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county or place where the election was held; and any agent or candidate who makes default in delivering to the returning officer the statement required by this section shall incur a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every dav during which he so makes default; and any agent or candidate who wilfully furnishes to the said returning officer an untrue statement shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, or in Scotland of an offence punishable by fine and imprisonment; and the said returning officer shall preserve all such bills and vouchers, and during six months after they have been delivered to him permit any voter to inspect the same, on payment of a fee of one shilling. Legal Proceedings. V. The provisions of the fourteenth section of " The Corrupt • Practices Prevention Act, 1854," shall extend to a misdemeanor or to any other offence under the Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts not punishable by a penalty or forfeiture, as well as to proceedings for any offence punishable by a penalty or forfeiture. VI. In any indictment or information for bribery or undue influence, and in any action or proceeding for any penalty for bribery, treating, or undue influence, it shall be sufficient to allege that the defendant was at the election at or in connexion with which the offence is intended tu be alleged to have been commiued guilty of bribery, treating, or undue influence (as the case may require); and in any criminal or civil proceedings in relation to any such offence the certificate of the returning officer in this behalf shall be sufficient evidence of the due holding of the election, and of any person therein named having been a candidate thereat. VII. No person who is called as a witness before any election committee, or any commissioners appointed in pursuance of the Act of the session holden in the fifteenth and sixteenih years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-seven, shall be excused from answering any question relating to any corrupt practice at, or connected with, any election forming the subject of inquiry by such committee or cominissioners, on the ground that the answer thereto may criminate or tend to criminate himself: Provided always, that where any witness shall answer every question relating to the matters aforesaid which he shall be required by such committee or commissioners (as the case may be) to answer, and the answer to which may criminate, or tend to criminate him, he shall be entitled to receive from the committee, under the hand of their clerk, or from the commissioners, under their hands (as the case may be), a certificate stating that such witness was, upon his examination, required by the said committee or commissioners to answer questions or a question relating to the matters aforesaid, the answers or answer to which criminated or tended to criminate him, and had answered all such questions or such question ; and if any information, indictment, or action be at any time thereafter pending in any court against such witness for any offence under the Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts, or for which he might have been prosecuted or proceeded against under such Acts, committed by him previously to the time of his giving his evidence, and at or in relation to the election concerning or in relation to which the witness may have been so examined, the court shall, on production and proof of such certificate, stay the proceedings in such last-mentioned information, indictment, or action, and may, at its discretion, award to such witness such costs as he may have been put to in such information, indictment, or action: Provided that no statement made by any person in answer to any question put by or before such election committee or commissioners shall, except in cases of indictinents for perjury, be admissible in evidence in any proceeding, civil or criminal. Election Committees. VIII. The following regulations shall be made with respect to the proceedings of select committees appointed to try election petitions : 1. On any charge of treating being brought before any election com mittee, it shall not be necessary, unless the committee should otherwise decide, to prove agency in the first instance before giving in evidence the facts whereby the charge of treating is to be sustained : 2. Where any person who has voted at any election is found by any committee to have been guilty of bribery or treating at such election, bis vote shall be void, and may, upon a scrutiny, be struck off the list of voters, notwithstanding that the name of such guilty person has not been included in the list of voters to be objected to : 3. Where any election petition complains that bribery, treating, or other corrupt practices have been committed at any election, the committee io whose determination such petition is referred shall report to the House of Commons whether or not corrupt practices have, or whether there is reason to believe corrupt practices lave, extensively prevailed at such election in the place to which the petition refers. IX. Where an election committee has reported to the House of Commons that certain persons named by them have been guilty of bribery or treating, and where it appears by the report of any commission of inquiry into corrupt practices at any election made to Her Majesty and laid before Parliament that certain persons named by them have been guilty of the offences of bribery or treating, and have not been furnished by them with certificates of indemnity, such report, with the evidence taken by the commission, shall be laid before the Attorney General, with a view to his instituting a prosecution against such persons f the evidence should, in his opinion, be sufficient to support a proecution. Repeal. X. There shall be repealed the several Acts of Parliament mentioned in the Schedule hereto to the extent specified in the third column of the said Schedule, but such repeal shall not affect the punishment of any offence or the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture incurred under any of the provisions hereby repealed. XI. "The Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts shall continue in force for a period of five years from the date of the passing of this Act, and from thenceforth until the end of the then next session of Parliament. The Schedule. Extent of Repeal. 15th and 16th Vic., cap 57. A.D. 1852. Sections 9 and 10. 17th and 18th Vic., cap. 102. A.D. 1854. Sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 34. 21st and 22nd Vic., cap. 87. A.D. 1858. So much of Section (1) as provides that a full, true, and particular account of all payments made for such conveyance, signed by the candidate or his agents, shall be delivered to the election auditor, with the names and addresses of the persons to whom such payments have been made, and the amount of such account shall be included in the general account of the expenses incurred at any election to be made out and kept by such election auditor. Also Sections 2, 4. " THE ELECTION PETITIONS AND CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS ACT, 1868." An Act for amending the Laws relating to Election Petitions, and pro viding more effectually for the prevention of corrupt practices at Parliamentary Elections. [31st July, 1868.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the laws relating to election petitions, and to provide more effectually for the prevention of corrupt practices at Parliamentary elections : Preliminary. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Parliainentary Elections Act, 1868." II. The expression "the Court" shall, for the purposes of this Act, in its application to England mean the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, and in its application to Ireland the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin, and such Court shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, have the same powers, jurisdiction, and authority with reference to an election petition and the proceedings thereon as it would have if such petition were an ordinary cause within their jurisdiction. III. The following terms shall in this Act have the meanings hereinafter assigned to them, unless there is sometuing in the context repugnant to such construction ; (that is to say,) " Metropolitan District" shall mean the City of London and the liberties thereof, and any parish or place subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitani Board of Works : " Election" shall mean an election of a member or members to serve in Parliament: County" shall not include a County of a City or County of a Town, but shall mean any county, riding, parts, or division of a county returning a member or members to serve in Parliament: " Borough" shall mean any borough, university, city, place, or combination of places, not being a county as herein-before defined, returning a member or members to serve in Parliament: " Candidate " shall mean any person elected to serve in Parliament at an election, and any person who has been nominated as or declared himself a candidate at an election: " Corrupt Practices' Corrupt Practice" shall mean bribery, treating, and undue intluence, or any of such offences, as defined by Act of Parliament, or recognized by the common law of Parliament: " Rules of Court" shall mean rules to be made as herein-after mentioned : " Prescribed" shall mean" prescribed by the rules of Court. " IV. For the purposes of this Act " Speaker" shall be deemed to nclude deputy speaker; and when the office of speaker is vacant, the clerk of the House of Coinmons, or any other officer for the time being performing the duties of the clerk of the House of Commons, shall be deemed to be substituted for and to be included in the expression " the speaker."
British. Many historic battles took place near the town. It was declared a national monument in 1983. The rectangular blockhouse is one of only 12 built in this shape to have survived totally intact. It is the first dwelling that was built in the area where Jacobsdal is today. It was build by Mr C.J. Jacobs. The house is situated in Sarel Cilliers St next to First National Bank. The church, located in Voortrekker Street, was built in 1879 and has a bullet hole in one of its front doors dating from the Anglo-Boer War. The building was used as a hospital during the war. All those wounded at the Battles of Belmont, Graspan, Modderrivier/Tweerivieren, Magersfontein and Paardeberg were nursed here. The beautiful trellis fence around the church dates from 1883. The old Vicarage on the corner of Voortrekker and Sarel Cilliers Streets was built in1866, even before the church was erected. The old fashion dwelling, still with it's original wallpaper, was used during religious ceremonies. It is situated directly opposite the southern entrance of the Dutch Reformed Church. The market square was where the city hall is today and it was used as a British soldier's lager. A big battle took place on 25 October 1900. Boers fired at the British from behind a stone wall which still stands today. Was erected by the Boers from Jacobsdal in November 1899 before departing for the battle of Roodelaagte (Graspan). Each boer engraved his name on a stone and these stones were used to build the monument. The monument can be reached by a walking trail from the Agricultural School. The famous Magersfontein Battlefield, site of a conclusive Boer victory by the Boer General, Piet Cronje, and his men, over the British forces of Lord Methuen, lies approximately 20 km north-west of Jacobsdal. Lord Methuen was attempting to free Kimberley when the Boers engaged him in battle at Magersfontein. He made a dreadful mistake when he wrongly calculated that the Boers were entrenched in the hills. The Boers were, in fact, well camouflaged in trenches at the foot of the hills, from where they were able to inflict a great number of casualties on the British. The 482-ha battlefield has been marked with monuments, lookout points, trenches and a museum and is considered to be one of the ten best open-air museums/battle sites in the country. By means of a wide flanking movement to avoid the Boers at Magersfontein, Lord Roberts succeeded in relieving Kimberley on 15 February 1900. Due to his precarious position, Cronje was forced to fall back to Bloemfontein along the Modder River. He was denied crossing Vendusiedrif due to the British onslaught with the result that the Boers entrenched themselves on both sides of the river. 40000 British troops supported by 100 guns besieged the small Boer force of 4000 men, women and children. After 10 days of continious bombardment, the Boer force surrendered on 27 February 1900. Majuba was at last revenged. Koffiefontein/Dithlake is situated on the Riet River and.serves as the municipal administrative seat within Letsemeng. The town is located approximately 125 km northwest of Trompsburg and an estimated 146 km east of Bloemfontein. Access to the town is via the R48 between Petrusburg and Luckhoff. The main social and economic functions of the town include: main LM administrative centre, regional agricultural services centre, diamond mining operations and regional social services centre. A fountain in this area was a favourite outspan for transport riders in the 19th century. The riders' habit of constantly making coffee is said to have led to the name Koffiefontein. In June 1870, one of these transport riders picked up a diamond near the fountain. This prompted the usual diamond rush and by 1882 Koffiefontein was a booming town with four mining companies. Koffiefontein was awarded municipal status in 1892. The 2nd World War saw Koffiefontein as a prisoner-of-war camp for Italian soldiers. Pro-Nazi South Africans were also interned here. They left their mark in the form of large outdoor paintings of Victor Emanuele and Benito Mussolini. Amongst the 800 pro-Nazi sympathisers interned with the POWs at Koffiefontein was John Vorster, who would become an apartheid-era South African prime minister and state president. Koffiefontein's Bird Park, featuring indigenous and imported species, The Bird Park, in Engelbrecht Street, is home to various species of exotic and indigenous birds. Approximately seven km out of town, a man-made bird park in the open countryside attracts many water birds. Several forts were erected by the British after Boer forces under the command of General Brand and Commandant Hertzog attacked the town and mine. The remains of the first fort built here lies on a hill behind the golf course. The 17 men who guarded this fort left their signatures on the rocks surrounding the fort. The Coffee Pot Fountain, built in the shape of a coffee pot, symbolically welcomes visitors by "pouring them coffee". The homestead and grave of renowned South African novelist, Etienne le Roux, is located in the district. The guard house that was situated at the entrance to the internment camp has been meticulously restored. Like many other Free State towns, Koffiefontein also boasts a number of interesting old buildings such as the Town Hall, which was erected in 1896, St Mark's Church, the old Presbyterian Church and the Dutch Reformed Church (all built in the early 1900s), as well as the house in which Mr GSF Rörich, who established the town, lived. Rörich's barn, erected in 1877, is the oldest building in town and served first as a barn, then as a shop, a church and as the town's first school. The library exhibits numerous historical items donated by local inhabitants. A mining traction engine used in 1907 during the early mining days of the town stands at the entrance to the town. The Open-air Museum is situated at the entrance to the town. A monument, situated on a small hillock behind the school was erected with funds from local inhabitants to honour local men and women who died during the First World War. The cannon next to the monument dates back to the same period. Luckhoff lies on the R48, 50km south of Koffiefontein and is situated close to the Van Der Kloof Dam (Orange River) and the Rolfontein Nature Reserve. The main social & economic functions of the town include: general agricultural service centre to surrounding farming areas and social functions such as residence, education and medical services. It is an important centre for the Merino Sheep farming of the surrounding districts. The settlement of Luckhoff was named after the Reverend H J Luckhoff and was established on the farm Koffiekuil in 1892. Historical buildings include the Dutch Reformed Church built in 1892 out of stones from the area. The primary school is also a 100 years old and "ossewa" tracks dating from the Groot Trek can be seen in front of the school. A monument commemorating the Groot Trek is located approximately 3 km outside the town on the Fauresmith road. There is also a gunpowder house dating from the Anglo Boer War. The gas lamp in front of the City Hall was used as a streetlight during bygone times. There are numerous farms in the district that offer hunting opportunities. It is situated approximately 12km west of Koffiefontein. Access to the town is via the S647 between Koffiefontein and Luckhoff. Oppermansgronde serves as a general agricultural service centre within Letsemeng. The main social & economic functions of the town include: general agricultural service centre to surrounding farming areas and social functions such as residence, education & medical services. The small town of Petrusburg is situated 80 km west of Bloemfontein and serves an extensive farming community – mainly sheep, maize and potatoes. The main social & economic functions of the town include: main regional agro-processing centre, secondary agricultural service centre, social functions such as residence, education and medical services and transport support services on major routes. Mixed farming is practised in the 3000 square km which was excised from the Fauresmith district in 1863. The main activity is sheep farming. The main crops are maize and potatoes. Modest quantities of wheat are harvested in the rare season when enough rain falls in winter and early spring. There are numerous salt pans in the district. The centre point of South Africa is situated approximately 20 km outside the town. Petrusburg was named after Petrus Albertus Venter whose estate provided the money to buy the farm Diepfontein, on which the town was laid out in 1891 as a church and commercial centre for an extensive farming area. At the entrance to the town stand two British-built blockhouses dating from the Anglo- Boer War. Many battles, such as the Battle of Poplar Grove, during which the Boer General, Christiaan De Wet, and his men concealed themselves in a poplar grove near town to try to stop the British from advancing on Bloemfontein, were fought in this area. The historic little Mission Church erected on the farm Kalvedon in 1885 and
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When to Start Broccoli and Cauliflower Broccoli seeds are best started indoors 7 to 9 weeks before the last frost, at a temperature of 70 to 75 degrees F. They can also be sown outdoors 2 weeks before the last frost. For a winter crop in zones 8 and warmer, sow in late summer. Expect germination in 10 to 14 days. The same guidelines apply to Cauliflower, except when starting indoors, sow your seeds 5 to 7 weeks before the last frost. Expect germination in 8 to 10 days. Since Cauliflower is more sensitive to cold than its cabbage-family relatives, you need to start it early enough that it has a chance to mature before the heat of the summer. Be careful, however, not to start it so early it gets damaged by the cold. How to Start Broccoli and Cauliflower Sow your Broccoli and Cauliflower seeds at a depth of 4 times the size of the seed, or ½ inch deep, and water thoroughly. Once the seeds have sprouted, be sure to keep the soil lightly moist. Make sure the plants receive plenty of light -- fluorescent light for around 14 to 16 hours a day is also ideal for the fastest growth. You will want to keep the seedlings just a few inches below the light so they don't"stretch"and get"leggy". If you don't have fluorescent lighting, a south-facing window will do just fine. Broccoli -- 45 to 60 days from sowing to harvesting Cauliflower -- 30 to 80 days from sowing to harvesting Transplanting Broccoli and Cauliflower Seedlings Transplant your Broccoli and Cauliflower seedlings when they have at least two sets of true leaves. This should be done about 2 weeks before the last frost. Site them in full sun in a rich, moist, well-drained soil, spacing the young plants 18 to 24 inches apart in rows that are 2½ to 3 feet apart. Feed both your Broccoli and Cauliflower with a low nitrogen fertilizer when first planting out. For your Broccoli, fertilize again when the plants are 6 to 8 inches tall, 12 to 15 inches tall, and then when the buds first form. For your Cauliflower, fertilize again every 4 weeks. Keep the seedlings well watered and mulched to retain moisture and keep the roots cool. Special Considerations If your seedlings have been held too long or mistreated in some way before planting, they can create"buttons", or small heads, that tend to flower prematurely. Climatic elements such as extreme cold and drought can cause your plants to halt their full growth and form only "buttons". Don't allow your transplants to get too mature before moving them to your garden. If you do, they may become stressed by transplant shock. A starter fertilizer applied when you transplant your seedlings will get your Broccoli and Cauliflower off to a good start, but it will not compensate for all the possible problems just mentioned. Beets, Onions, and Garlic are all good companions for your Broccoli and Cauliflower. Growing Tips: Broccoli and Cauliflower Broccoli -- once the head is fully developed, but before the individual flowers start to open, cut the central head along with 5 or 6 inches of stem. Removing the central head will stimulate development of the side shoots, which will allow you to continue your harvest for several weeks. Cauliflower -- the heads (curds) develop quickly under proper conditions, typically growing to 6 to 8 inches within 7 to 12 days after branching begins. Harvest the mature heads (they should be compact and firm) by cutting the main stem. If the heads develop a coarse,"ricey"appearance, they have over-matured. Cauliflower does not typically have side shoots, so you can compost the plants after the heads have been harvested. Store fresh, unwashed Broccoli in your refrigerator's vegetable crisper for 3 to 5 days. Put it in a loose or perforated plastic bad, being sure not to store it if it's wet -- wet Broccoli will quickly become limp and can get moldy. Its best flavor and nutritional value will be maintained if storage is brief. Uncooked Cauliflower can be stored in a paper or plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to a week. Place it stem side down to keep moisture from collecting in the florets. Pests and Problems to Watch For Aphids are often found on the underside of leaves. You can wash them off with a strong stream of water or use an insecticidal soap (be sure to follow the label instructions). Check the plants regularly, as aphids can be a recurring problem. Cabbage worms tend to attack the leaves and heads of related cole crops. Cole crops are crops that belong to the mustard family and have similar cultural requirements. They're hardy plants that prefer cool weather. The most commonly grown cole crops are Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Kale, Collards, and Kohlrabi. There are three species of cabbage worms -- imported cabbage worms, cabbage loopers, and diamond back moth worms. They're very destructive to plants, as they have a voracious appetite. Covering the plants with screening or a row cover can prevent the presence of these pests. View All Know Before You Grow Topics Brassica Germination Information Brassica is the botanical name for Ornamental Cabbage and Kale How to Sow Brassica: Sow indoors, covering the seeds with 4X their thickness in soil Maintain the temperature of 68°-70° F during germination Germination takes takes 3-10 days For early spring color, sow in late winter How to Grow Brassica: Space: Space seedlings 12 inches apart in rich, well-drained soil and full sun Soil: Keep the soil evenly moist and fertilize moderately Temperature: Thrives in 60° F nights and tolerates deep shade Transplanting and additional care: It is easy to transplant and shows the best color if fertilizer is withheld during the last month of production and is grown cool (60°F). In zones 8-10, discourage weeds and protect the roots in winter Decorative, ornamental plants for beds, borders, and edging. Brassica is beautiful in containers. 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,143,145 4,231 $1,714,097,756 (643) ($185,665,026) (565) ($193,222,183) (2,005) ($847,433,837) (418) ($225,624,270) (3,631) ($1,451,945,316) 52 $22,442,449 115 $43,582,473 302 $152,245,814 90 $34,216,408 559 $252,487,144 (480) ($154,812,601) STTR 15 $4,058,298 16 $5,114,129 54 $17,645,312 8 $2,205,836 93 $29,023,575 (84) ($21,534,946) 15 $13,151,825 26 $20,578,426 32 $52,008,178 15 $15,580,644 88 $101,319,073 (42) ($33,664,415) Research Career 59 $6,879,377 68 $10,142,819 168 $21,330,457 68 $10,596,919 363 $48,949,572 (324) ($45,547,261) 22 $1,900,879 36 $9,725,227 46 $18,958,874 11 $5,756,964 115 $36,341,944 (113) ($82,681,536) 4 $1,918,351 27 $33,368,505 12 $3,208,825 13 $1,788,597 56 $40,284,278 (24) ($8,533,737) 69 $3,450,000 43 $2,150,000 263 $13,150,000 11 $550,000 386 $19,300,000 (285) ($14,250,000) 1139 $322,691,074 941 $337,407,368 3,178 $1,325,866,387 633 $255,838,513 5,891 $2,241,803,342 (4,983) ($1,812,969,812) (853) ($216,077,136) (842) ($267,476,771) (2,694) ($1,054,266,850) (594) ($275,149,055) Data from Fiscal Year 2019 are shown italicized in parentheses. October 2019 data were run on 8/12/2019, January 2020 on 12/23/2019, May 2020 on 4/7/2020, and August 2020 on 8/11/2020. Applications that had been withdrawn and contracts were not included. Dollar amounts shown are the total first-year direct costs requested. See NIA Award Mechanisms for definition of NIA grant types and award mechanisms. Table 1B ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE APPLICATIONS ASSIGNED TO COUNCILS IN FY 2020 (October 2019, January 2020, May 2020, August 2020) 40 $16,576,721 275 $121,826,042 1,986 $1,077,790,038 26 $11,809,321 2,327 $1,228,002,122 (31) ($13,102,296) (203) ($74,712,962) (1,769) ($872,166,209) (33) ($43,390,337) (2,036) ($1,003,371,804) 0 $0 87 $38,371,347 274 $142,954,239 23 $9,037,002 384 $190,362,588 (298) ($108,216,349) 0 $0 11 $3,759,025 50 $16,762,638 0 $0 61 $20,521,663 (52) ($14,051,380) 0 $0 7 $4,922,484 32 $54,358,145 0 $0 39 $59,280,629 (19) ($22,038,727) 2 $246,867 34 $4,818,692 146 $18,677,586 9 $1,421,202 191 $25,164,347 (162) ($22,427,803) 1 $55,450 13 $2,102,337 32 $18,034,672 2 $2,103,261 48 $22,295,720 (31) ($58,096,769) 0 $0 12 $27,100,498 5 $1,264,902 1 $108,810 18 $28,474,210 (3) ($855,476) 2 $100,000 15 $750,000 199 $9,950,000 1 $50,000 217 $10,850,000 (145) ($7,250,000) 45 $16,979,038 454 $203,650,425 2,724 $1,339,792,220 62 $24,420,787 3,285 $1,584,951,279 (2,746) ($1,236,308,308) (34) ($13,735,142) (333) ($112,174,493) (2,334) ($1,061,875,049) (45) ($48,523,624) These numbers may change slightly due to false negative/positive codes on AD applications. Data from Fiscal Year 2019 are shown italicized in parentheses. October 2019 data were run on 8/12/2019, January 2020 on 1/3/2020, May 2020 on 4/7/2020, and August 2020 on 8/11/2020. Applications that had been withdrawn and contracts were not included. Dollar amounts shown are the first-year total costs requested for October Council and first-year direct costs requested for January, May, and August Councils (AD application information for October Councils is generated from a database that does not display direct costs). See NIA Award Mechanisms for definition of NIA grant types and award mechanisms. RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT APPLICATIONS ASSIGNED TO COUNCILS IN FY 2020 (October 2020, May 2020, and January 2020) Total # Reviewed 1-10 # 11-20 # > 50 & not discussed # > 50 & & not discussed % Aging Biology (DAB): 255 22 9% 26 10% 22 9% 37 15% 22 9% 126 49% 253 19 8% 13 5% 27 11% 24 9% 29 11% 141 56% 222 25 11% 19 9% 18 8% 24 11% 21 9% 115 52% 730 66 9% 58 8% 67 9% 85 12% 72 10% 382 52% Behavioral and Social Research (DBSR): 169 20 12% 11 7% 14 8% 16 9% 18 11% 90 53% 151 13 9% 27 18% 10 7% 18 12% 16 11% 67 44% 126 11 9% 17 13% 13 10% 9 7% 13 10% 63 50% DBSR Subtotal: 446 44 10% 55 12% 37 8% 43 10% 47 11% 220 49% Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology (DGCG): 117 13 11% 10 9% 10 9% 16 14% 11 9% 57 49% 109 13 12% 9 8% 14 13% 10 9% 10 9% 53 49% 100 11 11% 10 10% 9 9% 7 7% 14 14% 49 49% DGCG Subtotal: 326 37 11% 29 9% 33 10% 33 10% 35 11% 159 49% Neuroscience (DN): 612 47 8% 66 11% 56 9% 52 8% 67 11% 324 53% 464 31 7% 45 10% 46 10% 54 12% 51 11% 237 51% 462 25 5% 40 9% 36 8% 47 10% 39 8% 275 60% DN Subtotal: 1538 103 7% 151 10% 138 9% 153 10% 157 10% 836 54% GRAND TOTAL (Three Council Rounds): 3,040 250 8% 293 10% 275 9% 314 10% 311 10% 1,597 53% *Data for each Council were run prior to that Council's meeting: January 2020 on 12/23/2019, May 2020 on 4/16/2020, and October 2020 on 8/21/2020. Only applications that are normally percentiled were included. As applications in response to RFAs, and a few other applications, are not normally percentiled, the number of applications in Table 2 is usually less than the corresponding number of RPG applications in Table 1A. RESEARCH PROJECT (RPG): R01 Research Project (Traditional); R03 Small Research Grant; R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA); R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant; R33 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Phase II; R34 Clinical Trial Planning Grant; R35 Outstanding Investigator Award; R36 Aging Research Dissertation Award to Increase Diversity; R37 Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award; R56 High-Priority, Short-Term Project Award; R61 Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant; RF1 Multi-Year Funded Research Project Grant; P01 Research Program Project Grant; U01 Research Project Cooperative Agreement; U19 Research Program Cooperative Agreement; U34 Research Planning
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Everybody involved in this employment gets greased as crime continues to be rooted even deeper at the expense of the destroyed lives of those addicts whose existence is deemed unsalvageable and better off dead and forgotten...In my opinion I think we're in a hole which we keep digging deeper... One solution, and possibly the only viable one for long range victory, involves the commitment of military force with the cooperation of law enforcement and prosecutorial entities dedicated to eradicating criminal activities at any cost...The price paid of such an effort in both financial and human terms would be staggering and thus opposed by all levels of humanity...However, that same humanity cannot argue that infiltration of itself by the greed for power through criminality would be halted by the permanent removal of those who revel in it...As it stands now, that goal is an impossible one to reach as greed and the crime it spawns sinks its talons deeper into our existence...It is also known that the permanent removal of any criminal entity only results in the rise of more human scum in the stagnant pool we have created ourselves...Only a loud enough cry of "Enough!" will change that... Swapping a source of products controlled by a diametrically opposed philosophy of government such as Red China and thereby increasing its power, for another which has been shown demonstrably as being susceptible to the influence of organized crime, only hastens our own demise at the expense of humanity... My thanks to Phillbo for starting the discussion... More articles concerning World Events... Posted by Ben Young at 11:43 AM No comments: Links to this post A meal for the mind, perhaps a feast for the soul... A friend in another medium furnished a recent interview conducted with Pope Francis in the interest of clarifying what seemed to be snippets of the Pope's words which were taken out of context...As usual, the original source provides a better understanding of the thoughts behind the words than the interpretation by a critic...In the linked interview I saw some of the Pope's expanded thinking as he attempts to reconcile Jesus' acceptance of all people regardless of birthright, earthly gains or deformities as opposed to the common norm of wishing to weed out and isolate the weaker, disenfranchised of us such as those he mentioned born with Downs Syndrome, or those whose innate strengths were sapped by the circumstances of life...It gives me a new perspective in the argument in favor of inclusiveness for those who not only look and behave differently, but also act and emote on a different scale...Definitely thoughtworthy... The Pope also makes obvious his study of history, and the effect which its study can have on those of us attempting to either endure or alter our present lives...He exemplifies this by eschewing the notion of a welfare system for the poor, suggesting instead that they should be offered support not in perpetuity, but until they can provide for themselves...The most important part of that thought was that he did not suggest the equalization of wealth, rather the leveling of opportunity for self-reliance...To accomplish that, he suggests going among people of a different strata in observation of their methods of coping with what they abhor, and preserving what they adore...And since the Pope chose to concentrate his examples on differences in levels of earthly wealth, I suggest that people from any point in the spectrum of worldly gain could learn from that practice... The Pope further suggests the Church (and even though he may have meant only the Catholic Church, I choose to think of it as all God's believers) as a "tension between disorder and harmony," which to my thinking infers a bridge between chaos and peace...It further suggests that individuals might cross from one to the other without the understanding that both cannot exist on the same plane, and that what is seen as desirable from one may entail shunning that which appears beneficial from the other...Such decisions are the reason God granted mankind the gift of independent thought...The actions we choose guide not only our own destination, but the direction in which those who follow might take... The Pope's words were offered in a time of isolation for many of us, and uncertainty for all of us...It may not change societal thinking on a grand scale, but reading it may pry open a few minds enough to let a little light and new air into an otherwise stagnant room...Thanks to Dave for the link... More articles concerning Religion... A-salting the senses... My muse presented me with some of her night thoughts which kept her mind aglow, preventing the onset of merciful sleep before the challenges presented by another day...In thinking her best course of action might lie in taking her latest puzzle with a grain of salt, she began to wonder why that axiom occurred to her, and in thinking she knew its meaning, she asked the Google ogre to confirm it...In its contrariness, the ogre disagreed with what her mind told her the phrase meant, yet she knew the ogre could only parrot what other glottologists claimed was correct... Diving deep into the well of consciousness to do your thinking means there is less light to guide you on your way...That is why it's so easy to get lost down there...You have to move slower, and use your other senses to define for your mind what you've found...And like the blind men trying to describe an elephant, those sensors can only tell your mind what is available to them of this strange concept in your path...It's up to your mind to put it all together accurately before you can know what to do with it... Coming across that grain of salt with your daylight senses would also give different meanings...Your eye can see it's tiny and might dismiss it as insignificant, until the wind blew it into your eye, then it would know that its size belied its strength...Your finger might decide the eye was right about its size, but its texture is hard and has some strength, but not enough to prevent it from being crushed...Your ear can hear it being crushed and knows that whatever else it is, it is vulnerable to pressure...Your nose detects a faint odor reminiscent of the ocean, and reports that it's large and wet...Your finger brings it to your tongue where your sense of taste tells you it's good, but it needs more french fries... I like it that she comes to me when her thoughts hit a roadblock...It gives me some sort of meaningfulness that I seldom get because so few come to me expecting enlightenment...Reaching an age closer to one's terminal end than where life began imbues a person with the desire to pass on whatever knowledge has been gained by the experiences of a lifetime...This is why it becomes increasingly significant during life's journey when another thinker presents the thoughts that defy the attempts to define it...All I can offer is my own concept of meaning based on my own experience, offered with my appreciation for the perceived value of my thoughts... Whatever it is that your heart is telling you, it is no bigger than any other obstacle you've faced so far...Your experience in overcoming problems up to this point will guide you when it reveals itself...And in the later moments of your own life, you may find another wanderer who asks your guidance... More articles concerning Other Thoughts... Up to date... Recently a young lady of my acquaintance evoked a recitation of my activities over the last several years...After thinking about my response to her, it occurred to me that it might make an informative article for those few followers who wish a brief summary of Truckman's activities since retirement from business...It began with an explanation of what I commonly refer to as the gun dealer's retirement program, or in more cryptic terms, the precious metals business... That term is how I've always referred to the hobos and winos who pick up trash in a shopping basket along the roads, and sell them to recyclers for their next meal or bottle or whatever...Now I'm one of them...I walk for exercise, and to lower my blood glucose reading on the advice of my endocrinologist, and the collection of discarded beverage cans I find along the way satisfies the capitalist in me as I sell them to a recycler when I visit my doctors...Sometimes I even get enough to finance the Medicare co-pay...My last divorce was final when I was 61...I was beat up emotionally, mentally and I was physically exhausted, so I said "To Hell with it all," sold my business (for less than it was really worth) and retired...I wasn't broke, but I was far from rich...I paid off all my debts, and since I don't drink, smoke, chew, dip, gamble, abuse drugs or rent hookers, my expenditures are low...Everything I have is paid for, and six months later I took early Social Security (even taking the 25% penalty for doing so), and for 12 years I've managed to live on that... After becoming self-unemployed, it didn't take long before boredom took root, so using the internet forum where
manage content via the Internet or intranet connections outside of the DigaSystem environment. www.harris.com, www.digasystem.net. TASCAM has announced that their new Pocketstudio 5 is now shipping and available at authorized TASCAM dealers. The Pocketstudio 5 ($599.00 MSRP USD) is a new low-cost portable multitrack digital recorder that uses Compact Flash cards for media, provides a four-track digital recorder, a MIDI synth module for playback of standard MIDI file sequences, MP3 mixdown ability and a USB port to send completed songs to computers for emailing and web site posting. 100 built-in effects allow the Pocketstudio 5 to act as a complete production device. As a digital recorder, editing capabilities like auto punch in/out, copy/paste editing of audio and MIDI tracks using bars-and-beats and track bouncing are easily accomplished. The Pocketstudio 5 can run for up to two hours using standard AA-sized alkaline batteries and the unit also includes an AC power supply, a 32MB Compact Flash card, and a headset microphone to supplement its built-in condenser mic. www.tascam.com. Stemming from a long line of Ivor Drawmer designs that brought about the 60s series preamp/compressors, the new cost-effective Drawmer Tube Station 1 is designed to deliver preamplification and warm analog tube compression to the digital home recorder. The new Tube Station 1 (TS1) boasts a Class A Drawmer preamp and a stereo soft-knee Drawmer tube compressor coupled with a 24-bit/96k digital converter in an affordable one-rack space package. A variable Tube Drive control also becomes useful while tracking to dial in just the right amount of warm Drawmer tube saturation, and users can even A/B the results via a separate front panel switch. The TS1's stereo soft-knee tube compression is controlled by a "compress" control which makes the best use of threshold and ratio settings for easily obtainable musical results, and a separate fixed threshold limiter prohibits fast transients and plosives from overloading digital recorders. Other features include balanced ins and outs, phantom power, an effects insert point and sidechain access to the compressor. The optional digital output module offers SPDIF or AES/EBU at up to 24-bit resolution and 96K sample rate. Simultaneous analog outputs are available via balanced XLRs. The TS1 is currently shipping at $749 for the unit and an additional $250 for the digital output module. www.drawmerusa.com. Minnetonka Audio Software announces the availability of discWelder STEEL, a basic DVD-Audio writing program that allows anyone to deliver high-resolution audio from his or her own PC, at the low price of $495. With discWelder STEEL, the user can import all Linear PCM formats supported in the DVD-A specification, including non-encoded/uncompressed surround (consisting of up to 6 channels of 24-bit, 48KHz audio), and/or high-resolution stereo (two channels of 24-bit, 192KHz audio). Surround and stereo tracks may be used on the same disc, and a discWelder-burned disc will play on any DVD-A player that supports DVD-R. The Windows-based program is simple to use and can burn DVD-A discs utilizing inexpensive DVD-R drives (such as Pioneer's DVR-A04). Additionally, the user may edit the titles of the disc, group, and tracks, using the program's default Background Image and Font. While higher-level authoring and editing features such as menu options, background images, slides, MLP import, video TS import, DLT export and others are not offered in this basic writing program, Minnetonka Audio's full-featured DVD-Audio authoring program discWelder CHROME supports all these features and many more, at a price of $2,495. Add Minnetonka Audio's SurCode MLP ($3,495), and the end-user can author DVD-Audio at the feature level that suits their needs and budget. Minnetonka's discWelder STEEL offers professional-level hi-res DVD-A disc writing at a breakthrough price. www.discWelder.com. Akai Musical Instrument Corporation is now shipping the DPS24 Digital Audio Workstation. The DPS24 combines a 24-track digital recorder with a digital mixer. Offering a host of editing, mastering, mixing automation, and recording tools, the DPS24 is designed for use in project studios, DVD creation, radio broadcast production, and professional audio applications. Providing true 24 bit/96kHz, uncompressed digital recording, the DPS24 offers 20 tracks of simultaneous recording and 24 channels of simultaneous playback, and supports 24-track recording in a special transfer mode designed to make digital transfers from other sources in a single pass. The DPS24 also features 56-bit internal processing, and a 56-bit, 4-bus multi-effects processor provides a wide range of studio-quality effects. The mixer offers 100mm, Q-Touch™ touch sensitive moving faders, which support full dynamic automation of level and pan, channel on/off, FX/AUX sends, FX select, and UNDO/REDO. The 44-channel digital mixer consists of 12 input channels, 24 disk tracks, and 4 stereo effects returns. Each channel features level, pan, 3-band EQ, dedicated dynamics processing, solo, L/R routing, and more. Featuring non-destructive Copy, Cut, Erase, Insert, Paste, and Move functions, the DPS24 uses an edit "clipboard" allowing audio regions to be copied within the same project, or between different projects. Additionally, up to two tracks can be viewed in the waveform screen at once, making it easier to edit stereo tracks. Interfacing with the DPS24 is done via 28 analog inputs arranged in 2 banks of 12 inputs, plus 2 x RCA tape inputs and 2 x AUX inputs for bringing in sub-mixers, or just about anything else. Each input channel has a XLR-1/4" balanced combo jack (Inputs A) and a separate line level input (Inputs B) that can be selected with a push button switch located at the top of each channel strip. The DPS24 comes equipped with a large capacity 30GB internal IDE drive, and users can link up to seven additional external SCSI drives. An optional CD-R/CD-RW drive is also available. www.akaipro.com. Syntrillium Software announces the release of a new book, "Audio Editing with Cool Edit" by Richard Riley. This book shows how to get the best from the Cool Edit 2000 and Cool Edit Pro version 2.0 with easy to understand walkthroughs and helpful hints and tips. As an addition to the manual and help file, it reveals many undocumented features and time saving tips. www.syntrillium.com. PRODUCTION LIBRARIES Killer Tracks has some new releases. KT-144 Vocals (Ballads & Love Songs), NJJ-66 Motivational 4, NJJ-67 Retail 5, ATMOS-152 Rage Rock, ATMOS-153 New Media Underscores, ATMOS-154 Ethereal Journeys 4, ATMOS-155 Big Fun, ATMOS-156 True Stories, and several more. Listen to samples from each release online at www.killertracks.com. Effective Friday, June 28 2002, Sound Ideas acquired all rights to Platinum Sounds for the 21st Century, the general sound effects collection produced by Frank Serafine. This 10 CD collection offers 2,721 sound effects in eight general categories: animals, electricity and static, industrial, metal, science fiction, supernatural, transportation, and water. www.sound-ideas.com. Aircraft Music Library announces The Latin Compilation, a library of tracks culled from discs in the Aircraft Library. Available as a buyout. www.aircraftmusiclibrary.com. Sonic Foundry announced the release of Mick Fleetwood: Total Drumming, a 'Loops for ACID' library containing more than 800 audio samples created by Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood. www.sonicfoundry.com. Another production brother is gone with the passing of Jeff Colson aka Jay Stone of Source One Spots, Las Vegas who died of an apparent heart attack in June. Dave Wilmont and Bumper Morgan created a 20-minute tribute, which can be heard at www.bumpermorgan.com/mp3/jeffcolsontribute.mp3. Bumper recalls, "His promos, sweepers and commercials were simply amazing. I've long admired his work, since the mid-'70s. He was at KRUX, KRIZ and KUPD in Phoenix while I was growing up there." For more info, please contact Dave at 702-914-3511. The entire WaveFrame digital audio workstation product line, most notably WaveFrame/7, as well as the WaveFrame trademark, have been acquired by a new company, Cybermation, Inc., which will do business as the WaveFrame Software Group (WSG). Cybermation/WSG is owned by John Schnell and David Hart, who together they have over 25 years experience in product development, management and support on the various WaveFrame platforms. WaveFrame, Inc. has essentially ceased operations. Any business or past servicing issues, including any deals that were in progress with or regarding WaveFrame, Inc., should
AUTO_INCREMENT value. See Section 11.11.3, "Information Functions". The GROUP BY functions STD(), BIT_OR(), BIT_AND(), BIT_XOR(), and GROUP_CONCAT(). See Section 11.12, "Functions and Modifiers for Use with GROUP BY Clauses". There are several differences between the MySQL and standard SQL privilege systems. For example, in MySQL, privileges for a table are not automatically revoked when you delete a table. You must explicitly issue a REVOKE statement to revoke privileges for a table. For more information, see Section 12.4.1.5, "REVOKE Syntax". The CAST() function does not support cast to REAL or BIGINT. See Section 11.9, "Cast Functions and Operators". You can use SELECT... INTO with user-defined variables. The same syntax can also be used inside stored routines using cursors and local variables. See Section 12.7.3.3, "SELECT... INTO Statement". MySQL Server (version 3.23-max and all versions 4.0 and above) supports transactions with the InnoDB transactional storage engine. InnoDB provides full ACID compliance. See Chapter 13, Storage Engines. For information about InnoDB differences from standard SQL with regard to treatment of transaction errors, see Section 13.7.12, "InnoDB Error Handling". The other nontransactional storage engines in MySQL Server (such as MyISAM) follow a different paradigm for data integrity called "atomic operations." In transactional terms, MyISAM tables effectively always operate in autocommit = 1 mode. Atomic operations often offer comparable integrity with higher performance. As noted, the tradeoff for transactional versus nontransactional storage engines lies mostly in performance. Transactional tables have significantly higher memory and disk space requirements, and more CPU overhead. On the other hand, transactional storage engines such as InnoDB also offer many significant features. MySQL Server's modular design allows the concurrent use of different storage engines to suit different requirements and deliver optimum performance in all situations. MySQL Enterprise For expert advice on choosing and tuning storage engines, subscribe to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor. For more information, see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html. But how do you use the features of MySQL Server to maintain rigorous integrity even with the nontransactional MyISAM tables, and how do these features compare with the transactional storage engines? If you use nontransactional tables, MySQL Server in almost all cases allows you to resolve potential problems by including simple checks before updates and by running simple scripts that check the databases for inconsistencies and automatically repair or warn if such an inconsistency occurs. You can normally fix tables perfectly with no data integrity loss just by using the MySQL log or even adding one extra log. The transactional paradigm has its advantages and disadvantages. Many users and application developers depend on the ease with which they can code around problems where an abort appears to be necessary, or is necessary. However, even if you are new to the atomic operations paradigm, or more familiar with transactions, do consider the speed benefit that nontransactional tables can offer on the order of three to five times the speed of the fastest and most optimally tuned transactional tables. In situations where integrity is of highest importance, MySQL Server offers transaction-level reliability and integrity even for nontransactional tables. If you lock tables with LOCK TABLES, all updates stall until integrity checks are made. If you obtain a READ LOCAL lock (as opposed to a write lock) for a table that allows concurrent inserts at the end of the table, reads are allowed, as are inserts by other clients. The newly inserted records are not be seen by the client that has the read lock until it releases the lock. With INSERT DELAYED, you can write inserts that go into a local queue until the locks are released, without having the client wait for the insert to complete. See Section 7.3.3, "Concurrent Inserts", and Section 12.2.5.2, "INSERT DELAYED Syntax". In many cases, users have wanted LOCK TABLES or ROLLBACK for the purpose of managing unique identifiers. This can be handled much more efficiently without locking or rolling back by using an AUTO_INCREMENT column and either the LAST_INSERT_ID() SQL function or the mysql_insert_id() C API function. See Section 11.11.3, "Information Functions", and Section 21.9.3.37, "mysql_insert_id()". The InnoDB storage engine supports checking of foreign key constraints, including CASCADE, ON DELETE, and ON UPDATE. See Section 13.7.4.4, "FOREIGN KEY Constraints". If ON DELETE is the only referential integrity capability an application needs, you can achieve a similar effect as of MySQL Server 4.0 by using multiple-table DELETE statements to delete rows from many tables with a single statement. See Section 12.2.2, "DELETE Syntax". See Section 12.2.9.1, "JOIN Syntax", and Section 3.6.6, "Using Foreign Keys". Standard SQL uses the C syntax /* this is a comment */ for comments, and MySQL Server supports this syntax as well. MySQL also support extensions to this syntax that allow MySQL-specific SQL to be embedded in the comment, as described in Section 8.5, "Comment Syntax". The statement produces no change in value at all. This illustrates that allowing comments to start with "--" can have serious consequences. Using our implementation requires a space following the "--" in order for it to be recognized as a start-comment sequence in MySQL Server 3.23.3 and newer. Therefore, credit--1 is safe to use. Another safe feature is that the mysql command-line client ignores lines that start with "--". See Section 4.8.2, "replace — A String-Replacement Utility". MySQL allows you to work both with transactional tables that allow rollback and with nontransactional tables that do not. Because of this, constraint handling is a bit different in MySQL than in other DBMSs. We must handle the case when you have inserted or updated a lot of rows in a nontransactional table for which changes cannot be rolled back when an error occurs. Several SQL mode options are available to provide greater control over handling of bad data values and whether to continue statement execution or abort when errors occur. Using these options, you can configure MySQL Server to act in a more traditional fashion that is like other DBMSs that reject improper input. The SQL mode can be set globally at server startup to affect all clients. Individual clients can set the SQL mode at runtime, which enables each client to select the behavior most appropriate for its requirements. See Section 5.1.7, "Server SQL Modes". MySQL Enterprise To be alerted when there is no form of server-enforced data integrity, subscribe to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor. For more information, see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html. Normally, errors occurs for data-change statements (such as INSERT or UPDATE) that would violate primary-key, unique-key, or foreign-key constraints. If you are using a transactional storage engine such as InnoDB, MySQL automatically rolls back the statement. If you are using a nontransactional storage engine, MySQL stops processing the statement at the row for which the error occurred and leaves any remaining rows unprocessed. MySQL supports an IGNORE keyword for INSERT, UPDATE, and so forth. If you use it, MySQL ignores primary-key or unique-key violations and continues processing with the next row. See the section for the statement that you are using (Section 12.2.5, "INSERT Syntax", Section 12.2.12, "UPDATE Syntax", and so forth). You can get information about the number of rows actually inserted or updated with the mysql_info() C API function. You can also use the SHOW WARNINGS statement. See Section 21.9.3.35, "mysql_info()", and Section 12.4.6.41, "SHOW WARNINGS Syntax". Currently, only InnoDB tables support foreign keys. See Section 13.7.4.4, "FOREIGN KEY Constraints". By default, MySQL is forgiving of illegal or improper data values and coerces them to legal values for data entry. However, you can change the server SQL mode to select more traditional treatment of bad values such that the server rejects them and aborts the statement in which they occur. See Section 5.1.7, "Server SQL Modes". Invalid values for ENUM and SET columns are handled as described in Section 1.8.6.3, "ENUM and SET Constraints". MySQL allows you to store certain incorrect date values into DATE and DATETIME columns (such as '2000-02-31' or '2000-02-00'). The idea is that it is not the job of the SQL server to validate dates. If MySQL can store a date value and retrieve exactly the same value, MySQL stores it as given. If the date is totally wrong (outside the server's ability to store it), the special "zero" date value '0000-00-00' is stored in the column instead. If you try to store NULL into a column that doesn't take NULL values, an error occurs for single-row INSERT statements. For multiple-row INSERT statements or for INSERT INTO... SELECT statements, MySQL Server stores the implicit default value for the column data type. In general, this
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affecting colonists in 1765. Then, a short time later, it began taxing their tea—all this without giving them a voice in Parliament. The colonists didn't take this well, organizing the Sons of Liberty to waylay three ships that were delivering tea to Boston Harbor in 1773. Britain retaliated and the rest, as they say, is history. The Boston Tea Party escalated into the Revolutionary War. Individual states financed the federal government in the years following the birth of the nation, at least until our Founding Fathers decided that depending on their fiscal generosity put the country in a precarious position. The Constitution was drafted and ratified in 1788, providing that Congress was entitled to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises" so the country could effectively begin supporting itself. The states were put in charge of collecting those taxes and turning them over to Uncle Sam, but there was no federal tax on income—yet. Excise taxes were common, however, and it turned out that Americans felt as strongly about their whiskey as they had about their tea in decades past. Alexander Hamilton made the grievous error of trying to impose an excise tax on alcohol in 1791. The Whiskey Rebellion followed, forcing President Washington to send federal troops to southwestern Pennsylvania to impose order on a mob of angry and unruly farmers who really wanted the federal government to leave their liquor alone. The federal government proceeded to impose "direct" taxes on Americans after this—that is, individuals were taxed based on the value of things they owned, including slaves and land, but not their incomes. But President Thomas Jefferson pulled the plug on direct taxes in 1802 and the country went back to just collecting excise taxes. Congress inflated these taxes and introduced new ones to pay for the War of 1812, but even these provisions were repealed five years later in 1817. The concept of federal taxation eventually fizzled, and the country made ends meet through the sale of public lands and customs duties for the next 44 years until the advent of the Civil War. Wars cost a lot of money, so Congress was forced to go back to the taxation drawing board to raise revenue when the Civil War broke out in 1861. The income tax was officially born, imposed at a rate of 3 percent on all citizens who earned more than $800 a year. But as it turned out, this wasn't enough to fund the war. Congress had to breathe new life into excise taxes a year later in 1862. Little was spared from these taxes. They were imposed on everything from feathers to gunpowder and—once again—whiskey. The year-old income tax was tweaked for the first time now as well. Instead of just one 3-percent tax rate, a 5-percent rate was introduced for all citizens who were lucky enough to earn more than $10,000 a year. The lower threshold was tweaked as well – anyone with an income of more than $600, not $800, was now subject to the tax. This was also the first time that employers were charged with responsibility for withholding taxes from workers' pay. What we now know as the Internal Revenue Service came into existence as well. Back then, it was called the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Just like today, it was charged with collecting everyone's taxes. Individual states were relieved of that duty. Ten years later, the income tax was repealed. The federal government pretty much went back to supporting itself by taxing mostly tobacco and liquor after the war ended. This policy lasted for another 45 years except for a brief hiccup in 1894. Congress again attempted to implement a flat-rate income tax in that year, but the Supreme Court promptly declared that it was unconstitutional. It didn't take states' populations into consideration, a practice that was provided for in the Constitution. Life in the 19th century doesn't sound too bad now, does it? Life without income taxes became a fond memory with the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913. The amendment got rid of that bothersome provision in the Constitution that taxes had to be levied based on states' populations, and the income tax was reborn. This time, however, the lowest rate was only 1 percent for those with incomes of up to $20,000. It increased to 7 percent for those with incomes of more than $500,000, which comes out to about 11 million in 2017 dollars. With the way the new tax law was set up, barely 1 percent of Americans actually paid any income taxes. Form 1040 came into existence for the first time with the passage of this amendment, so now all taxpayers could dutifully roll up their shirtsleeves once a year to figure out what they owed and report it to the IRS. All earners were taxed the same – the amendment did not provide for filing statuses such as single, married or head of household. With war looming again, tax rates skyrocketed shortly after the 16th Amendment was passed. The 1916 Revenue Act was enacted midway through World War I when the U.S. once again found itself in desperate need of tax dollars. The 1-percent rate was increased to 2 percent, and the top rate went up to 15 percent for taxpayers who enjoyed incomes of more than $1.5 million. Then, a year later, the War Revenue Act of 1917 increased tax rates yet again. This Act also cut back on exemptions available to taxpayers. Those with incomes in excess of $1.5 million suddenly found themselves paying taxes at the staggering rate of 67 percent. Even a guy earning only $40,000 was hit with a 16-percent tax rate. And so it went. Rates were increased yet again with the Revenue Act of 1918, increasing the top rate to 77 percent. The 1930s were an economic seesaw. The economy burgeoned and bloomed after the war. The federal government found itself standing on steadier financial feet so Congress obligingly slashed those exorbitant tax rates. They went back to a range of 1 percent to 25 percent. Then came the Great Depression. The stock market crashed in 1929, and the government found itself scrambling for money yet again. When tax rates were increased this time, the hike heralded a period during which the top rates were exorbitant. They rose to 63 percent in 1932, then increased to a mind-boggling 79 percent in 1936. At least the lowest tax bracket increased to only 4 percent. Needless to say, the tax hike didn't help the floundering American economy to bounce back. After paying these significant taxes, Americans didn't have much left over to spend, so the rate increase was, at best, counterproductive. The Depression also prompted the 1935 Social Security Act to provide for those who were aged, handicapped or otherwise "needy." This initial version of Social Security pretty much served as unemployment insurance for those who had lost their jobs. The first Social Security tax was set at 2 percent—1 percent paid by workers and 1 percent paid by their employers—on wages up to $3,000 annually. The first Social Security taxes were collected in 1937, but benefits weren't paid out for another three years, by which time the Depression had ended. Tax rates continued to escalate in the 1940s as the U.S. engaged in World War II and, of course, needed money to fund that war effort. Three new tax laws were passed in 1940 and 1941, both raising rates and eliminating exemptions. As a result, those with incomes of $200,000 or more pretty much had to give everything they earned to the IRS—the highest tax rate went up to a staggering 94 percent. Even those who earned only $500 or less had to give almost a quarter of their meager wages to the government—23 percent. The number of taxpaying Americans increased by 39 million between 1939 and 1945, although the Individual Income Tax Act threw taxpayers a bit of a bone in 1944. It introduced standard deductions on Form 1040 to reduce taxable income a little for the first time. The IRS really came into its own in the 1950s. Its name was officially changed to the Internal Revenue Service in 1953, and by the end of the decade, it was reportedly the largest, most powerful accounting and collection agency in the world. The IRS got its first toll-free telephone line in 1965, and computers were introduced in the late 1960s, affording IRS agents a new and easier way to scrutinize returns. By 1992, most taxpayers could file their returns electronically. The Taxpayer Advocate Service was rolled out in 1998 to assist taxpayers who fell afoul of the IRS. Medicare officially joined the Social Security tax as part of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act in 1965. By 1980, these combined taxes increased from the initial 2 percent Social Security tax to a 12.3 percent rate. Tax rates remained uncomfortably high through the 1950s, still set at 87 percent for the country's wealthiest taxpayers through 1954 before finally dropping to 70 percent in the 1970s. Relief finally came in 1981 with the passage of the Economic Recovery Tax Act. Tax rates fell by about 25 percent, then Ronald Reagan moved into the White House and spared taxpayers even more. The highest tax rate had been sitting at 50 percent when he took office thanks to the ERTA. Then Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986, slashing it to 28 percent beginning with the 1988 tax year. The TRA compensated by taxing businesses more heavily than individuals. Personal exemptions were increased and indexed for inflation so they would continue to keep pace with the economy, as were standard deductions. Unfortunately, tax rates began inching up again in the 1990s after Reagan left office. The highest rate eventually reached 39.6 percent, where it remains today except for a drop to 33 percent from 2003 through 2010 thanks to President George W. Bush and the Economic
D review under the revised policy. Will current area G computer science courses need to be resubmitted to earn an area D lab science designation? Yes. All course authors (not UC and in this case the College Board) are responsible for determining the specific subject area in which they would like their course(s) to be considered for A-G approval. Will AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science Principles BOTH be considered lab sciences in the D category? Will this be taking effect now in 2018-19 or next year in 2019-20? The A-G course submission period is February 1 – September 15. If the College Board chooses to submit AP Computer Science A/ AP Computer Science Principles for area D consideration during the current 2019 submission period, the approval decision would take effect for the academic year 2019-20. Can a course be approved for both area D and area G? Courses can be approved in only one subject area. Would an online publisher course (e.g., an Edgenuity Chemistry course) that includes virtual labs meet the area D requirements without the addition of an in-person wet lab if the course is on the approved A-G course list? Beginning with the 2019-20 academic year, lab science courses that are approved on the A-G course list can be classroom-based, fully online or hybrid. All labs must include teacher supervision, but this supervision can be either synchronous (occurring at the same time as labs are completed) or asynchronous (occurring separately after the labs have been completed). Is UC increasing the lab science (D) subject requirement from two years to three years? UC's lab science (D) subject requirement continues to be two years of lab science required; three years recommended. Newer Post Apply to Community Colleges Now! Older Post FAFSA Deadline for California is TOMORROW! "At least 20 percent of class time will include teacher-supervised, hands-on laboratory activities that are directly related to, and support, the other class work and that involve inquiry, observation, analysis, and write-up of investigations consistent with the practices of the scientific field. These two statements appear to conflict. One refers to laboratory activities. The other refers to courses, however. One must wonder how a "fully online" course can have "hands-on laboratory activities." Does this imply that lab kits are fine, but virtual labs are out? For me, interpreting this apparent conflict has everything to do with the definition of "hands-on." I would like clarification here. To expedite matters, I will provide a potential definition for review. A hands-on laboratory activity must meet two criteria beyond those relating to its appropriateness in the course. 1. The experiments must be real and use real apparatus as well as take place in the real world. Simulations are never hands-on. 2. The measurements must be made by the students using their eyes, hands, and, most importantly, brains. Measurements made by algorithms and precalculated measurements do not meet the hands-on criteria. Data must be subject to user error. The data must depend on student actions for each and every data point individually. This definition will allow online laboratory experiences. It also will meet the spirit of the a-g requirements. Students will do real investigations in the real world and experience science as it actually is. The UCOP does not provide illumination in this area. Can you? To satisfy the "teacher-supervised, hands-on laboratory activities" requirement, you buy a lab kit and set up a wet lab in your house (or maybe a detached garage so you don't burn the house down; buy a fire extinguisher and have a water source nearby for rinse/eyewash if you are serious about setting up a wet lab) and have interactive online sessions (two-way video calls) with the teacher during lab time (supervision). The online schools with approved courses (to gain approval, the school would have told the UCs how the wet lab component is expected to be executed) should tell you where to buy the kit or provide the kit as part of the class (may charge you materials fee); I've seen those kits online before and I vaguely remember they are really expensive (I think a few hundred dollars?). Given the risk involved with having a wet lab at home, I really don't recommend it. If you are homeschooling, enrolling in California community colleges is relatively easy; there are also now a lot of brick-and-mortar alternative high schools that have UC-approved courses and allow students to only take one or two classes. Thank you for responding quickly. This is the old way. It might also be the new way, but read the UCOP fact sheet (http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/area-d-factsheet-2019.pdf), which includes the following. This sentence specifically allows a LABORATORY in a course that is classroom-based, FULLY ONLINE, or a hybrid. Fully online hardly requires a lab kit. The course with these "fully online" laboratory activities must be approved by the UCOP and may be rejected if they do not agree that the activities meet their standards. Minimal lab kits typically begin at around $100 for a minimal kit for a semester of introductory physical science to $300 and more for the more advanced courses. The cost of lab kits can be a problem for many families. Lab kits have been carefully designed to minimize hazards and are about as safe as cooking dinner. I should note that the majority of accidents happen at home and that a great many of these involve cuts and burns in the kitchen. Virtual labs can be purchased by your school in bulk for costs that run between $5 and $20 per student per year. (Some are more costly, but schools do not buy them.) Few of them deliver a true science investigation experience and so should be rejected if used in a submission to the UCOP. When you consider that California subsidizes schools, and that, after the fixed costs of staff and physical plant, laboratories are a huge portion of the costs of running a school, finding ways to reduce the cost to the state (or improving the support of other school activities) should be a slam-dunk. The UCOP has stood steadfast against any such savings since the 1980s. The above sentence from the guidelines represents the first tiny crack in that adamantine wall. I am working with some schools that have an interest here and will use that sentence to see whether we can widen that crack just a bit. The facts here support the use of virtual science investigations that meet the two criteria above as well as the fact-sheet statement that "at least 20 percent of class time will include teacher-supervised, hands-on laboratory activities that are directly related to, and support, the other class work and that involve inquiry, observation, analysis, and write-up of investigations consistent with the practices of the scientific field." Note that online laboratory activities can "flip" the lab and so make better use of class time — at least for students with Internet access out of class. Returning to online laboratory activities, you can use remote robotic labs today that do have real experiments. They do not have hands-on measurement, however. I mention them merely to note that real-world experiments can be done online. Heck. NASA does it this way all of the time. As soon as you move the experiments online, you incur a delay between the experiment and the measurement. That is the way most science functions anyway. The goals for laboratory activities can be listed as "America's Lab Report" did 15 years ago, and they amount to understanding science rather than just learning science. This is the reason why I suggest that the experiments be real AND the measurements be hands-on rather than automated. Even with the old UCOP a-g requirements, far too many students escaped from high school without even a basic understanding of science. (Yes, the regulations failed.) Online technology can help to cure this problem. Thank you for this forum in which I can air these views for a wide audience. I am risk-averse so I make very conservative suggestions where A-G requirements are concerned. If you are coming to me to ask what would qualify for laboratory science, I would suggest that you take a UC-approved lab science class. If an online high school offers a UC-approved lab science class, then it must have a mechanism to satisfy the lab aspect of the class and I would suggest that you follow it. However, UCs have, at various times, raised questions about the effectiveness of online high school classes (UCLA, in particular, seems skeptical). Therefore, my recommendation is always to try for California community college classes first (especially for core A-G requirements) and only use online high school classes as an alternative or boost (extra classes to increase AP count). The technical definition almost doesn't matter, because the UCs make the rules and they also make the admission decisions; they are, in essence, judge, jury, and executioner. Because of this, I lean toward traditional means of satisfying the requirements; there is no point trying to argue a case with a monstrous bureaucracy, it's like trying to win an argument with the DMV, it's not going to happen. I generally take a more practical approach of trying to maneuver through the broken system we currently have, rather than trying to improve it, because I honestly don't think I'll live long enough to help or see educational reform happen; but I applaud your effort and I am optimistic that my students will one day achieve positive educational reform. Absolutely correct. I have been at this for 20 years, and this is the first tiny crack of sunshine that I have seen. I work with schools. I hope to convince one of them to test the system. The
1, semanticInfo.MemberGroup.Length) Dim sortedMethodGroup = semanticInfo.MemberGroup.AsEnumerable().OrderBy(Function(s) s.ToTestDisplayString()).ToArray() Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1() As System.Int32", sortedMethodGroup(0).ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.False(semanticInfo.ConstantValue.HasValue) End Sub <Fact> Public Sub Test_2() Dim compilation = CompilationUtils.CreateCompilationWithMscorlib40( <compilation> <file name="a.vb"><![CDATA[ Option Strict Off Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim x As New C1() x.F1()'BIND:"F1" End Sub <Extension()> Function F1(this As C1) As Integer Return 0 End Function End Module Class C1 Function F1(x As Integer) As Integer Return 0 End Function End Class Namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices <AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly Or AttributeTargets.Class Or AttributeTargets.Method)> Class ExtensionAttribute Inherits Attribute End Class End Namespace ]]></file> </compilation>) Dim semanticInfo = CompilationUtils.GetSemanticInfoSummary(Of IdentifierNameSyntax)(compilation, "a.vb") Assert.Null(semanticInfo.Type) Assert.Null(semanticInfo.ConvertedType) Assert.Equal(ConversionKind.Identity, semanticInfo.ImplicitConversion.Kind) Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1() As System.Int32", semanticInfo.Symbol.ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.Equal(SymbolKind.Method, semanticInfo.Symbol.Kind) Assert.Equal(0, semanticInfo.CandidateSymbols.Length) Assert.Equal(2, semanticInfo.MemberGroup.Length) Dim sortedMethodGroup = semanticInfo.MemberGroup.AsEnumerable().OrderBy(Function(s) s.ToTestDisplayString()).ToArray() Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1() As System.Int32", sortedMethodGroup(0).ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1(x As System.Int32) As System.Int32", sortedMethodGroup(1).ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.False(semanticInfo.ConstantValue.HasValue) End Sub <Fact> Public Sub Test_3() Dim compilation = CompilationUtils.CreateCompilationWithMscorlib40( <compilation> <file name="a.vb"><![CDATA[ Option Strict Off Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim x As New C1() x.F1()'BIND:"x.F1()" End Sub <Extension()> Function F1(this As C1) As Integer Return 0 End Function End Module Class C1 Function F1(x As Integer) As Integer Return 0 End Function End Class Namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices <AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly Or AttributeTargets.Class Or AttributeTargets.Method)> Class ExtensionAttribute Inherits Attribute End Class End Namespace ]]></file> </compilation>) Dim semanticInfo = CompilationUtils.GetSemanticInfoSummary(Of InvocationExpressionSyntax)(compilation, "a.vb") Assert.Equal("System.Int32", semanticInfo.Type.ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.Equal(TypeKind.Structure, semanticInfo.Type.TypeKind) Assert.Equal("System.Int32", semanticInfo.ConvertedType.ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.Equal(TypeKind.Structure, semanticInfo.ConvertedType.TypeKind) Assert.Equal(ConversionKind.Identity, semanticInfo.ImplicitConversion.Kind) Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1() As System.Int32", semanticInfo.Symbol.ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.Equal(SymbolKind.Method, semanticInfo.Symbol.Kind) Assert.Equal(0, semanticInfo.CandidateSymbols.Length) Assert.Equal(0, semanticInfo.MemberGroup.Length) Assert.False(semanticInfo.ConstantValue.HasValue) End Sub End Class End Namespace Namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.VisualBasic.UnitTests.Semantics Partial Public Class SemanticModelTests <Fact> Public Sub ExtensionMethodsLookupSymbols1() Dim compilation = CompilationUtils.CreateCompilationWithMscorlib40( <compilation> <file name="a.vb"><![CDATA[ Option Strict Off Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim x As New C1() x.F1()'BIND:"x" End Sub <Extension()> Function F1(this As C1) As Integer Return 0 End Function End Module Class C1 Function F1(x As Integer) As Integer Return 0 End Function End Class Namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices <AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly Or AttributeTargets.Class Or AttributeTargets.Method)> Class ExtensionAttribute Inherits Attribute End Class End Namespace ]]></file> </compilation>) Dim c1 = compilation.GetTypeByMetadataName("C1") Dim actual_lookupSymbols = GetLookupSymbols(compilation, "a.vb", name:="F1", container:=c1, includeReducedExtensionMethods:=True) Assert.Equal(2, actual_lookupSymbols.Count) Dim sortedMethodGroup = actual_lookupSymbols.AsEnumerable().OrderBy(Function(s) s.ToTestDisplayString()).ToArray() Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1() As System.Int32", sortedMethodGroup(0).ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1(x As System.Int32) As System.Int32", sortedMethodGroup(1).ToTestDisplayString()) actual_lookupSymbols = GetLookupSymbols(compilation, "a.vb", name:="F1", container:=c1, includeReducedExtensionMethods:=False) Assert.Equal(1, actual_lookupSymbols.Count) Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1(x As System.Int32) As System.Int32", actual_lookupSymbols(0).ToTestDisplayString()) End Sub <Fact> Public Sub ExtensionMethodsLookupSymbols2() Dim compilation = CompilationUtils.CreateCompilationWithMscorlib40( <compilation> <file name="a.vb"><![CDATA[ Option Strict Off Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices Module Module1 Sub Main() End Sub <Extension()> Function F1(this As C1) As Integer Return 0 End Function End Module Class C1 Function F1(x As Integer) As Integer Return 0 End Function Shared Sub Main() F1()'BIND:"F1" End Sub End Class Namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices <AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly Or AttributeTargets.Class Or AttributeTargets.Method)> Class ExtensionAttribute Inherits Attribute End Class End Namespace ]]></file> </compilation>) Dim actual_lookupSymbols = GetLookupSymbols(compilation, "a.vb", name:="F1", includeReducedExtensionMethods:=True) Assert.Equal(2, actual_lookupSymbols.Count) Dim sortedMethodGroup = actual_lookupSymbols.AsEnumerable().OrderBy(Function(s) s.ToTestDisplayString(), StringComparer.Ordinal).ToArray() Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1() As System.Int32", sortedMethodGroup(0).ToTestDisplayString()) Assert.Equal("Function C1.F1(x As System.Int32) As System.Int32", sortedMethodGroup(1).ToTestDisplayString()) End Sub <ConditionalFact(GetType(WindowsOnly), Reason:="https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/29531")> Public Sub ExtensionMethodsLookupSymbols3() Dim compilation = CompilationUtils.CreateCompilationWithMscorlib40( <comp
maddening, that these were not Negroes disaffected by color or immigrants by strangeness but boys and girls with white skins from the right side of the economy in all-American cities and towns from Honolulu to Baltimore. After regular educations, if only they'd want them, they could commute to fine jobs from the suburbs, and own nice houses with bathrooms, where they could shave and wash up." Their style reflected their ideology and their aspirations; their clothes were costumes that they slipped on; they were integral to their story. The hippies were method actors, living deep inside their performance. They set out to aggravate and irritate. They were indecorous. They were turning on to drugs and tuning out; but they could always tune back in, and society would welcome them back. Society loved them, after all. It had been their decision to leave. Their loosefitting and homespun clothes spoke of freedom — from responsibility, rules and traditions. They were protesting against the corporate and political power structure and the American Dream. Their focus was as fluid and blurred as the lines of their clothes. It made sense then that the activists in the civil rights movement were, visually, the antithesis of hippies. They were not fighting to escape the system; they were working to become fully integrated into it. They wore the suits and ties that the hippies shunned. Even the children of the movement wore dress shoes, proper suspenders and polite sweaters. These upright men, women and children countered the narrative that black people were subpar exotics by dressing with man-next-door polish. Their message, tactics and style were precisely detailed. The civil rights warriors did not dress in battle gear. In adhering to their philosophy of nonviolence, their style was conciliatory rather than confrontational. These were not clothes for a fight but clothes for a gentlemanly — or ladylike — negotiation. The clothes suggested that a dialogue wasn't just desired, it was possible. And so, when their racial diplomacy was met with a full, frontal attack, the images were especially jarring. What was so dangerous about these sport-jacketed men and pencil-skirt-wearing women that they should be repelled by the cannon blasts of fire hoses or the snarling bite of attack dogs? The neat clothes and the primly styled hair of the civil rights activists reflected that of the accepted mainstream, of the agreed-upon norm. We are just like you. That's what their fashion said. What is there to fear? As cynical as the hippies had grown about the system, these activists had faith and hope in it. Their clothes also spoke of institutional dignity, which they refused to disavow. It's easy to enter a room unshaven and grubby when one's essential humanity is not in question. Their attire was a show of self-respect, a sign that they saw themselves worthy of a stranger's esteem. The Black Panthers were not conciliatory in their methods. Their dress didn't suggest a desire to assimilate or fit in. Instead, their berets and leather jackets, tunics, dashikis, Afros and heavy beards were pointedly outside the realm of suburban conventions, flower-child mysticism and churchgoing decorum. Unsmiling and with fists thrust into the air, the Black Panthers cast a watchful eye over predominantly black, urban neighborhoods and armed themselves against police violence. They were not to be trifled with. In the April 1, 1968, issue of Vogue, psychologist Kenneth Clark, who with his wife, Mamie, conducted the "doll test" that explored children's attitudes about race, observed that the "dignified non-violent protests of the Southern Negro and the civil rights legislation were not relevant to the predicament of the Northern Negro and did not remedy the pervasive forms of racism which afflicted him in his Northern city ghettos." Clark wasn't arguing in favor of by-any-means-necessary activism or black separatism. But in making the distinctions between the overt racism faced by Southern blacks and the often covert racism in Northern cities, he indirectly considered the strikingly different fashion postures, from the suited-up members of a movement that had been nurtured in the black church to the black-leather-clad Black Panthers who mostly worked from urban storefronts. All of these activists focused on jobs, education, housing and, ultimately, freedom. Their clothes not only identified their approach, they were also essential to it. Southern blacks were negotiating for rights. Those in the North were fighting for power. Off the pedestal Nineteen sixty-eight marked a year in which women loosed themselves from bras and girdles. They hitched up their hemlines. They wore pants — but not power suits. They ditched their heels. They shunned the rules that had bound their mothers and grandmothers. One of the most notable events of that year was the "No More Miss America" protest at that year's beauty pageant in Atlantic City in September. It featured child picketers, marionettes draped in discarded heels and hair curlers, a live sheep wearing a Miss America sash and a "freedom trash can" into which women could "throw away all the physical manifestations of women's oppression, such as 'bras, girdles, curlers, false eyelashes, wigs, and representative issues of Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Circle, etc.,' " wrote Roxane Gay, quoting the protesters' news release, in a brief history of the event for Smithsonian magazine. Photographs of the event, which was organized by New York Radical Women, depict protesters defiantly scrapping their lingerie as they marched on the city's boardwalk. Mostly, the women are young and slim. Mostly, they are white. They represent all that is deemed pretty, all-American and ultimately valuable. They are fighting their way down from the pedestal onto which they have been uncomfortably and unnaturally perched. The winner of that year's pageant, Judith Anne Ford, made history: She was the first blonde to win Miss America in 11 years. In interviews, she avoided discussing the war protests that had unfolded at the Democratic National Convention that summer and dodged a question about police brutality. In a story in the New York Times, she said hippies were all right, "but I wouldn't want to be one." Only a few hours later and a few blocks away, black women finally had an opportunity to clamber atop their own pedestal when the Miss Black America pageant debuted and Saundra Williams made history as its first winner. The pageant was founded by a Philadelphia entrepreneur whose daughters yearned to grow up to be Miss America; he knew that racism would prevent that. There were no protests at the Miss Black America pageant. "Miss America does not represent us because there has never been a black girl in the pageant," said Williams in a New York Times story. A "curvy, hazel-eyed coed" who wore her hair natural, Williams added: "With my title, I can show black women that they too are beautiful, even though they have large noses and thick lips. There is a need to keep saying this over and over, because for so long none of us believed it. But now we've finally come around." Both Ford and Williams wore a crown. Many white women saw it as a symbol of oppression. Black women saw it as a triumph. Power in the individual Today, fashion is less adept at delineating between insiders and outsiders, between the establishment and the rebels. Everyone wears jeans and T-shirts, sneakers with their suits. Who isn't tattooed? Scruffy is a look. Gender lines have blurred; a woman is no longer captive to fashion or constrained by it. Not like she was in the past. She can choose. An older generation protested and now the modern woman is empowered to wear Spanx — and to brag about it. The broader culture has become adept at absorbing the extremes and sanding down harsh edges, whether it be sagging jeans that hang off the rear or mohawks paired with shredded denim. Fashion swallows it all whole and spits it out to an eager public. It happens to everything. . . eventually. The hippie rebellion — at least the essence of it — was embraced by the grunge rock generation and the modern-day music festival nomads. Its legacy is a kind of corporatized transgressiveness. It's festival season! Get your flower crowns for Coachella! The Women's March was personified by pink knit pussy hats, a reference to then-candidate Donald Trump's brag about being able to sexually assault women. In name, the hats were a flame-throwing rallying cry. A version of them eventually ended up on the Missoni fashion runway in Milan; later they could be purchased for just under $200. Sonia Rykiel died in 2016. The Paris protests that coincided with the founding of her brand have been memorialized by the label's current designer with a handbag. The "Pavé Parisien" is shaped like the cobblestones that protesters hurled at police during the 1968 riots. It retails for $990. The sound of the Black Lives Matter movement was distilled into the insistent voices, stirring chants and the powerful music of Kendrick Lamar's "We Gon' Be Alright." Aesthetically, a blue Patagonia vest worn by activist DeRay Mckesson was its fashion cynosure. White nationalists look more like accountants in their khakis and golf shirts than the extremists that
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(2018) Fantasy (Warner Brothers) Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Dan Fogler, Zoë Kravitz, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol, Katherine Waterston, Jude Law, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, David Wilmot, Brontis Jodorowsky, Jessica Williams, Hugh Quarshie, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Victoria Yeates, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Derek Riddell, Poppy Corby-Tuech. Directed by David Yates The Harry Potter franchise has been nothing short of a cash cow for Warner Brothers. After Harry's adventures came to an end, we looked forward with some eagerness to the adventures of New Scamander in a prequel of sorts. When Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them became the expected massive hit, the proposed trilogy was expanded into a five-film series. Heavy on exposition, the second film in the series has turned out to be a bloated mess. The evil wizard Grindelwald (Depp) has escaped from captivity and looks to continue his quest to amass an army to take over the world and rule all muggles. He has seen a vision of the future and it includes a mushroom cloud, so one can hardly blame him there – we muggles certainly made a hash of things. Newt Scamander (Redmayne) would rather continue to gather magical beasts from around the world but he is under a travel ban until his old teacher Albus Dumbledore (Law) gives him a new quest – to find Creedence (Miller), the emotionally abused young man from the first film. It turns out that the Ministry of Magic is also after him. And so is Grindelwald. Newt, aided by the woman he loves, American auror Tina Goldstein (Waterston), her ditzy sister Queenie (Sudol) and Queenie's boyfriend (as well as Newt's buddy from the first film) Jacob the Baker (Fogler) will have to step lively if they are to find the elusive Creedence, who is searching for his past so he may discover truly who and what he is. He is, for all intents and purposes, the crux of the show. The tone is distinctly darker here, as most second films of fantasy series' are. J.K. Rowling's world-building skills are beyond reproach but I get the sense she was trying to accomplish too much with this film; in addition to the main characters from the first film there are also plenty of new ones running around, so much so that it becomes difficult to determine who's who and what's what. The movie gets bogged down in plot exposition and character development, eschewing action a little bit too much. The special effects are wondrous, of course, as you would expect. There are plenty of amazing creature effects here, both CGI and practical. The cast does it's level best but I got the sense that they, too, were confused by what was going on behind them. The third film, after the disappointing reviews and box office of this film, is being retooled but hopefully it will right the course for the series which has made a most definite misstep. REASONS TO SEE: The beasties continue to be nifty. REASONS TO AVOID: Underwhelming performances and plot. FAMILY VALUES: There is some brief violence. TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Newt Scamander's basement, where he keeps his beasts, was inspired by an M.C. Escher print (Relativity). BEYOND THE THEATERS: Amazon, AMC On Demand, AppleTV, Fandango Now, Google Play, HBO Now, Microsoft, Redbox, Vudu, YouTube CRITICAL MASS: As of 4/8/20: Rotten Tomatoes: 36% positive reviews, Metacritic: 52/100 COMPARISON SHOPPING: Eragon NEXT: Mowgli Posted in VOD Review \| Tagged 1920s, Albus Dumbledore, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, cinema, Cinema365, Claudia Kim, Dan Fogler, David Wilmot, David Yates, Eddie Redmayne, emotional abuse, Ezra Miller, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, fantasy, Films, Hogwart's, Hugh Quarshie, J.K. Rowling, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, London, love spell, magical battle, movies, Muggles, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Paris, VOD Reviews, Warner Brothers, wizarding world, Zoe Kravitz \| Leave a reply New Releases for the Week of December 14, 2018 Posted on December 14, 2018 by carlosdev SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE (Columbia) Starring the voices of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Lily Tomlin, Nicolas Cage, Zoë Kravitz, Liev Schreiber. Directed by Bob Perischetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman Brooklyn teen Miles Morales is the Spider-Man of his dimension. He's new to the job but shows a lot of promise. However, a threat to all of reality brings different Spideys from a variety of dimensions to face down the threat in this first feature-length animated film from Marvel to hit theaters. See the trailer, clips, interviews and video featurettes here Release Formats: Standard, 3D, 4DX, DBOX, DBOX 3D, Dolby, IMAX, IMAX 3D, RPX, RPX 3D, XD, XD 3D Rating: PG (for frenetic sequences of animated action violence, thematic elements, and mild language) Mortal Engines (Universal) Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Jihae. Based on a series of young adult books, this introductory film to what Universal hopes will be a major franchise for them picks up after a cataclysmic event has decimated the Earth. Cities have become mobile, scavenging for dwindling resources and London is the most predatory of all of them. A mysterious girl whose memory of her mother may unlock the key to her survival, joins forces with a dangerous outlaw, a defector from London and a brave young man to stop the ambitions of the mad Thaddeus Valentine. See the trailer, clips, video featurettes and B-roll video here Release Formats: Standard, 3D, Dolby, IMAX, IMAX 3D Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of futuristic violence and action) The Mule (Warner Brothers) Clint Eastwood, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest. An old man, broke and alone and facing nearly insurmountable financial problems, takes a job driving a load of cargo. What he doesn't know is that he's inadvertently become a mule for a vicious Mexican cartel. He does so well that he gets more and bigger cargoes until he finds himself on the radar of the DEA.. He must also face the mistakes of his past before his present deeds catch up to
comments Latest activity Welcome to the TTP community CPL Official News The Breakdown: 7 takeaways from CPL, Week 3 Author Canadian Premier League - Feed Publish date May 20, 2019 Canadian Premier League teams have played anywhere from three-to-five regular season fixtures after three weeks of Spring action, and while it may be early goings still, a few noteworthy trends and talking points have already emerged. Namely, Cavalry FC's unbeaten start to the 2019 campaign has our pundits dolling out praise more frequently than Valour head coach Rob Gale drops a witty turn of phrase. FC Edmonton finally suffered a loss, Jimmy Brennan's York9 side is still looking for a first victory, and Pacific FC now heads to Cavalry for the second leg of their Canadian Championship Qualifying Round 1 series, having dropped the first result 2-0. So, that's what's on the docket for next week – here's what we saw from Week 3: 7. Can Cavalry FC go unbeaten in Spring sprint? They're 40% of the way there, after all. In this 10-match Spring portion of the 2019 CPL season, every single game counts, and Tommy Wheeldon Jr.'s side is making every single game count towards their overall points tally – that's 12, five more points than second-place Forge, and with a game in hand, too. Four wins in a row in league action (five if you include Canadian Championship play) has Wheeldon Jr.'s side feeling all sorts of confidence, and as OneSoccer's Oliver Platt points out in this week's By the Numbers, plenty of credit must go to the Cavs coach, who has instilled a patient but unwavering approach to success within his team, one that is brimming with team chemistry, as per goalkeeper Marco Carducci. But can they keep up this rich run of form? Their next league match is at Spruce Meadows against a visiting HFX Wanderers FC, who, like Cavalry, will have also hosted a midweek opponent in the Canadian Championship. Cavalry already seems to have the quality edge on their opponents, and with a deep roster and a 2-0 advantage over visiting Pacific, will have the luxury of resting some of their starters. Beyond this fifth Spring match? A visit to Edmonton on June 15, a trip to Halifax four days later, a rematch with Forge on June 22 at home, a trip to York9 four days later, and a final match on Vancouver Island on July 1. Throw in a pair of matches against Forge in Canadian Championship play (should Cavalry advance) and you have the makings of a tough final stretch leading up to Canada Day. And, the back-and-forth nature of their home-and-away trips across the board means Cavalry will be collecting plenty of air mileage in the coming weeks. Undefeated in Spring? It's a stretch. But, with a solid first half, perhaps Cavalry can survive and earn that Spring CPL Championship berth, regardless of perfection in the table. 6. York9 set for long-awaited homecoming Speaking of harrowing Spring journeys, York9 FC finally ends a four-match away stretch (Hamilton, Calgary, Blainville, and Victoria, if you've been following along) and returns home to York Lions Stadium at long, long last. The set-up at York University will definitely feel like home, with tables, chairs and race car bucket seats all proudly displaying the York9 FC crest. Being surrounded by their own green-clad fans will be a welcome change for Brennan's side, too. The visiting team? Forge, which offers the Nine Stripes a chance to gain the upper hand in the 905 Derby. But before that? There's a Canadian Championship match against Quebec's A.S. Blainville to contend. A 0-0 result in the first leg means this second leg is the ultimate decider. You can bet that Brennan, a seasoned pro in Voyageurs Cup action, will have his team more than ready for homecoming on Wednesday, and on the weekend. 5. FC Edmonton deeper in talent than expected "Oumar Diouck is a player who deserves more minutes." That's what FC Edmonton head coach Jeff Paulus told our Steven Sandor of his Belgian striker, who replaced Ajeej Sarkaria for the second half of Al Classico, and impressed over those second 45 minutes, driving the attacking play and, in tandem with Marcus Velado-Tsegaye, forced goalkeeper Marco Carducci into making a big save (or three) in pursuit of an equalizing goal. As an aside, Paulus praised Velado-Tsegaye in pre-season, telling CanPL Editorial that the 17-year-old has the potential to develop into one of the top attacking talents in the league. It speaks to how deep Edmonton is from roster spots 1 through 18, a factor that wasn't quite as clear before Cavalry's match, as many of Paulus' players came out of the club's academy, making their debuts in professional football for the first time. Two of Edmonton's key starters were absent for this first Al Classico bout – centre-back Amer Didic and winger-forward Randy Edwini-Bonsu. But, Paulus always knew his roster was deep. "I know there's someone in Toronto who thinks we're not a complete squad," Paulus teased after the match. "But I think we've shown today that we are actually quite a good side." Indeed, they have. 4. Magic of the Canadian Championship We've already seen glimpses of that domestic Cup magic we all know and love – a Vaughan Azzurri come-from-behind effort saw HFX Wanderers FC nearly drop the road result, but for a last-gasp penalty to edge the League1 Ontario outfit 3-2. A.S. Blainville held York9 FC to a 0-0 draw in Blainville. Is there a possible upset in the cards for one or both of these CPL outfits? Probably not. Barring total disaster, HFX took three away goals and a slim margin of victory out of Vaughan, and return to the raucous crowd at Wanderers Grounds with a pretty clear mission – don't concede, and, if you do, limit it to just the one. Any wider a margin of defeat and Stephen Hart will have to watch the battle for the Voyageurs Cup unfold without a say in its final result. Any draw or win sees HFX through comfortably. York9's in another boat, as the away goals rule tie-breaker the Nine Stripes from playing out to a scoring draw here. So, it's a win or bust for Brennan's side. 3. So... Marcus Haber's heading accuracy Marcus Haber leads the league in shots. He's got 14 of 'em, over the course of three of his team's five matches. Against York9 FC, Haber finally found the back of the net, getting a head on the end of a well-placed corner kick. He brushed off Justin Springer, his marker, and connected perfectly, finding the back of the net at long last. Of his 14 total shots, 10 have been missed headers, and four have come off his right foot. So, one headed goal in 11 total attempts with his noggin – less than ideal for the 6-foot-3 target man. But these kinds of goals are not easy to score. It takes three key variables to score a header: Timing, maximum jump height, and power coordination; you have to time your leap correctly to meet the ball where it connects best, using your range of jumping height to calculate if you can actually reach the ball, and then using strength to both brush off your marker and get enough power to correctly redirect the ball on the proper angle, with enough pace to beat the 'keeper. A cursory glance around Europe has strikers like Chelsea's Olivier Giroud and Cagliari's Leonardo Pavoletti among the leaders in the headed goals category. They convert roughly 0.27 headed goals per 90 minutes... which is just around the range Haber is in now, with one headed goal in roughly 270 minutes of play. Food for thought. 2. Can we talk about... York9 FC defender Daniel Gogarty? The 22-year-old Scarborough, Ont. native came to the Nine Stripes out of York University via the CPL-U SPORTS Draft and has immediately become a mainstay in Brennan's backline, playing every single minute of his team's season so far. Is he putting in the sort of game-saving clearances, tackles, or interceptions that his fellow centre-back Luca Gasparotto is? Not necessarily. But, on the flip side of that coin, he has quietly put in solid displays beyond his years and hasn't put a foot wrong yet, either. Not bad for a draft pick. 1. Your photo of the week Canadian Premier League - Feed More in CPL Official News Assistant coach Rhian Wilkinson parts ways with CanWNT One of Canadian women's soccer's most loyal servants is stepping away... 13 Canadian free agents that could sign for CPL clubs We're still in January, but Canadian Premier League clubs are busy... New TFC coach gearing up for Canadian Championship final vs. Forge FC Chris Armas hasn't even landed in Canada yet, but the new Toronto FC... Amer Didic re-signs with FC Edmonton for 2021 CPL campaign FC Edmonton fans can breathe a little easier on Thursday with news that... FC Edmonton's Amer Didic recalled into CanMNT by Herdman Amer Didic is back with the Canadian national team. The FC Edmonton
the divinity of the Quran is the revolutionary thoughts that Quran presented in that age. These theories do not have precedence in history. Though the human intellect was progressing gradually, the principles Quran presented were ahead of its age. Since human intellect progress slowly, the human mind also rises along with it and accepts lofty ideas. But when the Quran raised its revolutionary ideas, only those who have believed in it accepted the ideas. People out of this group had not accepted the ideas as their intellectual level was not up to that level..... Human Rights Are Part And Parcel of Islam Nisar Mohammad Ahmad This is because human rights in Islam are governed under the purview of Huquq Allah and Huquq al-'Ibad, the rights due towards the Creator and the Sustainer and the rights of Allah's servants, i.e., human beings. As such, rather than wasting their time creating sentiments among Muslims that human rights are a dangerous threat to them, Muslims should instead spend more time and encourage others to read, research and understand what Islam actually says about human rights…… Dallia M Abdelmoniem Sudan: A Misconception of Apostasy Sudan's ruling regime prides itself in a constitution that "preserves the rights of non-Muslims", but Mariam's case completely goes against that claim. In addition, Sudan is a signatory to a number of African and international treaties that "protect privacy and absolutely prohibit corporal punishment and the use of the death penalty in these contexts"…. Mujahid Hussain, New Age Islam Lesser Hindus, Purer Pakistan: This is how Pakistan reacts to Dr Ramesh Kumar's disclosures on ethnic cleansing in Pakistan Member of National Assembly and head of Pakistan Hindu Council Dr Ramesh Kumar has said on the floor of the Assembly that no member belonging to minority sections in Pakistan is safe even as the government has completely failed to provide protection to their places of worship and religious scriptures.... Since we have looked at Dr Ramesh Kumar's statement through the prism of conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan, his statement is not important to us nor have we to be bothered about the least bit. As the proverbial good riddance, if every year five thousand Hindus (according to Dr. Ramesh Kumar) migrate to India from Pakistan, it is a good omen for the purification of the country. It is also a warning to other minority communities of the country that they should leave the God's own country for their own good. Daoud Kuttab Detention without Trial Common in 'Democratic' Israel Imagine being stopped at an Israeli checkpoint and being taken into custody. Then finding yourself in an Israeli jail for six months without charge or trial. After six months, the administrative order signed by a military commander is renewed. An Israeli military judge is presented a secret file which neither you nor your lawyer are allowed to see. Within minutes your nightmare is extended for another six months….. Irwin Cotler Rouhani Is No 'Moderate' When it Comes to Human Rights The Iranian regime also incites hatred and violence against other religious and ethnic minorities, violating their political, social, religious, economic, cultural, linguistic and educational rights. Among other abuses, minority schools and houses of worship have been closed or destroyed, restrictions have been imposed on both the public and private use of minority languages, and members of minority groups -- including the Baloch, Kurds, Ahwazi Arabs, and Christians -- have been imprisoned on spurious charges such as "spreading corruption on earth."…. Karen J Greenberg The Road from Abu Ghraib: A Torture Story without a Hero or an Ending It's mind-boggling. Torture is still up for grabs in America. No one questions anymore whether the CIA water boarded one individual 83 times or another 186 times. The basic facts are no longer in dispute either by those who champion torture or those who, like myself, despise the very idea of it. No one questions whether some individuals died being tortured in American custody. (They did.) No one questions that it was a national policy devised by those at the very highest levels of government. (It was.)…. Andrew Coyne Free Speech Founders without Judgment, Tolerance Really? So if someone were fired for speaking in favour of gay marriage, we'd be OK with that? If a university lecture on "rape culture" were shouted down by a bunch of frat boys, it would just be an interesting clash of perspectives? Or leave aside the hypotheticals: those federal scientists, forbidden by their employer from sharing their expertise on environmental issues? They should just find other work? Really?... The Slow Death of Free Speech As it happens, the biggest'safe space' on the planet is the Muslim world. For a millennium, Islamic scholars have insisted, as firmly as a climate scientist or an American sophomore, that there's nothing to debate. And what happened? As the United Nations Human Development Programme's famous 2002 report blandly noted, more books are translated in Spain in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in the last 1,000 years. Free speech and a dynamic, innovative society are intimately connected: a culture that can't bear a dissenting word on race or religion or gender fluidity or carbon offsets is a society that will cease to innovate, and then stagnate, and then decline, very fast. As American universities, British playwrights and Australian judges once understood, the'safe space' is where cultures go to die….. Nesrine Malik Freedom to Offend Everyone The defence of free speech often hides a multitude of sins. Since Brandeis University withdrew an honor it had intended to bestow on the author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, many have flocked to her defence in the name of free expression — no matter how offensive. But implicitly they are suggesting that Islam and Muslims are worthy targets of Ms. Hirsi Ali's scorn. And their preciousness about the right to offend won't be credible until they advocate extending it beyond Islamophobes — to racists, anti-Semites and homophobes, too.... Planned Cantonments in Swat in Contravention to International Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) and U N Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) Hindu Kush Conservation Association and other NGOs Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) has passed a resolution in a public gathering in Khwaja Khela against the construction of military cantonments in Swat. Earlier, Aza Khel Qaumi Jirga, Nikpa Khel and Swat Qaumi Jirga had also unanimously opposed this decision. Mehmood Khan Achakzai leader PMAP has reportedly conveyed the opposition of local population to the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against this ill-advised plan which shall seriously impact the climate and productivity of the entire region.... Farzana Hassan Brandeis University Bows to Islamism It is time to protect the long-cherished ideal of free, critical thought, which the West has fought for through many of its own convulsions. It is time to formulate a cogent response to Islamist assaults on freedom of speech and to implement it in an unflinching manner….. Labour Enslavement and the Application of Law in Saudi Arabia All we know so far is that the poor shepherd arrived in Saudi Arabia on a contract with the stockyard's owner who only paid the former around $300 of his wages, prevented him from travelling to see his family and did not even allow him to call them. The Indian worker could not escape because the stockyard was in the middle of the an-Nafud desert and he was afraid he would get lost and die if he tried to escape.... Iran: Persecution of Arabs Intensifies Under Rouhani Daniel Brett The Iranian regime's execution campaign demonstrates that any form of Arab civic organisation in Iran is portrayed as terrorism, enabling it to impose the death penalty. Ahwazi Arab activists maintain this is part of the regime's campaign of ethnic cleansing against indigenous ethnic Arabs. Unfortunately, endemic anti-Arab racism has meant that the Ahwazi cause has been alienated by some so-called "opposition" groups..... Executions Surge In Iran - Evidence Of Rowhani's 'Moderate' Rule? Nevertheless, every report independently conducted by human rights watch groups; the United Nations, Amnesty International as well as the official statistical numbers revealed by the Iranian government, indicate not only that Rowhani has not delivered on his promises (not even keeping the status of human rights similar to that of his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's era), but that the condition of human rights has significantly worsened in Iran….. Saudi Arabia's Human Rights 'Rebrand' Is Fooling No One It's not surprising that these moves are being greeted with scepticism. The report comes after some terrible press for the Saudi royal family, and the king in particular. One of the king's ex-wives has appealed to western media organisations to intercede in the case of her three daughters, allegedly virtually imprisoned in the royal compound by their father in Saudi Arabia...... Khaled Abou El Fadl Human Rights as State of Grace: Against Terrorism and Secular Nationalism Very much like in the Christian tradition, in the Islamic intellectual tradition there was an earlier intellectual battle between those who believed that the notion of right and wrong exists in a primordial and transcendent essence, and that it was not dependent upon a divine command, and those who made the locus of the existence of natural right - what they used to call al-Husn (beauty) versus al-Qubh (ugliness), very much like the idea of
no time' of higher dimensional frequency (fifth dimensional and higher frequencies), even though our lifetimes are perhaps thousands of years or more, apart. She has assured me that she is fine, now. Her spirit has healed from the experiences I'm going to write about here. What remains is the fun, awe and beauty of this lifetime of flying among the stars. Why now? She could not complete healing herself in that lifetime because of the trauma of how she died, and because, in divine timing, the perfect moment to complete her healing is through this experience with me. The energy of this memory has remained with me, unconsciously, as part of the memories of my body, emotions, thoughts and spirit in this lifetime. I'm ready to move to a new place in my life, and thus, fully acknowledging this experience and unconditionally loving who I was, will bring me in to deeper wholeness with who I am. Flying a Starship with Three Captains The blue girl is a starship captain. This woman flew a large starship with two other captains. She stood in the center of the command deck of the ship, with another captain on her left, and one on her right. They stood on a large slightly elevated platform; their equipment formed the shape of a triangle. Each captain stood at a standing podium. Information in the form of visual symbols and telepathically received frequencies flowed through the console attached to each podium. A large rectangular console was attached to each free standing podium. Together, each of the three consoles formed the three sides of a triangle. The captains, working together, generated a connectedness of energy and information as they stood working as a group all facing inward towards the open triangular space in the center of their platform. All of the captains were women. Energy, information, commands, data, inputs and outputs flowed between them, energetically and telepathically, the panels and 'keyboards' in front of them, moving and showing symbols aligned with what was being energetically and telepathically communicated. The Operation of the Starship The Captain ran her hands over the panel, and telepathically and visually connected with the ship itself. When doing so, she was one with the ship. She received its inputs as it received its inputs. She send out signals as the ship sent out signals. There was no separation between the ship's technology and herself. And yet, she did not have technology implanted in to her body. This was not necessary. With her pure, human-type form, she could use her mind, her energy and her being to operate the vessel. The Ship's Command Structure The command of the vessel was completely different than how we view command within most of our cultures on Earth. This was a large vessel with many individuals operating and living on the ship. This was a ship 'in service'. The culture did not have a military, per se. The might of their presence and their vessel was untouchable, by most other forces. The culture lived on starships, and also had starships that engaged in missions. There was a general telepathic link among the entire population. This was where the command structure flowed from. It was not a group mind, as each being operated as an individual. But, they were linked and from group agreement at an unspoken level made command decisions, together. The way the command decisions were made wasn't through discussion, wasn't through review of facts or data per se, the way many of our cultures do on Earth at this time. Command decision was through commonality of intention, in the context of alignment with the greater plan of their species and of others of their kind, living on other starships. This intentionality was in layers; from the personal, to the small group, to the complement on the ship, to their family in groups of other ships (and all were considered family), to their people in their part of the galaxy, and so on. One could move between layers of awareness to be in and participate in the collective experience. There was no hierarchy, and as they evolved they naturally participated in more expanding groupings. Because most human beings are not telepathic, let me try to explain how this alignment of intention was experienced by the blue girl: it was like being the melody in an orchestra where all played their instruments finely and in tune, creating a beautiful symphony of sound. This is how their aligned, telepathic group intention feels from my perspective. Command by the Captains As Captain, the blue girl; really, a woman in strong standing, could make individual command decisions, and could make them together within her threesome of co-captains, but, in the background, alignment with the whole was always present. This is fully possible, and I can feel the feelings of how this is possible, but I also understand that I'm having trouble explaining exactly how this worked. Maybe that is because it is a possibility beyond the limits of mind. The captains had individual roles, but also operated as one unit. It was an efficient operation, and it was a professional position of responsibility. The ability to link with the other captains, and to link with the ship to fly it, was a high skill set developed through attention and practice over a very long time. But, it was not more or less important than any other function of, or operation on, the vessel. This vessel and this culture operated at a high frequency and these beings had a refined way about them. They were a very advanced race, both technologically and from a consciousness perspective. The Crash and Capture What I see in my vision is that the starship suddenly 'crashed', while approaching a planet related to an inter-species mission, yet it hit no other vessel. The ship had been on a mission of importance and of service, working with and at the behest of other cultures. It's like it hit a wall of dis-aligned energy. What it feels like to me, is that the ship was operating at a high frequency, and it hit, or was hit by, a wall of lower dimensional energy. I sense a surprise attack. In my vision, I see a huge beam of light interacting with the vessel. What I know is that all systems on the ship ceased, immediately. It's like everything and everyone was conscious, and then suddenly, there was no consciousness at all on the vessel. It wasn't that the people were killed. All consciousness was… disconnected, while their bodies fell to the ground, unconscious, but alive. The Captain, who had been standing at her console operating the vessel with her partners, lost consciousness in a searing flash of light and her body fell to the ground. Viewing the scene from my lightbody, I can see that the Captain was removed from the vessel by the attackers in a beam of light. The Trauma of this Past Lifetime What I can see from my lightbody, at zero point, looking in to this lifetime, is that the culture that attacked was also highly technologically advanced, but they wanted something, and their tactics were to use aggression and dominance to get it. They were able to download the information that they wanted from the Captain's memory while she was unconscious, without her knowledge or participation. It was details about ships and capabilities and these sorts of things related to whatever the situation was, and that was going on. It was information she never would have shared with them willingly. However, this information was not so important to her culture. Because of their telepathic link, I feel, the knowledge that their ship had been attacked would have been known almost instantly by others of their kind. Their culture was not at risk because of their ability to know this information, and to respond immediately by changing ship positions and so on. I feel that the attackers did not understand the energetic nature of the relationships within the culture of the blue girl. But the attackers knew something of their telepathic capabilities and thus wished to use the Captain to further their knowledge, and to infiltrate her starship to the extent possible. The attacker's species communicated by speaking with sound from their mouths and vocal cords. These sounds formed words and tones that together were a language that they used to communicate with each other. The blue girl's culture was aware of this way of communicating, but did not participate in it. When they interacted with other species, it was through telepathic communication with those willing to do so. To a certain extent, what the attackers were really doing, was trying to infiltrate a higher dimensional plane of experience that the blue girl's starships operated within. For many reasons of defense and security, and of interdimensional physics, this was not possible. But they were, sort of, looking for ways to cheat, to get around these factors. Caring for this Woman in Her Experience I call her the blue girl, fondly and protectively. Because her race did not age as ours does, in my clairvoyant vision, she looks so young to me even though she is an adult. She is beautiful and with an almost fairy-like feel. The sense of her presence is amplified for me by her non-speaking. Her people did not use audible voices at all, although she has a mouth and looks humanoid. After she awoke in consciousness, the blue girl was abused and demeaned by the race that had captured her. These beings were an alliance of a humanoid race and at least one other type of extraterrestrial species. They engaged in a strategy to break down her consciousness and spirit. Being with her in my light body at zero point, I used shamanic light energy techniques to feel and healed the residue of the trauma to her body, and the feelings of anxiety, of pain and
est in the world and under severe stress." Water reuse: a growing market of opportunity and challenge Survey findings suggest a market with the technical expertise, innovative ideas, and will to service customers' water needs, while a lack of money, reluctance to take chances on new technology, and instances of poor governance present challenges. Interview: Kati Bell, Stantec global reuse leader Canadian engineering giant Stantec acquired water business MWH Global for $795 million, back in 2016. Now that the dust has settled on the deal, how well is the integration of the two organisations proceeding, and as the global water reuse practice hits its stride, how could its work help to shape the water markets of the future? Can$ 4.7 million new orders for H2O Innovation A 1.1 MGD (4,200 m³/d) ultrafiltration (UF) drinking water system for a community in British Columbia, Canada, is one of new contracts worth Can$ 4.7 million (US$ 4.6 million) announced on 6 June 2013 by H2O Innovation Inc. Malta to redevelop defunct desalination facility on Gozo island A defunct desalination facility on Malta's Gozo island is to be redeveloped and brought back into use. Canadian municipalities buy nanofiltration systems Nanofiltration drinking water production systems are to be supplied to two Canadian municipalities, Waterville and Eastman in Quebec, by H2O Innovation. Papers invited for 2014 Singapore Week A call for papers has been issued for the Water Convention during the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2014, which will be held on 1-5 June 2014. Nine desalination studies bag US$ 1.4 million funding Nine research projects and pilot studies will share US$1.4 million in funding under a desalination and water purification research programme set up by the US Bureau of Reclamation. EPA issues second list of endocrine disruptors The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on 17 November 2010 a second list of chemicals for which it intends to issue test orders under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). H2O Innovation supplies US city with UF, NF and RO The City of Delaware in Ohio, USA, has awarded a contract to Canada's H2O Innovation Inc for a drinking-water production system involving ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO). Tokyo's Wellthy Corp forms joint venture in Myanmar Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation subsidiary Wellthy Corp has formed a joint venue with Myanmar Water Engineering & Products (MWEP) to provide EPC and water quality analysis services in Myanmar. Saudi boost for LiqTech ceramic membranes The Saudi Arabian Ministery of Water & Electricity has announced that ceramic flat-sheet membranes are the technology of choice for groundwater applications, according to Danish company LiqTech International. ERI appoints Dyer as CTO Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) has appointed Tim Dyer as chief technology officer (CTO) to replace Rick Stover, who left ERI in January to join forward-osmosis company Oasys. Previously ERI chief scientist, Dyer will manage all engineering and R&D initiatives. EDS holding membrane training week in L'Aquila The European Desalination Society is holding a membrane training week in L'Aquila, Italy, on 30 September - 4 October 2013 presenting two back-to-back seminars by David Paul. AMTA webinar to look at Florida nanofiltration plant The American Membrane Technology Association's next webinar on 28 October 2010 will look at the split-feed nanofiltration plant in Jupiter, Florida. The Long Read: Do we have the technology for potable water reuse? Water reuse for drinking purposes is racing up the agenda in the US and elsewhere. Work to draw up new rules for potable reuse is advancing in states including California and Arizona, as well as in Canada and the European Union. Technologies are being piloted, and plants permitted. EDS publishes details of membrane design course The European Desalination Society (EDS) has published details of its first event in 2013, a three-day intensive course on Membrane Technology Process & System Design. Maltese desalination test-bed shows SalTec energy-recovery advantages Throughout the desalination industry, plant operators are looking for long-term solutions with lower lifecycle cost because of the link between water costs and energy costs. In order to meet operators' demands and requirements, equipment manufacturers are investing considerable resources in the development of new technologies that will reduce energy costs. The Water Services Corporation in Malta is one example of a forward-looking operator of a seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) plant seeking to ensure the production of high-quality drinking water at an affordable price. Established in 1993 to produce and distribute potable water on the islands of Malta and Gozo, WSC has an annual production target of 35 million m to satisfy the needs of its 400,000 residents and in excess of one million tourists. With the drive to produce greater efficiencies and water quality WSC has taken an opportunity to investigate and monitor the potential of a new technology from KSB, the SalTec pressure boosting and energy recovery system. The SalTec DT pressure exchanger in combination with KSB's HGM RO high-pressure pump creates a highly attractive proposition for RO plant designers and operators. The SalTec DT system provides a nominal capacity of 250 m /h, giving it the capability to operate in plants with train sizes ranging between 4,400 m /d and 5,000 m /d of permeate at common recovery rates. SEDA to hold workshop on pretreatment for RO/NF The Southeast Desalting Association is holding a workshop on 12 February 2014 at the Town of Jupiter Water Treatment Plant in Florida on Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis (RO) and Nanofiltration (NF). Singapore's NEWater reused wastewater passes latest test The reclaimed wastewater from Singapore's NEWater plants passed its 12th bi-annual drinking-water test by an independent international audit panel with flying colours during the country's Water Week. H2O Innovation wins North American contracts worth US$ 3.6 million H2O Innovation has bagged four new contracts worth a total of US$ 3.6 million with two each in the US and Canada. These new deals, the company reported, will maintain its sales backlog for water treatment projects at US$ 38.6 million excluding its Professional Water Technologies, Piedmont and H2O Innovation Maple businesses. PPCP Toolkit developed by WateReuse foundation The WateReuse Research Foundation (WRF) has developed a toolkit for briefing elected officials, policy makers, or the general public about the presence of trace concentrations of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) found in recycled water. EDS posts desalination courses for early 2011 The European Desalination Society has posted a half-year series of courses on its website for 2011 related to water desalination and membrane technology. All the courses will take place in Pegli, close to Genoa, Italy, at the Hotel Mediterranée. Tri-Tech to expand large UF/NF plant in China The City of Ordos in China is to build what will be the largest water treatment plant in the world using ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF) when it expands its existing plant to 148,000 m³/d. WHO book examines calcium and magnesium in water The desalination industry spends a lot of its time removing calcium and magnesium from water, so a book on the role and possible health benefits of these minerals should be of great interest. Seven potable reuse study schemes win US$ 1 million funding The WateReuse Research Foundation has approved funding for seven new direct potable reuse (DPR) research projects, valued at more than US$ 1 million. Commission warns Australia about gas-production wastewater Handling the wastewater resulting from coal-seam gas (CSG) production in Australia is likely to require a precautionary approach that will demand innovation from water managers and planners, and significantly greater coordination with existing project approval processes, the National Water Commission warned in December 2010. German/Saudi JV to make ceramic membranes for RO pretreatment German nanotechnology investment company Nanostart announced on 20 October 2011 that one of its holdings, ItN Nanovation AG, had finalised a joint venture (JV) agreement with Saudi Arabian company Jaffali to produce ceramic flat membranes (CFMs) primarily for pretreatment for reverse-osmosis. RO, IX and ceramic membranes in Veolia oilfield reuse contract A 45,000 bpd (7,154 m³/d) produced-water reclamation facility is to be installed at the Arroya Grande oilfield in California by Veolia Water through a design-build-operate contract. 'Challenges are shared across the border', Mitch Thompson, Otay Water from NSC Agua's desalination plant in Rosarito, Baja California, is a critical component of Otay's diversification efforts. AquaSure's Victorian Desalination Plant secures its first water order The Victorian Desalination Project (VDP) is a mega-size seawater RO facility, able to produce up to 150 billion litres of water a year when running at full capacity. Located at the southerly most tip of Australia on the Bass Coast, it was procured by the Victorian State government from AquaSure, a joint venture of De
ourselves and for others. Throughout my life I have started with that assumption until given a reason to think otherwise about an individual. I still think that, as a rule, it's a good way to approach things. But in the military, especially in a basic training environment, people are under a lot of stress and one's true character becomes apparent very quickly. I learned fast that many of my comrades were self-centered, uncooperative, and swift to run towards evil. And I know that much of the world is in the same place. There have always been such people – only interested in themselves and willing to hurt and even destroy anyone else as long as they get what they want. Those who consider themselves sophisticated are often filled with cynicism. They believe that virtually everyone is like the fool and the scoundrel and that a truly noble person is rare almost beyond imagining. Is there really anyone whose heart is pure? One who plans good things, noble things? And who builds his life only on that which is good? The Bible shows us several, I think. King David in II Samuel 7 had a noble plan. He wanted to build a house for the Lord to be worshipped in. He thought it was unfitting that a mere human being should dwell in a mansion, "a house of cedar", while the house of God was a mere tent. And even though God assigned the task of building the temple to David's son, David spent years of his life planning for, designing, and setting aside the resources to build the temple. The house Solomon built was very much the result of David's noble plan. I think, too, of Joseph in Genesis 39. Although he was a young man with the normal passions and desires of a young man, we see him able to steadfastly resist the advances of Potiphar's wife, even when refusing her cost him dearly. How was he able to do that? So many, young and old, today claim that sexual urges are so powerful and uncontrollable that they just can't help but give in to temptation when the moment comes. Again, how did Joseph do it? Well, he had a noble plan and was standing on nobler things than momentary physical pleasure. I wish more of us were like Joseph – I wish that more of us thought more of ourselves and of our purpose in this world than to yield ourselves up to immorality. Paul says, "Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ… … that I may know Him and the power of His resurrections, and may share His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection of the dead." (Philippians 3:7-11) What a noble plan! What a noble deed! Can we say that, honestly, to ourselves and one another? Can we say that we will pay any price, lose any physical benefit, and throw away the pleasures and profits of this world, if only we can really know Jesus and be like Him? Can we say to ourselves that there is nothing worth more than that to us? Is it true that we will do anything it takes to attain eternal life, the resurrection of the dead? And how much different would your life be if that were true? He who is noble plans noble things. And on noble things he stands. The ruins of Stonehenge lie north of Salisbury, England. To this day, despite intensive research and discovery, the purpose of this 4000 year old monument remains a mystery. No one knows for sure why or even how it was built. The large stones are believed to have been transported from Marlborough downs, a distance of 20 miles while some of the smaller stones (still up to 4 tons in weight) may have been brought from Wales – nearly 160 miles away. It is difficult to explain how, using primitive technology, such large pieces were moved such great distances. The project continued for nearly 1000 years and required the labor of thousands of individuals. The sheer scope of the effort suggests that Stonehenge was hugely important to the ancient people of Britain. But we don't know why. The site fell into disuse and disrepair, and its significance has long been forgotten. Today, in the former country of Yugoslavia, dozens of monuments commemorating World War II battles stand abandoned and forgotten. Millions per year visited these sites 30 years ago, but 500 years from now, will anyone know why they are there? Some of these sites are already beginning to look like ruins and even today they are virtually unknown outside of their own territory. In the Bible, speaking of the temple in Jerusalem, Jesus said, "there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down (Matthew 24:2)." And within a generation, his words came true. Indeed, the world and all its works continue to pass away (I John 2:17). Even the great and noble things of this world do not last, nor do the memorials we create to honor them. And yet we still look in awe at the mystery of Stonehenge and we admire the work of its nameless creators. I suspect that, if they stand, the monuments in Yugoslavia will evoke a similar response many years hence. More than the monument, though, the legacy of Stonehenge lives in the people – the descendants of the ancients who built it. The culture that created Stonehenge is one of the building blocks of the English-speaking world that exists today. In the same way, those neglected monuments to World War II represent a generation that sacrificed and suffered greatly and that, for good and for ill, shaped the world as we know it. And for us, too, that is what will ultimately last. Not the projects completed, houses built, or possessions obtained. None of the physical creations will be remembered, but the ideas, the interactions, and the character that shapes our works will also shape our futures. It has been said that the travels of Abraham can be traced by the altars he built. In Genesis 12, we read of the Lord calling him to leave his home and go to Canaan. It says that he went to Shechem and built an altar where the Lord appeared to him in v. 6-7. Then he moved to Bethel and "pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. v 8" In chapter 13, after he separated from Lot, he went to Hebron and again built an altar – 13:18. Under the patriarchal system, the altar was the place of worship to God. Every place that Abraham went, then, he prepared for himself a place and a way to worship his God. There are a couple places where he lived but didn't build altars: Egypt (Genesis 12:11-20) and Gerar (Genesis 20:1-9). It is more than interesting to note that those places are the places where he sinned. Scripture teaches that we are merely sojourners and travelers on the earth – Hebrews 11:13-14. As we travel through life we need, like Abraham, to be erecting "altars" everywhere we go – signs and reminders that, no matter where we find ourselves, we took time to remember God. In our Families. Raising godly children is not something that just happens. However, having children does. Many enter into fatherhood and motherhood without purpose and without a goal. As a result, their training and discipline of their children, if it happens at all, is done haphazardly and without purpose. Even Christians are sometimes no more specific in their plans for their children than, "I hope they grow up to be faithful." For the most part, if you're just hoping, they probably won't. "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" Proverbs 22:6. "…do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord" Ephesians 6:4. How can you bring your children up in the training and admonition of the Lord if you are not living yourself in the training and admonition of the Lord? We need to be building altars to God in our families. That is, we need to make home a place where God is remembered and respected and given a central place. If we don't, how can we hope for our children to grow up to serve God? On one of the altars Abraham built, he offered up his only son, Isaac, at the command of God. How do you think the unflinching obedience of his father affected the young boy? When Joshua exhorted Israel, he said, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord – Josh. 24:15." He had built an altar – making it known that God was not an optional addition to his family. Does your family have a time they study the Bible together? Do you have a time besides mealtime when you pray together? What place does gathering with other Christians have in your family? What part does God play in your normal, everyday conversations? 5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you
and this mechanism has never been used, unions are trying to test it by getting 100 worksites to request an investigation. There is a big gap between the average pay for men and women for each hour we work. There is also probably a very big gap in the finance industry – in Australia, where data is available by industry, finance is the industry with the widest pay gap – at 32.2% twice the national average. Finsec will be asking some of our elected leaders to participate in the campaign and ask for investigations to be conducted in their worksites. Low wage rises overtaken by inflation Published 8 August, 2011 Economy, Pay, Pay Equity Leave a Comment The rise in the Labour Cost Index of 1.9 percent in the year to June shows wages are still falling behind inflation of 5.3 percent says Bill Rosenberg, CTU Economist, and even behind price rises other than the GST increase. "This will make people more determined to ensure their wages do not fall in value. While there is a welcome increase in the number who have had increases during the year (rising from 56 percent to 58 percent), with a median of 2.9 percent, most have had increases less than inflation, and many people (42 percent) have not had wage increases at all during the year," said Rosenberg. "Collective agreements are consistently one of the most important reasons (combined with cost of living and keeping up with market rates) for pay rises. This underlines the importance of collective agreements negotiated by unions in ensuring wages do rise as the economy improves." The gender pay gap in the average wage is 13 percent. Calls for employers' chief to resign after stupid comments Published 27 June, 2011 New Zealand Unions, Pay Equity, Unions Leave a Comment CTU President Helen Kelly says Alasdair Thompson, the CEO of the Employers and Manufacturers Association, should resign following comments he made that women are paid less than men because of monthly "sick days". Thompson said in a radio interview this week that the 12% gender pay gap was "Because once a month they have sick problems. Not all women, but some do, they have children they have to take time off to go home and take leave." Helen Kelly told NZPA Thompson should stand down immediately. "It will be insulting for every woman worker in this country today that is at work, earning less than men, rushing home to look after kids, dealing with all the household issues. And to hear him suggest there is a physical reason for the difference in pay is just outrageous." Kelly and Thompson had been discussing a new bill from Green MP Catherine Delahunty to modernise the Equal Pay Act, and make sure that workers and unions could request information on pay levels by gender in their workplaces to make sure women were being paid fairly. Female staff banking on a smaller wage Published 28 February, 2011 Australia, Banks and Financial Services, Pay Equity 1 Comment Last week, we reported on Equal Pay Day and the campaign to address the 12.4% gap between what men and women are paid for each hour they work. This week, the Gossip came across updated statistics on the gap in the finance industry in Australia. Women in the finance industry get paid an average 32.1 percent less than men, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This gap has increased on the 28.5% gap in 2009. Banking and finance was the worst sector for unequal gap at nearly double the industry average of 16.9%. Information on the gap for our sector is not available for New Zealand – but if it is similar to Australian, women staff at our banks could be 25% behind male staff in terms of pay. Male leaders stand up for pay equity Published 21 February, 2011 ANZ National, Banks and Financial Services, Finsec, Pay Equity Leave a Comment Finsec Union Councillor Howden Graywas one of a group of several trade union leaders and MPs who took part in an action for Equal Pay day this week. Male leaders wore Equal Pay red bags to support the campaign to close the 12.4% gap between what men and women earn for every hour they work, and to show it's not just an issue for women. Howden said that the issue was very pertinent for Finsec members, the majority of whom are women. "In ANZ National for example, we are helping to address pay inequities by ensuring that our largely-female casual staff are covered by the collective agreement and are in a better position to negotiate fair pay increases," said Howden. "This would be a good move if we could spread this right through our industry." Howden said before the action, he wasn't aware of how much the Government had dropped the issue of pay equity. "National cut all the last government's pay equity initiatives. Government needs to have a role in ensuring we have fair pay for everyone." 18 February is Red Bag Day – the day that women effectively start getting paid this year. Before 18 Feb, women were working for "free" – catching up with men's pay from 2010. Kate Shepherd's legacy betrayed, say Pay Equity coalition Published 24 September, 2010 Pay Equity 1 Comment Suffrage Day was last Sunday, but the Pay Equity coalition of which Finsec is a member, say there is little to celebrate with government blocking work to close the gender pay gap. "A series of actions underway to close the pay gap in the state sector, and followed up in the private sector, were abruptly stopped by the government last year," said spokesperson Angela McLeod. "Gender pay reviews, and the action plans that resulted, were tangible ways for the government to close the pay gap between women and men, currently 12 per cent." McLeod says that suffrage day should be a celebration, to honour the work of Kate Shepherd and the suffragists who won the vote for women in New Zealand. "But there is not a lot to celebrate in the government's attitude towards working women in 2010." "This government wants to take us from leading the world on fairness for women to lagging along behind or at best, stay with the pack". Union and bank launch pay equity project Published 14 September, 2010 Australia, Banks and Financial Services, Pay Equity Leave a Comment Finsec's sister union the FSU has launched a pay equity project with Members Equity (ME) Bank, an outcome of their bargaining. While the overall gender pay gap in Australia is 18%, the gap in the finance sector is 28% – the worst in the country. "We must get to the bottom of this issue, to not only gain a better understanding of why this pay gap exist, but to also develop solutions, for the good of the whole finance sector," said FSU National Secretary Leon Carter. ME Bank, together with the FSU, is looking to scrutinise its systems and pay outcomes, to engage staff in an examination of the work environment, and recommend improvements to overcome the pay gap for their 700 employees. ME Bank CEO Jamie McPhee said the bank was committed to gender pay equity. The FSU engaged in a similar process with NAB in 2006-7, and are in discussions with the bank about progress made since then. Pay equity rocks Published 2 July, 2010 Pay Equity Leave a Comment The Pay Equity Challenge Coalition (of which Finsec is a member) this week highlighted New Zealand's gender pay gap by reminding the Minster of Women's Affairs Pansy Wong of her promise to "leave no stone unturned in trying to close the pay gap." Five large stones were placed on parliament grounds and were then "turned" with five simple suggestions underneath to highlight what the Minister could do to close the 12% gap between men and women's hourly earnings in New Zealand. These included adopting legislation to guarantee pay equity, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and increasing access to quality early childhood education. "Come on National – how are you going to work with employers and unions across both public and private sectors to reduce the pay gap?" asked Coalition Spokesperson Angela McLeod. Finsec Campaigns Director Andrew Campbell spoke at the rally calling on the Government to provide leadership on the issue, saying it was cruel to leave it to the women currently most disadvantaged by gender pay issues to resolve this problem with no help. Women in finance sector underpaid and under-represented at executive levels, says research Published 14 June, 2010 Banks and Financial Services, Pay Equity Leave a Comment New research on the role of women in the finance industry in New Zealand and Australia shows women feel overlooked, underpaid and under-represented at senior levels – while men surveyed thought there wasn't a problem. The study, by the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia), showed that 85% percent of women agreed there was a gender divide in the industry, compared to only 26% of men. Fifty eight percent of men flatly denied there was any discrepancy between the sexes in the industry, despite later agreeing that any gender pay gap was a fair reflection of the men's skills and the hours they work. A majority of female financiers said family commitments forced women to trade promotion for flexibility, and 72 percent did not think that employers had taken the steps necessary to give women the same career opportunities as men. Women win millions in equal pay settlement Published 30 April, 2010 Overseas Unions, Pay Equity, Unions Leave a Comment About 5,000 mainly female council staff have won their case for equal pay in the British employment tribunal. The workers at the Birmingham City Council may be owed thirty million pounds in back-pay for bonuses that were paid only to certain male employees. The Unison union said it was a "major" victory for these union members. Theresa Daly, a school laund
provide for any individual rights. Although the regulation is intended to protect fundamental rights, it lacks remedies by which individuals can seek redress for a breach of the regulation. In particular, the draft does not foresee any mechanism to facilitate individuals' recourse against AI-driven decision-making. This may be in line with the product safety regulatory approach, but it may fundamentally challenge that approach. In any case, individual rights should be well coordinated with existing entitlements. 10.2. Other Gaps The AIA aims to implement the legal policy goals in consonance with the European values, for example the prohibition of social scoring in Art. 5(2) AIA. However, a European approach toward AI should respect not only human rights and ethical values but also other goals such as climate change and sustainability. In this regard, the AIA does not directly mention "Green AI" or "Sustainable AI" as a concrete goal of a European understanding of futureproof and sustainable AI development, which are also important topics of the European Green Deal [53]. The proposal acknowledges that AI can support socially and environmentally beneficial outcomes and that such action is needed in the high-impact sector of climate change. Recital (28) AIA mentions that the fundamental right to a high level of environmental protection should be considered when assessing the potential harm of AI systems. Nevertheless, there are only scattered provisions addressing environmental protection, e.g., under Art. 62 AIA, if providers of high-risk AI systems report any serious incident, which includes the serious damage to the environment, Art. 3(44)(a) AIA. 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2005) inspired by one of Nina Canell's assemblages.[W.6] Their work underscores extra-linguistic elements by using music as an agent of transformation and catalyst for the collective imagination. The work Flexions, 2016, which in "Dolphin Dandelion" first Nina Canell's solo exhibition on Paris, is a collaboration between two artists. Watkins worked as a musician in a more diversified way with Nina Canell as a sculptor, using a metal alloy, Nitinol, that is extremely sensitive to temperature changes, which colloquially called "memory wire." When short bursts of electricity heat up the wires, their previous shape is reactivated. This choreography, activated by fluctuating temperature, is accompanied by sound: each time electricity flows through the different parts of the installation, the signal is converted into an inaudible, high-pitched tone sound, once been describe as a love song in insect society. [W.7] This unexpected argument convincing that love is an invisible but powerful objects can truly be received, full of symbolism and associations to forms of affection. {image 4 :Nina Canell "Dolphin Dandelion" at Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry - le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, 2017. Photo: © André Morin / le Crédac} Many of Nina Canell's works set up relationships or relations between things, elements, materials, and also between people. The body of the visitor encountering into the works, such as Perpetuum Mobile (25kg), consisting of a bowl of water and a paper bag of cement. Ultrasonic waves induced a rising mist, causing the building material to slowly harden over. With the addition of the viewer, the environmental humidity is also affected, and this work presents different processes and results in each exhibition, the visitor does act as a kind of inseparable component of the work, they completes and fulfills the work. In her work that reveals the poetic potential of physical processes which cannot be verbalized, probably because it is difficult to see "human leading" in it. Rejection of anthropocentrism and let the object talk autonomously, not just contrasting all other beings as variations of "object", which can be linked to the basic principles of object-oriented ontology.[W.8] Nina Canell's works also express that humans is not a "subjects" over and against nonhuman beings as "objects". All object relations, human and nonhuman, are said to exist on equal ontological footing with one another. [P.1] The same discussion of sculpture and time evolution as Nina Canell can refer to Crystallized Project (2008-2012) by Tokujin Yoshioka, which now display in the Centre Pompidou at the exhibition - DESIGNING THE LIVING"MUTATIONS/CREATIONS 3". Through the accumulation of time, the process of crystallization completely changes the original appearance of the object. Furthermore, the music of Frederic Chopin and Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky are played during the growth process of crystals and the crystallization are changed with the vibrations of sound. In this work, Tokujin Yoshioka focus on the time and transformation of forms, which can compare to Nina Canell's work 'Gum Drag (2017-2018)'. Both of them based on the specific conditions to slowly changing forms and have external force intervention, the crystal chair has the rhythm of music unpredictable to change the process of crystallization, and the uncertainty of the mastic gum is even more. In addition to the omnipotent conditions such as the humidity of the surrounding environment, the illumination of the sun, and the breeze brought by the viewer, etc., will have an impact, which is a more open influence factor than the crystal chair. Moreover, the perception is different: the crystal chair is the expression of growth; the gum is relatively reversed, deformed, destroyed, and unable to resist the external force. But two works similarly take time this key factor, through the accumulation of time to be able to see subtle changes.[W.9] {image 5: Tokujin Yoshioka Crystalized Chair _ Venus, 2008-2012 cristaux minéraux 110 x 110 x 181 cm Crystallized Painting, 2012 cristaux minéraux 133.6 x 12 x 182.8 cm (encadré) centre pompidou, paris musée national d'art moderne/centre de création industrielle © masaya Yoshimura } Nina Canell's sculptures are not constant but full of precariousness. On the road of creation, she does not pursue the end result, instead, grasping the process of each change and waiting until something happened. Trying to lead everyone to experience the beauty of the scenery on the road, explore the inexhaustible potential of the materials. Her works also have some challenges in patientness. In this fast-changing era, people may not be able to stay in front of the work more than two minutes. In order to appreciate those subtle changes and sensitive movements of her works, we need to focus and wait for a while. Invisible elements, air, the passage of time, dynamic motion, temperature, the connection between people and things, or the connection between things and things, are integral parts of the material. How romantic it is! The invisible link in some fo her works seems to imply love, the most indiscernible and great force in the world. 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[W.18] http://cubittartists.org.uk/2012/03/23/into-the-eyes-as-ends-of-hair/ [W.19]http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=4035 [W.20]https://www.kunstmuseumsg.ch/unser-programm/archiv/nina-canell/#c9999 [W.21]http://moussemagazine.it/nina-canell-laura-herman-smak-2018/ [W.22]http://www.barbarawien.de/dl/ canell_every_distance_is_not_near__essay___by_fionn_meade.pdf [W.23]https://credac.fr/v3/files/pdf/feuille%20de%20salle%20CANELL%20EN.pdf [W.24]https://jazzliang.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/technoart-2016_01_liang.pdf Nina Canell_CV_2017_copyright_mothers-tankstation-limited-15.pdf [W.25] https://vimeo.com/226414140 [W.26]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqOhMdLCIRw [W.27]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPnwBITSmgU [P.1]HARMAN, Graham. Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things. Open Court. p. 1, 2005 [P.2]CANELL, Nina. To Let Stay Projecting as a Bit of Branch on a Log by Not Chopping It Off. Walther Konig, 2011 [P.3] RUGOFF, Ralph. RASPAIL,Thierry. 13e biennale de Lyon, 10 sept. 2015 - 3 jan. 2016, Pressesd
that using the usual fromstring function. The end result is that irregularities in the html are fixed by the html5parser, and the usual lxml parser gives us the same API we are used to. :param text: The html of the document :return: an lxml.HtmlElement object """ parsed = html5parser.document_fromstring(text) return fromstring(tostring(parsed, encoding="unicode")) def get_table_column_text( html: HtmlElement, cell_num: int, path_base: bool = False, table_id: str = "", ) -> list: table = f"table[@id='{table_id}']" if table_id else "table" path_cell = "//%s//tr/td[%d]" % (table, cell_num) path = path_base + path_cell if path_base else path_cell return [cell.text_content().strip() for cell in html.xpath(path)] def get_table_column_links( html: HtmlElement, cell_num: int, path_base: bool = False, table_id: str = "", ) -> list: table = f"table[@id='{table_id}']" if table_id else "table" path_cell = "//%s//tr/td[%d]//a/@href" % (table, cell_num) path = path_base + path_cell if path_base else path_cell return html.xpath(path) def get_row_column_text(row, cell_num): """Return string cell value for specified column. :param row: HtmlElement :param cell_num: int :return: string """ return row.xpath(".//td[%d]" % cell_num)[0].text_content().strip() def get_row_column_links(row, cell_num): """Return string href value for link in specified column. NOTE: if there are multiple links in the column, you might need to write your own function. :param row: HtmlElement :param cell_num: int :return: string """ return row.xpath(".//td[%d]//a/@href" % cell_num)[0] def get_clean_body_content(content, remove_extra_tags=[]): """Parse out the body from an html string, clean it up, and send it along.""" remove_tags = ["a", "body", "font", "noscript"] remove_tags.extend(remove_extra_tags) cleaner = Cleaner(style=True, remove_tags=remove_tags) try: return cleaner.clean_html(content) except XMLSyntaxError: return ( "Unable to extract the content from this file. Please try " "reading the original." ) def strip_bad_html_tags_insecure(tree): """Remove bad HTML that isn't used by our parsers. This is insecure in the sense that it does not strip all JavaScript. lxml provides a `javascript` parameter that can be passed to the Cleaner object, but it will clean JS attributes off nodes, which we can't do because we parse those for useful data. :param tree: A tree you wish to cleanup :type tree: lxml.html.HtmlElement :return the cleaned HTML str """ assert isinstance(tree, lxml.html.HtmlElement), ( "`tree` must be of type HtmlElement, but is of type %s. Cleaner() can " "work with strs and unicode, but it does bad things to encodings if " "given the chance." % type(tree) ) cleaner = Cleaner( # Keep JS: We parse onclicks for pacer metadata javascript=False, safe_attrs_only=False, # Keep forms: We parse them for metadata forms=False, # Keep comments: We use them in appellate PACER. For discussion and fix # to funky workaround below, see: # https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1882606 # This workaround can be removed once lxml 4.5.2 is released comments=False, processing_instructions=False, remove_unknown_tags=False, allow_tags=set(lxml.html.defs.tags) \| {lxml.etree.Comment}, # Things we can actually remove scripts=True, style=True, links=True, embedded=True, frames=True, ) return cleaner.clean_html(tree) def get_visible_text(html_content): html_tree = html.fromstring(html_content) text = html_tree.xpath( """//text()[normalize-space() and not(parent::style \| parent::link \| parent::head \| parent::script)]""" ) return " ".join(text) def set_response_encoding(request): """Set the encoding if it isn't set already. Use cchardet for added performance. """ if request: # If the encoding is iso-8859-1, switch it to cp1252 (a superset) if request.encoding == "ISO-8859-1": request.encoding = "cp1252" if request.encoding is None: # Requests detects the encoding when the item is GET'ed using # HTTP headers, and then when r.text is accessed, if the encoding # hasn't been set by that point. By setting the encoding here, we # ensure that it's done by cchardet, if it hasn't been done with # HTTP headers. This way it is done before r.text is accessed # (which would do it with vanilla chardet). This is a big # performance boon, and can be removed once requests is upgraded if isinstance(request.content, str): as_bytes = request.content.encode() request.encoding = chardet.detect(as_bytes)["encoding"] else: request.encoding = chardet.detect(request.content)["encoding"] def clean_html(text: str) -> str: """Cleans up text before we make it into an HTML tree: 1. Nukes <![CDATA stuff. 2. Nukes XML encoding declarations 3. Replaces </br> with <br/> 4. Nukes invalid bytes in input 5.? """ # Remove <![CDATA because it causes breakage in lxml. text = re.sub(r"<!\[CDATA\[", "", text) text = re.sub(r"\]\]>", "", text) # Remove <?xml> declaration in Unicode objects, because it causes an # error: "ValueError: Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not # supported." # Note that the error only occurs if the <?xml> tag has an "encoding" # attribute, but we remove it in all cases, as there's no downside to # removing it. This moves our encoding detection to chardet, rather than # lxml. if isinstance(text, str): text = re.sub(r"^\s<\?xml\s+.?\?>", "", text) # Fix invalid bytes in XML (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8733233/) # Note that this won't work completely on narrow builds of Python, which # existed prior to Py3. Thus, we check if it's a narrow build, and adjust # accordingly. if sys.maxunicode == 65535: text = re.sub( "[^\u0020-\uD7FF\u0009\u000A\u000D\uE000-\uFFFD]+", "", text ) else: text = re.sub( "[^\u0020-\uD7FF\u0009\u000A\u000D\uE000-\uFFFD" "\U00010000-\U0010FFFF]+", "", text, ) return text def fix_links_but_keep_anchors(link): # Wrap the function below so that we have one that can be passed to # lxml's rewrite_links method, which doesn't
, California with the pageant festivities at Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. Production and premiere The original production opened on Broadway on November 24, 1986 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and closed on January 3, 1987 after 48 performances. It was directed by Howard Ashman with musical staging by Mary Kyte. It received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical as well as Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael O'Gorman) and Outstanding Costume Design (William Ivey Long). Smile is considered a "lost" musical because no official cast recording was ever made. However, there does exist a demo CD by Broadway Original cast for Samuel French Publishing, which is a primary source for groups performing the show. Because of that, demos by original cast are audible at their merchandizing site, but they have never been released publicly. Some of the songs from the show, "Disneyland," "Smile," and "In Our Hands," received their first recordings on Bruce Kimmel's Unsung Musicals album, released by Varèse Sarabande. "Disneyland" was sung by Jodi Benson, who originated it in the show. On a subsequent volume "Maria's Song" was also recorded. In November 2008, the record label PS Classics rectified this loss, releasing the album Howard Sings Ashman. The second disc is comprised completely of songs from Smile, sung by Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch, with Hamlisch at the piano. They also put a transcript of a taped conversation between Ashman, Hamlisch and Bob Fosse discussing the development of the musical on their website. Subsequent activity After the Broadway production of Smile flopped, Ashman and Hamlisch revised the show for stock productions. Book changes include the change of Shawn's roommate from Connie-Sue to Maria, and the addition of some material for Bob. The score was further revised, gaining a completely re-structured opening number (though retaining most of the original melody and words), a new song for Brenda ("Very Best Week of Your Lives") that completely replaced the Orientation Sequence musically, a new song for Bob ("Bob's Song"), a new number for the winner of the pageant ("There Goes the Girl") and a completely new melody and lyric set for Robin's letters home and a slight decrease in the time given to them. The ending was also re-worked giving Bob a significant musical section new to the revised version. Many of the small lyric changes to the licensed version actually originated before the Broadway production. When reading Lincoln Center's photocopy of the Broadway rehearsal script to Smile, many of the licensed lyrics are printed but scratched out and replaced with what was sung at the Lunt-Fontanne, handwritten. An hour-long recording of the licensed version was made for Samuel French (the licensing agent) to distribute to groups interested in performing Smile. It uses many of the original Broadway cast, including Marsha Waterbury, Jodi Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Tia Riebling and Dick Patterson. Director and author Howard Ashman played the role of Big Bob in Jeff McCarthy's absence. This recording is often referred to incorrectly as an unreleased cast recording when it is in fact a demo. A private "industry" reading was scheduled for November 19, 2010, reflecting the revisions. A production of Smile was presented by Awkward Stage Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Awkward Stage's production featured all the adult characters being played by puppets (a la "Avenue Q" style puppetry). Awkward Stage Productions' version of Smile was presented at the Firehall Arts Centre as part of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival September 8–18 2011, as well as at the Norman Rothstein Theatre in Vancouver, October 26–30, 2011. The Smile reunion concert was presented at 54 Below, New York City, New York, on September 22, 2014. The concert featured Jodi Benson, Mana Allen, Anne Bobby, Cheryl-Ann Rossi, and other original Broadway casts. Summary Smile chronicles the backstage troubles of the fictional 1985 California Young American Miss beauty pageant held in Santa Rosa, California. The main characters include Robin Gibson and Doria Hudson, two contestants who befriend and help each other throughout the week; Brenda DiCarlo Freelander, an ex-Young American Miss second-runner-up coordinating the pageant; and Brenda's husband Big Bob, an RV salesman trying to help her through the week. Story Synopsis follows the plot of the revised licensed version. Act 1 The show opens with Dale Wilson Shears, chairman of the fictitious Young American Miss Foundation, explaining to the audience the qualities of an ideal Young American Miss. The contestants begin to enter and, throughout the course of the song, prepare for their journey to the pageant in Santa Rosa, waving goodbye as the number ends. ("Typical High School Senior"). In Santa Rosa, pageant coordinator Brenda Dicarlo Freelander and head judge Big Bob Freelander are photographed for a Jaycee newsletter. Brenda receives a letter that Wilson Shears himself will be attending the pageant. When the girls arrive, Brenda gives them an orientation presentation of what to expect during the upcoming week ("The Very Best Week of Your Lives"). The audience learns that Brenda is a former Young American Miss herself. The story then switches over to the dorms, where two sets of roommates, Maria and Shawn and Doria and Robin, are getting ready for bed. Doria, an experienced contestant, talks about her passion for pageants with Robin while the latter writes a postcard to her mother ("Dear Mom #1"). When Robin is finished, Doria relates the memory of her first pageant, a television broadcast of the Miss Anaheim pageant in Disneyland, and sings of her dream to someday go there in person ("Disneyland"). The next morning, Little Bob is caught staring at the pageant applications by his father. Oblivious to Little Bob's less-than-wholesome interest in the girls, Big Bob praises him for taking an interest in the pageant. The girls enter and begin to learn a difficult dance routine under famed choreographer Tommy French ("Shine"). During the song, several girls break away from the dance and give short speeches to Social Clubs, the local sponsors of the event. The girls exit and Brenda vows that she will stay cool under the watchful eye of Wilson Shears and the national foundation, unlike her own Young American Miss finals eighteen years ago. Robin, who has no experience in pageants, is worn out and wants to leave ("Dear Mom #2"). Meanwhile, Shawn has become angry over the attention Mexican-American Maria is garnering from the judges and sponsors. Shawn voices her wishes to get Maria out of the competition to Valerie, another contestant. The scene shifts to Big Bob in a meeting with the other judges. He asks them to look beyond the appearance of the girls and look into their hearts, and how nobody does this. ("Bob's Song"). Late that night, Little Bob and his friend Freddy are seen sneaking around the building where the pageant will be held. Their plan, to sell nude photos of the girls to local kids, is revealed. The scene changes to the next morning, as the girls complain of various ailments brought on by the intense dance workouts, a lack of sleep, and the subpar food as Brenda passes out the day's schedule ("Nerves"). Private interviews with the judges are held. Robin, who is fatherless but refuses to play for sympathy, panics and runs out of the room when asked about her family. The girls, led by Tommy, rehearse for the upcoming Preliminary Night competition. However, the rehearsal is abruptly cut short when Tommy and Brenda argue over a large ramp extending into the audience. Although featured in Tommy's plans, the ramp made unusable many seats that had already been sold. Brenda offers to deduct the cost of the seats from Tommy's check, which prompts him to strike the ramp. When the girls try to rehearse without it, one of the contestants falls. Seeing Brenda's lack of sympathy, Tommy tells her to deduct the money and proceed with the ramp. Preliminary night begins and the girls compete in three categories: Vim and Vigor, Scholastic Achievement, and Creative Talent. ("Young and American"). Sandra-Kay Macaffee, Robin Gibson, and Maria Gonzales win respectively in each category. The girls return to the dorms and Doria, who believes she has no chance of winning the competition now, begins to pass on her knowledge of pageantry. The girls begin to sing of their anxiety for the pageant the next night, later joined by Brenda and Big Bob ("Until Tomorrow Night"). Shawn catches Little Bob and Freddy taking pictures of her in the shower and, though initially angry, strikes up a deal with them. The song ends in state of high anticipation. Act 2 In the dressing room just before the pageant Robin writes a third letter to her mother ("Dear Mom #3"). The girls anxiously sing of the pageant as they make their final preparations and are introduced to the event's MC, radio and television personality Ted Farley ("Opening Act 2"). The girls, preparations complete, exit. The "pageant" opens with Ted Farley greeting the audience and introducing the previous year's winner, Joanne Marshall. The two dance briefly and the girls enter, carrying parasols ("
approximately 70,000 people were killed. A peace agreement was brokered in 2000 to cease hostilities as well as establish a commission to delimit the border. Thus, in 2002, Ethiopia accepted "in principle" the ruling of the Boundary Commission ruling that the border village of Badme belonged to Eritrea, though nonetheless refused to hand over the disputed territory and withdraw its soldiers. Subsequently, a policy of "no peace, no war" was adopted by Ethiopia, in which soldiers were permanently stationed at the shared border and in disputed areas, while diplomatic relations were severed. Although there were occasional and brief border skirmishes, this largely held true until 2018. Boko Haram's abduction, subsequent release of 104 schoolgirls in Dapchi likely to increase group's notoriety, legitimacy among locals – Nigeria Analysis Militants attacked a government school in Dapchi village, Burasari Local Government Area (LGA) in Yobe State and abducted 110 students and two other children on February 19. Following extensive negotiations with the Nigerian government that resulted in the safe return of 104 of the schoolgirls and the other two children after one month in captivity, Boko Haram has been able to once again garner international attention and portray themselves as a viable threat in Nigeria's northeastern region despite extensive counterinsurgency operations. In light of the upcoming general elections in 2019, the girls' safe return has been projected by President Muhammadu Buhari's administration as a triumph, which seems to have paved the way for the government's appeasement stance toward the insurgency. However, the incident has highlighted the administration's propaganda of exaggerated success against the militant group and is poised to create backlash in the form of domestic and international criticism for Buhari's policies concerning the insurgency. We continue to advise against all travel to the northeastern Nigerian states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe, given the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency and extreme insecurity in the region. President Muhammadu Buhari issued a statement on February 24 expressing his concern about the abduction, claiming that the situation was a "national disaster". On the same day, the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) issued a counterstatement blaming Buhari for issuing exaggerated statistics suggesting that Boko Haram had been completely decimated, a situation that they claim put unsuspecting citizens in danger. On March 12, Borno State authorities announced the closure of all boarding schools in 25 out of the 27 state's LGAs due to the threat of Boko Haram militants conducting additional abductions. This came in wake of President Buhari's decision to engage in negotiations for the release of the schoolgirls. During the early morning hours of March 21, 106 abductees, including 104 schoolgirls and the two additional children, were dropped off in the middle of Dapchi by their captors, who also warned the locals against sending the girls to Western-style schools. While five of the remaining abductees reportedly died due to exhaustion, one Christian girl remains in the militants' custody. The Nigerian government characterized the release as "unconditional", though some sources citing locals indicate that authorities did free several militants who joined the kidnappers, while other sources suggest that the Nigerian government had paid a ransom to secure the girls' release. On March 23, while receiving the released girls in Abuja, President Buhari announced that his government was ready to grant amnesty to Boko Haram members who were ready to accept unconditional surrender. Meanwhile, on April 1, at least 29 people were killed, including six militants, in a multi-pronged Boko Haram attack on Akikaranti, Bille Shuwa, and Bale-Galtimari communes surrounding Borno State capital, Maiduguri, coinciding with the Christian Easter holiday. Assessments & Forecast Assessments: Following extensive counterinsurgency operations targeting Boko Haram strongholds, group attempts to reassert presence, garner international, domestic attention Despite subsequent large-scale security operations targeting well-documented militant strongholds such as the Sambisa Forest and Lake Chad shores in Nigeria's northeastern region, the militants successfully launched the well-planned abduction of the Dapchi girls. Indeed, this incident resembles Boko Haram's April 2014 attack on a school in Chibok, Borno State, when 276 girls were kidnapped. The Chibok attack resulted in an extensive international outcry, triggered by a domestic campaign started by the families of the Chibok girls. The #BringBackOurGirls movement put the Boko Haram conflict in the international spotlight, particularly when the former US First Lady Michelle Obama endorsed the campaign. In this context, the Dapchi attack was likely motivated by the prospect of achieving similar notoriety. Additionally, the attack came in response to security forces' triumphant claims of the near-destruction of the militant group's presence in the region. Through the Dapchi attack, the militants debunked such claims and reasserted their continued operational capabilities across the country's northeast. The Dapchi abductions rendered a successful outcome for the militants. While the federal government characterized the negotiations and the subsequent release of the hostages as completely "unconditional", it contradicted local reports of the authorities' release of several militants. Such conflicting reports align with previous allegations against authorities for releasing militants and paying ransom for militants, with the latest incident being the February 10 release of three lecturers from the University of Maiduguri, along with ten police officers abducted by Boko Haram last year. Under these circumstances, the suspected hefty ransom payment will likely be utilized by the militants to enhance and develop their operational capabilities in the region, which may have been hampered, to some extent, by the counterinsurgency operations. Indeed, the government's repeated payment of ransoms without any resistance is poised to encourage the militant group to carry out similar large-scale kidnappings. Such a concern was further emphasized by the Borno State authorities' decision to shut down boarding schools across 25 of the 27 LGAs. Furthermore, the release of militants as part of the ransom payment reintroduces experienced and well-trained fighters to the ranks of the militant group, increasing their operational capabilities. This is further highlighted in the latest Boko Haram multi-pronged attack on April 1 that was reportedly coordinated by Shuaibu Moni, a top Boko Haram commander who was released by the government to facilitate the return of 82 Chibok girls in May 2017. Moni had previously appeared in a Boko Haram video on March 7 taunting the Nigerian security forces and threatening to launch additional attacks. The theatrical grandeur of the return of the abductees as the militants drove into the center of Dapchi hailed as heroes by the local population for safely bringing back their girls was likely a symbolic attempt by the group to embolden its authority in the region. This sheds light on the militant group's propaganda aimed towards gaining the locals' trust and consolidate their influence in their areas of operation. As the militants shook hands with the locals and warned them against the return of the girls to schools for Western education, they compelled the latter to adhere to the militant group's Islamist ideologies. Through the dramatic aspects of the event, the militants effectively portrayed themselves as legitimate actors in the region, with more control than the federal government in Abuja. Given the communities' grievances against Abuja, as they continue to feel disregarded and neglected by the government, such an image of Boko Haram is poised to render the locals more susceptible to getting recruited by the militant group. Amidst the ongoing insurgency, these circumstances increase the possibility of better cooperation between the local communities and the militants, with the former providing shelter and engaging in economic transactions with the militants for their own survival. Assessments: With 2019 elections nearing, Buhari makes strategic shift toward developing appeasement stance to overcome Boko Haram insurgency Since President Buhari came into office in 2015, negotiations with Boko Haram in their kidnap-for-ransom schemes have become a recurring phenomenon, which includes the 2016 release of 21 Chibok girls and another 82 released in May 2017. Such a stance toward the militant group likely stems from large-scale international and domestic attention that these incidents received. Buhari has attempted to make good on his electoral promise of combating Boko Haram in contrast to the perceived failure of former President Goodluck Jonathan's administration to effectively defeat the militant group. However, Buhari's administration has also projected a stronger government resistance to the insurgency, which has led to a distorted perception of success over Boko Haram militancy in Nigeria. Continued militant attacks have highlighted the government's propaganda in displaying exaggerated data regarding the success of counterinsurgency operations and falsely claiming the defeat of the militant group. This may, to a certain extent, reduce Buhari's international and domestic credibility. With Nigeria's presidential elections slated to take place in 2019, such an approach by Buhari for the safe release of abductees is poised to become his legacy. To further add to his administration's successes against the insurgency, following the Dapchi events, Buhari appears to have embarked towards an appeasement stance with the latest amnesty deal. It is likely that through these propositions Buhari seeks to strategically portray to the international community his efforts for a peaceful resolution in parallel to the continuation of counterinsurgency operations. Under these circumstances, it is likely that Buhari will attempt to negotiate with the militant group to reduce attacks in exchange for reduced military actions in the northeastern region. However, the administration's conciliatory attitude towards the militants may be perceived by some as weak
to return to UK' and wants to raise Archie in Canada Pals claimed it was Meghan's 'plan all along' to move back across the Atlantic to 'build her own empire with Harry' as The Queen confirmed the Sussexes are leaving the family after a summit at Sandringham Meghan Markle does not want to return to Britain and wants to raise Archie in Canada, it has been claimed. Sources have alleged the Duchess of Sussex was left "miserable" by her life in the UK. It is claimed it was her "plan all along" to move back across the Atlantic to "build her own empire with Harry ". Meghan is currently in Canada with eight-month-old Archie while her husband held summit talks with Prince William, Prince Charles and The Queen. It was confirmed last night by the Royals the couple will be leaving The Firm following a "transition period". The Duchess is said to have the backing of her mum Doria Ragland, who was "really worried" about her daughter. Princess Diana's ex-bodyguard tells of revealing moment Harry scowled at William Meghan Markle wants to stay in Canada (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Prince Charles warns Prince Harry and Meghan Markle he won't 'prop up their lifestyle' Meghan Markle 'barred from Sandringham summit crisis talks' as Queen speaks out "She doesn't want to raise Archie there and she doesn't want to schlep back and forth," a pal told the Daily Mail. "She'll make extended visits but that's it. "They are looking for a permanent residence in Canada. She said she wants a country house in Whistler outside of Vancouver and a home in Toronto." Meghan and Harry spent Christmas and New Year in Canada where they are believed plotted their scheme to quit the Royal Family. The Queen confirmed last night there will be a "transition period" with the couple splitting their time between the UK and Canada. Meghan Markle has 'her mum's backing' as she steps down from Royal role Meghan Markle doesn't want to raise Archie in Britain (Image: PA) Harry are Meghan are'stifled' by royals like Princess Diana – Paul Burrell claims "What Meghan wants, Meghan gets. This was her plan all along, to eventually leave the UK and build her own empire with Harry," the insider said. "Meghan wants to make millions and this was never going to happen if she didn't make a drastic change with Harry. "She wants to be up there with Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet." Meghan plans for the Sussexes to have a "billion dollar empire" –with the pal saying "this what she wanted all along". The Duchess has reportedly confided in friends the announcement "was not a surprise to the Royal Family". Kate Middleton looks troubled leaving palace during royal crisis talks The Queen will say goodbye to her grandson (Image: PA) The Queen 'feels let down' by 'beastly' Prince Harry over Royal split with Meghan Markle Meghan had previously hinted at her unhappiness with her position during an ITV documentary last October. "Not many people have asked if I'm okay... It's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes," she said. "Look, any woman especially when they are pregnant you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a newborn – you know." When asked if things had been a struggle for her, an upset Meghan replies: "Yes". Her mum Doria has reportedly been encouraging Meghan to take this "path less travelled" and be "true to herself". Prince Harry 'could stay in Royal Family with Queen making offer he can't refuse' The Sussexes are splitting from the Royal Family (Image: AFP via Getty Images) Prince Harry denies claims Prince William 'bullied' him and Meghan Markle out of Royals Meghan and Harry announced their plans last Wednesday to leave the so-called Firm to form a "progressive new role". The announcements sent shockwaves through the Royals, with reports Charles and William only knew 10 minutes before the announcement was posted online. The Queen was reportedly deeply hurt by the move, which came after months of rumours about a growing rift between the Royals and Harry and Meghan. After much speculation about their future, Harry, Charles, William and The Queen finally met face-to-face yesterday to thrash out a plan. Harry is expected to follow Meghan back to Canada this week, and it is unclear when he will return to Britain. Prince Harry leaves 'King Charles' plans to streamline royal family' in ruins Meghan Markle is said to want to forge an 'empire' (Image: Getty Images) Meghan Markle has'spent six hours in Sussex' since becoming Duchess of county Meghan was not involved in yesterday's conference, with the Duchess of Sussex barred from joining due to concerns about eavesdropping via Skype. The Queen has reportedly ordered staff to find solutions to further questions about the Sussexes' new position "within days". Royal aides are expected to draw up guidelines about what the Harry and Meghan can use their branding for in future commercial ventures. Prince Charles has reportedly warned Harry and Meghan he will not prop up their new lifestyle – with the heir-to-throne already giving them a £2.3 million allowance from the Duchy of Cornwall. It is expected Harry and Meghan are going to look to capitalise on brand Sussex, starting new business ventures, sponsorships and even looking for more movie roles for The Duchess. Piers Morgan accuses guest of race-baiting in furious Good Morning Britain row Pince Harry will follow Meghan to Canada (Image: PA) Oprah denies Meghan Markle and Prince Harry set for tell-all TV interview The Queen has indicated the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to start a more "independent life" away from full-time royal duties. They will begin a transition period of splitting their time between the UK and Canada. She said her family "respect and understand" their wishes for more independence while still remaining a "valued part" of the monarchy. In a highly unusual move Harry and Meghan were not referred to as the duke and duchess in the statement, only as the Sussexes and by their first names. It has raised questions about whether they will retain their titles in the future. Prince Harry 'heartbroken' as he faces 'choice between Meghan Markle and The Queen' The Queen and Prince Harry in happier times (Image: PA) Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'to exchange strategies on WhatsApp' at Sandringham talks Talks between the four Royals – the first time they met face-to-face since Harry went public with his plans – were described as "very constructive". It is unusual for the Queen to issue a statement in her own name - when not paying condolences following a natural disaster or the death of a world leader. The move is seen as symbolic of the sovereign taking charge of the crisis that threatens to cause lasting damage to the monarchy. The Queen fears Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will 'do a Diana' with tell-all interview Meghan Markle reportedly always intended to go to Canada (Image: Getty Images) Prince Harry sent love on national 'Kiss A Ginger day' after Royal family split The head of state also expressed the "support" of herself and the rest of the family for the couple's aspiration to create a new life together with their eight-month-old son Archie. But she stressed the discussions were "complex matters" for her family to resolve but she wanted "final decisions" in the "coming days". Harry and Meghan made clear in their statement last week they want to step back from being senior Royals, become financially independent and split their time between North America and the UK. Fears Meghan Markle may call royals 'racist' in 'no-holds barred' interview Meghan Markle and Prince Harry got married in 2018 (Image: REUTERS) Prince Philip'spitting blood' as he hits out after Meghan and Harry step down The Queen said: "Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family. My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan's desire to create a new life as a young family. "Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family. Meghan was 'on the brink' before split Princess Diana would be 'furious' William speaks of'sadness' Angry Prince Philip'spitting blood' Harry 'tries to get Meg Disney job' Meghan 'flew back on a budget' Queen stony-faced ahead of crisis talks Meg accused Posh of leaking stories "Harry and Meghan have made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives. "It has therefore been agreed that there will be a period of transition in which the Sussexes will spend time in Canada and the UK. "These are complex matters for my family to resolve, and there is some more work to be done, but I have asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days
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My main misgiving is that I missed two theatrical releases that probably would have wound up on this list, the Swedish film Border and Claire Denis's High Life. I trust they will show up on WOWOW sometime in the new year, but then it will be too late for the sake of this blog. 1. Burning (Korea): Chillier than Lee Chang-dong's usual fare, probably because he adapted it from a Haruki Murakami story, but as with all his work it gets under your skin. Like the other Korean movie on this list, Burning addresses the class divide, but less overtly. Economically and emotionally untethered protagonist Lee Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in) has a crush on a woman (Jun Jong-seo) who may or may not be sleeping with an unnervingly self-possessed symbol of the leisure class (Steven Yeun), but Lee makes it difficult to draw a bead on the source of Jong-su's resentment because the narrative is filtered through his inert point-of-view, which you can't help but share, no matter how repulsive you find it. 2. First Reformed (USA): Paul Schrader's jaded regard for his Calvinist birthright is tested to the full in a movie that posits the First Reformed Church as more of an avatar of progressive religious thinking than an actual religion. Ethan Hawke's alcoholic, skeptical pastor seeks redemption while bypassing dogma and maybe even God, as he helps a forthrightly sincere environmentalist battle one of his church's patrons, much to the chagrin of his superiors. The pastor can't compare his faith to this man's, and when things turn dark he realizes his failure as a moral being. Schrader's script is graceful and cruel, his direction painfully on point, the crystallization of a lifetime of nagging doubt. 3. Cold War (Poland): The title of Pawel Pawlikowski's second straight Oscar nominee refers to the stormy, decades-long romance between a music archivist (Tomasz Kot) and a much younger, more mercurial singer (Joanna Kulig). The episodic action mirrors the actual cold war as it unfolds along the Iron Curtain and the two lovers repeatedly come together and separate in accordance with personal whims and sociopolitical circumstance. If the protagonists' love for each other never tempers it's because holding on to one's values against such a historical background can mess with one's sanity, and this kind of love can only be called crazy, not to mention dramatically irresistible. 4. If Beale Street Could Talk (USA): Like James Baldwin, whose 1974 novel he adapts, Barry Jenkins has a knack for finding the beauty in even the most tragic turn of events. A young Harlem couple (KiKi Layne, Stephan James) on the cusp of marriage and parenthood is torn apart by a phony rape charge concocted by a racist cop, and Jenkins' dreamy presentation renders it less a nightmare than a reverie on a love that can't be moved and won't be denied. Like his earlier Moonlight, Beale Street foregoes naturalism for a candid expressionism that makes no concession to white people's lack of familiarity with the hopes and fears of black people. It honors your attention by breaking your heart. 5. Climax (France): Normally not a fan of Gaspar Noe's cinema of transgression, I was immediately disarmed by the opening dance segment performed by a multi-cultural troupe of misfits in a rehearsal space sometime in the mid-90s. It was probably my most enjoyable in-the-moment musical experience of the year, and as soon as it was over Noe got down to his usual gross mischief, but this time I'd been properly prepared for his hijinks, which involves a spiked party punch that turns the assembled dancers into a raving pack of paranoids whose native egoism, rank competitiveness, and talent for sexual exhibition are forced to the surface, sometimes with horrific results. The camera gets looney tunes, too. A genuine trip. 6. Parasite (Korea): Bong Joon-ho's international hit about a down-at-their-heels family insinuating themselves into the gleaming household of a well-to-do family is really less about the income gap than it is about the triumph of production design in service to conveying the breadth of that gap. This is a movie of supreme artifice that often tips into the ridiculous, but that doesn't make it any less powerful as an indictment of the kind of oppressive social mores that rule modern-day Seoul. The poor-rich contrasts are meticulously delineated to their wittiest ends, and as the schadenfreude turns sour and bloody, you still laugh, because as silly as it all is you know the story reflects an eternal truth you would just as soon never have to face up to. 7. Wildlife (USA): Paul Dano turns Richard Ford's novel about toxic male pride into a movie about rehabilitative female survival. Though the story takes place in a setting preset for prejudicial viewing—Montana in the 60s—Dano and his co-scenarist, Zoe Kazan, let the characters, a golf pro husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), his resourceful wife (Carey Mulligan), and their insecure son (Ed Oxenbould), work out the tale in their own way, effectively removing it from its milieu and dropping it directly into your nervous system, upending every expectation you would normally have for such a family saga. Gyllenhaal spends most of the film off camera, but his presence never fades, which is part of the family's problem and the film's most potent accomplishment. 8. An Elephant Sitting Still (China): The People's Republic's ongoing experiment in economic Darwinism continues to be its post-millennial film output's most engaging theme, and this four-hour wail of frustration is perhaps the most powerful distillation of that idea to date. Four individuals living in a northeast town that's been stripped of its reason to exist spend an entire day coming to that realization with mounting unease and a sense that escape is the only solution, but where to go and what to do? Each tale is told separately but simultaneously, adding complementary textures to one another until the quartet of protagonists come together as a force of desperation. Violence is the uniting dynamic, thus adding a terrible subtext to the film since the director, Hu Bo, committed suicide after it was finished at the age of 29. 9. Hannah (France): This chamber piece features Charlotte Rampling as an elderly woman whose husband is sent to a French prison for an unexplained crime. Director Andrea Pallaoro circumscribes Hannah's actions and so isolates her from her surroundings that she has little opportunity to communicate verbally, though it becomes apparent that she has made herself oblivious to her husband's sin—until, of course, encounters force her to own up to it and her own complicity. Long passages of relative inconsequence give way to melodramatic scenes that hit with uncommon force. It's a story about avoiding the unbearable without the balancing solace of love and understanding. You'll never meet a character more alone in her attempt to avoid the truth. 10. Ex Libris, the New York Public Library (USA): Frederick Wiseman's latest epic explores what one person calls "the holy place for secular people," and, befitting Wiseman's peripatetic style, the documentary ranges widely throughout the five boroughs beyond the famous main branch at 5th Ave. and 42nd St., taking in an entire world of cultures, literary needs, political sensibilities, and even socioeconomic strata through the services of its neighborhood branches. The wonder of the film is the way it conflates the city's unique qualities with the ambition of its most hallowed institution, as if one couldn't exist without the other. Even if you've never lived in New York City, Ex Libris will make you homesick for it. Peterloo (UK): Mike Leigh's angriest film, a sweeping tutorial on the events that led up to the Peterloo massacre in Manchester on August 16, 1819, is a scrupulous exercise in rhetoric as a singular dramatic expression. Speech is action, in that it can lead to violence when it's this quotable. The Irishman (USA): Martin Scorsese goes about this gangster story (fable?) with such leisurely confidence that you miss his characteristic manic energy, but then it's really a story about old people, and a peculiarly effective one at that. Even Joe Pesci gets to calm
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D'autres critères pourraient s'ajouter à ceux-ci, en fonction des progrès de la recherche ; L'inflammation, mesurée par le taux de protéine C-réactive et l'interleukine 6 pourraient bientôt en faire partie. une microalbuminurie (Une microalbuminurie et/ou une protéinurie doivent être confirmées sur les urines des 24 h.). La microalbuminurie est un bon marqueur indépendant de risque cardiovasculaire, mais aussi un marqueur de succès thérapeutique. un syndrome ovarien polykystique ou syndrome des ovaires polykystiques ou SOP, qui est une perturbation métabolique caractérisée par une hyperandrogénie (hirsutisme et virilisation), une infertilité par absence d'ovulation, des troubles du cycle menstruel et une obésité) ; le SOP semblant ici pouvoir être à la fois une cause et une conséquence du syndrome métabolique, souvent associé à une obésité et à une insulino-résistance. Divers indices (en cours d'étude) invitent à penser qu'il existe des liens entre le syndrome métabolique et d'autres maladies ( Syndrome d'Apnées Obstructives du Sommeil souvent associée à l'obésité et qui toucherait environ 18 millions de nord américains, ou des maladies hormono-dépendantes graves comme le cancer du sein, de l'utérus, de la prostate ou du testicule, ainsi qu'avec le cancer du côlon (le facteur alimentaire pouvant être en cause) et peut-être avec la maladie d'Alzheimer. 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L'insuline, hormone pancréatique régulatrice joue un rôle métabolique majeur via le contrôle la distribution du glucose dans l'organisme et les cellules. Une cellule devenue insulino-résistante n'absorbe plus normalement le glucose qui se retrouve alors trop concentré dans le sang, alors que les cellules en manquent (cf. diabète sucré), ce qui incite le pancréas à produire plus d'insuline jusqu'à ce que cette augmentation ne compense plus l'insulinorésistance des cellules, situation qui aboutit à une glycémie trop élevée. La leptine est aussi une hormone, mais produite par les tissus adipeux, elle indique au corps qu'il a des réserves qu'il ne doit plus manger et qu'il peut dépenser cette énergie. Mais, chez les obèses, des taux très élevés de leptine ne provoquent plus le blocage de l'appétit et la stimulation de l'activité physique, ce qui serait dû au fait que de forts taux d'insuline bloqueraient l'action de la leptine. Les causes du syndrome métabolique sont essentiellement la consommation de grande quantité de sucre raffiné (non lié à une matrice végétale comme dans un fruit), notamment de fructose transformé et d'aliment à haut index glycémique (glucides transformés, y compris amidon cuit improprement désigné comme "sucre lent"), associées à des prédispositions génétiques. Les régimes plus pauvres en glucides réduisent les risques de syndrome métabolique. On a récemment recherché chez la femme ménopausée d'éventuels liens entre syndrome métabolique et hyperandrogénie (une relation possible était suggérée par l'étude des cas de syndrome des ovaires polykystiques). Les mesures de taux d'estradiol, de testostérone, d'hormone sexuelle et de la Sex hormone-binding globulin ou SHBG, liée ou libre, ont permis de calculer un « indice androgénique » (FAI) chez 212 femmes ménopausées n'ayant pas été traitées par hormonothérapie. Celles qui présentaient un syndrome métabolique (au sens de la définition ATP III modifiée) avaient des taux d'estradiol élevé. Or, c'est l'hormone qui renforce l'apport de lipides aux seins, hanches, cuisses lors de la puberté. De même, ces femmes présentaient un taux élevé de testostérone et un indice FAI élevé, alors que leur taux de SHBG était au contraire très bas. La SHBG est une molécule qui capte et inhibe ces hormones, la biodisponibilité des hormones sexuelles est élevée quand le niveau de SHBG est bas. Un indice FAI élevé et une SHBG basse étaient statistiquement associés à toutes les composantes du syndrome métabolique, même chez les femmes présentant un indice de masse corporelle (IMC) <26,7 kg/m². Un « profil hormonal androgène » est donc chez la femme ménopausée associé à la fois aux composants individuels du syndrome métabolique et au regroupement des anomalies métaboliques de ces femmes. Origines et facteurs de prédispositions Plusieurs facteurs sont réputés favoriser ce syndrome : l'hérédité parfois (clairement quand ce syndrome est associé à un diabète de type 2 même si les gènes responsables n'ont pas encore été identifiés ni les marqueurs correspondants) sédentarité (mode de vie où les efforts physiques sont limités) mauvaise alimentation (trop de sucre, viandes, alcool et de graisses, pas assez de fruits et légumes, ou
he signs up with an outer rim smuggling ship to escape persecution by his former oppressive masters. Approaching and Talking to a Woman Who is Carrying a Big Stick Stand in front of her from quite a distance and watch as she fends off three or four thugs trying to steal her droid. Have a concerned, worried look, as well as an expression of confusion as you recognise the droid she's protecting, and start running immediately as she shouts at you and starts chasing you. If you can, head for cover in a large tent. Most women are polite and friendly but if she does knock you to the ground with her stick, just respond to her interrogation as honestly as you can (but not too honestly, of course). If she hasn't smiled at you yet, tell her you're a Resistance agent and pretend you're on a secret mission to find Luke Skywalker. Around this point, you might find that First Order Storm Troopers start looking for you. If they see you, grab the woman by the hand and start running away from the Storm Troopers. She most likely won't like it when you grab her hand, but it's just a way of showing her that you're trying to save her from Storm Troopers. She will most likely be grateful for saving her life, but if she isn't, and she blames you for getting her involved in a deadly pursuit by Storm Troopers, just blame her back for hitting you with a stick in the first place. Try to get to more cover, to catch your breath. If the Storm Troopers keep chasing you, grab her hand again and start running. If she protests, you should let go, as its important to respect her space. Then, go ahead and flee towards the nearest spacecraft. There's nothing wrong with a man and a woman meeting, having an interrogation, feeling a spark of desperation to survive, exchanging escape plans, fleeing for their lives and getting into a spaceship. It's completely normal and happens every day, all over the galaxy. For example, in a backwater scavenging station, or on a desert planet: Man: [Smile and say in a friendly, easy-going manner manner] Hey – how you doing? I was walking along and saw you with your droid and thought – wow, that's the droid I'm looking for, I have to return it to the Resistance as part of the secret mission that I'm definitely on. I'm FN-21-uhhh, I mean, I'm Finn, what's your name? Woman: Rey. Man: [Add in some light humor to get her smiling and create a spark between you] Rey…let me guess. You were going to sell the droid to the First Order, right? Woman: [Most likely laughing and saying] No, I just refused to sell it to [most likely the nearest junk dealer] 🙂 Man: Oh, that's cool. You had me worried there. I thought you were like a First Order girl who likes banging heads in villages. Woman: [Possibly smiling or laughing]. Man: [If you're in a junk outpost or desert planet, you might let her know that you has something else to do besides talk to her, so she understands that you're not going to stand there talking to her for 30 minutes] Anyway, I'm just out escaping pursuit by the First Order at the moment. How about you? If it's clear that a woman is interested in escaping the First Order with you, keep the conversation going and if she's not busy at that moment, grab her by the hand before exchanging escape plans and stealing the nearest spaceworthy vessel. Man: Anyway, so it's been good chatting to you, but we're now being pursued by First Order soldiers. Would you like to flee the scene and avoid capture and probable execution? Woman: Sure, that would be nice. Man: Okay, cool. [Start running]. Which is the nearest ship we could use to escape? We should steal it before being killed. Common Mistakes That Guys Make When Approaching Women Who Are Carrying Big Sticks 1. Approaching in a suspicious manner If you want the interaction to go smoothly and not feel awkward for either of you, make sure that you approach and talk to her in a relaxed, confident, Resistance-agenty manner. Women are attracted to the moral fortitude of men (e.g. fighting the First Order, secret missions) and turned off by the evil (e.g. being a Storm Trooper, oppressing villagers), so if you are a Storm Trooper or oppressing locals, she probably won't be interested in talking to you. For example: If a guy asks a girl to help him escape the First Order and the first words out of his mouth are, "Hi, ummm… I was, ummm… wondering, ummm… sorry to interrupt…how, ummm… are you?" you can guess what will happen next. Big stick in hand and she'll likely hit him a few times to get her droid's owner's jacket back. So, be confident for the following reasons: Understand that it's perfectly normal for people to escape the First Order together. Understand that if a woman is a scavenger, she will usually be flattered and excited that a cool, confident Resistance agent like you is approaching her. Understand that most women are friendly and are not the nasty, crazy psychos that halved your rations for failing to properly clean your weapon like Captain Phasma. Understand that if you are on a secret mission, she will automatically feel some attraction for you, which will make her start to like you. Understand that if things go well, you might have yourself a new pilot and if it doesn't end up that way, you will have been killed by the First Order anyway, which will give you fewer things to worry about in general. Understand that most women are way easier to escape with than they make themselves out to be. All it usually takes is confidence, a bit of humor a bit of conversation to get an escape plan and get yourself off-planet in a ship. 2. Giving up too easily Some women carry big sticks because they don't want anyone (not just the First Order) to kill them. So, if you try to talk to a woman and she clearly shows that she's not interested in escaping with you, don't take it personally. Sometimes, a woman suffers from abandonment issues, isn't feeling confident, is waiting for her family and would rather be on Jakku waiting for them to return and so on. It's not always your fault. That said, most women, regardless of what mood they were in before the First Order begain chasing you, will almost always listen and help you find a ship if you are being confident and friendly while running for your lives. She's human. Most of humans are not bad people. We are inherently good natured, loving, caring people. There are a few nasty eggs out there, like Captain Phasma, but they are minuscule (metaphorically) in comparison to the good eggs. Most of the women you will meet in life will be nice, friendly and open to escaping the First Order. However, here's what you need to keep in mind to avoid being killed… Sometimes a woman will be interested in escaping with a guy, but she won't immediately not hit him with a stick and start running. Some women like to test to see how much of a Resistance agent a guy is by hitting him with a stick and then seeing what he does next. Does he become nervous and awkward? Does he run away in desperation, or does he remain calm and grab her by the hand in a confident, man-on-a-secret-mission manner? If a guy gives up at the first sign of being hit with a stick, a woman like her will begin to lose interest because he seems to lack the type of secret mission that she looks for in a guy. So, if you are going to talk to a woman with a big stick, just keep in mind that some women will immediately take off with you to escape the First Order, some will make it obvious that they don't want to be bothered and others might want to talk to you, but first hit you to see if you will remain confident if she doesn't immediately begin running away with you. It's up to you as the man to remain confident and relaxed, regardless of how many Storm Troopers are trying to kill you. Remember: Sometimes a woman will react in an awkward way because she is social anxious, sometimes she's not in a good mood and sometimes, she just wants to not get dragged into your desperate life-or-death flight from the First Order. If you can handle her confidence test and she has been finding it difficult to not get shot in the face by Storm Troopers, then she is going to open up to you and hope that the next ship you encounter isn't filled to the brim with enemy soldiers forming a boarding party. 3. Not leading the conversation You have approached her, so you can't expect her to be the one making all the decisions when she takes off in the nearest freighter. You've got to lead the way and create a simple, easy-to-execute plan to evade the pursuing TIE Fighters and make it to orbit. 4. Sticking to polite or reserved conversation If a guy gets a woman to take off in a stolen freighter with him and then engages her in a very polite, reserved conversation, she's probably not going to be confident about her chances of survival.
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dent. Firing at the tracks destroys the track pins and destroys the tracks. Firing at the gun mount jams it. 76 mm mod. 1927. The HEAT shell penetrates the side armour to a depth of 45-50 mm. 85 mm mod. 1939 AA gun. The armour piercing round can penetrate the side from 800-1200 meters. The breach is 110 mm wide from the outside, 200 mm from the inside. After penetrating the armour, the shell makes a 57 mm deep indentation in the other side, after which it bursts, showering the crew with its own splinters and armour fragments, destroying components. Firing at the front armour from 200 meters results in a 100 mm deep dent, with spalling and destruction of the rivets holding on the applique armour, as well as destroying the controls and radio equipment. If a shell hits the track, it is destroyed within a radius of 0.75 meters. 122 mm mod. 1931/37 gun. Firing an HE shell from 400-800 meters at the side armour with the fuse set to delayed action gives the following results: deep cracks are formed along the welding seams spanning the entire length of the casemate, the bolts of all the plates connecting the casemate at the bottom were torn off. 122 mm mod. 1938 howitzer: firing HE shells from 400 meters is ineffective. Effectiveness of anti-tank mines: in the prior defensive fighting, our units used chiefly YaM-5 mines, which are not entirely effective against PzVI tanks and Ferdinand SPGs. Practice shows that they are effective in destroying PzIII and PzIV tanks. Several areas had HE mines (50 kg charge connected to a 250 kg bomb) installed. The effectiveness of these mines is high. If a PzVI tank or a Ferdinand hits this mine, it is reduced to a heap of metal. Effectiveness of incendiary bottles: the most vulnerable area of the Ferdinand to bottles with incendiary fluid is the top armour where vents are located. It is easiest to disable the Ferdinand with bottles of incendiary fluid tossed onto the vents on top of the front part of the hull. It is also possible to throw a bottle into the hull through one of the hatches. The most convenient hatch for this is positioned in the rear of the casemate. This hatch is used to throw out spent casings during combat, so it is frequently open. Chief of Staff of the Armoured and Motorized Forces of the Central Front, Colonel Korotkov September 24th, 1943." Via Valeriy Lisyutin. Labels: 45 mm, 85 mm, A-19, anti-tank rifle, Ferdinand, M-30, penetration, Tiger, ZiS-3 Stewart Millen 31 July 2018 at 00:46 From what I conclude from this is "no matter how 'impenetrable' your armor is, it's always better not to get hit at all". Is the 122 mm mod 1938 the same or equivalent to what was mounted on the SU-122? Vassily Krysov's memoirs claims that could disable a Ferdinand with a side it, at least. Peter 31 July 2018 at 09:48 If you hit the tracks, definitely, plus if you hit a welding seam or form a crack you would certainly do some damage. The M-30 was considered a fairly ineffective anti-tank weapon in general, except when armed with an AP shell from the A-19 (but that increased chamber pressure to unacceptable levels). Sager,William A. 31 July 2018 at 20:35 Exactly, and a Ferdinand couldn't avoid any one thanks to it's weak motors. To make matters worse it lacked a turret or protective machine guns.Furthermore as soon as anyone (including infantry) got to it's side and knocked out a track it was defenseless. Germany would of been better off leaving off 20 tons of armor and adding a few machine guns. At least this way as soon as the battle starts going south, the engines would be strong enough to escape. Stewart Millen 1 August 2018 at 12:44 Peter, I went to WarThunder (admittedly maybe not a great source) and it listed the anti-armor capability of the OF-462 HE round fired by the M-30 122 mm howitzer as being identical to the HE OF-471 fired by the A-19 gun. That's despite the weight of the OF-462 round being 22 kg versus 25 kg (A-19), so that might not be right. In Kysov's book, one of his regiment's SU-122's fires a round that hits the tracks of an oncoming Ferdinand, breaking it and causing the Ferdinand to swing around. At that instant, his SU-122 and that of another both shoot rounds into the Ferdinand's now-exposed side armor, both of which destroy the vehicle (and cause one of his crewmates to cry out "a wasted round!!"). Krysov also gives a speech before the action (Krysov was posted in the 1454th, attached to the 48th army, so his unit could have seen Ferdinands) reassuring his nervous colleagues their SU-122s can take out a Tiger at 500 meters or less. Peter 1 August 2018 at 14:59 Post war Soviet studies found that the velocity of an HE shell is a quite important contribution to the penetration, so World of Tanks (and I guess War Thunder) modelling it without considering distance is wrong. Motzkor 2 August 2018 at 01:04 I don't understand why are so many complains about the lack of machinegun in the Ferdinand, noone of the Soviet tank destroyers nor SPGs did have it and I have never read anyone missing them. Were the Soviet combined infantry tactics superior to German? Maybe Mobius 2 August 2018 at 08:54 @ Motzkor. The slow Ferdinand was suppose to be protected from enemy infantry by German infantry. But, because the Ferdinands were targeted by heavy artillery to the extent they were German infantry could not stay close to them. I understand what you say Mobius. But if that was true the SU122, ISU122 and the ISU152 would had face the same problem, the not as slow SU76, SU85 and the SU100 too. I have never read any complain about this in any of them. Taking what I have said in account the problems the Ferdinand faced due to the lack of a machinegun are in my opinion a myth or an excuse. Then one would have to find some battle where the Elefant's machinegun made a difference. Maybe some battle in Italy. Where allied soldiers were killed or suppressed by the machineguns. Other than that it is a red herring. King Tigers have been knocked out from the front because shell fragments have entered the tank through the machinegun mount. Modern tanks do not have their armor compromised by a machinegun port so it is an obsolete concept. Looking again at Krysov's memoirs; I mis-remembered them, conflating two separate events. The attack by the Ferdinand on his front was repulsed by breaking the vehicle's tracks, and was followed by something like five direct hits on the vehicle by 122 mm rounds. None of these hits apparently caused any externally-visible damage to the Ferdinand, but the crew, covering their ears, jumped out and abandoned the vehicle. The other event I recalled involved a tank attack, which included Tigers but also PzIIIs and PzIVs. One tank (it could be a Tiger, but it is not explicitly stated) was first hit with a shell on its track, causing it swerve, and two successive 122-mm hits, one on its exposed side, took it out. Another tank, described as a Tiger, took repeated hits but had its turret jammed by a 122-mm hit. All this occurred in the fighting around Ponyri station, where there were definitely both Tigers and Ferdinands engaged. The machinegun port was an obsolete feature of the German tank Mobius, but it was not the only one. The motor/transmission layout was the biggest obsolete feature of German armored vehicle design. It made the vehicles bigger, heavier, less armored more complicate and expensive to produce/mantain and the stability advantage it gave not so big in the real world. The solution was in front of them since the beginning of the war. But those who believed themselves superior to any other human were not capable to implement it in their production vehicles. Kellomies 3 August 2018 at 05:11 In all fairness the Germans themselves seemed to feel adding the bow MG to the Elefant/Ferdinand was worth it, if now only for the crew's peace of mind. And ofc the US retained bow MGs in tanks until the M48 of early Cold War era so hanging onto such old ideas of questionable utility was hardly something unique to the Germans. The latter likewise retained the "cross-hull" arrangement of engine and final drive essentially throughout the war (the handful of Pershings that made it to the front before the end can hardly be counted) and duly had the same issues of added height and volume plus corollaries in their tanks, it was a fairly common design paradigm at the time. The German and US engineers just stuck to it longer than most for whatever reasons. Maybe they miss the machinegun because they were used to it, but lacking the hull machinegun was not such a big problem as Soviets demonstrated. The Germans were very good designing some pieces of the equipment of the vehicle such as the weapon systems. But if we take the vehicles as a whole Soviets were the most advanced tank designers of the WWII. The points we
Unfortunately the 30 minute renditions of "Dazed" and 20 minute "No Quarter" are all in the past. The O2 show stayed true to the studio renditions, but some songs were extended slightly as a nod to the shows of the 1970's. Pagey did bring out the bow during "Dazed". How could he not. The bow is an integral part of the live renditions. I was hoping that the live recording of "Celebration Day" from "The Song Remains The Same" would be played over the end credit roll. Unfortunate as it was, I think it would have been a nice finishing touch. The show will be officially released in various configurations (CD, Vinyl, DVD,Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, digital download) beginning on November 19, 2012. I'm sure it'll be a top seller and under many trees this upcoming holiday season. So was it worth 5 years to see this come to light? ABSOLUTELY. I would go back and see it again tomorrow if I could. I now need to wait for the Blu-ray. Is there a Zep reunion on the horizon? Well, Page, Jones and Bonham are all up for it, but Plant seems to be content doing his own thing. In an interview he gave to The Times in January 2010, Page recalled: "We played really, really well. But we played with a totally different urgency, if you like, from how we played in the rehearsals — although the rehearsals were pretty damn good, too. I suppose in retrospect the fact there was only one gig then it's great that everyone afterwards would say that it was an historic and inspiring gig for people to hear. It is a shame that there weren't any more that followed on and now we got to two years later and everyone's doing their own thing and that's how that is at this point of time or certainly into next year. So that's it" If this is in fact the last ever show Led Zeppelin gave, is sure was a hell of a show to go out on! To quote from the title song of this release "we're gonna sing and dance in celebration, for we're in the promised land". Thank you Robert, Jimmy, John Paul and Jason. Bonzo, you would have been proud of your mates and your son. Thank you also for being a part of this event. Rock and roll dreams really do come true. Labels: Celebration Day, led zeppelin, maritime vinyl, Posts by Keltie, review, vinyl In Praise Of CAULDRON - by Keltie Harding In Praise Of CAULDRON Cauldron is an amazing 3 piece classic metal band from Toronto that was formed in 2006 by Jason Decay (bass, lead vocals) after the demise of his previous band "Goat Horn". The other co-founding member is guitarist/vocalist Ian Chains. After several previous drummers, Halifax/Moncton singer/musician Myles Deck brought his hard hitting drumming style to the band. The band has played some pretty high profile gigs since their formation. They've played the "Keep It True" metal festival in Germany and has toured Canada, the US and Europe extensively. The band also scored a major coup by signing with influential Heavy Metal label Earache Records. Cauldron has also appeared on the Moncton-produced web series "The McDon's House", produced by Kyle McDonald and John Jerome. The band was filmed & recorded playing live in the studio and the footage is stellar. You can check out this episode (and other just as amazing bands) at http://www.youtube.com/user/themcdonshouse?feature=watch I can't say enough good things about Cauldron. The band sometimes gets described as being part of the "new wave of traditional heavy metal" scene. I'm not a guy to slap any band with a certain "label" but these guys do that label justice and then some. First off I enjoy GOOD metal. And Cauldron has taken the best of classic early 80's speed/thrash metal (ie: Anvil, Motorhead, Angel Witch) and "L.A." metal (Motley Crue, Dokken), mixing powerful riffs, catchy hooks, and searing vocals from Jason with Myles and Ian providing killer harmonies. Cauldron is definitely one of my newest favorite bands, carrying high the torch in Canadian metal. I'm coming off of a epic music high. I saw Cauldron 2 times this weekend. Once at an in-store free all ages show at Spin-It Records, then the traditional bar show at Plan B lounge (both in Moncton, NB.) Their live show was amazing. No flashy sets, no crazy lights. Just 3 guys, their gear and a sound that draws you in and makes you want to listen and soak it in. Of course the bar show was a "tad" bit more wild than the all ages. Cauldron are a great live band and I strongly urge everyone to see them. Their new album is entitled "Tomorrow's Lost" and is out on Earache Records, available on vinyl, CD and cassette. YES. Cassette. The cassette artwork looks exactly like the CBS Canada cassettes of the mid 80's with the band name in bold red lettering and the classic "Chromium dioxide" banner at the bottom. How cool is that! (The cassettes were self-produced and not manufactured by Earache.) The band is sold out of vinyl & tape copies and they've only been out a few weeks. (The vinyl is still available from Earache.) I unfortunately was not able to get either the vinyl or cassette of "Tomorrow's Lost" but I did score a first pressing of thier debut 12" EP "Into The Cauldron". And a cool poster as well. And they are really nice guys as well. I know Myles better, from the Moncton scene, being at shows and from his old band "Myles Deck & The Fuzz". Jason was super cool and thanked me for coming out (and buying the EP) as did Ian. Really down to earth guys. I bet they can sure throw a bad-ass party too!!! The show at Plan B this weekend was also recorded for an upcoming live album. The recording was made by Kyle McDonald and I'm sure it's going to sound great. Keep your eyes peeled. Go check out Cauldron, on YouTube, at the McDon's House, at www.earache.com and at your local music emporium. Support Canadian music. Support GOOD metal! You will not regret it. Take it from me! Labels: Cauldron, Heavy Metal, into the cauldron, maritime vinyl, Posts by Keltie, The McDon's House, tomorrow's lost Keltie's response to my Anvil post! The following is Keltie's response to my Anvil post from yesterday! (see my post here). I was familiar with Anvil from the 80's when I heard "Metal On Metal" on a K-Tel compilation called "Masters Of Metal" (great compilation by the way ) but never really heard much about them. I knew they were a Canadian band. And, like most people, forgot about them for years. The first time I heard about Anvil in many years was on CBC Radio's "Q" with Jian Ghomeshi. Lips & Robb were on plugging the movie which had just made the rounds of influential film festivals & was set to be shown nationwide. They were both very humble & passionate about keeping their brand of metal alive. So it gave me renewed interest in the band. I found a website that was streaming the film for free, and yes it was sanctioned by The band & the film's producer. The movie was one of the most direct, real & heartfelt movies I have ever saw. Plus it's one hell of a rockumentary! After watching the movie I immediately became a hardcore fan, searching out their music. And I developed a deep respect for these guys who were slugging it out on their terms. Not to give anything away to Brad, this movie does echo another very famous rockumentary of ages past. On another Jian Ghomeshi interview with Sascha Gerbaisi, he was asked if this was a deliberate artistic choice & he said it was,, as an homage to said film. So with the film making me a fan, I hoped that they would play in NB sometime. And last year they played a SMOKING show at the (now defunct) Manhattan Bar in Moncton. (My friends in Iron Giant opened the show.) these guys were tight, and one of the BEST metal shows ever. Robb is a monster on the drums, and has the stamina of a young Turk. Amazing drummer. One of the best. PERIOD! Lips is a great guitarist & went from rhythm to lead & back with ease. Glenn Five was solid on the bass, propelling the band with a thunderous bottom end. What really brought the whole experience home was that after they played, they came down to the main floor to meet the fans, sign autographs, take pictures and connect with the fans. I stayed for almost an hour afterwards & they made time for EVERYONE who wanted to talk to them. And they were ever so appreciative of every single fan! That's what I loved most about them. They were genuinely happy to be there. Plus I got quite a bit of merch too. Most of their CD's had become collectors items & were getting harder to find. Recently they have been reissued
and 1 month (without charges) as a security deposit. Anyone asking for more than that is scamming you. They may ask you to set up a blocked bank account with a larger sum, but they can't ask you to give it to them directly. Thank you for your reply. Now i have face a problem about the rental. I had cancel the contract and asking the owner to refund back my money but the owner said he would not refund back the full amount for me because he will deduct the money for the lawyers fee. The problem is i did not ask him to hire any lawyer and i had told him that i would not agree to pay the lawyers fee. Now, he did not reply my email. What should i do now? I am looking forward to receive your reply. Thank you. I'd be happy to consult with you on this topic and see if there's a way of getting your money back, but I can't advise you without knowing more details. Please schedule a Pick My Brain session if you'd like further assistance. My landlord has changed the payment requirements twice now. After I paid out 1 months worth of security deposit, he asked for another month's advance payment. I've paid that as well. Now he's asking for yet another month's advance payment, stating that its his lawyer's advice that these are the minimum requirements for a lease agreement for renting a furnished apartment. Is this true? also, I've read online that your advance payments cannot exceed 25% of your total rental, is that true? Do you have lease? Any type of written document? How did you find this place? I would be very wary of someone asking you for money before you even see the apartment. For a furnished rental, the landlord can ask for up to 3 months' rent as a security deposit, but changing the amount multiple times and the fact that you're not even in France yet are both huge red flags to me. Hi Allison, I found your post very informative. Myself and my wife were living outside Paris, in Arles-Provence, but are having trouble with our landlord. He is refusing to return our deposit, claiming repair costs necessary to re-rent the flat. However, the repairs he spoke of include repainting the whole flat, when in fact the paint was badly chipped when we moved on and all we did was try and cover the white marks with a similar colour. I was wondering if you had any links to the housing mediator you mentioned in the Provence area? Or any local housing association which may be of use? It is difficult now because we are back in Ireland and he is in France but we are determined not to be overcharged! Many thanks, Paul. I'm pretty sure'repainting' falls under regular upkeep that is the landlord's responsibility. You can write a registered letter and/or contact the ADIL in your region. If you would like assistance with this, please email me and I'll see what I can do for you. Thanks for the offer Allison. I will email you now. Your kindness and assistance are much appreciated. Hello.! I live in brest, bretagne.! My landlord is refusing to give me a quittance de loyer letter for my Caf.! I stay in another house now and when i askd her for my letter of all my months rent she stopped answering my calls or replying to my messages. I am an international student and i dont know what step do i take as its my right to take that letter and submit it for Caf.!! I'm not sure I understand the question. Has your landlord ever provided you with a quittance de loyer or just not since you've mentioned CAF? How long have you been in your current apartment? Do you have a lease? The landlord is obligated by law to provide you with a quittance de loyer. If you like, I can give you a fee quote and help you with this situation. Otherwise, you can try contacting the CAF directly and seeing what they suggest. You can also send a registered letter to the landlord requesting quittances de loyer and reminding them of the legal requirement. Please email me at allison (at) parisunraveled.com if you would like me to help you directly. I've been renting a flat in Paris for a little over 1 year. I received the tax habitation and I immediately paid it, and sent the e-receipt to my landlady to let her know that it's been paid. She immediately began to harrass me via all forms of communication – she was angry that I had paid it (even though it had my name on the bill) and said that she paid it already. I have a sneaking feeling that she has not registered with the government that she is renting the flat. I am moving out in 2 weeks, and I am afraid that she will "punish" me by withholding my deposit. So this leaves me with two questions: (1) If I was going to report her to the authorities, who should I contact? and (2) Since we both paid the tax habitation, should I ask for my money back from the government, and if so, how? Thank you! Go to the tax office and ask. Is it a furnished rental? Furnished rental taxe d'habitation is often paid by the landlord. I just recently secure a room from Nest Pick and the landlord just contact me and she claimed that she usually make a lawyer write the contract, and therefore ask the tenant for the contract fees (200 euros) beforehand. I'm not too sure about whether I should be paying for the contract or not? Or whether it another scam from internet? If you're renting directly from the landlord, they can't charge you fees for writing the lease. If you're renting from an agency, they can charge you part of the fees for having it drawn up by a lawyer, but you don't pay until you sign the lease. If they're asking for money beforehand, that's a big red flag. So if I've been living in a flat for five months and the hob top cooker suddenly starts blowing the circuit breaker all the time, it's up to the landlord (via the agency – Foncia) to pay for an electrician to come out, even if it's written into the contract that I am responsible for repairs? It seemed very odd to me that I had to pay to fix something I didn't break. And if I have ongoing repairs that aren't being taken care of despite numerous emails and trips to their office (bathroom repairs and front door to the building) can I say: give me a response and take care of it, please and thank you, otherwise I will contact… DALO? la mairie? and see about getting advice and having them hold my rent payments until it's taken care of? It's been months and I'm tired of absolutely nothing getting done. Yes, contact the mairie, and no, they can't make you pay for something you didn't break. That's 'normal wear and tear' and up to them to replace. You can't legally withhold your rent payments. DALO or the Mairie should be able to help you set up an escrow account, and guide you to pay your rent into that until the issues are resolved. The front door to the building might be more complicated, though – as that's the responsability of the whole syndic, not just your landlord. Yes, he is required to give you a proper lease and receipts for your rent payments called 'quittances de loyer'. He cannot kick you out. If he tries, go to the police and to the mairie to the ADIL. They'll be able to get you legal help. I am owner of apartment near Paris. I was on vacation when I got letter from Foncia (agency which suppose to manage the property) but I could not receive it as I wasn't home, right 🙂 so now they charge me for 45 euros for re-sending the letter stating if I wont pay, they will send another bill for 70 euros. Is it legal, do I need to really pay? Thank you. Doesn't sound legal to me, but I'm not a lawyer. What was the letter about? I think your site is great! Thanks for all of your advice. It has certainly been helpful. I'm currently experiencing some issues with my old landlord or FONCIA I should say. Seems like they're a problem agency for everyone. I moved out of my old place (unfurnished apt) with a one month notice as the apartment was covered in mold and affecting my health. I'd gone back and forth with the agency about the problem for weeks with no result to the issue and told them that I needed to move as the mold was affecting my health. No response of course. I finally decided to move and sent them a letter a month in advance stating all of the issues of the apartment and why I found it necessary to move. I do have a doctor's note but I didn't supply it with the letter (didn't know I had to). No response of course until a couple of weeks later when they told me I could set up an appointment to give the keys. Long story short they are no requesting that I pay for the additional 2 months of rent although I've moved out and have supplied them with my keys. Where do you live? In Paris and the surrounding areas the notice period for any apartment is 1 month. My husband and I lived in a small furnished studio in Paris for close to 5 years. We moved out a little over a month ago and have been battling our landlady ever since. Our first issue arose when
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to sign something personal of the soldiers... Hell I probably would have brought a huge bag of footballs and signed those (how about I sign this "bomb" instead?)... I know from experience the troops would LOVE to have a few around... Shit like that can be hard to come by in the front, and it helps to be able to play and take your mind off things. I can't see him doing it if he wasn't. I'd be shocked if was even allowed near one without permission. What Munoz was doing was a positive thing though. The guy saying his son was a positive thing though. If those things would have been the topic, this thread would have stayed in the Bengals forum. Instead it evloved into a anti-war, anti-me, flame war. And I was called a cheerleader in the other thread. I let it go. I let shots Jamie and Homer both took at me go. I let a lot of stuff go. But then I get told I always have to have the last word and other shit. And I tried to express my views civilally afterwards. That's why I went off on you for drumming old shit up this morning and attacking me again. Not justifying it. Just giving my reasons. There is a precedent of celebrities on USO tour of doing this.. Here is a quote from the article... After that we traveled to an area called "Ordinances and Bombs" -- where they make the bombs. We watched the crew assemble one a[b]nd got to sign that one, too[/b][/quote] Now perhaps he was asked to sign it.. But there is nothing in the article stating that.. The first one he said he signed as they were loading it onto a plane.. The second he signed at the bomb factory.. The quote says it was something he "go to do". Which would imply desire.. Either way we don't know.. Like I said, I don't think it makes him a bad person.. I just would not have done it. Well, on this war stuff you are a very dangerous person, imo. Guys with your views shouldn't be able to cheerlead this crap with impunity. Just as Munoz doesn't get a free pass simply because he played a game well. Hell, Munoz is even more fair game than you are because he played a significant role in Bush's reelection. ([url="http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/09/09/loc_loc1almunoz.html"]Ex-Bengal Muñoz to be Bush chairman[/url]) As far as I am concerned, he's more of a chickenhawk than you are. And while being a member of a USO delegation is a nice thing, others here will tell you it ain't the same thing as being asked to put your ass on the line. We obviously disagree, and will continue to disagree, about when this nation ought to engage in warfare. That's fine. But if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Or at least trade punches like a man instead of threatening to ban me or deleting a thread because you and Lucid have a little dust-up. You suggested that I called Munoz out because I am anti-war. That's partly true, I suppose. But my hackles went up because I'm a vet, too. You suggested that I called Munoz out because I am anti-war. That's partly true, I suppose. [b]But my hackles went up because I'm a vet, too.[/b] I think Bung and I had the same response (not to speak for you bung).. But I think it says something when those who are most familiar with the subtleties (not so subtle when you are in it) of the matter have this same response. My response in the thread had nothing to do with the argument between you and old... When I read the argument I sighed and shook my head when I read the bit about the bomb signing.. Then when I read Bung's post I felt the need to add another service members opinion, so people would know this isn't some left wing anti-war bull shit.. It stems purely from intimacy with the subject.. A perspective I can't expect one to share who hasn't shared the experience.. It has nothing to do with any anti-war stance for me, but rather out of the respect for the dignity of human life, and the tragedy that occurs when that life is snuffed out. Justified or not, war sucks.. And the very act of it diminishes us all.. The fact remains, IMO, God put us here the way we are for a reason.. And he expects us to work this shit out without killing each other off.. "Thou shalt not kill"... Sharing your views and having people talk down to you, calling you names and flat out telling you that you are beneath them is not not being able to stand the heat. I flat out asked you to stop with the attacks and have a discussion. I said that if there were ever 2 people that needed to talk out their differences, it was people like you and I. I asked Jamie to show me the same respect that I was showing him. He flat out said he couldn't. You both act like because someone doesn't share your views that they should be degraded and demeaned. You said as much. That is why I threatened to suspend you. You were making it personal. And when asked, you refused. Jamie likewise. Now you guys act like I am just some hot-head that can't take the heat. LOL I think that was deplorable actions coming from Jamie. Ecspecially since he is a Mod. He wouldn't have stood for the way you and him talked to me if it was a different subject and/or if it was someone he agreed with that was being talked to by others that way. Instead Jamie ran to Go like I was doing something wrong. And when Go made it known that you had free reign here, I was like fuck it. Can't make them show the same respect you are giving, then don't show them any at all. And that is why we are where we are now. I don't respect you or Jamie. I don't care if I agree with what you are saying or not. Because I know how you interact with people that don't agree. So call me a chickenhawk. Call me other names. I stated why I feel the way about this war as best as I can. Ignore it. Just act like I didn't say it. Act like because I didn't serve that my opinion means less. To me that is like saying I don't think people should be arrested because I am not out there putting my life on the line trying to arrest people. \|Numbers\| And yes, in an important way, Lucid is the victim here. In fact, your mental antennae should have perked up when 3 (or was it 4?) vets all came to similar conclusions about the behavior of Munoz. [/quote] Regardless of how many vets came to the conclusion does not make it a truth. His behavior should not be on trial. What he did was non-criminal in nature with no ability to become criminal. We do not need to be the morality police on what a person should and should not feel. To sum up, I do not have an issue with his actions and this is similar to what MANY other civilians have done in the past and present (not that the amount has any bearing on this matter). Yet, when these actions happened in the past, how many here were upset that there morality cart was turned over? The root of this argument is Munoz, a civilian, signed a bomb. He did sign it. Was it morally reprehensible? That is up to each person and there own set of morals. The second we all follow the crowd on issues like morality then it is possible to run down a path similar to certain times in history that reminds us of why it is sometimes necessary to go against the grain of the mob mentality/morality. Homer knows of the civil rights issues in 60's and probably also knows that those buses would have been pretty empty had it not been for a few people who went against the grain to support the minority. Now, if Munoz had signed the bomb with the words; "Here's a Ramadan present from Chad Rickenberg" then there might be an issue because of the backlash. Is this a double standard? no, because we all understand the amount of wars also fought as a religious experience and giving the other side ammunition for killing more of our people would not be a good thing and in my eyes would be criminal. The fact a bomb was dropped on their head is enough to piss them off and is obscene in itself. [quote]We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene![/quote] this war as best as I can. Ignore it. Just act like I didn't say it. [b]Act like because I didn't serve that my opinion means less.[/b] To me that is like saying I don't think Speaking for myself only, I didn't use my service to simply degrade an opinion.. You have every right to your opinion as I do mine.. But I [i]will[/i] use my status as a veteran to refute an opinion that states I am somehow not patriotic, or don't support the troops.
6.0 but have been getting errors specific to UserExtraMetadataProvider which has been deprecated in the newer versions. I have also tried replacing UserExtraMetadataProvider with UserExtraAppendingPostProcessingFilter using the code shown below this first code block but still getting the errors. Can you please validate and share how to properly write the post processing filter code using the new spline bundle. %scala import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.conf.StandardSplineConfigurationStack import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.extra.UserExtraMetadataProvider import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.HarvestingContext import org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.SparkLineageInitializer._ import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.conf.DefaultSplineConfigurer import za.co.absa.spline.producer.model._ import scala.util.parsing.json.JSON val splineConf: Configuration = StandardSplineConfigurationStack(spark) spark.enableLineageTracking(new DefaultSplineConfigurer(splineConf) { //override protected def userExtraMetadataProvider = new UserExtraMetaDataProvider { //val test = dbutils.notebook.getContext.notebookPath val notebookInformationJson = dbutils.notebook.getContext.toJson val outerMap = JSON.parseFull(notebookInformationJson).getOrElse(0).asInstanceOf[Map[String,String]] val tagMap = outerMap("tags").asInstanceOf[Map[String,String]] val extraContextMap = outerMap("extraContext").asInstanceOf[Map[String,String]] val notebookPath = extraContextMap("notebook_path").split("/") val notebookURL = tagMap("browserHostName")+"/?o="+tagMap("orgId")+tagMap("browserHash") val user = tagMap("user") val name = notebookPath(notebookPath.size-1) val notebookInfo = Map("notebookURL" -> notebookURL, "user" -> user, "name" -> name, "mounts" -> dbutils.fs.ls("/mnt").map(_.path), "timestamp" -> System.currentTimeMillis) val notebookInfoJson = scala.util.parsing.json.JSONObject(notebookInfo) override protected def userExtraMetadataProvider: UserExtraMetadataProvider = new UserExtraMetadataProvider { override def forExecEvent(event: ExecutionEvent, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar1") override def forExecPlan(plan: ExecutionPlan, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("notebookInfo" -> notebookInfoJson) // tilføj mount info til searchAndReplace denne funktion indeholder infoen override def forOperation(op: ReadOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar3") override def forOperation(op: WriteOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar4") override def forOperation(op: DataOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar5") } }) Here is the updated code that is still having errors %scala import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.conf.StandardSplineConfigurationStack import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.extra.UserExtraMetadataProvider import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.HarvestingContext import org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.SparkLineageInitializer._ import za.co.absa.spline.harvester.conf.DefaultSplineConfigurer import za.co.absa.spline.producer.model._ import play.api.libs.json._ val splineConf: Configuration = StandardSplineConfigurationStack(spark) spark.enableLineageTracking(new DefaultSplineConfigurer(splineConf) { val notebookInformationJson = Json.toJson(dbutils.notebook.getContext) val outerMap = Json.toJson(notebookInformationJson).getOrElse(0).asInstanceOf[Map[String,String]] val tagMap = outerMap("tags").asInstanceOf[Map[String,String]] val extraContextMap = outerMap("extraContext").asInstanceOf[Map[String,String]] val notebookPath = extraContextMap("notebook_path").split("/") val notebookURL = tagMap("browserHostName")+"/?o="+tagMap("orgId")+tagMap("browserHash") val user = tagMap("user") val name = notebookPath(notebookPath.size-1) val notebookInfo = Map("notebookURL" -> Json.toJson(notebookURL), "user" -> Json.toJson(user), "name" -> Json.toJson(name), "mounts" -> Json.toJson(dbutils.fs.ls("/mnt").map(_.path)), "timestamp" -> Json.toJson(System.currentTimeMillis)) val notebookInfoJson = Json.toJson(notebookInfo) def userExtraMetadataProvider: UserExtraAppendingPostProcessingFilter = new UserExtraAppendingPostProcessingFilter { def processExecutionEvent(event: ExecutionEvent, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar1") def processExecutionPlan (plan: ExecutionPlan, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("notebookInfo" -> notebookInfoJson) def processReadOperation(op: ReadOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar3") def processWriteOperation(op: WriteOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar4") def processDataOperation(op: DataOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar5") } }) Here is the error: command-2044409137370707:12: error: not enough arguments for constructor DefaultSplineConfigurer: (sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession, userConfiguration: org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration)za.co.absa.spline.harvester.conf.DefaultSplineConfigurer. Unspecified value parameter userConfiguration. spark.enableLineageTracking(new DefaultSplineConfigurer(splineConf) { ^ command-2044409137370707:32: error: not found: type UserExtraAppendingPostProcessingFilter def userExtraMetadataProvider: UserExtraAppendingPostProcessingFilter ^ command-2044409137370707:33: error: not found: type UserExtraAppendingPostProcessingFilter = new UserExtraAppendingPostProcessingFilter ^ command-2044409137370707:37: error: not found: type ExecutionEvent def processExecutionEvent(event: ExecutionEvent, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar1") ^ command-2044409137370707:38: error: not found: type ExecutionPlan def processExecutionPlan (plan: ExecutionPlan, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("notebookInfo" -> notebookInfoJson) ^ command-2044409137370707:39: error: not found: type ReadOperation def processReadOperation(op: ReadOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar3") ^ command-2044409137370707:40: error: not found: type WriteOperation def processWriteOperation(op: WriteOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar4") ^ command-2044409137370707:41: error: not found: type DataOperation def processDataOperation(op: DataOperation, ctx: HarvestingContext): Map[String, Any] = Map("foo" -> "bar5") ^ command-2044409137370707:36: warning: a pure expression does nothing in statement position; multiline expressions may require enclosing parentheses { ^ A: Your code doesn't compile for a few reasons: * *You miss some imports (the error log makes it clear): import za.co.absa.spline.producer.model.v1_1._ import za.co.absa.
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these letters, what people can do when receiving them, and how crypto assets are taxed in India. Also read: Indian Finance Minister Addresses Crypto Proposal – Industry Responds Government Sending Tax Letters to Crypto Owners The Indian Ministry of Finance's Office of the Deputy Director of Income Tax has reportedly been sending letters to Indians asking a long list of questions regarding their dealings in cryptocurrencies. Twitter handle Indiabits recently shared one of these letters which comprises 26 probing questions, ranging from sources of income to the names of the cryptocurrencies the taxpayer deals in and details of hardware wallets. "Furnish the details of all the wallets you are using along with their unique ID/number" was one question. The letter requests information on the taxpayer's hardware wallets, including their balances, as well as details of wallets owned by the taxpayer's family members on crypto exchanges both in India and abroad. One question reads: Please state whether you are buying / selling bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies from websites like Poloniex.com, Coinbase.com, Bittrex.com or any other websites registered out of India. Another question concerns all income received in cryptocurrencies. "Have you received any bitcoins / cryptocurrency in lieu of any sales made / services rendered / exports made outside India? Please furnish the details of such transactions along with the details of the person making such payments and his wallet / blockchain public ID details." The letter also warns that a fine would be levied for willful omissions. "If you intentionally omit to so attend and give evidence or produce the books of accounts of documents, a fine up to Rs. 10,000/- [~$140.97] may be imposed upon you under section 272A of the Income Tax Act, 1961." What Crypto Traders Should Do Anoush Bhasin, founder of Quagmire Consulting which specializes in crypto tax solutions, explained to news.Bitcoin.com Tuesday: "The notice has been issued by the Investigation Division of the Income Tax Department. Usually, such notices are issued when the taxman has reason to believe that a person has concealed or is likely to conceal a particular income." He believes that "It is probable that the taxman became aware of some information which makes him suspect that crypto transactions were undertaken and probably not reported in the tax return." Bhasin suggested that "Anybody who has received such a notice should not take it lightly." Affirming that "One should provide complete information as required and extend full cooperation during the hearings," he clarified: Not complying with the notice or furnishing incomplete / inaccurate information may lead to the taxman conducting a Search & Seizure operation. Varun Sethi, founder of Blockchain Lawyer, shared with news.Bitcoin.com that people are receiving these letters because India's tax laws cover "all types of incomes — Legal, undisclosed, disclosed, illegal incomes. Thereby the levy of taxes on gains on cryptos is a legit exercise." He also expressed that anyone receiving this type of notice should ensure compliance. "With the tax return filing due date nearing (Aug 31, 2019) the taxpayers should pay taxes on gains made for the cryptos trades. Though there isn't any clear field for the disclosure of the specifically crypto taxes yet it is possible and necessary to disclose the gains made and then pay taxes thereof." How Crypto Assets Are Taxed in India Bhasin further explained to news.Bitcoin.com that "Income earned from dealing in crypto assets is taxable," noting that "the legal status of an income is of no consequence to the applicability of tax laws in India." He elaborated, "In case you buy and sell frequently, with the purpose of profiting off daily fluctuations in prices, you will be categorised as a trader and liable to pay taxes as a business." As for miners, "the mining operations will be considered a commercial undertaking and therefore be subject to tax as a business," Bhasin described: In case you have bought and held crypto assets for a considerable period of time, as a means of investment (aka hodling), you will be categorised as an investor and will be liable to pay capital gains tax (at the time of liquidation). Ongoing Tax Issue A social media influencer who goes by Twitter handle "Indian Cryptogirl" told news.Bitcoin.com that "Over the past 2 years, a lot of people have been getting this" tax letter. "A friend of mine got this way back in 2016. He went to the office, proved that he did not use any black money for the purchase of crypto by showing all his transactions and he was let go with a warning," Indian Cryptogirl recalled. She believes that "If you're not doing extremely high-value transactions that don't match your earnings, you should be fine," noting: I feel it won't end until India has a safe regulated crypto environment with defined guidelines, without which people have no idea what to follow to avoid such IT [income tax] notices. Nischal Shetty, CEO of local crypto exchange Wazirx, shared with news.Bitcoin.com that if the letter is authentic then "it's interesting to see that the Income Tax department has done some good ground work to understand crypto trading." While still uncertain how authentic the letter is, he believes that "There's nothing to worry here and I would suggest anyone receiving this to honestly answer the queries and pay their taxes." The CEO asserted that "Every crypto trader should diligently file their taxes," adding: This also helps our cause of getting positive crypto regulations in India as the government will see the positive effects of crypto on income tax collected. Tax Laws and Crypto Proposal The Indian government has yet to decide whether to regulate or ban cryptocurrency. The interministerial committee (IMC) tasked with studying all aspects of cryptocurrency and providing recommendations has submitted a report with a draft bill to the government. The finance minister, however, recently admitted that she had not looked at the report and bill in detail. Meanwhile, the Indian crypto community has ramped up efforts to engage lawmakers to show them how flawed the IMC report is in hopes that the government will not go ahead with the draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies. In the meantime, cryptocurrency is not prohibited in India. This was recently confirmed by Union Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh Thakur. Reiterating that "Tax laws in India are applicable irrespective of the legal status of income," Bhasin told news.Bitcoin.com that "Even if a ban is introduced, taxes would continue to apply to crypto income and it would not stop the taxman from chasing unaccounted or untaxed income earned from dealing in crypto assets," elaborating: Since the IMC recommendation, from the date of coming into effect, does propose a 90 day window to disclose and dispose crypto assets, any information provided in response to this notice would also get covered by the grace period. What do you think of the Indian tax authority sending this probing letter to crypto owners? Let us know in the comments section below. Disclaimer: Bitcoin.com does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. 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All your garbage can be put inside dumpster and in accordance with how often it takes dumped the dumpster company should come empty that for you. If you're a construction firm than you realize you need to get my way through order so that you can keep your careers rolling right along. You have to be able to buy specific products for each work order. You might be very busy with a lot of customers so you want to keep your good brand and excellent organization reputation. With a large dumpster or perhaps large dumpsters you will preserve your restaurant business location looking tidy while you are finding the bathroom remodeling done. This will keep your customers as well as neighborhood organizations pleased. First thing that you have to inform yourself is about the sized the dumpster essential. Dumpsters usually are available in different sizes starting from 10-40 yard. A new 10 yard dumpster will fit in your current need should the project dealt with is small like house renovation
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", \| "blocked-uri": "http://google.com", \| "status-code": 200 \| } \|} """.stripMargin ) val request = FakeRequest("POST", "/report-to").withJsonBody(chromeJson) val Some(result) = route(app, request) status(result) must_=== Status.OK contentType(result) must beSome("application/json") contentAsJson(result) must be_==(Json.obj("violation" -> "child-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/")) } "work with a firefox style csp-report" in withActionServer() { implicit app => val firefoxJson = Json.parse( """{ \|"csp-report": { \| "blocked-uri": "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAMQAAORHHOVSKudfOulrSOp3WOyDZu6QdvCchPGolfO0o/XBs/fNwfjZ0frl3/zy7////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAkAABAALAAAAAAQABAAAAVVICSOZGlCQAosJ6mu7fiyZeKqNKToQGDsM8hBADgUXoGAiqhSvp5QAnQKGIgUhwFUYLCVDFCrKUE1lBavAViFIDlTImbKC5Gm2hB0SlBCBMQiB0UjIQA7", \| "document-uri": "http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp?os=OS%20X&device=&browser_version=37.0&browser=firefox&os_version=Yosemite", \| "original-policy": "default-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; connect-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; font-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; img-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; media-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; object-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; script-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; style-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; form-action https://45.55.25.245:8123/; frame-ancestors 'none'; report-uri http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp-report?os=OS%20X&device=&browser_version=37.0&browser=firefox&os_version=Yosemite", \| "referrer": "", \| "violated-directive": "img-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/" \| } \|} """.stripMargin ) val request = FakeRequest("POST", "/report-to").withJsonBody(firefoxJson) val Some(result) = route(app, request) status(result) must_=== Status.OK contentType(result) must beSome("application/json") contentAsJson(result) must be_==(Json.obj("violation" -> "img-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/")) } "work with a webkit style csp-report" in withActionServer() { implicit app => val webkitJson = Json.parse( """{ \|"csp-report": { \| "document-uri": "http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp?os=OS%20X&device=&browser_version=23.0&browser=chrome&os_version=Lion", \| "violated-directive": "default-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/", \| "original-policy": "default-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; child-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; connect-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; font-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; img-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; media-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; object-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; script-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; style-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/; form-action https://45.55.25.245:8123/; frame-ancestors 'none'; plugin-types 'none'; report-uri http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp-report?os=OS%20X&device=&browser_version=23.0&browser=chrome&os_version=Lion", \| "blocked-uri": "http://google.com" \| } \|} """.stripMargin ) val request = FakeRequest("POST", "/report-to").withJsonBody(webkitJson) val Some(result) = route(app, request) status(result) must_=== Status.OK contentType(result) must beSome("application/json") contentAsJson(result) must be_==(Json.obj("violation" -> "default-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/")) } "work with a old webkit style csp-report" in withActionServer() { implicit app => val request = FakeRequest("POST", "/report-to").withFormUrlEncodedBody( "document-url" -> "http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp?os=OS%2520X&device=&browser_version=3.6&browser=firefox&os_version=Yosemite", "violated-directive" -> "object-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/" ) val Some(result) = route(app, request) status(result) must_=== Status.OK contentType(result) must beSome("application/json") contentAsJson(result) must be_==(Json.obj("violation" -> "object-src https://45.55.25.245:8123/")) } "work with inline script violation" in withActionServer() { implicit app => val inlineScriptJson = Json.parse( """{ \|"csp-report": { \| "blocked-uri": "inline", \| "column-number": 153, \| "document-uri": "http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp?os=OS%20X&device=&browser_version=37.0&browser=firefox&os_version=Yosemite", \| "line-number": 1, \| "original-policy": "script-src'self'; report-uri http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp/report-to;", \| "referrer": "", \| "source-file": "http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp?os=OS%20X&device=&browser_version=37.0&browser=firefox&os_version=Yosemite", \| "violated-directive": "script-src" \| } \|} """.stripMargin ) val request = FakeRequest("POST", "/report-to").withJsonBody(inlineScriptJson) val Some(result) = route(app, request) status(result) must_=== Status.OK contentType(result) must beSome("application/json") contentAsJson(result) must be_==(Json.obj("violation" -> "script-src")) } "work with inline script violation when String implementation is used" in withActionServer() { implicit app => val inlineScriptJson = Json.parse( """{ \|"csp-report": { \| "blocked-uri": "inline", \| "column-number": "153", \| "document-uri": "http://45.55.25.245:8123/csp?os=OS%20X&device=&browser_version=
This time a concert with a little history. By visiting gigs, doing reviews and interviews for Sonic Cathedral you meet a lot of musicians. Often it becomes more than just a contact. You experience their passion for their music and see the struggle for getting known and finding gigs to play. When you have the possibility to organize a gig for your friends it feels good. That is the idea behind Heavy Lazy Sunday Afternoon, a concert with friends on a Sunday Afternoon. The version on 27 April in Dynamo was already the 2nd version. The name is introduced by Joop de Rooij (ex-Magion) when Magion played at the first edition. Writing a concert report from a gig you organize doesn't feel good. Therefor I asked fellow critics Hans Kraaijeveld (report below) and Wendy Steenmans (photos) from Rockportaal to help me. Thank you for that. A Sunday afternoon in the basement of Dynamo. The basement of Dynamo... that brings back memories from the days when the old building was still there... Down those stairs, through the folding doors, the DJ behind chicken wire, a dark cave. Those four columns with a roaring speaker at each one and the middle of the floor a few guys head banging... Times change. The basement of the building's current Dynamo venue has been updated quite recently, with a nice little stage and the essentials for a concert. Tonight we have been invited by our fellow photographer and critic Ton Dekkers to come to Dynamo in the basement for three bands. Beyond God, Kowai and Ex Libris. We also have a quick interview with Dianne van Giersbergen (no, she's not related... ). This will also be available on Rockportaal very soon. We make our way inside after the interview for Beyond God. Everything is quite small. The little stage, the audience and the space itself. What is not small is the band's musical performance. We are just in time to see the last song of the set "Passion". The music sounds good and is very well organized. There has been a recent live addition of a cello, which sounds quite nice live and fits harmoniously into the music. The beautifully dressed singer and the band unfortunately leave to stage to make way for Kowai. Kowai comes on stage accompanied by impressive intro music, flowing over into the first song. In the first minute, there are some problems with the microphone of the grunter. These however are quickly resolved by the time the second chorus is played and the combination works excellent. The key player also seems to have a good singing voice. The amount of audience is still only minimal, but the band doesn't let that be a problem. The duet pieces in the song are worth listening to, the voices fit together quite nicely. The band welcomes everyone to "Eindhovuh the gekstuh"! The singer also lets us know that there will be a substitute on guitar, being the sound guy! This guy is also blond, but different in some way... To give the singer some rest after the first bit of violence the band plays the song "Inhale". In "Man's Downfall" the grunts are noteworthy. They sound nice, but the facial expressions of the relevant guitarist aren't there yet. At least, it looks like someone who is focused on playing his guitar, but isn't throwing his heart and soul into what he's grunting. Not that there's really anything to complain about, both guitar and grunt sound great! Moments later, Jos is congratulated for his 61st birthday... Jos? Or was it Ton? The singer says this with a smile, she's better off singing, than continuing to talk… Next up is the song called "Undisgraced". This song has some real potential. It has a good structure, the chorus is catchy and well put. It's exactly right. The last song of the set is announced together with the fact that this is the last time they will play, the band has no merch at all and is looking for a new singer! Just kidding of course... When the last sentences of "Ice Cold Sun" sound, they are very appropriate: This is how it ends. With a well-deserved applause from the audience the band leaves the stage. Up next is Ex Libris. The sound check starts off pretty hilarious. The guitarist plays some short riffs and there is also a bit of drumming to be heard. With a laugh and a smirk, the two walk off the stage: So, this is it, time for beer! Moments later and luckily for us, they do start with the first title song of the new album Medea. It's pretty obvious that this is a completely separate style in the female fronted gothic metal world (if you like to think in boxes). The music is pretty progressive, played very diligently and is further enhanced by the varied voice of Dianne. Her voice is pretty impressive and together with the band she searches for the more extreme sides to her voice. In the other band she sings in, Xandria, this happens a lot less. "Love Is Thy Sin" of their first album Amygdala is the second song of the set. This is a bit less impressive but equally tight in performance. I'm having a hard time comparing the music to anything. The basis is a form of symphonic metal, but in a very progressive way. It sort of reminds me of something like Textures at times, but without the polyrhythms. In addition, the opera influences and soft atmospheric intervals make this really special indeed. In a short interlude, Dianne sings Happy Birthday for Ton, in the style of Marilyn Monroe when she did that for J.F. Kennedy. Ton also get a warm applause from the audience, for organizing the afternoon, but also for his birthday. Before the next song is played, Dianne requests some cooperation from the crowd. She asks if we want to answer with a hearty "Hey!" after she sings "We Sail". The audience obliges, but since there are not that many people present in the room it's not really impressive. The next song "My Dream I Dream" is my current favourite song of the new album. The number is (apart from a few bars) played completely in 5/4 size. The song starts very quiet with only the keys together with Dianne's voice. Slowly it is expanded with the drums and guitar, after which the vocals really make an impact. Fortunately for Dianne, she gets some rest in "Song of Discord". There a short part in the song where there's nothing to sing, which she uses to get off the stage and just stand with the crowd looking at the band playing. What really sets the band apart and what becomes increasingly apparent is how much fun the band members seem to have making their music. They grin and laugh constantly, take turns goofing off while playing and this also makes it seem there's no effort involved in playing or singing. This couldn't be further from the truth as there is nothing simple about the music being played. No one on the room seems to like the fact that the last song is announced, but fortunately for us this is not a short song. The last song is "From Birth to Bloodshed", in which all the strengths of the band are displayed once again. At the end the band makes a bow and with this, the evening comes to an end. Well, almost. There is plenty of opportunity to talk to all the bands and their members, as well as a great many photo opportunities. The bands playing here tonight don't play the big stages which is logical, as they all reside in a musical niche. This is most true for Ex Libris, but to some extent also for the other bands. This is obviously a conscious choice, but it's a sad thing that there aren't more people to enjoy the musical talents that we have seen here tonight. I for one cannot wait for the next time my ears get such a splendid musical treat. Beyond God is: Ferry Guns (drums) Cynthia Knoch (vocals) Anna Ágnes Nagy (cello) Twan Smolders (guitar) Lukasz Kubaszak (bass) Photos Wendy Photos Ton Set List: (New songs except (1) from the EP Dark Light) Destination Darkness (1) Sail away upon a cloud Send a child Prince Creep Sonambula Kowai is: Laura van Nes (vocals) Arjen Bosma (guitar) Bertran Zwijnenburg (guitar – today replaced by René Bijlsma) Ruben Marrenga (keys) Rik Beerthuizen (bass) Joost Lobbes (drums) Set List: (All from recent released album Dissonance except the new song "Inhale") Fallen Behind Man's Downfall Earth Below Undisgraced Ice Cold Sun Ex Libris is: Dianne van Giersbergen (vocals) Peter den Bakker (bass) Paul van den Broek (guitar) Eelco van der Meer (drums) Koen Stam (keys) Love is thy Sin On the Oceans Command My Dream I Dream Song of Discord A Mother's Lament From Birth to Bloodshed List All Event Reviews Popular Event Reviews Metal Female Voices Fest II - Review Metal Female Voices
obre 1983, date à laquelle il a été remplacé par Neil Kinnock lors de l'élections à la direction du parti de 1983. Les élections de 1980 est de 1983 ont été respectivement déclenchées par la défaite de James Callaghan aux élections générales de 1979 et par celle de Foot aux élections générales de 1983. Jusqu'en 2011, les parlementaires travaillistes ont élu la majeure partie des membres du cabinet fantôme. Le leader devait attribuer des portefeuilles aux élus, mais a pu attribuer des portefeuilles aux parlementaires non élus au Cabinet fantôme et refuser d'attribuer des portefeuilles aux membres élus. Par exemple, William Rodgers n'a pas reçu de portefeuille malgré sa victoire aux élections du cabinet fantôme de 1980. Quand il a quitté le parti des mois plus tard pour aider à créer le Parti social-démocrate, Tony Benn a automatiquement rejoint le cabinet fantôme. Foot a également choisi de ne pas donner de portfolio au plus radical Benn. Lorsque Benn a perdu aux élections du cabinet fantôme de 1981, tous les nouveaux membres ont reçu des portefeuilles (Ministre pour l'Europe du cabinet fantôme est devenu un poste du cabinet fantôme pour le reste du mandat de Foot en tant que leader). Cabinet fantôme Cabinet fantôme initiale Foot a annoncé son premier cabinet fantôme le 8 décembre 1980, à la suite des élections du cabinet fantôme de 1980. Michael Foot – Leader de la très loyale opposition de Sa Majesté Denis Healey – Leader adjoint du Parti travailliste et Secrétaire d'État des Affaires étrangères et du Commonwealth du cabinet fantôme Peter Shore – Chancelier de l'Échiquier du cabinet fantôme Roy Hattersley – Secrétaire d'État à l'Intérieur du cabinet fantôme John Silkin – Leader fantôme de la Chambre des communes Brynmor John – Secrétaire d'État à la Défense du cabinet fantôme Stanley Orme – Secrétaire d'État pour l'Industrie du cabinet fantôme Eric Varley – Secrétaire d'État à l'emploi du cabinet fantôme Gerald Kaufman – Secrétaire d'État à l'Environnement du cabinet fantôme Merlyn Rees – Secrétaire d'État à l'Énergie du cabinet fantôme John Smith – Secrétaire d'État au Commerce du cabinet fantôme Albert Booth – Secrétaire d'État aux Transports du cabinet fantôme Roy Mason – Ministre de l'Agriculture, de la Pêche et de l'Alimentation du cabinet fantôme Neil Kinnock – Secrétaires d'État de l'Éducation et de la Science du cabinet fantôme Norman Buchan – Secrétaire d'État aux services sociaux du cabinet fantôme Gwyneth Dunwoody – Secrétaire d'État à la Santé du cabinet fantôme Bruce Millan – Secrétaire d'État pour l'Écosse du cabinet fantôme Alec Jones – Secrétaire d'État pour le pays de Galles du cabinet fantôme Don Concannon – Secrétaire d'État pour l'Irlande du Nord du cabinet fantôme Frank McElhone – Ministre pour le développement de l'outre-mer du cabinet fantôme John Morris – Procureur général du cabinet fantôme William Rodgers – Ministre de l'ombre sans portefeuille Fred Peart – Leader de l'Opposition à la Chambre des lords Michael Cocks – Whip en chef de la chambre des communes du cabinet fantôme Annie Llewelyn-Davies – Whip en chef de la chambre des lords du cabinet fantôme Changements 27 janvier 1981: Rodgers démissionne du cabinet fantôme et est remplacé par Tony Benn. Cela est venu quelques jours après que Rodgers, Shirley Williams, David Owen et Roy Jenkins (le gang des quatre) ont créé le Conseil pour la social-démocratie, une étape sur le chemin de leur création du Parti social-démocrate. Remaniement de 1981 Le 24 novembre 1981, après les élections du cabinet fantôme de 1981, Foot remania le cabinet fantôme. Brynmor John est passé de la Défense aux Services sociaux et a été remplacé par Silkin, qui a conservé le poste de leader de l'ombre de la Chambre. Buchnan a remplacé Mason à l'Agriculture. Benn, Mason et Morris ont été exclus du cabinet fantôme. Peter Archer et Eric Heffer ont rejoint le cabinet fantôme en tant que Pprocureur général fantôme et ministre fantôme de l'Europe. Michael Foot – Leader de la très loyale opposition de Sa Majesté Denis Healey – Leader adjoint du Parti travailliste et Secrétaire d'État des Affaires étrangères et du Commonwealth du cabinet fantôme Peter Shore – Chancelier de l'Échiquier du cabinet fantôme Roy Hattersley – Secrétaire d'État à l'Intérieur du cabinet fantôme John Silkin – Secrétaire d'État à la Défense du cabinet fantôme et Leader fantôme de la Chambre des communes Brynmor John – Secrétaire d'État aux services sociaux du cabinet fantôme Stanley Orme – Secrétaire d'État pour l'Industrie du cabinet fantôme Eric Varley – Secrétaire d'État à l'emploi du cabinet fantôme Gerald Kaufman – Secrétaire d'État à l'Environnement du cabinet fantôme Merlyn Rees – Secrétaire d'État à l'Énergie du cabinet fantôme John Smith – Secrétaire d'État au Commerce du cabinet fantôme Albert Booth – Secrétaire d'État aux Transports du cabinet fantôme Norman Buchan – Ministre de l'Agriculture, de la Pêche et de l'Alimentation du cabinet fantôme Neil Kinnock – Secrétaires d'État de l'Éducation et de la Science du cabinet fantôme Gwyneth Dunwoody – Secrétaire d'État à la Santé du cabinet fantôme Bruce Millan – Secrétaire d'État pour l'Écosse du cabinet fantôme Alec Jones – Secrétaire d'État pour le pays de Galles du cabinet fantôme Don Concannon – Secrétaire d'État pour l'Irlande du Nord du cabinet fantôme Frank McElhone – Ministre pour le développement de l'outre-mer du cabinet fantôme Eric Heffer – Ministre pour l'Europe du cabinet fantôme Peter Archer – Procureur général du cabinet fantôme Fred Peart – Leader de l'Opposition à la Chambre des lords Michael Cocks – Whip en chef de la chambre des communes du cabinet fantôme Annie Llewelyn-Davies– Whip en chef de la chambre des lords du cabinet fantôme Changements 22 septembre 1982: McElhone décède, remplacé par Guy Barnett. 4 novembre 1982: Lord Cledwyn de Penrhos a vaincu le leader sortant des Lords, Lord Peart. Lord Ponsonby de Shulbrede a également succédé à la baronne Llewelyn-Davies en tant que Whip en chef de la chambre des lords. 24 novembre 1982: Foot a procédé à un mini-remaniement après les élections de 1982 du cabinet fantôme. Smith est passé du commerce à l'énergie et Rees est passé à un rôle politique. Archer a remplacé Smith au commerce. À son tour, Arthur Davidson l'a remplacé comme procureur général de l'ombre jusqu'à ce qu'il perde son siège lors de l'élection générale de 1983, lorsque John Morris est revenu au rôle de procureur général de l'ombre (qu'il occuperait par l'inter
With his mammoth size, bruising physical play and mental toughness, it is no wonder why Wilson continues to move up the rankings charts. Last year, Wilson only played in 28 games and scored a measly six points, but his presence was felt on the PIM sheet. As a 16 year-old, scouts knew they were only seeing a single aspect of Wilson's overall potential. In an offseason where the Plymouth Whalers gained statesmen JT Miller and Danny Vanderwiel, on top of a solid returning class featuring the likes of Rickard Rakell, Stefan Noesen, Garrett Meurs and Austin Levi, Tom Wilson found himself in an optimum position surrounded by top level prospects to showcase his talents this season. He has become an integral part of the Whalers' success this season as the team sits two points behind the London Knights in the Western Conference, good for 2nd overall. The biggest improvement Tom has made from last season has been his skating. Where he once was a very choppy skater, Wilson has honed his skills tremendously over the course of a season. For a "big man" it isn't very often you see shifty moves like the ones Wilson has, but that's where his style of play becomes deceptive for other teams. If he won't beat you with his body, he will certainly take advantage with his stickwork. His shot certainly has a great deal of speed behind it, but he needs to work on his release. A knock on him throughout the season is his consistency; some games he has "it" and some games he doesn't. Overall, Wilson is tough to gauge in terms of potential. He could top out as a top-6 winger capable of putting up points or fit nicely in a bottom-6 role as an enforcer/checking line winger. The beautiful thing about a prospect of Wilson's caliber is that he is able to be slotted anywhere in the lineup. In all honesty, I can see him going in the late first or early second round in this year's Draft. Scout's Honor: "Punishing winger with decent hands and promise in slot anchoring. Skating is a work in progress but his impact as an imposing offensive corner punisher is undeniable. Not destined to be a 20-goal NHLer, but will have merit down low and in front, as he brings nastiness and grit." – Jay Carlos, MyNHLDraft.com "Wilson is a very imposing winger who has thrived with the Plymouth Whalers this season as a forward who brings plenty of size, grit, and physicality to the team's lineup. Wilson is versatile and has enough ability to play with skilled players while playing a physical role. His skating has steadily improved and his willingness to take the body with his size creates a lot of space for teammates. He's good in the corners on the cycle and does a good job wearing down opposing teams as well. It is concerning that he only has 6 goals while playing with players like Stefan Noesen, Rickard Rakell, and JT Miller, but Wilson is a player who is likely going to take some time to grow into his frame and find out just how high his ceiling is." – The Scouting Report "At 6'4″ Wilson possesses tremendous size which he uses to his advantage. He seems to relish the physical game, uses his size to battle along the boards, drive to the net, and park himself in front of opposing goaltenders to cause havoc. Once he adds some bulk to his frame, he'll be a force. Wilson has a finishing touch. They may not always be the prettiest goals, but he knows just what to do and where to go to clean up the trash and deposit pucks into the net. He has already established a strong two way game. His skating is above average. We can't say enough about his physicality." – 2012 OHL Draft Eligible Players From the Central Combine testing Among other standouts in the physical tests were Thomas Wilson (a potential first round selection) and Chris Calnan. Wilson, a big, tough winger, who plays for the OHL Plymouth Whalers, ranked high in the anaerobic and aerobic exercises, leg strength, hand strength, the bench press, and in push ups. Location: Commercial Drive Coffee shop Re: Draft 2012 Post by dangler » Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:43 pm Sounda alot like Kassian,including the RW position. I'd like to see the canucks get another center or defenseman if possible with their first round pick unless they do a trade to achieve the same. I think Kessler's game could be on the decline offensively and he might be a better fit on the 3rd line in the near future leaving a big need for a top 6 center. Loui is tougher to get rid of than ear hair Post by Fred » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:41 pm Very similar...the Bash Brothers Post by Topper » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:59 pm dangler wrote: I think Kessler's game could be on the decline offensively and he might be a better fit on the 3rd line in the near future leaving a big need for a top 6 center. har123 AHL Prospect Post by har123 » Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:06 pm I know it is off subject, but I am travelling to Vancouver 20th Sept. Can anyone help me to find out if any trial games are being played and how would I get 4 tickets. Coming from Australia. Thanks Post by vic » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:13 pm har123 wrote: To ALL Post by dbr » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:26 pm I don't follow juniors. That being said when discussing who to select with a first round pick, a forward whose best scouting reports include phrases like "not destined to be a 20 goal scorer" - so we're talking about a guy without the offensive upside of Chris Higgins - is not high on my list. I've seen others who do follow juniors say that Wilson's failure to dominate as a man among boys is troubling and it makes sense to me. dbr wrote: I don't follow juniors. Could be you're correct. I don't think you're going to get a prolific scorer at the 26th spot. I liked this bit though "Wilson plays like Milan Lucic " That low in the draft I think it tends to be either pure luck or it's a depp draft which 2012 is not supposed to be. The avaerage for getting an NHL player in the 1st round is 60% but if you think chnaces are the first 15 selections are likely about a 100 % then the lower end has to be around 25% Fred wrote: I don't think you're going to get a prolific scorer at the 26th spot. Probably not. Certainly not if you take a guy with limited upside (not just Wilson but Patrick White, Nathan Smith types too). But, I went back and looked at the 2002-2006 drafts (it's pretty likely we know who is going to make it out of those drafts at this point) at the players picked in the 20-30 range.. that's 50 players.. and I see names like Claude Giroux, Patrik Berglund, TJ Oshie, Travis Zajac, Andrej Meszaros, Brent Burns, Kesler, Mike Richards, Corey Perry.. That 2003 draft really fleshes things out of course but there are guys going in that range who end up producing at the NHL level, some a whole lot. There are definitely players left on the board at that point with big upside, they just aren't "can't miss" picks like the guys who go top five or ten. The avaerage for getting an NHL player in the 1st round is 60% but if you think chnaces are the first 15 selections are likely about a 100 % then the lower end has to be around 25% Well again in the range I looked at I counted well over 20 NHLers, I'd say it's upwards of 40%. Post by FAN » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:53 am If available, Wilson would be an intriguing pick, but it all depends on the offensive upside Gillis & co. see in him. Wilson has also been injury prone, and for a guy who plays the type of physical game that he does, this could be a problem. Is he likely to be a 20+ goal scorer in the NHL? Someone like Samuelsson might have less upside but a safer pick. Other forwards that might be intriguing depending on where the Canucks have them projected are Laughton and Sissons. Location: Carl Junction, MO Post by tantalum » Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:31 am I don't follow junior all that much but with Wilson it may also depend on what his injuries are. Are they the injuries of a tall guy likely in need of adding a 25-30 pounds of muscle or are they chronic type injuries (or can they become chronic)? Post by Fred » Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:31 am Success rate of first-round draft picks •Of the 494 career players drafted in the 1990s, 160 were selected in the first round. •Of those 160 career players, over half have played more than 500 NHL games. •Among the older players (those drafted from 1990 to 1994), six first-round picks have made it to 1,000 games. Another couple of dozen are still active and within reach of 1,000. •Based on the 1990s sample, a first-round draft pick
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facility, please contact Richard DiNitto at rdinitto@theisogroup.com or (617) 330-2800. Spanish Government to Reduce Protection for Workers Exposed to Cancer-Causing Substances The Spanish government has proposed a draft decree transposing the revised EU Directive (2004/37/EC) on carcinogens or mutagens at work, reducing the protection for workers against cancer-causing substances, allegedly boosting the competitiveness of companies. The decree allows for twice as much exposure to crystalline silica, triple the maximum amount for acrylamide and double the exposure for bromo-ethylene. Additional Information: https://www.etuc.org/en/pressrelease/etuc-tells-spanish-government-not-sacrifice-workers-health. If you are interested in EHS regulatory products for Spain, the Isosceles Group provides a number of tools covering this jurisdiction including: EHS Legal Registers, EHS Audit Checklists, EHS Audit Checklist Supplements, EHS Quarterly Regulatory Updates, and more. Please contact Brittany Palmer at 617.330.2800 or bpalmer@theisogroup.com for a customized quote. PAINT STORAGE – Do You Know the Rules? Author: Richard DiNitto Within any commercial, industrial, warehouse, or other business operation, regardless of size, paint storage is regulated by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and often your municipality. Not all paints are the same and we often come to think of them as relatively safe and not related to our typical chemical management approaches, such as with solvents or oils. However, many paints are considered flammable, and as a result, come under OSHA Rules 1910.106 and 1926.152 Flammable liquids. Paint storage requirements are based on flammability and flash points. Oil-based paints are considered flammable, while latex-based paints are not considered flammable. NFPA considers paints to be a Category 3 Flammable Substance, the latter classification having a flash point that ranges from 73°F to 140°F (see Figure 1). Storage of paint containers follows some simple rules, though complexities exist. Storage requirements include: You cannot store any quantity of paint in stairways or areas normally used as common hallways, evacuation routes, or exits; Rooms with paint storage must have an approved automatic fire protection system in areas with aisles at least 3 feet wide; If you are storing 25 gallons or less of paint, then no special storage cabinet is required; If you are storing more than 25 gallons and up to 60 gallons of flammable paint, storage in an approved cabinet is required; No more than 3 cabinets (of up to 60-gallon capacity) are allowed in a storage room; Cabinets must be labeled with conspicuous lettering, "Flammable-Keep Away from Open Flames"; If you are storing more than 60 gallons of solvent-based paints indoors, the paint must be contained in a specially designed storage room that meets certain fire protection standards; and If you are storing quantities of paint greater than 60 gallons outside, the building must meet specific criteria, in particular, you cannot exceed 1,100 gallons in any one pile or area and no single container can exceed 60 gallons. Working on a Roof Working on a roof can be a dangerous activity and is often considered part of an overall Fall Protection Program. Fall protection is one of the most commonly cited violations by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA). Nearly 900 people die annually in the US from falls from a roof. Care in how you perform roof work is critical to your overall safety programs. Within the US, OSHA establishes requirements for roof work under Rule 1910.28 Duty to have fall protection and falling object protection. Rule 1910.28 establishes that an employer must ensure that each employee on a walking-working surface (such as a roof in this case) with an unprotected side or edge that is 4 feet (1.2 m) or more (for general industry or 6 feet or more for construction work) above a lower level is protected from falling by one or more of several specified control measures: Guardrail systems; Safety net systems; or Personal fall protection systems, such as personal fall arrest, travel restraint, or positioning systems. Under the Rule, the distance from the edges of the roof dictates which systems must be in place and what allowances may be acceptable: < 6 feet (1.6 m) from the edge - When work is performed less than 6 feet (1.6 m) from the roof edge, the employer must ensure each employee is protected from falling by a guardrail system, safety net system, travel restraint system, or personal fall arrest system. 6 to < 15 feet (4.6 m) - When work is performed at least 6 feet (1.6 m) but less than 15 feet (4.6 m) from the roof edge, the employer must ensure each employee is protected from falling by the same systems as above. The one exception is that if the roof work is both infrequent and temporary, the employer may use a designated area when performing this work. A Designated Area is defined by OSHA as "A distinct portion of a walking-working surface delineated by a warning line in which employees may perform work without additional fall protection." Beyond 15 feet (4.6 m) from the edge: Frequent and not temporary work - the employer must protect each employee from falling by a guardrail system, safety net system, travel restraint system, personal fall arrest system, or a designated area. Infrequent "and" temporary - the employer is not obligated to provide fall protection, provided that: The work is both infrequent and temporary; The employee is working strictly beyond 15 feet (4.6 m) of the roof's edges; and The employer implements and enforces a work rule, prohibiting employees from going within 15 feet (4.6 m) of the roof edge. These exceptions for using a designated area or not having to enforce a fall protection plan requires that the work is both temporary and infrequent. These terms are defined as: Infrequent - Infrequent work means an activity is performed only occasionally, such as once a year, once a month or when needed but not a routine or regular task that might be on a daily or weekly basis. Temporary - temporary refers to tasks that usually takes less than 1-2 hours to complete. As with any work activity that has inherit risks and safety concerns, a proper hazard evaluation or risk assessment to determine the best and safest approach is warranted. While the information provided above is a good overview and guidance for safe work on a roof, the regulatory rules cover additional parameters and issues that you need to consider in your roof work evaluations and program. Consultation with roof safety experts is strongly recommended. The Isosceles Group is retained to develop, implement and maintain Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) at industrial and commercial facilities. It also manages various EHS issues that affect the operation and expansion of such facilities. Spill Management – Are You Ready? Onsite oil, diesel, and related liquids may require that you implement a government-mandated spill management plan in the United States when certain conditions are met. Many people are not aware that if you have 1,320 gallons or more of oil and related liquids "combined" in above-ground storage containers (or greater than 42,000 gallons "combined" in underground storage tanks), you may have to develop and put into place a Spill Prevention & Countermeasures Control (SPCC) Plan under the Oil Pollution Prevention Regulations (40 CFR 112). The second criteria for establishing an SPCC Plan is that a release from the above storage could impact "navigable waters" and "adjoining shorelines". This is a more difficult one to address and requires greater knowledge of your facility's location in relation to surrounding surface water bodies and channels. Even onsite drainage ditches that channel runoff to nearby streams, etc., could place your operation within this requirement. While many facilities may not routinely store any oils or related liquids, such as diesel, onsite for general use, they often forget to take into account emergency back-up generators. Just two of these generators can have a combined storage capacity of greater than 1,320 gallons. It is important to note that it is the "combined quantity" of all storage onsite that counts, and not the size of just the largest tank. Two tanks of 750 gallons will exceed the threshold for application of this regulation. If you meet the applicability requirements of these regulations, then a SPCC Plan must be prepared and certified by a professional engineer unless: You have < 10,000 gallons total in above-ground storage tanks or containers with no single tank > 5000 gallons; and There have been no discharges > 1000 gallons in the past 3 years or > 42 gallons in any 12-month period. The contents of the SPCC Plan are detailed within the regulations, but broadly must contain the topics in the table below. 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ikora conducted composition courses in Gdańsk, Munich, Hamburg and Ulm. Currently she serves as the Artistic Director of the Wrocław-based Musica Electronica Nova Festival, and is a Visiting Professor at the Chopin Music University in Warsaw. Since 1978 Elżbieta Sikora has been a member of the Polish Composers' Union and in 1999 she received the degree of Doctor of Music from the Wrocław Music Academy. Addressing her lifelong interest in electronic music, in a Polish Radio interview Elżbieta Sikora stated that, I started composing electronic music in 1968, when it already had a long history and was in a full bloom. Since then, the technology has changed a lot. In 1981, I happened to be at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, where there were huge computers. In order to compose, you had to learn the program. For most musicians (and for me) it was a stage of "suspense" in anticipation of a friendlier technology. And it quickly appeared. Nowadays, composing electronic music is so easy that anyone can do it. Besides electronic music, Sikora's catalogue of compositions includes a number of chamber, orchestral and vocal works as well as operas. Her first opera, Ariadne (1977), was an artistic compromise of sorts since—according to the interviews given by the composer—the operatic genre "was not an attractive and adequate form of expression to engage the public."[ii] Undeterred in her quest to forge a new path in the operatic repertoire, Sikora's next stage work, Derriere son double (1983), was a radio opera for voice, instrumental ensemble and electronic sounds. She continued with Wyrywacz serc [The Heart Extractor], a chamber opera to the libretto based on a novel by Boris Vian. Working on this project throughout the mid-1980s, Sikora revised it thoroughly in 1992. Directed by Mariusz Treliński, Wyrywacz serc was finally premiered in 1995 by the National Opera at Warsaw's Grand Theatre, while the French version was first performed at Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1997. Sikora's latest operatic project, Madame Curie, celebrated the International Year of Chemistry and the centenary of awarding Polish scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This extensive work in three acts received its world premiere on November 15, 2011 at the UNESCO Hall in Paris. The Polish premiere of Madame Curie was given ten days later by the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk. A subsequent DVD recording was honored with the Académie du Disque Lyrique Award in France. Discussing the genesis of her latest opera, Elżbieta Sikora pointed out that, [Marie Curie's] life story is a truly operatic libretto, so we didn't have to look far and invent a lot, and really nothing needed to be embellished; we only needed to appropriately interpret and present the facts of her life. That's exactly what happened with this opera's libretto. Of course we were not presenting Maria Curie's biography, only highlighting a problem she herself might not have had. The question is whether everything we want to discover ends well, and whether discoveries bring good things into our life and contribute to the world's progress, or whether they also have negative consequences. We all know that there are good and bad sides to everything, including medical field discoveries. Marie Curie's doubts are the main thread of this opera. […] I did not want Marie Curie to be a personality we know from textbooks—a scientist who worked day and night on her discoveries—but a human being who also walked this earth, who had her own intense emotional and intellectual life in all of its forms. I wanted to show her as a fully-living human being, and as a woman. This opera is basically a monodrama and Maria is always on stage. That's how it's notated in the score. Besides the comments from the choir and a few orchestral interludes, she must constantly sing something. That's why, together with Marek Weiss, we looked… actually we didn't look since both of us instantly knew who would sing that role. Anna Mikołajczyk was our first and only choice and I'm delighted that she premiered the title role.[iii] Critics like Weronika Nowak, for example, have noted the appeal of Sikora's vocal music, In Sikoras' operas, like in her songs, for instance Le Chant de Salomon (1992), the sound of the vocal parts is truly hypnotic. The variety of singing styles and vocal techniques, such as bel canto, melo-recitation, whisper or shout, are used by the composer as a tool for creating a wide range of moods, stretched somewhere between an introverted lyricism and an expansive drama.[iv] In her review of Madame Curie, Chantal Cazaux also praised the sensuous qualities of Sikora's music: … Elzbieta Sikora's score is sparkling, generous, [and] often percussive and brassy—perhaps in order to get close to the dangerous luminosity of radium. Its energy infuses the title role, never getting weighed down with useless pauses. It is colored with fine, lively touches, and often with deep, long and anguished sounds. The composer's language, which mixes orchestra and electronic part, is expressive, rich and also poetic. Marie's lament over the body of her dead husband, "Pierre, I want to tell you..." is a jewel of emotion and vocal grace. For Sikora's vocal writing, though ample and emotive, is nonetheless coherent, combining the wild gesture with a pleasing melodious quality...[v] Sikora's musical language seems to undergo constant search for perfection, a process she defined in an interview as follows, "I slowly began to abandon pure experimentation and decided to retain in my musical language only what was needed to express emotion or musical intensity."[vi] The composer's sensuous relationship to sound is often inspired by her travels across the world, where Sikora becomes a musical archeologist and chronicler of the environment, be it street noise in Lisbon or melting glaciers in Patagonia. Always recording and collecting sounds, Sikora later internalizes and refines them before utilizing them in her works. Summing up her career, Sikora averred that she keeps on composing "… because I don't know how to do anything else … Composition is a constant search for something that does not have a real dimension … it's a ceaseless task of trying to find the most perfect form for expressing in an abstract language of music something that burns with really fire deep within us."[vii] Throughout her life, Elżbieta Sikora's work has been recognized with many prizes and awards including, among others, the 1978 Carl Maria von Weber Composers' Competition in Dresden, the 1980 Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, the 1982 Women Composers' Competition in Mannheim, two SACEM awards in 1994, and the 1996 French Association of Dramatic Authors and Composers Award. The recipient of the 2000 Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis, in 2002 Sikora received the Special Distinction of the Paris Jury de l'Académie du Disque Lyrique for Le Chant de Salomon and Eine Rose als Stütze, which were released on a Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi CD. In 2008 Elżbieta Sikora was proclaimed winner of the Sztorm Roku vote organized by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, and her Oliwa Concerto for organ and orchestra won in the classical music category. Together with Anna Mikołajczyk, Sikora received the 2012 Sztorm Roku Award for Madame Curie, an opera which also garnered the composer the 2012 Splendor Gedaniensis Award, Gryf-Pomeranian Arts Award, and the 2013 Polish Music Composers' Union Award. The Government of Poland decorated Sikora with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic in 1997, and in 2004 she received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture. Elżbieta Sikora's music has resonated across the world at such festivals as Warszawska Jesień, Poznań Musical Spring, Avignon Festival, Festival Estival in Paris, Syntèse in Bourges, Festival ICMC in Bucharest, Brighton L'Espace du Son, Festival Acousmatique de Bruxelles, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Dresden Music Festspiele, the Braunschweig Festival, Berlin Festspiele, the Alexandria Festival of the Arts, the Bath–Newcastle Festival, the Heidelberg New Music Festival, Antidogma Musica in Turin, Festival International de Musica Electroacustica in Havana, the Seoul International Computer Music Festival in South Korea, the EMF Festival in New York and the International Festival of Today's Music in New York. Her compositions are published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, Chant du Monde, Stokłosa Editions, and Adriane Verlag. Among performers of Sikora's works are such prestigious ensembles and soloists as the Annabella Gonzales Dance Theater, the Ballet of Monte Carlo, the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, Centre Pompidou, Nouvel Orchestre
as a federation in Belgium in 2006, the former Belgian Shooto and MMA Federation organized more than 1500 MMA bouts (Amateur, B class and A class), and built a structure for the sport nationally that included insurance, rules and regulation, and experience levels for fighters and technical seminars. The BMMAF has continued its activities as part of the wider MMA community under IMMAF.[196][197][198] I was able to locate a school called Warrior's Cove, and I was also excited to learn that the school was directly associated with the great Rickson Gracie whom I've seen on many a highlight reel. He is so good in fact that Royce Gracie actually claimed Rickson to be 10 times better than him. I figured it was meant to be and went in for some information. Technical decision: in the unified rules of MMA, if a fighter is unable to continue due to an accidental illegal technique late in the fight, a technical decision is rendered by the judges based on who is ahead on the judges' scorecards at that time. In a three-round fight, two rounds must be completed for a technical decision to be awarded and in a five-round fight, three rounds must be completed. The most common training mistake amongst fighters. In order to build elite level conditioning, fighters must have a solid aerobic base with a well-developed capacity for anaerobic efforts. As I mentioned earlier, the aerobic energy system is responsible for re-synthesizing ATP after periods of high intensity bursts, therefore influences how fighters recover in-between rounds AND in-between fighting exchanges. Since the aerobic system is developed through low-intensity cardio training, many coaches and fighters overlook this critical piece because it is, incorrectly, seen as inefficient. Oddly, fighters will perform an unnecessary amount of high intensity training along with their MMA training; a recipe for overtraining, sub-optimal recovery and increased risk of injury. OK, so while round one will help you with your explosive conditioning and ability to recover fast, in this round we're going to the ground, which is where a lot of MMA fighter's spend a good amount of time. The Turkish Get Up is an amazing drill for stability, learning to create tension in the body and building static strength. It was a staple drill in the Turkish wrestling world back in the day. This is a very old school drill that is having it's renaissance right now and for very good reason, it's an amazing, basic, fundamental movement pattern. The first state regulated MMA event was held in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 23, 1996 with the sanctioning of IFC's Mayhem in Mississippi[49] show by the Mississippi Athletic Commission under William Lyons. The rules used were an adaptation of the kickboxing rules already accepted by most state athletic commissions. These modified kickboxing rules allowed for take downs and ground fighting and did away with rounds, although they did allow for fighters to be stood up by the referee and restarted if there was no action on the ground. These rules were the first in modern MMA to define fouls, fighting surfaces and the use of the cage. "When I moved to the United States from Russia in 1989, I had already trained in the martial arts for 17 years. I started looking for a school with a clean workout area, personalized training, high moral standards, qualified instructors and, most of all, quality people with which to train. However, during my search, I began to wonder if I would find a school I could belong to. Eventually, a friend told me about the Warrior's Cove, and I agreed to go take a look. Twenty minutes into class I was on the edge of my seat trying to see every move and catch every concept! Needless to say, I was a proud member of the best school in the area by the end of the hour!" I hope you get my point. The truth is mixed martial arts have numerous technical and tactical deficiencies for real world self defense applications. To avoid beating a dead horse and being redundant I won't list them here but you can read my submission fighting article and see exactly what I am talking about. Don't get me wrong, I have a tremendous amount of respect for mixed martial arts fighters. They are some of the best conditioned athletes in the world and their sport requires a tremendous amount of discipline and hard work. But the truth is, surviving a criminal assault in the streets requires a completely different form of training and mind set. The bottom line is, mixed martial arts will never be reality based self defense! As a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu brown belt I'd love to spar with you and test how "Spartan" like you really are. Being bold and determined is a cute start but not much of a match for an experienced jiu jitsu competitor. I dig your blog and respect your success but I can't imagine your particularly good. If you were you'd know about top female BJJ competitors like Hillary Williams who consistently tap out grown ass men (and would make you their bitch) in spectacular fashion. So Clover, look up top female brazilian jiu jitsu black belts (like Hillary Williams) and know that small woman can absolutely defend themselves from attackers, male or female, including someone like Victor. He gets alot of things right but the effectiveness of BJJ for women is not one of them. It will take alot of boldness and determination as well as alot of sweating and drilling but the effectiveness of BJJ for women cannot be understated. The proof is all over youtube. just type in "BJJ girl chokes guy out" This info will really help me pace myself. People who want to fight are already fighting something mentally. That's why I think it's hard to slow down and focus. It's so easy to over train and not eat or sleep enough. All I did was obsess over calesthenics, shadow boxing, and mit work for 2 years, trying to avoid the trouble in my life. I started going to 2 sister MMA gyms in south Houston a year ago, and I'm just now at the point where jiu jitsu is helping me relax. I struggle through life as a rule. I think jiu jitsu is what will break me of that. I wanna be like Rickson Gracie. You know, at peace. Some day when I'm 90 I'll still be doing jiu jitsu. ^ Brownell, Susan Elaine (1990). The olympic movement on its way into Chinese culture. University of California, Santa Barbara. pp. 29, 63. In both ancient China and Greece, the most popular sports were probably wrestling, boxing, and combinations thereof (Greek pankration, Chinese leitai). The same might be argued for ancient Egypt, India and Japan. [...] In both ancient China and Greece, the no-holds-barred combat sport (Greek pankration, Chinese leitai) was probably the most popular one. One of the main keys to performing reactive power intervals correctly is selecting the right exercises for the method. Exercises that are commonly used for plyometrics like hurdle, box jumps or broad jumps, medicine ball throws into a wall, explosive push-ups and pull-ups, etc. are the most appropriate for this form of interval. The primary requirement is that the working muscles are actively stretched under load and then rapidly recoiled to produce maximum force. For MMA training, what you are doing looks lovely good. You must be equipped to perform difficult and explosively at height level for brief durations of time. If you are training for beginner MMA, you will have to be training for three minute rounds with a 1 minute relaxation in between, 5 minute rounds for professional. It usually is good to do some ordinary strolling, anything round three miles (half of hour) three days per week to get your baseline cardio up and maintain lung and heart operate healthful. As a comparison, i am 6'three" and 185, so the whole thing I do i've 35lbs much less to move round doing it. With the interval training you are already doing, if you are gassing out in coaching i'd look to dietary changes. Are you consuming heavy dairy earlier than figuring out? Are you consuming lots of simple sugars and white flour? Are you drinking power drinks as an alternative of good ol' water? I suspect getting interested by the fuel you take into your body often is the next discipline to focus on. You need an particularly LEAN (low fat), high-protein diety with lots of elaborate carbs, now not simple carbs. Vegetable fats are just right (nuts, avacados, coconut milk), animal fat are bad (fatty cuts of meet, dairy, eggs). Taking fish oil i shealthy for cardio-pulmanary, and likewise helps your physique metabolize fat effeciently. And lot of spring water. Do not drink distilled water, as it is going to actually leach vitamins and minerals out of your body. Highest admire Horrible workout. Clearly not designed by someone training ANY martial arts. Too many bodybuilding esque isolation exercises. Waaaaay to much shoulder work especially AFTER benching!! Shrugs??!?! Most useless exercise in the book? Any MMA fighter should be periodising ther workouts anyway as there's too much to do at once". As your sport requires FULL BODY MOVEMENTS, you should stick to olympic lifts + bench + pull ups + sprints. The world went crazy in The Good Fight's second season, and now, in Season 3, the resistance does. Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) tries to figure out whether you can resist a crazy administration without going crazy yourself, while Adrian Boseman (Delroy Lindo) and Liz Reddick-Lawrence (Audra McDonald) struggle with a new post-factual world
bought from them and he trusted that my experience was great (this is not a quote, but my interpretation). It was a full page letter that ended with the notation that I might recieve a survey on my buying experience and if there was any reason I couldn't mark the survey as I would definitely recommend to someone else or that I would definitely buy there again, I should call him up to discuss the matter. Monday I took him up on the offer and called him. After explaining that I couldn't mark either of those categories positively, he wanted to know why. I explained the whole story and he said that it sounded like they didn't get much of anything right. Um-hu. Then he asked what he could do to help make ammends. I said that getting me that promised gift certificate might be a start. He asked how much I was promised and I told him, he said he would get it out to me. I also suggested a hand-off checklist. He said there was one and he would look to see if it was filled out. After a bit more discussion on the checklist, we ended the conversation. The funny thing is, it has been 5 days since I talked to him - there is still no gift certificate in my hand. I guess they really don't want me near their store again. Not a problem, I will go to their rival in Concord for all my business - which includes maintenance and parts. So, I was all excited when I walked into Best Cycle on that Sunday. I had spent months researching what I wanted and had spent weeks looking for a place that had it. Best Cycle had what I wanted and I was able to make a deal that satisfied me. I picked out parts to go on the bike; saddlebags, sissy bar etc – I paid to have them put the parts on. After all the paperwork was done, I was asked when I wanted to pick it up. Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday – I wasn't sure what would jive with my husband's schedule (we live an hour away). Not a problem, call at least a day before I wanted to pick it up and they would have all the parts put on and the bike prepped. I talked with my husband that night, and we agreed that Wednesday was the best day. I knew that my sales guy, Bill, was out that day, but he had already said he could get someone to cover if need be. Monday morning I got coverage for the bike and Monday afternoon I called the dealer to let them know which day I was picking the bike up on. I talked to Bill who said that wasn't a problem and he would make sure the bike was ready. I asked him if I needed to bring an insurance rider – he said that we were all set and I didn't need to bring anything with me. Tuesday, Bill called me at work to see what day I was picking up the bike; Wednesday, between 5:30 and 6. Oh. Wednesday my husband and I both left work before we normally do, met at the house and made our way to Best Cycle. After completing the last of the paperwork, giving them the insurance rider (which, it turned out WAS needed – and which I happened to have with me) and giving them my down payment, they put on a temporary tag and an inspection sticker. The Sales guy filling in for Bill told us we needed to stop and get gas soon because they only had a hand pump so it didn't have much gas in it. I thought this was rather chintzy, all other vehicles that I or my husband had bought new vehicles (including his bike) came with full gas tanks. But, I decided not to make an issue of it. My husband was to ride the bike from the dealer to Milford; as a relatively inexperienced rider, I didn't want to hassle with the rush-hour traffic in Nashua/Amherst. We made it about 5 miles down the road when I realized that the bike did not have the parts installed on it. We stopped and I called the manager, Brian, and let him know that I was rather unhappy. After Brian made suggestions that were impractical for our situation, I told him I was returning the bike. On the way back, we had to put gas in it as it was cutting out on my husband. At the dealership, Brian apparently was too chicken to come out and talk to me. Instead, I got to talk to Bill's replacement. After many back-and-forths, we came to the agreement that they would deliver the bike Friday, after 3:30 when my husband would make a special effort to be home. Because the substitute sales guy had made the suggestion that they deliver it and leave the keys in the mailbox (NO, NO and NO!), I specifically told him that the keys were only to be handed off to my husband – not left anywhere. I also asked for some consideration for the 3.5 hours both my husband and I had wasted on the venture (not to mention the 80 mile round trip and the tank of gas we supplied the bike). He went back to Brian (still hiding in another part of the building still) and came back saying that the best they could do was to give me a $30 gift certificate. They would drop it in the mail, er, deliver it with the bike. Thursday while at work, I got a call from the service department saying that the work was done and that I could pick it up any time. I responded that they were supposed to deliver it. "Oh, do they know that?" was the response I got. I assured him that it had been arranged the previous evening. He said he would let Sales know that the bike was ready. That night, I walked in the door and found 2 messages from the service department stating that I could pick up the bike. At least one of the messages was AFTER I had talked to the service guy. I got nervous and called the dealership. All the lines were busy, so I left a message stating who I was, that I wanted to make sure they were planning to deliver the bike the next day, and please call me back. An hour and 15 minutes later, having not received a call back, I called and actually got to talk to a real live person; Bill. Now, I had been disappointed that Bill hadn't called me and apologized for the error. He didn't even apologize when I had him on the phone and told him who I was, he just handed me off to Brian. I told Brian that I wanted to ensure the bike was being delivered. Yep, it was. I told him that they weren't to deliver it early and leave the keys anywhere – the keys should be handed to my husband only. Yep, got it. I got home Friday evening and saw the bike in the yard. Great, although there had been some hassle, I had my new bike. Until my husband told me there were no keys. WHAT? Some guy (my husband was under the impression that perhaps it was the General Sales Manager), who lives in the next town, delivered it on his way home. He got the bike off the truck and told my husband that he was really sorry for the hassles, that that is not the way Best Cycles does business. He had heard I was really upset and if there was anything he could do down the road, to give him a call (conveniently, he had no business card with him, so I wouldn't know who to call anyway). The guy got into his truck and was ready to leave when my husband asked about the keys. They're in the bike. No, they aren't. After a phone call to the shop the guy said they would have the keys to us by 6 Saturday evening. My husband said okay and told the guy that if we weren't home, that he was to leave the keys with our neighbor across the street. He reiterated not to leave the keys in the mailbox or anywhere else. Saturday night we left for a graduation dinner shortly before 7. No keys yet. At that point, I was so disgusted and hated the bike for putting me through this hell and was ready just to load it onto the truck and take it back to Best Cycle. I had been paying for a loan for a week (since I signed papers on the previous Sunday) and hadn't even sat on it yet. I was trying to decide if I needed to call the cops to meet me there when I returned the bike to ensure that I got a total refund (including finance charges) because the dealer seemed unwilling or unable to fulfill the contract (which is a very nice way of saying theft by deception). We got home late that night and much to my surprise the key was there. Unfortunately, and unsurprising considering their track record thus far the delivery guy had left the key in the front door. What part of "don't leave the key anywhere, give it to the neighbor" did they not understand? There also wasn't a business card so I couldn't personally thank the guy who dropped the keys off. Nor was there a gift certificate (it didn't come with the bike either). And last off, there was no message on the answering machine telling us the keys had been delivered, and where they were. It was pure luck that I happened to see the keys (in the dark) and that they didn't fall thru between the boards of the porch to be lost because we didn't know they were there. So, thru this whole transaction, the only thing that happened as it was supposed to was that they got their money. Everything else was a headache and a hassle. Best Cycle, according to their website, has the motto "CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IS OUR #1 PRIORITY!" That is demonstrably not true. There was absolutely nothing satisfying to me in the transaction. Every promise they made, they broke. What
ctions have been central in philosophy of science, as enumerative induction has a pivotal role in the traditional model of the scientific method. All life forms so far discovered are composed of cells. Therefore, all life forms are composed of cells. This is enumerative induction, also known as simple induction or simple predictive induction. It is a subcategory of inductive generalization. In everyday practice, this is perhaps the most common form of induction. For the preceding argument, the conclusion is tempting but makes a prediction well in excess of the evidence. First, it assumes that life forms observed until now can tell us how future cases will be: an appeal to uniformity. Second, the conclusion All is a bold assertion. A single contrary instance foils the argument. And last, quantifying the level of probability in any mathematical form is problematic. By what standard do we measure our Earthly sample of known life against all (possible) life? Suppose we do discover some new organism—such as some microorganism floating in the mesosphere or an asteroid—and it is cellular. Does the addition of this corroborating evidence oblige us to raise our probability assessment for the subject proposition? It is generally deemed reasonable to answer this question "yes," and for a good many this "yes" is not only reasonable but incontrovertible. So then just how much should this new data change our probability assessment? Here, consensus melts away, and in its place arises a question about whether we can talk of probability coherently at all without numerical quantification. All life forms so far discovered have been composed of cells. Therefore, the next life form discovered will be composed of cells. This is enumerative induction in its weak form. It truncates "all" to a mere single instance and, by making a far weaker claim, considerably strengthens the probability of its conclusion. Otherwise, it has the same shortcomings as the strong form: its sample population is non-random, and quantification methods are elusive. Eliminative induction Eliminative induction, also called variative induction, is an inductive method in which a conclusion is constructed based on the variety of instances that support it. Unlike enumerative induction, eliminative induction reasons based on the various kinds of instances that support a conclusion, rather than the number of instances that support it. As the variety of instances increases, the more possible conclusions based on those instances can be identified as incompatible and eliminated. This, in turn, increases the strength of any conclusion that remains consistent with the various instances. This type of induction may use different methodologies such as quasi-experimentation, which tests and, where possible, eliminates rival hypotheses. Different evidential tests may also be employed to eliminate possibilities that are entertained. Eliminative induction is crucial to the scientific method and is used to eliminate hypotheses that are inconsistent with observations and experiments. It focuses on possible causes instead of observed actual instances of causal connections. History Ancient philosophy For a move from particular to universal, Aristotle in the 300s BCE used the Greek word epagogé, which Cicero translated into the Latin word inductio. Aristotle and the Peripatetic School Aristotle's Posterior Analytics covers the methods of inductive proof in natural philosophy and in the social sciences. The first book of Posterior Analytics describes the nature and science of demonstration and its elements: including definition, division, intuitive reason of first principles, particular and universal demonstration, affirmative and negative demonstration, the difference between science and opinion, etc. Pyrrhonism The ancient Pyrrhonists were the first Western philosophers to point out the Problem of induction: that induction cannot, according to them, justify the acceptance of universal statements as true. Ancient medicine The Empiric school of ancient Greek medicine employed epilogism as a method of inference. 'Epilogism' is a theory-free method that looks at history through the accumulation of facts without major generalization and with consideration of the consequences of making causal claims. Epilogism is an inference which moves entirely within the domain of visible and evident things, it tries not to invoke unobservables. The Dogmatic school of ancient Greek medicine employed analogismos as a method of inference. This method used analogy to reason from what was observed to unobservable forces. Early modern philosophy In 1620, early modern philosopher Francis Bacon repudiated the value of mere experience and enumerative induction alone. His method of inductivism required that minute and many-varied observations that uncovered the natural world's structure and causal relations needed to be coupled with enumerative induction in order to have knowledge beyond the present scope of experience. Inductivism therefore required enumerative induction as a component. David Hume The empiricist David Hume's 1740 stance found enumerative induction to have no rational, let alone logical, basis; instead, induction was the product of instinct rather than reason, a custom of the mind and an everyday requirement to live. While observations, such as the motion of the sun, could be coupled with the principle of the uniformity of nature to produce conclusions that seemed to be certain, the problem of induction arose from the fact that the uniformity of nature was not a logically valid principle, therefore it could not be defended as deductively rational, but also could not be defended as inductively rational by appealing to the fact that the uniformity of nature has accurately described the past and therefore, will likely accurately describe the future because that is an inductive argument and therefore circular since induction is what needs to be justified. Since Hume first wrote about the dilemma between the invalidity of deductive arguments and the circularity of inductive arguments in support of the uniformity of nature, this supposed dichotomy between merely two modes of inference, deduction and induction, has been contested with the discovery of a third mode of inference known as abduction, or abductive reasoning, which was first formulated and advanced by Charles Sanders Peirce, in 1886, where he referred to it as "reasoning by hypothesis." Inference to the best explanation is often yet arguably treated as synonymous to abduction as it was first identified by Gilbert Harman in 1965 where he referred to it as "abductive reasoning," yet his definition of abduction slightly differs from Pierce's definition. Regardless, if abduction is in fact a third mode of inference rationally independent from the other two, then either the uniformity of nature can be rationally justified through abduction, or Hume's dilemma is more of a trilemma. Hume was also skeptical of the application of enumerative induction and reason to reach certainty about unobservables and especially the inference of causality from the fact that modifying an aspect of a relationship prevents or produces a particular outcome. Immanuel Kant Awakened from "dogmatic slumber" by a German translation of Hume's work, Kant sought to explain the possibility of metaphysics. In 1781, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason introduced rationalism as a path toward knowledge distinct from empiricism. Kant sorted statements into two types. Analytic statements are true by virtue of the arrangement of their terms and meanings, thus analytic statements are tautologies, merely logical truths, true by necessity. Whereas synthetic statements hold meanings to refer to states of facts, contingencies. Against both rationalist philosophers like Descartes and Leibniz as well as against empiricist philosophers like Locke and Hume, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is a sustained argument that in order to have knowledge we need both a contribution of our mind (concepts) as well as a contribution of our senses (intuitions). Knowledge proper is for Kant thus restricted to what we can possibly perceive (phenomena), whereas objects of mere thought ("things in themselves") are in principle unknowable due to the impossibility of ever perceiving them. Reasoning that the mind must contain its own categories for organizing sense data, making experience of objects in space and time (phenomena) possible, Kant concluded that the uniformity of nature was an a priori truth. A class of synthetic statements that was not contingent but true by necessity, was then synthetic a priori. Kant thus saved both metaphysics and Newton's law of universal gravitation. On the basis of the argument that what goes beyond our knowledge is "nothing to us," he discarded scientific realism. Kant's position that knowledge comes about by a cooperation of perception and our capacity to think (transcendental idealism) gave birth to the movement of German idealism. Hegel's absolute idealism subsequently flourished across continental Europe and England. Late modern philosophy Positivism, developed by Henri de Saint-Simon and promulgated in the 1830s by his former student Auguste Comte, was the first late modern philosophy of science. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, fearing society's ruin, Comte opposed metaphysics. Human knowledge had evolved from religion to metaphysics to science, said Comte, which had flowed from mathematics to astronomy to physics to chemistry to biology to sociology—in that order—describing increasingly intricate domains. All of society's knowledge had become scientific, with questions of theology and of metaphysics being unanswerable. Comte found enumerative induction reliable as a consequence of its grounding in available experience. He asserted the use of science, rather than metaphysical truth, as the correct method for the improvement of human society. According to Comte, scientific method frames predictions, confirms them, and states laws—positive statements—irrefutable by theology or by metaphysics. Regarding experience as justifying enumerative induction by demonstrating the uniformity of nature, the British philosopher John Stuart Mill welcomed Comte's positivism, but thought scientific laws susceptible to recall or revision and Mill also withheld from Comte's Religion of Humanity. Comte was confident in treating scientific law as an ir
at me." And for the first time, I remembered what it was like in China when my mother just told me what to do, I did it, and everything was good. You know, it was two battling selves. The two selves I had: one that had originally been in me and the other that had been forged in the need to survive. They were fighting with each other before coming to a stalemate of "Let's just see what happens." But time and again, [my mom] kept showing up: she went and got a decently paying job. Almost immediately, she found a house. I'm like, "You didn't even let me go visit the house with you, to make sure it's inhabitable." I was left out, no longer in any sort of control, but still worrying about things. And that worry has very much stayed with me to this day. JD: Your book is going to be in the Library of Congress, if it's not there already. You're going to be in university and high school curriculums, and there will be kids growing up reading this book. Let's talk about who you are now: you've grown into a love for this country, for America. Beautiful Country isn't just a memoir of your undocumented childhood. There are people out there who take offense at your book, who see you as unpatriotic, and "You're ungrateful, and you don't love this country, and if you don't like it, get out." But as lots of us know, patriotism takes many forms, and one of them is loving your country enough to want to make it better. To criticize it as a way of making it better. I think your book does exactly what it says on the tin: it is about a beautiful country whose beauty lies in the potential of its people. And in your eyes, America can be beautiful, but only if it faces its own faults first. As someone who has lived in great poverty and has since built a successful life for herself, could you tell me how you think Beautiful Country exposes the imagined exceptionalism of America? QJW: I think my story, though singular in detail, shares the very common immigration journey of coming here with stars in our eyes and then seeing that this country––though built by slaves and immigrants––is not really for people of color or immigrants. It currently does not think about immigrants; its health care system and its educational system––the very basic, fundamental poles of our society––does not consider immigrants. It's very comparable how humans evolve and how countries evolve. Neither can grow until they face the stark truth. Until you can embrace everything about yourself, every mistake, every horrible thing you've done, every good thing you've done–"This is what I've done but it does not define me, it was what I did, but I can choose to do things differently"––until you have the safety to do that as a nation or as one person, you will not be able to make different choices, because you remain stuck replicating the subconscious patterns of your past. For a long time, I was stuck re-creating the conditions that were handed to me, which was to not let anyone get too close, to manufacture a reality and a version of myself. America has done that for so long. It would like to believe itself to be something that does not yet exist. And as long as it pretends that it's already there, it's never actually going to get there, which is what all of us want. It's going to take some really hard work to get there, but the starting point is just being honest and examining those cracks. Yes, America did this, this, and this poorly, but those things do not need to define what America is, presently or going forward. And so, I think that if our nation could think about things in that way, our political discourse, our social discourse would be so much more constructive and would bring us closer to that version of America that we all want. Why wouldn't we all want to live in the country so many claim America to be? JD: These ideas shaped the work that you've chosen to focus on as an attorney, and that philosophy has kind of infused itself in the book. How did you decide to do what you're doing now as an attorney? QJW: Well, it was really a mirror of that journey. I went into corporate and commercial litigation, because I wanted to pretend that I was someone different who didn't have this background, and I wanted to pretend that our country was better than it was. Before I went into commercial litigation, I actually interned at Legal Aid, legal services and public interest organizations. And when I saw the reality of what people were still going through, people like me decades later, still dealing with the very same barriers, it hurt. It was hard to see, and it made me feel incredibly guilty and defensive. How dare I live in my house with my books and shoes and handbags when this was still happening? It's very comparable how humans evolve and how countries evolve. Neither can grow until they face the stark truth. And so I did what a lot of Americans do, which is run away and pretend: "OK, so I'm going to be in this pretty world, this rich world where those things don't happen. It's not part of my day-to-day. I don't need to think about it." But that can only hold for so long, especially for someone with my background, because I couldn't go outside without seeing an immigrant child sifting through the trash with her mother. I saw that on my way to work, and as long as our society is the way it is now, I'm always going to run into some reflection of my past life, and it makes me feel incredibly guilty and ashamed for having run away and refusing to be part of the solution. So in the process of writing and editing this book and putting it out into the world, I learned to embrace what I just talked about, which is that I really need to get comfortable and accept the fact that our country is just not there yet. What guides me now is thinking about that day that I'm on my deathbed. I don't want to have any regrets. And looking back, if I have spent my whole life running away from reality and just living in this constructed bubble of "Everything's fine, I serve the rich people of our country and everything's fine and dandy, and I'm doing very well and everyone else is doing well, there's no inequality," I will not be able to die in peace. And that's in many ways my self-serving guidance. I feel a moral imperative to push for progress and make inroads whenever possible. And my book is very much about reaching the reachable. I'm aware that a lot of people who most need to read my book will never read it. They may burn it. They may ban it. But any step toward progress is a step closer to living in the country we all deserve. JD: You're building an imagined world into reality. How do you feel about being part of this emerging canon of undocumented memoirs? There's been a nice buildup over the past decade or so of memoirs written by lots of different kinds of undocumented immigrants. And no one's experience is similar to anyone else's. QJW: It's beautiful! I mean, I would not have found the courage to do this without Jose (Antonio Vargas, author of Dear America) and Karla (Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans). Jose wrote that essay in the New York Times magazine in 2011 ("My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant"). I was a 2L at Yale Law School on a student visa, then. Very privileged. And yet when I saw his essay and an interview with him, I was like, "Oh my God, he's so brave." Just the thought of me sharing that––that I had been undocumented in the past––had me shaking. It was his present! He has made himself so vulnerable to political attacks, to deportation, to everything. And it was so inspiring for me that he could dare to do that. And that was when the seed really was planted in my head: "If he can do it, what are you complaining about? You should be able to put this out there." A Book About Undocumented Americans That Doesn't Pander to White Expectations Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the American Dream incarnate and she knows that it's just a pyramid scheme Apr 8 – Alexia Arthurs But I had a lot of inner work to do before I could get there, and then of course, Karla's book came out and focused not just on Dreamers, but on blue collar workers––the frontline workers of our society who are just ignored. And seeing how many people out there are still so impacted by the limits of our immigration system just gave me that final kick to send my story out into the world. JD: I think what we'll probably see is there will be more and more of us [undocumented] authors over time. It's an honor to be a part of it––I'm kind of in your shoes that it's not something I have to worry about anymore, but I still feel like I have to somehow protect my parents because they're still there. But at the same time, I know that if anything's going to change, the book has to happen. Do you have any advice for memoir writers of color? Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote My Struggle, six autobiographical novels about himself. In his 30s! For memoir writers of color, we face a different challenge, in that the way we represent ourselves in the world, we apologize, repress our feelings,
fifteen and thirty seconds in favorable lighting conditions, according to Eder. One early attempt to address the lack of a good "fast" lens for portraiture, and the subject of the first US patent for photographic apparatus, was Alexander Wolcott's camera, which used a concave mirror instead of a lens and operated on the principle of the reflecting telescope. Designed solely for portraiture, this arrangement produced a far brighter image than a Chevalier lens, or even the later Petzval lens, but image quality was only marginal and the design was only practical for use with small plates. Only of these cameras were produced. Sollinger, August 1, The person to be photographed must be seated in the open air. The last, however, is seldom employed on account of the deep shadows direct sunlight creates. The stated exposure times are evidently for plates sensitized with iodine only; improved sensitization methods were just being introduced in - In Friedrich von Martens invented the first panoramic camera for curved daguerreotype plates with a lens that turned to cover an angle of degrees. It was called "Megaskop-Kamera" of "Panorama-Kamera". Netto constructed, ina studio in which the front part of the camera with the lens was built into the wall between the studio and the adjoining darkroom, the rear part of the camera being inside the darkroom. In one early attempt at portraiture, a Swedish amateur daguerreotypist caused his sitter nearly to lose an eye because of practically staring into the sun during the five-minute exposure. Even with fast lenses and much more sensitive plates, under portrait studio lighting conditions an exposure of several seconds was necessary on the brightest of days, and on hazy or cloudy days the sitter had to remain still for considerably longer. The head rest was already in use for portrait painting. Establishments producing daguerreotype portraits generally had a daylight studio built on the roof, much like a greenhouse. Whereas later in the history of photography artificial electric lighting was done in a dark room, building up the light with hard spotlights and softer floodlights, the daylight studio was equipped with screens and blinds to control the light, to reduce it and make it unidirectional, or diffuse it to soften harsh direct lighting. Blue filtration was sometimes used to make it easier for the sitter to tolerate the strong light, as a daguerreotype plate was almost exclusively sensitive to light at the blue end of the spectrum and filtering out everything else did not significantly increase the exposure time. Usually, it was arranged so that sitters leaned their elbows on a support such as a posing table, the height of which could be adjusted, or else head rests were used that did not show in the picture, and this led to most daguerreotype portraits having stiff, lifeless poses. Some exceptions exist, with lively expressions full of character, as photographers saw the potential of the new medium, and would have used the tableau vivant technique. These are represented in museum collections and are the most sought after by private collectors today. The image in a daguerreotype is often described as being formed by the amalgamor alloy, of mercury and silver because mercury vapor from a pool of heated mercury is used to develop the plate; but using the Becquerel process using a red filter and extra exposure daguerreotypes can be produced without mercury, and chemical analysis shows that there is no mercury in the final image with the Becquerel process. Although the daguerreotype process could only produce a single image at a time, copies could be created by re-daguerreotyping the original. With a daguerreotype, any writing will appear back to front. Recopying a daguerreotype will make the writing appear normal and rings worn on the fingers will appear on the correct hand. Another device to make a daguerreotype the right way round would be to use a mirror when taking the photograph. The daguerreotypes of the Omaha Indian Native American delegation in the Smithsonian include a daguerrotype copied in the camera, recognizable by the contrast being high and a black line down the side of the plate. In Britain, however, Richard Beard bought the British daguerreotype patent from Miles Berry in and closely controlled his investment, selling licenses throughout the country and prosecuting infringers. Daguerreotype photography spread rapidly across the United States after the discovery first appeared in US newspapers in February It is possible that Morse may have been the first American to view a daguerreotype first-hand. Morse met the inventor of the daguerreotype, Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, in Paris in January when Daguerre's invention was announced [2]. Morse's account of the brand-new invention interested the American public, and through further publishings the technique of the daguerreotype integrated into the United States. For example, an article published in the Boston Daily Advertiser on February 23, described the daguerreotype as having similar properties of the camera obscura, but introduced its remarkable capability of "fixing the image permanently on the paper, or making a permanent drawing, by the agency of light alone," which combined old and new concepts for readers to understand. Byan estimated three million daguerreotypes per year were being produced in the United States alone. For the first time in history, people could obtain an exact likeness of themselves or their loved ones for a modest cost, making portrait photographs extremely popular with those of modest means. Celebrities and everyday people sought portraits and workers would save an entire day's income to have a daguerreotype taken of them, including occupational portraits. Notable U. Although the collodion wet plate process offered a cheaper and more convenient alternative for commercial portraiture and for other applications with shorter exposure times, when the transit of Venus was about to occur and observations were to be made from several sites on the earth's surface in order to calculate astronomical distances, daguerreotypy proved a more accurate method of making visual recordings through telescopes because it was a dry process with greater dimensional stability, whereas collodion glass plates were exposed wet and the image would become slightly distorted when the emulsion dried. Although the daguerreotype process is sometimes said to have died out completely in the early s, documentary evidence indicates that some very slight use of it persisted more or less continuously throughout the following years of its supposed extinction. The daguerreotype experienced a minor renaissance in the late 20th century and the process is currently practiced by a handful of enthusiastic devotees; there are thought to be fewer than worldwide see list of artists on cdags. Salomon, and Chuck Close have reintroduced the medium to the broader art world. The use of electronic flash in modern daguerreotypy has solved many of the problems connected with the slow speed of the process when using daylight. International group exhibitions of contemporary daguerreotypists' works have been held, notably the exhibition in Bry Sur Marne, France, with daguerreotypes by forty-four artists, and the ImageObject exhibition in New York City, showcasing seventy-five works by thirty-three artists. The Astolat Dollhouse Castle also displays daguerreotypes. The appeal of the medium lies in the "magic mirror" effect of light striking the polished silver plate and revealing a silvery image which can seem ghostly and ethereal even while being perfectly sharp, and in the dedication and handcrafting required to make a daguerreotype. Daguerreotype of Andrew Jackson at age The solar eclipse of July 28,is the first correctly exposed photograph of a solar eclipse, using the daguerreotype process. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the film, see Daguerrotype film. First commercially successful photographic process. Daguerreotype Main article: Camera obscura. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Dating daguerreotypes Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Random House. Paul Getty Museum. Getty Publishers. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. The Rosen Publishing Group. Art History 2 ed. History of analytical chemistry. Marshall Cavendish. Retrieved 28 July But the first person to use this property to produce a photographic image stencils of letters without the use of a camera was German physicist Johann Heinrich Schulze. InSchulze made a paste of silver nitrate and chalk, placed the mixture in a glass bottle and wrapped the bottle in May Camera : Archived from the original on Retrieved Archived from the original on 6 October Retrieved 29 September The sunlight passing through This first permanent example Invented by T. Antique Photographs and Photography - Identifying Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes Wedgwood, Esq. With Observations by H. Archived from the original on 13 November Retrieved 20 May History of Photography. Translated by Epstean, Edward 4th ed. Dover Publications. Tintypes in good condition are best stored in a sturdy four-flap enclosure if loose or, if cased, wrapped in acid-free tissue and placed in a folding box to prevent breakage and abrasion. Between display periods, it should be returned to an appropriate environment where it may "rest" in dark storage. This is particularly important for tintypes, which are very sensitive to light. Ambrotypes may display cracks and, in advanced stages, flaking in what appears to be the image. However, this is actually the dark varnish used to coat the back of the image emulsion on one side of the glass. As the varnish falls away, it reveals the negative image. This decay may be
: "Trone" } ] }, { id: 3, address: "St. Elm Street", district: [ { id: 4, title: "Raskin Sarbanes" } ] }, { id: 4, address: "St. Bethesda Ave", district: [ { id: 12, title: "Rayburn House" } ] }, { id: 5, address: "St. Bethesda Lane, 7111", district: [ { id: 2, title: "Connolly" } ] }, { id: 6, address: "St. Trolls Toys, 643", district: [ { id: 8, title: "Beyer" } ] }, { id: 7, address: "St. Houlton, 12", district: [ { id: 45, title: "Lee Zeldin House" } ] }, ]; I need to search string by address and by district. I do it like this: const searchQuery = "Be" const regex = new RegExp('^' + searchQuery, 'i'); const searchByAddress = addresses.filter((addr) => { return addr.address.replace("St. ", '').trim().search(regex) == 0; }); const searchByDistrict = addresses.filter((addr) => { return addr.district[0].title.search(regex) == 0; }); var result = [] result.push(searchByAddress) searchByDistrict.map(item => { const found = result.some(el => el.id === item.id); if(!found) { result.push(item); } }) console.log("Result: ", result) Maybe anyone have better idea to search and get needed objects in my case? In my case it's work slow. Maybe this code can be performed? Here is the demo of my solution: const addresses = [{ id: 1, address: "St. East Baltimore, 820", district: [{ id: 1, title: "Mfume" }] }, { id: 2, address: "St. Darnestown Rd, 12187", district: [{ id: 7, title: "Trone" }] }, { id: 3, address: "St. Elm Street", district: [{ id: 4, title: "Raskin Sarbanes" }] }, { id: 4, address: "St. Bethesda Ave", district: [{ id: 12, title: "Rayburn House" }] }, { id: 5, address: "St. Bethesda Lane, 7111", district: [{ id: 2, title: "Connolly" }] }, { id: 6, address: "St. Trolls Toys, 643", district: [{ id: 8, title: "Beyer" }] }, { id: 7, address: "St. Houlton, 12", district: [{ id: 45, title: "Lee Zeldin House" }] }, ]; const searchQuery = "Be" const regex = new RegExp('^' + searchQuery, 'i'); const searchByAddress = addresses.filter((addr) => { return addr.address.replace("St. ", '').trim().search(regex) == 0; }); const searchByDistrict = addresses.filter((addr) => { return addr.district[0].title.search(regex) == 0; }); var result = [] result.push(searchByAddress) searchByDistrict.map(item => { const found = result.some(el => el.id === item.id); if (!found) { result.push(item); } }) console.log(result); A: The following snippet will take care of all elements of a district array. The actual rx-test will be carried out only once per element: const addresses = [ {id: 1,address: "St. East Baltimore, 820",district: [{id: 1,title: "Mfume"}]}, {id: 2,address: "St. Darnestown Rd, 12187",district: [{id: 7,title: "Trone"}, {id: 8,title:"Beatles"}]}, // added for testing! {id: 3,address: "St. Elm Street",district: [{id: 4,title: "Raskin Sarbanes"}]}, {id: 4,address: "St. Bethesda Ave",district: [{id: 12,title: "Rayburn House"}]}, {id: 5,address: "St. Bethesda Lane, 7111",district: [{id: 2,title: "Connolly"}]}, {id: 6,address: "St. Trolls Toys, 643",district: [{id: 8,title: "Beyer"}]}, {id: 7,address: "St. Houlton, 12",district: [{id: 45,title: "Lee Zeldin House"}]}, ]; const srch="Be", rx = new RegExp("^"+srch,"im"); // flags: case insensitive, multiline let res = addresses.map(itm =>[ (rx.test(itm.address.replace(/^ St. /, ''))?1:0) // test result flag: 1 for address, 2 for title \|\| (rx.test(itm.district.map(d=>d.title).join("\n"))?2:0), itm] ) .filter(([k,v])=>k) // only matched results .sort((a,b)=>a[0]-b[0]) // sort results according to rx test result flag... .map(([k,v])=>v); // remove the result flag again console.log(res); After realizing that the order of test results was significant I changed my script. Now it will deliver the address matches first, followed by the title matches (of all possible districts). The computationally expensive pattern matching will be carried out once per element only. This should make it reasonably fast. Even though there are further.filter(),.sort() and.map() steps involved, these are fairly trivial and don't require much computation. A: If you are always going to compare district[0], you can simplify your code to: const addresses = [{ id: 1, address: "St. East Baltimore, 820", district: [{ id: 1, title: "Mfume" }] }, { id: 2, address: "St. Darnestown Rd, 12187", district: [{ id: 7, title: "Trone" }] }, { id: 3, address: "St. Elm Street", district: [{ id: 4, title: "Raskin Sarbanes" }] }, { id: 4, address: "St. Bethesda Ave", district: [{ id: 12, title: "Rayburn House" }] }, { id: 5, address: "St. Bethesda Lane, 7111", district: [{ id: 2, title: "Connolly" }] }, { id: 6, address: "St. Trolls Toys, 643", district: [{ id: 8, title: "Beyer" }] }, { id: 7, address: "St. Houlton, 12", district: [{ id: 45, title: "Lee Zeldin House" }] }, ]; const searchQuery = "Be" const regex = new RegExp('^' + searchQuery, 'i'); let result = addresses.filter(item => { return item.address.replace("St. ", '').
memorial to all American war dead." The altar is built from stones from every state in the union and soil from each country where Americans fought. Many groups, including members of the Baha'i Faith, Hindus, and Quakers have held services there. So have many non-religious groups, including the Alcoholics Anonymous, American Legion, the Boy Scouts of America, the Masonic Order, National Grange, Rosicrucians (a non-religious metaphysical order), etc. It has been in business for 50 years and receives about 100,000 visitors a year. The initial event exhibiting religious intolerance: In 1995-APR Diane DesRochers, New England Regional Director for AREN, and High Priestess of the Temple of AppleMoon Coven and Teaching Grove, Inc. of Groton MA asked to schedule a handfasting ceremony at the site. This is similar in the Wiccan religion to marriage in other faiths. Permission was rejected on the basis that the Cathedral believed that their religion, Wicca, was not recognized as a religion by other mainstream faith groups. Ms. DesRochers wrote the Cathedral, formally requesting their reasons for being denied rental of the facility. The Cathedral responded by mailing her a copy of a page from their operating manual. It stated that "...services of worship, etc., must be conducted by clergy who are graduates of an accredited school of theology with at least a Master's level degree and who are ordained in a recognized religious process." This requirement seemed unduly restrictive, excluding many Fundamentalist and other Evangelical pastors who often only hold a diploma from a Bible school. It would also exclude Buddhist and Hindu priests, Native American elders, etc. Quakers, who have no clergy, would also presumably be refused access -- which indeed was hardly the case! An officer of the Cathedral* had labeled Wiccans and Pagans a "Godless lot" who were trying to make a mockery of the Cathedral and of "Almighty God." He has since denied making such a statement. 5 In an attempt to dissipate any stereotypical misapprehensions they might have had, AREN-New England, along with other area Wiccans and in collaboration with Art Ketchen of Nashua, NH, president of First Amendment Legal Defense Fund: Citizens Against Censorship, invited the Cathedral's executive director and trustees, along with other area clergy, to attend a town meeting where they could address all their concerns in open dialogue. The hope was that, by witnessing a Bardic Circle, they might be impressed with the beauty of the music and rituals. They might also understand more accurately the beliefs and practices of the Witches. Media representatives, one Quaker, several Unitarians and many Neo-Pagans came to the meeting, but the Cathedral trustees and executive director declined to attend. In order to show that Wiccans were indeed recognized by other faiths and by the federal and state governments as well, AREN submitted: The Department of the Army's "Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Religions: A Handbook Supplement for Chaplains, compiled by Dr. Gordon Melton, a Methodist minister and director of the Institute for the Study of American Religions. This book contains a chapter on Wicca; A letter from Dr. Melton, giving a brief description and history of the rise of the Craft in this country and his acknowledgment of Wicca as a legitimate spiritual path; A copy of Public Law 100-606, popularly referred to as the "Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987" ("the Proxmire Act"); A copy of programs and schedules from the 1993 Parliament of World Religions to which elders in the Wiccan and Neo-Pagan Community were invited. Notable among the groups offering presentations were Circle Sanctuary with Selena Fox, Covenant of the Goddess, and EarthSpirit with Andras & Dierdre Corbin; A letter from Pete "Pathfinder" Davis, a Witch, who is founder and arch priest of Aquarian Tabernacle Church which has chartered covens throughout the United States. He is president of the statewide Interfaith Council of Washington; A copy of a letter from the office of the MA secretary of state, acknowledging Temple of AppleMoon Coven & Teaching Grove, Inc. as a non-profit religious organization and Ms. DesRochers as a recognized clergyperson authorized to perform legally binding marriages. The Manchester Union Leader, a nationally know regional paper, in an amazing display of religious intolerance and ignorance, blasted Ms. DesRochers in particular and all Witches and Pagans in general. In an apparent reference to Wiccans, followers of Native Spirituality, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., the editor stated that "...Pagans, people who are neither Christians nor Muslims nor Jews and who indeed have no religion, obviously have a right to conduct their heathen ceremonies. But they have no right to mock people of religious faith by conducting them in houses of God...Is this discrimination? Sure, but not in the invidious sense of depriving witches of some legitimate right, such as the right to venerate and worship syzygies or kumquats." [A syzygy is an astronomical term which refers to orbiting bodies; when used to refer to the moon, it would define the times of new and full moons. Wiccans do not worship the time of the new and full moon; they simply conduct their rituals at those times. A kumquat is an edible fruit.] Shortly after the editorial was printed - after the paper had been deluged by outraged callers and letter-writers - its author took early retirement. Involvement of the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights: An apparent breakthrough occurred in March of 1996 when a meeting was held involving New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights investigator Katherine Daly. Also present were Diane DesRochers, acting for AREN-New England, and Gretchen Ziegler, a Cathedral representative, accompanied by their lawyer. The Cathedral made a compromise offer that would allow access by Wiccans and other Pagans to the site. They didn't want Wiccans using their consecrated areas, like the Altar of the Nation, but were willing to give them a choice of several undeveloped sites on Cathedral property which local Pagans could then clear and consecrate for themselves. Several weeks later, Katherine sent both sides first-draft copies of a formal agreement for study and comment. Willing also to compromise, AREN-New England's objections were few and minor, such as asking them to refer in the agreement to "Witches, Pagans and other Earth-centered religions" rather than just "Witches and Pagans." But then, in another complete about-face, the Cathedral's trustees voted to continue refusing any access at all, hoping to legalize their decision by changing their by-laws and reincorporating as a religious organization. They argued that the memorial was founded upon a belief in "God Almighty" and they alone would decide which religions could worship there. An official* of the Cathedral later told a reporter for the Manchester Union Leader that under their new charter they would, from now on, only be granting access to those who "worship the god of Abraham." This would presumably include Jews, Christians, Muslims and followers of the Baha'i faith - but few others! Followers of Buddhism, Deism, Hinduism, Jainism, Santeria, Shinto, Taoism, Vodun, Unitarian Universalists, Zoroastrianism, and hundreds of other religious would be excluded. By taking this action, the trustees converted their "national memorial to all American war dead" to a memorial only to those soldiers who died in battle who happened to follow an Abrahamic religion -- one which reveres Abraham as a patriarch. Preliminary finding of the Human Rights Commission: On 1996-SEP-23, one of the Human Rights Commissioners issued a preliminary finding. They concluded that the cathedral was a war memorial open to the public, not a church, and could not legally discriminate against Wiccans and Pagans. Letters were sent to both parties, instructing each to submit suggestions for an acceptable agreement. The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union waited in the background, prepared to resolve the matter in court if necessary. EREN's response was essentially the same as suggested in the Commission's original agreement. The Cathedral suggested Ms. DesRochers drop all charges! A Unitarian Universalist minister living in nearby Peterboro, NH published an open letter to the Cathedral in a local newspaper, The Monadnock Ledger. In it, he asked the trustees to remove his name from their list of participating clergy, announcing that, so long as they pursued their discriminatory policies, he would no longer officiate at any Cathedral ceremonies. According to an Associated Press article, a Boston College professor had also told Cathedral trustees, unless they reopened their doors to ALL religions once more, he was demanding return of his father's portrait and Congressional Medal of Honor which he had donated to their war memorial museum. Policy reversal by the Cathedral: Bending to this and similar pressure from a number of outraged citizens, Cathedral trustees finally decided to return to the intent of the original incorporation, allowing equal access to Cathedral facilities for persons of ALL faiths, including Earth-centered religions! Less than a month before the final hearing date of 1997-MAR-4, set by the Commission, Cathedral trustees suddenly and unexpectedly announced to the Human Rights Commission that they were backing away from their previous exclusive stance. They also confided to Katherine Daly, that plans were in the works to host "an interfaith educational conference." A public signing of agreement papers was held on Tuesday, 1997-MAR-4 at the Nash
truth: "No, you're not." It's going to take a lot more than that, he stresses. "The common theme with starting a company is that it's so much harder than people expect it to be," says Grogg. "It's going to be 80 hours, 100 hours a week. It's just full on all the time. You have to be willing and able to be that committed." "Most successful startups take seven to 10 years to really get to scale," says Greg Bunch, who teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and counts Smith among his former students. "Most people don't have the patience to spend seven to 10 years building a business. They might be better suited to keeping their day jobs." Entrepreneurs face a high-stakes game. The five-year survival rate for new businesses is 50%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sweat equity alone is not enough to counter that statistic. What else does it take to achieve startup success? We turned to the experts—investors, mentors, and savvy founders—for answers. Here's their collective wisdom distilled into nine essential truths. 1. Make sure you're solving a problem. Consider ag tech entrepreneur Matthew Rooda, who identified the problem of "piglet crushing" while working as a farrowing manager during his college years. Rooda was frustrated because he'd arrive at the farm each morning and find dozens of baby pigs crushed to death because sows had lain on top of them shortly after birthing them. "We had to make a thousand failures to come up with a success." - Matthew Rooda, founder and CEO, SwineTech Rooda did some research and discovered that 92% of the pork producers he surveyed were seeking a solution to the same problem. He teamed with two co-founders to develop a device called SmartGuard that—when triggered by piglet squeals—prompts the sow to stand up, sparing the lives of the piglets. In the six years since its founding, their company, SwineTech, has raised about $6.3 million in venture capital and now offers a suite of products that add efficiencies and reduce mortalities in swine farrowing operations. SmartGuard alone lessens piglet crushing by up to 31%, SwineTech's analysis shows. Creating a product with strong success potential requires "systems thinking," says Lauren Lackey, president and owner of Centauri Innovations, a new product development and R&D consultancy. "First, you've got to figure out what the struggle is, and then you've got to design the end-to-end experience to match that problem." Too many founders fall into the "field of dreams" trap, thinking that "if we build it, they will come," Lackey continues. "That's not true. Just because you build it does not necessarily mean that they will come." It's only true if the product addresses an unmet consumer need, she emphasizes. 2. Less is more. Stay focused. Startups that try to do too much too soon can flounder, says Darren Streiler, who identifies up-and-coming innovators as investment director for Archer Daniels Midland's venture capital arm, ADM Ventures. "It's really vital to have a strong focus before expanding just to allow for greater control and opportunities for growth," says Streiler. Bunch recommends keeping a careful eye on the "beachhead customer" at the outset. He cites the example of RXBAR co-founders and CrossFit exercisers Peter Rahal and Jared Smith, who initially "got micro-focused" on their target audience of CrossFit gym patrons. The two "became mainstays on the CrossFit circuit, pushing product one bar, one box at a time," according to the founders' story on the RXBAR website. After spending a year "getting it right," they expanded their sales efforts and eventually sold the protein bar company to Kellogg's for $600 million. Streiler points to French biotech startup InnovaFeed, a supplier of insect-derived animal feed, as another example. The company is building an insect protein operation adjacent to an ADM corn processing complex that will supply it with feedstock. Streiler credits InnovaFeed's founders with keeping their attention on the animal feed market as the company embarks on this new venture rather than simultaneously targeting the human food market. Trying to go after two such different markets would be challenging, he posits, because they operate very differently. 3. Timing matters (a lot). Successful startups get the timing right—when the consumer is ready for the product but before the market is saturated. In fact, sometimes it's better not being first. "Post–Beyond Meat, it was a lot easier to get into the plant-based sector than pre–Beyond Meat," says Sanjeev Krishnan, chief investment officer and managing director, S2G Ventures, a venture fund focused on food and agriculture entrepreneurs. "You have to time the zeitgeist of the consumer, the channel, [and] the access to capital." One of the companies in S2G's portfolio is Once Upon a Farm, which debuted refrigerated baby food in pouches in 2015. Mounting consumer interest in fresh, healthful fare meant the shelf-stable baby food market was ripe for disrupting at that time, says Krishnan. Co-founder and CEO John Foraker "saw an opportunity to take a shelf-stable category like baby food and really make it fresh and differentiate it," Krishnan notes. Imperfect Foods' average order size doubled over the prior year in 2020. Photo courtesy of Imperfect Foods The COVID-19 pandemic has brought growth opportunities for Imperfect Foods, a home delivery purveyor of so-called "ugly produce" that can't be sold via conventional retail channels. "At the onset of the pandemic, we saw huge growth in new memberships as more people were avoiding in-person trips to the grocery store," says Imperfect Foods CEO Philip Behn. "Being delivery-only and offering our own private label products, we already had a model in place that allowed us to serve customers when others couldn't." By the end of 2020, the company's active user base had grown by 40% over the start of the year and weekly order volumes had doubled, Behn reports. "They were there at the right time with the right idea" and "had the tools in place" for direct-to-consumer delivery, says Anne Greven, global head of food & agribusiness startup innovation at Rabobank. 4. The end result probably won't look like the original idea. Being open to input from retail customers and using it to refine the product concept is critical, says Patrick Henry, author of Plan Commit Win: 90 Days to Creating a Fundable Startup and CEO of GroGuru, an ag tech company. Such "teaching customers" help a company tweak its concept to make it more marketable, Henry notes. Pivoting to service healthcare workers helped keep Farmer's Fridge going even after COVID-19 reduced consumer traffic at many of its vending machine locations. Photo courtesy of Farmer's Fridge Krishnan says the same is true of the "early adopter cohort" of consumers. These customers "will let you make mistakes, help you scale, and be forgiving," he explains. Lackey agrees, describing early misses as "just another set of data points." Rooda of SwineTech laughs when he describes his initial approach to tackling the piglet crushing issue. "We had a really bad idea to start with," he says, explaining that it involved creating robotic piglets and conditioning sows to respond to their distress signals. Fortunately, he sought the advice of in-the-field experts. "We went back and met with potential customers and bounced ideas off them," says Rooda. Those conversations ultimately led the founders to the latest SmartGuard iteration, which uses a wearable monitor and gently alerts sows when their piglets are in peril, taking the animals' natural intelligence and ability to learn into account. Rooda and his team slogged through dozens of iterations to arrive at the final version, including one akin to training collars for dogs. "But surprisingly enough," says Rooda, "a dog collar was too strong for a pig. So we worked with Kansas State University to figure out what is the right stimulus." 5. Get flexible. Winners get creative when market conditions change. As an example, Greven cites Farmer's Fridge, a 2018 Rabobank FoodBytes! award winner that pioneered the concept of selling salads in jars from refrigerated vending machines, installing the units in office buildings and airports. The pandemic "could have really cratered a company like Farmer's Fridge," says Greven. "But within a month, they had completely retooled and used their processing facilities and their model to serve meals to frontline workers. The nimbleness—their ability to be flexible and to think about where their product was needed very quickly—has elevated them but also shown their ability to use their unique distribution model in a different way, which has worked for them." For Imperfect Foods, 2020 pivots allowed it to support "small producers who've been hit hard by the pandemic," according to Behn. "For example, we sourced snack trays destined for JetBlue flights, popcorn destined for movie theaters, granola destined for college cafeterias, and so much more." And in keeping with its socially conscious mission, Imperfect Foods piloted emergency response programs during the pandemic. The company partnered with Kroger's Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation to test a reduced-cost
Cambodia highlighted the importance of UXO survey and clearance to the relationship. In 2020, the Department of State supported the following implementing partners: Golden West Humanitarian Foundation (Golden West), in partnership with the RCAF, supported an explosive harvesting system. This project takes the explosive material from excess munitions in Cambodia's stockpiles and repurposes it for use in the demolition of landmines and UXO discovered by clearance organizations. The Halo Trust (HALO) continued to deploy clearance teams in some of the densest anti-personnel and anti-tank minefields in the K-5 mine belt in northwestern Cambodia. Landmine Relief Fund continued to support Cambodia Self Help Demining, an indigenous demining organization, as it conducted clearance and risk education in small villages in northwestern Cambodia. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) continued to operate throughout Cambodia, deploying survey and clearance teams and equipment in western Cambodia and cluster munition clearance assets in eastern Cambodia. MAG also continued its partnership with the Department of Defense Humanitarian Demining Research and Development Program (HD R&D) to perform technology testing through survey and clearance in Ratanakiri Province. Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) continued its partnership with the Cambodian Mine Action Center on survey and clearance in eastern Cambodia. NPA also deployed all-female clearance teams in Ratanakiri Province on Cluster Munitions Remnants Survey work. Spirit of Soccer delivered a final series of risk education instruction to primary school children by training youth soccer coaches, distributing risk education materials, and holding soccer tournaments to engage local populations. Eighty teachers successfully graduated from the program, which will allow them to continue teaching without further assistance. With funding from the Department of Defense, HD R&D technologies were used to clear 37.2 million square meters (9,192 acres) of land and 43,790 mines and items of UXO to date. HALO, MAG, and Golden West continued evaluating the Armored Remote-Control Chase Vehicle, Badger tracked excavator, Bearcat vegetation clearance system, Handheld Standoff Mine Detection System, Mini MineWolf tilling system, Nemesis and Rex tools, Piranha minefield area reduction and technical survey skid steer, Rambo demining team support vehicles, Scorpion UXO detection systems, Traxx remote area preparation platforms, the VMX10 UXO detector, and wet soil sifting excavator attachments. HALO began evaluating the Little Storm severe terrain area preparation and clearance system. U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC) partnered with the RCAF to conduct two HMA Train-the-Trainer (TTT) engagements in capacity building. MARFORPAC, in partnership with the Cambodia Mine Action Center, conducted one Pre-Deployment Site Survey, one Phase 1 EOD/Blast Trauma, one Phase II explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)/Blast Trauma, and one Phase III EOD/Blast Trauma HMA TTT engagement. Contamination from the Indochina Wars of the 1960s and 1970s left Laos with the world's highest level of unexploded submunitions. Cluster munitions account for the bulk of UXO contamination in Laos; however, other explosive remnants of war and landmines also contributed to contamination during the wars. Most of the country's 17 provinces are contaminated with UXO, much of which is of U.S. origin. Population growth and other socioeconomic factors have increased pressure to clear UXO-contaminated land for productive use. In September 2016, the United States committed to invest $90 million over a three-year period. The United States met this commitment in 2019 and has continued to match record-levels of funding with $37.5 million allocated for FY 2020. Additional funds will continue to support the first-ever comprehensive national UXO contamination survey focused on identifying cluster munition strike zones. Ongoing clearance, risk education, and survivors assistance efforts remain at sustained historic levels. From 1995 to 2020, the United States invested more than $270 million in CWD programs in Laos that supported survey and clearance activities, risk education, survivor assistance, and capacity development. In 2020, the Department of State supported the following implementing partners: The Halo Trust (HALO) deployed 20 teams to support large-scale survey in Savannakhet Province. Health Leadership International continued to provide a series of portable ultrasound, trauma care, and medical training for healthcare providers on post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide-prevention. This medical education and training significantly improved diagnostic capabilities and improved the overall competency of district-level medical personnel in UXO-affected districts. Tetra Tech partnered with UXO Lao on UXO survey and clearance efforts, and provided managerial and technical support to the National Regulatory Authority, which oversees all UXO-related activity in Laos. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) continued to deploy 20 teams to support survey and clearance activities in Xieng Khouang Province. Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) continued its Cluster Munitions Remnants Survey work in Champasak, Sekong, Salavan, and Attapeu Provinces through the deployment of 24 teams. Spirit of Soccer finished a project to provide risk education for schoolchildren through soccer activities in Xieng Khouang and Salavan Provinces. World Education, Inc. continued to support integrating risk education within the primary-school curriculum and development of a comprehensive case management system for UXO survivors in Xieng Khouang Province. World Education also continued to administer the War Victims Medical Fund, which ensures that victims of UXO incidents, and their families, can receive critical care and long-term support following an accident. USAID's Leahy War Victims Fund continued to support World Education, Inc. to improve and sustain the ability of people with disabilities to live and function independently. This assistance has benefitted UXO survivors, survivors of war, and people with disabilities who have mobility limitations. For further information on U.S.-Laos cooperation, visit; https://2017-2021.state.gov/special-report-u-s-conventional-weapons-destruction-in-laos/index.html Thirty years of conflict from World War II through the Vietnam War left much of Vietnam contaminated with UXO. The majority of this UXO is concentrated in provinces that adjoin the former Demilitarized Zone, including Quang Tri, Quang Binh, Ha Tinh, and Quang Nam Provinces. Parts of southern Vietnam and the country's northern border with China also remain contaminated with UXO and some landmines. U.S. support for the Vietnam National Mine Action Center (VNMAC), the Vietnamese government's lead for issues related to UXO and landmines, continued in 2020 with the provision of a technical advisor, support for the information management unit within VNMAC headquarters, and a technical survey pilot project in Hue Province. Supporting VNMAC's development will ensure Vietnam maintains the capacity to deal with residual UXO and landmine threats independent of U.S. assistance. The United States continued to fund large-scale survey and clearance work in Quang Tri in support of the provincial government's goal to become UXO-impact free by 2025. 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam. U.S. support for UXO survey and clearance continues to be an important pillar of our diplomatic engagement. Public events in 2020 highlighted the role UXO activities have played in improving the health, safety, and livelihoods of Vietnamese living in UXO-contaminated areas. From 1993 to 2020, the United States invested more than $166 million for CWD programs in Vietnam that cleared mines and UXO, provided MRE and survivor assistance, and supported national capacity development. While UXO remains a threat, no more landmines have been found in those areas where the United States has supported clearance since at least 2012. In 2020, the Department of State supported the following implementing partners: Catholic Relief Services completed its four-year project focused on risk education in primary and secondary schools. As a result of that project, the provincial government decided to include Explosive Ordnance Risk Education Integration Guidelines in the compulsory curriculum for all primary and secondary schools. The International Center-Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (IC-VVAF) finalized its project to develop the capacity of VNMAC and the executive office of the National Mine Action Program to plan, coordinate, and manage the program in Vietnam. The IC-VVAF program helped develop VNMAC leadership of the mine action sector. Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) continued to provide the survey component for a comprehensive survey and clearance project aimed at making Quang Tri safe from known UXO hazards through the deployment of 39 teams. NPA continued to support capacity development of VNMAC through provision of a technical advisor and establishment of an information management unit. Additionally, NPA supported VNMAC's development of technical skills through the adoption of evidenced-based survey procedures through a field pilot in Hue Province. Under this support, NPA trained 30 individuals and non-technical survey was completed in six communes. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) continued to provide survey and clearance for a project aimed at making Quang Tri safe from known UXO hazards. Additionally, funding from the United States enabled MAG to lead a consortium with NPA and PeaceTrees Vietnam to conduct survey and clearance operations in Quang Binh Province. PeaceTrees Vietnam continued to field EOD response teams and fund clearance operations along the heavily-
Visiting African Fellow at U. Cape Town, Fulbright Fellowship Grantee, Eminent Visiting Scholar at U. Western Sydney and has also won numerous publication awards, most recently the 2012 Most Outstanding Paper of the IEEE Transaction on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. He was also recently recognized as a ScienceMaker by the HistoryMakers, an African-American history archive. He has published over 220 peer reviewed article, 11 books/chapters and holds 10 patents/applications on his work. Safety and effectiveness of interventional medical procedures. Designing a complete MS CMOS-based system for image pre-processing, segmentation, tracking, and classification. Researchers are currently developing a system that can integrate more than 10,000 electrodes onto a small area on silicon probes. This research plan to investigate the trade-off that must occur to develop a safe and effective biotelemetry wireless link. Xiong T, Zhang J, Chin S, Tran TD, Etienne-Cummings R (2015). 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utterly destroy lower level players. "I created smurfs to play against lower ranks for memes and fun." "In all honesty, it was fun as hell smoking people who were new to the game." "I made a smurf account once on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive because I felt the need to just destroy silvers. I got mad when I was paired against other smurfs because I was toxic." The majority of players told me they simply use their alternate smurf accounts to play with friends who are lower-level than them. And that's why I do it, too. I initially bought a smurf account to see if I could place higher in Overwatch than my main account—to test if ELO hell is real. Nearly everyone—developers and players, professional and casual—has a different definition for what it is to smurf. And smurfing affects different games differently, making it hard to nail down when it's bad and when it's not. Still, I talked to people who make and play some of today's most popular online games, including League of Legends, Overwatch and Rainbow Six Siege, to give it a try. Why players smurf It was important to many of the 100 or so players who contacted me that their friends be able to play against others just learning the game too. A major grey area for smurfing is the practice of a higher-skilled player using a lower-level account so they can play with friends. Tom Gerbicz, a 25-year-old League of Legends player, said he created his first smurf a few years back so he could play with friends new to the game. "Given the notorious community and learning curve, I thought it would help them learn to play without the pressure of playing against higher-skilled players, while still allowing us to play together," Gerbicz said. He added that he never used the account in ranked play, playing as he normally would, but typically in a more supportive role to let his friends learn the game better. "The main distinction for me is, why are you playing at lower levels?" he said. "If it's for the kick of an easy victory, it's a different motivation entirely. I don't agree with smurfing just to stomp lower-skilled players, as it cheapens the experience for everyone involved." It was important to many of the 100 or so players who contacted me that their friends be able to play against others just learning the game too. But it's not only for altruistic reasons: the higher-skilled player using a smurf also ensures that their main account won't be affected by their lower-level friends weighing them down. Some people reached out to me and felt like smurfs were a waste of time. Why pay extra money just to preserve your ranking? But for a lot of players, those numbers matter. And having an extra account, whether it's to use to play with friends who aren't as good as you or just to play without extra pressure, can make a game feel less serious. And then it's less stressful. Allison Rossi, a 27-year-old diamond-level Overwatch player, has multiple accounts. Her two main accounts are ranked similarly, but reception from other players makes having separate accounts useful. "The benefit of a new account was that nobody was forcing me to play what heroes were technically my mains," Rossi said. "I no longer get comments like, 'Oh, you have X play time on this hero, so you have to play it. If you don't play your mains, you're throwing.'" Rossi said these assumptions based on her hero play time happened most on her main account when she used voice chat—players heard a woman's voice and made assumptions that she can only play supports. Another benefit, Rossi said, is that she's not ruining other people's games by trying out heroes she doesn't know how to play. Sure, she could jump into quick play, but Rossi said it's a "terrible" place to practice Overwatch. "There's no coordination, communication, or team building," Rossi said. "It's about picking whatever you want. How can I possibly learn to practice a newly-released hero in that environment?" Instead, she uses her lower-level practice account for trying out heroes in ranked games. Things are slightly different for professional players. "It's almost impossible for me to play [Rainbow Six Siege] without getting recognized, meaning my teammates will never shout at me or harass me, which I'm thankful for," said Rainbow Six Siege pro player Niclas "Pengu" Mouritzen, who plays for top Siege team G2 Esports. But the bad comes with the good: "My opponents often try extremely hard to beat me, which is a double-edged sword. I like a challenge, but I don't want the entire purpose and reward of the game to change simply because I'm in it. What about my teammates?" Anonymity also is an outlet for pro players to try out new heroes or strategies secretly. Pengu said that it was once common in games like League of Legends for pros to smurf to try out champions without airing their test runs to the world. Likewise, pros often use smurf accounts to try out the meta a few ranks down from the top—an interesting way to develop and learn from off-meta trends in other ranks. "Going a few ELO steps down to experience the 'off-meta' or lower ELO meta surely won't hurt and can be learned from in multiple games," Pengu said. "Often at the highest ranks, it's a very strict meta, [with players] being forced to do certain things simply because it's 'better.'" For most of us, anonymity isn't a problem. There's no one who wants to steal my gold-level strats. (But if any Overwatch League teams want to learn my solo Mei strategy, hit me up. It works.) No one notices when they're matched with me in-game—unless someone recognizes my brilliance from a previous game. ("Hey, aren't you the idiot who kept trying to lone wolf it with Mei last round?") But for professional players, the anonymity can ease some of the pressure of public life on the ladder. How developers deal with smurfing Not all developers are taking the same approach when it comes to dealing with smurfing. In Overwatch, Blizzard doesn't consider smurfing inherently bad. It only becomes a punishable offense when a smurf account is used to do things that are against the rules, like boosting or throwing. Whether it's against the rules or not smurfing is hard to prove, which makes it a grey area for many. Game director Jeff Kaplan wrote in 2017 that there's a bad perception of smurfing, but in reality, it wasn't really an issue in Overwatch. Kaplan defined smurfing as "an experienced player buying a second account to reset their account progress and internal matchmaking rating." "For example, a few weeks ago one of the pro Overwatch players created a smurf account and was streaming from it," Kaplan wrote. "We were able to watch his MMR internally and compare it against his'main' account. Within 15 games, the MMRs were equal. I know there is a very bad perception of smurfing. But the reality is [that] skilled players are moved rapidly out of lower skill situations." In Overwatch's case, a smurf mainly becomes problematic when it's used to do things that are against the rules. Say, a high-leveled player throws games to keep the MMR low on a smurf account so they can keep crushing low-level players. Or they go on a rampage with a fresh account to boost lower-skilled players into higher tiers. Other studios aren't as forgiving. Rocket League developer Psyonix has listed smurfing as cheating in a 2016 banning policy notice posted on its website and it is something players can report in-game. "The length of player bans for any valid reason is also at our discretion and could include permanent bans if appropriate," Psyonix wrote. "Furthermore, the more often you are banned, the longer each subsequent ban will be, including an eventual permanent ban." Players on the game's Steam forum, still, are confused whether it's against the rules or not—smurfing is hard to prove, which makes it a grey area for many. Psyonix declined to be interviewed for this article. Riot Games has been more explicit in not endorsing smurfing in its game, but hasn't banned the practice altogether, either. League of Legends lead meta game systems designer Ed Altorfer says that smurfs are defined as something "you're doing whenever you create a second (or third, or fourth) account to play on." Altorfer said that only a minority of players use smurf accounts to "stomp low skill games or grief without repercussions," and that there are plenty of good reasons to create a smurf, including trying out new champions or being nostalgic for the early progression of the game. Like in Overwatch, playing with lower-level friends is another reason people make smurfs in League of Legends. League of Legends restricts low level players from playing with higher level accounts. Accounts are free, so making a new one is painless. "Regardless of the reasons for smurfing, my opinion is that overall it makes the experience worse for other players," Altorfer said. "In a competitive game like League,
. I showed that baseline, circulating cortisol levels in northern (Glaucomys sabrinus) and southern (G. volans) flying squirrels are some of the highest ever reported for mammals, indicating that their stress axes operate at a higher set point than most other species. I also assessed other aspects of their acute stress response, including free fatty acid and blood glucose levels, and indices of immune function, and showed that the flying squirrels' physiological reaction to stressors may differ from that of other mammals. Using immunoblotting, I found that corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG) expression levels in flying squirrels appeared to be higher than previously reported using alternative methods. I also concluded however, that these levels did not appear to be high enough to provide their tissues with the protective CBG-bound buffer from their high circulating cortisol concentrations experienced by the majority of vertebrates. Thus, this arm of cortisol regulation within the flying squirrel stress axes may be weak or non-existent. Following this, I focused on southern flying squirrels and showed evidence that the second arm of cortisol regulation — the negative feedback mechanism at the level of the brain — functions effectively, but that this species is glucocorticoid resistant. Their tissue receptors appear to have a reduced affinity for cortisol, and this affinity may change seasonally to allow for the onset of other biological processes required for survival and reproduction. Due to their distinctive stress physiology, northern and southern flying squirrels may provide comparative physiologists with model systems for further probing of the function and evolution of the stress axis among vertebrates. Author Keywords: corticosteroid-binding globulin, flying squirrel, Glaucomys, glucocorticoids, physiological ecology, stress physiology Habitat Characteristics, Density Patterns and Environmental Niches of Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins (Sousa chinensis) of the Pearl River Estuary and Eastern Taiwan Strait The purpose of this thesis is to quantify the habitat characteristics, density patterns and environmental niches of two groups of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins: Chinese white dolphins (CWD) of the Pearl River estuary (PRE), and Taiwanese white dolphins (TWD, =Taiwanese humpback dolphin, THD) found in the eastern Taiwan Strait (ETS). Much work has already been done on the habitat use of CWDs in parts of the PRE, so the purpose of my first two chapters was to advance knowledge of the TWD to a comparable level. Chapter 2 contains the first published description of the relatively shallow, inshore, estuarine habitat of the TWD. General environmental characteristics and observed group sizes were consistent with other populations of humpback dolphins, and group sizes were not correlated with the environmental variables measured during surveys. Chapter 3 investigated density patterns of TWDs, finding spatiotemporal heterogeneity across the study area. Humpback dolphin densities fluctuated from year to year, but some parts of the study area were consistently used more than others. Environmental characteristics again did not influence dolphin densities, though more dolphins than expected were sighted in waters adjacent to major land reclamations, which may be related to the location of these areas close to major rivers. In Chapter 4, niches of the TWD and CWDs found in the PRE were compared using species distribution models, which indicated significant niche overlap. This may be due to niche conservatism maintaining similar fundamental niches between the two groups since their historical split >10,000 years ago, or a result of the intrinsic biotic factors that influence occurrence data affecting the hypervolume dimensions of each realized niche in similar ways. Geographic predictions indicate that most of the TWD's range has likely been surveyed, and that there may be connectivity between PRE humpback dolphins and at least one neighbouring putative population due to continuous predicted suitable habitat in waters that remain poorly surveyed. Overall, my thesis demonstrates that density patterns may vary over time, but on a broad temporal scale, these two allopatric groups of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins have similar habitat requirements in geographically isolated, but environmentally similar locations. Author Keywords: density, habitat, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, niche overlap, Sousa chinensis, species distribution model Understanding Angler Dynamics in a Recreational Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Fishery in Algonquin Provincial Park Using Long-Term Access Creel Data In order to effectively manage recreational fisheries, it is important to understand how the resource is being used. In this thesis, long-term creel census data, collected on Lake Opeongo in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada was used to assess fine-scale angler dynamics within a recreational Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) fishery. The spatial distribution of angler reported catch locations of Lake Trout within the lake, was assessed using an Optimized Hotspot Analysis in ArcGIS. Areas of significant clustering of catch locations were revealed during all time periods and varied in size and location both seasonally and temporally. Cormack-Jolly-Seber models were used to evaluate the probability of individual angling boats persisting in the regional fishery and being detected on Lake Opeongo through time, as well as to examine the effect of angler travel distance and gas prices on participation parameters. Time-varying models revealed that the probability of an angler persisting in the fishery varied, while detection estimates remained stable. Travel distance had a negative effect on both parameters while increased gas prices only had a slight negative effect on detection estimates. Additionally, among Lake Opeongo anglers, angling avidity varied as did lake specific fishing experience. Average CUE was found to be higher among angling parties who visited the lake more often than fishing parties who visited relatively few times. Author Keywords: effects of particulate matter on the fate and toxicity of silver nanoparticles As an emerging contaminant, the antimicrobial agent silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been receiving considerable attention to determine their potential effects to aquatic ecosystems. However, estimates of aquatic consumer survivorship and other toxicological endpoints vary considerably among experiments, largely due to the environment in which the test takes place. Throughout this thesis I aim to understand which natural environmental variables impact toxicity to the common aquatic consumer Daphnia. I focus on the effects of particulate matter as it may play a role in animal nutrition as well as interact with AgNPs. I explore particulate matter's effect on survival in the complex matrices including other natural variables that could impact toxicity. I conduct a series of complimentary field and laboratory studies to understand how particles impact AgNP toxicity and how those interactions vary within whole lake ecosystems. Using laboratory studies, I establish that algal particles mitigate the toxic effects of AgNPs on Daphnia survival through removing Ag from the water column and that phosphorus increases this effect. Using wild Daphnia and lake water, I demonstrate the ability of particulate matter to mitigate toxicity in complex natural settings. It was also one of the major predictors of AgNP toxicity to Daphnia along with dissolved organic carbon and daphnid seasonal health. Finally, using a whole lake AgNP addition experiment, I demonstrate that particles and AgNPs interact variably in the lake. Silver from AgNPs binds to particles and is removed to the sediments through the actions of settling particles without impacting the dynamics of living communities. Overall, I am able to demonstrate that the natural components of lake ecosystems, especially particulate matter, are able to mitigate the effects of AgNPs in lake ecosystems to a point where they likely will be never pose a threat to the survivorship of aquatic consumers such as Daphnia. Author Keywords: Daphnia, ecotoxicity, particulate matter, Silver nanoparticles, whole lake experiment Detectability and its role in understanding upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) occurence in the fragmented landscape of southern Ontario Upland Sandpipers (Bartramia longicauda), like many grassland birds, are undergoing population decline in parts of their range. Habitat fragmentation and change have been hypothesized as potential causes of decline. I used citizen-science occurrence data from Wildlife Preservation Canada's Adopt-A-Shrike Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) program in conjunction with validation surveys, using similar point-count methods, to examine detectability and determine if landscape level habitat features could predict occupancy of Upland Sandpipers in Southern Ontario. In a single season detectability study, I used Wildlife Preservation Canada's survey protocol to determine detectability in sites that were known to be occupied. Detectability was low, with six surveys necessary to ensure detection using a duration of at least 18 minutes early in the breeding season. The proportion of open habitat did not affect detection on the landscape. Using a larger spatial and temporal scale, with five years of citizen-science data, I showed that Annual Crop Inventory data could not effectively predict Upland Sandpiper occupancy. Model uncertainty could be attributed to survey protocol and life history traits of the Upland Sandpiper, suggesting that appropriate survey methods be derived a priori for maximizing the potential of citizen-science data for robust analyses. Author Keywords: Bartramia longicauda, citizen-science, detection, landscape, occupancy, Ontario Population cycles are regular fluctuations in population densities, however, in recent years many cycles have begun to disappear. With Canada lynx this dampening has also been seen with decreasing latitude corresponding to an increase in prey diversity. My study investigates the role of alternate prey on the stability of the lynx-hare cycle by first comparing the functional responses of two sympatric but ecologically distinct predators on a primary and alternate prey. I then populated a three species predator-prey model to investigate the role of alternate prey on population stability. My results showed that alternate prey can promote stability, though they are unlikely to "stop the cycle". Furthermore, stability offered by
script Soon(TM) so that you can automatically install a powerful recovery on your device's NAND instead of wasting it with a dead firmware the new uboot cannot use. -write the uimage of your device in the kernel partition on flash. -write the rootfs image in a suitably large nand partition. -change the name of the mtdpart where you flash the rootfs to "rootfs". -write the envs to boot this recovery system in your uboot. here the "nand0" is the NAND chip onboard, and "nand0,7" is like saying mtd7, or whatever hex offsets the partition sits in and none really feels like figuring out on this side. Adjust that to fit the partition you flash the kernel image into. No webinterface is available, only way to connect is through ssh. user is "root", password is empty or "". Let the device settle for 5 minutes after booting and trying to connect with ssh (if you don't have serial connection), or if you see serial output wait until there is a long message that says "jffs2 created successully with 0 errors" before pressing return and activating the serial console. This happens only on first boot as it needs to generate the read-write partition. If someone is wondering why this hacking around the mtdparts, it's because LEDE firmware's kernel looks for partitions called "rootfs" or "rootfs_data" and acts on them automatically. In our case it splits on its own the "rootfs" partition in a first part with a squashfs filesystem and the rest of the space becomes another mtd partition where it creates a jffs2 (read-write) filesystem that then mounts as overlay on the squashfs (so you can write anywhere, and you can easily reset to defaults by erasing the jffs2 partition). This system allows them to hard-code mtdparts in the dtb file so their kernel will ignore what uboot gives them, and their rootfs will be able to occupy the whole flash space instead of using only a pre-made mtd partition and wasting most of the NAND. For this recovery system and for kirkwoods in general it's not that necessary, so I just rename an existing mtd partition in the kernel command line I send from uboot and call it a day. I provide also "sources" and some instructions in the package so you can build the same on your own if you grab the LEDE sources from their git. (for the sake of openness). EDIT: Now with fixed download link. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/2017 08:13AM by bobafetthotmail. > line I send from uboot and call it a day. Yes. This is the way to do it. People hard code the mtdparts in DTS because they think that should be default. But we are customizing u-boot and rootfs, that would be a limitation. > and rootfs, that would be a limitation. Well, I didn't do that because I'm not going to modify like 20 dts with custom mtdparts figuring out myself the hex offsets of things (assuming I know what are the stock mtdparts at all, and I don't, and I don't feel like wasting another week tracking down that info) while I have very easy access to bootloader settings through the script, and the bootloader is friendly and powerful as u-boot usually is. LEDE does not usually have access to bootloader configuration when installing through the stock firmware, and even if they do they prefer not risking a softbrick. I can see why stock firmwares would do the same. In case they decide to change on-flash partitions they only need to change dts and push a firmware update, without touching the bootloader. As long as the kernel image is in the same place (usually just after uboot and wifi calibration firmware), it will still boot fine. > I can see why stock firmwares would do the same. > it will still boot fine. Right. They only deal with one box. So they just need to replace uImage. Outstanding project. Thank you for highlighting this fantastic distribution in this project. I look forward to installing, using and exploring. If their firewall allows that to happen (on Windows/OSX should work fine as both are heavy users of similar systems), my OpenSUSE's firewall required me to set internal interfaces first before It let me connect. in my own testing version I've also added a new user with root privileges, "recovery". This user is special as its default shell is a script and not a shell. This allows me to integrate in the recovery a script to deal with the most common use-cases (filesystem check, update uboot/recovery, make a new rootfs with latest rootfs/kernel, maybe make a RAID setup too). root account is of course preserved because I'd like to not lock advanced users out of the recovery. > It's a custom-built LEDE/OpenWRT firmware. > use more if available and allows writing on it). I suppose this is based on the new image generation that abandons the uImage kernel file. > > It's a custom-built LEDE/OpenWRT firmware. > generation that abandons the uImage kernel file. nope. Kirkwoods are still using uImages like most other devices. file does not exist.please upload again. Can someone re-upload this please?! Dropbox updated the way they let their users share stuff so old links became invalid. I got it to work on my pogoplug V4. Many thanks! Is this the right way to do this?! Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/2017 11:03AM by protocold. Yes, on first start the LEDE firmware splits the original rootfs partition into two partitions. All space not occupied by the squashfs (read-only root) will become rootfs_data which is read-write. I have a pogo v4 that I was going to install this rescue on. I have run into something that is stopping me. I first setup mtdparts to include a kernel and rootfs. Reboot. Verify the mtd looks good then I did this. Input file is not page-aligned. Use the padding option. Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2017 02:15PM by umd. I'm pretty sure you should not use the "-n", that option is used to flash special dumps of flash that have ECC info in them already. The uimage is just a plain file, so it must be written with flash ecc enabled. I think you should not need the "-b 1" option too. the error is saying to use padding option, which is "-p" Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2017 02:45PM by bobafetthotmail. Yep! That was it. When I started looking at what some of those other parameters were, -n stuck out as a culprit. I just kept the -p and eliminated the other variables and it booted right up. Thanks for your help and by the way, nice work on the project. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2017 03:04PM by umd. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/17/2017 02:59PM by bodhi. I am having pogoplug pro v3 OXNAS wifi model running Debian (USB Boot) with bodhi's U-Boot. also on NAND i installed OpenWRT 15.05 using http://blog.qnology.com/2015/04/openwrt-on-pogoplug-v3oxnas-proclassic.html method. The problem is that this version of OpenWRT doesnot having latest kernel. and when i enable WiFi RT3090 / AR9285 / USB AR9271. the whole system hangup, then i i have to remove the wifi drivers. i am also having TP-LINK MR3020 v1, Running LEDE 17.01.04, USB AR9271 wifi dongle and inbuilt wifi AR9331 works very well. So i wanted to install LEDE 17.01.04 on PogoPlug Pro Wifi Model. Because Openwrt method requires these files. You must use pogoplug-pro-uImage instead of lede-kirkwood-dockstar-initramfs-uImage and pogoplug-pro-ubifs-sysupgrade.tar for the sysupgrade. Method A. flash the LEDE uImage(lede-17.01.4-oxnas-pogoplug-v3-uImage) and rootfs from within Debian right? Method B. or follow the instruction in http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?4,34842,34876#msg-34876? How do I partition the nand to have kernel and rootfs partition? By changing the /etc/fw_env.config and reboot? or set the mtdparts in env? then flash it to the rootfs partition? Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/2018 05:16PM by rynax. Will this rescue system work on Zyxel NSA320? I've installed the last
Woman. Naturally, Victorian lit of the het cis sane (main character only, which means no Bertha Mason) and white variety is rather slim pickings for such a topic, but I may as well start in a place that will be useful for grad school and, for all my commitments to works beyond the pale, still manages to impress. There's also the matter that with these works, unlike Beloved and Almanac of the Dead, I'm not out of my league in terms of consorting of the academic type. In any case, I'm in the last leg of my undergrad career (amazingly enough), and I might as well make the most of it, serious writing wise. The plot for this, and in many ways the narrative construction, are ridiculous. So are the ones for Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, for that matter, and casting back I remember more strongly pronounced disbelief in reaction to other specimens of this era's lit, a smidge when it came to North and South and utter hilarity in the case of Great Expectations. Reason and rationality, then, are not what classrooms all over this postcolonial dynamic of a world of ours come back to these for again, and again, and again. Narratologicaly speaking, one would have an easy time of characterizing this as poorly constructed trash, (which has most assuredly been done time and time again from the moment it was published and at an even more accelerated pace when it was discovered that a woman held the pen) so what is it? What made it so that, almost exactly a year after I finished work this under my own power, I was assigned it as a part and parcel of the culminating class of my degree, not as mere excerpt or memorized recitation but member of trifecta? I'd give anything for this work to age badly, I really would. The microaggressions it contains are factors neither of racism nor ableism, and the classism is more internalized than anything else, but boil them down to a fundamental level and this is fear in a handful of dust. You're merchandise, so don't complain about never having it all. You're vulnerable, so god forbid you're ever given a choice. That lack of thing between your legs dictates all from a plethora of targeted slurs to the socioeconomics of your legal right to being human, so if you want justice for rape or humanization of rape: prove it. The alienation by social mechanisms of the breaking of faith and the subversion of civilized conduct is subtle and systemic enough to merit a paper, which is exactly what I'm going to do. This, however, is not only for the centerpiece of Helen Graham's diary, but for the flanked outposts of male narrator/male narrator, a voice that develops without word during the midst of hers that, proof upon proof, outlet upon outlet, paints this boy a picture of exactly what he has committed and how he could yet turn out. So long as monsters continue to think themselves the everyman and the everyman insures the status quo, there will always be a need for the writing kith and kin of Anne Brontë. Theoretical academic constructs allow for amused and gratified reflection of the final stages of this work in comparison to Pride and Prejudice's Pemberley scene, as well as surprisingly vast class discussions on matters of nipples, children as social construct, and how in the US once a man starts stalking you he, for all practical legal matters, owns you until death do you part. I'm a tad under the weather, so if I've wandered off any more than usual through the duration of this, blame it on that. In any case, you've my previous year's effort as an example of a more focused endeavor. If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good. --- 4/18/15 Review 4.9/5 I would not send a poor girl into the world unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power, or the will, to watch and guard herself; —and as for my son — if I thought he would grow up to be what you call a man of the world — one that has "seen life," and glories in his experience, even though he should so far profit by it, as to sober down, at length, into a useful and respected member of society — I would rather that he died to-morrow! — rather a thousand times! I have an abiding interest in the rituals by which human beings stave off the decision of killing themselves. Morbid, perhaps, but there's no use in beating around the bush when it comes to the earthly fear of hell or the continued existence of hell on earth. This is, of course, all very Christianity-centric, and my Catholic upbringing has only prepared me for a few works here and there that cleave so insistently to the European vein of Testaments. While I wait for others of a different theological bent to give their views on how well this Bible-laden work deals with suffusions of duty, guilt, and the fight or flight of the socially-ground soul, I will satisfy myself with a familiar spiritual footing. Different as the many religions may be, Protestantism's not the only one that condemns the taking of one's own life. What he would be, if I did not so watchfully anticipate his wants, and so carefully avoid, or immediately desist from, doing anything that has a tendency to irritate or disturb him, with however little reason, I cannot tell. I may not have given this work the full fathom five, but I can tell you this: Anne Brontë does not fuck around. The Golden Notebook and The Piano Teacher may be more incisively brutal in their own respective right, but it was The Tenant of Wildfell Hall that refused to flinch first. I choose other privileged-white-woman narratives to fill the ranks not out of lack of experience with other physiognomical-specific vivisections, but so as to not belittle said latter. Clipped as Helen's wings are, never does she face the prospect of selling her body for food in a far blunter manner than her marriage contract allows for. Do not, however, interpret this as a scoffing at the abuse that is afforded by said contract: what doesn't kill you breaks you for life. Well then, Arthur, how can you call it nothing — an offence for which you would think yourself justified in blowing another man's brains out? Alongside the themes of religion and marriage in early 19th century England, there is the matter of the intersection of gender and violence. Rather than indulge in the usual lazy stereotypes of the bitchy woman and the manhandling man, this work affords a glimpse at how these traits are developed for means of survival. Gentrified as the plot of this story may be, the social norm of reputation is shown to be a powerful force indeed when it comes to enforced isolation of both well-off genders. Everyone is allowed to play when all is fine and well, a promise coupled with the slightest misstep guaranteed to be met with a variation on the theme of a caved-in skull. The power plays by which Helen is bound to Huntington's abode have a whiff of The Metamorphosis about them, for what's the form of a woman who will not cooperate with house-bound benefactors? 'I am satisfied,' he replied, with bitter emphasis, 'that you are the most cold-hearted, unnatural, ungrateful woman I ever yet beheld!' 'Ungrateful, sir?' 'Ungrateful.' 'No, Mr. Hargrave; I am not. For all the good you ever did me, or ever wished to do, I most sincerely thank you: for all the evil you have done me, and all you would have done. I pray God to pardon you, and make you of a better mind.' Comprehensive as Anne's vision is, I have to wonder whether her continued violation of Helen's confidence for the sake of tying the narrative together was a matter of a writer's inexperience or a commentary on the ubiquity of a woman's lot in life. In terms of Gilbert Markham, when one considers his first person narration and those few ripped out pages of Helen's diary, whether he is a true good or a mere lesser evil will never be riddled out to my satisfaction. Michael – May 10, 2013 Although this work does not have the time-tested mythic qualities of the two masterpieces penned by her famous sisters ("Jane Eyre" and "Wurthering Heights"), Anne Bronte has given us a brilliant novel with a mysterious protagonist that raises some compelling issues about a woman's rights to gain control of her life in 19th century rural England. It is the first half of the 19th century in a provincial rural hamlet. News comes of a widow with a small child who has let rooms in a dilapidated old Although this work does not have the time-tested mythic qualities of the two masterpieces penned by her famous sisters ("Jane Eyre" and "Wurthering Heights"), Anne Bronte has given us a brilliant novel with a mysterious protagonist that raises some compelling issues about a woman's rights to gain control of her life in 19th century rural England. It is the first half of the 19th century in a provincial rural hamlet. News comes of a widow with a small child who has let rooms in a dilapidated old mansion on the outskirts of the community. This immediately arouses the curiosity of the local gentry and they begin to reach out to her as good neighbors will. The
persons either employed by Landlord or engaged as independent contractors in performing or managing the services related to the Real Estate, and such other typical items of expense as indicated in Subsection (d) below. If any person or independent contractor is employed with respect to more properties than the Real Estate, the wages, salaries or fees paid therefor shall be allocated based on time spent by such person or Contractor on matters relating to the Real Estate or the degree of responsibility for the Real Estate compared to the other properties involved. Landlord shall not be entitled to any profit or mark-up on Building Operating Costs. (d) Some of the typical items of expense which comprise or may comprise the Building Operating Costs are or may be the following, but only to the extent that they relate solely or are properly allocated to the Real Estate: (i) Repairs and maintenance; (ii) Utility costs (including meter reading and certification service fees), including but not limited to the cost of electricity to power HVAC units and to heat the Building (both Tenant premises and Common Area) and to light the Common Area; (iii) Cleaning costs, including but not limited to windows, tenant premises and Common Areas; (iv) Service contracts including but not limited to elevator, HVAC, janitorial and window cleaning, rubbish removal, exterminating and towel service; (v) Costs of landscaping and snow removal; (vi) [Intentionally omitted]; (vii) Wages, salaries and other compensation, including taxes, insurance, retirement, fringe benefits, uniforms payable to employees performing services related to the Real Estate, but only for employees at or below the level of property manager; (viii) Reasonable fees and other compensation payable to independent contractors or other agents of Landlord performing services related to the Real Estate; (ix) Cost of Landlord's insurance, including but not limited to, fire and extended coverage, public liability and property, rental value insurance (including Base Rent, estimated Tax Increase Amount and estimated Operating Increase Amount), elevator, worker's compensation, boiler and machinery insurance; (x) Reasonable auditing, accounting, attorneys' and consultants' fees and disbursements incurred in connection with the maintenance and operation of the Real Estate (it being agreed that in no event shall the total amount of attorney's fees included in Building Operating Costs exceed $5,000 during any Operating Year); (xi) A reasonable management fee to compensate Landlord for management services, if Landlord, its employees, agents or servants, perform same, or reasonable and customary fees for management services provided by an independent management company; provided that any such management fees shall be comparable to management fees charged by landlords of office space of comparable quality, design and location in the Berkeley Heights area (which shall include the Route 78 corridor from Berkeley Heights to Basking Ridge); (xii) Any other expenses of any kind whatsoever reasonably incurred in managing, operating, maintaining and repairing the Real Estate; (xiii) The cost, if any, of non‑Tenant area capital improvements installed by Landlord after the completion of the Building as amortized over the useful life of such improvements, with only the annual amortized amount attributable to any Operating Year to be included in the Building Operating Costs for that Operating Year, but only (i) to the extent such capital improvements are reasonably expected to reduce Building Operating Costs or (ii) if such capital improvements must be incurred to comply with newly enacted laws; and (xiv) The costs, charges and expenses, if any, incurred by Landlord in connection with any change of any company providing electric service to the Real Estate, including, without limitation, maintenance, repair, installation, and service costs associated therewith. (e) The term "Building Operating Costs" shall not include or be deemed or construed to include: (i) Costs incurred in connection with the construction of the Building or the initial development of the Real Estate; (ii) Costs for which Landlord is reimbursed by its insurer, any tenant's insurer or any tenant; (iii) Costs attributable to leasing of and improvements to the premises of other tenants in the Building; (iv) Costs, expenses or expenditures relating to the duties, liabilities or obligations of other tenants in the Building; (v) Interest, principal or other payments on mortgages or other debt costs, if any; (vi) Depreciation on the Building; (vii) Taxes; (viii) Leasing commissions; (ix) Costs which are paid directly by any tenant; (x) Costs or expenses for sculptures, paintings, or other works of art, including costs incurred with respect to the purchase, ownership, leasing, and/or repair of such works of art (other than ordinary maintenance); (xi) Legal fees incurred in connection with disputes between Landlord and any tenant of the Building; (xii) Any capital improvements, other than as specifically set forth in Section 5.03(d) hereof; (xiii) Any costs incurred to cleanup, contain, abate, remove or otherwise remedy Hazardous Materials or asbestos containing materials from the Building, the Common Area or the Land; and (xiv) The cost of correcting defects in the original construction of the Building or the initial development of the Real Estate (repairs resulting from ordinary wear and tear shall not be deemed to be defects), except in each case to the extent Building Operating Costs are otherwise reduced thereby, in which case and to the extent only such items shall be included in Building Operating Costs until their aggregate cost is recouped. (f) Landlord and Tenant agree that with respect to all Building Operating Costs, the actual costs thereof for the First Operating Year and for each Operating Year thereafter shall be adjusted to reflect all Building Operating Costs for a full year. Landlord and Tenant further agree that in the event occupancy in the Building during the First Operating Year or any Operating Year thereafter is less than ninety five percent (95%), then Building Operating Costs for the First Operating Year or any other Operating Year, as applicable, shall be "grossed up" to the amount of Building Operating Costs that, using Landlord's reasonable projections, would normally be expected to be incurred during the First Operating Year or other Operating Year, as applicable, if the Building were ninety five percent (95%) occupied during such First Operating Year or other Operating Year. In the event of any gross-up, Landlord shall provide a detailed statement setting forth Landlord's calculations for the same. (g) Tenant's obligations for payment of Building Operating Costs during the Term shall survive the expiration or early termination of this Lease for costs incurred during the Term. (h) The amounts due with respect to any Operating Year pursuant to Sections 5.02 and 5.03 of this Lease shall be aggregated or netted, as applicable, so that only one payment is made, if any, with respect to such amounts. Section 5.04. Payment of Rent: (a) Rent shall be paid without notice, demand, counterclaim, offset, deduction, defense, or, except as expressly provided herein, abatement. (b) Unless otherwise directed by Landlord to Tenant in writing, all Rent payable under this Lease shall be payable to Landlord by check, ACH payment or wire transfer in immediately available funds in U.S. Dollars, to the following account: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 190 River Road, Summit, NJ 07901, Attn: Ms. Kathy Murphy, Senior Vice President; ABA: 121000248; For Credit to the A/C of: The Connell Company; Account Number: 2000010817252. (c) If Tenant shall fail to pay any Tax Increase Amount, Operating Increase Amount, Extra Taxes, or any other charges payable hereunder, whether or not the same are called Rent, Landlord shall have all remedies provided for in the Lease or at law as in the case of nonpayment of Base Rent. Tenant's obligations (accruing during the Term) under Article V and Article XXI hereof shall survive the expiration or earlier termination of this Lease. (a) The sum set forth in Section 1.04, which Tenant is required to deposit with Landlord, is security for the full and faithful performance by Tenant of all of its obligations under this Lease or in connection with this Lease. If an Event of Default (as herein defined) has occurred, Landlord may use, apply or retain the whole or any part of the Security Deposit for the payment of (i) Rent or any other sums of money which Tenant may not have paid or which may become due after the occurrence of the Event of Default; (ii) any sum expended by Landlord on Tenant's behalf in accordance with the provisions of this Lease; or (iii) any sum which Landlord may expend or be required to expend by reason of such Event of Default, including any damages or deficiency in the re-letting of the Demised Premises in connection with Article XVI hereof. In the case of every such application, or retention during the Lease Term, Tenant shall, on demand, pay to Landlord a sum equal to that so applied or retained, which shall be added to the Security Deposit so that the same shall be restored to its original amount. Landlord may use, apply or retain the whole or any part of the Security Deposit for the repair of damage to the Demised Premises upon Tenant's surrender of the Demised Premises on Expiration Date. The use, application or retention of the Security Deposit or portion thereof by Landlord shall not prevent Landlord from exercising any other right or remedy provided for hereunder or at law shall not operate as a limitation on any recovery to
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77109) - \|\| 2001 DE73 \|\| 19 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77110) - \|\| 2001 DG73 \|\| 19 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77111) - \|\| 2001 DT73 \|\| 19 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77112) - \|\| 2001 DK74 \|\| 19 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77113) - \|\| 2001 DU74 \|\| 19 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77114) - \|\| 2001 DJ75 \|\| 20 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77115) - \|\| 2001 DK75 \|\| 20 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77116) - \|\| 2001 DO75 \|\| 20 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77117) - \|\| 2001 DP76 \|\| 20 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77118) - \|\| 2001 DB79 \|\| 16 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77119) - \|\| 2001 DB81 \|\| 26 februari 2001 \|\| Oizumi \|\| T. Kobayashi \|- \| (77120) - \|\| 2001 DL81 \|\| 26 februari 2001 \|\| Oizumi \|\| T. Kobayashi \|- \| (77121) - \|\| 2001 DD88 \|\| 24 februari 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77122) - \|\| 2001 DF88 \|\| 24 februari 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77123) - \|\| 2001 DX88 \|\| 27 februari 2001 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|- \| (77124) - \|\| 2001 DA89 \|\| 27 februari 2001 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|- \| (77125) - \|\| 2001 DC89 \|\| 27 februari 2001 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|- \| (77126) - \|\| 2001 DX90 \|\| 21 februari 2001 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|- \| (77127) - \|\| 2001 DJ93 \|\| 19 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77128) - \|\| 2001 DA95 \|\| 19 februari 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77129) - \|\| 2001 DX97 \|\| 17 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77130) - \|\| 2001 DG99 \|\| 17 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77131) - \|\| 2001 DK99 \|\| 17 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77132) - \|\| 2001 DL101 \|\| 16 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77133) - \|\| 2001 DM101 \|\| 16 februari 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77134) - \|\| 2001 DX102 \|\| 16 februari 2001 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|- \| (77135) - \|\| 2001 DT103 \|\| 16 februari 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77136) Mendillo \|\| 2001 DP106 \|\| 26 februari 2001 \|\| Cima Ekar \|\| Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey \|- \| (77137) - \|\| 2001 DQ107 \|\| 20 februari 2001 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|- \| (77138) Puiching \|\| 2001 EN \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Desert Beaver \|\| W. K. Y. Yeung \|- \| (77139) - \|\| 2001 EY \|\| 1 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77140) - \|\| 2001 EC1 \|\| 1 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77141) - \|\| 2001 ES1 \|\| 1 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77142) - \|\| 2001 EC2 \|\| 1 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77143) - \|\| 2001 EN3 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77144) - \|\| 2001 EC5 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77145) - \|\| 2001 ES5 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77146) - \|\| 2001 EC6 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77147) - \|\| 2001 EV6 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77148) - \|\| 2001 EF7 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77149) - \|\| 2001 ER7 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77150) - \|\| 2001 EL8 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77151) - \|\| 2001 ER8 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77152) - \|\| 2001 EX8 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77153) - \|\| 2001 EZ8 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77154) - \|\| 2001 EO9 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77155) - \|\| 2001 ES10 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Desert Beaver \|\| W. K. Y. Yeung \|- \| (77156) - \|\| 2001 EE11 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77157) - \|\| 2001 EJ11 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77158) - \|\| 2001 EN15 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Prescott \|\| P. G. Comba \|- \| (77159) - \|\| 2001 ED16 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Marxuquera \|\| Marxuquera \|- \| (77160) - \|\| 2001 EK18 \|\| 13 maart 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77161) - \|\| 2001 EY18 \|\| 14 maart 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77162) - \|\| 2001 EL19 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77163) - \|\| 2001 EM19 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77164) - \|\| 2001 ER19 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77165) - \|\| 2001 ES19 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77166) - \|\| 2001 EV19 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Needville \|\| Needville \|- \| (77167) - \|\| 2001 EB20 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77168) - \|\| 2001 EK22 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77169) - \|\| 2001 ER22 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|- \| (77170) - \|\| 2001 EK23 \|\| 15 maart 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77171) - \|\| 2001 EN24 \|\| 4 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77172) - \|\| 2001 EF25 \|\| 14 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77173) - \|\| 2001 ED26 \|\| 2 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|- \| (77174) - \|\| 2001 FW \|\| 17 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77175) - \|\| 2001 FP1 \|\| 19 maart 2001 \|\| Reedy Creek \|\| J. Broughton \|- \| (77176) - \|\| 2001 FU1 \|\| 16 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77177) - \|\| 2001 FD2 \|\| 16 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77178) - \|\| 2001 FH3 \|\| 18 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77179) - \|\| 2001 FV4 \|\| 19 maart 2001 \|\| Prescott \|\| P. G. Comba \|- \| (77180) - \|\| 2001 FA5 \|\| 19 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77181) - \|\| 2001 FL6 \|\| 16 maart 2001 \|\| Needville \|\| Needville \|- \| (77182) - \|\| 2001 FM8 \|\| 18 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77183) - \|\| 2001 FS8 \|\| 18 maart 2001 \|\| Socorro \|\| LINEAR \|- \| (77184) - \|\| 2001 FD9 \|\| 20 maart 2001 \|\| Haleakala \|\| NEAT \|- \| (77185) Cherryh \|\| 2001 FE9 \|\| 20 maart 2001 \|\| Needville \|\| D. Wells, A. Cruz \|- \| (77186) - \|\| 2001 FS9 \|\| 20 maart 2001 \|\| Reedy Creek \|\| J. Broughton \|- \| (77187) - \|\| 2001 FY9 \|\| 22 maart 2001 \|\| Kvistaberg \|\| Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey \|- \| (77188) - \|\| 2001 FZ9 \|\| 22 maart 2001 \|\| Kvistaberg \|\| Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey \|- \| (77189) - \|\| 2001 FM10 \|\| 19 maart 2001 \|\| Anderson Mesa \|\| LONEOS \|-
South Korea ($500-$14,000 per use) Currently seeking "beats" for use in TV & Online advertising campaigns in South Korea! ,br> When I say "beats", I mean any tracks that are driven by a breakbeat, as one, if not the most dominant part of the track. Ie, Drum & Bass, Hip-Hop, Dubstep, Electronica, Edm, Trap, Grime, Experimental etc. All tracks must be upbeat and have a "Phat Beat", "Killer Beat", "Sick Beats", "Dope Beat" or whatever your preferred description would be. Music must be well produced, high-quality, mixed and mastered. Instrumental tracks preferred please, but great vocal tracks can be accepted too (if you can supply instrumental versions even better) and all tempos considered. Artists must own all rights to their music 100% on both sides and there must be no copyright infringement. All music will be listened to, reviewed and feedback given. The average cost of TV advertising commercial in Korea is $800 to $1,500 per track, and for worldwide rights up to $14,000. The average cost of Online & YouTube advertising in Korea is $500-$2500 (geo restricted for single country of Korea), and worldwide use for $3000-$5000. Selected tracks be sent to clients in South Korea and music licensed on a non-exclusive basis (so you maintain all rights to your music), we simply go 50-50 on deals we get and you're paid quarterly. The South Korean market is built on a unique structure, which is not the same as any foreign market structure around the world. Because of this Korea has a higher advertising music fee than most other countries. This may be due to systemic limitations that the performing royalties cannot be collected, but also because there is no subsequent secondary payment after the initial payment of music fees. The total amount paid in Korea is 100% mechanical payout. Clients who will be using music in South Korea; Korea's major advertising agencies including the CHEIL and INOCEAN and brands such as; Samsung, LG, Hyundai and SK to name a few. If you make "beats' I really look forward to hearing from you! Top 40 type Pop Songs needed for film license Current/Billboard top 40 type Pop songs needed for a film license. The film will release in mid to late-2019, so final decision is still a few months away. Songs can be male or female vocals. Some rap can be included, but mostly singing. Think along the lines of Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande, Post Malone, Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, Lauv, Nicki Minaj, Shawn Mendes, Bebe Rexha, Ed Sheeran. We are open to a wide variety of artist styles, but they must fit in the lane of what you would hear on Top 40 radio and see on top Pop Spotify playlists currently. If we think your submission may fit, we will place it on hold for further review by the entire team working on this project. If it is selected, we will contact you further with details. Please keep in mind that this is a "submission-only" dropbox. We are looking for the perfect song for this pitch. We will not be giving detailed feedback on submissions. Either we feel the song may fit the brief or it doesn't. We apologize for not being able to give feedback beyond whether it fits or not, but the time constraints of the nature of these projects will not allow us the time to give in-depth feedback on the song. We will, however, submit ratings on every submission. Incorporated Elements is a company that works with songwriters, artists, producers, and DJ's to help them perfect their craft and fully realize the potential in their art. We work in the areas of production, publishing, film/TV licensing, artist development. - Ric Robbins / Incorporated Elements Compensation: $3,001 - $5,000 Similar Sounding Artists: Camila Cabello, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Justin Timberlake, Post Malone, Lauv, Shawn Mendes, Bebe Rexha R&B Soul Singer looking for single Incredible international soul singer looking for a follow up single. Major opportunity for exposure as a producer and / or songwriter. Think R&B Soul in the Adele / Marvin Gaye / Bill Withers lane rather than modern urban music for this particular opportunity. Alignment Management is a talent management company, founded by Chris Woods, with a focus on finding, developing and guiding exciting talent throughout their careers. Our clients have sold millions of records; received multiple awards and nominations including GRAMMYS, ASCAP and BMI awards and shared the stage or screen with some of the biggest names in entertainment from England to Los Angeles and New York to Nashville. - Chris Woods / Alignment Management new Need Music for 2k Sports Video Games Need Music for 2k Sports Video Games Artists must own all rights to their music 100% and there must be no copyright infringement. All submissions will be listened to and reviewed. Music must be well produced, mixed and mastered. No uncleared samples. Music will be licensed on a non-exclusive basis. You keep all rights to your music, our agreement is 50-50 on sync fees we obtain for you and you keep 100% of all publishing rights. We will also pitch your music for TV, Film, Games, and Advertisements like FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC, Sony, Pepsi, McDonalds, MTV, VH1, Google, Lionsgate, Activision, Nike, Apple, and more. - Joshua Reid / Co-Owner - Venue Records ® Beewirks Seeking Music for Chris Miles Beewirks is currently working on music for rap artist Chris Miles and is looking for amazing songs and artists to collaborate with on his project. Chris Miles is an American rapper signed by Warner Music Group. He obtained his popularity when his rap audition for "America's Got Talent" went viral. Pleases submit your best work for consideration. Seeking Pop Songs / Rhythmic Pop for Genuine Music Group Looking for radio ready rhythmic pop songs for pitching. Demo's (good production) encouraged. Anything from Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Beibs, and Ariana Grande etc... Please make sure songs are in the current Contemporary Hit Radio space. Similar Sounding Artists: Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, etc Escape Artists Management seeking Producers & Writers Escape Artist Management Currently seeking producers and writers. Escape Artists looks after respected Writer/Producers/Mixers such as Anthony Killhoffer (Kanye West etc) Dan Frampton (The Script, Olly Murs, Dappy, Ed Sheeran) If you have exceptional talent in these areas please submit and we will review. Looking for Andrew W K, Kiss, Joan Jett, Style "Party Rock"! Looking for Andrew W K, Kiss, Joan Jett, Style Party Rock! etc. for major films and TV shows! Get paid for the rest of your life! Every week we place hot music!! Because of the "High Profile Major Artists" in our catalog such as Beyonce, Snoop, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Bill Withers, Chic, Ojays, Sunshine Anderson, Dionne Farris, Kool and The Gang, etc, they are looking to use the "Music Of The Sea" brand and artist! We have the attention of many major networks and they want to use the artist and composers from our catalog! Have your song/tracks along ride along side the major artist in our catalog and grow your brand!!! "High Quality" tracks only, no exceptions! No demos!! You must own master and publishing rights! Very important!! Huge opportunity! Compensation: $3,001 - 5,000 Similar Sounding Artists: Andrew W K, Kiss, Joan Jett< Looking for songs in the styles of Izzy Bizu, Outasight, Sam Tinnesz, Bishop Briggs, Ruelle, T Rex, etc. for major films and TV shows! Looking for songs in the styles of Izzy Bizu, Outasight, Sam Tinnesz, Bishop Briggs, Ruelle, T Rex, etc. for major films and TV shows! Get paid for the rest of your life! Every week we place hot music!! We have the attention of many major networks and they want to use the artist and composers from our catalog! Have your song/tracks along ride along side the major artist in our catalog and grow your brand!!! "High Quality" tracks only, no exceptions! No demos!! No Samples! You must own master and publishing rights! Very important!! Huge opportunity! Similar Sounding Artists: Andrew W K, Kiss, Joan Jett Seeking Beats/Full Records ASAP!!! submission price: $100.00 Seeking Beats/Full Records for Omarion, Usher, Jhene Aiko Seeking Beats/Full Records for Omarion, Usher, and Jhene Aiko. I'm talking beats, beats with hooks and fully referenced tracks. Song Requirements: - Uptempo Hip Hop - Club/Dance Records - Very Dope Melodic R&B Let me Make this clear, I DO NOT want Any TRAP. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration. I'm a
to the ongoing purchase of products and equipment. Antitrust law, based upon Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), also has an impact on issues such as the grant of exclusivity, tying and price control. A test of fairness by the rules on unfair contract terms will be imposed on any provision in a standard form agreement that has not been negotiated by the rules on unfair contract terms.11 The threshold for qualifying as 'negotiated' is rather high in Germany, so it is very likely that a standard form agreement will fall within the scope of the rules on unfair contract terms. Special justification is generally needed if a provision deviates from the fallback position as set out in the Civil Code to the detriment of the franchisee. Franchisees can be treated as if they were consumers in domestic agreements. Several statutory provisions will be implicit in the agreement, such as a right of the franchisee to terminate and the franchisor's obligation to provide certain services. There is a great deal of case law on the question of what constitutes sufficient grounds for termination, so franchisors must be cautious when exercising or contesting this right. v Guarantees and protection The principle of contra bonos mores has a limiting effect on securities, especially if the value of the surety clearly exceeds the debt; where this is the case, the suretyship agreement might be declared void or the debtor can demand a partial release of the security. V TAX i Franchisor tax liabilities Franchisors that are tax resident in Germany are liable for corporation tax of 15 per cent plus a solidarity surcharge that is added to the corporate income tax and set at a rate of 5.5 per cent of the corporate income tax rate (equalling an additional 0.825 per cent) and trade tax. Trade tax is a municipal tax. As such, tax rates are individually determined by each municipality (the German average is around 14 per cent). Withholding tax of 25 per cent is payable on dividends. Royalty fees for the granting of rights under the German Copyright Act (e.g., software licences, although not the licences to use patents or trademarks) bear a reduced VAT rate of 7 per cent, while all other fees paid to the franchisor by the franchisee are subject to VAT at 19 per cent. The initial franchise fee is usually amortised over the duration of the franchise for income tax purposes. ii Franchisee tax liabilities In addition to corporation tax and the solidarity surcharge, trade tax is also payable by franchisees. Tax on personal income falls into bands ranging from 14 to 45 per cent; corporate tax, municipal trade tax and VAT also apply at the rates mentioned in Section V.i. VI IMPACT OF GENERAL LAW i Good faith and guarantees Franchisors cannot exercise their contractual rights or change their business formats with impunity, as the concepts of good faith and fair dealing are implicit in all agreements. Although both franchisors and franchisees benefit from and carry reciprocal burdens, it is generally franchisors, as the dominant parties, that find they have to defend themselves from allegations of behaving unfairly or in bad faith. This is particularly the case when franchisors seek to issue disciplinary or other actions against their franchisees, so their actions need to be proportionate. ii Agency distributor model The courts often apply agency law to franchise agreements by analogy. iii Employment law Some employers in low-skill businesses, such as contract cleaning, have been known to use a form of 'false franchising' as a way of reducing their liabilities to their employees. The German courts are very sensitive to this type of abuse and the Federal Labour Court's decision in the Eismann case12 established that franchisees can be deemed to be 'in fact' employees of a franchisor if the franchisor controls every aspect of an individual franchisee's business. As of 2015, a uniform nationwide statutory minimum wage of €8.50 was introduced in Germany. This wage is intended to be reviewed by a commission every two years. It was €8.84 in 2018. iv Consumer credit protection Section 513 of the Civil Code protects new businesses, including some franchisees, in relation to loans, respites or any other forms of financial aid, as well as instalment supply contracts. Specific statutory information requirements apply and such franchisees may be entitled to withdraw from their contracts. v Competition law German competition law is based on the corresponding provisions contained in the TFEU. Nevertheless, the German courts can be particularly strict in their approach. vi Restrictive covenants Franchisors can prevent their franchisees from competing with them for the duration of their agreements, but prohibiting franchisees from supplying other franchisees within the same franchise systems is regarded as contravening Article 4(b) of the Block Exemption Regulation. Post-termination restrictive covenants must be explicitly provided for in the franchise agreement and limited in time, scope and territory, and are only enforced by the courts in the event that the franchisor has paid the franchisee a consideration for them. vii Termination The franchisor cannot terminate a franchise contract for a minor breach. Termination must be proportionate, fair and in good faith. If the franchisee undertakes to sell its business to the franchisor on termination, this will be enforced by the courts, but is not common practice among franchisors in Germany. viii Anti-corruption and anti-terrorism regulation In practice anti-corruption and anti-terrorism compliance considerations do not apply in the context of franchising in Germany. ix Dispute resolution Foreign law is generally acceptable in agreements if they have sufficient connection to a foreign country, but not if both parties are located in Germany. Even if foreign law has been agreed, mandatory German and European laws will apply if the franchisee is operating in Germany. Under the Brussels I Regulation, judgments of a court of an EU Member State are enforceable in other Member States without the need for any special procedures, and arbitration awards are fully recognised; mediation is also available. Injunctions are relatively easy to obtain. Ex-franchisees that continue to use former franchisors' marks are easily stopped by way of interim injunctions. Damages can be awarded but are usually intended to cover actual losses incurred. VII CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS The courts continue to wrestle with issues concerning pre-contractual disclosure, termination, the need to give notice, and cooling-off periods. It is likely that this will remain the situation for the next few years. 1 Stefan Münch, Alexander Duisberg and Markus Körner are partners and Michael Gaßner is an associate at Bird & Bird LLP. This chapter was originally drafted by Stefan Engels and Bahne Sievers, former lawyers of Bird & Bird LLP. 2 Figures as of 2017 by the German Franchise Association (Deutscher Franchise-Verband e.V.). 3 Certain civil rights organisations have challenged the Privacy Shield; proceedings are pending before the court of first instance, Case T-670/16, Digital Rights Ireland. 4 DSK (16 January 2018): Kurzpapier Nr. 13, Auftragsverarbeitung, Art. 28 DS-GVO, available at https://www.datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/kp/dsk_kpnr_13.pdf (last accessed 13 November 2018). 5 A similar case was decided by the ECJ: the ECJ ruled that Facebook and the administrators of Facebook 'fan pages' are to be considered joint controllers (ECJ ruling from 5 June 2018 (Case No. C-210/16, paragraph 39). 6 See also DSK (19 March 2018): Kurzpapier Nr. 16, Gemeinsam für die Verarbeitung Verantwortliche, Art. 26 DS-GVO, available at https://www.datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/kp/dsk_kpnr_16.pdf (last accessed 22 November 2018). 7 DSK position paper (26 April 2018): Zur Anwendbarkeit des TMG für nicht-öffentliche Stellen ab dem 25 May 2018, available at https://www.ldi.nrw.de/mainmenu_Datenschutz/submenu_Technik/Inhalt/TechnikundOrganisation/Inhalt/Zur-Anwendbarkeit-des-TMG-fuer-nicht-oeffentliche-Stellen-ab-dem- 25_-Mai-2018/Positionsbestimmung-TMG.pdf (last accessed 22 November 2018). 8 Directive 97/7/EC. 9 Directive 2011/83/EU. 10 Agency laws, inter alia, impose the duty on franchisors to pay compensation to franchisees on termination, the principle of good faith, the rule that unfair contracts are void and the principle that long-term contracts can be terminated for good reason, and cooling-off rights in accordance with European consumer protection law. 11 Section 305 et seq. of the Civil Code. 12 NJW 1997, 2973. What is Franchising? Franchising as Part of an International Multichannel Strategy The Regulation of Franchising around the World Sustaining Relationships Trade Secrets and Franchising Franchisees as Consumers Resolving International Franchise Disputes E-Commerce and Franchising The Competition Law of the European Union The Impact of Brexit on Franchising Editor's Global Overview GCC Overview Dispute Resolution Appendix Other chapters on Germany The Anti-Bribery and
script src="main.js"></script> </body> </html> The JS part contains canvas manipulations and calls to c++. Two calls : * for the first image we call the function recordImage to store the cv::Mat in a global variable for the second image, we call the function compare which compares the two images. /* global Module / function putOnHeap(imgData, wasmModule) { const uint8ArrData = new Uint8Array(imgData.data); const numBytes = uint8ArrData.length uint8ArrData.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT; const dataPtr = wasmModule._malloc(numBytes); const dataOnHeap = new Uint8Array(wasmModule.HEAPU8.buffer, dataPtr, numBytes); dataOnHeap.set(uint8ArrData); answer = {"byteOffset": dataOnHeap.byteOffset, "length":uint8ArrData.length, "dataPtr": dataPtr, "dataOnHeap": dataOnHeap, "wasmModule":wasmModule, }; return answer; } /* Call the c++ function on the given image. / async function toCpp(canvas, wasmModule, functionName) { const context = canvas.getContext('2d'); const imgData = context.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height); const heapInfo = putOnHeap(imgData, wasmModule); const func = wasmModule[functionName]; func(heapInfo.byteOffset, heapInfo.length, canvas.width, canvas.height); wasmModule._free(heapInfo.dataPtr); return answer; } / Record the image on the wasm side. / async function recordImage(canvas, wasmModule) { await toCpp(canvas, wasmModule, "recordImage"); } / Compare the image with the recorded one. / async function compare(canvas, wasmModule) { await toCpp(canvas, wasmModule, "compare"); } / When the user provides the first image, wasm stores it * in a cv::Mat. / async function doFirstCanvas() { const canvas = document.getElementById('viewport1'); const width = this.width; const height = this.height; canvas.width = width; canvas.height = height; const context = canvas.getContext('2d'); let imageData = context.getImageData(0, 0, width, height); context.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0); context.drawImage(this, 0, 0); await recordImage(canvas, Module); } / * When the user provides the second image, wasm compares * that image with the first one. * / async function doSecondCanvas() { const canvas = document.getElementById('viewport2'); const width = this.width; const height = this.height; canvas.width = width; canvas.height = height; const context = canvas.getContext('2d'); let imageData = context.getImageData(0, 0, width, height); context.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0); context.drawImage(this, 0, 0); compare(canvas, Module); } function failed() { } function createQuery() { document.getElementById('inputimage1').onchange = function () { console.log('First image received'); const img = new Image(); img.onload = doFirstCanvas; img.onerror = failed; img.src = URL.createObjectURL(this.files[0]); }; document.getElementById('inputimage2').onchange = function () { console.log('Second image received'); const img = new Image(); img.onload = doSecondCanvas; img.onerror = failed; img.src = URL.createObjectURL(this.files[0]); }; } The c++ part contains in particular the function get_image which reads the heap and create the corresponding cv::Mat. #include <emscripten/bind.h> #include <emscripten/val.h> #include <opencv2/core/core.hpp> #include <opencv2/imgcodecs.hpp> #include <opencv2/opencv.hpp> // The first image is recorded in `recordedImage` cv::Mat recordedImage; / * `get_image` reads the part of the heap indicated by JS. * Then it interprets it as a cv::Mat. * / cv::Mat get_image(int offset, size_t size, int width, int height) { uint8_t pos; pos = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t>(offset); auto gotMatrix = cv::Mat(width, height, CV_8UC4, pos); return gotMatrix.clone(); } /The first image is recorded in `recordedImage`./ void recordImage(int offset, size_t size, int width, int height) { recordedImage = get_image(offset, size, width, height); } /The second image is compared to the first one./ void compare(int offset, size_t size, int width, int height) { std::cout << "===== c++ comparing the images ======" << std::endl; auto image1 = recordedImage; auto image2 = get_image(offset, size, width, height); auto orbDetector = cv::ORB::create(500); cv::BFMatcher matcher(cv::NORM_L2); std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> kpts1; std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> kpts2; cv::Mat descr1; cv::Mat descr2; orbDetector -> detectAndCompute(image1, cv::noArray(), kpts1, descr1); orbDetector -> detectAndCompute(image2, cv::noArray(), kpts2, descr2); std::vector<cv::DMatch> matches; matcher.match(descr1, descr2, matches); for (auto & match : matches) { std::cout << match.distance << std::endl; } } int main() { std::cout << "Run main in c++." << std::endl; return 0; } // Export the functions. EMSCRIPTEN_BINDINGS(my_module) { emscripten::function("main", &main); emscripten::function("compare", &compare); emscripten::function("recordImage", &recordImage); } I already tried to print the cv::Mat and, indeed, the images I have in this version are different than the ones in pure c++. The difference is that canvas adds a "alpha" channel and OpenCV permutes the R and B channels. I already made some pre-manipulations in JS to fix these differences, and checked that the matrices are the exact same matrices in the html/js/wasm version as in the c++ version (as far as I can check). I did not included these manipulations in the example here. My question : the values of match.distance are much larger than the values obtained with the same image using a pure c++ program reading on the disk (cv::imread). Why? A: The function "get_image" is broken for several reasons. Here is my solution cv::Mat get_image(int offset, size_t size, int width, int height) { // Some comments about the implementation // - People in the doc do not need the cast trick // for the position. Why??? // - The inversion height <--> width is crucial // - I'm not sure how useful the line `cvtColor` is. // - The `clone` trick is crucial. If not, the returned matrix is // filled with references to the heap. In that case, if one "send" // a second matrix from js to wasm, the second matrix "erases" the // first one. uint8_t position = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(offset); auto gotMatrix = cv::Mat(height, width, CV_8UC4, position); cv::Mat newImage; cv::cvtColor(
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test.exe ==32547== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==32547== Copyright (C) 2002-2013, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==32547== Using Valgrind-3.10.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==32547== Command:./test.exe ==32547== ==32547== ==32547== HEAP SUMMARY: ==32547== in use at exit: 4,044 bytes in 25 blocks ==32547== total heap usage: 3,273 allocs, 3,248 frees, 149,992 bytes allocated ==32547== ==32547== 1,307 (32 direct, 1,275 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 22 of 24 ==32547== at 0x4C2AB80: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==32547== by 0x408A76: CRYPTO_malloc (mem.c:140) ==32547== by 0x408AA9: CRYPTO_zalloc (mem.c:148) ==32547== by 0x447104: asn1_item_embed_new (tasn_new.c:171) ==32547== by 0x446E66: ASN1_item_ex_new (tasn_new.c:88) ==32547== by 0x4439AA: asn1_item_embed_d2i (tasn_dec.c:333) ==32547== by 0x4431B7: ASN1_item_ex_d2i (tasn_dec.c:162) ==32547== by 0x44314A: ASN1_item_d2i (tasn_dec.c:152) ==32547== by 0x4AB8BA: PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i (p12_decr.c:159) ==32547== by 0x40CA79: PKCS8_decrypt (p12_p8d.c:69) ==32547== by 0x40C8DC: newpass_bag (p12_npas.c:206) ==32547== by 0x40C868: newpass_bags (p12_npas.c:188) ==32547== ==32547== 2,625 (32 direct, 2,593 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 24 of 24 ==32547== at 0x4C2AB80: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==32547== by 0x408A76: CRYPTO_malloc (mem.c:140) ==32547== by 0x408AA9: CRYPTO_zalloc (mem.c:148) ==32547== by 0x41258E: sk_new (stack.c:153) ==32547== by 0x41256A: sk_new_null (stack.c:146) ==32547== by 0x40C27E: sk_PKCS7_new_null (pkcs7.h:199) ==32547== by 0x40C489: newpass_p12 (p12_npas.c:118) ==32547== by 0x40C3CC: PKCS12_newpass (p12_npas.c:96) ==32547== by 0x40315F: main (in /home/openssl/test.exe) The first one is due to 0x40C8DC: newpass_bag (p12_npas.c:206): X509_SIG_get0(&shalg, NULL, bag->value.shkeybag); However, the get0 in X509_SIG_get0 does not bump the reference count, so I think its really the line before it (or a bug in X509_SIG_get0): if (PKCS12_SAFEBAG_get_nid(bag)!= NID_pkcs8ShroudedKeyBag) PKCS12_SAFEBAG_get_nid is not documented. That means its a private API, so the OpenSSL devs have to fix the leak caused by it. (I think its actually due to PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i a little deeper into the stack, but its out of reach because of PKCS12_SAFEBAG_get_nid). The second one is due to 0x40C489: newpass_p12 (p12_npas.c:118): if ((newsafes = sk_PKCS7_new_null()) == NULL) return 0; sk_PKCS7_new_null is not documented. That means its a private API, so the OpenSSL devs have to fix the leak caused by it. How I could fix this memory leak? Unfortunately, you cannot because both of the offenders are private APIs. The best you can do it report them at RT, which is the OpenSSL bug tracker. There was a somewhat unexpected "big deal" about documentation and private APIs and such. See EC_KEY_priv2buf(): check parameter sanity for a discussion and the new rules. According to a search of the sources, PKCS12_newpass lacks documentation, so its a private API, too (there's no POD file, which is used to build the man page): $ grep -IR PKCS12_newpass * CHANGES: ) New function PKCS12_newpass() which changes the password of a crypto/pkcs12/pk12err.c: {ERR_FUNC(PKCS12_F_PKCS12_NEWPASS), "PKCS12_newpass"}, crypto/pkcs12/p12_npas.c:int PKCS12_newpass(PKCS12 p12, const char oldpass, const char newpass) crypto.map: PKCS12_newpass; include/openssl/pkcs12.h:int PKCS12_newpass(PKCS12 p12, const char oldpass, const char newpass); util/libcrypto.num:PKCS12_newpass 3204 1_1_0 EXIST::FUNCTION: A bug report was submitted with documentation at Issue 4478: DOCUMENTATION PKCS12_newpass. It should help get beyond the "documentation else its private" rule. Below is a cat test.cc: #include "openssl/pkcs12.h" #include "openssl/bio.h" #include "openssl/engine.h" #include "openssl/conf.h" #include "openssl/err.h" / openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout key.pem -nodes -out cert.pem -days 365 / / openssl pkcs12 -export -out pkcs12.p12 -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem / / gcc -ansi -I. -I./include test.cc./libcrypto.a -o test.exe / int main(int argc, char argv[]) { OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(); BIO bp = NULL; PKCS12 p12 = NULL; int rc = -1; unsigned long err = 0; char password[] = "passphrase"; bp = BIO_new_file("pkcs12.p12", "r"); if (bp == NULL) goto cleanup; p12 = d2i_PKCS12_bio(bp, NULL); if (p12 == NULL) goto cleanup; /* Use empty string when no password was applies with 'openssl pkcs12' / rc = PKCS12_newpass(p12, password, password); cleanup: if (rc == 1) { fprintf(stdout, "Sucessfully changed password\n"); } else { err = ERR_get_error(); fprintf(stderr, "Failed to change password, error %lu\n", err); } if (p12) PKCS12_free(p12); if (bp) BIO_free_all(bp); / http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Library_Initialization#Cleanup */ ENGINE_cleanup(); CONF_modules_unload(1); EVP_cleanup(); CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(); #if OPENSSL_API_COMPAT < 0x10000000L ERR
words she and her advisors might engineer. More than anyone else she was responsible for the illegal bombing and regime change operation that overthrew Gaddafi and plunged Libya into a failed state riddled with Islamic extremists. She is still pursuing the same policy of regime change or destruction in countries of the Middle East and North Africa that have defied the US. Her advocacy of a no-fly zone in Syria right now is more of the same – and it assures war with Russia according to General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and possibly nuclear war. She remains virulently hawkish – irredeemably so one might say. Is the impression conveyed by Clinton and her apologists that there is no difference between Trump and Clinton on the Iraq War correct? It is not. And it tells us that there will be an enormous difference between a Trump and a Clinton presidency. Since that difference involves the very question of human survival, what does that say about our responsibility come November 8? For example, a fund raising appeal from Code Pink recently popped into my inbox with this line: "Both candidates supported the Iraq War at its inception, though both have now walked back that support." Clearly the implication is that the two candidates have the same stance on Iraq. A vague timeline is trotted out but not a word about the content of what the candidates said. To be complete there were actually thirteen words, "Yeah, I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly." Trump also claims that he had frequent verbal fights with his friend Sean Hannity over the period leading up to the war with Hannity pro and Trump con. Hannity backs him up on that, but in fairness that is not evidence because it is not in the public domain. Memory can be tricky in these situations especially when a friend seeks support. So we simply cannot make a judgment about that. To be complete, there was another Trump statement in 2003, although it is quite ambiguous and directed more at tactics than policy. In January, 2003, Trump in an interview with Neil Cavuto, before the commencement of "Shock and Awe" in March, made some comments on the War. This time there was no endorsement of the War – not even an off the cuff endorsement. Instead there was confusion, and the discussion revolved around tactics of war. Trump said, "Well, he (Bush) has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps, because perhaps (he) shouldn't be doing it yet and perhaps we should be waiting for the United Nations, you know." No endorsement, no outspoken opposition. (The brief interview can be found here and Trump's summary of it in his August, 2016, foreign policy address). Was Trump's stand on Iraq opportunist? Trump took his position on Iraq long before he was in politics. He entered the presidential race as a candidate for the Republican nomination, not the Democratic one. At the time he entered the race, the GOP was the reliable party of war, dominated by the neocons. His position on Iraq could hardly have helped him with that crowd. So let us not call Trump's position opportunist, designed to get votes. As he became a more serious contender, the neocons left the GOP to join the Democrats and support Hillary. John V. Walsh can be reached at john.endwar@gmail.com. October 16, 2016 Posted by aletho \| Deception, Illegal Occupation, Mainstream Media, Warmongering, Militarism, Timeless or most popular \| Code Pink, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Iraq War, Mother Jones Magazine, Tim Murphy, United States \| 2 Comments Motive, Means, Opportunity By Simon Wood – 99.99998271% – September 8, 2015 "We can't have it both ways. We can't be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of arms." – Former US President Jimmy Carter, presidential campaign, 1976 [Source] No clearer demonstration of the mass psychosis afflicting much of humanity can be seen than in the ongoing outrage and horror evoked by the photographs of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi's body. While it goes without saying that any empathetic being would react with utter revulsion and helpless fury at the fate of this poor little boy, one cannot ignore the vast indifference evident toward the thousands of other needless child deaths that occur daily around the world. For this silent slaughter, we hear: 'Shit happens' or 'What am I supposed to do about it?' Aylan's death even touched the stony hearts of corporate media editors: From Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal : His name was Aylan. He was 3 years old, from war-torn Syria. His final journey was supposed to end in sanctuary in Europe; instead it claimed his life and highlighted the plight of desperate people caught in the gravest refugee crisis since World War II. Readers can be forgiven for missing similarly recounted tragedies concerning other young children. From an earlier 99.99998271% article [Note: see original for sources]: Ask yourself if you have heard the name of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who was gang-raped and murdered by US marines after her family (34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhsin, 45-year-old father Qasim Hamza Raheem, and six-year-old sister Hadeel Qasim Hamza) were killed. How about Safa Younis Salim, a 13-year old girl who amazingly survived the Haditha Massacre, in which 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians were killed including seven children, a 1-year-old girl staying with the family and a 76-year-old man in a wheelchair? How did she survive? "I pretended that I was dead when my brother's body fell on me and he was bleeding like a faucet." A six-year US military prosecution ended with none of the eight Marines sentenced to jail, despite one of the men – Sgt. Sanick De La Cruz – testifying (in return for immunity) that he had urinated on the skull of one of the dead Iraqis. This outcome outraged the Iraqi people (as the attack on Malala [Yousafzai] outraged the West) but the name of Safa Younis Salim remains practically unknown. Informing the world about these children would run counter to the crucial narrative that the US and its NATO allies are an altruistic force for good in the world – bringers of peace, freedom and democracy. Aylan Kurdi, on the other hand, may prove very useful in furthering the true aims of the Western-aligned powers, and so – like Malala – he will be making the front pages for as long as is necessary. Mainstream press outlets have overwhelmingly called for decisive action, with tabloids like The Sun and The Daily Mail plumbing new depths of hypocrisy. The UK's 'liberal-left' Guardian newspaper joined the 'humanitarian intervention' ranks in a recent editorial: To begin restoring that hope will inevitably mean international intervention of some kind. The establishment of credible safe havens and the implementation of a no-fly zone must be on the table for serious consideration. Where were the editorials calling for the establishment of no-fly zones in order to overthrow the Israeli regime when last summer, in an orgy of indiscriminate slaughter and destruction, the inhabitants of Gaza (average age 17), described accurately by David Cameron as a prison camp, were subjected to a barrage of modern, US-supplied weaponry: The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict has gathered substantial information pointing to the possible commission of war crimes by both Israel and Palestinian armed groups. The 2014 hostilities saw a huge increase in firepower used in Gaza, with more than 6,000 airstrikes by Israel and approximately 50,000 tank and artillery shells fired. In the 51 day operation, 1,462 Palestinian civilians were killed, a third of them children. Palestinian armed groups fired 4,881 rockets and 1,753 mortars towards Israel in July and August 2014, killing 6 civilians and injuring at least 1,600. Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed in their own homes, especially women and children. Survivors gave graphic testimony describing air strikes that reduced buildings to piles of dust and rubble in seconds. "I woke up… in the hospital, and I later learned that my sister, mother and my children had all died," said a member of the Al Najjar family after an attack in Khan Younis on 26 July that killed 19 of his relatives, "We all died that day even those who survived". The commission is concerned about Israel's extensive use of weapons with a wide kill and injury radius; though not illegal, their use in densely populated areas is highly likely to kill combatants and civilians indiscriminately. There appears also to be a pattern whereby the IDF issued warnings to people to leave a neighbourhood and then automatically considered anyone remaining to be a fighter. This practice makes attacks on civilians highly likely. During the Israeli ground incursion into Gaza that began in mid-July 2014, hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed or damaged. Where is the global anguish and soul searching about the CIA drone campaign, which is now responsible, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, for the deaths of thousands of people, of whom many are civilians and hundreds children, including babies? Where is the mass public/media outrage against Obama's strikes on weddings and funerals? A population of billions that reacts so dramatically to one outrage yet indifference to another of equal horror can only be
.mp3 APPROACH THE THRONE: SERENA WILLIAMS, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, AND THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM 28. July 2018 · Write a comment · Categories: Art History, Essays, History, Photography, Thoughts I'd like to start out by laying out a few background statements to take for granted in the interest of time. First, that Serena Williams is a remarkable figure in terms of dominance, significance, and public profile in the sport of tennis. Second, that Williams' outsized public profile has largely been mediated by photography. And that these photographs have existed within an environment of toxic discourse on Williams' appearance, in a pattern mirroring that of such other prominent black women as Michelle Obama and Leslie Jones. The discourse. THOMAS EAKINS, BRUSHING AGAINST THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE 08. June 2018 · Write a comment · Categories: Art History, Essays, History, Thoughts · Tags: art, history, painting, physics, science, Thomas Eakins Suppose you're a painter, and you want capture a realistic scene of two men playing chess in a parlor. How would you do it? Most people, I think, would sit in the room and paint what they saw. Or, depending on their era, maybe they'd work from a photograph. A very meticulous artist might pencil out couple of single-point perspective lines to guide the recession of the room's furniture. Vanishingly few artists would use a separate sheet of paper to create a 3-dimensional gridded space where everything in the room was geometrically plotted out with each object considered as its own individual study. But this is exactly what Thomas Eakins did. Eakins' perspective workup for The Chess Players The Chess Players, Thomas Eakins There's a decent chance your reaction is: Thomas Who? Eakins is an odd case, a man considered one of the leading American painters of the back half of the 19th century who has slowly slid into something that isn't quite obscurity but is pretty far from household-name status. You've probably heard of the people considered his peers at the time: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, James McNeil Whistler, (kinda) Mary Cassatt. A combination of scandals (Eakins was heavily involved in art education, and was involved in scandals revolving around nude models and students, and it's a dense thicket that's almost impossible to judge from 130 years out without getting lost in the gap between then-contemporary and current social mores; last time I looked, his wikipedia page was dominated by speculation about his sexual preference), changing tastes, and the random drift of history have shunted him off to the side. But in his day, Eakins was a big deal, renowned as a new kind of big-brained artist. Eakins was a creature of his time. He worked during a period of unprecedented exuberance about the progress of science. He brought that spirit into his artistic practice, pursuing representational realism through a combination of techniques derived from science and mathematics. His approach was powerful but flawed, with inconsistencies that led to visual paradoxes; similar paradoxes lurked around the edges of the very science world that inspired him. Eakins' belief that perfect representation of reality could be attained in painting through advanced science-based technique was a manifestation of a mode of thought pervasive in late 19th-century American and European intellectual circles, an idea that science and knowledge had reached a summit. His social position in the academic elite of Philadelphia put him in contact with scientists, artists, and thinkers whose output presents a similarly teleological outlook. He basically soaked up their hubris. And this isn't something I can claim to prove, but I'd guess that the passing of that particular scientific worldview has something to do with the slow drift of Eakins into semi-obscurity. SOMEBODY GO BACK AND GET A SHITLOAD OF DIMES 22. May 2018 · Write a comment · Categories: Art History, Essays, Thoughts · Tags: blazing saddles, essays, mel brooks, movies, postmodernism or Postmodernism is Closer Than You Think So, right now social media is aflame with talk of Jordan Peterson, the latest half-bright pile of mud to figure out that there's money to be made telling angry young men that they're right and special. Peterson and the controversy surrounding him are too dull to get into here, but I bring him up because part of his program includes bemoaning postmodernism and accusing it of destroying our morals, corroding society, corrupting the youth of Athens, yada yada yada. I yada there because this isn't a new thing. Howling incoherently about postmodernism has turned into a byword of the American right, especially its angrier, weirder wings (for instance, the vague acquaintance from high school, now blocked, who swooped into a facebook thread about the US withdrawal from the paris climate accords and told all of the participants that we were postmodernism-poisoned liberals and cultural Marxists who should kill ourselves). And I say "incoherently" advisedly; I just finished a master's in art history, wherein I spent a lot of time talking and reading about postmodernism, and I can assure you that very little of it had to do with a vast liberal conspiracy to undermine the work of brave patriots like Alex Jones. So what's postmodernism? That's a complicated thing to lay out, actually, for several reasons. For one thing, postmodernism manifests itself differently in different cultural spheres; architectural postmodernism isn't exactly the same thing as literary postmodernism, and both are slightly different from postmodernism in visual art, and so on. This is a thing—THE thing—about culture, that answers are usually more complicated and boundaries more fuzzy than we'd like. But that's the way it is. Anyway, in all of these spheres, postmodernism is (as the name would imply) a cultural reaction to modernism, which in turn was a reaction to (or at least existed in the context of) the romanticism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Again, I'm simplifying the hell out of things here, but hopefully in a useful way. Speaking really broadly, modernism was a push towards a theoretical rational order, often marked by form-follows-function minimalism. Think the paintings of Piet Mondrian, or the geometric glass buildings of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, or the sparse, structured prose of Ernest Hemingway. The uniting theme here is a desire to pare things down to their essence, and (generally) to make the world make sense in terms of rational, quantifiable systems. Postmodernism (once again, speaking really broadly) rose from the recognition that the world couldn't really be contained, described, and modeled in the tight, orderly boxes demanded by modernism. And it can't, for reasons too complicated to get into here, but 20th century developments in math, physics, and culture all ran into some kind of uncertainty or incompleteness on the outer fringes. (Thus, the squishiness of defining postmodernism is both ironic and kind of the point.) Where modernism implies (if often between the lines) a crystalline objective order to everything, postmodernism recognizes the semiotic implication that just about everything in human culture exists in relation to something else (this, I guess, is what drives the political right nuts, if they see it as a push back against tightly-strictured, clear, rational morality handed down by god; I submit that postmodernism isn't really the problem in that model). Think of it this way: how do you define a word, any word? You do it through other words. Which in turn are defined by other words. It's a giantic, neverending web of connections that sort of resembles the surface of a waterbed rather than a crystalline bedrock. Which sounds bad and confusing, but the good news is that by this part you've read more than 500 words-dependent-on-other-words about the subject and hopefully picked up some kind of informational content; in other words, it turns out that human culture gets along just fine without fixed points. Anyway: a few hallmarks of postmodernism emerge from what I just said. One is a (usually) playful sense; you can think of postmodernism as a trickster Bugs Bunny character constantly tweaking modernism's rules-bound Daffy Duck. Another, reflecting the whole interconnected-web-of-referentiality thing, is a propensity towards reference (see the previous sentence for an example; by the way, ever notice that Bugs Bunny is essentially an animated Groucho Marx, even repeating some gags?). Finally, especially in literature, architecture, and film/TV, postmodernism shows an obsession with form and playful tweakings of it. Which brings me back around to the American right. I've noticed a persistent love among people on the right for the movie Blazing Saddles. Jason Lewis, now a tea party republican congressman from Minnesota, often played the theme from Blazing Saddles during his time as a right-wing radio shouter in the Twin Cities. Conservative moaners about political correctness love to hold up Blazing Saddles as a movie that couldn't be made today because the mean liberal scolds would kill it for being too un-P.C. The overlap between these people and people who decry postmodernism is for all intents and purposes total
Eli Lilly researcher tests possible COVID-19 antibodies in a laboratory in Indianapolis. David Morrison / AP Originally published on November 10, 2020 8:12 am Eli Lilly has struck a deal with the federal government to provide 300,000 doses of a drug that's designed to keep people infected with COVID-19 out of the hospital. The cost per dose: $1,250. The federal government plans to distribute the 300,000 doses at no cost, but that doesn't mean treatment will be free. The Lilly drug, a type of monoclonal antibody, is given by intravenous infusion. Those infusions, typically given in hospitals or standalone clinics, can cost well over $1,000. People with health insurance are often required to pay hundreds of dollars in copayments. "Our goal is zero out-of-pocket expenses, wherever possible, for any patient receiving a Lilly COVID-19 antibody treatment," said CEO Dave Ricks. However, his statement acknowledged that "health care facilities may charge a fee for the product's administration." The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to grant emergency use authorization for this drug, along with a similar product developed by Regeneron. The Lilly deal is contingent on the FDA clearing the medicine for emergency use. President Trump received the Regeneron treatment shortly after he was diagnosed with COVID-19. He has told Americans they, too, would get it at little or no out-of-pocket cost. However, the federal government has not addressed the issue of infusion costs. The Lilly drug was tested on people who had been infected with the coronavirus but weren't sick enough to go to the hospital. As outlined in a paper published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, 1.6% of people who got the drug ended up in the hospital or at the emergency room, compared with 6.3% of people who got the placebo. That translates to $125,000 in upfront drug costs to prevent five trips to the emergency room or hospital, or $25,000 a piece. But adding in infusion costs could double the expense. Since only a small percentage of people who are infected with the coronavirus require hospitalization, taking a drug to reduce that risk would be a judgment call. Is it worthwhile to go to the emergency room for an infusion, and possibly face a substantial copayment, in order to reduce the risk of having to go back to the hospital later with COVID-19? "A lot of people are already reluctant to get infusions of antibodies," Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, said Tuesday on a webcast. Compared with pills, he said, "people inherently look at an infusion as more invasive, as potentially more risky." Ultimately drug companies hope to make antibodies available as injections rather than infusions, but the first-generation products need to be given in large quantities, so they require infusions. One decision the FDA will need to make is about the proper dosage. The study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the dose that appeared most effective required 2,800 milligrams of the drug. However, Lilly is arguing that 700 milligrams would be sufficient – in fact, that's the dosage that it has sold to the federal government. Lilly says it has requested that the drug be made available specifically to those at higher risk – older Americans and people with obesity. Its study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows greater benefit for that at-risk group: 4% of the people in that group ended up in the hospital, compared with 15% of people over 65 or with obesity in the placebo group. However, the study was not designed to look at this subgroup, so this could be a statistical fluke. That at-risk group still represents a large population. In August alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 164,000 cases of coronavirus in Americans over 60. Obesity affects 40% of US adults, so that could translate into another 300,000 people a month potentially eligible for this treatment. So, the 300,000 doses the government has purchased could be used up quickly if demand is high. Lilly hopes to produce up to a million doses by the end of 2020, and intends to make it available worldwide. Supplies could last longer if the FDA also grants emergency access to the Regeneron antibodies. That product is a combination of two antibodies. The company says its treatment is most effective in people who have been infected but who have not yet developed their own antibodies (those usually appear in the blood about a week after infection). If the FDA restricts the use of that product to people who have tested negative for coronavirus antibodies, the two products could target somewhat different populations. The federal government announced in July it would purchase up to 300,000 doses of the Regeneron antibodies. Late Wednesday, Regeneron announced it has submitted more data to the FDA, bolstering its case that the company's monoclonal antibodies reduce the amount of virus in patients. "These viral reductions are associated with a significant decrease in the need for further medical attention and lessen the need for medical care," Dr. George Yancopoulos, the company's president and CEO, said in a statement. You can contact Richard Harris at rharris@npr.org. The Food and Drug Administration has given its thumbs up to a drug that's designed to prevent people with mild to moderate COVID-19 from getting sicker. This drug will be available to people over 65 or with underlying health conditions. The FDA has not fully approved it, but it has authorized it for emergency use. NPR science correspondent Richard Harris is here to talk about this. Good morning. RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: Good morning, David. GREENE: So tell me more about this drug. HARRIS: Well, it's called a monoclonal antibody. And this one is made by Eli Lilly. President Trump got a similar medication from a company called Regeneron, but that product is still under review at the FDA. Now, these are synthetic antibodies that block the virus and prevent it from infecting cells. And the idea is to give people who have mild to moderate illness but aren't sick enough to be in the hospital, keep them out of the hospital, and that's really the goal of this drug. GREENE: And does it seem to work pretty reliably? HARRIS: Well, here's the thing - most people with mild to moderate COVID never end up in the hospital, so most people won't actually benefit from this in an obvious way. The FDA wants to restrict it to people who have a higher risk, like a 10% chance of needing hospitalization. And in that population, they figure the hospitalization rate would drop to about 3%. So looked at another way, if you give this to 100 people, it could theoretically prevent seven hospitalizations. So, basically, improves the odds a bit. GREENE: But if you think you might be eligible, I mean, is this something you would get from your doctor? Or how would you get access to it? HARRIS: That's one of the big challenges of this drug because it needs to be given by IV infusion, and that isn't simple. Dr. Walid Gellad at the University of Pittsburgh predicts that it's going to be chaotic figuring out how to administer the drug. WALID GELLAD: We don't want people running to the emergency room to get this therapy. We don't want people running to infusion centers, where there are patients with cancer. And we don't want them running necessarily to their primary care doctor's office that are not set up for these infusions. It is not clear at all where the infusions are going to happen. HARRIS: Maybe hospitals will set up tents. But in any event, he says it raises all sorts of questions about fair and equitable access to this drug. GREENE: I mean, at a moment when we're seeing, you know, record-high new cases in this country, which begs the question - I mean, could we reach a point where there's just not enough of this drug to go around? HARRIS: Well, there clearly won't be enough, at least not in the short run. Eli Lilly says it hopes to have a million doses by the end of the year, which sounds impressive, but considering that every day there are tens of thousands of new coronavirus cases in the United States, even that big-sounding supply really won't stretch. So that could be one reason the FDA has decided to limit its use to people at highest risk - those people over 65 and with underlying health conditions, including obesity. The federal government has agreed to purchase 300,000 doses and distribute them to the states. And the drug costs more than $1,200 per dose, so it's a relief that the government has at least picked up the tab, at least for that initial supply. GREENE: So during his campaign, President Trump promised seniors that they would get access to these kinds of antibodies at little or no cost, just like he was able to. You mentioned that he got something like this. Will that be the case here? HARRIS: Well, even though the drug itself will be free, the treatment won't be. I talked to health care economists, who figured out the cost to seniors could end up somewhere between $50 and $300 per treatment, depending upon the Medicare plan and whether a person has reached the annual deductible and so on. Medicare says hospitals can volunteer to waive their fees, but that's unlikely to happen. Commercial insurers, on the other hand, have been providing coronavirus treatments at no cost, so we'll see if that extends to the monoclonal antibodies. And the uninsured could face hefty bills here. GREENE: So big picture, Richard, how does this fit into the larger sort of picture of coronavirus
Kong topics Hong Kong Portal The HKTDC is governed by a 19-member Council of Hong Kong business leaders and senior government officials. It plans and supervises the organisation's global operations, services and promotional activities. The Council also oversees the operation of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Dr Peter K N Lam is the tenth HKTDC chairman since the Council's establishment. He started his term as chairman on 1 June 2019.[1] On 1 October 2014, Margaret Fong succeeded Fred Lam as the Executive Director of the HKTDC. Ms Fong is responsible for the HKTDC's worldwide operations.[2] Hong Kong Free Press revealed that HKTDC paid around HKD $84,000,000 from 2014 to 2020 to US lobbying firms, on behalf of the Hong Kong government, in an attempt to convince US politicians to object to the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.[3][4] Further information on these fairs: HKTDC Trade Fairs and Category:Trade fairs in Hong Kong The HKTDC also organises more than 30 fairs each year. Nine of these fairs are the biggest of their kind in Asia, while three are the world's largest, namely, the HKTDC Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair, the HKTDC Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair and the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition). HKTDC Online Marketplace HKTDC[5] operates an online marketplace[6] "hktdc.com" of 30 industries connecting more than 2 million global buyers with over 130,000 quality Hong Kong, China and Asia wholesale suppliers and manufacturers. With more than 50 years of experience in buyer-supplier matching, the hktdc.com facilitates worldwide buyers to source products and services from verified, quality suppliers and manufacturers. The HKTDC supports a series of bilateral economic and business committees. These business forums help promote economic ties between Hong Kong and the European Union, France, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Ad-hoc meetings are also organised annually with various Chinese mainland provinces and municipalities and Taiwan. The HKTDC is headquartered in Hong Kong. As of 2018, it has around 50 offices which span six continents. In addition to its headquarters its operations comprise 13 offices across mainland China as well locations throughout the Asia Pacific, including Taipei,[7] India, Japan and Australia. Beyond Asia, offices include: North American locations such as New York City and Toronto, plus Latin America, 11 European cities, and premises in South Africa and the Middle East. The offices have various functions. They act as "a window for Hong Kong to the outside world", as two-way links between the relevant country or region, provide assistance for companies or individuals interested in doing business with Hong Kong, and as a liaison between the SAR Government and governments of the relevant country. Their work has had a significant effect in enhancing the international profile of Hong Kong.[8][9] Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair Taiwan External Trade Development Council ^ https://aboutus.hktdc.com/data/files/Profile/Peter-Lam-profile-eng.pdf[bare URL PDF] ^ "HKTDC Announces New Executive Director". HKTDC Media Room. Retrieved 9 April 2018. ^ "Exclusive: Inside the Hong Kong govt's multi-million dollar US lobbying operation". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 19 April 2021. 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Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Jeannie Berlin as Aunt Reet in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Katherine Waterston as Shasta Fay Hepworth in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Katherine Waterston as Shasta Fay Hepworth in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) Maya Rudolph as Petunia Leeway in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Maya Rudolph as Petunia Leeway in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Benicio Del Toro as Sauncho Smilax, Esq. and Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Josh Brolin as Lt. Det. Christian F. 'Bigfoot' Bjornsen, Benicio Del Toro as Sauncho Smilax, Esq. and Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) Benicio Del Toro as Sauncho Smilax, Esq. in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (C) Owen Wilson as Coy Harlingen in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Owen Wilson as Coy Harlingen in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Owen Wilson as Coy Harlingen and Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Reese Witherspoon as Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Reese Witherspoon as Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball and Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Eric Roberts as Michael Z. Wolfmann and Serena Scott Thomas as Sloane Wolfmann in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Katherine Waterston as Shasta Fay Hepworth and Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) (L-R) Joanna Newsom as Sortilège, Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Katherine Waterson as Shasta Fay Hepworth in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Josh Brolin as Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen in 'Inherent Vice.' (Karen Ballard/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Owen Wilson as Coy Harlingen in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Michael Kenneth Wilson as Tariq Khalil in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Jordan Christian Hearn as Denis in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Jena Malone as Hope Harlingen in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Benicio Del Toro as Sauncho Smilax, Esq. in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Joanna Newsom as Sortilège in 'Inherent Vice.' (Michael Muller/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Josh Brolin as Lt. Det. Christian F. 'Bigfoot' Bjornsen in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Hong Chau as Jade in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Hong Chau as Jade and Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) Eric Roberts as Michael Z. Wolfmann in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Michelle Sinclair as Clancy Charlock, Maya Rudolph as Petunia Leeway and Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Reese Witherspoon as Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello, Martin Short as Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S., Jordan Christian Hearn as Denis and Sasha Pieterse as Japonica Fenway in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Michael Kenneth Williams as Tariq Khalil in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix as Larry 'Doc' Sportello and Jefferson Mays as Dr. Threeply in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Jefferson Mays as Dr. Threeply in 'Inherent Vice.' (Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Director/writer/producer Paul Thomas Anderson on the set of in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix and director/writer/producer Paul Thomas Anderson on the set of in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) (L-R) Martin Short and director/writer/producer Paul Thomas Anderson on the set of in 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) (L-R) Joaquin Phoenix and director/writer/producer Paul Thomas Anderson on the set of 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Joaquin Phoenix on the set of 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures) ( INHERENT VICE ) Director/writer/producer Paul Thomas Anderson on the set of 'Inherent Vice.' (Wilson Webb/Warner Bros. Pictures)
test_clk(struct unit_test_state uts) { struct udevice dev_fixed, dev_clk, dev_test; ulong rate; ut_assertok(uclass_get_device_by_name(UCLASS_CLK, "clk-fixed", &dev_fixed)); ut_assertok(uclass_get_device_by_name(UCLASS_CLK, "clk-sbox", &dev_clk)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_rate(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_rate(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_assertok(uclass_get_device_by_name(UCLASS_MISC, "clk-test", &dev_test)); ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_get(dev_test)); ut_asserteq(1234, sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_FIXED)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C)); rate = sandbox_clk_test_set_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_FIXED, 12345); ut_assert(IS_ERR_VALUE(rate)); rate = sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_FIXED); ut_asserteq(1234, rate); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_test_set_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI, 1000)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_test_set_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C, 2000)); ut_asserteq(1000, sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(2000, sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C)); ut_asserteq(1000, sandbox_clk_test_set_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI, 10000)); ut_asserteq(2000, sandbox_clk_test_set_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C, 20000)); rate = sandbox_clk_test_set_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI, 0); ut_assert(IS_ERR_VALUE(rate)); rate = sandbox_clk_test_set_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C, 0); ut_assert(IS_ERR_VALUE(rate)); ut_asserteq(10000, sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(20000, sandbox_clk_test_get_rate(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_asserteq(10000, sandbox_clk_query_rate(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(20000, sandbox_clk_query_rate(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_enable(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_enable(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_disable(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_disable(dev_test, SANDBOX_CLK_TEST_ID_I2C)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_free(dev_test)); return 0; } DM_TEST(dm_test_clk, DM_TESTF_SCAN_FDT); static int dm_test_clk_bulk(struct unit_test_state uts) { struct udevice dev_clk, dev_test; ut_assertok(uclass_get_device_by_name(UCLASS_CLK, "clk-sbox", &dev_clk)); ut_assertok(uclass_get_device_by_name(UCLASS_MISC, "clk-test", &dev_test)); ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_get_bulk(dev_test)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); / Fixed clock does not support enable, thus should not fail / ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_enable_bulk(dev_test)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); / Fixed clock does not support disable, thus should not fail / ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_disable_bulk(dev_test)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(0, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_I2C)); / Fixed clock does not support enable, thus should not fail */ ut_assertok(sandbox_clk_test_enable_bulk(dev_test)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(dev_clk, SANDBOX_CLK_ID_SPI)); ut_asserteq(1, sandbox_clk_query_enable(
The directory to output results. \item \texttt{setting\_file}: A json file that contains all the settings of the algorithm. \item \texttt{batch\_size}: Batch size to use during training. \item \texttt{max\_list\_cutoff}: The maximum number of top documents to consider in each rank list (0: no limit). \item \texttt{selection\_bias\_cutoff}: The maximum number of top documents to be shown to user (which creates selection bias) in each rank list (0: no limit). \item \texttt{max\_train\_iteration}: Limit on the iterations of training (0: no limit). \item \texttt{start\_saving\_iteration}: The minimum number of iterations before starting to test and save models (0: no limit). \item \texttt{steps\_per\_checkpoint}: How many training steps to do per checkpoint. \item \texttt{test\_while\_train}: Set to True to test models during the training process. \item \texttt{test\_only}: Set to True for testing models only. \end{itemize} Users can also configure different click simulation models from command line using the arguments as follow. \begin{itemize} \item Click model name. Users can choose among position bias model (\texttt{pbm}), cascade model (\texttt{cascade}), and user browsing model (\texttt{ubm}). \item Negative click probability is the probability that a document is examine but not clicked based on the relevance. \item Positive click probability is the probability that a document is examine and clicked based on the relevance. \item Max relevance grade what is the maximum score of relevancy that a document could achieve. \item the learning rate (eta) \end{itemize} A detailed description on how to create a click model \section{Use Case} To evaluate our toolbox, we created two ranking models using IPW and DBGD algorithms with ULTRA. \subsection{IPW learning algorithm} First, we created the Positional Biased Click Model with ULTRA. This is the model that simulate users' position bias. We set the negative click probability, positive click probability, max relevance grade and eta as 0.1, 1, 4, 1.0 respectively. We put the model \texttt{pbm\_0.1\_1.0\_4\\\_1.0.json} file and saved it in \texttt{./examp\\le/ClickModel/}. The command line for creating the click model is shown in figure \ref{fig:clickmodel} \begin{figure}[!hbt] \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.64]{Clickmodel.PNG} \caption{Creating Click Model with ULTRA using Command line} \label{fig:clickmodel} \end{figure} Next, we created our Randomized Propensity Estimator for the IPW algorithms. This is done using the command line through ULTRA as described in figure \ref{fig:PEstimator}. \begin{figure}[!hbt] \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.52]{PE2.PNG} \caption{Propensity Estimator with ULTRA using Command line} \label{fig:PEstimator} \end{figure} Then in the setting file, we choose Click Simulation Feed algorithm to create the input feed for training since IPW is a counterfactual learning algorithm. For validation and testing, we instead choose Direct Label Feed algorithm to create the input feed for the model since our goal is for the model to correctly rank the document according to relevance. The values for the train, valid and test hyper parameters are as follow. \begin{itemize} \item \texttt{oracle\_mode = False} \item \texttt{dynamic\_bias\_eta\_change=0.0} \item \texttt{dynamic\_bias\_step\_interval=1000} \item \texttt{click\_model\_json} to \texttt{./example/ClickModel\\/pbm\_0.1\_1.0\_4\_1.0.json}, our click model json file that we saved earlier. \end{itemize} For the ranking model, we choose the standard multi-layer perceptron network with \texttt{hidden\_layer\_sizes= [512, 256, 128]}. We use pytorch's LayerNorm \cite{ba2016layer} as our normalization layer, and activation function to be the ELU function which is defined as \begin{equation} E L U(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{ll} x, & \text { if } x \geq 0 \\ e^{x}-1, & \text { if } x<0 \end{array}\right. \end{equation} For the learning algorithm, we choose IPW with the following hyper parameters. \begin{itemize} \item \texttt{propensity\_estimator\_type}: the Randomized Propensity Estimator \item \texttt{propensity\_estimator\_json}: the Randomized Propensity Estimator json file that we created. \item \texttt{learning\_rate}: 0.05. \item \texttt{max\_gradient\_norm}: 5.0. \item \texttt{loss\_function}: softmax loss \item \texttt{l2\_loss}: 0.0 \item \texttt{grad\_strategy}: Ada Grad \end{itemize} Users can easily change them to fit their requirement. For evaluation metrics, we choose NDCG and ERR. Our test data is the Yahoo! dataset. We set our training iteration to be 10,000, batch size to be 256, selection bias cutoff to be 10. We achieved our ranking model after running the toolbox. \subsection{DBGD learning algorithm} Since we already created our click model to run IPW, we can reuse that model to create our input feed for DBGD thanks to ULTRA high reusability. For the setting file, instead of choosing Click Simulation Feed as our input layer for training, we choose Stochastic Online Simulation Click since it works better with online learning algorithm such as DBGD. We keep the ranking model the same for DBGD. For learning algorithm, we set the following hyper parameters. \begin{itemize} \item \texttt{learning\_rate}: 0.05. \item \texttt{max\_gradient\_norm}: 5.0. \item \texttt{need\_interleave}: True \item \texttt{grad\_strategy}: Ada Grad \end{itemize} Our evaluation metrics, test data and command line arguments are the same as IPW's. \subsection{Observation} As we can see from these two use cases, experimenting on ULTRA with different algorithms is just as simple as changing the name of the algorithm. ULTRA's API structure allow users to test algorithms with different settings with ease. Moreover, its high reusability means that users can save a lot of time by not having to recreate click model for every experiment. \begin{table}[t] \caption{\textmd{Results of unbiased learning-to-rank (ULTR) algorithms using ULTRA toobox with different learning paradigms on Yahoo! LETOR data using multi-layer perceptron as ranking models.}} \subcaption{\textmd{(a) Performance of unbiased learning-to-rank algorithms with offline learning on Yahoo! LETOR data}} \centering \begin{tabular}{p{2.25cm}\|c\|\|c\|c\|c\|c\|c\|c\|c\|c} \hline \multicolumn{10}{c}{Offline Learning}\\ \hline \hline \multicolumn{2}{c\|\|}{} & nDCG@1 & ERR@1 & nDCG@3 & ERR@3 & nDCG@5 & ERR@5 & nDCG@10 & ERR@10 \\ \hline \hline \multirow{4}{10 em}{Counterfactual\\ Learning Family}& IPW & 0.695\ & 0.344 & 0.706 & 0.425 & 0.709 & 0.447 & 0.745 & 0.472 \\ \cline{2-10} & REM & 0.657 & 0.341 & 0.665 & 0.416 & 0.677 & 0.432 & 0.722 & 0.454 \\ \cline{2-10} & DLA & 0.701 & 0.351 & 0.708 & 0.422 & 0.711 & 0.439 & 0.756 & 0.463 \\ \cline{2-10} & PairD & 0.681 & 0.319 & 0.706 & 0.407 & 0.714 & 0.435 & 0.732 & 0.447 \\ \hline \hline \multirow{4}{10 em}{Bandit Learning\\ Family}& DBGD & - & - & -
static constexpr int32_t ITALIC { int32_t(2) }; static constexpr int32_t LAYOUT_LEFT_TO_RIGHT { int32_t(0) }; private: static int32_t LAYOUT_MASK_; public: static constexpr int32_t LAYOUT_NO_LIMIT_CONTEXT { int32_t(4) }; static constexpr int32_t LAYOUT_NO_START_CONTEXT { int32_t(2) }; static constexpr int32_t LAYOUT_RIGHT_TO_LEFT { int32_t(1) }; private: static ::java::lang::String* MONOSPACED_; public: static constexpr int32_t PLAIN { int32_t(0) }; private: static int32_t PRIMARY_MASK_; static int32_t RECOGNIZED_MASK_; public: static constexpr int32_t ROMAN_BASELINE { int32_t(0) }; private: static ::java::lang::String* SANS_SERIF_; static int32_t SECONDARY_MASK_; static ::java::lang::String* SERIF_; public: static constexpr int32_t TRUETYPE_FONT { int32_t(0) }; static constexpr int32_t TYPE1_FONT { int32_t(1) }; private: bool createdFont { }; ::java::util::Hashtable* fRequestedAttributes { }; ::java::lang::ref::SoftReference* flmref { }; ::sun::font::Font2DHandle* font2DHandle { }; int32_t fontSerializedDataVersion { }; bool hasLayoutAttributes_ { }; public: /* package / int32_t hash { }; private: static ::java::awt::geom::AffineTransform identityTx_; public: /* protected / ::java::lang::String name { }; private: bool nonIdentityTx { }; int64_t pData { }; ::java::awt::peer::FontPeer* peer { }; public: /* protected / float pointSize { }; private: static constexpr int64_t serialVersionUID { int64_t(-4206021311591459213LL) }; public: / protected / int32_t size { }; private: static ::floatArray ssinfo_; public: /* protected / int32_t style { }; private: ::sun::font::AttributeValues values { }; protected: void ctor(::java::util::Map* attributes); void ctor(Font* font); void ctor(::java::lang::String* name, int32_t style, int32_t size); /void ctor(::java::lang::String name, int32_t style, float sizePts); (private) / /void ctor(::java::io::File* fontFile, int32_t fontFormat, bool isCopy, ::sun::font::CreatedFontTracker* tracker); (private) / /void ctor(::java::lang::String* name, int32_t style, float sizePts, bool created, ::sun::font::Font2DHandle* handle); (private) / /void ctor(::sun::font::AttributeValues* values, ::java::lang::String* oldName, int32_t oldStyle, bool created, ::sun::font::Font2DHandle* handle); (private) / /static void applyStyle(int32_t style, ::sun::font::AttributeValues* values); (private) / /static void applyTransform(::java::awt::geom::AffineTransform* trans, ::sun::font::AttributeValues* values); (private) / public: virtual bool canDisplay(char16_t c); virtual bool canDisplay(int32_t codePoint); virtual int32_t canDisplayUpTo(::java::lang::String str); virtual int32_t canDisplayUpTo(::char16_tArray* text, int32_t start, int32_t limit); virtual int32_t canDisplayUpTo(::java::text::CharacterIterator* iter, int32_t start, int32_t limit); static Font* createFont(int32_t fontFormat, ::java::io::InputStream* fontStream); static Font* createFont(int32_t fontFormat, ::java::io::File* fontFile); /static Font createFont0(int32_t fontFormat, ::java::io::InputStream* fontStream, ::sun::font::CreatedFontTracker* tracker); (private) / virtual ::java::awt::font::GlyphVector createGlyphVector(::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc, ::java::lang::String* str); virtual ::java::awt::font::GlyphVector* createGlyphVector(::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc, ::char16_tArray* chars); virtual ::java::awt::font::GlyphVector* createGlyphVector(::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc, ::java::text::CharacterIterator* ci); virtual ::java::awt::font::GlyphVector* createGlyphVector(::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc, ::int32_tArray* glyphCodes); static Font* decode(::java::lang::String* str); /::sun::font::FontLineMetrics defaultLineMetrics(::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc); (private) / virtual Font deriveFont(float size); virtual Font* deriveFont(::java::awt::geom::AffineTransform* trans); virtual Font* deriveFont(int32_t style); virtual Font* deriveFont(::java::util::Map* attributes); virtual Font* deriveFont(int32_t style, float size); virtual Font* deriveFont(int32_t style, ::java::awt::geom::AffineTransform* trans); bool equals(::java::lang::Object* obj) override; /::sun::font::AttributeValues getAttributeValues(); (private) / virtual ::java::util::Map getAttributes(); virtual ::java::text::AttributedCharacterIterator_AttributeArray* getAvailableAttributes(); virtual int8_t getBaselineFor(char16_t c); virtual ::java::lang::String* getFamily(); virtual ::java::lang::String* getFamily(::java::util::Locale* l); public: /* package / ::java::lang::String getFamily_NoClientCode(); public: static Font* getFont(::java::util::Map* attributes); static Font* getFont(::java::lang::String* nm); static Font* getFont(::java::lang::String* nm, Font* font); /::sun::font::Font2D getFont2D(); (private) / virtual ::java::lang::String getFontName(); virtual ::java::lang::String* getFontName(::java::util::Locale* l); virtual float getItalicAngle(); /float getItalicAngle(::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext frc); (private) / virtual ::java::awt::font::LineMetrics getLineMetrics(::java::lang::String* str, ::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc); virtual ::java::awt::font::LineMetrics* getLineMetrics(::java::lang::String* str, int32_t beginIndex, int32_t limit, ::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc); virtual ::java::awt::font::LineMetrics* getLineMetrics(::char16_tArray* chars, int32_t beginIndex, int32_t limit, ::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc); virtual ::java::awt::font::LineMetrics* getLineMetrics(::java::text::CharacterIterator* ci, int32_t beginIndex, int32_t limit, ::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc); virtual ::java::awt::geom::Rectangle2D* getMaxCharBounds(::java::awt::font::FontRenderContext* frc); virtual int32_t getMissingGlyphCode(); virtual ::java::lang::String* getName(); virtual int32_t get
view:like]; [UIView animateWithDuration:2 animations:^{like.alpha = 0.0;}]; This part is where I can't call the UIImageView of the UICollectionViewCell: NSData* data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(cell.imageFile.image, 0.8f); PFFile likedImage = [PFFile fileWithName:@"Image.jpg" data:data]; [likedImage saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError error) { if (!error) { PFObject userLikes = [PFObject objectWithClassName:@"UserProfile"]; [userLikes setObject:likedImage forKey:@"likedLook"]; userLikes.ACL = [PFACL ACLWithUser:[PFUser currentUser]]; PFUser user = [PFUser currentUser]; [userLikes setObject:user forKey:@"user"]; [userLikes saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError error) { if (!error) { NSLog(@"Saved"); } else { NSLog(@"Error: %@%@", error, [error userInfo]); } }]; } }]; NSLog(@"Liked Image"); } } A: First you will have to get the indexpath of the item by using method NSIndexPath indexpath=[NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:<#(NSInteger)#> inSection:<#(NSInteger)#>]; Just provide the row and section number in this method. Then use that indexpath to get the cell using below method UICollectionViewCell cell = [collectionView1 cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath]; Then you can access the properties of the cell. A: Now that you have your button as a part of the cell, you can do: -(UICollectionViewCell )collectionView:(UICollectionView )collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath )indexPath { static NSString cellID = @"cellID"; UICollectionViewCell cell = [collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:cellID forIndexPath:indexPath]; //... your code here for cellForItemAtIndexPath: method likeButton.tag = indexPath.row; [cell.likeButton addTarget:self action:@selector(liked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; } - (void) liked:(UIButton )button { UIImage image = [imageArray objectAtIndex:button.tag]; NSData* data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.8f); PFFile likedImage = [PFFile fileWithName:@"Image.jpg" data:data]; [likedImage saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError error) { if (!error) { PFObject userLikes = [PFObject objectWithClassName:@"UserProfile"]; [userLikes setObject:likedImage forKey:@"likedLook"]; userLikes.ACL = [PFACL ACLWithUser:[PFUser currentUser]]; PFUser user = [PFUser currentUser]; [userLikes setObject:user forKey:@"user"]; [userLikes saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError error) { if (!error) { NSLog(@"Saved"); } else { NSLog(@"Error: %@%@", error, [error userInfo]); } }]; } }]; } This has not been tested though the idea is there. It is always preferred to manipulate/retrieve data from an array that populates your collection view (such as the array of images or strings that you access by index) rather than accessing its cell. A: Try this: - (UICollectionViewCell )collectionView:(UICollectionView )collectionView1 cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath )indexPath { UICollectionViewCell cell=[collectionView1 dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"cellIdentifier" forIndexPath:indexPath]; cell.backgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:@"image.jpg"]; cell.backgroundView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit; cell.backgroundColor=[UIColor blackColor]; return cell; } - (NSInteger)collectionView:(UICollectionView )collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:(NSInteger)section { return [your_image_array count]; } To detect selected image: - (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView )collectionView didSelectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath )indexPath { NSLog(@"Selected Image = %d",indexPath.row); } A: UITapGestureRecognizer tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleSingleTap:)]; tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1; imgView.tag=indexPath.row [imgView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES]; [imgView addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture]; - (void)handleSingleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer )tap { NSLog(@"%d",[tap view].tag); } A: You can create a property @property(strong, nonatomic) UIImage imageForCell; Then initialise it with the first image - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; self.imageForCell = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage.png"]; } In your button you should change the image first and then reload specific cells (in this example cell 5): - (IBAction)buttonTapped:(id)sender { self.imageForCell = [UIImage imageNamed:@"newImage.png"]; NSIndexPath indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:5 inSection:0]; [self.myCollectionView reloadItemsAtIndexPaths:indexPath]; } When populating the cell use the property imageForCell: -(UICollectionViewCell )collectionView:(UICollectionView )collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath )indexPath { ... cell.imageFile.image = self.imageForCell; ... } A: For anyone who needs help this is what I did: Create a Class for the Cell. Post the code inside the Cell Class implementation file. In my case: #import "VestimentaDetailCell.h" @implementation VestimentaDetailCell @synthesize imageFile, progressView; - (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame { self = [super initWithFrame:frame]; if (self) { // Initialization code } return self; } - (IBAction)likeLook:(id)sender { if ([sender isSelected]) { [sender setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Like.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [sender setSelected:NO]; } else { [sender setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Liked.png"] forState:UIControlStateSelected]; [sender setSelected:YES]; UIImageView like = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(120, 220, 100, 100)]; like.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"Love.png"]; [self addSubview:like]; [UIView animateWithDuration:2 animations:^{like.alpha = 0.0;}]; NSData imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(imageFile.image, 1); [self uploadImage:imageData]; NSLog(@"Liked Image"); } } -(void)uploadImage:(NSData )imageData { PFFile likedImage = [PFFile fileWithName:@"Image.jpg" data:imageData]; [likedImage saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError error) { if (!error) { PFObject userLikedPhoto = [PFObject objectWithClassName:@"UserLikedPhoto"]; [userLikedPhoto setObject:likedImage forKey:@"likedLook"]; userLikedPhoto.ACL = [PFACL ACLWithUser:[PFUser currentUser]]; PFUser user = [PFUser currentUser]; [userLikedPhoto setObject:user forKey:@"User"]; [userLikedPhoto saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError error) { if (!error) { NSLog(@"Saved"); } else { NS
Culture Marvel's hotly anticipated film Doctor Strange has the same core problem all superhero franchises rooted in science fiction do: It must walk the balance between scientifically feasibility and fantasy. After all, what good is sci-fi if we can't have a little fun with science fiction? Nevertheless, the film's producers aren't looking to just break the laws of physics willy nilly for a special effects bonanza; they're also looking to adhere to natural laws in a way that combines imagination with realism. That's why many movies enlist the help of scientific experts as consultants during production. This is particularly fitting for Doctor Strange: the titular protagonist — Stephen Strange (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) — is a former neurosurgeon turned magical sorcerer, trained in the mystical arts to protect the earth from supernatural threats. As such, the audience is essentially put in the same position as Strange: They must leave a life of total empiricism and walk into one in which everything they know no longer applies. Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, served as the film's scientific consultant. Because Doctor Strange is so fixated on the nature of reality and consciousness, Frank's role was to advise the movie on illustrating changes in the human experience of space and time. Inverse spoke with Frank for a short Q&A. His answers are presented below (edited for clarity and brevity). What kinds of physics and space-time concepts did Marvel need of guidance on? Let's talk in general about the Marvel Universe and science. One of the things that's really awesome about what those guys have done across the Marvel Universe movies is that there's — as much as you can have in a superhero movie — a respect for science. In particular, they've built a consistent set of rules, and they've obeyed them throughout most of the movies. Compared to [the DC movies], they've imagined there's a science at work. You know, Tony Stark and what he can do with the devices he builds and the idea that Thor, the inhabitants of Asgard, are actually aliens, magic … a number of times they've used that Arthur C. Clarke quote: "Any advance of technology looks like magic to other people." The dilemma with Doctor Strange, to me, was to find a way to embrace that vision and that respect for science for a character who — in the comic books at least — is a magician, an occult master. And so how do you get that into the Marvel Universe? [The film's producers] wanted to respect everything that they've been slowly and carefully building. So the question is how do you fit Doctor Strange into this? There's a lot of different ways. You could have imagined that it was all about neurological forces — the neurochemistry of the brain or something. I think that would have been an interesting way to go, but for me the biggest thing was the idea of consciousness. And so we spent a lot of time talking about the scientific and philosophical conundrums around the idea of consciousness. When it comes to the laws of physics, we've pretty much got those nailed down and you can take those all the way to the frontiers of physics. In the Thor movies, there's the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, so the rainbow way or whatever it's called is actually a wormhole. In Ant-Man, they brought in quantum mechanics. And the great thing about Marvel is they use those devices — they're good enough about their science — as twists in the story to be able to make the story move along. Consciousness is not like that. We don't really have a handle on what consciousness is. We don't have a scientific, materialist, reductionist account for consciousness yet. Maybe we will have one, but it's also entirely possible that we will not have one and we will need to add other things to have a proper science of consciousness. A noted philosopher, David Chalmers, came up with the idea of the "hard problem" in the 1990s. He was trying to explain how neuroscience has made interesting progress on things like vision — how does vision actually work, how do you represent something from visual input, which part of the brain is active. For him, the hard problem was how to account for the personal vividness of experience. Even if I wrote an equation down for it — if I wrote an equation down for you eating an apple — that would be very different from your experience of eating the apple. So your work was more along the lines of playing around with individual perception and consciousness, and playing around with what those effects have on someone's perception of space-time as they see it? It's more than that. I think you can go much further and say, where does consciousness really live? It's not just the mechanics of perception, it's what is consciousness tapping into? What is consciousness part of? The typical materialist account of consciousness is you're just your neurons. That's it, end of story. You're just the equivalent of a bunch of little springs and balls in your brain moving back and forth, or gears. For many years, people imagined that you could think of consciousness as just being the effect of the clockwork in your head. But people have always been pointing out the problems with that idea. One way of playing with Doctor Strange is this idea that there's a lot more going on there than just your neurons. The neurons are [just] one way of describing what's happening with consciousness, but that's not all of it: There are other, so to speak, universes that can be opened through what we don't understand about consciousness. Can you tell me a bit more about how the movie navigates through alternate universes and multiverse theory? The multiverse is such a rich idea. I don't think it's true, but that doesn't matter. It certainly is discussed by physicists, it's received a lot of attention by physicists, and it's a really potent and rich thing to bring to your fictional universe. The scientific account of the multiverse is that after the Big Bang, you didn't get one universe, you got lots of different universes. And each universe was separate from the others and had different physical laws. That's the idea that sort of comes from cosmology, but physicists have been playing around with lots of different ideas of multiverses. For example, in quantum mechanics (and trying to understand the weirdnesses of quantum mechanics), people have proposed that every time a quantum event occurs, the universe splits off into a bunch of parallel dimensions, each with a different quantum result, and then each of those individual universes goes on and evolves on its own. And then, of course, there'll be more quantum events and then there'll be more splittings until you have an infinite number of parallel universes. So what you could do in a movie is imagine that you're getting access between all of these universes, like the universe that we're living in is one universe out of an infinite number of universes in the multiverse. So the multiverse is all the possible universes, and all these different universes have utterly different kinds of laws, different behavior, so you can use that idea in a story to allow your characters — especially as they're using consciousness, using this openness of consciousness in the story — to be able to have access and move between these different universes. In the Doctor Strange comics, he's always going to these different dimensions. And that was very 1960s, totally groove-orific, trippy. So a way of bringing that into modern physics parlance is [thinking about how the] different dimensions become the different universes in the multiverse. A lot of times, different kinds of science fiction works will use dimensions and universes as a synonym, which is obviously not the way physicists talk about these things. Does Doctor Strange make that distinction between different dimensions and universes, or does it use those terms interchangeably? In the multiverse (depending on which version of the multiverse you're dealing with) they can be the same thing. In the quantum mechanical version of the multiverse, you have an infinite dimensional space, with each dimension representing a different universe. The number of spatial dimensions in the universe will be different — they can all be three-dimensional universes — but they all exist in this higher, in this more abstract, infinite dimensional space where each dimension represents a different universe. Physicists will think about dimensions in more than just the physical, spatial dimensions. So you don't have to make that distinction. Is there an example that you might be able to provide about how the movie runs with a scientific concept and the role you played in making sure that it was grounded in a factual basis? Without getting into specifics, we had a long discussion about what that dialogue would look like between the Ancient One [Strange's teacher] and Strange. What would it look like between a materialist, rationalist, reductionist; and someone who had this enlarged perspective. Because I'm a physicist, I know exactly what those materialist arguments look like; I've also written on science and human spirituality. I'm not a reductionist. I'm an atheist, but I'm not a reductionist. So that was one of the things we sort of went back and forth with. And that was fun, just talking about, "What would somebody who just believes that there was nothing to consciousness except your neurons — how would he argue with someone who was saying, 'No, there's actually more'? What would that look like?" That was fun for me, that part was super awesome for me. I'm looking forward to seeing the final project, but what I've seen so far I've been really excited about. Media via Marvel Epic 'Thor: Love and Thunder' fan theory connects ev...
U.S. Civil War, African Americans were legally denied equal rights and freedoms pursuant to formally valid codes prescribing the relations between master and slave. Although these codes were de jure fully suitable for application in legal practice, their enforcement by the then U.S. government de facto violated basic human rights of a significant part of the population. William H. Seward famously proclaimed that slavery is forbidden under "a higher law than the Constitution." Generally speaking, the occurrence of such "justly enacted unjust laws" fully depends on the stance taken by the country's political leadership towards the rule of law principle. In some countries, the political leaders assert that the rule of law is purely a procedural concept. Therefore, they argue that any government may strip its subjects of their fundamental freedoms or infringe their vital interests so long as this is done by way of a duly implemented legal mechanism. For example, at the Nuremberg trials, in an attempt to justify their crimes against Jewish and Romany population of Europe during World War II, some of the former leaders of Nazi Germany argued that they had broken none of the laws effective when Hitler had been in power. It was only by invoking the rule according to a higher law that the Allied prosecutors were able to legitimately overcome such defenses.[8] In other countries, conversely, the political leaders assert that all written laws must be kept in line with the universal principles of morality, fairness, and justice. These leaders argue that, as a necessary corollary to the axiom that "no one is above the law," the rule of law requires the government to treat all persons equally under the law. However, the proclaimed right to equal treatment is susceptible to instantly becoming void each time the government denies a sufficient level of respect, dignity, and autonomy to a certain class of individuals or to human rights in general."[9] Therefore, the unwritten and universally self-explanatory principles of equality, autonomy, dignity, and respect are said to overrule conventional written laws enacted by the government. It is these principles that are often referred to as "natural law." They also constitute the basis of the "higher law theory." Constitutional government as enforcement of the higher law The Rechtsstaat doctrine (Legal state, State of right, Constitutional state, Constitutional government) was first introduced by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant in his latest works completed after the U.S. and French constitutions had been adopted in the late 18th century. Kant's approach is based on the supremacy of country's written constitution created using principles of the Higher Law. This supremacy meant creating guarantees for the implementation of his central idea: a permanently peaceful life as a basic condition for the happiness and prosperity of the citizens. Kant was basing his doctrine exclusively on the idea of constitutionalism and constitutional government. Kant had formulated the main problem of constitutionalism as an instrument for the practical implementation of the Higher Law as follows, "The constitution of a state is eventually based on the morals of its citizens, which, in its turn, is based on the goodness of this constitution." This idea of Kant's has become the foundation for the constitutional theory of the 21st century. The Legal state concept is based on the ideas introduced by Immanuel Kant, for example, in his Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals: "The task of establishing a universal and permanent peaceful life is not only a part of theory of law within the framework of pure reason, but per se an absolute and ultimate goal. To achieve this goal, a state must become the community of a large number of people, living provided with legislative guarantees of their property rights secured by a common constitution. The supremacy of this constitution… must be derived a priori from the considerations for achievement of the absolute ideal in the most just and fair organization of people's life under the aegis of public law."[10] The Russian legal system, born in the 19th century as a result of the transformations initiated by the reforms of the Emperor Alexander II, was (and still is) based primarily upon the German legal tradition. It was from the latter that Russia had adopted the doctrine of Rechtsstaat, which literally translates as "Legal State." Its closest English analogue is "the rule of law."[11] The Russian Legal state concept adopts the written constitution as the country's supreme law (the rule of constitution). It is a fundamental but undefined principle that appears in the very first dispositive provision of Russia's post-Communist constitution: "The Russian Federation – Russia – constitutes a democratic federative legal state with a republican form of governance." Similarly, the very first dispositive provision of Ukraine's Constitution declares that "Ukraine is a sovereign and independent, democratic, social, legal state." Hence, the effort to invest meaning to the "Legal State" definition is anything but theoretical. Valery Zorkin, President of the Constitutional Court of Russia, wrote in 2003, "Becoming a legal state has long been our ultimate goal, and we have certainly made serious progress in this direction over the past several years. However, no one can say now that we have reached this destination. Such a legal state simply cannot exist without a lawful and just society. Here, as in no other sphere of our life, the state reflects the level of maturity reached by the society."[12] The Russian concept of Legal state has adopted many segments of constitutional economics which serves as a practical implementation of the higher law theory in economics. Economist James M. Buchanan argues that, in the framework of constitutional government, any governmental intervention or regulation must be conditioned by the three following assumptions. First, every failure of the market economy to function smoothly and perfectly can be corrected by governmental intervention. Second, those holding political office and manning the bureaucracies are altruistic upholders of the public interest, unconcerned with their own personal economic well-being. And third, changing the government responsibilities towards more intervention and control will not profoundly and perversely affect the social and economic life. Buchanan rejects "any organic conception of the state as superior in wisdom, to the individuals who are its members." This philosophical position is, in fact, the very subject matter of constitutional economics. A constitutional economics approach allows for a combined economic and constitutional analysis, helping to avoid a one-dimensional understanding. Buchanan, together with Kant, believes that a constitution in its capacity as the Higher Law, intended for use by at least several generations of citizens, must be able to adjust itself for pragmatic economic decisions, while balancing interests of the state and society against those of individuals, with their constitutional rights to personal freedom and private happiness. Buchanan also outlines importance of protection of the moral principles underlying constitutional norms. He writes that "the ethics of constitutional citizenship is not directly comparable to ethical behavior in interaction with other persons within the constraints imposed by the rules of an existing regime. An individual may be fully responsible, in the standard ethical sense, and yet fail to meet the ethical requirement of constitutional citizenship."[13] Constitutional theory International human rights law Liberal legalism Nuremberg Principles Political philosophy of Immanuel Kant Roerich Pact ^ West's Encyclopedia of American Law (in 13 volumes), 2nd Ed., edited by Jeffrey Lehman and Shirelle Phelps. Publisher: Thomson Gale, 2004. ISBN 0-7876-6367-0. ^ M.N.S. Sellers, Republican Legal Theory: The History, Constitution and Purposes of Law in a Free State, Basingstoke, 2004 ^ Edward S. Corwin, The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law (1955). ^ Leslie F. Goldstein, Popular Sovereignty, the Origins of Judicial Review, and the Revival of Unwritten Law, Journal of Politics 48 (1986): 51–71 ^ Mortimer Sellers, An Introduction. The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspectives, edited by Mortimer Sellers and Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Springer, Heidelberg - London - New York, 2010, pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-90-481-3749-7. ^ Bruges, the Bridge between Civilizations: The 75 Anniversary of the Roerich Pact, Grid Belgium, 2010Peter Barenboim, Naeem Sidiqi,. ISBN 978-5-98856-114-9 ^ Amartya Sen, Global justice in Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law, edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, Lee Cabating and Paul Lepore, Routledge, London and New York, 2010. ^ Introductory note by Antonio Cassese for General Assembly resolution 95(I) of 11 December 1946 (Affirmation of the Principles of International Law recognized by the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal) on the website of the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law ^ Augusto Zimmermann, Constitutions Without Constitutionalism: The Failure of Constitutionalism in Brazil, The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspectives, edited by Mortimer Sellers and Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Springer, Heidelberg - London - New York, 2010, p.101. ISBN 978-90-481-3749-7. ^ Immanuel Kant, History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1987. ^ Peter Barenboim, Defining the rules, The European Lawyer, Issue 90, October 2009. ^ The World Rule of Law Movement and Russian Legal Reform, edited by Francis Neate and Holly Nielsen, Justitsinform, Moscow, 2007. ^ Buchanan, J., Logical Formulations of Constitutional Liberty, Vol. 1., Indianapolis, 1999. P. 372. West's Encyclopedia of American Law (in 13 volumes
Noble Pride to the End! Vegeta Falls!! Episode 127 :The Approaching Wall! The Final Barrier of Hope!! Episode 126 :Surpass Even a God! Vegeta`s Desperate Blow!! Episode 125 :With Imposing Presence! God of Destruction Toppo Descends!! Episode 124 :The Fiercely Overwhelming Assault! Gohan`s Last Stand!! Episode 123 :Body and Soul, Full Power Release! Goku and Vegeta!! Episode 122 :For One`s Own Pride! Vegeta`s Challenge to Be the Strongest!! Episode 121 :All-Out War! The Ultimate Quadruple Merge vs Universe 7`s Full-Scale Attack!! Episode 120 :The Perfect Survival Tactic! Universe 3`s Menacing Assassin!! Episode 119 :Unavoidable?! The Fierce Stealth Attack!! Episode 117 :Showdown of Love! Androids vs Universe 2!! Episode 116 :The Sign of a Comeback! Ultra Instinct`s Huge Explosion!! Episode 115 :Goku vs Kefla! Super Saiyan Blue Defeated?! Episode 114 :Intimidating Passion! The Birth of a New Super Warrior!! Episode 113 :With Great Joy! The Repeat Battle-Crazy Saiyan Fight!! Episode 112 :A Saiyan`s Vow! Vegeta`s Resolution!! Episode 111 :The Surreal Supreme Battle! Hit vs Jiren!! Episode 110 :Son Goku Wakes! New Level of the Awakened!! Episode 109 :The Ultimate Enemy Approaches Goku! Now, Let Loose! The Killer Spirit Bomb!! Episode 108 :Frieza and Frost! Conjoined Malice?! Episode 107 :Revenge "F"! The Cunning Trap?! Episode 106 :Find Him! Death Match with an Invisible Attacker!! Episode 105 :A Desperate Battle! Master Roshi`s Sacrifice!! Episode 104 :The Ultimate High Speed Battle Begins! Goku and Hit Join Forces!! Episode 103 :Gohan, Show No Mercy! Showdown with Universe 10!! Episode 102 :The Power of Love Explodes?! Universe 2`s Little Witch Warriors!! Episode 101 :The Impending Warriors of Justice! The Pride Troopers!! Episode 100 :Out of Control! The Savage Berserker Awakens!! Episode 99 :Show Them! Krillin`s True Power!! Episode 98 :Oh, Uncertainty! A Universe Despairs!! Episode 97 :Survive! The Tournament of Power Begins at Last!! Episode 96 :The Time Is Here! To the World of Void for the Fate of the Universe!! Episode 95 :The Worst! The Most Evil! Frieza`s Rampage!! Episode 94 :The Emperor of Evil Returns! A Reception of Mysterious Assassins?! Episode 93 :You`re the Tenth Warrior! Goku Goes to See Frieza!! Episode 92 :Emergency Development! The Incomplete Ten Members!! Episode 91 :Which Universe Will Survive?! The Strongest Warriors Are Gathering!! Episode 89 :An Unknown Beauty Appears! The Tenshin-Style Dojo`s Mystery?! Episode 88 :Gohan and Piccolo: Teacher and Pupil Clash in Max Training! Episode 87 :Hunt the Poachers! Goku and No. 17`s United Front!! Episode 86 :Fists Cross for the First Time! Android #17 vs Son Goku!! Episode 83 :Form the Universe 7 Representing Team! Who Are the Strongest Ten?! Episode 82 :Never Forgive Son Goku! Toppo the Warrior of Justice Intrudes!! Episode 81 :Bergamo the Crusher vs Son Goku! Which One Wields the Limitless Power?! Episode 80 :Awaken Your Sleeping Battle Spirit! Son Gohan`s Fight!! Episode 79 :Universe 9`s Basil the Kicker vs Universe 7`s Majin Buu! Episode 77 :Let`s Do It, Zen-Oh Sama! The All-Universe Martial Arts Tournament!! Episode 76 :Defeat These Terrifying Enemies! Krillin`s Fighting Spirit Returns! Episode 74 :For the Ones He Loves! The Unbeatable Great Saiyaman!! Episode 73 :Gohan`s Misfortune! An Unexpected Great Saiyaman Movie?! Episode 72 :Will There Be a Counterattack?! The Invisible Killing Strike!! Episode 70 :Champa`s Challenge! This Time We Fight with Baseball! Episode 69 :Goku vs Arale! A Ridiculous Battle Will End the Earth?! Episode 68 :Come Forth, Shenron! Whose Wish Will Be Granted?! Episode 66 :The Climactic Battle! The Miraculous Power of a Relentless Warrior! Episode 64 :Revere Him! Praise Him! Fusion Zamasu`s Explosive Birth!! Episode 63 :Don`t Disrespect Saiyan Cells! Vegeta`s Heroic Battle Begins!! Episode 62 :I`ll Protect the World! Trunks` Furious Super Power Explodes!! Episode 60 :Back to the Future: Goku Black`s Identity Is Revealed!! Episode 59 :Protect Supreme Kai Gowasu: Destroy Zamasu! Episode 55 :I Want to See Son Goku: Zen-Oh Sama`s Summoning! Episode 53 :Uncover Black`s Identity! To the Sacred World of the Kais! Episode 49 :A Message from the Future: Goku Black Strikes! Episode 47 :An SOS from the Future! A Dark New Enemy Emerges!! Episode 46 :Goku vs. the Cloned Vegeta! Which One Will Win?! Episode 45 :Vegeta`s Disappearing?! The Threat of the Cloned Vegeta! Episode 44 :Planet Potaufeu`s Seal. The Secret of the "Superhuman Water" Unleashed! Episode 41 :Come, Dragon of the Gods: And Grant Me My Wish, Pretty Peas! Episode 40 :At Last, It Comes to an End! Is the Winner Beerus? Or Is It Champa? Episode 39 :The Advanced "Time-Skip" Fights Back?! Will It Come Forth? Goku`s New Technique! Episode 38 :The Ultimate Warrior of Universe 6! Assassin Hit Appears!! Episode 36 :An Unexpected Desperate Battle! Vegeta`s Furious Explosion! Episode 34 :Piccolo vs. Frost: Put It All on the Special Beam Cannon! Episode 33 :Behold, Universe 6! This Is the Super Saiyan? Son Goku! Episode 32 :The Match Begins! Let`s All Go to the "Nameless Planet!" Episode 31 :Off to Zuno Sama`s! Find Out Where Super Dragon Balls Are! Episode 30 :A Review Before the `Martial Arts Match`: Who Are the Last Two Members?! Episode 26 :A Glint of Hope Shines Through in a Crisis! Time to Fight Back, Son Goku! Episode 24 :Clash! Frieza vs Son Goku: This Is the Result of My Training! Episode 23 :The Earth! Gohan! Absolute Peril! Hurry and Get Here, Son Goku!! Episode 22 :Change! An Unexpected Return! His Name Is Ginyu!! Episode 21 :The Start of Revenge! The Malice of Frieza Army Strikes Gohan! Episode 19 :Despair Rises! The Emperor of Evil, Frieza, Resurrected! Episode 18 :I`m Here, Too! Training Begins on Beerus` Planet! Episode 17 :Pan Is Born! And Goku Goes on a Training Trip?! Episode 16 :Vegeta Becomes an Apprentice?! Winning Whis Over! Episode 14 :This Is Every Ounce of Power I Have! The Battle of Gods` Conclusion! Episode 13 :Goku, Surpass the Super Saiyan God! Episode 12 :The Universe Crumbles?! Clash! God of Destruction vs. Super Saiyan God! Episode 11 :Let`s Keep Going, Beerus Sama! Our Battle of Gods! Episode 10 :Unleash It, Goku! The Power of the Super Saiyan God!! Episode 09 :Sorry for the Wait, Beerus Sama. The Super Saiyan God Is Finally Born! Episode 08 :Goku Arrives! A Last Chance from Beerus Sama?! Episode 07 :How Dare You Hurt My Bulma! Vegeta`s Sudden, Angry Shift?! Episode 04 :Aim for the Dragon Balls! Pilaf Gang in Action! Episode 03 :Where`s the Rest of the Dream?! In Search of the Super Saiyan God! Episode 02 :To the Promised Resort! Vegeta
for example, provide each group with a set assortment of pieces or let teams choose what they want from all pasta at one classroom location. (optional) Make an example pasta car to give students an idea of what they are attempting to build. (optional) Decide whether or not you want students to conduct their own online research to find examples of pasta cars, or if you want to find some examples in advance to show them, or if you want to conduct the activity without this sort of research input. Construct a testing ramp. Refer to the rules, judging instructions and Figures 2 and 3 for suggested dimensions and course layout. Use books/boxes and masking tape to prop up the ramp securely, so it does not change between trials. Use masking tape to mark the starting line at the top of the ramp and a test area on the floor, leaving a stretch of open space at the bottom of the ramp for the little cars to run until they stop. Figure 2. Suggested vehicle testing ramp and course layout. Review with the class the concepts of kinetic and potential energy, as well as the law of conservation of energy. Refer to the information in the Background section. With so much material available on the topic of energy, it is up to the teacher to determine how in-depth to explore the concepts. At a minimum, present to the class the following three ideas. Gravitational potential is the stored energy due to an object's height above the ground. It is dependent on the object's distance from the ground and its mass (if the concept of mass has not been taught, equate mass to weight). To illustrate the dependence on mass, ask students if they would rather have a brick or a piece of foam fall on their toes? Then ask students: If a brick was dropped on your foot, would it hurt more if it was dropped from a centimeter above the foot or if it dropped from a meter off the ground? Depending on the class math level, introduce the equation for potential energy: PE = m x g x h where m is the mass, g is gravitational acceleration and h is the height above the ground. Then enter some numbers for the different variables to show that if g and h are fixed, all you can change is m. Kinetic energy is energy associated with an object's motion. It is dependent on how fast an object is traveling and the object's mass (if the concept of mass has not been taught, equate mass to weight). Quick demo: Let a small wheeled vehicle (perhaps a toy, not made of pasta) run down the ramp numerous times, adding more and more weight to the car each run to show the resulting differences in distance traveled. The vehicle's kinetic energy as it rolls down the ramp is a result of the conversion from the gravitational potential energy the car had at the top of the ramp. Thus, at the start of each trial, all of the energy a car possesses is from its gravitational potential. Present to the class the Introduction/Motivation content. This introduces the idea of designing a vehicle made entirely of dry pasta. Make sure students are clear about the basics of the activity such as: the vehicle must be able to roll down a ramp and coast freely as far as possible. As necessary, clarify the definition of a design constraint. Sometimes it helps to tie the idea into real-world examples. Make sure students realize that the biggest constraint in the challenge is that the vehicle must be built entirely of dry pasta and glue. Spend time going over the anticipated challenges as a class, so students can begin thinking of how they would like to try and solve them. Demonstrate how easy it is to break the pasta as a way to make sure students know that dry pasta is fragile and needs to be handled carefully. Advise students to consider the fragility of the material in their designs. Introduce the idea of rolling resistance. Explain the concept by asking students to consider how much force is required to push a vehicle a certain distance. For example, a car that rolls smoothly and can travel a long distance with a single push has a low rolling resistance while one that stops soon after a push has a high rolling resistance. Go over the rules sheet with students. (optional) Show an example of completed pasta car to give students an idea of what they are attempting to build. Emphasize that the engineering design process is about testing and learning from mistakes and not to let a failed design discourage students from trying more. Direct the groups to brainstorm, sketch and discusses together the ideas they have for a team design. Review with students the different techniques for attaching different pieces of pasta with the provided adhesive. Depending on the type of adhesive used, supervise or provide assistance, especially if hot glue is used. Advise students to experiment and test partially built vehicles and/or sub-assemblies often to make sure they roll and can survive the ramp. Making the effort to test and troubleshoot periodically throughout the engineering design process prevents students from spending too much time building non-functional vehicles. A student shows off her car on test day. One by one, have teams bring their final prototype vehicles to the test ramp (see Figure 3). Expect 30 minutes to be enough time for a class of ~30 students working in pairs to test their pasta cars. A run consists of holding a pasta car at the top of the ramp with the rear wheels touching the starting line, then releasing the car and letting it roll freely down the ramp and coast until it comes to a stop. Prior to the final competition run, review as a class the judging instructions. Judging is done by measuring the perpendicular distance from the bottom of the ramp to the closest part of the stopped pasta car. Time permitting, let teams make adjustments to their vehicles after their first tests and then re-test for the final competition. On the classroom board, record the results. Rank the entries by the furthest distance traveled, as measured from the bottom of the ramp. Recognize the winning team. Figure 3. Example test ramp setup. Based on the class results, have the entire class examine in more detail the vehicles that performed best. Lead a class discussion to explore why the top pasta cars worked well. Encourage all students to provide ideas. Ask students to share their stories about making design changes based on what they learned from their interim and troubleshooting tests. Have each group discuss together what they would change in the team design given what they observed during the class runs. brainstorming : A group problem-solving method to stimulate creative thinking in which each person in a group presents his or her ideas in an open discussion forum, with the purpose to come up with a great number of different ideas. constraint : A limitation or restriction. For engineers, design constraints are the requirements and limitations that the final design solutions must meet. For example, a rocket must have a mass of less than a specified amount. engineering design process: The cycle that engineers go through while creating new devices (or products, structures, techniques, etc.). The main steps include identifying a need, researching the problem, generating ideas, selecting a solution, building a prototype, testing and evaluating the solution(s), improving and redesigning as necessary, and presenting the results. The steps may be performed in different sequences and repeated as needed. kinetic energy: The energy associated with the motion of an object. potential energy : The stored energy of an object, from gravity or other field force. rolling resistance: A force resisting the motion of an object rolling on a surface. Often caused by the moving components of a vehicle and/or its interaction with the surface. In other words, how difficult it is for the car to freely roll. Pre-Quiz: Administer the five-question Spaghetti Soapbox Derby Pre/Post-Quiz to assess students' prior knowledge on gravitational potential and kinetic energy, as well as the concepts of rolling resistance and design constraints. Check-In: While prototype construction is going on, roam around the class and ask groups what decisions they made in order to come up with the team design. Ask students to explain why they made those decisions. Also ask students how they are using their knowledge of energy concepts to inform their designs. Why did the top pasta cars work so well? What sorts of design changes did you make from what you learned from your interim and troubleshooting tests? If you had one more chance to improve your prototype, what changes would you make? Post-Quiz: Administer the Spaghetti Soapbox Derby Pre/Post-Quiz again. Compare students' pre/post answers/scores to assess their learning from the activity. If hot glue is used to fabricate the pasta cars, provide students with safety instructions. Supervise students when they use the hot glue guns or arrange for adult assistants to help them by applying hot glue for them. Some pieces of round pasta are more round than others. Take the time to sort out the more oblong and oval shapes to improve students' vehicles. It is important to attach the axles as straight as possible in order to help cars roll straight and smoothly. One thing to consider is that the pasta cars experience more force at the transition from the end of the ramp to the floor, so while prototype cars might be strong enough when rolled on a level surface, the real test is if they can survive the ramp. It is best to run the vehicles on a smooth surface such as a linoleum-covered floor; carpet slows the cars down a lot once they have rolled off the ramp. Assign students to each build at home a pasta car of their own design to beat the one they built in class. For students in lower grades, reduce the emphasis on energy a bit and shift the focus to just building the cars. One way to make the activity a little easier
with the launch of Kids' Month in 64 malls nationwide. At a media launch titled SM Super Kids Day held last October 1 held at SM City Fairview, the retail giant announced a season packed with fun-filled celebrations especially designed for kids like United Nations Day and the well-loved Halloween. A fun and exciting field day where kids and the whole family can shop, play enjoy, eat, and win prizes – SM Super Kids Day fittingly showcased what customers can enjoy in the malls this Kids' Month. It's also the perfect season to splurge on gifts for kids and avail big discounts on kids' clothes, shoes, and toys at The SM Store Kids' Month Sale and at the Baby Company. Also not to be missed is the amazing Toy Kingdom Halloween Sale. On October 10 to 24, a grand display of world flags sets the mood for a two-week celebration of United Nations Day. SM's "All Together for One World" features Dances Around the World performances, World Market food fairs, and the kids' favorite, National Costume Parade Contest. Customers can also check out Art for Peace – an art exhibit by local artists and schools sending messages of peace for all. Culminating Kids' Month is SM's "Spooktacular Halloween" from October 20 to 31. As the Monster Fun Fair begins on October 20 offering great deals on trick-or-treat needs, beloved pets can then join the excitement at the Petrifying Halloween costume party for pets and owners on October 21/22. Approaching Halloween's Eve, everyone is invited to the much awaited Costume Contest on October 28/29 for adults, and on October 31 for kids. Also on October 31, the young trick-or-treaters can continue the fun at the photo Halloween Studio by Vivo, and by visiting SM Hypermarket, SM Supermarket, and SM Cyberzone for treats and goodies. Lastly, there's an online promo where parents share why kids rule at SM, then use hashtag #SMKidsMonth2017 on Facebook for a chance to win exciting prizes for their kids' and fun adventures! For more about SM's Kids' Month and exclusive news about SM Supermalls, visit http://www.smsupermalls.com or follow SM's official social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram; and get an insider access to all the fun happenings at SM Supermalls nationwide through SM's Viber Public Chat. Tweet your thoughts, upload and share your photos about your memorable moments at SM, then use its official hashtag #EverythingsHereAtSM. 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was a setback in the production of export-oriented sectors. The government advised the sectors of weakening demand to reduce prices. It provided some relief by cutting down excise duties, but such simplistic solutions were doomed to failure. Weakening demand led to producers cutting production. To reduce the impact of the crisis, firms reduced their workforce, to reduce costs. This led to increase in unemployment but the total impact on the economy was not very large. Industrial production and manufacturing output declined to five per cent in the last quarter of 2008-09. Consequently, a vicious cycle of weak demand and falling output developed in the Indian economy. A weakening of demand in the US affected our IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector and the loss of opportunities for young persons seeking employment at lucrative salaries abroad. India's famous IT sector, which earned about $ 50 billion as annual revenue, is expected to fall by 50 per cent of its total revenues. This would reduce the cushion to set off the deficit in balance of trade and thus enlarge our balance of payments deficit. It has now been estimated that sluggish demand for exports would result in a loss of 10 million jobs in the export sector alone. To lift the economy out of the recession the Government announced a package of Rs 35,000 crores in the first instance on December 7, 2008. The main areas to benefit were the following: (a) Housing—A refinance facility of Rs 4000 crores was provided to the National Housing Bank. Following this, public sector banks announced to provide small home loans seekers loans at reduced rates to step up demand in retail housing sector. (i) Loans up to Rs 5 lakhs: Maximum interest rate fixed at 8.5 per cent. (ii) Loans from Rs 5-20 lakhs: Maximum interest rate at 9.25 per cent. (iii) No processing charges to be levied on borrowers. (iv) No penalty to be charged in case of pre-payment. (v) Free life insurance cover for the entire outstanding amount. This means a borrower can get a loan up to 90 per cent of the value of the house. The government hopes to disburse Rs 15,000 to 20,000 crores under the new package. The housing package is the core of the government's new fiscal policy. It will give a fillip to other sectors such as steel, cement, brick kilns etc. Besides, the small and medium industries (SMEs) too get a boost by manufacturing all kinds of fittings and furnishings. The success of the housing package will, however, depend on the State governments efforts to free up surplus land so that land prices come down and the cost of housing becomes reasonable. (b) Textiles—Due to declining orders from the world's largest market the United States, the textile sector has been seriously affected. An allocation of Rs 1400 crores has been made to clear the entire backlog in the Technology Upgradation Fund (TUF) scheme. The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) Chairman, however, said: "It is a disappointing package. The allocation of Rs. 1,400 crores has been pending for many years and thus, it is the payment of arrears only. There is nothing new in it. It would have been much better if more concrete measures have been taken to reverse the downturn in the exports of readymade garments and avoid further job losses in the textile sector." (c) Infrastructure—The government has been proclaiming that infrastructure is the engine of growth. To boost the infrastructure, the India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd. (IIFCL) has been authorised to raise Rs 14,000 crores through tax-free bonds. These funds will be used to finance infrastructure, more especially highways and ports. It may be mentioned that'refinance' refers to the replacement of an existing debt obligation with a debt obligation bearing better terms, meaning thereby at lower rates or a changed repayment schedule. The IIFCL will be permitted to raise further resources by the issue of such bonds so that a public-private partnership (PPP) programme of Rs 1,00,000 crores in the highway sector is promoted. (d) Exports—Exports which accounted for 22 per cent of the GDP are expected to fall by 12 per cent. The government's fiscal package provides an interest rate subsidy of two per cent on exports for the labour–intensive sectors such as textiles, handicrafts, leather, gems and jewellery, but the Federation of Indian Export Organization (FIEO) felt the measures are not enough as they will not make the exports price-competitive and, therefore, will not boost exports. G.K. Pillai, the Commerce Secretary, has estimated a loss of 1.5 million jobs in the export sector alone during 2008-09 on account of the $15 billion decline in the expected exports. (e) Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)—The government has announced a guarantee cover of 50 per cent for loans between Rs 50 lakhs to Rs 1 crore for SMEs. The lockin period for loans covered under the existing schemes will be reduced from 24 months to 18 months to encourage banks to cover more loans under the scheme. Besides, the government will instruct state-owned companies to ensure prompt payment of bills of SMEs so that they do not suffer on account of delay in the payment of their bills. In short, the fiscal package is aimed at boosting growth in exports, real estate, auto, textiles and small and medium enterprises. The aim is to encourage growth and boost employment which have been threatened by the recession in the world economy, more especially in the United States. Just within a month, the government announced another package to bail out the Indian economy. Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia said: "We should expect, from all global projections that the next year (2009) is going to be a very difficult year for the global economy." The purpose of the new package announced on January 1, 2009 was to minimise the pain. With this end in view, the new package included the following measures:- 1. To boost investment and spending to revive growth, the RBI cut the repo rate, which it charges on short-term loans to banks from 6.5 per cent to 5.5 per cent and also reduced the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)—the share of deposits which has to be kept with the RBI from 5.5 per cent to five per cent. 2. To revive exports which has resulted in a contraction of industrial output, drawback benefits have been enhanced for some exporters. Export-Import Bank also gets Rs. 5000 crores as credit from the RBI. 3. To help the realty sector, realty companies have been allowed to borrow from overseas to develop "integrated townships". 4. To boost infrastructure, the India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd. (IIFCL) has been allowed to raise Rs 30,000 crores from tax-free bonds. Besides, Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) need no government approval to borrow from overseas for infrastructure projects. This will sustain the growth momentum on infrastructure. 5. To make more funds available, ceiling on foreign institutional investments (FIIs) in corporate bonds has been increased to $ 15 billion from $ 6 billion. The purpose is to seek much bigger FII investment. 6. To stimulate the Commercial Vehicles (CVs) sector, depreciation benefit on commercial vehicles has been increased form 15 per cent to 50 per cent on purchases. Besides, the States will get one-time funding from the Centre to buy buses for urban transport. In addition, public sector banks would provide finance firms funds for commercial vehicles. It is hoped that Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland's sales would revive. On February 24, 2009, the government announced a slashing down of excise duty from 10 per cent to eight per cent—a reduction by two per cent. Since 90 per cent of the manufactured goods attract 10 per cent excise duty, this measure is designed to reduce the prices of colour TV sets, washing machines, refrigerators, soap, detergents, colas, cars and commercial vehicles. Cement prices are likely to drop Rs 4-5 per bag of 50 kg while steel prices may cost Rs 500-600 per tonne less. In addition to this, the government decided to cut service tax form 12 per cent to 10 per cent—a reduction by two per cent. As a consequence, phone bills, airline tickets, credit card charges, tour packages etc. would cost less. A two per cent reduction in service tax will directly touch the lives of over 500 million persons by reducing monthly expenses. The entire stimulus package of Rs 30,000 crores to boost demand in the economy and thus reduce the impact of recession. Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath announced a small relief package of Rs 325 crores for leather, textiles, gems and jewellery on February 26, 2009. Assessment of the Impact of the Fiscal Package There is no doubt that the government is motivated with good intentions and is thus aiming to spend a huge amount of Rs 1,00,000 crores for developing infrastructure in roads, ports etc. which pose a serious handicap to growth. Besides, the aim of other measures is to boost exports and help sectors like textiles and small and medium industries which are labour-intensive and generate more employment. But the success of the fiscal package will depend on the quality and speed of implementation so that delays in implementation may not aggravate the economic recession to move into the dangerous zone of depression. One of the major stumbling blocks which may neutralise the positive effects of large expenditure on infrastructure is corruption. In case corruption is not simultaneously curbed to reasonably low levels, it may delay
2-Cryptand, Aminoacetonitrile, Thietane Hazard statements form part of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). They are intended to form a set of standardized phrases about the hazards of chemical substances and mixtures that can be translated into different languages.[1][2] As such, they serve the same purpose as the well-known R-phrases, which they are intended to replace. Hazard statements are one of the key elements for the labelling of containers under the GHS, along with:[3] an identification of the product; one or more hazard pictograms (where necessary) a signal word – either DANGER or WARNING – where necessary precautionary statements, indicating how the product should be handled to minimize risks to the user (as well as to other people and the general environment) the identity of the supplier (who might be a manufacturer or importer) Each hazard statement is designated a code, starting with the letter H and followed by three digits. Statements which correspond to related hazards are grouped together by code number, so the numbering is not consecutive. The code is used for reference purposes, for example to help with translations, but it is the actual phrase which should appear on labels and safety data sheets.[4] 1 Physical hazards 2 Health hazards 3 Environmental hazards 4 Country-specific hazard statements 4.1.1 Physical properties 4.1.2 Health properties 4.1.3 Environmental properties 4.1.4 Other EU hazard statements 4.2 New Zealand H200: Unstable explosive H201: Explosive; mass explosion hazard H202: Explosive; severe projection hazard H203: Explosive; fire, blast or projection hazard H204: Fire or projection hazard H205: May mass explode in fire H220: Extremely flammable gas H221: Flammable gas H222: Extremely flammable aerosol H223: Flammable aerosol H224: Extremely flammable liquid and vapour H225: Highly flammable liquid and vapour H226: Flammable liquid and vapour H227: Combustible liquid H228: Flammable solid H229: Pressurized container: may burst if heated H230: May react explosively even in the absence of air H231: May react explosively even in the absence of air at elevated pressure and/or temperature H240: Heating may cause an explosion H241: Heating may cause a fire or explosion H242: Heating may cause a fire H250: Catches fire spontaneously if exposed to air H251: Self-heating; may catch fire H252: Self-heating in large quantities; may catch fire H260: In contact with water releases flammable gases which may ignite spontaneously H261: In contact with water releases flammable gas H270: May cause or intensify fire; oxidizer H271: May cause fire or explosion; strong oxidizer H272: May intensify fire; oxidizer H280: Contains gas under pressure; may explode if heated H281: Contains refrigerated gas; may cause cryogenic burns or injury H290: May be corrosive to metals H300: Fatal if swallowed H301: Toxic if swallowed H302: Harmful if swallowed H303: May be harmful if swallowed H304: May be fatal if swallowed and enters airways H305: May be harmful if swallowed and enters airways H310: Fatal in contact with skin H311: Toxic in contact with skin H312: Harmful in contact with skin H313: May be harmful in contact with skin H314: Causes severe skin burns and eye damage H315: Causes skin irritation H316: Causes mild skin irritation H317: May cause an allergic skin reaction H318: Causes serious eye damage H319: Causes serious eye irritation H320: Causes eye irritation H330: Fatal if inhaled H331: Toxic if inhaled H332: Harmful if inhaled H333: May be harmful if inhaled H334: May cause allergy or asthma symptoms or breathing difficulties if inhaled H335: May cause respiratory irritation H336: May cause drowsiness or dizziness H340: May cause genetic defects H341: Suspected of causing genetic defects H350: May cause cancer H351: Suspected of causing cancer H360: May damage fertility or the unborn child H361: Suspected of damaging fertility or the unborn child H361d: Suspected of damaging the unborn child H362: May cause harm to breast-fed children H370: Causes damage to organs H371: May cause damage to organs H372: Causes damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure H373: May cause damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure H400: Very toxic to aquatic life H401: Toxic to aquatic life H402: Harmful to aquatic life H410: Very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects H411: Toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects H412: Harmful to aquatic life with long lasting effects H413: May cause long lasting harmful effects to aquatic life H420: Harms public health and the environment by destroying ozone in the upper atmosphere Country-specific hazard statements The European Union has implemented the GHS through the CLP Regulation. Nevertheless, the older system based on the Dangerous Substances Directive will continue to be used in parallel until 2016. Some R-phrases which do not have simple equivalents under the GHS have been retained under the CLP Regulation:[5] the numbering mirrors the number of the previous R-phrase. EUH001: Explosive when dry EUH006: Explosive with or without contact with air EUH014: Reacts violently with water EUH018: In use may form flammable/explosive vapour-air mixture EUH019: May form explosive peroxides EUH044: Risk of explosion if heated under confinement Health properties EUH029: Contact with water liberates toxic gas EUH031: Contact with acids liberates toxic gas EUH032: Contact with acids liberates very toxic gas EUH066: Repeated exposure may cause skin dryness or cracking EUH070: Toxic by eye contact EUH071: Corrosive to the respiratory tract Environmental properties EUH059: Hazardous to the ozone layer, superseded by GHS Class 5.1 in the second adaptation to technical progress of CLP. Other EU hazard statements Some other hazard statements intended for use in very specific circumstances have also been retained under the CLP Regulation.[6] Note that, in this case, the numbering of the EU specific hazard statements can coincide with GHS hazard statements if the "EU" prefix is not included. EUH201: Contains lead. Should not be used on surfaces liable to be chewed or sucked by children. EUH201A: Warning! Contains lead. EUH202: Cyanoacrylate. Danger. Bonds skin and eyes in seconds. Keep out of the reach of children. EUH203: Contains chromium(VI). May produce an allergic reaction. EUH204: Contains isocyanates. May produce an allergic reaction. EUH205: Contains epoxy constituents. May produce an allergic reaction. EUH206: Warning! Do not use together with other products. May release dangerous gases (chlorine). EUH207: Warning! Contains cadmium. Dangerous fumes are formed during use. See information supplied by the manufacturer. Comply with the safety instructions. EUH208: Contains <name of sensitising substance>. May produce an allergic reaction. EUH209: Can become highly flammable in use. EUH209A: Can become flammable in use. EUH210: Safety data sheet available on request. EUH401: To avoid risks to human health and the environment, comply with the instructions for use. As of March 2009, the relevant New Zealand regulations under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 do not specify the exact wording required for hazard statements. However, the New Zealand classification system includes three categories of environmental hazard which are not included in the GHS Rev.2: Ecotoxicity to soil environment Ecotoxicity to terrestrial vertebrates Ecotoxicity to terrestrial invertebrates These are classes 9.2–9.4 respectively of the New Zealand classification scheme, and are divided into subclasses according to the degree of hazard.[7] Substances in subclass 9.2D ("Substances that are slightly harmful in the soil environment") do not require a hazard statement, while substances in the other subclasses require an indication of the general degree of hazard and general type of hazard.[8] ^ The United Nations has published the list of GHS hazard statements in all UN official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish): it can be found in Annex 3 of GHS Rev.2 for the corresponding language. ^ A list of translations into all the European Union official languages can be found in Annex III to the CLP Regulation, on pages 146–91 of the official English-language version for the GHS statements and pages 192–209 for the EU-specific statements. ^ Part 1, section 1.4.10.5.2
ravelling Exhibition) New Jersey State Museum, 'Focus on Light', Trenton NJ Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 'Arshile Gorky (1905–1948): disegni', Rome, Italy University of California, 'A Selection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works from the Hunt Foods and Industries Museum of Art Collection', Davis CA (Travelling Exhibition) University of California, 'A Selection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works from the Hunt Foods and Industries Museum of Art Collection', Irvine CA (Travelling Exhibition) Sidney Janis Gallery, '2 Generations. Picasso to Pollock', New York NY Allentown Art Museum, 'The James A. Michener Foundation Collection: New Acquisitions 1963–1966', Allentown PA Cordier and Edstrom, Inc., 'Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art', organized by the Public Education Association, New York, New York NY Galleria Odyssia, 'Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art', organized by the Public Education Association, New York, New York NY Andre Emmerich Gallery, 'Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art', organized by the Public Education Association, New York, New York NY Pierre Matisse Gallery, 'Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art', organized by the Public Education Association, New York, New York NY Saidenberg Gallery, 'Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art', organized by the Public Education Association, New York, New York NY E.V. Thaw & Co., 'Seven Decades, 18951965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art', organized by the Public Education Association, New York, New York NY Perls Galleries, 'Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art', organized by the Public Education Association, New York, New York NY M. 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Goldstone Collection of American Art', Brooklyn NY Seattle Art Museum, 'American Drawings', Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition) Providence Art Club, 'Critics' Choice: Art Since World War II', Providence RI University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 'American Drawings', Minneapolis MN (Travelling Exhibition) New School Art Center, 'Portraits from the American Art World', New York NY M. 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Guggenheim Museum, 'American Drawings', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) Alte Galerie, Museum Fridericianum, and Orangerie, 'Documenta III', Kassel, Germany Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, 'American Painting 1910–1960: A Special Exhibition Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Association of College Unions', Bloomington IN The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, '20th Century Master Drawings', Cambridge MA (Travelling Exhibition) City Art Museum, '200 Years of American Painting', St. Louis MO Yale University Art Gallery, 'Max Ernst and Arshile Gorky from the Collection of Julien Levy', New Haven CT University Gallery, University of Minnesota, '20th Century Master Drawings', Minneapolis MN (Travelling Exhibition) Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 'Four Centuries of American Art', Minneapolis MN Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, '20th Century Master Drawings', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) Des Moines Art Center, 'Art in Iowa from Private Collections', Des Moines IA Art Institute of Chicago, 'Chicago Collectors', Chicago IL Williams College Museum of Art, 'An Exhibition of Works of Art Lent by the Alumni of Williams College', Williamstown MA The Brooklyn Museum, 'Drawings from the Museum Collection', New York NY Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 'The Magriel Collection of American Drawings', New Orleans LA Palazzo Ancaiani, 'Mostra di disegni americani moderni', Spoleto, Italy The Art Center of the New School, 'An Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture by 15 Noted Contemporary Artists', New York NY Sidney Janis Gallery, '10 American Painters: Josef Albers, William Baziotes, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko', New York NY John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 'The Sidney Janis Painters: Albers, Baziotes, Gorky, Gottlieb, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko', Sarasota FL Walker Art Center, '60 American Painters, 1960: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties', Minneapolis MN University Art Museum, University of California, 'Art from Ingres to Pollock: Painting and Sculpture since Neoclassicism', Berkeley CA City Art Museum, 'Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art', St. Louis MO (Travelling Exhibition) Sidney Janis Gallery, '8 American Painters: Albers, de Kooning, Gorky, Guston, Kline, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko', New York NY Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Some Contemporary Works of Art', Cleveland OH Sidney Janis Gallery, 'Ten Years of Janis: 10th Anniversary Exhibition', New York NY Walker Art Center, 'Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art', Minneapolis MN (Travelling Exhibition) San Francisco Museum of Art, 'Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art', San Francisco CA (Travelling Exhibition) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art', Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition) Fort Worth Art Center Museum, 'Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art', Fort Worth TX (Travelling Exhibition) Phillips Collection, 'Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art', Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition) Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) Wadsworth Atheneum, 'Connecticut Collects: An Exhibition of Privately Owned Works of Art in Connecticut', Hartford CT Albright Art
, 415; Metropolitan Dist. Commn. v. Department of Pub. Util. 352 Mass. 18, 27; City Manager of Medford v. State Labor Relations Commn. 353 Mass. 519, 524; Beaton, petitioner, 354 Mass. 670, 672. for the following school year." Each of the plaintiffs had been employed by the school committee in the previous school year. None was notified by April 15, 1968, that she was not to be employed for the next school year. The plaintiffs argue that, since they were "deemed to... [have been] appointed" for the 1968-1969 school year, the school committee did not have the authority to suspend or discharge them summarily. The plaintiffs' argument lacks merit. It was long "the law that a school committee could discharge a teacher at any time. St. 1844, c. 32. Knowles v. Boston, 12 Gray, 339. The changes made by... [G. L. c. 71, Sections 41, 42] in securing permanency of tenure and requiring certain procedure for a valid discharge relate only to teachers who are `on tenure,' and do not apply to one employed for a single year." Pulvino v. Yarmouth, 286 Mass. 21, 24. See Nester v. School Comm. of Fall River, 318 Mass. 538. The last sentence of Section 41 was added by St. 1953, c. 372. That sentence does not purport to grant any new rights to a hearing, or to establish any intermediary status between "tenure" and "nontenure" teachers. It provides merely that the absence of notice to the contrary by April 15 constitutes an election (see G. L. c. 71, Section 38) of the teacher for the following year. When taken together with the preceding sentence, its effect is to relieve the school committee of the burden of notifying every nontenure teacher of his reappointment, and also to afford those teachers who are not reappointed adequate opportunity to make plans. There is no express abridgment of the power of the school committee to dismiss or suspend during the school year a teacher who has been elected but is not serving "at discretion." "Where in the past the Legislature has limited the powers of school committees it has done so in express terms (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 71, Sections 38-45), and it is to be expected that a radical departure from such previous policy would be expressed in clear language and not left to doubtful implication." Davis v. School Comm. of Somerville, 307 Mass. 354, 363. O'Donnell v. Norwood, 346 Mass. 394, 397. 3. The plaintiffs' principal contention is that their suspension and dismissal, without adequate notice of the charges against them and a prior hearing, deprived them of due process and equal protection of the laws. The gist of the argument is that a governmental agency may not constitutionally discharge any employee, regardless of his probationary status, without first providing him an opportunity to be heard; and that G. L. c. 71, Sections 42 and 42D, which grant the right to a hearing on discharge or suspension only to teachers on tenure, deny probationary or nontenure teachers the equal protection of the laws. and cases cited; Rees v. Murray City Bd. of Educ. 6 Utah 2d 196. See also Parker v. Board of Educ. of Prince George's County, Md. 237 F. Supp. 222, 227 (D. Md.), and cases cited at fn. 5, affd. 348 F. 2d 464 (4th Cir.), cert. den. 382 U.S. 1030; 78 C. J. S., Schools and School Districts, Section 204, at fn. 42. Cases from other States which the plaintiffs cite were concerned with statutes markedly different from G. L. c. 71, Sections 41, 42, 42D. [Note 5] The plaintiffs have cited only three cases which held that a probationary teacher was constitutionally entitled to a hearing. The court in Lucia v. Duggan, 303 F. Supp. 112 (D. Mass.), reviewed the dismissal of a probationary teacher by a school committee in this Commonwealth. The plaintiff in that case had been dismissed for insubordination owing to his refusal to shave his beard, and for his conduct at a hearing before the school committee. The District Court refused to declare G. L. c. 71, Sections 42 and 42D, unconstitutional as denying nontenure teachers equal protection, because "[t]here are valid reasons for treating the probationary teacher differently from the permanent teacher." Id. at p. 119, fn. 5. The court further refused to hold that the plaintiff had a constitutional right to wear a beard. Id. at 117. Nevertheless, the court ruled that wearing a beard was "at least an interest of his... which may not be taken from him without due process of law." Id. at 118. Since the hearing given the plaintiff by the school committee had elements of both a rule-making and adjudicatory proceeding, it was held to be lacking in due process. for the impending dismissal and the offer of a hearing. The gravamen of the holding in the Roth case was that "the decision not to retain a professor employed by a state university [or a teacher in a public elementary or secondary school as in the Gouge case] may not rest on a basis wholly unsupported in fact, or on a basis wholly without reason," 310 F. Supp. at p. 979, and that given the requirement of a reason, the professor or teacher must be afforded the opportunity to contest its basis. Id. at p. 980. We are unsure of the precise constitutional basis for the holding of the District Court in the Lucia case. Nor are we persuaded by the reasoning of the court in the Roth and Gouge cases. As the opinion in the Roth case recognized, "it is reasonable that there be available a very wide spectrum of reasons, some subtle and difficult to articulate and to demonstrate, for deciding not to retain a newcomer or one who has not yet won sufficient respect from his colleagues." 310 F. Supp. at pp. 978-979. Such reasons are not amenable to proof at a hearing or to review by the judiciary. We therefore choose to follow the greater weight of authority. We note, however, that in the instant case the judge found, on sufficient evidence, that the school committee terminated the contracts of the six plaintiffs because of their leaving the Gibson School on September 5, 1968, and that the plaintiffs "were not in any way penalized by the [c]ommittee" on account of their views on community control of or participation in the direction of the school system. Cf. Wieman v. Updegraff, 344 U.S. 183; Slochower v. Board of Higher Educ. of New York City, 350 U.S. 551; Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589; Pickering v. Board of Educ. 391 U.S. 563. that government employment, in the absence of legislation, can be revoked at the will of the appointing officer." Cafeteria & Restaurant Wkrs. Union, Local 473 v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886, 896. Vitarelli v. Seaton, 359 U.S. 535, 539. See Nostrand v. Little, 58 Wash. 2d 111, 123, appeal dism. 368 U.S. 436. In Nelson v. County of Los Angeles, 362 U.S. 1, a temporary county employee was discharged without a hearing for his refusal, in violation of State law, to answer questions before a congressional subcommittee. The Supreme Court held that it was bound by the California court's interpretation that State law permitted summary discharge in such circumstances. Id. at p. 6. The Court further held that the summary discharge did not violate the employee's rights under the Fifth Amendment. Id. at pp. 6-7. Dissenting from this latter holding, Justice Brennan conceded that, "Doubtless a probationary employee can constitutionally be discharged without specification of reasons at all; and this Court has not held that it would offend the Due Process Clause, without more, for a State to put its entire civil service on such a basis...." Id. at p. 16. with teachers upon their salaries to the end that high standards may be secured and maintained in the education of the youth of the Commonwealth." Leonard v. School Comm. of Springfield, 241 Mass. 325, 329-330. Moved by those same strong reasons, the Legislature chose also "to provide some degree of protection for the tenure of teachers who have served a probationary term of three consecutive school years and who are continued in employment thereafter." Frye v. School Comm. of Leicester, 300 Mass. 537, 538-539. In doing so it has abridged no constitutional right of a probationary teacher. 4. The plaintiffs contend that certain of the findings of the judge were unsupported by or contrary to the evidence. We agree that the evidence does not support the judge's finding that the plaintiffs learned on the evening of September 4, 1968, of a plan to lead the children to the Shaw House the next day. The evidence shows, rather, that the plaintiffs attended a meeting on September 4 at which were present some or all of the demonstrators who had entered the Gibson School that day; that plans were made at the meeting for the demonstrators to return to the Gibson School the next day; that on the morning of September 5, when school officials were standing at the front door, three of the plaintiffs entered the school yard by means of the fire escape; that before the children were led away at least one of
by an Assistant Chairperson of Ways and Means. The Second Vice President shall conduct an annual meeting of the Chairpersons of the various fundraising activity Committees no later than March of each year to determine the number and purpose of the fundraising Special Committees for the upcoming fiscal year. (c) Third Vice President (Administration and Communication). The Third Vice President shall monitor the administration and communication activities of the Corporation. In this capacity, the Third Vice President shall support the efforts of each Chairperson responsible for an administrative or communicative function. In addition, the Third Vice President shall be exclusively responsible for the Corporation's communications. Section 7: Treasurer. If required by the Board of Trustees, the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his or her duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Trustees shall determine, at the expense of the Corporation. The Treasurer shall: have charge and custody of and be responsible for all funds and securities of the Corporation; receive and give receipts for moneys due and payable to the Corporation from any source whatsoever, and deposit all such moneys in the name of the Corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as shall be approved by the Executive Committee; shall pay out funds in accordance with the approved budget and as authorized by the Executive Committee; and in general perform all the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board of Trustees. In the absence of the Treasurer, checks may be signed by the President, or an Assistant Treasurer, if any, other than the Assistant Treasurer – Ways and Means. The Treasurer shall present a financial statement of account at every meeting of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee. The Treasurer's accounts shall be examined annually by an independent auditor approved by the Executive Committee. The Treasurer shall convene a budget committee, consisting of the President, the Vice-Presidents, Secretary and the Chairperson of each school's Home and School Committee, by the end of March of each year, to discuss the budget for the following school year. The Treasurer's term runs from September 1st to August 31st. Section 8: Ways and Means Treasurer. The Ways and Means Treasurer shall maintain the books and records for all of the fundraising activities of the Ways and Means Committee, shall receive and disburse funds for such purpose, shall provide a financial statement of account monthly to the Board of Trustees and shall report otherwise directly to the Treasurer. If required by the Board of Trustees, the Ways and Means Treasurer shall be bonded for faithful discharge of his or her duties in such sums and with such sureties as the Board of Trustees shall determine at the expense of the Corporation. The Ways and Means Treasurer's term runs from September 1st to August 31st. Section 9: Secretary. The Secretary shall keep minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees, Executive Committee and the Members; see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws or as required by law; be custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the Corporation; keep a register of the post office address of each Member which shall be furnished to the Secretary by such Member; and in general perform all duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board of Trustees. Section 10: Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. The Board of Trustees may direct the Nominating Committee to nominate one or more Assistant Secretaries and one or more Assistant Treasurers, as it shall deem desirable, such Officers to have the authority and perform the duties prescribed, from time to time, by the Board of Trustees, the President, the Treasurer or the Secretary, and such Officers shall be elected in accordance with this Article VIII. Section 1: Powers. The Executive Committee shall have such powers as are enumerated in these Bylaws and as may be delegated to them by the President and/or Board of Trustees. Section 2: Number and Qualification. The Executive Committee shall consist of the Board of Trustees and the Chairpersons of each Standing and Special Committee. Each Committee represented on the Executive Committee shall have one vote, regardless of whether such Committee is represented by one or more Chairpersons. The following individuals shall act as ex-officio members of the Executive Committee without voting privileges: the Superintendent of Schools, the Principals of the Moorestown Public Schools, the representatives of each of the Moorestown Education Association, MoorArts, Special Education Advocacy Council (SpEAC), Partnership for Acceleration (PACE), Challenge and Enrichment, Community Alliance on Substance Abuse (CASA) and the president or appointed delegate of the Moorestown High School Student Association. Section 3: Quorum. A majority of the Executive Committee present shall constitute a quorum for all business transactions recommended by the Board of Trustees or for approval of Executive Committee minutes. Section 4: Meetings. Regular meetings shall be held periodically throughout the school year without other notice than publication in the Corporation's calendar. Special meetings of the Executive Committee may be called by the President or by a majority of the Board of Trustees. At least three days' written notice, delivered personally or sent by mail, overnight courier service, facsimile, or e-mail, or personally by telephone to each member of the Executive Committee at his or her address or phone number as shown by the records of the Corporation, shall be given for all such meetings Section 5: Informal Action by Executive Committee. Any action which is required to be taken or may be taken at a meeting of the members of the Executive Committee of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting and without a vote provided, however, written or e-mailed notice of the proposed action shall have been given to all members of the Executive Committee and a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed or acknowledged by two-thirds of the members of the Executive Committee entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof. Chairpersons of Standing and Special Committees Section 1: Number. The Corporation shall have the Standing Committees set forth on Appendix A entitled Standing and Special Committee Organizational Chart attached hereto. Standing and Special Committees may be added/deleted by a majority vote of the Executive Committee. In addition, there may be up to three Special Committees for the purpose of fundraising under the Second Vice President. Section 2: Election. There shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Members, one or more Chairpersons, and there may be elected an Assistant Chairperson, for each Standing and Special Committee, other than the Chairpersons and Assistant Chairpersons of the Home and School Committee of each of the individual Moorestown Public Schools. Section 3: Moorestown Public Schools' Home and School Committees. Each Moorestown Public School shall have a Home and School Committee consisting of a Chairperson, Assistant Chairperson, Secretary and Committee Chairpersons as required to promote the Home and School Committee's objectives and interests. Each Home and School Committee shall be a Standing Committee under the First Vice President. Thus, only the Chairperson of each Home and School Committee shall be a member of the Executive Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Assistant Chairperson of a Home and School Committee may act as the nominee of such Committee's Chairperson at any meeting of the Executive Committee. (a): H&S Committee Meetings. There shall be regularly scheduled during the school year monthly meetings of each Home and School Committee for the purpose of disseminating information and the transaction of Home and School Committee business; provided, however, no meeting shall be required pursuant to this Section in the month of December. For the purpose of transacting business at these meetings, the Members present shall constitute a quorum. (b) H& S Committee Nomination, Election. Each school's Home and School Committee's Committee Chairpersons, including the school's Home and School Chairperson and Assistant Chairperson, shall be initially selected by a Nominating Committee composed of at least five members, confirmed no later than the school's March Home and School Committee meeting. The Nominating Committee shall include at least four members who have not served on the previous year's Nominating Committee, one member of the previous year's Nominating Committee to act as chairperson, and the current school Chairperson, who shall participate as an ex-officio member without voting privileges and shall select all other committee members. The Nominating Committee recommendations shall be confirmed no later than the school's May Home and School Committee meeting by a voice vote of those assembled at such meeting. Consent to serve must be given by each nominee before such nominee's name may be placed on the ballot. (c) H&S Term and Limitation. Each school's Home and School Committee Chairperson shall serve no more than two, one-year terms. Three years must elapse from the ending of an individual's term as Chairperson before such individual may serve the additional term as Chairperson. Each school's Home & School Committee Assistant Chairperson shall serve no more than two, one-year terms. Three years must elapse from the ending of an individual's term as Assistant Chairperson before such individual may serve the additional term as Assistant Chairperson. For the purposes of this term limitation, an individual shall be deemed to have served a term in an office if such individual serves in such office for a period of six months or more. Section 6: Standing and Special Committees. The Chairperson(s) of each Standing and Special Committee, with the exception of school Chairpersons, shall be nominated by the Nominating Committee appointed in accordance and following the process described in Article XI. The President shall be an ex-officio member,
public static final int ERROR_WORKSITE = 2; /** * Parameter value to allow anonymous users of gallery mode to be sent to * the gateway site as anonymous user (like the /portal URL) instead of * making them log in (like worksite, site, and tool URLs). / public static final String PARAM_FORCE_LOGIN = "force.login"; public static final String PARAM_FORCE_LOGOUT = "force.logout"; /* * ThreadLocal attribute set while we are processing an error. / public static final String ATTR_ERROR = "org.sakaiproject.portal.error"; /* * Session attribute root for storing a site's last page visited - just * append the site id. / public static final String ATTR_SITE_PAGE = "sakai.portal.site."; /* * The default portal name is none is specified. / public static final String DEFAULT_PORTAL_CONTEXT = "charon"; /* * Configuration option to enable/disable state reset on navigation change / public static final String CONFIG_AUTO_RESET = "portal.experimental.auto.reset"; /* * Configuration option for default number of site tabs to display to users / public static final String CONFIG_DEFAULT_TABS = "portal.default.tabs"; /* * Names of tool config/registration attributes that control the rendering * of the tool's titlebar / public static final String TOOLCONFIG_SHOW_RESET_BUTTON = "reset.button"; public static final String TOOLCONFIG_SHOW_HELP_BUTTON = "help.button"; public static final String TOOLCONFIG_HELP_DOCUMENT_ID = "help.id"; public static final String TOOLCONFIG_HELP_DOCUMENT_URL = "help.url"; /* * Tool property used to indicate if JSR_168 tools are to be pre-rendered * as they are being placed in the context. / public static final String JSR_168_PRE_RENDER = "sakai:portlet-pre-render"; /* * Tool property to allow the enabling/disabling of the direct url linking UI / public static final String TOOL_DIRECTURL_ENABLED_PROP = "sakai:tool-directurl-enabled"; /* * prepare the response and send it to the render engine * * @param rcontext * @param res * @param template * @param contentType * @throws IOException / void sendResponse(PortalRenderContext rcontext, HttpServletResponse res, String template, String contentType) throws IOException; /* * get the placement for the request * * @param req * @param res * @param session * @param placementId * @param doPage * @return * @throws ToolException / String getPlacement(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Session session, String placementId, boolean doPage) throws ToolException; /* * perform login * * @param req * @param res * @param session * @param returnPath * @param skipContainer * @throws ToolException / void doLogin(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Session session, String returnPath, boolean skipContainer) throws ToolException; /* * Process a logout * * @param req * Request object * @param res * Response object * @param session * Current session * @param returnPath * if not null, the path to use for the end-user browser redirect * after the logout is complete. Leave null to use the configured * logged out URL. * @throws ToolException / void doLogout(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Session session, String returnPath) throws ToolException; /* * get a new render context from the render engine * * @param siteType * @param title * @param skin * @param request * @return / PortalRenderContext startPageContext(String siteType, String title, String skin, HttpServletRequest request); /* * perform a redirect if logged out * * @param res * @return * @throws IOException / boolean redirectIfLoggedOut(HttpServletResponse res) throws IOException; /* * get the portal page URL base on the tool supplied * * @param siteTool * @return / String getPortalPageUrl(ToolConfiguration siteTool); /* * populate the model with error status * * @param req * @param res * @param session * @param mode * @throws ToolException * @throws IOException / void doError(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Session session, int mode) throws ToolException, IOException; /* * forward to a portal url * * @param tool * @param req * @param res * @param siteTool * @param skin * @param toolContextPath * @param toolPathInfo * @throws IOException * @throws ToolException / void forwardPortal(ActiveTool tool, HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, ToolConfiguration siteTool, String skin, String toolContextPath, String toolPathInfo) throws ToolException, IOException; /* * setup in preparation for a forward * * @param req * @param res * @param p * @param skin / void setupForward(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Placement p, String skin) throws ToolException; /* * include the model section that relates to the bottom of the page. * * @param rcontext / void includeBottom(PortalRenderContext rcontext); /* * work out the type of the site based on the site id. * * @param siteId * @return / String calcSiteType(String siteId); /* * include the part od the view tree needed to render login * * @param rcontext * @param req * @param session / void includeLogin(PortalRenderContext rcontext, HttpServletRequest req, Session session); /* * forward the request to a tool * * @param tool * @param req * @param res * @param siteTool * @param skin * @param toolContextPath * @param toolPathInfo * @throws ToolException / void forwardTool(ActiveTool tool, HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Placement placement, String skin, String toolContextPath, String toolPathInfo) throws ToolException; /* * get the site id for the user * * @param userId * @return / String getUserEidBasedSiteId(String userId); /* * populate the view tree for the model * * @param req * @param res * @param session * @param siteId * @param toolId * @param toolContextPath * @param prefix * @param doPages * @param resetTools * @param includeSummary * @param expandSite * @return * @throws ToolException * @throws IOException / PortalRenderContext includePortal(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res, Session session, String siteId, String toolId, String toolContextPath, String prefix, boolean doPages, boolean resetTools, boolean includeSummary, boolean expandSite) throws ToolException, IOException; /* * include the tool part of the view tree * * @param res * @param req * @param placement * @return * @throws IOException / Map includeTool(HttpServletResponse res, HttpServletRequest req, ToolConfiguration placement) throws IOException; /* * include the tool part of the view tree * * @param res * @param req * @param placement * @param inlineTool * @return * @throws IOException / Map includeTool(HttpServletResponse res, HttpServletRequest req, ToolConfiguration placement, boolean inlineTool) throws IOException; /* * Get the context name of the portal. This is the name used to identify the * portal implimentation in the portal service and to other parts of the * system. Typically portals will be registered with the portal service * using a name and render engines and PortalHandlers will connect to named * portals. * * @return / String getPortalContext(); /* * Get the servlet context associated with the portal * * @return */ ServletContext getServletContext();
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_{\rm sub}/T)^{2.5}\gtrsim 2$ larger than the sublimation radius. Dust particles at these radii are heated by the re-emitted IR photons from the UV-absorbing layers. We infer from the H recombination lines that the reprocessing system is optically thin to IR photons, so the $\mathrm{e}^{-\tau}$ can also be ignored. The only difference from the UV optically thin case is that the bolometric luminosity $L_{\rm bol}$ should be understood as the IR emission near the sublimation radius, which may be a factor of a few less than the original UV/optical luminosity due to smearing on a timescale of $R_{\rm sub}/c\lesssim 100$ days (as we show below). In the following, we adopt $R = c t$ and ignore the $\mathrm{e}^{-\tau}$ factor based on the above argument. Taking graphite grain as our fiducial model, Equation \ref{eq:equilibirum} can be rewritten as: \begin{equation} T^5 = \frac{L_{\textrm{bol}}}{a_{\mu}} \frac{1000K}{16\pi\sigma c^2} \frac{1}{t^2}. \end{equation} This relation means that $T\propto A t^{-0.4}$ where $A$ is a constant: \begin{equation} A = \left(\frac{L_{\textrm{bol}}}{a_{\mu}} \frac{1000K}{16\pi\sigma c^2}\right)^{1/5}. \end{equation} \noindent As the UV/optical radiation propagates outwards with time, the temperature of the dust re-emitted IR emission drops with time as a power-law. Since $t = t_{\textrm{epoch}} - t_0$ is the time since the outburst, this allows us to determine the outburst epoch $t_0$. In Fig. \ref{fig:at2017gbl_bb_params} is shown the result from fitting $T = A\ t^{-0.4}$ to the observed blackbody temperature evolution using \textsc{emcee}, with the normalization factor $A$ and $t_0$ as free parameters. We do not include the epoch at +375 days in the fit, since this bump is likely due to extra emission of hotter dust on the opposite side from the observer with longer light-path than $ct$ (basically breakdown of our spherical assumption) or a secondary outburst from the continuum source. We note that fitting the temperature evolution only before the bump gives the same result as the complete fit shown here. The resulting best estimate of $t_0$ is 142 $\pm$ 11 days. Furthermore, the fitted value of $A$ allows us to estimate $L_{\textrm{bol}}/a_{\mu}$, resulting in $L_{\textrm{bol}}/a_{\mu} = 1.2\pm0.1\times10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$. The range for the grain radius $a$ is typically 0.1 - 1 $\mu$m, so $L_{\textrm{bol}}\sim 0.1 - 1 \times10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$. The determination of $t_0$ and $L_{\textrm{bol}}$ assumed the outburst to be well described as a short pulse of constant luminosity, while in reality the outburst will have a rising and fading phase. However, the blackbody temperature evolution is well described by the model, so we assume that on the timescales considered here (100s of days for the IR echo), the outburst can be approximated by a short-lived pulse, where the inferred $t_0$ is the peak epoch of the pulse at luminosity $L_{\textrm{bol}}$. In Section \ref{sec:AT2017gbl_single_comp_fit} we established a peak luminosity of the IR echo of $2.3\times10^{43}$ erg s$^{-1}$, and an energy budget of $\gtrsim7.3\times10^{50}$ erg. A comparison with the peak outburst luminosity of $L_{\textrm{bol}}\sim 0.1 - 1 \times10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$ implies a small dust covering factor ($L_{\textrm{IR}}$ / $L_{\textrm{bol}}$) of $\sim1-10$\%, which is consistent with the pre-outburst SED fit of the host, where the contribution to the IR emission by polar dust was small, see Fig. \ref{fig:iras23436_sed}. Furthermore, the energy budget inferred from the IR echo constrains the grain radius $a$ to $\gtrsim0.1\mu$m, as otherwise the luminosity would not be sufficient to fulfill the energy budget within the short timescale ($<$100 days) of the pulse. Finally, the inferred transient luminosity can be inserted back into Equation \ref{eq:equilibirum} to solve for the sublimation radius where $T(R_{\rm sub}) = T_{\rm sub}$, and we obtain: \begin{equation} R_{\rm sub} = (1.8\times10^{17}\mathrm{\, cm})\, \left(L_{\rm bol}/a_\mu \over 10^{45}\mathrm{erg\, s^{-1}}\right)^{1/2} \left(T_{\rm sub}\over 1600\mathrm{\, K}\right)^{5/2}, \end{equation} which corresponds to a light crossing time of $R_{\rm sub}/c\simeq 70$ days. \subsubsection{Two component fit of optical/IR epoch} \label{sec:twocompfit} In addition to the bright IR detection of AT~2017gbl, the transient has also been detected at optical wavelengths. Fig.~\ref{fig:twocomp_plot_20170718} shows the optical $g$, $r$, $i$ and $z$-band fluxes, as well as the IR fluxes, at the time of the first mid-IR epoch of 2017 July 18, +10 days after discovery, after correcting for Milky Way extinction. In $i$- and $z$-band the fluxes have been derived by interpolating the first two detections. With only a single $g$ and $r$ detection available, it was assumed that in the 8 days between the optical detection and the first mid-IR epoch, the transient had declined in flux in $g$- and $r$-band by the same fraction as in $i$-band. The figure also shows with the dashed red line the earlier derived blackbody fitted to the near-IR $K_s$-band and mid-IR fluxes, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:at2017gbl_bb_fits}. It is clear that at shorter wavelengths there is flux in excess to the fitted warm blackbody. At the longer wavelengths not only the first mid-IR epoch is well fitted with a warm blackbody, but so are all the subsequent epochs. Therefore, we assume that the optical excess at early times has a different origin, and explore whether the excess may be explained by a second blackbody peaking at shorter wavelengths, attenuated by some level of dust extinction. From the ratio of the broad emission lines, which we have connected to the transient event, we have inferred a line of sight extinction to the source of the broad line emission of $\sim$2.5 magnitudes in $V$ (see Section. \ref{sec:line_fit}). Therefore we fit the optical and IR fluxes of the first epoch simultaneously with two blackbody components, one warm component and one hot component, the latter of which we assume is dust-extincted by A$_V$ = 2.5 mag, where we adopt the Cardelli extinction law \citep{cardelli1989} with $R_V$ = 3.1. This assumption leaves four free parameters: the IR blackbody radius and temperature and the optical blackbody radius and temperature. We draw the IR priors from a Gaussian distribution centered on the earlier derived best estimates, with limits of $500 - 2500$~K in temperature and 10$^{-4}$ to 10$^{-1}$ pc in radius. The optical blackbody radius and temperature are drawn from a flat prior ranging between 10$^{-6}$ and 10$^{-2}$ pc, and 3000 and 50000 K, respectively. Fig.~\ref{fig:twocomp_plot_20170718} shows the resulting blackbody fit in log-log space. In red the warm IR component is shown, in blue the dust-extincted optical component and in green the sum of the blackbodies and the observed fluxes as green points. Also plotted is the de-reddened intrinsic optical blackbody. Fig.~\ref{fig:twocomp_plot_20170718_corner} shows the corresponding corner plot of the two-component fit, with well behaved posterior distributions of all free parameters. The warm IR blackbody parameters from the two-component fit are very similar to the single component fitting results, with a radius of 3.24 $\pm$ 0.1 $\times\ 10^{-2}$ pc and a temperature of 1300 $\pm$ 12 K. The best estimates of the optical blackbody parameters are 0.081 $\pm$ 0.011 $\times\ 10^{-2}$ pc for the radius and 6500$^{+1700}_{-1100}$ K for the temperature, with the uncertainties estimated by varying the line-of-sight extinction between +/- 1$\sigma$. The resulting optical blackbody luminosity is 0.8$^{+0.7}_{-0.4}$ $\
unpredictable dual meets. Give me that over reheated matchups any day -- especially reheated matchups that don't really mean a thing (outside of seeding). 5) Rate the upset potential for each quarterfinal matchup. Will any of the higher seeds stumble at the first hurdle on Saturday? bscaff: Illinois over Mizzou (40%), Cornell over Minnesota (5%), Lehigh over Ohio State (1%), and UTC over Iowa (0%). I'll put Mizzou into the semis, 18-17 over Illinois. Dan: Illinois over Mizzou (33%), Cornell over Minnesota (8%), Lehigh over Ohio State (5%) UTC over Iowa (Is there a number lower than 0%). I think we're in agreement that Illinois has the best shot to pull it off, but I'm not ready to pick them. I think they fall just short. Ross: I'm surprised y'all are so down on Cornell's potential to upset Minnesota. Maybe I'm overrating the Big Red because I really have no desire to see an Iowa-Minnesota rematch (mainly because I expect to see several Iowa-Minnesota rematches anyway at the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments), but I feel like they have a shot at stunning the Gophers. They need big bonus points at the weights where they have significant advantages (125, 149), they need to limit damage at weights where they have unfavorable matchups (133, 141), and they need an upset or two, but... I feel like it's in play. I still think the Gophers win, but I'll give Cornell a 39% shot at the upset. The only other potential upset is Illinois over Missouri. Barring an outbreak of food poisoning, neither UTC nor Lehigh are upsetting Iowa and Ohio State. I'll set those upset odds at 0.1% and 3%, respectively. Illinois has some interesting matchups against the 'Zou, but they need basically everything to go right to beat the Tigers -- the superfecta of wrestling results, basically. Still if they can win the first three weights (141 would be the only real upset, although on current form #2 Waters looks significantly better than #1 Delgado at 125) and get bonus points from Richards at 133, they could put some pressure on Missouri. They also need I-Mar and Morse to go nuts at 157 and 165... and a Brooks Black upset at heavyweight, wouldn't hurt, either. I'll give them 34% odds of pulling things together for a win. 6) If the seeds hold, we could get a pair of matchups in the semifinals that are both rematches: Iowa knocked off Minnesota earlier this year, 23-12, and Missouri beat Ohio State, 20-19, thanks to a tiebreaker point. How do you see the rematches playing out (assuming we get them) -- will there be different outcomes this time? bscaff: I still have Iowa over Minnesota, 6 bouts to 4. But Mizzou isn't beating Ohio State a second time. The 165 match goes from a Mizzou win in December, to Ohio State bonus in February. Dan: I think Iowa is a step above Minnesota as a dual meet team. They beat the Gophers again comfortably. As for Mizzou/OSU, I think the Buckeyes get them this time. Last time a confluence of events occurred to get Missouri that tie. Ohio State was without Bo Jordan and the Buckeyes' backup lost in OT. This weekend, Bo likely gets bonus against Mizzou's 165-pounder. That's at minimum a seven-point swing. Kenny Courts also didn't wrestle in that match and his backup got majored. Let's say Courts still loses, but doesn't get majored. That's another lost point for Mizzou. Then you also had an obviously injured Hunter Stieber get pinned by Drake Houdashelt. If Randy Languis (or Stieber if he somehow gets back ahead of schedule) can keep it to a major, that's two less points for Mizzou. Add that up and it's a ten-point difference. As long as Nick Tavanello is back, and all indications are that he will be, I expect the Buckeyes to take out Mizzou this time around. Ross: Iowa got a surprise pin from Nick Moore at 165 and a very controversial win from Mike Evans at 174, but if you amend those results, Iowa still wins 17-15. If Thomas Gilman only gets a major decision instead of the spirit-crushing tech fall he inflicted on Lizak up in Minneapolis, then it's only a 16-15 Iowa win. It's hard to see the results of the other matches changing too much -- although I'd give Cory Clark and Nathan Burak slightly better odds of flipping their losses into wins than I would any of the Minnesota guys doing the same (sans Storley). The wildcard might be Dylan Ness -- he almost loss to Mike Kelly up in the Twin Cities, but he's also very capable of sticking Kelly on his back. If he gets a pin, those points could swing things for the Gophers. I think Iowa wins again, although it's closer than the 23-12 scoreline we saw last time. My initial reaction was that Ohio State would definitely flip their loss against Missouri into a win in the rematch -- after all, OSU lost on a freaking tiebreaker point the first time and they didn't have Bo Jordan in that dual. Jordan's presence alone should be worth a six-point swing (OSU lost in OT without him and he'd be favored to win his match -- and likely get bonus points -- now). But there were other things that went OSU's way in that dual that might not this time. They got six points from a forfeit at 141; Missouri doesn't have a great option to actually run out at that spot and even if they did, Logan Stieber could certainly pin him anyway. But it's not out of the question that Stieber has to settle for "only" a major or a tech fall, either, if he actually has to wrestle. OSU also got a 4-point major decision win at 197; that could be a 7-point swing the other way if #1 J'Den Cox actually wrestles for the Tigers at his natural weight instead of bumping up to heavyweight again. OSU also got a win at 174 in that dual, but Missouri didn't wrestle their guy who's ranked #5 at that weight (John Eblen) against OSU, either. Then there's the toss-up weights like 157 and 184, too -- OSU and Missouri split those weights at the first dual, but the results there could go any direction in the rematch, I think. When you break down this dual weight-by-weight, it's a tough one to predict. I lean OSU because I think having BoJo back is a huge boost and they seem to have a few more studs and a bit better chance to rack up bonus points... but I would also not be surprised one whit if Missouri wins again. 7) Who are the finalists? And who's the last team standing on Sunday? bscaff: I'll take Ohio State 18, Iowa 15. Unless Iowa wins both 125 and 133. Then I'll take Iowa 18, Ohio State 15. Dan: I'm going with an all Big-10 final: Iowa and Ohio State. This is going to be another tight dual as the margin between the two teams is razor thin. Iowa won the first meeting 18-14 behind three one-point wins by Thomas Gilman (125), Sam Brooks (184), and Nathan Burak (197). If the Buckeyes turn two of those results around, that's a 12-point swing. But if you look closer, Johnni DiJulius won close over Cory Clark and Josh Demas needed a late takedown to beat Mike Kelly. Then there's the fact that Hunter Stieber wrestled Sorensen tight. Will Randy Languis be able to do the same? There are plenty of swing points out there for Iowa too. As far as my pick goes, at this point I think that I have to go with Iowa. My reasoning? The two teams wrestled once this season and Iowa won. It was the only time Ohio State had its full lineup all season long, so the injury excuse isn't there like it is with Missouri. The Buckeyes are certainly capable of beating Iowa, and it wouldn't surprise me if they did. However, until they prove it on the mat, I have to go with the Hawkeyes. Ross: Like I said above, I'm going with Iowa over Minnesota and Ohio State over Missouri in the semifinals. That gives us an Iowa-Ohio State rematch in the finals, which would not be my preferred pairing. My lack of interest in that matchup is mostly the rematch factor -- we've seen it already six weeks ago and, like Iowa-Minnesota matchups, we're probably going to see a few more Iowa-Ohio State showdowns at the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments. I'd rather see a novel matchup like Iowa-Missouri. But I digress. Iowa beat Ohio State 18-14 the first time they met, but it's not at all hard to imagine Kyle Snyder reversing his loss to Nathan Burak at 197; do that and the dual turns into a 17-15 win for Ohio State. On the other hand, Cory Clark could also reverse his loss to Jonni DiJulius at 133 and Brandon Sorensen might be able to get bonus points for Iowa at 149 if Hunter Stieber is out of commission this weekend. Kelly-Demas is another toss-up match at 157,
. Seven percent said they met their spouse through social media sites. The same study noted no significant difference in divorce between those who met online and those who met in real life. At the same time, the study noted that those who met via social media "tended to be more satisfied with their relationships than those who met in other ways." Study author Jeffrey Hall, a communications researcher at Kansas University, is unsure of why social media results in happier relationships, but he notes that one's Facebook profile "tends to be a pretty honest representation of who they are." From a different perspective, could that profile honesty lead to the demise of a relationship? The study profiled in "How social media overload can lead to break-ups" noted that those who spend more time on social networking sites report more conflicts in their relationships and are more likely to break up. "If you're looking through your newsfeed and you see stuff related to your partner and you find out that an attractive person you don't know is posting likes or comments on your partner's photos, you might start wondering, 'Who is this person?'" said Tara Marshall, a psychologist at Brunel University in London. "That can be a huge catalyst for jealousy for certain individuals." Marshall continued, "Before social media, if you wanted to find information about ex-partners or new partners, you had to do more digging with higher risk strategies. You had to trail them or engineer situations to bump into them. It was much more effortful. Now, having Facebook, which is anonymous and free, it's much easier to track people." Something as seemingly innocuous as using Facebook can have disastrous consequences. A 2011 survey found that Facebook was "cited in as many as a third of divorce filings, often mentioning inappropriate messages to other friends or mean posts and comments." A survey conducted by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that more than 80 percent of attorneys had seen a rise in social networking evidence in divorce trials during the past five years. With more than a billion monthly Facbeook users, and 550 million Twitter users, these statistics could have far reaching consequences. In a report in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking in 2013, researchers said the most active Facebook users experience the most Facebook related conflicts. Similarly, the more active Twitter users reported more conflicts on Twitter and in their relationships. The concrete reasons remain unclear, but one potential conflict documented in other studies is the pervasive use of social media during situations that were once reserved for meaningful conversation – a topic recently satirized by a Coca-Cola commercial. In 2011, British researchers found that adults spend an average of 48 minutes on their smartphones during a date. Those under the age of 25 reportedly spend double that time. Also in 2011, the New York Times hosted its second Modern Love college essay contest. When the winning essays were printed, the Times' Daniel Jones noted the striking difference between the 2008 and 2011 entries. In 2008, essays tended to focus on seeking physical relationships without the emotional. Just three years later, the focus was technology-enabled relationships that sought the emotional without the physical. "Unlike the sexual risk-taking of the hookup culture, this is love so safe that what's most feared is not a sexually transmitted disease but a computer virus, or perhaps meeting the object of your affection in person," said Jones. Winning essayist Caitlin Dewey paints a crisp picture of the struggle between Internet dating and real life. She writes of her Skype and instant messaging relationship with Will, a young man she met at a conference, who lives hundreds of miles away. Although months of online interactions fueled an intimate friendship, Dewey's description of their "real life" encounter reveals a struggle between what they could share between screens versus in-person: "But after we kissed and ate pizza and went back to his house, we struggled for things to talk about. In real life, Will stared off at nothing while I talked. In real life, he had no questions about the drive or my work or the stuff that waited for me when I went back to school. "He took me out for dinner and read his e-mail while we waited for our food. He apologized profusely, but still checked his Web site's traffic stats while we sat in his living room. "He took me to a party at his friends' house where they proceeded to argue for hours about Web design while I sat on a futon and stared at the ceiling, drunk and bored and terribly concerned that I looked thinner online. At points, he grabbed my hand and gave me small, apologetic smiles. 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concerned about political rights and their importance to freedom to pen an article with the above title. After all, somebody who supports 'rights' should support something called the 'Bill of Rights,' right? The answer to this query is a reluctant 'no.' Clinging to rights enumerated by some crusty old landed gentry on a now centuries old piece of paper is not conducive to the goal of the free society or to a consistent anarchist or libertarian ethic of rights. It is abundantly clear that despite the ostensible 'good intentions' of The Sacred Founders we are conditioned to fawn over, the 'Bill of Rights' hasn't really protected the rights it was allegedly drafted to secure. Of course, it is true (at least last time I checked) that none of the first ten amendments have been 'officially' repealed as a matter of 'law.' That is, the Federal Government of the United States still claims to protect these rights because it is bound by the Constitution to defend these rights (at least as we are told in high school and college Civics courses). With regard to The Sacred Founders' good intentions I might submit, somewhat tangentially, that a stronger historical case can be made that the Constitution was made because most of its drafters didn't find The Articles of Confederation amenable enough to the construction of a slave-supported, state-corporatist complex friendly to the interests of the well-connected and well-to-do.'America,' it might be said, was conceived of a bloodless coup d'etat by a bunch of spoiled, landed gentry. The fact that many well-connected, prominent American politicians and businessmen came to publicly favor 'The American System,' powerful patent departments, state-bank alliances, corporate welfare and subsidies, and the remainder of the gamut of statist monstrosities, is not surprising in the least. The Bill of Rights implies similar interpretations of 'intentions.' Is it not conceivable that the 10 carrots were offered up as a means of mollifying Everyman, to allow the statesmen to build their state-corporatist complex without harassment from the hoi polloi? Even though Americans still 'theoretically' possess de jure legal rights as 'enshrined' in The Holy Bill of Rights and the Constitution, the de facto situation is much more sinister. This is not particularly surprising. Thinkers as diverse as Murray Rothbard, Lysander Spooner, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Mikhail Bakunin have pointed out in their own ways that the State really does not protect rights or safeguard common-sense morality, but is indeed predicated on violating and tearing asunder both. As Bakunin wrote [5]: [W]hat constitutes [the Statist] morality? Only State interests. From this point of view, which, with very few exceptions, has been the point of view of statesmen, of strong men of all times and all countries, all that is instrumental in conserving, exalting, and consolidating the power of the State is good'sacrilegious though it might be from a religious point of view and revolting as it might appear from the point of view of human morality - and vice versa, whatever militates against the interests of the State is bad, even if it be in other respects the most holy and humanely just thing. Such is the true morality and secular practice of all States. In such a light, then, we see that it is conceivable that those who debated and penned the 'Bill of Rights' probably didn't do so out of some selfless concern for liberty and an ethical political structure in and of itself. This furthermore gives insight into the present condition: that the continued de facto [6] erosion of rights continues apace is simply more proof that politicians do not and never really have been concerned per se with the rights of 'citizens.' Many institutions exist which are ostensibly concerned with preservation of rights: The American Civil Liberties Union [7] (ACLU), the National Rifle Association [8] (NRA), and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership [9] (JPFO) come to mind as examples. But all these institutions and lobbying groups make the same mistake'their arguments turn on appeals to The Sacred Founders' Intentions and on incessant appeals to the Bill of Rights. Their strategy hinges on arguing rights and the law within the context of the Bill of Rights and precedents in law. In the case of 'freedom of speech [10],' for instance, New York Times Co. v. United States is used as a buttress for legal arguments that the State may not abridge freedom to publish even the secrets of federal officials and statesmen. But can't this be a good thing? Shouldn't friends of liberty get in their licks where possible? In a sense, yes; if some abridgment of property rights (after all, 'human rights' are really subsets of property rights [11]) can be stopped by appealing to some amendment or another, this is probably a superficially 'good' thing, in a vaguely teleological sense. But, don't bet that there will arise very often or very many situations in which this is possible. It is doubtful that much ground can be gained, speaking purely from a strategically prescriptive, realistic, or pragmatic standpoint, by arguing about rights within the framework of the 'Bill of Rights' or through grappling to historical 'legal' precedent of old State decisions. The problem with arguing matters of rights within the context of Bills of Rights is that arguing on the statists' own terms does nothing less than concede the very legitimacy of the statist context of the debate! This is intellectual cowardice that waters down the elegant essence of the radical position. 'Partyarchy [12]''as Konkin called the phenomenon of anarchists who seek the libertarian goal through political means'is not conducive to the abolition of the state or to the reacquisition of rights. Entertaining discussion of rights from the evil perspective of the Bill of Rights might send an improper message to those not familiar with radical libertarianism; namely, it is all too likely that cleaving to the Bill of Rights'rather than pure principle and common-sense moral arguments'will lead others to a false view of anarchist ethics. Anarchists view rights as ethical truths that transcend states, statesmen, and time, and that exist independent of historical circumstance; and anarchists must present this view unabashedly, clearly, and without equivocation, to critics and would-be converts alike. If we appeal to 'Bills of Rights,' it will look like we don't truly believe in the natural, transcendent status of rights and liberty. Perhaps most importantly, without a cogent theory of rights, anarchism is deprived of its core ethical and intellectual thrust. Furthermore, anarchists must remain poised to point out that the State is founded not on protection of rights but on their very usurpation. From this viewpoint, does it not seem like madness to appeal to the 'Bill of Rights' and state 'protections' of rights, thus condemning anarchism to a blinding internal contradiction? To ask the usurper to act as the caretaker is a bald affront to good sense. If rights are immutable, eternal, and natural'that is to say, not 'granted' by some father-figure like the State (or, for that matter, God)'then clinging to the Bill of Rights only makes anarchists look like bewildered hypocrites. Appealing to the Bill of Rights will ultimately work against the imperative of revealing to the mass of humanity anarchism's ace-in-the-hole: its true radical moral ethic and conception of rights. Anarchists must continue insisting that rights do not come from evil concepts like States, 'democratic' 'deliberation,' pieces of paper, and fictions like'social contracts.' It is thus a clear imperative that anarchists strip away the anti-intellectual trappings of appeals to Bills of Rights along with the sick, implicit underpinnings of those appeals. Playing the Ace will hasten the goal of freedom far more than winning an occasional court case by appealing to the Sacred Bill of Rights. Thomas Van Wyk [1] Columns on STR: 4 Thomas Van Wyk [13] lives in southeast Wisconsin, where he is currently an undergraduate. He operates a blog at http://liberator.blogspot.com [14] viewing political, economic, and cultural concerns from a radical libertarian perspective. 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roviral Therapies War, Famine, and Terrorism Population Aging Social Epidemiology Social Media and Health Education Birth Cohort Studies Christy G. Woolcott, Linda Dodds LAST REVIEWED: 15 December 2016 Birth cohorts have been established and studied for over half of a century, but the past two decades have seen a surge in the number of birth cohorts established and in the accompanying research. In part, this proliferation has been fueled by the recognition of the importance of the in utero environment on later life health outcomes. The potential of birth cohort studies with follow-up across the life span to help in the understanding of the etiology of numerous health conditions is enormous. Although there is a distinction between pregnancy cohorts, where information collection begins in pregnancy, and birth cohorts, where information begins to be collected at birth, the term birth cohort has been used to refer to both study designs. An inherent assumption in birth cohort research is the longitudinal follow-up of the cohort with follow-up that could continue indefinitely. The frequency and length of follow-up after birth varies, but, increasingly, the importance of continued follow-up well into adulthood is noted. The notion of life course studies has emerged from the recognition that early life events influence adult health and social development. Early sociological research by Glen Elder, who recognized the net effects of experiences and social context throughout the life course, has been followed by modern cohorts that take a very multidisciplinary approach to explore a range of exposure and outcome measures (e.g., biomedical factors, social and economic factors). Pregnancy has been the logical starting place for collecting data through the life course. Among the critical periods of development, fetal life is thought to be among the most important. Further, the emerging role of epigenetics and the potential for fetal exposures to have a life-long effect in offspring health is becoming an important area of study. Birth cohorts and life course designs offer opportunities but, at the same time, present challenges. This review highlights several longstanding and more recently developed birth cohorts, exposure-specific birth cohorts, and resources for finding information on existing birth cohorts. We do not restrict the outcomes to any life-stage, but childhood outcomes are more predominant because many cohorts are not yet mature enough to address longer-term outcomes. However, it should be noted that some very long-standing birth cohorts are now following offspring well into adulthood and the later years of life. For the purposes of this bibliography, birth cohorts covered in this review are primarily prospective cohorts of women recruited in pregnancy (or pre-conception) or soon after delivery. However, a few exceptions are found in the Historical Perspectives section. As much as possible, a variety of geographic areas around the world have been represented. Developmental concepts and hypotheses provide the rationale for assembling birth cohort studies and guide their methodology. The brief commentary by Friedman 2010 gives an introduction to Wilson's six principles of teratogenicity, which include the idea that susceptibility depends on exposure dose and timing and manifestations resulting from exposure may range from functional disorders to death. Barker, et al. 1993 develops the concept of fetal programming as an origin of adult disease, now known as the Barker hypothesis. Gluckman and Hanson 2006 is a valuable resource of the now voluminous literature about the developmental origins of health and disease concept that considers a broad range of exposures during early life and adult diseases. The proposed evolutionary and molecular mechanisms of teratogenicity and developmental programming provide the underlying causal framework of associations observed in birth cohort studies and suggest hypotheses that could be tested regarding mediating variables. For example, Waterland and Michels 2007 discusses epigenetics, heritable changes in gene expression potential that do not involve changes in DNA sequence that may be the main intermediate effect of early life exposures that lead to adult disease. Bateson, et al. 2004 explains the phenomenon of developmental plasticity in which organisms express specific adaptive responses to their environments. Barker, D. J. P., P. D. Gluckman, K. M. Godfrey, J. E. Harding, J. A. Owens, and J. S. Robinson. 1993. Fetal nutrition and cardiovascular disease in adult life. The Lancet 341.8850: 1421–1422. DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(93)91224-AE-mail Citation » Barker argues that fetal undernutrition is related to adult-onset cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. To support his argument, he brings forward evidence from animal studies and human cohorts, the latter using birth weight and other growth indicators as proxies of fetal nutrition. Available online for purchase or by subscription. Bateson, P., D. Barker, T. Clutton-Brock, et al. 2004. Developmental plasticity and human health. Nature 430:419–421. DOI: 10.1038/nature02725E-mail Citation » A protective "helmet" appears in offspring of the crustacean Daphnia if mothers have been exposed to chemical traces of a predator. The authors give such examples of developmental plasticity and discuss this phenomenon in humans as a predictive adaptive response to fetal nutrition cues and its cost when the prediction is incorrect. Available online for purchase or by subscription. Friedman, J. M. 2010. The principles of teratology: Are they still true? Special Issue: 50th Anniversary of the Teratology Society. Edited by S. A. Rasmussen, C. Chambers, B. F. Hales. Birth Defects Research Part A, Clinical and Molecular Teratology 88.10: 766–768. DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20697E-mail Citation » This paper presents a very short review of basic principles of teratogenicity put forward by Wilson in 1977. It comments that the principles still hold but much progress has been made since about the specific mechanisms that underlie them. Available online for purchase or by subscription. Gluckman, P. D., and M. A. Hanson. 2006. Developmental origins of health and disease. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511544699E-mail Citation » This extensive text with thirty-seven chapters covers the basis of the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis, a broad range of exposures that could affect development (e.g., nutrition, environmental chemicals, hypoxia), and a wide range of plausible human health effects (e.g., obesity, asthma, behavior). Waterland, R., and K. B. Michels. 2007. Epigenetic epidemiology of the developmental origins hypothesis. Annual Review of Nutrition 27:363–388. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.27.061406.093705E-mail Citation » This article presents an understandable but not overly simplified overview of epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation and histone modification. It also reviews the epidemiologic evidence for associations between epigenetic variation and many adult diseases. Available online for purchase or by subscription. 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