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History | June 9, 2019, 6:00 AM
June 9th in History
June 9 is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year.
Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
Christian feast day:
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Lutheranism)
Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
Primus and Felician
June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
Murcia Day (Murcia)
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
In 411 BC, The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
In 53, The Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
In 68, Nero, Roman emperor (b. 37) dies, after quoting Homer's Iliad, with the help of his private secretary, Epaphroditos, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors. He (Latin: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ) was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death. Nero focused much of his attention on diplomacy, trade, and enhancing the cultural life of the Empire. He ordered theaters built and promoted athletic games. During his reign, the redoubtable general Corbulo conducted a successful war and negotiated peace with the Parthian Empire. His general Suetonius Paulinus crushed a revolt in Britain. Nero annexed the Bosporan Kingdom to the Empire and began the First Roman–Jewish War. In 64 AD, most of Rome was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome, which many Romans believed Nero himself had started in order to clear land for his planned palatial complex, the Domus Aurea. In 68, the rebellion of Vindex in Gaul and later the acclamation of Galba in Hispania drove Nero from the throne. Facing execution as a public enemy, he committed suicide on 9 June 68 (the first Roman emperor to do so). His death ended the Julio-Claudian Dynasty, sparking a brief period of civil wars known as the Year of the Four Emperors. Nero's rule is often associated with tyranny and extravagance. He is known for many executions, including that of his mother, and the probable murder by poison of his stepbrother Britannicus. He is infamously known as the Emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned" and as an early persecutor of Christians. He was known for having captured Christians to burn them in his garden at night for a source of light. This view is based on the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio, the main surviving sources for Nero's reign. Few surviving sources paint Nero in a favorable light. Some sources, though, including some mentioned above, portray him as an emperor who was popular with the common Roman people, especially in the East. Some modern historians question the reliability of ancient sources when reporting on Nero's tyrannical acts.
In 721, Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
In 1311, Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
In 1534, Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
In 1650, The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
In 1667, The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
In 1732, James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
In 1762, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
In 1772, The British schooner Gaspée is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
In 1798, Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
In 1815, End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set.
In 1856, Five-hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
In 1862, American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
In 1863, American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
In 1870, Charles Dickens, English author and critic (b. 1812) dies after suffering another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens went on to improve the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed, and Dickens often wove in elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential works ever written, and it remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Set in London and Paris, his 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, is the best selling novel of all time. His creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
In 1873, Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
In 1885, A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
In 1900, Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison under mysterious circumstances.
In 1915, William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
In 1923, Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
In 1924, In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.
In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
In 1930, A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
In 1934, Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
In 1944, World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
In 1944, World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
In 1946, King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
In 1948, Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
In 1953, Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
In 1954, McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
In 1957, First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
In 1958, Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
In 1959, The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
In 1965, The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quat, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
In 1965, Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
In 1967, Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
In 1968, The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1972, Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
In 1973, In horseracing, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
In 1974, Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
In 1978, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
In 1979, The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) kills seven.
In 1985, Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon. He will not be released until 1991.
In 1999, Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
In 2006, 60th Anniversary Celebrations of Bhumibol Adulyadej's Accession.
In 2007, In horseracing, Rags to Riches was the first filly in 106 years to win the Belmont Stakes Belmont Stakes.
In 2008, In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding, breaking the dam holding the lake back.
In 2009, An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
In 2010, At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 others are wounded as an explosion rips through an evening wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
In 2015, The Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army claims to have captured a major Syrian Army base known as Brigade 52 in Daraa Governorate. | {
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Learn more about Echo Learning, the best way to practice speaking English or Spanish, available on the App Store. | {
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Undead Labs has been quiet for a long time about State of Decay 2, but now that the release date and pricing have been announced we're about to get a lot of information.
State of Decay 2 will receive its official gameplay reveal later today on IGN First but in the meantime, we've managed to find new screenshots and information on the game's Microsoft Store page. In terms of technical specs, the game appears to support VRR or Variable Refresh Rate on Xbox One, though you'll have to have a FreeSync compatible display to use this particular feature.
Another interesting tidbit is that the sequel will include "hostile humans", unlike the first State of Decay game. This may spruce things up since players won't just have to worry about mindless zombies anymore.
Below you can also find the full PC system requirements. As a reminder, State of Decay 2 will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title with cross-buy and cross-play. | {
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1. The Army repeatedly denied the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in Hawaii.
2. Now it has been confirmed that in the 1960s the U.S. Army used the Pohakuloa Training Area for firing spotting rounds containing DU for the Davy Crockett nuclear weapon system.
3. The DU spotting rounds have created the presence of radiation contamination at Pohakuloa.
4. DU is a chemically toxic and radioactive heavy metal with a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
5. DU emits radioactive alpha particles than can cause cancer when inhaled (and poses health concerns for troops, residents and visitors in Hawaii).
6. Due to poor military record keeping, there may be more DU contamination at Pohakuloa than just Davy Crockett spotting rounds.
7. On July 2, 2008 the Hawaii County Council passed Resolution 639-08 by a vote of 8-1.
9. Live-fire continues at PTA and the DU has not been cleaned up. Live-fire and high winds at Pohakuloa risk spreading the radiation contamination off-base.
10. While major potions (more than 84,000-acres) of Crown lands at PTA were taken (without compensation) by Executive orders, PTA has a State General Lease No. S-3849 by the State of Hawaii, Board of Land and Natural Resources – U.S. Lease, Contract No. DA-94-626-ENG-80 – August 19, 1964 (expiration date 16 Aug. 2029) consisting of 22,988 acres for $1.00 for 65 years.
THE PEOPLE OF HAWAII COUNTY NEED TO SPEAK UP AGAIN TO CANCEL THE ARMY'S LEASE AT THE POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA AND REQUIRE CLEAN UP OF DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) RADIATION CONTAMINATION.
1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc.5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
The Kanaka Council Moku O Keawe is sponsoring a public presentation by Dr. Keanu Sai, on Saturday, April 24 at UH Hilo from 9am-12noon and Hamakua MacNut Factory in Kawaihae from 2pm-5pm. Dr. Sai will be speaking on the "1893 Clevleand-Lili`uokalani Executive Agreements and Their Impact Today". Specifically addressing the impact of the "executive agreements"on the contested case hearing against Hawaiian Oceanic Technology (proposed Ahi Fish Farm off the Kohala Coast) filed by Kale Gumapac and the Kanaka Council Moku O Keawe. The Attorney General has rendered an opinion regarding "standing" of Kale Gumapac and the Kanaka Council and DLNR will use the AG's opinion to make their decision on May 13th in Honolulu.
Dr. Keanu Sai, has a Ph.D. in Political Science specializing in International Relations and Public Law. He has been to the World Court at the Hague filing legal briefs on Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom. He has a forthcoming book to be published by UH Press on the American Occupation of the Hawaiian Islands, and is currently working on another book to be published UH Press on Hawaiian land law. He is also the author of law journal articles on the topic of the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent and sovereign State. Dr. Sai will provide a legal analysis based on the executive agreements between President Cleveland and Queen Liliuokalani that affects most if not all the current issues today, which includes the desecration of Kupuna Iwi, gathering rights, native tenant rights, water and natural resources rights from mauka to makai, vested private property rights, etc.
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MBE grabbed her first Ironman title of 2013 at the iconic Ironman France event. In the process, MBE also broke the course record and led wire to wire. MBE started the day with the fastest swim and then headed off on her P5. A bike crash early in the ride briefly put the victory in jeopardy, but MBE recovered and only lost a few minutes on the side of the road. She then ran away to take the title with a comfortable margin of almost ten minutes. Mathias also started the race after battling injuries since August 2012 and was using this race to see if he could race through the issues. Unfortuneatly, Mathias had to retire during the run as his body just wasn't up to the task. He will try to recover and take care of his injuries so he can be back on the podium where he belongs.
I am so pleased to win Ironman France. It has been a difficult year plagued with injuries and the dog attack so I am just happy to be able to be racing. I had a good swim coming out in front. On the bike I was feeling great until I crashed at 80km. I can't believe that I crashed on the bike; it was a stupid error on my part as a I misjudged a corner and had to jam on my brakes. My rear wheel locked up and I slid into a ditch on the corner. After the crash, I rode all the descents in the race very slowly. Onto the run, I had no pain so I just tried to hold steady and stay in the lead. Jeanne Collogne is a great competitor and I knew she'd be chasing me hard. I feel so lucky to have been able to fight hard and win another Ironman.
I have been trying to get back from injury and it has been a hard way so far. I was hoping that I could compete in this race without the major injury problems surfacing. Unfortuneatly, the pain came I was unable to finish. I now know that I need to take some time to get healthy. I will be back and better than ever.
Congrats on the win MBE! | {
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Steel Wool – This is super fine steel wool that is great for window cleaning, made sure to wet the surface prior to using and toss it at the end of the day as it does rust.
Bronze Wool – The same as steel wool but it does not rust so you can use it more than one day.
Scrubber Pad – This is your basic dish cleaning scrubber that works great for window washing too.
Scraper – This is my last resort due to the slight risk of scratching the window. Scrapers are required when trying to remove things like paint, sap, and stain from windows so you can clean them. Make sure to wet the surface prior to using it and make sure you don't back drag it across the glass. Show extra care on tempered glass since the glass has been changed in the factory and depending on the manufacturing method might now scratch easier due to the fact it is not very flat anymore due to roller waves from the tempering furnaces.
Note – Use care on all windows until you know if there is any sort of coating on them for tinting or UV rays. All of these tools will scratch those coatings.
Where to buy – Harry Falk has a great selection of all these window cleaning tools. | {
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Srinagar: Government on Tuesday said that a total number of 2504 prisoners including 69 foreign nationals are lodged in various jails in the Jammu and Kashmir state.
"The facilities necessary for the well being of prisoners as envisaged in the manual for Superintendence and Management of jails, are provided to the Prisoners, which inter-alia, include proper protein rich diet, safe and secure shelter and requisite seasonal bedding. Special Medicare/facility to the ailing inmates and round the clock medical supervision and medicines are being provided to the inmates as per prescription/advice of doctor", Mehbooba according to GNS said. | {
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A teenage gangbanger yesterday was busted in the boardwalk shootout that left a pretty 16-year-old girl dead in Brooklyn last week.
Iloune Driver, 19, of East New York was nabbed working at his job at a Checkers drive-in on Pennsylvania Avenue in his neighborhood Sunday night after being ID'd for cops by witnesses to the Brighton Beach melee, which also left four wounded.
"It wasn't me, it wasn't me," Driver whined to reporters, shaking his head, as he was led from the NYPD's 60th Precinct station house in cuffs on his way to Brooklyn Criminal Court for an arraignment hearing yesterday afternoon.
Driver, who was picked out of a lineup by witnesses at the station house, was charged with murder and assault with intent to cause serious physical injury.
The suspect, a member of the Crips gang with nine prior busts for gun, drug and robbery charges, was one of two gunmen who opened fire in Thursday's wild fight, cops said.
It was the hottest day of the year and the beach was packed with students home from school for Brooklyn-Queens Day.
Tysha Jones, an innocent bystander from East Harlem, was killed by a stray bullet that struck her under her left arm as she sat on a bench with friends.
Three young men with her were wounded — including the one who took the photo of her above — as was a diner at the boardwalk's Tatiana restaurant.
Cops are still hunting for the second gunmen.
Jones' heartbroken mom, Cynthia, learned of the arrest as grieving family and friends visited her fourth-floor apartment on Lexington Avenue to offer condolences and help plan the popular teen's funeral.
"I'm happy, but it's not going to bring her back. I want justice served," Jones said, while blasting cops for not doing more to keep illegal guns off the streets.
"They so worried about someone smoking a cigarette when they should have been looking for guns," she said, referring to Mayor Bloomberg's ban on smoking in public places.
As she tearfully flipped through photos of Tysha that the girl's fifth-grade teacher had just dropped off, the dead teen's grandmother, Catherine Jones, welled up with tears, too.
She was staring at a more recent photo of Tysha — taken shortly before the gunfire rang out Thursday.
"They showed a picture of her playing in the water, she looked so happy," the grandmother said.
Anthony Jones, the victim's older brother, vowed to faithfully follow the case in court.
"I'm glad they caught him, I just want to have my day in court with him," he said.
Driver was arraigned last night in Brooklyn Criminal Court but any bail application was postponed until Friday, when he will be represented by another lawyer. Cops think the shooting resulted from a fight minutes earlier in which someone broke a bottle over another man's head and another person was struck with an umbrella.
Driver was involved in the earlier scuffle and was out for revenge, police sources said. | {
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layout: post
title: 'Markdown 문법 소개'
author: myunghoon
date: 2017-08-06 16:40
tags: [markdown]
image: /files/2017/08/08-06-Cover.png
---
## Overview
> Markdown 문법에 대해 설명합니다.
위키와 닮은 듯, 다른... Simple한 구조를 갖고있습니다.
## 1.Headings
```
# h1 Heading
## h2 Heading
### h3 Heading
#### h4 Heading
##### h5 Heading
###### h6 Heading
```
# h1 Heading
## h2 Heading
### h3 Heading
#### h4 Heading
##### h5 Heading
###### h6 Heading
___
## 2.Comments
```
<!--
This is a comment
-->
```
Comment below should NOT be seen:
<!--
This is a comment
-->
---
## 3.Horizontal
```
___
***
```
___
***
## 4.Emphasis
```
**rendered as bold text**
_rendered as italicized text_
~~Strike through this text.~~
```
**rendered as bold text**
_rendered as italicized text_
~~Strike through this text.~~
```
<span style="color:blue">some *This is Blue italic.* text</span>
<span style="color:red">some **This is Red Bold.** text</span>
```
<span style="color:blue">some *This is Blue italic.* text</span>
<span style="color:red">some **This is Red Bold.** text</span>
___
## 5.Lists
```
+ Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
+ Aenean sit amet erat nunc
+ Eget porttitor lorem
```
+ Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
+ Aenean sit amet erat nunc
+ Eget porttitor lorem
```
1. Make my changes
1. Fix bug
2. Improve formatting
- Make the headings bigger
2. Push my commits to GitHub
3. Open a pull request
* Describe my changes
* Mention all the members of my team
* Ask for feedback
```
1. Make my changes
1. Fix bug
2. Improve formatting
- Make the headings bigger
2. Push my commits to GitHub
3. Open a pull request
* Describe my changes
* Mention all the members of my team
* Ask for feedback
```
- [x] Finish my changes
- [ ] Push my commits to GitHub
- [ ] Open a pull request
```
- [x] Finish my changes
- [ ] Push my commits to GitHub
- [ ] Open a pull request
___
## 6.Ordered
```
1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
1. Consectetur adipiscing elit
1. Integer molestie lorem at massa
1. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
1. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
1. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
1. Aenean sit amet erat nunc
1. Eget porttitor lorem
```
1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
2. Consectetur adipiscing elit
3. Integer molestie lorem at massa
4. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
5. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
6. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
7. Aenean sit amet erat nunc
8. Eget porttitor lorem
___
## 7.Inline code
```
In this example, `<section></section>` should be wrapped as **code**.
```
In this example, `<section></section>` should be wrapped as **code**.
___
## 8.Link
```
[Assemble](http://assemble.io)
```
[Assemble](http://assemble.io)
___
## 9.Named Anchors
```
* [Chapter 1](#chapter-1)
* [Chapter 2](#chapter-2)
* [Chapter 3](#chapter-3)
```
* [Chapter 1](#chapter-1)
* [Chapter 2](#chapter-2)
* [Chapter 3](#chapter-3)
___
## 10.Images
```
``` | {
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Q: Java Client Server Program Takes input infinitely I'm new to java socket programming, I'm making a client server program. the server is multithreaded.
when the client connection with server is open. the server sends a text block to the client like this:
connection is open with the server....
Welcome Please Chose one of the following Operations
Insert, Read, Update, Delete
Type Exit to terminate connection.
when I type read or exit or any of the operations it works fine and the server responds.
but the problem happens when I chose an operation i.e insert --> when the server responds and asks me for input and I wanna insert a value, the program keeps taking input infinitely for endless lines I don't know where the problem and how it happens.
it's the same code, the client sends the input as one line when choosing operation but when I chose insert operation and the server is expecting a value it takes it as infinite endless lines.
Client class
public class Client1 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Socket socket=null;
try {
System.out.println("sending connection request to host 127.0.0.1 at port 2000");
socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 2000);
System.out.println("connection is open with the server....");
Scanner scn = new Scanner(System.in);
DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
while (true) {
System.out.println(dis.readUTF());
String tosend = scn.nextLine();
dos.writeUTF(tosend);
// If client sends exit,close this connection
// and then break from the while loop
if (tosend.equals("Exit")) {
System.out.println("Closing this connection : " + socket);
socket.close();
System.out.println("Connection closed");
break;
}
String received = dis.readUTF();
System.out.println(received);
}
// closing resources
scn.close();
dis.close();
dos.close();
}
catch (Exception e ){
System.out.println(e);
} finally {
try {
if (socket != null) socket.close();
} catch (Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
Server Class
public class ServerThread extends Thread{
Socket socket ;
DataInputStream dis;
DataOutputStream dos;
ServerThread(Socket socket,DataInputStream dis,DataOutputStream dos ){
this.socket = socket;
this.dis=dis;
this.dos=dos;
}
@Override
public void run(){
String received;
String toreturn;
String welcomeText = """
Welcome Please Chose one of the following Operations
Insert, Read, Update, Delete
Type Exit to terminate connection.""";
while (true){
try {
// Ask user what he wants
dos.writeUTF(welcomeText);
// receive the answer from client
received = dis.readUTF();
if(received.equals("Exit"))
{
System.out.println("Client " + this.socket + " sends exit...");
System.out.println("Closing this connection.");
this.socket.close();
System.out.println("Connection closed");
break;
}
// write on output stream based on the
// answer from the client
switch (received) {
// the problem starts here if I chose insert and wanna print what the user typed, it takes
//input infinitely from the user
case "Insert":
toreturn = "Inserting new info...";
dos.writeUTF(toreturn);
String out = dis.readUTF();
dos.writeUTF("Accepted");
dos.writeUTF(out);
break;
case "Read":
toreturn = "Reading User Info...";
dos.writeUTF(toreturn);
break;
case "Update":
toreturn = "Updating User Info...";
dos.writeUTF(toreturn);
break;
case "Delete":
toreturn = "Deleting User Info";
dos.writeUTF(toreturn);
break;
default:
dos.writeUTF("Unknown User");
break;
}
} catch ( IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
try
{
// closing resources
this.dis.close();
this.dos.close();
}catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I don't know how this loop happens especially since the server accepts input correctly when choosing operations but when insert operation is chosen it just takes input infinitely, can anyone help please, i cant implement any operation if this problem persists.
A: I think its your Client, in the while loop try to remove the second read from server, it's because you once read all what server sents, and when the loop starts again wants to read from server but there is nothing to read and becomes idle.
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Jim Hoffer has the latest on the major repairs made to the 'Swiss Cheese' bridge in the Bronx.
MOTT HAVEN, The Bronx (WABC) -- Just days after a 7 On Your Side investigation revealed grapefruit size holes in the critical support columns of a Bronx bridge, the state Department of Transportation made major repairs.
The heavily trafficked 138th Street overpass was in an alarming state of disrepair, according to two structural engineers who said the bridge needed immediate attention.
The main support columns of the four-lane span over the Major Deegan Expressway looked like Swiss cheese, with huge holes rusted at least six steel girders.
Now, heavy steel-reinforced plates cover the holes.
"So this column has been repaired," structural engineer David Peraza said. "It surprised me how severe and how widespread the corrosion was and how obvious it was."
In our initial report, Peraza said the weakened columns needed immediate repairs for fear the bridge might collapse.
Extensive work was done following our investigation, and Peraza seemed relieved.
"That is a robust repair that will return it to its original strength," he said.
The state Department of Transportation insists the dangerously corroded steel columns had been scheduled for repairs. In a statement to us, a spokesman said, ''This work is part of an ongoing maintenance to the bridge's steel columns that was scheduled for February and has now been completed."
"It raises a question of how a bridge could get to this condition when it's being inspected every two years," he said. "This condition took much longer than two years to develop, so the question is, why wasn't this picked up sooner?" | {
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We are proud to announce another successful fit out at Harrods for SilverCross.
From concept to fit out we worked with the SilverCross team to create this superb set to showcase the launch of Balmoral Bespoke – there most exclusive and opulent baby coach yet. To be unveiled exclusively at Harrods. Only 50 of these stunning prams will be made.
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Roger Clemens Sues Accuser
Pitcher says ex-trainer fabricated steroid claims in Mitchell Report
http://thesmokinggun.com/file/roger-clemens-sues-accuser
JANUARY 7--Tarred as a steroid-using cheater in the Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens last night filed a defamation lawsuit against his former trainer, who has told investigators that he frequently injected the baseball star with an assortment of performance-enhancing drugs.
In his lawsuit, Clemens accuses Brian McNamee of lying about his alleged steroid use and contends that the false allegations 'injured [his] reputation and exposed him to public hatred, contempt, ridicule, and financial injury.' A copy of Clemens's lawsuit, which was filed in Harris County District Court in Texas, can be found here.
The complaint was filed after Clemens appeared last night on CBS's '60 Minutes' to rebut McNamee's claims, which first surfaced in the steroids-in-baseball report prepared by former Senator George Mitchell.
Clemens contends that McNamee made his claims 'with actual malice, knowing they were false,' and fabricated the claims to transform himself from a 'target' of federal prosecutors to one of their witnesses. The lawsuit contains what appears to be recent quotations from McNamee, who describes his interaction with federal agents.
The source of these statements is unclear, but Clemens and McNamee reportedly spoke by telephone Saturday, so perhaps The Rocket has his recorder running. (14 pages)
Roger Clemens, Mitchell Report, steroids, Brian McNamee, Major League Baseball
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As Cuba-U.S. relations thaw, Vietnam offers…
As Cuba-U.S. relations thaw, Vietnam offers lessons
PUBLISHED: December 27, 2014 at 11:01 p.m. | UPDATED: October 25, 2015 at 10:05 a.m.
HANOI, Vietnam — Americans often cite the importance of Florida politics to explain why relations between the United States and Cuba have been frozen for more than a half century.
But nearly 20 years after the U.S. and Vietnam buried a bloody hatchet, an American venture capitalist based in Hanoi has an another theory about why it's taken so long for the Western Hemisphere enemies to begin normalizing relations.
"I'm wondering if it took so long because there was never a war," said Phuc Tran, who was born in Vietnam, left as a young refugee in 1975 and returned in 2000 as a representative for Intel.
The American War, as it's known here, left a great wound that demanded healing, Tran said, while the U.S. and Cuba nurtured enmity for political reasons. "For guys like John McCain and John Kerry, Vietnam was personal. With Cuba, you don't have a McCain and Kerry to drive change." The Republican U.S. senator from Arizona and the secretary of state served in the military during the Vietnam War, and McCain was held prisoner and tortured by the North Vietnamese.
Whatever the reasons, Tran and other observers say the normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations since 1995 should encourage Cubans and Americans to follow through on President Barack Obama's bid for a new relationship.
Better ties, they say, figure to have palpable economic and social benefits for Cubans and Americans. Commerce with the United States has helped millions of Vietnamese enjoy a higher standard of living, and travel between the countries has soared.
But the Vietnam experience also shows that improved relations with the U.S. may have less of an impact on the ruling regime's authoritarian ways.
In a recent report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research center in Washington, senior fellow Murray Hiebert and his co-authors noted that despite 17 bilateral discussions on human rights over the years, the State Department estimated that there were about 120 political detainees in Vietnam at the end of 2013.
Even so, Vietnam's engagements with the U.S. and other democratic countries "have had a significant impact on improving the human rights situation in Vietnam, including getting more space for journalists, bloggers and the religious community," Hiebert wrote. "There are still problems, but the human rights situation in Vietnam is much better today than it was in 1995."
Vietnam's reconciliation with the U.S. is regarded as a turning point that complemented market-oriented reforms tailored to global trade, paving the way for a series of trade and investment agreements and the nation's 2006 admission into the World Trade Organization.
Trade keeps growing at a rapid clip. During the first 10 months this year, this nation of 90 million people exported $25.1 billion in goods to the U.S.
That surpassed the $24.6 billion total for all of 2013 and is up from $20.7 billion in 2012 — all roughly five times the value of imports, according to data supplied by the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Trade is expected to grow more between the two nations, along with eight others that are deep into negotiations for a new pact called the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The vitality of U.S.-Vietnam relations is reflected in the remarkable influx of young Vietnamese as students at American colleges and secondary schools, a number that's approaching 17,000, according to the U.S. Embassy office here. "Education has emerged as a crucial link between the two peoples," Hiebert and co-authors observed.
Vietnam's history is reflected in its emphasis on bilingualism. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the emphasis shifted to English from Russian, which had supplanted French. The owner of the Bookworm, a popular English-language bookstore in Hanoi, keeps paperback copies of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in stock because of demand from students eager to study abroad.
It bears little resemblance to the dark time after the fall of Saigon and the unification of the nation in 1975. While thousands of southern loyalists were placed in re-education camps and thousands more risked their lives as refugees in crowded boats, the Vietnamese military went to war against its communist brethren in Cambodia and later against a Chinese border incursion. Dysfunctional Soviet-style central planning added to the misery: This nation of rice paddies was once so hungry it had to import rice to feed its people. So-called "doi moi" reforms were announced in 1986 but not implemented until after the demise of Vietnam's Soviet patrons.
Vietnam has since reversed course, becoming among the world's leading exporters of rice, coffee and fish products. In addition to garments, textiles and footwear, its workers make electronics for Intel, Samsung and Nokia. With an economy growing nearly as fast as China's — and spawning its own form of crony capitalism — Vietnam managed in early 2011 to edge into lower "middle income" status among nations, as measured by the World Bank.
Today, the growing middle class of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City shops at new malls that were built by the nation's first billionaire. Wealthy Vietnamese are moving into new gated communities and buying Bentleys, Mercedes-Benzes and the occasional Rolls-Royce. Not far from the historic Metropole Hotel, the hammer-and-sickle incongruously flies outside posh Trang Tien Plaza, which showcases designer labels such as Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Burberry. Elsewhere, iconic global brands entice curious consumers. McDonald's and Starbucks are recent arrivals in Vietnam, but Baskin-Robbins, Pizza Hut and KFC have been here for years.
Tran, who is based in Ho Chi Minh City and now scouts tech opportunities for the Silicon Valley venture firm DFJ, suggested that Cuba's proximity to the United States might make for a swifter economic impact, especially in tourism. The Cubans and foreign investors, he suggested, should carefully plan the anticipated hotels, resorts and transportation infrastructure in order not to spoil Cuba's environment. | {
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Green Gone Wrong
Green Gone Wrong takes the reader into forests, fields, factories, and boardrooms around the world to draw out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, and successes of the products and practices that pledge to remedy today's environmental woes. Reporting from a large-scale export-driven organic farm in Paraguay, a super low-energy "eco-village" in Germany's Black Forest, biodiesel plantations in the slashed and burned rainforests of Borneo, and drought-plagued Southern India where trees are being planted to offset carbon emissions in the United States and Europe, Green Gone Wrong pieces together a global picture of what's happening in the name of today's environmentalism.
"Well written and exhaustively reported." –The New York Times
"This carefully researched, deeply human, and eminently sensible investigation arrives just in the nick of time. Let's hope it inspires a radical course correction."
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
"Heather Rogers reminds us with vivid examples that there's no way we can just subcontract our environmental conscience to the new breed of green marketers."
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage is the widely praised debut by journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers. Said to "read like a thriller" (Library Journal), Gone Tomorrow takes us on an oddly fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage and brings meaning to all that gets discarded.
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Footnotes: Photos by Jason Getz, Todd Drexler, Randy Wilson, Christopher Justice, Mike Holmes.
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A GSU Volleyball player spent a week in Nicaragua helping out a village.
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Items where authors include "Ushiba, T"
Abbott, R, Abe, H, Acernese, F et al. (1664 more authors) (2022) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 106 (6). 062002. ISSN 2470-0010
Abbott, R, Abe, H, Acernese, F et al. (1693 more authors) (2022) Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in the second and third LIGO-Virgo observing runs. The Astrophysical Journal, 935 (1). 1. ISSN 0004-637X
Abbott, R, Abbott, TD, Acernese, F et al. (1656 more authors) (2022) Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run. The Astrophysical Journal, 932 (2). 133. ISSN 0004-637X
Abbott, R, Abbott, TD, Acernese, F et al. (1632 more authors) (2022) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo run O3b. The Astrophysical Journal, 928 (2). 186. ISSN 0004-637X
Abbott, R, Abbott, TD, Acernese, F et al. (1624 more authors) (2022) Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D, 105 (6). 063030. ISSN 2470-0010
Abbott, R, Abbott, TD, Abraham, S et al. (1596 more authors) (2021) Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star–black hole coalescences. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 915 (1). L5. ISSN 2041-8205
Abbott, BP, Abbott, R, Abbott, TD et al. (1098 more authors) (2018) Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 21. 3. ISSN 2367-3613 | {
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PS4 exclusive Until Dawn goes gold
Powers S2E10 "Legacy" review
Are realistic graphics something we should want? Part 3
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India review: A watercolor wash-up
Has Bloodborne 2 been teased already by Bloodborne's title screen?
Rather strangely, it has been discovered that if players change the game language in Bloodborne to French at the game's title screen, after the game saves data a message will pop up in the top right corner saying "will be blessed with child".
This could mean a number of things. Firstly, it could simply be a bug – not very exciting but you can't rule it out given that the message does also appear at a point in the game (where it is supposed to be) via a note in Byrngenwerth. However, the fact that it appears on the title screen could be more interesting. When read alone, "will be blessed with child" doesn't make an awful lot of sense, but when it sits next to the name of the game on the title screen, the image reads "Bloodborne will be blessed with child", as if to say that Bloodborne will give birth to a sequel much like the original Dark Souls game did. Sneaky.
If this really is a bug then perhaps we'll see it disappear in a patch, or the developers could leave it in just to keep people guessing? Maybe it is intended to be there? Questions will remain to be asked.
Alternatively, it could be a reference to French people and reproducing but I highly doubt it.
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Stephen wants to stamp his influence on the gaming industry via extensively researched and well thought out editorial and high quality video documentaries on the industry's most important topics, when he can afford to do so. In the meantime, you can probably find him working through his PS4 backlog, wishing its games library was nearly as good as the Xbox 360's. | {
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What does this mean and how do I get out of it without losing all my updates?
Thread When will the next updates for Jive for Office and Jive for Outlook come out?
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My plugin has been crashing frequently on Windows 10 after the Fall Creator update. Has anyone else noticed this or know how to fix? Have tried reinstalling to no avail.
Thread Will Jive for Office/Outlook still work with O365?
Will Jive for Office/Outlook still work with O365?
Our company is migrating all users to Office 365. Will Jive for Office/Outlook still work? Do we need them if we have the O365 integration (I haven't tried it yet)?
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Instrumental in chartering the growth of the company in the 1990s, Mr. Nishith Soni successfully spearheaded IRM's international marketing efforts while positioning the company as a market leader domestically. His areas of expertise include enterprise resource planning, project co-ordination and strategic management. He was promoted as Joint Managing Director in January 2005 and is the Managing Director since January 2009.
A trained polymer engineer, Mr. Swapnil Soni has more than a decade of experience in manufacturing rubber engineering products. Responsible for day-to-day operations of the production plant, he leads a team of experienced managers and engineers at the production plant. He has been appointed Executive Director since 2005.
A post-graduate from University of London her forte is financial management, human resource development, Quality Systems, corporate communication and public relations. With more than fifteen years of experience within the organization, she is instrumental in formulating the HR policies and administrative procedures. She has been appointed Executive Director since 2005. | {
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Q: Recovering/Removing the BIOS password of a Toshiba Satellite M35-S320 I have this Toshiba Satellite M35-S320, with a BIOS password. The problem is, I was a bonehead and had no idea what I was doing when I set a (random) password.
I forgot the password immediately.
Is there any way to reset or recover the BIOS password?
Remember, I CANNOT BOOT INTO THE OS, BOOT MENU, BIOS SETUP, ANYTHING. I am locked out of this thing.
A thing I would like to know:
Some people on the internet talk about BIOS password hashes. This "hash"
does not appear when I fail. It just says, "Too many attempts! The system will
be powered off!"
Note: I have already tried removing the battery, trying "Toshiba", and holding down the Left Shift key.
I really hope I can get this thing working. :(
A: I haven't used a Satellite in years, but doing some research, I find several possible options:
*
*Try 'Toshiba' as a password.
*Hold left-shift key down during boot.
*Open the PC and remove the battery for at least an hour.
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MA Dental Postgraduate studies (DPDS)
wwwpreprod.bris.ac.uk
Local: $ 3.98k / Year (EEA)
Foreign: n/a
This distance-learning programme is a unique form of dental postgraduate education, designed to be attractive to busy dental practitioners.
From a choice of seven four-month units, you must successfully complete three units to achieve the Postgraduate Certificate (CPDS) or six units to achieve the Postgraduate Diploma (DPDS). Each unit provides a structured programme involving reading, writing and educational participation, totalling 200 hours' academic work, including study days and assessment.
This method of study is not led by teachers in a classroom but is supported by tutors and administration at a distance, offering the flexibility to suit your personal needs. The units are specially written for the programme and are designed to be interactive, giving you the opportunity to think and learn for yourself. Following successful completion of the DPDS, you may carry out a research project and prepare a dissertation to achieve the MSc.
Programme structure Programme material is either posted as modules via the internet in an Online Learning Environment. There are between one and four elements per unit and they contain assignments to be completed by the student. The units normally available are:
* Anxiety Managment
* Business Management Skills
* Law and Ethics
* Local Anaesthesia
* Endodontics
* Periodontics
* Surgical Skills 1
There are normally three compulsory study days per unit, usually held at weekends. These cover areas that do not lend themselves well to distant study, such as 'hands-on' sessions.
UK requirements for international applications
Universities in the United Kingdom use a centralized system of undergraduate application: University and College Admissions Service (UCAS). It is used by both domestic and international students. Students have to register on the UCAS website before applying to the university. They will find all the necessary information about the application process on this website. Some graduate courses also require registration on this website, but in most cases students have to apply directly to the university. Some universities also accept undergraduate application through Common App (the information about it could be found on universities' websites).
Both undergraduate and graduate students may receive three types of responses from the university. The first one, "unconditional offer" means that you already reached all requirements and may be admitted to the university. The second one, "conditional offer" makes your admission possible if you fulfill some criteria – for example, have good grades on final exams. The third one, "unsuccessful application" means that you, unfortunately, could not be admitted to the university of you choice.
All universities require personal statement, which should include the reasons to study in the UK and the information about personal and professional goals of the student and a transcript, which includes grades received in high school or in the previous university.
Undergraduate applicants may use UCAS system or Common App (for all courses except medicine, dentistry and veterinary sciences). International students may find country-specific admission criteria on the website. For instant, student from Russia with a Certificate of secondary education may be admitted to the Univeristy of Bristol only after foundation/bridging program, while those with International Baccalaureate/A-level degree may apply directly to undergraduate programs.
Graduate students have to use university's website for application. All documents should be uploaded on this website and the admission decision will also be provided on the website.
International students should provide English test results in order to apply to both undergraduate and graduate programs. University of Bristol accept various tests, including IELTS, TOEFL, CAE/CPE and some others. Language requirements may depend on the type of program: they are typically higher for Art&Humanities and lower for Science programs. For instance, the highest IELTS score required (profile A) for undergraduate and graduate programs is 7.5 (7.0 in each section).
DPDS: BDS or other approved dental qualification and, ideally, you will have been qualified for at least three years. MSc: DPDS or equivalent. Students must be eligible for, or registered with, the General Dental Council. English Language Requirements IELTS band: 7 CAE score: (read more) Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) is part of the Cambridge English suite and is targeted at a high level (IETLS 6.5-8.0). It is an international English language exam set at the right level for academic and professional success. Developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment - part of the University of Cambridge - it helps you stand out from the crowd as a high achiever. 75 (Grade B) TOEFL iBT® test: 100 IMPORTANT NOTE: Since April 2014 the ETS tests (including TOEFL and TOEIC) are no longer accepted for Tier 4 visa applications to the United Kingdom. The university might still accept these tests to admit you to the university, but if you require a Tier 4 visa to enter the UK and begin your degree programme, these tests will not be sufficient to obtain your Visa. The IELTS test is most widely accepted by universities and is also accepted for Tier 4 visas to the UK- learn more.
The University offers a number of scholarships and studentships to postgraduate students. Further information on funding for UK studentsand funding for international students is available.
In some cases, departments have access to programme-specific funding. We've provided some information about these options with the individual programme entries. However, we recommend that you also contact the department to which you are applying to enquire about any other possibilities, which they may be able to offer.
For the most up-to-date external funding opportunities for taught and research students please see postgraduate studentships.
A distinguished heritage
The University of Bristol has had a reputation for innovation since its founding in 1876. It was the first institute of higher education in the country to admit women on an equal basis with men and in 1946 established the UK's first university drama department. More recently, the University has influenced many aspects of our lives through life-changing research in areas such as cot death prevention and 3G mobile technology innovation.
We aim to give you the best student experience possible and we continually invest in new and existing facilities, training, technology and services. We offer a high-quality, research-led education that encourages independence of mind. Studying at university is a significant investment and we will ensure that you are prepared for your chosen career. A Bristol degree is highly attractive to employers and a sound investment in your future.
Outstanding people
We offer you the chance to explore your chosen subject with world-leading academics as well as other students who share your passion. We continually enhance our global reputation through our research and by recruiting the best academics. As a leading university, we attract students from all over the world, creating a rich and exciting international community.
A wealth of opportunity
The University is small enough to feel warm and friendly, with personal tutors, student health and welfare services, and accommodation wardens to support you, but big enough to provide outstanding extra-curricular opportunities. There are hundreds of student societies that will give you opportunities to broaden your horizons and forge lifelong interests and relationships.
A green university
The environment is high on our agenda. We were the first university to take part in the Green Impact Awards, a scheme to reduce collective environmental impact, and one of only eight UK universities selected to take part in a pilot for the Green Academy programme to make sustainability part of the curriculum. We have also won accolades for our energy efficiency, our transport planning and our environmentally innovative
The university for you
By coming to Bristol, you will share in our proud heritage and help shape our future. We hope that when you see all that Bristol has to offer, you will decide that this is the place for you. | {
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Category: Tamayura ~hitotose~
Tamayura ~hitotose~ – 12 (Fin)
New Year's Eve, the day of the exhibition, finally arrives. When the doors open, no one comes, but gradualy people trickle in, and before long, the venue is packed with people soaking in the photography, baked goods, potporri, and storytelling. It's a rousing success, as they recieve lots of glowing surveys from attendees: both friends, family, and the general public. Afterwards they celebrate a new year, and with her father's camera, Potte continues to capture treasures that would otherwise get lost to time.
And so ends a very good, laid back slice of life series, ending in top form, just like it begun. This exhibition was not only the culmination of the group of friends' artistic efforts, but also an excellent way to involve pretty much the whole town in the show's finale. It ended with everyone doing what they love (at the moment), and actually being praised and acknowledged for it, which goes a long way towards shooing away those feelings of uneasiness and self-doubt.
There's a point while Shihori is looking at Fu's pictures when she tells her she may have figured something out about photography without even knowing it. Fu always admired Shihori for taking pictures that everyone can love, while Fu believed she was being selfish in her choice of subjects. But the goal of a photographer need not simply be to appeal to one's audience, but to take capturing images that matter to you and having the feelings shine through in your work for all to see. After all, that's what happened when Fu first saw her father's images, and got her interested in following in his filmsteps.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Wed, 21 Dec 2011 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags camera, disward, exhibition, hitotose, photography, tamayura
Tamayura ~hitotose~ – 11
As the girls start vigorously preparing for their big winter exhibition, Maon decides that instead of whistling or singing, she wants to do a recital, like one that moved her long ago. However, when the time comes to write something down, she has a lot of difficulty, which is compounded by the increasingly public buildup and expectation. With the support of her friends, she's not only able to recite her story in front of a large audience at the Virgo theatre, but is able to recite the ending straight from her head. Her bold venture lends added courage to her friends in theirs.
As it's been established that Maon is the group member with the most diverse and fleeting passions, we expected a degree of trepidation in her efforts to write a one-person play. But lo and behold, she follows through, by the seat of her pants and in the face of enormous anticipation – without any rehersal or even an ending in writing. Maon didn't make it easy for herself – writing something can be far more emotionally and intellectually labor-intensive than, say, baking cookies, making tinctures, or snapping pictures.
Her story is simple, pleasant, and very much autobiographical. It wasn't perfect, but she didn't embarass herself up there like a presidential candidate, either. It was a nice touch for her to tell the story of how she literally found her voice thanks to friends like Norie, without whom she'd only dream of speaking to a full house in a theatre. Her friends are right there backstage cheering her on, and Fu is there to snap a tender moment when Maon is finished her story and basks victoriously in the bright lights and applause. Whatever Maon is, she's no longer someone who never finishes things!
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 16 Dec 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags fu, hitotose, kaoru, maon, norie, recital, tamayura
Kaoru tries to get everyone together on a Sunday for undisclosed reasons, but they all have plans, doing what they've chosen to do. Kao-tan begins to falter in what she wants to do, and doesn't want to bother her friends with her half-hearted efforts, but Norie and the the others pick up on this. At her sister Soyomi's behest they arrange a surprise party to cheer her up, and she declares her plans: to create an grand exhibition, including Potte's photography, Norie's sweets, Maon's live whistling, and her own fragrances.
We never thought I'd hear the bawdy, animated Norie saying something like "It's not good for this chaos to persist!" or for Kaoru to be led across town at bamboo vinegar-filled gunpoint, or for her friends to stage an intervention for her. But all this happens. This is a Kaorucentric episode. We're with her as she gloomily frets about whether she's doing the best she can. Norie later scolds her for worrying about meeting some kind of standard; what's important is to do your best and have fun.
It's a pretty common theme in anime for a girl to feel like she's "no good" or even "the worst", and while we can hear her thoughts, Kaoru's outward behavior is really not all that different from her normal self. Still, Norie has known her far too long, and knows something is amiss almost immediately. She, along with Potte, Maon, and Soyomi, waste no time prodding her to let out whatever it is is on her mind, which turned out to be the proposal of an exhibition, which will combine everyone's myriad talents into a unified whole. Funny, I've never taken her for an exhibitionist…
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 9 Dec 2011 Fri, 9 Dec 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags hitotose, kaoru, maon, norie, potte, tamayura
The first half of the episode is taken up by a typical night-in-the-life of Momoneko-sama, the resident fat fluffy pink cat Fu loves so much. His activities include saving a smaller girl cat from a bully, and driving away a boar from a garden. In the second half, we learn the result of the confession of the girl from the Road of Aspiration, Shimako. She was turned down, and is incredibly depressed. It falls to Riho, Hoboro, Fu, and the others to take care of her after a food bender and cheer her up.
We didn't really need a cat-centric episode segment (especially a cat as badly-drawn as Momoneko; though there were better-drawn cats herein), but we got one anyway. I guess we can be grateful it didn't take up a whole episode. We're also grateful the second half not only involved actual humans, but a human with problems; namely, she was shot down. It was nice to have this half basically revolve around her, even though for much of it she's unconscious. One thing's for certain, this is a town full of nice, caring people who have no qualms about helping a girl in distress.
This week, Fu encounters someone else with pain, albeit not as deep as the pain from a lost loved one. Of course, in a way, Shimako did lose a friend. He always considered her a friend, but after her confession, she won't go back, and deletes all his photos from her camera. Shimako's friend Manami agrees to snap a picture of her, but not one of her wearing a false smile. Photos don't just capture the surface expressions, but always reveal the truth of the emotions beneath them, as long as the right people are looking at them.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 2 Dec 2011 Fri, 2 Dec 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags hitotose, momoneko, rejection, shimako, tamayura
Fu learns that her fellow photographer, Shihomi Riho, has become fast friends with Hoboro and is staying with her for the time being. When Riho tells Fu she doesn't photograph the sky anymore, Fu is worried Riho may quit photography altogether. Fu joins Riho and Chimo on a trip to Kure to visit Riho's senpai Misano, an illustrator who now owns a cafe like Chimo. Misano often experiments with strange food combinations, because she likes the diversity, just as Fu likes taking pictures of everything she can. The lesson is to never limit oneself to one rigid dicipline or one dream.
What do Fu, Riho, Chimo and Misano all have in common? They all believe "Greed Is Good." Through all the good times and great photos she's taken, Fu has remained ever weary and unsure of exactly what she should be doing or aiming for. When she first interacts with all these older young women, she is visibly nervous and self-conscious, as if she feels guilty for subjecting them to her lowly presence. I wouldn't call it low self-esteem or self-worth, but certainly a feeling of inadequacy and not meeting her full potential. In reality, none of that is the case, and as she even says to herself, she's often simply overthinking things.
Fu wrongly assumed Riho only took photos of the sky, in the belief that when one becomes Serious about something, one concentrates on that one thing and hones it until one is better at it than anyone else. Photographing everything is self-indulgent and undisciplined, right? Wrong – Riho's past gift to Fu of a train ticket with no destination says it all: that ticket is Fu's future. No one can decide when and where it will occur – or what form it will take – but Fu. So she should keep trying anything and everything she can. The sky's the limit. Diversity is good…as is greed.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 25 Nov 2011 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags hitotose, photography, shihomi riho, tamayura
The Road of Aspiration arrives; a town festival in which lanterns are lit, wishes and confessions made, and even tears shed. Potte doesn't remember the last two times she went, but the last time was when her father was still alive. He promised they'd go again but he got too busy, and then passed away before the promise could be kept. While damning rain dominates the day, things clear up just in time, and Potte enjoys the festival with her friends and the rest of the town.
An event Potte hasn't experienced since her father was still alive is an able test of her relationship with the grief she holds inside. Grief isn't an enemy to be overcome, but a part of you. Even the birthday of a dearly departed friend or relation can cause a surge of emotions and memories. The festival is a good way both to take stock in one's life thus far and organize and express one's dreams for the future.
As far as festival episodes go, this was very laid-back and breezy, reflecting the tone of the series as a whole thus far. And while Potte definitely misses her dad on a day like this, she seems quite resolved to smile every time her loss comes up, and not cry. Reconnecting with her friends, living in beautiful moments and snapping them with film all help her maintain. Because the day after the festival, after the futures are wished for, the work begins to reach them.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Wed, 16 Nov 2011 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags festival, hitotose, lantern, road of aspiration, tamayura
The first half goes back to 1999 when Maon crosses paths with Fu, Norie and Kaoru for the first time. Maon is inspired by hearing someone whistle at the top of a hill overlooking the sea, and figures out how to do it herself. Ten years later, Maon's company cheers up a recently-rejected Norie, and when Maon whistles at the sea, Norie can understand her, as if she could read her mind.
We were surprised to be treated to a character-centric episode where the character was someone other than Fu, namely, Maon. We learn that whistling isn't just something she does to distinguish herself from the others; she's so bad with words, that she seems to express her feelings best by whistling. Which is, of course, nice and whimsical!
There's a great little moment when she first encounters a sober-for-once Norie (always good to see other sides of her) and while she's thinking, she almost involuntarily starts rhythmically whistling. At this point she's been whistling for a decade, ever since she first met Fu, who was visiting the town with her father, as well as Norie and Kaoru. Small world!
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Wed, 9 Nov 2011 Wed, 9 Nov 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags 06, hitotose, maon, tamayura, whistling
Fu's old friend Chihiro comes to Takehara to visit her and meet her new circle of friends. She finds them all warm, friendly, and energetic as they tour the town and sample the food. She's also glad that Fu is doing so well. Kaoru's sister invites them to an hours-long hike all the way to and up Kurotaki Hill. Chihiro comes away with many new friends and happy memories.
Everyone has their little quirk: Potte is always snapping pics; Maon is always whistling; Norie is always yelling or jumping around; Kaoru is…actually pretty normal, but she has a weird older sister. Add Chihiro – the crybaby – to the mix, and you have a veritable motley crew of quirk. But damn it all if it isn't a charming-as-all-hell crew. The whole episode was humming with positive vibes.
Chihiro has trouble making friends, and had every reason to worry that even Fu had possibly abandoned her for new, less skittish friends. But there was no such conflict or competition to be found here. Everybody's happy! And honestly, with all that great food and stunning scenery, how could they not be? Other nice details: Chihiro making little stuffed guys for everyone, and Potte's mother was once in a motorcycle club – rad.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Thu, 3 Nov 2011 Thu, 3 Nov 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags 05, chihiro, crybaby, friends, hitotose, motorcycle club, potte, takehara, tamayura
Potte, Kaoru, Norie and Kou pay a visit to the island where Pottes grandfather lives, and stay at an in owned by Maon's family. Watching her work hard at the inn and put her customers before herself, they all come to the conclusion her parents are grooming her for inhereting the inn. When they confront them about it, Maon assures them her work at the inn is just as important to her as her musical dreams. It's also revealed that she has a tendency to change her dreams with great frequency.
This series is like a cool, breezy day by the seaside. It's so happy and fluffy, and yet so sincere, we can't help but be charmed. Norie can try our patience when it comes to her energy level and rivalry with Komachi, but this week she gets serious and speaks up when it looks like her friend's parents are pushing a very timid and reserved Maon into a future of servitude. It turns out to not be that big of a deal; as Maon is wishy-washy. As for the parents, they're just ecstatic she has actual friends.
Ever the photorecorder, no one is safe from the crosshairs of Potte's Rollei. She has a wealth of material, as she's surrounded herself with warm, loving people. The gorgeous quaint island village setting is like a tall glass of fuzzy sunshine. Also notable, Potte's grief is all but gone from this episode. She sees her father in her grandfather's face, but doesn't fret. She watches Maon with her father and isn't envious or wistful, but joyful.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Wed, 26 Oct 2011 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags 04, family business, hitotose, kaoru, maon, norie, potte, tamayura
At the Tamayura cafe, Potte & Co. are served delicious, gorgeous food, she is determined to capture it with her Rollei 35S. She isn't satisfied with her first attempt, but opportunity knocks when Komachi a school friend of her little brother Kou, challenges Norie to a cooking contest to see who can make the best desert for him. As Komachi and Norie lovingly prepare hotcakes and peach jelly for Kou, Potte finds that photographing the process of making food is far more rewarding.
Norie is definitely the most annoying character of the core quartet, but her little rivalry with Kou's would-be girlfriend is sweet nonetheless, and the series made sure to include Potte as the observer and recorder of their competition. There are some issues with this cafe: how does Potte's tiny grandmother reach the register? How can Tamayura afford to give away so much food? Also, Maon and Kaoru are basically sidelined this week.
One must set aside such practical matters and just enjoy the happy vibes, which we did. We love food, and we love making food, and hell, we love watching other people making food; especially food we don't know how to make, because then we learn. So any episode that spends time making food – and does it well, which this did – we'll be happy. That's all we ask of light, breezy slice-of-lifes like this: competence and positivity.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Wed, 19 Oct 2011 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags 03, camera, delicious, hitotose, hotcakes, kaoru, maon, norie, peach jelly, photography, potte, rollei 35s, tamayura1 Comment on Tamayura ~hitotose~ – 03
Back in her hometown, Potte instantly settles into a circle of friends, and reflects on what a good idea it was to move back. They help one of their teachers with the bamboo festival, then have a sleepover in which they bond further. The older sister of Potte's friend Kaoru notes how Potte's sadness about her father's passing has changed to warmth, and she can see it in her growing collection of photos.
Taking photos is tricky. You can't take too many all the time, or you'll miss out on real life by constantly closing one eye and looking through a viewfinder. You have to find the right balance of living and recording said life. We think Potte has a good balance going so far. She's not the kid everyone hates who is always snapping pics of you without asking. On the contrary, everybody loves the photos, and she's quite good at taking them.
After the dual debuts of Un-Go and Guilty Crown, this was a slow, warm and cheerful respite, serving almost as a digestif for all that intensity. Sure, the passionate teacher is a little cliche'd, and so far Potte's friends kind of too neatly fit into molds (childhood friend, check; loud energetic pigtailed Norie, check, tranquil, quiet, whistling Maon, check) but watching them simply existing in this comely town was most enjoyable, yes it was.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Thu, 13 Oct 2011 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags camera, friends, hitotose, kao, maon, norie, potte, rollei, sleepover, tamayura, teacher
Junior high student Fuu has decided to make a big change in her life. She's moving back to her birthplace of Takehara, to be near the Seto Inland Sea, attend a new high school, and make use of her late father's camera she inherited. This episode is mostly a flashback of her life before moving, documenting how much her father and his pictures have meant to her, the build-up to her decision, and saying her goodbyes to her best friend Chihiro. Armed with a blessing from her mom and a published photographer friend of her father, he strikes out Takehara, where she goes by the nickname "Potte."
Man, that was just a lovely, warm, calm, breezy episode of anime. The landscapes and twisting roads and stairs of the hilly town are exquisitely and imaginatively rendered. The palette is subtle, muted, but still lush, adding to the realism. But it doesn't just look beautiful; all the people are beautiful as well. No excessive proprietary jargon; no factions, just real friggin' life. And a girl starting fresh, like Ohana in Hanasaku Iroha…only without the yelling and no love interest. Sure, there's crying, but it's established that Chihiro is a crybaby…though when Fuu leaves, both of them have grown more "aggressive".
Fuu/Potte is out to make her dearly departed dad proud; to carry on his tradition of capturing little scenes and moments often forgotten in the course of life. He taught her a lot, including how to work his very slick Rollei 35S mini-camera, and all that knowledge is still in her heart. The Camera is the tool to draw it all out, and replace her grief with happiness. She says if she can capture those warm happy moments just right, the "Children of Light" will come out. Sounds like a terrorist group, but we're sure it's not. Photography is used early and often to provide back-story and imagery from the past, and by episode's end, we felt we'd learned a great deal about Fuu in a very short time. We want to learn more still.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Tue, 4 Oct 2011 Wed, 5 Oct 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2011, Tamayura ~hitotose~Tags camera, chihiro, children of light, crybaby, family, father, fuu, grief, hitotose, mourning, photography, photos, potte, real life, rollei 35, seto inland sea, takehara, tamayura, Tamayura ~hitotose~1 Comment on Tamayura ~hitotose~ – 01 | {
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«Кафедра» — науково-популярний та літературно-мистецький машинописний нецензурований квартальник, заснований поетом і політв'язнем Михайлом Осадчим 1988 р. З другого номера журнал став органом Української асоціації незалежної творчої інтелігенції УАНТІ. Призначення часопису — публікація праць членів УАНТІ — неформального клубу митців, позбавлених доступу до державних видавництв, та інших творців, які відображають «національне буття України у контексті загальнолюдських ідеалів» (за декларацією УАНТІ).
Історія
Виходив у Львові (1988–90). Перше число з'явилося в січні 1988. Загалом вийшло 11 випусків.
В редакційну колегію входили Михайло Осадчий (відповідальний редактор), Василь Барладяну, Валер Бондар, Анатолій Бутрим, Богдан Горинь, Володимир Яворський. Богдан Горинь передавав матеріали «Кафедри» через іноземних журналістів у Москві до Н. Світличної. Вона організувала передрук у Закордонному представництві [[Українська Гельсінська спілка|Української Гельсінської спілки]. Від 7-го числа «Кафедра» передруковувалася в українському видавництві «Смолоскип» імені В. Симоненка. Частину перших номерів опублікував у Лондоні Союз українців у Великій Британії. Іншим шляхом, через Польщу, Оксана Гайова передавала матеріали Кафедри у Канаду і писала про свою роботу в «Кафедрі» так:
Основною метою цього видання було те, оскільки усі ми прагнули незалежної держави, щоб на цей час надати правдиву інформацію про історію України, Церкви. Труднощі були в тому, що не було доступу до інформації, до архівів, не було сучасної видавничої техніки. Усе було на папіросному папері і надруковане на машинці. Це сшивалося і везлось таємно через кордон
Це була гарна робота, необхідна, люди працювали щиро, були перейняті тим, щоб українці, які стояли перед днем Соборної незалежної держави, знали, якої держави вони прагнуть і очікують
Крім членів редколегі, в журналі публікувалися Микола Горбаль, Михайлина Коцюбинська, Тарас Мельничук, Кость Москалець, Атена Пашко, Володимир Перевозний, Степан Сапеляк, Євген Сверстюк, Валентин Стецюк, Іван Світличний, Опанас Заливаха, Левко Лук'яненко, Василь Барладяну, Богдан Горинь, В'ячеслав Чорновіл, Василь Стус, Ігор Калинець, Ганна Голумбієвська, Людмила Шереметьєва (Дашкевич), Степан Сапеляк, Анатолій Щербатюк і багато інших авторів.
Джерела
Зайцев Ю. Д. «Кафедра» //
Література
Батенко Т. Опозиційна особистість: друга половина ХХ ст. Політичний портрет Богдана Гориня. Львів, 1997.
Горинь Б. 1988. Голос проскрибованих. //«Український вісник». Випуск 11/13. 1989. Те саме. (передрук у Закордонному представництві «Української Гельсінської спілки»). Нью-Йорк.
Примітки
Самвидав
Літературні журнали України
Науково-популярні журнали України
Щоквартальні журнали
Друковані видання, засновані 1988
Засновані в Україні 1988
Друковані видання, закриті 1990
Зникли в Україні 1990 | {
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Datalogger Sensors
Water Quality Meters
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Sampling Instruments
Ground Water Instruments
Federal Snow Sampler
Composite Water Sampler
Surber Streams Sampler
Wisconsin Plankton Net
Ekman Dredge
Depth Integrated Sampler
Whirl-Pak Sample Bag
Staff Gauge
Van Dorn Sampling Bottle
Hess Sampler
McNeil Sediment Core Sampler
Heavyweight Grab Sampler
Sludge Judge
The Federal Snow Sampler is a professional grade snow sampler based on USFS design criteria to measures snow depth and water content to determine snow density.
The sampler is made with 1 5/8" (4.13 cm) ID anodized aluminum material. The sampler can be specified in english or metric units with the standard USFS length in 30" long sections and the metric in 0.83 meter long sections. The tubes are precision hand machined to a very tolerance for accurate water equivalent measurements. A sensitive spring balance is graduated in either equivalent inches or centimeters of water.
The standard sets can be ordered with up to eight sections and includes a 3 oz, 16 tooth cutter typically used for sampling snow packs up to 30 feet (9 meters) deep. For deeper sampling or snow packs with layers of heavy ice, the thicker walled McCall sampler with 6 oz cutter is recommended.
Also available is the Metric Prairie Snow Sampler with alloy tube, hardened steel cutter and screw-in T-handles. Based on the Environment Canada ESC 30 design, it is 1.2 meters long with a 6 cm internal diameter and is available with a spring scale and cradle.
Water Survey Staff Gauge
Each gauge section is accurately graduated into centimeters with each decimeter numbered and finished with a special porcelain enamel to ensure easy reading and to resist rust or discoloration.
The metric gauge is one meter long, 8 cm wide, and is provided with grommeted holes for fastening. Gauges for any elevation may be assembled by using separate number plates consisting of a blue numeral on a 5.08 cm x 7.62 cm white porcelain enameled iron plate.
This composite sampler is designed for industrial discharge, sewer, river, and stream monitoring applications. It consists of a rugged, rain-proof, lockable enclosure, 2-gallon polyethylene sample bottle, peristaltic sampling pump, logic timer/controller, and rechargeable gel cell battery. Also provided is a 15' nylon reinforced 1/4" ID polyethylene flexible sample pickup hose with intake strainer, and battery charger. The sample bottle is equipped with a float switch that automatically turns off the sampler pump if the bottle becomes full. The user can adjust the desired sample size from 25 ml to 600 ml, and sample internal from 5 minutes to 4 hours.
This free-flushing bottle is ideal for physical (temperature), chemical (dissolved gasses, nutrients) and biological (photo-zooplankton) sampling in shallow to very deep water. Also, this nonmetallic sample containment system can be used for trace metal sampling. Closure of the bottle is by means of a messenger from the surface releasing the tension on a latex band and thus pulling the two stoppers firmly into place. The tough clear polycarbonate cylinder enables previewing before draining and also permits mounting a thermometer inside. Multiple samplers on a single wire can be deployed for serial ("in-series") collection of water at various depths. A horizontal version, very similar in construction and operation to the vertical bottle, is available for sampling near the bottom or in the vicinity of thermoclines or chemoclines. The Van Dorn Bottles are also available in PVC and come in many sizes complete with brass messenger, 100 ft line and carrying case.
Surber samplers are designed for sampling riffle areas in streams and rivers up to a depth of about 18". It consists of two folding stainless steel frames set at right angles to each other. The horizontal frame encloses an area of 12" x 12" and marks out the limits of the sampling area. Attached to the vertical frame is a net to catch the invertebrates as they are dislodged from the substrate. The net is approximately two feet in length and is made of tough, rot-resistant 500 micron (35 mesh per inch) Nitex monofilament net. A base height extension may also be used when the horizontal frame must penetrate into the actual stream bed itself. The surber stream bottom sampler folds flat for easy storage and comes complete with a wooden carrying case. Replacement Nitex nets and samplers with other micron net sizes are available.
Similar to a Surber Sampler but suitable for gravel and cobble bottoms, the Hess Sampler consists of a circular aluminum frame that is pushed into the substrate. It has two strong reversible handles for forcibly pushing and rotating the cylinder into stream bottoms. Both ends of the cylinder can be used for sediment penetration. The sampler penetrates 3 - 6" (75 - 150 mm). Once in place, the substrate is stirred up, and organisms are washed into the collecting bag by the current flowing through the mesh covered opening. Hess Samplers include a cylindrical aluminum net frame (36 cm diameter x 46 cm height), and a heavy duty Nitex net, 243µm, 363µm, 600µm, 800µm or 1000µm with sewn-in poly-bottle, cod end or net. The inflow screening is attached to the frame with Velcro and is removable.
The Wisconsin Plankton Net is a popular and versatile plankton sampler. The main design feature is the anterior reducing cone which makes it more efficient than a standard conical net. The Wisconsin net is used only for vertical sampling tows. The sampler consists of three major parts: an anterior reducing cone, a posterior conical filtering net, as well as a collection bucket. It measures 30" long with a 5" diameter mouth opening. The net is 7" in diameter where the filter net meets the reducing cone. It is constructed with stainless steel net frames, brass bridle and Nitex nylon net with 80µm mesh or 153 micron standard net sizes, other sizes are available.
The McNeil Core Sampler consists of a stainless steel cylinder that defines the portion of the streambed to be sampled and an attached basin that is used to store the collected sediments and trap the suspended fines. The sampler is worked into the channel substrate, and the encased sediment core is dug out by hand and deposited in a built-in basin. When all sediments have been removed to the level of the lip of the core tube, a cap is placed over the tube to prevent water and the collected sediments from escaping when the tube is lifted out of the water. The tube has a 4" diameter and is 8" long, and the basin has a 12" diameter and is 18" tall.
This dredge is useful for sampling benthic communities inhabiting soft bottomed aquatic environments. As the dredge is lowered, the hinged upper doors swing open, allowing water to pass through and minimize the shock wave. When the dredge reaches the bottom, a messenger is sent down the line which trips the spring-loaded jaws. The jaws snap shut, preventing washout of the sample. The dredges are constructed of stainless steel with special Heliarc welding for extra strength and trouble-free life. A simple cable release system with convenient bar grip enables the operator to set the dredge with greater safety. Available 6"x6"x6" or 9"x9"x9", the Ekman Dredge comes complete with a stainless steel messenger 100 ft line and carrying case.
The proven design of the heavyweight grab sampler facilitates its use in all types of bottom substrates, except hard-packed clays. A simple pin mechanism prevents accidental closure of the dredge while in transit. The new improved spring-loaded release mechanism triggers the dredge upon impact with the bottom. The top of the dredge is covered with stainless steel screens to reduce the frontal shock wave and prevent the escape of the sample upon retrieval. The screens are removable to access the sediment sample without opening the jaws. The simplicity of its design and the rugged stainless steel jaw construction will ensure the dependability of the dredge for many years. Available 6"x6" or 9"x9", with powder painted weights and control arms or in an all stainless steel version.
Depth integrating samplers are designed to continuously extract a sample as they are lowered from the water surface to the streambed and returned at a constant rate of travel. Ascending and descending speeds need not be the same, but the rate of travel must be constant in each direction. While the sample is collected, air in the container is compressed so that the pressure balances the hydrostatic pressure at the air exhaust and the inflow velocity is approximately equal to the stream velocity. All depth integrated samplers can be supplied with a special epoxy coating for chemical and trace metal sampling applications.
Secchi Discs are designed for the measurement of the relative turbidity and clarity of water. The 8" diameter disc is constructed of polycarbonate with a lead weight, and is finished in alternating black and white quadrants of acrylic paint.
The disc is lowered into the water on a graduated line. The depth at which the disc is no longer visible is recorded. The disc is then raised, and a recording of the depth at which the disc reappears is made.
The mean of these two recordings is considered to be the limit of visibility. Although the disc is unable to provide an actual measure of light penetration, it is useful in providing a rough index of visibility for comparative purposes.
Whirl-Pak sample bags are made from blended virgin, low-density polyethylene, giving the bags two important characteristics; exceptionally clear film which is easy to see through, and superior strength. They can be used for taking samples of liquids, semi-solids, or solids. The film thickness varies from 2.25 mil (.057 mm) to 4 mil (.102 mm) depending on the size and style. All Whirl-Pak bags feature puncture proof tabs that extends the tape on the tab past the wire ends eliminating the sharp points which could puncture the bags, scratch a person's hands, or puncture gloves. Whirl-Pak bags are sterilized with ethylene oxide gas by an independent, ISO certified sterilization company wghich saves valuable preparation time and eliminates concern about sample integrity.
Whirl-Pak bags use only 10% or less space than other containers, saving valuable space in the lab, vehicle and warehouse, and significant savings on shipping costs, plus are easy disposed after use. By whirling or tightly folding the tab over three times, the Whirl-Pak bag becomes a leakproof container, which eliminates the loss of a valuable sample, and prevents impurities from entering the bag and contaminating the sample.
This sampling device enables you to take accurate readings on settled solids in a variety of liquids, to any depth. Lower the Sludge Judge to the bottom of the tank. When the bottom has been reached and the pipe has filled to the surface level, tug slightly on the rope as the unit is raised. This sets the check valve, trapping the column of solids and liquid in the Sludge Judge. When the unit has been raised clear of the liquid, the amount of solids in the sample can be read using the one foot increments marked on the pipe sections. To release the material in the unit, touch the pin extending from the bottom section against a hard surface. This opens the check valve to drain the sample.
The Sludge Judge is ideal for sewage treatment plants, chemical plants, food processing facilities anywhere that accurate samples of solids in non-caustic materials are needed. The unit holds approximately 3 oz. Per foot. The Sludge Judge comes in three 5 ft. sections of ¾" plastic pipe with screw type fittings. The top section includes a nylon line for raising the sampler. Convenient carrying case and cleaning brush are is available.
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"The student and I worked on math facts utilizing her school website to play multiplication baseball as well as "beat the computer," in which the student practiced her multiplication facts. She also took another timed multiplication fact test and scored her highest yet - 62/100 in 3 minutes. She is steadily improving in math fact knowledge and uses her fingers to count with much less frequency than when I began tutoring her. She still needs work with the 6,7, 8, and 9's, but is improving in those facts with each session. We also completed the student's homework for school today, working on placing decimal points as well as some review of adding fractions, changing denominators to add fractions and long division. Her math confidence is definitely up and she is doing well. "
"Reviewed fractions and vocabulary. Emphasized importance in vocabulary of understanding the word and being able to spell it. Worked on preparing for history test. Reviewed importance of doing each problem in math. "
"Reviewed 200 final exam question packet for biology I, fall semester. The vast majority of the multiple-choice questions had already been answered. "
"I met with the student to review topics that would be on her next exam. The topics included finding the slope-intercept form of the tangent line at a specific point; derivation techniques such as the product rule, quotient rule, chain rule, and implicit differentiation; and the behavior of a function as "x" approaches positive or negative infinity. It was another successful session filled with progress. The student has shown improvement in her understanding of calculus and other necessary mathematical concepts. "
"The student and I completed a handful of passages on sound and a number of organic chemistry passages in the test prep book. Overall, he did well in almost all of the passages we completed. He just needed to refresh his knowledge of the sound equations, but other than that, he cruised through almost all of the passages. He will start completing practice exam questions today. From now on, I will assign him random passages from various topics, and we will also go over any practice exam questions that he has trouble on for our remaining sessions going forward." | {
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Trudeau sells Trans Mountain decision, talks overdose deaths during B.C. visit | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source
Trudeau sells Trans Mountain decision, talks overdose deaths during B.C. visit
Laura Kane
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau climbs a set of stairs as he tours a tugboat in Vancouver Harbour, Tuesday, Dec.20, 2016.
VANCOUVER - During his first visit to British Columbia since the controversial approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau grappled with two major issues facing the province — tanker traffic and the opioid crisis.
Trudeau toured a Canadian Coast Guard tug on Tuesday in Vancouver, where he announced that two emergency towing vessels that were promised as part of a federal plan to protect Canada's oceans will operate on the West Coast.
"Both of these vessels will operate on Canada's West Coast and help to keep large disabled vessels off B.C.'s pristine coasts," Trudeau said in a news release.
The vessels, announced in November as part of the federal government's $1.5 billion Oceans Protection Plan, will help the coast guard tow large commercial ships that are in distress and pose a hazard to navigation and the marine environment.
The announcement and image of Trudeau steering a yellow tugboat in Vancouver's harbour appear to be aimed at easing fears of increased tanker traffic caused by Kinder Morgan Canada's $6.8-billion expansion.
Politicians and First Nations on B.C.'s south coast, including Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, vehemently oppose the project. The City of Burnaby filed leave to appeal the government's approval in the Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
Still, Trudeau downplayed questions about lengthy protests, civil disobedience and court battles.
"Yes, there will be people who still will disagree with this decision. That's fine. We're a country of people who have a broad range of perspectives and opinions," he told a Vancouver Sun editorial board that was live-streamed on Facebook.
"People are more than welcome to express their opinions, to campaign against me, to support politicians who will agree with them and not agree with me. ... This is all part of the democratic process."
He said some indigenous communities support the project, but those who oppose it "don't have a veto."
Trudeau said he also met with B.C's provincial health officer, Dr. Perry Kendall, to discuss the opioid crisis. More than 750 people have died in the province this year of illicit drug overdoses, many of them linked to fentanyl.
He said his government was working to reverse changes to harm-reduction measures that were made by the previous Conservative government. Health Minister Jane Philpott recently introduced a bill to remove unnecessary barriers to jurisdictions that want to open supervised-injection sites.
Trudeau said he "very interested" in seeing the results of pilot projects in Vancouver to provide addicts with prescription heroin.
"I'm certainly not philosophically or ideologically opposed to something that's going to save lives."
But he said there was no "one magic bullet" that would fix the situation. There's also a need for a major mental health strategy in Canada, which he said his government is working toward.
The approval of Trans Mountain has been applauded in Alberta and protested by some in B.C., but Trudeau said federal government decisions do not have to pit provinces against one another.
"What's good for the country, what's good for B.C., what's good for Alberta, they all intersect tremendously on this one. ... We need to both protect the environment and build a stronger economy at the same time."
B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak said she welcomed Ottawa's decision to add a second rescue tug for B.C.
Premier Christy Clark has insisted for years her government will only support new heavy-oil pipelines if five conditions are met, including a "world-leading" marine oil-spill response regime.
News from © The Canadian Press, 2016 | {
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3D Modelling, Surveying, Mapping & Photogrammetry
FAQ & Reviews
Exmouth Beach
Exmouth Marina
Unmaned Aerial Vehicle over Exmouth Devon
Devon and Somerset Gliding Fleet taken from the air
Golf course coverage with UAV
UAV video over Exmouth marina
Taken from a wedding at Worcester Cathdral
Fast and efficient solar panel inspection using a UAV
The New Exeter Link road under construction
School Photographs With a Difference
Inspections without the need for expensive scafolding.
Roof Inspection with out Scaffolding or a Cherry Picker
Pomroy Estate Devon
How else could you show such a large building in one shot?
Capture your big day from the air!
Dedicated in house editing suite
We have a full in-house editing suite to deliver the final product to your specification. . Specialising in carefully crafted multi-platform strategic solutions for the digital age.
Planning Application, Property and Facilities Management, Building Inspection, Digital Media for brochures and web Film and Television
Fully accredited and insured
All our aerial photographers are BNUC-S qualified. We take care of all of the planning and risk assessments so you don't have to. Fully insured for Five million liability.
412 Acres of land Successfully mapped using a drone and Multi-band RTK GNSS Receiver
fast turnaround. Using ground points with our new Reach RTK receiver with Real Time Corrections from a network giving Centimetre Precision.
Location of the Mussle beds in Exmouth
This model was created from 1800 images to create a CM precision model.
Sea Bed mapping at low tide
Using filters to look for the mussel beds
Using a polarising lens to find the location of Mussel beds in Exmouth
The River Dart from Air, Sea and Land
I have recently started a video blog about my love of sailing. In this episode there is some great drone footage of Dartmouth and Dittisham in South Devon
In house multi photograph stitching is included in our quotes
Exeter City Council aerial photographs for the next phase of this development
Multiple angle coverage for a complete coverage of your site
This 3 image stitched panorama gives a high quality image of 8000 pixels wide
A classic Sail boat built by hand by one man. This is his maiden voyage in Dartmouth
Photogrammetry of the Turf Locks in Devon
This acurate 3D model was built from a series of photographs taken by Drone. They were al then aligned to create a 3D model suitable for integration into CAD drawings. This has proved very popular in aiding planning permission as the architect can show his model as it will look like in the current landscape from all angles.
In house editing suite for a complete service
This client wanted a series of photographs for placement in his brochure. We were also able to capture video and produce this video to aid the sail of his property. We produced the video in house with the layout to replicate his sales brochure. We can provide an end to end service from capture to delivery including uploading to Youtube. How can we help you?
We Can Airbrush Out unwanted objects In Our Photographs To Give A More Aesthetic View.
This is a series of three photographs joined together to give a high resolution photograph. All of the unwanted objects were removed. The final printed canvas was a 5 Metre wall canvas for a major company
This has had all of the cars and signs edited out
This is the original panorama shot with all of the signs and cars.
Whitton and Laing office at exmouth with a massive 5m image covering their wall
Storm damage a fast turn around is critical to prevent further damage from water ingress.
Fast turn around is critical with insurance claims.
Six hours turn around. The client had the photographs from storm damage on his desk in less than 6 hours.
Insurance claims require a fast response
High Quality Image Capture and Post Processing are all included in our package.
Aerial photography continues to play a vital role across a variety of disciplines It is fast becoming a must have for many architects and planners. It used across environmental management, policy implementation, planning applications and inspections Now more than ever it is part of everyday life through mapping portals, and extensive use in both printed and digital media. Many of our clients use our service to aid in planning permissions via photogrammetry.
High Resolution Images Are Captured By A Full Frame 25mm Sensor Shooting In RAW Format
High resolution images are captured by a full frame 25mm sensor shooting in RAW format. As part of our package we post process ALL of our images in Adobe Lightroom and convert them to .jpg for the client. This ensures consistency of colour balance and image quality across all of the images. Our Pixel resolution is: 1.25 cm per pixel at 50m & 2.5 cm per pixel at 100m. By doing this we ensure the aerial photography products and services we provide are second to none.
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Make The Most of Your Weekend: Red Bull
We recently filmed local talent Olly Bridge and Guy Bridge as part of a Red Bull sponsorship. Filmed by LIam Southall as part of an ongoing project for Red Bull
National Trust: Killerton House
The final phase of the Killerton House Roof Project. The Heart was made out off staff and volunteers who raised over £100,000 to repair the leaking roof. The heart was to say a big thank you to everyone who helped.
Origin Windows
The aerial video was taken for Utopia Productions who filmed and produced this video as part of a case study. Many of the internal videos were done with the small UAV and helped to remove the need for a dolly.
Aerial 3D Modelling & Visualisation
This active 3D model was generated from over 200 images and rendered to create a 3D model. Using the latest UAV equipment we can produce a 3D rendered models. Detailed visualisations for building and planning applications can show how a new build will fit into the surrounding landscape landscape. It is also possible to insert a cad model into the 3D rendered model for full visualisation to aid in your planning permission.
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3D Photogrammetry Model
This Model was created using a UAV to capture a series of images. Post processing of this model the produced an exportable 3D model. This could only have been captured using a UAV due to the hazardous mus surrounding the wrecks. This also caused no disruption to the sight which can some times be invaluable to sited of historic value.
"working The Sea"
We recently did the aerial video work for a film by Simon Vacher called "Working The Sea" Filmed around Sidmouth in Devon. this follows follows the fortunes of the Bagwells, a Sidmouth fishing family from the forties when young Stan was fishing with his father in a borrowed boat, to the nineties when they have two fish shops, two trawlers fishing out of Brixham, and three boats working off the beach at Sidmouth. A Butterfly Effects Film for Sidmouth Coastal Community Hub CIC
Berry Pomeroy Estate
This recent set of photographs was for the Duchy Of Somerset. The photographs covered some of the property's on the estate. The only way to show these property's and the surrounding countryside was from the air.
Berry Pomroy Castle
Berry Pomroy Castle in Devon
Filming Indoors
We have the ability to fly with a high degree of precision INDOORS. Flying between a roof and machinery indoors allowed a unique perspective of the production lines of Victorian Slider. We also covered the static video and editing for this promotional video which was shown at the NEC on a large 9 screen display on their stand.
A New Addition to Our Crew
We would like to welcome aboard Simon Vacher to our Crew. UAV filming is not just about piloting skills but you also need a Professional Camera Man. The whole production depends on great cinematography and all of the technicalities of video production and post production. Simon's expertise in the field of cinematography also opens a wide range of digital media. Simon has trained up a second operator controlling the camera set up, production and shooting. His web page can be found at: http://www.simonvacherfilm.com/.
About Our Camera Operator and production Editor
Simon Vacher has travelled the globe extensively on some of the most adventurous, remote and ambitious documentary programmes recently to appear on TV for National Geographic, BBC 2 and BBC4. He also shoots regularly for independent production companies commissioned by independent channels such as Channel 4. Highlights include filming in Antartica, the Falklands, the Indian Ocean and dramatic UK locations such as Lundy Island. Previously, Simon has worked across a wide range of digital media, including motion graphics, video editing, live event camerawork and corporate media, giving him a modern and rounded approach and understanding of how every stage of production works, from scripting, to shooting to editing and delivery. Simon is a real people person, often working with presenting and contributor talent whilst offering the skills for more adventurous remote location shooting and cinematography.
Maximise you viewings for property sales
part of a portfolio for an estate agent
High Dynamic Range: 21 photographs combined for this image
All of these images were delivered to the estate agent in less than 24 hours
Fund Raising Campaign for The National Trust
Killerton Roof Appeal. This is shot in 4k as part of an awareness campaign for Killerton House in Devon. All of the staff from Killerton as well as Pupils from Broadclyst School. This was shot in 4k.
Property Photography in High Dynamic Range
The internal shots for this property were taken using High Dynamic Range (HDR) technique. HDR images can represent a greater range of luminance levels than can be achieved using more 'traditional' methods, such as many real-world scenes containing very bright, direct sunlight to extreme shade. For this shoot 7 images were taken and post processed in Adobe to create 1 photograph. The result is everything from the window view to the dark corners of the room are equally exposed. Some of the panorama shots are a total of 28 photographs stitched together. We can help show your property to its full potential call us today on 01392 460230
Selling Property Using Aerial Photography
This project was commissioned by an estate agent who wanted to show the proximity of the property to the beach. By using our team the vendors were able to show the property both internally and from the sky in one short video.
Property Development and Planning.
You can show your development property and location in one short video. This video shows the location, Planning, satellite image, aerial photographs and video in one short video.
On Site Editing Suite
This video has been edited with 5 different cameras and separate audio. Post production is all done in house Including audio.
This is a local group based in Exeter Devon who commissioned us for a music video. They describe their music as Americano didgryBlues. This is a very unique sound. This was shot using 4 static cameras and separate audio recorder. The aerial shots were taken with one of our UAV's. All post production is done in house.
Exeter University Publicity Portfolio
Some out takes from a recent project with Exeter University for their web site and brochures. Taken with an S1000 and Lumix gh4.
Case study by Utopia Productions.
This project was for Origin to showcase their BI folding doors. Working with Utopia Studios who shot and edited the video. Ewins Aerial produced the aerial footage to give a modern and dynamic edge to this video. The use of the UAV enabled the product to be shown from meters away to 500 meters away in a single shot. This gave a sense of scale and showed the location to full effect which would not have been achievable with any other method.
Internal Photography and panorama stitching
This project was for a Property owner who was struggling to showcase his house. We were able to photograph the property from the air to show not only the location but also the surrounding area in all of its splendor. We can also do the interior photography as well in one visit. We use the latest cameras and multiple flashes to light up the dark corners of a property. Multiple photographs are stitched together to give a panorama of your rooms to show it to its full potential. We can even offer a full dedicated web page showing your property using large full size photographs. http://ewinsaerial.uk/wingate/
Movie Location: Picture courtesy of Mike Alsford
This shoot enabled overhead shots with out the need for the usual Crane and Dolly.
Filming On An Indoor Video Set
The UAV was used instead of a crane for this shot
Filming On Location for an Upcoming Movie "Hells Bells"
Filmed in 4K on Location In Devon
Screen Capture from UAV on Location
Killerton House Devon for the national Trust
A survey of the trees for controlled felling for the National Trust
Multi Camera Sequence
We are not just an Aerial filming unit. This video was filmed using a Octocopter, dji phantom. Sony static camera on a tripod. Drift head camera and a Sony camera and lighting set up taken into a caving system. We can are a one stop shop for all of your video needs.
Sidmouth College celebrating 50 years
Sidmouth College 50 Years
Topsham Devon Panorama
River Exe in Devon looking towards Exmouth and Topsham: The finished project was a wall canvas
View from above the river Exe devon looking south towards Exmouth
Wedding Photography for that unique view
We have now started to incorperate Aerial Photography into Ewins Photography Wedding Photgraphy.
Construction of the New Exeter Link Road
Chimney Inspection
This recent chimney inspection was undertaken for a client who needed to inspect the structural integrity of a chimney on a three storey house. The only other alternative was for scaffolding of the three stories. This was cost and time prohibitive as the drilling into the building for securing the scaffolding. With our UAV we were able to get up close and take high resolution photographs without structural damage to the building and minimal disruption. The photographs were instantly available for inspection with the client having a live view of the inspection. This project had a large saving in time, safety and cost.
Ewins Aerial Photography 2014
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Full horror of Stacey Mitchell's murder revealed
Nicole Cox and AAPPerthNow
TWO young women have pleaded guilty to the murder of teenager Stacey Mitchell, 16, whose body was found in a wheelie bin in Lathlain last December.
Jessica Ellen Stasinowsky, 20, and Valerie Parashumti, 19, both of Burswood, entered guilty pleas today in the Perth Magistrates Court.
They will be dealt with early next year but face mandatory life sentences, with a minimum of at least 15 years in jail.
Now that the pair have admitted the murder, previously suppressed details of their horrific crime can be revealed.
How their callous murder unfolded - By Nicole Cox
TWO women, who today pleaded guilty to the wilful murder of their 16-year-old friend Stacey Mitchell, visited a Bunnings hardware store with a "shopping list'' for a chainsaw and spades just days after brutally killing the girl.
Jessica Ellen Stasinowsky, 20, and Valerie Page Parashumti, 19, today pleaded guilty to the wilful murder of the Atwell teenager in December last year.
Today, for the first time, details of the crime aired in court during the sentencing of their housemate David Ross John Haynes can be revealed.
Previously, a suppression order prevented publication of details of the crime and the disposal of Stacey's body.
In August, Haynes, 27, of Bayswater, was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact over Stacey's death.
Police have alleged that Parashumti and Stasinowsky killed Stacey on Sunday, December 17, after ambushing her and bludgeoning her with a concrete slab at a shared house in Rutland Ave, Lathlain.
Four days later, Stacey's body was found stuffed in a wheelie bin in a shed at the back of the house.
In August, the District Court heard that Parashumti and her girlfriend Stasinowsky had discussed killing people on several occasions.
Prosecutor Dave Dempster told the court that Parashumti had told Haynes that ``no one should destroy your happiness and you should kill anyone that does''.
Haynes then told Parashumti: "That sounds like a good idea but I can think of better people to kill than Stacey''.
Mr Dempster told the court that Haynes later found Stasinowsky grinding glass in a mortar and pestle.
When he asked what she was doing, he said he was told by Stasinowsky that the ground glass would go into a drink for Stacey because it would be "an agonising way to die''.
Stasinowsky then told Haynes: "Don't worry I will just bury her head in the ground to shut her up''.
Mr Dempster said Haynes was asked by the two girls if he would help corner Stacey and trap her.
When he declined he was told: "Just watch then''.
But when Haynes expressed concern at the plan, he was told that if he tried to stop them he would be hurt. Instead, he put on some music, as instructed by Parashumti, and turned it up loud.
As he walked back to his bedroom, he heard Stasinowsky yell: "Now, now, now'' before he heard a thud and a lot of movement.
He heard Stacey yell out: "Help''.
Haynes then told Stasinowsky that he needed to get out of the house because he was having a panic attack. She gave him a black T-shirt to put around his eyes and directed him towards the front door. She handed him a mobile phone and said she would call when it was ``alright to come back''.
The court heard that at 1.40am Haynes rang Stasinowsky and asked if Stacey was dead, to which Stasinowsky confirmed that she was.
When Stasinowsky asked him to give them two hours to clean up the mess, Haynes walked around Burswood.
At 3.20am he received another call from Stasinowsky who told him "it was still a bit messy but to come on in''. He agreed but asked to be blindfolded again.
Parashumti confirmed that Stacey was dead and gave a detailed description of what happened.
In the days after Stacey's death, the housemates discussed different methods of disposing of the body and Haynes accompanied the two women to Bunnings in Morley.
"There was something of a shopping list involving things like a chainsaw and line and spades in an effort to see what method could be done (dispose of the body),'' Mr Dempster said.
Stasinowsky and Parashumti will next appear in court on December 17. | {
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GM Potato Cultivation Green Light by European Commission - But Not for Food
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The EU has approved the cultivation of a genetically modified potato
and the use of three types of altered maize, saying they don't pose a
health risk.
The go-ahead for the Amflora potato – developed by BASF SE, based in
Ludwigshafen, Germany – was the first green light in 12 years to grow
a genetically modified food in the EU.
Critics accused the European commission of pandering to corporate
interests at the expense of public health.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/03/eu-approves-gm-food-potato
The EU executive also approved the marketing of three genetically
modified maize products from Monsanto, based in St Louis, Missouri,
for food and feed purposes – though not their cultivation.
The EU's public health commissioner, John Dalli, said the EU executive
is only guided by science in approving genetically modified organisms,
which is an issue of fierce debate in Europe.
"Responsible innovation will be my guiding principle when dealing with
innovative technologies," he said at a news conference. There were no
scientific reasons to delay the approvals, he said.
The first approval request for the Amflora dates back to 2003. Dalli
said the potato will produce starch for paper production to help save
"raw materials, energy, water and oil-based chemicals".
Though widely used in the US, genetically modified foods face
opposition in Europe, where critics see them as a health and
environmental risk. Opposition is strong in the UK, Austria, Italy,
Hungary, Greece and France.Some EU countries ban them, fearing their
seeds will accidentally spread and alter the natural surroundings;
others do not.
Martin Haeusling, a Green EU Parliament member, said Dalli showed
"flagrant support for industry interests", claiming 70% of EU
consumers oppose genetically manipulated food. "There are serious
concerns about an Amflora gene that is resistant to antibiotics," he
Heike Moldenhauer, a spokesperson for the Friends of the Earth Europe
environmental group, said the EU decision "puts profit before
people ... There are clear health concerns surrounding this GM
potato."
The Italian government also objected. "We are against the decision ...
that grants the permission to cultivate a genetically modified
potato," said Italy's agriculture minister, Luca Zaia.
The German government said the Amflora potato will be grown in eastern
Germany but not on an industrial scale.
Amflora and the three genetically modified maize varieties had already
been approved by the European Food Safety Authority.
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Your Choice: Election 2020 (Wellington)
Our September event in Wellington invited political representatives from across the spectrum to inform our audience of their policies as New Zealand gets ready to vote on 17 October 2020. With two referendums and two votes (party and electorate) there's a lot to think about.
Our politician panel:
Ginny Anderson, Labour Party
Brett Hudson, National Party
Julie Anne Genter, Green Party
Tākuta Ferris, Māori Party
Geoff Simmons, TOP - The Opportunities Party
We appreciate our wonderful MC Maggie Tweedie from RadioActive FM who managed to keep the conversation moving with so many hot topics.
After candidate introductions, Maggie guided us through a series of questions on the big issues. Topics addressed included climate action, education, and plans for recovery post-COVID. The following quotes are simply snippets of the larger conversation had throughout the event. The full event was live-streamed and can be watched on our Facebook page.
Question 1: We have a very small window to act on climate change in this country. As a candidate what climate action are you supporting in NZ?
Julie Anne - "The Green Party has made climate change a major priority. We passed the Zero Carbon act and managed to insert consideration around climate change into a whole lot of different things that government is doing. But I won't lie, we need to go much further and faster in the next three years, particularly in transport. That is where we need to make big reductions in carbon emissions."
Geoff - "The big issue with climate change is that under current projections, the biggest thing that we are going to do over the next five to ten years isn't reduce emissions - we are going to plant pine trees. I don't know about you, but I think that's a really crap response. We need to literally put the heat on processed heat, so that people stop using coal. Getting that carbon price up generates revenue. The biggest thing we need to do is energy efficiency - in our businesses and our homes - energy efficient appliances, insulation, ecc.
The other big thing we need to do is bring A and B closer together… people need to be able to easily get around the city without needing a car. This involves investing in our cities. We need to invest in councils to ensure they have money to build infrastructure."
Brett - "We too supported the Carbon Zero Act. The other thing I'd like to see us focus on is in our primary sector. It's finding technical mitigation so that we can bring them into an emissions scheme sooner. (Brett is speaking to the potential of genetic modification - for example, there is a genetically modified Rye strand in the US that can reduce cow emissions.) Our current law prevents this agricultural research in New Zealand."
Ginny - "One of my greatest fears is that all the good work we do now just gets subsequently unpicked by future governments.
The quality of our water right across New Zealand has been sucked into a lot of irrigation and there are higher rates of pollution. The quality of our natural environment needs to substantially improve if we want to hand it over to the next generation in the state that I was able to enjoy it in. We need a system in place where we can reward good behaviour and penalise bad behaviour."
Tākuta - "A Māori view of looking after the environment involves working with a balance. Until you address the capitalist view of how things roll in the world, you'll never achieve it. You can't act in 3 year cycles when you're thinking 1,000 years. It really comes down to how committed you are to the future. A Māori view is that we are ultimately committed to the future, because the future involves our tamariki and our mokopuna. We want to ensure that what has been there for us is enhanced, and still there for them."
Question #2: The Treaty of Waitangi as the point around which everything else in NZ should revolve. How can the constitutional change lead to social change in Aotearoa?
Tākuta - "The Treaty of Waitangi is the founding of the partnership between the Māori and primarily the British. There's a lot of myth dispelling that needs to go on around the Treaty, so we raise the common understanding of what it is, and then we can get on with living an honorable life with one another."
Julie Anne - "There is a massive journey that we all need to go on as a society to fundamentally decolonise Aotearoa."
Question #3: According to Stats NZ, the number of people not in labour force has risen to 37,000 this quarter. The number of employed people fell 11,000. What are your policies on employment in the next election cycle?
Geoff - "COVID has given us a sneak peak behind the curtains, of the future. Automation and AI will destroy 1 in 8 jobs in the next decade. That means that in your lifetime, there won't be just one job in your lifetime. People are going to need to retrain several times in their lifetime.
We support a universal basic income - give everybody $250 a week, no questions asked. That supports the working poor, the unpaid workers, the people who are retraining."
Brett - "We need to jump start confidence in business. We need to help business owners to take risks now. Now is the time for our government to spend some money, otherwise the recovery will be far too slow and too many livelihoods will be wrecked."
Ginny - "We need to pay people a whole lot more. Property prices are so high, rent is so high, and wages need to catch up."
Question #4: What are your policies on Māori education? Referring to compulsory Te Reo and Māori History in schools.
Tākuta - "We'd love to see a unique identity, and an indigenous one, for Aotearoa.
One thing that we know about education is that it has long failed and misunderstood Māori. Māori do not succeed in the current education system. Young Māori and Polonesians are the largest demographic coming up in this country, roughly the same size as the baby boomer generation.
What needs to be more commonly understood is that the future of the country is dependent on young Māori receiving a good quality education. What's good for Māori is good for Aotearoa, New Zealand."
Question #5: How will your party tackle the economic and health related outcomes of COVD-19 in the coming years?
Tākuta - "Whānau First is an assertion that the Treaty partner and indigenous people of the country should get at least 25% of the COVID recovery fund and 25% across government spending to deal to Māori issues and Māori places."
Julie Anne - "Ultimately, there's no point giving people more money if we don't address the problems in our housing market. We need serious market rental regulations."
Geoff - "In terms of supercharging the economy post-COVID, we need to move away from GDP and focus much more on productivity. Work smarter not harder. Add value, not volume. New Zealand is very good at coming up with new ideas, but we are terrible at commercialising them."
Brett - "We need to find a way to sooner, rather than later, to safely bring people into our country whether it's a form of future tourism or for education."
Ginny - "Jobs, jobs, and jobs. Making sure that people are working, which is a real challenge right now. Giving people opportunities through free apprenticeships. Giving people employment opportunities that are meaningful and contribute to the building of our country when we really need it is going to be critical to how we pivot and adapt to a completely changed world."
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Takeaway Actions:
Ensure that you are registered to vote in the upcoming election! Don't be a vote ghost.
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Watch and share the upcoming live-streamed debates.
Watch and share social media content like Whakaaro Fridays and Alice Snedden's Bad News.
Support organisations that increase access to civic dialogue such as JustSpeak.
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People often ask me what is the most common cause of conflict in a marriage. If I asked you the same question, you would probably guess money and you would be right, but only partially. My response is always that couples most frequently fight about tiny, insignificant problems. But how is that possible? America has a 50% divorce rate, so how could insignificant problems be what are destroying our marriages?
Your marriage may now be dealing with a huge issue, but it started off as a tiny snowball. Instead of dealing with it at the outset, and communicating with your spouse to resolve the issue, you've let it grow into a humongous ball of icy snow barreling towards you at top speed, and neither you nor your partner know how to stop it. It feels like you've reached a point of no return, but if you'd dealt with it when it was just a minor issue, you never would have ended up here.
If you ignore the little problems, they'll start rolling down that hill and eventually turn into gigantic deal breakers for your relationship . So no matter how large or small your problems might be right now, if you want to resolve conflicts and turn your marriage around, you must apply the RWID technique. RWID stands for "relative weight in importance and duration." It's really just a fancy way of determining how important an issue actually is in the long term. Think about two weeks from now, two months from now, and two years from now. If you don't deal with the problem, what happens two years down the road? If you and your spouse can't move past the issue, how big of a problem does it become two years from now?
Sometimes, when you apply this technique and look forward to future ramifications, you can easily see that whatever you're upset about isn't even worth it. Is it really going to matter two months from now that your spouse forgot to set out the garbage for pickup that one day? Is it worth getting worked up over, or starting conflict over? On the other hand, some problems you can see growing into larger issues over time. Does your spouse habitually forget to put out the cans? Are you going to become increasingly resentful about it if you don't confront the problem now?
A lot of couples end up not knowing what it is that they're fighting over or why they're so angry in the first place. Arguing can become a habit, especially because arguments are an unproductive form of communication in which neither party really listens to the other and nothing really gets resolved. Think about the last time you got into a fight with your spouse. What were you fighting about? Now think about how important that thing you were fighting about really was. Should you have just let it go, or was it something that could potentially become big enough to cause serious problems in your relationship down the road?
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R v Tran [2010] VSC 560: positive identification
On 13 December 2010 By Dr ManhattanIn Uncategorized
R v Tran [2010] VSC 560 is a decision of Hollingworth J presiding over a murder trial. The judgment concerns the admissibility of the selection of the accused's picture from an array of photographs shown to an eyewitness.
Pitkin v R (1995) 80 A Crim R 302 is often quoted as authority for the proposition (amongst others) that it's unsafe to convict on a less-than-positive identification. While this is true, that doesn't mean that a less-than-positive identification is inadmissible, or that a trier of fact cannot use a less-than-positive identification in combination with other circumstantial evidence to find the prosecution case proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Two prosecution witnesses were each shown a selection of photographs arrayed in a folder (a photoboard) and asked to nominate, if possible, the man they saw with the deceased on the day of his death. One of the witnesses eventually selected the accused's photo, while the other merely said the accused's photo was 'like' the man he saw on that day.
The first witness made his selection this way (as described in his police statement):
I indicated to Photo Number 11 by pointing and saying:
1. They all look similar 11 could be it.
2. I remember that he was taller than average Asian, slender looks young (maybe 18).
3. Remember his lips – Asian lips normally thin whereas white people's lips are usually fuller and this bloke had fuller lips.
4. Definitely not number 8, I reckon its number 11.
Question – Where have you seen number 11 before?
Reply – In the Telstra building the day the guy was bashed. It was the other guy that I have looked at earlier that had the bat when I saw them.
The first witness was cross-examined at the committal to the effect that, like the second witness, he wasn't sure whether the person he identified was the person he saw with the deceased. The first witness replied in his evidence, "No, I am sure that this is the bloke."
Hollingworth J [at 21],
Defence counsel argued that [the first witness] did not make a positive identification of the accused, and the evidence was therefore inadmissible. I rejected both of those submissions, for the following reasons.
Had [the first witness's] proposed evidence gone no further than his witness statement, there might have been some room for argument about whether or not he had positively identified the accused, or merely said something to the effect of "I think it is him" or "he is similar to the man I saw". But, when regard is had to his evidence at the committal, it is clear that he positively identified number 11, the accused, as the other man present at the squat at the relevant time.
Even if he had not made a positive identification, [the first witness's] evidence would have been admissible as part of the Crown's circumstantial case. Evidence to the effect that an accused person is similar to, or resembles, the offender has been held to be admissible as part of the circumstantial evidence in cases involving issues of identification: Murphy v The Queen (1994) 62 SASR 121 and Festa v The Queen (2001) 208 CLR 593. Although such evidence is not sufficient in itself to sustain a conviction (Pitkin v R (1995) 80 A Crim R 302), it may nevertheless form part of a circumstantial case pointing to the accused as the offender.
As far as [the other witness] was concerned, the Crown accepted that he did not make a positive identification of the accused. However, his evidence was admissible as part of the Crown's circumstantial case, on the authorities just mentioned.
Hollingworth J declined to reject the evidence under ss 135 or 137, deciding (similar to the way the Court of Appeal did in DPP v B B; DPP v Q N [2010] VSCA 211) that prejudice could be overcome by suitable jury directions.
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6 thoughts on "R v Tran [2010] VSC 560: positive identification"
under the evidence act the police must offer visual id parade. if they do not then prosecution cannot use picture id. the judge does not mention this in the judge's decision.when the witness was not sure about the id the police shoudl have done a parade.
14 December 2010 at 9:12 PM Reply
It might depend on the particular case but its hard to justify the admission of the evidence of identification where the witness didn't pick anyone. I'm surprised the court didn't exclude that evidence under 135 or 137.There would be a very real risk that the jury would lend undue weight to the witness who wasn't really making an identification at all but just giving evidence of similarity. (Particularly where another witness in the trial is using the same process to make a purportedly positive identification). That danger would be easily avoided by just having the witness give their description rather than using the photo of the defendant.If jury directions were a cureall there would be no need for the rules of evidence, after all.
15 December 2010 at 2:38 AM Reply
K20, under the transitional provision in clause 5(1) of schedule 2 of the EA2008, s. 114 does not apply to an identification made before the commencement day (1/1/2010.) The relevant identifications were made in March 2009. (Also, we don't know why an ID parade wasn't held.)Melbourne Lawyer, you're right but (a) the High Court has been very dismissive of prejudice arguments in ID cases, e.g. Festa [2001] HCA 72, which involved much weaker IDs than this case; (b) based on Hollingworth's summary of the defence's arguments, it doesn't seem like the defence argued the point especially well.That being said, Hollingworth has an unfortunate tendency to be contemptuously dismissive of arguments that she disagrees with (see [32] in Tran and cf. Sabet [2008] VSC 2008, 346 at [73], [88], [99], [135].
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It might depend on the particular case but its hard to justify the admission of the evidence of identification where the witness didn't pick anyone. I'm surprised the court didn't exclude that evidence under 135 or 137.There would be a very real risk that the jury would lend undue weight to the witness who wasn't really making an identification at all but just giving evidence of similarity. (Particularly where another witness in the trial is using the same process to make a *purportedly* positive identification). That danger would be easily avoided by just having the witness give their description rather than using the photo of the defendant.If jury directions were a cureall there would be no need for the rules of evidence, after all.
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Continental Launches New Timing Belt for Special Citroen and Peugeot Engines
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Technology company Continental is updating its range of timing belts for the automotive aftermarket with the addition of the CT1228 timing belt. This will replace the previously available model, the CT1188, in all applications. It is intended for use in Peugeot and Citroen 1.2-liter engines built from the end of MY 2013 onwards.
Even tougher and harder-wearing
The timing belt runs directly in oil in some applications. Manufacturers use this design to reduce friction in the engine and thus cut its emissions. At the same time, this ensures low-noise operation with very precise timing. Operating in this way, however, places extremely high demands on the timing belt's wear properties. Because even the slightest level of impurities in the oil can result in the formation of crystals. If such crystals get between the belt and the pulley, the belt can be damaged by the extremely hard crystals and, in the worst-case scenario, tear.
This prompted Continental to further improve the belt's material properties: The glass-cord tension members have an optimized, oil-resistant coating and are embedded in an HNBR rubber (hydrogenated nitrile rubber) cross-linked with peroxide. This has an even higher acrylonitrile (ACN) content than before. The higher this content, the better the material's resistance to certain carbon compounds that can occur as a result of friction between crystallized impurities in the oil. The aramid fabric on the inside face of the belt is also equipped with a multi-layer wear protection system. "The CT1188 itself was extremely tough and hard-wearing. In the newly developed CT1228 we have been able to improve these properties further still," says Continental product manager Robert Franz. That means that even older engines with particularly high mileage can enjoy the efficiency and environmental benefits provided by a design featuring a timing belt running in oil. However, workshops must play their part in this by complying precisely with the manufacturer's oil specifications, Franz continues.
Continental also grants its 5-year guarantee to registered workshops for the new CT1228 timing belt. Please visit www.continental-ep.de/5 for further details.
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Men and Boys for Gender Justice
Nov 8, 2014 | Editor's Blog |
From New York to New Delhi
By Rob Okun
Entitled menchildren in the National Football League spark renewed attention to the epidemic of domestic violence and child abuse. Brave young women speaking truth to power demand action to halt sexual assaults on college campuses. Pioneering profeminist men from around the world gather in India to engage men and boys to promote gender equality.
In the ongoing effort to transform manhood, the pace has been accelerating. From the White House to the 50-yard line, from Kolkata to Cape Town, the call for men to change, to be allies with women in the work of ending gender-based violence and redefining manhood, is growing louder. From the Obama administration's ItsOnUs campaign to the Emma Watson–supported United Nations' HeforShe, opportunities are also growing for men to add our voices to the global conversation about men and masculinities. By the time summer ended, I was feeling the need to slow down, to reflect on what's been unfolding on the dizzying, windy road to gender justice.
I got my wish to decelerate on the weekend of the autumn equinox. I had been invited to participate in a weekend gathering at the Omega Institute, whose women's leadership conference for the first time in its 12-year history included men.
"Women and Men: The Next Conversation" drew hundreds from across North America and beyond on a quest to better understand contemporary efforts at fostering gender equality.
And, not long afterward, I would be en route to India, as a delegate to the second MenEngage global symposium, "Men and Boys for Gender Justice." With active chapters on every continent, several hundred MenEngage delegates, and other men and women allies from some dozens of countries, would spend four days learning from one another and strengthening the ties in the global movement to engage men and boys to promote gender equality.
At the "next conversation" gathering in upstate New York, Voice Male contributing editor Michael Kimmel was among the dozen and a half presenters, who ranged from Diana Nyad, the inspiring long-distance swimmer, to Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia. Poet and actor Carlos Andrés Gómez, and Tony Porter, cofounder of the national antiviolence organization A Call to Men, were among the soloists in the chorus of men's voices, as was Zach Wahls, the 23-year-old son of two mothers who shared his stirring testimony before an Iowa legislative committee that three years ago was considering overturning the state's affirming gay marriage law. (Read his article, "An Ambassador for Men," from the latest issue.)
One afternoon I attended a break out session on gender reconciliation. In a meeting room magically transformed into a sacred community sanctuary, skilled and sensitive facilitators Rev. Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin of Gender Reconciliation International—working with gifted staff from the U.S., South Africa, and Colombia—created a safe space where participants could examine gender injustice and healing.
A row of men faced two rows of women. The men sat in silent witness as woman after woman stood up, identifying herself as a survivor of sexual violence. Asked later to speak about our experience as witnesses, the men expressed deep sorrow, frustration, and anger at what had happened to them. We were sad and uncomfortable sitting with women's reality, undeniable as it was. For their part, the women were gracious and understanding, seeing in our eyes how pained we were. (There was also an opportunity for men to share about and support male survivors of sexual abuse.) For me, it has always been the mix of on-the-ground activism on behalf of gender justice with personal growth toward gender reconciliation that offers a way forward, a resonant expression of the women's movement's decades-old adage, "the personal is political."
Indeed, campaigns to recruit men to challenge violence against women may be ultimately more successful if men feel connected to their own personal understanding of gender injustice.
That connect-the-dots kind of thinking is reflected in the work of Australian researcher and activist Wynne Russell. In a workshop she was scheduled to conduct at the symposium in New Delhi, Russell planned to describe a heretofore-underacknowledged population of potential gender justice activists—male survivors of sexual abuse. "All male survivors of sexual violence," Russell says, "have the potential to be natural allies in the global quest both to end violence against women and girls and to work for gender justice." (See her moving article, "Male Sexual Violence Survivors: Newest Activists for Gender Justice?".
What will be the next conversation between women and men? A series of ongoing conversations. Omega's weekend in upstate New York was one such gathering; the MenEngage convocation in New Delhi another. Next March, the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities is hosting its inaugural conference in New York. Today, there are national, regional, statewide, municipal, and kitchen table conversations, too; they're happening in cities and towns around the world. Men and boys on every continent are deconstructing the "man box" that seeks to constrain us. Some are taking the walls down one at a time; others are working to knock down the whole structure. Whatever the approach, the aim is the same: to transform our ideas about boyhood and manhood, fatherhood and brotherhood. Long before the Omega conversation began, and long after the MenEngage Delhi symposium ended, a decentralized global recruitment program to recast masculinity has been at work.
It's lacked a tagline. Perhaps now is the right moment to appropriate the 200-year-old U.S. Marines marketing slogan: "We're looking for a few good men." Will you join us?
Rob Okun can be reached at [email protected].
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IWC Schaffhausen Manufacturing Center awarded renowned industry prize
IWC Schaffhausen has won the GEO Award (Global Excellence in Operations) in its first-ever entry into the industry competition "Factory of the Year". The prize is one of the most desirable awards for European companies and attests to the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer's outstanding operational excellence across the entire value-added chain. But the strong performances of IWC in the areas of quality and sustainability have also been recognised by the jurors.
Perfect quality can only be achieved by excellence on all levels: The very highest performance is required in innovation, development and design, but above all in terms of various production processes, so that every individual timepiece from IWC fulfils the strictest requirements for quality, reliability and long service life. In 2018, IWC consolidated the production of movement parts, movement assembly and case-making in a new Manufacturing Center. Now the transparently structured watchmaking company, in which IWC combines traditional craftsmanship with the latest production methods and technologies, has been awarded with the GEO Award (Global Excellence in Operations) at the industry competition "Factory of the Year".
"For over ten years, we have been addressing the subject of operational excellence as part of various strategic programmes and have since then been able to achieve far-reaching improvements across the entire value-added chain. In the areas of quality, service and sustainability, in particular, we have achieved huge successes in doing so. The fact that we were able to win the major accolade of the GEO Award the very first time we took part in the competition is a great affirmation of our work, but at the same time is a great motivation for continuing to work on the ongoing improvement of our processes and products. We want to ensure absolutely perfect quality, so that our mechanical timepieces delight their owners for an entire lifetime," explains Andreas Voll, COO of IWC Schaffhausen.
The operations specialists of IWC have developed a new production layout for the new Manufacturing Center, which illustrates the value stream from the raw material to the finished movement or case in a closely coordinated process. Comprehensive lean principles were taken into account here, which are above all targeted at the avoidance of mistakes, short throughput times and high quality. The shop floor areas, in which employees regularly meet and exchange information, also contribute to the constant improvement of the processes.
The competition's jurors particularly recognised the efforts with which IWC improves the quality of its products and increases sustainability in production. Examples mentioned included the use of advanced techniques for data analysis. From the production of a product and all test steps right up to service and customer feedback, comprehensive data on quality is collected and evaluated at IWC. The findings from this regularly feed into the improvement of processes. IWC's performance in the area of sustainability was also particularly highlighted – for example, energy efficiency in production, the avoidance of waste and the "Great Place to Work" certification as an employer.
The industry competition "Factory of the Year" has been held since 1992 and aims to honour the outstanding achievements of manufacturing companies. The joint initiative of the Kearney consulting firm, SV Veranstaltungen and the industry magazine "Produktion" is one of the most renowned prizes for industrial companies in Europe. Past winners have included Mercedes-AMG, Procter & Gamble Crailsheim, MAN, Bosch, ABB and Infineon.
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Stir ingredients throughout cooking time— if you are not near your crockpot while it's cooking, it should be just fine!
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Both the federal government and state agencies have laws pertaining to high-pressure sales and purchase or loan contract cancellations. The Truth in Lending Act, the Federal Trade Commission's "cooling-off rule" and numerous state "buyer's remorse" laws offer ways to cancel some signed purchase contracts within three to five days. Although qualifying purchases vary by law, the process for legal cancellation is much the same regardless of the law that applies to a given situation.
Woman handing over contract to be signed.
You must inform a seller or lender in writing to legally cancel a contract. All that is necessary is a simple letter written in a business format that states you wish to terminate the purchase contract as the terms and conditions in the contract allow, identifies the product or service and includes the effective date. As an alternative, you can fill out a cancellation form if the seller provides one. Regardless, you must send a cancellation letter or notice by postal mail or email or deliver the notice in person before midnight of the third business day after the purchase; according to the FTC, this includes Saturday. The FTC recommends that you send a cancellation notice by certified mail with a return receipt.
The FTC's cooling-off rule applies to purchase contracts valued at $25 or more that you sign anywhere other than a seller's normal business location. This includes off-site locations such as your home, a trade show or a booth at a home and garden show. The cooling-off rule gives you until midnight of the third business day after signing a purchase contract to cancel regardless of the reason. It excludes high-value items such as automobiles and real estate and only applies to purchases made for personal, family or household use.
Truth-in-lending contract cancellation laws focus on protecting your home. They allow you to cancel a contract for a home improvement loan, a second mortgage, a home equity line of credit and most other loan types except for your first mortgage, which uses your home as collateral security. Just as with the cooling-off rule, you have until midnight of the third business day after signing a contract to cancel the agreement.
Although contract cancellation procedures in most states are similar, consumer protection laws vary in terms of what types of contracts you can cancel and what time frame applies. Many states offer greater protections than the cooling-off rule or truth-in-lending laws. For example, you might have the option to cancel a purchase contract that you signed on site, off site or on the business's website. Many states allow you to cancel services and memberships, and some extend the time frame indefinitely. Contact your state consumer protection agency for cancellation laws that apply in your state. | {
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How will Fred fit in at Man United? A look at Mourinho's thrilling 4-3-3 formation in 2018/19
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Now that it is almost confirmed that Fred will sign for Manchester United, we are going to take a look at where the Brazilian midfielder will fit in at United. Fred is expected to slot in alongside Paul Pogba if Mourinho opts for a 4-3-3 which would see Matic continue as the defensive midfielder. If Mourinho opts to play with a 4-2-3-1 formation, which is unlikely considering Pogba's problems with the formation, Fred will play as a double pivot alongside Matic.
Manchester United expected formation with Fred in 2018/19
Fred is an energetic box to box midfielder who can also play on the right wing. Although, Mourinho has been looking to sign a right midfielder, it is unlikely that Fred will be playing on the right. He is almost certain to be partnering Pogba and Matic in midfield. His work rate is top notch and it will certainly help Paul Pogba to play with more freedom and express his talent. For Pogba, it will be his third season and Manchester United will certainly expect him to repay the money they paid for him. The first two seasons have been disappointing,so this might be Pogba's last chance to make a long career at Old Trafford.
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On March 29 - 30, the second stage of the European Grand Prix 2014 will be played in Rome, Italy. The tournament is also part of the Italian Grand Prix.
Number of players: 31 - 34 from beginners to masters.
On top of the list with 7 wins, Alessandro Di Mattei. The winner of EGP in Rome in 2012, Michele Borassi, lost 2 games as did a lot of the other favourites. Three losses for Takuji Kashiwabara, the 2013 EGP Champion. Michele Borassi lost to Francesco Marconi (round 3)and to Arthur in round 6. Arthur Juigner lost to Marc Tastet in round 4 and to Alessandro Di Matei in round 7.
Alessandro Di Mattei lost 16 - 48 against Michele Borassi in round 8 and had 10 points after 11 rounds. Michele Borassi and Arthur Juigner both won 4 more games and finished equally with 9 points. A disappointment for Arthur, now age 12, that he failed to qualify for the final but he came back strong in the playoff for 3rd and 4th place. Arthur had won 35 - 29 against Takuji in round 10 and he defeated Takuji in the playoff 22 - 42.
Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA) is one of the major Othello players in Europe. He won the European Grand Prix Championship 7 times. This EGP tourney in Rome was his 100th EGP tourney. Reason enough for Othello news to have an interview with him, before tourney number 101 in Copenhagen.
Takuji, when and how did you start to play Othello and when was your first EGP tourney?
I started playing othello as a child, which is nothing surprising for a Japanese. I started to play in competition in 1996 in France when I learned that there was such thing as a selection to French Championship in Lyon, a city which was just a little over an hour from my city by train. To my big surprise, I got qualified for the French Championship, and I think this qualification motivated me to play serious competitions.
My first EGP was Paris EGP in 1997, but of course, for me it was just another french tournament, although there were some international players. My first EGP outside France was Cambridge EGP in 1998.
You won the EGP 7 times. How many tourney victories and finals?
What was your best Othello year so far and what was your sweetest victory?
Two difficult questions. The year when I made the most progress was indoubtedly 1999 : I won my first full-length tournament in France, my first international tournament, and got qualified for the World Championship for the first time (well at the time in France there were more players interested in playing at WOC than today, so it was not that easy). In terms of my overall performance over the year, it is really difficult to choose from 2001, 2002 and 2003. But if we are talking about my best performance in the WOC, it was 2005. In any case, that goes back too long time ago now.
The second question is also difficult to answer. There are number of victories of which I have been quite happy for different reasons. Basically you can be happy about your victory because you found a nice move that is not obvious, or because you trusted your intuition which turned out to be correct, or because you succeeded to plan really ahead, or because you learned something new (well this happens more often in games you lose than in games you win) during the game, or because you have had an occasion to apply a newly learned theory (or a theory that you knew for a long time but you hadn't had an occasion to apply up to then), or simply because the game had an important consequence, or maybe because the opponent was reputed to be strong. Now, I can find almost several games of which I am fond of in each category.
Here is one game involving "nice move"
At the move 34, although other moves don't look very promising, 34 g2 is not so obvious move to play, especially because of the north edge: White gains one tempo in the north-east region, but Black then is likely to end up playing B1. The point is that in most variations, because of the wedging in h2, White will have another potential tempo in south-east region. Which is why the best move 35 for Black is e8 ?!
Here is one in which "I learned something"
The points are 34 e1 (well, this was the second time I played the move, but the continuation was different) together with 40 g2. If you only consider the north-east corner, 34 e1 will look like an extremely bad move. By flipping f2, White gives a tempo in g1 to Black, and by flipping g3, White throws away his own tempo in h2. But if you look all over the board, you see that h2 is not a tempo for white anyway, because of the stoner g7->h3, which is extremely difficult avoid.
Furthermore, if Black takes back the edge, White then will have a quiet move in c6, and, the best part of the story is that g1 is not really a tempo, in a long term, for Black, because White will have a tempo at g2 in a near future.
Of course, another question is whether one should play 40 g2 or 40 h7, since the north edge is quite attractive, and White will have more liberty to play around the corner a1 than Black around the corner h8. It has turned out that g2 is much better than h7, and in many cases in this kind of position g2 would be better.
By the way, this game also happens to fall into another category, that is this is a part of the first best of three match ever I won.
Is there 1 particular player in Europe that you learned a lot from?
I played against Manu Caspard at the first round of my first French Championship! After the game we left the room, took a board and he commented my moves, without the transcript sheet ! Several years later I learned that in Japan almost any good player can produce the transcript without the board, but at the time this impressed me a lot. Anyhow, he won the French Championship that year. The year I started in European Grand Prix (outside France), he was the winner of European Grand Prix, winning all four tournaments in which he took part. So you see, he was an othellistic hero for me. I replayed many times his games, thinking over possible variations and refutations etc.
Is there 1 particular player in Europe that you find hard to beat?
If I keep playing like I did in Cambridge and Rome this year, lots of players will be hard to beat for me :( More seriously I think currently I am having a huge loss streak against Michele Borassi.
Is there 1 particular city that you like to go to for EGP?
Last year there were only 5 players that took part in 4 or more of the 2013 EGP tourneys. That is not a very solid base for such a prestigeous titIe as European Othello Champion. Is there a future for the European Grand Prix? What can be done to attract more players?
Well, I am aware what I say is not very diplomatic, but in my opinion there are simply too many tournaments in places that are far away. There are now tournaments in Athens and Moscow. When I started, there were 5 tournaments with best 3 results that counted, which was very reasonable. I think it would be better to reduce the number of tournaments, but not by letting each country organize one tournament once in three years instead of once in two years. One thing we could do, is to distinguish "central" countries and "peripheral" countries and each country in the central zone organize a tournament once in two years whereas others do, for example, once in four years.
I am sure you are eager to win the 2014 EGP too. How many hours do you spend studying Othello?
For the Othello rookies, is there a fast way to on the board succes?
Depending on what you call "fast". By dedicating ten hours a day to Othello, one will probably make seventy times as much progress as by spending an hour each week for Othello. Can we call it a fast progress?
Your best result at the WOC is a third place in 2005, Isn't it about time that the 7x European champion also takes the World title?
As I said before, at the moment I can't spend enough time for Othello this year, so I certainly will not win the World title.
Thank you very much Takuji for the interview and good luck!!! | {
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Home News Vestavia Hills officer killed in incident at Gardendale home
Vestavia Hills officer killed in incident at Gardendale home
by NEAL EMBRY
Photo Courtesy of Vestavia Hills
Andrew Wade Kimbrel, 42, was shot and killed on May 2 in a domestic situation. Kimbrel had been with the Vestavia Hills Police Department since October 2002.
A Vestavia Hills police officer is dead after a late night shooting on May 2 in Gardendale.
Andrew Wade Kimbrel, 42, was shot and killed at his residence on Woodbrook Drive. Kimbrel had been with the department since October 2002, and had served as a patrol officer, school resource officer at Vestavia Hills Elementary West and Vestavia Hills High School, and evidence technician, VHPD Capt. Johnny Evans said at a press conference.
The Gardendale Police Department announced in a press release they arrived on scene at about 11 p.m. Thursday night and found Kimbrel suffering from a gunshot wound. Kimbrel was taken to UAB Hospital where he died Friday morning.
Kimbrel leaves behind two children and a wife, as well as other family, Evans said.
"Andy was loved by his fellow officers and the community in which he chose to protect," Evans said in a prepared statement. "The Vestavia Police Department extends our gratitude to the community for their outpouring of support during this difficult time."
The incident was domestic in nature, according to Gardendale's press release, but no other information was made available, and calls to the Gardendale Police Department were unanswered. It is unknown whether any arrests have been made in the officer's death.
"Andy was a community-loving guy," Evans said. "He loved kids, he loved people. He chose this profession because he wanted to serve people and protect people. He was known as a protector and an all-around great guy."
The loss is the second in two years for the department, after Bobby Hancock took his own life in November 2017.
"It's rough, especially in the way we've lost the two," Evans said. "Most people expect police officers to lose their life in the commission of their job, not by taking their own life or in a domestic situation."
Funeral arrangements are pending, and Evans said counseling, as well as the city's chaplains, are available to help officers in the days ahead.
Organizations including the Vestavia Hills Police Foundation will be contacted to potentially offer assistance to Kimbrel's family.
See the updated story here.
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2. growth in dividends per share by more than the rate of UK inflation.
20% of the portfolio comprise overseas listed holdings including Swiss Pharma, Roche and US tobacco firms Reynolds and Altria.
Share price total return for the year was 20.1% compared to an increase in the FTSE All Share of 16.8%. It is proposed to increase the final dividend to 7.8p making a total of 22.8p for the year, an increase of 3.6% on the previous years payout of 22.0p.
The returns have been excellent over the past 3 years, however this has given rise to the payment of a hefty performance fee of £11.5m which has increased the overall charges this year to 1.6% TER (compared to 1.0% in 2012). In addition the servicing of loans and debentures accounted for a further £19.5m - an additional 1.7% of NAV. The good news on the gearing situation is that the £100m 11.5% debenture will mature next year and this should significantly reduce borrowing costs thereafter.
Woodford likes to invest in large, well-established businesses that generate plenty of cash and are committed to returning some of this to shareholders via decent dividends. All he aims to do is to capture the biggest share of this future dividend stream as he can for investors. At the current price of 587p the yield is 3.9%.
By sticking with income investing and not following the latest investment fad, Woodford has produced superior, consistent, long-term returns. Also, by focusing on quality, defensive businesses, he has avoided the high-risk end of the market where the biggest losers lurk. For example, he ditched financial shares long before the credit crunch of summer 2008 blew up our banks and led to huge, taxpayer-backed bailouts. In the past year he has avoided miners which has been a positive for the portfolio.
He prefers a fairly concentrated holding of around 40 shares and favours big pharma, accounting for 25% of his portfolio and tobacco 20%.
One of the bigger decisions this past year was to completely offload Vodafone - previously a top ten holding - noting the cash flow cover has fallen to uncomfortable levels.
Edinburgh is one of the corner stones of my income portfolio in both Sipp drawdown and ISA. Obviously I would have liked a little more uplift in the dividend but cannot complain about the overall returns and happy to continue holding.
I'm always on the look-out for ways to diversify my portfolio. I also like to keep costs to a minimum.
I was therefore interested to see low-cost index tracker provider, Vanguard have recently launched 4 new exchange traded funds (ETFs) - here's a link.
As an income investor, the main item of interest is the FTSE All World High Dividend Yield (VHYL). The index consists of over 1000 higher yielding large and mid-cap companies listed all around the world. The largest sector of 33% is USA followed by UK 13.2%, Australia 6.3%, Switzerland 5.7% - also France, Canada, Germany, Japan, China and Brazil.
The target yield is 4% and I assume the distribution will be twice yearly. The annual costs are very competitive at just 0.29% TER.
One advantage of holding this ETF within my Sippdeal ISA is the avoidance of the £50 per annum custody fee levied on Vanguard funds. Also, there is no 0.5% stamp duty to pay on purchase.
I think this could be worth adding to the portfolio. It would be interesting to see how a passive income index tracker compares with a managed global investment trust like Murray International.
Further to my write-up on ABB in March (here's a link), I was pleasantly surprised to see this mornings announcement.
Abbey have decided to return around £5m to shareholders by way of a 5p special dividend to be paid in June. This will make a total dividend of 9.9p for the year and yield of 8.6% at the current share price of 115p.
The company has no gearing and at the time of the final results, they had increased net cash by a further £3.3m compared to the previous year.
Ex dividend for the special is next Wednesday, 29th May.
Back in early January, I did a guest post for RIT "Investing for Income Using Shares". Here's a link to that article.
As with a recent article relating to my investment trusts, I think it could also be a useful exercise to monitor an income portfolio based on 18 individual shares from my portfolio. Again, I have taken prices from the start of 2013 and allocated a nominal £1,500 for each share.
Here's the portfolio showing current valuations and including dividends accumulated since January.
Some of the above have been the subject of an article in recent weeks - Reckitt, Aberdeen, Greggs, Dialight, BSkyB, Abbey Protection, DS Smith, Tesco and, most recently, Sainsbury. I will comment on others as results are announced later in the year.
Income has been almost exactly as expected - the total for the full year should be around £1,100. However, the overall return, (including those dividends paid to date) of 8.4% is disappointing considering the FTSE 100 is up over 15% on a total return basis since the start of the year. Furthermore, the return on my investment trust portfolio is up around 16% which is prompting me to seriously question whether the more profitable route over the longer term would be to switch the proceeds of the shares entirely to investment trusts.
I have been running parallel income portfolios using shares and investment trusts for over three years and each year, the total returns from the investment trusts has been slightly ahead of the shares portfolio - maybe 2% or 3%. As we have seen with management charges, the effect of an extra 3% or 4% compounded over many years can make quite a difference to your final outcome.
I will run the twin track portfolio until the end of the year and see how things turn out - I think 4 years will be a sufficient length of time to reach a conclusion.
I thought I would take a brief look at ways to compare the costs of the increasingly complex ways of holding investments.
My personal preference has been to hold a mixture of investment trusts and shares for the equity portion of my portfolio. However, many investors choose the simplicity of funds (OEICs) including the increasingly popular low-cost tracker funds.
With the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) at the start of this year, the industry is moving to a more transparent way of charging which should be beneficial to retail consumers. In the past couple of weeks, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that from April 2014 all fund supermarkets and platforms will be obliged to explicitly charge for what they do rather than take payment in the form of commission and back-handers from fund providers. Some platforms have already moved to this new system of charging but the rest will be allowed 2 years to make the full transition.
Traditionally, part of a funds charges has been paid by the fund provider to the platform, say 0.25% to 0.5%, out of the typical 1.5% TER. As this will no longer be permitted, it should mean the charges for funds will be lower and it will create more of a level playing field between investment trusts (which have never paid commission) and low cost trackers. Indeed, some funds have already started to offer a 'clean' class of fund with the lower TERs (or ongoing charges).
Investors holding a portfolio of funds should now therefore check with their provider to see whether a lower charging 'clean' option is available and whether their provider will move them over to the new class automatically.
Monevator has recently created a comparison table covering most of the popular discount brokers and fund platforms. The table is mainly aimed at diy investors seeking a passive approach to running a portfolio using mainly index funds and ETFs.
Compare Fund Platforms is a spin-off from Candid Money run by Justin Modray. You select the funds you wish to compare or may be interested in purchasing, confirm a few assumptions on period of investment and rate of growth (include the option of also holding shares and/or investment trusts also) and instantly see which broker currently offers the lowest cost. The site covers 3,500 funds. Although most of the main brokers are now on board, the results will not include Hargreaves Lansdown as they refuse to send the required data.
DIY Investor (a subsidiary of AJ Bell/YouInvest) offers a handy comparison tool to assess charges for SIPP, ISA or Dealing Account all of which can be refined according to investment amount, intended number of years and percentage of funds/shares etc. Well worth inputting a few figures to see the differing results between all the main providers.
The International Investor tries to simplify the process by listing only the cheapest broker for each platform. Just be aware that not all funds are available on all platforms so if, for example, you only require Vanguard tracker funds, the first check will be to see whether they are available on any particular platform/broker.
Hopefully, by using one or more of these comparison sites, the average diy investor will be in a position to work out the most cost effective way to build and maintain their chosen investment portfolio.
Following on from a record breaking Christmas trading and reflecting 32 quarters of increasing like-for-like growth, todays impressive full year results should come as no surprise.
Total sales increased by 4.3% (excl. fuel) and 1.8% on a like-for-like basis. Underlying profits were up 6.2% to £756m.
"Our focus on helping our customers Live Well For Less is delivering good growth in sales and profit. Our key points of difference, such as the best quality own-brand, Nectar, Brand Match, coupon-at-till and industry leading service, are recognised by our customers.
We continue to invest in offering customers choices of how they shop with us, bringing our food, clothing and general merchandise to more customers.
Our decision to take full ownership of Sainsbury's Bank will add further momentum to our strategy of developing complementary channels for the benefit of both customers and shareholders.
Whilst we see no near term change in the current economic situation, we remain confident that by continuing to invest in our long-standing strategy and by understanding and helping our customers, we are well positioned for future growth."
In addition to the traditional supermarket, they have over 500 convenience stores which have seen a 17% growth and revenues of £1.5bn. In addition the online business has grown 20% and sales are approaching the £1bn mark.
The dividend has been lifted 3.7% to 16.7p (16.1p 2012) which gives a forward yield of 4.2% at the current share price of 393p. The dividend cover has increased from 1.75x to 1.83x - the aim is to bring cover up to 2x over the medium term.
The shares could have been purchased for around 325p earlier this year so that's an impressive 21% increase in the past 4 months. Panmure Gordon recently reviewed the company shortly after its 4th quarter announcement and placed a target price of 540p on the shares.
Following in the footsteps of its rival Tesco which took full control from a joint venture with RBS in 2008, Sainsbury has confirmed it will acquire full ownership of its banking business from Lloyds Bank for an agreed sum of £248m plus a cash injection of a further £40m net.
Hopefully this will not be a distraction to the main goal of regaining the number 2 slot it lost to Asda ten years back which heralded the appointment of Justin King as CEO.
I'm happy with progress so far and look forward to picking up the final dividend in July.
SSE (formerly Scottish & Southern Energy) is one of the UKs 'big six' energy suppliers providing gas and/or electricity to around 10 million customers throughout the UK and Ireland.
It has been in my income portfolio for many years and has provided a steadily rising dividend which has kept pace with inflation.
"SSE, formerly known as Scottish & Southern Energy, will have a positive "headline" cash flow of 3.8pc this year, according to analysts' forecasts compiled by Bloomberg. However, it will pay a dividend yield of 5.38pc.
After all costs are taken into account, Ms Hamilton calculated that it would lose cash to the tune of 4.5pc. In other words, it will pay its dividends out of borrowings, rather than from cash generated by the business – as it has since 2008, the managers said".
This started alarm bells ringing and when I had a closer look at the latest accounts, it seems clear the borrowings have steadily risen in recent years and gearing is now over 200%.
The share price has seen a good run in recent months and is up around 10% since the start of 2013.
Given the concerns over gearing and the question mark on dividend sustainability, I decided to let this one go and sold today at 1555p.
This is one of my long-standing income trusts providing exposure to the Far East and Australian markets. It was established in July 2005 and has been managed by Matthew Dobbs who has been running Asia equity portfolios for Schroders since 1985.
Yesterday they issued a half year report (link via Investegate) for the period to 28th February 2013.
Net Assets increased 25% and the share price has risen 28% as the price to NAV premium has further widened. With the sp trading at this premium, the company has been able to issue a further 9.5m shares. They have also announced an intention to go ahead with a new equity issue of 'C' shares and will offer existing shareholders the opportunity to subscribe for 2 C shares at the price of 100p for every 5 existing shares they hold.
The interim dividend will be increased from 2.7p to 2.95p - an uplift of 9.2%. Furthermore, they have decided to move from half yearly to quarterly payments in line with most other investment trusts. I have pencilled in a full year figure of 7.4p which gives a forward yield of 3.6% based on the current share price of 206p.
The portfolio is spread far and wide - the main areas for investment are Australia 23.1%, Hong Kong 22.6%, Singapore 16.3%, Taiwan 11.9% and Thailand 9.2%.
One area to keep a close eye is management fees. The basic fee is 0.75% of net assets, however, in addition, they are entitled to 10% of the added value over 107% of net assets. As the trust has performed exceptionally strongly over the past 6 months, they have taken a chunky £3.7m performance fee equivalent to 1.0% of NAV (compared to just £0.84m in 2012) and this together with the half year management fees has already exceeded the total full year fees for the previous year.
I will need to have a little time to think about the rights issue - but on the face of it, assuming the new 'C' shares will be converted to ordinary shares at some point, it looks like I will have the option to pick them up at half price! | {
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The Dancentre follows the Acrobatic Arts Syllabus and is soon to become an official certified studio.
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As we all know a healthy diet is important for all horses and ponies if in work or otherwise, we are often trying our horses and ponies on different feed types to see what works best for them.
This is the newest addition to our feeds, Alfa-A Oil, it has replaced the HoneyChop during the winter months due to the fact that it is more suited to weight gain and maintaining weight, but still has the benefits of encouraging them to chew a bit more and generally slow down the rate that they consume their feeds.
During winter the water can become very cold and even freeze this can easily put some horses and ponies off drinking as much as they should, to help keep all our equines well hydrated we feed Trident SupaBeet. The beet comes in dried pellets and requires soaking before they can be safely fed. Trident SupaBeet has molasses so can have heating effects on some equines.
We also feed Dodson & Horrell Barley Rings to help with overall conditioning, the barley rings provide a wealth of vitamins to the horses and ponies such as vitamin A, vitamin D, and vitamin E. Also being a heavily oil based feed they help deliver that extra shine. Dodson & Horrell Barley Rings can be fed soaked, dry or made into a mash by adding warm water (not hot).
We also use Dodson & Horrell Pasture Cubes which are full of vitamins and minerals, quality protein and antioxidants, helping to keep our horses and ponies active. The pasture cubes also contain garlic and mint to make them more pleasant for horse or pony. Dodson & Horrell Pasture Cubes are a flexible feed that are suited to Pony Club ponies through to Event Horses.
After all these feeds have been added together in the appropriate amounts for the horse or pony we add Apples and Carrots.
Wow Edward, you really take great care of your horses. I had Rosie on a product called Trifecta, which had hyaluronic acid in it that helped her a lot in her senior years.
I've been excited to let you know that I will be working at a ranch that uses horses to help troubled youth. I can't believe I will be working with horses again and helping others in the meantime. Perhaps I will even get to ride a bit myself.
Also, there is a chance I will be able to help develop a program for cancer patients as well. I am really happy about all this. Hopefully I will have pictures to share on my blog later.
My horses get Sugar-Beet (which is pretty much the same thing as SupaBeet) and a Cool Feed mix and as much grass and they as they need.
Miranda, we feed haylage here which sadly doesn't come in flakes like hay, the haylage we get is in large slices that wouldn't be suitable to be feed in one go, but we too feed forage at similar times to you.
Margaret, I'll look forward to reading about it. I think it'll be very good for you as a horse owner to learn about feeding and what your horses needs.
Michelle, this is all great news it's going to be absolutely brilliant for you to be working with horses again I am sure. And you're maybe going to be helping a program for cancer patients too, well heck you are on roll good for you.
Ruffles, sadly good grazing is something we lack, having plenty of grazing can reduce the amount that needs to be fed no end, I am sure the mix and beet serve your horses well.
Your equines get very well looked after (but I knew that anyway!) and you have them on a great mix of feeds. Due to the mild winter, Spotty has not lost much weight so he is still on a diet!
I want to be one of your horses...what a great line up of food and nutrition, it is no wonder that they look so good and are so very sassy at times..haha! Good job!
Thanks for your kind comments you two.
I love when people take interest in their horses health and research feed because you are so right, it is so important!! Keep up the fantastic work!
Getting the food balance right is difficult but so important - yours seem to be eating very well! It's curious but in Spain the soaked beet is used in summer to make sure the horses don't dehydrate with the heat!
Oh man Edward...so sorry for the long worded comment about feed, on your latest post...you have it covered here. and I see that all angles are taken a look at!!
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Hindu Council UK (HCUK) Annual General Meeting (AGM)
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Hindu Council UK (HCUK) Annual General Meeting (AGM) held:
ON: Saturday 28th April 2012
AT: Shree Ram Mandir, 22 King Street, Southall UB2 4DA
The Hindu Council UK (HCUK) is the oldest and one of the largest Hindu umbrella bodies linking Hindu Temples and Hindu Faith Organisations and works with them for the benefit of the Hindu Community across the UK.
Hindu Council UK was founded in 1994 for all Hindus domiciled in the United Kingdom, combining all the Hindu faith denominations, whilst representing various Hindu communities and Hindus from different parts of the world settled in the United Kingdom. Its main purpose is to give the UK Hindus an effective voice on policy matters with the Government and Statutory Authorities whilst enhancing mutual understanding among the major faiths predominant in the UK. Hindu Council UK is itself a non-partisan faith organisation.
Hindu Council UK represents an amalgamation of various Hindu denominations in the UK through their temple bodies and cultural organisations. In addition community, youth and women organisations are represented.
The Hindu Council UK (HCUK) Annual General Meeting held on Saturday 28th April 2012 was a momentous occasion. Even though on the day there was torrential rain, the meeting was successfully attended by over 40 representatives from many Hindu Organisations and Temples from across all regions of the UK.
Following Prayers and Introductions the minutes of the last AGM (Sunday 18th December 2011) and Annual Accounts (for period ending 31st March 2012) were unanimously approved and passed by all present and will now been submitted to Companies House and The Charity Commission.
This was followed by extensive reports of the activities that Hindu Council UK has been involved with in the UK together with reports by HCUK Executives leading on issues affecting Hindus in Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, India, Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It was resolved that a Task Force consisting of various Executives be formed to lobby and consult with the UK Government's Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) to raise and highlight the issues and the Department for International Development (DFID) to identify and recommend countries where international aid should be targeted using reputable and established grass-roots organisations working on the ground.
Discussions were held on how HCUK should lead on raising awareness of 'Sanskrit' within the UK by organising a Sanskrit Exhibition Project involving renowned Hindu scholars. Suggestions to hold the exhibition at the British Library or similar high profile venues was initiated. HCUK will lead on this initiative and look to secure a venue and date(s) as soon as possible.
The meeting resolved that there was an urgent need to support Temples within the UK and help with Capacity-Building, Applications for Grants, Funding and Good Governance. It was felt that this would strengthen the Hindu representation and presence with the Government and Statutory Authorities. Mr Yash Tara – a veteran community leader with extensive experience in running a Hindu Temple in Leamington Spa offered his services to help lead on interaction with Hindu Temples in the UK and offer all guidance, advice and consultation as necessary. Furthermore, Mr Tara donated £1000 towards the website costs of HCUK: (www.hinducounciluk.org) as it was acknowledged that our website is a crucial marketing tool and a source of useful information for everyone.
The Following Report was given of the current activities that HCUK has been involved in the last year:
HCUK will continue to work with the Home Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Education Authorities, Dept for Communities & Local Government (DCLG), Dept for International Development (DFID), Dept for Trade & Industry (DTI), Dept for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Greater London Authority (GLA), Metropolitan Police, Interfaith Network UK, RE Council for England & Wales, SACRE, Hindu Christian Forum, Council of Dharmic Faiths UK, Tony Blair Faith Foundation, National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), Schools, Colleges and Universities & Local Multi Faith Forums and Councils.
Throughout the last year HCUK has continuously been asked to advise and consult on various matters relating to interfaith dialogue, community consultations and capacity building, and has challenged legislation and policies that affect the British Hindu Community in the UK. HCUK has also participated in various Government and Statutory Authority meetings, interaction and forums.
HCUK is also one of the faith bodies on the Faith Community Group, London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) – supporting the initiative to engage people from the Hindu community to take up volunteering roles for the Olympic Games.
HCUK has also participated in legislative debates relating to religious conscience, including over the role of religious adoption agencies and civil partnerships taking place in religious institutions, exceptions for organised religions and religious organisations in the Equality Act 2010, while freedom of speech issues have been raised in debates relating to the banning of books and plays etc which various religious organisations have found insulting. In addition, HCUK has raised various issues relating to religion or belief, including the expression of religious views by frontline staff in delivery of public services; the recognition of religious observance in the workplace; the right to wear religious symbols in the workplace and the right not to do so; refusal of a place in a local school with a religious ethos; and dismissals due to a refusal to undertake work conflicting with religious conscience.
HCUK along with other Hindu Organisations came together and endorsed a statement which lent support for the establishment of a renewed Christian-Hindu Forum. Going forward it is hoped that the forum debates issues concerning missionary activity, conversion, caste discrimination and how Indian politics impact on Christian-Hindu relations. It is hoped that dialogue between the two religions therefore aims to overcome misunderstandings and to develop relationships of trust that are respectful of difference. As a result and success of this Forum, HCUK are keen to develop discussions with the Muslim community to establish a Hindu- Muslim Forum and the Jewish Community on the Hindu-Jewish Forum.
HCUK has provided help, support and advice to NASACRE, SACRE, the Religious Education Council of UK and various other Authorities and Stakeholders on all aspects of Hinduism together with providing theological material.
HCUK were one of the key stakeholders in the Task Force which was set up to recruit Hindus to serve on public appointments. The Task Force had various meetings with the Government's Equalities Office (GEO) and representatives from the Cabinet Office and other departments. The Task force has also published its UK Public Appointments Strategy Document that identifies several key factors to ensuring equality in the Public Sector. This document has been praised by many Ministers and Peers in the House of Commons and House of Lords. HCUK will forge links with Hindu individuals and offer help and support to ensure that they are fully prepared to take up positions of Public Appointments as and when they become available.
HCUK has participated as a stakeholder with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and taking part in various consultations in particular regarding high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes amongst the south Indian community,
Hindu priests applying for Minister of Religion visas from India find the current standard of English language required too high as these priests are trained in their native language and Sanskrit and are able to speak English only to a certain standard. Following consultations HCUK has found that only a few Temples have been successful in recruiting a Minister of Religion who has passed these high standards since this ruling came in force. HCUK has recommended to the Borders and Immigration Authority that the grading required is revised for this category of visa. Furthermore, HCUK has supported visa applications for Hindu Organisations who wanted to call Hindu Swamis, Monks, and Spiritual Leaders who come for short periods of time to address their devotees and who are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain a visitor's visa.
HCUK supported the protest outside No 10 Downing Street to highlight the issue of forced conversions of young Hindu women to Islam.
HCUK continues to raise concerns that there is little or no public funding for Hindu groups, which is indicative of an incoherent Government policy which is leaving many minority groups drastically short of funds.
HCUK also made meaningful inroads into engaging with the national media on key policy issues. HCUK Executive Ano Rao was recently interviewed by BBC at Open University forum on minority rights. HCUK was also consulted at international conferences on foreign policy issues. HCUK's Company Secretary Gautam Banerji recently represented the organisation at The Ditchley Foundation Conference on Multiculturalism and Religion in Foreign Policy.
The above are just some of the examples of the work that HCUK has been engaged in the last one year along with many more strands. However, we need more help and support from Temples/Individuals who can share the workload of attending and representing HCUK at key meetings, forums and seminars.
The meeting ended with the nomination, selection and ratification of the HCUK Executive Committee as follows:
It was resolved that a Company Secretary be appointed to the Board of Hindu Council UK. The Company Secretary will be the Honorary Secretary to the Board of Trustees of HCUK to work closely on general management policies and procedures and governance issues. The position does not in any way overlap with the position of the General Secretary, who will hold the overall responsibility for coordination and engagement with the community. Gautam Banerji's name was proposed for the position, given his professional expertise and experience. He accepted the challenge and dedicated to work for the good of the community.
Mr Anil Bhanot OBE Managing Trustee/Director
Mr Umesh Chander Sharma Chairperson
Mr Sanjay Jagatia General Secretary
Mr Chris Gopaul Treasurer
Mrs Krishna Bhan Kashmiri Hindus & Educational Matters
Mr Dipen Rajyaguru Equality and Diversity
Mr Surinder Sund Dalit Empowerment
Mr Mahanta Shrestha
Mr Gautam Banerji FRSA Governance
Miss Muna Chauhan Gender Equality
Dr Shiv Pande MBE Health
Mr Amarjeet Bhamra Ayurveda
Dr Rishi Agarwal Sanskrit Heritage
Mr Balmukund Prasad Joshi
Mr Siva Sivaraman British Tamils and General
Mrs Ano Rau British Hindus from Malaysia
Executive Representatives
Mr Yogesh Teli Political Focus
Mr Mangat Rai Sharma General Temple Issues
Ms Jagriti Bhuva
Mr D Ratnasingham
Mr Harmohinder Bhatia Upashak
Advisory Counsel
Mr Yash Tara
Dr Surendra Sharma
Hindu Council Secretariat
Registered Office: Hindu Council UK (HCUK)
126-128 Uxbridge Road, London, W13 8QS
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I played to most of the famous first-person shooter (FPS) of the 1990's and some of the 2000's: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Duke 3D, Quake, Half-Life, Medal of Honor, even the less famous like Redneck Rampage (shipped with a wonderful country/rock-a-billy/psychobilly soundtrack; still not kidding, I would even consider going to Reverend Horton Heat gig that will take place in France in a few days if I was rich, which I'm not) etc… But I played regularly for years only to a few of them.
Duke 3D was unmistakenly fun and definitely made the best out of numerous hours of LAN games. Counter-Strike's (CS) gameplay, however, remains unique. Obviously, the rendering engine was technically modern enough (Duke 3D is fun, but you do not need to aim target in 3D, you can destroy a target up in the air while aiming the boardwalk ; in Doom II, you cannot even jump). But that's not just it, no, the game really leads to team play. The two teams, counter-terrorists or terrorists, both have an obvious objective (blowing up a bomb, freeing hostages, etc) and each teammate that goes down is out of the game for the round. So unlike in Medal of Honor, Quake Arena, etc (where one player does not equal one another), any player matters. To some players, this a drawback, they rather have unlimited lives, moving fast, dying fast, respawning fast, moving fast, dying still fast. To me, it is part of what makes this game aside from the others FPS. Based of the same rendering engine (the one of Half-Life), Day of Defeat (DoD) and Team Fortress (TF) both provides some kind of team play also well thought but way more conventional (capture the flag, mainly), with respawn. Day of Defeat takes place during World War II while Team Fortress is kind of cartonish/fun, somehow reminding me of Duke3D.
Half-Life² was eventually published with a new rendering engine called Source. And it is a good thing they also released CS, DoD and TF renewed with this new engine, so these good games kept up with the trend. Despite the fact that the map oilrig (a mode where you had to protect a somekind of VIP) disappeared during the transition to Source, CS gameplay was unaffected. And I continued playing from time to time to CS. I still do.
alias buy_gun "buy p228; buy secammo; buy vesthelm;"
alias buy_shotgun "buy xm1014; buy primammo; buy vesthelm;"
alias buy_cheapest "buy mp5; buy primammo; buy vesthelm;"
alias buy_cheap "buy galil; buy famas; buy primammo; buy vesthelm;"
alias buy_expensive "buy ak47; buy m4a1; buy primammo; buy vesthelm;"
alias buy_scope "buy sg552; buy aug; buy primammo; buy vesthelm;"
alias buy_protection "buy vesthelm; buy vest"
alias buy_fb "buy flashbang; buy flashbang"
alias buy_ammo "buy primammo; buy primammo; buy secammo"
alias buy_equipment1 "buy_protection; buy_defuser ; buy_ammo"
alias buy_equipment2 "buy_protection; buy_fb; buy_smoke; buy_he"
alias msg_enemies_none "radio3; w; slot4"
alias msg_enemies_few "radio3; w; slot2"
alias msg_in_a "say_team (A !!!)"
alias msg_in_b "say_team (B !!!)"
alias msg_bomb_here "radio3; w; slot3; w; say_team The bomb is here!"
alias msg_yes "radio3; w; slot1"
alias msg_no "radio3; w; slot8"
alias msg_follow_me "radio1; w; slot5"
alias msg_enemies_none "voice_areaclear; say_team %l clear"
alias msg_enemies_ahead "voice_enemyahead; say_team Enemy ahead %l"
alias msg_enemies_behind "voice_enemybehind; say_team Enemy behind us at %l"
alias msg_enemies_left "voice_fireleft; say_team To my left at %l"
alias msg_enemies_right "voice_fireright; say_team To my right at %l"
alias msg_enemies_machinegun "voice_mgahead; say_team MG at %l"
alias msg_enemies_sniper "voice_sniper; say_team Sniper at %l"
alias msg_needhelp "say_team I NEED BACKUP AT %l"
And this dichotomy between CS:S and DoD:S, both based on the same rendering engine, definitely illustrates how frustrating proprietary software can be. If %l exists in DoD:S, it cannot be complicated to implement in CS:S. It is not really an issue of time, if anybody was able to read the code, edit it and redistribute the modifications made, there would have been an user willing to spend this time. I know I would.
But it is not and so we just have to rely on CS:S publisher that does not show much interest in developing further CS:S.
Clearly, there is no recent and great piece of FPS that is Libre Software that I know of. We just get old rendering engine GPLed: Ken Silverman's Build (Duke 3D/Shadow Warrior/Redneck Rampage/etc engine), Id Software's id Tech 3 (Quake III, MOHAA, Call of Duty/etc). Even if it is nice that this code is freed at last, I have the sad feeling that they would not be freed if their authors felt their code could be someday improved enough to compete with their own new rendering engine. So no business can be based on these rendering engines, and we're stuck with Libre Software looking like cheap obsolete products. It may sound harsh, don't get me wrong: I enjoy the work being done on eduke32, that's nice, and I'm not criticizing the efforts made. Still, it cannot compete with what is being published as proprietary sofware. Even games with somehow outdated rendering engines like STALKER Call of Pripyat are way ahead.
I'm wondering if we'll ever see brand new games published as Libre Software. The only people that have the cash flow and the motives to do so could be ATI or NDVIDIA, the hardware producers. But they may has well just continue to work as they currently do.
Do you remember back in the days of 1996/1997, fooling around with a Pentium 100 MMX and 32 MB RAM?
Among Cannon Fodder, Dune 2000, Duke 3D, there was Transport Tycoon (Deluxe), « a business simulation game, presented in an isometric view in 2D […], in which the player is in control of a transport company, and can compete against rival companies to make as much profit as possible by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea or by air » as described by Wikipedia.
Nice gameplay, nice graphics (considering it was no CGA or EGA) with buildings inspired from Glasgow, it even featured network game ability.
At that time, networking-wise, I knew nothing but null-modem, which was a real nightmare of instability in conjonction with MS Windows 95. So I enjoyed 1vs1/human vs human once in a while, when it was working. Not to mention that's the kind of game where it is way easier to fight the IA players, more or less allied -or at least not interfering- with the other human player. Obviously when you spend nearly 30 minutes to design a nice railroad junction, you will easily loose temper when the guy sitting 3 meters away is messing it up, making it unprofitable and whatever. It is definitely easier to mess with the IA players that are dumb enough so you can destroy at will their bus/trucks, with a tiny train depot placed near their truck depots/destination, a cheap train. The only issue I ever had with this game are planes: they are way too profitable (at mid-game) with almost no effort, so there is no point in continuing spending hours to lay tracks… but isn't it the purpose of the game, to design complicated tracks design? What's the fun in putting 2 bigs squares inside busy cities?
After TTD, several games more or less similar were published: Railroad Tycoon (focused on the trains – maybe sharing my opinion about the planes?), Railroad Tycoon 2, Railroad Tycoon 3, Railroads, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (this one being made by Chris Sawyer, author of TTD).
I've tried them all. Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is a nicely improved version of TTD: better graphics, slight gameplay improvements. It would have been great if published in 1999/2000. But it was published late in 2004 and way too much user interface progress have been made since then – laying tracks still in the old TTD way was no longer an option.
The Railroad Tycoon (RT) serie, in regard of user interface and aesthetics, was clearly superior. Nice scenarii, great country music (this is not a joke), clearly you couldn't wait to enjoy network play… But you should have. It was buggy, subject to plenty of loss of synchronization – meaning the networked computers lost touch of what each other was doing. And, that was a hit when I found out, it handled in the most stupid way these lost of sync: it was simply disregarding the issue, and, unaware, you were continuing to play, laying tracks, whatever, until you found out that you were no longer playing exactly the same game that the other player. You had layed tracks from the Seattle to Minneapolis, it was working good – but it existed only in your instance, it would not show up on the other player computer. And, at some point, you had a segfault from one or the other instance, probably because of a conflict between the two concurrent ongoing games. Depending on which computer you grabbed the savegame from, to restart where it crashed, you could see the gap between the two concurrent games… This bug was present in the whole RT serie. The game support was a joke, a few patches were published (few days after RT3 release – which says a lot about the extent of the test cycle that the publisher probably made before the release) but none really fixed it. And as it is proprietary software, there is no legal room for improvement.
So far, there is no TTD-like game that fit to modern user interface standards while allowing decent network play.
So, here comes OpenTTD. TTD was written 99% in assembler, some lads decided to reverse-engineer it and, tada!, they published the result under the GNU GPL 2.
Taken from their about page, significant enhancements from the original game include for example: bigger maps (up to 64 times in size), stable multiplayer mode for up to 255 players in 15 companies or as spectators, dedicated server mode and an in-game console for administration, new pathfinding algorithms that makes vehicles go where you want them to, autorail/-road build tool, improved terraforming canals, shiplifts, aqueduct larger, non-uniform stations and the ability to join them together, mammoth and multi-headed trains clone, autoreplace and autoupdate vehicles, possibility to build on slopes and coasts, advanced/conditional orders, share and copy orders, longer and higher bridges including new ones, full flexible tracks/roads under bridge , reworked airport system with many more airports/heliports (i.e. international and metropolitan), presignals, semaphores, path based signalling, support for TTDPatch newgrf features, drive-through road stops for articulated road vehicles and trams, multiple trees on one tile, bribe the town authority, […] convert rail tool (to e-rail, monorail, and maglev), drag&drop support for almost all tools (demolition, road/rail building/removing, stations, scenario editor…), sorting of most lists based on various criteria (vehicle, station, town, industries, etc.), autoscroll when the mouse is near the edge of the screen/window, cost estimation with the 'shift' key, etc.
You can find there two scenarii I've made for OpenTTD: one is called France and is a map of France, the other one is called Jungle Urbaine (Paris) and is a map of Paris. In both these maps, industries are placed randomly. | {
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The State Government announced Nicole Roocke as the new MRIWA CEO today.
The members of the MRIWA Board, committees and management team are looking forward to supporting Nicole in her new role and acknowledge the great and wide range of skills and wisdom that she brings.
In welcoming Nicole, MRIWA Chair Denise Goldsworthy took the opportunitity to thank Mark Woffenden for his fantastic and passionate contribution to the organisation, the industry and WA during his time as CEO of MRIWA and wish him well for his retirement.
Please see here for the Minister's statement on the appointment. | {
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Facebook Shares Rise as US Senators Question Zuckerberg
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Facebook shares rose to their highest in almost three weeks as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg fended off questions from U.S. senators on how the social network handles user data and plans to counter attempts at interfering in U.S. elections. Zuckerberg repeated his apologies for a range of problems that have beset the world's largest social network, but the 33-year-old internet mogul broke little new ground in a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate's Commerce and Judiciary committees, raising investor hopes he could forestall strict regulation. "We are going through a broad philosophical shift at the company," said Zuckerberg, wearing a dark suit and tie instead of his typical T-shirt and jeans.
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Investors appeared to welcome his performance. "Zuckerberg is conciliatory in his presentation," said Mariann Montagne, portfolio manager at Gradient Investments in Arden Hills, Minnesota. "The stock is running up on his comments. Maybe people like seeing Zuckerberg in a suit." Facebook shares closed up 4.5 percent at $165.04. Outside the U.S. Capitol building, online protest group Avaaz set up 100 life-sized cutouts of Zuckerberg wearing T-shirts with the words 'Fix Facebook.' Facebook faces a growing crisis of confidence among users, advertisers, employees and investors after acknowledging that up to 87 million people, mostly in the United States, had personal information harvested from the site by Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients.
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It is also struggling to deal with fake news and alleged foreign interference in elections, disclosed in September that Russians under fake names used the social network to try to influence U.S. voters in the months before and after the 2016 election, writing about inflammatory subjects, setting up events and buying ads. "We believe it is entirely possible that there will be a connection there," Zuckerberg said when asked if there was overlap between Cambridge Analytica's harvested user data and the political propaganda pushed by the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency during the 2016 presidential election, which Facebook has said was seen by some 126 million people.
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In February, U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian companies with interfering in the election by sowing discord on social media. Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, is fighting to prove to critics that he is the right person to go on leading what has grown into one of the world's largest companies. On Friday, Zuckerberg threw his support behind proposed legislation requiring social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads.
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23 Most Anticipated Games of 2017 and Beyond
January 18, 2017 January 11, 2018 Shea Castle
2014 was a down year for games overall. 2015 was amazing. 2016 was hit or miss, depending on your feelings on remakes, sequels, and first-person shooters. If the trajectory follows, that means we're in for a great 2017. I've compiled a list of the 23 games I'm most looking forward to in 2017 and beyond, listed in alphabetical order for your reading pleasure. In previous years, I limited the games only to those that had "definitive" release dates, and that didn't work out very well. Games get delayed and canceled all the time, so there's no reason to not include awesome games that probably won't hit until 2018. The only caveat is that the game has to have been announced. These are the 23 games I'm most looking forward to playing. Enjoy!
Release Date: TBD 2017
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Below made my list of E3 2016 games, and my excitement has not abated one bit. From the developers of Super Time Force, Below is heavily inspired by the Dark Souls series, but has a somewhat top-down, 2D art style. It's a very open, dungeon crawling type of game, where there's very little in the explanation of what you're supposed to be doing or where you're supposed to be going. After numerous delays, I'm confident this one will finally hit in 2017.
This one is apparently aiming for a mid-2017 release, but it was also on my list of most anticipated 2016 games, so I'll believe it when I see it. Cuphead is a classic, super hard side-scroller with an amazing hand-drawn art style hearkening back to old Disney or Looney Tunes cartoons. The game was originally going to only include boss fights, but due to player feedback, the two developers have added regular platforming level segments.
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One
While there's no official name for Destiny 2, Activision and Bungie have said the next installment of Destiny will hit in 2017. My excitement for this one is very complicated. My review of Destiny said that the game had a ton of promise, but it came nowhere near to reaching that promise. The game significantly improved with the release of The Taken King, but I'm still not sure that I'll ever have a reason to come back. I really hope they change things up in a big way.
Platforms: PS4
I haven't been the biggest fan of Quantic Dreams' games in the past. I always felt like David Cage was a filmmaker that happened to end up making video games, and those two mediums are very different and require very different skill sets. Still, what I've seen of Detroit: Become Human has me really excited to learn more about this world that they're creating, and being able to experience sequences multiple times to get the desired ending is a great concept.
There's no way Final Fantasy VII Remake will hit in 2017, unless they do decide to release the game in episodes over the next few years. That said, the little bit of the game that we've seen has looked amazing. I'm not sure any of it has actually been gameplay, but still. The game looks absolutely gorgeous, I'm excited for them to switch combat up a bit, and it'll just be nice to experience that amazing story again with characters that don't look like squares and circles mashed together.
I stand firm in my opinion that Final Fantasy XII is the most underrated game in the franchise. I'm not saying it's the best, but it's certainly one of my favorites. When I still had my backward compatible PS3, I made a point to play through FF XII once a year. The Zodiac Age doesn't seem to be offering up a ton of new changes, but better graphics and some combat tweaks are more than enough reasons for me to play through it again.
I highly doubt the new God of War will come out in 2017, and it might not even make 2018, but I couldn't not include it on this list. It's definitely one of my most anticipated games after seeing the gameplay reveal at E3 2016. Even though I loved the first three games, Kratos was never the most interesting character. But humanizing him and giving him a son makes this feel more like The Last of Us than an over the top, gory action game. I really dig the idea that God of War could actually have an engrossing story.
Hooray, a game on this list with a firm 2017 release date! For me, Horizon: Zero Dawn will be the first big release of 2017, and I'm really looking forward to it. The world that Guerrilla Games created feels so unique, and I'm really curious to see where the story goes after seeing the most recent story trailer. I definitely suffer from open world fatigue, but as long as things don't get too repetitive, I'll be surprised if Horizon: Zero Dawn isn't in the game of the year conversation for me in 2017.
Kingdom Hearts 3
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One
Another game that seems to continually be pushed back, Kingdom Hearts 3 has me a bit worried, if I'm being honest. The first Kingdom Hearts won my game of the year in 2002 and is in my top 5 games of all time, but the sequel, while good, was underwhelming and the story has completely gone off the rails with the various offshoots on other platforms. I'm still excited for Kingdom Hearts 3, but I hope they simplify things with the story and stick to the fun worlds and flashy combat from the original game.
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Platforms: Wii U, Nintendo Switch
Nintendo recently announced that Breath of the Wild would be coming out on Wii U and launching with the new Switch console. That scares me, as there may be some mixed or missing functionality in both versions, but I'm still excited by that colorful world. I'm not as hyped for this one as many others, but Nintendo usually does right by their pillar franchises, and this game could finally take Nintendo into the modern open world video game space.
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North Dakota adds future series with Idaho State and Northern Arizona
Photo: Jeff Swinger-USA TODAY Sports
The North Dakota Fighting Hawks have added future home-and-home football series with the Idaho State Bengals and the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, the school announced on Wednesday.
North Dakota and Idaho State will kick off their home-and-home series at Holt Arena in Pocatello, Idaho, on Sept. 4 2021. The series will conclude at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, three seasons later on Sept. 14, 2024.
In six previous meetings, North Dakota is 5-2 against Idaho State. The Bengals won the most recent meeting 25-21 last season in Grand Forks.
North Dakota will kick off the series with Northern Arizona on the road at the Walkup Skydome in Flagstaff on Sept. 17, 2022. The Fighting Hawks will host the Lumberjacks the following season on Sept. 9, 2023.
North Dakota and Northern Arizona first met on the gridiron in 1967 and have played seven games overall. NAU defeated North Dakota 31-16 last season to extend their lead in the series to 5-2.
Both Idaho State and Northern Arizona are members of the Big Sky Conference in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). North Dakota was a member of the Big Sky from 2012 through 2017. The Fighting Hawks are currently competing as an Independent and will join the Missouri Valley Football Conference beginning with the 2020 season.
North Dakota also officially announced today three future games that we previously reported. UND will play at Washington on Sept. 16, 2023 and will also take on Portland State in a home-and-home series (in Portland on Oct. 24, 2020; in Grand Forks on Sept. 6, 2025).
"We're excited about this future schedule," said UND Athletics Director Bill Chaves. "All of these games gives us the opportunity to better understand what our schedule is going to look like over the next five-to-seven years. There is still more work to do, but we are moving closer towards our scheduling goals."
Future North Dakota Football Schedules
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Jacqueline Brinkerhoff, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, SailPoint
Randy Sabett
Cooley LLP
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Cybercrime , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime
Exploring Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response
Nat Smith Discusses Gartner's Report on Emerging NDR Trends Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • November 17, 2021
Nat Smith, senior director security analyst, Gartner
The network detection and response market is "relatively unchallenged at this point by other markets," and detection is the most important use case, says Nat Smith of Gartner, who shares key findings from the company's report titled Emerging Trends: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response.
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Smith says Gartner sees "most of the innovation and focus from the vendors and for buyers" in detection.
Response, he says, is probably the least mature of all of the use cases: "Very few vendors do it exactly the same way and so there's not a lot of consistency across [the market]." But he predicts that in 2022 vendors in the space will begin to consolidate.
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, Smith also discusses:
The state of the NDR market today;
The role of NDR in the new age of extended detection and response, or XDR;
How the NDR market will evolve in 2022.
Smith is a senior director security analyst in the technology and service provider division of Gartner. He researches technology, markets and trends affecting network security, especially AI and machine learning.
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Anna Delaney
Director, ISMG Productions
An experienced broadcast journalist, Delaney conducts interviews with senior cybersecurity leaders around the world. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of the website for The European Information Security Summit, or TEISS. Earlier, she worked at Levant TV and Resonance FM and served as a researcher at the BBC and ITV in their documentary and factual TV departments.
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The interaction of cultures and religions, education and science - a brief afterword to the Sochi Forum for the development and expansion of the SCO
The interaction of cultures and religions, education and science - a brief afterword to the Sochi Forum for the development and expansion of the SCO 25.04.2016 19:56
International Forum took place in Sochi on April 19-20 devoted to the role of civil society and public diplomacy in the development and expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It was organized by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Institute of the CIS countries.
Quantitative and qualitative composition of the participants was very significant - about 300 participants from 26 countries in Asia were present at the Forum, Africa and Europe. 120 expert reports were presented in plenary sessions and 3 sections: "The world order, security and the fight against terrorism", "Economics and entrepreneurship. Ecology and protection of the environment", "Interaction between cultures and religions. Education and Science".
I, as one of the members of the organization of the forum, was lucky enough to "observe" the work of the third section. The first day, which took place under the "moderation" of the Director of International and Regional Cooperation Research Institute, doctor of historical sciences Bulat Sultanov (Kazakhstan), was quite full of interesting reports. Among them, the greatest interest and attention was caused by the Representative of the Association of Lawyers of Vietnam and Russia Pham Xuan Thanh (Vietnam), who not only spoke, but to everyone's satisfaction sang several popular songs in Russian. The report also focused on the role of its women and the value in the preservation and development of cultural, material, moral and spiritual values of society".
No less attention of experts and the leader of section Bulat Sultanov were attracted by the report by Deputy Director of the Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage. D.S. Likhachev, the candidate of philological sciences Eugenij Bakhrevsky on "Civilizational approach to the state cultural policy in the humanitarian cooperation of the SCO member-states".
The meeting also included reports of co-founder and International Information Agency chief editor of "Azerbaijan News" Gulnara Mammadzade "PR and integrated media communication in the development of cooperation mechanisms in the framework of the SCO", of the co-chairman of the Russian Committee for Solidarity with the people of Libya and Syria Oleg Fomin "Damascus combating attempts of ethnoconfessional unity of the Syrian society", the head of the Central Asia section of the Institute of international relations of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia Demberel Kohl "Opportunities of the SCO expansion" and others.
On the second day of the forum the morning session was led by a foreign policy advisor Chairman of the Board of Representatives of Indonesia regions Petun Daslani.
Among the reports which caused the greatest resonance and interest, both during the meeting and after it was the report of the Deputy Director of the Institute of Russian-Chinese strategic cooperation, member of the Union of Writers of Russia Andrei Devyatov dedicated to the "Cultural belt of the Great Tea Road".
Informative and relevant were the reports by the other speakers: the first deputy chairman of the Commission on the development of information society, media and mass communications of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Svetlana Yaremchuk on the theme "The role of media in strengthening friendly relations between the SCO member states", the deputy head of the Department "Modern History and International studies" Institute of history of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ravshan Nazarov on "Central Asia: historical and contemporary experience of interaction between ethnic groups, religions and cultures", the expert of the strategic culture Foundation, the chief editor of the website "Scientific society of Caucasian experts" Andrey Areshev on "Intercultural interaction in the South Caucasus: Challenges and Prospects", of the Public Chamber member, Honorary General of the Republic of Belarus consul in the Russian Federation in Tyumen Vladimir Shugla on the theme "It is easier to overcome the difficulties together", the leading researcher of the National Center "History and ethnology" of South Kazakhstan state University. M. Auezov, Igor Savin, PhD in history on "Co-operation of ICO in Central Asia and Russia in the interests of optimizing the regional exchange of migration".
Out of the framework of the official agenda an interesting report of the Chairman of the Moscow National-Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis Agadagasha Kerimov "The inevitability of quality world order changes in order to achieve peace, security and mutual understanding on the general wave of international communication" was presented, which caused a very interesting reaction for me as a Muslim from an expert moderator Pete Daslani. So at the end of Kerimov's report foreign policy advisor Chairman of the Board of Deputies of regions of Indonesia said that he recently met with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and quoted Prophet Muhammad (blessings of Almighty sallam), which reads as follows: "A close neighbor is better than a distant relative". Petun Daslani asked Agadagash Kerimov to pass on his behalf this saying of the prophet of Islam to the President Ilham Aliyev.
At the end of the session I was approached by the chief researcher at the Center for the Study of the world's problems of "Xinhua" News Agency Shen Shilyan (China) to provide him with an opportunity to make a speech. His emotional speech in fluent Russian, devoted to cultural scrapie between China and Russia, which were established during the Soviet period, became the best optimistic conclusion to complete the morning session of the section "Interaction of cultures and religions. Education and Science".
The moderator of the afternoon final meeting was the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador, formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, Doctor of Political Sciences Alikbek Dzhekshenkulov. There were the following reports: "Actual issues of cultural interaction in the sphere of education and science in the conditions of transformation of the modern world order" (Director of the Institute of International Relations and the World Economy of the International Academy of Business and Administration Aleksandr Zinchenko), "The phenomenon of information terrorism and measures to overcome it" (Leading Researcher at the department of international relations and international Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Lilija Mirzazade), "Neoarchaic syndrome of network society: problems of cultural adaptation" (leading researcher of theDepartment of interdisciplinary problems of scientific and technological development in the Institute of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Vladimir Budanov), "Altay - cradle of Eurasian cultures" (a member of the Committee on Culture of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Edward Babrashev), "Interaction of religions, national culture, science and education as factors of the world order, economic development and the protection of ecosystems" (President of the Inter-regional Uzbek national groups "Vatandosh" Usman Baratov) and others.
The results of the work of the section during the two days of the forum were highly appreciated and carefully summed up during the closing plenary session of one of the most active participants and moderators of the Chairman of the Council of representatives of the regions of Indonesia power Petun Daslani, who later showed a genuine interest in the development of a long-term cooperation in my face with the Institute of CIS countries. | {
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By Radius8 on Nov 22, 2017 2:28:08 PM
Of customers polled about their shopping plans for Black Friday, 35% responded that family tradition drives them to the store, 23% pointed to kicking off the holiday and enjoying holiday decorations and displays, and 18% said it's the best time to browse and shop for the perfect gift for someone on their list.
Topics: Black Friday Brick And Mortar Experiential Retail
By Radius8 on Nov 6, 2017 2:03:19 PM
By Sara Chopra on Oct 24, 2017 2:12:30 PM
As winter months draw near, the holiday season approaches, and alongside it comes the accompanying annual rush of shoppers. Yet as online vendors edge with competitive pricing and convenience to their customers, according to a recent study by Fung Global Retail and Technology, now is the time for your store to draw in audiences with unique opportunities and experiences.
Topics: Brick And Mortar Generation Z Customer Experience
How to Leverage Stores and "Play to Win" like Hudson Bay
By Radius8 on Oct 12, 2017 3:41:24 PM
"Closing stores starts a spiral that can't be stopped," posited Hudson Bay Company CEO Jerry Storch on stage at Shoptalk in Copenhagen this past Monday. The strategy for 2018 and beyond: Play to Win. Sure, like most retailers, HBC may have a few duds across their chain, but unlike many retailers, they aren't just closing down stores. Instead, the company which owns the likes of Saks and Lord & Taylor is retooling and investing in underperforming stores, modifying the footprint and concept to better address the local market, and making technology investments that connect stores and online shoppers – driving value to an ever-more integrated set of channels. "Be great in stores and be great online," according to Storch.
Topics: Brick And Mortar Shoptalk Customer Experience
A "New Retail" Mantra "Location, Location, Location" becomes "Local, Local, Local" in Today's Age of Connected Consumers
By Radius8 on Sep 29, 2017 4:27:03 PM
Jack Ma hoists an enormous spider crab out of a pool of water in one of Alibaba's growing fleet of Hema grocery stores in Shanghai. This is more than just a typical photo opportunity – the 13 Hema supermarkets represent Alibaba investment in "new retail." The video of a tour of the store, reveals that Hema stores are taking huge leaps in data powered store experiences. Compared to Amazon's convenience store concepts, Hema takes the connected store experience to a new scale – customers are fully connected to hundreds of thousands of grocery products, including a constantly revolving assortment of fresh produce, meats, and fish. You can shop in store and pick up your items or have them delivered locally within a nearby radius of the store - Hema employees pick, pack, and deliver your order right to your door.
Topics: Amazon Brick And Mortar Alibaba New Retail
Gen-Z Voice: Which Social Media Platform is Best for Your Store?
By Sara Chopra on Sep 22, 2017 1:49:45 PM
Today, the digital sphere rules Gen-Z and Millennial interactions more than ever. From tagging a store with an Instagram post to sharing a new purchase via Snapchat, the technologically-involved customer base has its methods of subconscious peer-to-peer store marketing. Branded ads, posts, and interactions are just parts of the puzzle of winning over younger shoppers— using the right apps and social media platforms for the desired audience can make all the difference. With Gen-Zs alone possessing $44 billion in buying power, it's essential that stores make the right moves when targeting these digitally-connected customers.
Topics: Instagram Brick And Mortar Generation Z Snapchat Millennials
Move Aside Millennials, Gen Z Loves the Store Even More
By Radius8 on Sep 8, 2017 3:12:54 PM
98% of Generation Z are walking into stores on a regular basis according to a study by IBM, and greater than 60% actually prefer shopping in store according to Accenture. That's higher compared to the older Millennial cohort.
Millennials Actually Love Stores but do the Numbers Back It Up?
By Radius8 on Aug 30, 2017 5:17:00 PM
It has been an interesting couple of weeks for retail. While earnings reports for traditional mall retailers, perhaps not surprisingly slumped. A slew of other retailers, notably those who have been investing in integrated store experiences and embracing innovation like Nordstrom, reported positive earnings and actual growth in same store growth. Other retailers continue to tweak their current foot print allocations and invest in technology also reported positive numbers. Those included Williams-Sonoma, Abercrombie & Fitch, PVH, Dollar Tree, Burlington Stores, Guess and PVH. This forced Wall Street to admit that perhaps the current doom and gloom retail outlook is not nearly as bad as it may seem.
Topics: Brick And Mortar Generation Z Millennials
Gen-Z Voice: Snapchat's "Paperclip" Introduces New White Space Opportunity to Retailers
By Sara Chopra on Jul 12, 2017 2:02:58 PM
This week we're featuring a guest post from our resident expert on all things Gen-Z - Sara Chopra
Snap, Inc. has developed a new way to connect businesses with customers. Last Wednesday, Snapchat introduced its new Paperclip update— the app's first non-paid feature that allows direct linking to website URLs. Users now have the opportunity to share webpages in conjunction with their Snaps, as well as view links embedded in their friends' Snaps and Stories.
Topics: Brick And Mortar Generation Z Snapchat
Gen-Z Voice: What Yoga Taught Me About My Generation and Retail
By Sara Chopra on Jun 29, 2017 5:23:59 PM
Last Wednesday, crowds of young women flocked to New York City's Times Square, turquoise blue yoga mats in hand. Here, right outside American Eagle Outfitters' Aerie store (their women's loungewear branch), thousands convened for the brand's "Mind Over Madness" Summer Solstice yoga event. | {
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In Texas schools, response to misbehavior is questioned
By Donna St. George
Donna St. George
Reporter covering education
SPRING, TEX. — In a small courtroom north of Houston, a fourth-grader walked up to the bench with his mother. Too short to see the judge, he stood on a stool. He was dressed in a polo shirt and dark slacks on a sweltering summer morning.
"Guilty," the boy's mother heard him say.
He had been part of a scuffle on a school bus.
In another generation, he might have received only a scolding from the principal or a period of detention. But an array of get-tough policies in U.S. schools in the past two decades has brought many students into contact with police and courts — part of a trend some experts call the criminalization of student discipline.
Now, such practices are under scrutiny nationally. Federal officials want to limit punishments that push students from the classroom to courtroom, and a growing number of state and local leaders are raising similar concerns.
In Texas, the specter of harsh discipline has been especially clear.
Here, police issue tickets: Class C misdemeanor citations for offensive language, class disruption, schoolyard fights. Thousands of students land in court, with fines of up to $500. Students with outstanding tickets may be arrested after age 17.
Texas also stands out for opening up millions of student records to a landmark study of discipline, released in July . The study shows that 6 in 10 students were suspended or expelled at least once from seventh grade on. After their first suspension, they were nearly three times more likely to be involved in the juvenile justice system the next year, compared with students with no such disciplinary referrals.
Citing the Texas research, federal officials announced last month an initiative to break what many call the "school-to-prison pipeline." S uspensions, expulsions and arrests are used too often to enforce school order, officials said.
"That is something that clearly has to stop," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in Washington alongside Education Secretary Arne Duncan .
This month, Duncan recounted that in his old job as Chicago schools chief, he was stunned to learn that so many arrests occurred in schools. The first response to student misbehavior, he said, "can't be to pick up the phone and call 911."
The federal focus comes amid other change. In Colorado, a legislative task force is examining discipline practices including law enforcement referrals and school ticketing. Los Angeles police recently agreed to cut back on ticketing tardy students en route to school.
Connecticut officials have begun screening cases after students wound up in court on violations such as for having soda , running in the hall and dressing improperly. "It's not that we don't think these things should be handled," said William Carbone, the state's executive director of court support services. "We just think they should be handled in the school rather than the court."
Research shows that students who have been arrested or appeared in court are more likely to drop out of high school, said Gary Sweeten, an Arizona State University criminologist. Dropouts, in turn, are more likely than graduates to be incarcerated or unemployed.
'Defied common sense'
The suburban Houston courtroom was packed with students, parents and siblings. Justice of the Peace Judge J. Kent Adams spoke of the importance of consequences, the duties of parents and the reality of being ticketed.
The fourth-grader who tussled on the bus was 10. After his appearance, his mother, Kimberly Smith, questioned whether her son belonged in court.
"I'm all for consequences, but I think it could have been handled another way," she said. She had no chance to mention her son's attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder, she said.
The child was ordered to do eight hours of community service and take classes in anger management and decision-making, at a cost of $370, Smith said. "I'm a single parent," she said. "Four hundred dollars? I have two other boys."
It is hard to pinpoint the beginning of ticketing in Texas, but advocates say it expanded during the 1990s as many school systems started police forces and as zero-tolerance policies proliferated .
Texas is not alone in school-based ticketing, which occurs in several other states. In the Washington area, where Fairfax County has reexamined discipline policies in the aftermath of a student athlete's suicide , school and police officials report no such ticketing practices.
In Texas, many question whether ticketing went too far.
In one highly publicized case , a middle school student in Austin was ticketed for class disruption after she sprayed herself with perfume when classmates said she smelled.
In Houston one recent day, a 17-year-old was in court after he and his girlfriend poured milk on each other. "She was mad at me because I broke up with her," he said.
Student Precilla Sanchez, 15, said most of her friends "have one ticket or more."
"You got to a point where police were writing tickets for things that were not appropriate," said Brock Gregg of the Association of Texas Professional Educators . He said the association supports police in schools but wants more emphasis on helping students rather than sending them to court.
Debate over ticketing heated up in January after a 200-page report from Texas Appleseed , a public interest law center, documented 275,000 juvenile tickets in fiscal 2009, including 120,000 for truancy. The statewide data did not separate school tickets from those issued in other settings.
But the report's data from 22 Texas school districts showed ticketing rates that ranged from less than 1 percent of students in Pasadena to 11 percent in Galveston.
"It really defied common sense," said Deborah Fowler, the report's lead author, who found tickets issued to students as young as 5.
The study also found that as school police staff grew, often so did ticketing. In Austin, for example, district police staff rose 31 percent over six years as ticketing climbed 50 percent.
"More misbehaving students are being bumped into the court system nationally, and the main reason is the increasing presence of police in schools," said Paul Hirschfield, a Rutgers University sociologist.
Parents in Texas complain that tickets are written up too easily and that authorities overlook whether students have disabilities or are acting in self-defense.
Lawyer Yvonne Q. Taylor, who works for a juvenile justice project at Texas Southern University's Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, said her experience bears out a finding of the ticketing report: Racial disparities are common.
In Dallas, where 30 percent of students are African American, 62 percent of those ticketed are black, the report said. In the Houston area, Taylor said, "I rarely see a white face in the courtroom."
One of her recent cases involved Yiovani Williams, the son of a police detective. The 15-year-old said he talked back to an English teacher after she repeatedly said he could not use the restroom. The teacher accused him of cursing, which he denied. He was ticketed for disorderly conduct and suspended for a day.
His parents, Racquel and Willie Williams, said they were stunned such an incident could be considered criminal. Earlier, their older son had been ticketed after a classroom incident.
"We have worked so hard to keep our children out of the same court system they put them into so easily," Willie Williams said. "For something as minor as this, he has to be criminalized?"
Still, ticketing has supporters.
Ken Knippel, an assistant superintendent of the Aldine Independent School District, with 62,000 students and 39 police officers, said a ticket is one of many responses to an infraction. "Should it be used to modify all behavior? No," he said. "Are there times when it is appropriate? Yes, there are."
Gregg Anderson, president of the Texas Association of School Resource Officers, said that tickets don't get written every day or for every offense but that when a problem is repeated or severe, "it's another tool in our belt." Some police officers ticket more than others, he said, noting that he supervised a middle school with perhaps 10 tickets all year.
Ticketed students can't just mail in a fine, as drivers could with a traffic ticket. In Texas, they must appear with a parent in an adult court — in a municipal court or before a justice of the peace.
At a recent court date, parent Avril Jenkins was leaning toward paying a $165 fine rather than higher costs for a deferred disposition program that included classes.
"I'd still get into college with that, right?" asked her worried 16-year-old daughter.
The question of criminal records is complex. A new law seals court records once misdemeanor judgments are satisfied. Paperwork also can be filed to expunge records at age 18 for one-time offenders.
How much such issues matter in college applications depends on the offense and a student's overall record and explanation, admissions officers said.
Alienating students
In downtown Houston, Municipal Court Judge David Fraga sees perhaps 150 juvenile ticketing cases a day during the school year, about half of them school-related. In his court, punishments include community service and behavior-related workshops, and many offenders are able to avoid fines. The idea is, he said, "to learn, to make good choices."
But others ask: Why are minor offenses here at all?
"It's oftentimes dumb teenage behavior, which most of us did at one time or another," said state Sen. John Whitmire (D-Houston). In the spring, Texas lawmakers passed legislation to scale back ticketing for younger children and truancy cases.
Janell Blackburn, who was in Fraga's court after her teen daughter and an ex-boyfriend had argued and bumped each other, said ticketing should be ended for all but the most severe offenses.
"It's almost like when they gave the school districts the right to have the police officers there," she said, "and they gave them the tablets of tickets, they started writing it all up."
For the students, she said, "it's turning them against the school itself. They don't want to go back there."
Michelle Obama appeals to teachers: Make sure your students are registered and ready to vote
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Economic and Social Review
Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969-
Interfering women: farm mothers and the reproduction of family farming
dc.contributor.author O'Hara, Patricia
dc.identifier.citation O'Hara, Patricia. 'Interfering women: farm mothers and the reproduction of family farming'. - Economic & Social Review, Vol. 28, No.2, April, 1997, pp. 135-156, Dublin: Economic & Social Research Institute
dc.description.abstract The continuance of family farming in Ireland is dependent on family formation and reproduction which are processes in which women are central actors. Family farming as a social form is organised around gender-based work roles so that farm women have responsibility for the care and sustenance of the farm family through their responsibility for children and work in the home. Despite this, relatively little is known about farm women's involvement in the reproduction of family farming. In this paper farm women's involvement in the evolution of family farming and on the structure of Irish society is explored by examining their influence on the exceptional educational attainment of farm children. This means that the focus is on farm women in their role as mothers rather than as wives. This in turn, involves a shift away from the more conventional tendency to view the family farm as an arena of production only, to seeing it also as a site of reproduction. en
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Economic & Social Studies
dc.source Economic & Social Review en
dc.subject Family farming en
dc.subject Women in farming en
dc.subject Ireland en
dc.title Interfering women: farm mothers and the reproduction of family farming
dc.publisher.place Dublin en
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The two Palio horse races have been run, so what to do with the rest of the year? The Siena Art Institute didn't rest during the summer break and has already put together a program of 11 artist talks starting from today.
Every Tuesday evening a visiting artist hops into the hot seat at Siena Art Institute to talk about art and culture and to answer questions from the audience. The Siena Art guests are mainly visual artists but also musician, composers and writers, who live and work in Siena for a month thanks to the institute's Artists in Residence program (more details here). | {
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Sub-Versions: Investigating Videogame Hacking Practices and Subcultures
Iantorno, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5456-1001 (2019) Sub-Versions: Investigating Videogame Hacking Practices and Subcultures. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Iantorno_MA_F2019.pdf - Accepted Version
"Hacking" is an evocative term — one that is mired in tropes that reduce a diverse range of practices into a few stereotypically malicious activities. This thesis aims to explore one hacking practice, videogame hacking, whose practitioners make unauthorized alterations to videogames after their release. Through interviews, game analysis, and reflective writing, this thesis investigates videogame hacking subcultures of production — communities of creative labour that exist in the margins of mediamaking and the fringes of the law.
This thesis begins by reviewing popular media and existing accounts of computer hacker culture, primarily Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution and Gabriella Coleman's Coding Freedom, in order to contextualize videogame hacking in broader histories of computer culture. Using this analysis as a starting point, the author then proposes a reflexive methodological framework for studying videogame hacking subcultures, designed to accommodate the ephemerality of virtual communities and the apprehensions of participants.
The following two chapters refer to participant interviews to pursue two avenues of research. First, drawing upon Michel de Certeau's writing on strategies versus tactics and Henry Jenkins chronicling of prohibitionist and collaborationist models, this study explores how intellectual property law serves as a site of tension between media companies and videogame fans. Second, the author explores the diverse motivations of videogame hackers who create works that are undistributable through commercial markets and may face the risk of legal action.
Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Communication Studies
Iantorno, Michael
Soar, Matt
videogame, hacking, game studies, copyright, intellectual property, ROM hacking, Nintendo, tactics, strategy, hackers
Michael Iantorno
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Biografia
Dopo aver concluso il liceo artistico iniziò a collaborare al quotidiano Gazzetta di Parma e fondò un'associazione giovanile, la CNIG (Centro Nazionale Iniziative Giovanili), e negli anni sessanta collaborò alla rivista satirica Bertoldo, edita da Gino Sansoni.
Si dedicò poi ai fumetti scrivendo sceneggiature per Topolino (dal 1963), Superman, Batman, I Naufraghi, Lancillotto, Bob Lance, Zakimort, Teddy Bob, Boy, Brancaleone, l'Agente senza Nome, Kolosso, I Serpenti, Uranella, Jessica e molti altri personaggi tra cui Diabolik edito dalla Astorina per la quale scrisse anche i romanzi della collana dedicata a Diabolik, Il romanzo di Diabolik, della quale fu anche direttore.
Scrisse alcune di queste serie, come ad esempio Zakimort della Sansoni, in collaborazione con lo sceneggiatore Michele Gazzarri.
Curò poi rubriche e disegnò vignette umoristiche per le collane Giallo Mondadori e Segretissimo e la rivista Settimana Radio TV.
Sempre per la Sansoni, nel 1970 fondò e diresse, con Alfredo Castelli, la rivista Horror per la quale scrisse anche storie a fumetti, in gran parte disegnate da Sergio Zaniboni e Marco Rostagno, ideo la serie a strisce Beatrice e la serie di vignette Alice.
Adattò una versione a fumetti di Pinocchio illustrata da Giovanni Manca. Per la Sugar ideò la collana L'Olimpo dei Fumetti.
Nel 1990 tornò al fumetto scrivendo qualche sceneggiatura di Martin Mystère e Zona X.
Per le Éditions Lug di Lione, casa editrice di Marcel Navarro, produsse sceneggiature di Bob Lance, Dick Demon, Morgane, Sibilla.
Tra i disegnatori che hanno illustrato suoi testi figurano: Giorgio Montorio, Carlo Peroni, Antonio Toldo, Giancarlo Alessandrini, Luciano Bernasconi, Pini Segna, Flavio Bozzoli, Pietro Gamba, Emilio Uberti, Annibale Casabianca, Sergio Tuis e vari artisti della Disney Italia.
Come scrittore debuttò con La morte facile (1964); seguirono moltissimi libri tra cui Storia della magia, Il mistero di Sherlock Holmes e Le società segrete (1968), Cagliostro il taumaturgo (1972), I mercanti dell'occulto (1973), Un'Ombra nell'Ombra, Rasputin (1975), Le profezie di Papa Giovanni XXIII (1976), Palazzo d´Estate (1978), La Banda Kennedy (1980; nuova edizione nel 1990), Il caso Gelli (1982), Il diavolo (1988), Il venerabile (1993), Gesù contro Cristo (1997). Diresse due film tratti dai suoi romanzi, Povero Cristo e Un'ombra nell'ombra.
Per il teatro realizzò il dramma religioso L'abbraccio (premio Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto), seguito da Il Papa in vacanza e Mandrake a Dallas.
Nella sua carriera ha vinto vari premi come quello internazionale di giornalismo, l'Hans Cristian Andersen per la fiaba, il premio Carlomagno di Aquisgrana, il Bancarella e il Bancarellino, il premio Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa e il premio J. L. Borges.
Per il cinema è stato selezionato alla Biennale di Venezia e al Festival di Cannes. Nel 2003 Editoriale Mercury ripubblicò Zakimort in volume cartonato.
La moglie è la scrittrice Franca Bigliardi, premio L'Espresso 1987 con il racconto Il ventre di Maria da cui fu tratto l'omonimo film con la regia di Memè Perlini uscito nel 1993.
È determinante la sua collaborazione con le sorelle Giussani per la creazione di Diabolik e per la scelta del personaggio (scrive alcune sceneggiature dei primi numeri) dato che tale scelta doveva cadere su due proposte, una delle quali era Diabolicus.
Suo sarà il Romanzo di Diabolik in edicola nel 1969 per i tipi di Sansoni e dirigerà la collana.
Dal suo libro Cagliostro il Taumaturgo fu tratto l'omonimo film con la sua sceneggiatura.
Il suo nome era tra quelli rinvenuti nella lista degli appartenenti alla loggia P2 (Reggio Emilia 14).
Nel 1983 rilasciò un'intervista al giornalista Enzo Biagi nella quale parlò del suo rapporto con il venerabile maestro della loggia Licio Gelli.
Aderente alla Società Teosofica, fu in buoni rapporti con Edoardo Bratina, Segretario Generale della Società Teosofica Italiana dal 1974 al 1995.
Carpi dette vita all'inizio degli Anni Novanta ad un Gruppo Teosofico, da lui presieduto, che aveva sede a Reggio Emilia.
Riconoscimenti
Gran Guinigi come migliore autore (1969)
Opere
Saggistica
Storia della magia, Sansoni ca. 1968
Il mistero di Sherlock Holmes, Sansoni ca. 1968
Le società segrete, Radar 1968
Cagliostro il taumaturgo, MEB 1972 (poi, per lo stesso editore, nuove edizioni nel 1975 e 1979)
I mercanti dell'occulto, Armenia 1973
Abracadabra, Campirone Editore 1974
Rasputin, ultimo profeta, Campironi 1974
Le profezie di papa Giovanni: la storia dell'umanità dal 1935 al 2033, Edizioni mediterranee 1976
Identikiller, Città armoniosa 1978
Testimoni del mistero : storie e dialoghi di magia interpretati da Agatha Christie, Giorgio Strehler, Irene Papas, Felix Jussupoff, Giuliana d'Olanda, Walt Disney, Rusconi 1979
Il caso Gelli: la verità sulla loggia P2, parla Licio Gelli con documenti inediti, i.n.e.i. 1982
Il diavolo: i riti, i sabba, gli esorcismi, tutti i segreti e i patti satanici, Editoriale Albero 1988
Il venerabile, Gribaudo e Zarotti ca. 1993
Gesù contro Cristo: tra magia e mistero, il romanzo che svela i segreti del Vangelo, Simonelli 1997
Romanzi
Un'ombra nell'ombra, Nord ca. 1974
Povero Cristo, Nord 1975
Nel palazzo d'estate quella notte Adolf Hitler strangolò Jacqueline Kennedy, Corno 1978
La banda Kennedy, Centroedizioni 1980 (poi nuova edizione, Gribaudo ca.1992)
Poesia
Le poesie, Sansoni 1973
Fumetti
Natale Nero, disegni di Marco Rostagno e Sergio Zaniboni (1969, Gino Sansoni Editori)
Il Mago, disegni di Marco Rostagno e Sergio Zaniboni (1970, Gino Sansoni Editori)
Filmografia
Cagliostro (1975, soggetto e sceneggiatura)
Povero Cristo (1975, regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura)
Un'ombra nell'ombra (1979, regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura)
Il ventre di Maria (1992, sceneggiatura)
Note
Bibliografia
Pier Carpi, "Il caso Gelli: la verità sulla loggia P2, parla Licio Gelli con documenti inediti", Fumetti d'Italia, i.n.e.i. 1982
Pier Carpi, Il Venerabile, Gribaudo e Zarotti, 1993
Pier Carpi, Salvatore Vaglica
Voci correlate
Appartenenti alla P2
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Teosofi italiani
Appartenenti alla P2
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Whois GDPR carnage continues: Afilias to ditch almost all data in Whois on millions of domains
Andrew Allemann 9 Comments April 3, 2018
Afilias will stop showing contact info and ownership data on millions of domains including .info, .mobi and more.
Please see update
Much of the focus of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as it relates to Whois has been on registrars. But many top level domains operate under a "thick Whois" system in which the registry maintains the personal data of registrants.
Today, registry Afilias informed registrars that it's ditching almost all of the data in Whois. No contact data whatsoever; just a bit of technical data and the registrar's data.
Here's what Afilias Whois records will look like at the end of May:
As for law enforcement and trademark owners? Until models are worked out, they're screwed.
(An Afilias spokesperson reiterated that it is committed to working with law enforcement to provide them the information they need. Please note the portion of the email titled "Law Enforcement".)
Here's the full text of the message Afilias sent to registrars today:
Dear Registrar,
As a follow-up to discussions at ICANN61, this provides an update of Afilias' plans for addressing compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will go into effect on 25 May 2018.
Effective 25 May 2018, Afilias will minimize the data displayed in the public WHOIS for Afilias-owned TLDs and will begin displaying ONLY operational technical data (not contact data). AFILIAS-SUPPORTED TLDS MAY OPT-IN TO THIS APPROACH (LIST NOT AVAILABLE YET).
A marked-up version of our current WHOIS output is shown on "Attachment 1" so you can see which data will continue to be displayed and which data will no longer be publicly displayed. Our Registry Operator clients may either adopt our solution or leave the WHOIS as is; we do not expect to provide tailored solutions.
Afilias "owned" TLDs affected by this are: .info, .mobi, .pro, .poker, .pink, .black, .red, .blue, .kim, .shiksha, .promo, .lgbt, .ski, .bio, .green, .lotto, .pet, .bet, .vote, .voto, .archi, .organic and .llc.
From a registry standpoint, we see no impact of this registry action on registrars. Registrars are free to continue transferring thick data to the registry, although you may elect to similarly truncate your own WHOIS display (that is up to individual registrars).
The approach above is supplemented by our perspectives on the following:
ICANN Compliance:
Our ICANN registry contracts require display of the full WHOIS, which is inconsistent with GDPR requirements. To avoid possible ICANN contract compliance issues, ICANN has suggested to Afilias that a "local law exemption" be sought. As an Irish company, Afilias plans to consult with the Irish DPA and local counsel on how to best address the application of local law (the GDPR) on WHOIS output.
Law Enforcement:
Afilias continues to constructively engage with law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and other Registration Authorities to explore potential mechanisms to ensure that LEAs are not unreasonable restricted in their access to WHOIS data.
Trademark/IP Interests:
As there is no "accreditation" mechanism yet for access to WHOIS by Trademark and IP interests, Afilias intends to eliminate access until a consensus emerges in this area.
ccTLDs:
Some of the ccTLDs Afilias supports may be affected by GDPR as well, especially if they have registrants or registrars in the EU. It is unclear to Afilias how DPAs will treat cases involving ccTLDs. ccTLD operators may or may not adopt the Afilias approach to WHOIS; they may contact you separately.
There are a host of other GDPR-related issues that remain unresolved (e.g. consent management, natural/legal person status, etc), and Afilias is actively engaged with the community.
Should consensus or other changes indicate adjustments to the above, we will advise you accordingly.
Please reach out to your Afilias contact if you have any questions.
Afilias hits pause button on Whois plans
GDPR will make domain name transfers more difficult
Will May 2018 be the death of Whois?
Categories: Policy & Law Tags: afilias, gdpr, General Data Protection Regulation, topstory, whois
John Kenney says
Great news for spammers and other bad actors!
JZ says
you can't call that whois. maybe whoisit?!?!..
Luc says
Wise decision Afilias! Spammers and scammers all over the world will be so happy to operate completely under the radar, and of course that will help raise registrations of your extensions for shady registrants.
jbl429 says
How would this affect domain transfers where technical contact is needed to receive emails from the gaining registrar?
Andrew Allemann says
It's a good question. I know when Namecheap was upset with GoDaddy for (allegedly) blocking Whois lookups, it was because it was causing problems on transfers.
My first inclination would be to say that registrars will still get access to Whois. But since Afilias is saying that registrars don't have to pass this info to Afilias anymore, I'm not so sure.
Any registrars/registries know how this will work?
Rubens Kuhl says
The gaining registrar FOA is likely to be removed after GDPR. Registrars and registries already asked ICANN this.
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/gdpr-comments-contract-party-techops-icann-proposed-compliance-models-08mar18-en.pdf
Francine Callahan says
My head is spinning with all the changes…what a cluster…I'm sure I will get used to the changes in time but right now, all I can think of is…"CLUSTER!"
Daan says
I believe this subject will become a non issue. I guess ruled will be tightened. But there are already serviced to hide your identity from the public. As for registrars…… There is room for exceptions like this. I would certainly say the significance of this data and the public interest is enough to bend the rules. Of course no individual company is willing to risking the possible consequences. But it's a good thing that Icann is taking this step. I believe situations like this are expected and accounted for. The European Union will need to address these issues. I would argue that anyone who chooces to own a domain name must be willing to agree that personal information is shared and publicated. I do think that we will lose the long term history. European companies must at some point delete personal information. There is a legal term for this. (Again there are exceptions). Ultimately once the data loses its purpose you are not allowed to hold on to it and reuse it later for other purposes. I guess that the historical information about previous owners would need to be purged at some point.
Sorry for the typos. Typing this stuff on my phone. Really should proof read more often and can't edit my post it seems.
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Foreign Assistance and Emigration: Accounting for the Role of Non-Transferred Aid
EUI Working Paper RSCAS, 2019/18
Since policymakers increasingly regard foreign aid as a means to manage international flows of migrants, it is important to obtain accurate empirical evidence on the complex link between aid and migration. Recent research has shown that the impact of foreign assistance on migrant flows is highly heterogenous across aid categories. In this paper, we focus on a dimension of heterogeneity that has so far not been considered in the literature, namely whether or not the delivery of foreign aid is associated with a transfer of resources to the recipient country. We show in a first step that non-transferred aid is quantitatively important, accounting for more than 25 percent of overall aid given by OECD DAC donors in 2016. Running separate gravity-type regressions for transferred and non-transferred aid, we then find that transferred aid has a much stronger (negative) impact on migration than the previously used total aid variable that includes the non-transferred component. As may be expected, non-transferred aid itself does not appear to affect migrant flows. A high share of non-transferred aid would therefore be at odds with donors' stated goal of tackling the root causes of migration.
Mauro Lanati
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Q: Should Sockets be secured I am working on an update function for a pet project of mine, and was wondering if I need to spend the time to make sure my connections are secure?
Basically the client sends the version number of the software on the users computer to a server, the server checks the users version against the latest version available, and if a newer version is available the server sends a url where the update can be downloaded from.
With this simple communication is it necessary to worry about SSL or other security measures?
I am writing the update server and client in C#, and this is the first time I've worked with Sockets in C#.
A: If you don't use SSL, an attacker could poison the client computer's DNS records with a fake record to your server, actually pointing to the attacker's fake server.
When the client that is curious about need for upgrade attempts to contact www.yourdomain.com, the operating system will make a DNS request to find the IP address associated with that name. The client DNS request will be sent to whatever DNS server is configured on that client. For example, the client DNS server might be their wireless router, which in turn is configured to contact the ISP DNS server. The ISP's server contacts the root authority, which refers the request to your "authoritative" DNS server. At this point in the normal (unhacked) scenario, the DNS server contacted first by the client receives, and caches, the response. This response is in turn sent to the client, satisfying the request for a name to IP address mapping.
The purpose of contacting a nearby DNS server is to allow that server to cache the response, so that subsequent lookups for the same name return quickly and without generating off-network traffic. This cache can be a weakness. If an attacker "poisons" the DNS cache that is going to be queried, they can effectively "hijack" your name to IP address mapping, from the perspective of the client that is using that cache.
The fake server could then inform a client to 'upgrade' to trojan horse software.
So the answer "depends on your liability." Whatever answer holds for the negotiation you describe should also be applied to download the client -- otherwise attacker can potentially be in the middle of that download and change what is downloaded.
I would suggest you do use SSL, but the answer depends on business factors more than technicalities of your version negotiation.
The above answer leaves aside the fact that recently SSL was found vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. This will be fixed by various SSL implementations soon enough that I really only mention it in passing. It's nothing to worry about, and the point is that SSL is designed precisely to prevent the sort of attack I described.
A: Short answer: I would definitely use SSL here -- you want to be certain that The Answer ("yep, new version - and here it is") came from YOU, not a man-in-the-middle attacker.
Oh, and one other point: in terms of "taking the time to do this," SSL is basically free to the developer: though you'll have to pay-for and install an SSL cert on your server the client-side work is basically zero (e.g., use https://, rather than http://).
EDIT:
Though mentioned in the comments, there's no need to spent lots of cash for a SSL certificate. GoDaddy, for example, sells SSL certs for between $9 and $12 (depending on today's offer). Despite what the Verisign rep might like you to think, there's just no good reason for spending hundreds of bucks for a "brand name" SSL cert: modern browsers have a robust root CA list which includes these cheap SSL cert guys.
A: Depends on your purpose. If you need a connection that is difficult for a third party to intercept, yes go with encryption/SSL. If you are sending information where network resources or processing resources are costly, you may want to reconsider the decision to use a secure channel. If you are sending information to/from mobile devices, the [good to best] encryption/decryption techniques are very costly and will slow down your application's ability to communicate. Also, if you are trying to send information that is quite bursty or intensive (i.e. video or audio+video streams) encryption with reduce your transfer speed to a fraction of what you could without it.
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from syntax.ExprSyntax import *
from stdtypes.Int import *
from compilation.MethodGroup import *
class TermExprSyntax(ExprSyntax):
def __init__(self, cunit, tok_start_idx, tok_count, val):
super().__init__(cunit, tok_start_idx, tok_count)
self.num = val if type(val) == int else None
self.ident = val if type(val) == str else None
self.ident_res = None
self.declspace = None
def registerNames(self, declspace):
self.declspace = declspace
def resolveNames(self):
if type(self.ident) == str:
self.ident_res = self.declspace.resolve(self.ident)
def tryResolveType(self):
if self.resolvedType():
return False
if self.ident:
if not self.ident_res:
return None
if type(self.ident_res) == MethodGroup:
self._resolvedType = self.ident_res
return True
changed = self.ident_res.tryResolveType()
self._resolvedType = self.ident_res.resolvedType()
return changed
else:
self._resolvedType = Int.inst()
return True
def assemble(self, builder):
if self.ident:
self.ident_res.assembleIdentRef(builder)
else:
builder.emit(('ldc', self.num))
def __str__(self):
if self.ident:
return self.ident
return str(self.num)
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Q: Show that this integral of a hyperbolic equals a certain equation
Show that $$ \int_0^\infty e^{-ax}\sinh bx \,\mathrm dx = \frac{b}{a^2 - b^2}\,,\quad|b| < a $$ by expanding $\sinh bx$ in a Taylor series at $x = 0$ and integrating term by term.
The instructions confuse me somewhat. Expanding $\sinh bx$ in a Taylor series at $x = 0$ is the McLaurin series right? If this is so, I get this relationship:
$$\sinh bx = \sum_{n = 0}^\infty \frac{{(bx)}^{2n+1}}{{(2n+1)}!}$$
Integrating this series term by term (skipping some steps) I find a new series:
$$\sum_{n=0}^\infty b^{n+1}\frac{x^n}{n!} = b^{n+1}e^x$$
A: We have $$\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-ax}\sinh\left(bx\right)dx=\sum_{n\geq0}\frac{b^{2n+1}}{\left(2n+1\right)!}\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-ax}x^{2n+1}
$$ hence, since $0\leq\left|b\right|<a
$, if we put $$ ax=u
$$ we have $$=\frac{b}{a^{2}}\sum_{n\geq0}\frac{b^{2n}}{a^{2n}\left(2n+1\right)!}\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-u}u^{2n+1}du=\frac{b}{a^{2}}\sum_{n\geq0}\frac{b^{2n}}{a^{2n}\left(2n+1\right)!}\Gamma\left(2n+2\right)=$$ $$=\frac{b}{a^{2}}\sum_{n\geq0}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)^{2n}=\frac{b}{a^{2}-b^{2}}.$$
A: Hints:
The key to solving this problem is the Gamma integral (for integer powers),
$$\int_0^\infty x^ne^{-x}dx=n!$$
The Taylor expansion is a sum of powers that you will multiply by $e^{-x}$ (after rescaling of $x$) and integrate, and in the end obtain an ordinary series.
After rescaling and integration, the general term $\dfrac{\alpha^{2k+1}x^{2k+1}}{(2k+1)!}$ (with $\alpha:=\dfrac ba$), yields $\dfrac{\alpha^{2k+1}(2k+1)!}{(2k+1)!}=\alpha(\alpha^2)^k$, hence the sum $\dfrac\alpha{1-\alpha^2}$.
A: Notice
Using Laplace transform of $\sinh(bx)$, we get $$\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-ax}\sin h(bx)dx$$$$=L[\sin h(bx)]_{s=a}$$
$$=\left[\frac{b}{s^2-b^2}\right]_{s=a}$$
$$=\left[\frac{b}{a^2-b^2}\right]$$$$=\color {red}{\frac{b}{a^2-b^2}}$$
$\forall \ \ |b|<a$
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Check off another box for Henrythenavigator: running against older horses? No problem. Granted, there were only two four-year-olds in the Sussex Stakes field and they were well-beaten, but it's another milestone for the colt. Raven's Pass, an American-bred Elusive Quality colt (who has now finished behind Henrythenavigator three times), did press him at the end, but Henrythenavigator still prevailed.
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With the number of top-class American-bred turf milers in this crop (including Henrythenavigator, who is by Kingmambo) it seems a shame no one seems to care much about this division Stateside – I still maintain that Hard Spun could have really excelled as a turf miler – but I digress.
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F-101 Pilots Relate Their Experiences With the Voodoo During Flight Tests and Operations in Hot and Cold Wars
The Missouri Aviation Historical Society hosted a 60th anniversary commemoration of the first flight of the McDonnell Aircraft F-101 Voodoo November 15 at the James J. Eagan Community Center in Florissant, Missouri. The special event was held at the Florissant location to accommodate the larger expected audience and incorporate into the event activities the F-101F Voodoo (s/n 58-0269) on display in the adjacent Florissant Valley Park. Florissant, a northern St. Louis County suburb known for being in close proximity to the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (later McDonnell Douglas and now Boeing) manufacturing complex located at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, experienced a population boom from 1947-1980 during the company's rapid growth period.
The main event of the day was the gathering of some of the Voodoo team veterans for a panel discussion. Missouri Aviation Historical Society President Dan O'Hara opened the session, and then turned over the panel moderation to local pilot, aviation historian and publisher Gary Liming. Eight members of the panel answered questions about their involvement in the F-101 program from their manufacturing, flight testing or military service experience. Topics ranged from flying characteristics to combat tactics to the workings of various hardware aboard the jet. We present several video clips from the event, each addressing a different topic requested by the panel moderator or a member of the audience.
Members of the Panel (L-R): Chuck Fulton, Dan Venverloh, Dick Moffitt,
Joe Dobronski, Gary Liming, Bob West, Bob Gould, George Andre, and William Spurgeon
Bob Gould and George Andre describe their initial flights in the Voodoo:
George Andre' talks about the role of the F-101B interceptor:
Dan Venverloh and Bob Gould discuss the RF-101C reconnaissance cameras:
Joe Dobronski gives the test pilot view of the pitch-up issues with the Voodoo:
Bob Gould, Joe Dobronski and George Andre' pay tribute to the legacy of the Voodoo:
The Aero Experience wishes to thank Missouri Aviation Historical Society President Dan O'Hara and other members for organizing this event. Special thanks to those guests from the McDonnell Aircraft and military communities who participated in the panel discussion and added their experiences. Also, thanks to those who attended the event and showed support for the mission of the Missouri Aviation Historical Society.
Labels: century series fighters, interceptor, McDonnell f-101 voodoo, Missouri Aviation Historical Society, reconnaissance aircraft, RF-101C Voodoo
McDonnell F-101 Voodoo 60th Anniversary Commemoration Attracts Generations of One-O-Wonder Fans
The Missouri Aviation Historical Society hosted a 60th anniversary commemoration of the first flight of the McDonnell Aircraft F-101 Voodoo Saturday at the James J. Eagan Community Center in Florissant, Missouri. The special event was held at the Florissant location to accommodate the larger expected audience and incorporate into the event activities the F-101F Voodoo (s/n 58-0269) on display in the adjacent Florissant Valley Park. Florissant, a northern St. Louis County suburb known for being in close proximity to the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (later McDonnell Douglas and now Boeing) manufacturing complex located at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, experienced a population boom from 1947-1980 during the company's rapid growth period. McDonnell Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas produced the Phantom, Banshee, Demon, Voodoo, Phantom II, Eagle, Hornet and Harrier II tactical jets along with Mercury and Gemini spacecraft and many other experimental types. Mayor James J. Eagan, for whom the Community Center was named, presided over much of the city's growth as Mayor of Florissant from 1963 until his death in 2000.
James J. Eagan Community Center, Florissant, MO
McDonnell Aircraft F-101F Voodoo (s/n 58-0269)
The first activity of the event was a photo opportunity and award presentation that took place at the site of the F-101F Voodoo on display on a hill overlooking Florissant Valley Park. At around noon, an iconic gathering of those who built, flew and maintained the F-101 Voodoo from the McDonnell Aircraft and U.S. Air Force communities assembled for a series of photos and conversation amongst old friends and new acquaintances around the jet, which was recently cleaned and trimmed for the occasion. An award presentation was officiated by current Florissant Mayor Tom Schneider recognizing the work of Dwight "Red" Singleton, a Boeing employee who volunteered over 50 hours of time working to restore the Voodoo to the current excellent condition following an unfortunate occurrence of vandalism in 2012. Since then, the jets has enjoyed two years with its new paint, decals and lighted walkway that have made the exhibit more attractive and visible to Florissant Parks and Recreation staff at night.
The F-101F Voodoo located in Florissant Valley Park
New lighted walkway surrounds the aircraft
Dedication plaque was added as part of the restoration
McDonnell test pilots (L-R) Irv Burrows, Bob Little and Joe Dobronski
with Aerodynamicist Jack Abercrombie
Gathering of McDonnell and USAF Voodoo team
MAHS President Dan O'Hara (right) addresses the team
Florissant Mayor Tom Schneider (second from right) addresses the team
Florissant Mayor Tom Schneider (right) recognizes
Dwight "Red" Singleton for the restoration of the Voodoo
Following the outside activities, the main event took place in a large meeting room inside the James J. Eagan Community Center. Once in side, there was time to visit with the Voodoo team, meet other visitors and have some snacks prior to 1pm. F-101 Voodoo exhibits were provided by the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, MAHS military demonstration team presenter Joe Gurney, and others. As the early arrivals viewed the displays and interacted with the Voodoo team veterans, the room filled to over 70 guests just prior to the main event.
McDonnell test pilots Bob Little and Irv Burrows lead the guests through the exhibits
Historic documents, photos and models were on display to tell the
story of the development and service of the F-101 Voodoo
The main event of the day was the gathering of some of the Voodoo team veterans for a panel discussion, along the same format inaugurated by the Missouri Aviation Historical Society for the Mercury spacecraft 50th anniversary of astronaut Gordon Cooper's flight in May, 2013. (Since then, the Mercury panel has met several more times for other programs). Missouri Aviation Historical Society President Dan O'Hara opened the session, and then turned over the panel moderation to local pilot, aviation historian and publisher Gary Liming. Eight members of the panel answered questions about their involvement in the F-101 program from their manufacturing, flight testing or military service experience. Topics ranged from flying characteristics to combat tactics to the workings of various hardware aboard the jet. A few issues were addressed by others present at the event who had insight into the issue discussed. Throughout the panel discussion, it became more evident with each question that this was an historic assembly of aerospace giants, who, regardless of their achievements, remained humble and available to anyone who wished to visit with them. More details of the panel discussion will be featured in future posts by The Aero Experience.
Joe Dobronski, Gary Liming, Bob West, Bob Gould,
George Andre, and William Spurgeon
Following the panel discussion, a cake with the Voodoo logo was served along with other refreshments. The first cut was made by Bob Little, the McDonnell test pilot who flew the first flight of the F-101, and the remainder of the cake was cut by Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum President, Mark Nankivil.
F-101 themed cake from McArthur's Bakery
McDonnell Test Pilot Bob Little cuts the cake
McDonnell Test Pilots (L-R): Irv Burrows, Bob Little, Joe Dobronski
McDonnell Test Pilot Bob Little signs autographs following the program
The Aero Experience wishes to thank Missouri Aviation Historical Society President Dan O'Hara and other members for organizing this event. Special thanks to those guests from the McDonnell Aircraft and military communities who participated in the panel discussion and added their experiences. Also, thanks to those who attended the event and showed support for the mission of the Missouri Aviation Historical Society. Look for further coverage of the panel discussion in upcoming posts.
Labels: Florissant MO, irv burrows, joe dobronski, mcdonnell aircraft, McDonnell f-101 voodoo, Missouri Aviation Historical Society, test pilot bob little
Stretch of Highway in Washington County, Missouri Named for Aviation Pioneer Tom Benoist
On Saturday, November 8, a stretch of Highway U in Washington County, Missouri was named for aviation pioneer Tom Benoist, a native of Irondale. The bill to authorize the name change was sponsored by Missouri Representative Paul Fitzwater and three others, with the expenses for signage coming from private funding. Knowing this, the Missouri Aviation Historical Society joined the fund-raising effort, and this work was rewarded with the dedication ceremony. House Bill No. 1337, 97th General Assembly, reads:
The portion of State Highway U from the intersection of Province Road to the intersection of State Highway 8 in Washington County shall be designated the "Thomas Wesley Benoist Memorial Highway". The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway with the costs to be paid by private donations.
The Aero Experience was on hand Saturday afternoon at the childhood residence of aviation pioneer, Tom Benoist, to witness the ceremony for the renaming of 8.4 miles of highway U in Washington County, MO in his honor. A crowd of about 40 people gathered for this his special occasion. Members of VFW Post 6996 from Potosi, MO presented the colors. Missouri State Representative Paul Fitzwater (R) spoke of his efforts to have the roadway renamed. Chuck Benoist, Tom's nephew, and other members of the Benoist family were on hand to honor Tom Benoist. Author Gary Liming spoke about Tom Benoist's many aviation accomplishments in the early 1900's, and of his untimely and bizarre death in a streetcar accident. All told, it was the culmination of the efforts of many over the last year to make this dedication possible. Well done, Benoist Family and aviation community!
For more information on the life and accomplishments of Tom Benoist, please read
"The Brief, Bright Aviation Career of St. Louis's Tom Benoist" by Frederick W. Roos, available through permission of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum.
Labels: aviation pioneers, Greater St. louis air and space museum, Missouri Aviation, Missouri Aviation Historical Society, tom benoist
Aviation Legend Carl "Chub" Wheeler Honored on 103rd Birthday at Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum
By Mark Nankivil
The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, located in historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 at St. Louis Downtown Airport, recently hosted a 103rd birthday celebration Sunday for local aviation legend Carl "Chub" Wheeler. Family and friends gathered to commemorate his life and an aviation career that spanned nearly 70 years. Mark and Elaine Harter flew in their 1937 Waco YKS-7 cabin biplane especially for the occasion. Mark Harter earned his tail-wheel endorsement from none other than "Chub" Wheeler himself in the 1980s. Wheeler, a Founder and Life Member of the museum, took his first airplane ride in 1930 at Curtiss-Steinberg Airport (now called St. Louis Downtown Airport, where the museum is located) and soloed in a Curtiss Robin in 1935. During his aviation career, "Chub" Wheeler instructed new flight students at Parks Air College during World War II, managed Curtiss-Steinberg Airport in 1946-1947, flew corporate DC-3s for several St. Louis businesses, and flew for the Defense Mapping Agency in the 1950s. He continued to fly until the age of 92, and owned a number of aircraft.
The following biography was prepared by Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum President Mark Nankivil for "Chub" Wheeler's successful nomination to the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame in 2013:
Carl "Chub" Elliott Wheeler
- Born October 1, 1911 in Murphysboro, IL
- Moved to East St. Louis, IL (Chub's father was a railroad engineer with the M&O) after the 1925 Tri-State Tornado nearly destroyed all of Murphysboro, IL, killing 450 people there.
- In 1928, Parks Air College opens and construction of Curtiss-Steinberg Airport starts (full operations in 1930) in East St. Louis, IL (now Cahokia, IL)
- On September 1, 1930, Chub takes his first airplane ride at Curtiss-Steinberg Airport. A pilot named Giggs took Chub up for a 10 minute ride, reaching at one point an altitude of 2,000 feet in a Travel Air 2000, C9986. Chub still has that ticket in his possession.
- Once in high school, Chub would walk to Parks (3 miles from his home) and Curtiss Steinberg to see the aircraft and with frequent visits, came to be accepted at the airports and was able to freely roam the airports and hangars. All the visits and time spent at the airports led to Chub being hired as a line boy at Curtiss-Steinberg, making $14/week servicing aircraft such as Union Electric's Ford Trimotor. His work there led to a friendship with Earl Hayden who in turn taught Chub to fly in Earl's OX-5 powered Curtiss Robin (NC341K), soloing on September 2, 1935 and earning his pilot's license on October 6, 1935 (Pilot Certificate #34908). In his first year of flying, he had a total time of 81 hours. Later, after taking a job at Mobil Oil, Chub saved enough money to buy the Curtiss Robin from Earl for $450.00.
- Chub earns his flight instructor's certificate and teaches his first student, Roy Crouse, in an OX-5 powered Travel Air 2000, NC6085.
- Chub and partner Bill Hart set up a flying school at Curtiss-Steinberg and used the Curtiss Robin to offer flying lessons during weekends (while continuing to work at Mobil Oil during the week), putting 400 hours on the Robin before selling it in 1939 to purchase a Luscombe 8F. In May, 1939, Chub had 555:15 hour total flying time, earned his ATP rating by 1940 and by May, 1941, had a total of 1,617:45 hours in his logbooks.
- In 1940, Chub and Bill Hart move their flying school to Lakeside Airport (near Collinsville, Illinois) when Parks Air College expanded its pilot training to Curtiss-Steinberg Airport as part of the expansion of the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), which was created in response to the impending war in Europe. Before long, Chub closed his flying school and went to work at Parks Air College as a flight instructor. Over 37,000 cadets passed through the program at Parks operated facilities, including Curtiss-Steinberg, with 24,000 becoming commissioned pilots during the war.
- With the declaration of war after the attack at Pearl Harbor, Chub, as a civilian instructor, was drafted into the Army Reserves. This was done by the military to keep the civilian instructors from leaving to join the Army Air Corps and going off to the war fronts. Their assigned rank was one rank above the students they were instructing. Post war, their inactive reserve status kept them from receiving any of the benefits provided to active duty military personnel.
- Chub was a primary flight instructor throughout the war and served at all four of Parks Air College flight schools during the war, at the end of the war being responsible for operating the flight school at Cape Girardeau, MO. Aircraft types he flew for training were the PT-13, PT-17, PT-19 and PT-23. Chub was flight leader for the "Thunderbolts" which was a demonstration team showing off the capabilities of the flight trainers being used at the time.
- After the war was over, Chub came back to East St. Louis to become the Airport Manager at Curtiss-Steinberg (later called Parks-Metropolitan) Airport during 1946 and 1947.
- Chub became a corporate pilot in 1948, first with the Monsanto Company flying Douglas DC-3s and Beech D-18s for the President of the Board of Directors. After Monsanto downsized their staffing, Chub went to work for Peabody Coal flying DC-3s and later, worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch flying the DC-3 there as well. When the Post-Dispatch transitioned to new equipment in the late '50s, Chub retired from corporate flying and went to work for the Defense Mapping Agency, Aeronautical Chart and Information Service, and finished his flying career with them.
- Chub flew until he gave up his medical at the age of 92, the last aircraft he personally owned being a 1946 Fairchild 24. Total flying time in his career was over 15,000 hours.
- Aircraft Chub has owned include the Curtiss Robin, Fairchild 22, Travel Air J-5 Speedwing, BT-13s, PT-23, J-3 Cubs, Piper Pacer, Aeronca Champ, Aeronca 7AC, and his final aircraft, a 1946 Ranger powered Fairchild 24.
- Associations: OX-5 Aviation Pioneers, Quiet Birdmen, Experimental Aircraft Association, Antique Airplane Association, Founding Board Member/Life Member for the St. Louis Aviation Museum (now the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum located at St. Louis-Downtown Airport in Cahokia, IL)
- Awards & Recognition: FAA Wright Brothers' "Master Pilot Award" (2009), Experimental Aircraft Association's "Timeless Voices of Aviation", OX5 Aviation Pioneers 2012 "Legion of Merit" Award
Labels: carl "chub" wheeler, curtiss-steinberg airport, douglas DC-3, ford trimotor, Illinois aviation hall of fame, parks air college, pt-17 kaydet, st louis aviation, Waco yks-7
Gateway to Space Conference Honors McDonnell Mercury Spacecraft Pioneers at Boeing St. Louis Facility
The St. Louis Space Frontier, a chapter of the National Space Society, opened the Gateway to Space Conference November 7-9 with a St. Louis Space Retrospective event at the James S. McDonnell Prologue Room located at the Boeing Company's St. Louis Defense, Space and Security Division headquarters. The Prologue Room, an exhibit hall featuring large-scale models of aerospace vehicles from Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, North American and other businesses that have become part of the Boeing Company over the years, is located in the former headquarters building of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation across the street from the plant that manufactured the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft. Conference attendees were invited to the Prologue Room auditorium to attend a panel discussion featuring seven McDonnell Aircraft employees who participated in the design and construction of the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft and special guest Lowell Grissom, brother of astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom and also a McDonnell Aircraft employee working in other areas of the company. The guests and format for the event were first introduced by the Missouri Aviation Historical Society in May of 2013, were an instant success, and were also featured on an HEC-TV special, "HEC-TV Live: History in the First Person: Building the Mercury Capsule" later that year. Their story will continue to captivate the imagination of current and future generations of space explorers through the rebroadcast of these forums for many years to come.
Conference attendees and organizers gathered for a reception at the James S. McDonnell Prologue Room about an hour prior to the forum. Along with the formal exhibits, additional displays were brought by the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, The Space Museum at Bonne Terre, MO and Mac's Old Team (retired McDonnell Aircraft employees, some of which were on the forum panel).
Following the reception, the panel discussion was held in the auditorium located just off the lobby entrance. The forum involving the members of the McDonnell Aircraft Mercury and Gemini spacecraft design and production team was introduced and moderated by Mr. Earl Mullins of The Space Museum in Bonne Terre, MO. The eight participants were asked several open-ended questions about their first-hand experiences during the dawn of the U.S. manned space flight and their views on the current and future programs. Video coverage of the forum will air on future posts of The Aero Experience.
Earl Mullins from The Space Museum moderates
Paul Baldwin from St. Louis Space Frontier greets attendees
Lowell Grissom, Bob Schepp and other panelists approach the stage
Panelists are introduced by Earl Mullins
Panelists are recognized by conference organizers with a special award
Award is presented to Mac's Old Team leader Norm Beckel
The award's illumination is admired by panel recipients
Mac's Old Team panel participants: Jerry Roberts, Norm Beckel,
Lowell Grissom, Bob Schepp, Earl Robb, Dean Purdy,
Ray Tucker and Nelson Weber
Earl Mullins, Paul Baldwin, Ray Tucker, Nelson Weber, Earl Robb,
Lowell Grissom, Dean Purdy, Bob Schepp, Jerry Roberts, Norm Beckel
and Bill Alban
The Aero Experience thanks all involved with bringing the Gateway to Space Conference to St. Louis. Check back for additional video coverage of the panel discussion soon.
Labels: bonne terre mo space museum, gemini spacecraft, Greater St. louis air and space museum, james s. McDonnell prologue room, mac's old team, mcdonnell aircraft, Mercury Spacecraft, st Louis space frontier
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Roosevelt Wright
July 11, 2019 July 11, 2019 Free PressRoosevelt Wright
The State Representative seat for District 16 has been vacated; we will need our best thinkers to step up to fill that seat.
Representative Katrina Jackson has announced that she will not seek re-election to the District 16 seat, but will instead be a candidate for the District 34 Senate seat.
As a senator, Rep. Jackson hopes to have more influence on policies, laws and funding plans that affect the poor and people of Northeast Louisiana.
That leaves the District 16 seat empty. Representative Jackson has been the only person to fill that position since she helped create it years ago. She carved up District 17, that was formerly held by former Rep. Charles Jones and Willie Hunter, Jr. and created a new, predominately black district which uses the Booker T. community and then runs North, along Highway 165 and brings in Bastrop.
The new district was called District 16.
District 17 used the remainder of the Southside but added a portion of West Monroe in the loop.
The net effect gave African-Americans one additional representative in this area, and similar actions were taken across the state.
The two districts have sent some of our brightest young minds to Baton Rouge to make laws on our behalf. Among those were Rep. Rosalind Jones and Rep. (now Judge) Marcus Hunter and Pat Moore.
With District 16 vacant, we need our best thinkers to come forward and take the baton from Rep. Jackson.
Our representatives have set the bar high. Except for Moore, all of them have been attorneys. Mrs. Moore has nearly a lifetime of public service and reputation for getting things done. These representatives have raised the bar extremely high.
Even Representative Jackson will have to step up to fill the shoes of former Senator Charles D. Jones, whose legal mind produced legislation that resulted in economic districts, criminal justice reform and the most salient of them all, the creation of black judgeships across the state.
Filling the shoes of Senator Jones will be a formidable task, but her intellect, discipline and political prowess indicate that Rep. Jackson knows how to walk the line of being a representative for both the blacks and whites in her district without deference to either.
A few names are being whispered in our community as potential.
Many are watching to see what Attorney Frederick D. Jones will do. He is the son of former Senator Charles Jones and the brother of former Rep. Rosalind Jones. If he chooses to make the run, he will undoubtedly bring to the table the legal mind, passion, and legacy of the Jones family. He has not decided. If he does, very few will seriously challenge him.
A few other names are being mentioned, and a few others are being courted.
Our representatives have an extensive history of being our best thinkers, so we don't need any nuts or quacks.They have also been fiercely independent. Amazingly, since former Senator Jones became the first Black representative for District 17 decades ago, none of our representatives have been accused of being bought and paid for by enemies of our community.
Anyone who rises to run for that seat must not be a "hungry dog." Hungry dogs will sell us out for a few scrapes. If the person who comes forth is an elected official, check the campaign finance records of his/her previous campaigns to see who pulls the strings. Then, look at the thinking of that official during his/her term, and see if it has always been in our best interest.
We should look extremely hard at those who seek this office who are not attorneys or have not held public office before. Why? Primarily because State Representatives make laws, wrangle over budgets and carve out agreements that will ultimately help our people.
The best non-public official candidate will be the one with the most experience dealing with these issues.
The signs will start popping up soon. Hopefully, some of our better minds will come forth.
If not, the long legacy of exceptional leadership we have received from District 16 and 17 representatives could very well come to an end.
Roosevelt Wright Jr
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