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Gold Division:
Maggie Mills, Sasha Haines, Neha Seshadri, Ilana Cuello-Wolffe, Ashley Cai, and Emma Kwan made runoffs.
Jackie Henley (3rd speaker), Izzy Wu, Francesca Lupi (9th speaker), and Avalon Dalesandro octafinaled.
Susanna Mkhitaryan was 13th speaker, Jacqueline Wei was 7th speaker, and Roshni Varma was 4th speaker.
10/54 debaters in outrounds were female presenting.
5/20 top speakers were female presenting.
Silver Division:
Xuechen Yin, Grace Klinefelter, Payton Winterhof (19th speaker), and Vivian Kuang (18th speaker) made runoffs.
Carina Guo, Jennifer Lin, and Daisy Qiu octafinaled.
Cara Wilson, Hana Odawara, and Alexandra Ellerstein (3rd speaker) quarterfinaled.
Madeline Walker finaled.
Victoria Newman-Menendez was 14th speaker, Katherine Gu was 9th speaker, and Madelyn Cook was 6th speaker.
11/54 debaters in outrounds were female presenting.
6/20 top speakers were female presenting.
International Silver PF:
Angelina Qin semifinaled.
Emily Hsu and Joy Taw closed out.
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ETOWAH ARTIFACT ID DAY May 4th 2019
ETOWAH ARTIFACT ID DAY May 4th 2019
Etowah Indian Mounds Museum
813 Indian Mound Rd SE, Cartersville, GA 30120
10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
at the Etowah Mounds Museum
Please bring your artifacts for identification and sharing with many interested collectors. You may want to come and just meet new friends and see what local collectors bring in. This is usually one of the most productive ID days we have. Artifacts will be identified by J. Steven Beasley as per agreement with the Etowah Mounds Complex, but additional Peach State members will be present. Ronnie Chase, Lee Forsyth, Trent Clayton and Archaeologist Dana Chandler attended past ID Days. All Peach State Members are welcome to attend.
There is no provision for show tables and this is not an atmosphere where any buying or selling can take place.

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Hiking in the back country has provided me with some of the greatest pleasures of my life. I have sometimes entered a pure-enjoyment zone, where the spectacular scenery and wildlife have literally made me want to quit my job, leave home and just keep hiking, completely giving in to the temptations of the wilderness. Many hikers have felt this euphoria, and in so doing have missed the warning signs of impending disorientation.
Becoming lost is probably the biggest risk a hiker can face, and at one time or another almost all of us have done it. Here are some tips that may help you.
First, do your homework. Research a new area thoroughly before setting out. Topographic maps are a valuable source of information, as many trail maps do not show topography.
Second, be prepared. Even if you think that you're only going out for a couple of hours, be prepared for being out a much longer time. If you become lost you are on your own, and must be able to fend for yourself until finding your way back. Your day-pack should contain: sufficient food and water, matches in a water-proof container, compass and map, GPS with extra charged batteries, extra clothing, emergency blanket, pencil and paper, whistle, and flagging tape. I also carry a folding saw and a small axe.
Third, have a plan, and stick to it. Make sure someone knows where you intend to go and how long you plan to be out. Bring your cell phone, but be aware that you may not always be in cell range.
Fourth, stay on the trail; trails can be surprisingly hard to re-locate once you venture off them. Short-cutting switchbacks, or even detouring around fallen trees, can be enough to disorient you. If you must leave the trail, tie a piece of flagging tape onto a tree branch as a reference marker, or set a waypoint that you can 'home in' on.
Fifth, pay attention to your surroundings. Remember or write down landmarks you see, such as rock outcrops, streams or oddly-shaped trees. Look behind you periodically – the trail will look much different when going the other way. Note unmarked trails or animal trails that cross or merge with yours. And old or infrequently-used trails can still be obvious when in the forest, yet disappear completely in open areas or on rocky ground.
Sixth, know where active railways, highways, or rivers are with respect to your trail and listen for them to give you a bearing on what direction to take to find your way out.
The rewards of back-country hiking can be great, but you must always keep your wits about you. Prepare for your trip, pay attention to your surroundings and to where you are, and don't get lost.
Al Budreau


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Until now, all orders (whole, de-boned and sliced hams) are being dispatched in the expected times and the carriers deliver normally, with occasional delays. In United Kingdom (see other countries) we operate normally. #StayHome
I am disappointed with this product. There is a lot of fat and what with that and the bone there is not much meat left. So even though the ham is sweet and tasty and not particularly salty it works out very expensive. I do not think I will try this one again.
Several times a year (for example, Christmastime or for our anniversary), we launch very short-lived (normally 1-3 days) discount offers on our jamones. Subscribe to our newsletter, and we will let you know when there is an offer.


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Police Department
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Hiring: Entry Level Police Officer
-=Download Application Packet=-
March 13, 2020
Job Classification: Police Officer - Entry Level
The Trenton Police Department is currently accepting applications for Entry-Level Police Officer in order to establish an eligibility list.
Candidates must possess an Ohio Peace Officer Training certificate by the time of appointment. Candidates must take the FrontLine National exam through the National Testing Network (NTN) www.nationaltestingnetwork.com. All online testing must be completed by May 1, 2020.
Application packets are available on the City of Trenton website at www.ci.trenton.oh.us and in the Administrative offices of the City of Trenton. Packets include a City of Trenton application form and a personal history questionnaire. Both documents must be completed and submitted no later than 5:00pm on Friday, May 1, 2020, in order to be considered for any open position. Completed application packets may be submitted: 1) via fax to 513-988-0855, attention Sharon Leichman; 2) via email to email@example.com; or 3) in person or mailed to the Administrative offices of the City of Trenton at 11 E State St, Trenton OH 45067. Mailed packets must be received on or prior to the May 1, 2020 deadline in order to be considered.
Salary Information: $50,419 - $70,844 annually
Benefit Information: Comprehensive benefit package. College tuition available. All equipment provided.
Candidate Contact: Sgt. Tim Bushong
Department Overview: The Trenton Police Department is a progressive organization highly focused on training and development and consisting of 17 full-time officers, a full-time dispatch center, and a K9 unit. We offer an on-site workout and training facility, a take-home cruiser program, modern uniforms and equipment with uniform maintenance pay, and OPBA representation.
Area Information: Trenton covers over 4 square miles in Butler County, Ohio and is located between Middletown & Hamilton on State Route 73, approximately 20 minutes from Miami University-Oxford.
Population: Approximately 13,000
Job Requirements
Age: 21
US Citizen: Yes
High School Grad/GED: Yes
Valid OHIO State Driver's License: Yes
Ability to Read/Speak English: Yes
Vision: Must have corrected vision in both eyes to 20/20
Academy Certification: OPOTC Certified at the time of appointment.
Prior Experience: Not required
Hiring Process: Successful candidates must pass an oral review panel, background investigation, drug and alcohol
screening, medical exam, psychological exam, and polygraph exam.
Felony, Criminal Activity Disqualifiers: No felony or serious misdemeanor conviction
Driving Disqualifiers: Any DUI must be more than five (5) years old
Drug Use Disqualifiers: No felony drug use
Financial Disqualifiers: No bankruptcies in the past five (5) years
Wage and Benefits Information
Payroll: Weekly; direct deposit only
Probationary Period: Twelve (12) months from date of hire
Performance Evaluations: Yearly after initial probationary period
Pay Increases: Base salary increase after one (1) year plus cost-of-living increases as reflected in union contract;
annually thereafter based on performance evaluations
Longevity Pay: Added to hourly rates after five (5) years of service
Holidays: Twelve (12) paid holidays each year per OPBA contract
Health Insurance: Medical, hospitalization, pharmaceutical, dental, and vision insurance – City contribution 90%;
employee contribution 10%. Opt-out plan available.
Vacation Accrual: Based on years of service; starting at 80 hours per year
Sick Leave: 80 hours per year
Personal Leave: 32 hours per year
Life Insurance: City-provided $20,000 term coverage
Tax-Deferred Savings: Ohio Deferred Compensation option available
Pension Plan: Ohio Police and Fire Pension System – City contribution 19.5%; employee contribution 10%
Take-Home Cruiser: Assigned following successful completion of FTO Program and within parameters specified
in directive
Arthur Scott
Chief of Police
David Rosenfelder
Police Lieutenant
U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Victim Notification Program
Allows Eligible victims and witnesses to obtain reliable and timlely information regarding a criminal alien's release from custody.
Free Gun Locks
In our efforts to further enhance the safety and security of our community, the Trenton Police Department is offering FREE gun locks to all residents. Gun locks can be obtained from the department 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Please see the on-duty Dispatcher or any officer to request as many gun locks as you need in order to secure your weapons.
Mission Statement
We, the Trenton Police Department, are committed to the highest standards of
honesty, integrity, and dedication to our community.


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At the end of the third quarter of OKC's 106-90 win over Portland, Enes Kanter put up—well, he put up this:
Based on degree of difficulty, he should get four points for managing to miss that badly. At least it made Kevin Durant happy.
Somewhat sadly, the clock expired before Kanter got the "shot" off, so it wouldn't have counted and may well never have existed.


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Wyoming Air Ambulance Waiver
Public notice
The Department of Health submitted the air ambulance 1115 waiver to CMS, on October 28th, 2019. CMS deemed the waiver complete on November 8th, 2019 (see letter in public documents folder, below). It was posted to CMS' website for a 30-day federal public comment period from Nov. 13th through Dec 13th.
CMS denied the waiver on January 3rd.
The official State public notice period for the Air Ambulance Waiver was August 26th through September 30th.
This is the abbreviated public notice; the full public notice is available at this link. The full 1115 waiver application is available here in its entirety, and a brief summarizing the waiver is shown on this site, below.
What will the waiver do?
The waiver would expand Wyoming Medicaid to all state residents for the specific purpose of air ambulance transportation. Waiver goals include:
- Eliminate the surprise billing of patients
- Reduce the average cost of air ambulance flights while ensuring a set level of access and quality
- Increase price transparency for patients and employer groups
Under the plan, WDH would competitively bid for a selected network of air ambulance providers, make periodic flat payments (similar to a gym membership) to these contracted providers and then recoup the revenue needed to fund the system from the insurance plans and individuals already paying for transports.
Public meetings
The State held two public meetings to receive public comment. The locations and times were:
- On Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019, from 11:00am - 1:00pm, in Torrington, at the Goshen County Library Activity Center (2017 East A St., Torrington WY 82240)
- On Thursday, September 5th, 2019, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm in Laramie, at the University of Wyoming Student Union Building - Senate Chambers room.
More details on these events, to include the call-in numbers to listen in on the meetings remotely, are available on the Calendar section of this site, below.
Where can I read more?
- The calendar, document repository, and public comment form are further down on the page.
Public documents
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How to make a Traditional Christmas Pudding
Christmas Pudding, Plum Pudding or Figgy Pudding – you simply cannot have a Christmas Dinner without the traditional dessert! It has a long history dating back to Roman times, and the recipe I am sharing with you today was passed to me by my mum. It has never let me down!


text: When I wrote the following account of my experiences with rats, I lived in an apartment building on a block filled with other apartment buildings, amidst the approximately eight million people in New York City, and I paid rent to a landlord that I never actually met-though I did meet the superintendent, who was a very nice guy. At this moment, I am living out of the city, away from the masses, in a bucolic little village with about the same number of inhabitants as my former city block. I wouldn't normally delve into my own personal matters, except that when I mention my rat experiences to people, they sometimes think I took extraordinary measures to investigate them, and I didn't. All I did was stand in an alley-a filth-slicked little alley that is about as old as the city and secret the way alleys are secret and yet just a block or two from Wall Street, from Broadway, and from what used to be the World Trade Center. All I did was take a spot next to the trash and wait and watch, rain or no rain, night after night, and always at night, the time when, generally speaking, humans go to sleep and rats come alive.


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Are you confident that your personal injury attorney in Fayette County has put your interests first ahead of a big payday? Will they do the appropriate due diligence and dot all I's and cross all T's when it comes to the paperwork and evidence needed to get you the settlement — and justice — that you deserve following your personal injury accident? At Carabin Shaw, we represent folks in the San Antonio, Texas area who have suffered a devastating personal injury due to an accident that wasn't their fault. We'll represent you with a tough-minded and thorough approach and won't see a penny unless and until you do.
Personal Injury Attorneys Near Me In Fayette County Texas
At Carabin Shaw, we've compiled a staff of legal experts and personal injury attorneys designed to represent your interests in a personal injury claim from the initial phone call to our San Antonio office, the initial, free consultation, all the way through the process up to and including a trial and litigation, if necessary. Our exceptional team of personal injury attorneys are experienced and well educated in all aspects of personal injury law and the processes set up to deny, delay, and to keep you from the settlement and justice you deserve. Let us worry about your personal injury case in Fayette County TX while you focus on recovery and getting your life back to normal.
Free Consultation With A Personal Injury Attorney — (210) 503-9717
When you place a call to the San Antonio offices of Carabin Shaw's personal injury attorneys, you'll initially speak with a knowledgeable and friendly legal associate who can answer any of your personal injury case questions. Then you'll get a free consultation with one of our expert personal injury attorneys. So call us for a free consultation today at (210) 503-9717.
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How To Select a Personal Injury Attorney
Accidents in Fayette County that cause injuries are frequently unforeseeable. They can happen anywhere and without warning. Therefore, the number of people affected by accidents has the tendency to come in thousands, if not tens of thousands.
In fact, the more access people have to cars and equipment, the higher the number of casualties. Therefore, personal injury attorneys are an asset to society because they help the victims with lawsuits; guaranteeing they get well compensated for their injuries and losses.
Personal Injury Claims Are Complex Cases
For an individual who isn't really familiar with the rules and policies of filing claims, the process can be long and terrible. You will have lots of documentation to go through and lawyers from the other side battling to make sure they squeeze out the smallest amount they can as compensation.
Every case in Fayette County is distinct, so you can't use a similar situation as a plan for how you should proceed. Certain actions are however similar.
The first step of filing a lawsuit would be a complimentary consultation with the attorney. In this step, you should talk about the case thoroughly, the nature of the accident, as well as the level of injuries sustained. The personal injury attorney will ask a series of questions relating to the case. It's also the chance for you to ask questions concerning the case; like who will handle it and for how long it would take.
In-depth Investigation Of The Case
The personal injury attorney will perform a thorough investigation. Depending upon the circumstances, the attorney will collect information from reconstruction experts, medical professionals, the police and other professionals involved with the case. The process would consist of:
• Gathering reports from the police
• Evaluating the accident scene
• Putting together pictures
• Collecting statements from witnesses
• Obtaining your medical reports
• Verifying the time missed from work due to the accident
These noted actions are not conclusive, but form a basis for examining the case. Your attorney will keep you informed throughout the process; responding to your questions and legal needs.
Later, a demand for settlement will be sent to the relevant insurance provider, detailing the case and liability. The opposing party will examine the letter and either accepts conditions, make a counter offer or decline the demand.
Filing The Personal Injury Claim
In case the opposing party's insurer turns down the demand, a suit may be submitted.
Your personal injury attorney in Fayette County TX therefore will prepare you for the court procedures. It is possible for the other party to get the help of a conciliator to avoid a lawsuit. Mediation is a casual proceeding where the parties try to reach an arrangement. Your attorney therefore should have experience in dealing with mediation processes. S/he will prepare you for it also.
Steps Leading To Compensation
Therefore, whether the other party accepts liability or declines it, an exceptional personal injury attorney will ensure that you get the compensation you are worthy of. Whether the litigation process is through an informal mediation process or a court trial, you will still be ensured of compensatory payment and comfort as you recuperate.
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Kenny Man released his Bale Talk mixtape back in August of last year and now he's back with the second installment in the series.
The 11-track project includes additions from YFN Lucci, Trouble, Derez De'Shon, Bigga Rankin, Big City Tez, Swift Cartier, Show, Ralo, and Jean Deau.
Listen to Bale Talk 2 below or download a copy for yourself on iTunes now.
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CHS grads require fewer remedial college classes than news story reported
CHS grads require fewer remedial college classes than news story reported
The high number of community college students forced into remedial classes upon arrival is a national problem and I was glad to see Linda Borg write about it in Sunday's Providence Journal. Even Massachusetts, seen as the gold standard in education, has more than 60 percent of its community college students placed in non-credit-bearing high school level (but expensive!) remedial classes. And Rhode Island is right there with them with a state average of 65 percent of community college students requiring at least one remedial course. It is a staggering statistic.
But Borg wasn't working with updated information for Cumberland, a problem that hits close to home for me since she cites my town of Cumberland as having among the highest remediation rates in the state when, on the contrary, we are actually 10 points below the state average and have improved by 20 percentage points on this front since 2012.
Here's the sentence in the Projo piece that is problematic:
CCRI is having a similar discussion with the superintendents of Providence, Cumberland and Central Falls, which have among the highest number of graduates needing remediation.
Here is what a CCRI official told me about Cumberland's remediation data, verbatim:
"Here is the 2015 data for Cumberland: "... in the fall of 2015, 1,813 students were identified and 65.6 percent were recommended a placement. This is the third consecutive year that the percentage has decreased (from a high of 75.5 percent in 2012). For Cumberland High School this fall, 71 students enrolled at CCRI directly out of high school. Forty-one or 57.7 percent of these students were recommended for one or more developmental/remedial courses. This percentage for Cumberland is below the state-wide average of 65.6 percent as stated in the first paragraph."
And then fall 2016: "... In the fall of 2016, 1,717 students were identified state-wide and 65.6 percent (same as last fall) were recommended a placement. The three prior years, the percentage decreased each year from a high of 75.5 percent in fall 2012. CCRI enrolled 49 Cumberland High graduates (down from 71 the previous fall) directly out of high school in the fall of 2016. 55.1 percent of these students were recommended for one or more developmental/remedial courses. Clearly the percentage here is below the state-wide average of 65.6 percent as stated above."
No matter how you slice it, these remediation rates are way too high both statewide and in Cumberland and something all of us should be invested in seeing improve. Conversations between K-12 leaders and college leaders are crucial as is a revamp of the way we do remediation in higher ed.
But as we in Cumberland enter what is already shaping up to be a brutal budget cycle, misinformation or #alternativefacts can be damaging to a district that has been on a trajectory of continuous improvement for more than five years despite being at the very bottom when it comes to funding. And as the lowest funded district in the state for decades, we can't afford to have the naysayers using inaccurate remediation rates to claim that the school department isn't deserving of the same investment in students that every other district in the state has made.
In fact, for Cumberland to even make its way to the average spending in Rhode Island, it would require an immediate infusion of $15 million. So yes, it's that bad.
So while we face a gut wrenching $2 million in potential cuts from an already bare bones budget, we can't have false narratives about our student outcomes floated by local journalists as if a correction in the online version will make everything better.
There is a lot of work to be done to get our kids where they need and deserve to be but that is a reality facing every school district in Rhode Island and most school districts nationwide. After years of decline, Cumberland has emerged as a leader on a variety of fronts and has been recognized for its improvement as well as its strong (and award-winning) school leaders. The high school profile continues to improve and access to AP courses is expanding. Lines of communication are far more open than they used to be and there is enthusiasm in our buildings despite crippling budget projections.
So rather than focus on a news story that gets it wrong, we will focus on our achievements, be honest about where we need to improve, and celebrate that our remedial numbers are far better than they used to be and far better than Sunday's paper would have people believe.
Erika Sanzi


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I know a man, we call each other
Friend, who also calls himself Hermit.
In truth, he does live almost alone,
save for his dogs and
the glowing, dusty, snowy,
piercing beauty of his mountains.
He is content there in the wide open,
greeting the sun each day, Inviting
it in and sharing it through his third eye.
I know a man who some call Hermit,
who resides in the suburbs, so close
to the whirrings of highway and flyway
that they'd awaken him, if he would listen.
But he doesn't even hear.
This one hides in the cut of stone
behind his eyes and burrows within
the shadowy side of his heart.
He throws rocks when you try
to get close, and struggles to bring
himself out of the dark to perceive
the dawn in life shining on all his good——
people, accomplishments, memories, joy——
that surround him like those mountains
embrace the friend he never met,
the one who calls himself Hermit,
who loves the world and it loves him back.
Perhaps, one day, the second one might
emerge to embrace your bright love, but
first he must learn to love himself.


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BOSTON – College campuses have long since wired their dorms and libraries. Now some are going even further: Net-enabled laundry.
IBM hopes a new system of smart, wired washers and dryers will instill a little efficiency in the college dormitory laundry room, letting students keep tabs on their laundry from anywhere they can access the Internet – their dorm rooms, the library or even a cell phone.
The Armonk, New York-based company plans to install about 9,000 of the machines on 40 campuses, all so far in the Midwest, including Ohio State University and Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio.
Students can log onto a Web page to see if there are free machines and receive an e-mail or page when the load is finished. The system can also automatically charge students through their ID cards, though it would still accommodate traditional coins.
Users can't reserve machines, but the system could eliminate back-and-forth to the laundry room.
"Where I went to school, if you left your clothes in the machine, it would end up on the floor," said Dean Douglas, vice president for IBM Global Services. With the new machines, "You could be outside throwing a Frisbee or whatever instead of waiting in that laundry room ... for the load to finish."
IBM's machines got a trial run last spring on nine washers and 10 dryers at Boston College. The school hasn't decided whether to commit to the devices, but Joe Schott, 25, a residence hall director who lives in a dorm there, said the machine made life easier for students.
Cedarville University plans to have units installed in 150 machines by the spring semester.
"This just seemed like an obvious opportunity to leverage our technological investment for our students," Cedarville spokesman Roger Overturf said.


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Hernando County residents vote down adding toxic fluoride to municipal drinking water
February 27, 2014
Following debate over adding the chemical fluoride to county drinking water, Hernando County, Fla. has decided not to force medicate its residents.
On Tuesday, the Hernando County Commissioner's board held a meeting where both pro and anti-fluoride activists were allowed to voice their opinions, after which the crowd voted against mandatory fluoridation.
"The majority of those speakers were opposed to fluoridation," Hernando Today reports.
One dentist who spoke argued that people need to "step up and vote" to add fluoride to the county's drinking water to help the "poorest of the poor" reduce cavities.
"Fluoridation is safe, effective and provides huge cost-savings and reduces human pain and suffering," the dentist reportedly stated.
Jim Intzen, one of the residents opposed to fluoridation, countered the dentist's claim, pointing out that "the county health department offers a dental program so it is a fallacy that low-income people don't have access to affordable care."
Intzen also pointed to studies that have shown people exposed to fluoride developed thyroid problems and that the chemical has been linked to lowering a person's IQ.
County residents also called the industrial waste chemical out as being an "insidious poison," and a retired doctor added that fluoride not only posed a health hazard when swallowed, but that it is also "absorbed into the skin and ultimately the bloodstream when showering."
Additionally, hydrofluorosilicic acid, the compound typically used to fluoridate drinking water, is a corrosive chemical whose own Material Safety Data Sheet says it can cause "nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal burning, and cramp-like pains," in addition to its vapors being able to cause "severe irritation to the lungs, nose and throat. If swallowed," the MSDS says, "it can cause severe damage to throat and stomach."
According to Hernando Today, "Audience members said it was unconstitutional to force fluoridation on citizens. European countries have already outlawed its use in public drinking supplies, a few people said." In fact, a whole host of cities in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have moved to take fluoride out of their water.
"It removes freedom of choice and becomes medication (by force)," another resident stated.
In voting down fluoride, the county estimates it has saved taxpayers close to $800,000.
Hernando County joins a legion of municipalities around the globe which have fought back and won against what many studies have shown to be a deadly neurotoxin that attacks the central nervous system, lowers IQ and leads to a multitude of serious health problems.
Protect you and your family's health by removing toxic fluoride from the body with Infowars' Fluoride Shield, available at the Infowars Store. Learn more about "how hazardous waste ended up in our drinking water" with "The Case Against Fluoride," also available at the Infowars Store.
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When Scotsman Dean Nicholson decided to bike across the world, he assumed he would be making his journey alone.
But that changed three months into his trip when the 31-year-old found a kitten chasing him uphill in Bosnia, near the border of Montenegro.
At this point, Nicholson had cycled from Scotland to England. He then got on a ferry to the Netherlands where he traveled to Belgium, France, Switzerland and to Italy.
He was on the coast of the Adriatic when he took a ferry to Croatia and biked to Bosnia.
When he spotted the kitten, he jumped off his bike.
"I turned around and I had this wee monster chasing after me. Meowing her heart out," Nicholson told The Dodo. "She was quite scruffy looking and she was quite skinny."
Nicholson decided to give her something to eat. He thought that would be the end of their meeting.
But the cat just kept on following him.
"So then I thought, 'Well, I've got to take her now.' And I decided to take her on this journey."
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He made a space for the cat, which he named Nala, and let her sit in a satchel he unzippered so she could poke her head out.
But Nala didn't like that.
She wanted to be as close to her new friend as possible.
"She climbed out and climbed up on my shoulder," he explains.
She wouldn't leave his side that night when they slept in the tent.
"She loves being in the tent. She dives about on the floor and there's, like, wee cuts across all of it. She wants inside the sleeping bag. And she wants the wee nook of your armpit."
They would bike for about 7 hours a day. Even in bad weather.
But Nala developed a chest infection after being wet in the rain.
So, he had to take to the vet. They ended up staying in a hostel for three weeks just so Nala could get better.
Now Nicholson is in no rush. He's taking his time and catering to whatever Nala needs on the trip.
"Basically it's her trip," he says. "She's 100 percent my best friend. She's the best travel companion you could have. I love her. She's just brilliant to be with."
Now Nicholson and Nala are entertaining their 332,000 followers on Instagram.
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Since then, Nicholson has gotten Nala's paw print tattooed on him.
The two are currently in Greece.
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A video out of Pakistan shows a limp-wristed chai boy attempt to fire an AK-47 into the sky at a Pakistani wedding.
The moron is unable to control the weapon, nor is he smart enough to let up on the trigger.
The rifle sprays down into the crowd, which hits, and likely kills at least one person.
Another man runs up to the idiot to take positive control of his weapon. Other attendees are not yet aware of the incident and fire their own weapons off into sky.
Screaming and panic sweeps through the crowd. The music stops and people rush to the aid of the shot person.
For a split second of the footage one can see the wounded, possibly killed person before the video ends.


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Building and maintenance tools for Fedora Haskell https://github.com/fedora-haskell/fedora-haskell-tools
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Fedora Haskell Tools
Builds set of packages locally or in Koji or Mock.
For local builds unbuilt dependent packages are also built recursive.
For updates built in Koji, buildroot overrides are created and waited for.
Please be careful using this: eg for Rawhide this can easily cause package builds to take place in Koji when packages haven't been built yet for the latest disttag.
See TODO for more planned features.
Git clones and pull, etc Fedora Haskell package repos. Can also generate Hackage distro meta data.
Unless you specify a branch it will use "fedpkg clone -B". It doesn't do anonymous cloning (-a) yet.
This replaces the scripts:
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- https://pagure.io/haskell-sig-old/blob/master/f/packages/current-packages
fhpkg and fhbuild may eventually be merged.
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The East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority sent out "the letter" earlier this week that its five members knew was going to be a doozy.
The letters were sent to 2,500 individuals that either own, reside or do business out of 1,200 homes or commercial properties in the city. It informed its recipients that their address is included in an area where the ERHRA may "carry out its functions in an effort to protect and enhance existing neighborhoods, increase strength for existing and prospective commercial areas, and to provide creative approaches for renovation and redevelopment of properties."
In previous public meetings the members of the ERHRA discussed the likelihood that this letter was going to send shock waves through the city and potentially panic a whole bunch of people.
They were right.
Social media lit up with hysterical residents saying they knew nothing about this housing authority thing. "The city was coming to take my house." … "The city has been doing this type of thing for years." … "What are they up to now?" … What is their plan?"
If you are concerned, panicked even, about the prospect of being in this "redevelopment boundary" you will have an opportunity to maybe, maybe have your fears addressed. The city is having a meeting on Thursday, May 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Community Center where, presumably, members of the ERHRA board and East Ridge staff will provide answers as to what the heck is going on.
I wouldn't bet on it, though. I don't think the board members – Curtis Adams, Darwin Branam, Ruth Braly, Eddie Phillips and Earl Wilson – really know much more than the fact that there's a map and there's an official "plan." By the way, those two elements are the basic requirements that state law mandates for forming a housing authority.
Beyond that, I think the ERHRA members are pretty much in the dark.
That begs the question; "who does know why this board was formed and what it will be used for?"
Mayor Brent Lambert announced in the spring of 2017 that he would create a housing and redevelopment board. I recall Councilman Jacky Cagle asked a few questions about it and he was given some vague answers about people in East Ridge having "unsafe and unsanitary" housing. During the April 27, 2017 council meeting, Lambert said that the City had the right to establish a housing authority if everyone in East Ridge, EVERYONE, did not have safe and sanitary housing.
Lambert alluded to the Cascades Motel on Ringgold Road. He referenced killings and murders at the location. Definitely not a safe place.
At some point Lambert made a statement that he wished we had a housing authority in place when Superior Creek Lodge was in its heyday. The housing authority could have been used to shut 'em down. Of course, the City did shut down SCL on the order of Brad Hayen, the city's Chief Building Official at the time. "Life safety" issues was the justification for padlocking the joint and putting hundreds of people out on the street.
On May 25, 2017, the mayor got around to appointing the board members and nothing happened for months. Questions were asked about the East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority and how it would work and what it would do, and Lambert was mum.
The ERHRA finally had its first meeting on June 30, 2017 and City Attorney Mark Litchford brought in his Tennessee Code Annotated volumes and began preaching from the book. Litchford was going to be the lawyer for this group, too. Bylaws were adopted. The chairman (Branam) and vice chairman (Phillips) were chosen. All its members took an oath and signed a document. East Ridge was now in the housing authority business.
Adams, the wise old politico that served as our Hamilton County Commissioner for 20 years, sat back in his black suit and took it all in. He first asked if the ERHRA could get some business cards. Then he asked if the "law" was going to be going with the ERHRA members when they "march up to the old widow woman and tell her she's going to have to leave her house?" He asked the same question several more times as the rest of the board tried to keep straight faces.
In that meeting and subsequent ones, Wilson asked about vacant lots and houses in residential areas that were falling down and had been for years. Maybe the ERHRA members could be assigned to a certain area of the city and they would each focus on their area and report to the full board about problems.
Finally, Branam told the board that the ERHRA would focus on COMMERCIAL PROPERTY first. Judging from the faces of the board members sitting around the table, that little tidbit of information was news to them.
At one of the first meetings Attorney Litchford said the housing authority could and would act independently from the City. Litchford told the board that the housing authority could under state law "take" properties if it fell within the redevelopment boundary and the housing authority had a "plan." If the property owner didn't like it, they could just file a law suit in court and a judge would determine the issue.
City Manager Scott Miller has been on hand at all the meetings. At several of the meetings, Miller informed the housing authority that it could not "take" property for the purposes of economic development. The only legal way of "taking" private property away from its owner is to demonstrate that it is being seized for a higher public purpose to benefit all the citizens of East Ridge.
At several of the East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority meetings, Wilson brought up a potential conflict of interest in having Litchford serve as both City Attorney and the attorney for the ERHRA. By this time Adams's health had deteriorated and he had stopped attending the meetings, and the other board members couldn't see any problems associated with Litchford having both jobs.
Miller, who has been in the business of running cities for 40 years, spoke up and said he had seen an instance in which the city was at legal loggerheads with its housing authority and there was a court case.
Chairman Branam just grinned and said that the board would deal with any conflicts as it pertains to Attorney Litchford, if they ever arose. He said that Litchford would certainly inform the board if he encountered any conflict of interest.
And that was the end of that.
In the beginning the ERHRA meetings were held on Wednesday's at 10 a.m. Only two or three citizens ever showed up to attend. Wilson had a problem with having the meetings at such an hour when the vast majority of people in East Ridge had no chance of attending. He suggested moving the meetings to the evening. That simply wasn't convenient for most of the board. The idea was dismissed until Mickey Spence, a private citizen, spoke up at a meeting and said it was just common sense to change the time if the board wanted to give any appearance of transparency.
And speaking of transparency, the ERHRA had a special called meeting on January 24, 2018 where the city gave 17 hours public notice. This reporter raised a fair amount of grief about it. Branam said he had no problem with 17 hours notice given to the good citizens of East Ridge. Attorney Litchford agreed. He noted that within an article published in East Ridge News Online two weeks prior about events at the meeting there was an announcement of when the board would meet again.
That, Litchford said, fulfilled adequate public notice under state law.
A complaint was filed with the state about the lack of public notice. The state Comptroller's Office wrote a letter to the housing board and Mayor Lambert notifying the City of the complaint. Litchford responded saying that the Comptroller's Office didn't know the whole story.
At any rate, during its next meeting, the East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority "reaffirmed" its boundary map by adding a couple of properties. They voted again on what they had passed, essentially fulfilling the remedy of having an "illegal" public meeting.
What's next? Maybe at the May 3 meeting at the Community Center it will all become clear.
Surely, some city official, maybe Mayor Lambert can explain what in fact this housing and redevelopment authority is really all about.
I ain't holding my breath on that one.


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The request was made Monday, in a letter to the office of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office has handled the alleged assault case involving "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett.
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This book keeps getting recommended to me, and I finally managed to find a slip of paper with the title on it and order it from the library. My recommenders turned out to be right, as it's a pretty awesome book.
World War Z, for those of you who haven't heard of it, is an oral history of the Zombie World War, collected Studs Terkel style and presented in several chunks covering various aspects of the Great Panic, the war, and the people who made decisions and were involved in the war on the front lines. Brooks travels all over the world in search of people to interview, ranging from industrialists who capitalized on the early panic to the captains of submarines.
It holds up pretty well as what it's supposed to be, except that a lot of interviews read like the same person, because, er, the entire book is written by one person, perhaps? A couple of weird little catch phrases kept turning up in people who weren't related to each other, and had no good reason to repeat those phrases, and the wording was often suspiciously similar. Hey, it's hard to write characters, let alone this many, don't get me wrong, I just think the book could have been edited a bit better to eliminate this problem.
Also, a lot of the interviews were a little bit too expository, feeling a bit stiff and unrealistic. And some of them were especially annoying because the author set up foreshadowing a bit too neatly, feeding his characters lines such as "after what happened to me," and making them evasive about things in the beginning of an interview and suddenly wildly talkative about them. As a result, some of the book felt extremely artificial to me.
For what it is, it's a pretty good book, and if you happen to know someone who is obsessed with zombies, they might really dig it. I will admit to some interest in the zombie community, so I got a kick out of it, at least.
World War Z, by Max Brooks. Published 2006, 342 pages. Fiction.


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Suppose we have quantum mechanical plane waves of energy $E$ incident upon a one-dimensional potential barrier $V(x)$ with sloping sides.
One can compare the WKB solutions in the three relevant regions to asymptotics of the Airy function solutions to the linearized Schrödinger equation near the turning points to obtain matching formulae, relating $A, B$ (the coefficients of the right- and left-propagating waves, respectively, left of the barrier) to $F, G$ (the coefficients of the right- and left-propagating waves, respectively, right of the barrier). One can then construct the relevant scattering matrix $S$, defined by:
$$\left[\begin{array}{c} B\\ F \end{array}\right]=S\left[\begin{array}{c} A\\ G \end{array}\right] \, .$$
I have carried out the above computation and found that
$$S=\left[\begin{array}{cc} i\left(\dfrac{1-4e^{2\gamma}}{1+4e^{2\gamma}}\right) & \dfrac{4e^{\gamma}}{1+4e^{2\gamma}}\\ \dfrac{4e^{\gamma}}{1+4e^{2\gamma}} & i\left(\dfrac{1-4e^{2\gamma}}{1+4e^{2\gamma}}\right) \end{array}\right]$$
measures the "strength" of the reflecting, classically-forbidden region.
This scattering matrix $S$ is in fact unitary, and hence this scattering process conserves the probability current across the barrier. But why should this be true?
I know that a solution of the Schrödinger equation will necessarily conserve probability current, but here we have both (1) assumed approximate WKB-type solutions and (2) carried out a complicated asymptotic matching procedure. It is not clear to me why, after this approximation and matching procedure, the resulting solution should still conserve probability current.
Said another way: is there an a priori reason one should expect the WKB-matched solutions to conserve probability current (in spite the fact that they are inexact), or is this simply a happy coincidence that falls out of the computation?


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Quite frequently, I get calls asking if it is alright to temporarily remove batteries from a battery cabinet while moving in a new UPS system. This is because it's fairly common for (1) UPS battery cabinet on top of a pallet to weigh around 5,000 lb. Each jar could weight up to 50 or even over 100 lb. depending on the configuration so removing even a few trays in the top sections can make a big difference.
To answer the question, yes you can remove them. But be careful! Even though the connectors aren't made from the factory (don't connect these, the Eaton Field Engineer will handle this at startup), these are still live batteries with a charge on them. Only a qualified electrician should perform this task.
Keep in mind that what comes out must go back in as it once was. Take pictures and notes, not leaving any detail out.
Lastly, these suckers are heavy! Most of the time, just (1) tray houses (4) 12-volt battery jars. There are many manufacturers that build special lifts that will allow you to slide out the tray, then safety lower the removed tray to the ground. I've seen it done with pure muscle, but it is recommended to have a mechanical-assist method for safety purposes as well as efficiency. Then for re-installation, just do the opposite.
So long as everything is back as it was when received, there shouldn't be any issue when it's time to start up the system.
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Berker, Selim. 2015. "Reply to Goldman: Cutting Up the One to Save the Five in Epistemology." Episteme 12: 145–53.
I argue that Alvin Goldman has failed to save process reliabilism from my critique in earlier work of consequentialist or teleological epistemic theories. First, Goldman misconstrues the nature of my challenge: two of the cases he discusses I never claimed to be counterexamples to process reliabilism. Second, Goldman's reply to the type of case I actually claimed to be a counterexample to process reliabilism is unsuccessful. He proposes a variety of responses, but all of them either feature an implausible restriction on process types, or fail to rule out cases with the sort of structure that generates the worry, or both.


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The Auroran
Export date: Tue Aug 11 7:42:00 2020 / +0000 GMT
Christmas Market gears up for third year of shopping, crafts and live entertainment
If you're looking for some unique gifts for that special someone on your holiday list, come out this weekend for the Town of Aurora's third-annual Christmas Market.
Taking over Town Hall and the Aurora Seniors' Centre from Friday, November 29 through Sunday, December 1, it is a three-day Christmas cavalcade, kicking off on the Friday night with the Town's annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Town Hall's forecourt at 6 p.m.
The fun continues on November 30 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. with the Aurora Farmers' Market, which will take place in Town Hall, followed from 1 – 7.30 p.m. with performances from the Borealis Big Band, Marquee Theatrical Productions with their Frozen-inspired performance entitled "Frigid", buskers, and crafting workshops.
Closing out the festivities on December 1 from 1 – 6 p.m. will be a pancake brunch, a concert courtesy of the Aurora Community Band and more festive workshops.
"We have only been fortunate before to have Santa on the Friday, but he has enjoyed the market – and the growth of it – for so long that he has decided to commit to being in Town for the entire weekend, along with his reindeer," says Shelley Ware, Special Events Coordinator for the Town of Aurora. "Santa and his reindeer will be available to meet families in Petch House throughout the entire weekend of the market. Additionally, the Market is full of different vendors each day and we have expanded the number of vendors each year. We have also moved into an additional room inside the Seniors' Centre with two full rooms of vendors inside, as well as a full captivating market outside – and the vendors will change each day.
"We're also fortunate that the Niagara College's Canadian Food & Wine Institute will be participating in the Market as well on Friday night, operating from an inflatable igloo, and anyone who has ever tasted their food would certainly agree it is an instant party in your mouth. We can't wait to see what they're serving up."
For many years, the traditional lighting of Aurora's Christmas Tree was something the Town served up as a standalone event, but since incorporating it into the kick-off of the Christmas Market, they have seen both events only grow together.
"Having the tree as the kickoff to the entire weekend actually starts the season really right with a festive step," says Ms. Ware, noting that additional entertainment at the Tree Lighting will include buskers, including the popular Fire Guy. "The trees, the lights, the glitter – everything that sparkles and glitters is what Markets are all about and we start it off with our beautiful tree being lit. It's a natural progression to go right into a weekend fully focused on the festivities. Having everyone gather at the tree, see it being lit, and participate in the carolling procession, is where you truly get the feeling of the season but you also get the strong sense and reminder of how connected this community truly is."
The morning following the tree lighting, Ms. Ware encourages festive families to come out early for the Aurora Farmers' Market, encouraging people to check out Caterina's Kitchen in particular for a "spectacular array of chilli, soups and everything to keep you warm" as you venture outside the indoor Farmers' Market at 1 p.m. to visit the outdoor market vendors.
"We worked really hard to ensure that all our vendors are bringing in something unique and something that will make you be able to provide that unique gift that certainly isn't easily replicated," says Ms. Ware. "Throughout the weekend, we'll have back-to-back buskers and on Saturday we'll have five different busker shows, all unique and very captivating entertainers. On Sunday, we have lots of baton and fire baton twirling shoes, as well as our hands-on festive workshops."
In addition to workshops on how to build your own gingerbread house, the Town's Parks Manager and Horticulturalist will be on hand leading a workshop on "festive swag" where you can make wreaths and other decorations for your front door – leaving the mess with the Town. There will also be classes on decorating tabletops for the big day, as well as a seminar on "Indulge" – that is, tips on how not to overeat, over-shop and generally overdo during the Holiday season.
"Rather, it is about spending time and energy accordingly to get the maximum joy out of the season," explains Ms. Ware.
For more information on the Aurora Christmas Market, visit aurora.ca/christmasmarket or call 905-726-4762.
By Brock Weir
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Migrating to Track-It!
The new version of Track-It! is built on a completely new platform that offers a full web client experience on supported browsers. The features from the previous version have been greatly enhanced in the new Track-It platform and many more features have been added.
To learn more about the features included in Track-It!, the differences from prior 11.x versions, and what is planned for upcoming releases, see Track-It! 11.x vs. Track-It! 20xx.
The following topics are provided:
The following video (8.22) presentation provides information about the migration tool.
Should I migrate or start fresh?
This is a question many users contemplate when upgrading. We have tried to make the migration process as easy as possible and it can be accomplished in 3 simple steps.
Those steps are:
- Install & configure the new 2019 system.
- Install the migration tool.
- Run the migration tool to copy over your data.
That said, we have found that many customers have chosen to take this as an opportunity to start fresh as opposed to importing their old data. This decision is made for a number of reasons. However, the most common is that Track-It! 2019 is so different than 11.x that the migration tool is only capable of copying over the old data and cannot copy configuration settings.
Some customers use this upgrade as an opportunity to redesign their processes or rethink their Priority and Ticket Categorization strategy, allowing them to clean up their data while at the same time shedding old tickets in the process. In any case, the old Track-It! 11.x system can be left active as an archive of that old data.
For these reasons, for the best user experience and the fastest way to go live, we recommend the fresh start as an option for most customers. This may not be for you and if not, that is completely understandable. If you have any questions or run into any snags while migrating your data to the new version, our support team is available to assist you in your migration.
Who can migrate
Track-It! includes an easy-to-use wizard to migrate your data from your existing Track-It! version 11.4.00 or 11.4.01 to new Track-It! version. This migration tool only migrates the data from previous version. This means that the migration tool only copies the data into the new database. The tool does not move or remove the data from the 11.4 database. Also, the tool does not migrate any configuration settings or reports. You must recreate the configurations settings in the new Track-It! version.
Who can migrate
- You can migrate the data only from Track-It! version 11.4.00 or 11.4.01 to new Track-It! version.
- If you are using an older version of Track-It!, you must upgrade to version 11.4.00 or 11.4.01 before migrating the data to the new Track-It!
Key considerations
- You must run the migration tool on your Track-It 11.4 application server.
- Do not import technicians and requestors before data migration because this might cause conflicting user IDs or migration might fail. BMC recommends that you first perform migration and then use the Active Directory to import technicians and requestors.
- The migration tool uses the TCP/IP connection to connect and transfer data between the source and the target databases. You must enable the TCP/IP protocol on both databases. By default, the SQL Express TCP/IP protocol is disabled. For more information, refer the following blog posts by Microsoft:
- Do not delete the group named HelpDesk before migration.
- If you had created or updated records or had run the migration tool to perform a partial migration earlier, the migration tool does not purge any data that is previously migrated or created. For matching records, the migration tool skips mapping records.
- The default administrator technician from version 11.4 is not migrated with the user attributes. Instead, a new account is created in the current Track-It! version. After the account is created, you must configure the user attributes, such as first name, last name, email address, and so on.
- To ensure that the network linkages are migrated with the assets, you must migrate the Network Lookups before you migrate the Assets.
Before you begin
- Track-It! provides separate migration tool specific for the 32-bit and 64-bit environment. BMC recommends that you use the migration tool that is specific for your environment.
- You must enable the TCP/IP protocol for your SQL server to connect the migration tool database.
- BMC recommends that you have a minimum of 10 GB free hard disk space and 2 GB available free memory during the migration. If the size of your total attachments that are to be migrated is large, ensure that you have adequate space available.
- BMC recommends that you stop all services running for the version 11.4 and the current version including the IIS server. If the services are not stopped, the migration tool might detect a change in the data and continue to migrate the changes. This might cause the migration tool to run in an infinite loop.
- If you have a large database, BMC recommends that you perform the migration during the non-peak hours.
- Following are the prerequisites specific for asset migration:
- It is mandatory to configure BMC Client Management with Track-It!. While configuring the BMC Client Management, ensure that you provide the server name instead of the localhost.
- Configure the BMC Client Management in Track-It!. For more information, see Setting up BMC Client Management.
- After you configure the Asset Management in the current version of Track-It!, you must login at least once as technician to allow the asset types to sync.
- Ensure that the version 11.x database does not contain duplicate assets. If the migration tool finds duplicate assets in the version 11.4 database, you can choose not to migrate duplicate assets. In this case, the first asset is migrated and the migration tool skips migrating the duplicate asset. To avoid this, you can rename the duplicate asset and run the migration tool again. To get a list of duplicate assets in your 11.x database, run the following SQL query:
SELECT count(*) as AssetCount, ISNULL(NAME, AWS_NUM) as ASSETNAME from WORKSTAT group by ISNULL(NAME, AWS_NUM) having Count(*) > 1
- If the Asset Name contains double quotes ("), the migration tool removes the double quotes (") and migrates the asset successfully.
- If you have more number of assets (more than thousand) in version 11.4, the asset migration process takes long time to complete. The migration duration depends on the number of assets, the asset relationships, and the performance of all the systems involved in the migration process.
Also, due to the default setting in the BMC Client Management configuration, the BMC Client Management Server service automatically restarts, which causes migration issues. To avoid the automatic restart of the BMC Client Management Server service, change the default setting by performing the below steps:
- Navigate to the location C:\Program Files\BMC Software\Client Management\Client\config.
Open the file mtxagent.config. Locate the tag [RebootManagement] and set the parameter NonIntrusiveMode to 1.
After the migration process is completed, you must revert this setting back to the default value.
Data that is migrated
If required, you can run the migration tool multiple times. This does not duplicate the data. Each time you run the migration tool, it looks for any new records in the earlier version of Track-It! 11.x and only migrate the new data to the current Track-It! version. For example, new tickets, ticket notes, assignments, and so on.
The individual log file that contains the migration details for each data type is located in the Log folder of the location where you have extracted the migration tool.
You can migrate the following data by using the Migration tool:
|Mapping considerations
|Work Order Status
Tickets and
|Activity Codes
|Task Notes
Note: The above considerations are also applicable for notes that are created by Email or Email Monitor settings.
|If the value of the Location field in version 11.4 is null, the information is stored in the Location log.
|Work Order Audit Trails
Note: The above considerations are also applicable for audit trails that are created by Email or Email Monitor settings.
|Help Desk Lookups
|Work Order Templates
|Network Lookups
|Tracked Items
|Change Requests
|Change approvals
|Change Approval reviews
|Purchasing configuration
|Product type
|Master Item
|Purchase Item
|Purchase Order
Data that is not migrated
The migration tool does not migrate the following system configurations and advanced configurations:
- Email settings and policies
- Event and work order policies
- Skill routing policies
- Email policies
- Custom Reports
- Technician permissions
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Work Order Notification Templates
- Change Policies
- Change Management Notification Templates
You must configure these settings in the current version.
Related topics
Where's the migration tool?Mar 28, 2019 05:21
Should be on the download site. If you visit support.trackit.com and click on downloads, you should be able to access it. If you dont see it in your downloads, you can open a support case from there to get some assistance.Mar 29, 2019 07:11
I see no mention of time logged on tickets in V 11.4. Is that migrated as well? If so where does it end up?Jun 19, 2019 06:39


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