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How to Benefit from Correct Tariff Classification
In the complex world of international trade, tariff classification stands as a pivotal practice that can significantly impact an importer's compliance with customs regulations. This process involves assigning the appropriate tariff code to goods being imported or exported, ensuring that they are classified in accordance with established guidelines and regulations. The benefits of correct tariff classification are multifold, spanning from financial savings to regulatory compliance and smoother supply chain operations.
By correctly classifying their goods, importers not only avoid penalties but can also save substantial amounts of money. It's not uncommon for importers to unwittingly pay excessive duties due to the improper classification of their goods. A carefully chosen tariff code can lead to a lower duty rate or even qualify the goods for preferential treatment under free trade agreements.
Consequences of Inaccuracy
On the flip side, incorrect classification can lead to non-compliance penalties, border delays, product seizures, or even a revocation of import privileges. Most penalties stem from violations in one of three key areas:
- 1) Improper Classification: This includes accidental misclassification, intentional avoidance of duties, or bypassing admissibility criteria.
- 2) Inaccurate Valuation: Importers who undervalue goods to reduce tax and duty payments face penalties.
- 3) Country of Origin Misrepresentation: Fraudulently claiming preferential duties through false country of origin declarations can result in penalties.
These violations can lead to longer customs clearance processes and increased scrutiny from customs authorities. Import compliance mistakes can cause customs delays, fines, and reputational damage.
It's crucial to understand that every import activity must commence with precise classification. This is not merely a best practice: it's a legal responsibility. Importers need to gather essential information for correct classification, such as a comprehensive product description, details of components or materials used, and the primary use of the good. The latter is particularly important, as some goods might qualify for reduced tariffs under free trade agreements or based on their primary purpose.
Synergy Leads to Success
Correct classification is an important aspect of ensuring compliance, reducing costs, and promoting efficient international trade. The process involves considering various factors and details to make accurate determinations. This encompasses understanding the product, its composition, purpose, and applicable tariff rates. It requires collaboration between experts in both the product and classification domains, as these areas often necessitate different forms of expertise. McNeese Customs & Commerce is capable of imparting the required skills for a seamless and accurate classification process.


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"People are people no matter how small"
"People are people no matter how small" is as close to a school motto as we have at Riviera PlaySchool; and it's fitting that it is quoted from Dr. Seuss's character Horton.
The cornerstone of our program is Non-Violence. Ghandi and Krishnamurti both base their work upon this, as do many western advocates including Rosenberg, Beaglehole, Aldort, Chilton Pearce, Bev Bos, Alfie Kohn, and many others. Like Bev Bos, Riviera PlaySchool takes Non Violence beyond the verbal. A Non-Violent milieu is one in which the environment is not limited or limiting. The child is never led, however 'gently' and softly, from one activity to the next. In a truly Non Violent environment, children are never cajoled into joining an activity; they are never shamed into compliance ("come on…everyone is waiting for you!") Most importantly, in a non-violent environment, children are helped, very patiently, toward resolving their own conflicts. Children raised in a Non Violent environment become intrinsically motivated adults who succeed because it feels good to do so, and treat others with respect and kindness because they want to, not because they fear reprisal if they fail to do so.
Like the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting, Riviera PlaySchool does not use the word nonviolent in reaction to violence but "as a word that honors the connection with a child that respects the core dignity of the child as a full and complete human being. Therefore, the right relationship to have with a child is one that is built on respect and kindness towards the core feelings and needs of the child. Nonviolence honors and respects the value, dignity and life force of the child."
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A humanistic, constructivist, and mindful program for the "whole child," inspired by the best of Attachment Parenting, Reggio Emilia, Montessori, Waldorf and Compassionate Communication.
"People are people no matter how small." ~ Horton
Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates
"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." ~ Plato
"If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." ~ Rachel Carson

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is even though it is painfully obvious to the audience from watching the trailer He remembers he has a scar from a heart transplant Oh and in the last scene he refers to himself as a Mexican.
JohnDoes3 3 February Here, that's to understand why "Blood Work" is a pity. This text is above all for people who read the book and watched the "movie" and like comparisons.
Blood Work is an adaptation of the eponymous and very good book by Michael Connelly. For instance: An egoist Clint Eastwood or his people bought the rights of the book for himself, because the start of this story is just great an ex-inspector, McCaleb, with a transplanted heart inquires about the assassinated woman who gave him her heart!
OK, it's just a digest's digest. Clint is much too older, and not only for the character. Why did he just not choose a year one, there are plenty?
Clint is not credible at all, unfortunately. First, McCaleb's "best friend", Buddy, sees his name changed and he becomes eventually the killer and, secondly, the killer of the book disappears in the movie!
In the book, you discover the killer only at the very end of the investigation. So, it's a very, very bad choice and Michael Connelly himself "joked" joked, really?
Such a bad idea not only for him! It's so great! Please read the book. A macho choice. And why? In the book, it makes possible for McCaleb to get some information!
The woman character, Graciella Rivers, is an ER nurse in the book which means good education and in the movie she becomes a waitress let's say less education.
Women belittled, again! The movie is min. The Egyptians thought air came in through the mouth and into the lungs and heart.
Thus he apparently postulated capillaries but with reversed flow of blood. In 2nd century AD Rome, the Greek physician Galen knew that blood vessels carried blood and identified venous dark red and arterial brighter and thinner blood, each with distinct and separate functions.
Growth and energy were derived from venous blood created in the liver from chyle, while arterial blood gave vitality by containing pneuma air and originated in the heart.
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He stated that "there must be small communications or pores manafidh in Arabic between the pulmonary artery and vein," a prediction that preceded the discovery of the capillary system by more than years.
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Better known discovery of pulmonary circulation was by Vesalius's successor at Padua, Realdo Colombo, in Finally, the English physician William Harvey, a pupil of Hieronymus Fabricius who had earlier described the valves of the veins without recognizing their function, performed a sequence of experiments and published his Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus in, which "demonstrated that there had to be a direct connection between the venous and arterial systems throughout the body, and not just the lungs.
However, Harvey was not able to identify the capillary system connecting arteries and veins; these were later discovered by Marcello Malpighi in Richards were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
In the s, Diana McSherry developed computer-based systems to create images of the circulatory system and heart without the need for surgery.
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does have a public component. For whatever reason once the land exchange had taken place the county paid little attention and never participated in the watershed analysis process. Nor did the City of Bellingham.
In 1997 the DNR began conducting timber harvests in the watershed using the adopted watershed analysis. Except for a few minor private timber harvests in the watershed, there had been little forestry activity in the watershed since 1983. Hence, there was a strong public reaction to the renewal of large scale timber harvests. At that point the DNR attempted to do public out reach to alleviate concerns. I will note that I attended one of those meetings and will say that I felt a bit bad for the DNR. Up until actual harvests began, the local residences, County government and city government had paid little attention to the management planning.
Development of the Second Lake Whatcom Forestry Plan
Issues regarding water quality in Lake Whatcom had evolved significantly since the land exchange had taken place. There was a growing awareness that the lake water quality was in decline. That decline was primarily the result of Bellingham allowing nearly complete urbanization of the north end of the lake where the north basin of the lake is shallow and very sensitive to phosphorus loading. The second basin in the lake under county jurisdiction had also had significant residential development and it too was showing declines in water quality. And though most of the damage was at the north end of the lake, the entire lake was becoming impacted.
Hence, forestry on public lands by the DNR was not well received in the local community. The question of whether additional protections should be applied on the public lands in the watershed was raised. The DNR said no - that watershed analysis was enough.
A few community members thought differently. Linda Marron and Jamie Berg began an effort to require the DNR to place greater protection within the Lake Whatcom watershed. This required a change in State law. No small task, but with support from Conservation Northwest and local State Legislators Keli Linnville and Harriot Spanel as well as Jim Buck from the Olympic Peninsula, the State Legislature passed a two bills requiring the DNR to develop a specific Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan. In the mean time no timber harvests were allowed with the watershed on public land.
A committee was formed to assist the DNR in development of the plan and the plan went through a lengthy Environmental Impact Statement process. The Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan did go beyond the typical forest practice rules and built on the previous watershed analysis. The primary differences between the Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan and standard forest practices are 1) road construction is not allowed across unstable slopes and 2) All streams including ephemeral drainages must be buffered from harvest. There are other differences as well, but in the big picture these two were the biggest differences and deviate the most from standard forest practices.
The New Plan and New Concerns
The Committee and the DNR completed work on the Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan in January 2004. The Board of Natural Resources received the plan and were scheduled to vote on the plan in April 2004. The Board punted and took no action. The Board really did not like the plan. They did not like the fact that the State Legislatures had dictated new forest practice rules specific to a single watershed. They did not like the impacts to trust land revenue generation. They did not like the additional management costs.
Months went by with no action. Letters from Whatcom County were misinterpreted. State politics and posturing had frozen the adoption of the plan. In October 2004 Whatcom County filed a lawsuit in Thurston County Superior Court against the Board of Natural Resources and the Department of Natural Resources. At the next Board meeting the Board of Natural Resources passed the Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan.
The Lake Wahtcom Reconveyance Concept
Adoption of the landscape plan raised some fundamental questions regarding forest management and trust revenue issues for Whatcom County, the DNR and the Board of Natural Resources. The final steps for adoption were a bit bruising. The adoption of the Landscape Plan was not the end of the process. Threats to the landscape plan were multiple:
1) In adopting the Landscape Plan, the Board added extensive language regarding assessing the plan and reporting on the plan that clearly stated an intent to end the plan. One reason the County filed the lawsuit was language in a DNR proposed resolution to the Board that would establish an end date to the plan.
2) The Board of Natural Resources gave clear direction for the DNR to explore options to end following the plan.
3) Skagit County and the Mount Baker School District filed a lawsuit in an attempt to have the plan over turned. This lawsuit was supported by timber industry folks as well as other counties.
4) Briefings filed by the State in defense of the Plan were such that it was very unlikely that the State would defend the plan. Perhaps most telling - during initial arguments the State attorney sat at the same table as the attorney bringing the lawsuit against the State while intervening attorneys sat at a separate table.
5) DNR staff began an active lobby effort to attempt to get the State Legislature to pass legislation dismantling the Plan
6) DNR staff started negotiations with at least on private timber company to exchange forests trust lands out of the watershed.
With these various threats against the protections required by Landscape Plan, Whatcom County began considering taking over management of these lands as a large forest reserve park. The County could have simply requested reconveyance at that time, but decided that the best approach would be to do an additional land exchange between the various State Trust lands in the watershed and the Forest Board lands in the watershed with the idea that a blocking up the Forest Board lands as a coherent block and the State Trust lands as a coherent block would make better sense for management of the forest preserve park and State Trust lands.
Steps Towards Reconveyance
The County passed a budget line item to fund the process of an intertrust transfer in late 2006. In late 2007 the DNR and the County reached an agreement to work together on the trust land transfers. A final agreement between the DNR and Whatcom County was approved in early 2008. It took until 2010 before a final contract approving the work necessary was approved by the County Council.
The needed assessments of timber value and surveys were completed in 2011 and the proposed intertrust exchange was presented to the Board of Natural Resources in October 2011. The Board.... punted (washington-state-board-of-natural). The Board wanted to know if Whatcom County really still wanted to complete the reconveyance.
Yes, Whatcom County Really Wants a Park
In late May of 2012 the Whatcom County Council voted 5-2 whatcom-county-council-moves-forwardto send a letter to the Board of Natural Resources essentially saying that yes, Whatcom County wants to take over management of the County Forest Board Lands in the Lake Whatcom watershed.
One of the potential snags in support for the park involved the Mount Baker School District. There was an issue of lost revenue to the school district. The loss was frequently was presented as a much larger loss that it really is, but regardless the County Council felt a fair bit of sympathy to this rural school district. The problem for the County was there was no means to gift money to the district. Whatcom Land Trust stepped in and arranged an anonymous donation to the District that far exceeds the forest revenue the District would have received and can be utilized in a much more flexible manner. This generous contribution won over the District's support for the park.
The Last Steps
The issue now will go before the Board of Natural Resources - likely in July. The Board has an option to approve or not approve the intertrust transfer between Forest Board lands and State Trust lands. Once the exchange is approved the Board must approve the Reconveyance.
I tried to present this history in a fairly neutral manner. But anyone that has followed this would never really believe what I presented as neutral. I first became involved in public lands forestry issues in 1998 when I was asked by Linda Marron and Jamie Berg to review a forest road proposal by the DNR. I wrote a report on that proposal and testified at the State Legislature hearings on the Lake Whatcom bills. I also served on the Lake Whatcom Landscape Committee. My interpretations of the various threats to the Landscape Plan presented above led me to believe that the best solution to public forest land management in the Lake Whatcom watershed was reconveyance.
I whole heartily supported the Reconveyance and express great appreciation to those that supported this idea and have brought it so far forward with particular mention to:
Jamie Berg and Linda Marron who would not let an issue go;
Conservation Northwest that provided technical support throughout with particular efforts by Lisa McShane, Mitch Friedman and Seth Cool;
Dewey Desler, Whatcom County Administrator who reacted with great enthusiasm to the idea when it was first suggested;
Pete Kremen, Whatcom County Executive and then later County Council person steadfastly supported the Landscape Plan and then put all his political efforts into supporting the park plan;
Mike McFarlane, Whatcom County Parks Director managed the transfer process and park planning to perfection and became the best possible authoritative spokesman for the park;
Whatcom Land Trust and Rand Jack as well as the anonymous donor, they stepped up and resolved the issue of revenue concerns at the Mount Bake School District;
Laurie Caskey-Schriber, Carl Weimer and Seth Fleetwod, Whatcom County Council members that supported the Park idea from the very beginning in 2006 - the park would never have moved forward without their unhesitating support;
Ken Mann, Whatcom Council supported moving forward with the park throughout his tenure on the Council
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This study investigates the workings of three higher education partnerships with Holmesglen Institute – a public Technical and Further Education (TAFE) provider based in Melbourne, Australia. Anecdotally, some such partnerships succeed more than others, but no systematic study has yet been conducted to support that claim empirically, possibly because partnership performance is difficult to measure. Partnerships often have multiple objectives, and their performance can be analysed at different levels. A further performance problem concerns whether organisations can build partnership management capability for beneficial outcomes. The study therefore sought to answer two questions: 1. Why are some partnerships more successful than others? 2. How can organisations build institutional capability to enhance partnership management and success? These questions were investigated using an explanatory mixed methods approach (Creswell & Plano Clark,2011) comprising two distinct stages – a purposive online survey, followed by face-to-face interviews with a sample of the survey population. Data from the survey and interviews was analysed and integrated in a case study (Mills,2014; Yin,2009),which also incorporated comparative assessments of management practices by contrasting the relative performance of different partnerships against the same success factors. Overall, the study's findings corroborate those in the literature (mostly focused on generic organisational and corporate partnerships, with little available for the higher education sector) that: 1. Inter-organisational partnerships are established to meet a variety of needs. 2. Partnerships undergo several phases as they develop and evolve. 3. Leadership, governance structures and clear processes are needed for their effective management and operation. 4. Partnership performance is influenced by many, often inter-related factors. 5. Organisations can develop their capability to enhance partnership management through several mechanisms: greater (prior) experience, dedicated alliance functions, and deliberate learning processes. The findings also suggest that engaging in partnerships is rarely straightforward; alongside the desire to collaborate, there may be competition, conflict, contradiction, and sensitivities, which leaders need to anticipate and manage. Theoretical considerations for the study stimulated the adaptation of a conceptual framework from existing organisational constructs, while the implications offer lessons for professional practice: 1. Sufficient planning time should be allocated before starting a partnership. 2. Preferably, collaboration should start small, then grow progressively. 3. Effective leadership and clear, consistent and fair governance mechanisms are necessary for providing direction, and smooth running of a partnership. 4. Open, frequent communication between and within partner organisations helps to build trust, a critical success factor. 5. Partnerships need close monitoring and regular review to ensure they stay on track to achieve agreed goals and objectives. 6. Partnerships should ideally have a mediumto long-term focus. 7. Capability building for partnership management should be an integral part of overall organisational strategy. 8. Partnerships require constant nurturing and perseverance to be successful. Although perhaps limited in generalisability to other sectors and institutions, this study contributes to the body of knowledge on inter-organisational partnerships by systematically developing and testing an integrated conceptual framework to further understanding of the complex workings of partnerships, particularly in the public higher education sector.
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The only difference between writing a normal electron configuration and writing the electron configuration for an ion is that when writing an electron configuration for an ion, you have to remember to add or subtract electrons from your total. Remember if an ion has a positive (+) charge (cation) you must subtract electrons from your total. And, if the element is an anion (negative charge), you must add electrons to your total. Look at the example below:
Aluminum will lose three electrons when it forms an ion. So although a neutral atom of aluminum has 13 electrons, the ion of aluminum, Al3+, has lost three electrons and only has 10. Thus, you should write the electron configuration for 10 electrons.
Answer: Al3+ : 1s22s22p6
Given : S2-
Sulfur will gain two electrons when it forms an ion. So although a neutral atom of sulfur has 16 electrons, the ion of sulfur, S2-, has gained two electrons. Therefore, you should write the electron configuration for 18 electrons.
Answer : S2- : 1s22s22p63s23p6


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Design Principles for Promoting Intergroup Empathy in Online Environments
Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning • Volume 12 • 2016 • pp. 225-246
This study examined a professional development program designed to support Civics teachers in their efforts to promote empathy among Israeli Jewish students towards Israeli Arabs. The design rationale for the program is that teachers should experience empathic processes themselves before supporting their students in such an endeavor and that meaningful empathic processes can occur online if activities are properly designed. All phases of the program were designed to support teachers to participate as part of an online community of practice. Sixty Jewish teachers participated in two iterations of the design study. Refinements were made in the second iteration to provide teachers with explicit definitions of empathy and specific instructions for reflection. Findings indicate that these changes were reflected in higher degrees of empathic responses among teachers. Teachers also indicated that being a part of an online learning community contributed to the learning process they experienced during the program. We interpret this as a first step in enabling teachers to assist their students to develop a more empathetic approach toward the minority group and conclude with a discussion of recommended design principles for promoting such an approach.
empathy, minority group, teacher professional development, teachers as designers, online learning community
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Landslide Hazard Analysis Using Frequency Ratio Model
Jadda, Mehrnoosh (2009) Landslide Hazard Analysis Using Frequency Ratio Model. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
In the north part of Iran (Alborz Mountain belt), landslides occur frequently due to climatologic and geologic conditions and high tectonic activities, that results, annually, millions of dollars financial defect excluding casualties and unrecoverable resources. The reliable hazard map would help to mitigate the consequences of landslide occurrences by land-use management and other strategies. This paper evaluates the hazardous area in Marzan Abad (Central Alborz, North part of Iran) using probabilistic–Frequency ratio (PFR) model, Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote sensing techniques. Hazardous areas have been analyzed and mapped using the landslide occurrence factors by frequency ratio model.In GIS platform, layers such as geology, geomorphology, soil, slope, aspect, elevation, annual precipitation, land use, distance from faults, lineaments, roads and drainages were displayed, manipulated and analyzed. The validation of hazard map has been estimated with the validation group of actual landslides and rate curves method. The Area Under the Curve (AUC) evaluates how well the method predicts landslides. The results have showen satisfactory agreement between prepared hazard map and existing data on total landslide locations (93.60%) and validation group of landslide locations (91.68%) So, the methodology used in this study was validated. Final hazard map classified in five hazardous classes (very high, high, moderate, low and non hazardous area). Receiver Operating Characteristic curve method (ROC curve) was used to validate the classification and based on its area under the curve value, final classification was evaluated as excellent classification (AUC=0.94). This study evaluates geology, soil and distance to road networks as the most effective factors on landslide analysis and deep valleys, old landslide traces, area near the roads and faults as the most hazardous areas for landslide occurrence in Marzan Abad area.
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Convergence to the European energy policy in European countries: case studies and comparison
Dueñas, Lara Pérez
Pedersen, Keld Lotzfeldt
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Purpose – our paper aims at analysing how different European countries cope with the European Energy Policy, which proposes a set of measures (free energy market, smart meters, energy certificates) to improve energy utilization and management in Europe. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first reports the general vision, regulations and goals set up by Europe to implement the European Energy Policy. Later on, it performs an analysis of how some European countries are coping with the goals, legal, economical and regulatory measures. Finally, the paper draws a comparison between the countries to present a view on how Europe is responding to the emerging energy emergency of the modern world. Findings – our analysis on the cases of different use (countries) has shown that European countries are converging to a common energy policy, even though some countries appear to be later than others. In particular, Southern European countries were slowed down by the global financial and economical crisis. Still, it appears that contingency plans were put into action, and Europe as a whole is proceeding steadily towards the common vision. Research limitations/implications – European countries are applying yet more cuts to financing green technologies, and it is not possible to predict clearly how each country will evolve its support to the European energy policy. Moreover, we have only analysed a small number of countries. At the same time, we have selected countries belonging to different areas of Europe, and we consider that the countries selected as placeholders for the groups cover the whole normative spectrum that can be found in Europe. Practical implications – Different countries applied different measures to attain the targets set by the European Union. The implementation of the European energy policy has to cope with the resulting plethora of regulations, and a company proposing enhancement regarding energy management still has to possess robust knowledge of the single country, before being able to export experience and know-how between European countries. Originality/Value – Even though a few surveys on energy measures in Europe are already part of the state-of-the-art, organic analysis diagonal to the different topics of the European Energy Policy is missing. Moreover, this paper highlights how European countries are converging on a common view, and provides some details on the differences between the countries, thus facilitating parties interesting into cross-country export of experience and technology for energy management.
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The results will be presented at an April conference in Singapore.
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Not rocket science
By Beenthere on 2/16/2013 2:11:27 AM, Rating: 2
Current day computers are a poor excuse for what they could be primarily due to apathy. The proof is in the totally defective Windoze O/S's that have been forced on consumers thru illegal means. How could you ever expect a computer which is logic based to be reliable when forced to run a defective O/S that has millions of documented defects? Making the hardware more reliable is also possible if hardware makers actually cared and did proper validation.
In reality PC sales like all electronics is about making money, not about delivering reliable computers. The only reason current computers are unreliable is because consumers will buy this crap. Why waste time and money making a proper computer when you can sell crap for windfall profits? Sure better micro code can improve performance and it should be the basis for all computers, but don't expect to see it any time soon for commercial use as it's less profiatble than selling crapware.
This ain't rocket science and has been known for 30+ years.


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THE first-ever official State commemoration of the 1913 Lockout will take place in Dublin this summer.
THE Government is making arrangements which will involve the State in a major event to mark the centenary of the dramatic events that shook the city for almost six months.
One-third of the population suffered severe hardship after employers locked out their workers in a widespread dispute stemming from efforts to curb the growth of trade unions.
Three people were killed and hundreds more injured by police baton charges in violent incidents during the dispute.
Author Padraig Yeates (66), a leading member of the 1913 Commemoration Committee, told the Herald the State has never taken an official role in commemorating the Lockout events. The official commemorations are likely to centre on the events of August 1913, when hundreds of people were injured when police baton-charged crowds on O'Connell Street, then known as Sackville Street
The previous night, two men died from blows from police batons in riots on Burgh Quay and Eden Quay.
A third man died after being batoned in his home in Foley Street during police raids that weekend.
The State commemoration will also officially acknowledge the role of the labour movement in the turbulent decade which followed and its role in securing Irish independence, said Mr Yeates.
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This must be a naive question, but I'm wondering about the definition of the quasi-unipotent monodromy for general (not only 1-parameter families). The problem is that usually in the books of algebraic geometry quasi-unipotent monodromy is only discussed over a disc $\Delta ^{*}$ i.e. for a 1-parameter family. In this case we know that for a fibration $f: X \rightarrow \Delta$, with monodromy representation $\rho : \pi_{1}(\Delta^{*}) \rightarrow Aut(H^{i}(X_{0}))$, the image $\rho (T)$ of a generator $T$ of $\pi_{1}(\Delta^{*})$ is a quasi-unipotent matrix. What is the correct generalization of this to arbitrary families? For example, in multi-parameter case, it could happen that there are several generators $T_{i}$ such that each $\rho(T_{i})$ is a quasi-unipotent matrix but for example $\rho(T_{1})\rho(T_{2})$ is not quasi-unipotent. So is the possible generalization is that all of the matrices in the monodromy group (image of the monodromy representation) should be quasi-unipotent or it suffices only that the image of the generators to be quas-unipotent?
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In higher dimensions, I think quasi-unipotent monodromy only makes sense in the case of normal crossings boundary. In this case the local fundamental group is abelian, hence if each the image of each generator is quasi-unipotent, so is the image of any other element. – ulrich Jul 21 '12 at 12:58
You mean if the discriminant is not NC, the notion of quasi-unipotency is not defined? Is there a reference which discusses the quasi-unupotency in details? anyway thank you very much for your anser. – Jack Jul 21 '12 at 14:32
You should check out the answer to this: mathoverflow.net/questions/1912/… – Igor Rivin Jul 21 '12 at 17:55
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Quasi-unipotency is a well defined notion at any point of the discriminant. If we have a proper family $f : X \to S$ of varieties with a smooth total space and a smooth base, and if $p \in D \subset S$ is a point of the discriminant, then we say that the local monodromy of the family near $p$ is quasi-unipotent if we can find a small analytic neighborhood $p \in U \subset S$ of $p$ in $S$, so that if $o \in U - D$ is a base point, then the monodromy representation $mon : \pi_{1}(U-D,o) \to GL(H^{i}(X_{o},\mathbb{C})$ has an image whose Zariski closure $G$ is a quasi-unipotent linear algebraic group (that is, the quotient of $G$ by its unipotent radical is a finite-group).
In general it is rare for the local monodromy to be quasi-unipotent. If $p$ happens to be a very singular point of the discriminant, then the local monodromy tends to be big and is often as big as it can be, and not quasi-unipotent at all. However, if $p$ is at worst a normal crossing singularity of $D$, then the local monodromy is quasi-unipotent.
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Thank you very much for your beautiful answer. I had never known of this general definition of quasi-unipotency. I have some more questions: First of all what is the best reference which discusses this definition and it's consequences. Secondly, if this is the definition of "quasi-unipotency", then what would be the definition of "unipotency" in general? – Jack Jul 22 '12 at 6:46
Ah, I noticed I missed an adjective in the comment - I was defining what it means for $G$ to be quasi-unipotent. I edited the answer to reflect this correctly. The unipotency of $mon$ is defined in a similar manner - we say that $mon$ is unpotent, when $G$ is a connected unipotent algebraic group, i.e. when when it coincides with its unipotent radical. The references are numerous and the applications are usually Hodge theoretic. The quasi-unipotency of a local systen can is also very useful when we compute cohomology. – Tony Pantev Jul 23 '12 at 3:00
Two classical references are the paper "Periods of integrals on algebraic manifolds III", Publ. Math. IHES 38 (1970) by Griffiths and the paper "Variation of Hodge structure: the singularities of the period mapping" Invent. math. 22 (1973) by Schmid. They in particular explain Borel's proof of the quasi-unipotency theorem that I mentioned above. There are many other modern references. For instance, you may want to take a look at the excellent book "Period mappings and period domains" by Carlson, Mueller-Stach, and Peters. – Tony Pantev Jul 23 '12 at 3:07
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Alger Hiss
 Alger Hiss, was accused for being a communist spy. Although he was accused, Hiss was involved with many programs. In 1933, Alger joined the Agriculture Adjustment Adminstration and in July of 1934 became a part of the Nye Committee of the U.S. Senate.
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Whittaker Chambers was a part of the communist party in 1924 but soon after decided to leave the party. He thought Alger Hiss was a spy and therefore brought him to court. Before the trials, Whittaker had a bunch of files and rolls of film and decided to use them as evidence against Hiss. Whittaker cut the top of a pumpkin (because he had a pumpkin patch back in Maryland) and put the papers in there therfore coming up with the name of Pumpkin Papers. The Pumpkin Papers helped convince the courtroom that Alger Hiss was guilty.
 During the trials, Hiss claimed he was not a spy nor did he ever know Whittaker Chambers. Chambers swore that he knew Hiss and that the papers he hid in the pumpkin (Pumpkin Papers) were given to him by Hiss. The first trial turned out to be a hung jury in which the jury could not find wether or not Alger Hiss was guilty or not guilty. The second trial, the jury found Hiss guilty for perjury for lying that he didnt know Whittaker Chambers and did not write the Pumpkin Papers. He was sentenced to five years in prison. On Novemeber 27,1954, Alger Hiss was released from jail just two weeks after his 50th birthday. When he returned to New York City, Hiss wrote a book called "In the Court of Public Opinion". It was about his trials and new evidence never heard before.


12.1.1 External effects of pollution
When the production or consumption of a good affects anyone other than the buyers and sellers, the market allocation of the good will not be Pareto efficient. We demonstrate this mathematically in the case of banana production using a pesticide, Weevokil, which pollutes the waters of neighbouring fishermen. The quantity of bananas produced and sold is greater than the Pareto-efficient level.
Pareto efficient
An allocation with the property that there is no alternative technically feasible allocation in which at least one person would be better off, and nobody worse off.
In Leibniz 8.5.1, we analysed the gains from trade in the bread market by calculating the total surplus, which was equal to the sum of the consumer surplus and the producer surplus. We showed that the allocation of a market equilibrium in perfect competition maximized the total surplus. It follows that, at this allocation, it is not possible to make any of the consumers or firms better off (that is, to increase the surplus of any individual) without making at least another one of them worse off. Assuming that what happens in this market does not affect anyone other than the participating buyers and sellers, we can say that the equilibrium allocation is Pareto efficient.
To analyse the case of banana production on the Caribbean island where Weevokil is used, we adopt the same approach, working out the total surplus resulting from the production and sale of bananas. But there is an important difference. Banana production affects the buyers and sellers of bananas, but also it has a negative external effect on fishermen—the cost of water pollution from the pesticide. So when we calculate the total surplus, we need to include the fishermen's costs too.
There is another difference between the bread market model and the banana production model. We assume that however many bananas are produced on the island, they can be sold in the world wholesale banana market at a constant price,. This is a reasonable assumption as long as the island only produces a small fraction of the world's bananas. It means that decisions about banana production on the island do not change the surplus obtained by consumers, whether they live on the island, or elsewhere in the world. So we don't need to include consumer surplus in our analysis. Note that this assumption is a useful simplification, but it would be straightforward to adapt the model to the case where the island was a large banana producer.
Overall, then, the total surplus (often called the social surplus in this context) from growing bananas will be the sum of the producer surplus and the surplus obtained by fishermen. But since the effect on the fishermen is negative, we write the social surplus as:
The producer surplus is calculated just as in Leibniz 8.5.1. It is equal to the banana growers' revenue, minus their total cost of production. If tonnes of bananas are produced and sold, producer surplus is:
Here, is the total private cost of producing bananas. In economic terminology, the private costs and benefits of a decision are costs and benefits experienced by the decision-maker. Let be the external cost imposed on the fishermen when tonnes of bananas are produced. We can say that the social cost of banana production is, the sum of the private and external costs.
The social surplus is then:
The derivatives of the three cost functions,, and, denote marginal social cost (MSC), marginal private cost (MPC), and marginal external cost (MEC), respectively. We assume that for all, which means that MEC is positive, and that MSC and MPC are increasing in output. Thus and are convex functions.
Hence is a concave function, and the social surplus is maximized at the level of output which satisfies the first-order condition. Differentiating the expression above for, we find that is the output level at which the marginal social cost of bananas is equal to the price:
Since the social surplus is maximized at we know that if a different level of output were chosen, for example to make the fishermen better off (by lowering their costs), then it must make the plantations worse off. So is the Pareto-efficient level of output.
However, is not the level of output that will be produced in equilibrium. The banana plantations are profit-maximizing firms and they are price-takers, because whatever the quantity of bananas they produce, the price at which each tonne of bananas can be sold is. So they each choose their output so that their marginal private cost is equal to the market price, and the market supply curve is therefore the marginal private cost curve. Thus the total output of the plantations satisfies the equation:
To compare the private equilibrium level of output with the Pareto efficient level, consider the derivative of the social surplus:
Since MEC is positive, it follows that:
And since is a concave function ( falls as increases), we deduce that:
This inequality tells us that the banana growers produce too much output, according to the criterion of Pareto efficiency. This result can be seen in Figure 12.2 of the text, reproduced as Figure 1 below. In the figure, you can see the features of the problem we have analysed mathematically above:
Figure 1 The plantations' choice of banana output.


How does Linear Discriminant Analysis work?
How does Linear Discriminant Analysis work?
How does Linear Discriminant Analysis work?
This recipe explains how Linear Discriminant Analysis work
Recipe Objective
Linear Discriminant Analysis is a classifier with a linear decision boundary, generated by fitting class conditional densities to the data and using Bayes' rule. It fits a Gaussian density to each class, assuming that all classes share the same covariance matrix.
So this recipe is a short example on how does Linear Discriminant Analysis work. Let's get started.
Step 1 - Import the library
from sklearn import datasets from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split from sklearn.datasets import load_iris from sklearn.discriminant_analysis import LinearDiscriminantAnalysis
Let's pause and look at these imports. We have exported train_test_split which helps in randomly breaking the datset in two parts. Here sklearn.dataset is used to import one classification based model dataset. Also, we have exported LinearDiscriminantAnalysis to build our model.
Step 2 - Setup the Data
X,y=load_iris(return_X_y=True) X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25)
Here, we have used load_iris function to import our dataset in two list form (X and y) and therefore kept return_X_y to be True. Further with have broken down the dataset into 2 parts, train and test with ratio 3:4.
Now our dataset is ready.
Step 3 - Building the model
model = LinearDiscriminantAnalysis()
We have simply built a classification model with LinearDiscriminantAnalysis with default values.
Step 4 - Fit the model and predict for test set, y_train) y_pred= model.predict(X_test)
Here we have simply fit used fit function to fit our model on X_train and y_train. Now, we are predicting the values of X_test using our built model.
Step 5 - Printing the accuracy
print(model.score(X_train,y_train)) print(model.score(X_test,y_test))
Here we have calculated accuracy score using score function for both our train and test set.
Step 6 - Lets look at our dataset now
Once we run the above code snippet, we will see:
Clearly, the model built for the given datset is efficient on any unknown set.
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Danner named Samuelson Student Distinction Award winner
An award is always nice to win, but there is something special about an award from your peers. That's what makes the Dr. Jeanine B. Samuelson Student Distinction Award so unique.
This year's winner is Clare Danner, a double-major in communication and English. Danner's classmates spoke strongly of her commitment to the core qualities of what make a HAC student. They mentioned her ability to rally students together for study groups. Her general positivity was an inspiring quality that was noted to be on display even when she was having a bad day. Said one student, "People just like her. They gravitate to her."
Mention was made of her commitment to her values and faith, and how those around her admired that in her. Those values shine through in her integrity in and outside of the classroom, with her unwillingness to ever take the easy route out and copy someone's homework or even study guide. It was maybe best summed up by one nominator who said, "Clare embodies everything that the award stands for in a fun-sized, red-headed package, and I am so proud of who she is, what she has accomplished, and where she is going."
Danner is a sophomore who plays soccer for Trine University. Additionally, she has worked this past year as part of the HAC Media Team, writing articles for this website.
The Samuelson Student Distinction Award is given each year. Faculty from the department choose based on nominations from other students. They are asked to pick a classmate that best exhibits the key qualities the department feels are instrumental to a successful Humanities and Communication student. Those are:
 1. Teamwork, exhibiting great communication skills
 2. Leadership in the classroom and departmental activities
 3. Valuing of diversity in the classroom and across campus
 4. Commitment to academic excellence
 5. Dedication to the HAC department and his or her professional field
 6. Excitement and passion in the classroom and departmental activities
 7. Ethical behavior and decision making in and outside of the classroom
The award is named for Dr. Jeanine Samuelson, who worked at Trine University for over 20 years. In that time, she served primarily as a German instructor, who also taught many sections of speech and developed student trips to Europe as part of the study abroad program. She was beloved by her students as she took a personal interest in their lives, and brought them cookies on Friday afternoons—all the while demanding and receiving academic excellence. She remains active with the department.


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Facilitating Knowledge Communication through Joint Interactive Visualization
Martin J. Eppler (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Abstract: This paper presents further research findings on the use of software-based, collaborative visual communication tools for the transfer and creation of professional knowledge in organizational decision making contexts. The paper begins by describing typical knowledge communication situations and summarizes dominating problems in these contexts. It then reports on the real-life experiences in using three visual knowledge communication tools, namely the OnTrack visual protocol tool, the Parameter Ruler application, and the Synergy Map. The application experiences with these tools in four companies show that they can reduce some of the discussed problems. Their main benefits are focus, coordination, documentation, consistency, accountability and traceability. Their major improvement areas are accessibility and flexibility. Implications for further research and for further tool developments are highlighted.
Keywords: joint interaction, knowledge communication, knowledge disavowal, knowledge evasion, knowledge refusal, visualization
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The City of Ottawa has been warned by scientists, several times and in several studies, that TFD fragments the eco-system in the South March Highlands (SMH) and dramatically reduces the ability of the SMH to withstand change.
This warning is a well-considered and inevitable scientific conclusion, backed by years of research, that sadly cannot be scientifically quantified. Questions like: How much further change can the SMH take? How much change is introduced by urban development? How long will the Conservation Forest survive, etc simply cannot be quantified.
So does that make the unmeasurable any less important to decision-making?
Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and was obsessed with making decisions based on only what could be measured. He also had a predilection to prefer only information that fit into his metric-based world view. This led to increasingly absurd decisions by the US Government for many years until they finally withdrew from the Vietnam conflict.
Sociologist Daniel Yankelovich described a process he called McNamara's Fallacy to explain why some of us have a tendency to under-value what cannot be measured. The mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead has also referred to this tendency the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness".
McNamara's Fallacy is a process having 4 steps.
- Measure what can be measured. This is fine as far as it goes.
- Disregard that which can't be measured or give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is arbitrary and misleading.
- Presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't very important. This is blindness.
- Say that which can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is madness.
The Terry Fox Drive (TFD) extension is an excellent example of McNamara's Fallacy in decision making.
Step1. The City haphazardly commissions several piece-meal studies of the South March Highlands (SMH) area to identify existing ecological conditions and count species. However, only easily studied vegetation is studied. There are no comprehensive studies of fauna, insects and non-vascular plants.
Step 2. Issues such as the size of eco-passages are ignored since the impact of the size on the effectiveness of eco-passages cannot be predicted (disregard what can't be measured). This leads to mitigation planned for TFD relying on experimental ideas whose effectiveness has no established scientific evidence at all (assigning an arbitrary value to them).
- Instead emphasis is placed on having several smaller (measurable, so more must be better) passages instead of fewer, larger (more costly) ones.
- The location of these eco-passages is inferred from a 3-month winter study of wildlife movement because a summer study is too hard to do for the wide-variety of species affected.
Step 3. The long-term impact of losing ½ of SMH to development is never studied (too difficult to measure so don't look at it at all). The City has never examined its economic justification for TFD relative to its environmental impact (no cost/benefit analysis) because it is presumed that ecological value is unimportant (because it is difficult to measure).
Step 4. Councillor Wilkinson asserts that TFD can be ignored when promoting SMH as an NCC-owned wilderness park. The the long-term effect of fragmentation of habitat and species kill-rate caused by TFD don't exist (because they can't be measured).
The reality is that the effect of TFD cannot be mitigated because it cannot be measured. The very concept of mitigation depends on establishing an equal and compensating benefit to make up for the impact. This is not possible when the impact cannot be measured.
The Precautionary Principle holds that where there is uncertainty regarding an approach that could cause significant harm, the uncertainty should be resolved before proceeding.
This principle is well established both in law and in medicine. It is a statutory requirement in the European Union. Perhaps it is also time for City Hall to apply it to the environmental assessment process too.
In the meantime, anyone that contemplates allowing TFD into the South March Highlands does so at great peril to the environment and to all the species that live in it.


In "The Dragon and the Wolf" (Game of Thrones, S07E07), Bran tells Sam that Jon is actually Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark's son, and that his name should've been Jon Sand. Of course, Sam corrects him by saying Jon isn't a bastard at all.
But is "Sand" really what Jon's last name would've been if Rhaegar and Lyanna wouldn't have been married? On what basis is a bastard named (last name)?
IF Jon had been a bastard and acknowledged by his father he would have taken / been given the common name for bastards in the region where he would have been born.
Lyanna gave birth in Dorne and the bastard's names go by region of birth in GOT.
 - Flowers: The Reach
 - Hill: The Westerlands
 - Pyke: Iron Islands
 - Rivers: The Riverlands
 - Sand: Dorne
 - Snow: The North
 - Stone: The Vale of Arryn
 - Storm: The Stormlands
 - Waters: The Crownlands
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 If that's the case, did Ned ever say that Jon was born in the north, hence naming him Snow? – SrB Aug 28 '17 at 18:25
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 I don't recall Ned ever saying where Jon was born. He just brought him home and claimed him as his bastard. No additional explanation would have been sought or required. – Paulie_D Aug 28 '17 at 18:27
 - Another strengthening point for the answer is Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes, which play off the Sand name for bastards. – DariM Aug 28 '17 at 22:08
Bastards are not named for where they are born but where they are raised.
Remember, Ned is claiming that Jon is his own child. While he was physically born outside of the North, he was brought to live in the North by a Northman. It has more to do with who the bastard was born to and where they live then where they are actually born.
Explanation of Bastard Naming:
Examples of bastard naming:
The surname a bastard received appears to be connected to the location the child is raised, though this is not a consistent rule. Because of this, bastards who are half-siblings might have different surnames. For example, King Robert I Baratheon's eldest bastard, born in the Vale, is called Mya Stone, while his bastard from the Stormlands (fathered on a noblewoman from the Reach) is called Edric Storm. However, whilst Aegor Rivers was raised at Stone Hedge in the Riverlands, his half-brother Brynden, was also called Rivers, despite having lived at least the first few years of his life with his mother at King's Landing in the Crownlands.
So it would have depended on which parent took custody of Jon.
If it had been Rhaegar, Jon would have likely been a Waters since Rhaegar would have taken him back to the Crownlands.
If it had been Lyanna, Jon would have likely still been a Snow since he would have been brought back to the North.
In the books it depends on the region of the family, but Targaryens had a special name for their bastards, that being Blackfyre, so i suppose Jon would be a Blackfyre since Rhaegar is his father.
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 Nothing about this answer, down to the spelling of Jon, is correct. – Ghoti and Chips Aug 28 '17 at 18:15
 - I'm Sorry, i am not a english speaker, i'm my country we have weird tranlations, even for the names (i am asian) – Cheshire Aug 28 '17 at 18:21
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 Yeah but, to be clear: In the books it depends on the region of the family Wrong, it depends on the region that the child is born or raised, irrespective of the noble parent's domain. Targaryens had a special name for their bastards, that being Blackfyre Wrong, Targaryen bastards had the same naming scheme as other houses' bastards (e.g. Aegor and Brynden Rivers). Blackfyre is unrelated and refers to a chosen name. Jon would be a Blackfyre Wrong, he would be a Sand, being born in Dorne. since Rhaegar is his father Wrong. Rhaegar being a Targaryen wouldn't make him a Blackfyre. – Ghoti and Chips Aug 28 '17 at 18:24
 - _USER_ speaks harshly...but truly. (channeling my inner Manderly). – PoloHoleSet Aug 29 '17 at 14:28
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