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YoudaConqueror is a completely free software. You can free download and use it as long as you like.
Feel what it is like to conquer the world! Youda Conqueror offers bubble shooter like you have never seen before. Alexander the Great (356– 323 BC) King of Macedonia. (336-323 BC) He was one of the greatest conquerors that ever lived. His vision was to unite the World in a Universal kingdom. A kingdom where everyone was equal. Join many players in this adventurous bubble shooter and feel what it is like to follow in the footsteps of a great conqueror.
This game also takes a leap into the historical events of great era. You will experience the different styles, periods and cultures. Within this you will experience game accurate historical events which will be brought to you with detailed background information.
Virtual Villagers 4 The Tree of Life 3.0.0.61 Continue the story of the mysterious island of Isola and the tribe of lost refugees in Virtual Villagers 4 - The Tree of Life.
Sudoku Countdown 1.0 Sudoku Countdown is a free Sudoku game for Windows. It can be played on-line and offline. This software is quite simple. It features a board with a Sudoku grid and a few numbers like the traditional Japanese game.
Drag Racer 3.0 No, you will not be cross dressing in this game. But you will be going really fast.
Fix-it-up: Kate's Adventure 32.0 Fix-It-Up: Kate's Adventure is a time-management game developed by World-Loom and published by Big Fish Games.
Flash Strike 1.0.0.7 Hordes of people descend upon this unsuspecting town. Defend it from their uncouthness!
Clusterz 9.0.115 Clusterz is the latest released version of this freeware game for Windows and Mac. It is an arcade game, which can be played both offline and online. The online mode allows individual playing, or against an opponent.
Motherload 2 1 Can you hit the motherload?
Duck Shooter 1.0 Duck Shooter is a shooting game that consists of your attempt to get rid of as many as possible crazy ducks that invaded your city. Atherwise, the whole town could be over run with these bloodthirsty mallards. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,652 |
FilmMovie ReviewsGolda's Balcony — 2007
Golda's Balcony
Valerie Harper (Golda Meir)
In a one-woman show with archival films in the background, an almost unrecognizable Valerie Harper plays a dozen characters that cross paths with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The focus is on the 1973 war, which Israel almost lost, and how Ms Meir succeeded in getting the armaments she needed from U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Eye See Me
Rwanda Rising
Bad Blood: The Border War That Triggered the Civil War
Ye ming
Forbes 20 Under 25: Young, Rich and Famous
Forbes Top 15 Supermodels: Beauties Who Made Bank | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,653 |
Shirley Heatherly
Funeral service for Ms. Heatherly will be held on Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 3:00 pm at The Unity Mortuary of Anderson with Minister Rae Sherman, officiating. Public viewing will be Saturday from 1:00 pm until 8:00 pm and on Sunday from 9:00 am until the time of the service. Shirley Mae Heatherly, affectionately known as ''Mama'', age of 83, of 610 Lanford Street, Anderson, SC passed away on Monday, August 30, 2021 at the AnMed Haelth Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late Magdeline and Albert Greenlee. Shirley ''Mama'' was retired from NHC Nursing Home; doing what she loves and did her best taking care her appointed patience and loved everyone she met. She loved so many and was loved by so many more. She had a smile that lit up the room when she walked in and was full of positive energy. Shirley had deep love for her family and cherished the times they would spend together. She raised seven kids of her own including several of her grandchildren and others. She will forever be loved and in memories. She leaves behind two daughters, Helen Thomas and Judy Johnson both of Anderson, South Carolina; one son, William Johnson of Newberry South Carolina; a special nephew, Lonnie Irby, who she raised in her home and shared a close bond with; three sisters, Cora Anderson and Betty Greenlee both of Anderson South Carolina, and Francene Johnson (Christopher) of Greenville South Carolina; four brothers, Larry Greenlee, Kenneth Greenlee (Gloria), Claude Greenlee, and Don Greenlee (Betty) all of Anderson South Carolina; eleven grandchildren that she raised in her home: Mario Johnson, Ebony Palmer, Ashley Johnson, Jackie Palmer, Sophia Johnson, Tiffany Thompson, Santana Mackey, Demetrius Johnson, Shirley Palmer, Brenda Johnson, and Jenna Johnson all of Anderson South Carolina; a host of other grandchildren and a host of great grandchildren that she also loved dearly. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Billy Greenlee and June Greenlee; one daughter, Magdeline Johnson; three sons, Lee Marvin Johnson, Stanley Johnson, and Ricky Johnson; two grandchildren, Sherman Clemons and Dreke Clemons; and one great grandchild, Leighquan Palmer. The family is at 14 Rivanna Drive, Anderson, SC 29625.
Funeral service for Ms. Heatherly will be held on Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 3:00 pm at The Unity Mortuary of Anderson with Minister Rae Sherman, officiating. Public viewing will be Saturday from 1:00 pm until 8:00 pm and on Sunday from 9:00... View Obituary & Service Information
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DuPage County Lawyers Tim Elliott, Emily Shupe Named to Super Lawyers Lists
Feb 1, 2018 | Inside RW, News & Events
The law firm of Rathje Woodward LLC, is proud to announce that Super Lawyers has named attorneys Timothy D. Elliott and Emily A. Shupe to its lists of outstanding Illinois lawyers for 2018. Elliott was selected as a Super Lawyer, while Shupe was recognized as a Rising Star.
The rating service Super Lawyers releases an annual list of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for each state, based on independent research and an evaluation by a peer panel. Attorneys are eligible for Rising Stars if they are age 40 or younger or have been practicing law for 10 years or less.
Tim Elliott was named as a Super Lawyer for the sixth consecutive year. He was previously recognized as a Rising Star from 2008 to 2011. He was recognized as one of Illinois' Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 in 2011.
Elliott concentrates his practice on commercial litigation, and previously served for two years as outside general counsel for the College of DuPage. Elliott currently serves as an elected member of the DuPage County Board.
Shupe was named as a Rising Star for the fifth consecutive year. She concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, trade secret disputes, and employment law.
Elliott and Shupe were members of a legal team that recently prevailed in a trade secret action in which the plaintiff sought $90 million in damages for trade secret misappropriation. After a seven-day trial in December 2017, a federal court jury delivered a full defense verdict in favor of their client.
Rathje Woodward LLC, provides top-quality legal services to individuals, businesses, and municipalities in Illinois and across the U.S. The full-service law firm has offices in Wheaton, Illinois, and Madison, Wisconsin.
Rathje Woodward LLC:
Rathje Woodward LLC is a full-service law firm with clients across the United States. The firm practices multiple areas of law, including business formation and transactions, real estate, litigation, employment law, community associations and insurance law. To learn more about Rathje Woodward LLC, visit http://www.rathjewoodward.com or call their Illinois location at 630-668-8500 or their Wisconsin office at 608-960-7430.
View original article HERE. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,655 |
Author: Tamene Bitima. Series edited by: Hans-Jürgen Sasse †.
Afaan Oromo belongs to the Cushitic languages among the Afro-Asiatic languages. Other members of this group are Saho-Afar, Somali, Konso, Agaw, Hadiyya and Beja. Oromo is one of the most important languages of Africa, with more than 30 million speakers in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia as well as a further approximately 8 Million, who use Oromo as a vehicular or trade language. Thus, Oromo is counted as number four after Arabic, Swahili and Hausa.
During 12 years the author has monitored the development of Afaan Oromo and collected the material of technical terms, specialty words and new developments for the present volume. The entries were drawn from all the relevant publications in Oromo published between 1840 and 1999. The result are over 20,000 entries from the natural and social sciences, grouped into 25 semantic fields.
A further merit of this dictionary is the fact that it is the first one ever published in Oromo. The lexical entries are ordered alphabetically according to the orthography of the new official Oromo alphabet qubee. An introduction to the qubee and a phonemic table is provided, followed by a detailed bibliography of published works in Oromo and selected publications in European languages on Oromo.
Numerous appendices listing the names of countries, their capitals and further urban settlements, geographical features (i.e. names of rivers, mountains etc.) and the names of the days of the week and the months close the book. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,656 |
Cyrus Macfoy
Dr. Cyrus MacFoy is a Sierra Leonean-American professor, researcher, and consultant, with more than thirty five years as a science educator in Sierra Leone, the UK, and the United States, including...view moreDr. Cyrus MacFoy is a Sierra Leonean-American professor, researcher, and consultant, with more than thirty five years as a science educator in Sierra Leone, the UK, and the United States, including Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; University of London, Westminster University, Richmond College (UK); University of Maryland University College, Montgomery College, American University, Trinity University, and Johns Hopkins University (United States). He was a researcher at the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya; the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/NASA in Maryland; the University of Georgia; Fourah Bay College; and the University of London, with a number of publications in international journals, books, book chapters, and consultancy reports. He has served as a consultant to various African and European countries for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the World Bank. Professor MacFoy is a graduate of Royal Holloway College, University of London, with a BS (Hons) degree in biochemistry, and of the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, with a Masters and a Diploma of Imperial College (DIC) in environmental science and a PhD in ecological biochemistry. He is a member of the Institute of biology (MIBiol.); a chartered biologist (C.Biol.) and a Fellow of the Society of Biology (FSB). He has attended a number of conferences, seminars, and workshops in Africa, Europe, and the United States and was visiting professor and speaker at the University of Nairobi; Howard University; USDA; University of Georgia; University of Alabama A&M; Columbia University; the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (NY); and George Washington University. Professor MacFoy has received a number of awards and honors, including a Senior Fulbright Award; a UNIAEA award; and a Commonwealth Award, and he participated in a number of community activities in Sierra Leone, the UK, and the United States.view less
Books by Cyrus Macfoy
Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Sierra Leone
Author Cyrus Macfoy | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,657 |
1. Rotate the figure below 90°clockwise around the origin.
3. Use the line of symmetry give to make a reflection of figure D.
4. What is the difference between a translation and a rotation?
A rotation transforms a figure at an angle. A translation moves a figure without any rotation.
5. Translate the figure within the given plane. Use arrows to show directionality. Make at least three translations.
6. What sequence of transformations are performed below?
The triangle is translated and rotated.
The various resources listed below are aligned to the same standard, (8G02) taken from the CCSM (Common Core Standards For Mathematics) as the Geometry Worksheet shown above. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,658 |
Report: Solar Energy Subsidies Cost $39 Billion Per Year
Solar makes up only 0.6 percent of total U.S. electricity generation
An auction sign outside the headquarters of Solyndra, which declared bankruptcy in 2011. / AP
Elizabeth Harrington - February 12, 2015 12:55 PM
Despite billions spent in investments over decades, solar energy will only make up 0.6 percent of total electricity generation in the United States, according to a report released by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA).
"In spite of government's best efforts to encourage innovation by solar energy companies and encourage Americans to rely more heavily on solar electricity, solar power continues to be a losing proposition," the report said. "American taxpayers spent an average of $39 billion a year over the past 5 years financing grants, subsidizing tax credits, guaranteeing loans, bailing out failed solar energy boondoggles and otherwise underwriting every idea under the sun to make solar energy cheaper and more popular. But none of it has worked."
Government support for the solar industry is vast, with at least 345 different federal initiatives that spread across 20 agencies, the report noted. The Pentagon has the highest number of solar programs, with 63, followed by the Interior Department, which oversees 37 programs. The Energy Department only manages 34 solar programs.
"This report is only the first step in asking the important questions about solar subsidies," said David Williams, the president of the TPA. "Taxpayers need to know the truth about where their dollars are being spent."
"Congress needs to stop these massive subsidies that are siphoning $39 billion a year from taxpayers," he said. "If solar is ever going to be a viable energy source and industry, they need to wean themselves off the public dole."
In addition to the federal government, which has spent $150 billion in the last five years, states also heavily subsidize the industry by offering tax breaks and 538 rebate programs.
However, solar energy will only contribute 0.6 percent of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015, the TPA's report said.
Last month the Energy Department announced an additional $59 million for "solar deployment plans."
"The U.S. has installed more than 17 gigawatts of solar power—enough to power 3.5 million average American homes," the agency noted. Seventeen gigawatts is only enough to power 3.02 percent of the 115. 6 million households in the United States.
A majority of federal spending for solar power goes towards tax incentives, grants, and loan guarantees, the report said, including the Investment Tax Credit, which was used by Solyndra, and the Sunshot Initiative.
The Sunshot Initiative spends $270 million per year attempting to "induce companies to lower production and installation costs associated with photovoltaic solar panel systems and reducing the price of solar power," the report said.
The report concluded that the time has come for solar energy to prove its merits without billions in support from the federal government.
"After decades of massive 'investments' and disappointing results, it is time that Americans critically evaluate whether our faltering federal solar initiatives deserve continued support," the report said. "With so little to show for so many costly initiatives, it should be apparent to objective observers that federal solar power efforts have not been a productive or prudent use of precious tax dollars."
"Solar energy's day in the sun may yet come, but taxpayers should not be forced to foot the cost associated with turning the failing industry around," it added. "Solar energy must be asked to stand on its own, powered exclusively by private investment and initiative."
This entry was posted in Issues and tagged Government Waste, Green Energy, Solar Energy, Subsidies. Bookmark the permalink.
Left-Wing Activist Sets Himself Up to Profit From His Own Climate Plan
Trump Admin Recovers $200 Million From Obama-Era Solar Boondoggle
Biden: No More Coal Plants Thanks to Clean Energy Investments
House Dems Propose $5 Billion Tax Credit for 'Environmental Justice' Studies
Nearly $267,000 of Minnesota Taxpayer Money Given to 'Tonight Show'
Planned Solar-Panel Facility Threatens Historic Virginia
Watchdog Exposes $15.3 Billion in Congressional Waste
Hickenlooper National Security Policy Avoids Energy Revolution
Elizabeth Harrington is a senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon. Elizabeth graduated from Temple University. Prior to joining the Free Beacon, she worked as a staff writer for CNSNews.com. Her email address is elizabeth@freebeacon.com. Her Twitter handle is @LizWFB. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,659 |
Awnings and enclosures may not be top-of-mind when you think about exterior signage, but few investments in your business have such an obvious pay-back period. Particularly in the New England climate, exterior structures can pay off quickly, thanks to extending your hours into the evening, adding additional seating, and keeping your customers happy and comfortable, protected from the elements.
Custom-designed, high-quality awnings provide additional patio seating for restaurants and encourage patrons to stay a little longer and order another latte at a coffee shop.
Awnings and canopy signs add architectural interest to many stand-alone businesses, and often are used to create a more inviting entry to hotels and corporate offices. In retail developments where signs are required to be placed on standard awning or canopy signs, making sure your brand and logo are properly represented can be tricky. Our experienced fabricators and designers have worked with countless store owners and developers, as well as with their architectural design teams, to ensure everyone – developers, owners, and zoning boards – are pleased with the result.
And above all, Metro's team works hard to make sure that the signage and awning, canopy or enclosure really POPS – bringing in customers, building your brand and image.
The key to long-lasting, great-looking canopies and awnings is getting the right shape, material, and design for your project, then using experienced fabricators to provide quality construction.
If you're ready to heat up summer sales with a new awning enclosure, get in touch. Just thinking about the possibilities? Browse our portfolio or call us to discuss your ideas. We love to help Boston-area businesses discover what great signs (and awnings, and canopies) can do for their bottom line! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,660 |
A standard which defines the interface for system M (525/60) digital television and which is based on CCIR 601. This standard is defined for use in television studios for up to 300m distance. It is a Bit-Parallel digital interface for component video signals at 4:2:2 digitization format. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,661 |
Q: Optimize insert and update query How to optimize my insert and update query..
Update Query:
UPDATE `cp_sessions`
SET `last_activity` = 1389937578,
`user_id` = NULL,
`user_data` = 'a:3:{s:9:\"game_name\";s:5:\"poker\";s:3:\"utm\";N;s:5:\"url_1\";s:23:\"http://adda52merge.org/\";}'
WHERE `session_id` = '52b4aae2432db5c8236523e5357fb48d';
Insert Query:
INSERT INTO `cp_sessions`
(`session_id`, `ip_address`, `user_agent`, `last_activity`)
VALUES (
'a68ca9a8d4b4f9462b4439bc60d05e91',
'192.168.1.235',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko', 1389937583);
It will take Query_time: 1.654473
A: If your table has no primary key, add it.
If you have a session_id primary key, it will be unique, there will not be two records using the same session_id value.
ALTER TABLE `cp_sessions`
CHANGE COLUMN `session_id` `session_id` VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL FIRST,
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`session_id`);
If you have duplicate session_id values, then clear them like
CREATE TABLE blah LIKE cp_sessions;
ALTER TABLE `blah` CHANGE COLUMN `session_id` `session_id` VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL FIRST,
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`session_id`);
INSERT IGNORE INTO blah SELECT * FROM cp_sessions;
RENAME TABLE cp_sessions TO cp_session_old, blah TO cp_sessions;
This way you can either keep doing what you are doing,
or you can have a single query, without executing the update separately.
INSERT INTO `cp_sessions`
(`session_id`, `ip_address`, `user_agent`, `last_activity`)
VALUES (
'a68ca9a8d4b4f9462b4439bc60d05e91',
'192.168.1.235',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko', 1389937583)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE last_activity = VALUES(last_activity), user_agent = VALUES(user_agent);
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Hill's Panel Products invests in game changing production solution
Recognising that their existing processes were both time-consuming and laborious, Hill's Panel Products began the search for the ideal revolutionary solution.
"The new system has given us around 50 percent more capacity to provide cut, edged and drilled components"
Martin Hill, Operations director at Hill's Panel Products
Hill's Panel Products (HPP) was formed in 1991 with the sole aim of supplying components to the furniture industry. Since that time, the company and its product range have expanded greatly. The business offers a huge range of full and processed sheet material, vinyl wrapped furniture doors and furniture fittings.
"The panel business is extremely competitive and to be successful you have to have a highly efficient manufacturing facility," explains Martin Hill, operations director at HPP. He continues, "Compared to our formative years in business, the range of boards, finishes and colours has sky-rocketed. This put enormous pressure on the traditional method of storage and retrieval of raw boards.
"We had to pick the sheets using a forklift truck from cantilever racking in the warehouse and then manually load them onto the machines. Not only was picking raw boards in 'rainbow packs' (different colours and sheet sizes) for nesting a time-consuming and laborious task, but also it made the boards very susceptible to damage through miss-handling. Additionally, it caused a logistics issue because, due to space limitations in the warehouse, we couldn't pick full sheets for customers when the forklift was picking sheets for our panel production."
The search for the ideal solution
"The investment for the right solution was going to be significant and so we looked at a number of options that would achieve our goals for the business. A major factor, however, was time. It was vitally important for us to have the system in place by July 2016, but we weren't ready to place the order until December 2015.
"Only HOMAG UK was able to guarantee this time-frame and its area sales manager, Jon Lawman, worked tirelessly to ensure they won the business by giving us exactly what we needed.
"It was complex, because we weren't just looking for a storage and retrieval system in isolation. We wanted a complete package of machinery including two high-performance nesting CNC routers and two fast, but high-quality edgebanders with return systems.
"This new equipment was required for integration with existing machinery to form a new, highly automated production cell which we refer to as 'Board Production 2'. The HOMAG Automation TLF 411 storage and retrieval system is the heart of this new cell. It picks batches of raw boards throughout the night, building up a buffer of work for the four CNC nesting routers in the cell."
WEEKE BHP 200 Nesting CNCs
"All our work is bespoke, therefore, from an efficiency stand-point, the best production option is the nesting route. We manufacture in live batches where a nest could contain 30 or 40 different orders, so selecting the right machines for our business was critically important.
"As part of our due diligence we visited another company that was running a WEEKE Vantage 200/710 CNC nesting machine. In addition, we went out to the WEEKE factory in Germany where we were able to take our own material samples to run through the machine to see how well it would process them. We were incredibly impressed with the build quality of the WEEKE product and it's clear to see why it is the market leader. The processing speed and cutting accuracy of the machine was amazing, it was an easy decision to order two machines.
"All the HOMAG machines use the MagiCut software, so the logic is the same whether you're operating a CNC or an edgebander. That makes it easy for the machine operators to move from machine to machine."
HOMAG edgebanders with PU gluing system
"We already had a BRANDT edgebander for doing the PVC edges on doors, but for our new cell we wanted to move up a level or two. It was important that the new machines used a PU gluing system because we were wanted to produce a higher specification product that offered a higher heat resistance against delamination and a more water resistant bond."
The HOMAG Ambition 2274 edgebanders give a superb clean finish with an almost invisible glue line. There are a number of factors which contribute to this high-quality edge: firstly, the panels are firmly held in place as they pass through the machine, with a belt track at the top and a chain with pads at the bottom – this minimises panel movement therefore giving a better bond. The PU gluing system also requires less glue than the traditional hot melt systems and so the bond is much tighter.
Martin Hill again, "We specified an automatic return system for each of the HOMAG edgebanders to make each machine a one-man operation. This allows us to run the machines at 20 metres per minute with corner rounding, a 33 percent increase in speed over our old machine and all this whilst providing a much better finish to the product."
Revolutionised production
"The investment we have made in this HOMAG equipment is paying off handsomely. We expect the TLF 411 storage system, the WEEKE BHP 200 CNCs and the HOMAG Ambition 2274 edgebanders to have paid for themselves within four years. But more importantly, the new system has given us around 50 percent more capacity to provide cut, edged and drilled components.
This has enabled us to not only keep up with customer demands whilst producing high-quality products, but also to service additional customers. We have only had the system running for a few months, but it is already doing exactly what we expected and there is still considerable potential to be realised as we get to fully understand the parameters of the system," concludes Martin Hill.
If you would like more information or a demonstration of the any of the HOMAG Group equipment or details of HOMAG's flexible finance packages, please contact HOMAG UK on 01332 856424. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,663 |
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Hamline University Archives
Hamline University's archives support the goals of Hamline University by identifying, collecting, preserving, and making available university records and personal papers of administrators, faculty, staff, and students for the use of the university community and the general public. Collections include student and alumni publications; course catalogs; minutes from various organizations (board, student groups, etc.); campus maps; artifacts; photographs; and audio and video recordings.
The archives is closed for the foreseeable future. Please contact University Librarian Terry Metz at 651-523-2160 for more information.
Notable Online Content
» Earth Day at Hamline - a retrospective YouTube video
» Hamline University formerly offered a School of Law. View the historic Hamline School of Law Pictorial Collection from the Archives.
» Many past issues of Hamline's student newspaper, The Oracle, are now available and searchable online. The years 1888-early 1900s and 1988-2015 can be accessed by going to The Oracle. More issues will come online in the future. Digitization of the 1988-2015 issues was funded in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.
Explore Archival Digital Collections | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,664 |
Q: Method to compare population means I have two samples from two populations, and I want to test the null hypothesis that the means of these populations are equal vs the alternative that they're not equal. Suppose the populations are both $N(\mu_i, 2^2)$ distributed with variance of two and some possibly different, unknown means. All samples are independent.
Suppose our two population samples are as follows:
pop1 = c(5.14, 4.05, -0.511, 0.44, 3.27, 0.970, 6.03, 2.21, 3.93, 5.65)
pop2 = c(3.86, 3.37, 4.40, 9.69, 1.69, 6.06, 7.13, 3.45, 5.98, 8.65)
R-code:
set.seed(10121)
data <- c(rnorm(10, 3, 2), rnorm(10, 4, 2))
Now, I think the standard thing to do here would be to conduct an unpaired t-test, but the following method makes some sense to me, and I'd like to know why it doesn't work.
*
*We know that the sample means of each population is distributed as $N(\mu_i,\frac{2^2}{n})$ where n is our sample size, in this case 10.
*Therefore, the statistic $\frac{x-\mu_h}{sqrt(\frac{2^2}{10})}$ is standard normally distributed under the null hypothesis.
(Note: x is x-bar, the sample mean for the first population, and $\mu_h$ is mu-hat, the MLE under the null hypothesis for the mean of the populations, or the pooled sample mean).
*We then calculate a p-value by looking up a corresponding value in a standard normal table.
This method gives fairly different p-values to a t-test, and I'm wondering what the issues are with it. The more the merrier :)
A: *
*Your "$\mu_h$" is not a population quantity but a sample quantity ($\hat{\mu}_h$). The denominator of your statistic doesn't properly account for standard error of the numerator.
*With these sample sizes, your $\hat{\mu}_h$ is $\frac{\bar{x}_1+\bar{x}_2}{2}$, so your numerator $\bar{x}_1-\hat{\mu}_h$ is in fact $\frac{\bar{x}_1-\bar{x}_2}{2}$, exactly half the numerator of the ordinary t-statistic.
Once you correctly calculate the standard error of that numerator and put it on the denominator (the factor of $\frac12$ in the numerator will be cancelled by a corresponding factor of $\frac12$ in the denominator), ... you'll get something that has the same value as a two-sample t-statistic. You will in the end just be doing a plain old two-sample t-test.
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import 'isomorphic-unfetch';
import isServer from 'detect-node';
import React, { ComponentType } from 'react';
import { ApolloClient, InMemoryCache, HttpLink } from 'apollo-boost';
import { ApolloProvider } from '@apollo/react-hooks';
import { typeDefs, resolvers } from '~/frontend/schema';
const client = new ApolloClient({
ssrMode: true,
cache: new InMemoryCache({
dataIdFromObject: o => (o['name'] ? `${o.__typename}-${o['name']}` : `${o.__typename}-${o.id}`),
}),
link: new HttpLink({
uri: '/api'
}),
typeDefs: isServer ? [] : typeDefs,
resolvers: isServer ? {} : resolvers
});
function withApollo<T>(WrappedComponent: ComponentType<T>) {
return function ComponentWithApollo(props: T) {
return (
<ApolloProvider client={client}>
<WrappedComponent {...props} />
</ApolloProvider>
);
};
}
export default withApollo;
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This coming year will mark 30 years since volunteers saved a derelict school house from being demolished for a parking lot, and instead turned it into an art centre.
But The Old School House won't be waiting until the Feb. 27 anniversary to celebrate. While the whole year will be a kind of homage to the centre's history and a look toward its future, three special events taking place this winter and spring will kick things off.
TOSH's executive director, Corinne James, spoke with The NEWS about the upcoming events, as well as the history of the building.
Built in 1914, TOSH held two classrooms, two teachers and 41 pupils from Grades 1-8. It was the only elementary school in Qualicum Beach for 60 years, said James.
But, by 1976, other schools had been built as the number of students grew, and the old school building was used as a School District 69 office for about nine years until a new facility was built.
SD69 sold the land and building to the Town of Qualicum Beach for $50,000.
"They were going to knock it down and make a parking lot," said James.
A group of volunteers wanted to save the facility and turn the building into an arts centre. They began a charity, one of the first charities in B.C. that wasn't based around medical supports, said James, and began fundraising.
"There were no grants from the government and no grants from the town, (but) they raised the money to renovate the building," said James. The volunteers raised a total of $75,000 within a 90-day deadline set by the town. It was a record-breaking fundraising achievement at the time, James said.
So, in 1987, the town gave the group six months to renovate and open the centre, letting the society use the building rent-free for that period of time.
Much of the renovation work on TOSH was done by volunteers, but the renovation committee realized that some of the more heavy-duty work, like chiseling out and re-pouring the foundation, would be too much for them. Their solution was to recruit inmates from the Brennan Lake minimum-security prison, said James.
Others from the town helped by funding some of the renovations.
"It was a real community effort," said James.
Finally, on Feb. 27, 1988, The Old School House Arts Centre had its opening ceremony.
To celebrate this achievement, TOSH will hold back-to-back art exhibitions from Jan. 29-Feb. 18 and Feb. 19-March 17.
Each exhibition will represent about 15 years of TOSH art history by showcasing a wide range of work by artists who have exhibited at TOSH over that time.
"So I'm looking back through the records and finding the people that were the originators, the first artists to exhibit here and many of the resident artists," said James.
TOSH's birthday celebration itself, scheduled for Feb. 27, will take place at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre.
A concert with table seating will honour TOSH's music history of about 20 years, created by Ron Hadley with the Music on Sunday program, said James.
The music program is known for bringing musicians from far and wide. James worked to bring the renowned, Russia-based Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet to the performance. The second half will feature jazz singer Debbie Duncan.
"Her father actually lives locally and we've had one or two concerts with her and she's an absolutely wonderful singer and a superb performer," said James.
Those are the major events that will mark TOSH's 30th year, while the town will offer as its birthday present to TOSH the refurbishment of TOSH's hand-carved wooden sign.
Throughout the year, TOSH is also planning to feature arts groups that have a long history with TOSH, and wrap up the anniversary with a TOSH members' show in November, showing the future of the centre.
After 30 years, TOSH has about 35,000 visits every year, holds 14 art exhibitions in three different galleries, has various classes throughout the year and functions largely through the efforts of its volunteers.
For more info on TOSH, go to www.theoldschoolhouse.org. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,667 |
Solar powered radios supplied to students
The Child Reintegration Centre has started distributing solar powered radios to students so they can follow the daily educational radio broadcasts aired by the government during COVID. While in the developed world schools have gone to online instruction, this is not an option in Sierra Leone. UNICEF-supported national radio programming provides daily lessons for children to fill the gap, but the poorest families do not even have the luxury of a radio. The CRC is providing families with solar powered radios, and supplying students who are slated to take the upcoming promotion exams with practice tests to study while school is in recess.
Students promoting to junior secondary school must pass the National Primary School Examination (NPSE), and to promote to senior secondary, students must pass the Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE). The CRC has been offering extra classes to help students prepare for the difficult tests, so those who attended will be first to receive radios.
The CRC's solar radio distribution project made the Sierra Leone national news, see the clip below. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,668 |
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CAT – Caterpillar, Inc. – Bearish option traders are bracing for potential CAT-share price erosion through expiration in February 2010. Shares edged nearly 0.75% lower in late afternoon trading to stand at $57.94. One pessimist purchased a put spread to prepare for potential declines. The transaction involved the purchase of roughly 7,000 puts at the February 55 strike for a premium of 2.35 apiece, marked against the sale of 7,000 puts at the lower February 35 strike for 49 cents premium each. The net cost of the trade amounts to 1.86 per contract. The investor responsible for the spread probably holds a long position in the underlying. Under this assumption, the trader has established downside protection, which kicks in if Caterpillar's shares fall beneath the breakeven price of $53.14 by expiration day in February.
MS – Morgan Stanley – Analysts at Barclays Capital slashed fourth-quarter earnings estimates for Morgan Stanley to 40 cents from 90 cents today. Perhaps the bearish options activity observed on MS during the trading session was partly inspired by the significant profit-forecast revision at Barclays. Either way, investors populating Morgan Stanley's January 2010 contract appear pretty pessimistic on the second-largest U.S. securities firm. Traders threw in the towel on MS by shedding nearly 20,000 calls at the January 31 strike for an average premium of 75 cents apiece. Some investors may be closing out previously established long call positions. Analysis of the existing open interest at that strike suggests traders are likely cutting their losses by selling the calls today. Investors abandoning bullish bets do not paint a rosy picture of where MS's share price may settle during the first weeks of 2010.
WDC – The manufacturer of hard disk drives has enjoyed a 3% rally today to stand at $31.31. Near-term bullish bets were initiated by option traders expecting further gains in the stock. It appears that some investors established call spreads on WDC by purchasing 14,000 calls at the now in-the-money August 31 strike price for an average premium of 1.77 each, and simultaneously selling 14,000 calls at the higher August 35 strike for about 37 cents per contract. The net cost of the spreads amount to approximately 1.40 apiece. Call-spreaders will begin to realize profits on today's transaction if WDC can climb 3.5% higher to the breakeven point at $32.40. Maximum profits of 2.60 would be attained by investors if the stock increases to $35.00 by expiration. Finally, plain-vanilla call buying was observed at the August 32 strike where some 3,200 calls were coveted for an average premium of 1.12 per contract. We note that the volume of more than 45,433 contracts seen on WDC today represents 45% of the total existing open interest on the stock of 101,598 lots. – Western Digital Corp. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,670 |
Cape ArgusNews
CPAP oxygen machines have been distributed across the Garden Route District since yesterday, continuing today. Thousands of patients have requested oxygen concentrators but many have died across the country due to its unavailability and the need for it at hospitals.
Gift of the Givers donates oxygen machines for Covid-19 patients across Garden Route
By Sukaina Ishmail Jan 12, 2021
Cape Town – Gift of the Givers is rolling out 250 oxygen machines along the Garden Route which has been identified as one of the Covid-19 hotspots in the Western Cape.
Public and private hospitals in Swellendam, Riversdale, Mossel Bay, Sedgefield, Knysna and George received much-needed oxygen machines yesterday and some will get them today.
They come from world famous charity organisation Gift of the Givers (GotG).
Founder Imtiaz Sooliman said: "The importance of delivering these machines timeously cannot be underestimated. We have witnessed thousands of desperate patients requesting oxygen concentrators or pouring into hospitals, in many cases travelling for several hours from hospital to hospital in search of oxygen.
"Tragically, due to unavailability of sufficient oxygen delivery machines, hundreds have died in their cars, in hospital queues, casualty departments or at home in their beds."
Sooliman said oxygen suppliers should also try to deliver oxygen timeously because this has been a huge problem for many hospitals.
The machines will enable patients to receive oxygen closer to home instead of rushing to a hospital which puts a person at a higher risk.
GotG project manager Ali Sablay said: "We donated close to 600 CPAP machines in the Eastern Cape, then we went to Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. The machine saves a lot of oxygen and since it is very scarce, the CPAP can be used as low flow and intermediate flow. Hospitals are using these machines in ICUs first because the recovery time is much better."
Sablay said doctors and hospital staff are stressed and understaffed along the Garden Route because they had been inundated with calls. Health workers felt motivated again after the donation of the machines which would help in saving lives.
"The mood has lifted and the optimism is all pervasive as the tools are available in large numbers… 12 000 CPAP machines have been put at Gift of the Givers' disposal," he said.
As the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the country, the Western Cape has experienced a marked increase in infections.
The CPAP machine is designed by the SA National Ventilator Group in association with SA Radio Observatory.
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Can you imagine the American people electing a gay male POTUS who lives in the White House with a "First Man"?
SOTN Editor's Note: A while back we were reading another shockingly stupid piece at the premier organ of propaganda and disinformation of the CIA's Mockingbird Media - The Washington Post - about Democrat candidate Beto O'Rourke. Reading the comments posted under the article, however, one would have thought the absurd puff piece about Beto was about another obscure Democrat candidate-Pete Buttigieg. Really, how does that happen except by purposeful design-cultural marxist design?! Every other comment was literally extolling the liberal godhood of this mayor of South Bend; some even calling him the 'only hope' against the invincible Donald Trump.
With this critical understanding, it's much easier to see how the cultural marxists are wresting control of the 2020 Democrat narrative to normalize a gay married man running for POTUS.
Can you imagine a similar situation in Great Britain - "I now announce you King and Queen" where the "Queen" really is a queen, but not the kind of queen we read about in the history books. This queen is really a man who calls himself a queen. Wow!
The USA has been undergoing its own version of Wrexit-24/7- for many years now.
Truly, that's their primary goal because only then can the globalists swoop in and impose their tyrannical totalitarian technocracy upon the American Republic...with very little resistance because of the fastidiously manufactured pandemonium over decades.
They're even portraying Buttigieg with his own LGBT rainbow color scheme like they depicted Obama with his communist colors.
However, it's his aggressive promotion of the LGBTQ agenda that distinguishes Buttigieg from even his ultra-liberal, hyper-progressive Democrat competitors. This is where his globalist masters are using him to advance the cultural marxist agenda like no other presidential candidate in U.S. history...except maybe Obama.
Of course, Buttigieg's Wikipedia page (see graphic above) is full of all kinds of clues that point to his serious grounding in globalism. Not only did he graduate from liberal Harvard University, he did his globalist training as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford just like Bill Clinton. It's also important to note that BOTH of his parents were professors at Notre Dame University, a breeding ground for all sorts of globalist power-players in the USA and abroad.
By the way, who doesn't know by now that McKinsey and Company is a major C.I.A. contractor that's deeply involved in all types of sordid psyops and white collar black ops? Not only that, but this 37-year-old greenhorn also did his tour of duty in Afghanistan after being commissioned as a Naval Intelligence Officer. Why would any officer but a globalist-in-training one ever participate in such a patently illegal and unprovoked war of aggression?
KEY POINT: Really, what 37-year-old wakes up one day and decides to run for POTUS? Exactly, they don't, especially in out-of-control 2019. Unless, of course, they are programmed (via Tavistock) and ordered to by their C.I.A. handlers to run. This whole choreographed Democrat wacko-drama is yet another British attempt to surreptitiously take over the POTUS by stealth just like they did with Obama. Hence, we are witnessing the latest real conspiracy associated with CROWNGATE: THE GREATEST CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IN U.S. HISTORY.
First, it's of paramount importance to know that the Democrat Party got away with massive election theft during the 2018 midterms throughout the country. They literally stole every election in sight and got away with it scot-free. Yes, they got caught in Florida, but Florida's always different.
Secondly, it's equally important to realize that nothing has been done to fix this extremely serious problem. And, that the election system is more vulnerable than ever to being manipulated just as the electoral process is very easily rigged. Hacking the voting and tabulating equipment is as easy as ever.
Now fast forward to 2020: It's clear that the Democrats intend on nominating a candidate who really galvanizes the electorate-both sides. (Obviously the Republicans and real conservatives will not be taken in but the DNC will try very hard.) That individual will be anointed because of their ability to rebuild the Obamanation to the extent that Trump has knocked it down, as it deserved to be.
Because of what's truly at stake in 2020, all eyes will be on every angle of this election. The POTUS winner will dictate the future of this nation even more profoundly than 2016, and that one has precipitated a HUGE shift due to the highly consequential outcomes associated with Trump's victory.
For these and many other reasons, it's clear that the DEMs are setting up the political battlefield to steal an election that they simply cannot win fairly. Toward that end, they are quite deliberately fielding fresh candidates like O'Rourke and Buttigieg to explain an otherwise highly improbable victory.
It's critical to understand that TPTB quite likely have no intention of shoehorning Buttigieg into the Oval Office like they did the closet-gay Barack Obama. Rather, their primary purpose of showcasing his candidacy is to further normalize gay marriage and homosexuals in positions of leadership throughout the US government and Corporate America.
In so doing, these elected officials and corporate officers such as CEO Tim Cook at APPLE are quite easily manipulated by their cultural marxist masters who completely control them. Each of these governmental and corporate leaders has a specific mission within the overall game plan of Cultural Marxism, as seen by Cook's zealous advocacy of the LGBT agenda at APPLE and throughout Big Tech. And that agenda ain't good at all for the American people.
This fundamentally subversive communist plot is being insidiously advanced with candidacies like Peter Buttigieg. He is a classic Manchurian Candidate whose mission is quite similar to Obama's, only it's likely the Obamanation ON SUPER STEROIDS.
In other words, this guy and his husband handler are every bit the crisis actors similar to the likes of Alexandria Ocaio- Cortez. Yes, that's exactly what we're dealing with-another Soros-funded psyop designed to further collapse the American Republic in order to establish a One World Government...after the formation of the North American Union.
Now we know why so many commenters at that WAPO article were singing the praise of Buttigieg's like he was the "Second Coming"... ... ... of Barack Hussein Obama only white. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,672 |
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DOWNERS GROVE – This may be the least-heralded team Lyons has fielded in Paul Labbato's 11-year tenure as head coach.
It might also be the most underappreciated.
The Lions graduated their entire starting lineup from a team that won 18 games and a regional title last season, have no college-bound players and weren't expected to do much.
Yet somehow they remain relevant.
Ty Williams scored off a beautiful free kick from fellow senior Skip Locke and the Lions knocked off host Downers Grove North 1-0 in double overtime Thursday at Carstens Field.
That ensured Lyons will finish no worse than third in the West Suburban Conference Silver Division standings. The Lions (12-6-0, 4-2-0) now have won two straight after suffering back-to-back losses to York and Glenbard West last week.
Locke is of the opinion the Lions should be seeded second, behind only Morton, since Lyons beat second-seeded Hinsdale Central last month. He has a valid point.
No one, including Labbato, considered the Lions to be a top-caliber team when the season started. Those opinions remain, but the fact is Lyons should not be underestimated. This is a blue-collar team filled with unheralded players who have meshed well with one another.
"It's just really been awesome, because we have a lot of great players all around," Williams said. "I feel like there is really no drop-off when we make subs.
That's what the Lions did in winning their final league game of the season in dramatic fashion. In what could be a preview of a regional final game, Lyons and Downers Grove North fought each other to a standstill for 96 minutes until the visitors broke through.
A dangerous play call gave the Lions a free kick from 26 yards on the right wing. Locke knew exactly what he was going to do.
"I was just thinking we were right on the top corner of the box," Locke said. "I've taken that kick a thousand times.
Indeed, Locke's serve went high over the defense and across the top of the 6 and found Williams crashing the back post. Downers Grove North goalie Gavin Crawson, who had to worry about another Lyons player breaking free down the middle, had no chance on the ball when that player let the ball go through to Williams.
That, according to Downers Grove North coach Mike Schmitt, was a no-no.
"It was a well-executed play," Schmitt said. "It was just a bit of a lapse on our end defensively.
Instead, the result was a familiar scenario for the Trojans (6-9-4, 1-4-0), who now have lost multiple games in double-overtime and are winless in their last 10 starts.
It was a game North nearly won late in regulation.
Ramsey Forst whipped a lead pass into the left side of the box to an onrushing Braeden Gagliano, but Lyons goalie Gavin Fertitta made a diving save with 2:15 remaining.
Fertitta made three saves after relieving starter Bradley DeBoer at halftime, but he wasn't tested in either sudden-death overtime as the Lions slowly started to take control.
Lyons nearly won it three minutes before Williams scored. Jonny Gray sprinted through the defense and into the box but Crawson rushed out to slide tackle the ball away.
"It was a really exciting game," Schmitt said. "It's unfortunate that we've been on this side of the game.
"This is our third double-overtime loss of the season. We're kind of in a rut that we're trying to get ourselves out of, but I think the positive thing is we did play really well today.
While both teams were already eliminated from the Silver Division race and the playoff seedings have been determined, Labbato said it was still important to play well even though he didn't want to show a possible playoff opponent everything he had.
"This is a team we're going to see again, and we're figuring out what we're each going to do against each other the next time we potentially see them," Labbato said. "I felt like we played pretty well between the 30s but had a hard time getting in.
"I felt like we played better against the wind which was a little more of a shocker. We had more chances. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,674 |
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Rural Georgia sees vaccine hesitancy as supply outweighs demand
The country could be headed for another tale of two Americas: those with herd immunity, and those without, including areas that are mostly rural and at continuing risk of mini-epidemics.
Nearly 90% of voters in Rural Banks County voted for former President Trump. Its vaccination rate: 4%, among Georgia's lowest.
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Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush – how do the presidents of our era compare with those who came before?
12 things you didn't know about US presidents
It's also generally to honor all U.S. presidents. So, to honor the U.S. presidents of the past, here are 12 really odd facts about some of the presidents of this great country. AdAbraham Lincoln (16th): Many remember Lincoln as a humble, smart leader -- but he was also one of the best wrestlers around. AdRichard Nixon (37th): Yes, he resigned after the Watergate scandal, but did you know he installed a bowling alley at the White House? In 1942, shortly after joining the Navy, he landed an uncredited spot on the cover of Cosmopolitan in his uniform. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,676 |
Japanese Handplanes – Part 3: The Blade
covingtonandsons Plane Maintenance, Planes May 1, 2021 October 25, 2022 12 Minutes
A beautiful and even poetic plane blade forged by the famous Chiyozuru Korehide. The carved inscription reads "Shin, Un, Mu" meaning "God, Cloud, Dream."
The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.
Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
In this the third article in our series about the Japanese hiraganna handplane your most humble and obedient servant will review some of the design details of iron and steel plane blade. Why? Because to become proficient at using and maintaining the Japanese handplane, one must understand it more than just superficially, indeed, a healthy and mutually respectful relationship should be Beloved Customer's goal.
In addition, I will be so bold as to briefly present the story of a single plane blade made for a famous carpenter by a famous blacksmith.
The Shin Un Mu Blade 神雲夢の刃
The plane blade pictured at the top of this article was forged 6 years after the end of World War II by a famous Tokyo blacksmith named Kato Hiroshi (加藤 廣 1874~1957), who used the nom de forge of Chiyozuru Korehide, (千代鶴是秀 ). The Chiyozuru name has been copyrighted and is still in use to this day, although the current holders of the rights to the name are unworthy to even pour Mr. Kato a beer, if Mr. Kato was still a drinking man.
Chiyozuru-san forged this blade at the request of a famous Tokyo carpenter named Nomura Sadao. The engraving on the back states the blade (and matching chipbreaker) was made by him for Nomura Sadao and was completed on June 4, 1951. I'm told Chiyozuru-san charged Nomura-san ¥10,000, a huge amount back in the day.
You will notice that it looks different from most plane blades in that it lacks the beveled "ears" at the right and left corners of the blade's cutting edge commonly seen in Japanese plane blades intended to prevent the cutting edge from extending into the grooves on each side of the blade opening used to retain the wedge-shaped blade in-place thereby preventing wood shavings from becoming jammed between the groove and blade leaving unsightly marks on the surface of the wood being planed. More on this below.
The blade in question, however, has rabbets cut into the jigane at the left and right edges of the blade so the ura area is thicker than the sides which fit into the retaining grooves, and the cutting edge, therefore, does not intrude into the grooves, making beveled ears unnecessary. This is a very logical solution, although as it was explained to me by Tsuchida Noboru-san, it was not actually invented by either Chiyozuru-san or Nomura-san, but a design Nomura-san first observed at a technical school for cabinetmakers. He then made a wooden full-scale model and asked Chiyozuru-san to forge it for him.
While it is an elegant solution to a real performance issue, it is much more difficult to make this style of blade than the conventional one, and so never became popular.
On the subject of materials, Chiyozuru is well known for preferring to use imported steel, mostly from England, instead of traditional domestic Tamahagane steel. Although the source of the soft jigane is uncertain, there can be no doubt the steel lamination is made of British high-carbon steel.
Gentle Readers are no doubt aware that Japan has always been a land of many disasters, some man-made and others natural, with earthquakes and city-destroying fires being especially common. To protect this important blade from becoming lost to posterity, as were so many valuable things during the war, upon his retirement Nomura-san entrusted the blade to the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum located in Kobe, Japan.
Ironically, a large earthquake struck Kobe on January 17, 1995 killing over 6,400 people and tearing the city a new one. Fortunately, while the museum's exhibits were jumbled up, this blade was not damaged.
Upon Nomura-san's reassignment to the big lumberyard in the sky, his heirs formally donated the blade to the same museum where it remains to this day.
The four Chinese characters engraved into the face of the blade read, from top down, 神雲夢, pronounced "Shin, Un, Mu" which translates directly into English as "God, Cloud, Dream." No doubt there is some deep poetic meaning being expressed through these three characters, but it is far above the poor understanding of your humble, barely-literate servant.
Interpretations from Beloved Customers and Gentle Readers are welcome.
Definition of Fettle
While we are on the subject of literacy, I would like to clarify the meaning of a word pertaining to working on tools, and especially planes.
Gentle readers have no doubt heard the word "fettle" used in the phrase "fine fettle," usually referring to someone being in good health or physical condition. But it has other, older meanings.
In the British dialect, it means "to set in order," or "to get ready," from Middle English fetlen to shape, prepare; perhaps akin to Old English fetian to fetch.
Your humble servant commonly uses the word fettle as a verb, mostly for truing or adjusting a plane or other tool.
Never let it be said that the Gentle Readers of the C&S Tools blog are less than exquisitely erudite and edumacated.
Blade Details
Misunderstandings abound and deep, pungent rivers of BS frequently burst their banks when the details of the Japanese hiraganna plane's blade are discussed; Buckets, mops and even garbage pumps are necessary to clean up the mess. I despair: What to do, what to do?
While it appears to be a simple, crude, even haphazard component to the uninformed, the design of a well-made plane blade is subtle and its execution elegant. I am confident Beloved Customers willing to ignore ridiculous internet rumor along with the squeals, grunts and farts emanating from the orc-infested woodworking forums, and forego magic mushrooms for a time will quickly understand. So without further ado, let's turn on the pumps and get our mops moving.
Laminated Construction
The plane's blade is made by forge-weld laminating a piece of hard high-carbon steel to a larger piece of softer low/no carbon steel/iron. These details are discussed in more detail in the two posts linked to below. It is important to understand these details if Beloved Customer intends to become skillful in using and maintaining Japanese planes.
The Ura
The blades of quality Japanese chisels and planes have a hollow-ground area on the surface of the blade called the "flat" in the case of Western planes. In the case of plane blades, it is located on the surface your humble servant calls the "face," which is oriented upwards facing the user when installed in the body. An accurate understanding of this structural detail is essential to using and maintaining the Japanese handplane. We discussed this detail in a previous article linked to below. Please review this post if you haven't done so previously.
We discussed how to perform periodical maintenance on the ura in an earlier post. Oh joy!
The face of another plane blade by Chiyozuru Korehide engraved with many of the brands he used during his career. His Korehide brand is the the lozenge-shaped mark at the lower left. It has a sweet, sculptural ura.
Blade Retention
The blade of the Japanese handplane is retained in its wooden body by the pinching action on the top and bottom surfaces of the blade (not pressure on the edges) inside the tapered grooves cut into each side of the mouth opening. This arrangement eliminates the dedicated wedges, usually made of wood, used since at least Roman times to retain the blades of Western planes. It also makes irrelevant the widgets and linkages common to modern planes such as the Bailey-pattern, considered by many to be the pinnacle of plane design in the West. Simple is best, don't you agree?
A common misunderstanding about Japanese planes is that pressure between the wooden body and the back of the blade is necessary to both lock the blade into the body and to eliminate chatter resulting from blade vibration. In response, your humble servant can only turn up the speed dial on the garbage pump and say "poppycock!"
Except in the case of a poor quality body/blade, or one damaged through improper setup and maintenance, the pinching forces, and resulting friction, acting on the front and back of the narrow portion of the blade inserted into the two grooves in the body's mouth must be sufficient to hold the blade in-place without relying on pressure on the blade's back. If you know anyone who disagrees with this statement, rest assured the brown stuff dribbling out of their ears is not chocolate mousse.
Unlike the potato chip-thin blades common to many Western planes, the quality Japanese plane blade of the sort we carry with its relatively thick, laminated construction may have a few female characteristics such as beauty, elegance, and a cutting wit, but despite fitting into a truly tiny mouth it simply will not chatter. After all, it's chisels and squares that love to gossip.
While a tiny amount of uniform contact and pressure between the bed in the wooden body and the back of the blade is desirable to steady the blade in-use, many fit their blades (or perhaps "neglect to properly fit their blades" would be a more accurate description) to develop high pressure between blade and bed, making it difficult to adjust the blade and distorting the body unnecessarily. In extreme cases, this pressure can even push out the sole, preventing the plane from working entirely, a situation that has shaken many a poor woodworker to the core! Pixie involvement cannot be dismissed. If your plane is misbehaving, this bulging sole phenomenon is something you would be wise to check for and remedy if found.
We will discuss this subject more in future posts.
Lengthwise Taper
A casual observation reveals that the blade is tapered in thickness along its length, being thickest at the head sticking proud of the body, and thinnest at the cutting edge bevel.
The purpose of this taper is simply to wedge the blade into the grooves in the body. Please note that this wedging action does tend to cause the body to deflect to some degree, something which must be taken into account when fettling the sole, a subject we will discuss in a future post in this series.
Transverse Taper
The blade is also tapered in its width, being widest at the head and narrowest at the cutting bevel.
Ideally the side edges of the blade are in intimate contact with the grooves only where they exit at the top surface of the body, but should normally have no contact in the grooves elsewhere, making it possible to adjust the blade's projection through the mouth to a uniform distance by gently tapping its head either right or left a small amount.
Curved Back
Finally, please observe that the back (vs. the ura) of a quality blade is not flat, but is slightly hollow-ground around the centerline of the blade's length. The depth of this hollow should be more-or-less uniform over the blade's length.
One purpose of this detail is of course to lighten the blade's weight, but more importantly it helps keep the blade from twisting out of alignment in-use. If you have ever made a wooden plane body in the Krenovian style to fit a blade with a flat back, you may have experienced the irritating tendency of the blade to twist out of alignment under heavy planing forces. This is typically not a concern with the Japanese design because of the curved back detail, so long as the body's bed is well-fitted to the blade.
Since each blade and its matched wooden body are a little different, and not yet in perfect accord when new, fitting the body to the blade is one of the first things one must do to a new plane. This fettling operation will be the subject of a future post.
A plane blade by Mr. Ogata. Notice the curved back. Notice also the trimmed and beveled "ears" at the right and left corners of the cutting edge.
Common Sense and Plane Philosophy
Traditionally, everywhere planes were used around the world, a craftsman would commission or purchase the metal parts for his plane and cut the wooden body himself.
In recent history in Japan professional plane body makers called "daiuchi shokunin" 台打ち職人, which translates directly to "plane-body beater" (I kid you not) have become common. These craftsmen fit blade to body making a nearly complete retail product.
Many of these ostensibly completed planes are sold in a "sugu tsukai" 直ぐ使い condition, meaning "ready-to-use." As witness of this, such planes usually have a wood shaving resting in their mouths when sold. However, the fit between blade and body is intentionally too tight to allow for the end-user is expected to adjust it to his preferences.. This is where philosophy comes into play.
There are regional preferences in Japan when it comes to tools, including sickles, saws, axes, adzes, chisels and of course plane blades. In far Eastern Japan, especially the Tohoku area and Hokkaido, thicker, heavier plane blades are preferred, whereas in Tokyo and Western Japan, thinner blades are traditional.
But while discussions of these differences make the hearts of historians go pitter patter, they are irrelevant to persons living outside Japan, so we will ignore them for now.
But there are two general, practical approaches to blade size and fit of which Beloved Customers should be aware. Namely, architectural carpenters tend to prefer thicker blades that fit very tightly into the body because such planes tend to retain their settings better in the rough conditions of a construction jobsite. The downside to the thick blade is that it's heavier, it takes longer to sharpen, and it's more difficult to make fine adjustments to.
Craftsmen that do finer, more precise work such as joiners, sashimonoshi, furniture makers and cabinet/tansu makers typically prefer thinner blades that are quicker to sharpen and easier to frequently adjust to make fine, precise cuts.
We have Mr. Nakano forge the blades for our planes more in the Tokyo style: thicker than some but thinner than most.
Not knowing who will purchase the plane, unless directed otherwise most daiuchi shokunin cut tight-fitting bodies more suited to the carpenter, and assume the user will adjust the blade/body fit to their preference. This is the only practical solution in a "ride it like you stole it" handplane, but the reality is that too often the pressure on the back of the blade is so high it ends up creating problems for the user.
Too many inexperienced users of Japanese planes, especially amateurs located overseas, learn how to use Japanese planes without knowledgeable supervisors or fellow workers near at hand to notice their mistakes, wack them upside the head, and tell them how to correct their errors (welcome to the gentle world of the Japanese craftsman), and consequently never really figure out how to setup, fettle and maintain Japanese handplanes. I suspect a similar lack of expert supervision is why so many Western woodworkers who give Japanese planes a try fail to ever get satisfactory performance out of them and become frustrated, eventually selling them on PeeBay.
While your humble servant is eager to provide Beloved Customers all practical support and encouragement, the guidance I can provide is limited by distance, the written word, and the undeniable fact that he is a gentleman of great refinement and exquisite sensitivity (She Who Must Be Obeyed has been known to disagree, but what does she know?).
Therefore, upon making a significant mistake, Beloved Customers must instead call themselves rude names and slap their own heads to aid learning retention. May I suggest "Blockhead" as an appropriate self-imprecation in the case of planes? (ツ)
In this post we considered some of the unique design features of the Japanese hiraganna handplane's uncompromising and bitterly sharp iron and steel blade.
We even examined a historically-important, unusual, and exceptionally beautiful blade made by a famous blacksmith for a famous craftsman with curious engraving of mysterious meaning.
And we discussed regional differences in tool design. You can't make this stuff up, ladies and germs.
In the next adventure in this series we will turn our attention to the body of the Japanese handplane, the softer, gentler, wooden component of the tool, the one with the tiny mouth that directs and controls the work of cutting.
And I promise we will make some sawdust.
Chiyozuru Korehide (1874~1957), the blacksmith of the blade shown above.
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Other Posts in the Japanese Handplane Series:
Part 1 : East vs. West
Part 2 : Blade Adjustment
Part 3: The Blade
Part 4: Fitting Blade & Body
Part 5: The Chipbreaker
Handplanes
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Cayman Rugby & Football Union (CRFU) National Men's 15s will look to advance to just the second Americas Rugby Challenge in a one game play-in against Guyana Saturday 9th February at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
After Trinidad & Tobago dropped out of the 2018 RAN Regional Qualifers, Cayman defeated Bermuda 20-19 in June to finish second in the 'Championship' bracket of the 2018 Rugby Americas North Championships. The win now pits Cayman against Guyana for a spot in the 2019 Americas Rugby Challenge. Guyana was one of two countries to represent the 'North' regions in the inaugural 2018 Americas Rugby Challenge. In their regional match up of the tournament, Guyana lost 48-36 to Mexico on 9th September, relegating them to the 2019 play-in versus Cayman with a spot in the 2019 challenge on the line.
Cayman played two international games in the 2018 men's 15s season, losing 42-14 to feeder club USA South. The developmental American side does not qualify for the Americas Rugby Challenge.
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Kachin State People's Party Sets Sights on Winning 20 Constituencies in 2020 Election
The Kachin State People's Party (KSPP) is preparing to run in all of the eligible constituencies in Kachin State during the upcoming 2020 elections.
KSPP's chairperson Dr. Manam Tu Ja said that the party would compete in 18 townships: six in Myitkyina district, four in Bhamo, five in Putao and three in Mohnyin.
"We are preparing to run in 20 out of 36 constituencies. The government might restrict the holding of elections in some areas for security reasons," Dr. Manam Tu Ja said. "We expect to win all of the seats [we contest] in the 2020 general elections."
He added that if the Kachin Independence Organization signs a ceasefire with the government, he believes elections might be held in all of the state's constituencies, and the KSPP would expand their electoral participation to all 36 constituencies.
In the 2015 elections, polling was not held in many locations in the following townships, due to insecurity: Waingmaw, Chipwe, Sumprabum, Machanbaw, Hkawng Lang Hpu, Tanai, N Jang Yan, Mansi, Momauk, Shwegu and Tsawlaw.
The KSPP hopes that all areas will be able to participate in the next election, and Dr. Manam Tu Ja said that his party is working to promote public awareness around the vote.
"Many people do not understand politics and parties. We have held public meetings and explained our party, party affairs, our functions, as well as election issues," he told NMG.
The party formed as a merger: the Kachin Democratic Party, Kachin State Democracy Party and the United and Democracy Party – Kachin State joined to form the KSPP.
"If the KSPP wins the majority of seats [in Kachin State] in the election, they can be involved in the formation of the state government," Lamai Gum Ja of the Kachin Peace-talk Creation Group told NMG. "The Kachin people will get some political rights. I think it will help with problem solving."
Kachin State is diverse, home to six Kachin groups, five Shan groups, as well as large Bamar, Rakhine, and Gurkha communities, and a range of other ethnic groups.
In addition to the KSPP, other parties running in the 2020 election in Kachin State include the Kachin National Congress, Lisu National Development Party, Taileng (Shanni) Nationalities Development Party, Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, National League for Democracy, Union Solidarity and Development Party and others.
ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးညီလာခံကို ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမတိုင်မီ ပြန်လည် ကျင်းပမည် | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,679 |
Milk production continued to climb in August
Seán Cummins
Irish dairy farmers continued to increase the volume of milk they produced on their farms during the month of August.
The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that Irish creameries collected 706.5m litres of milk last month, an rise of 1.8% or 12.5m litres on the same month in 2015.
The figures from the CSO show that 44.8m litres of milk were sold for human consumption, up 2.9% on 2015 volumes, while butter production dropped 8% to 18,600t.
Source: CSO
Official figures also show that milk production increased considerably during the first eight months of the year.
Between January and August, Irish creameries collected 5,084.7m litres of milk, up 7.6% or 359m litres from the 4,725.3m litres produced during the corresponding time in 2015.
'Co-ops will be in a position to pay 30c/L next spring'
Ireland's dairy co-ops will be in a position to pay a minimum milk price of 30c/L (inc VAT) next spring, according to IFA National Dairy Chairman Sean O'Leary.
"The milk prices should start to strengthen during the last quarter of this year. And this process should continue on into the New Year," he said.
O'Leary suggested that multiple indicators are now confirming that the dairy market recovery is very much underway.
EU and global output are back while demand is picking up in China and other markets.
"The industry must make every effort to leverage the best possible returns over the coming months, and to pass back every last possible cent to help farmers deal with their cash flow crisis," he said.
August milk price increases
A number of creameries moved to increase the price paid for August supplies by between 1-2.5c/L.
Kerry had increased its milk price for August supplies by 2.5c/L, while Lakeland Dairies moved to rise the base price by 1c/L. This put both processors on a base price of 25c/L.
Glanbia member supplies were also paid 25c/L for August supplies, which included a 2c/L Glanbia Co-operative Society support payment to its members.
Glanbia Ingredients Ireland (GII) had also increased its base price by 2c/L to 23c/L including VAT for manufacturing supplies at 3.6% fat and 3.3% protein.
New cattle tag supply arrangement to come into effect on November 1
17.5 million fewer dairy farms by 2025
Central Statistics Office Dairy Milk Collection | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,680 |
Аушеу () — комуна у повіті Біхор в Румунії. До складу комуни входять такі села (дані про населення за 2002 рік):
Аушеу (524 особи) — адміністративний центр комуни
Гегіє (245 осіб)
Гроші (967 осіб)
Какучу-Векі (191 особа)
Кодрішору (77 осіб)
Лункшоара (1045 осіб)
Комуна розташована на відстані 401 км на північний захід від Бухареста, 43 км на схід від Ораді, 88 км на захід від Клуж-Напоки.
Населення
За даними перепису населення 2002 року у комуні проживали осіб.
Національний склад населення комуни:
Рідною мовою назвали:
Склад населення комуни за віросповіданням:
Посилання
Дані про комуну Аушеу на сайті Ghidul Primăriilor
Примітки
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Hi! My name is TheRealCleoDeNile and I need Fearleaders! It doesnt matter if u are bad at suggesting ideas. So just give me the ideas for the dance and i will try to post a video on Youtube.com! Plz post comments for ideas!
Not to put you through any kind of pressure, but i need more ideas! I need teamwork! So far with some of your ideas, the dance looks ah-mazing! Keep posting wonderful ideas!
so like no won has been on in like 100 days!!!! we need ideas. if you have any post them at the bottom.
You need to be a member of Fearleading Squad! to add comments!
Well... I sing pretty well.
Anyways, we should start getting better. We might have won against the Nefeara Squad, but they're probably going to use your World Class Fears from that book!
Also, If you are making a video of your singing, please message me the name of it!
I was looking through all of the comments for ideas for the cheer and i was thinking that we do multiple cheers because I can't choose so I will do multiple cheers! Also... I wan't to hear your singing voices and then i could include them all in the video! It doesn't matter if you think you are bad you dont have to make a video i just want to hers your voices! I will probably post a video in a couple months! Oh and at the end of the video you can add 1-5 on how you think you did!
Anymore ideas peeps? It's looking gr8t so far! I practice it every Tuesday!
well cleo im proud our ides are coming along......plz look in Ghoulia's disscusion (above) called ideas. i posted there and if you guys like it leave a comment saying "ThUmBs Up" if u like it/agree to it......thx.
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and always can be found embedded in my updates (but since usually my updates are the next day, this site is usually updated first).
Maybe it's because Dave is working on some A.I. that can't process a 16 seed beating a 1 seed but the standings are stuck after 18 or 19 games. Thus, go here to find Friday's standings: http://www.hwci.com/ncaa/2018/status0316.htm.
Well, a lot of brackets were trashed today, but don't throw them away yet. After tomorrow's games, we will be able to see which entries still have a chance to win money and you might be surprised. A quick look at standings here.
After all the heartache, many of you probably have torn up your brackets. Well, out of 114 entries, just 8 have been elminated from money (1st-5th place). Eight. That means 106 of you will still be stressed come Thursday. David has posted the standings and you can find out if you are one of the unlucky 8. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,683 |
Angela Eagle
Angela Eagle MP (born 17 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey since the 1992 general election. Eagle was born in Yorkshire and studied PPE at the University of Oxford , before working for the CBI and then a trade union.
Shadow First Secretary of State
13 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
Hilary Benn (Acting)
Emily Thornberry (2017)
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
Chuka Umunna
Jon Trickett
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
7 October 2011 – 13 September 2015
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Hilary Benn
Chris Bryant
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
8 October 2010 – 7 October 2011
Rachel Reeves
Minister for Pensions and Ageing Society
8 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Rosie Winterton
Steve Webb
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
29 June 2007 – 8 June 2009
Phillip Oppenheim (1997)
Kitty Ussher
for Wallasey
Lynda Chalker
23,320 (48.3%)
(1961-02-17) 17 February 1961 (age 58)
Bridlington, England
Maria Exall
St John's College, Oxford
www.angelaeagle.co.uk
Eagle served as the Minister of State for Pensions and Ageing Society from June 2009 until May 2010. Eagle was elected to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2010 and was appointed by Ed Miliband to be Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.[1][2]
In October 2011, she was appointed Shadow Leader of the House of Commons when Miliband reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet. She was appointed as both Shadow First Secretary of State and Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in September 2015 in Jeremy Corbyn's first Shadow Cabinet. She resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in June 2016. Eagle announced a leadership challenge to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on 11 July 2016, but eight days later she withdrew leaving Owen Smith to challenge Corbyn for the leadership.[3] Eagle is the twin sister of fellow Labour MP Maria Eagle.
Education and early employmentEdit
Eagle was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Shirley (Kirk), a factory worker, and André Eagle, a print worker.[4][5] She was educated at St. Peter's C of E Primary School and Formby High School.[6] She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford, graduating from the university with a second-class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983.[7] While at Oxford, she was also chairwoman of the Oxford University Fabian Society during 1980–1983.[8] In 1976, Eagle was joint winner of the British Girls' Under-18 chess championship.[9]
In 1984 she worked in the economic directorate of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), before joining the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) trade union where she held a number of positions. She was elected secretary for the Constituency Labour Party in Peckham for two years from 1989.[citation needed]
Parliamentary careerEdit
Backbencher and first period as government ministerEdit
Eagle was first elected to parliament as member for Wallasey in the 1992 election, defeating by 3,809 votes the Conservative Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign Office Lynda Chalker. Allegations were made about irregularities in her selection as parliamentary candidate, including the exclusion of a local favourite from the shortlist of candidates, and in the vote count itself.[10]
In parliament she became a member of the Employment Select Committee in 1994, and was promoted by Tony Blair in 1996 to the position of an Opposition Whip, and became a member of the Blair government following the 1997 general election as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, moving to the Department of Social Security in 1998.
Following the 2001 general election, she was a junior minister at the Home Office but was sacked by Blair in 2002, reportedly in error.[11][12] She was a member of the Treasury Select Committee after January 2003.[13]
Eagle voted in favour of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and repeatedly against investigating it in 2003, 2006, and 2007.[14]
Brown government ministerEdit
She returned to the government under Gordon Brown on 29 June 2007 as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, the most junior minister at HM Treasury. She was promoted to Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions in the June 2009 reshuffle.
In April 2008 Eagle took part in a debate in Parliament on the UK economy in which the Liberal Democrats tabled a motion suggesting that the country was facing an "extreme bubble in the housing market" and the "risk of recession". Eagle responded, "Fortunately for all of us … that colourful and lurid fiction has no real bearing on the macro-economic reality."[15] A year later Jeremy Browne, who led the original debate, said her comments "summed up the Government's delusional attitude" towards warnings of financial crisis.[16]
In oppositionEdit
Following Ed Miliband's accession to Labour Leader, Eagle was elected to his shadow cabinet, finishing tied 4th in the vote and was subsequently appointed to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury briefing, shadowing Danny Alexander.
In April 2011, Eagle was put down in the House of Commons by Prime Minister David Cameron when he used Michael Winner's catchphrase "Calm down, dear". Eagle's colleague, deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman, said: "Women in Britain in the 21st century do not expect to be told to 'calm down, dear' by their Prime Minister", with Labour officials calling for an apology, suggesting the remark was patronising and sexist.[17][18]
In the October 2011 reshuffle, Eagle became Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.[19]
In June 2012, Eagle criticised Take That singer Gary Barlow in the House of Commons following newspaper allegations of tax avoidance made against him. Eagle criticised his recent award of the OBE and claimed in the House of Commons that Barlow had "given a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Take That'," as well as questioning why Prime Minister David Cameron had not criticised Barlow publicly in the same way he had criticised comedian Jimmy Carr for tax avoidance.[20]
In May 2012, Eagle became chair of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum[21] and served as chair of the party's National Executive Committee 2013–14.[22]
Eagle "on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs."[23]
Deputy leadership electionEdit
Speaking at a 2015 deputy leadership election meeting in Bath
After the resignation of Miliband and deputy Harriet Harman following Labour's defeat at the 2015 general election, Eagle stood in the Labour Party deputy leadership election.[24][25]
Eagle was nominated by 32 Constituency Labour Parties and trade unions UNISON,[26] CWU,[27] TSSA,[27] and UCATT[26] and received joint support from Unite for her and fellow candidate Tom Watson.[28] Eagle came fourth to eventual winner Tom Watson, with 16.2% in the first round, and was eliminated in the second round on 17.9% of the vote.[29]
Corbyn shadow cabinetEdit
Following the leadership election, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Eagle as Shadow First Secretary of State and Shadow Business Secretary in September 2015.[30]
Angela Eagle resigned from these positions on 27 June 2016 in the mass resignation of the Shadow Cabinet in the wake of the vote for Leave in the EU membership referendum.[31] Eagle had campaigned for the Remain side in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
Leadership challengeEdit
Main article: Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016
After the 28 June 2016 vote of no confidence by Labour MPs in Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, Eagle was reported as considering a challenge for the leadership of the Labour Party, and said she would do so if Corbyn did not resign.[32][33] Eagle's Constituency Labour Party in Wallasey were in favour of Corbyn remaining as Party leader and called upon Eagle to support Corbyn as leader.[34][35]
Eagle asserted that: "I'm not a Blairite. I'm not a Brownite... I am my own woman, a strong Labour woman."[36] George Eaton of the New Statesman reported that backers of the other potential challenger, Owen Smith, contended that Eagle's 2003 vote in support for the Iraq War and her support for extending airstrikes against ISIS into Syria (in December 2015) might have harm her bid against Corbyn,[37][38] Gary Younge of The Guardian thought it was less clear what Eagle wanted in place of Corbyn's politics.[39]
Eagle announced a leadership challenge to Corbyn on 11 July, saying that "Jeremy Corbyn is unable to provide the leadership this huge task needs. I believe I can".[40] The following day a brick was thrown through a downstairs window at her constituency office address, and it was reported that her staff had stopped answering the telephones because of "abusive" calls. Her local party in Wallasey declared their support for Jeremy Corbyn as party leader "with an overwhelming majority" and proposed a vote of no-confidence in Eagle.[41] This did not take place as the NEC decided to suspend all Labour constituency party meetings during the leadership election.[42] Eagle herself received hundreds of abusive and homophobic messages at this time.[43]
On Tuesday 19 July 2016, Eagle announced she was withdrawing from the leadership election and would back the other candidate opposing Corbyn, Owen Smith, who had received about 20 more nominations from MPs and MEPs than she had. "We need to have a strong and united party so we can be a good opposition, take the fight to the Conservative Government and heal our country. So I am announcing that I will be supporting Owen in that endeavour with all my enthusiasm and might," Eagle said in an interview.[3]
With the support of Eagle, Wallasey Constituency Labour Party was suspended on 20 July 2016 over claims of bullying.[44] It emerged on 21 July that the police have advised Eagle not to hold any open constituency surgeries over fears for her safety, advice which she has agreed to follow with regret.[45][46]
An internal Labour Party investigation concerning complaints about incidents in Eagle's Constituency Labour Party and other events during her leadership campaign reported in October 2016. It confirmed that she had received homophobic abuse during a CLP annual general meeting earlier in the year.[47] "It's highly likely that the brick thrown through the window of Angela Eagle's office was related to her leadership challenge". "The position of the window made it very unlikely that this was" an action of "a random passerby" and it "was directly between two Labour offices". The claim "that the building was occupied by many companies and the window was in an unrelated stairwell" was misleading as "the landlord had a number of companies registered there; in fact the only other occupant is the landlord on the upper floor".[43]
Eagle is a member of the Labour Friends of Israel.[48]
Eagle was joined in the House of Commons at the 1997 general election by her twin sister, Maria Eagle.[N 1] The Eagles are one of two pairs of sisters in the Commons, as of 2017. They are identical twins.[50]
Eagle is a lesbian, coming out in a newspaper interview in September 1997.[51][52] She is the second openly lesbian MP, after Maureen Colquhoun in the 1970s.[53] In September 2008, Eagle entered into a civil partnership with Maria Exall[54][55] who is also involved in the Labour Party through the National Committee. She was ranked 53rd in The Independent's "Pink List" for 2006 of the 101 most influential gays and lesbians in Britain.[56]
^ They are sometimes incorrectly described as the first pair of twins to sit in the Commons together, but in fact the first set of twins is believed to have been James and Richard Grenville, who sat together for Buckingham between 1774 and 1780.[49]
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Home Market News Award winning documentary on Greek food travels to London
Award winning documentary on Greek food travels to London
The award winning Greek documentary "When Tomatoes Met Wagner" directed by Marianna Economou, travels to London for two special screenings at the Bertha Doc House on January 28 and 30th, the UK's first cinema dedicated solely to documentary films and events. The first screening of the documentary will be followed by a Q&A with the film's protagonist Alexandros Gousiaris. The audience will have the opportunity to enjoy organic Greek food, in collaboration with UK-based Greek & Mediterranean food suppliers "Odysea".
The film tells the humorous and uplifting story of two ingenious Greek cousins and five village women, who tackle the world market with their home-grown tomatoes. It premiered at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival on February 2019 and was the Greek official selection for the 92nd Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film category, but was unfortunately not shortlisted.
The film is a story about an ordinary rural community, where things start to happen in an extraordinary way. After centuries of introversion, the tomato stirs up life in the village and its 33 elderly inhabitants must respond. On top of this, Alexandros plays Wagner in the tomato fields to help them grow, uses stories to market the products and convinces people from all over the world to visit Elias. With humor and poetry, "When Tomatoes Met Wagner" addresses the power of human relationships and the importance of reinventing oneself during difficult times.
Since its premiere at the Berlinale, the documentary has also travelled to Sydney International Film Festival, Thessaloniki IFF, Visions du Reel, the New Zealand Architecture & Design Film Festival, DOK.fest Munchen, CineDOC Tbilisi, DocsBarcelona Spain, DocAviv Festival Israel, Montreal Cinéma sous les Etoiles, Lemesos Int Doc. Festival and Sarajevo IFF. The film was also been nominated for the prestigious Prix Europa Award, screened across Spain and Mexico and won the Prix Bartok and Prix Monde en Regards at the Jean Rouche Festival in Paris in November 2019.
Tomato Production
Fruit & vegetable exports at all time record!
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Q: Force update POD with dependency of another pod I have POD 'FolioReaderKit' which has dependencies of another pods such as Realm RealmSwift
When I install the pod I get:
FolioReaderKit: 1.4.0
- Realm 3.13.1
- RealmSwift 3.13.1
The version of FolioReaderKit is the latest however the Realm version is way too old there is 3.19.1 and I need to update it.
In the pod file the platform is set to ios 12.1 and after making "pod update" nothing happens. If I add manually RealmSwift ~> 3.19.1 it gives error that FolioReaderKit depends on this library RealmSwift 3.13.1
How to update Realm and RealmSwift to the latest version ?
A: Actually, using the FolioReaderKit 1.4.0 pod, you can't.
On the 1.4.0 release podspec, it depends explicitly on RealmSwift 3.13.1:
"RealmSwift": [
"3.13.1"
]
On the other hand, RealmSwift 3.13.1 depends on the same version of Realm:
"dependencies": {
"Realm": [
"= 3.13.1"
]
}
So you can't just manually update the versions.
The only way you can update this is creating a local copy of FolioReaderKit and manually modifying its podspec file, but it probably has some reason to fix the pod dependency version, so it is likely to crash.
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Q: Drawing lines with rounded endings with Direct3D Is there any way to draw a line using ID3DXLine with round endings? I am trying to draw a curve from number of line segments, but getting the empty areas where the line segments are connecting.
Performance here is essential.
Thanks!
Any other fast way to draw thick curved line using D3D?
A: You would be best off using a circular texture (with antialiasing around the edges) and then drawing half the texture at either end of the line. You can then render a strip through the center of the texture the whole way along a rectangle surrounding the line before finishing off with the other half of the texture at the other end. This will give you the effect you are after but its a tad more involved than simply calling "DrawLine" or whatever ...
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I was thinking about starting music by voice recognition for a while now. Since I've managed to launch my tv show via kalliope and kodi (more on that later :)), I still didn't have a way to do same for my music.
I start looking into existing solution and really liked the idea behind [mopidy](https://www.mopidy.com/), having an [MPD](https://www.musicpd.org/) server that also works with remote services like spotify. Meaning I could control not only my local music (as I would with a simple MPD server) but also my spotify library!
So to make this happen, I started created a simple (for now) neuron to manage an MPD server via Kalliope.
I keep the full installation / configuration I made (kalliope + mopidy) for another blog post though (:
# Installation
As usual, use the following command:
```bash
kalliope install --git-url https://github.com/bacardi55/kalliope-mpd.git
```
# Configuration
This neuron let you launch several action. Let's look at a default neuron for using it:
```yaml
- name: "play-music"
signals:
- order: "start playlist "
neurons:
- kalliopempd:
mpd_action: "playlist"
mpd_url: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
mpd_port: "yyyy"
mpd_random: 1
args:
- query
```
As you can see, there is an `mpd_action` arguments that let you choose what to do. As of now, the available commands are:
- playlist (**requires query parameters**): run a playlist
- playlist_spotify (**specific to mopidy - requires query parameters**): run a playlist
- toggle_play: to toggle play/pause
- search (**requires query parameters**): to search music and play it
- play_next: play next song
- play_previsous: play previous song
- play_stop: Stop playing
The playlist_spotify action is a bit specific to mopidy as if you want to run a "top playlist" on spotify (like top tracks everywhere in the glob) you'll need to use this action.
If you know the name of your playlist, you can use the default `playlist` action to launch it (even for spotify playlist)
The [README](https://github.com/bacardi55/kalliope-mpd) will have the up to date list.
More example are available in the [sample brain file](https://github.com/bacardi55/kalliope-mpd/blob/master/samples/brain.yml)
# Conclusion
Now I can start/stop music by voice and simply switch song (prev/next) or play/pause the music when needed (:
I am also very pleased on how kalliope works well with music running in the background, so that the next/prev/pause commands are really usefull :).
I'll be back with a post about my full kalliope setups and configuration later when everything is finalized!
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Start kodon se generalno definiše kao tačka sekvence u kojoj ribozom počinje da translira sekvencu RNK u aminokiseline.
Kad se RNK transkript čita sa 5' nukleotida ka 3' nukleotidu ribozomom početni kodon (-{AUG}-) je prvi kodon na koji se tRNK vezana za -{Met}-, metionin, i ribozomalne podjedinice vezuju. -{AUG}- označava modifikovani Met (fMet) kod prokariota.
Princip poznat kao centralna dogma molekularne biologije opisuje proces translacije gena u protein. Specifične sekvence DNK deluju kao templet za sintezu iRNK u procesu "transkripcije" u jedru. iRNK prelazi iz nukleusa u citoplazmu i služi kao templet za sintezu proteina u procesu translacije.
Vidi još
Stop kodon
Reference
Literatura
Spoljašnje veze
Genetički kod
ДНК
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Well, now we can announce that the initiative has found funds to keep the Surealist work in the country in a permanent home at the V&A. The work was purchased with support from Art Fund, the V&A members and a bequest from Derek Woodman.
One of the most instantly recognisable pieces of furniture of the 20th century, the sofa was also a collaboration between Dalí, one of the century's most important and influential artists and James, a key figure in the international recognition and promotion of Surrealism.
The decorative elements of the sofa correspond to the decoration of the interior of Monkton House, West Sussex, which was originally designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1902 for Edward James's parents. As part of his renovation of the interior of the House in the mid-1930s, James was assisted by architects Christopher 'Kit' Nicholson and Hugh Casson, as well as decorator Norris Wakefield.
Five Mae West Lips Sofas were made in total; all in 1938 Together they created a wondrous assortment of Victorian, Regency and Surrealist design, with intentionally shocking Surrealist objects filling the spaces and surfaces of the house.
This specific version of the sofa was altered by James from the others to make it an integral part of the decoration of Monkton House and to fit with his vision for a Surrealist interior.
Its dimensions, textiles and colour differ from other versions, and it was also elongated to give the lips a more satisfactory appearance.
Arts Minister John Glen said: This iconic piece is considered to be the single most important example of Surrealist furniture ever made in Britain.
The decision to defer the export licence followed a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), administered by the Arts Council.
RCEWA member Richard Calvocoressi said: Salvador Dalí and Edward James's sofa in the shape of Mae West's lips shares with Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon of the same date (Museum of Modern Art, New York) the distinction of being the most famous object in the history of Surrealism. But it is more than a witty surrealist sculpture or a striking example of fantasy furniture. It is a masterpiece of Pop art 25 years before Pop was invented.
The RCEWA noted the power of the image of the sofa in the 20th century. It made its recommendation on the grounds of the sofa's close connection with our history and national life, its outstanding aesthetic importance and its significance for the study of furniture history, as well as the history of design and Surrealist art. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,690 |
Horizon, The Emerging American Recording Artist and Hip Hop Star
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Horizon is an independent hip hop artist from New Jersey. He has been rapping for about 10 years and he is a songwriter full of lyrics constructed in conscious songs relevant to the present. His passion for music has always been there, but it was only recently that he decided to pursue this career path as a full-time job.
Horizon's second professional video is "Shine Beyond Remix" feat. Funkghost in 2022 produced by Soulhop and recorded in Deep Productions Recording Studio. Horizon & Funkghost refuse to let anyone limit their progress as the dazzling duo take their talents worldwide for a global spectacle of epic proportions!!!
He is fortunate to collaborate with "Illsboro Records" for the potential assistance in promoting and selling merchandise for "Shine Beyond Remix"!
The very first professional video of Horizon was a song called "Gifted" that was released in 2015 recorded in TokMusic Studio.
Horizon is an American hip hop artist from New Jersey. He was born in 1977 from unknown biological father, but a Phenomenal stepfather who supported his every endeavor. He started out by writing songs about various topics with weird rhyme patterns before honing his skills into a more sensible format. Horizon started rapping as an early teenager after hearing pioneering artist from 70's-90's. One great favorite's is Whodini "Friends".
After relocating to Tampa, Florida from New Jersey continued pursuing music journey following Artist on WMNF 88.5 underground hip hop station hosted by the legendary Kenny K.
Kenny K was a DJ and co-creator of legendary hip hop group Digital Underground. The ultimate goal of Horizon is to win as many awards as possible, specifically a songwriter award. And to have at least one song go Gold or Platinum, ranking somewhere on the charts.
Horizon is an independent artist, collaborating with Illsboro Records artist that's blazing trails. He uses social media such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc to market himself and his music.
Twitter: @horizon_artist& @horizonsev
Instagram: @horizontheartist
Youtube: @horizontheartist
Facebook: @horizontheartist
Whatsapp: (813)4100237
https://illsboro.com
I am Jaye Wells, a mom and blogger. I am here to share my personal views on artist, business and celebrities.
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In 1808 M'Mahon purchased some land "on the township line road, near the Germantown road," in the area of what is today Fotterall Square, where he opened a [[nursery]] and [[botanic garden]] called Upsal [[Botanic Garden]].<ref>John William Harshberger, ''The Botanists of Philadelphia and Their Work'' (Press of T. C. Davis & Son, 1899), 117, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/keywords_in_early_american_landscape_design/items/itemKey/6C7I6V7V/q/harshberger view on Zotero].</ref> Although no descriptions of Upsal survive from M'Mahon's lifetime, early histories and guides to the city briefly mention it as an attraction, including James Mease's 1811 ''The Picture of Philadelphia.''<ref>James Mease, ''The Picture of Philadelphia: Giving an Account of Its Origin, Increase, and Improvements in Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, Commerce and Revenue. With a Compendious View of Its Societies ...'' (Published by B. & T. Kite, 1811), 351, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/keywords_in_early_american_landscape_design/items/itemKey/5EXQKRJT/q/picture%20of%20philadelphia view on Zotero].</ref> <span id="#Poulsons1818_cite"></span>The earliest extant description, written in 1818, two years after M'Mahon's death, records about twenty acres of "variegated" land, with "an ample fish [[pond]] and island, supported by a never failing spring" on the property, and several buildings including a "two-storied stone dwelling; a brick and frame kitchen, a large stone building, [[Green House]], a frame stable, coach house, and out buildings" ([[#Poulsons1818|view text]]). With its [[pond]], mixed soils, and [[green house]], the land at Upsal must have afforded M'Mahon with diverse growing conditions for a wide variety of species. The garden continued to attract botanically-minded visitors in the decades following M'Mahon's death, like the Scottish botanist David Douglas (1799–1834), who visited the property in 1823. In his journal, Douglas briefly described Upsal's Osage orange trees (''Maclura pomifera''), which were among the most celebrated specimens collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition (view text). As late as 1830, visitors remarked on the "[[green house]] 60 feet long," the "beautiful fish and water plants" with which the [[pond]] was stocked, and "a row of native oaks, planted by him [M'Mahon], containing 30 varieties; being all the kinds that he could collect in his day, either with money or zealous exertion" (view text).
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That was the scene at Canadian Nationals last weekend, but this past weekend in Edmonton for the Canada Cup finals was far from sunny and dry!! The course runs under the high level bridge just off of 109th ave, right in the heart of the city, so it's an extremely cool venue. But for anyone who know Edmonton and Edmonton mud/clay, when it rains it's next to impossible to ride. I pre-road on Friday in the pouring rain and it was actually almost a little better then because the ground was so saturated that the water was just sitting in puddles on top of the trails....but the roots were nasty. It stopped raining sometime during the night and race day Saturday was sunny and warm......so the mud started turning to chunky peanut butter.
After 4 weeks of rest, only small training rides and racing on the weekends, I was well rested for the weekend. I felt great off the start, having one of my strongest starts to the season, hitting the first singletrack section just ahead of Jean Ann. I managed to open up a small gap along the open road section leading to the back half of the course....and the really muddy section. Once we were forced to dismount and start running Catherine Vipond made up the gap and passed me.....I was trying to ride too much and just should have kept running. You'd think with me being the tallest rider out there I'd have super long legs and be able to run really fast....but that's actually a myth!!! I have pretty stubby legs for my size...haha....and Catherine looks like she's turning into a runner.
On one of the steep technical descents (one that is usually no problems at all) I decided yet again I needed to try and ride it....haha....smart move Mical!! Half way down the muddy rooty slope I lost full control and smashed a tree nice and hard....it was a big thick tree too, one that didn't have much give....with my leg and the side of my face. It took me a couple seconds to collect myself, Jean Ann passed me running, followed by Sandra and Rebecca Boumont. Sandra slide out just as she was passing me so I was able to hop back up and slide back into position in front of her. Once we got out of the muddy singletrack onto a stretch that I could actually ride I noticed that my seat was twisted almost 90 degrees around....yah, that's uber comfortable to ride on. Stopping to fix my seat Sandra and Reb passed me and I lost contact with them in the 30 seconds it took to loosen off and re-tighten the seat clamp.
And that's where I found myself for the rest of the race...haha, seems I'm always in no mans land. Through some of the switchback sections I would see the pick bikes of Jean Ann and Sandra, but never seemed to any time difference with them. In the last lap I noticed on the open sections that Reb was slowing down, and I'm gaining on her fast. I catch her on the last climb and give a burst of speed to pass her and put as much time into as possible. There is over a km of flat straight gravel/road into the finish and I pop out of the last singletrack well ahead of her, but as I look over my shoulder I see she's not ready to give up without a fight!!! Awesome!! So I have to work hard to stay ahead of her and hold onto my fourth place finish.
Getting ready to head home for two weeks, yippee, to hang out with Regan and whip him back into shape. Have to take my bike in to the boys at Trek Pro City to get it all tricked out and tuned up for the TR3!!!! Huge thanks to my momma and poppa for all the support the past two weeks....see you in two weeks for another week of fun!!!
I didn't know they caught us dancing!!!!!
Ya, I know, I've very much fallen off the blog bandwagon....okay, back in the saddle. A fair bit has happened in the past two weeks since Mont St Anne, week trip down to Windham, NY for another World Cup, then out to Canmore for Canadian Nationals.
First off, Windham World Cup. Oh wait, we stopped by Lake Placid on the drive down to take in some post Olympic magic, and enjoy a good old American 4th of July. It was a pretty jammed packed overnight stay. Did some awesome trail riding, went swimming (or flouncing in the Lake), ate at one of two remaining Howard Johnson restaurants (9.95$ all you can eat taco buffet....oh ya!!!), and watched the 4th of July fireworks.
On to Windham, it's one of those classic mountain bike courses that the US is known for, with one long climb and one long decent. I really enjoy with course, the climbing is long and steady with only a few really steep sections. And the downhill is fast and rough, and a little technical through a couple of sections. I had a much better race here then at Mont Ste Anne, finishing 40th, but I know I've still got better in me somewhere.
This past weekend was Canadian Nationals in Canmore, Alberta......miss this place for sure. It was probably one of the funnest courses that I've ridden. Technical climbing, tight fast technical descending and of course Soft Yogurt.......the fast new pump track inspired descent!!! Overall, it kinda felt like there was more descending then climbing....of course I'm gonna love it!! Matt Hadley and his crew did an awesome job of building the course and Ed Garvin and the his Cyclemeisters did an awesome job of laying it out and hosting the weekend.....Thanks!
After another week of rest, I felt good going into the race. I had my typical good start, but I right off the bat I was having troubles pushing myself into the race zone. I found myself racing back and forth with BC's Brandi Heisterman, she'd smoke me on the climbs and I'd make up time on the downhills. We played back and forth for most of the race, but at the end she a had a little more gas then me and ended up pulling away. Jean Ann Berkenpas had an early bike issue and I could tell she was charging hard to catch back up. Going up the final climb into back into the stadium I found a little more in the tank and pushed myself to stay ahead of her. I held on to 8th place, and totally gooned at the finish. Not the placing I was aiming for, not the feeling I was hoping for, but I left it all out on the course and it was the best race I could have had on the day.
Sunday was the team relay I had the opportunity to race as the last rider for team BC. One lap of a slightly shortened course, all out as hard and as fast as you can go!!! Neil Kindree got us off to a great start, Evan Guntrie continued to extend out lead and Quinn Moberg hammered hard to give me a minute buffer going into my final lap. Of course, I had Adam Morka and Derek Zanstra chasing me down, but I was determined to hold them off as long as I could. I hammered hard out of the gate and up the climb.....which at full gas feels a lot longer and harder then I remembered. Adam caught just before the top of the climb, shortly before hitting the singletrack descent, and I didn't have the gas to respond as he passed me and hammered by. Popping out near the stadium to loop through the eye dropper and down into Soft Yogurt, I had about a minute lead still on Derek. It's amazing how fast that minute can disappear, I was ready to give him a shove off the trail when he passed me on the final climb back into the finish. We managed to hang on for a great 3rd place!!! Thanks guys.
After the relay podium, we all scrambled to get changed and help out as ambassadors for the Fast and Female clinic hosted at the Canmore Nordic center. 40 plus, 9-19 year girls learning different mountain bike skills and that it's fun to be active. It was a great turnout and a really cool event to be a part of!!!
Now I'm hanging out in Calgary, relaxing with my parents and their new dog :) I've got the Edmonton Canada Cup this weekend, then the TR 3 in 3 weeks, then......I'm not really too sure what the rest of my season is going to look like right now....but I'll keep you posted.
Wow I really don't know what that was!! Definitely not my fast though. From lots of past experience I know first hand that this course can eat you up fast if you go out too hard so I made it my goal to keep myself in check off that start. This is one of the most challenging but also rewarding courses on the world cup circuit.....or any other circuit for that matter. It's what you call a "real" mountain bike course with technical climbs and descents. And let me tell you there is a lot of steep climbing here too!!!
So onto race day. Nothing like 29 degrees and super humid to shock the system! Making starting easier even more important. I had a great start keeping my heart rate low and not pushing into the red. Everything was going perfect and I felt really good. Actually a lot better then I usually do on this course.
Near the end of the second lap, not even 40 mins in, it was like a switch and my body just started to reject the idea of doing anything. It truly was a strange feeling, legs felt cold and tingle. Ya strange!!! I know a lot of racing is being able to push through pain but today I didn't have what it took to push through this. I slowed my pace trying to get things to come around but things just kept getting worse. I ended up started my 3rd lap but going backwards fast. At this point it seemed my brain signals were almost getting crossed and I couldn't ride in a straight line.
Finishing lap 3 I was pulled, first time in a couple of years and let me tell you, it's really not a very good feeling. And I have to admit I almost just booked my ticket home to forget about the next world cup in Windham, and take the time to sort myself out. But I truly am a sucker for punishment and keep coming back for more.
So plan for this week is to recover (even though I only raced for an hour yesterday it feels like I've done a 4 hour hammer ride) and try to calm my mind and come to terms with what happened this weekend. I know I'm a better rider and a faster racer then any of my results have proven this year. I just to keep remembering that but at the same time reminding myself that at the end of the day it's just bike riding......which I LOVE to do.
Thanks Regan for being my rock through all this self discovery. Thanks momma and poppa for your continued support. Thanks to all my sponsors for helping my out this season. Thanks to everyone who believes in me :) sappy I know haha.
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La seigneurie de Valbonne était une seigneurie tenue par les seigneurs de La Valbonne, aujourd'hui hameau de Balan et Béligneux, dans la région naturelle de la Côtière et dans le département français de l'Ain. Sa domination sur la région fut effective jusqu'au .
Situation
La seigneurie de la Valbonne s'étendait entre le bas de la Cotière et le Rhône, depuis Miribel jusqu'à Meximieux.
Histoire
Olim Vallis Bona, Valbonna.
La Valbonne fut à l'origine la possession des seigneurs de Montluel. En 1326, elle passe aux dauphins de Viennois, qui en firent une baronnie, en 1343, au roi Jean, et enfin, en 1354, aux comtes de Savoie. Elle forme un des bailliages des États de Savoie avec pour centre, Montluel.
En 1454, les terres de Valbonne sont ravagées par le dauphin Louis XI sur un coup de colère contre son père Charles VII venu l'empêcher de se marier avec charlotte de Savoie.
Le , elle est érigée en titre de comté par le duc Louis de Savoie.
La seigneurie de Montluel fut d'abord une châtellenie dépendant de cette seigneurie, avant de s'émanciper de celle-ci, probablement à partir de la fin du .
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Bibliographie
Histoire de la Côtière
La Valbonne
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Histoire du Moyen Âge dans l'Ain
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Q: Strategy for developing a multi function asp.net web application I'm about to start a new project and want some advice on how to implement.
I need a web application which contains a booking module for reserving timeslots, and a time management module which will enable employees to clock in / clock out.
If I am writing an update to the time managment module, I don't want to disrupt the booking engine availability by releasing a new solution containing both modules.
to make things more difficult, there is some shared functionality like common users, roles and security.
Here's a suggestion I've gotten, which sounds a bit cruddy, but may be functional.
Write a 'container' web application which consists of basically a frame, and authentication / security features. This then has links which, will load the 2 independantly built and released web applications into the frame.
I can see that say, if I wanted to update the time management module, I would only need to build and release this separately, and the rest of the solution would be 'untouched'
Any better alternatives?
A: Unless I am missing something, if you run ASPX.net (v2, 3, whatever) you can replace the ASPX files (including any CLASS Files) on the fly and the WEB SERVER will automagically "do the right thing."
So if you wrap your "modules" in classes, you can replace those files on a whim without harming the functionality of other classes (not modified.)
As I re-read this am I getting convinced that I am misunderstanding your goal...
A: Sounds like you what you want is to have some thing along the lines of the Composite Application Block but for a web application (the CAB is for a smart client application).
One of the main things you would want to do is reduce and abstract the coupling between the modules as much as possible.
Keeping the session in the database would go a long way help your ability to dynamically load modules into the application.
This would allow you to have the time management in one server and the booking engine in another. When you update the functionality of one you simply update one server while the other keeps on serving the user.
A: Add two class library to your web application. one for "booking module" and one for "time management" module.
After compiling you will have one DLL for each module and put them in bin folder of web app (Visual Studio will do) then you can replace them separately when you need.
A: Maybe you know this already :
Sessions are the heart of problems in web if misunderstood.
Http is a connection-less protocol which means both sides of connection don't care about the flow of the communication. Simply a request has a single response. Without tracking a client how web applications can work ? assume we login to Yahoo mail. Single request (filled login page) is sent to server and a single response (inbox page) returns, then what if we want to see "Draft" folder ?
To inspire state to HTTP a simple solution added which we know as "cookies".
cookies are simple texts send with each request to a specified server. So on login page Yahoo server sends the response with some other text (cookie) which forces client (browser) to remember it and sent with every new request. This way Yahoo server (web application) can keep track of sequence of requests. This is why we should not simply close the browser window when we are done with yahoo and should logout. With logout yahoo server will forget about that cookie and any subsequent requests with that cookie are not accepted. So because Yahoo can't find out we closed the browser "connectionless" is a good name.
How asp.net handle this ?
simply asp.net uses a "session cookie" for any new request (requests without cookie) and let's you put your variables in "Session" object on server side. As long as we are at the same application we can use same session variables. What asp.net is doing behind is creating a table for "session Id" cookies and you "session variables". This is transparent to asp.net programmer. We just simply put a value in a session variable like this : session("Age") = 19; and read it when we need. ASP.NET take care of the rest with session cookies this way: you create a session variable (here "Age") so asp.net should track of this request; whatever is the response, asp.net adds a "session cookie" to it. "Session cookie" is a unique text which should be send by that client on consequent request till it expires (usually 20 minutes in asp.net). Use Firefox with "web developer" add-on to see and manipulate cookies.
Related concepts: session cookies vs permanent cookies, cookie properties (domain, expiration date, ...)
how server deals with cookies (keeping in memory, storing in database, ...)
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In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion.
In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English.
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Apocrypha and Apocalypse
*Sunday, November 11th will cover topics from both the 11th and the 4th.
Our 9:15 Christian Education Forums this fall will deal with two sections of the Bible we seldom study. From two Greek words opposite in meaning – Apocrypha, means to hide or obscure; Apocalypse to uncover or reveal. The Apocrypha are writings of the Hebrew Bible whose inspiration has bben contested in both Judaism and Christianity. Apocalyptic literature, such as the Book of Revelation, also called The Apocalypse, uses fanciful imagery to convey a deep meaning. Ironically, these images seem to cover up the true meaning rather than uncover it.
Accepted by the early church as part of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha include several writings that emerged in the last centuries before the coming of Jesus. They include several literary genres – narrative, wisdom literature, poetry, history, even apocalyptic literature. At the time of the Reformation, Protestant churches omitted these books from the Old Testament. Anglicans have always kept them, but as a "second canon," useful for our learning, but not central to the Old Testament story. Portions of these books appear in our lectionary for both the Eucharist and the Daily Office.
Apocalyptic literature has also had a contested history. The Book of Revelation was considered suspect by some segments of the early church. In our day, Revelation and other writings, such as parts of the Book of Daniel, and even a small section of the Gospel of Mark, are sources of curiosity and wild interpretations from some segments of Christianity. Understanding the literary form of apocalyptic writing will help us avoid crazy and misguided interpretations.
These sections of biblical literature have a lot to teach us. The Apocrypha help us to gain a better understanding of the religious world of Judaism from which Jesus emerged. While a good understanding of apocalyptic writing will help you understand and refute the misleading interpretations that can have serious and negative spiritual and political consequences, especially in American culture.
Fr. Mark Kowalewski leads this forum every Sunday from 9:15 – 10:30 September 30 through December 9, except for October 28.
September 30 Introduction to these "hidden" writings
October 7 The Book of Tobit (Please read before the class all of Tobit)
October 14 The Book of Judith (Read all of Judith)
October 21 The Books of Wisdom and Sirach, also called Ecclesiasticus (Read
Wisdom ch. 1-3,9-10,13, 14:12-31; Sirach 5, 8, 44:1-15)
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November 4 The prophet Baruch and the Books of Maccabees (Read all of Baruch, I Maccabees 1-3, 4:36-61) (This material is moved to the 11th)
November 11 Maccabees, Part II (Read II Maccabees 1-10:9)
November 18 "Uncovering" apocalyptic writing and Old Testament examples (Read Ezekiel 1 and 8-10 and Daniel 7-12
November 25 New Testament apocalyptic writing and introduction to The Book of Revelation (Read Mark 13, I Thessalonians 2, Revelation 1-4)
December 2 Revelation Part II (Read Revelation 5-12)
December 9 Revelation Part III (Read Revelation 13-22) | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,703 |
Zero Woman (1995)
Director: Koji Enokido
Writer: Tooru Shinohara
Keywords: boobs
Series: << Zero Woman >>
Actor: Misayo Haruki, Kosuke Hishinuma, Naoko Iijima, Takako Kitagawa, Miho Suzuki, Tokuma Nishioka, Akira Hamada
Format: 75 minutes
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219420
Website category: J-sleaze
Review date: 30 January 2013
A waste of time. Nothing here suggests any connection with its shocking 1974 predecessor, Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs, except the fact that they're both based on Tooru Shinohara's manga.
To set the scene, Zero Woman was a Tooru Shinohara manga that became a disturbing 1974 film and then later, independently, a series of straight-to-video movies. Seven came out in 1995-1999, then another two in 2004 and 2007.
This is the first film in that 1990s series and it's not very good at all. It's not trying to maintain continuity with the 1974 film, but I shouldn't hold that against it since it's an unrelated adaptation of the same source material. There's a new actress (Naoko Iijima) in the lead role, but that's normal and we'll be seeing someone new in every film. This is merely the latest Zero Woman in a line of them. She's had her past erased, she goes by the name of Rei (which means "zero") and she works for the assassination division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. In 1974, "Zero Department" was a flippant throwaway comment, but this film takes it literally.
You might be wondering why the Tokyo police force needs a full-time assassination division, even one with only two personnel: Iijima and her boss (Tokuma Nishioka). The film doesn't answer this.
The plot is weak, illogical and occasionally missing connective tissue. (The scenes it skips are sometimes more interesting than the ones it shows.) Iijima kills a couple of people, but it means nothing. Meanwhile Miho Suzuki is giving money to random men, having sex with them and telling them to "punish" her. This involves occasional nudity and bondage, which we're supposed to think is a substitute for a plot. Nothing happens for a while. Eventually though, Suzuki kills her latest man for calling her a pervert and refusing to have sex with her. Iijima and a policeman friend of hers (Kosuke Hishinuma) happen to be nearby, so now things start getting heavy. You see, Suzuki has a powerful father (Akira Hamada).
This is thematically consistent with the 1974 film, in that both involve politicians arranging the murder of anyone who's a threat to their daughters. However this take on it is sillier, since Hamada is trying to protect his public image while helping his daughter as she pays strangers to have kinky sex with her in public and then kill them. That's not the best long-term strategy.
His tactics make even less sense. Iijima at first doesn't want to investigate the case and refuses to pursue it, while Hishinuma's the one who can't leave it alone. Hamada thus twice sends assassins to kill Iijima before eventually turning his attention to Hishinuma. Later on though, once Iijima's actively investigating, Hamada's men repeatedly let her live and decide it would be more fun to start tormenting her instead. One of them's a dwarf with a sex dungeon. (Why?) He dies so ridiculously that it's amazing to think he survived into adulthood without accidentally sticking a fork in his eye. The other killer is a badass dude in a leather coat and he gets a better death, being merely very stupid.
There are a few points of mild interest. There's some meat in the Iijima-Nishioka relationship, which is almost chillingly impersonal and hardly exists except in the sense that he's her superior officer. He calls her his "dog". I like the homoerotic subtext in the hit man's killing of Hishinuma, which is heavy enough to look deliberate but subtle enough to be only tantalising subtext. That was far more attention-grabbing than if he'd been openly and explicitly gay.
I also like the gag of having Hamada stroking a white cat. It's only one scene, but it still screams Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
The cast is unremarkable, although I wasn't helped in looking them up by the fact that imdb can get unreliable if you're looking up titles this obscure. Suzuki's Japanese wikipedia page calls her a model, not an actress. Iijima is okay, but she's not setting the screen alight. The best actor here is Nishioka as her chilly boss, although I was charmed by the cute eager girl who's playing Hishinuma's girlfriend, even if she can't play grief convincingly.
You'll see this film referred to by various titles, because it has no good one. My first thought was to give a clumsy but literal translation of the Japanese title, i.e. Zero Woman: Metropolitan Police Department Section Zero Woman, but all that text after the colon seems to be a strapline for all of them. You'll also see it as "Zero Woman: Final Mission" (eh?) and just plain "Zero Woman", which is what this is if you ignore the subtitle. It's also tempting to call it "Zero Woman 1", which would fit the numbering of the later films in this straight-to-video series, although it seems a shame to imply that the dizzyingly superior 1974 original doesn't count.
There's very little here to reward an audience. Occasionally they'll throw in some oddness, like the Auton dream sequence or the "drawing a face on the mirror" scene. Oddest by miles of course is the singing sex torture dwarf, but unfortunately he's also too silly to be taken seriously. Your engagement with this movie will mostly be limited to picking at the plot holes. What's the point of the dwarf? Why didn't they kill her? Why are the baddies so stupid and illogical? (Answer: plot convenience.) Even the nudity's not that great. It's superficially competent filmmaking in most respects and it would be possible to get far worse, but that's hardly a recommendation. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,704 |
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FROM winning performances and opening the Tamworth Country Music Festival, to writing with award-winning artists and releasing his debut single to radio, Aaron Jurd has achieved it all in a few years.
The Lake Macquarie singer-songwriter spent five years playing gigs in cover bands and duos before he chased his ultimate goal of releasing original music. His debut single, Set Me On Fire, tells of the emotional struggles that come with reaching the lowest point in your life, but knowing there is a way out, although you haven't found it yet.
Aaron graduated from the 2018 CMAA Academy of Country Music and, with his fellow graduates, performed at the Official Opening Concert of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. During his time at the academy, he worked with Amber Lawrence, Fanny Lumsden, Kasey Chambers, and Kevin Bennett. Aaron co-wrote a song with seven-time Golden Guitar winner Allan Caswell.
With his strong vocal abilities, 2013 and 2014 saw Aaron named a finalist in Today's Country 94one Brand New Star Competition. His success in 2014 meant he was selected to join 10 other artists for a song workshop with country music artist Gina Jeffreys where he co-wrote a song with the star.
WHEN you hit rock bottom, the only way is up, which is the message singer-songwriter Aaron Jurd is spreading with his new single, Set Me On Fire.
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NC House passes marriage amendment bill
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina House of Representatives voted Monday to put a ban on same-sex marriage before voters next year. After 3 1/2 hours of debate, 75 legislators voted in favor of the bill which would ask voters to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Several Democrats joined the Republican majority in backing the bill. Voters could see it on the ballot during the May primary election.
Opponents in the House said it didn't matter the date of the referendum — they said it was an awful idea that would send the state backward and likened the question to instituting Jim Crow restrictions that prevented interracial marriage. Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Wake, said approving this proposal would run counter to changing attitudes about same-sex relationships.
"We've put discrimination in our constitution before and if you vote for this amendment ... you will be doing it against the tide of history and against future generations," Ross said.
Before the action moved inside, hundreds of social conservatives rallied on Halifax Mall to urge legislators to back the bill. Same-sex marriage advocates planned a candlelight vigil Monday night and a counterprotest Tuesday on Raleigh's Bicentennial Mall.
"It hurts me personally. It makes me angry. I don't think there's a need for it," said Lisa Mayer, who attended the candlelight vigil.
Rep. Marcus Brandon, the only openly gay lawmaker in the state House of Representatives, said the vote was "hurtful."
"I don't think people will ever understand how personal that is for you to be called an abomination," Brandon said.
State law already bans same-sex marriage, and opponents of a constitutional amendment contend that it is unnecessary. North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast without such a provision in its constitution.
Amendment supporters argue putting it in the constitution would help the state against challenges from same-sex couples married in the six states that allow the unions.
Supporters of same-sex marriage rights have defined the issue in civil rights terms. Advocacy group Equality NC delivered more than 50,000 postcards to the legislative offices Monday, hoping to convince lawmakers that their constituents oppose the move and see it as discriminatory.
Alex Miller, interim director of Equality NC, said putting the measure on the ballot would be inherently unfair. "You do not put the rights of a minority group up for a majority vote."
Anthony Pugliese, a gay man who moved to North Carolina with his partner and two daughters, said, "Anything that affects or limits the rights of one group over another is definitely something I consider civil rights."
Crystal Amanchukwu, a supporter of the ban, failed to see the connection. "What we have gone through as a black people is because of our biology, because of our race. And the other action is because of behavior, because of personal choices," she said.
Robert Williams agreed. "For them (homosexuals) to say that it is a choice, it's not a choice. They are not born that way," Williams said.
"I don't think the state should sanction something I consider perversion," added Cindy Lassiter.
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Enriched flour is flour with specific nutrients returned to it that have been lost while being prepared. These restored nutrients include iron and B vitamins (folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, and thiamine). Calcium may also be supplemented. The purpose of enriching flour is to replenish the nutrients in the flour to match the nutritional status of the unrefined product. This differentiates enrichment from fortification, which is the process of introducing new nutrients to a food.
79 countries have fortification or enrichment for wheat or maize flour made "mandatory", according to the Global Fortification Data Exchange.
History
White flour became adopted in many cultures because it was thought to be healthier than dark flours during the late Middle Ages. As white flour was more expensive it became a fashionable indicator of perceived social status and tended to be consumed mostly by the richer classes. Another factor was that mold and fungus in the grains, which led to several diseases, were significantly reduced in the processing that resulted in white flour.
In the 1920s, Benjamin R. Jacobs began to document the loss of essential nutrients, however, through this processing of cereals and grains and to demonstrate a method by which the end products could be enriched with some of the lost nutrients. These nutrients promote good health and help to prevent some diseases. Enrichment was not possible until 1936, when the synthesis of thiamin was elucidated.
The international effort to start enriching flour was launched during the 1940s as a means to improve the health of the wartime populations of the United Kingdom and United States while food was being rationed and alternative sources of the nutrients were scarce. The decision to choose flour for enrichment was based on its commonality in the diets of those wartime populations, ranging from the rich to the poor. These wartime campaigns resulted in 40% of flour being enriched by 1942. In February 1942, the U.S. Army announced that it would purchase only enriched flour. This resulted in a large expansion of enrichment, but smaller local mills were still selling cheap, unenriched flour that could end up consumed by the poor, which needed enrichment the most. In 1943, the War Foods Administration issued a temporary ban on non-enriched bread, finally raising enrichment compliance to 100%.
Flour processing and nutrient loss
The conversion of grains to flour involves several steps that vary with the type of grain used. The initial stages of processing remove the bran and the germ of the seed. The bran is the outermost layer of grains that contains fiber (primarily insoluble), some protein, and trace minerals. The germ is the embryo of the seed that contains B vitamins and trace minerals. Because the germ has a fat content of 10%, it may reduce shelf-life. Thus, it is separated to ensure longer shelf life of the flour. In contrast to enriched flour, whole wheat flour contains both the bran and the germ. The remaining and largest portion of the seed is the endosperm. It acts as a nutrient reservoir for the developing embryo. The endosperm contains a large amount of carbohydrates, protein, iron, B vitamins (niacin and riboflavin), and soluble fiber.
Once the endosperm is isolated, it is ground into a fine powder and sifted to remove any remaining fragments of bran or germ. Next, a chemical bleaching process is used to give the flour a whiter color. This bleaching step, usually with chlorine or benzoyl peroxide, destroys many of the original nutrients that were present in the flour. The final flour product contains a smaller portion of the original nutrients that were present in the seed prior to processing. Enrichment ensures that these important nutrients are restored to improve the quality of the flour.
Enrichment requirements
According to the U.S. FDA, a pound of enriched flour must have the following quantities of nutrients to qualify: 2.9 milligrams of thiamin, 1.8 milligrams of riboflavin, 24 milligrams of niacin, 0.7 milligrams of
folic acid, and 20 milligrams of iron. The first four nutrients are B vitamins. Calcium also may be added; this must be to a minimum level of 960 milligrams per pound if calcium is mentioned in the labeling. Similar rules are set for grains like rice and maize.
Other countries also have flour enrichment programs.
See also
Iodised salt – which might be called "Fortified salt".
Whole-wheat flour
References
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COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: R869 - Williams Review is critical
31/12/2019 in Comment
This Comment was published in RAIL 869 (January 2-January 15 2019).
What are the railways for? Everyone thinks they have an answer, but do they actually understand the question?
It is a question (one of many) that will need to be answered by Keith Williams, the man charged by Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling with carrying out a review into the railway's processes and procedures.
Frankly, this review is something the industry desperately needs. 2018 was a disaster for the railway. Last summer's timetable chaos really hurt the sector. Jobs were lost, families were unable to spend time together, and people's quality of life plummeted as a string of errors created one of the most depressing and embarrassing situations in living memory on the railway.
However, Williams is at pains to point out that things aren't as bad as the string of negative headlines in the national media would have you believe.
For example, there is a widely held belief (often shared by readers in RAIL's Open Access) that things are better on the continent. But are they really? Recently DB Cargo UK Chief Executive Hans-Georg Werner told me he believes that the performance of rail in the UK is the best in Europe (RAIL 867), Williams also believes our railway sometimes gets a raw deal.
"I certainly wouldn't describe the British structure as being at the bottom of models in Europe. I don't automatically subscribe to the view that there are better models in other countries," he says, citing his time living in France and his extensive travel to Japan for his role at British Airways, as well as his experience of the German and Swiss rail systems.
It's refreshing to hear an outsider (Williams was formerly chairman of British Airways, and is currently deputy chairman of John Lewis Partnership, non-executive chairman of Halfords and deputy chairman of Royal Mail) suggest the system is not as bad as many make out.
Yes, it may seem bad - for example, as 2018 drew to a close Crossrail's delays and subsequent political battles added to the year's tale of strife, but will this be remembered in the years to come once the Elizabeth Line finally opens for business?
Philip Haigh argues 'no' in his column (see pages 56-57). It's about long-term benefits, and the same applies for the Williams Review. The outcome must be the best for all concerned, which is why I believe it's refreshing to read him attacking his task with such gusto.
Passenger numbers may have risen in Q2 2018-19, according to recent statistics released by the Office of Rail and Road (see pages 12-13), but that is countered by a continuing decline (for nine successive quarters) in the number of journeys being made using season tickets. This is a clear sign that people's habits are changing, and the railway is failing to react quickly enough.
Williams appears to 'get' this, as do those he has already spoken to, which begs the question: why did they not act sooner?
"Why shouldn't you be able to get a bus to the station, an inter-city train, a local train and a bus to the final destination, all on one account? That should not be beyond the wit of man. But it currently is," he says.
And he's right. When travelling to work I catch an East Midlands Trains service from Norwich to Peterborough, and then a local bus to the office. Both are operated by Stagecoach, but while I can get a PlusBus ticket, it is still on separate tickets. Why, in 2018, can that not be joined-up? The rail industry really does move slowly with such situations.
On a similar note, how is it that I can upload additional tickets to my football season ticket, but cannot do the same for bus and train travel? If Williams is looking to tackle something so straightforward that should really benefit passengers, he will be on to a winner.
In his special guest column responding to the Williams Review Transport Focus Chief Executive Anthony Smith rightly makes the case that passengers have not been waiting for this review, just as they were not waiting for Stephen Glaister's recent report into the May chaos. But they were waiting for their trains to arrive, hopefully on time. They have little interest in the review per se, but they do care about the outcome.
Users should also welcome Grayling's promise regarding what Williams will actually deliver. He says he's not there to deliver "just another report", but a reform that can be implemented quickly.
In an interview with RAIL's sister title RailReview, Grayling said that in setting up the review he was seeking to ensure a joined-up railway with clear lines of accountability. But Campaign for Better Transport has warned that without clarity about what the industry hopes to achieve, then a model cannot be chosen. Which brings us back to the question: what is the railway for?
The Rail Delivery Group says it wants to see simplification of the railway for the customer, but why would the RDG need Williams to do that? Surely it should be championing the cause and seeking ways to implement a simplified fares structure, as Barry Doe has called for many times? But perhaps it is caught between trying to please its members and the Government?
TF's Smith called for passengers on Govia Thameslink Railway and Northern to receive a fares freeze as a way of making up for the May chaos. That didn't happen, and so ticket prices rose. There was furore when that was announced in early December, and we can expect more of the same over the next few days after the new fares take effect on January 2. Perhaps campaigning from the RDG for a halt to those rises could have helped a little bit with the battle over trust, although it will likely take much more than that.
Meanwhile, there is another challenge that could have a major impact on the industry's future and its public perception - the ever-changing face of British politics. Nationalisation is on the agenda if Labour wins the next General Election.
Interestingly, Williams says that most people he has spoken to are interested in de-politicising the railway and removing politicians from delivery decisions, which would surely go against a Government-run railway?
Williams says he's more interested in talking to the wider industry because they are the ones who must accept and implement any change, and to the general public because they are the ultimate users of rail services.
We have to hope that the reforms he recommends make a positive difference, because the railway cannot afford another 2018. A lot rests on the shoulders of Keith Williams. He must get this right - and then, assuming he does, the Government must act on it.
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A data-driven metric of atypical brain development in preterm birth
Presented at the Neonatal Society 2018 Summer Meeting.
Galdi P1, Blesa M1, Sullivan G1, Lamb GJ1, Stoye DQ1, Quigley AJ2, Thrippleton MJ3, Bastin ME3, Boardman JP1,3
1 MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh
2 Department of Radiology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
3 Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Background: Multimodal MRI captures information about brain macro- and micro-structure, which can be combined in morphometric similarity networks to derive a detailed "fingerprint" of the anatomical properties of individual brains (1). We aimed to test the hypotheses that these fingerprints can be used to derive a data-driven metric of brain maturation, the Relative Brain Network Maturation Index (RBNMI), and that RBNMI differs between preterm infants at term equivalent age and term infants.
Methods: We combined data from different imaging sequences (diffusion and structural MRI) to extract multiple properties from cortical and sub-cortical brain regions (e.g., regional volumes, diffusion tensor-derived metrics, neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging features) which were used to construct individual morphometric similarity networks (1). A regression model was trained to predict postmenstrual age (PMA) at the time of scanning from inter-regional connections. We then derived the relative brain network maturation index (RBNMI) by measuring the difference between apparent (i.e., predicted) and actual age (2). This approach was validated on data from the Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort (TEBC) and the developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) (PMA range: 37-45 weeks). Ethical approval for use of TEBC from NRES was obtained.
Results: The best performing model in the age prediction task was based on the following features: regional volume, the ratio of T1-weighted and T2-weighted signal intensity, fractional anisotropy, axial and radial diffusivity, intracellular volume fraction, orientation dispersion index and isotropic volume fraction.
The model consistently predicted preterm infants to be younger than their actual age (the box plots on the left depict the distribution of the RBNMI in the term and preterm populations). The connections involved in age prediction (shown in the chord diagram on the right) were predominantly located in fronto-temporal and subcortical regions, posterior cingulate cortex, brain stem and cerebellum.
Conclusion: Morphometric similarity networks combined information from multiple image features to detect dysmaturity in the developing brain. The RBNMI offers a data driven and tractable metric for quantifying atypical brain development associated with preterm birth.
Acknowledgement: Part of these results were obtained using data made available from the Developing Human Connectome Project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement no. 319456.
Corresponding author: james.boardman@ed.ac.uk
1. Seidlitz, J., et al., Neuron 97.1 (2018): 231-247
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Early Claremont X-Men: More Terrible Than You Remember
Early Claremont X-Men – More Terrible Than You Remember
X-amining the X-Men Part 2: We Know Drama
Back Issue Ben
Last time out, we covered how awful you all are for not supporting minority superheroes. This week, you can rectify that as we'll take a look at the early beginnings of the Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum era of the all-new X-Men (yes, we will all get retroactive credit). These comics may have been a big hit at the time, and certainly revolutionary, but they were excessively melodramatic, even by Claremont-ian standards.
There's a lot of ridiculousness to cover this week, so let's get started.
Uncanny X-Men #94. Writer: Chris Claremont; Artist: Dave Cockrum; Inker: Bob McLeod; Plotter-Editor: Len Wein
(I know that technically the title of the comic was not Uncanny X-Men yet, but that's what it's commonly known and referred as, so calm your stirring heart.)
Professor X begins to praise X-Men new and old, for their triumph over Krakoa, the living island. Sunfire interrupts him to inform everyone that he is not joining the team and returning to Japan (and that they can all suck it). Professor X asks the rest of the new X-Men if they feel the same way. Colossus, Storm, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler all agree to stick it out a while longer.
Banshee wavers a bit, before being convinced to stay (while referring to himself as a barely-literate ex-cop).
Before congratulations and good tidings can be spread all around, Angel lets loose with the bombshell. He is leaving the team, along with original members Jean Grey and Iceman, as well as Havok and Polaris. No longer children, they want to attempt a life outside of the school. Wolverine insults them all for making a big deal about it, and Cyclops steps in-between him and Iceman before they can fight about it, which then leads to the first back-and-forth threat between Cyclops and Wolverine.
First: Wolverine threatens Cyclops
Angel asks Cyclops if he is going to join them or stay with the team. After a long night of melodramatic pondering, Cyclops decides to stay.
Random cursing of your eyes in the middle of the night is always normal.
Cyclops and Jean Grey tenderly say goodbye.
Cyclops immediately gets the new team to work in the Danger Room, and they spend the next several indeterminate weeks training hard.
Thunderbird is minorly injured during a training session, leading to a heated exchange between him and Cyclops (both Thunderbird and Wolverine were being established as hotheads).
Meanwhile, at NORAD headquarters hidden deep within Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, the facility comes under attack from a group of Ani-Men.
The Ani-Men quickly gain control of the base, and welcome their master, Count Nefaria.
Back at the mansion, Nightcrawler tries to talk it out with Cyclops, following the altercation with Thunderbird. They are interrupted by an urgent telepathic summons from Professor X.
Count Nefaria addresses the world, revealing he has activated the Doomsmith Command System, and if each nation of the world doesn't pay his ransom, he will launch America's entire reserve of nuclear missiles.
The Beast, a member of the Avengers at that time, contacts the X-Men to see if they can handle it, as the Avengers are occupied. The X-Men speed off to take on Count Nefaria.
Inside the Blackbird on their way to Colorado, Wolverine threatens to kill anyone that has harmed the soldiers inside, much to the surprise of Banshee.
Count Nefaria detects their incoming craft, and fires missiles at them, which the Blackbird skillfully dodges, but an enraged Count Nefaria lets loose with the base's sonic distruptors, disintegrating the X-Men's aircraft, and sending them falling thousands of feet to the ground below.
In the future letters page with reactions to this issue, we see that not everyone was a big fan of Wolverine right off the bat.
My brain thoughts: It's pretty clear that both Thunderbird and Wolverine were being set up as the resident hotheads, which makes what happens next not that surprising. I wonder if Claremont was being hamstrung by the plotting of Wein in these early issues, because they aren't that great. The choice of villains, in particular, is not that strong in the early going for this new team of X-Men.
Uncanny X-Men #95. Writer: Chris Claremont; Artist: Dave Cockrum; Inker: Sam Grainger; Plotter: Len Wein; Editor: Marv Wolfman
The X-Men plummet from the sky after the Blackbird was destroyed by Count Nefaria's sonic disruptors.
Cyclops quickly organizes the team, and Storm grabs Wolverine and Nightcrawler to fly them to safety, while Banshee grabs Thunderbird, and Colossus takes a dive to the ground in his metal form. Banshee narrowly returns to save Cyclops before he becomes a spot on the ground below.
Regrouped on the ground, Cyclops has Nightcrawler teleport inside the base (contradicting later depictions of him not being to teleport in anywhere he can't see, at risk of teleporting inside a solid object).
Nightcrawler fights and defeats an unfortunate soul by the name of Croaker, who unfortunately looks like Mer-Man from He-Man. He then opens an entrance so that the rest of the team can join him. Nefaria tries to gas them, but they easily tear through a nearby wall, and defeat a legion of hypnotized military troops using Storm's weather manipulation powers.
The Ani-Men attack, and the two teams are locked in furious combat. Wolverine is temporarily defeated by a giant cat-man with a full-on Alan Moore beard, before Colossus saves his bacon.
The X-Men prevail, which should not be surprising due to the title of the comic. Count Nefaria makes a hasty retreat, having set the Doomsmith Command System to self-destruct. While Cyclops freaks out about this, Banshee and Thunderbird try to prevent Nefaria from escaping by jet. Thunderbird foolishly leaps on the jet, preventing Banshee from easily destroying the jet with his sonic powers.
Professor X telepathically informs Cyclops to stop worrying about the self-destruct, since the system was destroyed during their battle with the Ani-Men, and to see to their teammate endangering himself outside. Professor X and Banshee both plead with Thunderbird to cease, but he continues to pound away at the aircraft, seeking to prove himself a mighty warrior. Cyclops and the rest of the team arrive at the launch ramp just in time to see the airplane explode, killing Thunderbird. Professor X screams out in horror. Banshee is traumatized for his inability to convince Thunderbird to stop.
Cyclops chalks it up to the game and the team departs (apparently for a long walk back to New York).
The letters page for this issue provides a look inside the thought process of killing off Thunderbird.
My brain thoughts: Like the creative team explained in the mailbag, Thunderbird's attitude and powers were being duplicated elsewhere, and they decided Wolverine showed more promise, I guess (luckily for them, considering how popular Wolverine would become). It was pretty unfortunate that it happened to be the Native American character that had to go, but any choice they would have made would have wound up with someone mad. Well, maybe not the Canadians, they never get too mad. I guess nobody would have cared about angering the Russians at the time either. Okay, so they pretty much picked the worst character they could have in terms of fan ownership, I imagine. I blame Marv Wolfman.
Uncanny X-Men #96. Author: Chris Claremont; Artist: Dave Cockrum; Inker: Sam Grainger; Editor: Marv Wolfman
Cyclops wanders the forest, still distraught over his perceived failures because of the death of a teammate, Thunderbird. Using his mutant powers of melodrama, he screams out and anger, leveling a patch of trees with his eye-beams.
Then he waxes poetic to himself, like a bespectacled Hamlet.
During a Danger Room session, Nightcrawler laughs a little too much when Colossus swats Wolverine to the side. Wolverine jumps at Nightcrawler with his claws extended, with Nightcrawler teleporting away just in time to save his life.
First: Wolverine berserker rage
Wolverine gets a light scolding from Banshee, before Banshee is pulled to the side by the Professor. The Professor shares his concern about Cyclops mental state following the death of Thunderbird. (It seemed like Banshee was being set up as the second-in-command of this group.) They are interrupted by the doorbell, and Xavier remembers that the new housekeeper he hired was due to arrive.
Banshee runs off to greet the new housekeeper, expecting an old biddy of a woman, and instead is greeted by the young and attractive Moira MacTaggert.
First: Moira MacTaggert!
Cut away to a mysterious facility in the Adirondack mountains, where an Air Force Colonel informs a Dr. Lang (not Scott, apparently) that his Project Armageddon is no longer going to receive its secret funding from the government. References to Bolivar Trask, the mutant menace, and shots of a very Sentinel looking leg, suggest the Sentinels will be reappearing soon. Dr. Lang vows not to let Colonel Rossi reach Washington D.C. alive.
Back at the mansion, the rest of the team is getting acquainted with Moira, and Banshee continues to swoon over her. Suddenly, the team is interrupted by the body of Cyclops violently crashing in through the wall. His attacker is none other than Kierrok, the shatterer of souls, the slayer of men, Kierrok the damned.
The team takes turns trading attacks with the mighty one-eyed dragon beast-thing. Wolverine lets loose a devastating attack with his claws, apparently savagely killing the monster.
First: Wolverine kill?
The victory is short lived, as Kierrok rises again, reforming, leeching off the energy of the X-Men. Professor X tries to read the beast's mind, and is overwhelmed by horrible alien images.
Moira comes running in firing shots from a sonic rifle (like a boss), momentarily defeating the beast yet again.
Professor X recovers enough to tell the team about a mysterious tower that he gleaned from the mind of Kierrok, which seems to be the source of the beast's power, and sends Storm off to destroy it. A swarm of beasties come flying out of the tower, and attack Storm, affecting her mind. She tries to focus and concentrate, with images from her past flashing in her mind.
First: Storm in Cairo, and hints of Storm as claustrophobic
Storm is able to shake them off long enough to send devastating thunder bolts down from the heavens, destroying the tower. With the tower gone, Kierrok melts away, and the danger is over.
The last panel shows the crashed plane of Colonel Rossi, engulfed in flames.
My brain thoughts: Free from the plotting of Len Wein, Claremont lets loose with the menace of Kierrok. Also known as, the worst X-Men villain ever. Boy, they were having a rough go with the villains in these early issues, but I think we'll see that start trending upward with the very next issue.
My final brain thoughts: One-eyed dragon beasts, gun-toting housekeepers, dead teammates, the incompetency of the U.S. Air Force, and Wolverine is not the weakest link.
From what I understand, the soap opera elements of this new X-Men team were the initial draw and appeal of the book, along with the interesting new characters. (Not to mention that they were all visually appealing, thanks to the design work of the brilliant Cockrum.) But Claremont was outdoing himself at even his eventual peak with all the agonizing Cyclops was doing over the span of three issues. We start getting more glimpses into the personalities of the team here at the beginning. Nightcrawler is a caring soul, despite his devilish outside appearance. Storm has some kind of traumatic accident in her past. Wolverine is a dangerous loose cannon trying to control the animal inside. Banshee is barely literate, and attracted to housekeepers. Colossus is…strong.
I can't quite pinpoint what's off for me about these early issues, except that perhaps the villains are absolutely terrible. Even beyond that, the interactions of the X-Men aren't quite there yet. They're new, and raw, and undefined. Evolving before our very eyes. I blame Marv Wolfman.
Things promise to get better next time out, with better villains and further establishing of the new characters. Join us, won't you?
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Rick Diehl said...
Really nice piece on some of the weak points of those early X-Men comics from the 1970's, but still, looking back as someone who was actually buying these books off the shelf new, I've got to say that at the time, these books were among the best written comics out there.
See, you have the advantage of being able to look back 40 years and critically judge the X-Men by everything that came afterwards. But back in 1977, when X-Men was the first book I had ever subscribed to, it was about as exciting and good as a comic could get.
My comic collecting friends and I would sit there and talk about the book for hours on end, and being that we were still kids we'd run around playing X-Men taking turns being everybody's favorite Nightcrawler.
I am not arguing the the writing and stories might not have been perfect, but they were perfect enough, And when X-Men 98 came out, trust me on this, fandom went insane.
Of everything Ben outlined here, what I find most fascinating is that letters page. Complaints and feedback in general seem to have followed the same template for decades.
Indeed. The coolest thing about this for me is seeing Jo Duffy in the letters pages, since she herself went on to be an editor for Marvel.
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Published on Thursday, January 4, 2018
The University of Mississippi Medical Center experienced a colossal year in 2017. Two beautiful new buildings were dedicated after years of construction and planning. In spite of weathering budget shortfalls, the Medical Center received national recognition in research and health care. Conferring a record number of degrees in 2017, schools on campus continue to strive for A Healthier Mississippi by listening to community and national health care needs. The year closed out with fulfillment of a dream years in the making, the groundbreaking for the new Children's of Mississippi pediatrics tower.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year's success stories: our students, faculty, staff and patients. Our achievements are due to your trust, commitment and support. We look forward to an even better year in 2018.
Revealing the record-setting donation of $1.125 million from Century Club Charities through the Sanderson Farms Championship are, from left, tournament executive director Steve Jent, UMMC former pediatrics chair Dr. Rick Barr, Friends of Children's Hospital former board chair Sara Ray, University of Mississippi Chancellor Dr. Jeffrey Vitter, board chairman and CEO of Sanderson Farms Joe Sanderson and Century Club Charities president Peter Marks.
As the only health-care organization in Mississippi accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, UMMC demonstrates a commitment to the safety and privacy of research participants.
Century Club Charities, the host organization of the Sanderson Farms Championship, Mississippi's only PGA TOUR event, donated a record $1.125 million from the 2016 tournament to Friends of Children's Hospital, topping its previous record-setting amounts for four consecutive years.
A 2016 essay in the magazine ASBMB Today showed that UMMC really does put your tax dollars to hard work. For every NIH dollar invested in UMMC, our scientists publish twice as many research articles as other leading academic medical centers.
Children's of Mississippi representatives cut the ribbon in January on a new clinic in Biloxi. Offering cardiology and neurology services full-time, the clinic also is a home on the Gulf Coast for subspecialties, including orthopaedics, hematology and child development that are offered in monthly clinics.
Thanks to federal funding from the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program, UMMC will have a leading role in providing education and enhanced infrastructure to improve first responders' communication and preparedness.
First-year dental student John Mathis assists Dr. Akilah Stringer, resident, during Dental Mission Week at the School of Dentistry in February.
The School of Dentistry hosted its inaugural Dental Mission Week event in February finishing off the week with its annual Give Kids A Smile Day. Participants provided essential oral health care and oral health education to children and adults in underserved communities of Mississippi.
The UMMC community welcomed Dr. Brian Kogon as the new head of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery in February. The former head of pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery programs at Emory for the Children's Heart Center has the skills and experience needed to take pediatric cardiology here to new levels of excellence.
Dr. Jennifer Sasser, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology, testified to the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee March 8.
The School of Nursing and Jackson Public Schools have collaborated on school-based health and wellness clinics for years. The partnership received the District Community Governor's Award during the 2017 Governor's Award luncheon in March.
Dr. Jennifer Sasser, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology, testified in front of a U.S. Senate Subcommittee advocating for sustained medical research funding, particularly in states like Mississippi.
Inspired by 10-year-old Felton Walker's treatment at Batson Children's Hospital, the Triplett siblings made a $1 million gift to the Campaign for Children's Hospital through a foundation set up in their parents' honor, the Dr. and Mrs. Rodney Faser Triplett Foundation.
UMMC announced its financial action plan to address unanticipated reductions to patient care reimbursement and other revenues currently totaling $32.7 million. The Medical Center identified $24 million in savings through a combination of reduced spending and enhanced revenues.
Answering Mississippi's and the nation's shortage of pediatric and neonatal nurse practitioners, the School of Nursing graduated its first class of neonatal and pediatric nurse practitioners.
On April 3, Bettina Dixon, left center, and Roda Barnes, right center, shared the organ in a very rare split-liver surgery performed by Dr. Christopher Anderson and Dr. Mark Earl.
The first split liver transplant between two adults was performed at the Medical Center in April. Roda Barnes and Bettina Dixon each received half of the same donated liver in a procedure by UMMC transplant surgeons Dr. Christopher Anderson and Dr. Mark Earl.
Tomeka Harps was diagnosed with cervical cancer after a friend insisted she take part in a cervical and breast cancer screening at UMMC. Harps now tells other women to "value life more" than the inconvenience of a screening.
UMMC for the fifth year broke its record for degrees conferred to health care and health science professionals.
The UNACARE Mobile Clinic was officially unveiled to donors, UMMC staff and friends May 5 as part of the School of Nursing's Honors Day ceremony. The clinic began providing care directly to patients in the Midtown area in the summer. The fully equipped "clinic on wheels" was funded by alumni and community partner donors.
The Medical Center's oldest nurse – a spry 86 – Martha Cooley works part-time as needed at UMMC Grenada where she began her nursing career in 1948. When she's not on the second floor, she may be found on a bush hog at her family farm.
For the fifth consecutive year, UMMC conferred a record number of degrees to health care and health science professionals. The Class of 2017 was 971 strong: Graduates of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences, Nursing and Health Related Professions were recognized during UMMC's 61st Commencement.
The success of the ARIC Jackson site - which recruited 3,722 African-Americans - was also a determining factor to create the Jackson Heart Study, the largest study of African-American cardiovascular disease.
Since 1987, the Jackson field center of the landmark Atherosclerosis Rick in Communities Study has studied the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease. The center expanded its scope and influence, forming the basis for The MIND Center and the Jackson Heart Study.
Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for health affairs, now leads the accrediting body that governs the education of thousands of medical students. As chair of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, she will help set and uphold educational standards for the U.S. and Canada.
Dr. Jim Rayner and his wife, Mary Sharp Rayner, reward hard-working medical school candidates, including those who might otherwise struggle to pay for their education, through a scholarship established in June.
Tammy Fordham Bell, a health educator in the School of Nursing's Delta-based school clinics, listens as Javarious Gilliam of Jonestown shows her the foods he eats on a chart of healthy fruits and veggies.
Fifty years since Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's well-publicized tour to the Mississippi Delta to see for himself the faces of hungry children, the state's social and health disparities keep child hunger and poverty from being a thing of the past. The Medical Center's outreach, however, is making a difference in health outcomes and hope for change.
The new School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center stands five floors high and has square footage of about 151,000 feet.
To its champions, admirers, occupants and stewards, the new School of Medicine represents a tribute to the "giants and heroes of the past," "state-of-the-art learning environments that are the envy of any medical school in the country," a place that makes you feel "special and privileged," and, most of all, "home."
A blue-ribbon panel co-chaired by UMMC's Dr. Leandro Mena is changing the landscape of care for gay or bisexual men with a first-ever standard of care for men who have sex with men.
Restaurants have Michelin. Investors and creditors have Moody's. And institutions like the Medical Center have, among others, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, whose latest critique of this institution signifies, roughly speaking, a three-star, AAA success.
UMMC's new Community Care Clinic provides after-hours acute care in Belzoni, a 2,000-resident town in Humphreys County where just three primary care physicians practice. Residents can now get care at home instead of driving 30 or more minutes to another community.
Tyesha Younger, a biorepository specialist, checks super-chilled samples in UMMC's biobank.
UMMC had a record year for extramural support, receiving 316 grants and awards totaling more than $65 million in fiscal year 2017. The money supports all aspects of the Medical Center, from basic bench science to cutting-edge clinical trials, as well as educational programs to community outreach.
UMMC joins national 'All of Us' precision medicine study
What does it take to advance precision medicine? Health data from at least one million volunteers, says the National Institutes of Health. UMMC has been selected as an enrollment site for the All of Us research program, an ambitious study of genetic, lifestyle and environmental health factors.
An innovative partnership between UMMC and Mississippi State University aims to solve many of the state's social problems in children through screenings. The effort is funded through a three-year, $10.5 million federal grant.
Joey and Amanda Vowell of Ackerman spend precious moments getting to know their newborn son, Renner, in the Mother Baby Unit at the Winfred L. Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants.
UMMC earned status as a Baby-Friendly birth facility in October. It is the only hospital in the Jackson metro area to carry the distinction from Baby-Friendly USA, the U.S. authority for implementing the global Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.
UMMC Center for Telehealth is a national model for telehealth technology and for building a network that brings specialty care to all Mississippians, especially those in rural, underserved areas. Those trailblazing efforts paved the way for UMMC being named a Telehealth Center of Excellence.
UMMC's new 124,852 square-foot building will be the home of the Gertrude C. Ford MIND Research Center, Neuro Institute, John D. Bower School of Population Health and business incubator space.
Since having surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome at Batson Children's Hospital, Cayson Sanderford of Mathiston has been busy growing up, playing baseball and running in the playground with his friends.
With the Nov. 10 dedication of the new Translational Research Center, UMMC marked a new chapter in its research mission. Designed for collaborative work ranging from basic science to business partnerships, the new building will help advance discovery and, ultimately, the health of Mississippians.
Twelve-year-old Carmen Smith of Louisville loved softball, cheerleading and saddling up for competitive barrel racing. A traumatic head injury suffered in 2015 following a competition ended Carmen's short life, but her parents' selfless act to donate her organs allowed others to live.
Patients, donors and staff celebrated the groundbreaking of the new pediatric tower on Dec. 1, 2017.
Cheers and confetti filled the air at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new pediatrics tower, a seven-story, 340,000-square-foot facility, which will include new space for neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, more operating suites, a pediatric imaging center and a pediatric outpatient specialty clinic.
A tour of Batson Children's Hospital was all it took for Dave and Priscilla O'Donnell to pledge $1 million to the Campaign for Children's of Mississippi to create a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Cardiac Wing in the new children's tower.
Tears fell as patients showed off dentures crafted by second-year dental students. A newly redesigned course in the School of Dentistry offers a hands-on learning experience for students and free dentures for the community. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,720 |
Surviving Parental Alienation during special events, holidays, and birthdays with grace and comfort is indeed possible but it takes planning, effort, and a willingness to feel rather than to avoid intense self-reflection and experiencing complex emotion.
If you have been placed into the parental discard pile by an alienated adult or mature age child — read on knowing that everyone else reading, clicking like, or sharing this article is likely to absolutely feel and understand where you are intellectually and emotionally likely to be experiencing. What's presented here is a free flow of thoughts and meditation and self-calming ideas to help you survive the day or panic attack that sets in when you realize that reality is indeed what you think.
Begin your mental rescue remedy reading assignment for the day in Narcissistic Abuse recovery here. Gray Rock — exhale the tension, breathe back in increasing amounts of socially and emotionally supportive grace, medical ease, and emotionally intelligent insight.
Now… remember everyone in Narcissistic Abuse recovery who has walked this path ahead of you on the chronological timeline are not competing — we're collaborating.
First and foremost, you are never alone. There is always someone in the proverbial know.
Take that physical sensation in — never alone. Sit with it.
Who is with you? Who is listening? Say hello. Be brave. Say it out loud. Be compassionate.
Parental Alienation is abuse of the child and the alienated person as well as of all collateral damage relatives and loved ones.
Know the following truth. Social, spiritual, scientific — all of the aforementioned.
People who are most oftentimes targeted for alienation from their children are usually themselves victims of abusive or neglectful parents.
Take a moment to sit with the idea you — you may have been targeted for social mistreatment by Cluster B people who realized you had all their positive qualities plus a huge handful of your own gifts and unique skill sets they would never have. Consider the very likely probability that you were targeted for abuse or mistreatment by a person or peer group that was and remains nurtured narcissistic with ruthless Machiavellian and profoundly anti-social, emotionally gluttonous intentions.
Realize you actually were targeted for social use and abuse by vertical thinkers with low to no emotional intelligence neurologically, anatomically or electro-chemically present.
Hug your inner child in your mind's eye a lot. Remind them they were bullied by people who lack emotional intelligence because they had something that child will never be able to buy, steal, copycat, or to purchase — and because they know in their bones they will never be able to be anything like an Empath on a physical level they try to destroy — to knock perfect beings who are nothing but good down off of pedestals where God set them on purpose. Teach them how to feel pride in themselves for being normal people with healthy neurological function.
Parents who are the target of vindictive Cluster B exes have an even greater burden to process. The child who is the victim of Machiavellian elders, led to believe an absent parent is bad and refusing to interact with them by choice, is likely to develop serious, lifetime abandonment issues.
Neurological, legal, medical stress-producing, completely life and health destroying problems that cripple multiple generations of human beings.
Stuff that makes even the strongest among any abandoned or pervasively gaslit us think about ending our lives rather than going on. Stuff that makes us make terrible decisions in life and romance.
All because high-risk is the only thing we feel after being so profoundly anatomically damaged by knowing that one or both of our parents don't love, like, care about, or want us.
And yes — the parent alienated is fully aware. So is the Alienator. The difference is the notion of the child suffering or causing anyone else pain emotionally destroys the kind parent while the people doing the damage continue to bloodlust and act morally as well as socially insane.
The child may or may not be emotionally intelligent enough to figure out which parent is an instigator, a purveyor of chaos and perverse situational abuse, and which is the co-parent forced to endlessly endure hospitality abuse and social terrorism in exchange for having any form of relationship with whatever tiny human they love as a human not because they are an object or some form of trauma bonded.
The less a child is willing to engage with self-help literature, forms of therapy or mentoring, or with their counselors, the more likely they are to repeat whatever toxic ambient environment they were exposed to from time of conception through age 18 plus in their own lives — with specific focus on whatever their caregivers were going through or whatever drama was playing on the television in the background when they were an infant or just a small toddler.
Prepare for your mind to wander back to all the sad and hurt the closer to the day of a memorial celebration. You will feel, more than likely, something that feels physically like inexplicable emotional and core physical agony. You will think about your child.
When you do, understand you are more than likely interacting with a memory — not with a reality.
Because parental alienation is so cruel and serves no one's interest — even the Alienator(s), it makes no logical sense.
Issues created for already likely At-Risk kids by adults who care only about indulging their own sadistic whims will more than likely pop into your mind.
Mean-spirited adults who you know for a fact are grooming your child to believe gaslighting tales not simply about you but that the adults in their lives are grossly abusing the child's hospitality — teaching them nothing more than things like how to abuse and to do things like to withhold affection from the people they know in order to control and manipulate their social behavior as well as their emotions.
Issues for children who grow up to become damaged as well as damaging adults — issues that would have been completely avoidable had the Abuser not interfered in the child's relationships or tried to sever them from loving, supportive, and pro-social influences. Issues the discard-pile parent, alienated or profoundly emotionally and socially estranged from their offspring, is powerless to socially influence or to abate.
Chances are you will have fleeting memories with every positive memory you allow yourself to have, causing the estrangement to be all the more painful. So, you learn to let yourself remember the scene with magical thinking to discuss what you remember in the past feeling. And, if and when you find yourself in a year where you are ready, you let yourself look back and you celebrate privately.
These are the thoughts and concepts and concerns that any alienated parent is likely to spend their time processing.
By definition, "Parental alienation is the process, and the result, of psychological manipulation of a child into showing unwarranted fear, disrespect or hostility towards a parent and or [towards their] other family [and or step-family or blended family] members." So sayeth Wikipedia and the Google Gods — meaning the stipulative definition is likely to be accepted in educated nations and all industrialized societies as common social and scientific knowledge.
Do the people who alienate one individual from another — especially a loving parent from a child — know how much harm they are doing to the child?
Yes. It's actually why they are choosing and have chosen to do it — noting that the child is being used as a means… as a weapon… as an object they can mistreat to harm you.
Now, lick your wounds and shift intellectual position.
What would your emotional body be experiencing? What would you be thinking about today?
Parents estranged or profoundly alienated who are in their right emotional mind do things like hope their child is safe and loved, and happy wherever they are — not thinking about us on their special events days like birthdays, holidays, and accomplishing milestones in life.
Because successfully alienated offspring are groomed to feel nothing more than embarrassment for and overt hatred or disdain of the parent who those whom they seek to win affection from tell them to despise, to revile, or to abhor.
Wish them well and shut the door.
By closing our own porous boundaries as individuals, giving up trauma bonding rituals and routines, and striving to be collaborative rather than codependent in our thinking, discard pile parents can get on with the business of healing ourselves after grieving the loss of our dream of lifetime co-parenting.
Give yourself permission to visualize yourself and your child — bubbled up together and completely enmeshed. Now, see them differentiating.
What does it feel like as they pull away from your aura?
Do they actually become less or more beautiful to you?
The answer to that final question is key to understanding healthy detachment in an unjust and socially traumatic situation.
Remember, if you are a parent who loves but knows it's not in the cards in this lifetime or right now to know in the present or the current moment your own child because someone or a group of people are meddling that the AI and higher powers are fully aware of every motive they have and what they are doing.
If there is any form of an afterlife or social moral that applies in life, people who strive to do others social harm rather than to collaborate to make the world a better place for everyone are likely to be eventually permanently spiritually quarantined.
Once night arrives and the sun comes up in the morning, unless it's Groundhog Day of your own mindful making, you never have to go through this particularly tough day, week, month, or year again.
Each year is equally painful, but… different.
As the years go by, it helps to set aside time to process the event by yourself or with others depending on preference.
Some of us do things like plan to stay home and to look through photos — to get all the crying and campground style emotional processing done at once… then we get back on our horse and ride on. Others schedule as many activities as possible to stay busy then take a few days off later on a day that is NOT the day to feel through the grief and memorialize whatever rituals we feel are necessary to keep us close in spirit to our loved one until we can be reunited in the afterlife (if one exists).
Those who take the time to really grieve the loss head-on — meaning not avoiding processing of complex emotion and being mindful to observe our own processes as stages of grief flow through our bodies — tend to report that by the third or fourth year away, feeling significantly more at peace and resolute to accept life as is without feeling the need to resist reality or compelled to change it.
Those who choose the path of pretending there's nothing wrong or that the child does not exist tend to develop things like mood dysregulation and life-threatening stress illnesses.
Those who throw themselves deeply into grief and who refuse to self-educate about what Cluster B is and how Cluster B people act tend to continue to enable their own social and emotional mistreatment. Why? Because the person trapped in magical thinking, stonewalling mindset, and or fostering Cognitive Dissonance in themselves freezes their own neuroplasticity while stressing themselves (functionally) neurologically out.
However you approach a tough holiday or memorial event like a child's birthday as an unwanted parent, take care of yourself. Remember to put on your own oxygen mask first before thinking about how to rescue children if the plane of life is going down.
We say this emphatically because you are their role model!
Remember — if you ARE alienated, how you choose to behave as a person every day that they are away is equally important to how you act when and if they are ever around.
To be a parent, one must parent.
Find yourself. Heal yourself. Know yourself.
And, if they are not there to get to know you… let it be okay.
Volunteer. Mentor. Offer to babysit for a family with a single parent on occasion.
Write letters to yourself. Write letters about them — to them — for yourself that you never EVER send.
Start a blog. Tell the child or your readers about all the things you would be talking about with them on any given day in order to be able to go back and add comments yourself or for them to see someday if they ever get curious about knowing the adult person who grown-ups or Love Fraud predators who captured their NLP early in life groomed them to believe was someone to despise or to dislike.
And know that whatever happens — the sun is going to continue to rise and to set.
Be a person of quality worth getting to know.
Because if you don't take time to take care of and to intellectually and emotionally differentiate yourself from your child, from your ex, from toxic family members, or from memories of pain, you are acting like a profoundly codependent person with porous boundaries.
And nobody likes a wet sponge personality.
Not even you, we are willing to bet — if you are that person who fails to set healthy emotional and psychological boundaries that allow you to realize that you are a complete and whole person all by yourself with or without friends, family members, a romantic partner, or children.
You are no sponge and your child is not some kind of liquid your body sopped up on a counter. It's okay to think of yourself and of them as entirely stand alone and distinct physical as well as socially differentiated humans.
Keep the faith and continue to self-help educate. You're going to survive this terrible trauma and social injustice this year and every year in the future when and if it continues. And if it continues, you are not the person who is in control of the situation once the child turns 18.
If they reach the age of maturity and either start splitting with you or they choose to seek the affection of whatever parent, love interest, or family member withheld affection, know they are being manipulated using Gitmo style psychological manipulation — yes — but that it's their learning experience.
If you try to stop them from learning by warning them, but they have so much hubris and lack of social and emotional common sense that they disregard things like truth or safe protocols around Cluster B humans, the more socially and emotionally enmeshed with them that you remain on an everyday basis the more your health is likely to physically suffer. Then what good are you to them as a role model or parent — stressed out, frazzled, profoundly anxious about their well being, and likely to start suffering from life-threatening medical illnesses if you have not already?
Obviously, the answer to that question is don't let yourself get torqued up about what someone over 18 years old who you are not legally responsible for anymore does… or because a caregiver for a child under the age of 18 wants to play games with your emotional biology.
Once you come to accept reality… that the child is gone — and likely being groomed to emulate Cluster B adults — you can grieve the loss of the relationship with the child as well as of your dreams to be able to do things like to ever be able to functionally parent or to grandparent.
People who lose adult children to Love Fraud predators who strive to triangulate and to isolate their "trophy bride" or their "catch" of a husband have to let go the same way. One bubble becomes two — successfully stable in their own universe and socially differentiated.
You will be who you were before experiencing trauma when you allow yourself to connect with the memory of who that person is, if when your child was born you truly believed you stopped being a person and became their parent.
And that — that — is the neurological pin.
Pull that one out and watch what happens when you let go of the nurtured codependent belief that when you had a child their needs became more important than your life.
Have a little feeling of guilt without them by your side as a result? That was groomer's intention.
You see, people who taught you that when you had a child you gave up human rights wanted you to endlessly enable their toxic behavior and to never leave them. If you feel terrible now because you want a relationship with a child who does not love, like, or want you based on this taught to you shame and control mechanism, give yourself permission to stop.
Is your child with people who are feeding and clothing them more efficiently or effectively than you can monetarily? Are they of the belief that their other parent or side of the family loves them more? Are they seeking to win the affection and social validation of ANYONE who does not like or in any way love you?
How much is ego on any holiday or birthday impacting your desire to want to be with them? If you know that seeing them would cause epic chaos in their life and likely anguish for them — be happy for every moment they are away from you not feeling torn between wanting to love you and their co-parent or other family members equally without being allowed.
Being a child estranged or alienated from a loving parent or pro-social family by Cluster B people — whether it be a Love Fraud romantic or social predator who "takes them" by gaslighting and manufacturing triangulation or due to a High Conflict Divorce situation — is a horrible way to live at any age. It's an especially permanently damaging way to grow up.
Your child — whether they ever see or speak to you again before your eventual death or not — is going to have to figure out a way to deal with and to explain why it is they choose during adulthood to seek to mistreat or to abuse any parent, love interest, or their own children. Grandchildren catch the brunt of most adult malfeasance in toxic family units from the time they are born if and when Flying Monkeys and active Alienators are around.
You child — and grandchildren — are human before they are your relations. Remember that.
Tell yourself over and over if your alienated offspring is an adult in order to avoid developing Cognitive Dissonance that could put you in legal jeopardy and harms way if your child has been nurtured to emulate Cluster B people. Having an adult child return to the fold who is socially aggressive, vindictive, Machiavellian, and damaged by people who used them to harm you is seldom a blessing for anyone.
Prepare your will and medical documents for next of kin accordingly.
By keeping your focus alternating between feeling waves of complex emotion related to processing grief and loss and practical realities — like you don't want a Cluster B adults child showing up if you are injured or you require companion care and being given medical power or legal power of attorney by law over your affairs.
Remember things like — okay… if they are under the age of 18 or still in college they are likely to be fiscally dependent on the other co-parent (or on the person or family unit pulling the alienating). That means when they fail to come to call when they are legal adults they either think money is more important than human value or that they really, truly, have little to no earthly interest in knowing you.
Can you live with either outcome?
Here's a hint worth considering before answering impulsively NO!
The Dalai Lama says when given a choice about how to behave or to react to social stimuli in life to choose to be kind to yourself and to others. Then he says one can always choose to be kind.
The answer to that question — if you keep your head and heart in a healthful space — should be of course YES while readying yourself in spirit and body to handle grieving the perceptive, functional, third-dimensional absence of your extended biology.
Picture the one cell differentiating into two. Then realize as your young leave the proverbial emotional nest you created in your heart for them to reside in for life that there are no accidents in life.
If you have been alienated from your child — regardless of the reason — trust the divine plane is bigger and more complicated than human minds can fathom.
Why did this happen? To you or to them?
The answer to that question might not make sense today… but it will eventually. And when that day comes, think back and remember this one.
You've come a long way baby, already. You can do this — you can survive this — you can learn something positive from every experience.
Just a few more breaths and heartbeats and hours and this day — like all we have already experienced in our souls — will be part of who we are as well as where we have been while wearing this emotionally loving and sensory supporting human body.
Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays.
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Leonard Kilmer, 89
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Leonard S. Kilmer, 89, passed away on April 11, 2021, at his home with his wife by his side following a long 20-year battle with Alzheimer's Disease.
Born Aug. 14, 1931 in Lee, he was the son of Stanley and Ethel Springstube Kilmer.
He attended Pittsfield Vocational School.
A veteran of the Korean War, Leonard enlisted in the U.S. Army on December 28, 1950. He was honorably discharged on Dec. 14, 1953, having received the United Nations Service Medal, Korean Service Medal with 2 Bronze Service Stars, National Defense Service Medal and 1 overseas bar.
Leonard married the love of his life, Catherine Korte, at the West Stockbridge Congregational Church on October 9, 1954. Together they raised their three daughters Diane, Anne and Marjorie in a home filled with love, laughter and respect.
Leonard worked at Mead Specialty Paper Company for over 30 years until his retirement in 1998. He was a lifelong member of the Joseph Lombardi American Legion Post #254 in West Stockbridge.
A "Jack of all Trades" he could fix anything mechanical and was always helpful and giving of his talents. For many years Leonard operated a lawnmower and small engine repair business where friends would often pay him with pies and cookies. He was a motorcycle enthusiast and enjoyed playing the harmonica. He had a special place in his heart for all animals.
Leonard is survived by his wife of 66 years, Catherine "Katie" Kilmer and his daughters Diane Kilmer and her husband Bill Tarnawa of Richmond, Anne Kilmer-Lockenwitz and her husband Teddy of Canaan, N.Y. and Marjorie Kilmer of East Chatham, N.Y.
He also leaves his two beloved granddaughters Joy Marie Boyer and her husband Jamie and Kassie Lockenwitz, his great-grandchildren Isaac and Kaylee Perez, and Kyle Boyer and his fiancé Alexia and Shelby Boyer as well as his great-great grandson Sterling Boyer and many nieces, nephews and other extended family members and
friends. Leonard also leaves his little kitty Sophia.
Along with his parents Stanley and Ethel, Leonard was predeceased by his brothers John and William Springstube and his sister Mary Palardy.
SERVICES – The family invites everyone to join them for a graveside service on Saturday, April 17 th at 11:00 a.m. at the West Stockbridge Village Cemetery, Albany Road, West Stockbridge, conducted by Rev. Patty Fox, pastor West Stockbridge Congregational Church, UCC and Rev. Belle Fox-Martin. Please wear a mask and feel
free to bring a chair.
In lieu of flowers donations in memory of Leonard may be made to either The Berkshire Humane Society or the Alzheimer's Association through Finnerty & Stevens Funeral Home, 426 Main St., Great Barrington, MA 01230. To send remembrances to his family please go to www.finnertyandstevens.com
Obituary Provided By: Finnerty & Stevens Funeral Home
Recollections & Sympathy For the Family
Annie and Marj, sorry for your loss. Thoughts are with you. My condolences.
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HomeSchmooze: Your Jewish Pop Culture Fix
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JDate Launches Netflix-Like Jewish Film Club
May 11, 2011 By Michael Kaminer
Cinematic tastes are usually a good indicator of compatibility. Maybe that's why JDate, which calls itself "the premier Jewish singles community online," is launching a movie site.
The New York Times reports this week that JDate is sponsoring "North America's first Jewish Film-of-the-Month Club," which plans to send a new, Jewish-themed feature film on DVD or streamed to subscribers bimonthly — "and then monthly, when things get swinging" — for an annual subscription rate of $108, or $68 for six months and $3.25 in shipping and handling costs per disc.
"Great news, people who enjoy the convenience and ease of Netflix but are disappointed by its undefined religious affiliation!" enthused New York Magazine's NYMag.com.
The club will be operated by Film Movement, whose website describes it as "a full-service North American distributor of critically acclaimed award-winning independent and foreign films."
Adley Gartenstein, Film Movement's president, told the Times that the Jewish club came about partly because film gatherings like the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival ("Our films aren't just selected, they're chosen") provide a potential audience and a ready pipeline to movies. Gartenstein estimated that 500,000 people attended Jewish film festivals annually in the United States.
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Charles Sturt University scholarships and grants
Scholarships from external providers
Carrathool Shire Council Scholarship
Applications will close at:
09:00am 3 Feb 2023 for Commencing Students
09:00am 3 Feb 2023 for Continuing Students
Value: $3000
Duration: Instalments over 1 year
Foundation Scholarship
Consisting of the town of Hillston and the surrounding villages of Goolgowi, Merriwagga, Rankins Springs and Carrathool, the Carrathool Shire boasts two rivers, two National Parks and a booming agricultural industry. This scholarship supports residents of the Carrathool Local Government Area in their university studies.
Commencing Students; Continuing Students
STUDY MODE: Online; On Campus; Mixed Mode (Online & On Campus)
CAMPUS: Albury-Wodonga; Bathurst; Dubbo; Orange; Port Macquarie; Wagga Wagga
MUST BE STUDYING IN:
Students MUST reside within the Carrathool Local Government Area and completed the majority of their schooling within the LGA (supporting documentation to be provided).
Preference may be given to applicants who express a desire to return to the LGA at the completion of their studies.
Continuing students to have a GPA of 4.0 or above, commencing students to have an ATAR score of 65 or above
Attach evidence of your community/regional involvement through a letter of reference or certificate
Outline your career goals and aspirations
Scholarship value of $3,000 will be paid in 2 instalments of $1,500. 2nd instalment payment pending ongoing enrolment and satisfactory GPA (4.0 and above) is maintained.
The Charles Sturt University Foundation Trust distributes more than 300 student scholarships every year. These scholarships are funded by individuals and organisations who strongly believe in supporting Charles Sturt University and its students.
Any Australian/New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident who has applied for admission to Charles Sturt University or who is enrolled in a Charles Sturt course. Both on campus and online students are eligible unless otherwise stated in individual scholarship criteria
Any international students who are classified as an international student in Australia with either a full unconditional offer from Charles Sturt to study in Australia or continuing enrolment as a full-time student at a Charles Sturt University campus. The exemption is scholarships involving work placement due to citizenship requirements for work purposes.
Who cannot apply
International students studying via online from their home country.
International students studying via Charles Sturt's international partners in their home country.
Will I be notified that my application has been received?
Yes. You will be notified by email when your online application has been successfully submitted. You will also receive an email reminder for draft applications prior to the scholarship close date.
Can I be awarded more than one scholarship?
It depends on the particular scholarships as each scholarship has its own conditions which state whether the student can hold other scholarships or not.
This information is outlined in the eligibility criteria for each scholarship and it is incumbent upon the applicant to ensure they meet the criteria for each scholarship they apply for.
How are applications assessed?
Applicants must read scholarship criteria carefully before applying as scholarships are awarded based on the criteria for each scholarship.
Successful applicants are selected after a series of shortlisting processes, including a review by Charles Sturt staff and donors.
From the final shortlist of strong applicants, it is up to the donor to determine the scholarship recipient(s). Sometimes this process will include donors interviewing the strongest candidates.
Conditions of scholarship
Recipients must write a thank you letter to their donor. Letters are to be emailed to the CSU Foundation Trust scholarship office at advancement@csu.edu.au which will be forwarded onto the respective donors.
How will my scholarship be paid?
Most scholarships valued at $5000 or less are paid in full, unless otherwise specified. Scholarships valued at more than $5000 or with a specified tenure will be paid in two instalments per annum (check the scholarship webpage for payment details).
Scholarships are subject to the student maintaining satisfactory academic progress and continued enrolment in their course. If these conditions are not met, Scholarships may be suspended or terminated.
Can I defer my scholarship offer?
Typically, no. The vast majority of scholarships cannot be deferred. Please refer to scholarship conditions for further clarification around deferring or suspension of a scholarship.
Can my scholarship be suspended or terminated?
Yes, if you fail to meet the criteria for your scholarship.
Suspension may occur if the recipient fails to maintain satisfactory grades or the GPA specified in the scholarship criteria.
Suspension or termination of a scholarship will occur if the recipient is excluded from their course. The scholarship may be reinstated if the recipient resumes their studies following an exclusion of no longer than one year.
Termination of a scholarship will occur if the recipient withdraws or cancels their enrolment or if the recipient fails to maintain satisfactory grades over a prolonged period. Scholarships will also be terminated if the recipient transfers to another university or place of study. In some instances the recipients will be required to repay the scholarship amount to the donor via the CSU Foundation Trust.
Can I apply for an Approved Leave of Absence (ALA)?
In some circumstances, students may be granted a leave of absence which places their tenured scholarship on hold until they return to study, up to a period of 12 months.
Any request for a leave of absence must be made in writing to the CSU Foundation Trust Scholarship Office stating the expected date of return to study. Following re-enrolment, the student must advise of their return to study to re-activate their scholarship.
The decision to allow a scholarship to be placed on hold is entirely at the discretion of Charles Sturt University.
If the leave of absence is to be for more than 12 months or if at the end of 12 months the student does not return to study, the scholarship will be terminated.
Tips on applying for a scholarship
Pay close attention to scholarship application closing deadlines. Applications submitted past the deadline are not considered.
Prepare your Resume - this is a good way to outline your thoughts, your activities and achievements.
Always proofread your answers to the questions and ensure you answer each specific question for the purpose of the scholarship.
Attach supporting documentation as outlined in the eligibility criteria. Failure to submit documentation will influence the assessment and suitability to receive the scholarship.
Keep a copy of everything you submit.
For more read the information provided on the How to Apply tab on each scholarship
Which students can apply for a scholarship from the Charles Sturt University Foundation?
All Charles Sturt University students have the opportunity to apply for a Charles Sturt Foundation Scholarship. Please use the specific eligibility criteria listed on each webpage as a guide which can best support your study requirements.
International students can apply for some Charles Sturt University Foundation scholarships depending on the eligibility criteria specific to each scholarship.
International students must have a full unconditional offer from Charles Sturt University to study in Australia or are a continuing enrolled full time international student at a Charles Sturt University campus (the exception may be a scholarship involving work placement, in which case the requirement to be an Australian Citizen for the purposes of work will be included in the criteria).
How many times per year are scholarships offered?
Each Charles Sturt Foundation scholarship is only offered once per year.
Am I eligible to receive more than one Charles Sturt University Foundation scholarship?
In most cases students are only eligible to receive one Charles Sturt University Foundation scholarship each year.
Students who are recipients of a tenured or on-going scholarship that is still current are not eligible to apply for further scholarships during the tenure of their awarded scholarship.
How do I apply for a scholarship that has financial hardship as criteria?
Demonstrate financial hardship by providing a Centrelink Income Statement or outline your financial need in the 'Additional Financial Information' free text box in application.
Similarly, if you have a disability, please complete the Disability section of the application form.
Am I eligible to apply as a commencing student if I have received credit for previously completed study?
No, however you may apply for Scholarships open to students who are continuing their studies.
When will I be notified of my applications outcome?
Foundation scholarships are assessed by Charles Sturt Scholarship & Financial Support Services and then reviewed by the scholarship donor. The donor makes the final decision against the scholarship criteria.
Below are the expected dates student's will receive an outcome for their application and when payments will be made by university finance.
Scholarship Closing Date
Scholarship Outcome Date
Scholarship Payment Date
End of March 2023 After Census Date 2023
Accommodation Scholarship recipient payments will be made late February
End of May 2023 After Census Date 2023
3rd February 2023 31st March 2023 Mid May 2023
What relevance does my ATAR have when applying for scholarships?
It is important that you have an ATAR mark if you are applying for a Charles Sturt University Foundation Scholarship as a commencing student. Some scholarships have a minimum ATAR as part of the eligibility criteria.
The ATAR is a rank that allows the comparison of students who have completed different combinations of HSC courses. It is calculated solely for use by institutions to rank and select school leavers for admission to tertiary courses.
If you are a commencing student and apply before you receive your ATAR results, please use the ATAR mark which you obtain following your HSC trials. If your application is successful, you may be asked to provide the original of your HSC ATAR results.
What relevance does my Grade Point Average have when applying for scholarships?
It is important that you know your GPA if you are continuing student applying for a Charles Sturt University Foundation Scholarship. Some scholarships have a minimum GPA as part of the eligibility criteria.
A GPA is a numeric value which is assigned to each grade that a student achieves e.g. Distinction = 6, Credit = 5, Pass = 4. A GPA is calculated by dividing the total marks by the number of subjects completed.
Your GPA can be found by following the 'personal details' link under Administration. The GPA can be found at the bottom of the transcript page.
Where else can I look for financial support?
A selection of scholarships offered independently of the Charles Sturt University Foundation are listed on Scholarships & Grants
For more information on Scholarships and other resources with helping with the costs of University try Scholarships & help with costs
Do I need to provide a donor thank you letter?
All Foundation scholarship recipients are required to provide a donor thank you letter.
Your scholarship offer is conditional on the provision you complete a letter of thanks to the donor of your scholarship. Donor thank you letters can be sent via email to advancement@csu.edu.au
If I am successful when and how do I get paid?
Payments will be made by EFT to your nominated bank account or in some cases onto your student account.
Register your bank details with us via online administration.
Mid to Late December 2021
Accommodation credit applied to student account after Census Date 2022
Mid February 2022
End of March 2022
Early April 2022
End of May 2022
What effect will a scholarship have on my tax?
A scholarship recipient should be aware that payments may be regarded as income by the ATO it is the responsibility of the recipient to seek independent advice with respect to implications resulting from receiving this scholarship.
For information on the effect on your tax use the tool found on the ATO (Australian Tax Office) website scholarship tax tool . If you are unsure, consult an independent tax Adviser.
What effect will a scholarship have on my financial assistance from Centrelink?
A scholarship recipient should be aware that payments may be regarded as income by the Centrelink it is the responsibility of the recipient to seek independent advice with respect to implications resulting from receiving this scholarship.
To assess whether your Centrelink payments or other tax arrangements will be affected, we advise you to seek independent advice. You may find information from the Australian Government Department of Human Services on this link helpful.
Each Scholarship will require a separate application.
Read the criteria carefully for each scholarship you wish to apply for to ensure that you are eligible.
Scholarships may require additional responses including essays.
Follow our 5 tips to help your application
Before you begin, complete your scholarship profile. This will make applying for multiple scholarships much more efficient as certain fields will prepopulate in your applications.
Before you submit your application, please ensure you have attached the following to your application:
Up to date resume
ATAR or equivalent (If you have left school in the last year)
Your current GPA (Continuing students ONLY)
If your selection criteria involves Local Government Areas (LGA), please supply ONE of the following:
electricity bill
phone bill
rates notice
school record
* Copies will need to be attached to your online application and provided in PDF or DOC format.
Continuing students - applications open
This application form is for continuing students at CSU ONLY. Applications are now open and will close at 09:00am 3 Feb 2023
Commencing students - applications open
This application form is for students who are beginning study at CSU in 2020 ONLY. Applications are now open and will close at 09:00am 3 Feb 2023
I am a first year student in 2023
Login to see your Foundation or Equity Scholarship and Grant applications
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Please note: CSU Global and Research scholarship applications will not be listed here. They use a separate application system.
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Researchers at UC have found a potential genetic target for heart disease, which could lead to therapies to prevent the development of the nation's No. 1 killer in its initial stages.
These findings will be presented for the first time at the American Heart Association's (AHA) Scientific Sessions in Chicago Nov. 17.
The study, led by WenFeng Cai, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow under the direction of Litsa Kranias, PhD, AHA distinguished scientist and Hanna Chair in Cardiology in the department of pharmacology and cell biophysics, shows that a micro-RNA, known as miR765, which regulates gene expressions, can down-regulate the expression of protein phosphatase 1 inhibitor-1 (I-1) and reduce the contractility of cells that make up cardiac muscle.
"Previous studies have shown that the reduction in I-1 expression may play a role in the pathogenesis of heart disease," Cai says. "However, the underlying molecular mechanism contributing to this down-regulation is unknown.
"We wanted to see if miR765 would serve as a candidate to regulate this protein expression and affect the contractility of the cardiac muscle cells."
Using a gene transfer agent -- or virus -- researchers moved either miR-765 or a control agent into ventricular cells of animal models.
Data showed that the expression of I-1 messenger RNA was decreased by 20 percent in the miR765 cells of these models when compared with the control models.
"Under resting conditions, the contractile parameters were decreased in miR765-treated animal models," Cai says. "Although beta adrenergic agonist, used to speed up the pumping action of the heart, had a positive effect, the contractile function remained suppressed in the miR765 group."
Cai adds that analysis showed both phosphorylations of phospholamban and ryanodine receptor, the proteins that regulate calcium uptake and calcium release, were significantly reduced in the miR765 group both in the presence and in the absence of beta adrenergic agonist.
"These findings show that miR765 can down-regulate the expression and reduce contractility of heart cells by decreasing or deactivating a number of proteins that help the heart function at full capacity," Cai says. "This leads us to believe that miR765 may play a role in the development of heart failure.
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Beer, bands and Johnnyswim: Duo plays Taps & Tunes in Fort Myers
Johnnyswim were thinking a lot about love, loss and rebirth when they started writing their new album, "Georgica Pond."
Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez — the married couple that make up the Los Angeles folk-pop duo — had lost a parent a few years earlier. For Ramirez, it was his father: Cuban poet Omar Ramirez. For Sudano, it was her famous mother: Disco queen Donna Summer.
The deaths of their parents fueled the band's vibrant 2014 album, "Diamonds." But that loss still weighed on their souls when they started writing last year's more reflective "Georgica Pond." And then, thrown into the mix, was the birth of the couple's son in February 2015.
"A lot of the songs, thematically, have to do with the after effects, after a couple of years have gone by after having a loss," Sudano says. "At first, you have a lot of shock and trauma and you say, 'I'm going to get through this' and 'We're gonna be OK.'
"And a couple of years later, it kind of just hurts. Everybody's good and we're happy, but there's always going to be that little ache in us, you know?"
Processing that grief and learning to embrace life in the aftermath have resulted in two critically acclaimed albums full of powerful emotion, soulful harmonies and a hopeful message. And those songs have made huge fans out of the staff at Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in downtown Fort Myers.
That's why the center invited Johnnyswim to last year's first Taps & Tunes Craft Beer & Music Festival. And that's why they brought them back for the second annual event Saturday in Centennial Park.
"I just love their music!" says Melissa DeHaven, development director at Davis Art Center. "I love the sound of their voices. It's so heartfelt.
"Their voices just melt together. It's beautiful. It's magical."
Johnnyswim will be joined Saturday by opening bands For a Season and The Blu-Tones. Taps & Tunes also celebrates beer and food with food trucks and more than 80 types of craft beer from about 30 local and state breweries.
Johnnyswim said they had a blast last year, and they're looking forward to performing again on Saturday.
"It's really fun," Ramirez says. "We love the Florida vibe, so it's a good excuse to get down there. It's such a chill show."
They both have friends in Southwest Florida, including the band's graphic designer. And Sudano and her mother used to visit Summer's home in Naples regularly.
Johnnyswim has come a long way since Sudano and Ramirez started dating in 2005 in Nashville and then started making music together. That includes a couple of high profile TV appearances.
One of their songs, "Home," is the theme for the HGTV show "Fixer Upper." And another TV appearance, performing on the concert series "Live from Daryl's House," helped the duo even more.
"We've traveled a long way as performers," Ramirez says. "We used to do three or four hour sets in wine bars. I'd literally be learning songs and I'd have the music in front of me. I'd be learning 'Rich Girl,' for example.
"We used to do covers a lot. And when we were allowed to, we'd mix in our own songs."
Now they mostly play their own music, including the rollicking "Home," the passionate "Summertime Romance" and the somber, thoughtful "Georgica Pond."
Smaller arts centers pack season with concerts, plays, comedians
That last song was inspired by one of Donna Summer's favorite places, a popular pond in the Hamptons. Sudano wrote it one afternoon while visiting her mom's friend there.
"And it all just came out," she says. "It was my mom's favorite place to go, and we'd go every summer to visit. It was the first time taking our little baby, and we were just putting him down for a nap.
"And all the bittersweet feelings came to the surface, what I hoped he would think and do and feel when I'm gone one day — with the lens of how I feel about my mom being gone and being in a place that she loved. So I think there's a lot of layers of love and loss, for sure. And legacy."
Ramirez and Sudano credit their parents with supporting them and inspiring them to become musicians —whether or not that translates into Top 10 hits and superstardom.
"It was less, really, about the craft itself and more about passion," Sudano says. "It's about getting out what's in you and the way you can best do that.
"For my mom, it was music. And for his dad, it was poetry. But it all came back to that thing in your gut that you have to get out, and that expression you have to let loose. And they encouraged us both to go for that and not worry so much."
Their parents told them to follow one simple rule in life: Do what makes you happy.
It's a rule they still try to follow every day.
"They really just encouraged us to go for our dreams and just be passionate," Sudano says. "I don't think either one of our parents would have cared what we ended up doing in our lives, as long as we absolutely loved it, as long as we felt passionate about it, as long as it sparks that creativity and joy within us that they found in life for themselves.
"They said, 'If you can tap into that thing in your heart, then you'll be fine.'"
Davis Art Center's new season brings big names to Fort Myers
What: Taps & Tunes Craft Beer & Music Festival
When: 2-10 p.m. Saturday. Johnnyswim performs at about 6 p.m.
Where: Centennial Park, downtown Fort Myers
Tickets: $5 general admission, $45 for unlimited beer tasting, $75 VIP pass
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Martin Hairer (* 14. November 1975 in Genf) ist ein österreichischer Mathematiker und Fields-Medaillen-Träger (2014), der sich mit stochastischen partiellen Differentialgleichungen (SPDE) mit Anwendungen in der statistischen Mechanik beschäftigt. Er ist Professor für Mathematik am Imperial College London und an der EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
Leben und Werk
Hairer ging in Genf zur Schule. Er ist der Sohn des Mathematikers Ernst Hairer (Professor in Genf) und von Evi Gröbner. Er studierte Physik mit Mathematik als Nebenfach (Diplom in Physik 1998, Systèmes Mécaniques couplés à des bains thermiques de températures différentes) an der Universität Genf, wo er 2001 in Physik bei Jean-Pierre Eckmann promoviert wurde (Comportement Asymptotique d´Equations à Dérivées Partielles Stochastiques). Danach war er Assistent am Institut für Theoretische Physik in Genf und ab 2002 als Post-Doktorand an der University of Warwick, wo er 2004 Lecturer wurde, 2006 Associate Professor, 2007 Reader und 2010 mit voller Professur. Seit 2013 war er dort Regius Professor of Mathematics. Er ist seit Oktober 2017 Professor am Imperial College London.
2009 war er Associate Professor am Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Er war unter anderem Gastprofessor an der TU Berlin (2009), in Toulouse, Rennes, am Imperial College und in China.
2008 erhielt er den Whitehead-Preis und den Leverhulme Preis. 2009 erhielt er den Wolfson Research Merit Award der Royal Society. Er erhielt 2006 eine (auf fünf Jahre vergebene) EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Advanced Research Fellowship. 2013 wurde er mit dem Fermat-Preis ausgezeichnet für seine Beiträge zur Analyse stochastischer partieller Differentialgleichungen, insbesondere zur Wohlgestelltheit von Problemen, der Regularität der Lösungen und Konvergenz zum Gleichgewicht (Laudatio). Insbesondere schuf er Methoden zur Behandlung nichtlinearer stochastischer PDEs, zum Beispiel der KPZ-Gleichung, die 1986 von den Namensgebern Mehran Kardar, Giorgio Parisi und Yi-Cheng Zhang eingeführt wurde und die in zufälliger Weise fluktuierende Grenzfläche zweier Medien beschreibt. Sie stellte Mathematiker vor ein Problem wegen ihrer Nichtlinearität, was zunächst die Betrachtung verallgemeinerter Lösungen (Distributionen) unmöglich machte. Hairer entwickelte (aufbauend auf der Rough Path Methode von Terry Lyons für gewöhnliche stochastische Differentialgleichungen) dafür eine Theorie von sog. Regularitätsstrukturen (das heißt, er fand eine Methode, das Rauschen von der Dynamik abzutrennen und das System zu regularisieren), zuerst bei der KPZ-Gleichung, später für viele weitere nichtlineare stochastische PDEs, auch in höheren Dimensionen (die KPZ-Gleichung beschreibt das Grenzflächenphänomen als eindimensionale Kurve). Nichtlineare stochastische partielle Differentialgleichungen haben viele Anwendungen, zum Beispiel im Finanzbereich.
Daneben erzielte er auch mit Jonathan Mattingly bedeutende Fortschritte bei der stochastischen Version der Navier-Stokes-Gleichung, der grundlegenden Gleichung der Hydrodynamik. Sie konnten die Ergodizität in zwei Dimensionen nachweisen.
Er ist Mitherausgeber von Probability Theory and Related Fields (ab 2008), Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications und der Annales Henri Poincaré (Ser.B) des Institut Henri Poincaré (ab 2011). 2014 wurde er in die Royal Society aufgenommen und erhielt den Fröhlich-Preis der London Mathematical Society. 2014 erhielt er einen Consolidator Grant des European Research Council.
2014 war er Eingeladener Sprecher auf dem ICM in Seoul und erhielt dort die Fields-Medaille für Beiträge zur Theorie stochastischer partieller Differentialgleichungen und insbesondere Entwicklung einer Regularitätsstruktur für diese. 2015 wurde Hairer in die Academia Europaea und zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt, ebenfalls 2015 in die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016 in die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019 in die Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Für 2021 erhielt er den Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics für bahnbrechende Beiträge zur Theorie der stochastischen Analysis, speziell für die Regularitätsstruktur stochastischer partieller Differentialgleichungen (Laudatio). 2022 wurde ihm der Internationale König-Faisal-Preis zugesprochen gemeinsam mit Nader Masmoudi.
Er ist mit der Mathematikerin Xue-Mei Li verheiratet und entwickelt auch Software für den Macintosh (Audiobearbeitung, Amadeus bei HairerSoft, ab 1997). Die Anfänge der Entwicklung dieser Software brachten ihm 1995 den Jugend-Forschungspreis der Schweiz.
Schriften (Auswahl)
mit Jean-Pierre Eckmann: Uniqueness of the invariant measure for a stochastic PDE driven by degenerate noise. Comm. Math. Phys. 219 (2001), no. 3, 523–565.
mit Jonathan Mattingly: Ergodicity of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate stochastic forcing. Ann. of Math. (2) 164 (2006), no. 3, 993–1032.
Solving the KPZ equation. Ann. of Math. (2) 178 (2013), no. 2, 559–664.
A theory of regularity structures. Inv. Math. (2014) doi:10.1007/s00222-014-0505-4
mit Peter Friz: A Course on Rough Paths: With an Introduction to Regularity Structures, Springer 2014
Weblinks
Webpräsenz von Martin Hairer
Daniel Saraga: Der Gleichungs-Bändiger. In: Horizonte, SNF Nr. 103, S. 26f.
Hairer: Introduction to regularity structures
Fields-Medaille 2014 mit Würdigung
Einzelnachweise
Mathematiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (University of Warwick)
Mitglied der Academia Europaea
Mitglied der Leopoldina (21. Jahrhundert)
Mitglied der Royal Society
Träger der Fields-Medaille
Regius-Professor für Mathematik
Fellow der American Mathematical Society
Mitglied der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Knight Commander des Order of the British Empire
Österreicher
Geboren 1975
Mann
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Paul Dravis: On the Health Care Debate in the U.S.
On the Health Care Debate in the U.S.
The Senate bill also cuts funding for Medicare which weakens the programs ability to pay benefits and leaves the door wide open to benefit cuts and Medicare vouchers. AARP has long opposed proposals that cut benefits or weaken Medicare."
Note: Numerous studies suggest that the U.S. health care system is one of the least effective among developed countries and that implementing a Universal Health Care system may be part of the solution.
Countries with some form of universal health care include Austria, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Norway, People's Republic of China, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (representing corporate interests) and the AARP (representing Americans 50 and older) are powerful lobbying organizations.
While the bill's supporters suggest that they are aligned with the views of most U.S. citizens, surveys suggest that this is not the case.
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Craving some chicken noodle soup but having to settle for split pea? Want some Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard but can only find French's yellow? This is a result of pantry pandemonium! Now is the time to restore order and functionality to your pantry and save money in the process. Here are a few steps to get started and help you find what you want when you want it.
Pull stapes from throughout the kitchen and pantry and pile them on the table or counter. Discard products that are stale, spoiled or will not be used. Add to your shopping list any food or ingredients you want to replace.
Divide items into categories so you can keep like items together and avoid rummaging to find what you want. For example: group pasta, rice and lentils, canned vegetables, breakfast items, condiments, etc.
Before restocking the pantry, sketch out a placement plan on paper. Decide which items should be most accessible and which are used less frequently. Place kids snacks on a low shelf ready for the taking. Potatoes, onions and other essential ingredients can be placed in baskets near the front of a middle shelf easy to reach. Cake mixes and items for special occasions are best stored on a high shelf reachable by a step stool. Baking powder, baking soda and other small containers can hang on an over the door storage unit or lazy susan.
Use containers to store dry goods such as flour, sugar, pasta, crackers and grains and label canisters accordingly. Store small items such as teabags and hot chocolate in plastic storage containers. Square containers take up less space than round ones because they fit more efficiently on shelves.
Label contents of the shelves to keep things orderly. This also helps other members of the household to put groceries away properly.
Keep a pad and pencil in or near the pantry so you can list foods you need to replace before they run out.
I hope this helps bring harmony to your pantry and simplifies meal preparation. Next month its back-to-school tips…already! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,734 |
Michael Phelps has done it again. No, not another Olympic medal: but another viral face.
During Wednesday's episode of Today, the most-decorated Olympic athlete of all time spoke about what it was like to watch Tiger Woods' iconic comeback as he won the Masters on Sunday for the fifth time, but the first time in over a decade.
Phelps' excitement definitely was visible. Some viewers of the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, which Phelps says was the first he'd ever attended, caught a pretty excellent (and soon viral) moment on camera. Phelps had a seat just behind Tiger for his shot at the 16th hole in the tournament.
Phelps told Today just how special that moment felt. "I mean, just watching Tiger come back, watching him be able to do that and get back on top of the mountain, it's so cool." And it was even cooler, the swimmer said, because he didn't have his phone on him during the Masters. Afterwards, he did receive some texts from people who noticed him during the broadcast. His wife, Nicole, captured the moment in an Instagram post as she watched with their son, Boomer, on TV.
Was showin @boomerrphelps Mr. Tiger and who do we see…. "Daaaaad" Congratulations Tiger!! A well deserved win!!
During the 2016 Olympics in Rio, the internet fell in love with the #PhelpsFace, an intensely meme-able mug he had on before competing against Olympian Chad le Clos.
Watch the full Today interview here.
It's hard to believe, but the folks over at Bad Lip Reading have been at it for 7 years now. To give you a sense of how long they've been around, their first video was a parody of Rebecca Black's Friday. Since then, the BLR YouTube channel has pumped out a steady stream of funny videos that dub comical soundbites over otherwise serious or mundane clips.
While the BLR YouTube channel usually focuses on politics or sports — their NFL videos are some of the funniest and most widely viewed clips they have — they recently decided to focus their comedic talents on Apple. In effect, they took a few regular Apple keynotes, stitched them together, and replaced the audio with all sorts of tomfoolery that's well worth watching.
'Bad Lip Reading' folks hilariously spoof an Apple keynote originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 18:00:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,735 |
Peter Paulson has been using applied physics in a range of industries for over 35 years to develop numerous technologies and innovations. For the past 20 years, he has researched, developed and patented technologies to better assess the condition of various types of structures including pre-stressed concrete pressure pipe, cable supported bridges, post-tensioned buildings and bridges, and nuclear containment vessels. His understanding of non-destructive technologies and the practical aspects of implementing technologies on operational structures has resulted in the successful application of non-destructive evaluation equipment on thousands of miles of pipeline and over 50 large structures worldwide. He is both C.E.O. and C.T.O. of Pure Technologies Ltd. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,736 |
Q: Fmod distance parameter Is there a way to only set the distance parameter in Fmod for iPhone development? I can set 3D Max och Min Distance in Fmod Designer. I would like to only use the distance feature and not the angle feature in Fmod.
In the following code I add the position of the listener to the sound, but I want to just add the distance between the listener and the sound:
listenerpos.y = (float)33.0f * DISTANCEFACTOR;
result = system->set3DListenerAttributes(0, &listenerpos, &vel, &forward, &up);
A: If you don't want to update any particular parameter for System::set3DListenerAttributes, simply pass in 0 or NULL.
system->set3DListenerAttributes(0, &listenerpos, NULL, NULL, NULL);
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Parda – (hindi, dosł. zasłona, welon) praktyka, której celem jest zasłanianie kobiet przed obcymi. Funkcje zasłony mogą pełnić ubiory, ale też wysokie ogrodzenia, kotary wewnątrz domu. Praktyka ta, została zapoczątkowana w Indiach przez muzułmanów, później przyjęta przez różne grupy hinduskie.
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Describing area and yield for small-scale plantation forests in Wairarapa region of New Zealand using RapidEye and LiDAR
Cong Xu
Bruce Manley
Justin Morgenroth
small-scale forests, forest description, satellite imagery, aerial laser scanning
Background: New Zealand does not have a national forest inventory based on ground measurements. The National Exotic Forest Description (NEFD) is based on surveys of forest owners but lacks reliability in describing area and yield for small-scale forests, given that over half of the small-scale forests were not included in the direct NEFD survey. This has led to an insufficient understanding of the wood supply from these forests, which will raise problems as the majority of the small-scale forests are approaching maturity and are anticipated to contribute more than 40% of wood supply in the next decade. Therefore, having accurate estimation of this resources is critical for marketing, harvesting and logistic planning. Furthermore, the current NEFD does not incorporate a spatial representation. The aim of this study was to test the utility of remote sensing dataset for providing information on the area and yield of small-scale forest resources through a case study in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand.
Methods: Classification and regression tree analysis was applied to both RapidEye and LiDAR datasets to map the net stocked area of small-scale plantation forests in Wairarapa. Results were compared against forest areas that have been determined from manual digitisation. For each forest, stand variables mean top height, basal area, volume and stand age were estimated using LiDAR-derived metrics. This allowed the development of maps for these stand variables.
Results: The automatically mapped plantation area was 4.2% (1 614 ha) less than the reference area (i.e. manually digitised plantation area), together with manually digitised young plantations which were not detected from automated approach, the area differed only by -0.6% (235 ha) from the reference area. The yield tables developed using modelled stand variables were all within a realistic range and were comparable to wood availability forecast (WAF) yield tables, producing on average 27 m3 ha-1 less than the WAF yield.
Conclusions: The mapping approach produced comparable results to the area calculated using manual digitisation. However, this approach struggles to detect young plantings due to the resolution of the remote sensing datasets used; hence manual digitisation is required to map the young plantations that were within 3–5 years of planting. This study also confirmed that the remote sensing approach could be used to describe forest yield, although the approach failed to predict the full range of ages of the mapped forest resource. The estimation of plantation age could be improved by including plot data with a wider range of stand ages or investigating different models for age estimation. It is also possible to review time-series satellite imagery to detect establishment periods for the forests.
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Q: handle duplicate values separately in python I have a csv file which contains rows like below:
113,25CNFW,"test1",1ALNAU,25CNFW
113,25D5L2,"test2",1ALNAU,25D5L2
114,MCF82H,"test3",307531,MCF82H
Now, I'm trying to extract 2nd and 4th column of every row by searching certain nos in the 1st column, but whenever the 1st column contains duplicates, my script logic fails as it treats duplicates as single entry. Is there any way to iterate over duplicates in python such that each duplicate value is considered as individual?
import csv
mycsv = "/home/test.csv"
def csv_read(fobj, mid):
reader = csv.reader(fobj)
for row in reader:
if mid in row:
contid = row[1]
accid = row[3]
return accid,contid
list = ['113','114']
for mid in list:
with open(mycsv,"r") as fobj:
detail = csv_read(fobj,mid)
print detail[0] + "," + detail[1]
Output:
1ALNAU,25CNFW
307531,MCF82H
Process finished with exit code 0
So, in short I want 113 to be considered twice.
I've tried working around with different options, but they didn't work :(
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Gregory King Hoblit is an American Hollywood film director and TV producer. Hoblit was born in Abilene, Texas, the son of Elizabeth Hubbard King and Harold Foster Hoblit, an FBI agent. Much of Hoblit's work is oriented towards police, attorneys, and legal cases. Hoblit has directed and produced episodes of several popular television shows such as NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, and Hill Street Blues, as well as a made-for-TV-movie based on Roe v. Wade. He also wrote an episode of Hill Street Blues. Hoblit received Emmy Awards for his directing of the pilot episodes of Hooperman and L.A. Law. He is married to actress Debrah Farentino and has one child with her.
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style. (more)
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When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father ... (more)
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Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous ... (more)
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An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third ... (more)
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Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run. (more)
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Roe vs. Wade (1989)
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the ... (more)
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A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is ... (more)
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Untraceable (2008)
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; ... (more)
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The killer about the Bears' 30-13 loss to the Saints on Sunday was the fact that the game was there for the contesting about five minutes into the third quarter. The Bear defense had risen up to start the second half and recorded a pair of three-and-outs. The offense was a few first downs away from a field goal to tie (at 16) if not a touchdown to take the lead.
But then a Saints blitzer, linebacker Turk McBride, slipped around tight end Kellen Davis, blind-sided Jay Cutler and forced a fumble that New Orleans recovered. A minute or two later the home team scored a touchdown to take a 23-13 lead and the Bears were in trouble.
Here was yet another game in which one critical turnover at one critical time was decisive.
It was very similar to the opener against the Falcons when a diving interception by Brian Urlacher set up a Bear touchdown and a lead the team would not relinquish. Atlanta couldn't muster the sort of turnover that might have turned that one back around; the Bears couldn't do the same in Week 2.
That being said, I've got to take it easy on the Kool-Aid the next time the Bears start the season with an exciting win over a team expected to make the playoffs.
After one week of amnesia, fans were reminded on Sunday of why they were concerned (again) about the offensive line and wide receiver position groups.
And it was not a shocker that a major screw-up by the inexperienced Bear secondary put the Saints in front to stay in the first half. On a third-and-12 (third-and-12!), second-year safety Major Wright allowed Devery Henderson to slip past him in the deep middle and Drew Brees threw a beautiful bomb that his receiver hauled in without breaking stride in the slightest on his way to a 79-yard touchdown.
And in the second half, well, wouldn't you think Jerry Angelo would get tired of it? Wouldn't you think the Bears general manager would decide to do everything in his power to ensure he doesn't have to watch yet another overmatched left tackle (second-year man J'Marcus Webb this time around) allow the sorts of hits that threaten the quarterback's continued good health?
Apparently not, given that the Bears declined to sign an experienced free-agent tackle in free agency before the season. The Bears made a run at Steelers tackle Willie Colon, but when he decided to re-sign with Pittsburgh, Angelo decided to go with what he had despite several other decent candidates still being on the market.
Of course, if Hester doesn't stop fumbling (two in two games although the Bears haven't lost either of them), it won't matter where he lines up.
How irritating was the fact that Sean Payton made one of the worst calls of the day with the Saints going for a 48-yard field goal in the second quarter and then didn't pay for it?
He had his team run a goofy fake with former Missouri star quarterback Chase Daniel hopping up from his spot as the holder and lining up in shotgun formation. Not surprisingly, the gimmick play backfired when one of the Saints false-started.
So then Saints kicker John Kasay had to take aim from 53 yards. If there was justice in the word he would have missed but instead he put it right through.
One couldn't help but notice the national junk food commercials featuring Reggie Bush during the Bear telecast. Reggie Bush? Still? Really? You know they took his Heisman Trophy away don't you, Pizza Hut? Because his activities - taking money from a street agent and the like - were the centerpiece of a big scandal at USC?
And he's been a big, honkin' bust since he was drafted into the pros. He played a small role for the Saints Super Bowl champions but after the next season New Orleans unceremoniously dumped him.
On Sunday Aikman couldn't have been more clear if he'd come out and said it: The Saints are so much better off with Darren Sproles in the role of change-of-pace back/returner extraordinaire than they were with Bush. But there was Bush starring for Pizza Hut. Very, very strange. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,744 |
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Graeme Souness will walk into St James' Park next Monday after Newcastle United named the authoritarian Scot as the man who will try to turn their season around.
The 51-year-old former midfield hard man takes over from Sir Bobby Robson, the grand old gentleman of the English game, who was "relieved of his duties" last week following a poor start to the season.
One of his first tasks will be to get to grips with declining standards of discipline at the club evident since Kieron Dyer, the England midfielder, refused to play on the right against Middlesbrough on the opening day of the season.
If he is to end a 35-year trophy drought at the north-east club, beneficiary of some of the most passionate and numerous support in world football, he will also need to rectify longstanding defensive shortcomings. These contributed to a 4-2 defeat at Aston Villa in Robson's last match in charge.
Souness left his post at Blackburn in Monday in what appeared an amicable parting of the ways after more than four years. The Lancashire club said a "satisfactory level of compensation" had been reached. It was now focusing on finding a successor. Meantime, Tony Parkes has yet again been named as caretaker.
Souness's week of gardening leave is designed to prevent a situation whereby the first match in which he took charge would be against his former club. Blackburn visit St James' on Saturday for a game in which both sides will be striving for their first Premiership win of the season. Blackburn lie 19th to Newcastle's 17th.
The Wales boss Mark Hughes, a former Blackburn player, had on Monday night emerged as early favourite to take over at Ewood Park. But in what was being seen as an open race, other well-known figures such as Gordon Strachan, the former Southampton manager, and Gérard Houllier, like Souness a former Liverpool boss, were also mentioned, as was Alan Shearer, the Newcastle and former Blackburn striker. Rising managerial stars Paul Jewell of Wigan and Mike Newell of Luton, another former Blackburn striker, are also viewed as possible replacements.
Souness, who landed Blackburn a trophy in the shape of the 2002 League Cup, is widely held to have mellowed since undergoing a triple heart bypass operation in 1992. But his approach remains outspoken and uncompromising.
His appointment came as a surprise with recent speculation centring on Steve Bruce, the Birmingham manager, and former England boss Terry Venables. His first match in charge will be the visit of the Israeli side BNEI Sakhnin for a Uefa Cup tie on September 16. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,748 |
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= Schwemer D., Religion and Power, in: HHE 355-418. [Ch. 8; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661781-009. Abstract: This chapter surveys the religious traditions of Hittite Anatolia with a special focus on the relationship between various forms of power on the one hand and religious practices, concepts, and narratives on the other. Topics discussed include the role of religious traditions in the authorization of royal power and in the formation of statehood, both with regard to the internal structure of the society of the Hittite kingdom and with regard to its external relations. The deities of the Hittite pantheon are presented as extremely powerful, but otherwise human-like beings, transcendent and removed from immediate grasp, but, at the same time, very immanent to this world. The most prominent deities are portrayed in some more detail according to the extant textual and iconographical sources. Further sections are devoted to the mythological narratives and various religious practices, including the temple cult and its festivals, apotropaic and therapeutic rituals, prayer literature, and divinatory techniques. The contribution emphasizes the dynamic plurality of cultural traditions and linguistic milieus evident in the complex, ever-shifting texture of beliefs and practices that we simplistically refer to as 'Hittite religion.'] | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,750 |
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