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Thursday, September 19, 2013
PIREP: A Shrink Flying in the sky with a Diamond (Apologies to the Beatles)
The Diamond Star is an interesting plane. As you may know from my previous posts, I did nearly all of my private pilot training in the DA40's 2-seat little brother. I expected this one to be far roomier, but I am not sure I'd endorse that conclusion. It does afford the pilot and front-seat passenger a bit more elbow and knee room, but I think I need a few more hours in the plane before I can say that I feel comfortable with it. The Arrow is more comfortable for my tastes, but I confess that this could be familiarity. The control stick is always fun, though!
One of the nice things that Skill puts together is a nice packet of "aircraft profiles" in order to help the pilot memorize how to set up the aircraft for various maneuvers or phases of flight. Because I did my initial training here, this way of organizing information is quite familiar to me. The Diamond Star's prop and manifold pressure settings are pretty different from the Arrow's (and from every other aircraft I've ever flown), so I continue to work these into my head. I am used to dropping the MP to 17 inches to begin a descent in the pattern, but really the Diamond needs more like 11 or 12, and likes 13-17 for approaches - depending on the type of approach. Of course, individual results vary depending on all those external variables that affect ground speed.
This particular plane is equipped with a non-WAAS G1000. I have poured over the Sporty's video training on the G1000, have done a VFR transition previously in another aircraft, and even having solid knowledge of the Garmin 430 is very helpful. The last bit helps with understanding the logic of how the system works, though it still takes time to figure out where one should hunt and peck.
So, how does it fly?
The DA40 is a very docile plane. Strangely, one needs to rotate and get the plane flying much earlier than Vx, and one can expect some swearing from the stall horn. I can't bring myself to get out of ground effect earlier, which is of course fine. It is very responsive to control inputs and power changes, and will drop like a rock with full flaps and idle power... and like a bolder if one includes the forward slip. I am still working on altitude hold in this plane - I would just get it set up and then my tasks or needs would change. I had just gotten nice and stable, and Jim instructed me to remove my foggles so he could "do something." Yeah... that something was another simulated engine failure. We'd have lived each time, but even practice raises my pulse considerably.
Other than feeling a tad cramped, there are two big gripes I have with the Diamond Star.
First, I really dislike the steering system. It is a free caster-type system (just like the DA-20) and can be hard to keep moving straight. One must be going fast enough for the rudder to be effective, but even that felt a bit unruly. I was taxiing with proper crosswind corrections and full right rudder applied, and the darn plane still wanted to go to the left. It took awhile to get used to that.
The final gripe is how easy it can be to tail strike the aircraft. Jim commented on my solid approaches to landing, which is because I work to find my target airspeed and a reasonable decent rate. It comes from working through all the bouncy-trouncy Tigger landings I've experienced. No, I didn't strike the tail. On the ground, Jim pushed the tail to the ground. I was shocked to see that the attitude was only 10 degrees nose-high. I guess I could flare a bit more as I tend to be a tad flat, but touchdowns were overall pretty gentle.
I am looking forward to taking this plane out for a little trip at some point to see how she flies on a short cross country. It's about the most expensive plane I can fly at this juncture, so I must admit that it won't be my first choice to fly somewhere.
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Cool! One thing about owning your own airplane is that it's harder to justify check outs in other airplanes like you're doing (at least, it does for me).ReplyDelete
My only (really minor) exposure to the Diamond Star came when I took a mountain flying course outside of Denver. The DA-40s were the school's preferred trainers for flying the Rockies. Of course, I wanted to do it in a PA-28 to learn the ropes in something relevant to what I normally fly. There was only one instructor at the school willing to go into the mountains in something other than a Diamond. That has to tell you something, right there.Replies
I often think that having just one plane that you know inside and out is the best way to fly. Although new planes provide challenge, keeping where things are straight can get "interesting."Delete
The club to which I belong is getting pretty large, and our two Pipers are very popular given the Aspen panels and G430s in each. Our other two planes are Skyhawks, and one of them does not even have a GPS at all. I'm not opposed to Skyhawks, but still... it's hard to get booked in a plane and having a few others gets me some additional options.
It is cool, though...
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2013 at 8:08 PM
It took me a while, but the Diamondstar was eventually the plane I bought:ReplyDelete
I have now flown back and forth across the country in it sixteen times:
Tyson Weihs, one of the co-founders of Foreflight, also bought one and wrote a nice piece about what he liked about flying it, but I can't find it and Google is being unhelpful. It's possible he picked a bad blog provider and it is gone for a while.
Three gotchas in the plane:
1. The visibility is AMAZING. It's like a helicopter. That also means that you cook like you are in a solar oven. Hats, sunglasses, sunscreen, and those suction cup sunscreen circles are all your friends.
2. The seats don't adjust. If you are uncomfortable after an hour you are going to be sad on a really long flight. I have gel seat cushions for me and the passengers have better cushions, but that doesn't mean you can recline the seat, which would be a nice improvement.
3. The control stick is fun for the pilot. The wife (cough, co-pilot) would probably prefer a yoke. Or a removable stick (which Diamond promised on the DA50).
Thanks for reading! Yes, your gotchas are all right on. It was 90 degrees on the first day I went out... and I knew it too. But, it's a very nice plane and one I'd consider owning should the opportunity (read: money) present itself.ReplyDelete


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What is it to 'explain away' an intuition? Philosophers often attempt to explain intuitions away, but it is often unclear what the success conditions for their project consist in. I attempt to articulate these conditions, using several philosophical case studies as guides. I will conclude that explaining away intuitions is a more difficult task than has sometimes been appreciated; I also suggest, however, that the importance of explaining away intuitions has often been exaggerated.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Explaining Away Intuitions
Explaining Away Intuitions, (2010) in Studia Philosophica Estonica, special issue on intuitions. Refer to published version, available here.
Posted by Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa at 6/20/2009 04:50:00 AM
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ufc 121 picks and results
it hard for me to get excited nowadays for any ufc card but godamn they got some potential this saturday. we will see.we have shields coming in as a champ in strikeforce vs a crazy kampmann tito making a fool of himself against hamill and what could be the best of the best duking it out on the main event.
- dongi yang vs chris camozzi- YANG. havent seen much of either fighter but seeing a clip here and there i would think yang has the advantage yang by sub in the second.
- gilbert yvel vs jon madsen- MADSEN by stoppage in the second.
- sam stout vs paul taylor- STOUT by dec.
- michael guymon vs daniel roberts TOSS UP i havent seen much of either to pick. but on paper it looks evenly matched.
- patrick cote vs tom lawlor COTE by ko in the third.
- court mcgee vs ryan jensen COURT finishes in the third
- brendan schaub vs gabriel gonzaga toss up gonzaga is been shoddy and havent seen much of schaub
- tito ortiz vs matt hamill AHHHH tito what can i say im a huge of fan of tito but its been a long time since ive put money on him. hamill would give anyone trouble and tito is a weaker version of hamill so.... tito just on loyalty alone.
- paulo thiago vs diego sanchez AHHHHHH again ive been a huge diego fan since his kotc days and his striking has gotten worse and worse every time. he continues to rely on it but thiago has decent record... diego just not puttin money on it
- jake shields vs martin kampmann toss up im just gonna watch this one looks to be a war.
- brock lesner vs cain velasquez-for the hw chamionship. how do you pick this? if cain would have fought pre-illness brock cain would have mopped the floor with the champ but now things have changed. cain is the man to beat brock he has speed strength punching power everything needed to beat the beast. but i believe it is brock brush with death that will make all the difference. brock is a complete freak of nature and now with his complete lack of fear of all things human. he is not afraid to die he stared at it and won what can he fall victim to? intimidation? pffft come on now have you stared into a soldiers eyes? i believe he is more mexican than cain now you need to live through some traumatic shit to be the best at what you want to do. and beating peoples ass cannot be more elevated than brock.


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Peticularly Khandwa city in this district is not having remarkable history
but the nearby district Burhanpur has glourious past during mogul-period and the impact of
presence of such mighty places is obvious.
Bahadur Khan (1596-1600 A.D.) successor of Raja Ali Khan declared his independence & refused to pay homage to Akbar & his son Prince Daniyal, which enraged Akbar, who marched towards Burhanpur in 1599 and occupied the City without any opposition on 8th April 1600 A.D. Akbar paid a visit to Asirgarh, so as to inspect it personally, where he stayed for 4 days before returning to his Head Quarter at Burhanpur.
Prince Khurram was nominated as the Governor of the Deccan in 1617 AD, by Jahangir to succeed Prince Parviz, and was bestowed the title of Shah by Jahangir. Khurram led the Mughal army to a peaceful victory by which Jahangir was pleased with his success & conferred him the title of Shah Jahan on 12th October, 1617 AD. After the death of Jahangir in 1627, Shah Jahan ascended the throne of Mughal empire. Due to troubled conditions in the Deccan, he reached Burhanpur (Deccan) on the 1st March 1630, where he stayed for the following two years, conducting operations against Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, and Golkunda. On 7th June 1631, Shah Jahan lost his beloved & favourite wife Mumtaz Mahall at Burhanpur, and her body was buried at first in the Garden of Zainabad, across the river Tapti. Early in December of the same year (1631 AD), the remains of her body were sent to Agra. Later on 6th March 1632, Shah Jahan left Burhanpur for the north, after appointing Mahabat Khan as the viceroy of the Deccan.
The East Nimar district did not remain unaffected by the Great Uprising of 1857, which swept the country, against the British rule. In connection with the so called Riots of 1857, Tatya Tope had gone through the region of East Nimar district, and Khandwa and before marching out of the district, burnt the police stations and Govt. buildings at Khandwa, Piplod and a number of other places and escaped again to central India by way of Khargone.
The East Nimar district was greatly affected with the beginning of freedom movement, Non-Co-operation movement, Civil Disobedience movement, Quit India Movement etc., to obtain the Independence of the Motherland India, from late 18th century till 15th August 1947. During this time Khandwa was visited by Swami Dayanad Saraswati of Arya Samaj fame, Swami Vivekanand,the great monk & founder of Ramkrishna Mission, Mahatma Gandhiji in 1921, Lokmanya Tilak etc.
Young Nationalists of the district, like Haridas Chatterjee, Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Thakur Laxman Singh( of Burhanpur District), Abdul Quadir Siddique has attended the Calcutta Session of Congress in 1917. Tilak has visited the district during his whirl-wind tour to central province in 1918. The district did not fail to make its contribution in non-co-operative movement. Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 has also been participated by many people of the district. Karmavir, weekly , was seized publication and its editor, Makhanlal Chaturvedi was sentenced to two years. Editor of swarajya S.M.Agarkar was also arrested and imprisoned. Nav Jawan Sabha was established at Khandwa in 1931. Students had also participated in this movement. They removed Union Jack from high school building and hoisted the tricolor, in this connection Raichand Bhai Nagda was fined and imprisoned.
The District also has contribution in Quit India Movement. The District Political Conference was held at Harsud sometime before August, 1942 had alerted the people for impending struggle.The Students of Robertson High School, Burhanpur( Burhanpur is now a new district but,formaly part of Khandwa District) hoisted Tri-colour on the school building on the 15th August. But it was removed by the police. The students organized the processions against this act of police till their demands of hoisting tricolor and pasting of photographs of national leaders did not met.


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If I close my eyes really really tight and click my heals three times... And will wish upon a star... I know in my heart that this office space will be mine! I'm in l o v e... The cabinets are a perfect blue and kissed with antique brass hardware just nicely. Oh my... Or maybe its the cleanliness of the space as well that intrigues me. I love my little cottage work space at home, but I'm constantly looking for more inspiration. I would gladly move in holding my drink in hand! Yes please!
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Monash University's expansion into Malaysia was established with a partnership between the University and Sunway College, just outside Kuala Lumpur. Both Monash University and the Malaysian Government recognised the need for additional higher education options in Malaysia. As a result of the preferential treatment given to ethnic Malays, many ethnic Chinese students were missing out on university places and having to seek tertiary education overseas. In 1993 the Malaysian Government announced that it would accept applications from international universities interested in establishing campuses in Malaysia. Monash, together with the Sungei Way Group, submitted an application, which was eventually accepted by the Malaysian Government in 1996. An agreement was reached between the two institutions whereby students started their first year at the College in Malaysia, before transferring to Australia to finish their degree. Robin Alfredson, who became the first Head of Engineering and Science at the Malaysian campus, remembers that one of the main reasons Monash went to Malaysia was because 'there was a need there … in part that was because of the large number of Chinese students who were very talented but couldn't afford to go overseas and were capable of doing Engineering or Science.'
Alfredson was working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clayton when he noticed the advertisement for a Foundation Head of Engineering and Science at the new Malaysian campus. After being offered the job, he spent the next five years setting up the new school and establishing Monash's engineering presence in Malaysia. 'When I went there', he reflected, 'there was virtually nothing there. They had lecture theatres but there was nothing in the way of staff, or students, and everything had to start from scratch.'
The Monash University Sunway Campus in Malaysia opened in 1998, and within a matter of a month or so, the School of Engineering had a staff of five, and a first year enrolment of between 50 and 60 students. First year was a common year, and the initial programs offered were Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics (programs formally offered at the Gippsland campus). The course grew, as did the student body, with a new course being offered each semester. 'We had to provide new subjects, and we had to provide new staff, and new facilities. I thought to myself, well after four years when we've got all the staff and facilities, things will settle down a bit, but it never did', Alfredson recalls.
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering was established in 2001, when Bill Brown arrived to teach the first group of second year students. 'Of course they had to have someone teaching computers and electronics, because that's all part of Mechatronics', said Brown. He worked closely with Alfredson, building up the staff, laboratories and the Electrical Engineering course. 'When I got there in February 2001', he remembers, 'there were labs, there were programs, there were staff, the things I just couldn't imagine how they would do, were all there and they were working. Robin did a fantastic job.'
There was of course some concern over the creation of a Malaysian campus – concern mainly that it would deprive the Australian campuses of income if Malaysian students could stay and study in Malaysia instead of physically journeying to Australia. As it turned out, however, after the establishment of the Sunway campus the number of Malaysian students coming to Australia actually increased.
Reflecting on the reasons for the relatively instant success of Monash Malaysia, Robin Alfredson concludes that Monash was well known in Malaysia well before the campus was established. 'I think the fact that the students were doing the same exams at the same time as the students here was enough to satisfy people in Malaysia that the standard was the same, and I'm confident it was.'
In 2011 Monash Sunway School of Engineering has over 35 academic staff members, seven current PhD students and four engineering programs: Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical and Computers Systems and Chemical Engineering. The Sunway Engineering School research strengths include: robotics, automation and manufacturing; photonics semiconductors communication technologies; chemical and sustainable process engineering; and environment and green technology.


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via ANKWD - Welcome to the gateway of Citizen Journalism! by divya on 9/17/08
You must have heard of garments, oil, and food items being exported to
ITV's Tonight programme found British waste, including children's report cards and a St George's flag, buried in farmland wells near the migration path of wild elephants in the state of Tamil Nadu. The rubbish also included bags of Walkers crisps, Sainsbury's apple juice, Tesco packaging, plastic bags from Mothercare and newspapers. Mail was addressed to residents living in the local authority areas of Tendring, Wellingborough and
The outcome of such a hideous act is that the workers have to bear the brunt of occupational and industrial risks of working in unprotected and shanty conditions. Majority of such workers include women and children and people with very low nutritional status, making them vulnerable even to very low-level exposures. Health surveys have shown that recyclers regularly suffered from complaints such as respiratory diseases and skin rashes.
A computer may be manufactured in Asia, used in North America and disposed in
Translocation to the South enables cost cutting all around, although the burden of waste is borne by local peoples and their environment. The poorer countries are becoming dirtier as the rich ones become cleaner. This disaster must stop before it wipes out our nation completely.


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The total solar eclipse could be unsafe for your pet—here's why
Since the countdown to Monday's total solar eclipse is in full fierce effect, you've probably (well, hopefully) secured a trusty pair of for-the-special-event glasses and have your viewing plans in order. But if your itinerary includes a pup by your side for the rare sight, you might want reconsider and have your furry friend sit this one out.
By now we all know that it's dangerous for humans to watch the eclipse without proper eye protection. But you may not have known that it's just as unsafe for your canine companion to do the same—even though it's reportedly unlikely for this breed of astrology buffs stare up into the sun in the first place.
Even looking at the eclipse briefly can cause blindness or retinal burns from the sun's rays.
"On a normal day, your pets don't try to look at the sun and therefore don't damage their eyes. And on this day, they're not going to do it, either," Angela Speck, PhD, director of astronomy at the University of Missouri, said at a NASA press briefing.
So sure, there's a good chance your dog won't look at the sun, but there's still a chance nonetheless. And, just like with humans, even looking at the eclipse briefly can cause blindness or retinal burns from the sun's rays, potentially causing permanent damage. Since it's painless, you might not notice something feels off for the first few days after that jaw-dropping moment of celestial magic—but your dog will never be able to tell you if anything is wrong.
If you're set on taking your pet on an out-of-this-world date, make sure to strap on some protective eyewear (first on yourself, then on your companion, airplane-safety style). Also, make sure purchase your eyewear from an American Astronomical Society-approved retailer.
If you already bought a pair, make sure they're real by checking to see if they're labeled as "ISO 12312-2" (also written as "ISO 12312-2:2015") on the side, to ensure they're the real deal.
Once you're set on the safety front, get in the outer-space spirit with a meteor body scrub. Perfect, now you—and your pup—are totally ready.
Impress your friends by sharing how the eclipse will affect them, based on their horoscope—and for the astrology gift that keeps on giving, throw in a personalized horoscope tee.
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SAP, ERP, Architecture, Solution Architect, Supply Chain, Operations, SD, MM, APO, PLM, SCM, Sales & Distribution, Material Management, Supply Chain Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Global Projects, HANA, Enterprise Architect, Business, PP, WM, LE, Kanban, Lean, Agile, MES
Montash have been engaged by a global organisation and are seeking to acquire their SAP Supply Chain Solution Architect who will be responsible for adopting effective Solution Architecture patterns and how this fits within the wider Architecture and SAP context. The ideal individual will progress from an SAP SD/SAP MM Consultant background with strong design and configuration expertise.
The SAP Supply Chain Solution Architect will have progressed from a large multi-national organisation and have experience in a business facing role with stakeholder management experience. The organisation operates on a truly global scale and is seeking a collaborative and engaging individual to be part of their Global SAP/Architecture team. The ideal candidate will have the following skill-set;
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing SAP Solutions
- Consulting expertise in SAP SD/SAP MM
- Architecture experience - mainly in solution architecture
- Knowledge of SAP including SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP SCM, SAP APO, SAP PP, SAP WM, LE
- Vast supply chain experience
- MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) expereince
- Manufacturing experience
- SAP deployment experience
- Knowledge in Agile methodologies such as Kanban and Lean
- Stakeholder management experience including country MD's and CxO level
- Integration experience with SAP FICO, SAP BI
- International Experience is highly desirable
- International markets worked on must be of a considerable size
- Problem solving skills to combat solutions in a business perspective
- A high level of written and verbal communication
This organisation are looking for the best SAP Supply Chain Solution Architects. As a result, the right individual can expect a progressive career and above market anchor benefits. This position is ideal for someone wanting to work in London.
This is an urgent requirement so please contact James Hughes on 02070140230 or email your CV through to email@example.com.


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Exclusive clip from Jim VanBebber's new "GATOR GREEN"Movies/TV,News Michael Gingold
Indie provocateur Jim VanBebber has a new short called GATOR GREEN accompanying THE MANSON FAMILY in its Blu-ray debut this summer, and we've got an exclusive excerpt to show you.
VanBebber also stars in GATOR GREEN, shot on his home turf in Florida, as Jack Andrew, a deranged Vietnam veteran who feeds people to the local alligators. You can see it on the MANSON FAMILY Blu-ray/DVD combo pack when it streets June 11; go here for those details, and look for an interview with VanBebber on GATOR GREEN's creation in Fango #324, on sale later this month.
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The court had in April granted interim stay on the Income Tax department's proceedings against Cognizant, subject to the firm depositing 15 per cent of Rs 2,800 crore dividend distribution tax demanded by the department.
The US-based IT firm had earlier said it paid all applicable taxes related to its buyback transaction in 2016 and the Indian Income Tax Department's position is "contrary to law and without merit".
The tech giant's comments was made in connection with the department freezing its certain bank accounts in the country over a dispute on payment of dividend distribution tax (DDT) running into hundreds of crores.
The tax issue pertains to unpaid dues around share purchases done by its subsidiary, Cognizant Technology Solutions India, which had bought back shares from foreign owners -- Cognizant Mauritius and the US-based parent Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS).
The firm is alleged to have remitted about Rs 19,415 crore to its non-resident shareholders in May 2016 without paying any dividend distribution tax (DDT).
The primary allegation of the department is that Cognizant processed the buyback scheme ahead of the Finance Bill 2016 which came into effect in on June 1, 2016.
The Bill widened the scope of additional income tax payable on share buyback.
When the plea came up today before Justice T S Sivagnanam, counsel for the software firm, Gopal Subramanium contended that tax planning was not an offence and even Supreme Court has ruled so.
Referring to the tax demand order passed by the assessing officer, Subramanium said, "The officer says that the Indian company is pampered with tax benefits in India and also enjoys capital gains tax exemption in Mauritius. Therefore, it must be made liable to pay additional tax which is unfounded.
"The tax exemptions and benefits are provided by the central government on the basis of international treaties to promote industrial growth; this cannot be disputed by the officer," he said.
He submitted that besides this, the officer has come to the conclusion that the reasonable value per share can only be Rs 7,990, which is totally against the findings of the Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO).
The counsel wanted to know how the officer has declared that entire amount higher than Rs 7,990 shall be treated as residual income which attracts additional tax and further submitted how a single income is divided under two heads.
Recording the submissions, Justice Sivagnanam posted the plea for tomorrow, for the additional solicitor general to place his arguments.
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State rep wants ideas on bills
District 18 State Rep. Pete Lee is seeking ideas from his constituents for laws he might propose in the 2012 legislative session.
He calls it "Need a law, call a legislator."
"Last year four of my five bills came from constituents," said Lee, a first-term Democrat. "We are entitled to introduce five bills apiece, and I have not decided on all of mine yet. So, if you have an idea for a new law or know a law that needs to be changed, contact me."
Lee can be reached by phone at 460-2834 or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
District 18 includes the older Westside.
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text: Brian Shaw — hot prospect that he is — will reportedly meet with the Brooklyn Nets about their head coaching position, and may get a job offer (though Lionel Hollins may or may not still be in the running as well.) Per Yahoo! Sports: "Nets president Billy King is expected to meet with Shaw shortly to discuss the job and an offer could be forthcoming, sources said. Pacers officials say that King has done an inordinate amount of research on Shaw over the past several weeks. Pacers president Donnie Walsh worked with King years ago with Indiana and has kept a close relationship with him. Memphis coach Lionel Hollins is also under consideration for the Nets job. The Nets won 49 regular-season games and lost in seven games to the Chicago Bulls in the first-round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Nets believe they need a coach to help instill toughness in their team. Shaw has been the Pacers' top assistant the past two years after spending seven years on Phil Jackson's staff with the Los Angeles Lakers."


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Interesting WW2 Photo – soldiers and sergeants and junior officers of the Red Army were awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Probably, WW2 photo taken in April and May 1943. Kitel of the Russian soldier with a turndown collar and shoulders are the epaulets (the epaulets in the Red Army appeared in March 1943). Order of Red Banner – the old model, the officer who gives the order, has no the epaulets.


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The Securities Commission (SC) has won another battle against market manipulators after the Court of Appeal decided in the regulator's favour to increase the punishment meted on former Fountain View Development Bhd director Datuk Chin Chan Leong.
"In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal imposed a jail term of 12 months, and a fine of RM1.3mil on Datuk Chin Chan Leong for market manipulation involving Fountain View shares," the SC said in a statement yesterday.
Chin, who pleaded guilty to shares manipulation two years ago, was initially given a one-day jail sentence and RM1.3mil fine for the offence.
"This is the third conviction for market manipulation which the SC has successfully prosecuted," the regulator said. The other companies were Suremax Group Bhd and Actacorp Holdings Bhd.
The offence took place over a two-month period from November 2003 to January 2004 during which the price of Fountain View shares increased from RM1.99 to RM6.05, raising its market capitalisation from RM885mil to RM2.73bil.
Fountain View was listed on the Main Board of the stock exchange. The company was delisted on Sept 22, 2010 for failing to submit a regularisation plan to the SC or Bursa Malaysia within the prescribed timeframe.
Chin was charged in 2005 but had only pleaded guilty on Feb 5, 2010 to the offence of creating a misleading appearance of active trading in Fountain View shares by indirectly being concerned in transactions for the sale and purchase of those shares, which did not involve any change in beneficial ownership.
Chin was found to be trading with 20 central depository system accounts which he beneficially owned through the companies that he controlled.
The one-day jail sentence was affirmed by the High Court in September 2010 which led to an appeal by the Public Prosecutor .
The Court of Appeal held that the offence under section 84(1) of the Securities Industry Act 1983 was serious with adverse consequences on the stock market and the economy and that the earlier sentence did not reflect the gravity of the offence.
"In deciding to impose a 12-month jail term, the Court of Appeal took into account the fact that the offence committed was pre-planned and well thought out.
"The SC has been proactively pursuing this and other market misconduct cases (such as manipulation, market rigging and insider trading) because such activities severely undermine investor confidence and tarnishes the reputation of the Malaysian capital market," the SC said, adding that it would continue to be vigilant and take whatever action necessary to protect investors and to maintain a fair and orderly capital market.
Over the years, there had been a number of account mismanagement and share manipulation court cases. Among them were Kenmark Industrial Co (M) Bhd, Granasia Corp Bhd, Kiara Emas Asia Industries Bhd, Idris Hydraulic (M) Bhd, Aokam Perdana Bhd and Ekran Bhd.
In the case of troubled furniture company Kenmark, its Taiwanese managing directors and key management personnel went missing in May 2010. In June 2010, one Datuk Ishak Ismail emerged as a 32% shareholder, but sold all his shares two weeks later. The SC alleged that he had committed insider trading.
In the case of Granasia Corp Bhd, in March 2010, the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court convicted Chan Kok Suan, the former managing director of Granasia for submitting false statements to the SC, namely the revenue and profit after tax of the company for the year ended Dec 31, 2002.
The information was submitted in connection with Granasia's proposal to list on the main board of the stock exchange.
Chan was convicted under section 32B(4) of the Securities Commission Act and imposed a fine of RM500,000 in default, 10 months imprisonment, according to the SC. He was charged on Feb 9, 2006 and pleaded guilty on March 1, 2010.
According to reports, the prosecution had filed an appeal against the sentence to the High Court.
Source: www.thestar.com.my


text: It use to be a myth that only "certain" children had parents who were incarcerated. Unfortunately in today's society people from all walks of life are exposed to the incarceration of a parent or relative. Lady Law does what she has to do to protect us and the children who we serve. Fortunately, Sesame Street understands and has created this site to assist those children who have questions; and for those loved ones who may have a hard time answering them.


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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Kent Waddell started his day Tuesday by heading to the Hudson River with his bloodworms and fishing rod. But he saw something on the river that made him race home and put his fishing gear away.
"It's not every day you see a huge steel bridge floating down the Hudson," said Mr. Waddell, 69, a retired engineer from West Hurley, N.Y., who had ambled down a woodsy path to the Saugerties Lighthouse, on the west shore of the Hudson, just as a prefabricated steel bridge about 350 feet long, 65 feet high and 77 feet wide was slipping downriver, propped on huge barges guided by three powerful tugboats.
Its eventual destination is the Harlem River in New York City, to replace the nearly 110-year-old Willis Avenue Bridge linking Manhattan and the South Bronx. This was a crucial day in a decade-long, $612 million project, but for Mr. Waddell, it simply meant the chase was on. He spent the rest of the day hopping in and out of his car and chasing the slow-moving bridge down the river.
And like Mr. Waddell, there were hordes of onlookers along the Hudson's shores, tipped off to this bridge-on-a-barge spectacle by local newspapers and word of mouth. Mr. Waddell joined them at vantage points like the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge and the Walkway Over the Hudson footbridge park in Poughkeepsie, to monitor the progress of the bridge getting a pristine promenading down nearly the entire length of the navigable Hudson, as if to give the people of New York State a sneak preview of what New York City residents would be driving on.
The trip seemed almost ceremonial, as people gathered on bridges and in waterfront parks, gawking at the structure.Continue reading the main story
"It's great to see real industry happening again on the Hudson," Mr. Waddell declared while snapping picture after picture of this cog of urban infrastructure.
Most onlookers seemed to know bits and pieces of the story of the 2,400-ton bridge's construction and transport, which they spoke of in language reserved for things like the Empire State Building and the great water tunnels.
In Catskill, Vivian Dobrosielski said she understood that the bridge was constructed at the privately owned Port of Coeymans, a former brickyard roughly 10 miles south of Albany.
This was so. The bridge was built near the fortified docks of the port and carefully moved onto barges about 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, which were untied from a dock there and pushed by three tugboats downriver at a speed of about seven miles per hour.
Mr. Waddell, a retired engineer, took it for fact that the move was a herculean task, with workers needing to weld together two heavy barges, each 180 feet long.
This was also true. After an 18-month construction job, workers used special heavy-duty trailers to form a huge dolly with nearly 400 tires and guided the bridge on Monday some 1,000 feet to the port's dock. At peak high tide, the bridge was rolled over four heavy steel ramps onto the barge decks.
To avoid tipping the barges, workers continually pumped water in and out of subdeck compartments as ballast as the bridge was eased on. To keep the water calm, the authorities shut down this area of the Hudson to all traffic.
The 145th Street Bridge project was built and transported by barge several years ago from this port, "but this bridge is more than double the weight," said Barend Schuring, a project manager for Mammoet, a Dutch company that handled the move from land to barge. Mammoet specializes in heavy transport and has raised a sunken Russian submarine and moved the 400-foot-long, 5.5-million-pound new Providence River Bridge in Rhode Island.
Mr. Schuring, a 33-year-old Dutchman, stood near the barges on Monday, wearing a grease-smeared jumpsuit and watching as three tugboats jostled into place and repositioned the barges so that the bridge's steel spans, jutting out like the outspread wings of a bird, were parallel to the riverbanks.
"It is a big job," he said, "but everything is simple if you have the right tools."
The new Willis Avenue Bridge will be docked at a yard in Bayonne, N.J., for two weeks before being transported 15 miles up the East River and Harlem River and floated into place atop new foundations and piers. The old bridge, which opened in 1901 and carries more than 70,000 vehicles a day, will be taken down as the new one is put into place.
The Port of Coeymans contracts with New York City on many projects, including quarrying and transporting limestone to the city for Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Statue of Liberty and other projects. Also on the property were several huge cooling towers scheduled to be floated by barge for installation at a power plant in Astoria, Queens, in several weeks.
But the sheer size of the Willis Avenue Bridge turned a barge ride down the Hudson into a spectacle; the port even posted updates of the bridge's location on its Web site.
About 9 a.m., the bridge approached the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill, where a jogger, Ron Van Kleeck, 55, stopped and stared. Lori Sturges, who was out power walking, quickly called her mother, Ms. Dobrosielski, and her friend Kathy Salvato, and told them to come quick to see this piece of urban landscape sweeping the natural pristine setting of the Hudson estuary. It was escorted by an armed Coast Guard cutter.
Elizabeth Lopez, 39, and Lars White, 51, of Catskill, were transfixed, stopping their fast-paced walks to watch the barges pass underneath them — a bridge under a bridge.
"I've driven on that bridge a million times, Willis Avenue," said Mr. White, who is originally from Brooklyn.
"Me, too. I grew up in the Bronx," Ms. Lopez said. "That's where it's going. Strange to see a city bridge up here."Continue reading the main story


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…or lambda?
Posted on Mon 20 June 2016 in Code • Tagged with Python, syntax, lambda, operators • Leave a comment
a.k.a. Curious Facts about Python Syntax
In Python 3.3,
a new method has been added to the
str type:
Its purpose is to return a "sanitized" version of the string
that's suitable for case-insensitive comparison.
For older versions of Python,
an alternative way that's mostly compatible is to use the
str.lower method,
which simply changes all letters in the string to lowercase.
Syntax is hard
Easy enough for a compatibility shim, right? That's exactly what I thought when I came up with this:
casefold = getattr(str, 'casefold', None) or lambda s: s.lower()
Let's ignore for a moment
the fact that for a correct handling of
unicode objects in Python 2,
a much more sophisticated approach is necessary.
What's rather more pertinent is that this simple code doesn't parse:
File "foo.py", line 42
getattr(str, 'casefold', None) or lambda s: s.lower()
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
It's not very often that you would produce a
SyntaxError with code
that looks perfectly valid to most pythonistas.
The last time I had it happen,
the explanation was rather surprising and not exactly trivial to come by.
Fortunately, there is always one place where we can definitively resolve any syntactic confusion. That place is the full grammar specification of the Python language.
It may be a little intimidating at first,
especially if you're not familiar with the ENBF notation it uses.
All the Python's language constructs are there, though,
so the
SyntaxError from above should be traceable to a some rule of the grammar1.
The culprit
And indeed, the offending bit is right here:
or_test: and_test ('or' and_test)*
and_test: not_test ('and' not_test)*
It says, essentially, that Python defines the
or expression (
as a sequence of
and expressions (
If you follow the syntax definition further, however,
you will notice that
and_test expands to
comparisons (
a < b, etc.),
arithmetic expressions (
x + y, etc.),
list &
dict constructors (
[foo, bar], etc.),
and finally to atoms such as literal strings and numbers.
What you won't see along the way are lambda definitions:
lambdef: 'lambda' [varargslist] ':' test
In fact, the branch to allow them is directly above the
test: or_test ['if' or_test 'else' test] | lambdef
As you can see, the rule puts lambdas at the same syntactical level as conditional expressions
x if a else b), which is very high up.
The only thing you can do with a
lambda to make a larger expression
is to add a
yield keyword before it2, or follow it with a comma to create a tuple3.
You cannot, however, pass it as an argument to a binary operator, even if it otherwise makes sense and even looks unambiguous. This is also why the nonsensical expressions such as this one:
1 + lambda: None
will fail not with
TypeError, but also with
as they won't even be evaluated.
More parentheses
Savvy readers may have noticed that this phenomenon is very much reminiscent of the issue of operator precedence.
Indeed, in Python and in many other languages it is the grammar that ultimately specifies the order of operations. It does so simply by defining how expressions can be constructed.
Addition, for example, will be of lower priority than multiplication simply because a sum is said to comprise of terms that are products:
arith_expr: term (('+'|'-') term)*
term: factor (('*'|'/'|'%'|'//') factor)*
This makes operator precedence a syntactic feature, and its resolution is baked into the language parser and handled implicitly4.
We know, however, that precedence can be worked around where necessary by enclosing the operator and its arguments in a pair of parenthesis. On the syntax level, this means creating an entirely new, top-level expression:
atom: '(' [yield_expr|testlist_comp] ')' | # parenthesized expression
'[' [listmaker] ']' |
'{' [dictorsetmaker] '}' |
'`' testlist1 '`' |
There, it is again possible to use even the highest-level constructs, including also the silly stuff such as trying to add a number to a function:
1 + (lambda: None)
This expression will now parse correctly,
and produce
TypeError as expected.
In the end, the resolution of our initial dilemma is therefore rather simple:
casefold = getattr(str, 'casefold', None) or (lambda s: s.lower())
Such rules are sometimes called productions of the grammar, a term from computational linguistics. ↩
yield foois an expression. Its result is the value sent to the generator by outer code via the
sendmethod. Since most generators are used as iterables, typically no values are passed this way so the result of a
yieldexpression is
None. ↩
There are also a legacy corner cases of lambdas in
dict/etc. comprehensions, but those only apply under Python 2.x. ↩
This saying, there are languages where the order is resolved at later stage, after the expressions have already been parsed. They usually allow the programmer to change the precedence of their own operators, as it's the case in Haskell. ↩


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Internet Veteran Brad Garlinghouse Still Hates Peanut Butter
Six years ago, a Yahoo executive named Brad Garlinghouse caused a stir in the Internet community by issuing a bracingly direct critique of the company's problems. Garlinghouse said the Internet company had lost its focus and was spreading its resources too thin, like peanut butter on a piece of bread. The "Peanut Butter Manifesto," as it came to be known, offered a way forward as well. He urged a new emphasis on accountability and performance-based pay, and the sale of non-core assets. Garlinghouse called for a 15-20% reduction in headcount, with cuts at all levels.
"I hate peanut butter," he wrote. "We all should."
Garlinghouse, now CEO of file sharing and collaboration company YouSendIt, has a chance to put his ideas about business leadership into practice. Garlinghouse joined the eight-year-old company in May after a two-year stint at AOL, where he ran the consumer unit. He also had a stint at Silver Lake that followed his five-year run at Yahoo. During the dot com boom of the '90s, he was CEO of Dialpad Communications.
Garlinghouse, 41, said that keeping a small, relatively young tech company—unburdened by a long history or legacy—takes a lot of discipline. "There are really three aspects to it. I think about that a lot," he told CIO Journal.
The first step in maintaining focus is to understand who your primary customers are, he said. "One of the things that happened at Yahoo is we thought advertisers were our most important customers," he said. Yahoo needed to refocus on its users. At YouSendIt, he says that the company's consumer and enterprise users are its "true north."
With a primary customer in mind, Garlinghouse says the company can set priorities, which is the second element of maintaining focus. "When I first joined [YouSendIt], I didn't think we really had clarity on that. It's very helpful in driving focus. It's a reflection of you who are and where you are trying to go," he says.
Finally, it's up to the CEO to "over communicate" with the entire staff, in a regular and forthright way, so that the mission is hammered into everyone's head. As CEO of YouSendIt, Garlinghouse sends an email to his entire 200-person workforce every Sunday night. "It helps the organization understand where it is going and why. You have to have the intellectual honesty to be direct. It can't be just a puff piece," he says.
So far, he says, the efforts are paying off. The company, based in Campbell, Calif., had $39 million in revenue last year. It has 34 million users and 620,000 paying users. The company offers a certain amount of free file sharing, but charges for additional storage and for enterprise-level security and collaboration.
"Going forward, storage is not a differentiator," Garlinghouse says. The features and intelligence that are layered onto the basic services will make or break the company, which competes with rivals such as Box. For example, YouSendIt offers the ability for users to share entire folders rather than documents alone, and to sign documents online.
The company's business model is driven by the consumerization of technology. Employees at many companies already are using YouSendIt, even if their employer isn't itself a client. Once usage within a particular company reaches a certain level, YouSendIt will try to sell an enterprise version of its services to the company's CIO. "If you deliver a great experience and add value, they will bring you into the workplace," Garlinghouse says.
It wasn't that long ago when the CIO told employees what sort of software and devices they were allowed to use for work. "Today, it is the organization that has to adapt to the employees and the tools they want to use. But it's critical that those tools are approved by the enterprise," Garlinghouse says.
He regards consumerization of IT –and the ability to access one set of data from myriad, mobile devices—as a major "transformational shift."
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text: Casper wrote: >Dear All, > >In most of places I've found a dead link for http://erlogic.sourceforge.net >But now the site is not available. Is there any place that I can find it? > > No its not available. That was my project/fault (Dialogic driver for Erlang). It never did work quite right, after two reimplementations using different APIs, so it never got released. (Sigh) It was only for the analog boards in any case. Others have built their own bindings that *do* work reliably, but they're not open source. What were you intending to do? /Bruce


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From the broken fairy tale opening of "Little Girl with Dark Hair" through the mounting dread of "Ad Vitam", to the purposeful beat of "City of Crime", every track hits those dark tones you need to set the mood for a really solid horror story.
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|Photo credit: Katelyn Clift Forsberg
Darryl Malek-Wiley, Sierra Club's local organizing representative, has lived in New Orleans since 1982, but never heard about Bayou Bienvenue till after Hurricane Katrina.
Older Lower Ninth Ward residents remember the freshwater cypress swamp from the time they were children in the 1950s, he said, but many others didn't know it was there.
"There were rumors of snakes and alligators and many people were afraid to go," recalled John Taylor, wetland specialist for the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED), who has spent his entire life near the place that once was a dense cypress-tupelo swamp.
As kids, Taylor and his brothers would sneak over to explore the bayou. After a while, their mother stopped worrying.
"I made money catching rabbits, snapping turtles and nutria for the hide," he said. "I could go in the swamp and make more money than my daddy did."
The Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, a 427-acre body of open water, was the "back of town," a natural wonderland where residents could survive off hunting and fishing. The bayou is all that remains of a once great Mississippi River Delta swamp extending from New Orleans to Lake Borgne.
"When I was a boy, you didn't need a paddle for the boat. The trees were so close together, you could pull yourself by grabbing a tree," Taylor said.
In 1956, the construction of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO) Canal was authorized by an Act of Congress to create a shorter shipping route between the Port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, but also changed the bayou's fresh water to brackish.
"Salt water intrusion killed the vegetation, including the cypress trees, and eliminated protection from high winds, water surges and wakes," Taylor said. Loss of the cypress trees made the Lower Ninth Ward more vulnerable to flooding from hurricanes.
After Hurricane Katrina, a surge barrier and a rock dam closed the MRGO canal, halting the influx of salt water and allowing restoration of the ecosystem to begin.
"That's gonna be the laboratory and we're going to figure out how to fix this," Taylor said of the complex environmental project. "Once we fix that, we'll know how to fix the rest."
Several community groups are actively working to restore natural vegetation through labor-intensive and experimental projects. Common Ground Relief has shifted its focus from home construction to wetlands restoration.
|Photo credit: John Taylor
James Stram, Common Ground Relief's wetlands project manager, supervises cypress tree plantings in wooden boxes placed in the shallow water. Without protection, nutria or rabbits would quickly devour the young plants.
Last month, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and The Sierra Club organized 31 volunteers to plant 6,000 plugs of California bulrush grass in an effort to prevent further erosion and create wildlife habitat.
In 2007, community groups and volunteers built a 30-foot wide, wooden viewing platform so environmentalists, tourists, volunteers, legislators and celebrities could bear witness to the degraded swamp with cypress "ghosts" and open water that still host abundant wildlife. A new, interpretative sign was recently erected at the platform.
"It has become an incredibly powerful spot to get an environmental perspective on the city's woes," said Joshua Lewis, a research analyst for the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. There is a multibillion-dollar plan to restore the damage done by the MRGO, but no funding, he said.
Taylor spends much of his days standing on the platform, giving informal tours. "That place is full of birds in the summer, but the species have changed," said.
He paddles his pirogue to the other side to observe and photograph wildlife.
"Wetlands are restorative," Taylor said.
This story was originally published in the New Orleans Advocate.


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Hampton Beach Sand Sculptures on display through June 27!
Head over to Hampton Beach, NH to see something amazing – the 18th Annual Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Classic running June 14-16, 2018!
The fun starts Monday, June 11, 2018 when 200 tons of imported sand is dropped on Hampton Beach and the "Grady Bunch" starts pounding up the sponsor site. The entire area is illuminated for night viewing through June 27th!
Schedule for 2018 Master Sand Sculpting Competition
- Mon. – Wed. – June 11 – 13 Massive 100 Ton Sponsor Site Created
- Wed., June 13 – Sponsors Grand Finale with a Master Group Carve.
- Thurs., Fri., & Sat., June 14-15-16 – Solo Competition $15,000 purse and entry awards.
- Sat., June 16 – 1:00 – 3:00 PM Voting for People's Choice Award.
- Sat., June 16 at 8:00 PM Awards Ceremony on Sea Shell Stage. Special Fireworks Display at 9:30 PM.
- The event is lighted for nightly viewing thru June 27th.
Can't get there this weekend? The sand sculptures are on display through July 4!
The event is funded by the Hampton Beach Village District and Sponsors, in cooperation with The Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce and The NH Division of Parks. Interested sponsors or volunteers should contact the Hampton Chamber of Commerce at 603-926-8718.
18th Annual Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting
Hampton Beach, Route 1A, Hampton Beach NH


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Now that December is here, every weekend is an opportunity for some holiday baking…at least it is in this house. Haha! My kids love joining me in the kitchen and these adorable Santa Hats are a perfect treat to make with them!
Graham cracker squares
White M&M's or white Sixlets (you could also use mini marshmmallows cut in half!)
Wilton white chocolate candy melts
Wilton red icing
1. Pour the white candy melts into a microwave safe dish. Heat in the microwave in 30-40 second increments, stirring until melted. Allow the melted chocolate to cool a few minutes prior to handling.
2. Using a small tablespoon, generously spread melted white chocolate onto your graham. Set aside and allow the chocolate to cool and set.
3. Repeat step #2 with the desired amount of graham crackers you are making.
4. Once the chocolate has set on top of each graham cracker use the Wilton red icing to make the shape of Santa's hat and then fill it in with icing (see photos).
5. Use the white M&M's or Sixlets to decorate Santa's hat (see photo).
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A US Apple Store customer lost most of his little finger when a thief struck grabbing his newly purchased iPad.
Customer Bill Jordan was the victim of a bag snatch outside an Apple store in Denver, Colorado, which resulted in surgeon's having to amputate his finger.
Mr Jordan had bought the iPad for a friend in Canada, where the device, like the UK, has yet been released.
"He kept pulling until something had to give, and it wound up being my finger," said Mr Jordan. "There was nothing but bone showing on the whole back of the pinky. The skin was just gone."
Police has released dramatic CCTV footage of the incident, in the hope the thief will be caught.


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Vintage teacup trio's
I'm loving this Autumn weather we're having, cool mornings and evenings but with beautiful warm sunny days. The tree's and shrubbery here in Kyneton is changing and every evening the garden is full of fallen crunchy leaves. All around the town green leaves are changing daily into golden yellows and firey reds.
The change of seasons reminded me of these vintage teacup trio's I picked up a while ago from our local Salvo's. They have an Autumnal air to them with decorative red roses, deep teal leaves, and bronzed leaf patterns. Perfect for drinking endless cups of earl-grey tea.
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Before she was Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos was best known as a Michigan billionaire who spent decades fighting for school voucher programs—programs that give poor kids public money to attend private schools. (And, according to critics, drain money from public schools, leaving the kids who are still in the public system with even fewer resources.)
Unfortunately for DeVos, arguing for vouchers and donating money to Republican causes doesn't necessarily mean that one has any expertise in education policy. If that wasn't already obvious, it became clear at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. DeVos fudged answers to simple questions. She betrayed a lack of understanding of the federal education system. She talked about grizzly bears.
It was a mess.
Below are some…well, we wouldn't call them highlights, but some don't-miss moments from the hearing. As you read, remember this: With Republicans holding both houses of Congress, it's likely that DeVos will still be confirmed.
She said that there should be guns in schools. Because grizzly bears.
That's right. When Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who represents the community of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, asked DeVos whether she believes that guns belong in schools, she said that it's "best left to locales and states to decide." When Murphy pressed for details, she started talking about a school in Wyoming that has fences to keep out grizzly bears.
"I will refer back to Senator Enzi and the school he is talking about in Wyoming," she said. "I think probably there, I would imagine there is probably a gun in a school to protect from potential grizzlies."
Um, OK.
She was so desperate to dodge a question about treating all schools the same that she repeated the same three words four times.
When Sen. Tim Kaine asked whether DeVos believes that the same benchmarks should apply to every school, whether it's public, private, or a charter, DeVos said, "I support accountability."
Then she said that twice more.
When Kaine asked if she had answered the question already, here was her response: "I support accountability." So. We now know that DeVos really, really "supports accountability." Does she think the same standards should apply to all schools? Well, in Michigan DeVos has fought against new regulations for charter schools, which critics say has kept these schools from having to own up to their poor performance, and argued for dismantling Detroit's public school system entirely.
She screwed up some pretty basic education terminology.
So we might not all know the difference between the word growth—how much students have learned—and the word proficiency—the number of students who have reached a certain performance benchmark—but here's the thing: All of us aren't trying to become the secretary of education.
There are a lot of valid, important questions about whether we should care more about a student's growth or proficiency—does it matter how much they know at the end of the year or just that they're better off than at the beginning?—but DeVos couldn't speak intelligently on the issue because she stumbled over the terms. This is especially weird because this debate has been raging in the education community for years. Her confusion even prompted Sen. Al Franken to say, "It surprises me that you don't know this issue." This wasn't an isolated incident, either. Throughout the hearing, DeVos seemed confused about a lot of basic education policy.
She wouldn't promise to uphold the guidelines around sexual assault on college campuses.
When asked if she agrees that sexual assault is a problem, DeVos said yes, "sexual assault in any form or in any place is a problem." OK, great.


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The Liquid Natural Gas industry is a multi hundred billion dollar global economic value-destruction machine.
The cause: carbon emissions.
When these are taken into account, LNG's life-cycle environmental economics are worse than those of coal.
Unchecked, uncounted and unpriced, these emissions distort global energy markets so badly they'll ensure uncontrolled climate change. The only way to fix this is to properly count and price these emissions.
Doing so reveals LNG's true economic folly.
It will also ringfence value destruction by limiting it to feckless investors rather than society at large. The reason: LNG industry investors should have known this or should have asked — or worse — knew it, asked about it and then ignored it.
Below we make the case against LNG's environmental economics through citing readily-verifiable, publicly-available sources. What they indicate is end-to-end carbon emissions from the global LNG trade are far worse than industry officials disclose.
For years, the half-truth spouted by the natural gas industry — and you still see it repeated virtually verbatim everywhere — is that Liquid Natural Gas is a critical transition technology to a clean energy future because natural gas is a low emission fuel.
That's a lie atop a half-truth.
When combusted to make electricity, natural gas emits (estimates vary, but not by much) about 0.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide (and equivalents) per megawatt-hour of electricity produced.
Coal, by contrast, emits anywhere from about 0.65-1.1 tonnes per megawatt-hour, depending on the coal.
What these LNG figures artfully leave out are the sizable emissions in the LNG production and delivery chain.
These include emissions from extracting the natural gas from wells in the first place (including methane emissions, which aren't counted), pipelining the natural gas to coastal ports, liquefying it into LNG, ocean shipping, regasification, pipeline delivery to power plants and then combustion for electricity.
When these are added in — as they should be — the emissions of natural gas shipped to market as LNG to create electricity generates greenhouse gas emissions of around 600-700 kgs of carbon per megawatt hour. Natural gas all by itself emits about 400. Coal emits 800 or more.
That makes LNG only slightly better than coal in terms of carbon emissions at huge investment and environmental cost.
Below we present charts of LNG's life-cycle emissions from different sources. We then combine these into a summary chart.
When this emissions difference is counted and priced, LNG's environmental economics disappear. The upshot: investors have been suckered, markets distorted, the environment degraded and huge costs shoved on to future generations.
That's hardly the definition of a clean transition fuel.
Below is a chart from the US Department of Energy (DOE). In a 2014 report, the DOE estimated LNG's life-cycle carbon emissions of 600-800 kilograms of carbon per megawatt hour of electricity produced.
Liquid Natural Gas Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Carbon emissions of natural gas delivered to market as Liquid Natural Gas produces life-cycle greenhouse gases of 0.66-.84 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Wind and solar emit 0.40 and 0.12 tonnes respectively.
Source: "Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective On Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas From the United States, 2014," US Department of Energy
That's 50-100% higher than the 400 kilos of carbon emissions the LNG industry likes to use. The industry does this by counting only the downstream combustion of natural gas. It simply excludes the upstream emissions of mining, compressing and uncompressing and transporting.
For comparison in the chart above, we added solar energy's 40 kilograms (yes 40) of carbon on a comparable life-cycle basis, and wind's tiny 12. These are an order of magnitude lower than natural gas, and 1.5 orders of magnitude lower than the life-cycle emissions of Liquid Natural Gas.
These are not one-off figures. They permeate research on the subject across the board. Take the US Office of Fossil Energy. It came up with life-cycle emissions of natural gas shipped to market as LNG of 630 kg/Mwh.
LNG Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Life-Cycle carbon emissions of 600-700 kgs per mwh result from natural gas electricity delivered to market as LNG.
Source: "Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective On Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas From the United States, 2014," US National Energy Technology Laboratory, Office of Fossil Energy, 2014
Peer-reviewed research published in the journal Environmental Science and Engineering also has similar figures
LNG Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Research at Carnegie Mellon University came up with LNG emissions of nearly 900 kilograms of carbon per megawatt-hour. This research included the effect of uncounted methane emissions of LNG and their dramatic shorter-term global warming impact.
Source: "Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions From U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas Exports: Implications for End Uses," Environmental Science and Engineering, 2015
The Liquid Natural Gas industry lobby the International Gas Union sees things differently, standing alone in estimating the life-cycle emissions of LNG as much lower than anyone else.
LNG Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The International Gas Union claims LNG has only emissions of .6-.6 tonnes mwj. far belwo other estimates.
An outlier here, however, is the International Gas Union. This is the industry group that promotes the global LNG industry.
It puts life-cycle emissions at about 600 kg of carbon per Mwh.
Another interesting element is how the Liquid Natural Gas industry lobby the International Gas Union, sees things differently from other researchers. The IGU has the lowest estimate of greenhouse gas emissions.
With some variations, the above indicates general agreement on the scale of emissions from the LNG trade.
An outlier here, however, is the International Gas Union. This is the industry group that promotes the global LNG industry.
It puts life-cycle emissions at about 600 kg of carbon per Mwh.
Summary Emissions of LNG-Shipped Natural Gas
US Dept. Energy
US Technology Energy Laboratory
Environmental Science & Engineering
International Gas Union
Putting all these numbers together in place indicates a midrange of 575-725, or 650.
That's a mere one-third reduction from coal and 50% higher than the emissions profile of natural gas combustion alone that the LNG industry universally cites. These figures also do not count methane emissions. Clean energy? It looks a stretch on the numbers.
This matters because the LNG industry has for years used such selective numbers to win regulatory, environmental and investment approval for a massive multi-hundred billion dollar global expansion with an amortization period stretching out to 2040 and beyond.
If this holds, it's no exaggeration to say that 4c warming by mid-century is not implausible. Warming on that scale puts civilization in peril, all for the profits of a single industry.
Properly carbon priced, natural gas shipped to market as LNG is uncompetitive against wind and solar. In other words, pricing the now-uncounted carbon emissions of the LNG industry would provide sufficient funding to pay for both battery storage for wind and solar as well as climate adaptation investments now required by the lingering legacy of fossil fuels — of which LNG is just the latest incarnation.
Yes, carbon pricing LNG will raise the prices of electricity produced from natural gas. Destructive climate changes and destroyed coastal cities also will cost money. The issue is one of polluter pays.
Thirty-percent when applied to carbon prices will move upward the carbon-adjusted retail price of electricity generated from natural gas shipped to market as LNG. At present, coastal cities and global health care systems are paying these costs through more severe and damaging storms and treating the physical stress of record heat waves.
Paying these pollution costs through an $80 per tonne carbon price in 2030 (for example) would raise LNG-based electricity prices by 5.2c kwh. $100 carbon price will raise it by 6.5c. That would, in some cases, double the downstream cost of electricity generated from this fuel, bringing the cost of carbon adjusted LNG-produced electricity to 8-12c per kwh, compared to less than 5c/kwh in 2030 for wind and solar.
The difference between these two future prices, 5c and 10c is the implicit subsidy the LNG industry is getting.
As this is realized, markets will shift against LNG. Billions of dollars of global LNG infrastructure will prove uneconomic. When that happens, either the LNG industry will lobby government for assistance, or be forced into micro-economically draconian write downs of LNG capacity that never should have been built had prices signals not been distorted through uncounted carbon.
These implications will be covered later.


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Workflow TV - Lab Introduction to WF4: Getting Started
I've created a new Hands On Lab prototype using the Feature Builder PowerTool for Visual Studio. In this epsiode I'll show you how you can download and get started with this hands on lab. I'd love to hear your feedback on the lab so let me know what
you think.
Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (Visual Studio Gallery)
Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (MSDN Code Gallery)
Lab Exercises
- Exercise 1 - Hello Workflow (video)
- Exercise 2 - Refactoring Workflow (video)
- Exercise 3 - The CodeActivity (video)
- Exercise 4 - Dynamic Workflows with XAML (video)
- Exercise 5 – Testing Activities (video)
- Exercise 6 – WorkflowApplication (video)
- Exercise 7 – If/Else Logic (video)
More episodes in this series
Workflow TV - Workflow and Custom Activities - Best Practices (Part 5)
Related episodes
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Workflow TV - Tracking StateMachines
Workflow TV - Building Multiple TargetFramework Version Libraries
Workflow TV - How to Invoke a Child Workflow
Workflow TV - How to create a Custom Activity Designer
AppFabric.tv - Workflows in Azure AppFabric Applications
Workflow TV - State Machine Tutorial
Workflow TV - Workflow Services Security
Workflow TV - XAML and Activity Assembly Spoofing
Workflow TV - How To Build Workflow Services with a Database Repository
The Discussion
Loved it. Just would like future Hands on Labs to be grouped all together so that one does not need to skim through all project types just to figure out which ones have HOLs installed.
Good point - as we add more labs it would be good to have them centralized.
Loved this. I did the lab on Friday. I found it by accident, but it really helped a lot. I would love to see an advanced lab as well dealing with some more advanced to medium topics.
We will definitely be doing more of these covering more advanced topics. I think the next one I'll do is the Workflow Services hands on lab.
Are there other advanced topics you would be interested in?
Does WF use TPL?
Does the hosted designer block if a CodeActivity blocks?
No WF does not use the Task Parallel Library (TPL)
The Code Activity is not invoked at design time so if it did block it would not block the designer. It would block a thread at runtime which (depending upon how the workflow was invoked) could block the calling thread
Allright, the reason I ask is because I thought there was a run-time "designer" (for workflow instances) and in that case, it would be nice to know (but of course easily testable) whether a synchronous and slow CodeActivity would block the UI thread.
Hi Ron,
Could you explain defer between activity and action?
I haven't found a simple way to explain it
Action or Action<T> is a delegate. Any class can use a delegate
Activity or Activity<T> is a class that is designed to be scheduled and invoked by the WF4 Workflow Runtime
Does that help?
Not really
i wrote a bad question...
I was looking about ActivityAction scehdule by NativeContext (as SheduleDelegate and others Schedule methodes). I haven't found a scenario where it could be use
We have many schedule methode.... i hadn't found way to wrote exemple for all (i would like to help others frenchies as me, but i havn't the easier scenario for ScheduleAction)
Ok I understand now...
The way you get something invoked in a workflow is by scheduling it. This includes even a callback similar to Action<T>. This is why ActivityAction<T> was created. I can create an activity that accepts as an argument a callback. Then I schedule it and it gets invoked on the workflow thread.
Glad you asked. Was already thinking about that after I posted my comment. Here is a short stab a list. Keep in mind I am completely new to WWF. Some of these may actually be simple.
-Passing in arguments
-Dynamic Workflows
-Flowcharts, and other complex workflow objects (For example, WTH is the CompensationActivity? Docs are very poor in explaining what this thing is)
-Loading workflows from alternative sources( DB, UNC, etc )
-Error handling in a workflow
-Workflow chaining(not even sure this is possible)
-Synchronization with parallelism
-Workflow Services
Sorry if any of these are simplistic. I am still reading up on workflow and what it can do.
On the workflow chaining, it is something I already do with NxBre where I tie multiple rule files together so I have a vested interest in trying to make that work.
Thanks Ron for your prompt reply,
I was afraid to look ActivityAction<T>.
It's so simple, lol!
Loved it - The fully integrated Visual Studio experience was great. I would love to see such labs for more advnaced topics, not just introductory material.


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"What did you do?" Felicia shrieks, broom aloft.
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"What was?"
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The door crashes into splinters, and the toilet scrabbles for purchase with its spindly porcelain legs. Buzzing across the ceiling, a blender whirls its blades.
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Please join your fellow WSS members this Saturday, July 11 from 6:00-8:00pm-ish at BIN 36 wine bar (339 N. Dearborn near the House of Blues) for great conversation, delish appetizers, and all-around good times. We'll be walking up there as a group after the General Membership Forum, but feel free to drop by as your schedule allows. For our other events and meetings in Chicago, please see our conference information.. Read More
WiFi at McCormick Place
From ALA: ALA is paying for WiFi at McCormick Place during the ALA Conference. So it will be available at no charge in the public areas and meeting rooms in the building and the Hyatt Conference Center (not complimentary at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Hotel, however). As WiFi systems are not as reliable as wired we received this message from the building you might want to pass on to.. Read More


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As Will Herondale once said, 'we live and breathe words.' Here's five of my favourite quotes about reading from some amazing books. Want part two? Comment down below with your favourites!
1. Darkfever, Karen Marie Moning.
I'm a huge lover of this book, I'm obsessed. It's my most favourite urban fantasy series, by a long shot. And MacKayla Lane is awesome.
2. Throne of Glass, Sarah J Maas.
Celaena Sardothien might be an assassin, but she still understands the importance of good reading material.
3. Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi.
One of my favourite reads of 2014, this dystopian romance is written so beautifully it makes my heart ache. Juliette's mind is both a beautiful, and terrifying place to be.
4. Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare
Part Angel, demon fighters who also love books. If you've not read this series, you are seriously missing out. It's both kick ass, and beautiful. Oh, and Will Herondale. If you've read it, you know what I'm talking about.
5. A Dance with Dragons, George R.R.Martin. A
Right now, I am one of 'those' people, and by those, I mean I am someone who has the first Game of Thrones book, but hasn't yet read it. I will, I really will. But this quote was too special to leave out.
What are some of your favourite bookish quotes about reading? Comment down below, and they could end up in part two!