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In 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland left Haiti after covering the lingering devastation of the earthquake. Back home, McClelland finds herself imagining vivid scenes of violence. She can't sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, triggered by her trip and seemingly exacerbated by her experiences in the other charged places she'd reported from, places from where she thought she'd escaped emotionally unscathed. The bewilderment about this sudden loss of self-control is magnified by her feelings for Nico, a French soldier she met in Haiti who, despite their brief connection, seems to have found a place in her confused heart.
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Yorkshire likely at Burley Woodhead, a hamlet now in the City of Bradford. Little is known of the origin of the hamlet other than it probably dates back to about c. 1200 when it was listed as Burcheleia. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) Today the village Burley in Wharfedale is adjoined by Burley Woodhead. As far as the surname, the first reference was in the year 1316 when Christina Wodhead held estates in that shire.
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The purpose of the malware is to empty an ATM without the need for an ATM card. Compared to previous versions of the malware, Ploutus-D has upgraded the cash-dispensing component of the malware to make it even more threatening and has secured the software package with Reactor, making it exceedingly difficult for security researchers to reverse-engineer it and develop preventative measures.
The installation installs legit KAL ATM software alongside the exploit, ensuring that the software versions match those needed for the exploit to work. This reveals some information about the authors of the malware because it means that they have access to this software, either through resellers, stealing ATMs, or perhaps being a company insider.
This malware runs on ATMs operating on all modern versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system. It can be run straight as a stand-alone app or booted as a Windows service started by a launcher. Hackers use a GUI to enter a set of commands and an 8-digit code generated based on the ATM's unique ID and the current time of the attack. Once everything is authorized, a simple "F3" keypress will dispense the money.
This malware package is likely to keep security professionals on their toes, as reverse-engineering of this malware will need to be completed as quickly as possible to prevent a potential chain of ATM heists. While there is some risk of the hacker being caught by cameras while the money dispenses, the operation can carry out in minutes, so it's likely that law-enforcement professionals would not have the time to respond even if an exploit was detected.


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This European standard specifies a method for the assessment of the effects of light by exposure to artificial radiation and relates to rigid surfaces of all finished products regardless of materials. It does not apply to finishes on leather and fabrics. The test is intended to be carried out on finished furniture, but can be carried out on test panels of the same material, finished in an identical manner to the finished product, and of a size sufficient to meet the requirements of the test. The test shall be carried out on unused surfaces. The standard describes the most important parameters such as the colour change of a surface when a surface is exposed and specifies the conditions to be used in the exposure apparatus. The light resistance of a surface may be assessed by using two apparatus as specified in clause 5, one as reference test method, and the other for in-company testing.
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Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.--Aunt Bee
Today it is three weeks since I began the JamaicanMeCrayzee hoodie. And thankyouJesus, I'm on the hood and charging down the home stretch.
So I don't need to worry about putting the wool back on the sheep.
By Friday, I should have pictures of the finished product. And then I have to start doing the sizing for the directions.
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As much as possible, I try to think through a project's elements to determine how I am going to handle each. With the hoodie neckline, as I mentioned in an earlier entry, I decided to bind off the back neck stitches and leave the front center stitches on hold.
I wanted some subtle delineation on the back neck that indicated where the hoodie began. I was also figuring that by picking up the back stitches from bound-off stitches, I would achieve a very slight bend in the join between the neck and the hood, allowing the hood to lie a little flatter on the back.
It worked nicely. Here's a picture of the right side of the back:
You can just barely see the slight indentation on the inside of the neck.
Almost indiscernible. But it makes a difference as to how the hood will lie.
I've also made a very minor addition to the hood, where instead of incorporating the ribbed edging into the existing number of stitches, I cast on 5 extra stitches at the beginning and end of the hood for the edging. The ends will be lapped one over the other and stitched into place at the front center, as you would a placket.
Now you may argue, this is just a dropped-shoulder pullover for a kid so why bother with all this detail nonsense?
Because I think through and plan carefully every project I knit or spin, no matter what it is or who it's for. There's much reward in the planning and even greater reward in the finishing.
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I'll be glad to return to the Melanie shawl once the hoodie is finished. I've got five months to get it done. So be prepared for lots of pictures and gnashing of teeth.
But I am a glutton for punishment. Because I've ordered Sharon Miller's Wedding Ring shawl pattern. This is the one that Corinne originally rejected as looking too much like a tablecloth. Dopey kid, what does she know? Actually, I'm rather grateful that she didn't want it because I'd never get it done in time for the wedding.
The Wedding Ring shawl is a limited-edition pattern so I didn't want to miss out like I did with the Princess shawl. Ted Myatt and Katherine Matthews are co-writing a blog, The Princess Diaries, on their knitting experiences with this complex lace shawl. If you're at all interested in the processes behind knitting a major lace piece, this is worth reading.
It's not your father's Knitalong.
Collaborative efforts such as the Princess Diaries do not a knitalong make. Knitalong, to me, equals a large number of people knitting the same thing, whining profusely and asking continually witless questions. With a collaborative effort such as that of Ted and Katherine, you have two talented knitters sitting around talking about the process as each of them works through a very long and difficult piece of knitting.
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The Ashes: Aussies banking on new boys to swing it
As the dust — and there was plenty of it — settled on the First Test yesterday the cry went out all over Australia. The Ashes series needs a curator of carnage.
True, the appeal was made within the syndicated reports of tabloid newspapers but it may as well have been placed in the situations vacant columns by the International Cricket Council.
The job, far from being connected with the lead role in Night at the Museum 3, refers to a groundsman willing to produce a spicy pitch that might yield a result other than a draw to put the rubber back on track. For all the monumental individual achievements in the opening match of the series at Brisbane the match as a whole can be viewed as a failure for Test cricket.
In the course of five days, 22 wickets fell, only one each on the last two days when pitches are supposed to deteriorate. That the Gabba pitch was prepared by Kevin Mitchell, by common consent the country's most accomplished curator of pitches, does not augur well for the next four matches.
The last thing that Test cricket needs in a world of Twenty20 is a series of draws that are virtually pre-determined.
The Adelaide Oval, where the Second Test begins on Friday, has a reputation for being flat rivalled only by X Factor participants.
The worry now is simply that the bowlers of both sides will struggle to take 20 opposition wickets between them to win a match, any match.
Australia's problems are probably greater having taken one English wicket in 152 overs at the Gabba. The selectors responded immediately by adding two fast bowlers to the XI who played in the First Test, Ryan Harris and Doug Bollinger.
There is a tendency on both sides in this series to give the bowlers more credit than they deserve or have earned. But bowling is tough work on benign pitches against batsmen whose technologically advanced tools of trade enable them to hit the ball harder and longer.
At the Gabba, as two partnerships of more than 300 were compiled, many must have questioned their choice of occupation. Careers advisers themselves ought to be advised to tell any young shaver who comes in asking how they can go about becoming a bowler that they are being bloody daft and should try something easier like ending world poverty.
It was still slightly surprising to hear Ricky Ponting, the Australia captain, laud Harris so highly.
"The fact that he has had such success at international cricket means he's one of those guys that just has to be playing," he said.
This made Harris sound like one at the apex of a glittering career who will soon assume his place with the other sporting gods on Mount Olympus.
Harris is a low-slung bowl all day type of bowler with a skiddy style, a stocky physique and a temperament to match. But when Ponting referred to his pedigree he was talking about a bowler of 31 who has played 17 one-day internationals and two Test matches.
The figures are impressive. In the short game he has taken five wickets in an innings three times, once at The Oval last summer when England were sleep walking under the lights. His Test matches have yielded nine wickets but then England bowlers have also enjoyed themselves against New Zealand.
Harris is a yeoman cricketer who bats adequately too, but there was a reason he remained unselected at international level until he was 30. Others were better.
Whatever Ponting said, Harris is not Glenn McGrath and Dennis Lillee rolled into one. Nor is Bollinger, or Peter Siddle, or Ben Hilfenhaus. Mitchell Johnson might have been but something is happening there which may need more than a few intensive coaching sessions to rectify.
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When a Candidate has a Super PAC and that candidacy ends whatever is left in the Super PAC belongs to that candidate. So there may well be more than $100 million in mr. trump's Super PAC.
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Trump said in the second debate that he and Warren Buffet did not pay personal income tax. Warren Buffet just released his tax return.
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US-BASED Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has made its name swimming against the tide of conventional thinking in the asset management industry since its founding in 1981.
Today, key aspects of its core philosophy have become mainstream such as its insistence on low costs and its scepticism over active management's ability to outperform. More recently, factor-based investing, which it has always adhered to, has also gained traction.
With 35 years in the business, DFA co-founder David Booth sees no reason to change the firm's approach to markets. After all, the firm has generated strong historical returns and inspired a fiercely loyal following - all this without marketing directly to individual savers.
One of DFA's core tenets is that macro factors such as interest rates, commodity prices and money flows are not forecastable.
Says Mr Booth: "The level of interest rates is largely outside our control... If I try to play the game of outguessing markets, I generate a lot of cost and stress. People are better off looking at the distribution of outcomes from any investment. The distribution of outcome will look in the future as it has in the past - around some mean and there will be variability.
"Then you decide the basic allocation you want - how much in stocks versus riskless assets and what types of stocks. And from then on you shouldn't have to make very many changes. In some ways, our investment philosophy parallels what most of us have as a personal philosophy. We don't make drastic changes to our personal philosophy as adults.''
He says the way the firm manages money today has remained largely the same, even though technology has made processes speedier and more efficient.
"When we started, interest rates were double digit; now we see negative rates. We've seen all kinds of markets. But having a robust philosophy means you shouldn't have to manage money particularly differently today than you did when rates were 15 per cent.''
He adds: "Markets go up and down. To induce people to take risk, they have to have an expectation of higher returns than if they invest in a riskless asset. The problem with individuals is being able to stay with the investment long term when markets go down.
"When you are in the middle of an earthquake you don't know if you are seeing a pre-quake to a big one, or that's all there is. People have a tendency to panic and get out at the wrong time. It's not so much about investing, but about investment counselling. I guess what's what we do pretty well.''
The firm raised US$90 million in its first year in 1981. Today, it manages US$445 billion in assets - all garnered strictly through "authorised'' advisers, who meet certain criteria and must attend a two-day "boot camp'' at Texas or California which they pay for.
In Singapore, DFA can be accessed through two financial advisory firms. One is GYC Financial Advisory which has a platform agreement with DFA and invests proprietary money in DFA strategies. The other is Providend which has registered eight DFA funds for distribution, and includes the funds in clients' portfolios.
Working through advisers may explain DFA's apparent ability to command sticky assets, even though individual investors are notoriously temperamental. In fact, it continued to attract inflows in the worst of times, even through pockets of underperformance. Between 2008 and 2012, DFA saw net inflows of US$34 billion, compared to an industry outflow of US$535 billion from equity funds. Since inception to end-September, the fund has beat the Russell 2000 Value index by 1.64 percentage points on an annualised basis.
DFA takes a largely passive approach to markets in the belief that markets are efficient and it is difficult for active management to beat the market. In its early days, this thinking was scoffed at. Index funds were already in the market then - John Bogle of Vanguard launched the first index fund based on the S&P500 in 1975.
But DFA set out to further refine the index fund. Its approach is formed through research by academics Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, who designed a three-factor model to explain the risks and returns of stocks. Basically, the model takes the basic capital asset pricing model and adds size and value to the risk factor. Based on this, small cap and value stocks are found to generate higher returns over the long term, but investors must be able to ride out the risk. Professor Fama, a Nobel laureate who developed the efficient market hypothesis, is a DFA director and serves on the investment policy committee. Professor French is also a director and co-chairs the investment policy committee.
By tilting the indexes towards value, small caps and profitability, DFA arguably pioneered the "smart beta'' or factor-based approach that is all the rage today. Smart beta funds are a departure from market capitalisation indexes, screening holdings for factors such as size, value or momentum. "We're a click away from index funds. We're basically passive in that we don't think we can find value that isn't already reflected in securities prices. But we think by making some adjustments on trading, we can add some value.''
Mr Booth says: "The idea of doing empirical research to try to answer questions is a relatively new field. It's only about 50 years old. If you can't test out your belief to support them with empirical research, then you are left with just beliefs. So empirical research is very important.
"On the equity side we know all the stocks. It's a question of how much weight to give the stocks in your portfolio. That's where empirical research comes in. We tend to invest more in small cap stocks than the market, more in lower priced stocks and those that satisfy certain profitability measures. We know based on all evidence about managers and markets that you want a well diversified low cost portfolio. Above and beyond that, we think you can take a few simple cuts to make a difference. We pretty much do that year in and out.''
Yet, the degree to which his belief in a low-cost passive approach has been embraced by the industry must be something of a surprise. Today the trend towards low cost vehicles seems unstoppable - assets in exchange-traded funds and products currently exceed US$3.4 trillion - helped by investor demand and regulation. DFA funds' expense ratios may be as low as 12 basis points.
"Thirty five years ago it was really a challenge to talk about these ideas. Journalists said - of course, you can beat the market; everyone knows that. You guys are crazy.
"Now when we speak to journalists, they say - what do you mean you can beat the market? There has been a huge change. You can debate our philosophy but what's crystal clear is that fees are coming down in the industry. For society as a whole, low-cost asset management has been hugely beneficial.
"If manager A makes more in the market, manager B makes less. That adds up to the market minus the cost of investment. It's simple arithmetic. Now your chances of getting a fair deal are much better than they were 35 years ago because you have so many low-cost alternatives. I'm an optimist. I like all of this.
"We're obviously beneficiaries; that's one reason I like it. But it also makes you feel good that in the long term, more and more will get a fairer deal than in the past.''


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Discussion in 'Football' started by AdamJGray, Aug 31, 2013.
Go VT!
Kickoff at 4:30 PM
Probably wont be able to catch any afternoon/evening games today. Unfortunately that is when all the great matchups are.
Go Hokies! My wife went there and they have become my (distant) 2nd team.
My sister went to Tech and Mom & Dad now live just outside of Blacksburg. I'll be out there at Thanksgiving and then to Morgantown for the game on the way back.
Alabama is going to steam roll them, unfortunately.


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Probing hot-electron dynamics at surfaces with a cold scanning tunneling microscope
We report on a novel approach to measure the phase relaxation length and femtosecond lifetime of hot quasiparticles on metal surfaces. A 4 K scanning tunneling microscope has been used to study the spatial decay of interference patterns in the local density of states for surface state electrons on Ag(111) and Cu(111). This decay is governed by inelastic; electron-electron scattering. We find a (E - E-F)(-2) energy dependence of the lifetimes for both Ag and Cu, and our values are comparable to the corresponding bulk electron lifetimes. This indicates that electron-electron interaction of hot surface state electrons with the Fermi sea is dominated by the underlying bulk electrons. [S0031-9007(99)09260-1].
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Keywords: Surface Electronic and Atomic Structure ; Spectroscopy ; Spin-Polarized STM
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Trump's supporters backed a time-honored American political tradition, disavowing racism while promising to enact a broad agenda of discrimination.
THIRTY YEARS AGO, nearly half of Louisiana voted for a Klansman, and the media struggled to explain why.
It was 1990 and David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, astonished political observers when he came within striking distance of defeating incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, earning 43 percent of the vote. If Johnston's Republican rival hadn't dropped out of the race and endorsed him at the last minute, the outcome might have been different.
Was it economic anxiety? The Washington Post reported that the state had "a large working class that has suffered through a long recession." Was it a blow against the state's hated political establishment? An editorial from United Press International explained, "Louisianans showed the nation by voting for Duke that they were mad as hell and not going to take it any more." Was it anti-Washington rage? A Loyola University pollster argued, "There were the voters who liked Duke, those who hated J. Bennett Johnston, and those who just wanted to send a message to Washington."
The post-Weinstein moment isn't a war on sex. It's a long-overdue revolution.
One of the principal pleasures of Mad Men, on rich display beginning with the pilot episode, was looking at all of the crazy things people used to be able to do in offices: smoke, drink, and—if they were male—grope and corner and sexually humiliate the women, who could either put up with it or quit.
It's just about impossible to imagine someone lighting a cigarette in today's hyper-sanitized workplace; anyone with liquor on his or her breath at midday is usually targeted as a massive loser or frog-marched to human resources. But to look at the shocking and ever-growing list of prominent men recently and credibly accused of acts ranging from sexual harassment to violent rape is to realize that abhorrent treatment of women is alive and well in many American workplaces.
In a presidency defined by its unpredictability, one of the few constants is the president's eagerness to attack black people for failing to show deference.
When, in a game last Sunday in Mexico City versus the New England Patriots, the Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch chose to sit during the "Star Spangled-Banner," and then stood during the Mexican National Anthem, the idea of the multiverse—multiple realities and infinite branching probabilities—suddenly seemed inadequate. As soon as the cameras focused on Lynch, this plane of existence narrowed to a single undeniable probability: that President Donald Trump was going to tweet about it sometime soon.
Trump happily obliged fate. On Monday morning at 6:25am, in the block of time reserved for blasting people and things he's seen on cable news that he doesn't like, the president tweeted that "next time [the] NFL should suspend him for remainder of season." Utilizing the extra 140 extra characters Twitter recently bestowed, Trump was also able to imply that Lynch was a factor in the the NFL's sinking ratings. With that, Lynch became just the latest in a line of outspoken black people that Trump has attacked. It's kind of a thing for him.
Lena Dunham's defense of a Girls writer accused of sexual assault highlights how frequently allegations from women of color are dismissed.
As America's very public reckoning with sexual harassment and assault continues, the conversation around "believe women" and #MeToo, inevitably, also becomes more complicated and fractured—in particular when it comes to society's decisions about which allegations are taken seriously, and which should be subject to deeper scrutiny.
Last Friday, Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, co-showrunners for the series Girls, issued a statement defending Murray Miller, a friend and writer on the show, against allegations that he had sexually assaulted the actress Aurora Perrineau when she was 17. (Miller has denied the allegations.) "During every time of change there are also incidences of the culture, in its enthusiasm and zeal, taking down the wrong targets. We believe … that this is the case with Murray Miller," they wrote in a statement. "While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3 percent of assault cases that are misreported every year." After a wave of criticism that her statement was in direct opposition to the feminist beliefs she espouses, Dunham issued another statement apologizing for her remarks; it acknowledged that, regardless of her closeness to the situation, she had used her considerable influence to unduly put "our thumb on the scale."
How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right's most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?
On December 16, 2016, Tanya Gersh answered her phone and heard gunshots. Startled, she hung up. Gersh, a real-estate agent who lives in Whitefish, Montana, assumed it was a prank call. But the phone rang again. More gunshots. Again, she hung up. Another call. This time, she heard a man's voice: "This is how we can keep the Holocaust alive," he said. "We can bury you without touching you."
When Gersh put down the phone, her hands were shaking. She was one of only about 100 Jews in Whitefish and the surrounding Flathead Valley, and she knew there were white nationalists and "sovereign citizens" in the area. But Gersh had lived in Whitefish for more than 20 years, since just after college, and had always considered the scenic ski town an idyllic place. She didn't even have a key to her house—she'd never felt the need to lock her door. Now that sense of security was about to be shattered.
After laboring for years to close the gender gap, GOP strategists are suddenly facing a gender chasm.
It turns out those pink kitty-cat hats weren't just for show after all.
Among its many electrifying aspects, the early Trump era has had a politically galvanizing effect on women. They are organizing in the streets and on social media, running for office in record numbers, training to enter future races, and volunteering on campaigns. And on November 7, they flocked to the polls to officially have their voices heard.
What they had to say more or less boiled down to: Things around here have got to change. Now. Which has many folks in the Republican Party reaching for the Xanax.
By now, you've likely heard some of the Election Day stats and stories. In Virginia, women went from holding 17 seats in the House of Delegates to holding 27. Winners include Danica Roem, who became the state's first transgender delegate-elect by beating an incumbent who bragged of being the state's "chief homophobe." In the gubernatorial contest, women favored Democrat Ralph Northam by 22 points—5 points more than Hillary Clinton's margin among them last fall. Particularly concerning for Republicans: Fifty-eight percent of white college-educated women went for Northam vs. only 50 percent for Hillary.
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they're on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she's had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she'd just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. "We go to the mall," she said. "Do your parents drop you off?," I asked, recalling my own middle-school days, in the 1980s, when I'd enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends. "No—I go with my family," she replied. "We'll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them. I just have to tell my mom where we're going. I have to check in every hour or every 30 minutes."
Those mall trips are infrequent—about once a month. More often, Athena and her friends spend time together on their phones, unchaperoned. Unlike the teens of my generation, who might have spent an evening tying up the family landline with gossip, they talk on Snapchat, the smartphone app that allows users to send pictures and videos that quickly disappear. They make sure to keep up their Snapstreaks, which show how many days in a row they have Snapchatted with each other. Sometimes they save screenshots of particularly ridiculous pictures of friends. "It's good blackmail," Athena said. (Because she's a minor, I'm not using her real name.) She told me she'd spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone. That's just the way her generation is, she said. "We didn't have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people."
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
If power were a prescription drug, it would come with a long list of known side effects. It can intoxicate. It can corrupt. It can even make Henry Kissinger believe that he's sexually magnetic. But can it cause brain damage?
When various lawmakers lit into John Stumpf at a congressional hearing last fall, each seemed to find a fresh way to flay the now-former CEO of Wells Fargo for failing to stop some 5,000 employees from setting up phony accounts for customers. But it was Stumpf's performance that stood out. Here was a man who had risen to the top of the world's most valuable bank, yet he seemed utterly unable to read a room. Although he apologized, he didn't appear chastened or remorseful. Nor did he seem defiant or smug or even insincere. He looked disoriented, like a jet-lagged space traveler just arrived from Planet Stumpf, where deference to him is a natural law and 5,000 a commendably small number. Even the most direct barbs—"You have got to be kidding me" (Sean Duffy of Wisconsin); "I can't believe some of what I'm hearing here" (Gregory Meeks of New York)—failed to shake him awake.
From to-go mugs to small talk
"Well, you're just special. You're American," remarked my colleague, smirking from across the coffee table. My other Finnish coworkers, from the school in Helsinki where I teach, nodded in agreement. They had just finished critiquing one of my habits, and they could see that I was on the defensive.
I threw my hands up and snapped, "You're accusing me of being too friendly? Is that really such a bad thing?"
"Well, when I greet a colleague, I keep track," she retorted, "so I don't greet them again during the day!" Another chimed in, "That's the same for me, too!"
Unbelievable, I thought. According to them, I'm too generous with my hellos.
When I told them I would do my best to greet them just once every day, they told me not to change my ways. They said they understood me. But the thing is, now that I've viewed myself from their perspective, I'm not sure I want to remain the same. Change isn't a bad thing. And since moving to Finland two years ago, I've kicked a few bad American habits.
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world's largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
Last January, the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Liu Cixin, China's preeminent science-fiction writer, to visit its new state-of-the-art radio dish in the country's southwest. Almost twice as wide as the dish at America's Arecibo Observatory, in the Puerto Rican jungle, the new Chinese dish is the largest in the world, if not the universe. Though it is sensitive enough to detect spy satellites even when they're not broadcasting, its main uses will be scientific, including an unusual one: The dish is Earth's first flagship observatory custom-built to listen for a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence. If such a sign comes down from the heavens during the next decade, China may well hear it first.
A tour of "flyover country" and its thriving towns
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The forest, woodlands, shrublands, and heath of Southwest Australia are characterized by high endemism among plants and reptiles. Its unique vertebrate species include the numbat, honey possum, and the red-capped parrot. The western swamp turtle, which hibernates for nearly eight months of the year in response to dry conditions and hot temperatures, may be the most threatened freshwater turtle species in the world, although a successful conservation program has allowed its numbers to increase.
The primary cause of habitat loss in Southwest Australia has been agricultural expansion, which is accentuated by extensive fertilizer use. A major threat for the native fauna has been the introduction of ivasive alien species like foxes and cats.
The Southwest Australia Hotspot occupies some 356,717 km² on the southwestern tip of Australia, in the state of Western Australia. As defined, this hotspot comprises the Southwest Botanical Province, but excludes the neighboring Southwestern Interzone. As this hotspot is one of five Mediterranean-type ecosystems in the world, most rain falls during the winter months and the summers are characteristically dry. A broad coastal plain 20-120 kilometers wide grades into gently undulating uplands, with weathered granite, gneiss and lateritic formations. Further inland, rainfall decreases and the length of the dry season increases.
Native plants are well adapted to the nutrient-poor sandy and lateritic soils, which also support broadacre cropping and sheep grazing. Vegetation in the province is mainly woody, comprising forests, woodlands, shrublands, and heaths, but no grasslands. Principal vegetation types in this region are Eucalyptus woodlands, and the Eucalyptus-dominated "mallee" shrubland. Kwongan is a term adapted from the Aboriginal Noongar language to cover the various Western Australian types of shrubland, comparable with the maquis, chaparral, and fynbos of other countries with Mediterranean-type systems. The principal structural types of Kwongan are thicket, scrub-heath, and heath, which together comprise about 30 percent of the original vegetation. A number of vegetation units are endemic, including some types of eucalyptus forests and some forms of kwongan.
Impressive plant endemism in Southwest Australia is attributed to millions of years of isolation from the rest of Australia by the country's vast central deserts. Extreme climate shifts and poor soils also promoted specialization of the region's flora.
Of more than 5,570 species of vascular plants found here, nearly 2,950 are endemic (about 53 percent). A significant number of genera are also endemic: 87 of 697 genera (12.5 percent) are found nowhere else in the world. Additionally, four families are endemic: Ecdeiocoleaceae, Emblingiaceae, Eremosynaceae and the monotypic Cephalotaceae, which is represented by the pitcher plant (Cephalotus follicularis, VU), a carnivorous plant that traps insects in its modified leaves.
The ten largest families in the hotspot (including the Myrtaceae with 785 species, of which 92 percent are endemic, and Proteaceae with 684 species, 96 percent endemic) comprise 61 percent of the flora. The number of species per genus averages eight, although the ten largest genera (including Acacia with 397 species, 51 percent endemic, and Eucalyptus with 246 species, 52 percent endemic) far exceed this figure.
The Banksia plants of the family Proteaceae are among the most distinctive found in this hotspot. These brilliant flowering plants range from trees to small prostrate plants, one of which even has underground stems. Kangaroo paws (Anigozanthos spp.) are another brightly colored flower from the region; their long stems are thought to resemble their namesakes.
The region's flagship tree species include three eucalyptus: jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata), marri (E. calophylla), and karri (E. diversicolor). While jarrah and marri grow to only about 20-30 meters in height, some karri forests have canopies up to 70 meters high, and individual trees may grow as high as 80 meters, ranking this endemic species as one of the tallest trees on earth.
BirdsOver 280 native bird species occur in the region, 12 of which are endemic. The level of endemism is slightly higher than in other Mediterranean-type hotspots, and the region is considered an Endemic Bird Area (EBA) by BirdLife International.
The region is home to 22 parrot species (three endemics), including Carnaby's black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris, EN). The noisy scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus, VU), which earned its name because of the loud vocalizations of its males, was presumed extinct until a small population was rediscovered in 1961. Several other bird species are near threatened or rapidly declining in the face of habitat loss, modification and fragmentation or inappropriate fire regimes.
MammalsThis hotspot has roughly 60 native mammal species occurring, of which 12 are endemic, including the mouse-sized, nectarivorous honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus), the only representative of the family Tarsipedidae, which lives only in the coastal plain heaths of Southwest Australia. Another interesting endemic is the quokka (Setonix brachyurus, VU), a small, furry wallaby confined to the mainland, where it has been declining in numbers, and two small offshore islands (Rottnest Island and Bald Island).
Some mammal species have become de facto endemics to Southwest Australia because they are extinct in the rest of their natural ranges. The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus, VU), for example, a squirrel-sized marsupial anteater, is the only member of the family Myrmecobiidae, and has become the mammalian symbol of Western Australia. Besides the numbat, four other threatened mammals are endemic to the hotspot, including the most threatened species in the hotspot, Gilbert's potoroo (Potorous gilberti, CR), which today occurs only in the Two People's Bay Nature Reserve.
ReptilesAs might be expected in a country that leads the world in reptile diversity, there are a wide variety of reptile species in Southwest Australia. Nearly 30 of more than 175 species (15 percent) are endemic to the hotspot. The endemic western swamp turtle (Pseudemydura umbrina, CR), a monotypic genus, is the most threatened reptile in Australia and is among the 25 most threatened freshwater turtle in the world. The wild population of less than 100 is now only found in one or two swamps near Perth.
Other threatened reptiles include the Yinnietharra rock dragon (Ctenophorus yinnietharra, VU), an understudied lizard species that is apparently specialized to two granitic rock outcrops in the region and does not inhabit outcrops of different origins, and the Lake Cronin snake (Echiopsis atriceps, VU) whose very limited range includes unprotected private lands.
AmphibiansThere are more than 30 species of amphibian found in this hotspot, nearly two-thirds of which are endemic, including four species that represent endemic genera: the turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii), Nicholl's toadlet (Metacrinia nichollsi), Sandhill frog (Arenophryne rotunda), and the harlequin frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea, VU). Besides the last-mentioned species, which was only described in 1997 and is known to have a limited area of occurrence, two other frog species are considered threatened, one of which, the yellow-bellied frog (Geocrinia vitellina, VU), is represented by six populations confined to a 6.3 km² area east of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge.
Freshwater FishesThe Southwest Australia hotspot has very little freshwater habitat and thus only about 20 native species of freshwater fish. However, about half of these species and three genera are endemic, the most remarkable being the salamanderfish (Lepidogalaxias salamandroides), which is the only member of the hotspot's single endemic family (Lepidogalaxiidae).
The greatest human impact in Southwest Australia has been the clearing of native vegetation for agriculture. Agricultural development began in 1829, with the arrival of the first European settlers to the region. However, because of the poor soils, development progressed slowly until the 1890s, when phosphate fertilizers were introduced. Today, most usable private land in the region is farmed, although it requires the application of phosphate, as well as zinc, copper, cobalt, and molybdenum. Because of the region's long dry seasons, bush fires have traditionally been used for hunting and clearing land. Although native plants are highly adapted to fire, the alteration or intensification of burning regimes can dramatically change the composition and condition of the natural vegetation.
One of the most serious current threats to the natural vegetation of Southwest Australia is the spread of root disease, or "jarrah dieback" caused by the root fungus Phytophthora cinnamomi. The disease was first noticed in the jarrah forests in 1940 but not identified until 1965. By that time, thousands of hectares of forest had been infected and killed. Root disease is now spreading to other habitats, including kwongan shrublands, and in particular Stirling Range National Park, where it has caused mortality among susceptible plants like the grass trees (Xanthorrhoea spp.) and members of the Proteaceae, especially the Banksias.
Large-scale mining for bauxite is increasingly a threat to Southwest Australia's ecosystems; the region is one of the largest producers of alumina in the world. Open-pit mining destroys habitats and pollutes waterways. However, recent reclamation efforts have been successful at establishing native plants in abandoned mine pits, a technique that holds promise for land management in the region.
Introduced alien species, especially foxes and cats, threaten native fauna and have caused major declines in species like the numbat in Southwest Australia. Land managers have successfully poisoned these alien species with sodium flouroacetate; amazingly, native mammals are immune to the poison because the compound occurs naturally in the leaves of many native legumes.
Today, of the principal vegetation types found in the region, 89 percent of the Eucalyptus woodlands have been lost, while 50 percent of the Eucalypt-dominated mallee and 59 percent of the Kwongan heath formations have been cleared. In total, only 30 percent of the original vegetation remains in more or less pristine condition.
A total of about 38,000 km², 11 percent of the land area in Southwest Australia, is under some form of official protection, virtually all of it in IUCN categories I to IV. Many reserves, however, are too small to adequately protect biological resources, and many ecosystem types are not well represented in the protected area system. Typically, the region's reserves represent land that was unsuitable for farming in the early days of settlement. Arable lands are almost exclusively privately owned, and a number of rare species are found only on these private lands.
Southwest Australia represents one of the best opportunities for long-term conservation among the hotspots because of its relatively low population density. However, immediate action is necessary to ensure the survival of the region's unique and highly threatened flora and fauna. In addition to maintaining the integrity of existing protected areas, the current network should be expanded through the creation of new reserves from private and public lands to represent species and ecosystems not yet protected.
There are a number of conservation programs and projects currently operating in Southwest Australia. The Western Shield Program, run by the Department of Conservation and Land Management, is working to bring at least 13 native fauna species back from the brink of extinction by controlling introduced predators, the fox and feral cat. The main weapon in the fight against these predators is the use of the naturally occurring poison 1080, found in native plants called gastrolobiums or 'poison peas'. While the native animals have evolved with these plants and have a high tolerance to the poison, introduced animals do not.
Project Eden is the arid scientific conservation component of Western Shield. This project uses innovative techniques to eradicate feral herbivores and predators and rejuvenate 105,000 hectares of arid zone habitat on Peron Peninsula at Shark Bay for threatened native fauna, and, to promote their reintroduction into the area.
A project focused on the ecology, abundance and predator dynamics of threatened Shark Bay mammals, has been run by the Sustainable Ecosystems program of CSIRO, the Australian national research agency, in partnership with a local salt mining community at Useless Loop for the past 16 years. This work has studied in detail the life cycle of some of Australia's most threatened animals on Bernier and Dorre Islands and has reintroduced the western barred bandicoot and burrowing bettong, two species extirpated on the Australian mainland, to Heirisson Prong.
Other conservation projects in Southwest Australia include community-based recovery programs for the threatened Carnaby's black-cockatoo, western ground parrot, dibbler, noisy scrub-bird and malleefowl. These involve organizations such as Birds Australia, WWF, CSIRO, Department of Conservation and Land Management and local Landcare groups.
Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth, Australia: Western Australian Museum.
Beard, J.S. 1980. A new phytogeographic map of Western Australia. Res. Notes. W.A. Herbarium 3:37-58.
Beard, J.S. 1990. The Plant Life of Western Australia. Sydney: Kangaroo Press.
Beard, J.S., Chapman, A.R. & Gioia, P. 2000. Species richness and endemism in the western Australian flora. Journal of Biogeography 27: 1257-1268.
Beeston, G., Mlodowski, G., Sanders, A. & True, D. 1996. Remnant Vegetation Inventory in the Southern Agriculture Areas of Western Australia. Department of Agriculture Western Australia, Resource Management Report No. 149.
Bell, D.T., Hopkins, A.J.M. & Pate, J.S. 1984. Fire in the Kwongan. In J.S. Pate & J.S. Beard. (Eds.), Kwongan: The Plant Life of the Sandplain. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press.
Burbidge, N.T. 1960. The phytogeography of the Australian region. Aust. J. Bot. 8: 75-211.
Pate, J.S. & Beard, J.S. 1984. Kwongan, the Plant Life of the Sandplain. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press.
Shepherd, D.P., Beeston, G.R. & Hopkins, A.J.M. 2002. Native Vegetation in Western Australia: Extent, Type and Status. Resource Management Technical Report 249. Department of Agriculture, Government of Western Australia.
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WATCH: Girlfriend wakes from surgery – and is CONVINCED she's in Scotland
THIS is the moment a woman living in the US woke up from wisdom tooth surgery – and was left convinced she was in Scotland.
There's only 4,200 miles between them, after all.
Kelsie Kopicki was given general anaesthetic to have four wisdom teeth removed in her home town of West Palm Beach, Florida.
But when upon hearing her Scottish boyfriend talking she becomes convinced that they are far, far away.
Despite his attempts to reassure her they are in the US - and the scorching 20C temperatures – Kelsie begins to apologise to her mum and say that they will "be home soon".
"Mum, I'm sorry I did this"Kelsie Kopicki
North Ayrshire native Liam Gourlay, 25, holds back laughter as he convinces his 21-year-old girlfriend to record a message on camera to send to her mum.
Kelsie – barely able to move her mouth – looks into the lens and says: "Mum, I'm sorry I did this in Scotland. I didn't even know.
"But we're gonna be okay. Right?"
Liam, who moved to America to play football, replies: "Yeah, but we're not in Scotland."
Kelsie – looking as if she is about to burst into tears – says: "But you're Scottish."
Liam replies: "Yeah but, we're in America."
Kelsie continues to shake her head and insist they are still in Scotland – where the pair recently had a holiday.
Despite Liam's insistence, she says: "Why are you talking like that, man? You have a Scottish accent."
Liam says: "I know I've got a Scottish accent but we're in America."
Kelsie responds: "We're going to America soon mum, and then we'll come pick you up. And we'll say 'hi'."
Kelsie's mum, Maria Kopicki, posted the video on Facebook where it quickly went viral – for obvious reasons.
She said: "Liam is a fine young man and he's taken very good care of her in her recovery.
"I think the video is hilarious as do hundreds of other people."
The web chuckled as footage of an ISIS fighter who believed a surgeon had stolen his tongue during a wisdom tooth op surfaced online.


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Monday 14 July 1952
It was Monday, under the sign of Cancer. The US president was Harry S. Truman (Democratic).
Famous people born on this day include Chris Cross [St John] and Eric Laneuville in New Orleans.
Don't Bother to Knock, directed by Roy Baker, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1952
while The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Masquerade Party.
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- France and all French dependencies - Bastille Day
- Kiribati - Independence Day, 3rd day, not a holiday
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- Chris Cross [St John]: Rock singer (Arthur).
- Eric Laneuville in New Orleans: Louisiana, USA; actor (Larry - Room 222, St. Elsewhere).
- George Louis Francis Lewis: Composer.
- Stan Shaw: Chicago, Illinois -- Actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation).
- Jerry Houser in Los Angeles: California, USA; actor (Slapshot, Summer of '42, Class of '44).
- Stan Shaw in Chicago: Illinois, USA; actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation).
- Bob Casale (''Bob 2''): American guitarist (Devo)
- Giovanni Domenico: Italian terrorist, nick named Gioele, member of the group Democrazia Proletaria and involved in the murder of Sergio Ramelli on 29 April 1975. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for another crime.
- Jean-Paul James: French Catholic clergyman, the Bishop of Beauvais in 2003 and Nantes since 2009.
- Jerry Houser: Los Angeles Actor
- Bob Casale: American guitarist keyboard player and producer (Devo) (d. 2014)
- Franklin Graham: American evangelist and missionary
- Eric Laneuville: American actor director and producer
- Yutaka Mizutani: Japanese actor and singer
- Joel Silver: South Orange, New Jersey -- Producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard)
- SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
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Many are hopeful over the course of the nation's labor laws over the next four years. That hope was invigorated even further when Trump named Phillip Miscimarra as acting chair of the NLRB. On March 1, the Board released a report detailing the top 10 policies they are going to focus on restoring balance to. See the list and find the report here.
Congress is making some headway as well. One of their most notable actions this month is revoking the Labor Department's fiduciary exemption for government-managed retirement funds, named Erisa (Employee Retirement Income Security Act).
Early this month, the House overturned OSHA's attempt to rewrite the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Under OSH Act, all employers are required to keep records or workplace injuries and illnesses for five years. OSHA inspectors, however, are only allowed to cite violations for record keeping that occurred within the previous six months. OSHA attempted to rewrite the law (even though government agencies have no authority to write laws) so that citations could be made for violations that occurred up to five years previous.
The House of Representatives also passed the Congressional Review Act invalidating the "Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces" executive order, also known as the "Blacklisting Rule." Not only does this act enjoin the rule, it also officially "removes it from the Federal Acquisition Regulation and prevents its future enforcement."
The NLRB ruled again last month that employers are required to give unions the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all employees. This includes the information of employees who are not dues paying members of the union.
The 5th Circuit upheld an NLRB ruling made last November that found Traco and Alcoa (both single employers, though Alcoa bought Traco in 2010) violated the NLRA when Traco barred Alcoa union members from distributing handbills at their facility.
On Friday, February 24th, the Board published new amendments to their rules and regulations. On May 7th, those new rules and regulations went into effect. You'll find the most significant changes laid out here.
In good news, the NLRB found in a recent case that "not every meeting with employees constitutes an investigative interview under Weingarten." Specifically, in this case, the difference was found between a police interrogation and an investigative interview. Read about the case here.
The NLRB has named five new Division of Judges administrative law judges. Click here to see the list and find out more.


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Raipur, Nov.14 : Four security personnel, including three policemen and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldier were injured in two separate blasts during the first phase of elections in Chhattisgarh on Friday.
The incidents took place in Maoist-infested Dantewada District. The policemen were injured in a landmine blast near Gorkha, as they were accompanying election officials to polling booths in Bhejji.
The second bomb explosion took place Chintalnar.
Naxalites also damaged two Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in Jagdalpur constituency and one in Dantewada, claimed the Inspector General of Police, Bastar region, A N Upadhyay.
Voter turnout was thin in the 39 Assembly constituencies that went to polls on Friday. Polling in ten of these 39 constituencies was held amid unprecedented security.
Nearly 25 per cent turnout was reported by mid-day, Deputy Chief Electoral officer Arvind Dixit was quoted by a national news agency, as saying.
Polling in 27 assembly constituencies began at about 8 a.m., while in the remaining twelve, it began an hour earlier.
The electoral fortunes of 379 candidates will be sealed on Friday. They include prominent leaders like Chief Minister Raman Singh from Rajnandgaon, Leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma (Dantewada), Assembly Speaker Premprakash Pandey (Bhilai), sitting Ministers Hemchand Yadav (Durg) and Lata Usendi (Kondagaon).
The remaining 51 seats in the 90-member House in eight districts will go to polls on November 20.
Nearly 32.08 lakh female electorates and 31,89,489 male voters are expected to exercise their right to vote at 8,879 polling booths during the first phase.
The CRPF which already has 14 battalions (14,000 personnel) in the state for anti-naxal operations, has sent additional 88 companies (about 9000 personnel) as directed by the Election Commission for the polls.
The Border Security Force has also been pressed into action in the state for the first time. They have deployed 70 companies (about 700 personnel) in the highly sensitive Dantewada, Bijapur and Jagdalpur districts.


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Thank you for taking the time to look at our class page. We are really looking forward to the year ahead.
The teachers in Year 5 are: Mr Tiplady, Miss Leithgoe and Miss Thomas.
Also working in Year 5 are: Mrs Shaikh, Ms Khot, Mrs Hannan, Mrs Ali, Mrs Sharif and Mrs Zaman.
Please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Year 5 team if you have any questions.
Click here to read our Spring term 2 newsletter (March 2017)
Our Curriculum
Some of the work covered this half term will include the famous narrative poem 'The Highwayman' and a science unit on the Earth in Space.
The school needs to help drive up reading and understanding standards. Please support us in this policy.
As ever, it would also be very helpful if you could continue to help your child learn their multiplication tables thoroughly.
Extra-curricular Activities
Forest Schools Project
Over the next two months, some children will be chosen to take part in a Forest School Project up at the Boys' High School (Upper Batley). This will be for half a morning approximately every two weeks. More details to follow. In the meantime, take a look at students who take part in the project last year.
Please ensure that all homework is completed carefully and then returned to school on the date given. Homework may be either black book research work or maths. It is important that it is always done.
Please make sure that your child spends time practising times tables each week. We cannot stress how important they are. You can find the Rainbow Maths papers here.
Reading Records and Home Reading
It is vital that your child reads to someone at home on at least 3 occasions per week. There are far too many children not completing their reading record books at the moment. Please be vigilant in this area.
Every class in school now has a 15 minute session of silent reading each day (1:30pm – 1:45pm).
We call the session 'ERIC' – Everybody Reading In Class. Even the school staff take part so as to set a good example to the pupils!