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SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) will offer a four-week online winter session in December, an affordable opportunity for college students whether they're enrolled at STCC or another school.
The session runs Wednesday, Dec. 23 through Tuesday, Jan. 19. Registration for current students opens Nov. 18. Registration for new students begins Nov. 23.
STCC offers the most affordable online classes in Springfield. Most winter classes are designed for easy transfer to both public and private campuses, saving students hundreds of dollars per course. Some winter classes also save students money with free textbooks.
"Winter-session classes are the perfect opportunity for college students to earn college credit at a reduced cost during the traditional winter-break period," STCC Dean of Academic Initiatives Matthew Gravel said. "The majority of classes available during winter session can be used as electives at both community colleges and four-year colleges and universities. Our winter classes are taught by faculty who are experts in their fields, and who have years of experience in delivering online instruction."
The short duration of these classes will result in an intensive, fast-paced learning experience. Motivation, steady participation, and persistence will be key to students' success in these classes, Gravel added.
To help ensure their success during the winter session, STCC allows students to register for no more than nine credits in winter. Courses include art, biology, college research, computer applications, English, first-year experience, history, management, mathematics, medical assisting, medical lab tech, music, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Blackboard orientation sessions to prepare students for online classes will be offered prior to the start of the winter semester.
Registration for winter session ends Dec. 23 and is available online at www.stcc.edu/winter or by calling the Registrar's Office at (413) 755-4321.
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"At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back." – Denzel Washington
It's not like me to write something like this. But it has become somewhat of a tradition at Origin Ventures, and it does give me an opportunity to appreciate my circumstance, reflect, and commit to a journey ahead.
Early-stage technology investing is an exciting and tricky business. We evaluate businesses that seem outlandish to most – things people assume would "never work". Yet, some of them do work and blossom into successful enterprises, creating hundreds or thousands of jobs and adding to the ever-changing technology ecosystem. Learning to navigate this inherent trickiness is what gets me up in the morning and keeps me energetic and excited all day.
My love of technology was likely fostered by spending many formative years attending UC Berkeley and in Silicon Valley's tech hub. During my time in San Francisco as a product manager at Metromile, I learned how hard it can be to build something from nothing, while feeling like failure is a certainty. There, I worked with special people: designers, engineers, actuaries, marketers, business leaders, and insurance executives. Together, we found a way to build a real business. I hope to bring this operating experience to my relationships with entrepreneurs, and hope to be a true partner to people looking to scale businesses into what can feel like the abyss. Origin is committed to providing active capital to our portfolio companies, not just writing checks. We bring our operating experience to the table, and I want to build on this legacy and foundation.
Origin invests across a broad array of software and technology businesses throughout the U.S., focusing on businesses with advantages in scaling, defensibility, and network effects. While I initially came from Silicon Valley – where tech is ubiquitous – I know technology can thrive anywhere; its inherent magic is that it is global, connective, and seamless. I'm excited to join Chicago's budding ecosystem for startups, with a strong track record of returns.
I have a great appreciation and respect for actually "doing the thing". From my days in management consulting at Bain, I learned the difference between advising and execution. I chose a career in venture capital because, in contrast with something like consulting, incentives between VCs and startups are closely aligned, and companies tend to do well when founders and VCs collaborate and listen to each other. It also helps that money goes in the same direction as advice. An MBA from Booth has helped me strengthen my finance skills, expand my friendships and network, and develop a keen eye for business opportunities.
Saying no is part of the job in venture capital. Most VCs will see a hundred (or more) deals for every investment they make. As a former product manager, I'm used to saying no. The key is to do it with empathy, explanation, and sincerity – I offer to help startups in ways that do not always involve investing capital. To CEOs/Founders reading this: if I ever leave an interaction without offering to help, please call me out and remind me.
Origin is a partnership made up of caring, intelligent people with strong ethical principles. They conduct work with the highest level of integrity. From the first few moments interacting with my colleagues – from watching their interactions with hopeful founders, existing portfolio entrepreneurs, co-investors, and colleagues – I noticed a distinct way of doing business that I had not seen before. The Origin approach to VC is based on meaningful core values and an understanding that working with entrepreneurs is an honor and a privilege. Anyone who has crossed paths with the partners at Origin will agree that these values differentiate Origin from other VC firms. I am thankful and feel blessed to have an opportunity to work alongside and learn from people with character traits I hope to espouse throughout my life.
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For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, one group is urging all LGBT people to join the fight for a cure.
By Karamo Brown
October 03 2015 7:30 AM EDT
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time when people throughout the United States shine a spotlight on a disease that will claim the lives of tens of thousands of women this year.
Yet the voices of many gay men are notably absent in this conversation. When it comes to health issues, gay men overhelmingly support HIV organizations with their time and money. And rightfully so. The HIV epidemic is not over, and the virus still disproprotionately affects this demographic.
However, gay men are missing an opportunity to support the women in their lives who have been diagnosed with or who are at risk for breast cancer. A chilling statistic underscores this need. Just as one in eight people are unaware that they are living with HIV, one in eight women in the United States are likely to develop invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetimes.
According to BreastCancer.org, there are more than 2.8 million women with a history of breast cancer in the United States. This number includes women in treatment and women in recovery. About 40,290 women are expected to die this year from breast cancer.
Brian Henry, also known as DJ B-Hen, counts his mother among these victims. She died of breast cancer when he was 17. In response, he founded Beats to Beat Breast Cancer. The group, which raises awareness and funds to help various organizations find a cure, is also trying to mobilize LGBT people to join this fight.
"Outside of HIV, you don't see any real advocacies about other diseases such as cancer," DJ B-Hen says. "We realized that if we wanted the support of the LGBT community, we had to plan around the AIDS Walk. Otherwise, people were less likely to be as concerned with this cause, though breast cancer is affecting all women, especially those of color."
Ben Jones, a gay television writer and the executive director of Beats to Beat Breast Cancer, is also sounding this clarion call. Jones, whose mother also died of breast cancer, urges other gay men to support causes that may not impact them directly but affect their female family members, friends, and allies.
"As gay men, we have to stand up and fight, not just for our own equality and rights within the world, but for the equality of everyone," he says. "And that includes the equality of women who battle breast cancer."
According to the National Cancer Institute, black women, at 30.2 percent, have the highest mortality rate from breast cancer of any racial or ethnic group. White women follow at 21.3 percent, non-Hispanic women at 22.6 percent, American Indian women at 15 percent, Hispanic women at 14.5 percent, and Asian/Pacific Islander women at 11.4 percent. These women are grandmothers, mothers, sisters, aunts, and the women who support gay men in their hours of need.
In addition to biological family, there's also the "logical family," as author Armistead Maupin once said, of the women in the LGBT community. According to the American Cancer Society, lesbians and bisexual women have higher rates of breast cancer than heterosexual women. Low rates of health insurance, fear of discrimination, and negative experiences with health care providers are all factors in this health crisis.
Not too long ago, these women provided supportive services to dying gay men at the height of the AIDS crisis when few others dared. It is time to respond in kind.
These women need support. Studies show that facing cancer as a community improves the quality of life and survival rates for breast cancer patients. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation encourages the participation of "co-survivors," which includes family members, friends, colleagues, and community members, in standing beside those with breast cancer through diagnosis and treatment.
DJ B-Hen lost his mother 14 months after her diagnoses. That experience shaped how his organization Beats to Beat Cancer encourages people to get involved.
"Women always have to be emotionally strong for everyone else, but during this time of her life, the men must step up and be strong for them," he says. "Women are terrified to find out that they have breast cancer. Let them know that you will be by their side emotionally and physically. Encourage them to them to go to the doctor, and let them know you will be there with them."
How can a gay man help a woman with breast cancer? Support her decisions. Accompany her to appointments. Talk to her openly about her health. Anticipate her needs. And most important, listen.
Gay men must be more effective caregivers to the women in their lives. Through education and empowerment, we can see a dramatic change in the conversation and care of women diagnosed with breast cancer.
For more information on Beats to Beat Breast Cancer, visit its website at www.beatstobeatbreastcancer.com. The group's event series on breast cancer awareness kicked off Thursday in New York City. There will be additional events Sunday in Los Angeles and Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
KARAMO BROWN is a gay man, a former cast member of MTV's The Real World, and the proud father of two sons. See him on HuffPost Live and BET. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @KaramoBrown.
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Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have suffered severe losses in a joint counter-offensive mounted by the Air Task Force (ATF) of the Operation Lafiya Dole and troops of the 89 and 97 Task Force Battalions of Sector 3 at Mallam Fatori on the fringes of the Lake Chad in the Northern part of Borno State.
In a statement by Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, the routing of the terrorists took place Wednesday, 13 November 2019, sequel to intelligence reports on the movement of ISWAP fighters in some gun trucks towards the troops' location in Mallam Fatori.
In response, the ATF immediately scrambled 2 Nigerian Air Force (NAF) attack aircraft to provide Close Air Support (CAS) as well as an Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform, which provided enhanced situational awareness for the ground troops as they engaged the terrorists.
The combined sustained, intensive fire rained on the terrorists, from the air and on the ground, caused them to beat a hasty retreat. This was however not before 2 of their gun trucks were destroyed.
The attack platforms also tracked the fleeing terrorists, further neutralizing some of their fighters as they attempted to escape.
The NAF, operating in concert with surface forces, will sustain its efforts to completely destroy all remnants of the terrorists in the Northeast.
In another development, the Nigerian Army has also formalised agreement with the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria/Command Engineering Depot on mass production of 28 Mines Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles for its counter terrorism/insurgency and other operations across the nation.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusufu Buratai, represented by the Chief of Policy and Plans, 'Army' Lt Gen Lamidi Adeosun and the Director General of DICON, Maj Gen Victor Ezugwu at the Army Headquarters Abuja, signed the agreement.
Buratai disclosed that the agreement would enable DICON/CED to roll out the vehicles within a specified period of time.
Also, the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) has assured the Nigerian Army (NA) of its desire and unwavering commitment to repairing roads and other critical infrastructure destroyed as a result of insurgency in North-East.
It's Chairman Governing Board, Maj Gen Paul Tarfa (rtd), gave the assurance while receiving the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai, and some principal officers of the Army, who paid a courtesy call to the Commission's office in Abuja today the 12th of November 2019.
According to Gen Tarfa, the leadership of the Army has done a lot in terms of the war against terrorism and insurgency as well as rehabilitating and constructing important infrastructure and other basic amenities that were totally destroyed or affected by Boko Haram terrorists in the last ten years.
While welcoming the COAS, and his delegation, the Chairman, said his commission will support and offer necessary assistance to officers and men of the Army, in a bid to ensure that they effectively prosecute the war against insurgency which is for the common good for all Nigerians.
"The Nigerian Military, especially the Army, is one of our strategic partners in the North-East.
"Indeed, we appreciate the good work the Army is doing in the areas of security, rehabilitating several obsolete amenities and damaged infrastructural facilities.
"It is heartwarming that most of the facilities and buildings, have been rebuilt and new ones constructed by the Army, at several affected communities across the North East Zone.
"These kind gestures done by the Army leadership, have tremendously assisted the traumatized and affected people of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and other parts of the North-East.
"Once again, we sincerely appreciate what you and your team are doing. And we want to assure you that we will partner with you, and assist you in diverse ways," he said.
Earlier in his remark, Lt Gen Buratai, said their visit to the Commission is the beginning of good, and beneficial relationship between the Army and NEDC.
He noted that both the Commission and the Army have and are pursuing common national interests and goals, hence there is need for a robust partnership in order to actualise the laudable objectives of the commission.
The COAS, who described members of the recently established Commission as men of impeccable integrity and exceptional administrative pedigree, disclosed that the collapse of several infrastructure in the North-East is impacting negatively on the Army's operations.
He said: "There are several infrastructure that have been damaged beyond repair in the North-East as a result of Boko Haram's insurgency.
"On the other hand, several of our military barracks are also dilapidated, and urgently require speedy renovations works to be done on them. Also the families/widows that are left behind by our deceased colleagues require some form of incentives to pursue a worthy meaningful means of livelihood.
"As such, the Commission should strive and look into the problem of collapsed infrastructure in the North-East, especially roads and housing as well as the condition of widows in the Barracks.
"There is need for fundamental steps to be taken to repair the collapsed roads, and other facilities, so as to assist troops prosecute the counter-insurgency war and also decimate the remaining terrorists."
All the Executive Directors and other members of the commission/Board were present during the visit.
Lt Gen LO Adeosun the Chief of Policy and Plans Army, Commander Engineers Corps Maj Gen JS Malu, Chief of Logistics Army, Maj Gen JI Unuigbe, Coordinator Special duties Office of the Chief of Army Staff Maj Gen SA Yaro and Maj Gen KO Kadiri Group Managing Director Nigerian Army Welfare Ltd/Guaranty also blessed the occasion.
Others are – Commander Budget and accounts of the Nigerian Army Maj Gen AR Bakare, Corps Commander Ordnance Maj Gen OA Akintade, representatives of the Chief of Military Intelligence and Provost Marshall 'Army' Brig Gens A Yellow Duke and ME John Okon respectively.
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Impedância térmica define a dificuldade que um sistema tem em trocar calor pelos diversas formas de intercâmbio de calor (condução, convecção e irradiação térmica) e leva em consideração a capacidade térmica da interface do sistema com o meio onde se encontra, que pode ser um contato térmico sólido-sólido, como uma junção (que conduzirá processo a ser dominado pela condução de calor), ou pode ser uma imersão num fluido (que conduzirá a ser dominado pela convecção) ou ainda no vácuo, onde só se estabelecerá a irradiação ou absorção de radiações térmicas).

É o análogo para a transferência de calor da impedância elétrica para a eletricidade.

Definição física

A completa impedância térmica de um objeto ou dispositivo pode ser modelada pela combinaçção de dois elementos, a resistência térmica e a capacitância térmica.

A resistência térmica, Rt, quantifica a quantidade de uma dada taxa térmica para a transferência de calor. A definição geral da resistência para a taxa térmica, a qual inclui os três diferentes modos de dissipação térmica (condução, convecção e radiação), é a razão entre o aumento de temperatura acima da temperatura de referência e o fluxo de calor, e é dado pela equação:

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Onde:

=variação de tempertaura
=potência dissipada
=calor
=tempo

A capacitância térmica, Ct, é uma medida da capacidade de um corpo de acumular calor, similarmente a como um capacitor acumula carga elétrica. Para um dado elemento estrutural, Ct depende do calor específico, c, do volume V e da densidade d, de acordo com a relação:

Em circuitos elétricos e eletrônicos

É uma grandeza muito importanto no cálculo de dissipação de calor (dissipadores) de circuitos elétricos e eletrônicos, e seu valor impedância térmica, normalmente representado por Zt, é obtido de curvas normalizadas presentes nos manuais de componentes destes circuitos, como por exemplo, os semicondutores de potência, quando é expressa em uma razão de temperatura dividido pela potência, por exemplo, em unidades de °C/W.

Diversamente da condutividade térmica, intrínseca ao material do qual é composto um componente de circuito, a impedância térmica pode ser variável com o tempo, pois depende, entre diversas variáveis, da viscosidade aquela temperatura do meio circundante, que altera a convecção. Como o componente do circuito pode variar sua temperatura no tempo, pode alterar a temperatura do meio circundante no tempo.

Para circuitos eletrônicos pode ser expressa fisicamente por:

Onde,

 é a variação de temperatura.
 é a potência térmica, que circula no componente e é transferida ao ambiente

O conceito de impedância térmica é muito importante quando o componente funciona com correntes impulsivas (correntes elétricas de grande intensidade e curta duração). A impedância térmica aumenta com o tempo de duração do pulso de corrente, pois o fator crucial é a capacidade térmica do componente.

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Der Begriff Glass cliff (Gläserne Klippe) beschreibt das Phänomen, dass es wahrscheinlicher ist, dass Frauen in Abschwung- oder Krisenzeiten, wenn die Chance des Scheiterns am größten ist, eine Führungsrolle einnehmen.

Ursprünge
Der Begriff wurde im Jahr 2005 von den britischen Professoren Michelle K. Ryan und Alexander Haslam von der University of Exeter, Großbritannien, geprägt. In einer Studie untersuchten sie die Performance von FTSE 100-Unternehmen vor und nach der Ernennung neuer Vorstandsmitglieder und stellten fest, dass Unternehmen, die Frauen in ihren Vorstand beriefen, wahrscheinlicher als andere in den letzten fünf Monaten eine konstant schlechte Leistung erzielt hatten. Ihre Arbeit entwickelten Ryan und Haslam schließlich bis zur Identifizierung eines Phänomens weiter, das als Glass cliff bekannt ist – ähnlich zum Konzept einer Gläsernen Decke, jedoch einbeziehend, dass die Gefahren der transparenten Kante der Klippe nicht wahrgenommen werden können, während bei der gläsernen Decke höhere Positionen innerhalb der Organisation gesehen werden können, aber nicht erreichbar sind. Durchbrechen weibliche Führungskräfte die gläserne Decke, werden sie häufiger auf solche Führungspositionen befördert, die als besonders unsicher gelten, beispielsweise in Krisenzeiten des Unternehmens. Ryan und Haslam beschreiben das Phänomen "Glass Cliff" als Form der Diskriminierung. Seitdem hat sich der Begriff über die Unternehmenswelt hinaus auch auf Politik und andere Bereiche ausgeweitet.

Überblick
Ryans und Haslams Forschungen haben gezeigt, dass Frauen, sobald sie die gläserne Decke durchbrochen haben und Führungspositionen einnehmen, oft Erfahrungen machen, die sich von denen ihrer männlichen Kollegen unterscheiden. Genauer gesagt ist es wahrscheinlicher, dass Frauen Positionen einnehmen, die prekär sind und ein höheres Risiko des Scheiterns bergen – entweder, weil sie mit der Leitung von Organisationen (oder Organisationseinheiten) betraut sind, die sich in einer Krise befinden, oder weil sie nicht über die für den Erfolg erforderlichen Ressourcen und Unterstützung verfügen.

Ryan und Haslam erweiterten die Metapher der Glasdecke und schufen den Begriff der "Glass cliff", um auf eine Sturzgefahr hinzuweisen, die nicht ohne weiteres ersichtlich ist. Die Amtszeit Vorsitzender ist bei Unternehmen mit Schwierigkeiten typischerweise kürzer als bei stabilen Unternehmen.

Das Konzept des Glass cliff wurde auch verwendet, um die Diskriminierung von Führungskräften am Arbeitsplatz zu beschreiben, die Angehörige von Minderheiten oder behinderten Menschen sind.

Das Phänomens der Glass cliff konnte im Bereich der Rechtswissenschaft nachgewiesen werden. Eine Studie aus dem Jahr 2006 ergab, dass Jurastudenten viel wahrscheinlicher einen Hochrisikofall einer weiblichen Chefjuristin zuordneten als einem männlichen. Eine Studie aus dem Jahr 2010 ergab, dass Studierende der britischen Politikwissenschaft eher einen männlichen Politiker auswählten, wenn dieser für einen sicheren Platz in einer Nachwahl kandidierte, und dass sie eher eine weibliche Kandidatin auswählten, wenn der Platz als schwer zu bekommen beschrieben wurde.

Andere Forschungen haben die Existenz des Phänomens der Glass cliffs nicht bestätigt. Eine Studie aus dem Jahr 2007 über die Unternehmensleistung vor der Ernennung Vorsitzender zeigte, dass weibliche Führungskräfte nicht eher für unsichere Führungspositionen ausgewählt werden als Männer.

Erläuterung
Viele Theorien wurden entwickelt, um die Existenz der Glass cliffs zu erläutern.

Die Psychologieprofessorin Kristin J. Anderson der University of Houston sagt, dass Unternehmen Frauen Glass- cliff-Positionen anbieten können, weil sie Frauen als "verbrauchbarere und bessere Sündenböcke" betrachten. Sie sagt, dass die Organisationen, die Frauen harte Jobs anbieten, glauben, dass sie so oder so gewinnen: Wenn die Frau erfolgreich ist, ist das Unternehmen besser dran. Wenn sie scheitert, ist das Unternehmen nicht schlechter dran, man kann ihr die Schuld geben, das Unternehmen erhält Anerkennung dafür, dass es egalitär und fortschrittlich war, und kann zu seiner früheren Praxis der Ernennung von Männern zurückkehren.

Haslam und Ryan sagen, ihre Studien zeigen, dass Menschen glauben, Frauen seien besser dafür geeignet, gestresste, unglückliche Unternehmen zu führen, weil sie als nährender, kreativer und intuitiver empfunden werden. Die Forscher argumentieren, dass von weiblichen Führungskräften nicht unbedingt erwartet werde, Situation zu verbessern, sondern als gute Personalleiter angesehen werden, die die Schuld für ein Versagen des Unternehmens tragen können.

Haslam sagt, weibliche Führungskräfte würden eher als Männer Glass-cliff-positionen akzeptieren, weil sie keinen Zugang zu qualitativ hochwertigen Informationen und Unterstützung haben, die Führungskräfte normalerweise davor warnten. Die Professoren der Utah State University Ali Cook und Christy Glass sagen, Frauen und andere Minderheiten sähen riskante Jobangebote als die einzige Chance an, die sie wahrscheinlich bekommen würden.

Eine Studie aus dem Jahr 2007 ergab, dass weibliche Nachrichtenkonsumenten in Großbritannien eher akzeptierten, dass die Glass cliffs existieren und gefährlich und ungerecht für weibliche Führungskräfte seien, als männliche. Weibliche Studienteilnehmer führten die Existenz der Glass cliffs auf einen Mangel an anderen Möglichkeiten für weibliche Führungskräfte, Sexismus und gruppeninterner Günstlingswirtschaft der Männer zurück. Männliche Studienteilnehmer gaben an, dass Frauen für schwierige Führungsaufgaben oder strategische Entscheidungen weniger geeignet seien als Männer, oder dass die Glass cliffs nichts mit dem Geschlecht zu tun hätten.

Implikationen für weibliche Führungskräfte
Glass-cliff-Positionen riskieren den Ruf und die Karriereaussichten von Frauen zu schädigen, denn wenn es einem Unternehmen schlecht geht, neigen die Menschen dazu, seine Führung zu beschuldigen, ohne situative oder kontextuelle Variablen zu berücksichtigen. Forscher haben festgestellt, dass es für weibliche Führungskräfte schwieriger als für männliche sei, zweite Chancen zu erhalten, wenn sie versagt haben, weil sie weniger Mentoren und Sponsoren und weniger Zugang zu einem schützenden "Old Boys' Netzwerk" haben.

Einige Forscher argumentieren jedoch, dass Unternehmen in schlechten Situationen mehr Möglichkeiten für Macht und Einfluss bieten als stabile Unternehmen.

Siehe auch
 Gläserne Decke

Einzelnachweise

Personalwesen
Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
Frauen (Arbeitswelt)
Sexismus
Neologismus der 2000er-Jahre


The Ultimate Goal - Stratford 2010 - What Is The Ultimate Goal?
One of the world's biggest parties is occurring this year in South Africa - it is the football world cup. In two years, 2012, the absolutely biggest mega global sport extravaganza on this planet: - the Olympics is coming to Stratford. So the big question is are we going to be a part of it and make a significant contribution to the greatest of occasions or instead be party poopers? The churches in Stratford want to make the most of the opportunities in the lead up to the Olympics and to be ready for this once in a life time opportunity in 2012.
The excitement of the build up towards the 2010 World cup provides us a chance to experiment and in a sense have a trial run. How effective can we be in working together and inviting people in to join in the party? So we plan to hold a festival called the "Ultimate Goal" from the 5-13 June 2010. At this festival the churches are seeking to demonstrate , through hospitality and acts of kindness, and communicate, through exciting and dynamic presentations, the love of God.
18 churches have been involved in preparing and praying over the last year for the forthcoming Ultimate Goal festival. Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Independent, New churches in partnership together proclaiming "Ultimate Goal"
The churches have teamed up with 'Through Faith Missions' an agency that has much experience in communicating the Christian message throughout the UK during the last 30 years. Roger Murphy will be leading a team of 20 volunteers who will come and help the Stratford churches be effective in reaching out to the community during the festival. Roger has a life story that particularly enables him to engage with and identify with those who do not attend church and has had the privilege of seeing many people come to faith.
Each church is being encouraged to play to their strengths in putting on events and activities which all leads to an incredibly varied programme over the week. With the World Cup serving as a back drop some of the festival will have a football theme however there will be plenty of alternatives for those seeking to escape the hullabaloo. Currently plans being discussed include: concerts, a big screen event televising the England game, a sport's event, a youth night, a dads and sons night, a jazz café, a healing café, and many many more. This is a real opportunity and is very worthwhile if it was on it's own for 2010 but it also stands us in good stead for the really big one in 2012 where the opportunities will be endless!


Yamataï - Compete to earn prestige points using a variety pf strategies. Clear the islands of the archipelago, recruit powerful specialists, and construct buildings.
Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th jewel of the archipelago.
Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most prestigious city of them all, using resources from the fleets that travel through the kingdom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!
In Yamataï, two to four players compete to earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the different islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.
However, you are not alone in competing for Queen Himiko's favor... will you manage to surpass your opponents?
The game includes ten numbered action tiles, each showing one or more colored ships and with most showing a special action. You shuffle these tiles, place them in a row, then reveal one more than the number of players.
On a turn, each player chooses a tile, collects the depicted ships from the reserve, optionally buys or sells one ship, then places the ships on the board. The land has five entryways, and you must start from these points or place adjacent to ships already on the board. You can't branch the ships being placed, and if you place your first ship adjacent to another, then that first ship must be the same color as the adjacent one; otherwise you can place ships without regard to color.
After placing ships, you can either claim colored resources from land that you've touched with new ships this turn or build on one vacant space. To build, the space must have colored ships around it that match the ships depicted on one of the available building tiles. If you build a personal building that's connected to others you own, you receive money equal to the number of buildings.
You can bank one ship before the end of your turn, then you can use any three resources or a pair of matching resources to purchase a specialist, each of whom has a unique power.
After all players go, you shuffle the action tiles, place them face down in the row, then reveal enough tiles at the front of the line to set up for the next turn, with the turn order being determined by the numbers on the tiles that players chose the previous turn. Once you trigger one of the game-ending conditions — e.g., no ships of one color or no more specialists — you finish the round, then count points for buildings built, specialists hired, and money on hand.
Contents: game board, 41 buildings, 4 player mats, 6 turn order meeples, 80 wooden boats, 10 fleet tiles, 28 building tiles, 7 mountain tiles, 34 culture tokens, 8 sacred ground tokens, 18 specialist tiles, 73 coins, 24 prestige point tokens, 1 rulebook.


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Q: mean-before-after imputation in R I'm new in R. My question is how to impute missing value using mean of before and after of the missing data point?
example;
using the mean from the upper and lower of each NA as the impute value.
-mean for row number 3 is 38.5
-mean for row number 7 is 32.5
age
52.0
27.0
NA
23.0
39.0
32.0
NA
33.0
43.0

Thank you.

A: Here a solution using from na.locf from zoo package which replaces each NA with the most recent non-NA prior or posterior  to it.
0.5*(na.locf(x,fromlast=TRUE) + na.locf(x))
[1] 52.0 27.0 25.0 23.0 39.0 32.0 32.5 33.0 43.0

the advantage here if you have more than one consecutive NA.
x <- c(52, 27, NA, 23, 39, NA, NA, 33, 43)
0.5*(na.locf(x,fromlast=TRUE) + na.locf(x))
[1] 52 27 25 23 39 36 36 33 43

EDIT
rev argument is deprecated so I replace it by fromlast

A: You are looking for Moving Average Imputation - you can use the na_ma function of imputeTS for this.
library(imputeTS)
x <- c(52, 27, NA, 23, 39, NA, NA, 33, 43)
na_ma(x, k=1, weighting = "simple")

[1] 52.00000 27.00000 25.00000 23.00000 39.00000 31.66667 38.33333
33.00000 43.00000

This produces exactly the required result.
With the k parameter you specify how many neighbors on each side are taken into account for the calculation.

A: This would be a basic manual approach you can take:
age <- c(52, 27, NA, 23, 39, 32, NA, 33, 43)
age[is.na(age)] <- rowMeans(cbind(age[which(is.na(age))-1],
                                  age[which(is.na(age))+1]))
age
# [1] 52.0 27.0 25.0 23.0 39.0 32.0 32.5 33.0 43.0

Or, since you seem to have a single column data.frame:
mydf <- data.frame(age = c(52, 27, NA, 23, 39, 32, NA, 33, 43))

mydf[is.na(mydf$age), ] <- rowMeans(
  cbind(mydf$age[which(is.na(mydf$age))-1],
        mydf$age[which(is.na(mydf$age))+1]))

A: Just an other way:
age <- c(52, 27, NA, 23, 39, 32, NA, 33, 43)
age[is.na(age)] <- apply(sapply(which(is.na(age)), "+", c(-1, 1)), 2,
                         function(x) mean(age[x]))
age
## [1] 52.0 27.0 25.0 23.0 39.0 32.0 32.5 33.0 43.0

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James expresses his agitation with the Robertson endorsement of Giuliani and elsewhere notes his frustration with Republican efforts at "redefinition". I sympathise with both reactions, and I agree that it is surely a bizarre set of priorities that makes a relative handful of jihadis on the other side of the planet seem more appalling and threatening than the institutionalised denigration of human life at home. But those have been the priorities of actual Republican governance for years before there was any hint of a Giuliani candidacy.
Gerlach and Castle, the two House members quoted in the Politico article, are not in electoral trouble because of excessive fiscal austerity and promises to eliminate the Department of Education, or indeed over any particular domestic policy difficulty. Obviously, their electoral woes (Gerlach ran a very competitive race last year in what was otherwise a GOP bloodbath in Pennsylvania) are tied closely to the war in Iraq and the interventionist adventurism that characterises "mainstream" GOP foreign policy nowadays. This is the one unifying, unquestionable thing on which everyone is supposed to agree, and it is the one thing that is pure electoral poison. Strangely, it is also the one thing that bring together Pat Robertson and Rudy Giuliani, who should otherwise have nothing in common.


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February 8, 2018 Maine Senate Republicans
Sen. Davis Seeks to Amend Penalties for Hunting Deer over Bait
AUGUSTA – Last session, the Legislature amended the penalties for hunting deer over bait with LD 1083. Senator Paul Davis (R-Piscataquis) thinks the House amendment, which was attached after the bill was reported out of committee, went too far and will seek to lessen the penalty for a second offence with LD 1816, "An Act Regarding the Penalties for Hunting Deer over Bait."
Under the new law, a second-time offence of hunting deer over bait during hunting season will result in a permanent ineligibility for that hunter to obtain a hunting license in Maine. Senator Davis would like to lessen the penalty to a two-year ineligibility period.
"Under the current habitual offender statute, a person must be convicted of three or more criminal violations to have their license revoked, and even then, it isn't a permanent ban," said Sen. Davis. "That's why I don't feel that the punishment included in the new deer baiting law fits the crime. We need to reexamine this."
Some examples of criminal violations include hunting game animals out of season, hunting on Sunday, night hunting or unlawful possession of a wild animal or bird. None of these violations carry a lifetime loss of hunting rights.
LD 1816 will receive a public hearing before the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee on Tuesday, February 13 at 1:00 PM.
Senator Paul Davis
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Vinylly is First Music-Based Dating App to Generate Matches Through In-App, Profile Generator Unrestrained by Streaming Services
Phoenix (Sept. 6, 2022) – Vinylly, the dating app that matches users based entirely on music compatibility, announced today a new way to find love amidst an era of dating app fatigue. Now anyone who is a music fan looking to find their next plus-one to take to a concert, or their music partner for life, can do it through Vinylly's new proprietary profile generator. Vinylly previously generated matches utilizing Spotify-streaming data, and while users can still sync to Spotify, the app now offers the additional capability to create a custom profile that is unrestrained by syncing with a music service provider.
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And for the first time, Vinylly users have the ability to create and edit playlists infinitely to keep their profile in sync with their latest music vibe. Plus users can still search, suggest and buy tickets without leaving the chat, making a first date option as easy as possible.
Inspired by her love for music and its scientifically-proven ability to connect individuals on a deeper level, Van Nortwick founded Vinylly in 2019. The app has been reinventing dating for music lovers since, helping users to connect on a more personal level as opposed to relying on superficial profiles and swipes that often lead nowhere. Vinylly has also focused on working with music promoters and artist management to provide a referral funnel to encourage single concertgoers to buy tickets to shows and connect with other like-minded users.
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The course commences with the evolution of the Earth's atmosphere from its creation and moves to its development to the present throughout several stages. The cyclical climate change of Earth has been due to changes in orbital obliquity, eccentricity and precession (related to the change of Earth's rotation axis, distance from the sun and rotation rate respectively). The course proceeds to examine the history of atmospheric pollution from natural causes such as volcanoes, natural fires, desert dust, etc., to pollution caused by humans prior to the industrial revolution arising from the burning of wood and the clearing of land. Subsequently, modern day pollution due to the burning of fossil fuels and production of other anthropogenic harmful chemicals will be discussed. Different forms of pollution such as manifested as smog and acid rain are discussed and past successes in dealing with these types of pollution are recounted. The course concludes with topics on new policies and technologies that can be considered to ameliorate the deleterious effects of atmospheric pollution, such as the usage of green energy (solar, wind, fuel cell, geo-thermal, biomass, etc.).
SC/NATS 1840 6.00, SC/NATS 1750 6.00. NCR Note: No credit will be retained if this course is taken after successful completion of SC/CHEM 1000 3.00 or SC/CHEM 1001 3.00. Not open to any students enrolled in the Chemistry program.
Basic math, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction. Very basic algebra of grade 11 level. All needed mathematics will be explained in the class and examples will be worked out.


As a school, we entered the 2016-2017 school year with an updated collaborative Intervention plan which would allow us to work more efficiently as a school. The Intervention Plan provided a tiered outline for how our school staff should work together to support our students. This process is based on the MTSS tiered intervention model, in which 80% of students should succeed without additional support. Of the 20% of students with which the counselors works, 5% of these students should require the highest level of intervention. This level of intervention was especially important for our school as most students were transitioning to the PBL model, in addition to Honors classes and high school level-expectations.
To support this process, teachers were provided a form to notify counselors about which students they had concerns, a Tier II Referral form. This referral process is the foundation of our gap, where we recognize that all students may not respond to the general support systems in place at the classroom level. If a teacher did not see a change in students' success after a two week period, then these students were referred to Student Services. The students included in our CTG curriculum were identified by referral from classroom teachers, or counselor interaction with students and/or parents.
Once a student was referred to the Tier II process, their assigned counselor would seek information from appropriate stakeholders to understand the barriers to student success. With an understanding on specific student circumstances, the counselors created a plan of appropriate interventions to use with that student. Students and counselors set goals/expectations after a referral and the counselor would implement weekly check-ins, at a minimum. Almost 50% of students referred through Tier II were able to improve with minimal intervention from counselors. The remaining half of referrals remained in the intensive level of intervention throughout the semester. If a student did not seem to benefit from Tier II activities and interventions, the counselor referred the student for additional support, a Tier III referral, with the MTSS team for additional investigation. Those students met with the full intervention team to decide whether additional testing or other means of intervention were necessary.
- Individual Student Planning: Once a student has been referred, the assigned counselor meets with the student to learn more about the barrier to learning.
- Grade Monitoring: Counselors receive student grade reports weekly and meet with students to reflect on any changes, as needed. This may also include conversation with teachers about opportunities for students to supplement learning.
- Teacher Remediation: Some students were provided alternate methods of displaying subject mastery directly with the teacher. Some students were provided the opportunity to return to past material as part of an online learning environment.
- Counselor/Parent/Teacher Conferences: All teachers (if necessary), parents/guardians, students and counselors at minimum were invited to sit down for a dialogue about the student's difficulties in school. The conference ends with a goal-setting process.
- Study Skills/Organization Small-Group: Some of the students referred in this process during the fall semester participated in this small-group. All students were provided strategies for these skills during individual planning after the small-group was discontinued.
Overall, we are very pleased with the results of the Closing the Gap curriculum and results data. The anticipated percentages of students were referred through the process as outlined. Most students who were referred were able to pass their classes, and all students except for one were promoted to the next grade at the conclusion of summer school. We will push to implement this process earlier in the semester in 2017-2018, in order to reach more students before the end of the first quarter when their grades are still tentative. The perception data indicated that 25% of students did not believe that they performed their best, which let us know that students recognized that their abilities were greater than their performances. This perception data was gathered by a form that was created through the Advisory Council. We will revisit this form in order to gather more specific perception data.
Goal: By the end of each semester, the percentage of students passing classes will be 80% or higher.
Perception Data (Surveys or assessments used): 26% of students disagreed with the statement, "I did my best to succeed this year." All students felt some level of support from the counselors with organization. 20% of students did not feel that they learned to manage their time. 2 students (~6%) disagreed that this process helped them to overcome obstacles to learning.
Outcome Data (Achievement, attendance, and/or behavior data): 18 students (51%) who were placed at Tier II passed the courses for which they were referred. 5% of the total student population were assigned to summer school for academic remediation through GradPoint. 3 students were retained.
Implications: Students identified through the Tier II process had a 50% chance of passing the identified course. Most students earned a passing grade through summer school. We are appropriately responding to referrals, and hitting target numbers of students moving through our Intervention plan. However, we are not intervening early enough for all students. Action Steps: -Proactive intervention for students who failed a course or were on Tier III the previous year. -Implement Tier 2 process prior to completion of the 1st quarter of a given semester.


Sept 22nd – Lightroom Core Series (Part 1) – This three part series kicks off on Wednesday evening, and will run weekly until Oct 6th. Part 1 covers Importing Photos & the Library module, Part 2 is all about Developing your images, and Part 3 brings us home with how to output from Lightroom. Cost for each session is $39 advance or $49 at the door.
(RESCHEDULED to Oct 23rd) Sept 25th – Photoshop Beginners Workshop – This one day event has a ton of information for those that want to get started with Photoshop. Topics covered include Image Sizing for Print & Screen, Brushes-Menus-Layers, Output of Files and Basic Image Enhancement techniques. Cost is $79.
Hey A.J. – I've only got PS CS3 and won't be upgrading for a while. Will this class be based off of the CS5 platform and if so do you think that will make a big difference?
Leila – The afternoon may showcase a few features from CS5, but the emphasis of the Photoshop workshop will be on techniques applicable to all versions.
Is there still room in this Sept. 25 class ?


So it came as a surprise to me this spring when my advisees, who know me pretty well as far as students go, asked why I hadn't yet given a chapel speech.
And so that brings me to my main thought of today, particularly for those of you with flexible scheduling who depend on teachers to invite you into their classes for co-taught units. Many people harbor a stereotype of a silent librarian, but are we all, secretly, theatre people? At least in one way, my answer is assuredly yes. I follow improv's "rule of yes" whenever I can. With both students and teachers, I think it's important to think about why you're saying no.
But for many questions, consciously thinking about learning goals rather than tradition might move a no to a yes or at least a let's think about how this could work.
"I know it's not really history, but I don't understand Brexit, and I want to know if it's really about refugees. Can I research it?" YES.
"I know you want us to have a website, but I found this really interesting podcast and it's led by doctors. Can I use it? YES.
"I have to read a fantasy book and this one takes place in the real world except that ghosts are real. My friend recommended it, and I want to know if it can count for the assignment." YES.
"I want to include an appendix with a picture of "Guernica" so my readers can see it for themselves." WHY NOT?
Along with this idea, when I'm collaborating I try to focus on the things within my control. This includes my interactions with my school community and my management of my library. For many of us, we can't control our colleagues, their assignments, the work ethic of the students, or delays due to weather, illness or alternate schedules that pop up out of nowhere. I attend classes at the invitation of the teacher. They know their class dynamics and they are the ones creating and grading assignments. Since I ultimately want to provide support to the teacher, I try to think carefully before "correcting" a teacher, particularly in front of students. Not every project is going to meet both my research goals and the classroom teacher's subject-specific goals. That said, it's often possible to start tweaking a project to improve it for next year even as you're assisting with the current version. I've found a variety of ideas can help as I try to link these projects to the learning goals I'd like the students to attain. Take the long view and suggest some "adaptations" for next time. Or ask if a project can be used to help you "test a database's effectiveness." Offer to grade the annotated bibliographies you fought so hard to include. I've found this comes easier the longer one's tenure at a school. So breathe easy, continually do your best in promoting your library's resources and leave your feedback below.
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So much goodness in this post! I'm pretty sure that "infobese" is going to to be my new favorite word for at least the next year-and-a-half!
I love it too! I didn't make it up, and there are some awesome images and infographics you can find online…but they all disappear when you are looking for items you can freely share. Got to model what I preach!
I feel like librarians are all performers, but some are more built for Readers' Theatre while others are more built for Broadway.
I LOVE "Can you help me test a database's effectiveness?" Who doesn't want to see themselves as helpful? I'll definitely put that question in my bag of tricks. Thanks for the great advice.
I just finished several presentations this morning on Rogerian techniques. When you and your partners are working towards the same goals, it's easier to get over the little hiccups.
So many things I love and appreciate about this, Christina!
– thank you for reminding me of the value in the writing of notes (even if the notes aren't revisited); I was sorting through my filing cabinet and berating myself for the amount of notes from PD that have gathered dust. My system of targeting 3 action items from each conference is working just fine, so thanks for giving me permission to use notes as process alone!
Permission granted! It's fun to see what I thought was important at the time and what actually changed as a result.


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Child Labor, International Law, and the Politics of Decolonization in Bolivia
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In 2014, Bolivia made international headlines when it passed a new Child and Adolescent Code that lowered the minimum age for work to 10 years, in violation of international labor standards. Proponents of the new law argue that children's work is inevitable given widespread poverty, and that requiring the Bolivian state to monitor this work will ensure children are protected from exploitation. Critics argue that legalizing child labor not only exposes children to a range of hazards, it impedes their education and hinders Bolivia's development. At the heart of this debate is the Union of Bolivian Child Workers (UNATSBO), who petitioned the Government for this right to work, citing their dignity and their need to maintain family incomes. Equally prominent is President Evo Morales, who defended the UNATSBO's demands in the name of Andean tradition. Yet what are the dangers of championing children's labor in the name of rights and dignity, and of claiming that international labor standards are a Western imposition from which Bolivia needs to decolonize itself? What political-economic, ethnic, and racial realities are elided when such complex matters are framed in these terms? At the same time, who should have the right to speak for whom? And what viable options do children and the Bolivian state have in confronting this child labor/development challenge? In this meeting of the Circulo Andino, we invite scholars of the Andes to weigh in on these questions and learn about how this issue shapes international policy-making on Bolivia.
Randall Hicks is an International Relations Officer at the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs. He works in research and policy initiatives on human rights issues in the global economy. He conducts research and authors reports on child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in Latin America and regularly travels to the region to engage foreign governments on these issues. He was an NSEP Boren Fellow and Fulbright-Hays Fellow, and uses both Spanish and Quechua in his work. In addition, he taught at U-M in LACS and PICS.
This event is co-sponsored by Andean Circle (Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop).
Randall Hicks
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Q: How to create words from an array of characters I have a program which will prompt the user for 9 characters. Once these characters are in the program the program should create the longest word possible using these letters by comparing them against a dictionary file.
The program currently stores the 9 letters and reads in the dictionary file, but i have no idea where to start regarding the word creation.
All i need help with is the word creator. If someone knows how to create words from characters in an array can you give me a hand

A: You should go the other way: iterate through your dictionary file and check for each word whether it consists entirely of the specified letters.

A: Lets say the user Allrdy typed in the 9 chars and the dictionary is stored in an Array:
you are using an char array i guess? a dictionary is normally sorted i guess, so the array would be either in my conidtion.
you should scan the array with a for loop
// these are the scanned chars
char[] char = new chars[];
// has to be loaded from somewhere.
String[] dic = new String[100];
String found = "";
//.....reading chars
String longest = "";
for(int i = 0 : i<9;++i) {
    // look if an element exists, matching the letter a at the beginning
    if(exists) {
         // you found a word? nice safe it in a variable called found otherise compare longest and found, to check which once length is greater
         found = foundWordBefore;
         for(int j = (i+1)%10;j!=i+9%10;++j) {
         // look if there is another word matching the first letter and the second one
             if(exists) {
                 for(int k = (i+2)%10;k!=i+9%10;++k) {
                     //same again as before, continue until you reached last (i+8)%9

                 }
             }
         }
    }
    else {
        // if you found the nothing, compare the longest you found yet, to the longest you found before
        if(longest.length < found.length) {
            longest = found;
        }
    }
}

hope this pseudo helps and works :D

A: Cause it seems like you don´t get the solution, here is mine, it should be working
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Test{
public String[] dict = new String[] {"hi","das","bad","fenster","esel","bahi","tfshi"};
public char[] input = new char[]{'a','b','d','h','i','s','f','t'};
public String longestString = dict[0];

public Test() {
    System.out.println(longestString);
    ArrayList<String> convert = new ArrayList<String>();
    for(String counter : dict)
        convert.add(counter);
    getInstance(convert, 0, input.length, 0, 0);
    System.out.println("\n\n\n" + longestString);

}

private void getInstance(ArrayList<String> searching, int pos, int length, int starter, int currentI) {
        int i = starter;
        do{

            ArrayList<String> matched = new ArrayList<String>();
            for(String counter : searching) {
                if(counter.length() > pos) {
                    if(counter.charAt(pos) == input[i]){
                        matched.add(counter);
                    }
                }
            }
            if(matched.size() > 0) {
                getInstance(matched, pos+1,length,(i+1)%length, i%length);
            }
            else if(currentI != i && matched.size() > 0) {
                getInstance(searching,pos,length,(i+1)%length, i%length);
            }
            if(matched.size() > 0 && longestString.length() < matched.get(0).length()){
                longestString = searching.get(0);
            }
            ++i;
            i %= length;
        }while(i != currentI);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    new Test();

}
}

EDIT: you should fix it a bit, i just found a mistake in there


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209-я моторизованная дивизия — воинское соединение Вооружённых Сил СССР в Великой Отечественной войне.

История дивизии

Дивизия формировалась с марта 1941 года в районе Ивье на базе 13-я моторизованной пулемётно-артиллерийской бригады в составе 17-го механизированного корпуса. На 22 июня 1941 года дислоцировалась в Ивье и окрестностях.

В составе действующей армии с 22 июня по 19 сентября 1941 года. Выдвинувшись маршем, заняла позиции в районе городка Мир, до 25 июня 1941 года в боевое соприкосновение с противником не входила, подвергалась незначительным авиаударам. 26 июня 1941 года попала под удар, была вынуждена отступать в направлении Столбцы — Дзержинск. Колонна дивизии на марше подвергалась ударам, вела бои близ населённых пунктов Кресты, Валки, Боровая (28 июня 1941 года), но в конечном итоге была рассеяна, штабная колонна разгромлена. Разрозненные подразделения выходили из окружения южнее Минска, за реку Березина. Бойцы, выходящие из окружения, были отмечены в июле 1941 года на переправе через Днепр в Смоленской области.

19 сентября 1941 года дивизия исключена из списков действующей армии.

Подчинение

Состав

 754-й моторизованный полк
 770-й моторизованный полк
 129-й танковый полк
 675-й артиллерийский полк
 34-й отдельный истребительно-противотанковый дивизион
 278-й разведывательный батальон
 195-й отдельный зенитно-артиллерийский дивизион
 398-й лёгкий инженерный батальон
 597-й отдельный батальон связи
 207-й артиллерийский парковый дивизион
 698-й автотранспортный батальон
 119-й ремонтно-восстановительный батальон
 385-й медико-санитарный батальон
 44-я рота регулирования
 474-й полевой автохлебозавод
 310-я полевая почтовая станция
 381-я полевая касса Госбанка

Командиры
  (11.03.1941-25.06.1941), полковник  (Официально пропал без вести. По воспоминаниям И.Ф.Стаднюка полковник Муравьёв тяжело (возможно смертельно) ранен 25 или 26 июня немецким диверсантом в районе п. Мир.)
 Чаленко, Иван Терентьевич, полковник (25.06.1941-19.09.1941),

Известные люди из состава дивизии
 Стаднюк, Иван Фотиевич, в июне 1941 года секретарь дивизионной газеты, впоследствии известный писатель, лауреат Государственной премии СССР

Примечания

Ссылки
 Справочник
 Перечень № 6 кавалерийских, танковых, воздушно-десантных дивизий и управлений артиллерийских, зенитно-артиллерийских, миномётных, авиационных и истребительных дивизий, входивших в состав действующей армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941—1945

Моторизованные дивизии СССР во время Великой Отечественной войны
Воинские части и формирования, созданные в 1941 году
Воинские части и формирования, расформированные в 1941 году


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Home » Illinois » Firearms ban argument goes to Supreme Court
Firearms ban argument goes to Supreme Court
Chicago – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether
or not the Second Amendment applies directly to states, an issue
that could have a huge impact on gun ownership in Illinois.
The Illinois State Rifle Association and the Second Amendment
Foundation filed a lawsuit against the City of Chicago claiming the
city enforces a handgun ban identical to the one struck down by the
Supreme Court in the case District of Columbia v. Heller and that
the ban violates residents' Second Amendment rights.
This current case, McDonald v. Chicago, challenges a 7th Circuit
court ruling that said "the Second Amendment applies only to
federal regulation of an individual's right to guns and not in
cases of restrictions by states and municipalities like
Chicago officials told the Supreme Court the city's 1982 handgun
ban was put in place to address an increase in gun-related deaths.
The nation's highest court will review whether or not the ban on
firearms is constitutional.
ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson said his organization
has a good chance at reversing the ban.
"All the ban does is prevent law-abiding citizens from
protecting themselves," Pearson told WGN TV in Chicago. "It has no
affect on the criminals at all."
The ISRA admitted that the road ahead in the case "will be long
and tedious." The group expects that by late November briefs from
its side will be submitted to the court.
The City of Chicago will then be given time to offer its reply,
and then the ISRA will be given the opportunity to rebut Chicago's
reply. Oral arguments in the case are expected to commence in
January 2010 and a decision in the case is expected in June of
Todd Gaziano, director of the center for legal and judicial
studies at the Heritage Foundation, is predicting a major blow to
gun control advocates and a big win for states.
He predicts liberals will make the case that the Second
Amendment, like abortion, should be legislated on the federal
"Ever since the 14th Amendment passed, the framers talked about
how it would apply to the states. The framers were a little unclear
how the 14th Amendment should be interpreted. In the late 19th
century, the Supreme Court limited privileges but in the 1930s they
said it applied to the states. Ever since the 1930s, they (the
Supreme Court) have largely ignored the immunities and privileges
clause," Gaziano said.
He cited the Eighth Amend-ment as another example of how the
nation's highest court reversed its opinion, eventually allocating
power to individual states. According to Gaziano, if the question
is whether or not gun ownership applies to all Americans in every
state, the court will side with the Second Amendment.


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Getting intimate with computers behind closed doors
Posted under:
Behind the scenes,
Whit's in a name: part 2
Fit for a queen
early computers. National Museums Collection Centre
By Laura Gibson
Assistant Curator of Science
Since I began working as an Assistant Curator of Science six months ago, my main project has been working on an inventory of one of our stores at the National Museums Collections Centre. This is important because we need to know that we have a record, and an accurate location, for all of the items in our care.
View of the computer store at the National Museums Collection Centre.
This store houses many of the larger objects from the museum's computing collections, the majority dating from around the 1950s-1980s. In some cases we have a lot of information about where individual machines came from and how they were used while they were still operational, but others are machines that have been found unregistered in the stores years after they first came into the museum.
The other end of the store at the National Museums Collection Centre.
This means that this inventory work isn't a simple case of updating records to make sure that each item is described and located correctly, but also means undertaking research into the objects which appear not to have numbers or records.
This involves:
Doing research into the collection itself in order to reconcile items with their records, where they have been separated from their numbers since first coming into the collection.
Trying to match up individual parts of computers which have been separated as they have moved between our stores.
Doing research into the unregistered computers to help make decisions about what we should do next with these items.
Over the course of this project, I've been lucky enough to work with, and do research into, many interesting computers from our collection. I wanted to share some of their stories, and the work that I've been doing to help improve this collection.
1. Powers Samas Tabulator, 65 column
Some of the earliest examples of computers in this store belong to our collection of Card Punch machines.
Some of the Card Punch machines in our collection.
Punch cards were essentially a very early means for computers to store data, similar to the way in which computers now store files. All data for storage or for writing programmes needed to be input using these cards.
A punch card in our collection. Each of the holes represents data: these were punched into the cards, and then the data could be read when the card was placed into a machine.
Punch card installations were typically made up of three machines, each doing a different part of the job. There was one machine that would punch the holes into the cards, a machine which sorted or collated the cards and finally a machine which read the data that had been punched into the cards.
Machines of this type were often used for business purposes, and from the 1930s onwards it wasn't uncommon for offices to have a whole department of people involved in their operation and use.
There were periods in the past where large numbers of these machines came into the museum, and therefore were not registered at the time. A volunteer project was undertaken in 2017 to catalogue and photograph all of the punch card machines in the collection.
You can refer to this previous blog post on card punch machines here.
The information recorded about each of these machines has been invaluable in enabling us to make decisions about what to do with them. For example, in some cases we have duplicates, meaning that we need to make a decision about whether it might be better to transfer one example to another museum, giving more people access to it.
I recently accessioned one of these machines into the collection, meaning that we made a decision to permanently retain the object in order to help us tell the story of the development of computers within the UK.
T.2019.122: Powers-Samas Tabulator, 65 column, now accessioned into the collection.
2. Ferranti Mark 1
Following on from developments during the Second World War, there was increasing interest in attempts to develop a 'universal digital computer'. However, this proved difficult to achieve, particularly because of the continuing lack of resolution to the problem of data storage. One particularly innovative method used to resolve this problem was the development of Cathode Ray Tubes for digital storage.
T.2004.657.1: Ferranti Mark 1* computer processor section.
Making use of CRT stores, the Ferranti Mark 1* was developed as the result of a collaboration between Manchester University and Ferranti, and was considered to be the world's first "stored program computer." It also became the world's first commercially available computer when it was installed at the University of Manchester in 1951.
In our collection, we have several parts of a Ferranti Mark 1*: a computer processor section; a computer drum unit; a computer fridge unit; and a logic door.
T.2004.657.4: Ferranti Mark 1* logic door
These parts almost certainly came from the one used by A V Roe & Co Ltd, an aircraft design company based in Manchester, where it would have been used for aircraft design calculations. After being used here, the computer passed to a technical college, and then to a museum. In 1975 it was "rediscovered", and its worth realised.
It was actually being stored in a disused sewage pumping station, where it was found in very bad condition and covered in chicken droppings. Representatives from several different museums and organisations came together to view the computer. However, due to space constraints, no one single institution could commit to accepting the whole machine. Therefore, a decision was made that each would take some sections of the computer. That is how these parts came to be in our collection, and shows how museums often cooperate in order to preserve important objects!
3. Elliott 803 Digital Compter
T.1986.17: Elliott 803.
The Elliott 803 digital computer was in production from 1960, and was part of the company's 800 series of computers. This computer was actually considered a "small" computer at the time, which gives you an idea of how large computers could be! Indeed, one of the reasons why it is so difficult to display items from this collection is due to the sheer size of computers from this period. The size can also make it difficult to document these collections.
Before I started work we had just one record for all the separate parts of this computer. This seems fine when all the parts are together, but what if they get moved! Having just one record means we can't keep locations updated properly on our database, and we run the risk of losing track of where particular parts have gone. I worked with our systems team to create separate records for each individual part (T.1986.17.1, T.1986.17.2 etc.) which means that we can now keep their locations up to date.
4. ICT 1301
T.2013.31.1: ICT 1301 Computer operator's console.
The ICT 1301 was produced from 1960, and first sold in 1962. It was made by International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), which was formed by the merging of Powers Samas and British Tabulating Machine Company in 1959.
The ICT 1301 was considered to be a business computer which was normally used for office work, and was particularly good at performing calculations. It was quite unusual at the time because it was based on decimal rather than binary logic. This meant that programmers didn't have to learn binary arithmetic, and therefore it was more accessible for use in the everyday workplace.
One of the challenges of documenting the computing collection is that, due to the size of many of the complete units, parts of computers have been spread across various locations within the store, and it is sometimes very difficult to match them back up, meaning that it is often necessary to do detective work in store.
One example of this is the work that I've been doing to match up panels which have been removed from their computer. This involves trying to match up panels to computers according to their colour and measurements.
As can be seen from this photograph, this is quite a big undertaking!
Our wall of mysterious panels…
As shown in the image above, our ICT 1301 units are missing their panels, and by taking measurements, and finding catalogues for the computer online, I was able to match up the correct panels. This means that these panels can now be associated with the rest of the computer in our collections database and so we know exactly what belongs to this computer!
ICT 1301 panels successfully matched!
5. Ferranti Argus 500
We have several examples of Ferranti computers within the collection, including a Ferranti Argus 500. These were produced from 1964, and were used in a wide range of different industries.
T.1999.152: Ferranti Argus 500 computer and peripheries.
When museums collect objects, it's important to also collect information relating to them, so we can properly tell their stories. We have many object files, which contain interesting information about the items in our collection.
By using these object files, I learned that our Ferranti Argus 500 was part of an original off-shore telemetry station serving British Petroleum's Forties Oil Field. This was the first to be developed in the North Sea, and produced oil which was then piped to the company's refinery in Grangemouth.
In 1974, two Argus computers were installed in BP's Field Control Centre in Dyce, Aberdeen. They were connected to pressure and flow measuring instruments on every platform, and at Cruden Bay and Grangemouth. This meant that operators in the control room could clearly see what was happening in each of these areas. This was important as it meant that swift action could be taken in the event that something stopped working. Information in the object files shows that, in the early years of their installation, the computers were prone to breakdowns, meaning that an engineer sometimes had to sleep alongside the machine, ensuring that if it broke down during the night the problem could be quickly resolved so that it wouldn't disrupt the rest of the system.
The Argus was acquired by the museum in 1988, and letters from the time show that we weren't able to acquire all parts of the computer due to space restrictions in the museum's store. However, a selection was taken which would enable them to be reassembled to form a suite which would represent the complete machine. This information about what we actually acquired also proved helpful when trying to match parts of the computer which had been scattered in various locations throughout the store.
T.1999.152: Another part of Ferranti Argus found in store.
More Ferranti parts? Two slave drives which have been identified as belonging to one of our Ferranti computers. But it's still a mystery as to which one!
Hopefully this selection helps to illustrate the wide variety of objects within our computing collection and their interesting histories, as well as demonstrating the work that goes into maintaining this collection and making it more accessible and understandable!
- Posted 25th September 2019
Thanks for helping to bring this marvelous collection to life!
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Croitoru's career spans over 15 years with a strong focus on project management and business analysis in public and private sector verticals including healthcare, financial services, utilities, non profit organizations, and consulting. Since 2003 he has been focusing on SharePoint, delivering solutions and contributing as a SharePoint consultant, project manager, business analyst, and trainer.
In addition to his professional tenure, Haniel Croitoru has always been a big proponent of sharing knowledge and giving back to the community through presenting at numerous conferences and networking meetings on the topics of utilizing SharePoint for various business verticals, accessibility as well as managing projects. Prior to entering the SharePoint arena, Haniel Croitoru has spent a number of years in the medical imaging industry where he was a key member of the orthopedic marketing division and published four patents and numerous articles.
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