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A ballistic rocket is test-fired through a precision control guidance system in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 30, 2017. KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a new ballistic missile controlled by a precision guidance system and ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons, the North's official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
The missile launched on Monday was equipped with an advanced automated pre-launch sequence compared with previous versions of the "Hwasong" rockets, North Korea's name for its Scud-class missiles, KCNA said. That indicated the North had launched a modified Scud-class missile, as South Korea's military has said.
The North's test launch of a short-range ballistic missile landed in the sea off its east coast and was the latest in a fast-paced series of missile tests defying international pressure and threats of more sanctions.
Kim said the reclusive state would develop more powerful weapons in multiple phases in accordance with its timetable to defend North Korea against the United States.
"He expressed the conviction that it would make a greater leap forward in this spirit to send a bigger 'gift package' to the Yankees" in retaliation for American military provocation, KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
BREAKING-Ahead of U.S. ICBM Intercept Test, North Korea Threatens (Again) to Nuke United States Mainland
South Korea said it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber on Monday. North Korea's state media earlier accused the United States of staging a drill to practise dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. Navy said its aircraft carrier strike group, led by the USS Carl Vinson, also planned a drill with another U.S. nuclear carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, in waters near the Korean peninsula.
A U.S. Navy spokesman in South Korea did not give specific timing for the strike group's planned drill.
North Korea calls such drills a preparation for war.
Monday's launch followed two successful tests of medium-to-long-range missiles in as many weeks by the North, which has been conducting such tests at an unprecedented pace in an effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting the mainland United States.
Such launches, and two nuclear tests since January 2016, have been conducted in defiance of U.S. pressure, U.N. resolutions and the threat of more sanctions.
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They also pose one of the greatest security challenges for U.S. President Donald Trump, who portrayed the latest missile test as an affront to China.
"North Korea has shown great disrespect for their neighbor, China, by shooting off yet another ballistic missile ... but China is trying hard!" Trump said on Twitter.
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Japan has also urged China to play a bigger role in restraining North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's top national security adviser, Shotaro Yachi, met China's top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, for five hours of talks near Tokyo on Monday after the North's latest test.
Yachi told Yang that North Korea's actions had reached a new level of provocation.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during a ballistic rocket test-fire through a precision control guidance system in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 30, 2017. KCNA/
A ballistic rocket is test-fired through a precision control guidance system in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 30, 2017. KCNA
FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the test of a new-type anti-aircraft guided weapon system organised by the Academy of National Defence Science in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 28, 2017. KCNA
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"Japan and China need to work together to strongly urge North Korea to avoid further provocative actions and obey things like United Nations resolutions," Yachi was quoted as telling Yang in a statement by Japan's foreign ministry.
A statement from China's foreign ministry after the meeting made no mention of North Korea.
North Korea has claimed major advances with its rapid series of launches, claims that outside experts and officials believe may be at least partially true but are difficult to verify independently.
A South Korean military official said the North fired one missile on Monday, clarifying an earlier assessment that there may have been more than one launch.
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The test was aimed at verifying a new type of precision guidance system and the reliability of a new mobile launch vehicle under different operational conditions, KCNA said.
However, South Korea's military and experts questioned the claim because the North had technical constraints, such as a lack of satellites, to operate a terminal-stage missile guidance system properly.
"Whenever news of our valuable victory is broadcast recently, the Yankees would be very much worried about it and the gangsters of the south Korean puppet army would be dispirited more and more," KCNA cited leader Kim as saying.
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The Community Foundation has established a variety of investment portfolios, each with different investment guidelines. The following is a brief description of each of these portfolios.
Long Term Investment Portfolios:
Global Growth Portfolio
This investment pool has been developed by the Foundation's Investment Committee as the primary investment vehicle for funds invested for the long-term. Its purpose is the generation of maximum long-term total returns within levels of risk determined to be prudent by the Foundation Trustees. The Global Growth Pool's objective can best be described in one word, diversification. The Investment Committee believes that a multi-asset class portfolio, consisting of many different types of investments from around the world, best fulfills that objective. It also recognizes that the best investment ideas come from many different sources.
The Investment Committee invests in publicly traded US & International equities and US bonds exclusively using low cost indexed mutual funds and invests directly in a number of alternative investment fund of funds including equity and multi-strategy hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, private real estate, natural resources and mezzanine debt.
Total Portfolio
The portfolio is as follows:
Asset Manager(s): Various low cost mutual funds for all investments other than alternatives. Alternatives consist of private equity and venture capital, real estate and natural resources, and hedge fund of funds.
Benchmark (blended): 40% CRSP US Total Market Cap Index // 30% FTSE All World Ex-US// 30% Barclay's Aggregate Bond Index
Fee: Approximately 12 basis points (.12%) for all index fund investments.
Global Growth performance for quarter ending June 30, 2020.
Bank of America Agency Portfolio
The Agency Portfolio's investment strategy is based on a highly diversified portfolio of assets with a keen awareness of risk. This balanced approach, consistently executed, reconciles the market's often volatile nature, with our focus on long-term, steady growth over decades.
Asset Manager(s): Bank Of America
Benchmark: (blended): 40% Wilshire 5000 // 30% FTSE All-World ex-US // 30% Barclay's Aggregate Bond Index
Fee: Approximately 100 basis points (1%)
Socially Responsible Portfolio
This pool has been developed as a long-term portfolio for those donors who strongly believe that investments can make a positive difference on social and environmental issues. To this end, the Committee has employed Trillium Asset Management an active portfolio manager that specializes in structuring portfolios based on an intensive screening process. As in any investment endeavor that limits the scope of investments, this portfolio may tend to be more volatile than one that is able to diversify across the entire universe of investment opportunities.
Asset Manager: Trillium Asset Management
Benchmark (blended): 50% Wilshire 5000 // 20% EAFE // 30% Barclay's Aggregate Bond Index
Investment Vehicle(s): Actively managed by Trillium Asset Management using "socially responsible" criteria.
Fee: Approximately 40 basis points (.40%)
Socially Responsible performance for quarter ending June 30,2020.
Intermediate Term Portfolio
This is the Foundation's most conservative intermediate term investment portfolio. Its primary objective is to provide relatively stable value with the potential for principal growth. An emphasis has been placed on achieving market rates of returns, with broad diversification and low management cost. The higher debt and cash component dampen the volatility of the portfolio, but may limit appreciation potential and thus is not consistent with the Foundation's spending policy.
Asset Manager: Vanguard Group
Benchmark (blended): 50% Wilshire 5000 // 25% Barclay's Aggregate Bond Index // 25% 90-Day T-Bill
Underlying Investment Vehicle(s): 50% Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Institutional Fund, 25% Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Institutional Fund, 12.5% Various Vanguard Money Market Funds, 12.5% Vanguard Short Term Bond Index Fund
Fee: Approximately 10 basis points (.10%)
Intermediate-Term performance for quarter ending June 30, 2020.
Short Term Portfolio
This portfolio is available only for those donor advised and other funds where the bulk of the principal will be expended in a relatively short time. The main objective of the pool is preservation of capital and current income. The money market portfolio's investment objectives are not consistent with the Foundation's spending policy or with the growth of principal and thus represent a poor long-term investment.
Asset Manager: Vanguard Group
Benchmark: 90-Day T-Bill
Underlying Investment Vehicle: Vanguard Admiral Treasury Money Market Fund and Prime Money Market Fund, The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF-Short Term), and Nuvo Bank CD
Fee: 13 basis points (.13%)
Short-Term performance for quarter ending June 30, 2020.
Other Portfolios
If the Community Foundation deems it prudent, newly donated assets to funds of $500,000 or more may be invested through an investment manager recommended by the donor. Each investment manager serves at the pleasure of the Trustees of the Community Foundation, and the performance of each is monitored to make sure that portfolio assets and returns are appropriate.

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Scientists for the first time have created animals with dinosaur features using fossils as a guide. They have transformed chicken beaks into something similar to a dinosaur snout.
Many have pondered the idea of recreating dinosaurs while novelists and sci-fi film directors tempted our imagination with such as creations the Jurassic park film and novel series.
A research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov, have conducted a successful experiment which allowed them to create chickens with dinosaur-like features. They published their discoveries in a study in the journal "Evolution" on Tuesday.
Researchers were able to transform chicken embryos in a laboratory into specimens with a snout and palate configuration similar to that of small dinosaurs such as Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx, according to a Yale press-release published on Tuesday.
"Our goal here was to understand the molecular underpinnings of an important evolutionary transition, not to create a 'dino-chicken' simply for the sake of it," said Bhullar, lead author of the study.
Thought, the embryos were humanely euthanized after the experiment, Bhullar told MailOnline that in the future it may be possible to allow them to grow into animals with dinosaur features.
Why did scientists decide to transform the beak? According to them, it's one of parts of avian anatomy that has not been changed much in the evolution process.
"The beak is a crucial part of the avian feeding apparatus, and is the component of the avian skeleton that has perhaps diversified most extensively and most radically – consider flamingos, parrots, hawks, pelicans, and hummingbirds, among others," Bhullar said.
"Yet little work has been done on what exactly a beak is, anatomically, and how it got that way either evolutionarily or developmentally."
The research team also found that major living lineages of birds have a unique, median gene expression zone of two different facial development genes early in embryonic development, which the non-beaked creatures lack. When they blocked this gene expression not only did the beak structure revert into a snout, but the process also caused the palatine bone on the roof of the mouth to go back to a dinosaur-like state.
"This was unexpected and demonstrates the way in which a single, simple developmental mechanism can have wide-ranging and unexpected effects," Bhullar said.
In 2009 Jack Horner, a paleontologist at Montana State University, proposed in his book ways of"How to Build a Dinosaur" to reactivate the DNA found in chickens, dinosaur ancestors, to recreate a small predator. According to New York Times, he was very excited to know that this experiment succeeded calling it "fantastic".


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Great Scottish Run 2012
Scotland's largest mass participation event!
Sep 02 2012
The Great Scottish Run is Scotland's largest mass participation sporting event and includes a 10K and half marathon.
Last year more runners than ever took part in the Great Scottish run events to raise money for the MS Society. This year we'd like to have even more runners wearing the MS Society colours and getting active to beat MS.
The course starts in St Vincent Street in the centre of Glasgow and visits two different parks before finishing in Glasgow Green.
The closing date for entries is 28 August so there's still time to sign up. For more information visit the Great Scottish Run website. Once you've registered let us know by calling 0131 335 4050 or email firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll send you out a free sponsorship pack and t-shirt to wear on the day.
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Hmm, nice picture Hal but where is the article on Bob Wahr.
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The Internationalisation of English football
The 'Bosman Ruling' in 1995 was a pivotal event in the recent history of European football. Through the Maastricht Treaty and Single European Act (both 1992), Britain's links with Europe became closer and there was a greater movement of workers. 'Bosman' reflected this trend, giving footballers freedom of contract.
After Bosman, footballers inside the European Union could now move for no transfer fee at the end of their contract. Without a transfer fee, players could receive compensation in the form of wages and a signing-on fee.
The ruling changed the landscape of European football as it allowed for the freedom of movement of footballers within the EU. There was also an exponential growth in the migration of footballers from countries outside the EU to Britain and other European nations.
Football becomes truly international
The change in the composition of English teams was dramatic. In 1992-93 there had been eleven overseas players in the Premier League; by 1998-99 this figure had increased to 166. In 1999 Chelsea became the first English club to field an entire team made up of overseas players. By 2017-18, out of 520 players, 349 were from overseas, 67.1 percent; the league with the next highest percentage was Cyprus (57.1 per cent).
The combination of Bosman and the extraordinary rise in television revenues increased the cosmopolitan nature of the Premier League. In 2017 players represented 65 different nationalities, with French and Spanish players the largest contingents.
Players from overseas were assimilated relatively quickly into the English game and many have been honoured with awards such as player of the year at club and national levels (over the last two years, Riyad Mahrez, Leicester City Football Club's Algerian winger; and N'Golo Kante, Chelsea FC's French midfielder, have won the PFA Player of the Year awards).
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Analysis of Experimental Data for High Burnup PWR Spent Fuel Isotopic Validation — ARIANE and REBUS Programs (NUREG/CR-6969)
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This report is part of a report series designed to document benchmark-quality radiochemical assay data against which computer code predictions of isotopic composition for spent nuclear fuel can be validated to establish the uncertainty and bias associated with the code predictions. The experimental data analyzed in the present report were acquired from two international programs: (1) ARIANE and (2) REBUS, both coordinated by Belgonucleaire. All measurements include extensive actinide and fission product data of importance to spent fuel safety applications including burnup credit, decay heat, and radiation source terms. The analyzed four spent fuel samples were selected from fuel rods with initial enrichments of 3.5, 3.8, and 4.1 wt % 235U, which were irradiated in two pressurized water reactors operated in Germany and Switzerland to reach burnups in the 30 to 60 GWd/MTU range. Analysis of the measurements was performed by using the two-dimensional depletion sequence of the TRITON module in the SCALE computer code system.


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In this scenario, the computer has an unexpectedly slow startup time after a change is made to the default DPI display setting. The computer has an unexpectedly slow startup time every other time that the computer is started.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fordham Law School and the Chinese Business Lawyers Association are pleased to announce that Fordham Law has become an institutional member of the CBLA and that together they will launch a mentoring program for students interested in the Asian legal field.
The mentoring program will match Fordham Law students interested in establishing a China legal practice with attorneys that practice in the field. The students will meet with the attorneys monthly to discuss the challenges and opportunities a China practice presents.
"This is a rapidly growing area of law, and we welcome the opportunity to work with the CBLA to provide students with practical advice that will help them launch their legal careers," said Jae Zhou, president of the Asian Law Society at Fordham Law School and a member of the class of 2013. "Because ALS and CBLA have similar missions this mentorship is the first of its kind to offer such a perfect fit matching students interested in China practice with attorneys who can offer valuable insights."
The CBLA, a non-profit organization founded in early 2009, is the leading association of legal and business professionals involved in or interested in law and business in the U.S. and China. It sponsors quarterly seminars on Chinese legal topics, as well as monthly chats and regular social networking events relating to business and law in China. Approximately one-fourth of the top 25 most prestigious law firms in the country, according to Vault rankings, are represented within the directors and officers of the CBLA.
Geoffrey Sant, a director of the CBLA and Special Counsel at Dorsey & Whitney said, "We are excited to partner with Fordham Law School, one of the world's great law schools, in introducing students to international practice. Our goal is both to introduce students to the practice of international law, and also to help those student network with attorneys working in this field. We see these students as the future of our profession, and it is part of our mission to help them as they join China practices."
Fordham Law is the first law school to become an institutional member of the CBLA. The relationship provides the Fordham Law community with access to CBLA events while allowing the CBLA to extend its services to a select group of students.
Fordham Law and the CBLA recently jointly hosted an event titled "International Practice - A Career Panel," which featured panelists from nearly a dozen major law firms, general counsel at two Chinese companies, and representatives from the non-profit and recruiting communities. They will also jointly host a conference on January 28, 2013 titled "Deals and Suits: Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Companies Doing Business in the United States." The conference panelists include Fordham Law School professors, practicing attorneys from major law firms, as well as the Honorable Denny Chin of the Second Circuit.
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A Texas-based researcher in early September discovered the massive data breach online that revealed private medical information available online for anyone to download. After realizing what it was, the researcher immediately contacted the organizations impacted such as Kansas' State Self Insurance Fund, CSAC Excess Insurance Authority and the Salt Lake County Database.
Investigation finds limited exposureInvestigations confirmed that the data came from Systema Software, a small company that manages insurance claims. Though it is still unclear how the data ended up on the site, the company confirmed that it happened. The researcher will turn over the data to the Texas Attorney General, where it will be destroyed. But that doesn't mean Systema will not be liable for the breach considering they failed to protect the security of patients' electronic medical information.
The database is was no longer available from the Amazon subdomain shortly after the affected organizations were informed. Systema Software COO stated that the company has already contacted all of its clients involved in the incident. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, one of the affected organizations, confirmed that it appears no other individual gained access to the data aside from the researcher. And they are confident enough that all identities remained safe and classified even after the incident. This information was backed up by Systema. They substantiate that based on their initial review, no indications of any data theft have been found, and the company immediately launched security measure including a comprehensive internal review to identify the scope of the event. They are also working closely with state and federal authorities as well as a leading forensic IT firm to continuously take appropriate steps in safeguarding the valuable information and enhance the company's data security policies.
Even if no indications of any data theft was found, the company's negligence shouldn't be ignored. Companies entrusted with some of the most personal records of millions of people should be responsible enough in safeguarding the information handed over to them. This incident should serve as a warning to those companies storing electronic medical records that their negligence may cause damages even greater than malicious hackers could create.


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Careening around a curve at almost three times the speed limit, an Amtrak passenger train derailed and hurled 13 of its 14 cars off both sides of an overpass and onto rush hour traffic below — killing three people and injuring more than 100 others.
Chris Karnes, a passenger on the train and chairman of the Pierce Transit Community Transportation Advisory Group, said Monday the train was moving at a "pretty good pace," judging from the fact that it was passing cars on the highway.
"We felt a little bit of a jolt, and then at a certain point we could hear crumpling of the train car, and we were catapulted into the seats in front of us," Karnes said.
The Amtrak Cascades 501 train was carrying 86 people as it made its inaugural journey on a new service route from Seattle to Portland when it derailed.
It's not clear why the train was traveling 80 mph in a 30 mph zone, National Transportation Safety Board member T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said.
But this much we do know: The track had undergone millions of dollars of improvements and weeks of testing. But Positive Train Control — technology that automatically slows down and stops a speeding train — wasn't activated.
"Something like Positive Train Control could certainly prevent it," former NTSB member Deborah Hersman said Tuesday.
NTSB investigators arrived Monday in DuPont, the site of the accident, and will spend their first full day at the scene Tuesday.
Latest developments:
— Investigators were able to get the information about the speed from a data recorder retrieved from the rear locomotive. But the front locomotive "is more difficult to access," Dinh-Zarr said.
— The train's engineer has not yet been interviewed, but the NTSB hopes to have all interviews completed "within the next day or so," Dinh-Zarr said.
— PTC was installed in the segment of tracks where the derailment happened, but wasn't operational yet. The target date to have it working was spring quarter of 2018, said Geoff Patrick, the spokesman for Sound Transit — which owns tracks where the train derailed.
— More than 100 people were taken to hospitals in Pierce and Thurston counties, DuPont Fire Chief Larry Creekmore said. Ten people were seriously injured, and one was life-flighted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said.
— All the deaths were contained to the train, said Ed Troyer, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office spokesman.
When it derailed
The train departed Seattle at 6 a.m. Monday and had made two stops before the crash. It derailed at around 7:40 a.m. in DuPont, about 20 miles south of Tacoma, near the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
The train apparently came out of a curve and ran off the track while crossing or approaching an open trestle over I-5. The following rail cars derailed in a jumble on both sides of the track, with some falling to the road below, landing on vehicles. One rail car dangled precariously over the highway.
Several motorists in vehicles that were struck by the fallen train cars suffered injuries, but no one on the road was killed, the sheriff's office said. Five cars and two semi-trucks were involved in the crash, Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Brooke Bova said at a news conference.
How did this happen?
The NTSB and local authorities have not said what caused the crash.
Most of the route was graded for a maximum speed of 79 mph; the speed limit on the curve where the crash occurred is 30 mph, said Rachelle Cunningham with Sound Transit.
Witnesses said they saw the train traveling at a fast speed.
Daniel Konzelman, who was driving on Interstate 5 at the time, said the train and his car were "kind of parallel" and "it was going faster than us."
PTC, the technology that automatically slows down and stops a train if it senses that it's going too fast or might get into an accident, had been installed on the track, but wasn't operational yet, said Geoff Patrick, Sound Transit spokesman.
For PTC to be fully operational, it needs to be installed in trains, because a computer system knits both the train cars and tracks together, he said. The target date for having the PTC operational for that segment of the track had been second quarter of 2018.
"The system is still being implemented," Patrick said. "It is not operational yet."
Investigators will likely look at several factors including the track, human performance, operations and mechanics of the train.
A first day goes awry
According to an online schedule, the 501 train connects "18 cities along the I-5 corridor including Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, BC, and Eugene, Oregon." The train service is jointly owned by the Washington and Oregon departments of transportation, although Amtrak contracts to operate the service.
The train was running on track previously used for occasional freight and military transport, the Washington Department of Transportation said. The track had undergone millions of dollars of federally funded improvements and weeks of inspection and testing, the agency said.
Previously, the tracks where the derailment occurred were owned by BNSF. The tracks are now owned by Sound Transit, which managed the track upgrade in preparation for commuter service, the state department of transportation said.
Amtrak service south of Seattle was temporarily suspended. Service from Seattle to points north and east continued to operate, Amtrak said.


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U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Flew On for Hours (Corrections & Amplifications)
Oil slick hints Malaysian jet may have crashed at sea
Oil slick not from missing flight MH370, says maritime chief
False Leads Set Back Search for Malaysian Jet
Malaysia Airlines: Chinese satellite images are a mistake
No debris found at spot shown on satellite images
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This is a guest blog post from Chris Kozelichki.
While there are many working opportunities available for 1Ls during their first summer in law school, working as a research assistant provides students with a unique opportunity to grow as attorneys and legal scholars. During my 1L summer and during the subsequent academic years in school, I served as a research assistant to my criminal law professor. That experience was one of the formative experiences in my young career. Not only did I have the opportunity to work on an interesting project regarding sentencing consistency among judges, but I had the opportunity to discuss other legal issues as well as my career with an accomplished jurist and professor. To this day, I still maintain contact with the professor I worked for.
Benefits of a Research Assistant Position
From a candidate standpoint, the benefits of a research assistant position vary based on the ultimate career goals of the student. Students who are interested in post-graduate clerkships benefit, in particular, from research assistant positions. Clerkship candidates benefit from developing a strong relationship with their faculty supervisor. This is invaluable to the clerkship candidate as letters of recommendation from their faculty are one of the most important parts of the application package. That said, all students can benefit from a strong relationship with faculty, not just clerkship candidates. Our faculty have many contacts from their time practicing as well as former students whom they have taught. So having a strong working relationship with a preeminent scholar in the profession can be beneficial to almost any student.
In addition, having the opportunity to hone your research and writing skills with a renowned scholar is a benefit to any aspiring attorney's career. By working one-on-one with a professor, the student will receive guidance and mentorship that he/she likely otherwise would not have had. Additionally, having the opportunity to delve deep into a particular area of law can create a career-long interest in that area of law. While the first year of law school is a whirlwind view of the law at a high level, the opportunity to focus on one particular area can be a welcome one.
It also doesn't hurt that Research Assistant positions are paid.
If you are unable to work as a Research Assistant this summer, keep in mind that many professors hire RAs throughout the school year as well.
What makes a good Research Assistant candidate?
It goes without saying, but one of the primary traits that professors seek are strong legal research and writing abilities. A professor relies on his/her research assistants to review materials, provide summaries, and gather arguments together in order to aid their writing. In addition to this, the RA is often asked to review sections, provide revisions or, in some cases, write portions of a piece a professor is preparing for publication. Beyond those obvious traits, the ideal candidate will have an interest in the subject of the research project. For most people, having an interest in the work allows him/her to work more effectively. So while it's not a strict requirement for the position, it certainly helps the candidate be more successful as a research assistant.
While many students have concerns about having the opportunity to network in their desired market while being a research assistant, this isn't a problem for many of the positions as some professors allow their assistants to work remotely. This allows the assistant to both work closely with the professor as well as build a network in their chosen market.
How to apply for a summer Research Assistant position
If you're interested in applying for a Research Assistant position, all RA postings with our faculty are on IrishLink. The postings are live all at the same time for about two weeks in January. At the close, all applications will be forwarded to the designated faculty member for consideration.
Each job posting discusses the pay rate, whether the position is remote or not, and application materials that the faculty member requires.


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Opioids are a class of drugs, which act directly on the nervous system. Some examples include morphine, methadone, Buprenorphine, hydrocodone, fentanyl, oxycodone, and heroin.
Opioid addiction affects approximately 2.4 million people in the United States. Nearly 1 million of these individuals are abusing heroin. As a result, the opioid epidemic's annual cost in the United States has amounted to $51 billion. Opioid users are ingesting, inhaling (chasing the dragon or CTD), injecting, sniffing, and snorting them.
What are Opioids?
Opioids are potent analgesic drugs often prescribed to relieve acute pain or pain from serious illnesses such as cancer and chronic pain. In some cases, these types of medicines suppress persistent cough and diarrhea.
Opioid drugs include naturally occurring opiates derived from the opium poppy plant, such as morphine, heroin, and codeine. There are synthetic opiates such as fentanyl and semi-synthetic like oxycodone and hydrocodone. While they are considered to be among the most effective pain reducers available, they can also be highly addictive. Furthermore, they pose additional risks, including physical and mental dependence, withdrawal symptoms, and overdose.
A list of the most common opioids are:
- codeine
- fentanyl
- heroin
- hydrocodone
- hydromorphone
- methadone
- morphine
- opium
- oxycodone
- oxymorphone
- Suboxone
- tramadol
As with all medications, opioids can produce side effects. Some of these effects can be short, while others last longer and are more severe.
One of the side effects most attractive to recreational users is the sense of euphoria induced when ingested. Opioids can cause feelings of sedation and relaxation. However, when combined with other substances and drugs, they can be fatally dangerous. These substances can include alcohol, other narcotics, sleeping medication, muscle relaxers, tranquilizers, and sedatives. These drug combinations can be hazardous and lead to a fatal overdose.
Studies show that 55 percent to 94 percent of newborns exposed to opioids develops withdrawal symptoms. We need to offer effective treatment for moms before they get pregnant, so the next generation is not affected.
Opioid Use Disorder
Opioid use disorder is a medical condition that causes an intense desire to use opioids. It also leads to tolerance and withdrawal symptoms if there is abrupt discontinuation of the drug. Opioid dependence can manifest both physically and emotionally. For this reason, it is crucial to know drug dependence is different from drug addiction. Drug addiction results from chronic opioid abuse and the subsequent chemical changes which occur in the brain. Usually, after a prolonged period of use, a person can develop tolerance–a need for increasing amounts of the drug to reach the same effects. Additionally, dependence occurs due to a physical demand or a response to the medication. When dependence happens, the lack of substance will create a withdrawal.
In short, a physical dependence means the body relies on an external source of opioids to prevent withdrawal symptoms from occurring. Addiction occurs when the dependence negatively interferes with daily life. Physical dependence and withdrawal are both predictable and reversible with adequate medical treatment.
What is an Opioid Addiction?
Opioid addiction is a condition that affects the way a person thinks and behaves. At first, users have control over their decision of when and how many opioids they will use. Eventually, the addiction takes over a person's ability to make responsible choices. Over time, brain function changes, and a powerful urge to use the drug, i.e., "cravings," develops.
Indeed, the United States is amid a tragic opioid epidemic. In October 2017, HHS Acting Secretary Declared a Public Health Emergency According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 140 Americans die from drug overdoses daily. Ninety-one of those deaths are specifically due to opioids. Furthermore, 52,404 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2015. Preliminary numbers already indicate that at least 64,000 people died of an opioid overdose in 2016. For this reason, it is essential to be aware of the signs and symptoms of opioid abuse. The signs and symptoms of opioid abuse can be physical, behavioral, and emotional.
Some of the signs and symptoms include:
- Poor coordination
- Slurred speech
- Tiny pupils
- Drowsiness
- Slow breathing
- Nausea
- Constipation
- Moodiness
- Poor decision making
- Lack of responsibility
- Sleeping (more than usual)
- Euphoria
- Lack of motivation
- Anxiety
There are a variety of treatments for opioid addiction. Some addiction doctors can prescribe certain medications to avoid withdrawal symptoms. However, these may not be permanent solutions. The good news is that there is an effective treatment. You can obtain a complete opioid detox in a hospital. There is no reason to stay handcuffed to opioid addiction anymore.
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A U.S. military assessment team is continuing its mission in Liberia after being given assurances from the Liberian government its safety will be ensured.
During a meeting with Liberian officials late Tuesday in Monrovia, the team of U.S. Marines was given permission to go wherever it wants.
Prior to that meeting, Liberian President Charles Taylor said the U.S. team had committed a diplomatic mistake by not consulting with his government before starting its work.
Hundreds of Liberians have been accompanying the U.S. team everywhere it goes, chanting for more U.S. troops to arrive and Mr. Taylor to go.
But at one point in Monrovia Tuesday, police started firing warning shots when the U.S. convoy passed, prompting civilians to run for cover.
Also Tuesday, Liberian soldiers fired warning shots when the U.S. convoy approached a refugee camp outside Monrovia, forcing them to turn back.
Mr. Taylor has said he will leave power as agreed to in a cease-fire deal with rebels, but that first more U.S. forces should be deployed to avoid chaos.


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Greatest love story comes to Notre Dame
Jonathan Retartha | Thursday, February 12, 2004
What would Valentine's Day weekend be without the greatest love story of all time? The famous tale of two star-crossed lovers comes to Washington Hall this weekend as The Actors from the London Stage perform William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." The plot is the basis for the thousands of romantic comedies and dramas that have followed it. Two families in Verona, Italy, the Montagues and Capulets, are in constant dispute. From the two families come two young children – Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet. The two fall in love and must hide their romance from their feuding parents. It is a tale of violence, hatred and death. But above all these things, it is a story of love's ability to conquer all and heal the wounds of hatred.The company, comprised of Actors from the London Stage, is made up of five players who take on several different roles each. The company prides itself in using Shakespeare's words to illuminate the tale, a ladder is the lone set piece used against the black backdrop. The ladder also doubles as a prop, and several other small items are used to delineate one role from another. The company works together in developing the production with no directors. They also take pride in involving several FTT students in the marketing and production of the play. Because of the lack of sets and props, a heavy burden is placed on the acting abilities of the players. For the most part, they deliver. Peter Lindford takes on the roles of Lord Capulet and Mercutio, one of Romeo's friends. It is difficult to ask an actor to play both a Capulet and a Montague without causing much confusion among the audience, but Lindford plays each of the roles distinctly and effectively. As Mercutio, he is a jovial swinger who is always ready for a party and very protective of those he loves. As Lord Capulet, Lindford displays both affection for his daughter Juliet, and a concealed rage that erupts wildly whenever someone acts against his will. It would be easy for Lindford to simply choose one side for both Mercutio and Lord Capulet, but he succeeds in bringing several facets to both characters.David Acton, along with Lindford, dominates in every scene. His task as an actor is arguably the toughest, as he plays four main characters and is able to make a distinction between each. As Friar Lawrence, he provides a stern wisdom but also plays on the Friar's role as a kind of father figure to Romeo. As Lord Montague, he provides stern anger but also patience and contemplation. As Tybalt, another Montague who swears death on Romeo, he plays a wild, anger driven maniac who possesses all of his Lord's anger, but none of his control or wisdom. It is remarkable to watch him perfectly foil his own character in the roles of Lord Montague and Tybalt. Acton's one shortcoming is his portrayal of Lady Capulet. Instead of playing the firm mother of Juliet and the submissive wife of Lord Capulet, Acton chooses instead to play a man who plays a woman. His femininity is overdone, and even drifts into becoming a joke with Lindford. His portrayal actually drew laughter from the audience in even the most dramatic scenes.Victoria Duarri also has the task of taking on an opposite sex role, along with playing traditional female roles. Primarily, Duarri is Juliet, the heroine of the tale. She does a beautiful job of playing the love-smitten daydreamer and the angry, desperate woman who seeks to evade her father's wishes. In a role demanding so much because of its fame, Duarri exudes a confidence that only adds to Juliet's transformation from a girl into a woman. As a male, she plays Benvolio, Romeo's good friend, and displays a carefree happiness that sets her far apart from her Juliet character.Francesca Ryan primarily plays Nurse, who is the caretaker of Juliet. It appears Ryan spent too much time focusing on her main role without giving much attention to her other roles. As Nurse, she is the perfect loving mother figure to Juliet. Her chemistry with Duarri is unmistakable. However, her roles as Paris (Juliet's suitor) and Prince (the chief lawgiver in Verona) fall terribly flat. If it were not for the yellow flower Ryan wears when she is in the role of Paris, it would be difficult to separate the two characters because they both have no distinction at all.Nevertheless, most of these shortcomings among the cast are in more minor roles, and the delivery from the actors in their main roles more than make up for the faults. The biggest disappointment lies in the play's most important character. Chuk Iwuji is less than perfect in the role of Romeo, a part that demands perfection. He has little chemistry with Duarri, and often thinks too much and overdelivers his lines to little or no effect. He tries hard to be multifaceted, but in the process detracts from every side he has. It was hard to distinguish his happy persona from his love-stricken one, and his sadness and pain rang strangely hollow. However, he did make a strong comeback in the second half, however, and the all-important death scene turns out very powerful and impressive.Iwuji's strong revival after the intermission was mirrored amongst all the actors, who gave everything they had for the climactic final scenes. It was truly a joy to watch the actors grow deeper and deeper into their characters as the play went on, and it provides for a big payoff at the end. Some of the most beautiful language in all of Shakespeare illuminates "Romeo and Juliet's" simple story. People always talk about how love can never be truly explained, but Juliet's musings about love are perhaps the only true record we have of the emotion expressed fully in words. Shakespeare's beautiful text, along with the solid performances of the actors makes "Romeo and Juliet" a great way to spend the weekend with the one you love.
"Romeo and Juliet" plays at Washington Hall today, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.. Tickets are $12 for students, $14 for senior citizens and $16 for adults and can be purchased at the LaFortune box office.


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Diversity in Hollywood is something that audiences crave – yet there still seems to be so much resistance. There are some television shows that do genuinely showcase diversity in – among them is hit Netflix show 13 Reasons Why.
The show features a mix of Latino, African-American and Asian actors – and one of them is making a bid to be the next leading man.
Ross Butler, who plays lonely jock Zach Dempsey, is a 26-year-old American actor of Chinese-Malaysian descent. He believes it is time that it is time for there to be a change in casting.
In an interview with Mashable, Butler said he realised that there weren't many Asian-American role models, and he realise that had to change.
He then told his agent not to send him out for the stereotypical Asian roles, and that is when he noticed a change in the roles he got to read for.
Minority groups shouldn't be excluded because of their differences. They should still have full and complicated storylines outside of stereotypes. Yes, minority groups do have unique stories to tell because of their differences, but they aren't the only stories.
As Butler points out about his 13 Reasons Why character – he is a popular jock who happens to be Asian.
"There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America, or born in America and raised in America. They're normal Americans and they just happen to have a different heritage," he explains.
Now, the Riverdale actor has his sights set on the feature film scene.
"As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles," he said. "And then there's the other battle which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure … or the Matt Damon roles?"
There are some fantastic Asian-American actors right now, from John Cho and Ross Butler to Constance Wu, who made the TIME 100 Most Influential people list.
Truly gripping stories feature people from all walks of life – and we desperately can't wait to see Ross Butler being Hollywood's next leading man.


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Robert Harris (novelist)
|Robert Harris
Harris at a reading in Cologne in November 2008
7 March 1957
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
|King Edward VII School
|Alma mater
|Selwyn College, Cambridge
|1982 - present
|Historical fiction
|Notable works
|Notable awards
|César Award
Columnist of the Year
|Gill Hornby
|Nick Hornby (brother-in-law)
Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter. Although he began his career in non-fiction, his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller Fatherland, Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works centre on contemporary history.
- 1 Early life and education
- 2 Career
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Bibliography
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Early life and education
Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local printing plant where his father worked. Harris went to Belvoir High School in Bottesford, and then King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray, where a hall is now named after him. There he wrote plays and edited the school magazine. Harris read English literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and editor of the student newspaper Varsity.
Early career
After leaving Cambridge, Harris joined the BBC and worked on news and current affairs programmes such as Panorama and Newsnight. In 1987, at the age of thirty, he became political editor of The Observer. He later wrote regular columns for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph.
Non-fiction (1982–90)
Harris's first book appeared in 1982. A Higher Form of Killing, a study of chemical and biological warfare, was written with fellow BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman. Other non-fiction works followed: Gotcha, the Media, the Government and the Falklands Crisis (1983), The Making of Neil Kinnock (1984), Selling Hitler (1986), an investigation of the Hitler Diaries scandal, and Good and Faithful Servant (1990), a study of Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary.
- Fatherland 1992
Harris's million-selling alternative-history first novel Fatherland has as its setting a world where Germany has won the Second World War. Publication enabled Harris to become a full-time novelist. HBO made a film based on the novel in 1994.
Harris stated that the proceeds from the book enabled him to buy a house in the country, where he still lives.
- Enigma 1995
His second novel Enigma portrayed the breaking of the German Enigma code during the Second World War at Bletchley Park. It too became a film, with Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet starring and with a screenplay by Tom Stoppard.
- Archangel 1998
Archangel was another international best seller. It follows a British historian in contemporary Russia as he hunts for a secret notebook, believed to be Stalin's diary. In 2005 the BBC made it into a mini-series starring Daniel Craig.
- Pompeii 2003
In 2003 Harris turned his attention to ancient Rome with his acclaimed Pompeii, yet another international best-seller. The novel is about a Roman aqueduct engineer, working near the city of Pompeii just before the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As the aqueducts begin to malfunction, he investigates and realises the volcano is shifting the ground and damaging the system and is near eruption. Meanwhile, he falls in love with the young daughter of a powerful local businessman who was illicitly dealing with his predecessor to divert municipal water for his own uses, and will do anything to keep that deal going.
- Imperium 2006
He followed this in 2006 with Imperium, the first novel in a trilogy centered on the life of the great Roman orator Cicero.
- The Ghost 2007
Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of British Prime Minister Tony Blair (a personal acquaintance) and a donor to New Labour, but the war in Iraq blunted his enthusiasm.[2] "We had our ups and downs, but we didn't really fall out until the invasion of Iraq, which made no sense to me," Harris has said.[3]
In 2007, after Blair resigned, Harris dropped his other work to write The Ghost. The title refers both to a professional ghostwriter, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in gruesome and mysterious circumstances.
The dead man has been ghosting the autobiography of a recently unseated British prime minister called Adam Lang, a thinly veiled version of Blair.[4] The fictional counterpart of Cherie Blair is depicted as a sinister manipulator of her husband. Harris told The Guardian before publication: "The day this appears a writ might come through the door. But I would doubt it, knowing him."[5]
Harris said in a US National Public Radio interview that politicians like Lang and Blair, particularly when they have been in office for a long time, become divorced from everyday reality, read little and end up with a pretty limited overall outlook. When it comes to writing their memoirs, they therefore tend to have all the more need of a ghostwriter.
Harris hinted at a third, far less obvious, allusion hidden in the novel's title, and, more significantly, at a possible motive for having written the book in the first place. Blair, he said, had himself been ghostwriter, in effect, to President Bush when giving public reasons for invading Iraq: he had argued the case better than had the President himself.[6]
The New York Observer, headlining its otherwise hostile review The Blair Snitch Project, commented that the book's "shock-horror revelation" was "so shocking it simply can't be true, though if it were it would certainly explain pretty much everything about the recent history of Great Britain."[2]
- Lustrum 2009
The second novel in the Cicero trilogy, Lustrum, was published in October 2009. It was released in February 2010 in the US under the alternative title of Conspirata.
- The Fear Index 2011
His novel The Fear Index, focusing on the 2010 Flash Crash, was published by Hutchinson in September 2011. It follows an American expat hedge fund operator living in Geneva who activates a new system of computer algorithms that he names VIXAL-4, which is designed to operate faster than human beings, but which begins to become uncontrollable by its human operators.
- An Officer and a Spy 2013
Harris's latest novel is the true story of French officer Georges Picquart, who is promoted in 1895 to run France's Statistical Section, its secret intelligence division. He gradually realises that Alfred Dreyfus has been unjustly imprisoned for acts of espionage committed by another man who is still free and still spying for the Germans. He risks his career and his life to expose the truth.
- Dictator 2015
Dictator is the long-promised conclusion to Harris's Cicero trilogy.[7] It was published by Hutchinson on 8 October 2015.[8]
Work with Roman Polanski
In 2007, Harris wrote a screenplay of his novel Pompeii for director Roman Polanski. Harris acknowledged in many interviews that the plot of his novel was inspired by Polanski's film Chinatown, and Polanski said it was precisely that similarity that had attracted him to Pompeii.[9] The film, to be produced by Summit Entertainment, was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 as potentially the most expensive European film ever made, set to be shot in Spain. Media reports suggested Polanski wanted Orlando Bloom and Scarlett Johansson to play the two leads. The film was cancelled in September 2007 as a result of a looming actors' strike.[10]
Polanski and Harris then turned to Harris's bestseller, The Ghost. They co-wrote a script and Polanski announced filming for early 2008, with Nicolas Cage, Pierce Brosnan, Tilda Swinton and Kim Cattrall starring. The film was then postponed by a year, with Ewan McGregor and Olivia Williams replacing Cage and Swinton.
The film, retitled The Ghost Writer in all territories except the UK, was shot in early 2009 in Berlin and on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, which stood in for London and Martha's Vineyard respectively, owing to Polanski's inability to travel legally to those places. In spite of his incarceration, he oversaw post-production from his house arrest and the film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2010, with Polanski winning the Silver Bear for Best Director award. Harris and Polanski later shared a César Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Harris was inspired to write his most recent novel, An Officer and a Spy, by Polanski's longtime interest in the Dreyfus affair.[11] He has written a screenplay based on the story, which Polanski is set to direct.[12] The screenplay is titled D, after the initial written on the secret file that secured Dreyfus' conviction.
TV and radio appearances
Harris has appeared on the BBC satirical panel game Have I Got News for You in episode three of the first series in 1990, and in episode four of the second series a year later. In the first he appeared as a last-minute replacement for the politician Roy Hattersley. He made a third appearance on the programme on 12 October 2007, seventeen years, to the day, after his first appearance. Since the gap between his second and third appearance was nearly 16 years, Harris enjoys the distinction of the longest gap between two successive appearances in the show's history.[citation needed]
On 2 December 2010, Harris appeared on the radio programme Desert Island Discs, when he spoke about his childhood and his friendships with Tony Blair and Roman Polanski.
Harris appeared on the American PBS show Charlie Rose on 10 February 2012. Harris discussed his novel The Fear Index which he likened to a modern-day Gothic novel along the lines of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Harris also discussed the adaptation of his novel, The Ghost that came out as the movie, The Ghost Writer directed by Roman Polanski.[13]
Harris was a columnist for the Sunday Times, but gave it up in 1997. He returned to journalism in 2001, writing for the Daily Telegraph.[14] He was named "Columnist of the Year" at the 2003 British Press Awards.[15]
Personal life
Harris lives in a former vicarage near Newbury, Berkshire, with his wife Gill Hornby, herself a writer and sister of best-selling novelist Nick Hornby. They have four children. Harris contributed a short story, "PMQ", to Hornby's 2000 collection Speaking with the Angel.
Formerly a donor to the Labour Party, he renounced his support for the party after its appointment of Guardian journalist Seumas Milne as communications director, tweeting: "Council house born. Comprehensive-school educated. Voted Foot, Kinnock. But not for private-school apologists for IRA and Stalin. Sorry".[16]
- Fatherland (1992)
- Enigma (1995)
- Archangel (1998)
- Pompeii (2003)
- The Ghost (2007)
- The Fear Index (2011)
- An Officer and a Spy (2013)
Cicero trilogy
Short stories
- PMQ, short story in the collection Speaking with the Angel. London: Penguin, 2 November 2000 ISBN 978-0-14-029678-5
- The Ghost Writer (2010)
- A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare (with Jeremy Paxman). London: Chatto & Windus, March 1982 ISBN 978-0-7011-2585-1
- Gotcha! The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis. London: Faber and Faber, January 1983 ISBN 978-0-571-13052-8
- The Making of Neil Kinnock. London: Faber and Faber, 17 September 1984 ISBN 978-0-571-13267-6
- Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries. London: Faber and Faber, 17 February 1986 ISBN 978-0-571-13557-8
- Good and Faithful Servant: The Unauthorized Biography of Bernard Ingham. London: Faber and Faber, December 1990 ISBN 978-0-571-16108-9
- ↑ "Robert Harris". Desert Island Discs. 28 November 2010. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [1] Archived 28 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Harris, Robert. "Robert Harris: 'The Ghost' of Tony Blair". NPR. Retrieved 9 December 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Anthony Holden. "Review: The Ghost by Robert Harris". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Edemariam, Aida (27 September 2007). "Aida Edemariam talks to author Robert Harris". The Guardian. London.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ National Public Radio interview, 31 October 2007.
- ↑ "Richard and Judy ask Robert Harris". W H Smith. Retrieved 22 April 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Robert Harris. Dictator. Amazon.co.uk. ISBN 9780091752101. Retrieved 9 December 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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A scheme at Mountmellick Community School to encourage students to walk to school, has won the school an award for 'Walking Secondary School of the Year'.
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They first surveyed how all the students travelled to school, and then gave them incentives to change.
"We awarded students who chose the most sustainable choice of travel, such as walking, cycling, and carpooling," said teacher Emma Coleman.
They got a rapid response, managing to get a third more students to walk to school within the three weeks.
"We recorded a significant increase in the number of students walking, from 201 on day one to 282 on day 15," she said.
Four representatives from the Green Schools committee attended the Green schools Big Travel Challenge 2015 awards ceremony in the Radisson Blu, Golden Lane in Dublin.
Nathan Lee, Christina O'Reilly, Esther Mushitu and Adam Bracken were accompanied by Ms Coleman and Ms Behan.
They were thrilled to scoop one of eight top awards given for variousmodes of sustainable travel, and were presented with a glass trophy, certificates and €500.
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Develop Applications for CloudHub
Mule applications that are meant for deploying to CloudHub may sometimes require that you do things a little differently than for applications that are meant to be deployed to an on-premise server. For the most part, the same Flow Elements and Global Elements apply in the same way, but there are some specificities that you must consider. Deployment Options covers the key differences between both deployment environments, this document lists a few best practices to employ when deploying to CloudHub.
The CloudHub guide includes basic concepts and deployment examples.
Specify an HTTP/HTTPS Host
If you employ any HTTP Connectors, define the Host address in a CloudHub configuration as 0.0.0.0. CloudHub routes requests from your application domain URL to the endpoint. If you deploy multiple workers, CloudHub load-balances incoming traffic automatically across these workers for you. As your application scales, work loads automatically distribute between your workers.
Provide an External HTTP/HTTPS Port
If your application requires an externally accessible HTTP or HTTPS port to receive messages, trigger events, or expose a web service or user interface, declare the HTTP Listener port using the reserved property
${http.port} or
${https.port}. On CloudHub, port
${http.port} or
${https.port} is assigned automatically by the platform services. Traffic on port 80 to your application domain's URL is routed to
${http.port} and traffic on port 443 is route to
To support routing to multiple CloudHub services over this port, you need to configure each with unique paths on the URL that is exposed. For example:
Deployment Option Flexibility
If you want to deploy a same Mule application via various different deployment options – such as to an on-prem server and on CloudHub – you should abstract some parameters of the application to application properties that you can set with different values in each case.
Create an application properties file named
mule-app.properties in the
src/main/app folder of your project. You need to do this whether you work in Anypoint Studio (Studio) or another IDE and want to deploy to Studio's built-in server. Creating a properties file allows you to define a local value for the variable
http.port or
If you have other runtime settings that you want to configure differently when running locally, you may also place them in the application properties file and refer to them using the syntax
${propertyname} in your Mule application configuration. Each application can declare a set of environment variables when it is deploys to provide a different value when deploying on CloudHub. You can define these environment variables using the Runtime Manager Console or the Anypoint Platform Command-Line Interface.
All log messages from your application are captured by the CloudHub logging service and available through the log search tool in the Runtime Manager console. If you wish to expose additional information in your logs for diagnostic or audit purposes, Mule provides a logger element for fine grained logging of message content.
|On CloudHub, after you delete an application, your log data is no longer accessible through the console. CloudHub archives old log data for a limited period of time before being purged. This allows you to recover the data if needed. Open a support case at: MuleSoft Help Center for more information.
Package Third-Party Libraries
CloudHub provides services in the platform that support connecting over many different protocols and transforming many data formats. All the standard Mule libraries are included and available to your application. If you have the need to include a different third party library, you can package that library in the
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lib folder are available on the classpath to your application at run time.
Access Resources Behind the Firewall
When developing an application that needs to access resources from inside your firewall, you can configure a Anypoint Virtual Private Cloud (Anypoint VPC) to host your CloudHub workers and configure an IPSec tunnel to access your applications.
Access Third-Party APIs and Services
CloudHub includes connectors for many third party applications, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Twitter, and others. Anypoint Studio includes a few of the most common ones out of the box for developing with CloudHub, and the Anypoint Connector DevKit documentation provides more detail on how to find and deploy these connectors with your application.
Secure Properties
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BTU stands for British Thermal Units, a means of measuring heat and energy. One BTU equals the amount of energy required to heat one pound of water by 1 degree Fahrenheit. The BTU output measures how much heat or other energy a given appliance is generating — very useful when determining if a unit can heat a given space.
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