Ashmedai, from the book of Tobit, is among the most notable. He is the king of demons, and in the Talmud, King Solomon tricked him into helping with the construction of the Temple.) And there are endless discussions of their activities and depredations.
Exorcism reached a peak in the mystical community of 16th century Safed. The scholar J.H. Chajes has translated several accounts of spirit possession in Safed. One, in which a man named Samuel Zafrati entered a woman, involved Hayyim Vital, the principle disciple of the Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria. He asked the spirit, "How can we be sure your name is Samuel Zafrati?" and the spirit, through the woman, accurately recounted all the details of the man's life. "Then we recognized, all those present, that the spirit was the speaker."
As the questioning and exorcism continued, the spirit was asked where he had been since his death three years before:
"I have gone from mountain to mountain, and from hill to hill. I did not find rest in any place, except that for a period I was in Shekhem, where I entered into one woman, and they removed me through the aforementioned and placed amulets upon her so that I was unable to return to her further." The narrator then says that he knows all of this to be true from independent inquiries. The spirit continues: "After that I was roving through the city to enter synagogues [thinking that] perhaps I would find rest and comfort there for my soul, but they did not allow me to enter any synagogue." The spirit then explained that the sages of the past did not permit him to enter, and so he wandered until he found this "kosher" woman to enter. And when asked if he thought it was legitimate to couple with a married woman, the spirit, with wonderful ethereal insouciance, answers, "What of it? Her husband is not here, but in Salonika!"
With demons about, the consequences of a business trip could be dire.
The most eminent scholars of the time, Isaac Luria, Shlomo Alkabetz, Joseph Karo, Hayyim Vital and others were involved in exorcisms. Some were possessed themselves, like Karo, whose Maggid Mishna took hold of him and dictated, but such possession could on occasion be benevolent. The point is that this was not restricted to a fringe or the untutored; the world was rife with spirits.
Are such stories merely a quaint remnant of an earlier age? In 1999 in Dimona (a name whose origin is from Joshua 21, not from the seeming cognate "demon"), a widowed mother of eight claimed that her deceased husband had entered her body. Although several rabbis refused her an exorcism, one, Rabbi David Basri, head of the Shalom Yeshiva in Jerusalem, was equal to the task. Over the objections of many notable rabbis — and on Israeli national television — he performed the exorcism, apparently successfully.
For a while after this incident, there was a spate of claims of possession in Israel, but the wave abated.
Some examples practically beg the listener to sneer. In his famous work Or Zarua, the 13th century rabbi Isaac ben Moses writes (recorded by Joshua Trachtenberg in his still valuable "Jewish Magic and Superstition") of the married woman who had relations with a demon — who appeared once in the shape of her husband and once in the uniform of a local petty count. The question was — is she permitted to her husband after this demonic coupling? Was it adultery — was it voluntary? In the end, she was permitted to her husband by the rabbinic court. There is no report on the fate of the real petty count.
Jewish sources do at times distinguish mental illness from possession, although today we might be inclined to include all such stories in the category of mental disturbances. Recently I was teaching what might be reckoned the very first case of possession — the case of Saul:
"The spirit of God departed from Saul and an evil spirit of God tormented him. And Saul's servants said to him, 'Behold now, an evil spirit of God is tormenting you. Let our Lord command your servants, who are before you, to seek out a man, who knows how to play the lyre, and when the evil spirit of God is upon you, he will play with his hand and all will be well." (I Samuel 16:14-16)
When David, who was then summoned, played music for Saul, it did indeed cure him, at least temporarily. So if this was an exorcism — a matter debated in the sources — then King David was the first recorded exorcist. It gives the profession a noble pedigree, at least.
What was notable in teaching this incident to my Torah class was that not a single member of the class was tempted to interpret this as anything but an internal event in Saul — that is, not an external spirit that afflicted him but a mental disturbance. Although exorcisms are a radical example, we have turned religious experience into a neurological datum: visions are hysteria, trances mania, and prophesies seizures. A desacralized world is more devastating to demons than any exorcist. Vampires make good television and zombies are a mainstay of horror lit, but in life a taste for blood or a lack of affect wrapped in masking tape lead us to grab the DSM and scissors, not a cross and silver bullet.
The meaning of exorcism is tied up for many in issues of gender (some believe this was a bursting forth of frustration from constraint for women or even of obtaining some public power, although plenty of men reported possessions as well) or of Christian influence (although scholars debate whether Jewish exorcisms were a result of the upsurge in the Christian world). Most of all, it reflects the belief, deeply held and derived from the Talmud, that we were constantly surrounded by invisible forces. In a world of suffering, who could believe that such forces would never be malevolent?
It seems so reminiscent of an outgrown age. And yet … we retain some suspicion, evident in traces of our language, of an earlier world view: "I am not myself today." "I don't know what got into me." Even splitting off selves from essence — "I don't know who I am" — is a sign of the duality of nature we feel and the way in which boundaries of the self sometimes feel porous. We, too, seek shamans and rabbis and healers, though they often go by different names. And madness, true madness, seems still as though it was a grip from outside more than an internal malady.
Far as we have come, our knowledge is still a small homestead on the vast landscape of our ignorance.
David Wolpe is the rabbi of Sinai Temple. You can follow his teachings at https://www.facebook.com/RabbiWolpe?_rdr=p.
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Civil legal aid is a best-kept secret when it comes to ensuring fairness in the justice system and addressing some of our country's most serious problems.
Civil legal aid advocates are often an important part of the solution.. Civil legal aid advocates help veterans obtain hard-earned benefits and medical care. Advocates seek fair treatment of tenants. Advocates partner with physicians to help patients whose illness is due to conditions that require legal intervention to remedy.
Civil legal aid levels the playing field by providing legal assistance and representation, self-help centers, and access to information and forms so people can know their rights. It is essential to fulfilling our nation's fundamental promise of justice for all – not just for the few who can afford it.
The trouble is, almost no one is aware of it.
That's why Voices for Civil Justice came into being. Founded in late 2013, Voices is a national communications hub dedicated exclusively to raising awareness of the vital role of civil legal aid in helping people protect their livelihoods, their health and their families.
Voices seeks to deliver three things: 1) increased visibility for civil legal aid in the national media; 2) increased capacity for media advocacy across the civil legal aid sector; and 3) a new and strengthened "brand" of civil legal aid.
Recent opinion research by Lake Research Partners and the Tarrance Group confirmed that the public is still largely unaware of the existence – and therefore the importance– of civil legal aid. This is hardly surprising, since civil legal aid historically has received scant coverage in the media. When journalists do cover it, many simply report that the sector is underfunded and facing yet another round of cuts. Scattered coverage of state initiatives and legal aid providers suggests that a comprehensive narrative of what civil legal aid is and why it matters has yet to take hold.
Typical media coverage also fails to convey that civil legal aid today encompasses more expansive and diversified activities and actors than it did even a few years ago. In the face of repeated funding crises, the sector has broken new ground, devising significant innovations that are serving more people and proving to be game changers. Access to justice commissions, judicial leadership, self-help centers and other court-based services, web-based access to information and forms, medical legal partnerships, expanded pro bono models and more – all comprise a broader and more effective sector that continues to be anchored by community-based legal aid organizations serving low-income people across the country. While these innovations have received some limited coverage, primarily in the legal media, they have rarely been presented as part of a narrative about an innovative sector on the move.
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The Belize Department of Civil Aviation is the regulatory and oversight body in all civil aviation matters in Belize. This Department is headed by the Director of Civil Aviation as established in the Belize Civil Aviation Act. He is responsible for all civil aviation matters in Belize. He also serves as an advisor to the Minister responsible for civil aviation in all matters relating to civil aviation. Not only does he influence policy decisions but is often charged with the responsibility of implementing those policies.
After becoming a Contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation in 1991, Belize is obliged to comply with the Standards and as far as practicable, with the Recommended Practices contained in all nineteen Annexes to the Convention.
The main functions of the Department are to ensure the safety of air navigation and to promote and encourage the orderly and economic development of civil aviation locally, regionally and internationally.
The Belize Department of Civil Aviation is a Department presently under the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation.
The Director is assisted in his duties by his Deputy and a number of technical officers who are charged with responsibilities in specific areas.
Located on the Caribbean coast of northern Central America, Belize is bordered to the north by Mexico, on the west and south by Guatemala and on the east by the sparkling waters of the Caribbean Sea. Population of Belize is 359,000.
Belize is shaped like a rectangle that extends about 280 kilometres (174 miles) north-south and about 100 kilometres (62 miles) east-west.
Belize is "Mother Nature's Best Kept Secret" since it has spectacular natural attractions and the excitement of discovering these attractions promises both relaxation and the richly rewarding authenticity sought in a genuine Caribbean getaway. Belize is one of the few remaining unspoiled places on earth.
Belize's Caribbean coast boasts the second largest barrier reef in the world – the Belize Barrier Reef, which is also the longest in the Western Hemisphere. It is also lined up with hundreds of islets and islands known locally as cayes. Belize is also home to the Great Blue Hole, snorkel and dive locations, hundreds of ancient Maya sites both excavated and jungle-covered are found here not mentioning the lush tropical rainforest with many species of birds, and exotic tropical flora and fauna.
The climate of Belize is of a tropical nature and therefore has the wet and dry seasons. The official language is English with Spanish and a series of other dialects being spoken.
It supports the thriving tourism and ecotourism industries.
The link between Civil Aviation and the well-being of our economy is therefore obvious. The Belize Department of Civil Aviation is responsible for creating and maintaining the safe, efficient and healthy environment that promotes growth in air travel and consequently growth in the Belizean economy. There are 635,000 passengers annually.


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A Vermont home study family started their homeschool year with a scare when their local school district contacted them asking when their children were planning to attend public school.
The family has been homeschooling for several years, so the question left them especially confused. They decided to ask Home School Legal Defense Association for assistance.
We discovered that the misunderstanding likely arose from a computer error.
Each year, the Agency of Education sends a list of students enrolled in a home study program to the state's various public school districts. This information is gleaned from homeschool enrollment notices which, for the first time this summer, were submitted by families via a new online form.
It turns out that even though the family had submitted their information to the Agency of Education in July, using the agency's new electronic form, the family's name was not on this list.
Fortunately, the issue was resolved quickly. After confirming that the agency had the family's notice of intent, I contacted the school district on the family's behalf, explaining that the family's notice had been filed as required by law and that they were entitled to begin their home study program. The school district promptly withdrew its demand that the children attend public school.
Unfortunately, we also discovered while assisting this family that other families have encountered similar issues with the agency's new electronic form. If you or someone you know has run into something similar, please let HSLDA know so we can ensure that these issues are corrected. Together, we can make sure that no family in Vermont loses their ability to teach their children at home due to technical difficulties.
Peter has been an HSLDA staff attorney since 2011, assisting member families in Connecticut, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and his home state of Hawaii. Read more.


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As an international financial centre, Hong Kong is favored by worldwide investors due to its established legal system, simplified taxation system, low taxation rate, well-equipped infrastructure and communication facilities, and high quality professionals. Hong Kong offers unlimited business opportunities, and serves as a platform to global economy and commerce, whose advantages are well known, so tens of thousands of international businesses benefit from setting up a company in Hong Kong.
Here is some general guide you will need to set up a limited company in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Companies Registry is required to provide proof of ownership or lease of the registered office address. If you do not finalize your operational details or do not need a full office space, you may consider renting a virtual office. These virtual offices will provide you with a business address, usually with additional administrative services, for a small fee.
To register and set up your company, you need to provide your business capital information. You can open a bank account in Hong Kong. They usually require a minimum deposit, which varies from bank to bank. If you are registered as an existing company overseas, you can submit proof of your business in a bank account. Hong Kong banks usually charge between HK $ 10,000 and HK $ 15,000 to process the account and need to maintain a minimum balance of approximately HK $ 25,000.
Any Hong Kong permanent resident may become a company secretary. Their duties include ensuring that the company's administrative matters are properly explained and that the directors of the company comply with regulatory documents such as annual shareholders' meetings and returns. Your company will of course also need at least one director to be appointed by shareholders to notify the disclosure. Hong Kong permanent residents can fulfill all three roles of the company, but if the company has only one director (the sole director), the person can not.
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