PSG owners 'close in on Leeds United takeover' as boardroom talks continue
PSG owners Qatari Sports Investment are interested in taking control of Championship side Leeds and recent talks are thought to have becoming increasingly positive
by James Whaling, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/james-whaling/The owners of Paris Saint-Germain are reportedly closing in on a takeover of Leeds United.
Qatari Sports Investment (QSI) are interested in investing in the Championship side who are currently bidding for a first return to the Premier League since being relegated in 2004.
Discussions between the would-be investors and Leeds have been ongoing since before the summer and - while nothing is finalised - recent talks have been positive, report ESPN FC.
Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani also has interest from two other parties but his close relationship with PSG chief Nasser al-Khelaifi means QSI are in pole position to strike a deal.
An agreement is not thought to be imminent, with uncertainty over Brexit , the difficult situation at Al-Khelaifi-owned beIN Sport and the diplomatic landscape in Qatar all thought to be contributing factors to the delay.
Radrizzani is also keen to get the right deal for himself and Leeds having paid almost £40million for full control at Elland Road in May 2017.
QSI have reportedly been interested in getting involved in an English club for some time, considering a bid to take over Queens Park Rangers before deciding Leeds would be a better opportunity.
The worldwide appeal of the Premier League - where Leeds see themselves returning - and the astronomical TV revenue that comes with it make the Yorkshire club an attractive proposition.
Leeds and Qatar have already collaborated in a number of ways including a partnership with Doha's ultra-modern football academy Aspire where Whites youth teams travel for training and tournaments.
Leeds currently sit third in the Championship under boss Marcelo Bielsa, only out of the top two on goal difference and just two points adrift of table-topping West Brom.
They missed out on promotion to the top flight last term as faltering late-season form saw them slip into the playoffs where they were beaten by Derby over two legs in the semi-finals.


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Did you know that I spent five years volunteering with King County Search and Rescue? I searched for lost hikers, and helped to rescue injured ones. I made lasting friends, and got to explore amazing terrain in the Cascades. Play the game to find out more!
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- Hiking
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- Crossfit
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- Take a journey on a camel
- Live on a sailboat with my husband
- Swim in the middle of the ocean in the Pacific High
- Get certified to scuba dive
- Visit Berlin, where my grandpa grew up


Match Play. Red trails 4-5 to 7. How should Red play 61?
pips Red=193 White=139
(CorrectAnswer= 0/0, ErrorScore= 0)
21/14* is the wrong idea, leaving three checkers on the 24-pt. Much more logical is to try to make the 21-pt. Therefore, the ace should be played 6/5* to take a tempo.
Logic then says you should activate one of those three rear checkers and so the six is 24/18. 13/7, 6/5* is the second-best play but that is still an error. To use a well-known adage, “put them where you want them”.
Logic then says you should activate one of those three rear checkers and so the six is 24/18. 13/7, 6/5* is the second-best play but that is still an error. To use a well-known adage, “put them where you want them”.
1. Cubeful 2-ply 24/18 6/5* Eq.: -0.499 0.384 0.067 0.003 - 0.616 0.320 0.049 2. Cubeful 2-ply 13/7 6/5* Eq.: -0.528 (-0.029) 0.376 0.068 0.003 - 0.624 0.320 0.053 3. Cubeful 2-ply 21/14* Eq.: -0.540 (-0.041) 0.363 0.069 0.003 - 0.637 0.268 0.034 4. Cubeful 2-ply 21/15 6/5* Eq.: -0.560 (-0.061) 0.369 0.063 0.002 - 0.631 0.322 0.053 5. Cubeful 2-ply 24/23 13/7 Eq.: -0.619 (-0.121) 0.346 0.063 0.002 - 0.654 0.283 0.036


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Yawning in the early-morning grayness, Egwene pulled herself up onto her fog-colored mare, then had to handle her reins smartly as Mist frisked about. The animal had not been ridden in weeks. Aiel not only preferred their own legs, they avoided riding almost completely, though they did use packhorses and pack mules. Even if there had been enough wood to build wagons, the terrain in the Waste was not hospitable to wheels, as more than one peddler had learned to his or her sorrow.
She was not looking forward to the long journey west. The mountains hid the sun now, but the heat would grow by the hour once it climbed clear, and there would be no convenient tent to duck into at nightfall. She was not certain that Aiel garb was suitable for riding, either. The shawl, worn over her head, always did a surprisingly good job of keeping the sun off, but those bulky skirts would bare her legs to the thigh if she was not careful. Blisters worried her as much as modesty. The sun on one side, and . . . A month out of the saddle should not have softened her that much. She hoped it had not, or this would be a very long journey.
Once she had settled Mist down, Egwene found Amys looking at her, and shared a smile with the Wise One. All of that running the night before was not the reason she was still sleepy; if anything, it had helped her sleep even more soundly. She had found the other woman’s dreams last night, and in celebration they had sipped tea in the dream, in Cold Rocks Hold, early on an evening when children were playing among the crop-planted terraces and a pleasant breeze blew down the valley as the sun sank.
Of course, that would not have been enough to steal her rest, but she had been so exultant that when she left Amys’ dreams, she did not stop; she could not, not then, no matter what Amys would have said. There had been dreams all around, though with most she had no idea whose they were. With most, not all. Melaine had been dreaming of suckling a babe at her breast, and Bair of one of her dead husbands, both of them young and yellow-haired. She had been especially careful not to enter those; the Wise Ones would have known an intruder in an instant, and she shuddered to think of what they would have done before letting her go.
Rand’s dreams had been a challenge, of course, one she could not fail to face. Now that she could flit from dream to dream, how could she not try where the Wise Ones failed? Only, attempting to enter his dreams had been like running headlong into an invisible stone wall. She knew that his dreams lay on the other side, and she was sure she could find a way through, but there had been nothing to work on, nothing to pry at. A wall of nothing. It was a problem she meant to worry at until she solved it. Once she put her mind on something, she could be as persistent as a badger.
All around her gai’shain were bustling about, loading the Wise Ones’ camp onto mules. Before long, only an Aiel or someone just as skilled at tracking would be able to tell there had ever been tents on that patch of hard clay. The same activity covered the surrounding mountain slopes, and the hubbub extended into the city, as well. Not everyone would be going, but thousands would. Aiel thronged the streets, and Master Kadere’s train of wagons stood strung out across the great plaza, laden with Moiraine’s selections, the three white-painted water wagons at the end of the line like huge barrels on wheels behind twenty-mule teams. Kadere’s own wagon, at the head of the column, was a little white house on wheels, with steps at the back and a metal stovepipe sticking out of the flat roof. The thick, hawk-nosed merchant, all in ivory-colored silk today, swept off his incongruously battered hat as she rode past, his dark, tilted eyes not sharing in the wide smile he flashed at her.
She ignored him frostily. His dreams had been decidedly dark and unpleasant, where they were not lewd as well. He ought to have his head dunked in a cask of bluespine tea, she thought grimly.
Approaching the Roof of the Maidens, she threaded her way through scurrying gai’shain and patiently standing mules. To her surprise, one of those loading the Maidens’ things wore a black robe, not white. A woman, by the size of her, and staggering under the weight of a cord-tied bundle on her back. Bending as she guided Mist past, to get a look inside the woman’s cowl, Egwene saw Isendre’s haggard face, sweat already rolling down her cheeks.  If she was sweating so hard already, she would nearly die once the day’s heat took hold.
Still, Far Dareis Mai business was none of hers. Aviendha had told her so gently but firmly. Adelin and Enaila had been little short of rude about it, and a wiry, white-haired Maiden named Sulin had actually threatened to haul her back to the Wise Ones by her ear. Despite her efforts to persuade Aviendha to stop addressing her as “Aes Sedai,” it had been irritating to find that after walking a fine line of uncertainty toward her, the rest of the Maidens had come down on the side of her being just another pupil of the Wise Ones. Why, they would not even let her past the door of the Roof unless she claimed to be on an errand.
The quickness with which she heeled Mist on through the crowd had nothing to do with acceptance of Far Dareis Mai justice, or her uncomfortable awareness that some of the Maidens were eyeing her, no doubt ready to lecture if they thought she intended to interfere. It even had little to do with her dislike of Isendre. She did not want to think about her glimpse of the woman’s dreams, just before Cowinde had come to rouse her. They had been nightmares of torture, of things being done to the woman that sent Egwene fleeing in horror, and with something dark and evil laughing as it watched her run. No wonder Isendre looked haggard. Egwene had started up out of her sleep so quickly that Cowinde had jumped back from lying a hand on her shoulder.
Rand was in the street in front of the Maidens’ Roof, wearing a shoufa against the coming sun and a blue silk coat with enough gold embroidery to befit a palace, though it hung open halfway down the front.  He really was beginning to think a great deal of himself, that was clear. Standing beside Jeade’en, his dappled stallion, he was talking with the clan chiefs and some of the Aiel traders who would be staying in Rhuidean.
Jasin Natael, nearly at Rand’s heels, with his harp on his back and holding the reins of a saddled mule bought from Master Kadere, was even more elaborately dressed, with silver embroidery nearly hiding his black coat, and spills of white lace at his neck and cuffs. Even his boots were worked in silver where they turned down at the knee. The gleeman’s cloak with its patches did spoil the effect, but gleemen were odd folk.
The male traders wore the cadin’sor, and though their belt knives were smaller than those of warriors, Egwene knew they could all handle a spear if called to; they had something, if not all, of the deadly grace of their brothers who carried the spear. The women traders, in loose white algode blouses and full woolen skirts, head scarves and shawls, were more easily distinguishable. Except for Maidens and gai’shain—and Aviendha—Aiel women all wore multiple bracelets and necklaces of gold and ivory, silver and gemstones, some of Aiel make, some traded for, and some looted. Among Aiel traders, though, the women displayed twice as many, if not more.
She caught part of what Rand was telling the traders. “ . . . give the Ogier stonemasons a free hand on some of what they build, at least. On as much as you can make yourselves. There’s no point in just trying to remake the past.”
So he was having them send to the stedding for Ogier to rebuild Rhuidean. That was good. Much of Tar Valon was Ogier work, and where they were left to their own devices their buildings were enough to take the breath away.
 As usual, his high-collared green coat looked slept in. She had avoided his dreams. One of the Maidens, a very tall golden-haired woman, gave Mat a roguish grin that seemed to embarrass him. And well it should; she was much too old for him. Egwene sniffed. I know very well what he was dreaming about, thank you very much! She only reined in beside him to look around for Aviendha.
“He told her to be quiet, and she did,” he said as she halted Mist. He nodded toward Moiraine and Lan, she in pale blue silk, gripping the reins of her white mare, and he in his Warder’s cloak, holding his great black warhorse. Lan was watching Moiraine intently, expressionless as always, while she looked ready to burst with impatience as she glared at Rand. “She started telling him why this is the wrong thing to do—sounded to me like she was saying it for the hundredth time—and he said, ’I’ve decided, Moiraine. Stand over there and be quiet till I have time for you.’ Like he expected her to do as she was told. And she did. Is that steam coming out of her ears?”
  He gave her a wry, sidelong look, and chuckled again, which did nothing for her temper.
For a moment she stared at Moiraine, perplexed. The Aes Sedai had done as Rand told her? Without protest? That was like one of the Wise Ones obeying, or the sun rising at midnight. She had heard about the attack, of course; rumors about giant dogs that left footprints on stone had been all over this morning. She could not see what that could have to do with this, but aside from the news of the Shaido it was the only new thing she knew of, and not enough to produce this reaction. Nothing could produce it, that she could think of. Doubtless Moiraine would tell her it was none of her concern, but one way or another she would worry it out. She did not like not understanding things.
Spotting Aviendha, standing on the bottom step of the Roof, she guided Mist around to the other side of the crowd near Rand. The Aiel woman was staring at him as hard as the Aes Sedai did, but with absolutely no expression. She kept turning the ivory bracelet on her wrist over and over, apparently without realizing it. Somehow or other that bracelet was part of the difficulty the woman was having with him. Egwene did not understand; Aviendha refused to talk about it, and she could not just ask someone else, not when it might embarrass her friend. Her own flame-carved ivory bracelet was a gift from Aviendha, to seal them as near-sisters; her return gift had been the silver necklace the other woman wore, which Master Kadere claimed was a Kandori pattern called snowflakes. She had had to ask Moiraine for enough money, but it had seemed appropriate for a woman who would never see snow. Or would not have if she was not leaving the Waste; small chance that she could return before winter. Whatever that bracelet meant, Egwene was confident she could puzzle it out eventually.
“Are you all right?” she asked. As she leaned out of her high-cantled saddle, her skirts shifted till her legs showed, but she was concerned enough with her friend to hardly notice.
She had to repeat the question before Aviendha gave a start and stared up at her. “All right? Of course I am.”
“Let me speak to the Wise Ones, Aviendha. I’m sure I can convince them that they cannot just make you . . . ” She could not make herself say it, not out here where anyone in the crowd might hear.
“Does that still worry you?” Aviendha shifted her gray shawl and gave a small shake of her head. “Your customs are still very strange to me.” Her eyes drifted back to Rand like iron filings drawn to a lodestone.
“You do not have to be afraid of him.”
“I am not afraid of any man,” the other woman snapped, eyes flashing blue-green fire. “I want no trouble between us, Egwene, but you should not say such things.”
Egwene sighed. Friend or not, Aviendha was quite capable of trying to box her ears when offended enough. In any case, she was not sure she would have admitted it, either. Aviendha’s dream had been too painful to watch for long. Naked but for that ivory bracelet, and that seeming to drag at her as if it weighed a hundred pounds, Aviendha had been running as hard as she could across a cracked clay flat.
But you could not simply tell a friend that she was lying. Egwene’s face reddened slightly. Especially not when you would have to tell her how you knew. She would box my ears, then. I won’t do it again. Go rummaging about in people’s dreams. Not in Aviendha’s dreams, anyway. It was not right to spy on a friend’s dreams. Not that it was spying, exactly, but still . . .
The crowd around Rand was beginning to break up. He swung into his saddle easily, imitated promptly by Natael. One of the traders, a broad-faced, flame-haired woman wearing a small fortune in worked gold, cut gems and carved ivory, lingered, though. “Car’a’carn, do you mean to leave the Three-fold Land forever? You have spoken as if you will never return.”
The others stopped at that and turned back. Silence spread on an expanding ripple of murmurs telling what had been asked.
For a moment Rand was silent as well, looking around at the faces turned to him. At last he said, “I hope to return, but who can say what will happen? The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.” He hesitated, with every eye on him.
Abruptly a fountain near the Roof burst to life, water gushing from the mouths of incongruous porpoises standing on their tails. Beyond that, a statue of a young man with a horn raised to the sky suddenly was putting up a spreading fan, and then two stone women farther on were casting sprays of water from their hands. In stunned stillness the Aiel watched as all the fountains of Rhuidean flowed once more.
“I should have done that long since.” Rand’s mutter was no doubt meant for himself, but in the hush Egwene could hear him quite clearly. The splash of hundreds of fountains was the only other sound. Natael shrugged as if he had expected no less.
It was at Rand that Egwene stared, not the fountains. A man who could channel. Rand. He’s still Rand, despite everything. But each time she saw him do it was like learning that he could all over again. Growing up, she had been taught that only the Dark One was more to be feared than a man who could channel. Maybe Aviendha’s right to be afraid of him.
But when she looked down at Aviendha, open wonder shone on her face; so much water delighted the Aiel woman as the finest silk dress might have Egwene, or a garden full of flowers.
“It is time to march,” Rand announced, reining the dapple westward. “Anyone who isn’t ready will have to catch up.” Natael followed close behind on the mule. Why did Rand let such a bootlicker stay near him?
The clan chiefs immediately began passing orders, and the bustle increased tenfold. Maidens and Water Seekers darted ahead, and more Far Dareis Mai closed around Rand as a guard of honor, incidentally enclosing Natael. Aviendha strode beside Jeade’en, right at Rand’s stirrup, easily matching the stallion stride for stride even in her bulky skirts.
Falling in beside Mat, behind Rand and his escort, Egwene frowned. Her friend wore that look of grim determination again, as if she had to put her arm into a viper den. I have to do something to help her. Egwene did not give up on a problem once she had her teeth into it.
Settling herself in her saddle, Moiraine patted Aldieb’s arched neck with a gloved hand, but she did not immediately follow Rand. Hadnan Kadere was bringing his wagons up the street, driving the lead wagon himself. She should have made him tear that wagon down to carry cargo as she had the other like it; the man was frightened enough of her, of Aes Sedai, to have done it. The doorframe ter’angreal was lashed firmly in the wagon behind Kadere, canvas tied over it tightly so no one could fall through by accident again. A long line of Aiel—Seia Doon, Black Eyes—strode along on either side of the wagon train.
Kadere bowed to her from the driver’s seat, but her gaze swept on down to the line of wagons, all the way to the great square surrounding the forest of slim glass columns, already sparkling in the morning light. She would have taken everything in the plaza if she could, rather than the small fraction that would fit into the wagons. Some were too large. Like the three dull gray metal rings, each more than two paces across, standing on edge and joined at the middle. A braided leather rope had been strung around that one, to warn all from entering without the Wise Ones’ permission. Not that anyone was likely to, of course. Only the clan chiefs and the Wise Ones entered that square with any sense of ease; only the Wise Ones touched anything, and they with something approaching proper reticence.
For countless years the second test faced by an Aiel woman who wanted to be a Wise One had been to enter the array of glittering glass columns, seeing exactly what the men saw. More women survived it than men—Bair said it was because women were tougher, Amys that those too weak to survive were winnowed out before reaching that point—but it was not a certainty. Those who did survive were not marked. The Wise Ones claimed that only men needed visible signs; for a woman, to be alive was enough.
The first test, the first winnowing, before any training even, was to step through one of those three rings. Which one did not matter, or perhaps the choice was a matter of fate. That step seemingly took her through her life again and again, her future spread out before her, all of the possible futures based on every decision she might make for the rest of her life. Death was possible in those, too; some women could not face the future any more than others could face the past. All possible futures were too many for a mind to retain, of course. They jumbled together and faded away for the most part, but a woman gained a sense of things that would happen in her life, that must happen, that might happen. Usually even that was hidden until the moment was on her. Not always, though. Moiraine had been through those rings.
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair, she thought.
“I do not like seeing you like this,” Lan said. From Mandarb’s back and his own height, he looked down on her, disquiet creasing the corners of his eyes. For him that was near tears of frustration from another man.
Aiel streamed by on both sides of their horses, and gai’shain with pack animals. Moiraine was startled to realize that Kadere’s water wagons had already gone by; she had not realized she had been staring at the plaza for so long.
“Like what?” she asked, turning her mare to join the throng. Rand and his escort were already out of the city.
“Worried,” he said bluntly, no readable expression on that stone-carved face now. “Afraid. I’ve never seen you afraid, not when we had Trollocs and Myrddraal swarming over us, not even when you learned the Forsaken were loose and Sammael was sitting almost on top of us. Is the end coming?”
She gave a start, and immediately wished she had not. He was looking straight ahead over his stallion’s ears, but the man never missed anything. Sometimes she thought he could see a leaf fall behind his back. “Do you mean Tarmon Gai’don? A redbird in Seleisin knows as well as I. The Light send, not so long as any of the seals remain unbroken.” The pair she had were on one of Kadere’s wagons, too, each packed by itself in a cask stuffed with wool. A different wagon than the redstone doorframe; she had made sure of that.
“What else could I mean?” he asked slowly, still not looking at her, and making her wish she had bitten her tongue. “You have become—impatient. I can remember when you could wait weeks for one tiny scrap of information, one word, without twitching a finger, but now—” He did look at her then, a blue-eyed gaze that would have intimidated most women. And most men as well. “The oath you gave to the boy, Moiraine. Whatever under the Light possessed you?”
“He has been drawing further and further away from me, Lan, and I must be close to him. He needs whatever guidance I can give, and I will do everything short of sharing his bed to see that he gets it.” The rings had told her that that would be disaster. Not that she had ever considered it—the very idea still shocked her!—but in the rings it was something she would or could have considered in the future. It was a measure of her growing desperation, no doubt, and in the rings she had seen that it would bring ruination on everything. She wished she could remember how—there were keys to Rand al’Thor in anything she could learn about him—but only the simple fact of calamity remained in her mind.
“Perhaps it will help your humility grow, if he tells you to fetch his slippers and light his pipe.”
She stared at him. Could that be a joke? If so, it was not amusing. She had never found that humility served very well in any situation. Siuan claimed that growing up in the Sun Palace in Cairhien had put arrogance deeply into Moiraine’s bones, where she could not even see it—something she firmly denied—but for all that Siuan was a Tairen fisherman’s daughter, she could match any queen stare for stare, and to her arrogance meant opposition to her own plans.
If Lan was attempting jokes, however feeble and wrongheaded, he was changing. For nearly twenty years he had followed her, and saved her life more times than she cared to count, often at great risk to his own. Always he had accounted his life a small thing, valuable only for her need of it; some said he wooed death the way a bridegroom wooed his bride. She had never held his heart, and never felt jealousy toward the women who seemed to throw themselves at his feet. He had long claimed that he had no heart. But he had found one this past year, found it when a woman tied it on a string to hang around her neck.
He denied her, of course. Not his love for Nynaeve al’Meara, once a Wisdom in the Two Rivers and now an Accepted of the White Tower, but that he could ever have her. He had two things, he said, a sword that would not break and a war that could not end; he would never gift a bride with those. That, at least, Moiraine had taken care of, though he would not know how until it was done. If he did, he would very probably try to change matters, stubborn fool man that he could be.
“This arid land seems to have withered your own humility, al’Lan Mandragoran. I shall have to find some water to make it grow again.”
“My humility is honed to razor sharpness,” he told her dryly. “You never let it grow too dull.” Wetting a white scarf from his leather water bottle, he handed her the sodden cloth. She tied it around her temples without comment. The sun was beginning to rise above the mountains behind them, a searing ball of molten gold.
The thick column snaked up the barren side of Chaendaer, its tail still in Rhuidean when its head had crested the slope, then down onto rough, hilly flats dotted with rock spires and flat-topped buttes, some streaked with red or ocher through the gray or brown. The air was so clear that Moiraine could see for miles, even after they were down off Chaendaer. Great natural arches reared, and in every direction jagged mountains clawed at the sky. Dry gullies and hollows split a land sparsely dotted with low, thorny bushes and leafless spiny plants. The rare tree, gnarled and stunted, usually bore spines or thorns as well. The sun made it an oven. A hard land that had shaped a hard people. But Lan was not the only one changing, or being changed. She wished she could see what Rand would make of the Aiel in the end. There was a long journey ahead, for everyone.


In addition to bending my head back during my flight lesson, Alan Cooper always manages to bend my brain back, too. Here's a guy that invented drag-n-drop UI development umpteen years ago and he's been in the business ever since, mostly doing interaction design, but lately trying to tackle the problem of software management. His main thesis is that "web designers are called programmers, programmers are called engineers, engineers are called architects and architects are never called." He justifies this statement by comparing architecture to real-world architecture, which is very different from what the IT industry has co-opted the term mean.
For example, in the world of physical buildings, an architect meets with the clients to understand their needs and listens to their ideas. He then designs a building via a series of increasingly specific sessions with the clients to understand what they need and with engineers to understand what can be done. He uses these interactions to produce blueprints to hand off to the engineer. The engineer decides how to build the building, e.g. what materials to use, what to build or buy, what labor is needed, etc. Before we had mass-produced parts and giant spec books describing every material under the sun, this often required experimentation, which would also feed into the production of a more detailed set of plans to hand off to the construction workers, who do the actual building of the structure. While the structure is built, the engineer and the architect checks in to make sure that things are meeting their requirements and, in fact, it's the engineer's job to sign off when it does. Likewise, there are inspectors that check to make sure things are up to code at certain phases of the project.
In the world of software, we've got inspectors, they're called QA staff. We've got construction workers, they're called programmers.  We sometimes have architects, but we tend to rely on the combination of engineering and usability folks, most often skipping the usability and most of the contact with the customer altogether.
Alan's view of the world of software is that, because we don't have this very interactive role that really corresponds to the architect very often, non-technical management really has no idea what's going on in the software construction process. Instead, they have to rely on engineers and programmers to tell them things, when they feel like it, and those guys lie (or plain don't know). Likewise, because there is so little architecture, what comes out the other side is often not what the users want anyway.
In Alan's world, architects fill the role between engineers and customers and non-technical management, designing software that users want and communicating what's going on with management. Likewise, engineers design software to spec that works under stress; programmers build software that doesn't crash; QA checks to make sure that this all happens the way it should.
One of the benefits of Alan's view is that before engineering happens, architects figure out in a detailed and thorough way what needs building, handing complete specs to the engineers. Likewise, before programming happens, engineers run the experiments and make the technology and resource decisions before any code is written, passing off details specs to the programmers. These details specs also flow to the QA folks, which uses them along with their own quality standards to make sure that the software is right before it ships.
If this seems silly, think about an inspector signing off on a house before the foundation is poured, a construction worker pouring the concrete before the plans are done or the engineer deciding on the materials of a building before he knows if it's a house or a mall. Software is certainly more fluid than concrete, but it's not so fluid as we like to believe, as evidenced by the number of failed software projects and the cost overruns associated with them.
We think we're doing architect/engineer/programmer now, but Alan disagrees. What we have is software being hand-made by craftsman from the iron age, but reproduced like appliances from the industrial age. What we need is real engineering for the information age. Alan puts it nicely, "We're standing at the front edge of the information age with really sharp tools from the industrial age."
Of course, what Alan's talking about is the standard waterfall method of software design, which is what I learned in software engineering school. So why don't we do it? Because we don't like drawing up blueprints. We like to make the lights go blinky, blinky on the monitor. Building a shed in your backyard is quicker and easier without an architect or an engineer involved, but is that how you want your house built?
Another benefit of this model of architect/engineer/programmer is that it gives non-technical management much more visibility into and control of the process. You may not think so, but this is good. Right now, the only control they have over the process is the schedule. We say, "That'll take two years," and they say, "You've got four months." Why? Because they've been down the "two year" software process before and gotten burned ~100% of the time, whether the software ships late or it doesn't ship at all. At least if they say "four months," they've only lost 1/6th of the money when/if things go bad. If we want to take the giant hammer of schedule out of their hands, we've got to give them something else so that we have the time we know we need to build quality software that we can be proud of.
I don't know if Alan's right or not, but I sure want him to be. As an architect, I want the tools and the opportunity to design something that the customer will want (I've been down the other road before and it never ends well). As an engineer and as a programmer, I want to build something that will be loved and used when I'm done. Isn't that what we all want?


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--- title: "Primer" section: "movies" ---
Primer is another movie that is known for its accurate time travel mechanics; however, it is a different mechanism than time dilation. In the beginning of the movie, Aaron and Abe are building a machine which appears to warp gravitational fields. The warped gravitational field creates a closed timelike curve, which is a proposed method of traveling into the past. The restriction of only being able to travel back to when the machine was turned on agrees with the theory, as well as the trip to the past not being instantaneous. This theory of bending gravity to create a closed timelike loop is very similar to Ronald Mallett's theory involving circulating light beams.


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Functions
| path.isfile (P) | is this a file?. |
| path.getsize (P) | return size of a file. |
| path.exists (P) | does a path exist?. |
| path.getatime (P) | Return the time of last access as the number of seconds since the epoch. |
| path.getmtime (P) | Return the time of last modification |
| path.getctime (P) | Return the system's ctime. |
Functions
- path.isfile (P)
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is this a file?.
Parameters:
P
: A file path
- path.getsize (P)
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return size of a file.
Parameters:
P
: A file path
- path.exists (P)
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does a path exist?.
Parameters:
P
: A file path
Returns:
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the file path if it exists, nil otherwise
- path.getatime (P)
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Return the time of last access as the number of seconds since the epoch.
Parameters:
P
: A file path
- path.getmtime (P)
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Return the time of last modification
Parameters:
P
: A file path
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Return the system's ctime.
Parameters:
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Sala de Puerto Rico • Open 5pm–9pm Friday
Visit the Midway! Send exactly two players who love carnival food and games. Please plan to arrive anytime between 5pm and 6pm; if you really love the Midway, you’re welcome to stay as long as it’s open, or send other teammates back to play!
Character Breakfast {{"Completed" if completed[1] else ""}}
Lobdell • {{"11am Saturday" if events[1].team_time[team] == "late" else "9am Saturday"}}
Do you enjoy gluten, eggs, dairy and making a mess? Then you are invited to attend the Character Breakfast! Send exactly two players to your reserved seating. Safety note: please do not send players who have had a contagious illness in the last 3 days.
Build-a-Wand Workshop {{"Completed" if completed[2] else ""}}
Twenty Chimneys • 1pm Saturday
Come along for your chance to build your very own magic wand and bring it home with you! You’ll have many styles and resources to choose from, but finding a combination that’s worth it might be a challenge. Send exactly two players who are ready to haggle.
Robot Parade {{"Completed" if completed[3] else ""}}
Infinite Corridor and Lobby 7 • 4pm Saturday
A few lucky park guests will make robot costumes and march in this fun parade down the Infinite Corridor. Come cheer them on and enjoy their robot antics! The parade is best viewed from Lobby 7, but is visible from parts of the Infinite Corridor as well. Safety note: viewers should not sit or block public walkways, please stand along the walls only.
Fireworks Show {{"Completed" if completed[4] else ""}}
Outside, between 56 and 66 • 7pm Saturday
Please bring headphones/earbuds — our silent fireworks display goes great with pop music that you provide! And best of all, you don’t have to go outside if it’s too cold. You can also stand at windows in the halls connecting building 56 and 66 to view this nighttime spectacle! Attending every event in Penny Park is something special, so don’t miss out! Safety note: viewers should not sit or block public walkways, please stand along the walls only.
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Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Surface Earbuds
by David RichardsMicrosoft has pulled the plug on their new Surface Earbuds which were due to be launched pre-Christmas.
The Company that were looking to take Apple head on are now looking at the second quarter of 2020, no explanation has been given for the decision to delay the roll out.
According to Bloomberg Microsoft is the latest company to stumble in a race to catch up with Apple’s popular AirPods which is now facing competition from cheap knock offs that are selling for as low as $59.
The announcement of a delay was made by Panos Panay, the company’s chief product officer, on Twitter.
Set to be priced at more than $400 in Australia the Surface Earbuds are priced the same as Apple’s new $399 AirPods Pro, but the delay means Microsoft will be missing out on a key category this holiday season.
Google has also been working to upgrade its wireless earbuds.
That product will also be missing this holiday season. The company is aiming for a release in the spring at a price of $249.


In the previous Tutorial we already saw how to get started with node Js. We also created basic web apis in Node Js using express framework.
Here we are going to see how to connect to MySql database using Sequlize. We will create a web api for a book library. So a user will be able to fetch, add, update and delete books. Again we will be using postman for testing our apis.
Software needed
Install MySQL from official website according to your platform(win/mac/linux). It is recommended that you use some Integrated Development Environment so that it easy to read and interpret code. Throughout these courses we will be using sublime which is a cool IDE.
 We will be continuing with the previous tutorial example. It is strongly encouraged that you watch previous tutorial before continuing.
"dev": {
"driver": "mysql",
"user": "user of database",
"database": "your database name",
"password": "your database password"
}
npm install sequelize npm install body-parser npm install mysql
var express = require('express'); var Sequelize = require('sequelize'); var config = require('./config.json'); var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); var password = config.password ? config.password : null; var sequelize = new Sequelize( config.database, config.user, config.password, { logging: console.log, define: { timestamps: false } } );
var app = express(); var port = 3000; var router = express.Router(); // will help in adding routes app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded()); app.use(bodyParser.json());Now we will define a model for our book library. We will keep only 2 fields for books i.e. bookName and bookPrice.
var bookModel = sequelize.define('books', { //define your model "bookName": Sequelize.INTEGER, "bookPrice": Sequelize.INTEGER });
app.use('/api', router); //this will add routing to your api. //your api endpoint localhost:3000/api/books router.get('/books', function(req, res) { bookModel.findAll(). then(function(books) { res.status(200).json(books); }, function(error) { res.status(500).send(error); }); }); app.listen(port, function() { }); console.log('my api is running on port:' + port);
Node server.js
http://localhost:3000/api/booksSelect GET request and click SEND. In response if you see status 200 then it show everything is working properly. You will not see any data because we don’t have any data stored in our table.
router.get('/book/:id', function(req, res) { bookModel.findAll({ where: { id: req.params.id } }). then(function(books) { res.status(200).json(books); }, function(error) { res.status(500).send(error); }); });
router.post('/book', function(req, res) { console.log(req.body); var data = { "bookName": req.body.bookName, "bookPrice": req.body.bookPrice }; bookModel.create(data). then(function(books) { res.status(200).json(books); }, function(error) { res.status(500).send(error); }); });
router.put('/book/:id', function(req, res) { var data = { id: req.params.id, bookName: req.body.bookName, bookPrice: req.body.bookPrice }; bookModel.update(data, { where: { id: data.id } }). then(function(book) { res.status(200).json(book); }, function(error) { res.status(500).send(error); }); });
router.delete('/book/:id', function(req, res) { var data = { id: req.params.id }; bookModel.destroy({ where: { id: data.id } }). then(function(book) { res.status(200).json(book); }, function(error) { res.status(500).send(error); }); });


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Dear Users,
the package CentOS ca-certificates
needs to be manually updated in order to restore data upload from HTTPS sources.
Currently, the upload module will display the following error if data are uploaded through HTTPS link:
Unable to fetch https://data-url
urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:618)
To update the package login on your instance through SSH and type:
sudo yum update -y ca-certificates
After the package update Galaxy will import dataset correctly. Please contact us if you need help.
New Galaxy instanes will be automatically updated.
The Laniakea team.


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The Ministry of Health in Iraq has confirmed the country’s first case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case occurred in a 15-year-old girl who died on 17 January following a severe respiratory illness. Her symptoms were compatible with a diagnosis of H5N1 avian influenza.
Preliminary laboratory confirmation was provided by a US Naval Medical Research Unit located in Cairo, Egypt.
The girl’s 39-year-old uncle, who cared for her during her illness, developed symptoms on 24 January and died of a severe respiratory disease on 27 January.
Both patients resided in the town of Raniya near Sulaimaniyah in the northern part of the country, close to the border with Turkey. Poultry deaths were recently reported in their neighbourhood, but H5N1 avian influenza has not yet been confirmed in birds in any part of the country. Poultry samples have been sent for testing at an external laboratory.
A history of exposure to diseased birds has been found for the girl. The uncle’s source of infection is under investigation.
The Ministry of Health has further informed WHO of a third human case of respiratory illness that is under investigation for possible H5N1 infection. The patient is a 54-year-old woman, from the same area, who was hospitalized on 18 January.
Specimens are on their way to a WHO collaborating laboratory in the United Kingdom for diagnostic confirmation and further analysis.
An international team, including representatives of other UN agencies, is being assembled to assist the Ministry of Health in its investigation of the situation and its planning of an appropriate public health response. WHO staff within Iraq have been directly supporting the government’s operational response, which was launched shortly after the girl’s death.
Iraq is the seventh country to report human H5N1 infection in the current outbreak. The first human case occurred in Viet Nam in December 2003.


Provides tracing services through a set of TraceTargets.
Default constructor
public Void LogTarget()
The message category that this log target writes message for.
public String Category { get; set; }
A collection of ITraceTargets to write logs to.
public IList<ITraceTarget> TraceTargets { get; set; }
Checks whether other is equals to this object.
public Boolean Equals(other)
true if the objects are equals, otherwise false.
| Name | Type | Summary |
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| other | LogTarget | Another LogTarget to check. |
Checks whether obj is equals to this object.
public Boolean Equals(obj)
true if the objects are equals, otherwise false.
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| obj | Object | Another Object to check. |
Not required, implemented to avoid warnings.
public Int32 GetHashCode()
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Dismissed cop sent to Ikoyi Prison for murder of Lagosian
by The Eagle OnlineA dismissed Inspector of Police, Ogunyemi Olalekan, was on Tuesday at an Ikeja High Court remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons after his arraignment for the alleged murder of Kolade Johnson, a 35-year-old man, at a viewing center in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Olalekan, 45, during his arraignment pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder.
Following his plea, Yhaqub Oshoala, Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution, requested that Olalekan, who has been incarcerated at the Ikoyi Prison since his arrest, continue to be remanded at the facility.
“We ask that the defendant continue to be detained in prison custody before the trial date. Our witnesses are available and we are ready to commence,” Oshoala told the court.
Before adjourning the case, the presiding judge, Justice A. J. Coker, told Ike Ezekwen, the defence counsel, to explain to Olalekan the option of a bargain agreement before the trial commences.
Coker said: “This case is adjourned to January 15, 2020 for trial.
“The defendant is further remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Facility.
“The prosecution team is enjoined to bring their witnesses to court.”
According to the prosecution, Olalekan, working with Special Anti-Cultism Squad, committed the offence at 5:10pm on March 31 at Onipetesi Estate, Mangoro area of Lagos.
Oshoala said: “The former Police Inspector unlawfully killed Johnson by shooting him with a AK47 rifle in the lower abdomen.
“The offence contravenes Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.”
NAN reports that Section 223 prescribes death sentence for anyone convicted of the offence of murder.
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Built using OpenCV,an open source computer vision and machine learning software library,this project deals with the detection of any movement and the difference in two different frames.
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Password Manager Software
If you are currently using a password manager software like 1Password, LastPass, Roboform, or iCloud Keychain, you should pick an alternative here.
{%
include legacy/cardv2.html
title="Bitwarden - Cloud/Self-host"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/bitwarden.svg"
description="Bitwarden is a free and open-source password manager. It aims to solve password management problems for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Bitwarden is among the easiest and safest solutions to store all of your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices. If you don't want to use the Bitwarden cloud, you can easily host your own Bitwarden server."
website="https://bitwarden.com/"
privacy-policy="https://bitwarden.com/privacy/"
github="https://github.com/bitwarden"
web="https://vault.bitwarden.com/#/"
windows="https://bitwarden.com/#download"
linux="https://bitwarden.com/#download"
freebsd="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli"
openbsd="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli"
netbsd="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli"
mac="https://bitwarden.com/#download"
firefox="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bitwarden-password-manager/"
chrome="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitwarden-free-password-m/nngceckbapebfimnlniiiahkandclblb"
safari="https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.bitwarden.safari-LTZ2PFU5D6"
opera="https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/bitwarden-free-password-manager/"
edge="https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P6KXL0SVNNL"
fdroid="https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdroid/"
googleplay="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.x8bit.bitwarden"
ios="https://itunes.apple.com/app/bitwarden-free-password-manager/id1137397744?mt=8"
%}
{%
include legacy/cardv2.html
title="KeePassXC - Local"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/keepassxc.svg"
description="KeePassXC is a community fork of KeePassX, a native cross-platform port of KeePass Password Safe, with the goal to extend and improve it with new features and bugfixes to provide a feature-rich, fully cross-platform and modern open-source password manager."
website="https://keepassxc.org/"
privacy-policy="https://keepassxc.org/privacy/"
github="https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc"
windows="https://keepassxc.org/download/#windows"
linux="https://keepassxc.org/download/#linux"
mac="https://keepassxc.org/download/#mac"
freebsd="https://www.freshports.org/security/keepassxc/"
openbsd="http://openports.se/security/keepassxc"
netbsd="http://pkgsrc.se/security/keepassxc"
fdroid="https://f-droid.org/packages/com.kunzisoft.keepass.libre/"
googleplay="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kunzisoft.keepass.free"
firefox="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keepassxc-browser"
chrome="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keepassxc-browser/oboonakemofpalcgghocfoadofidjkkk"
%}
{%
include legacy/cardv2.html
title="LessPass - Browser"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/lesspass.svg"
description="LessPass is a free and open-source password manager that generates unique passwords for websites, email accounts, or anything else based on a master password and information you know. No sync needed. Uses PBKDF2 and SHA-256. It's advised to use the browser addons for more security."
website="https://lesspass.com/"
privacy-policy="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lesspass/privacy/"
github="https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass"
windows="https://pypi.org/project/lesspass/"
mac="https://pypi.org/project/lesspass/"
linux="https://pypi.org/project/lesspass/"
freebsd="https://pypi.org/project/lesspass/"
firefox="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lesspass/"
chrome="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lesspass/lcmbpoclaodbgkbjafnkbbinogcbnjih"
fdroid="https://f-droid.org/packages/com.lesspass.android"
googleplay="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lesspass.android"
%}
Worth Mentioning
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Master Password - A password manager based on an ingenious password-generation algorithm that guarantees your passwords can never be lost. Its passwords aren't stored: they are generated on-demand from your name, the site, and your master password. No syncing, backups, or internet access needed.
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Psono - Free and open source password manager for teams with client side encryption and secure sharing of passwords, files, bookmarks, emails. All secrets are protected by a master password. Uses NACL Crypto, a combination of Curve25519, Salsa20 and Poly1305.
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Password Safe - Whether the answer is one or hundreds, Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted username/password list.
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Pass - Pass is a bare-bones password store that keeps passwords using gpg2 encrypted files inside a simple directory tree residing at
~/.password-store
. It has a simple terminal interface where the user can perform the usual actions, and it's functionality can be extended by plugins. It can also be used in scripts without having to input the actual password in plain text.


Main Concepts
Dependency Injection - DI Exceptions
As we told before, in order to inject a service into an other entity
( component / service / pipe ), Angular has to know
which types are required by this entity.
And we also told that, to do that, Angular looks for metadatada
associated to the given entity. Below is a transpiled component Cmp1
which depends on
the service Srv1
var Cmp1 = (function () {
function Cmp1( srv1 ) {
// Transpiled methods and attributes are there
// srv1 has to be injected
// ...
// ...
}
Cmp1 = __decorate([
core_1.Component({
selector: 'cmp1',
template '<p>I am CMP1 </p>'
}),
// These metadata tells angular which type has
// to be injected
__metadata('design:paramtypes', [srv1_1.Srv1])
], Cmp1);
return Cmp1;
})();


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How many minutes for preparation? {{recipe['preparationMinutes']}}
How many minutes for cooking? {{recipe['cookingMinutes']}}
How many likes has this recipe? {{recipe['aggregateLikes']}}
{% else %}
How many your ingridients? {{recipe['usedIngredientCount']}}
How many missed ingridients? {{recipe['missedIngredientCount']}}
How many likes has this recipe? {{recipe['likes']}}
{% endif %}


 And now you are wondering whether you need a secondary MX server for backups. Some would say that these days you actually don’t need a secondary MX server, because MTAs (mail transfer agent) queue mail if MX server is down. In addition a secondary MX server might be abused by spammers. But just for fun, let’s assume you want to have a backup MX server. And you are lucky enough to have a friend who also runs an MX server which he is willing to configure as your backup server.

DNS MX records
First make sure that DNS records are correct. You both need to set up DNS records to have secondary MX records point to each other:
mail.me.com A <IP_ADDRESS>
me.com MX 0 mail.me.com
me.com MX 10 mail.friend.com
mail.friend.com A <IP_ADDRESS>
friend.com MX 0 mail.friend.com
friend.com MX 10 mail.me.com
Postfix relay and transport
Postfix allows to set up mail relaying. It can be used to relay friend’s emails if a request
comes to mail.me.com
server which would happen if mail.friend.com
is down. In that case
Postfix queues a message and retries to relay it later to mail.friend.com
.
Just update postfix to allow mail relay to friend.com
with a proper transport (no MX lookup, see below).
Add following lines to /path/to/postfix/main.cf
:
relay_domains = friend.com
transport_maps = hash:/path/to/postfix/transport
Make sure that friend.com
is not listed in virtual_maps
and mydestination
.
You also need to overwrite default relay transport in /path/to/postfix/transport
to avoid DNS loops
(when primary MX server is not available and mail is relayed to a secondary MX which is the same host):
friend.com smtp:[mail.friend.com]
Brackets [] disable MX DNS lookup hence the mail for friend.com
is relayed to A record of mail.friend.com
.
Postfix queue
In this set up if mail.friend.com
is down then a secondary MX server, which is mail.me.com
, would be used.
Postfix on mailme.com
would try to relay mail, but since the destination host is down it would queue it for later delivery.
By default, postfix keeps such mail for 5 days, but it can be increased using option bounce_queue_lifetime = 10d
.


Deval Patrick: 'I wouldn't be in it if I didn't think I could win it'
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has expanded a 2020 Democratic field once thought to be contracting.
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He spoke on Thursday in Manchester, New Hampshire, with ABC News' Whit Johnson on his decision to announce.
Patrick, as it currently stands, won't be on the primary ballot in Arkansas or Alabama, but he still believes that he can win the party's nomination.
"I wouldn't be in it if I didn't think I could win it," Patrick told Johnson.
Patrick said he also believes he can be competitive in South Carolina, a state where former Vice President Joe Biden has a foothold.
"I think you know," he told ABC News, "the objective is to be competitive everywhere."
Patrick dismissed the notion that he was getting into the race late, saying, "From the voters' perspective, it's not so late."
He may turn out to be right. According to a CNN/University of New Hampshire poll, 61% of likely democratic New Hampshire primary voters said they might change their mind on supporting a candidate before the primary.
But that doesn't mean it's not an uphill climb.
"We have to do the work. We have to build the organization," Patrick said.
Prior to entering the race, Patrick consulted with those who've done so before. Johnson spoke with former President Barack Obama this week and told him, "I was close to a decision. Then when I had made one, I called him and said that we were going. And he's been great."
The former Massachusetts governor spent time with Obama last year as he considered a presidential run. Patrick said the former president gave him insights into his own campaign and addressed the potential strengths and weaknesses of Patrick's.
"He's equally encouraging and open to others who have thought about it and who have gotten in. And I appreciate it," Patrick said of Obama.
Patrick said he expects he can carve out his own path on a densely populated campaign trail.
He said he supports a public option in the Affordable Care Act and believes private insurance can play a role. The Bain Capital alum also said he's against a wealth tax.
"Wealth to me is not the problem. It's greed. And it's the way the system has been so skewed to favor the well-connected," he added.
Patrick, who's scheduled to attend the California Democratic Party's Presidential Forum on Friday and the Nevada Democratic Party's "First In The West" dinner on Sunday, won't appear on next week's debate stage -- and he may not see December's either. He didn't seem particularly worried.
"I'm not sure, having watched all the debates, that it's something to aspire to, as a practical matter," he told ABC News. "It's just that it hasn't really functioned as a way to inform people about what the candidates are about."


Chicago-based Web Developer at the Difference Engine. I completed Actualize this summer and am now diving deeper into Ruby on Rails, Javascript, React, and anything that catches my eye. I'm actively seeking new opportunities and cups of coffee.
The Difference Engine provides non-profit organizations tech solutions to help them achieve their goals.  My team is currently developing a web application for We'R'NextGeneration; an organization that inspires creativity and goal setting for children.
As a beekeeper, I wanted to design an app that would allow a beekeeper to easily track hive status, available food sources, and external/internal temperature. I want to create tools that help beekeepers collect and share data in the effort of stopping CCD. The app uses Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and C++ for a thermometer set into my personal hive.


Create:
Creating a launchd configuration file may seem daunting at first but it really is easier than one first imagines it to be. There are many settings that seem confusing but they are rarely used so one can safely ignore them until one knows more about them. Begin by using the assistant to create a few and look at how they (and the Apple-supplied ones) are built and you will soon get the hang of it.This is, however, not the place to include a full tutorial and guide on how to write a configuration file for launchd but I can recommend that you first take a look at the man-pages that are linked in the Help-menu and then there are links where you will find more information:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20050620071558293&query=launchd
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/all_about_launchd_items_and_how_to_make_one_yourself
http://data.scl.utah.edu/fmi/xsl/stream/details.xsl?-recid=200&a::v=EyaO944i72
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/some_launchd_recipes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.21/21.06/launchd/index.html
View:
When you open Lingon you see five tabs which corresponds to the five folders where launchd looks for configuration files. The folders are:My Agents - <your home folder>/Library/LaunchAgents
Users Agents - /Library/LaunchAgents
Users Daemons - /Library/LaunchDaemons
System Agents - /System/Library/LaunchAgents
System Daemons - /System/Library/LaunchDaemons
The difference between an Agent and a Daemon is that a Daemon runs when the system starts up (and generally runs as root) and an Agent runs when someone logs in.
For each tab you see the configuration files that exists therein and its values and whether it is loaded or not. You can see more values by choosing them under Columns in the View-menu. To see more details and to make changes you can double-click on it or choose Edit. Then you can set all values and you can also choose (under the Expert tab) to see and change the plist as a text-file. Unless you know exactly what you are doing you should not change any of the Apple-supplied configuration files and not load or unload them; nor should you generally place any configuration files in the System level.
The reason that you have to authenticate as an admin when you change tabs in the main window is to be able to see if the configuration file is loaded or not. If you don't authenticate, Lingon won't know if the configuration file is loaded and it just displays a question mark in the Loaded column. And when you save or load etc. a configuration file which is not in your home folder (i.e. everything except My Agents) you need to authenticate as an admin to be able to perform that action.
Actions:
Edit - Allows you see and edit the selected launchd configuration file in a sheet, both through a graphical interface and through a text editor.Load - This tells the system that this launchd configuration file should be active and run the script according to its settings. Lingon loads it with the -w flag which means it sets the Disabled setting to false, so that it loads automatically at the next startup; if you don't want this to happen hold Option when you choose Load.
Unload - This tells the system that this launchd configuration file should not be active. Lingon unloads it with the -w flag which means it sets the Disabled setting to true, so that it won't load automatically at the next startup; if you don't want this to happen hold Option when you choose Unload.
Reload - This is just a Unload followed by a Load. This can be convenient if you've changed something in the configuration file and now want the new settings to apply.
Start - If you've e.g. configured a launchd configuration file so that it will run once every month but now you want the job to run right now, you can use Start to do that.
Stop - This stops the running job but please note that if the settings are set to start it automatically it will start again.


Insurance companies sue government over Gatlinburg fire
by The Associated PressKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 40 insurance companies are suing the federal government over its handling of a 2016 Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 2,500 buildings in Sevier County.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the companies are seeking more than $450 million for claims they paid after high winds swept flames from a wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park into Gatlinburg and its surrounding areas.
Five lawsuits filed last week in federal court in Knoxville claim National Park Service officials violated their own policies by letting the blaze burn despite prolonged drought and predicted high winds. It says they also failed to monitor the fire or warn residents of the danger.
The park faces a separate lawsuit by victims of the fire.
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Information from: Knoxville News Sentinel, http://www.knoxnews.com
The Associated Press


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*Date of constitution (last amended): 20th August 2015*
### 1. Name
The name of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (“the CIO”) is
*Django Girls Foundation*
### 2. National location of principal office
The principal office of the CIO is in *England*.
### 3. Objects
The objects of the CIO are:
- To advance the education of the public in particular but not exclusively women in the subject of computer science by providing or assisting in the provision of programming workshops and educational material.
Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with [section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005] and [section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008]
### 4. Powers
The CIO has power to do anything which is calculated to further its objects or is conducive or incidental to doing so. In particular, the CIO has power to:
- buy, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any property and to maintain and equip it for use;
- sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the property belonging to the CIO. In exercising this power, the CIO must comply as appropriate with sections 117 and 119-123 of the Charities Act 2011;
- employ and remunerate such staff as are necessary for carrying out the work of the CIO. The CIO may employ or remunerate a charity trustee only to the extent that it is permitted to do so by clause 6 (Benefits and payments to charity trustees and connected persons) and provided it complies with the conditions of that clause;
- deposit or invest funds, employ a professional fund-manager, and arrange for the investments or other property of the CIO to be held in the name of a nominee, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the trustees of a trust are permitted to do by the Trustee Act 2000.
### 5. Application of income and property
1. The income and property of the CIO must be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects.
1. A charity trustee is entitled to be reimbursed from the property of the CIO or may pay out of such property reasonable expenses properly incurred by him or her when acting on behalf of the CIO.
2. A charity trustee may benefit from trustee indemnity insurance cover purchased at the CIO’s expense in accordance with, and subject to the conditions in, section 189 of the Charities Act 2011.
2. None of the income or property of the CIO may be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise by way of profit to any member of the CIO.
3. Nothing in this clause shall prevent a charity trustee or connected person receiving any benefit or payment which is authorised by Clause 6.
### 6. Benefits and payments to charity trustees and connected persons
#### 1. General provisions
No charity trustee or connected person may:
- buy or receive any goods or services from the CIO on terms preferential to those applicable to members of the public;
- sell goods, services, or any interest in land to the CIO;
- receive any other financial benefit from the CIO;
unless the payment or benefit is permitted by sub-clause (2) of this clause or authorised by the court or the prior written consent of the Charity Commission (“the Commission”) has been obtained. In this clause, a “financial benefit” means a benefit, direct or indirect, which is either money or has a monetary value.
#### 2. Scope and powers permitting trustees’ or connected persons’ benefits
1. A charity trustee or connected person may receive a benefit from the CIO as a beneficiary of the CIO provided that a majority of the trustees do not benefit in this way.
2. A charity trustee or connected person may enter into a contract for the supply of services, or of goods that are supplied in connection with the provision of services, to the CIO where that is permitted in accordance with, and subject to the conditions in, sections 185 to 188 of the Charities Act 2011.
3. Subject to sub-clause (3) of this clause a charity trustee or connected person may provide the CIO with goods that are not supplied in connection with services provided to the CIO by the charity trustee or connected person.
4. A charity trustee or connected person may receive interest on money lent to the CIO at a reasonable and proper rate which must be not more than the Bank of England bank rate (also known as the base rate).
5. A charity trustee or connected person may receive rent for premises let by the trustee or connected person to the CIO. The amount of the rent and the other terms of the lease must be reasonable and proper. 6. The charity trustee concerned must withdraw from any meeting at which such a proposal or the rent or other terms of the lease are under discussion.
7. A charity trustee or connected person may take part in the normal trading and fundraising activities of the CIO on the same terms as members of the public.
#### 3. Payment for supply of goods only – controls
The CIO and its charity trustees may only rely upon the authority
provided by sub-clause 2.3 of this clause if each of the following
conditions is satisfied:
1. The amount or maximum amount of the payment for the goods is set out in a written agreement between the CIO and the charity trustee or connected person supplying the goods (“the supplier”).
- The amount or maximum amount of the payment for the goods does not exceed what is reasonable in the circumstances for the supply of the goods in question
- The other charity trustees are satisfied that it is in the best interests of the CIO to contract with the supplier rather than with someone who is not a charity trustee or connected person. In reaching that decision the charity trustees must balance the advantage of contracting with a charity trustee or connected person against the disadvantages of doing so.
- The supplier is absent from the part of any meeting at which there is discussion of the proposal to enter into a contract or arrangement with him or her or it with regard to the supply of goods to the CIO.
- The supplier does not vote on any such matter and is not to be counted when calculating whether a quorum of charity trustees is present at the meeting.
- The reason for their decision is recorded by the charity trustees in the minute book.
- A majority of the charity trustees then in office are not in receipt of remuneration or payments authorised by clause 6.
#### 4. In sub-clauses (2) and (3) of this clause:
1. “the CIO” includes any company in which the CIO:
- holds more than 50% of the shares; or
- controls more than 50% of the voting rights attached to the shares; or
- has the right to appoint one or more directors to the board of the company;
2. “connected person” includes any person within the definition set out in clause 29 (Interpretation);
### 7. Conflicts of interest and conflicts of loyalty
A charity trustee must:
1. declare the nature and extent of any interest, direct or indirect, which he or she has in a proposed transaction or arrangement with the CIO or in any transaction or arrangement entered into by the CIO which has not previously been declared; and
2. absent himself or herself from any discussions of the charity trustees in which it is possible that a conflict of interest will arise between his or her duty to act solely in the interests of the CIO and any personal interest (including but not limited to any financial interest).
Any charity trustee absenting himself or herself from any discussions in
accordance with this clause must not vote or be counted as part of the
quorum in any decision of the charity trustees on the matter.
### 8. Liability of members to contribute to the assets of the CIO if it is wound up
If the CIO is wound up, the members of the CIO have no liability to contribute to its assets and no personal responsibility for settling its debts and liabilities.
### 9. Charity trustees
#### 1. Functions and duties of charity trustees
The charity trustees shall manage the affairs of the CIO and may for that purpose exercise all the powers of the CIO. It is the duty of each charity trustee:
1. to exercise his or her powers and to perform his or her functions in his or her capacity as a trustee of the CIO in the way he or she decides in good faith would be most likely to further the purposes of the CIO; and
2. to exercise, in the performance of those functions, such care and skill as is reasonable in the circumstances having regard in particular to:
- any special knowledge or experience that he or she has or holds himself or herself out as having; and,
- if he or she acts as a charity trustee of the CIO in the course of a business or profession, to any special knowledge or experience that it is reasonable to expect of a person acting in the course of that kind of business or profession.
#### 2. Eligibility for trusteeship
1. Every charity trustee must be a natural person.
2. No individual may be appointed as a charity trustee of the CIO:
- if he or she is under the age of 16 years; or
- if he or she would automatically cease to hold office under the provisions of clause 12(1)(e).
3. No one is entitled to act as a charity trustee whether on appointment or on any re-appointment until he or she has expressly acknowledged, in whatever way the charity trustees decide, his or her acceptance of the office of charity trustee.
4. At least one of the trustees of the CIO must be 18 years of age or over. If there is no trustee aged at least 18 years, the remaining trustees may only act to call a meeting of the charity trustees, or appoint a new charity trustee.
#### 3. Number of charity trustees
1. There must be at least three charity trustees. If the number falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees, or appoint a new charity trustee.
2. There is no maximum number of charity trustees that may be appointed to the CIO.
#### 4. First charity trustees
The first charity trustees are as follows:
1. Aleksandra Sendecka
2. Aleksandra Sitarska
3. Anna Warzecha
4. Baptiste Mispelon
### 10. Appointment of charity trustees
1. Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
2. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
### 11. Information for new charity trustees
The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:
1. a copy of the current version of this constitution; and
2. a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts.
### 12. Retirement and removal of charity trustees
1. A charity trustee ceases to hold office if he or she:
1. retires by notifying the CIO in writing (but only if enough charity trustees will remain in office when the notice of resignation takes effect to form a quorum for meetings);
2. is absent without the permission of the charity trustees from all their meetings held within a period of six months and the trustees resolve that his or her office be vacated;
3. dies;
4. in the written opinion, given to the company, of a registered medical practitioner treating that person, has become physically or mentally incapable of acting as a director and may remain so for more than three months;
5. is disqualified from acting as a charity trustee by virtue of sections 178-180 of the Charities Act 2011 (or any statutory re-enactment or modification of that provision).
2. Any person retiring as a charity trustee is eligible for
reappointment.
### 13. Taking of decisions by charity trustees
Any decision may be taken either:
- at a meeting of the charity trustees; or
- by resolution in writing or electronic form agreed by all of the charity trustees, which may comprise either a single document or several documents containing the text of the resolution in like form to each of which one or more charity trustees has signified their agreement.
### 14. Delegation by charity trustees
1. The charity trustees may delegate any of their powers or functions to a committee or committees, and, if they do, they shall determine the terms and conditions on which the delegation is made. The charity trustees may at any time alter those terms and conditions, or revoke the delegation.
2. This power is in addition to the power of delegation in the General Regulations and any other power of delegation available to the charity trustees, but is subject to the following requirements:
1. a committee may consist of two or more persons, but at least one member of each committee must be a
charity trustee;
2. the acts and proceedings of any committee must be brought to the attention of the charity trustees as a whole as soon as is reasonably practicable; and
3. the charity trustees shall from time to time review the arrangements which they have made for the delegation of their powers.
### 15. Meetings of charity trustees
#### 1. Calling meetings
1. Any charity trustee may call a meeting of the charity trustees.
2. Subject to that, the charity trustees shall decide how their meetings are to be called, and what notice is required.
#### 2. Chairing of meetings
The charity trustees may appoint one of their number to chair their meetings and may at any time revoke such appointment. If no-one has been so appointed, or if the person appointed is unwilling to preside or is not present within 10 minutes after the time of the meeting, the charity trustees present may appoint one of their number to chair that meeting.
#### 3. Procedure at meetings
1. No decision shall be taken at a meeting unless a quorum is present at the time when the decision is taken. The quorum is two charity trustees, or the number nearest to one third of the total number of charity trustees, whichever is greater, or such larger number as the charity trustees may decide from time to time. A charity trustee shall not be counted in the quorum present when any decision is made about a matter upon which he or she is not entitled to vote.
2. Questions arising at a meeting shall be decided by a majority of those eligible to vote.
#### 4. Participation in meetings by electronic means
1. A meeting may be held by suitable electronic means agreed by the charity trustees in which each participant may communicate with all the other participants.
2. Any charity trustee participating at a meeting by suitable electronic means agreed by the charity trustees in which a participant or participants may communicate with all the other participants shall qualify as being present at the meeting.
3. Meetings held by electronic means must comply with rules for meetings, including chairing and the taking of minutes.
### 16. Membership of the CIO
1. The members of the CIO shall be its charity trustees for the time being. The only persons eligible to be members of the CIO are its charity trustees. Membership of the CIO cannot be transferred to anyone else.
2. Any member and charity trustee who ceases to be a charity trustee automatically ceases to be a member of the CIO.
### 17. Decisions which must be made by the members of the CIO
1. Any decision to:
1. amend the constitution of the CIO;
- amalgamate the CIO with, or transfer its undertaking to, one or more other CIOs, in accordance with the Charities Act 2011; or
- wind up or dissolve the CIO (including transferring its business to any other charity) must be made by a resolution of the members of the CIO (rather than a resolution of the charity trustees).
2. Decisions of the members may be made either:
1. by resolution at a general meeting; or
- by resolution in writing, in accordance with sub-clause (4) of this clause.
3. Any decision specified in sub-clause (1) of this clause must be made in accordance with the provisions of clause 27 (amendment of constitution), clause 28 (Voluntary winding up or dissolution), or the provisions of the Charities Act 2011, the General Regulations or the Dissolution Regulations as applicable.
Those provisions require the resolution to be agreed by a 75% majority of those members voting at a general meeting, or agreed by all members in writing.
4. Except where a resolution in writing must be agreed by all the members, such a resolution may be agreed by a simple majority of all the members who are entitled to vote on it. Such a resolution shall be effective provided that:
1. a copy of the proposed resolution has been sent to all the members eligible to vote; and
2. the required majority of members has signified its agreement to the resolution in a document or documents which are received at the principal office within the period of 28 days beginning with the circulation date.
The document signifying a member’s agreement must be authenticated by their signature, by a statement of their identity accompanying the document, or in such other manner as the CIO has specified.
The resolution in writing may comprise several copies to which one or more members has signified their agreement. Eligibility to vote on the resolution is limited to members who are members of the CIO on the date when the proposal is first circulated.
### 18. General meetings of members
#### 1. Calling of general meetings of members
The charity trustees may designate any of their meetings as a general
meeting of the members of the CIO. The purpose of such a meeting is to
discharge any business which must by law be discharged by a resolution
of the members of the CIO as specified in clause 17 (Decisions which
must be made by the members of the CIO).
#### 2. Notice of general meetings of members
1. The minimum period of notice required to hold a general meeting of the members of the CIO is 7 days.
2. Except where a specified period of notice is strictly required by another clause in this constitution, by the Charities Act 2011 or by the General Regulations, a general meeting may be called by shorter notice if it is so agreed by a majority of the members of the CIO.
3. Proof that an envelope containing a notice was properly addressed, prepaid and posted; or that an electronic form of notice was properly addressed and sent, shall be conclusive evidence that the notice was given. Notice shall be deemed to be given 48 hours after it was posted or sent.
#### 3. Procedure at general meetings of members
The provisions in clause 15 (2)-(4) governing the chairing of meetings, procedure at meetings and participation in meetings by electronic means apply to any general meeting of the members, with all references to trustees to be taken as references to members.
### 19. Saving provisions
1. Subject to sub-clause (2) of this clause, all decisions of the charity trustees, or of a committee of charity trustees, shall be valid notwithstanding the participation in any vote of a charity trustee:
- who was disqualified from holding office;
- who had previously retired or who had been obliged by the constitution to vacate office;
- who was not entitled to vote on the matter, whether by reason of a conflict of interest or otherwise;
if, without the vote of that charity trustee and that charity trustee being
counted in the quorum, the decision has been made by a majority of
the charity trustees at a quorate meeting.
2. Sub-clause (1) of this clause does not permit a charity trustee to keep any benefit that may be conferred upon him or her by a resolution of the charity trustees or of a committee of charity trustees if, but for sub-clause (1), the resolution would have been void, or if the charity trustee has not complied with clause 7 (Conflicts of interest).
### 20. Execution of documents
1. The CIO shall execute documents either by signature or by affixing its seal (if it has one)
2. A document is validly executed by signature if it is signed by at least two of the charity trustees.
3. If the CIO has a seal:
- it must comply with the provisions of the General Regulations; and
- the seal must only be used by the authority of the charity trustees or of a committee of charity trustees duly authorised by the charity trustees. The charity trustees may determine who shall sign any document to which the seal is affixed and unless otherwise so determined it shall be signed by two charity trustees.
### 21. Use of electronic communications
The CIO will comply with the requirements of the Communications Provisions in the General Regulations and in particular:
1. the requirement to provide within 21 days to any member on request a hard copy of any document or information sent to the member otherwise than in hard copy form;
2. any requirements to provide information to the Commission in a particular form or manner.
### 22. Keeping of Registers
The CIO must comply with its obligations under the General Regulations in relation to the keeping of, and provision of access to, a (combined) register of its members and charity trustees.
### 23. Minutes
The charity trustees must keep minutes of all:
1. appointments of officers made by the charity trustees;
- proceedings at general meetings of the CIO;
- meetings of the charity trustees and committees of charity trustees including:
- the names of the trustees present at the meeting;
- the decisions made at the meetings; and
- where appropriate the reasons for the decisions;
- decisions made by the charity trustees otherwise than in meetings.
### 24. Accounting records, accounts, annual reports and returns, register maintenance
1. The charity trustees must comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 with regard to the keeping of accounting records, to the preparation and scrutiny of statements of account, and to the preparation of annual reports and returns. The statements of account, reports and returns must be sent to the Charity Commission, regardless of the income of the CIO, within 10 months of the financial year end.
- The charity trustees must comply with their obligation to inform the Commission within 28 days of any change in the particulars of the CIO entered on the Central Register of Charities.
### 25. Rules
The charity trustees may from time to time make such reasonable and proper rules or byelaws as they may deem necessary or expedient for the proper conduct and management of the CIO, but such rules or bye laws must not be inconsistent with any provision of this constitution. Copies of any such rules or bye laws currently in force must be made available to any member of the CIO on request.
### 26. Disputes
If a dispute arises between members of the CIO about the validity or propriety of anything done by the members under this constitution, and the dispute cannot be resolved by agreement, the parties to the dispute must first try in good faith to settle the dispute by mediation before resorting to litigation.
### 27. Amendment of constitution
As provided by sections 224-227 of the Charities Act 2011:
1. This constitution can only be amended:
1. by resolution agreed in writing by all members of the CIO; or
2. by a resolution passed by a 75% majority of those voting at a general meeting of the members of the CIO called in accordance with clause 18 (General meetings of members).
- Any alteration of clause 3 (Objects), clause 28 (Voluntary winding up or dissolution), this clause, or of any provision where the alteration would provide authorisation for any benefit to be obtained by charity trustees or members of the CIO or persons connected with them, requires the prior written consent of the Charity Commission.
- No amendment that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Charities Act 2011 or the General Regulations shall be valid.
- A copy of every resolution amending the constitution, together with a copy of the CIO’s constitution as amended must be sent to the Commission by the end of the period of 15 days beginning with the date of passing of the resolution, and the amendment does not take effect until it has been recorded in the Register of Charities.
### 28. Voluntary winding up or dissolution
1. As provided by the Dissolution Regulations, the CIO may be dissolved by resolution of its members. Any decision by the members to wind up or dissolve the CIO can only be made:
1. at a general meeting of the members of the CIO called in accordance with clause 18 (General meetings of members), of which not less than 14 days’ notice has been given to those eligible to attend and vote:
- by a resolution passed by a 75% majority of those voting, or
- by a resolution passed by decision taken without a vote and without any expression of dissent in response to the question put to the general meeting; or
2. by a resolution agreed in writing by all members of the CIO.
2. Subject to the payment of all the CIO’s debts:
1. Any resolution for the winding up of the CIO, or for the dissolution of the CIO without winding up, may contain a provision directing how any remaining assets of the CIO shall be applied.
- If the resolution does not contain such a provision, the charity trustees must decide how any remaining assets of the CIO shall be applied.
- In either case the remaining assets must be applied for charitable purposes the same as or similar to those of the CIO.
3. The CIO must observe the requirements of the Dissolution Regulations in applying to the Commission for the CIO to be removed from the Register of Charities, and in particular:
- the charity trustees must send with their application to the Commission:
- a copy of the resolution passed by the members ofthe CIO;
- a declaration by the charity trustees that any debts and other liabilities of the CIO have been settled or otherwise provided for in full; and
- a statement by the charity trustees setting out the way in which any property of the CIO has been or is to be applied prior to its dissolution in accordance with this constitution;
- the charity trustees must ensure that a copy of the application is sent within seven days to every member and employee of the CIO, and to any charity trustee of the CIO who was not privy to the application.
4. If the CIO is to be wound up or dissolved in any other circumstances, the provisions of the Dissolution Regulations must be followed.
### 29. Interpretation
#### In this constitution:
**“connected person”** means:
1. a child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister of the charity trustee;
- the spouse or civil partner of the charity trustee or of any person falling within sub-clause (a) above;
- a person carrying on business in partnership with the charity trustee or with any person falling within subclause (a) or (b) above;
- an institution which is controlled –
- by the charity trustee or any connected person falling within sub-clause (a), (b), or (c) above; or
- by two or more persons falling within sub-clause (d)(i), when taken together
- a body corporate in which –
- the charity trustee or any connected person falling within sub-clauses (a) to (c) has a substantial
interest; or
- two or more persons falling within sub-clause (e)(i) who, when taken together, have a substantial interest.
Section 118 of the Charities Act 2011 apply for the purposes of interpreting the terms used in this constitution.
**“General Regulations”** means the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012.
**“Dissolution Regulations”** means the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) Regulations 2012.
The **“Communications Provisions”** means the Communications Provisions in Part 10, Chapter 4 of the General Regulations. “charity trustee” means a charity trustee of the CIO.
A **“poll”** means a counted vote or ballot, usually (but not necessarily) in writing.
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Social Commitment
“Community building must become the heart of any school improvement effort.”
- Thomas Sergiovanni
To encourage and support long-term, mutually-supportive, caring inter-generational relationships Simpkins hosts a number of events in the school. The main objective of celebrating Grandparents Day, Parents Day, Mothers Day in school is to foster community relations and boost family involvement in schools. Children whose families are involved in their education learn better. These activities expose children to new ideas from a historical, multigenerational, and life course perspective and creates a community that remembers its history as it builds its future.


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