Two markedly different city planning processes are drawing markedly different reactions, and the lesson we draw from that is clear.
First, consider the downtown parking and access plan. The city hired a high-priced consulting firm. It seemed to come in with pre-conceived ideas. It ran a five-day “charrette” — a process that effectively excludes the general public since most folks don”t have that much spare time. And after spending five days talking to themselves and a handful of like-minded locals, the consultants came up with a plan that was visionary. And totally impractical.
City staff then had to go through the plan and cherry-pick ideas that would actually work, discarding things like reducing Broadway and Main Street to two lanes. Hadn”t the consultants seen the delivery trucks double-parking there at all hours?
One of the ideas the staff picked was going from parallel to diagonal parking on some of the residential streets around downtown as a way to increase parking. Neighbors got wind of the plan this week, and started howling about it. “They want to solve parking downtown by putting more cars in my neighborhood?” one incredulous resident asked in a phone call Thursday afternoon.
By comparison, look at what”s happening on the other side of town, over along East Eighth Street, east of Highway 99. The street is being redesigned in part of a massive renovation of several eastern roads, including Bruce Road and Manzanita Avenue.
In this case, the city”s engineering staff has been meeting just about monthly with neighbors and interested people. The plans were presented. The neighbors expressed objections. The plans were changed. The city stuck with a few things it felt were essential, and the neighbors acquiesced.
The city dumped two of the three roundabouts it hoped to build on Eighth. Neighbors opposed them vehemently, suggesting they didn”t improve the street”s safety.
Wanting to save the rural flavor of the street — big old trees and the southern border of Bidwell Park — neighbors didn”t want a string of streetlights along the road. The city agreed to put streetlights only at intersections. The street will be narrower than normal, making cars slow down.
But neighbors also gave up some things they wanted — like saving every single tree, and reluctantly accepting a roundabout at Eighth and Forest Avenue.
What”s different about the East Eighth Street process from the downtown process is that the city and the neighbors sat down and talked. They compromised. They made the decisions together.
And work will start this summer. Who knows when we”ll actually make progress on downtown parking.
Consultants come in from the outside, look at a situation, and tell the city what they saw in other places, then go back home.
City staff looks at the situation, talks to neighbors, and decides where in the middle to walk. It may because this is their home too. They have to live with their decisions, and live with the people affected by those decisions.
We know the city can”t afford to do all planning in-house, but it”s a better way.


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The Secretary General of Confederation Mr.K.K.N.Kutty has published the outcome of third National Anomaly Committee meeting discussion on each issue...
The third meeting of the National Anomaly Committee was held on 15/02/2011. The following items were taken up for discussion. No final decision on any item could be arrived at. It was more or less an exercise to understand the points of view of both sides on these items. We shall in our next communication indicate the outcome of discussion on each item.
Item Nos. 11, 12&13, 14, 20, 28,29&30, 31,37, 38,39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50 and 51.
During the discussion the Staff brought to the notice of the official side that the issues pertaining to the employees of Andaman and Nicobar islands, which were taken out of the agenda on the plea that the same would be discussed separately by a Committee to be set up by the Andaman Administration have not been settled. The NGO Association of A & N Islands have brought to the notice of the staff side that the A & N Administration has not taken any steps to resolve the problems even though similar issues pertaining to the employees of Pondicherry and Delhi were settled. The Official side has promised to take up the issue with the concerned in the Home Ministry to ensure that the issues are addressed expeditiously.
The official side has in the Action Taken State has indicated their inability to concede the demand raised by the Staff Side on the following two issues.
(a) Grant of increment in the case of employees whose increment falls between Feb and June. 2006.
(b) Fixing the pay of the promotees on par with the Direct recruits.
Though these issues were not discussed, the Staff Side has said that a resolution to them are urgently needed.
The official side has requested the Staff Side to indicate the items on which further discussions are needed; further details are required; and alternative suggestions could be made within 10 days so that the next and final meeting of the Committee could be convened before 31st March, 2011. It was also decided that the sub-committee of the MACP related issued will meet once again and their report submitted to the NAC .
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Cincinnati Bengal quarterback Boomer Esiason is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Raiders at the Coliseum because of a groin injury, but Esiason said his condition was improved Wednesday.
“I’m a little more optimistic today than I was on Monday,” he said. “I can only hope that it keeps getting better and better and better.”
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“Most of us football players, when it comes time to play, aren’t very smart,” Esiason said. “So I would imagine, being as dumb as I am, I’ll probably end up playing.”
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The Raiders moved tackle/defensive tackle Tim Rother from injured reserve to the practice squad. . . . The Raiders, already assured of their first winning season since 1985, could clinch a playoff berth with a victory over the Bengals. . . . There are no Raider injuries listed. The Bengals are reporting Esiason and running back Craig Taylor (ankle) as questionable, running backs James Brooks (shoulder), Ickey Woods (ribs) and Harold Green (shoulder) and safety David Fulcher (back) as probable.


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Demonstrators congregated at Hibiya Park, close to central government buildings, before marching around the national parliament.
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The rebuilding Indiana Fever are on the upswing, but there is still plenty of room to grow.
They look to wrap up a four-game homestand with three victories Tuesday night when they host the defending WNBA champion Seattle Storm.
Indiana (3-2) is already halfway to its win total for all of 2018, when it slogged to a 6-28 mark. The Fever were denied a third consecutive victory Sunday with a 94-87 defeat to the Mercury, overwhelmed by Phoenix's size as Britney Griner and DeWanna Bonner combined for 51 points.
"We always talk about cutting off the head of the snake, and their two heads combined for 51," Fever coach Pokey Chatman told the Indy Star after watching her team fall behind by 25 at halftime. "It's tough, and then other people become relevant."
Rookie Kennedy Burke made the most of her extended minutes in a loss far more lopsided than the final score indicated, hitting all four of her 3-point attempts to finish with a season-high 18 points. No. 3 overall pick Teaira McCowan did not fare as well as Griner overpowered her in the paint repeatedly and limited the rookie to two points on 1-of-7 shooting in 18 minutes.
Point guard Erica Wheeler, who looks to be one of the league's most improved players with averages of 13.2 points and 6.8 assists, will try to bounce back after being held to eight and five Sunday.
Seattle (3-3) kicked off a four-game road swing Sunday with its second defeat in as many visits to Chicago, losing 78-71. Natasha Howard and Jewell Loyd scored 20 points apiece for the Storm, who shot 3 of 18 from 3-point range and never led.
The Storm, who have played four of their six games on the road, have yet to find much consistency as they have alternated wins and losses thus far. Howard and Loyd are doing their best to shoulder the burden created by the absences of injured stars Breanna Stewart and Sue Bird - Howard is averaging team highs of 18.5 points and 9.2 rebounds, and Loyd is scoring 16.0 points per contest.
Stewart is expected to miss the season following a torn Achilles suffered playing overseas, and Bird is sidelined indefinitely after undergoing knee surgery. Storm coach Dan Hughes is on a leave of absence following surgery last month to treat an undisclosed form of cancer.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin did not specify where exactly the Zircon hypersonic missiles are going to be targeted in the event medium-range and shorter-range missiles are deployed near Russian borders.
Putin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted to reporters that Putin did not mention any geographical location of possible targets in his recent Address to the Federal Assembly.
Peskov's comment came in response to recent reports about Russia's intention to target its Zircon missiles at five military centers in the United States. In case of threat from Washington, Moscow would aim its missiles at three centers on the East Coast: the Pentagon building in Washington, and two government control centers in Camp-David and in Fort Ritchie in Maryland.
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The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows.. here.
It’s worth republishing this old story on how Google and the government become Big Brother.. not so far fetched today.
Scroogled by Cory Doctorow
October 2007 issue of Radar magazine
Greg landed at San Francisco International Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he’d made it to the front of the customs line, it was after midnight. He’d emerged from first class, brown as a nut, unshaven, and loose-limbed after a month on the beach in Cabo (scuba diving three days a week, seducing French college girls the rest of the time). When he’d left the city a month before, he’d been a stoop-shouldered, potbellied wreck. Now he was a bronze god, drawing admiring glances from the stews at the front of the cabin.
Four hours later in the customs line, he’d slid from god back to man. His slight buzz had worn off, sweat ran down the crack of his ass, and his shoulders and neck were so tense his upper back felt like a tennis racket. The batteries on his iPod had long since died, leaving him with nothing to do except eavesdrop on the middle-age couple ahead of him.
“The marvels of modern technology,” said the woman, shrugging at a nearby sign: Immigration — Powered by Google.
“I thought that didn’t start until next month?” The man was alternately wearing and holding a large sombrero.
Googling at the border. Christ. Greg had vested out of Google six months before, cashing in his options and “taking some me time” — which turned out to be less rewarding than he’d expected. What he mostly did over the five months that followed was fix his friends’ PCs, watch daytime TV, and gain 10 pounds, which he blamed on being at home instead of in the Googleplex, with its well-appointed 24-hour gym. He should have seen it coming, of course. The U.S. government had lavished $15 billion on a program to fingerprint and photograph visitors at the border, and hadn’t caught a single terrorist. Clearly, the public sector was not equipped to Do Search Right.
The DHS officer had bags under his eyes and squinted at his screen, prodding at his keyboard with sausage fingers. No wonder it was taking four hours to get out of the god damned airport.
“Evening,” Greg said, handing the man his sweaty passport. The officer grunted and swiped it, then stared at his screen, tapping. A lot. He had a little bit of dried food at the corner of his mouth and his tongue crept out and licked at it.
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KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Meet Florence (not her real name). A couple of weeks ago Florence was scheduled to have day surgery. She went to the hospital on the day of the appointment, accompanied by Lori (also not her real name), who was there to make sure Florence got home safely after the surgery.
However, the surgery was cancelled!
While Florence and Lori were sitting in the OR waiting area at the hospital, and this was by the way after Florence registered and got admitted out front to have her surgery, two of the OR staff and the surgeon came out and told Florence “that we need to talk to you.”
Florence at that point got informed that “Lori cannot be the the person accompanying you home,” and the reason they gave her for that was that “Lori’s disability requiring her to use that walking stick has us concerned about your safety of you going home.”
“Under that circumstance we have no choice but to cancel your surgery for today,” they said. “If we have reason to believe that you are not safe going home with the person who is with you then we have the right to cancel the surgery.”
So at that point they both walked out of the hospital mad. Lori felt she was discriminated against.
When Florence got home from the hospital on that day, the first thing she did was that she called her MLA and told them the situation. She explained everything and left nothing out while talking to the constituency assistant at her MLA office.
Very unfortunately the MLA office talking to the hospital staff and supervisors ended up going nowhere.
After the MLA office made a couple of calls to the hospital, Florence ended up getting a phone call from a hospital patient rep. The way Florence described it the patient rep spoke to her in a raised voice and had little interest in listening or resolving things.
As I have mentioned in some of my earlier stories we all know that the Nova Scotia Health Authority has a policy saying “when you go into the hospital for day surgery, you have to have someone with you to accompany you home after surgery.”
And that policy also says “you as the patient are responsible for making those arrangements yourself.”
In Florence’s case, Lori is the only friend she has in her community. The story behind how Lori and Florence became friends is that they first met by standing in line at the food bank, then later when they met again in the laundry room they found out they live in the same apartment building.
Both of them do go to the drop-ins and soup kitchens. However they are not friends with people they see at these places.
So now Florence is worried about how she is going to meet someone who is going to accompany her home on the day of surgery. Like many income assistance recipients her relationship with her family is not on best terms. The only social contacts she has in her community are people she sees at the food bank, soup kitchens and drop-ins. She is not friends with those people outside of these places.
It turned out at this point that I as the writer of this story ended up helping Florence find a solution to her problem.
I remembered this story I had written for the Nova Scotia Advocate: Let’s find a solution for people living in poverty when they need day surgery.
And also that when I wrote an entirely different story, Making the best of life without much money, about Jenny and her friends, Jenny mentioned to me that “If I ever through my work of advocating for people on income assistance meet someone who is in need of a person to accompany home from surgery they would look at volunteering to do it.”
So I ended up contacting Jenny and her friends and they volunteered to do it!
Florence recently had the chance to meet with them and Florence agreed to let them volunteer to accompany her home after she got to know them a bit.
Kendall Worth is an award-winning anti-poverty activist who lives with disabilities and tries to make ends meet on income assistance.
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Steve Walter is the founder of Nitro K-9. His training philosophy, which is based on European dog training underpinned by the concept of yin and yang, is the result of many years of working with dogs and refining multiple techniques from many different training systems.
Steve started training dogs in his teens, using traditional military techniques. In the early 90s, when reward-based training started becoming popular, he worked with dogs using both edible rewards and clicker/marker training. However, he quickly noticed that the results were erratic, and that there was an increase in unreliable and sometimes aggressive behavior.
At the time, he was also getting involved with many of the European dog clubs, including French Ring, Schutzhund, Mondio Ring, and K.N.P.V. While food was used in training, he noticed that it was totally different in application and response. None of the dogs had aggression issues (and these were dogs that were trained to bite). They didn’t jump on people or pull on the leash. And as he trained his oldest dog Isaiah in French Ring, he started seeing a real difference; there was a new desire to please, a new confidence … and a much greater bond.
Steve wanted to bring these professional results to his clients—everyday people with household dogs. He started exploring different training systems used both in the U.S., and in Europe, working together with many different dog trainers, and has taken the best parts of multiple systems. The result is a comprehensive training program that uses non-cruel and humane methods that result in bonding, mutual respect, and stellar (not to mention reliable) behavior.
Over the years, Steve has trained thousands of dogs (and their owners) using the Nitro Dog training system. He has rehabilitated hundreds of “red zone” dogs and hundreds more that food and clicker methods have failed. Nitro K-9 training is also successfully used for advanced training, whether sports, protection or scent work—not to mention regular dogs that just need better obedience training.
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Matt’s passion for working with dogs started with the adoption of his Pit Bull, Steele. In 2011, Matt and his girlfriend brought Steele to Steve to help with some serious behavioral issues. Knowing the reputation of the dog breed, Matt took his responsibility to Steele very seriously. Eight years after Steele’s initial training, Matt’s dedication to working with bully breeds has grown. Matt completed a year-long, full-time, intensive apprenticeship and is now a full-time trainer for Nitro K-9. He was promoted to a managerial position in 2018. Matt also decoys and Steve is currently training Matt to work with search dogs. In his spare time, you will find Matt and Steele camping and exploring the Pacific Northwest in his jeep.
Stephanie found her calling for training animals early in life and has spent most of her life following this passion. At the early age of eight, she started taking horseback riding lessons. As her experience and confidence with horses grew, she became a professional horse trainer and riding instructor. Inspired by the training Steve provided for her dogs, her interest and knowledge of training horses bridged over into the dog world. Stephanie found that while horses and dogs are very different in their nature, the Nitro K-9 training system and mindset was similar – as food, toys, and clickers are not found in the horse world.
Working as a dog trainer at Nitro K-9 has helped Stephanie gain the knowledge to help dogs and humans work together successfully. She feels a great sense of accomplishment and joy as the dogs become calmer and more confident due to their training. She believes a trained dog is a happy dog (and a happy owner!).
Kristy Mae has worked closely with animals, both exotic and domestic, for her entire life. Before becoming Steve’s apprentice in 2019, she served the local community as a veterinary nurse for nearly 9.5 years. Her dogs Thorance, (a Yakima street rescue) and Bebop, the Dobbie, served alongside her at the hospital when needed. They even donated blood! Today Bebop helps Kristy Mae with training Nitro K-9 dogs in Private and Hands-Off sessions. Kristy Mae delights in seeing how the training she provides deepens the bond between a dog and their handler. She looks forward to continuing to master her skills and knowledge as a trainer under Nitro’s vision!
Micah has always had a passion for dogs, especially working dogs. Through his ten-year career managing security teams and working closely with law enforcement agencies, an appreciation for police, military, and personal protection dogs was born. That appreciation quickly grew into a passion for training protection dogs. In 2019, Micah received his certification in Dog Cognition and Emotion from Duke University and a certification in Animal Behavior and Welfare from the University of Edinburgh. Micah recognized that despite his new education, he needed to have hands-on experience with a knowledgable trainer. Micah was impressed with Steve’s work and began his apprentice program. He’s found that working with Nitro K9 allows him the opportunity to combine his knowledge from working security with the world of protection dogs. Reading and studying how to continue growing his craft is a priority. Outside of dog training, Micah enjoys coaching his kid’s sports teams and can be found in the great outdoors, hiking and camping with his family and dogs.


DDoS attacks have for the last two decades been among the greatest threats facing the internet infrastructure. Mitigating DDoS attacks is a particularly challenging task. It is known that ordinary signature based detection techniques are inefficient in undermining DDoS attacks as this type of attacks has the ability to mask itself among legitimate traffic. In this thesis, we present an paradigm for countering DDoS attacks at the targeted victim by using elements from data mining and machine learning. Two novel methods that focus on identifying hidden data structures in historical traffic are proposed, to differentiate legitimate traffic from abnormal traffic. In the first method, we resort to data mining techniques to find association rules which are able to describe the part of traffic that has higher likelihood of re-occurring. As a data structure for storing those data driven rules, we employ a binary tree structure. The second method builds on previously uncharted areas within mitigation techniques, where clustering techniques are used to create geographical clusters. In order to summarize the clustering information for real-life traffic filtering scenarios, we use the concept of bloom filters. The results show that these mitigation approaches improve the ability to separate between unknown abnormalities in the dataset and the legitimate traffic structure. Our proposed DDoS filtering schemes are able to mitigate 99\% of the botnet traffic and thus countering significantly the magnitude of those attacks.


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Unearthing the Past in Srebrenica
Thousands were killed in the war in Bosnia. Anna Holligan is at the ceremony where the remains found in the past year are buried
On July the 11th every year, the bodies of those who Sasa helped to identify over the past 12 months are re-buried in a Muslim service and Anna will witness the ceremony at the sprawling Potocari Cemetery and meet the families on a pilgrimage to honour the ones they loved and lost.
Anna Holligan has listened to the details of unspeakable terror as the BBC’s correspondent in The Hague and will travel to the scenes of Mladic’s crimes to meet the Muslim families still haunted by the war of 25 years ago and the massacre of thousands at Srebrenica.
Sasa was four years old when soldiers drove into his home town of Mostar – his family was a mix of Bosnian Muslim and Serbian Orthodox and the war ripped it apart. He is now a translator, and recently worked at the trial of Ratko Mladic.
Samir Chosić is shovelling earth, a job that stirs his own painful memories of fleeing for his life, as thirty-five freshly dug graves readied for fragments of bones to be laid to rest.
An estimated 12,000 people of all faiths, Muslims, Christians, Jews and others are still missing - feared slaughtered - right across this troubled Balkan territory.
As she travels around Bosnia-Herzegovina, Anna witnesses a country officially at peace, but more religiously divided than it was before the war.
Presented by Anna Holligan
Photo title: The 11th July memorial at Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina Credit: BBC
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A fisherman with a hook for a hand is an unlikely hero, but when pirate fish-men attack, he’ll make good use of that hook in Fish’s frantic shootouts.
Fish offers the usual array of handguns, shotguns, and chain guns to blast away the fishmen pirate enemies, but players will also have access to the hook that’s attached to their arms. Players can use this to shove enemies back, or also grab onto them and pull themselves toward their enemies, dragging them into shotgun range or letting players quickly pull themselves to safety. Players can also use this hook to grab onto the environment, pulling themselves into a better fighting position.
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Reports of S-badged diesel models that aren’t crossovers or SUVs have actually been around the Web because method back in 2011, with the most current report released in the second half of 2017. While all of them up until now have actually described the S6 and S7 duo, the report mill now shows the S5 household will be getting the TDI treatment in the foreseeable future.
2021 Audi S5 Design
Audi’s stylish S5 coupe will come in for a facelift. The changes become part of a mid-cycle upgrade for the whole A5 range and associated A4.
Evaluating by these pictures of a model, the changes will consist of subtle tweaks to the front and rear fascias along with new internals for the lights at both ends. We can likewise see that the front grille is broader and lower than on the present S5.
Search for the very same tweaks to appear on upgraded versions of the S5 Sportback and S5 Cabriolet. Comparable changes must likewise filter throughout to the routine A5 and high-performance RS 5.
There’s no shot of the cabin however within, the control panel might be upgraded so that the infotainment screen is incorporated within the center stack rather of added to the top of the dash like in the existing S5. We may likewise see the controls for the environment settings change from physical knobs to a touchscreen user interface like in the current A6, though physical controls might stay if Audi opts for a style comparable to the one utilized in the A1.
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If we were to think a report released today by France’s Automobile Magazine, the S5 Coupe, Cabriolet, and Sportback are going to obtain the extremely exact same energized 3.0-liter V6 engine from the just recently released SQ5 TDI. As you might remember, the diesel-fueled efficiency crossover provides 342 horse power and a sufficient 516 pound-feet (700 Newton-meters) of torque. Thanks to a moderate hybrid system adjusted from the SQ7 diesel beast, turbo lag should not be a problem at all.
Why would Audi set up a diesel motor in the S5 models? The exact same report goes on to discuss it relates to the company’s desire to lower CO2 emissions throughout the range. Nevertheless, it comes as rather of a surprise that a brand name from the Volkswagen Group is wanting to introduce a diesel version of a cars. The trio would sign up with models such as the VW Golf GTD and the TDI-powered Skoda Octavia RS in the corporation’s go-faster diesel portfolio of models that aren’t crossovers/SUVs.
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While the report does not point out when the 3 S5 diesels are due, we’re not anticipating them prior to the model lineup’s mid-cycle facelift. Spy shots have actually revealed the routine A5 is getting ready for a nip and tuck, however the S5 will reach a later date, perhaps eventually in 2020 or 2021.
If the report is legitimate, it goes to reveal VAG isn’t rather made with diesels yet. After all, it was just a few days back when the Touareg V8 TDI was presented at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show as the really last V8 TDI-powered VW, although we may include it might effectively be the last V8 model of any kind from the VW core brand name.


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Their first single "All The Things She Said" peaked at number one in 19 countries including the UK, Russia and Australia. That year Katina released her first mainstream single "Never Forget", which in 2011 reached No.
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Katina is married to her long-time boyfriend “Sash Kuzma” (Sasha Kuzmanović). Following the success of the single, Katina released a string of tracks, before releasing her debut album “This Is Who I Am”on November 18, 2014. T.u., they released their debut studio album “200 Po Vstrechnoy” in 2001. Lena voiced the fairy Zarina in the Russian version of the Disney film The Pirate Fairy in 2014.

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Pinyin title: Yat Uk Lo Yau Gei
Temporary English title: "House of Spirits"
Producer: Fong Chun Chiu
Bobby Au Yeung, Nancy Wu, Joyce Tang, Koni Lui, Helena Law, etc. were in TVB City filming a Sales Presentation promotional clip for the new series "House of Spirits".
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Nancy plays a renovator who does plastering. She is a very manly girl, and also has to show off her muscles.
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A Nebraska woman who exchanged numerous phone calls with former Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy has resigned from her job.
The nonprofit "We Support Agriculture" announced Thursday that Michele Ehresman has stepped down as the group's executive director.
Her resignation comes less than a week after Sheehy resigned, following questions into his use of a state cell phone. An investigation by the Omaha World-Herald found that Sheehy called Ehresman and three other women frequently.
"We Support Agriculture" says the organization and Ehresman mutually agreed to end her contract. The group declined to comment further.
Ehresman did not return phone calls on Thursday. One of her phone numbers has been disconnected.
Five agriculture groups formed "We Support Agriculture" in 2011 to combat criticisms from animal rights groups.
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Case Study Research Design - How to conduct a Case Study
Experiments are done when an investigator can manipulate behavior directly, precisely and systematically. Exploratory or pilot case studies. Qualitative research through case studies.
The case study is preferred in examining contemporary events, but when the relevant behaviors can not be manipulated. E-mail address: Allen and saturated with evidence, its delivery is almost conversa- Unwin; Travers M. The primary methods used include: Case studies have a distinctive a level dt coursework help in evaluation research.
Note that he received strict training in psychology at MIT. Triangulation - quite useful for my research.
Design and How long is a 500 word written essay Fourth Edition is a must for all case como mandar un curriculum vitae por correo electronico researchers. Alternatively it may be chosen because of researchers' in-depth local knowledge; where researchers have this local knowledge they are in a position to "soak and poke" as Richard Fenno put it,  and thereby to offer reasoned lines of explanation based on this rich knowledge of setting and circumstances.
A research design is a logical plan for getting from here to there, where here may be defined as the initial set of questions to be answered and there is some set of conclusions answers about these questions.
Gary Thomas thus proposes a typology for the case study wherein purposes are first identified evaluative or exploratorythen approaches are delineated theory-testing, theory-building or illustrativethen processes are decided upon, with a principal choice being between whether the study is to be single or multiple, and choices also about whether the study is to be retrospective, snapshot or diachronic, and whether it is nested, parallel or sequential.
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These serve to aggregate information from several sites collected at different times. Another thing I took from the book is the usefulness of a pilot study.
Yin R. Teaching case studies have been a highly popular pedagogical format in many fields ranging from business education to science education.
Similarly, teaching case studies have become increasingly popular in science education. Yin offers a three-stage approach 4. A second concern is that they provide little basis for scientific generalization.
Case Study Research: design and methods.
Designing Case Studies The next task is to design your case study. To do so, Yin explains the overall approach study researchers, and is available internationally from Sage of the entire case research process diagrammatically. If the writing is based on empirical studies, it is more possible for the book be successful than those based mainly on explanation, theories, and book chapters without empirical studies.
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Hornady has data for their FTX, note the remark about case length, also that most loads are below what data for conventional 150's and 170's suggests. The FTX has more bullet below the waterline than standard 30-30 bullets... less case volume.
Hodgdon also published data on their sight that includes their LVR powder.
If hunting is a consideration there is a point where the advantage spitzers have on paper may only be on paper. ie at 200 yards the old FP at 1600fps will work but the spitzer at 1900 may not expand well. Except for the FTX, I'd consider Nosler 125's or 150's the max for reliable expansion downrange.


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The uncomfortable truth is that we are all, to some extent, enemies of social mobility. Far from acting as the great social leveller, the education system in the UK has been commandeered by the middle classes to retain their advantage.
In his recent book, co-authored with LSE economist Stephen Machin, Lee Elliot Major concludes that the dream of just doing better, let alone climbing the income ladder, is dying for young people today. The book calls for radical steps to address Britain’s low social mobility. Failure to do so, it warns, will lead to deeper societal divides and the prospect of social unrest.
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly authoritative and authoritarian, whereas Scandinavian parents tend to be more permissive. Why?
Love, money, and parenting investigates how economic forces and growing inequality shape how parents raise their children.
Through personal anecdotes and original research, the authors show that in countries with increasing economic inequality, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and success. Economics has transformed the hands-off parenting of the 1960s and ’70s into a frantic, overscheduled activity.
Growing inequality has also resulted in an increasing “parenting gap” between richer and poorer families, raising the disturbing prospect of diminished social mobility and fewer opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. In nations with less economic inequality, such as Sweden, the stakes are less high, and social mobility is not under threat.

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The importance of getting plans right to enable communities to thrive is an issue being considered across Scotland. Recognised through the public health priorities, the role of 'place' has arguably never been so important. In Glasgow's east end, Clyde Gateway, is currently halfway through a 20 year programme, which has a vision to address long-standing inequalities. Campbell Hart has more in this short report.
If you're interested in finding out more about the issues raised in our short film, check out the podcast below for a more in-depth look at Clyde Gateway:


Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) is a fusion welding process that involves the use of a continuously fed consumable wire electrode. The heat necessary to melt the metals is provided by the electrode, which creates an electric arc. The electrode wire employed in flux-cored arc welding is filled up with flux.
Though, the arc starts through the electrode to work. But, the welding process melts the flux filled in the electrode. Further, it protects the welded area from the atmosphere.
DCEP (direct current, electrode positive) is used in flux-cored arc welding.
Equipment Used In The Process
The power sources used in the process usually operate on 230 or 460 volts. Though, machines running on 200 to 575 volts are also present. Moreover, the power may work on a single or three-phase frequency of 50-60 hertz. Further, it is proven that the power sources used have a 100% duty cycle. Therefore, they can be used continuously in the process.
Wire Feed Motor
A wire feed motor used for imparting power to ease the movement of the electrode through the cable. Moreover, wire feed motor used in FCAW is constant in their speed. Further, the voltage power used is consistent.
Air And Water Cooled Guns Used In The Process
Air Cooled Guns
The surrounding air cools air-cooled welding guns, but a shielding gas when used provides a better cooling effect.
Water Cooled Guns
Water-cooled welding gun has ducts that help in the circulation of water around the contact tube and the nozzle. However, the guns which are suitable for the process are:
When above 500 Amp: Water-cooled gun is used
When below 500 Amp: Air-cooled gun is used
Shielding gas pieces of equipment used in shielding the flux-cored wires consist of a gas supply hose, a gas regulator, and control valve. Thus, protection is given to the welded area from gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide and the atmosphere.
The electrodes which are used in the process provide the filler metal to the weld puddle.
Working Process Of Flux Cored Arc Welding
In the arc welding process, the arc provides the heat between a continuously fed electrode and the workpiece.
Further, the flux contained inside an electrode provides shielding.
Two types of FCAW are:
Self-shielded FCAW is applying to outdoor conditions where there is a probability that the wind may take the shielding gas away.
Gas Shielded FCAW
The de-oxidation of the weld pool is in much smaller degree as in comparison to that in gas shielded FCAW.
Advantages Of Flux-Cored Arc Welding
In this process, less cleaning is required.
Moreover, a high deposition rate is involved.
Disadvantages Of Flux-Cored Arc Welding
However, it releases more smoke as compared to other processes like GMAW and SAW.
Further, the wire is expensive.
Also, it is essential that the slag is removed.
Applications Of Flux-Cored Arc Welding
FCAW is used in shipbuilding as this saves enormous cost.
Further, construction companies use this for welding.
I hope that this article was helpful to you all, and you got your required information.


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The United States has called on countries to authorize their United Nations peacekeeping troops to use force to protect civilians. The initiative has been backed by Rwanda and the Netherlands.
The United States on Wednesday threw its weight behind an initiative to give UN peacekeepers authority to use military force against armed groups to protect civilians in danger.
Twenty-nine countries, representing about a third of UN peacekeepers, have signed on to the so-called Kigali Principles, which US Ambassador Samantha Power told a high-level UN meeting would "make peacekeeping missions more effective, improve security and save lives."
"The Kigali Principles are designed to make sure that civilians are not abandoned by the international community again," Power said, recounting the failure of UN peacekeeping missions in Rwanda and Bosnia to prevent genocide in the 1990s.
The principles call for troop-contributing countries to give UN peacekeeping commanders authority to use force against "armed actors with clear hostile intent to harm civilians," without waiting for approval.
"If a commander has to wait hours and hours for guidance from capital, it may mean not being able to react in time to repel a fast-approaching attack on a nearby village," Power said.
The initiative was started by Rwanda, the Netherlands and United States last year.
"The blue flag needs to stand for protection and it doesn't always," Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders told the meeting in New York.
Dutch peacekeepers stood by as Serbs massacred Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. The failure to intervene has been a stain on the Dutch conscience ever since.
In 1994, Rwanda was abandoned by UN peacekeepers during the genocide that left 800,000 ethnic Hutus dead. Some 6,000 Rwandan troops now participate in UN peacekeeping missions.
The United States has a limited UN peacekeeping role but is the largest financial contributor to missions.
Only 29 countries accounting for about 40,000 troops have agreed to the principles, including large contributors like Bangladesh and Ethiopia.
India and Pakistan, two other major contributors, as well as three permanent Security Council members - Britain, France and Russia - have not signed on.
Power urged the UN to prioritize deploying peacekeeping forces from countries that have signed on to the Kigali Principles to missions with mandates to protect civilians in volatile environments.
Ninety-eight percent of all UN missions have a mandate to protect civilians, compared to zero some two decades ago.
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LEED works for all buildings anywhere, regardless of where they are in their life cycle. From hospitals to data centers, from historical buildings to those still in the design phase, there’s a LEED for every type of building project.


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Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus is the action packed sequel to Wolfenstein The New Order. Developed by MachineGames, and Published by Bethesda, it was released in 2017 for Xbox, PS4, and PC. Later coming to Switch in 2018.
*Disclaimer: This review contains spoilers, strong language, and possibly other offensive material. Please be warned before you read further!
The New Colossus picks up 5 months after the end of The New Order. The USA has become a shell of itself, and the Nazi regime is still in charge. DeathsHead is dead and General Frauz Engel is in charge. Billy Blazkowicz is now labelled a criminal, and is a monster. Kind of like the boogeymen. If you don’t be good, Terror-Billy will come and get you! So eat your vegetables and don’t talk back!
The story is just as good as it was in the first one. The action has been cranked up a notch, if that’s even possible, and the game is a constant fun time! The story runs as basic as any War Based FPS. Stop the bad guys, by messing up their facilities, and plans, and killing the general! Sure it sounds basic, but it’s written so well! Billy is at the end of his rope, and the whole game, he finds himself trying his ‘damndest’ to stop the Nazi before he succumbs to his injuries. He’s dark, he’s depressing, and he pushes away everyone he loves. You also learn more about his life when he grew up. It was hinted at in the first game, but never touched on. But my god is it touched on.
This game doesn’t shy away from dark subject matter either. Unless of course you’re in a country with heavy censorship. But considering it’s in a world where the Nazis and their perspective on blonde hair, blue eyes are the master race, there are a lot of slurs against certain ethnicities and religions. There’s even a stage when you’re in Roswell, New Mexico, and you see people walking around in KKK outfits, and having a laugh with their Nazi Overlords. The world truly does a truly good job at showing how the Nazis truly were, and would have possibly been! It felt oh so good to be able to take my biggest gun and blow them all to kingdom come let me tell you.
My only issue with it all though, was Billy never feels happy. The dark depressing killing machine really has no emotion. Which I get. He’s dying, the world is still a shithole, but damn! Everyone in the game is like “WOO! REVOLUTION! KILL THE NAZIS! WE’RE GONNA WIN!”. Then there’s Billy…the party pooper. When he talks, he mumbled, he talks in a low voice, when he stops a major Nazi operation it’s not a “I DID IT! FUCK YOU GUYS!”, it’s more of a “….Yay….I guess…” Though there are side quests in the game, where you go around killing commanders in the regime, I always wondered how you unlocked them. I only found out, AFTER I beat the main game. Then at that point I just shrugged my shoulders and went “meh. Too late now!”. So I never really saw how Billy felt when killing big leaders.
Now the gameplay is where it all comes down too. It’s fast, it’s frenetic, it’s amazing, and it has a touch of old school in it. It has the classic health and armour system in it, just like The New Order. So if you run low on health, you can’t just hide and wait for it to come back. You’re basically dead to rights. Though there are some perks you can unlock that do regenerate some of your health. These perks are acquired by doing certain actions in the game. Like stealth kills, or headshots, or even killing while dual wielding, and I dual wielded a lot! The game somehow feels like the old school action games, where you’re meant to hip fire or dual wield. Yes you can have one weapon and aim down sights, but that felt way too bouncy for me. As opposed to having a shotgun in one hand, and a machine gun in the other. Or maybe I just suck and aiming down sights is the way to go!
There’s also a sense of exploration in the game. At one point in the game, you unlock special traversal equipment. I won’t exactly say why, but it makes the game a bit more vertical! So depending what you select, you can crawl through vents, or even run through walls! You can possibly unlock all of the traversal tools if you find them in the side missions, but I never unlocked one of them to be able to see them all. Though they do help when you have to be stealthy to kill some officers so they don’t call in reinforcements! Though the stealth kind of sucked. If your pistol or your throwing axe never killed an enemy first try, the alarm will go off, and you’ll either have to restart if you want to be stealthy, or go in guns blazing! If you don’t kill the officer fast enough though, your guns will run dry quickly.
One of my favourite parts of the game though? In the Homebase of the game, which is kind of like the hub, you can find an arcade cabinet that has THE ENTIRETY of Wolfenstein 3D on it. With some asset swaps of course. So instead of Hitler’s face on the walls, it’s Billy’s. You kill all of the good people instead as the bosses. It was so fun to be able to run through it. It even plays like the original version. Though as I played through it, it became evident that I would’ve had a hell of a time without the internet. There were a few times I needed a guide to find a key to beat a level. But to have the opportunity to play the full game, is phenomenal!
The music is also heavy metal when you blaze through the army of the regime. The game also looks fantastic. I never truly noticed any terrible looking textures either. But the game did have a few issues where the game crashed. Whether it was because too much was going on or what. At one point I did a stealth kill, and as I started chopping the legs off the enemies, the game crashed.
- Great Writing
- Fun Gameplay
- Full Wolfenstein 3D Emulation
- Emotionless Main Character
- Frequent Crashing
- Annoying Stealth
Wolfenstein The New Colossus cranks up the dial on an already fun game. Between the well written story, the interesting world view, and the weapons that help you blow through your enemies, this game is worthwhile. Plus it has one of the most accessible versions of Wolfenstein 3D! So I’ll be picking up a copy for my shelf for that reason!
Game & Developer Information
Developer Website: MachineGames
Developer Socials: Twitter
Publisher Website: Bethesda
Publisher Socials: Twitter
PSN Store Links: €39.99 Germany / $39.99 North America
Trophy Information: 56. 1 / 3 / 5 / 42


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As the 3 major political parties begin to set their sights on the General Election, which is now less than 6 months away, apprenticeships are becoming one of the hot topics of the election build-up.
With the parties now jostling for pole position as their campaigns begin to build momentum, the subject of apprenticeships has cut through the noise and conflicting standpoints with a refreshing degree of consensus.
That consensus being, apprenticeships will play a crucial role in helping the next government drive the country’s emergence from economic recession, reduce youth unemployment and improve social mobility.
Setting out his stall, Ed Miliband pledged that a Labour government would see the number of young people starting apprenticeships equal those going to university by 2025. Miliband’s long term view for apprenticeships will also see their duration set to a minimum length of two years.
Sharing his own vision for apprenticeships, George Osborne used the Conservative conference to announce the creation of three million apprenticeships during the next parliament. To fund this increase, the Conservatives revealed plans to tighten benefit caps for under 21-year-olds through cutting housing benefits and withdrawing jobseekers allowance from those who don’t find work in six months.
In reference to these proposed cuts Prime Minster David Cameron said: “I want us effectively to abolish youth unemployment. I want us to end the idea that aged 18 you leave school, go and leave home, claim unemployment benefit and claim housing benefit. We should not be offering that choice to young people. We should be saying to people you should be earning or learning”.
Although the Liberal Democrats chose not to talk numbers when pledging their commitment to apprenticeships, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg did call for an increase in the minimum wage for apprentices from £2.73 to £3.79.
At NCFE, we firmly support the shift in focus towards apprenticeships so it’s encouraging to see that whichever way the election swings in May, the future looks positive for work based training and in turn, the future looks positive for young learners.
This being said, with a projected growth in the number of apprenticeships, the next government must work closely with both employers and educators to ensure the high standard of apprenticeship delivery is maintained. Quantity must not substitute quality.
We remain committed to providing the sector with high quality vocational qualifications and apprenticeships, and look forward to working with colleges and training providers to meet increased demands of the future industry needs.
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Breasts can be sore for any number of reasons, typically due to hormonal changes such as around ovulation, menstruation, or when you become pregnant. If you're in your teens breast tenderness may be due to breast growth, similarly if you're wearing a bra too small for you it can cause soreness.
sore groin ,groin muscle pain
my breast is sore and i eat a lot of spicy
When you have sore nipples, it means that your breasts are developing, or you are at puberty.
it mean sore throat
No it does not.
It is when your foot is sore.
Sore breasts could mean that you are pregnant, but it could mean other things, including your period approaching, or breast disease.
Sore of an cramp
They are growing!
something that hurts


The Lunenburg Pub & Bar hosts a WEEKLY Beerfest Battle of the Bands where EVERY THURSDAY local Ottawa bands compete for $500 in cash & prizes!!! (The winning band gets the lion's share of the pot, but ALL the bands collect winnings.) Winners are determined by FAN BALLOT, so c'mon out & support your favourite band,.. or simply come check out what's new & awesome in Ottawa's local music scene!
Admission is a toon + a loon, & BEERS ARE $2!!!
Bands interested in competing can send a link to their music -or a video- to firstname.lastname@example.org to apply.


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"Hi everyone, Jenna Browder reporting for The Brody File here in Raleigh, North Carolina, a state facing a number of contentious issues, from the "Bathroom Bill" to a public outcry over the police shooting of a black man. I spoke with Governor Pat McCrory who says he relies on his faith to cope with the anxiety and stress that come with his position ... "
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Ushuaia also falls in love in summer. An ideal destination for those seeking relaxation and a walk, during this time it offers a large number of activities for all tastes. This beautiful southern enclave combines options for adventure, entertainment and nature. And it will also give you a geography full of unmissable postcards. Its beautiful landscapes are located in the southernmost tourist point on the planet, which gives it the famous title “The End of the World”.
When we think of a mountain range, we usually associate travel experiences in the winter season: snow, high mountain sports and a lot of shelter. However, this wonderful city and its surroundings offer us an innumerable number of options to enjoy a well-deserved summer vacation. The days in summer are very long due to the many hours of daylight. For this reason, it is a favorable time to make the most of time and organize several tours in the same day.
Summer in the southernmost point: Ushuaia city
The city of Ushuaia has the peculiarity of offering coast and mountains, something unique in the entire Argentine territory. Its port is located on the famous Beagle Channel, a renowned interoceanic passage that joins the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. To the west is the Martial mountain chain, belonging to the Fuegian Andes. Its rugged landscape and picturesque architecture are the perfect setting for walks with your family, partner or friends. In a tour of its main avenue you can find an interesting and varied gastronomic offer, ideal to enjoy after a day of intense exhaustion in the various excursions available to experience. Famous for its color palette, its sky offers sunrises and sunsets that give days and nights beginnings and ends of exceptional beauty.
Tierra del Fuego National Park
The visit to the National Park is beautiful all year round, but in summer it has a special charm. Its more than 68 thousand hectares of protected area make up a space where nature is the protagonist. This reserve harmoniously combines the last section of the Andes mountain range with forests, lakes, valleys and rivers, offering horizons full of colors, fresh air and natural music. The encounter in turn with the marine spaces favors the proliferation of a large number of birds and mammals, which live in its interior and are usually sighted on the edges of the paths.
This excursion is one of the most visited attractions. It begins with the navigation through the mythical Beagle Channel, from where you can see a beautiful panoramic view of the city from the coast. As the boat moves away from the port, numerous archipelagos begin to be sighted, the famous Les Eclaireurs lighthouse – illuminators in French – until reaching the penguin colony: a colony of very friendly and sociable Magellanic penguins. Summer is a good season to appreciate them since it is the time when they nest, which makes them easier to spot.
These are just some of the many attractions that Ushuaia has and that can be enjoyed in summer.
We hope you visit us and discover them yourself!

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The District of Columbia Council passed the Fair Credit in Employment Amendment of 2016 on December 20, 2016, and has now been transmitted to Mayor Muriel Bowser for final approval. Mayor Bowser has until February 16, 2017 to either approve or veto the Act.
If enacted, D.C. employers will be prohibited from "directly or indirectly requiring, requesting, suggesting, or causing an employee or applicant to submit credit information, or inquiring about a current employee or prospective employee's credit information. If enacted, it would amend the D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977. If Mayor Bowser approves the Act, D.C. would join 11 states (including Maryland), as well as other localities, that have enacted similar laws which limit the use of credit checks in the hiring process.
However, there are certain circumstances that the Act will allow employers to inquire or obtain an applicant or employee's credit information:
- If the employer is required by existing law to ask for credit information.
- The employee is required to possess a security clearance under D.C. law.
- Where an employer requests or receives credit information in a lawful manner "Subpoena, court order"
- If the position involves "access to personal financial information".
Employers will be forced to pay a $1,000 fine for the first violation, $2,500 for the second violation, and $5,000 for each repeat violation.