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The Richmond Poe Museum's staff took a field trip to Baltimore Maryland on March 26th to check out the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.
Edgar Allan Poe lived in this small row house from 1832 to 1835. The household also included Poe's aunt Maria Clemm, as well as Maria's two children Virginia and Henry, and Poe's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Poe would later marry his cousin Virginia. The family was just about able to afford the rent for this house thanks to Grandmother Poe's pension, which was granted to her because of her late husband's service to the country during the American Revolution.
David Poe, Sr. (Edgar's paternal grandfather – b. 1743 d. 1816) strongly sympathized with the American Revolutionary cause and donated a lot of the Poe family fortune to support the Continental Army. He served as Quartermaster General for the city of Baltimore and although his official rank was that of major, he was affectionately known in the city of Baltimore as "General Poe."
So, Edgar's connection to the city of Baltimore was very strong. It makes sense that Poe would choose to live with family after his disagreements with his foster father, John Allan and dishonorable discharge from West Point. Life in Baltimore was not easy, the Poe family had little money. They lost Poe's elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, in 1831 before they came to the little house at 203 Amity Street. Grandmother Poe was ailing and bedridden during their time in the house. When Grandmother Poe died in about September 1835, the pension died with her, meaning the family could no longer afford to keep the house. Around the same time, Poe began work at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond and soon thereafter married his beloved cousin, Virginia.
The lovely Amber, Jessy and Jen with Baltimore Poe House Curator Jeff Jerome and some bottles of cognac left by the fabled "Poe Toaster"
During our visit Jeff Jerome,the curator of the Baltimore Poe House, treated the Poe Museum staff to a wonderful tour of Poe's Baltimore home as well as Westminster Hall and Westminster Burying Ground where Poe and his family are laid to rest. We were treated to a fabulous surprise performance of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by renowned Baltimore actor and Poe impersonator, Tony Tsendeas and got to see some of the bottles of cognac left by the mysterious Poe Toaster over the years. Many of these bottles are now part of the Baltimore Poe House collection, which also includes a telescope and lap desk used by Poe and an assortment of crystal and china from the Allan home among other things. We checked out the tiny garret bedroom at the top of the house used by Poe (presumably the site where he wrote some of his early tales like "Berenice").
After our visit to the Poe House, Jeff then took us to Westminster Hall as well as the Westminster Burying Ground and Catacombs.
The Westminster Burying Grounds were established around 1792 and Westminster Presbyterian Church (now de-consecrated and known as Westminster Hall) was built on top of the burying grounds in 1852. The Catacombs were created to allow people access to the resting places of loved ones whose tombs wound up underneath the church. The burying grounds are the final resting place for many famous Baltimoreans including General James McHenry (for whom Fort McHenry was named) and, of course, our beloved Poe and many of his family members.
We paid our respects at BOTH of Poe's graves on the property. Poe was originally buried in the Poe family burial plot but was moved to his current resting place in 1875. Virginia and Maria are now buried in the same place.
Here we are at the gravesite:
As always, the photos in this blog post (and more) can be found via the Poe Museum's flickr group here: _URL_
We at the Poe Museum would like to thank Mr. Jerome for allowing us to come visit and for giving us such a wonderful tour of Poe's Baltimore. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and we encourage others to pay the Baltimore Poe House and Museum a visit too!
The Poe House in Baltimore is fighting to stay alive after recent cuts in city funding – please help to keep it around for others to enjoy for many years to come! Check this page for more information on how you can help: _URL_ You can also follow the Poe House's status on their Facebook page which you can visit here: _URL_


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About Our Village
Kuigilnguq uitalartuq Kusquqviim anenrani imarpiim ceniini. Yugtun qaneryarangqertut, amllertaluteng-llu yui yuinat yuinaat nuniini.
Nunat wall'u kuiget qanemcirangqelartut avatemteni, tauten-llu Kuigilnguum qaill kuingellra qanemcingqelartuq. Kuigtaitellruuq-gguq imumi mavet ciuliarit elkartellratni, taumek atengqellrulria Kuigilngurmek. Tua-i-llu-gguq nasaurluum uyamini katagluku nanvam iluani. Taum nasaurluum atiin uyamik yuallermini nataqenrilamiu nanvaq tauna qurllurcelluku, tua-i taum kinguakun kuingellruniluku qanemcitangqertuq.
The village of Kwigillingok (meaning "no river"; the English pronunciation is kwee-gill-in-gawk) lies along the coast near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. The primary language of Kwigillingok is Yugtun, with a population of about 400.
Just like there are stories of rivers and lakes in the region, Kwigillingok did not have a river when the ancestral Yup'iks settled, and because of that it was named Kwigillingok Then one day after a girl lost her necklace in the lake, the father drained the lake to look for it, and the river was formed from the drainage.


New study: Winter is deadlier than summer
We're accustomed to hearing Meteorologists give warnings of extreme heat during the summertime months, but a new study suggests that more people aren't dying from the heat, or even tornadoes, hurricanes, or flooding. The report just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 10,649 people died weather-related deaths between 2006 and 2010. But surprisingly an increasing number of those are coming from extreme cold.
Most of us think tornadoes, flash flooding, hurricanes, and lightning are more dangerous and kill more people. But the fatality rate is stable compared to a rising trend of cold deaths. It is likely the rate of death for severe storms is decreasing due to accurate forecasting by Meteorologists and more attention by local news media while more than 2,000 people die each year due to the cold. And that number is increasing.
The risk grows exponentially for those over 65 years of age. Victims at high risk include the homeless, alcoholics, and those who participate in winter sports and activities.
The final tally of fatalities shows that 63% were tied to cold/hypothermia, 31% were caused by heat/heat stroke, and just 6% were blamed on severe storms, flooding, and lightning. The study also shows that men die at a rate three times that of women.
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NH's only preexisting illness was hypertension, but his blood pressure was normal before the anesthesia was administered. The NH's doctor confirmed that the NH's blood pressure was under control and she had recommended the NH for surgery.
Since the preexisting illness was under control, it can be determined that the injury (stroke) resulting from the external force (anesthesia) solely and directly caused death. This is true even if death would not have occurred except for the preexisting illness because the preexisting illness did not start the chain of events leading to death.
2. Example 2 — Preexisting Disease Which Is Not Under Control
A car crushed the NH's leg. The NH consented to leg surgery without identifying any medical problems. The NH developed an infection and died in the hospital four weeks later. The death certificate stated that a heart attack, complicated by a staph infection, caused death.
The NH's wife sued the hospital claiming unsanitary conditions caused the infection and death. An autopsy revealed severe arteriolosclerosis. The NH had been scheduled for a stress test due to chest pain complaints.
It can be determined that the NH had a pre-existing disease that was not under control and was capable of causing death at the time of the surgery. Therefore, the infection did not solely and directly cause death, nor did it initiate an unbroken chain of events that lead to death.
3. Example 3 — Credible Evidence Rule
The NH dies in a single-car crash. Emergency room records described massive injuries, but suggested possible heart complications.
An autopsy for the NH's insurance company reported non-fatal arrhythmia signs within 24 hours of the crash, but drew no correlation between the arrhythmia and the crash.
The NH's insurance carrier denied accidental death benefits to the widow. It strictly interpreted policy coverage as limited to deaths due directly to an accident, independent of all other causes; here, arrhythmia may have precipitated the accident.
The NH's doctor reported mild arrhythmia that was under control and being monitored closely. Fibrillation alone would not have caused death.
It cannot be conclusively determined in this case whether the NH's heart condition precipitated the accident. But documentation shows that the NH's heart condition was controlled and mild. Therefore, there is credible evidence to support a determination that the NH died solely from external, violent, and accidental means (the crash) resulting in injuries that directly and solely caused death.
4. Example 4 — Suicide As A Voluntary And Intentional Act
The NH's death certificate identified suicide by gunshot as the cause of death. The NH's widow stated that the NH was demoted at work, was distraught by their separation, had previously attempted suicide, was often absent from work, and had delusions.
However, the NH's psychiatrist concluded that the NH acted with intention and understood the probable consequences of his actions when he shot himself, although alcohol abuse may have been a factor.
Relying on the expert medical evidence, it can be determined that the NH's suicide was not accidental; that the NH's intentional shooting solely and directly caused his death.
5. Example 5 -- Exertion As An Outside Force
On a cool day, the NH, collapsed while lifting and moving heavy items and was hospitalized. A month later, he died without regaining consciousness. The cause of death was identified as a coma due to myocardial infarction.
The NH's doctor felt that an autopsy was not needed because, except for an old infarction, the NH had no history of cardiac illness. Recent blood tests were normal. The doctor reported that the NH was in good health and he would not have restricted the NH from engaging in strenuous labor.
It can be determined that bodily injury (infarction) solely and directly caused death. However, since the injury was wholly internal, an external force must be identified. Moderate exertion for an average person, such as heavy lifting by a healthy male, may be such an external fore. Since the NH had no preexisting illness or disease, the exertion may be considered the accidental, or unexpected, means causing the injury.

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The "tce_file.php" API
This script serves as the file administration part of the TYPO3 Core Engine. It's a gateway for TCE (TYPO3 Core Engine) file-handling through POST forms. It uses \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\File\ExtendedFileUtility for the manipulation of the files.
This script is used from the File > List module where you can rename, create, delete etc. files and directories on the server.
You can send data to this file either as GET or POST vars where POST takes precedence. The variable names you can use are:
GP var name Data type Description
file array
Array of file operations. See previous information about basic file functions.
This could typically be a GET var like &file[delete][0][data]=[absolute file path] or a POST form field like:
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redirect string Redirect URL. Script will redirect to this location after performing operations.
CB array Clipboard command array. May trigger changes in "file"
vC string Verification code
overwriteExistingFiles boolean If existing files should be overridden.


Unless an individual or company works directly with a courier service that uses mike messengers, most people don't remember that this type of worker even exists. But thousands of individuals make money delivering letters and packages on a daily basis, riding furiously between destinations. In metropolitan areas, these workers are sought after because of the maneuverability of the bike, which allows a rider to go around traffic jams and can avoid hunting of parking when they reach a destination.
However, the same design that allows messengers to beat traffic also means that they have little protection from outside hazards and that serious injuries are sustained on a regular basis.
Bike Messenger Accidents
As a bike messenger you're aware that any of the following could cause you serious bodily harm:
Motor Vehicle Collisions
bike belonging to someone with carpal tunnel syndromeDistracted drivers, drivers with road rage, speeding, and even vehicle part failure can all result in a car crash that could easily kill a messenger. Those that are lucky enough to survive usually do so with serious injuries.
It's not just car crashes that could cause harm to a messenger, being "doored" is also a possibility, which is when a car passenger opens their door right in front of a bike rider, causing them to hit the door.
Pedestrians frequently step right into bike lanes without first looking, causing a collision between body and bike.
Accidents Caused By Poorly Maintained Roads
Towns, townships, cities, and states are responsible for maintaining roads, street signs, and traffic lights. Potholes, missing street signs, broken sidewalks are all serious issues that could result in an accident.
Now, nearly everyone who has ridden a bike has fallen off at some point and has been able to get back up with just a few bruises or scrapes. But the injuries that are sustained by a large percentage of bike messengers are much more serious and cost a lot more to treat.
Injuries Commonly Diagnosed After A Bike Messenger Accident
Let's take a look at just a few of the serious injuries that bike messengers sustain on a regular basis:
Traumatic Brain Injury
Even with a helmet, a traumatic brain injury can occur. Damage to the brain can cause issues with mobility, fine motor skills, memory, speech, vision, and sense of smell. This damage can impact a person's ability to work and participate in their favorite activities for the rest of their lives.
According to Northwestern University, the cost of treating a patient with a traumatic brain injury is steep. In addition to the medical costs, which range from $85,000 to $3,000,000 over a lifetime, there is the emotional and mental impact on the patient and their loved ones to consider.
Spinal Trauma
Damage can impact the vertebrae, spinal cord, nerves, and muscles. Partial paralysis can impact any part of the body and of course, full paralysis can be so serious that it can impact a patient's ability to breathe on their own.
Depending on the severity of the injury, the average yearly cost of treating a spinal injury ranges from $42,000 a year to $185,000 a year, according to the Reeve Foundation.
Damage To Internal Organs
Any of the internal organs can be bruised, torn, impaled, or punctured in an accident. Depending on the organ involved, surgery may be required to fix the issue. If the damage is extensive enough, the organ may not function properly for the rest of a patient's life or they could ultimately require an organ transplant.
Depending on the circumstances, there could be several ways for an injured bike messenger to recover compensation that will allow them to pay for all of the medical care that they need and to cover any wages they lose as a result. To learn more about these possible avenues to recovery, contact a workers' comp attorney at Schuster Law.


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The Path to the Most Coveted Seat on Stage
The Path to the Most Coveted Seat on Stage
Julie Fischer grew up in a home where music was a way of life. Her mother, Paula Fischer, is a longtime violinist (currently with the Evanston Symphony) and a teacher, leaving Julie with fond memories of sitting on her mother's lap during lessons or in the audience for Chicago String Ensemble rehearsals and concerts. Julie started her own musical journey at the tender age of two, on a plastic toy violin, and then began in earnest when she was four. Though she progressed rapidly, it wasn't until around age 11 that Julie decided music was her calling. She was in a touring violin ensemble when she encountered another young violinist whose playing so impressed Julie that, from then on, everything was about the violin, right down to the pictures she put up on her bedroom walls.
A dedication to practicing emerged, sometimes demanding that Julie devote an entire lesson to a single section of music, and she learned to really listen and perfect her craft. The hard work paid off with three wins in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, and solo engagements with the Kishwaukee and Pacific Palisades Symphonies, as well as an appearance with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra when she won first place in the Young Artists Competition her senior year of high school. In addition to her stellar performance of the first movement of Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, it was a notable event in that it was her first time playing her current violin.
Other memorable performances have included playing all the Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; performing with her teacher, Donald Weilerstein; and sharing the stage with Roger Tapping of the Juilliard Quartet. Concerts brought her to Prague, Philadelphia, England, New York, Paris, and Spillville, Iowa, where Antonín Dvořák was inspired to write his "American Quartet" and, rumor has it, refine his "New World Symphony." Though it was winter and the church where they played had no heat, Julie and her colleagues were somehow able to muster enough energy to deliver a performance befitting the historical setting.
Teaching was also an early musical interest for Julie; she began when she was just 10 years old! Through it she learned to establish trust and ascertain how her students learn best in order to tailor her instruction to them. Julie also learned the importance of communication, which has become one of her favorite things about teaching and performing, be it the interplay of the different orchestral parts, explaining a technique, providing visual cues to fellow musicians, or listening to her students. Though the pivot to virtual lessons has presented some challenges, like dealing with video delays, she has also discovered a host of benefits; this new format has allowed Julie to use her creativity to find more inventive ways of doing things and encouraged her students to feel more comfortable and take more responsibility. Through it all, Julie makes a point to notice when a student is having a tough time in life outside the studio, and she works hard to ensure that the lesson is a highlight of the student's day. She can also count being the Teaching Assistant to Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory and having former students secure orchestra positions with opportunities to record as sources of pride.
While Julie has forged an impressive path and maintains a very active teaching studio, she somehow finds time for her other interests, including walking, learning Italian, meditation, taking art history courses online, volunteering, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, and composing her own chorale-inspired works on the piano. Had her journey taken a different turn, Julie suspects she would have become a social worker or therapist, which really isn't a dramatic departure from her current career. Alternatively, her love of color, a frequent artistic companion to music, might have sent her in the direction of interior design.
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This example shows how to create and minimize a fitness function using the Genetic Algorithm in the Global Optimization Toolbox.
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Here we want to minimize a simple function of two variables
min f(x) = 100 * (x(1)^2 - x(2)) ^2 + (1 - x(1))^2; x
We create a MATLAB file named simple_fitness.m with the following code in it:
function y = simple_fitness(x) y = 100 * (x(1)^2 - x(2)) ^2 + (1 - x(1))^2;
The Genetic Algorithm solver assumes the fitness function will take one input x where x is a row vector with as many elements as number of variables in the problem. The fitness function computes the value of the function and returns that scalar value in its one return argument y.
To minimize our fitness function using the ga function, we need to pass in a function handle to the fitness function as well as specifying the number of variables in the problem.
FitnessFunction = _USER_; numberOfVariables = 2; [x,fval] = ga(FitnessFunction,numberOfVariables)
Optimization terminated: average change in the fitness value less than options.TolFun. x = 0.4725 0.2136 fval = 0.2876
The x returned by the solver is the best point in the final population computed by ga. The fval is the value of the function _USER_ evaluated at the point x.
Sometimes we want our fitness function to be parameterized by extra arguments that act as constants during the optimization. For example, in the previous fitness function, say we want to replace the constants 100 and 1 with parameters that we can change to create a family of objective functions. We can re-write the above function to take two additional parameters to give the new minimization problem
min f(x) = a * (x(1)^2 - x(2)) ^2 + (b - x(1))^2; x
a and b are parameters to the fitness function that act as constants during the optimization (they are not varied as part of the minimization). One can create a MATLAB file called parameterized_fitness.m containing the following code:
function y = parameterized_fitness(x,a,b) y = a * (x(1)^2 - x(2)) ^2 + (b - x(1))^2;
Again, we need to pass in a function handle to the fitness function as well as the number of variables as the second argument.
ga will call our fitness function with just one argument 'x', but our fitness function has three arguments: x, a, b. We can use an anonymous function to capture the values of the additional arguments, the constants a and b. We create a function handle 'FitnessFunction' to an anonymous function that takes one input 'x', but calls 'parameterized_fitness' with x, a, and b. The variables a and b have values when the function handle 'FitnessFunction' is created, so these values are captured by the anonymous function.
a = 100; b = 1; % define constant values FitnessFunction = @(x) parameterized_fitness(x,a,b); numberOfVariables = 2; [x,fval] = ga(FitnessFunction,numberOfVariables)
Optimization terminated: maximum number of generations exceeded. x = 0.8331 0.6835 fval = 0.0390
Consider the previous fitness function again:
f(x) = a * (x(1)^2 - x(2)) ^2 + (b - x(1))^2;
By default, the ga solver only passes in one point at a time to the fitness function. However, sometimes speed up can be achieved if the fitness function is vectorized to take a set of points and return a set of function values.
For example if the solver wants to evaluate a set of five points in one call to this fitness function, then it will call the function with a matrix of size 5-by-2, i.e., 5 rows and 2 columns (recall 2 is the number of variables).
Create a MATLAB file called vectorized_fitness.m with the following code:
function y = vectorized_fitness(x,a,b) y = a * (x(:,1).^2 - x(:,2)).^2 + (b - x(:,1)).^2;
This vectorized version of the fitness function takes a matrix x with an arbitrary number of points, the rows of x, and returns a column vector y with the same number of rows as x.
We need to specify that the fitness function is vectorized using the options structure created using gaoptimset. The options structure is passed in as the ninth argument.
FitnessFunction = @(x) vectorized_fitness(x,100,1); numberOfVariables = 2; options = gaoptimset('Vectorized','on'); [x,fval] = ga(FitnessFunction,numberOfVariables,,,,,,,,options)
Optimization terminated: average change in the fitness value less than options.TolFun. x = -0.4862 0.2451 fval = 2.2163


Ray Ray discovers the meaning of friendship (e-book only)
Since the day Ray Ray was born, his parents spoke the dot, dot, dot, language. The language of profanity. Some call it cursing, swearing or just bad words. His parents used the language constantly, whether they were angry with each other or upset with Ray Ray. He never understood why his friends were avoiding him. He would soon discover why.
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Who belongs to Snoqualmie Tribe? 'This is a mess'
A look at original documents at the National Archives alerts a researcher that records of family lineage used to claim enrollment at the Snoqualmie Tribe are unreliable.
Seattle Times staff reporter
He traveled with a notebook in his pocket, on an urgent mission.
All over Western Washington, for two years beginning in late 1916, Indian agent Charles Roblin sought out homeless, landless Indians, left behind and hiding out during the treaty-making era, who had never received the benefits promised in return for the loss of their land: a school for their children, tools for farming, money.
On sandbars in the rivers in northern Puget Sound, he found Sauk Indians chased out of communal gardens that had sustained them for generations, run out of the forests where loggers didn't want them, and burned out of villages where fishermen didn't want them, either. He traveled to Tolt, where Snoqualmies had lost their livelihood when the hop ranches were destroyed by aphids.
Roblin took down their names and family history, and recorded their enrollment in tribes according to their bloodline, so they could secure the benefits they had been promised under the treaties.
Those records are called Charles Roblin's Schedule of Unenrolled Indians, dated Jan. 1, 1919, or Roblin Rolls for short. In those records Roblin used a red pen to denote families that did not qualify to be enrolled at Snoqualmie, because they were already enrolled in other tribes.
But the red ink was undetectable in the black-and-white copies and microfilmed records that made it to Northwest archives, and at least three major families called out in the Roblin Rolls nonetheless claim Snoqualmie ancestry today.
Seattle anthropologist Jay Miller discovered that secret as he combed through the original Roblin Rolls — organized in a rainbow of colored papers and folders, and notated in colored inks — to help resolve an ongoing tribal enrollment dispute under a contract signed by Snoqualmie tribal secretary Nina Repin.
Miller's research indicates that Shelley Burch, chairwoman of the tribal council, several other council members, and some tribal members claiming hereditary chief status are descended from families nixed by Roblin in red ink. The mismatch with the original record shows that contemporary records used to claim membership today are unreliable, Miller said. "Most records after 1920 are inaccurate, messed up, corrupted or intentionally falsified," Miller said.
Some question the reliability even of the Roblin Rolls, because tribal members were self-identifying their lineage; the oral history they related could have been embroidered, and other complications defeat a perfectly square-cornered foundation.
Nonetheless, the Roblin Rolls preserved at the National Archives are used by many as a gold standard against which to affirm family trees and tribal enrollment claimed by Indian people today all over Puget Sound.
At stake at Snoqualmie is not only identity and the right to vote and hold office, but money. The tribe's casino just outside Seattle is pulling in more than $200 million a year by one estimate. The tribe is mulling an expansion that could boost revenue even more, for a tribe numbering only about 650 members — according to current membership records. But that number could get a lot smaller, or bigger, depending on how the tribe resolves its membership dispute.
A "rogue state"?
Tribes decide for themselves who is a member under their constitution. It is not unusual for tribal members to be of mixed Indian blood, but they may enroll in only one tribe at once, and must meet the qualifications determined by that tribe to enjoy benefits including the right to run for office and vote in elections.
The Snoqualmie tribe was recognized by the Department of Interior in 1999. Its first job as a tribe was to produce a base membership roll verified under the terms of its constitution, which says that to vote or hold office at Snoqualmie, members must have an ancestor on the original Roblin Rolls, and today possess at least 1/8 degree of Snoqualmie blood.
But the tribe never produced a base roll that it certified on those two fronts. And it has been fighting about who is qualified to be a voting member of the tribe per its constitution ever since.
Burch did not return phone calls for this story, but in an earlier email to The Seattle Times, she acknowledged the 2004 roll the tribe provided to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) did not include the blood quantum verification required by the tribe's constitution: "That roll had no blood quantum on it, and it was signed off by both governments and accepted," she wrote. In the email, Burch wrote she was satisfied with the roll because it had been accepted by the tribe's general membership.
But that doesn't meet the terms of the tribe's constitution.
"They've got to clean up their act," Miller said. "They are the equivalent of a rogue state. I have laid the foundation based on the constitution, and called attention to the illegality of the membership rolls, and the council."
Miller provided a copy of his findings to the Snoqualmie tribal council and casino leadership Nov. 25, but says he has received no response. His work is not finished, he notes, because neither the BIA nor the tribe would allow access to their files, to compare the lineage claimed by Snoqualmie families today against the historic public record. But that is work, he said, that needs to be done.
At Snoqualmie, the membership fight has intensified since 2007, when the tribe moved to open its casino in Snoqualmie, taking on $330 million in debt, the largest ever shouldered by a tribe to open a casino.
"The fraudulent records are there long before the casino, but they have come to roost with all the moneys and resources, which are not serving constitutional tribal people," Miller said. "It's not serving people who are Snoqualmie. They are supposed to come out of the Snoqualmie homeland. People need to know that behind all this are a bunch of really corrupt records."
The tribe is seeking to expand the casino with a 350-room hotel tower and 600 more slot machines, for a total of 1,700 machines in all. One estimate shows that could pump up total revenue for the tribe's casino property to nearly $300 million a year, including $230 million in gambling revenue. That would be a big jump from 2012, with $189 million in gambling revenue and $40 million from the casino's restaurants and other facilities.
"Somebody has to respect the documents. What I am doing is warning everybody who works in Puget Sound that this is a mess, and it has gotten to be a mess because of all the millions of dollars involved," Miller said. "If it were a little tribe in the middle of nowhere, I am sure nobody would have cared."
Feds not acting
Marvin Kempf is one of the latest Snoqualmie tribal members to take aim at the current council. In a letter to Snoqualmie Gambling Commissioner Jennifer Repin dated Nov. 26, he put the commission on notice that there are council members who don't meet the constitutional requirement to hold office, either as council members or the board overseeing the casino.
"Any actions by the tribal council and the [board] would be illegal and criminal, as pertains to the revenues and lawful property of the Snoqualmie Tribal membership/general council," Kempf wrote. "This letter [is] important in that it places you on notice of past, current, and future problems associated with the administration and assets of the Snoqualmie People."
Kempf said he received no response to the letter.
He has taken his battle to the federal level, urging the BIA to get involved, and insisting the Snoqualmies provide a base roll that meets the tribe's constitutional requirement.
Said Kempf, "We want them to do their job."
But in the past, the BIA has pushed the job right back to the tribe, which the agency says is legally responsible for managing its own affairs. And with federal funds frozen because of the federal budget crisis, there is no urgency for them to get involved, according to the BIA.
"The BIA Northwest regional office is aware of a tribal government dispute that may involve issues of membership qualifications," BIA spokeswoman Nedra Darling, for the agency in Washington, D.C., wrote in a recent email to The Seattle Times.
"As of mid-November the BIA had determined that there currently was no pending federal action that it needed to take with respect to the Snoqualmie Tribe. Therefore, at this time we are still deferring to tribal forums for the resolution of their membership and tribal disputes."
The Snoqualmies can always change their constitution by a vote of the membership to make anyone a member they want to. But so far, the tribe hadn't done that yet, either.
As for Nina Repin, the tribal council has since expelled her from her seat on the council. Her council stipend has been cut off, and she's lost her job as tribal secretary. The expulsion was for hiring Miller to do the research, among other charges, according to the Dec. 17 council resolution. Repin said she is appealing the expulsion to the general membership, and staying in the fight.
"I am not a quitter," she said. "I wanted a fresh start for the tribe. The light is shining on the darkness, and the darkness doesn't like it."
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The flag of the Székely National Council can be found at
It is a banner of arms, based on a blue shield, with a gold central horizontal
stripe, and an 8-pointed gold star and white crescent in the upper hoist.
Szekelys are ethnic Hungarians who live in the center of Romania in Harghita, Kovászna, and Maros counties.
The Székelyföld (Szekely Land) contains all of Hargita and Kovászna counties and the southern part of Maros / Mures county.
Molnár István, 1 December 2005
image by Brian Ellis, 22 February 2008
While I was perusing a Yahoo! News image gallery, I came across a photo of a
Szekler man in Romania holding the Szekler flag. The fabric appears to be
metallic so that explains the colors unusual hues (light blue, brown, silver),
but I have rendered them in blue, yellow and white.
Brian Ellis, 22 February 2008
Concerning the flag's symbolism, the crescent and star do not denote any
historical association with Islam. The Szeklers are mostly Roman Catholic or
Protestant. According to the Székely article at Wikipedia "The Sun and Moon are
the symbols of the Székely, as can also be seen in the coat of arms of
Transylvania and on the Romanian national coat of arms. The Sun and Moon symbols
represented proto-Hungarian gods, but after the Hungarians became Christians in
the eleventh century, their importance became purely visual and symbolic. Their
religious significance was lost."
Ned Smith, 23 February 2008
image by Alex Danes, 3 May 2008
Colors are: or (255-204-51), argent (255-255-255) and light blue
(51-153-255). The star and crescent are vertically centered in each blue
- Proportions of the flag: 2:3
- Proportions of the stripes: 40 : 20 : 40
- Width of the star and crescent: about 20% of the flag's width
- Distance of the star and crescent from hoist: about 20% of the flag's width
Alex Danes, 3 May 2008
I found here a different Szekely flag.
It's a black and red flag, instead of blue and yellow.
The source presents
several other flags, including the blue and yellow Szekely flag.
Aleksandar Nemet, 20 July 2009


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Everyone likes to save money. And many of us want to do what we can to help the planet as well. Click2Mail gives you the tools to do both with MailJack™, which lets you use the "print" feature in any software program (like Microsoft Word or Adobe Reader, even your email program or web browser) to send a document – like an invoice, letter, or announcement – directly through the U.S. Mail.
Using MailJack saves you time and money, and is more environmentally friendly. Here's how it works:
1. The first step is installing the MailJack print driver on your Windows computer (you'll need a Click2Mail account to do this). Once the print driver is installed, open the document you want to print. Select "print" from the appropriate menu and choose "Click2Mail MailJack™" as your printer. You can preview the document just like you would if you were printing it on your printer at home or in the office.
2. Once you're satisfied that everything looks good, you click "print" and your document is transmitted to Click2Mail.com. We receive the document, print it, and deliver it to your recipient via the U.S. Postal Service. That's it!
The advantages of using MailJack™ include:
- It's easy: All you have to do is install the print driver on your computer. There's no special software to learn or tricks to know. If you can print a document from your computer, you can use MailJack™.
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ABOUT THIS WEBINAR
Recent advancements in laser technology opened completely new areas of research and applications. Engineered surfaces by laser methods are particularly interesting for applications, which deal with friction and wear. Over the decades, many research projects were launched concerning the effectiveness of for example surface texturing under different frictional conditions and lubrication regimes such as hydrodynamic, mixed or boundary lubrication. Although there has been progress in the fabrication of precise surface textures and modeling of their influence, many conflicting reports still exist concerning the effectiveness of surface texturing under certain contact conditions.
Within this research talk, a critical review about past, present and future trends concerning surface texturing should be provided. Finally, a summary of the fabrication methods will be given with respect to their typical feature sizes, costs, and processible materials.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carsten Gachot received his PhD from the Saarland University in Germany in 2012 where he studied the effects of laser interference patterning on the microstructure and topography of metallic surfaces with a focus on tribological applications under Prof. Dr. Frank Mücklich and Prof. Dr. Martin H. Müser. Prof. Gachot was academic visitor at the tribology Group at the Imperial College London and is currently the head of the Tribology Research Group at the Vienna University of Technology.


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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Labour Representation Committee
The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was formed on February 27, 1900, at a conference at which representatives of the main socialist groupings in the United Kingdom were present. The LRC is the direct predecessor of the modern British Labour Party.
Organisations present at this conference were the Independent Labour Party (ILP), the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) and the Fabian Society, as well as various trade union leaders. After a debate the 129 delegates decided to pass Keir Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour."
To make this possible the Conference established the LRC. This committee included two members from the ILP, two from the SDF, one Fabian, and seven trade unionists. Keir Hardie was chosen to head up the LRC and Ramsay MacDonald was chosen as its secretary.
The LRC put up fifteen candidates in the 1900 General Election and between them they won 62,698 votes. Two of the candidates, Keir Hardie and Richard Bell won seats in the House of Commons. They performed even better in the 1906 election with twenty nine successful candidates. Later that year the LRC decided to formally change its name to the Labour Party.
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A Loculoascomycete fungus belonging to the genus Leptosphaerulina was found to survive as symptomless endophyte in the leaflets and rachis of peanut plant (TMV 7). Based on morphological and colony characteristics, it is identified as Leptosphaerulina crassiasca, a fungus that causes the pepper spot and leaf scorch diseases in peanut. Although several common endophytic fungi were recovered from the leaves of peanut, L. crassiasca showed a high relative density of infection. Owing to its endophytic nature, its pathogenicity could not be proved by infection studies. However, its identification as L. crassiasca suggests that this pathogen survives as symptomless endophyte in its host. There are limited studies on fungal endophytes of cultivated crops and hence, the present observation underlines the need to know more about the biology of endophytic fungi of crop plants.
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- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology


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WebUpd8 Reader Jim Bauwens sent us a small but very interesting script. The script uses NotifyOSD and displays a message (see the screenshot) when someone logs in to your computer (remotely or local), or when a terminal session is started.
The script can also notify you by email using sendmail. You'll of course need to set that up but we have a post on that - for using it with Gmail (it's quite easy - just make sure you create a new Gmail address just for this task because the password will be saved in plain text): Use Gmail To Send Emails From A Terminal (Shell)
Using the script
1. Install libnotify-bin:
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
2. Download the script and then make it executable by right clicking it, then go to the "Permissions" tab and check the "Allow executing file as program" box.
3. Add the script to your startup applications: go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications, click "Add", then browse for the script and give it a name. That's it!
4. Optional: If you want to be notified by email (make sure you set that up first - read the beginning of the post), you'll need to edit this part of the script:
and set the variable "mail" to "1" and "mailto" to your email adress.
Credits for the script (and many thanks!): Jim Bauwens


Command List
Plays a sound, video, or other supported file type.
SoundPlay, Filename [, wait]
The name of the file to be played, which is assumed to be in %A_WorkingDir% if an absolute path isn't specified.
To produce standard system sounds, specify an asterisk followed by a number as shown below. Note: the wait parameter has no effect in this mode.
*-1: Simple beep. If the sound card is not available, the sound is generated using the speaker.
*16: Hand (stop/error)
*32: Question
*48: Exclamation
*64: Asterisk (info)
If omitted, the script's current thread will move on to the next commmand(s) while the file is playing. To avoid this, specify 1 or the word WAIT, which causes the current thread to wait until the file is finished playing before continuing. Even while waiting, new threads can be launched via hotkey, custom menu item, or timer.
Known limitation: If the WAIT parameter is omitted, the OS might consider the playing file to be "in use" until the script closes or until another file is played (even a nonexistent file).
All Windows OSes should be able to play.wav files. However, other files (.mp3,.avi, etc.) might not be playable if the right codecs or features aren't installed on the OS.
If a file is playing and the current script plays a second file, the first file will be stopped so that the second one can play. On some systems, certain file types might stop playing even when an entirely separate script plays a new file.
To stop a file that is currently playing, use SoundPlay on a nonexistent filename as in this example: SoundPlay, Nonexistent.avi
If the script is exited, any currently-playing file that it started will stop.
SoundBeep, SoundGet, SoundSet, SoundGetWaveVolume, SoundSetWaveVolume, MsgBox, Threads
SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\ding.wav
SoundPlay *-1 ; Simple beep. If the sound card is not available, the sound is generated using the speaker.
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text: Electric vehicles can become integral parts of a smart grid, since they are capable of providing valuable services to power systems other than just consuming power. On the transmission system level, electric vehicles are regarded as an important means of balancing the intermittent renewable energy resources such as wind power. This is because electric vehicles can be used to absorb the energy during the period of high electricity penetration and feed the electricity back into the grid when the demand is high or in situations of insufficient electricity generation. However, on the distribution system level, the extra loads created by the increasing number of electric vehicles may have adverse impacts on grid. These factors bring new challenges to the power system operators. To coordinate the interests and solve the conflicts, electric vehicle fleet operators are proposed both by academics and industries. This paper presents a review and classification of methods for smart charging (including power to vehicle and vehicle-to-grid) of electric vehicles for fleet operators. The study firstly presents service relationships between fleet operators and other four actors in smart grids; then, modeling of battery dynamics and driving patterns of electric vehicles, charging and communications standards are introduced; after that, three control strategies and their commonly used algorithms are described; finally, conclusion and recommendations are made.


Islamic sexual hygienical jurisprudence
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Islamic sexual hygienical jurisprudence is a prominent topic in Islamic jurisprudence (Arabic: fiqh), due to its relevance to the issues prominent in everyday life.
Islamic rulings[edit]
Ibn Abidin, a 13th century Hanafi Islamic scholar explains:[1]
When there is discharge of thick, cloudy white fluid (wady) (that exits before or after urinating) or unlustful discharge of thin, sticky, white fluid (madhy) caused by play or kissing, it requires ghusl. And wudu.
Regarding things that necessitates ghusl:
 1. sperm or female ejaculate that leaves its place of origin with desire [f: whether actual or effective], even if it exits the body without desire, even if without sexual intercourse;
 2. the head of the penis entering either private part of a living human being who is fit for sexual intercourse, even without any release of sexual fluids…" [al-Hadiyya al-'Ala'iyya (Gifts of Guidance, unpublished translation)][2]
Islamic medicine[edit]
In Islamic medicine, Muhammad is said to have understood the contagious nature of sexually transmitted disease in the 7th century, according to hadiths attributed to him.[3]
In The Canon of Medicine (1025), Avicenna discovered the contagious nature of infectious diseases and fully understood the contagious nature of sexually transmitted disease.[4]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Radd al-Muhtar ala al-Dur al-Mukhtar [1]
 2. ^ Wet dreams: is wudu enough or must ghusl be performed?
 3. ^ Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk (2000), Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies, "A Ninth-Century Muslim Scholar's Discussion". Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-0258-3.
 4. ^ Sarton, George (1927–31), Introduction to the History of Science, retrieved 2008-01-25
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DIY mosquito repellant
Found a handy cheap mosquito trap online.
 - Yeast packet
 - 2L soda bottle
 - Black paper (or duct tape in my case)
 - Water
 - Sugar
 1. Dissolve sugar in water on stove
 2. Once water is cool enough that you can bear to hold your finger I, add yeast and stir ( yeast can withstand temperatures about like we can).
 3. Cut the top of he bottle off, where it becomes the same diameter as the main body of the bottle.
 4. Invert the top onto the bottle and tape the seam shut.
 5. Apply tape or black paper to he bottle to make it dark inside.
 6. Pour yeasty sugar water in and place in a dry cool area near where one doesn't want Mosquitos.
Theory: Yeast eats sugar and poops alcohol and carbon dioxide. This is how beer gets alcohol and CARBONation. In wine, the carbonation (carbon dioxide) is allowed to escape. In making bread, the alcohol evaporates and he carbon dioxide is what makes air pockets in the bread, making it rise. Mosquitos find mammals by their carbon dioxide at up to 100 ft, then by heat and movement. So mosquitoes will fly into the trap looking for a mammal. I would suggest having the trap near but not too close to the area of concern, for I'm pretty sure a human will still be more enticing than the trap, as we give off heat and other chemical signatures they might pick up on.
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To have gdb set the working language automatically, use 'set language local' or 'set language auto'. gdb then infers the working language. That is, when your program stops in a frame (usually by encountering a breakpoint), gdb sets the working language to the language recorded for the function in that frame. If the language for a frame is unknown (that is, if the function or block corresponding to the frame was defined in a source file that does not have a recognized extension), the current working language is not changed, and gdb issues a warning.
This may not seem necessary for most programs, which are written entirely in one source language. However, program modules and libraries written in one source language can be used by a main program written in a different source language. Using 'set language auto' in this case frees you from having to set the working language manually.


, STEM March 28, 2019 1 Minute. Discover its wonder and why we care. For a more realistic and detailed aquarium, see Complex Aquarium Diorama (scroll down). How To Make A Diorama Of A Coral Reef DOWNLOAD IMAGE. Kids Craft Project: Make a Great Barrier Reef diorama with Bostik range of glues and learn all about the ocean life. Draw the tabs - draw a side or bottom tab before cutting out the paper sea animal in Step 3. c.) Center tabs - fold a short strip of paper on both ends to create a center tab. You can also make this as a file folder diorama. We have these animal printables that you can print out on cardstock: A box positioned standing up emphasizes depth, giving you more space to include a variety of creatures that live in different ocean zones or depths. L-shaped tabs - make an L-shaped paper tab and glue this at the back of the animal.


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BIOHAZARD WATER ANALYZER
Early Warning's Biohazard Water Analyzer is the next generation of microbial testing. Using a unique combination of advanced technologies, the Analyzer goes beyond lab culturing of indicator coliforms and directly measures individual species of pathogenic bacteria, protozoa and viruses in the same test. The Analyzer employs a revolutionary nanotechnology-based biosensor exclusively licensed from NASA and an on-board concentrator that processes a 10 liter water sample. The sample-to-report time is 2 to 3 hours, and allows rapid prevention measures to be enacted. There is no need for time-intensive processes like transporting a water sample to the lab or Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The Analyzer can be used as a transportable testing device or as a sensor node in a fully automated field sensor network.
Measure actual pathogens not indicators.
An ultra-sensitive biosensor generates an electrical signal when nucleic acid strands from a target pathogen molecule bind with complementary nucleic acid probes deposited on the chip. Only exact matches bind to ensure high specificity of the test results.
Improve sensitivity with a concentrated 10L sample
An ultrafiltration concentrator condenses pathogens for each test from a 10 liter water sample instead of using a conventional 100 milliliter grab sample. Not only will a bigger sample size provide a better composite of pathogens in the water, it also has a much greater chance of capturing highly infectious protozoa and viruses typically found in very low concentrations.
Get test results and pathogen alerts in 2 - 3 hours
A communications module sends microbiological test results and biohazard alerts to pre-programmed destinations. These can include SCADA screens, cell phones or PDAs using wired or wireless communications.
- E.coli Indicator, E.coli O157:H7, False Negative Control, False Positive Control probes (Initial release).
- Expandable to 25 specific bacteria, protozoa and virus probe types per biochip
- Minimum detection targets:
– Bacterium: 1 cell per 100 ml
– Protozoa: 10 cells per 10 L
– Viruses: 10 particles per 10 L
- Total and Viable concentrations for each pathogen
- Audit of test events and errors encountered during test
- Auto date, time and location stamp (with GPS coordinates)
- User-definable alert levels (Red, Yellow, Green)
- DNA Biomolecular Probes (single strands)
- 16S rRNA targets (single strands)
- 3-electrode Electrochemical Cell
- Differential Pulse Voltammetry
- Guanine oxidation peak with mediator
- 10 Liter water input
- Ultrafiltration with 50 kDalton pore size (virus capture)
- Magnetic beads with antibodies for separation of target organisms fromheterotrophic bacteria
- Hydrodynamic cavitation and sodium polyphosphate for disaggregationof clumps and biofilms
- Sodium thiosulfate for chlorine neutralization
- Hydrogen peroxide for sanitization after use
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- Laptop or Desktop Computer running MS Windows.
- 1280 x 800 resolution display.
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- API for integration with SCADA and third party applications.
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- User access management and logging.
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- Test result and sensor status database.
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Stjepan Radić
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Stjepan Radić
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President of the Croatian People's Peasant Party
In office
28 December 1904 – 8 August 1928
Leader of the Opposition
In office
1 January 1921 – 6 November 1924
Leader of the Opposition
In office
1 February 1927 – 8 August 1928
Personal details
Born Stjepan Radić
11 June 1871
Desno Trebarjevo
Died 8 August 1928(1928-08-08) (aged 57)
Resting place Mirogoj cemetery
Nationality Croat
Political party Croatian Peasant Party
Religion Roman Catholic
Stjepan Radić (11 June 1871 – 8 August 1928) was a Croatian politician and the founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (Hrvatska pučka seljačka stranka) in 1905. Radić is credited with galvanizing the peasantry of Croatia into a viable political force. Throughout his entire career, he was opposed to the union and, later, Serb hegemony in the first Yugoslavia and became an important political figure in that country. He was shot in parliament by the Serbian radical politician Puniša Račić. Radić died several weeks later from a serious stomach wound at the age of 57.[1] This assassination further alienated the Croats and the Serbs.
Early life[edit]
Stjepan Radić was born in Desno Trebarjevo, Martinska Ves near Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within Austria-Hungary. After being expelled from his gymnasium in Zagreb, he finished at the Higher Real Gymnasium in Karlovac. In 1888 Radić travelled to Đakovo where he met with bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer to request help for a trip to the Russian Empire.[2] Strossmayer recommended Radić to Metropolitan Mihailo of Belgrade who referred him to a Russian teacher in Kiev. Radić travelled to Kiev and was allowed to stay at the city's Monastery of the Caves where he remained for six weeks before returning to Croatia.[2]
In September 1891 he enrolled in law at the University of Zagreb.[3] He was selected as a representative of the student body at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Sisak in 1893. After criticizing the ban of Croatia Károly Khuen-Héderváry during the ceremony and referring to him as a "Magyar hussar", Radić was sentenced to four months in prison which he served in Petrinja.[3] He was among a group of students who set fire to the Hungarian tricolour on October 16, 1895 during the visit of Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb.
Lead up to the first Yugoslavia[edit]
After World War I he had opposed merging Croatia with the Kingdom of Serbia without guarantees for Croatian autonomy. Radić was selected as a member of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. On November 24, 1918 he famously urged delegates attending a session that would decide the country's political future not to "rush like drunken geese into fog". He was the lone member of the National Council's central committee to vote against sending a delegation to Belgrade to negotiate with the Kingdom of Serbia.[4] On November 26, he was removed from the central committee.[4]
Under pressure from the Great powers (British Empire, France, United States), as well as honouring the secret deals that were struck between the Entente and the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was established and two representatives of Radić's party (by then named the Croatian Common-people Peasant Party) were appointed to the Provisional Representation which served as a parliament until elections for the Constituent could be held. The party's representatives, however, decided not to take their seats.
On 8 March 1919 the central committee passed a resolution penned by Radić that declared "Croatian citizens do not recognize the so called Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under the Karađorđević dynasty because this kingdom was proclaimed other than by the Croatian Sabor and without any mandate of the Croatian People." The full statement was included in a Memorandum which was translated into French and sent abroad to be addressed to the Paris Peace Conference.[5] This act provoked a decision by the government to arrest Radić along with several other party members.
He was to be held some 11 months until February 1920, just before the first parliamentary elections of the Kingdom of SHS, which were held in November. The result of the November was 230,590 votes, which equaled to 50 seats in the parliament out of 419. On November 8, before the first sitting of parliament, Radić held a massive rally in front of 100,000 people in Zagreb. Stjepan Radić and the CCPP held an extraordinary meeting, in which a motion was put forward and voted on that the party will not be part of parliamentary discussions before matters are first resolved with Serbia on the matters of governance, the most sticking issues being the minorisation of the Croatian people and the overt powers of the King with the central government in Belgrade. The party was subsequently renamed to the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, highlighting the party's official stance. On November 11, ban of Croatia Matko Laginja was dismissed by the cabinet of Milenko Radomar Vesnić for allowing the rally to take place.
The new Constitution[edit]
On 12 December 1920, the Parliament of SHS had their first sitting, without the representatives of CPP (50 representatives) and the Croatian Party of Rights (2 representatives). On the 28th of June 1921, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Vidovdanski ustav, or Vidovdan Constitution)was made law after a vote of 223 representatives out of the present 285, the total number representatives in the parliament being 419, which is only 53.2% of the possible votes, or if looked at the number of present representatives it is a more impressive 78.24%. The representatives turnout and subsequent vote is quite poor considering that it was a constitutive parliament, which was supposed to have created the new constitution.
In the next parliamentary elections, which were held in March 1923, the stance of Stjepan Radić and the CPP against the central government managed to turn into extra votes. The results of the election were, 70 seats or 473.733 votes, which represented the majority of the Croatian vote in Northern and Southern parts of Croatia, as well as the Croatian votes in Bosnia, as well as Herzegovina.
Again imprisoned[edit]
Radić still held on to the idea of an independent Croatia, and kept the party out of parliament in protest. This in effect afforded Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić the opportunity to consolidate power and strengthen his Serb-dominated government. Returning from an unsanctioned overseas trip in 1923 in which Stjepan Radić visited England (for 5 months), Austria (5 months) and the Soviet Union (2 months). upon his return in 1924, Radić was arrested in Zagreb and sentenced for associating with Soviet Communists and imprisoned. The trip was used for the purpose of internationalising the plight of Croatians in the Kingdom of SHS.
After his release, Stjepan Radić soon reentered politics, but this was not without problems. On 23 December, the Serb dominated central government declared that the political party CRPP was in contravention of the Internal security law of 1921 in the infamous Obznana declaration, and this was confirmed by King Alexander on 1 January 1924, thus arresting the CRPP executive on 2 January 1925, and finally arresting Stjepan Radić on 5 January.
After the parliamentary elections in February 1925, the CRPP even with its whole executive team behind bars, and with only Stjepan Radić at its helm, CRPP managed to win 67 parliamentary with at total of 532,872 votes. Even though the vote count was higher than the previous election, the gerrymandering by the central government ensured that CRPP received less parliamentary seats. In order to increase his negotiating power the CRPP entered into a coalition with the Independent Democratic party (Samostalna Demokratska Stranka), Slovenian People's Party (Slovenska Ljudska Stranka) and the Yugoslav Muslim Organization (Jugoslavenska Muslimanska Organizacija).
Return to the parliament[edit]
Immediately after the parliamentary elections in March 1925, the CRPP changed the party name to Croatian Peasant Party (Hrvatska seljačka stranka). With the backing of the coalition partners, the CPP made an agreement with the major conservative Serbian party - the People's Radical Party (Narodna radikalna stranka), in which a powersharing arrangement was struck, as well as a deal to release the CPP executive from jail. The CPP had to make certain concessions like recognising the central government and the rule of the monarch, as well as


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1. In the page area, select the text or picture that you want to use as a link (that is, the text or picture a visitor will click to go to another page).
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A stack is a efficient copy of your archive, stored nearby or far away.
Stacks are designed to be incrementally synchronized with your archive. So as your archive changes; new layers are added and merged layers replaced (or not, your choice).
A stack can later be used to restore detail, repair layers, or even recover the entire archive.
Stack data is stored in a Stack Container. Curently there are (fundamentally) two container types: a writable filesytem or an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud object storage bucket. Additional container types are being developed.
A stack is bound to a single archive and can only exchange data with that one archive.
An archive can have multiple stacks. But all of the stacks will be copies of the same archive. For example, an archive of extremely sensative data might have a local (filesystem) stack for immediate duplication of captured files, along with a second long-term stack maintained on a remote cloud data service that only gets updated once or twice a month.
Stacks are organized into layers, just like your archive.
A key concept of stacks is a "slice." A slice is a set of layers in the archive that paired with an equivelent set of layers in the stack. In this context, "equivelent" means those layers represent the same set of captured changes.
In the beginning, when the layers in the archive are first transferred to the stack, there's a one-to-one pairing of layers, which each layer pair forming a single slice.
As layers are merged, however, this relationship changes. For example, if you merge layers 3-5 in the archive, the new singe (merged) layer now represents the same captured data as layers 3-5 in the stack.
In the above example, layer 30 in the archive can replace layers 31-33 in the stack. When that happens, the stack size is reduced by the same amount of storage receovered in the archive.
But the reverse is also possible. Archive layer 30 can be replaced with stack layers 31-33, restoring the intermedaite changes that were lost during in the merge.
Only whole slices can be transferred between the archive and the stack. This is an important concept, and the reason should be obvious. The single merged layer (30) in the archive represents the same set of item changes as layers 31-33 in the stack, just without the intermediate detail.
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The Homeless No More Grant (HUMI)
Program Description: HUMI provides homeless prevention and move-in assistance program. The Homeless No More Grant provides one-time financial assistance to families who are facing eviction, or are already homeless. Whenever possible, this program seeks to intervene before a family falls into the cycle of homelessness.
Need in Gainesville:
1. This The number of school-aged children identified as homeless has more than doubled in the last five years (from 525 now at 1,021 children without a home in our school system).
2. Gainesville was just identified as the Florida city most affected by poverty.
3. Gainesville has the highest rent-cost burden rates of any metro in the state of Florida, according to Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS.)
We're going to do something about this.
Family Promise was awarded $20,000 that we're looking to have matched by businesses and grantors who care about reducing homelessness.
The goal of the program is to help families adjust their budget to make room for saving and work with landlords to reduce rent to a rate that is more affordable for the family's income. Through case management and financial assistance a plan is devised that will help families remain housed through the entirety of their lease and determine ways to either increase income or keep rent at an affordable rate.
The following will be used to determine eligibility for the program:
1. Must have a 3 day notice and/or are currently homeless
2. Have a proven financial hardship
3. Have been employed for at least 6 months
4. Rent is more than 30% of Income (rental assistance only)
5. Must have a child under the age of 18 in the home
6. Must have a reference
Role of Client:
1. Work on and follow living budget.
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a. Education and Certifications
3. Work with landlord to improve communication and maintain housing.
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AV-550 Soil Strengthener
AV-550 Soil Strengthener is designed to permeate and stabilize various types of soil to increase the load bearing capacity of permeable soil by greatly increasing the cohesion between soil particles and by filling void areas in the soil. The uncured resin reacts when it comes in contact with water.
AV-550 is typically used with AV-551 Soil Strengthener Cat to control the cure time. When the reaction occurs, a slight expansion of the resin is noticeable and the material quickly cures to an open cell foam which is impervious to corrosive environments and microorganisms. AV-551 Soil Strengthener Cat must be agitated by shaking the can prior to adding to resin.
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Western Pacific Regional Strategy for Health Systems Based on the Values of Primary Health Care
Health systems do better at attaining a high standard of care if they are underpinned by core values such as equity, social justice, universality, people-centredness and community protection. Primary health care is closely related to but not synonymous with primary care. A strong primary care system is the foundation for a health system based on primary health care values, but secondary and tertiary services that connect to the primary care system are also vital. A whole-of-system approach based on the values of primary health care is proposed as the most effective and sustainable way of strengthening health systems.


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(NaturalNews) A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
has found that processed, canned meat products -- these are collectively known as "spam," as is the brand-name version of the canned meat popularly known as "SPAM" -- are linked to a double risk of developing diabetes. Particularly among American Indians who consume lots of spam given them by the U.S. government, diabetes risk is exceptionally high.
Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine surveyed 2,000 Native Americans from Arizona, Oklahoma, and North and South Dakota as part of a study that aimed to figure out why diabetes rates are so high among this particular ethnic group. What they came to discover was that canned meat products, which are typically very high in processed sodium and other additives and preservatives, were very clearly linked to elevated rates of diabetes.
Among the 500 study participants who consumed the most canned meat products, a whopping 85 percent of them developed diabetes in the time leading up to the five-year study follow-up. In contrast, only 44 percent of those among the 500 who ate the least amount of canned meat products developed diabetes. None of the participants had diabetes at the start of the study.
"A lot of communities in this study are in very rural areas with limited access to grocery stores... and they want to eat foods that have a long shelf life," explained Amanda Fretts, lead author of the study, to Reuters
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Strongylocentrotus purpuratus gene search
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The Gene Search page serves as an entry into the databases of information on annotated genes predicted from the genome sequence of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, the variegated sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus or the bat star, Patiria miniata. Each search returns a list of matches that are linked to the individual gene information pages as indicated. The query can take the form of a text fragment and wild card symbols. The asterisk " * " denotes any alphanumeric text. (bra* = Sp-Bra or brachyury or Sp-Cobra). The question mark "? " denotes one alphanumeric character.( br? = Sp-Bra or Sp-Fibropellin)
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This query uses the SpBase form of the official gene identifier unique in the database. The form of the identifier is 3 letters "SPU" followed by an underscore and 6 numbers. The SpBase identifier is derived from and continues on the Official Gene Set identifiers generated at Baylor, the GLEAN numbers. The relationship between SPU numbers and GLEAN number sis as follows:
GLEAN3_##### = SPU_0#####
SPU numbers higher that the original 28,944 GLEAN3 numbers denote annotated genes for which no GLEAN prediction existed. These genes came from individually sequenced cDNAs or other evidence.
2. Scaffold (Example: Scaffold100, Scaffold3148)
The scaffold identifier refers to the assembly scaffold from the Version 0.5 of the genome assembly (URL?). This query uses the number of the scaffold after the identifier"Scaffold" with no space between. It will return a list of the annotated genes predicted from the v0.5 scaffold sequence. To see all the genes predicted from that scaffold, view the scaffold in Gbrowse with the GLEAN:Prediction track displayed.
3. Gene Name (Example: Sp-SFK1, Sp-Exotose, Sp-Chordin)
The official gene names of the annotated sea urchin genes take the following form:
The first three characters are always the "Sp-". Symbols are usually 3-5 characters but additional characters may be added as necessary up to 10 in order to distinguish similar symbols. Symbols should begin with an uppercase letter followed by all lowercase letters unless e4xtensive previous usage dictates otherwise. Punctuation is only used to separate two adjacent numbers (e.g., Lamb1-2) or for designating related (e.g., Es10-rs1). sequences and pseudogenes (e.g., Adh5-ps1).
The query can be a text fragment and doesn't need to include the general prefix (Sp-). A list of the genes whose names match the text fragment will be returned.
4. Synonym (Example: Src,EXT,chrd)
In order to account for variable usage of gene names, we have tried to collect any synonyms known for annotated genes. For example Sp-Bra has been called brachyury in many publications. A mouse name that has been for brachyury is "T" or small-T locus. Our synonym category can be searched with text fragments as above. A list of genes whose synonyms match the query will be returned.
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PubMed is the bibliographic component of the NCBI's Entrez retrieval system. It accesses a database designed to provide access to citations from biomedical journals. It resides at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed links also lead to full-text journal articles at Web sites of participating publishers, as well as to other related Web resources. The PubMed ID (PMID) takes the form of a 8-digit number (Example: _PHONE_). Wild cards are not useful here.


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Dealing with Data Skew with Control Center
You may encounter issues with clusters allocating data to each other constantly. In this topic we will show how to debug the issue when you notice high CPU usage with Control Center.
In this example we will look at a 4-node cluster, an application that runs read operations, and Control Center displays an alert about high CPU usage.
In Control Center dashboards you can see that one of the nodes is using a lot of CPU.
One of the possible reasons is incorrect data distribution. This can be checked in the Caches screen. The Partition Distribution screen contains information about partitions and keys on each node.
If everything is fine, you should look into the number of operations performed at each node. If, for example, one of the caches has a lot of operations performed on a single node, the problem is localized. In this case it is likely to be what is known as Celebrity Users problem. For example, a company is much bigger than others and has a lot more operations related to it.
Yet another possible issue is in cache configuration options, available from the Caches screen. Check the readFromBackup parameter. If it is set to false, GridGain always tries to read data from the cache, and this can cause a lot of load. If you have this parameter disabled, you will always read the latest update, but at a cost of repeated read requests. Set the patameter to true and recreate the cache.


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Occasionally in math I come across constructions or tools that are a bit convoluted. I can look at these constructions and see that they indeed perform the task they were made to do, but sometimes I can't see why they $\textit{should}$ perform this task; why is that the logical thing to choose for the job? Right now, I'm having this issue with the satellite of a functor.
Just to recall, given an additive functor between two abelian categories $F:\mathcal{C} \rightarrow \mathcal{D}$, the satellite is another functor $S_-^1(F): \mathcal{C} \rightarrow \mathcal{D}$ defined by
$S_-^1(F)(M) = lim(ker(F(M) \rightarrow F(P)))$
where $0 \rightarrow M \rightarrow P \rightarrow N \rightarrow 0$ is an exact sequence with $P$ a projective object. Then a derived functor is formed by taking iterations of the satellite: $S_-^n(F) = S_-(S_-^{n-1}(F))$. More information can be found on nlab.
I am learning about derived functors in a slightly different setting, namely with nonadditive categories where there are not necessarily enough projectives in the category $\mathcal{C}$, and so the definition is modified slightly; perhaps the definition is more transparent in the standard setting.
So my question is
Is there any intuition for why the satellite is the correct tool to use for obtaining derived functors? If I needed to create a derived functor out of a given functor, is there a logical progression that would lead me to define the satellite?
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I think you want an additive functor between abelian categories. – Qiaochu Yuan Jun 26 '10 at 0:35
Yes, thanks. The different setting in which I'm learning about derived functors also does not require additivity of the functor or abelian categories. It has been changed. – Eric A. Bunch Jun 26 '10 at 3:36
Don't you want to map from a projective object $P \to M$ and to an injective object $M \to I$? – K.J. Moi Dec 9 '10 at 17:38
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I don't know if this can be considered as "intuition", anyway
another way to think about derived functors is the following: given an abelian category $\mathcal{A}$, you can define its derived category $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{A})$ (or its variants of bounded complexes in one or both directions). You get $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{A})$ by "localizing" the homotopy category of complexes $\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{A})$, where the objects are complexes in $\mathcal{A}$ and maps are maps of complexes up to homotopy, at the system of quasi-isomorphisms.
There is a natural localization functor $\pi_A:\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{A})\to \mathcal{D}(\mathcal{A})$. If $F:\mathcal{A}\to \mathcal{B}$ is your additive functor between abelian categories, and $\mathcal{K}(F):\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{A})\to \mathcal{K}(\mathcal{B})$ is the induced functor, it is natural to ask for an "extension" of $\mathcal{K}(F)$ to the derived category $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{A})$, with values in $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{B})$. In other words this would be a functor $RF:\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{A})\to \mathcal{D}(\mathcal{B})$, such that $\pi_B \circ \mathcal{K}(F) = RF \circ \pi_A$.
This is not possible to find in general, and the problem is that $\mathcal{K}(F)$ may not send quasi-isomorphisms into quasi-isomorphisms. The best you can ask for is a functor $RF:\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{A})\to \mathcal{D}(\mathcal{B})$, with a natural transformation $\eta:\pi_B \circ \mathcal{K}(F) \to RF\circ \pi_A$ having a universal property among such functors and natural transformations (this is a particular case of a Kan extension).
Such an $RF$ (unique up to isomorphism) is called the (total) right derived functor of $F$. One way to think about it is as "the" functor between the derived categories which approximates $\mathcal{K}(F)$ in the best possible way. You can recover the single derived functors $R^iF$ by taking the cohomology objects of $RF$. In most cases the derived functor is constructed by using resolutions, by injective (or projective, if you're defining left derived functors) objects, or more generally by suitable subcategories of $\mathcal{A}$.
In your case, if you also assume that $F$ is right exact, then the satellite functors coincide with the (left) derived ones, and so I guess that it follows that they can be calculated by the formulas you wrote.
The idea of the "best approximation" of $\mathcal{K}(F)$ on the derived category seems very natural to me, and a satisfactory answer to the question "why derived functors". If you were asking specifically about satellites, then I don't know.
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Thanks for the answer. I'll have to think about this a bit more; I've never worked with Kan extensions before. – Eric A. Bunch Jun 29 '10 at 15:21
Well, neither have I :) in this case it is just a name, I don't know if there's more to it. – Mattia Talpo Jun 30 '10 at 9:14
I agree with you that your answer answers the question of 'why derived functors' pretty well. Thanks again for your answer, although I was hoping for something specific about the satellite. – Eric A. Bunch Jul 5 '10 at 5:30
This is a classical reference:
F. Ulmer, Satelliten und derivierte funktoren. I, Math. Z. 91 (1966)
A more simple exposition can find in Barry Mitchell - Theory of Categories
Or in classical Cartan Eilenberg "Homological ALgebra"
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Dr Julian Lewis and his team at the London Research Institute figured out that Mind Bomb must be playing an important role in the Notch signalling pathway, which helps to tell cells what fate to adopt, or what job to do.
As you might expect, there are versions of Mind Bomb in a host of other organisms, including mammals, where it's involved in making sure the brain and nervous system develop properly. Earlier this year, scientists showed that Mind Bomb also plays a role in the adult mouse brain, and is essential for helping to create long-term memories. Mind Bomb is also the name of a pretty lethal cocktail made with pure alcohol of the kind you would find in a molecular biology lab. Don't try this one at home!


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In addition to the dynamic feature, there are properties which describe the space required for a particular port buffer which can be used statically in data files.
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A feature to resize output port buffers in LV2_Plugin_Descriptor::run().
To support this feature, the host must pass an LV2_Feature to the plugin's instantiate method with URI LV2_RESIZE_PORT__resize and a pointer to a LV2_Resize_Port_Resize structure. This structure provides a resize_port function which plugins may use to resize output port buffers as necessary.
""". rsz:asLargeAs a rdf:Property, owl:DatatypeProperty ; rdfs:domain lv2:Port ; rdfs:range lv2:Symbol ; rdfs:label "as large as" ; lv2:documentation """
Indicates that a port requires at least as much buffer space as the port with the given symbol on the same plugin instance. This may be used for any ports, but is generally most useful to indicate an output port must be at least as large as some input port (because it will copy from it). If a port is asLargeAs several ports, it is asLargeAs the largest such port (not the sum of those ports' sizes).
The host guarantees that whenever an ObjectPort's run method is called, any output O that is obj:asLargeAs an input I is connected to a buffer large enough to copy I, or NULL if the port is lv2:connectionOptional.
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SecureStrings and Plain Text in PowerShell
Thu, Sep 7, 2006 2-minute read
A question came up today on the newsgroup asking why the following didn't work:
PS >$secureString = ConvertTo-SecureString "Hello"
ConvertTo-SecureString : Cannot process argument because the value of argume
nt "input" is invalid. Change the value of the "input" argument and run the
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+ $secureString = ConvertTo-SecureString <<<< "Hello"
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For some background – a SecureString is a type of string that PowerShell (and.Net) keeps encrypted in memory. Even if an attacker can explore the memory on your computer (like the contents of a swap file, for example,) they cannot gain access to the secret protected by the SecureString.
Although you can pass around SecureStrings with impunity, applications must be extremely careful at the boundaries – when creating SecureStrings and retrieving the encrypted data from them. This means doing things like reading your password input character by character, then removing each character from memory as soon as possible. If the data is ever stored as a regular string, it stays in memory until the process exits.
By typing a regular string onto the command line (like in the example,) the string can no longer be made secure. That specific string stays in memory until PowerShell exits. This is why ConvertTo-SecureString only accepts the encrypted output of ConvertFrom-SecureString. Only in that way can we retain the security guarantee of SecureStrings.
That said, most people aren't that concerned about an attacker spying on their machine's memory, or digging through their Windows pagefile. In many situations, the benefit of being able to automate these situations vastly outweights the potential security risk.
For the upcoming release candidate, we've added some new functionality to allow this:
$secureString = ConvertTo-SecureString "Hello" -AsPlainText -Force
(The force flag lets you bypass the warning I just gave you :) )
Until then, you can create SecureStrings from plain text this way:
$text = "Hello World"
$secureString = new-object Security.SecureString
$text.ToCharArray() | % { $secureString.AppendChar($_) }
[Edit: Ouch… my first dupe!]