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Corporate Governance Principles
Conagra Brands, Inc.
Role of the Board of Directors
The primary objective of Conagra Brands, Inc. (the "Company" or "Conagra Brands") is to optimize stockholder value over the long term. The business of the Company is managed under the direction of the Board of Directors (the "Board"), which is elected by the stockholders. The basic responsibility of each member of the Board is to exercise his or her business judgment to act in what each director reasonably believes to be in the best interests of Conagra Brands and its stockholders. The Board selects the senior management team, which is responsible for the day-to-day conduct of the Company's business.
Qualification and Selection of Board Members
1. Qualification. The Board will have a majority of directors who meet the criteria for independence established by the New York Stock Exchange. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will review with the Board the requisite skills and characteristics for Board membership. This assessment will include, among other factors, members' qualification as independent as well as consideration of background, board skill needs, business experience and diversity, including diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and age.
2. Independence. The Board must affirmatively determine that a director has no material relationship with Conagra Brands in order for the director to be considered independent under New York Stock Exchange standards. The Board has established the following guidelines in connection with its director independence determinations:
(a) A director will not be independent if, within the preceding three years: (1) the director was employed by Conagra Brands or an immediate family member of the director was an executive officer of Conagra Brands, (2) a Conagra Brands executive officer was on the compensation committee of the board of directors of a company which employed the Conagra Brands director or which employed an immediate family member of the director as an executive officer, or (3) the director or the director's immediate family member received more than $120,000 (other than director and committee fees and pension or other forms of deferred compensation for prior service that is not contingent in any way on continued service) during any twelve-month period in direct compensation from Conagra Brands.
(b) A director will not be independent if: (1) the director is an executive officer or an employee, or the director's immediate family member is an executive officer, of another company and (2) such other company made payments to, or received payments from, Conagra Brands for property or services in an amount which, in any of the last three fiscal years, exceeds the greater of $1,000,000 or 2% of either (i) such other company's consolidated gross revenues or (ii) Conagra Brands' consolidated gross revenues.
(c) A director will not be independent if: (1) the director or an immediate family member is a current partner of Conagra Brands' independent auditor, (2) the director is an employee of Conagra Brands' independent auditor, (3) the director has an immediate family member who is a current employee of Conagra Brands' independent auditor and who personally works on Conagra Brands' audit, or (4) the director or an immediate family member thereof was within the last three years a partner or employee of Conagra Brands' independent auditor and personally worked on the Company's audit during that time.
(d) For relationships not covered by the foregoing standards, the determination of whether the relationship is material or not, and therefore whether the director would be independent or not, shall be made by the directors who satisfy the above independence standards. The Board's determination of each director's independence will be disclosed annually in the Company's proxy statement.
(e) Tax-exempt organizations that receive director contributions shall not be considered "companies" for purposes of these independence standards. However, Conagra Brands will disclose in its annual proxy statement any contribution that it makes to a tax-exempt organization in which a director serves as an employed executive officer if, within the preceding three years, contributions in any fiscal year exceeded the greater of $1,000,000 or 2% of such charitable organization's consolidated gross revenues.
3. Selection. Nominees for directorship will be recommended to the Board by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee in accordance with the policies and principles in its Charter. The invitation to join the Board should be extended by the Chairman of the Board and the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
4. Orientation and Continuing Education. The Company will conduct an orientation program for each new director as soon as possible following the meeting at which the new director is elected. The orientation will include presentations by senior management with respect to the Company's principal officers, strategic plans, financial reporting, Code of Conduct, and auditing processes. The Board will periodically receive materials and briefing sessions to continue their education on subjects that assist directors in the discharge of their duties.
5. Compensation. The compensation of directors will be periodically but no less than annually, reviewed by the Human Resources Committee, which shall make recommendations to the Board. Director compensation should consist of an appropriate mix of cash and equity-based compensation. The Human Resources Committee will also establish minimum stock ownership guidelines for directors.
Board Leadership
6. Chairman. The Chairman of the Board will be selected by the Board. The Board may select the Chief Executive Officer as Chairman if that seems best for the Company at a given point in time.
7. Lead Director. The Board will select a lead director from the independent directors if the positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer are held by the same person. The lead director will chair executive sessions of the Board and consult with the Chief Executive Officer on Board agendas. If a Lead Director is appointed, a position description for such Lead Director shall be adopted by the Board.
Board Structure
8. Size of the Board. The Board will assess its size from time to time.
9. Committees of the Board. The Board will at all times have an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a committee or committees that address nominating and governance matters. All members of these committees will be independent directors under the applicable criteria established by the New York Stock Exchange. The Board may from time to time establish additional committees as necessary or appropriate. Committee members will be appointed by the Board upon recommendations from the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Consideration should be given to rotating committee members periodically, but rotation should not be mandated as a policy.
Each committee will have its own charter. The charters will set forth the purposes of the committees as well as qualifications for committee membership. The Chairman of each committee will determine the frequency and length of committee meetings and will develop the committee's agenda for each meeting.
10. Director Time Commitments. Each Board member is expected to ensure that other existing and planned future commitments do not materially interfere with the member's service as a director. It is the Board's policy that directors not serve on more than four public company boards (including the Company). In addition:
- Non-management directors who serve as the Chief Executive Officer (or equivalent position) of another public company generally should not serve on more than two outside public company boards (including the Company); and
- Audit/Finance Committee members generally should not serve on more than three public company audit committees (including the Company's).
To ensure the Board has the opportunity to assess individual situations of Board members against these preferences, directors must advise the Chairman of the Board in advance of accepting an invitation to serve on, or authorizing his or her name to be publicly disclosed as a nominee to serve on, another public or private company board (non-profit boards excluded). If the Chairman of the Board and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee agree that such additional service (a) could potentially materially interfere with the member's service as a director to the Company or (b) may not be in the company's best interests, they shall notify the director of such determination. If the director chooses nonetheless to accept such additional service, such service shall be deemed a Change in Professional Responsibilities for purposes of these Principles.
11. Change in Professional Responsibilities. Individual directors who change the responsibility they held when they were elected to the Board, including through (a) leaving their primary employer or (b) accepting an invitation to serve on, or authorizing their name to be publicly disclosed as a nominee to serve on, another public company board , must volunteer to submit their resignation from the Board. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will then review the continued appropriateness of Board membership under the new circumstances and determine whether or not to request a formal resignation.
12. Retirement. No director may be nominated to a new term if he or she would be over age 72 at the time of the election.
13. Term Limits. The Board does not believe it should establish term limits. Such limits may cause the loss of the contributions of directors who have been able to develop, over a period of time, increasing insight into the Company and therefore provide an increasing contribution to the Board. As an alternative to term limits, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee reviews individual director performance annually in connection with re-nomination processes.
Board Processes
14. Agenda and Meetings; Board Information. The Chairman will establish the agenda for each Board meeting. If the Company has a lead director, the Chairman will consult with the lead director in connection with establishing the agenda. Each Board member may suggest the inclusion of items on the agenda. Each Board member may raise at any Board meeting subjects that are not on the agenda for that meeting.
Directors are expected to attend Board meetings and meetings of committees on which they serve, and to spend the time needed to prepare for meetings. Information that is important to the Board's understanding of the business to be conducted at a Board or committee meeting should generally be distributed in writing to the directors before the meeting. Directors have a fiduciary duty to hold in confidence information about the Company which he or she obtains as a director.
15. Strategic Planning. The Board will review the Company's long-term strategic plan during at least one Board meeting each year.
16. Chief Executive Officer Evaluation. The goals, objectives and performance of the Chief Executive Officer will be reviewed by the Board at least annually.
17. Management Succession. The Chief Executive Officer will report at least annually to the Board on the Company's program for succession and management development. The Chief Executive Officer should make available to the Board his or her recommendations and evaluations of potential successors.
18. Access to Executive Officers and Independent Advisors. Directors have full access to executive officers of the Company. The director will use his or her judgment to ensure that any such contact is not disruptive to the business operations of the Company and will, to the extent not inappropriate, coordinate any such contact with the Chief Executive Officer. The Board welcomes regular attendance at each Board meeting of executive officers and other members of senior management of the Company. The Board may retain independent financial, legal and other advisors to assist in the performance of its duties.
19. Board Interaction with Company Constituencies and the Public. Management speaks for the Company. Communications about the Company with the press, media and other constituencies should be made by management. Individual Board members may, from time to time, at the request of the Chief Executive Officer, meet or otherwise communicate with various constituencies of the Company.
20. Executive Sessions. The non-management directors will meet in executive session as a part of each regularly scheduled Board meeting. The independent directors will meet at least once a year in executive session. The director who presides at these meetings shall be the Chairman, or if the Chairman is not an independent director, the lead director.
21. Board Evaluation. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for ensuring the occurrence of an annual self-evaluation by the directors of the Board's performance. The Chairman of the Board, the Committee, or their designee, will receive comments from all directors, and these comments will be discussed with the full Board on an annual basis.
22. Communications to Directors. Interested parties may communicate with the Company's Board of Directors, non-management directors as a group, or the Chairman by writing to the special address published on the Company's public website. Any person who has a concern about the Company's accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters may communicate such concerns to the Audit/Finance Committee of the Board, which communications may be confidential or anonymous and may be submitted in writing to the special address published on the Company's public website. All such concerns will be reviewed and addressed by the General Counsel's office, the Internal Audit office and/or the Human Resources office as appropriate. The status of all outstanding concerns will be reported at each meeting of the Audit/Finance Committee. The Company's Code of Conduct prohibits any person from retaliating against an employee for any report made in good faith.


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Space Station manoeuvres to avoid space debris
The International Space Station safely boosted itself to a higher altitude on 28 January to avoid possible collisions with orbital debris. The manoeuvre underscores the continuing need for comprehensive knowledge of orbital objects, a capability that Europe lacks.
The International Space Station burned its thrusters for 64 seconds last Saturday night to raise its orbit and avoid a series of potential collisions with debris from the 2007 explosion of China's Fengyun-1C weather satellite.
The burn began at 23:50 GMT using the main thrusters on the Zvezda module. The burn raised Station altitude by 1.9 km to an average height of 391.7 km.
By firing the thrusters then, the Station also lined itself up for future operations, eliminating the need for a boost that had been set for today.
"Space debris is a persistent threat to activity in space," says Emmet Fletcher, manager for space surveillance and tracking at ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme office.
"Being able to provide accurate and reliable warnings to spacecraft operators allows a higher level of confidence when planning avoidance manoeuvres like this one."
"This saves on fuel and resources, and reduces mission disruption, which leads to a longer spacecraft operational life."
ESA's SSA programme, in part, aims to improve current European capabilities to track and observe objects, and to develop new resources for providing accurate debris warnings so as to make space a safer place for everyone.

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Hands On with the Impressive Panasonic Lumix-GH3
This much awaited device presented at Photokina 2012 is the mirrorless Lumix DMC-GH3 – the third incarnation of the first ever Micro-Four Thirds camera. Like its predecessors, the DMC-GH3 uses the Micro-Four Thirds sensor. However, while all other manufacturers readied physically smaller successors for this fair, this Panasonic model is actually bigger and heavier than its predecessors and feels like a real DSLR when held (and looks like it too).
Despite a lush event stand, the Lumix DMC-GH3 is the only significant novelty Panasonic has prepared for Photokina, leaving visitors disappointed with this Japanese manufacturer. Mirrorless cameras were envisioned to offer the quality of DSLR cameras in a format which is significantly more compact than what the average DSLR manages, something that is not the case with this camera (an additional external battery grip was connected to the only exhibition unit, as seen on the image, however, it did not hide the fact that the camera is oversized).
There are two reasons why this camera is so big, as Panasonic heads told us. First, Panasonic is proud of the fact that GH1 and GH2 earned a reputation as some of the best video cameras you can buy without spending several thousand dollars – and a larger size lets the company continue and add to this heritage. Secondly, the new model has more practical and bigger dials, a bigger back screen, as well as more dedicated buttons (white balance, ISO and exposure compensation).
In practice, however, it seems that the biggest advantage of greater dimensions is a more natural grip which then results in more stable camera usage, resulting in steadier and sharper images – but there will be no doubt be purchasers who find Panasonic's explanation (according to which equipment compatibility and better controls are at question) good enough.
The Micro-Four Thirds sensor at the heart of the GH3 is a 16-megapixel, Live MOS chip and, with a Venus 7 FHD processor, it results in a substantially faster experience over previous models. It's now possible to use continuous shooting at 6 images per second, with auto-focus response times hitting 0.07 seconds. Of course, the camera also shoots Full HD video with Live View on a 3-inch OLED back screen, which can flip out 180 degrees (great for self-portraits). Also, videos can be stored as MOV (h.264), MP4 and AVCHD format.
These are very impressive specifications which are, like the dimensions, reminiscent of professional cameras. It seems that the Micro-Four Thirds sensor size was selected to maintain a cost savings over DSLRs. Thus, the initial disappointment of Photokina visitors with this device might thaw once they see its options, especially if they are thinking about purchasing a new device with the intention of using it for recording videos. In this case, Lumix DMC-GH3 is an interesting alternative to DSLRs.
Of course, I should mention how Panasonic has updated its new flagship for the era of connected cameras: this model comes with Wi-Fi support. As a photograph is taken or video clip is recorded, the user can transfer the content to a smartphone or tablet powered by Android OS or iOS with a free Panasonic app.


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When my Wired: Autopia buddies reprinted my Audi A3 Concept story they changed "I'm an ass man" to "I'm a hatch man."
I joked about this on Twitter, noting they kept my comparison of the sexy and svelte car to the talented and undeniably becoming actress Alison Brie (Annie on Community and Trudy on Mad Men). She tweeted the above reply. And then my head exploded.


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Gun shop customers shop for weapons as they listen to live streaming video of an announcement about gun control by U.S. President Barack Obama at the Bullet Hole gun shop in Sarasota, Fla., on Wednesday.
The shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month touched off a wave of gun buying -- and President Barack Obama's gun-control speech this week appears to have done little to slow it down.
Documents obtained by NBC News from the state of Connecticut through a Freedom of Information Act request show a spike in gun sales in the hours and days after the deaths of 20 schoolchildren and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Interviews with gun store owners in four states after Obama's speech show that passion among buyers has not decreased over the month since Newtown; if anything, Obama's speech appeared to set off a new frenzy of buying, with some stores running low on guns.
"We were just swamped in here as soon as he got off the news," manager Bill Loane of Pasadena Pawn & Gun in Maryland said of the reaction to Obama's gun proposals. "People were just pouring through the door."
As the first news was breaking in Connecticut a month ago, buyers were having the same reaction. Between 11 a.m. and noon Dec. 14, firearms retailers in the state were busy performing 105 background checks – nearly double the amount logged in the same lunchtime hour a week earlier.
A total of 725 background checks were performed that day, up from 585 a week before. The trend continued in the days ahead, resulting in a 55 percent week-over-week increase in checks.
Across the country, background checks were also surging: 900,000 more background checks were reported in December 2012 than in the same month of 2011. In total, over 3.1 million more background checks were recorded in 2012 than in 2011.
And the trend appeared to continue this week.
"My phone's been ringing off the hook this morning," Loane said. "I got here 9:30 and it's been nonstop."
He said his store used to sell five or six AR-15-style rifles a month before the shooting in Newtown. He sold 55 in December. He sold 12 to 14 handguns on Wednesday and a half-dozen rifles.
Customers have been coming into Fairground Trader in Massachusetts looking for "anything and everything" since the Newtown school shooting, said store owner Tom Downey. Most of his inventory is sold out now, but his phone keeps ringing.
"I had a lot of phone calls yesterday looking for stuff I don't have," Downey said. "I'd say that people are on the phone just dialing every gun shop around asking questions."
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A Bushmaster XM-15 .223-caliber rifle like this was used in the school massacre in Newtown, Conn. This style of rifle, modeled after the Colt AR-15, has been highly sought after since the attack, gun store owners say.
Sellers say they've had to turn away people looking to buy what has become a marquee item – the AR-15-style assault rifle.
The AR-15-style rifle, which is among the most popular firearm models in America, came to wider attention after Adam Lanza used one in Newtown. Fearing a ban, Loane said, his customers are paying unprecedented prices for the few guns still available.
"I just sold a lower model one the other day for $2,195 over the phone," Loane said of a gun that a few months ago might have gone for about $1,200. "The guy had to have it. He didn't even see the gun."
David Stone said his Dong's Sporting & Reloading Goods in Tulsa, Okla., was packed wall-to-wall all day on Wednesday. Stone said buyers barely paused during what he described as a "buying frenzy" to listen to the president speak over a local reporter's iPhone.
"We're having people call on the phone," Stone said. "I'm the only store in Oklahoma from what customers are telling me that has AR-15s."
Clive Courty said the racks at his GunFun Firearms store in Quincy, Ill., have been nearly fully cleared out over the last three weeks. He's seen the largest surge in interest for "semi-auto, military-style looking" guns, he said.
"I've just got some basic rifles and shotguns and basically a handful of handguns, revolvers, a few semi-autos left," Courty said. "Ammunition's very low. I've got orders for just about everything, but don't expect them."
With distributors telling them they don't know when supply will stabilize, some store owners say they may be in trouble if they don't get more guns in stock soon.
"It's a great thing for our business for the minute, but it's really interrupted things," Downey said. "It's probably in the long term going to hurt me. If you don't have anything to sell, the bills go on."
President Obama promised to "put everything I've got" into passing a series of proposals intended to crack down on gun violence, as Republicans and the NRA are already signaling it will be an uphill battle for the administration. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
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Whew: installed 2 GFCI outlets, 4 more switches, 2 doorknobs, tested all the outlets, put covers on the outlets, hung a curtain rod, touched up the paint, put in the entertainment center components, cleaned the floor. Also: TV delivered, carpet installed.
So close, yet so much more to do...
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Friday, December 14, 2007
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I2P dev meeting, February 15, 2005
Quick recap
- Present:
ant, bla_, cervantes, cneal92_, jrandom, polecat, postman, smeghead, ugha2p,
13:07 < jrandom> 0) hi
13:07 < jrandom> 1) Net status
13:07 < jrandom> 2) 0.5 status
13:07 < jrandom> 3) i2p-bt 0.1.7
13:07 < jrandom> 4) ???
13:07 < jrandom> 0) hi
13:07 * jrandom waves
13:07 <+ugha2p> jrandom: Is irc.duck.i2p also available on the testnet and linked to this network?
13:07 <+ugha2p> To this IRC network
13:07 < jrandom> weekly status notes posted @ http://dev.i2p.net/pipermail/i2p/2005-February/000575.html
13:07 < ant> <Sonium_> Bonjour, sa cette fois de la semaine encore,
13:07 < jrandom> no ugha2p
13:08 < ant> <Sonium_> are you speaking french jrandom ?
13:08 < jrandom> heh, yeah, proof that babelfish has its limits ;)
13:08 < jrandom> lol, yeah, people were saying babelfish was turning out ok french before, but aparently not this time ;)
13:09 <+ugha2p> Hi fellow I2Pers.
13:09 < ant> <fedo2p> hi
13:09 < jrandom> anyway, lets get this underway before we netsplit again
13:09 < jrandom> 1) net status
13:09 < jrandom> see the email for an update
13:10 < jrandom> it seems that while irc has been pretty bumpy, as has some outproxy activity, bt has been doing pretty well
13:11 < jrandom> i don't really have much more to add beyond that though - anyone have any comments/questions/concerns?
13:12 < ant> <Sonium_> will 0.5 be released this friday?
13:12 < jrandom> heh good question, I suppose that can bring us on to 2) 0.5 status
13:12 < jrandom> yes, 0.5 will be released this friday
13:13 < jrandom> the test network is doing pretty well with the latest updates, but there's still some doc and minor cleanups left to do. i'm also going to try to get the latest jetty in there, but we'll see
13:14 < ant> <Sonium_> a question for a native english speaker: what is the semantical difference between "it will be released" and "it is going to be released" ?
13:14 < bla_> Routing seems to be a little bit of a problem sometimes; in, say 5-10% of the cases, I have to reload a page, because the tunnel isn't working well
13:14 < smeghead> i'd like to request that everyone involved in bittorrent activity voluntarily cease until 0.5 is released on friday since the surge in bt traffic is ruining the rest of the network traffic, especially irc
13:15 < jrandom> Sonium: the later is more definitive, but same general idea
13:15 < bla_> smeghead: I'd agree, but 0.5 will not solve the load problem, will it?
13:15 < smeghead> eepsites are affected too, not just irc
13:16 < ant> <Sonium_> ok, than it missunderstood the usage till now
13:16 <+ugha2p> jrandom: Will it be doing a better job with interactive traffic?
13:16 < jrandom> 0.5 will change a lot of dynamics, and should be able to more cleanly handle load balancing, as we can now differentiate between the different causes of tunnel rejection
13:16 < ant> <Sonium_> I better would have listened up at school
13:16 < jrandom> ugha2p: yes, substantially
13:17 <+ugha2p> Ah, cool.
13:17 < jrandom> otoh, there will be an overal increase in bandwidth usage for many situations, though we will improve upon that later as things progress
13:18 < smeghead> and someone please let our new french speaking users know about this and ask them to hold off the bt stuff until friday
13:18 < ant> <BS314159> smeghead: it's three days. I'm sure you can come up with something else to do for three days
13:19 * jrandom could poke open an inproxy to spaetz's 0.5 ircd :)
13:20 < jrandom> perhaps a simpler solution would be to suggest bt users take advantage of the capacity to reduce network load by reducing their tunnel length
13:21 < jrandom> (both on the inbound tunnels, as configured with the bt command line, and on outbound tunnels, as configured on http://localhost:7657/configclients.jsp )
13:21 < polecat> Yeah, they don't need so much anonymity as obscurity. It's us illegal alien ferrets that need the 2 hop thingy.
13:21 < bla_> jrandom: A possible solution, bt-0.1.8, wiith default tunnels length of 1, was mentioned before here on the channel. Duck, you here?
13:22 < polecat> Does i2p-bt use SAM, or does it use an i2ptunnel session?
13:23 < jrandom> hmm, otoh there are a whole set of new i2cp session options we'll want exposed in the i2p-bt, so i'll need to get in touch with duck about an updated release anyway
13:23 < jrandom> polecat: SAM
13:23 < smeghead> BS314159: i'm a contributor to not only i2p codebase, but also i2p-bt, this bt traffic is preventing me from communicating with the other devs and impeding our efforts to improve everyone's experience, have some consideration please
13:23 < smeghead> BS314159: is it more important for you to torrent than it is for us to develop
13:23 < smeghead> ?
13:23 < smeghead> polecat: sam
13:23 < cervantes> make 0.1.8 shop all it's users to the mpaa and we'll all stick with 0.1.7
13:23 < smeghead> bla_: there probably won't be a 0.1.8, we've got 0.2.0 in cvs now, a new codebase based on bt 3.9.1
13:23 < jrandom> heh cervantes
13:23 < jrandom> ooOOo nice
13:24 < jrandom> perhaps thats a good segue from 2) 0.5 status to 3) i2p-bt :)
13:24 < jrandom> smeghead/duck, how goes?
13:25 < ant> <Sonium_> google knows 167 links to www.i2p.org
13:25 < bla_> jrandom: Maybe the upgrade timeline should be reiterated: take yer eepsite offline on Thursday evening (UTC), upgrade on Friday, and fire up the eepsite when a sufficient number of users have upgraded
13:26 < ant> <Sonium_> erm .net
13:26 < smeghead> all the bt mods in 0.1.7 have been integrated into the new 0.2.0 codebase
13:26 < smeghead> but we have to write a completely new sam interface, we can't use the one from 0.1.7
13:27 < jrandom> ah ok
13:27 < smeghead> if there's anyone with python socket experience that would like to help *cough*connelly
13:28 < polecat> All that's happening in SAM is the addition of stream level choking, right?
13:28 < jrandom> polecat: no protocol changes yet (to my knowledge), just porting
13:28 < smeghead> please get in touch with duck
13:28 < ant> <MANCOM> anything new on azneti2p?
13:28 < smeghead> the 0.2.0 client will handle multiple torrents all in one instance, you won't have to open multiple sessions anymore
13:29 < jrandom> (yay!)
13:29 < polecat> Reeeally?
13:29 < smeghead> and hopefully we can get it all working over a single sam session to further reduce network clutterage
13:29 < bla_> smeghead: Nice! Will you also port the text-onlu bttrackmany?
13:29 < polecat> Can it run in the background?
13:29 < jrandom> MANCOM: I haven't heard any news, and unfortunately haven't had time to audit the updates
13:29 < polecat> How much memory does it sit on?
13:29 < smeghead> bla_: yes i believe so
13:30 < smeghead> polecat: using btdownloadheadless.py it's a background process
13:31 < polecat> A single SAM session is possible: the peerwire and tracker protocol can be divined by both the client and server.
13:31 < polecat> smeghead: Yes, but what if I want to add a torrent to that process?
13:32 < smeghead> polecat: and it shouldn't use significantly more memory than the comparable number of 0.1.7 instances do
13:34 < jrandom> polecat: its a port of the mainline BT, it works just like the mainline BT. someone could add new and better features, but lets start with a plain port first ;)
13:36 < bla_> (Connection rollercoaster ride, again...)
13:36 < jrandom> (this is why I lightly edit the meeting logs ;)
13:37 < bla_> jrandom: :)
13:37 < jrandom> wb
13:37 < polecat> smeghead: Yes, but what if I want to add a torrent to that process?
13:38 <+ugha2p> jrandom: No, it must be because you're censoring the netsplits.
13:38 < jrandom> polecat: its a port of the mainline BT, it works just like the mainline BT. someone could add new and better features, but lets start with a plain port first ;)
13:38 < jrandom> hey, if i censor the netsplits, they dont happen!
13:38 * jrandom buries head in sand
13:40 < smeghead> but i will use this opportunity to again ask bt users to hold off until friday please
13:41 < bla_> Right, if there's anyone who speaks French here, you don't have to say anything now, but please add a message to the effect of what smeghead asks to the French sections of forum.i2p ...
13:42 <+polecat> At any rate, I've missed the chance to say but, I was thinking of instead of a bt client in C++, I could just fix the mldonkey bittorrent plugin, and use that.
13:42 < ant> <dm> I speak french.
13:43 < ant> <dm> awww shit, I was supposed to not say anything.
13:43 * jrandom flings mud at dm
13:43 < bla_> dm: Could you add those messages?
13:43 < smeghead> there's nothing wrong with torrenting, but then again such a sudden increase in the number of i2p users wasn't expected and clearly the 0.4.x network can't handle it well
13:43 <+polecat> Unless someone else had an idea for something better I could waste my time on. :/
13:44 < ant> <dm> don't have i2p on here, I'm afraid. I can translate english->french if u msg me what needs to be said.
13:44 < jrandom> polecat: perhaps help out getting the upcoming i2p-bt to work as you'd like?
13:44 < jrandom> dm: forum.i2p.net/
13:44 <+polecat> jrandom: I think the main bt isn't very useful myself, and is doomed to be a stopping block for multiple torrent system, unless they switch to a client/server UI.
13:44 <+polecat> Which I might add, mldonkey/mlnet has already done.
13:44 < smeghead> polecat: mldonkey is a horrid, horrid mess, please help on the i2p-bt project or the azureus-i2p project, they could use a hand
13:44 < ant> <BS314159> polecat: I think it's a waste of time to reimplement i2p-bt in a faster language, given the overhead in I2P
13:45 <+polecat> And I was planning to do with this stupid C++ client thingy o' mine.
13:45 < jrandom> polecat: so put on a gui, giving you the benefit of the underlying i2p-bt code
13:45 < ant> <BS314159> but having the use of the MLDonkey interface might be a very good thing
13:46 <+polecat> Azareus doesn't separate UI from file transfer I dun' think. :/
13:46 < smeghead> polecat: you need to try bt 3.9.1, it's a multitorrent client now
13:48 <+polecat> Does it allow you to quit the UI without quitting swarming your files?
13:48 < jrandom> there are some features that it doesnt do well, that azureus does well, though there are also some environments where azureus isn't the right solution
13:48 < ant> <jnymo> has azureus released a compatable binary for the plugin?
13:48 < jrandom> polecat: no. but adding that is trivial compared to writing a new bt client
13:48 < jrandom> jnymo: yes, they have a beta azneti2p
13:49 < smeghead> polecat: it could easily be modified to do so, very easily in fact
13:49 < jrandom> polecat: just modify the existing bt daemon to allow other processes (aka your new GUI) to tell it to do things
13:49 <+polecat> Well, perhaps...
13:49 <+polecat> You think so?
13:49 <+polecat> Maybe if I wrote a UI that was just an RPC socket protocol, and then... I'd have to write a whole client to grok that protocol...
13:50 < smeghead> polecat: you don't have to write a new ui, mod the existing i2p-bt 0.2.0 ui to do it, it's simple
13:50 <+polecat> Maybe we could separate the UI part of bt and the daemon part, and run those pieces as separate processes without having to rewrite too much code!
13:50 <+polecat> Okay.
13:50 <+polecat> I have one more question though...
13:51 < smeghead> polecat: don't reinvent the wheel because something lacks trivial features
13:51 < smeghead> polecat: you haven't looked at the i2p-bt codebase at all have you? the ui is completely separate
13:51 <+polecat> If bittorrent 3.9.1 is out, why are we using version 0.2.0 in i2p? o.o
13:51 < jrandom> heh
13:51 < jrandom> i2p-bt 0.2.0 == bt 3.9.1 :)
13:51 <+polecat> I looked at the codebase a while ago. It was quite convoluted and obfuscated.
13:51 < jrandom> (i2p-bt 0.1.* == bt 3.4.something i think)
13:51 <+polecat> Oh, you have different versioning.
13:52 <+polecat> Is i2p-bt on CVS?
13:52 < smeghead> polecat: 0.2.0 is a new branch in cvs i created yesterday, it's i2p-bt, the official bt version it's based on is 3.9.1 which will be bittorrent 4.0 when it's out of beta
13:52 < jrandom> http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p-bt/
13:52 < smeghead> i2p-bt 0.1.7 is bt 3.4.2 based
13:52 <+polecat> Thanks.
13:52 <+polecat> Wait.
13:53 < cervantes> at which point we'll call it version 0.3.0 :P
13:53 <+polecat> I meant CVS, not the "ooh lookit the pretty website CVS"
13:53 < jrandom> cvs -d :pserver:email@example.com/cvsroot co i2p-bt
13:53 <+polecat> CVSROOT= is noticeably absent on those cvs-cgi thingies I've noticed.
13:53 < jrandom> or, if you have the CVS proxy locally, cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@localhost/cvsroot co i2p-bt
13:54 < smeghead> polecat: convoluted? btdownloadgui.py is all the gui code, how can you get more cleanly separated than that?
13:54 * polecat whews, and doesn't feel a burning desire to bitch about CVS now.
13:54 < ant> <dm> ugh, that was painful, haven't written anything in french for years! http://forum.i2p.net/viewtopic.php?p=1238#1238
13:55 < jrandom> thanks dm
13:56 < ant> <dm> np
13:57 < smeghead> it probably says something obscene
13:58 < ant> <dm> hehehhe
13:58 <+polecat> Alright, so I have to write btdaemon.py, which is the gui - all gui stuff. And also btdaemongui.py, which is the gui - all daemon stuff.
13:58 < ant> <BS314159> if it's sufficiently obscene, it may serve our purposes just fine
13:58 < ant> <fedo2p> good job dm ;)
13:58 < jrandom> heh
13:58 < jrandom> r0x0r polecat
13:59 <+polecat> Sigh, I hate to emerge wxwindows though, it's a big library I don't normally use. Oh well.
13:59 < smeghead> polecat: 0.2.0 is gtk based, no more wxwidgets
13:59 < jrandom> ok, lots of bt work to do, perhaps we can discuss further on the list/forum/wiki/#i2p-bt as necessary?
13:59 <+polecat> If I'm gonna be hackin', I best get the toolz
14:00 <+polecat> Oh I forgot about that channel. :)
14:00 < smeghead> polecat: get bittorrent 3.9.1 beta and read the docs
14:01 < smeghead> #i2p-bt, right
14:01 < smeghead> there's even people there
14:02 < jrandom> heh ok, lots of exciting bt stuff. anything else for 3) i2p-bt, or shall we move on to 4) ???
14:03 < jrandom> ok, moving to 4) ???
14:03 < jrandom> anyone else have anything else to bring up for the meeting?
14:03 < ant> <jnymo> threshold crytography rules
14:04 < cervantes> ??? = http://forum.i2p/viewtopic.php?p=1237
14:04 < ant> <BS314159> proxies to the web are not cool. What about proxies to new versions of I2P, or other anonymnets?
14:04 < ant> <BS314159> and by not cool I mean not safe to run
14:04 < ant> <jnymo> they aren't run by everyone, BS
14:05 < ant> <BS314159> I know that
14:05 < cervantes> Forum member of the week is <tadaa!> jrandom
14:05 < ant> <BS314159> I'm thinking about upgrades
14:05 < jrandom> lol thanks cervantes
14:06 < ant> <BS314159> Not now, but eventually, would it be possible to have a large number of routers act as inter-version proxies?
14:06 < ant> <BS314159> and would that remove the timing attack without downtime?
14:06 < ant> <jnymo> forced upgrades are necessary
14:07 < ant> <BS314159> I disagree
14:07 < jrandom> BS314159: I2NP over i2ptunnel over I2P would be, painful. though perhaps one of the "outproxies" could point at some inproxy
14:07 < jrandom> BS314159: while forced upgrades aren't generally necessary, they are here. period. we need it, because I didn't forsee all of the changes we need for 0.5
14:08 < ant> <BS314159> I'm not saying new versions should be backwards-compatible
14:08 < cervantes> jrandom: well lets be honest...you're the one that does 98% of the work ;-)
14:09 < ant> <BS314159> I'm just trying to come up with a way to allow non-nimble I2P users to upgrade without timing attacks or downtime
14:10 < jrandom> BS314159: can't be done for the 0.5 release. later releases we can be careful. but for this one, its a drop dead cutoff.
14:10 < ant> <jnymo> automatic update may be better in the future
14:10 < ant> <BS314159> I'm speaking about the far future.
14:10 < ant> <jnymo> is auto-update too insecure?
14:10 < jrandom> cervantes: nah, only 95% of the infrastructure, but there's a lot more goin' on than just i2p/{core,router}/ :)
14:11 < jrandom> jnymo: 0 click update == insecure. 1 click == safe.
14:11 < cervantes> jrandom: yes it's begun to pickup over the last couple of months thankfully ;-)
14:11 < ant> <jnymo> and a line that says "you need to update.. countdown in * days"
14:12 < jrandom> aye, lots of people [http://www.i2p.net/team] have been doing kickass shit
14:13 < jrandom> BS314159: definitely lots we can do for later updates, perhaps we can discuss concrete impls as they approach :)
14:13 < jrandom> ok, anyone else have anything to bring up for the meeting?
14:13 < ant> <MANCOM> could we have some kind of autospeed feature (like with the azureus plugin that measures ping times) in i2p that adjusts the maximum (upload-)bandwidth?
14:14 < ant> <MANCOM> it would help keep bandwidth up and latency down
14:14 < jrandom> oh, interesting
14:14 * cervantes is working on a 1-2 click update feature for the i2p toolbar
14:14 < cervantes> although I'm having problems with hashing atm....so it's probably a few weeks away.
14:15 < ant> <jnymo> cervantes++
14:15 < jrandom> MANCOM: if you could doc up how it'd work and look, and post that on the forum, that'd be great. if its simple enough, might even make it into 0.5
14:15 < cervantes> in which time a dozen people will come up with a glut of better solutions
14:16 < jrandom> heh
14:16 < cneal92_> :D
14:17 < ant> <MANCOM> well, i'll try
14:17 < ant> <cervantes> but it already detects when there's a new release out, and can point you at the relevant download link...
14:17 < ant> <cervantes> which I may roll with initially
14:18 < jrandom> cool cervantes
14:18 < jrandom> thanks MANCOM
14:18 < ant> <jnymo> you could just put the "graceful restart" button to upgrade, after the update is already in the directory
14:19 < ant> <jnymo> or call it "upgrade"
14:19 < ant> <jnymo> and put the restart function in there
14:19 < ant> <jnymo> though i'm probably stating the obvious
14:19 < jrandom> right, we need perhaps a dozen lines of code to fetch http://dev.i2p/i2p/i2pupdate.zip, verify it, then restart
14:20 < jrandom> ok, anyone else have anything to bring up for the meeting?
14:20 < ant> <cervantes> well I can already get the toolbar to download an update into the i2p folder AND trigger a graceful restart...but so far I haven't been able to get it verify the download's integrity
14:21 < jrandom> cervantes: ah, that part should be easy - at a later date, we'll have the update itself be self-verifying
14:21 < jrandom> (aka signed, verified by the router before installation)
14:21 < ant> <cervantes> jrandom: that would be cool.
14:21 < ant> <jnymo> ooh
14:22 < ant> <cervantes> perhaps it will be enough then that I trigger the download and then pop a "do you wish to restart" yes/no requester
14:22 < ant> <cervantes> so someone can verify manually if desired
14:23 < ant> <cervantes> (it already displays what the sha1 _should_ be)
14:23 < jrandom> hehe
14:23 < ant> <jnymo> how bout, "click here to autodownload on availability"
14:25 < cervantes> I'd rather avoid auto downloads
14:25 < ant> <jnymo> hmf.. microsoft does it ;)
14:26 < cervantes> but by all means alert the user that a download exists and offer a "download now" button
14:26 < jrandom> right, 1 click at the least. we can automatically /notify/ on update availability, but autoinstall is not ok
14:26 < jrandom> (er, what cervantes said)
14:27 < ant> <jnymo> now, how do 10000 people update? how bout integrating i2p-bt at one point?
14:27 < jrandom> yes, and flying ponies
14:28 < ant> <jnymo> good enough for me
14:29 < jrandom> ok cool... if there's nothing else...
14:29 <+postman> damn missed the meeting :/
14:29 * cervantes gets back to coding his vapourware
14:29 < jrandom> heh you're at the buzzer, in case there's something you want to bring up postman :)
14:30 <+postman> no thanks
14:30 <+polecat> Microsoft? =) I have gentoo doing it.
14:30 * jrandom winds up
14:30 <+postman> ooops
14:30 * jrandom *baf*s the meeting closed


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STOUGHTON, Wis. — A yearlong push to provide employment opportunities to people with disabilities was outlined in Gov. Scott Walker's State of the State address Wednesday night.
"All throughout 2014 I will highlight employers who find the unique abilities and hire people with disabilities, as well as organizations, which help people with disabilities grow their skills and find meaningful work," Walker said in Wednesday night's speech.
The governor said the effort, called Better Bottom Line, is not about charity but is about helping people and businesses succeed.
The man meticulously sweeping the floors at McGlynn Pharmacy, in Stoughton, is sort of a local celebrity. Dan "Dan the Man" Blomgren has worked at McGlynn Pharmacy for the last seven years as its custodian. He's developmentally disabled but said that's not important.
"I love it here. I love the people and the coworkers I work with. I think it's cool they call me Dan the Man," Blomgren said. "I'm just a regular adult. I can do stuff by myself."
The routine-oriented work is a good fit for Blomgren and the pharmacy.
"He does a good job and he is very excited about being the custodian or maintenance man, which is all you want out of any employee in any position," McGlynn Pharmacy owner Dan McGlynn said.
Walker announced an initiative Wednesday to help grow the state's workforce by helping more people like Blomgren find jobs.
"Dane County has over 1,000 people who are working in supported employment, and in 2013 they're projected to bring in $4 million in wages," Advanced Employment Executive Director Christine Witt said.
Advanced Employment specializes in helping train people with cognitive and physical disabilities for work. Witt said the governor's plan calls for an additional nine counselors.
"All over the state there's individuals who want to work in the community, who want to work and have that opportunity to give them job development and coaching and training, and that's something they wouldn't have had," Witt said.


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"A three-story brownstone in the West Village."
"A 20-acre ranch to rescue and raise all the homeless dogs from the animal shelter."
"A $3000 clothing allowance from Barneys."
These are a few of the gifts my husband and I gave to one another last year. (I'll let you guess which one of us received the Barneys clothing allowance.) OK, so we gave one another these lavish gifts…on index cards.
Times were tight last Christmas, and rather than set an arbitrary limit, then be forced to search for something, anything of importance for $25 or under (pretty much impossible, by the way), we decided to skip the gifts altogether. What's worse than no gifts at all? Those random ones that were forced because of a price limit. They often rival Secret Santa office presents.
We still wanted to show thoughtfulness and thankfulness for one another, however. That's why we decided to gift one another the ideas of things we would have purchased, had money been no object. We allotted one another 12 index cards. On each, we described over-the-top presents ("A backstage pass to a Radiohead concert, with a one-hour visit with Thom Yorke"), as well as some simple ones ("Candy Cane Hershey Kisses"—I couldn't find them anywhere last year).
It truly was the embodiment of "the thought that counts." Although it may seem underwhelming to receive a dozen index cards, the thought that my husband put into my "gifts" was amazing. To think that someone put so much consideration into my likes, loves, and passions—made me love him all the more. It told me that he listened to me and really, truly knew me.
The one that really got me? "A time machine to go back and spend time with Isaac as a young, energetic, playful dog." I had put my 12-year-old husky, Isaac, to sleep that September. He was suffering from cancer, and really hadn't been himself for the final year of his life. I always told my husband I wished he could have known Isaac when he was younger—that he was a different dog. My husband wished me the power to see him, too.
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Los Angeles on Wednesday became the largest city yet to boycott Arizona over its tough new law targeting illegal immigration in a move that likely will affect some $8 million in contracts with the state.
The City Council voted 13-1 to bar Los Angeles from conducting business with Arizona unless the law is repealed. The vote followed an emotional council discussion during which many members noted that their ancestors were U.S. immigrants.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa already has said he would approve the boycott.
The proposal could affect investments and contracts worth as much as $52 million, including contracts for airport, harbor and trucking services, according to a report from the city's chief legislative analyst. That report recommends the council consider suspending travel, cutting contracts and refraining from making any new ones with Arizona-based companies.
But Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who co-authored the resolution, said it would be impractical to cancel most of those deals and only about $7 million to $8 million in city contracts probably would be affected.
"US Airways is based in Arizona and they certainly fly in and out (of Los Angeles)" and it would hardly be feasible to end those flights, Hahn said before the council vote.
Hahn said the Los Angeles boycott also won't affect the city's Department of Water and Power, which has wind farm and nuclear energy contracts in Arizona. Among the contracts with Arizona companies that conceivably could be terminated include those for helicopter services, Taser guns, waste management, engineering and surveillance equipment.
Hahn said "the best scenario" would be to turn around and give those contracts to California suppliers.
The resolution claims that Arizona's new law encourages racial profiling and is unconstitutional. The law, set to take effect July 29, requires police enforcing another law to question a person about his or her immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the United States illegally and makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally. Several lawsuits seeking to block its implementation are pending in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
Some polls have shown strong popular support for the Arizona law and critics are concerned that other states may follow up with their own versions.
Several cities across the country have passed resolutions or urged boycotts to protest the law, including California cities such as Oakland and San Diego. A nonbinding resolution approved Tuesday by San Francisco city supervisors urges a boycott of Arizona-based businesses and asks sports leagues not to hold championship games or tournaments there.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said the boycotts are unfortunate and misguided, primarily because the law mirrors a federal requirement that legal immigrants carry immigration papers.
"It's already the law in the United States, and I have a responsibility to stand up and protect the people of Arizona and we will do that," Brewer said Tuesday.
Charges that the law will lead to racial profiling are "just pure rhetoric," Brewer said.
"I find it really interesting that we have people out there that are attempting a boycott in favor of illegal actions in Arizona. That to me is just unbelievable."
Of the resolution in Los Angeles, Hahn said: "We want to stand back and say that we're against it. We're hoping that Arizona will be the last state to do this instead of just the first state to do it."
The city staged a similar economic boycott against South Africa during apartheid and against Colorado after voters in 1992 passed a state law repealing local ordinances that banned discrimination against homosexuals.
AP reporter Paul Davenport in Phoenix contributed.
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Press Release, 01/18/2017
Hogrefe Publishing Group acquires the market leaders for psychological tests in Spain and Portugal
TEA Ediciones (Spain) and the publishing division of CEGOC (Portugal), the leading publishers of psychometric tests in their respective markets, are joining the Hogrefe Group. Hogrefe has acquired both publishing companies from their previous owner, the CEGOS Group, with effect from 1 January 2017.
The core field of the science publisher Hogrefe is psychology. Along with an extensive range of books and journals, Hogrefe also publishes a large number of psychological tests that are used in a wide variety of fields, such as clinical assessment, human resources, and education. Hogrefe has long been market leader in this sector for the German-speaking countries and is now also the largest provider of psychological tests in many other European countries.
TEA Ediciones, founded 60 years ago, is the leading Spanish developer and publisher of psychological tests. TEA's catalogue includes more than 400 different products covering all areas of psychological assessment. TEA also publishes therapy materials and books. Other activities of TEA include services related to psychological assessment, such as scoring, reporting and testing on behalf of customers. TEA Ediciones has also developed a powerful and innovative online system for administering and scoring psychological tests and generating reports. In addition to its headquarters in Madrid, TEA has offices in Barcelona, Bilbao, Sevilla and Zaragoza.
More than 30 years ago the CEGOS Group also set up a subsidiary in Portugal, in this case named CEGOC, to publish psychological assessment tools. The market position of the test publishing division of CEGOC in Portugal is similar to that of TEA in Spain: it too is the leading developer and publisher of psychometric tests for psychologists and other professionals in its market.
CEGOC and TEA Ediciones were until now part of the internationally operating CEGOS Group, the leading European provider for professional education and training, staff development and recruitment. The CEGOS Group is divesting itself of its publishing activities in order to focus fully on its core business. The publishing business of CEGOC in Portugal will from now on be run as Editora Hogrefe, Lda. (Lisbon).
All 50 members of staff at TEA in Spain and at CEGOC's publishing division in Portugal, the majority of whom are psychologists, will continue to be employed by Hogrefe. Both publishing companies have well established networks of international distributors outside of their home markets. The Spanish-speaking areas of South and Central America are particularly important export markets for TEA, while for CEGOC Angola and Mozambique are currently the most significant overseas markets. Hogrefe is, however, expecting significant synergies to arise from collaboration between its new Portuguese member and Editora Hogrefe CETEPP (Centro Editor de Testes e Pesquisas em Psicologia) in São Paulo, Brazil, which has been a member of the Hogrefe Group since 2015.
Dr. G.-Jürgen Hogrefe (Publisher and CEO of Hogrefe Publishing Group, Göttingen): "The addition TEA's and CEGOC's publishing activities to the Hogrefe Group portfolio means that we can now confidently regard ourselves as the no. 1 test publisher in Europe. With this acquisition we have created an excellent basis for future developments in this area. For many years we have maintained close and friendly business relationships with both TEA and CEGOC and their respective management teams. I am especially pleased that we will now have the opportunity to continue and intensify our work together in the coming years."
Milagros Anton (General Manager of TEA Ediciones): "During the 60 years of our existence, with our high-quality test publications we have attained a leading position and an excellent reputation in the Spanish market. We are a strong and healthy company. Hogrefe and TEA have for a long time had a great deal in common: we share the same values and business culture, the same desire for high scientific quality of our publications – and many friendships. Joining with Hogrefe means that we are now part of an international publishing group that is specialised in our topics. This offers us attractive prospects for the future. Together we are even better placed to master the challenges that globalisation and digitalisation will bring in the future, for the benefit of both our authors and of the people who use our tests."
Hogrefe Publishing Group (Göttingen)
Hogrefe is the leading European science publisher for psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry. These core areas are supplemented by publications in the fields of nursing, healthcare, and medicine. Originally founded in 1949 as Hogrefe Verlag in Göttingen, the Hogrefe Group today includes publishing companies in 15 countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, USA, France, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Brazil, Spain, Portugal). The independent, family owned Hogrefe Group is headed by Dr. G.-Jürgen Hogrefe, the son of the founder, and employs around 350 people. It currently has approximately 2,500 books in print, with about 250 new releases each year. More than 40 scientific and professional journals cover all of Hogrefe's core subject areas. Uniquely, Hogrefe also publishes around 1,400 psychometric tests in numerous languages, as well as offering a range of consultancy and training services and innovative digital solutions. (https://www.hogrefe.com)
TEA Ediciones (Spain)
TEA Ediciones is the world's leading developer and publisher of psychological tests in the Spanish language. Ever since its foundation in Madrid 60 years ago, TEA and its publications have played an influential part in Spanish psychology, both for research and for practice. TEA's catalogue includes more than 400 different products.
As well as tests developed by Spanish authors, TEA Ediciones publishes international tests that have been translated, adapted and normed for the Spanish market, as well as tests developed by its own internal research and development team.
Alongside the tests themselves, TEA Ediciones provides a variety of related services, including test consultancy and advice, psychometric studies, seminars and workshops, and testing and scoring services.
The company's head office is in Madrid. TEA Ediciones also maintains regional offices in Barcelona, Bilbao, Sevilla and Zaragoza. Through a network of 17 international partners, TEA Ediciones distributes its tests in Spanish-speaking countries worldwide. (http://web.teaediciones.com)
Editora Hogrefe (Portugal)
Editora Hogrefe is the new name for the test publishing division of CEGOC. This division has been active for 30 years and with 250 tests in its current list is the leading provider of psychological tests in Portugal.
The company works closely with leading researchers and developers of psychological tests in Portugal and is also a respected and leading local licensing partner for international publishers in this field.(http://www.hogrefe.pt)
For further information contact:
G.-Jürgen Hogrefe
Publisher and CEO Hogrefe Verlagsgruppe GmbH
+49 551 999 500
Milagros Antón López
General Manager
TEA Ediciones, S.A.U.
+34 91 270 5000
Magda Machado
General Manager
Editora Hogrefe, Lda.
+351 21 319 1960
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Creating Changes for Inclusion Into Qt
When you intend to make changes, you need git clones configured for use with Gerrit. This mostly supersedes the more user-oriented instructions for getting the Qt source code and setting up your local working environment to build Qt.
The Gerrit tutorial describes in detail how our version of Gerrit works for the Qt Project. Here is the short version.
There are some steps you need to follow only once:
- Create an account on the Qt Project bug tracker (Jira). This will be the same login information you will use in the Gerrit code review system. Even though the account credentials are shared, you still need to complete the account details on the Gerrit code review system. See the next step.
- Login on and set up your Gerrit account by adding your full name, email address, and public SSH key.
- Review and agree to the Qt Project's contribution agreement in Gerrit. You only need to do this once, unless the license changes. If your company has a corporate contribution agreement, ask the owner of the according Gerrit user group to add your account to this group.
- Clone Qt from the read-only mirror.
- When you run the init-repository script, provide your Gerrit username to the --codereview-user option.
Then there are steps you need to follow for each patch you contribute:
- Push you changes to remote "gerrit" to the branch refs/for/dev, if dev is the branch you are targeting.
- The Early Warning System (EWS) will quickly kick in and check your patch. Please act upon the reports and push updates to the patch.
- Add relevant reviewers to your change(s). If you don't do this, your change may go unnoticed. To find possible reviewers, you can:
- examine the Git history with 'git log' and/or 'git blame',
- see the Maintainer chart,
- ask on IRC, or
- ask on relevant mailing lists like firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com, etc.
- Wait for reviews, and actively partake in the review of your change(s).
- If your contribution is deemed to not align with the project's vision or goals, you should abandon the change at this point.
- If your contribution is deemed unready, you need to fix it up according to the reviews.
- Submit your patch. If your contribution satisfies the technical requirements, then you or the Approver are able to submit the patch into the staging branch, or directly into the target branch, if there's no CI system on that particular branch and/or repository.
- To determine if the branch is covered by the CI system, you may check the CI logs ; if the project/branch can be found at this link, it is covered by CI.
- If the continuous integration (CI) system rejects your patch, you need to fix the issues so it passes the project's build and autotest systems.
- When CI is successful, your changes are automatically included and added to the official Qt repository.
See Gerrit Caveats and Hints to avoid common traps.
When you start an entirely new project or import an existing one from elsewhere, you need to request a new repository.
Style, Conventions and Principles
For development of the Qt framework we follow the framework's Qt Coding Style and we stick to our established Coding Conventions. The KDE Library Code Policy is based on Qt's, so much is shared with Qt's. You can find more information there that isn't in Qt pages.
Qt Creator uses its own Qt Creator Specific Coding Style & Conventions. It is similar to the Qt framework's coding style and conventions, but there are some differences and additions.
In addition, conventions for writing good user interface messages texts that play well with Qt Linguist can be found under UI Text Conventions.
Our API Design Principles aim for perfection.
Note that Qt is an open source library, and must therfore be compilable in its completeness using freely available tools and libraries. This means that you should not contribute code that uses any kind of private APIs.
Please follow the Commit Policy.
Verify that your commits have correct author information, including your name and email address as it is registered in Gerrit.
Localization to Other Languages
The process of contributing translations is described in Qt Localization.
Developer's Lounge
If you have any questions about the development of Qt, feel free to join the #qt-labs IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and the Qt development mailing list Qt Creator development, join #qt-creator on irc.freenode.net and the Qt Creator mailing list.
For a full list of IRC channels of interest to Qt developers, Online Communities.


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Four Manhattan Mother's Day brunches
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as the saying goes. On Mother's Day, New York City's best chefs celebrate maternal influence, turning apples into delicate slaws and rich tartes tatins, and transforming a host of other foods, just like Mom does. The four restaurants below are smart spots to celebrate your own mom over brunch.
TELEPAN Chef Bill Telepan is offering a festive three-course lunch for $55 in his cozy Upper West Side town house space. "My mom cooked every night at home for our family of six, even though she worked," says Telepan, who grew up in New Jersey. Among the offerings for the special lunch is arctic char with candied beets and horseradish. "The char dish evokes the beets and horseradish I grew up eating," Telepan adds. "My mom served us so many vegetables, and the beets were always my favorite because they were so sweet."
WHERE 72 W. 69th St.
INFO 212-580-4300, telepan-ny.com
HEARTH Hearth chef Marco Canora likes Mother's Day enough to make this year's holiday a first: Never in its 10-year history has the restaurant done brunch, until now. And his inaugural run includes such a la carte options as baked eggs with Tuscan kale and pork sausage ($14) and pork blade steak with sunny- side-up eggs ($24). "On some level, every single food item on my menu has been influenced by my mom," says Canora, who grew up in the Hudson Valley. He singles out one of his all-purpose broths, calling it "a supersized version of the rich, complex and yet perfectly clear broth that my mom has made for all of the big holiday feasts."
WHERE 403 E. 12th St.
INFO 646-602-1300, restauranthearth.com
GOTHAM BAR AND GRILL Alfred Portale is one of the pioneer chefs who still exerts a big influence on the restaurant scene -- but he still looks to memories of Mom for inspiration. "My mother was always cooking simple but flavorful Italian food," says the Buffalo native. "As a child, my favorite job in the kitchen was helping her to shape her homemade ravioli." His $60 fixed-price luncheon includes, fittingly, some ravioli made with goat cheese, and surrounded by a springtime medley of morel mushrooms and fava beans.
WHERE 12 E. 12th St.
INFO 212-620-4020, gothambarandgrill.com
SEASONAL RESTAURANT & WEINBAR It isn't too hard to discern the guiding hands of Austrian mothers at Seasonal. The Vienna childhoods of chefs Eduard Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban are all over dishes like the surprising strawberry gazpacho and gussied-up spaetzle that are part of the special three-course fixed-price meal ($62) for this holiday. "The spaetzle is inspired by my mother," Frauneder says. "This is a dressed-up version I think she would enjoy, thanks to the addition of fresh lobster, local spring vegetables and nettles."
WHERE 132 W. 58th St.
INFO 212-957-5550, seasonalnyc.com


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his fault. Not this time.
Justus Aubre is a wilder. A mage unbound to the Imperium, and
therefore a dangerous wild card in their eyes. The Imperium wants him, wants his
power, but Justus has hidden for many years and now has some semblance of a
normal life. All that's about to change when Sable Rounds walks through the
door of his antique shop, looking for work. Justus instantly knows what Sable
is, he just doesn't know the danger he's in.
normal life. For somewhere to belong. She finds this when Justus hires her, but
she knows it's temporary and fragile, an illusion. Though she hates to think
about it, she knows that one day she will have to move on.
finally find Sable, they find Justus. And all hell's about to break loose.
CD Coffelt lives outside Maryville, Missouri with a bemused husband
and way too many cats. She adores all things fantasy with a special love for
urban and epic.
good writing and Doritos as companions, locating Middle-Earth on a dusty road
in rural Missouri wasn't difficult. All it took was a little Magic, hours of
reading, and an overactive imagination.


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SAP has launch the user adoption edition of its learning offering -- SAP Learning Hub. This new edition features customer learning content creation and sharing as well as in-application guidance to provide on-the-job enablement within the application, enabling organisations to train and enable their end users effectively.
As the central cloud-based learning environment from SAP, SAP Learning Hub is now enhanced by additional tools and services, the company said.
SAP Learning Hub combines standard content from SAP with social learning elements and learning management system features. In the new user adoption edition, ready-made training materials from SAP are available for users and can be combined with the user's own training content and documentation.
In addition, customers have the option to modify the materials through content services provided by SAP partners. This creates an individualized learning path and curriculums. Through this integration, users can produce tailored training programmes by generating their own content.
Based on SAP Jam social software platform, the learning room functionality can offer various training materials for specific user groups, increase collaboration among learners and provide best-practice templates. Additionally, the user adoption edition of SAP Learning Hub provides the opportunity to enter private learning rooms led by the customer's experts.
"Through close examination of customer feedback, SAP is empowering users of SAP Learning Hub to define their individual training approach with the new SAP Learning Hub, user adoption edition," said Jan Meyer, head - Learning Strategy, Business Development and Delivery Channels, SAP. "Through personalisation and simplification of learning, we are helping our customers accelerate their time to value, increase company productivity and reduce total cost of adoption through effective, structured learning offerings."
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Cathay Pacific Airways has cancelled all flights to the Pakistani city of Karachi from Bangkok following a Taliban raid on the country's busiest airport this week, as top Pakistani officials debated how to tackle the escalating violence.
International flights in and out of Karachi have been suspended twice since Sunday, when gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed the airport, firing rocket-propelled grenades in an all-night siege that killed 34 people.
"We will continue to monitor the situation closely," Cathay said in a statement. "Customers are recommended to check flight status before departing for the airport."
Cathay Pacific 0293.HK shares closed down 0.14 percent at HK$14.48 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
In Islamabad, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a meeting with security officials late on Tuesday to discuss how to handle the crisis as the escalation of violence raised the prospects of an all-out army campaign against insurgent strongholds.
The Pakistani Taliban, a loose alliance of insurgent groups united by anti-state Jihadist ideology, said they had carried out the Karachi attack in response to strikes on their positions on the Afghan border.
Adding an international dimension to the events, Pakistani officials said ethnic Uzbek fighters were behind the attack and a report by a Pakistani monitoring website quoted an Uzbek commander as claiming responsibility.
"Usman Ghazi, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), claimed responsibility for Sunday's terrorist attack," said the site, Pakistan Risk.
The IMU is a group allied with the Taliban which has often carried out attacks alongside it.
"The Uzbek militant group, which has been based in Pakistan's tribal areas since 2002, describes the attacks as revenge for Pakistani airstrikes in North Waziristan on May 21 that targeted areas populated by Uzbek and other foreign militants," Pakistan Risk said.
Earlier, the Taliban's central command also claimed responsibility for the attack.
Pakistan's air force has periodically bombed Taliban hideouts in the ethnic Pashtun belt straddling the border, but has yet to mount a major ground offensive there.
Security was tight around Karachi airport and the bustling city of 18 million people remained nervous after the twin attacks, though life seemed to have returned to normal, with shops and markets open and people going about daily tasks.
"It looks like the Taliban have taken over the entire country," said Mohammad Gulfam, who owns an electrical appliances shop in Karachi.
"What we want is that the army should carry out a big operation to clear out all the country, so that the public can get some peace of mind."
The Taliban's goal was to scare off international airlines from an airport serving Pakistan's economic and financial nerve centre, said Imtiaz Gul, a security analyst in Islamabad, the capital.
"They (militants) came with a certain design to take an aircraft and passengers hostage and create a scene which would have lasted for many days," Gul added.
"It would have put Pakistan in the international spotlight. That would have meant that foreigners and foreign airlines flying to Pakistani should stop doing that."
Sunday's assault all but destroyed prospects for peace talks between the Taliban and Sharif's government, after months of failed attempts to engage the al Qaeda-linked militants in dialogue on how to end years of violence.
The Pakistani Taliban are allied with the Afghan militants of the same name and share a similar jihadist ideology.
But they operate as a separate entity, focused entirely on toppling the Pakistani state and establishing strict Islamic rule in the nuclear-armed nation, whereas the Afghan Taliban are united by their campaign against invading foreign forces.


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Jungle Girl
Volume 2
Dynamite's Jungle Girl series returns under the direction of cover artist/co-plotter Frank (Mighty Avengers) Cho, co-plotter/writer Doug (The 'Nam, Savage Tales) Murray and interior artist Adriano (Red Sonja) Batista! From the stunning conclusion of the first season to the exciting opening of Dynamite's new season of stories, Jungle Girl delivers action, excitement, twists, thrills and the finest illustrations of dinosaurs and the female form found in comics today! Cho and Murray are take the action underground - and underwater - as Jana, the undisputed Queen of the Jungle, finds out more about her mysterious past and the mysterious island she calls home Featuring a cover gallery with art by Frank Cho and Adriano Batista.
Dark Horse Digital is proud to present Dynamite comics; two great publishers in one amazing store!
- Writers:
- Doug Murray, Frank Cho
- Artist:
- Adriano Batista
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