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Earth Sided Chronicles
The Earth Sided Chronicles is a hidden story that stretches on from Hiero's past. What takes place in this story is purely non-canon and has no real connection with the canon plot for Hiero or what he has done in the other story. These two stories are supposed to be different but have many of the bases. Enjoy the nice little read! This is a Fanfic.
Prologue- Is Royalty the Best?
It all began with a young female hawk known as Aviara Huo. Aviara was royalty in Igna-Tribu, she was the daughter of presidential leader and royal commander, Ridas Huo. Ridas was a manipulator who had no consideration for anyone's feelings, not even his own daughter's. Aviara hated her royalty and wanted to leave it.
She took great interest in the island's geography and was a huge enthusiast of living life to its fullest. Since she was fed up with being a royal, she decided to secretly move around the island with out her parents knowledge. Once Ridas caught on to Aviara's plans he traced her steps slowly, but carefully.
During her journey, Aviara met a fine young blacksmith who was also a hawk. The blacksmith's name was Matthew Sprax, and he, just like Aviara hated royalty and wanted to live life to its fullest. Matthew Sprax was a genius who could easily fix and create weapons, he was also heavily skilled with controlling Earth due to once being a royal himself.
The two quickly fell in love and began forging their own journies. It wasn't long until the two mated and a new hawk was being born. Since Ridas was following the two all along secretly, he knew exactly when to strike them both. When the two settled down shortly as they took care of the hawk's nearly hatching egg, Ridas took the time to attempt imprisoning the two, along with the egg.
Matthew and Aviara used trickery to fool Ridas, the two then jumped off of a cliff holding hands and dropping into the ocean. Ridas presumed the couple was dead and gave up on his hopes of getting his daughter back. Though, he noticed that the egg was nearly hatching. Ridas decided to rid the egg by moving it into the wildlife. Being unharmed, the little chick hatched was was quickly taken into an orphanage after explorers heard the cries from it.
Chapter 1- Orphan Issues
At the orphanage, the baby hawk was cleaned up and fed to health. It was then when the advisers decided to name the baby hawk, Hayden Felix. Hayden grew up quite sound in the orphanage, it was where he met a young bat who had a passion for women. Hayden despised the bat and often got into many arguments with him. The two were huge rivals and had incredibly different views of life. Hayden was very intelligent in the time of his orphan days. Some time soon, Hayden found out about his powers of controlling Earth. Hayden was pleased with his powers and thought himself better than those around him.
The young bat named Aiwa did not take this kindly, so the two argued some more and even fought. Since he badly injured Aiwa to near death, the orphanage advisors decided to cast Hayden out due to his brashness and how aggressive he was. They sentenced death for young Hayden and threw him into the pits of Terre-Tribu. It didn't take young Hayden much time to find territory and figure out a functioning way to survive. He then found some civilization in Terre-Tribu and made his presence notable.
Chapter 2- Terre-Tribu
Hayden immediately provoked much of Terre-Tribu's populace. He was begging for a mentor in hopes that he can get back at the orphanage. Many civilians detested him immediately. It wasn't until Wendel, Terre-Tribu's pride mentor and leader stood before Hayden and told him he wasn't worthy. This angered the provoked Hayden, so he struck the elder Wendel. Wendel shattered Hayden's knuckles and repeated what he said. While in pain, Hayden upper cutted Wendel with his other fist knocking him to the ground with incredible force. It had been the first time in ages that Wendel actually faced a challenge.
Hayden was aggressive and brash, but he did have what it took to become some one better. In the hopes of this, Wendel trained the young hawk. Hayden took much of the training, but his moral standing and brashness were distasteful. It lead to him being kicked out of Terre-Tribu at the age of fourteen, though he had much experience with earth powers at that point.
Looking for territory, Hayden found himself in Terre-Tribu. Due to his red color scheme he fit in very well. He didn't attract much attention, but what he did attract was Ridas's fear. Ridas knew who Hayden was and he thought he had killed him. It was at this moment, he told his trainee about Ridas' presence and how he could be a terrorist from another part of the island. During the years, Ridas had been training Aiwa in the fields of combat. Aiwa was far more experienced and gentler than Hayden. As such, Aiwa reported for duty and tried to rid Hayden out of the land of Terre-Tribu.
Chapter 3- Demise of a Nemesis
During confrontation, Aiwa immediately remembered who Hayden was. He remembered the suffering he had passed through trying to fix his bones, the pain of injury, and the life long scarring defects out of all of those things. Thirsty for revenge, Aiwa grabbed Hayden by the neck and threatened to kill him for what he's done. While being choked Hayden managed to chuckle and say "no you won't". It was then where Hayden punched through Aiwa's chest with massive earth power.
He killed Aiwa with no mercy and began laughing about it. "Young Aiwa, you always were lesser than me. This just proves it" were Hayden's final words to the dead Aiwa as he pulled his arm out of his chest. Hayden continued to live in Igna-Tribu secretly. Ridas knew that Aiwa had died and this only made things worse for him. All he could do was prolong Hayden, and he knew it wouldn't take much time for him to find out who he was.
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Oh, there are lots of interpretations of "myself" -- in particular, if you break up the word as mys'elf, it becomes something like the elf that belongs to the many "my"s -- and that was Crimishia -- now many generations of herself later known as "Star". Mys'elf was the out-loud-and-proud way of refering to any of us for a very long time, as we considered ourselves to be majority-elven, and rather elvenocentric for a while.
In the "me, myself and I" sense, myself referred to Star/Crimishia as well.


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Foreign Policy by Ad-Lib
By Joshua Keating
Sept 09, 20131:38 PM
Then-Sen. John Kerry D-Mass., watches as President Obama announces Kerry as his choice for the next secretary of state on Dec. 21, 2012, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Once again, major international events may have been set in motion by a seemingly off-the-cuff remark from the Obama administration.
Last year it was the president's "red line" warning on chemical weapons. The New York Times would report later that the comment, made in response to a question at a news conference, came to "the surprise of some of the advisers who had attended the weekend meetings and wondered where the 'red line' came from. With such an evocative phrase, the president had defined his policy in a way some advisers wish they could take back."
Today it was John Kerry's suggestion—also made in response to a reporter's question—that Bashar al-Assad could avoid a U.S. strike by handing over "every bit of his weapons to the international community within the next week." Kerry said it was unlikely Assad would actually do this, and State Department spokeswomen Jennifer Psaki later clarified that the secretary was merely making a "rhetorical" argument, pointing out that a dictator with a "history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons."
But evidently, they were listening in Moscow. Hours later, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his government had asked Syria to put its chemical weapons under international control and ratify the Convention on Chemical Weapons. "If the establishment of international control over chemical weapons in that country will avoid strikes, we will immediately begin working with Damascus," Lavrov said.
Whether he was serious at the time or not, Kerry's remark was a significant rhetorical change for the administration, which has so far based its case for striking Syria not to force any future action, but to punish actions already taken. There hasn't been any suggestion until now that Assad could avoid strikes through his own actions.
There's plenty of reason to be cynical about Russia's sudden commitment to removing Assad's chemical weapons—for one thing, Moscow's general position has been that it is the rebels, not government forces, who are the primary chemical culprits—but with Syria saying it "welcomes the Russian initiative," though not yet fully committing to it, this could at the very least trigger a new round of diplomacy that could even further weaken international support for a U.S. strike.
You could see this as U.S. foreign policy being once again driven by an off-the-cuff remark the speaker hadn't quite thought through. On the other hand, if the administration doesn't actually want to attack Syria but felt its credibility was on the line if it did nothing in response to Assad's brazen use of chemical weapons, there's a slight possibility that Kerry's ill-advised statement could get the White House out of a tricky situation that a previous ill-advised statement got them into.
Unfortunately, days of debate over the fate of Assad's stockpiles will also take us even further away from a discussion of how best address the ongoing suffering in Syria.
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Q: Image not retrieving from sql database in objective c Hello I have been trying to retrieve image from sql database named informationdb.sql but I am not able to,could anyone help with that.Here is my code
- (NSData*) LoadImagesFromSql
{
    NSData* data = nil;
    directoryPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    documentsDirectory = [directoryPaths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString * databasePath = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:[documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"informationdb.sql"]];

    int openDatabaseResult = sqlite3_open_v2([databasePath UTF8String], &sqlite3DatabaseObject, SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE , NULL);
    if (openDatabaseResult == SQLITE_OK) {
         const char* sqlite3Query = "SELECT PHOTO FROM PICTURES";
        int sqlite3Prepare = sqlite3_prepare_v2(sqlite3DatabaseObject, sqlite3Query, -1, &sqlite3Statement, NULL);
    if( sqlite3Prepare == SQLITE_OK )
    {
        const char *myData = sqlite3_column_blob(sqlite3Statement, 1);
        int myDataSize = sqlite3_column_bytes(sqlite3Statement, 1);
        data = [NSData dataWithBytes:myData length:myDataSize];
        sqlite3_step(sqlite3Statement);
    }
         sqlite3_finalize(sqlite3Statement);
    }
    sqlite3_close(sqlite3DatabaseObject);
    return data;

}

Thank you.

A: first delete database in document directory than change all three method to my code
-(void)database
{

    directoryPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    documentsDirectory = [directoryPaths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString * databasePath = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:[documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"informationdb.sql"]];
    NSLog(@"database path=%@",databasePath);
    NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
    if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:databasePath] == NO) {
        const char *dbPath = [databasePath UTF8String];
        if (sqlite3_open(dbPath, &sqlite3DatabaseObject)== SQLITE_OK) {
            char * errorMessage;
            const char *sqlite3Query = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS  PICTURES (PHOTO BLOB,Id integer PRIMARY KEY)";
            if (sqlite3_exec(sqlite3DatabaseObject, sqlite3Query, NULL, NULL, &errorMessage)!= SQLITE_OK) {
                NSLog(@"failed = %@",sqlite3DatabaseObject);
            }
            sqlite3_close(sqlite3DatabaseObject);
        }else{
            NSLog(@"failed to create database");
        }
    }
}

- (void) SaveImagesToSql: (NSData*) imgData  {

    directoryPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    documentsDirectory = [directoryPaths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString * databasePath = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:[documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"informationdb.sql"]];
    NSLog(@"database path=%@",databasePath);
    const char* sqlite3Query = "INSERT INTO PICTURES (PHOTO) VALUES (?)";
    int openDatabaseResult = sqlite3_open_v2([databasePath UTF8String], &sqlite3DatabaseObject, SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE , NULL);
    if (openDatabaseResult == SQLITE_OK) {
        int sqlite3Prepare = sqlite3_prepare_v2(sqlite3DatabaseObject, sqlite3Query, -1, &sqlite3Statement, NULL);
        if( sqlite3Prepare == SQLITE_OK ) {
            sqlite3_bind_blob(sqlite3Statement, 1, [imgData bytes], [imgData length], SQLITE_TRANSIENT);
            sqlite3_step(sqlite3Statement);
        }
        else
        {
            NSLog(@"Error is: %s", sqlite3_errmsg(sqlite3DatabaseObject));
        }
        sqlite3_finalize(sqlite3Statement);

    }
    else NSLog( @"Error is:  %s", sqlite3_errmsg(sqlite3DatabaseObject) );
    sqlite3_close(sqlite3DatabaseObject);
}

- (NSData*)LoadImagesFromSql
{
    NSData* data = nil;
    directoryPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    documentsDirectory = [directoryPaths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString * databasePath = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:[documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"informationdb.sql"]];
    sqlite3_stmt *compiledStmt;
    sqlite3 *db;
    int i = 1;
    if(sqlite3_open([databasePath UTF8String], &db)==SQLITE_OK){
        NSString *insertSQL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SELECT PHOTO FROM PICTURES WHERE Id = %d",i];
        if(sqlite3_prepare_v2(db,[insertSQL cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], -1, &compiledStmt, NULL) == SQLITE_OK) {
            while(sqlite3_step(compiledStmt) == SQLITE_ROW) {

                int length = sqlite3_column_bytes(compiledStmt, 0);
                data = [NSData dataWithBytes:sqlite3_column_blob(compiledStmt, 0) length:length];

                NSLog(@"Length : %lu", (unsigned long)[data length]);

//                if(imageData == nil)
//                    NSLog(@"No image found.");
//                else
//                    imgView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
            }
        }
        sqlite3_finalize(compiledStmt);
    }
    sqlite3_close(db);
    return data;
}

A: solved it by this:
- (NSData*) LoadImagesFromSql
{
    directoryPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    documentsDirectory = [directoryPaths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString * databasePath = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:[documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"informationdb.sql"]];

    NSData* data = nil;
    //  int i=0;

    NSString* sqlite3Query = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SELECT PHOTO FROM PICTURES "];

    int openDatabaseResult = sqlite3_open_v2([databasePath UTF8String], &sqlite3DatabaseObject, SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE , NULL);
    if (openDatabaseResult == SQLITE_OK)
    {
        int sqlite3Prepare = sqlite3_prepare_v2(sqlite3DatabaseObject, [sqlite3Query UTF8String], -1, &sqlite3Statement, NULL);
        if( sqlite3Prepare == SQLITE_OK )
        {
            while (sqlite3_step(sqlite3Statement) == SQLITE_ROW) {
                const char *myData = sqlite3_column_blob(sqlite3Statement, 0);
                int myDataSize = sqlite3_column_bytes(sqlite3Statement, 0);
                data = [NSData dataWithBytes:myData length:myDataSize];
            }
            sqlite3_finalize(sqlite3Statement);
        }
    }
    sqlite3_close(sqlite3DatabaseObject);
    return data;

}

and updated viewWillAppear as :
-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{

    dbmClass = [[DBManager alloc]init];
    if (imgPic.image != nil) {
        imgPic.image = nil;
    }
    imgPic.image = [UIImage imageWithData:[dbmClass LoadImagesFromSql]];
    NSLog(@"%@",[dbmClass LoadImagesFromSql]);

}

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Big Brother Naija 2018 Voting Results For housemates was really a shock, In one night, 6 housemates leave the Big brother Naija house. I guess no one saw that coming at all after this evening when Big Brother disqualified the pair of K-Brule and Khloe from the on-going Big Brother Naija house 2018.
The Big Brother Naija 2018 eviction show for last week is now over and the photo above shows how Nigerians voted for their favourite pairs in the house both with the SMS Platform, Mobile and Via web at www.africamagic.tv/bbvote.
Early Last week, I showed you all how you can finally VOTE FAVOURITE BBN HOUSEMATE for FREE which is via the Portal at www.africamagic.tv/bbvote, since you are looking forward to knowing how Nigerians voted, then you must know it was a shocking twist, 6 housemates left the 3rd edition of the Big Brother Naija reality show. While 4 were evicted, two others were disqualified.
NOTE: Bitto, Princess, Vandora and Dee-One were the four housemates evicted while Khloe and K-Brule got evicted for breaking Big Brother's rules. While 14 contestants are now left to compete for the 45million naira prize money.
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Big Brother some minutes ago evicted both K-Brule and Khloe. They have issued a strike following their disagreement last night. K-Brule during an argument tried to attack Dee One but was held back by Angel and Lolu . Big Brother found this unacceptable and issued him a strike making it three strikes. Khloe was disqualified for comments she made to Kbrule, calling his mother a how. Kbrule and Khloe already had two strikes and today's own made it three strikes. This amounted to an automatic disqualification. Last week, Kbrule threatened to commit suicide.
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Saturday night was very busy in the NBA, but on this second Sunday of the regular season we will make it easy. But even with only four games on the agenda, there are some important things to see.
Early on the Steph Curry Show continued as he led the Warriors past the Nets. Before the time comes, the Thunder will try their first win of the season and will have a good chance against the Suns. We will also see an interesting Western Conference showdown between the Jazz and Mavericks.
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The great man of Dallas Mavericks let Rudy Gobert know that it would not be easy for him on the offensive end by playing the game with a refusal on the Jazz Big You started.
The Thunder are inferior tonight, but Russell Westbrook wants to lead his team to their first win of the season by sharing the ball, and he's done that in a pretty spectacular way Half of today's game and it resulted in a pair of finishes for Oklahoma City on the edge.
Dallas Mavericks striker Harrison Barnes made his regular season debut on Sunday night and he had to earn his first basket of the season when he went straight to Jazz Center Rudy Gobert and ended a tough drop Glass.
The Thunder had high hopes after signing Paul George again in the offseason, but their campaign had a tough start. Almost two weeks in the season, they stay 0-4 without a win. The only other team without a win are the Cavaliers, who have just dismissed their coach. Thunder is unlikely to go that way, but they need to get back on track quickly in a loaded Western Conference.
The Cavaliers had a busy Sunday, and not in a good way. They fired the head coach Ty Lue in the early morning, and not long after reports Kevin Love broke out for a long time. Love treats a foot injury and has missed the team's last two games.


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Cisco's ADP program is a potential catalyst for IoT within the enterprise. Here's why.
In mid-October, Cisco announced the launch of its Aironet Developer Platform (ADP), a third-party development platform based on the Aironet 3800 series access points (AP). While there was no mention of IoT in the announcement, this is a stealth IoT opportunity. While Cisco's Kinetic and Jasper IoT platforms reside in the cloud, ADP focuses on the edge within the enterprise. The ability to manage the "internal edge" and integrate with the Kinetic platform is significant. Throw in the DevNet developer community, a large existing base of Aironet APs, and suddenly Cisco customers are doing IoT.
The Cisco ADP is built around the SGMII expansion port on the Aironet 3800 series APs. Cisco wants third party developers in its DevNet community to create application modules that connect to this port. To facilitate this, Cisco has created the ADP program.
Developers are provided with a Cisco hardware development kit (HDK) prototyping board (Figure One). They add their own computer boards (e.g. Raspberry Pi, etc.) and Digi XBee radio cards (as needed) to the HDK. Code development and testing is facilitated through a sandbox provided through Cisco's DevNet program.
Redundant control for mission critical IoT applications. If the IoT devices lose connectivity with a central server, the operation of the devices is handed off to the edge management application.
Firmware management. A central server publishes firmware updates to the edge manager, which stores the firmware, and applies the changes when the IoT devices are not in use.
Real time, deep learning enabled, autonomous video analytics for worker safety or security. Video cameras and optical sensors capture the activity, and computer vision analytics applications scan for suspicious behavior in real time. Processing and detecting at the edge may literally mean the difference between life and death.
Intelligent data management. Some IoT devices generate a lot of data. Not all data needs to be treated the same – some can be stored now for forwarding later, some are forwarded or consumed now, while others are discarded immediately. This simplifies the data load on the networks, and on the cloud services which manage the inbound data.
Cisco's current model of turning ADP applications into revenue will yield limited success. Upon completion of software development and testing, developers must design and build the hardware modules. Short of having their own hardware engineering capabilities, they either work with Cisco's solution partners or find their own original design manufacturers (ODM). This is akin to Apple telling its developers to build iPhone apps, and once they do, to build the iPhone that will run their apps.
Software developers are not in the hardware business. They write and support code. Operating a hardware business is outside the resources, capabilities and risk profiles of most developers. To bring a hardware product to market, they must design, test and certify the product. Then forecast how much to build. They must import, store and manage the inventory. From there they have to market, sell and distribute the product. They have to manage returns, support warranties, and deal with product end of life (EOL) issues. In an increasingly software driven world, developers have other options to make as much or more money.
Given these realities, Cisco must take a more pragmatic approach to working with developers in its ADP program. Instead of the "one application, one custom hardware" module approach, they should take a two-prong approach. Developers will self-select into one of the two approaches.
Semi-custom hardware modules. These pre-designed, pre-built hardware modules are built around a predefined set of use case categories (e.g. edge computing, device gateway, etc.). Developers then build applications that can be loaded onto the appropriate modules. Most of the applications will fall into this category. This approach enables rapid time to revenue but requires Cisco (or its solution partners) to build the modules and resell them to the developers.
Custom hardware modules. These are specialized applications that require specialized and custom hardware, and collaboration with Cisco for tighter access point integration. Developers will use the current process of contracting with a Cisco solution partner after application development to design and build the hardware.
Cisco's ADP program is a potential catalyst for IoT within the enterprise. Its large base of deployed Aironet 3800 APs, global channel reach, DevNet community, and potential integration with the Kinetic platform could allow Cisco to be a significant part of the enterprise IoT ecosystem. To do so, Cisco must remove all the barriers throughout the process – from application development to hardware development.
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Bart Kamphorst finds best possible scheduling policy for servers in information-scarce settings
Bart Kamphorst finds best possible scheduling policy for servers in information-scarce settings Nobody fancies a long wait between requesting some kind of online service and actually receiving that service. Therefore, in many situations, ICT-specialists aim to design their servers in such a way that their customers are served in an efficient manner. Research of CWI PhD-student Bart Kamphorst contributes a number of performance analyses of blind algorithms and moreover identifies a blind algorithm that is in some sense optimal. https://www.cwi.nl/news/2018/bart-kamphorst-finds-best-possible-scheduling-policy-for-servers-in-information-scarce-settings https://www.cwi.nl/news/2018/bart-kamphorst-finds-best-possible-scheduling-policy-for-servers-in-information-scarce-settings/@@download/image/CWI_photo_dissertation_Kamphorst-1.jpg
Nobody fancies a long wait between requesting some kind of online service and actually receiving that service. Therefore, in many situations, ICT-specialists aim to design their servers in such a way that their customers are served in an efficient manner. Research of CWI PhD-student Bart Kamphorst contributes a number of performance analyses of blind algorithms and moreover identifies a blind algorithm that is in some sense optimal.
Nobody fancies a long wait between requesting some kind of online service and actually receiving that service. Therefore, in many situations, ICT-specialists aim to design their servers in such a way that their customers are served in an efficient manner. Theoretically assessing the efficiency of such algorithms is particularly challenging when the customers' requirements are unknown (the algorithm is "blind"). The PhD-research of Bart Kamphorst contributes a number of performance analyses of blind algorithms and moreover identifies a blind algorithm that is in some sense optimal.
Literature offers a wide range of blind scheduling policies. Most of these blind scheduling policies work very efficiently in some settings, but rather inefficiently in other settings. In fact, it turns out that it is not even possible for a blind scheduling policy to perform optimally (extremely efficiently) in all settings. We were able to quantify this fundamental inefficiency – that is; the minimum amount of inefficiency that any blind scheduling policy necessarily suffers in an unfavorable setting. Thereafter, we showed that there exists a blind scheduling policy that is never less efficient than our calculated minimum inefficiency. This roughly means that we identified a blind scheduling policy that performs reasonably efficient regardless of the stochastic nature of the customers' requirements, and there cannot exist another blind scheduling policy that is more efficient in such a general setting.
Not only is the above result is novel in its conclusion, but it is also innovative in its derivation. The analysis displays a successful combination of techniques from the mathematical areas of scheduling theory and queueing theory. Scheduling theory generally investigates the worst-case behaviour of scheduling policies, whereas queueing theory investigates the average-case behaviour of scheduling policies in specified stochastic settings. It is inspiring to see how insights from both communities contribute to our analysis, and we hope that this result stimulates researchers from both areas to explore the interface.
If instead of the general setting above one focusses on special settings, then there exist blind scheduling policies that perform (almost) as good as their non-blind counterparts. It is usually hard to obtain these kind of results, since scheduling policies are generally complex to analyze. We introduced a framework that potentially facilitates a more thorough analysis of many scheduling policies, and used this framework to obtain several new insights of the efficiency of the Foreground-Background policy.
Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Bart Kamphorst, of his thesis 'Heavy-traffic behaviour of scheduling policies in
queues' on 31 May from 16.00-18.00 hrs in the Senaatszaal of the Auditorium van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2 in Eindhoven
PhD-thesis: Heavy-traffic behaviour of scheduling policies in queues. Supervisors: Bert Zwart (CWI, TU/e) and Nikhil Bansal (CWI, TU/e).
Learn more about the work of CWI's Stochastics group by watching their video on YouTube
Homepage CWI Stochastics group


Graduate Apprenticeships (GAs) offer an alternative to the traditional routes into university education. If you're currently in work but have the talent to study to Honours degree level, or if you're thinking about leaving school but would prefer to go into work rather than become a full-time student, a Graduate Apprenticeship is for you.
A GA will enable you to complete an Honours degree at the same time as working, and in the same time as it would take if you were studying full-time.
The split between work and study is roughly 80:20, so you'll spend most of your time at work. You will also earn a good wage throughout your time at UWS, meaning you can complete a degree without getting into debt.
This combination of working, learning and earning means you will be able to apply the things you learn in your degree to your workplace and vice versa.
Unlike traditional routes into degree-level education, you're already in work so won't need to start looking for a graduate job once you've completed your degree.
These degree courses are only offered as part of the Graduate Apprenticeship programme.
In the future additional Graduate Apprenticeships matched to growing sectors of the economy will be developed. These will be advertised when they become available.
At least 16 years old (although some employers require a minimum age of 18 due to health and safety considerations in their sector). There is no maximum age set on who can become a GLA.
Employed – a GLA is a full-time job which allows you to gain an Honours degree in the same amount of time as it would take to complete if you were in full-time study.
Entry requirements for GLAs will depend on which apprenticeship you are applying for.
Typically, we would expect a minimum four Scottish Highers (or equivalent) at BBBC or equivalent.
Your application will be assessed on an individual basis, taking into account any previous industry experience you have.
If you have already completed a Foundation or a Modern Apprenticeship in a related subject, this will also contribute towards meeting the entry requirements.
However, if an apprentice doing a GLA at SCQF level 10 (Honours degree level) exits before completing the course, they will only be able to leave with a GLA at SCQF level 8 (Dip HE level) if they have successfully completed their studies beyond SCQF level 8.
GLAs are fully-funded, which means you will not pay tuition fees. As a full-time apprentice you will also receive a wage from your employer.
Any additional costs in relation to books, course materials and travel should be discussed with your employer.
GAs have been mapped to professional body standards so Graduate Apprentices will be able to apply for membership to relevant professional bodies upon graduation.
In addition, you may be able to progress through professional standards and accreditations at a faster pace.
If you're already in employment but you have the potential to study at Honours degree level, speak with your employer to find out whether they have plans to get involved in Graduate Apprenticeships.
If you are a school leaver or not in employment but think that a Graduate Apprenticeship could be for you, you apply for one the same way you'd apply for a job.
Graduate Apprenticeships vacancies offered by UWS will be advertised on Skills Development Scotland's dedicated apprenticeships website.
Alternatively, you can register your interest in the apprenticeships we offer and we'll let you know when a suitable employer is recruiting. To register, email: apprenticeships@uws.ac.uk.
Due to the way Graduate Apprenticeships are funded, only students from Scotland can apply.
Nicole Strain, from Bishopton, is currently in 4th year of her Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) in IT: Software Development at the University's Lanarkshire Campus.
"I would highly recommend anyone who has the opportunity to undertake a GA at UWS to grab it with both hands!"


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"I was not sacked" – Joko-Smart
Contrary to reports that he was sacked from his post the former Commissioner of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), Professor Henry Joko-Smart, has said he was not sacked but rather relinquished his position. In his letter to President Ernest Bai Koroma dated 22nd October, the Professor stated that, "I have lost the support of the majority of my staff, the Advisory Committee of the Commission and some stakeholders in the fight against corruption due to my stance on discipline, accountability and transparency. Therefore, I have decided to relinquish my post effective from a date that a suitable replacement is made." The letter further added that, "I have decided to leave the date open because I do not want to create a vacuum in the office bearing in mind that the ACC Act provides for a Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner and there has not been no Deputy for the past 16 months during which I have manned the commission single-handedly."
Few weeks back in an interview with Awoko the Commissioner said he was never asked by the ruling All People's Congress (APC) to resign.
His resignation is in accordance with the ACC Act of 2000 section 2 sub section 5 which states that, "a member of the commission may resign his office by a written notice to the President and may be removed from office but only for inability to perform the functions of his office, whether arising from infirmity of body and mind or for stated misconduct."
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American Indians no longer in the 18th century
Scholar John Sanchez takes his message on the road
By Rick KearnsIt was at this juncture, as he stated to the audience at the University of Pennsylvania, that he was asked to speak at an elementary school. The talk went well, Sanchez recalled, and the students and teachers applauded. Before he left, a division leader asked him for his address so they could send him a thank you letter. He then asked the school official to conduct a little experiment.
"I would like the teachers to walk into their classrooms tomorrow, give the kids some paper and something to draw with, and ask the students to draw a picture of an American Indian family," Sanchez continued. "I said to not mention the words 'modern' or 'ancient' just draw a family."
The result from the second through fifth graders, he explained, was 120 drawings of people in beads and feathers, "with bare-chested men, some with tomahawks, and some had decapitated heads that had been cut with the tomahawks.
"These are 18th century images, and children in second grade have two major ways of knowing things at that age, one is media, and the second is public schools."Yes, the media and the schools, in roughly that order. Another expert confirms what some people know and some people deny.
Gee, I wonder where kids got the idea of beheaded Indians. I can't imagine.
I wonder if that was 120 out of 120 drawings. That would be an impressively scary window into what children think.
Note that the drawings didn't just show primitive Indians. They showed primitive Indians decapitating each other. Even though the request was to draw an Indian family. Even though beheadings, if they happened at all, are more than a century out of date.
This would be equivalent to drawing a black family as slaves in chains. Or a Japanese family as samurais and geishas. Or an English family in Victorian-era top hats and corsets.
It would signal a massive amount of stereotypical thinking untouched by our educational system. Imagine the headlines: "Students Perceive Blacks as Slaves." There would be a national outcry.
Yet when the same thing occurs to Indians, we barely notice. Several classes of children think Indians are primitive savages who decapitate each other? Golly, what's wrong with that? Who cares?
Stereotypes and omissions
The article continues:"I also decided to study how the big three networks [ABC, NBC, CBS] frame American Indian stories." Through detailed research, Sanchez discovered that this group of networks–which he chose as most people would be able to see them without paying for cable–broadcasted a total of 175,889 newscasts between 1990 and 1999. Of those newscasts, 98, or .05 percent were about American Indians.
The majority of that .05 percent used ".… representations of American Indians with 18th century images," he said.I'd like to know more about that study. What were the stories about? Indian mascots? Dances with Wolves and the Oscars it received? I'd guess casinos, but stories about Indian gaming shouldn't feature stereotypical images.
In any case, consider what Sanchez tells us. During the period in question, Indians were massively underrepresented. Instead of appearing 1% of the time, as their numbers would suggest, they appeared 1/20th as often. They were essentially invisible in the media.
And when they did appear, the appearances were stereotypical a majority of the time. So for every 40 times Indians should've appeared, they appeared only two times. At least one of the two appearances was stereotypical. Real, unstereotypical Indians appeared less than one of 40 times.
Is it any wonder stereotypes dominate our thinking about Indians? And is there any doubt the media is the primary source of these stereotypes? No and no.
For more on the subject, see Students Draw What They Know and Stereotyping by Omission.
Below: Where are Waldo and the Indians?
Labels: education, journalism, omission, stereotypes


not the grizzly old fellow then that I am now). Soon an old wa-kon-ka came sidling up like a crab, and gave me a kiss; then came another, and another, until, young and old, I had kissed and been kissed by forty-eight squaws. I kept an exact tally, especially of the young and pretty ones. They all got their gingerbread and dresses, and went away very happy; whether their joy rested wholly on the cakes and calico, I never was exactly satisfied in my own mind. So you see the civilized and the savage do not differ very much in their methods of amusing themselves. It is a serious question whether modern innovations will be an improvement over the past in such matters.
St. Paul from its earliest settlement was a social phenomenon. Our ideas of a frontier Mississippi river town of forty years ago, naturally suggest everything but culture, refinement and elegance; yet St. Paul possessed them all in a very marked degree. By a singularly happy combination of circumstances, differing absolutely from all other remote frontier towns that I know of, the earliest settlers, who gave the place its social tone and character, were cultivated gentlemen and ladies. Dr. Borup was a Dane; he was a fine musician; he had a charming family; he erected a spacious and, for that day, elegant mansion, and entertained profusely. I have attended musical soirées at his house, led by himself with the violin, accompanied by two grand pianos played by members of his family.
Mr. William Sitgreaves Cox, an old navy officer, was a charming gentleman, at the head of one of the most interesting, cultivated and refined families it was ever my good fortune to become acquainted with. One of his daughters, Miss Hitty, was so accomplished a musician, that it was said she never played anything but music of her own composition. Another daughter, Mrs. Pope, who presided in his household, used to entertain the friends of the family at grand dinners and petits souper's , that would have made the habitués of Washington and Newport green with envy.
Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene), 1828-1903.
- "Read before the Society, April 25, 1898."
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"Read before the Society, April 25, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Flandrau, Charles E, and Minnesota Historical Society. Reminiscences of Minnesota during the territorial period . St. Paul, Minn.: Published for the Society, 1901. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/18009113/.
Flandrau, C. E. & Minnesota Historical Society. (1901) Reminiscences of Minnesota during the territorial period . St. Paul, Minn.: Published for the Society. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/18009113/.
Flandrau, Charles E, and Minnesota Historical Society. Reminiscences of Minnesota during the territorial period . St. Paul, Minn.: Published for the Society, 1901. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/18009113/>.
Reminiscences of the early days of Minnesota, 1851 to 1861 "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 12, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Memories of the early life and development of Minnesota "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, January 12, 1914." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A sheaf of remembrances "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 10, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
[Automobile and wagon pulled by four oxen] 1 photographic print. | Photograph shows an automobile next to an African American man sitting atop a wagon filled with logs being pulled by four oxen.


While I'm typing this, I'm listening to my friend JC Hutchins on BlogTalk Radio being interviewed on "PodioRacket" about his new book, "Personal Effects: Dark Art."
One topic that came up was how to continue the Buzz for the book. One little thing I -can- do is this.


Please help keep our island green by recycling your holiday CHRISTMAS tree!
Trees ready to be discarded can dropped off at any of the following ten (10) Recycle and Transfer Stations: Hilo , Kailua-Kona, Puako, Honoka'a, Ka'auhuhu, Keauhou, Pāhoa, Kea'au, Waimea and Wai'ōhinu.
The transfer stations will be accepting trees for recycling through January 17, 2010.
Trees should be free of all decorations, lights, tinsel and ornaments. Please do not drop off artificial or flocked trees.
The County of Hawai 'i's Department of Environmental Management and Department of Public Works are teaming up to support Treecycling. Public Works will be providing on-site tree chipping at certain locations.
By chipping the trees and making the material available for use in gardens, the County can divert thousands of trees from our landfills and add valuable mulch to island soils. In addition, it will help reduce the illegal dumping of holiday trees.
The County's Treecycling Program and additional recycling and solid waste programs are available on the website at www.HawaiiZeroWaste.org. For further information, please contact the County Solid Waste Division at 961-8339.


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We love wedding cakes decorated with fresh floral. It's a simple and elegant way to tie together a wedding's colors and décor as the floral chosen for the cake are usually mirrored in the centerpieces or the bouquet. If you're considering fresh floral on your wedding cake, here are important pieces of information to consider.
The world is filled with beautiful flowers, but not all of them are safe to use on something edible like a wedding cake. Hydrangeas and baby's breath are popular in bouquets and centerpieces, but even the smallest amount of contact with the buttercream can be toxic. It's best to stick with edible varieties like roses, calendulas, hibiscus, violets, sunflowers and others. Herbs are also a popular option such as rosemary, thyme and chamomile. It's also smart to opt for flowers that are organically grown since they will be in contact with frosting that will be consumed.
Your florist will be a big help in decorating your cake with fresh floral. They will be responsible for preparing the flowers by washing, drying, trimming and removing thorns. When your centerpieces are delivered to the venue, your florist will also have the opportunity to decorate the cake with the flowers you have chosen.
Here are a few of our favorite fresh floral wedding cakes to inspire you!


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The Tenth Planet is the partly missing second serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 8 to 29 October 1966. It was William Hartnell's last regular appearance as the First Doctor, and the first story to feature the process later termed regeneration, whereby the lead character, The Doctor, undergoes a transformation into a new physical form. Patrick Troughton makes his first, uncredited appearance as the Second Doctor.

The serial is also notable as the first story to feature the Cybermen, a race of malevolent cyborgs that became a recurring adversary in later Doctor Who stories. The "tenth planet" in the title makes reference to a fictional lost planet in Earth's Solar System; at the time of production, the Solar System was generally held to consist of nine planets, prior to the redesignation of Pluto as a minor planet.

The Tenth Planet is an incomplete Doctor Who serial – one of many serials that were affected by the BBC's policy of wiping archived programmes in the 1960s and 1970s. Only three of the four episodes are currently held in the BBC archives; the last episode remains missing, although several short clips, including the regeneration sequence, have been discovered intact. In 2013, The Tenth Planet was released on DVD with a full-length animated reconstruction of its missing footage.

Plot

The Doctor and his companions Ben and Polly arrive in the TARDIS at the South Pole in the year 1986. They find themselves in the Snowcap Base, a space tracking station commanded by General Cutler. The base is supervising the mission of the Zeus IV spaceship, running a routine probe on the Earth's atmosphere. The spaceship is drawn off-course by an unknown force, and Snowcap monitoring staff discover a new, unknown planet approaching Earth. Recognising identical landmasses to those of Earth, the Doctor reveals that this is Mondas, the Earth's long-lost twin planet, and that its inhabitants will soon be visiting Earth.

A mysterious spaceship lands in the snow and three robotic creatures emerge, kill the guards and infiltrate Snowcap Base, taking control. They reveal that they are Cybermen, a race who, though once like human beings, have gradually replaced their bodies with mechanical parts, and eliminated the "weakness" of emotion from their brains. The Cybermen prevent the base staff from saving the Zeus IV, and it is destroyed by the gravitational pull of Mondas. The emotionless Cybermen state that the lives of the crew are irrelevant to them. The Cybermen explain that Mondas is absorbing energy from Earth and will soon destroy it. They propose to take humans back to Mondas and turn them into Cybermen.

General Cutler, the Snowcap base personnel and the Doctor's companions mount a resistance to the Cybermen, overpowering them and killing them with their own cyberweapons. Cutler plans to destroy Mondas using a Z-bomb, one of a series of powerful nuclear bombs that are placed at strategic points around the world, and contacts Space Command HQ in Geneva. The chief scientist Dr. Barclay expresses concerns that the radiation caused by the exploding planet would cause immense loss of life on Earth, and Ben argues that Mondas might destroy itself anyway when it absorbs too much energy. Suddenly, the Doctor passes out, ill. Faced with dissent, Cutler orders Ben to be imprisoned in a cabin with the Doctor. Ben escapes and, with the help of Polly and Barclay, sabotages the Z-bomb rocket. Cutler attempts to fire the Z-bomb, but the engines fail on the launchpad. As Cutler threatens to kill Ben, Barclay, and the Doctor, who has now regained consciousness, he is killed by a new squadron of Cybermen. The Doctor, who explains to Polly his body is "wearing a bit thin", and realising that Mondas is approaching destruction, attempts to mediate with the Cybermen, offering them a home on Earth. The Cybermen take Polly and the Doctor back to their spaceship as hostages.

As the Cybermen take over Space Command in Geneva, the Doctor realises that their plan is to destroy the Earth with the remaining Z-bombs, thus saving Mondas. The Cybermen order the humans to disarm the Z-bomb and send Ben, Barclay, Haines and Dyson into the bomb chamber. Ben surmises that the reason the Cybermen send humans to do this work is that the Cybermen are highly susceptible to radiation. Using radioactive rods from the reactor chamber as a weapon against the Cybermen, Ben and the crew regain control of the base. Just as more Cybermen enter the Tracking Room, Mondas explodes. Disconnected from their power source on Mondas, all the remaining Cybermen die. Geneva Space Command contacts the base to announce that the Cyberman threat has ended. Ben frees the Doctor and Polly from the Cybermen's spaceship. The Doctor, who uncharacteristically has lost his sense of humour, says "it's far from being all over" and abruptly departs for the TARDIS. Though weak, the Doctor gathers enough energy to rescue Polly and Ben. He collapses and transforms into a younger man.

Production
All four episodes of this story feature a specially designed graphics sequence used for the opening titles and closing credits. Designed by Bernard Lodge, they were intended to resemble a computer printout. In the opening credits of the first episode, Kit Pedler is incorrectly identified as "Kitt Pedler". In the opening credits of the third episode, Gerry Davis is incorrectly identified as "Gerry Davies".

William Hartnell did not appear in the third episode. On the Monday before the programme was due to be recorded, he sent a telegram to the production team informing them that he was too ill to work. Gerry Davis rewrote the script to explain the Doctor's absence (his sudden collapse) and gave his dialogue to other characters, most noticeably Ben. This was not as much of an interruption to the episode's production as it would seem, as all four episodes had been written so that Hartnell would have relatively little to do in case of just such an event. The original draft of episode 4 did not feature the Doctor regenerating at the end.

The First Doctor's last words were originally scripted as something similar to "No... no, I simply will not give in!" Time was running short towards the end of production, and director Derek Martinus opted not to record the line, wanting to ensure that the regeneration sequence was recorded as well as possible. As a result, the First Doctor's last words were simply "Ah! Yes. Thank you. That's good, keep warm." The line cut from the script by Martinus suggested that the Doctor was refusing to give in to the regeneration process. In 2017, Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat exploited this idea and created an extended narrative around the Doctor delaying his regeneration for the episode "Twice Upon a Time". The episode uses original footage from The Tenth Planet alongside new scenes with David Bradley replacing William Hartnell, in which the First Doctor meets his future self, the Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi.

Cast notes
During the regeneration sequence at the end of the final episode, Patrick Troughton momentarily makes an appearance – uncredited – as the Second Doctor. Although this was William Hartnell's last regular appearance as the First Doctor, he would reprise the role for the tenth anniversary serial The Three Doctors.

As a result of his role as the astronaut Williams in this serial, the Bermudian-born Earl Cameron (who was 49 at the time of filming) reportedly became the first black actor ever to play an astronaut on television. He was also only the third actor from the series to reach 100 years of age, doing so in 2017. He died in 2020 at the age of 102, and although this was his only appearance in Doctor Who, he had a long and varied acting career both before and after this role.

Missing episode
The last episode of this serial is missing. It is one of the most sought-after of the missing episodes, because it contains the historic first regeneration scene (even though a low-quality, truncated copy of this sequence survives and is held in the BBC Archives), and also because it is William Hartnell's final episode. As such, it is included in a list of the twenty most wanted missing programmes (as drawn up by the British National Film Theatre) alongside the BBC studio footage from the Apollo 11 landings (which is currently held only in soundtrack form).

Popular myth has it that the only surviving telerecording copy of the fourth episode was lost when loaned out to the children's programme Blue Peter in 1973 when they wished to use a clip from it in a feature on the tenth anniversary of Doctor Who. Although a print of The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 4 ("The Traitors") was loaned to Blue Peter and not returned to the BBC Film Library, there was never a copy of The Tenth Planet Episode 4 there to have been loaned. Another department – BBC Enterprises – was still offering all four episodes for sale to foreign broadcasters until the end of the following year and would not, in any case, have loaned out master negatives.

In 1992, a man named Roger K. Barrett (later revealed to be an alias, based on the real name of Syd Barrett) claimed to have a videotape recording of Episode 4 of this story, and offered to sell it to the BBC for £500. Before this was revealed as a hoax, the BBC produced a special introduction for an intended VHS release of the story, hosted by Michael Craze, two versions of which were filmed: one explaining that Episode 4 was still missing, the other introducing the story as if it were complete. A documentary called Missing in Action, made in 1993 and narrated by Nicholas Courtney, also mentions the hoax.

In 2000, BBC Video released the story on VHS, with episode four reconstructed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team using still photos, existing clips and the surviving audio soundtrack. For the 2013 DVD release, episode 4 was animated by Planet 55 Studios.

Broadcast and reception

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In 2009, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times found the original Cybermen design like "usherettes from some kinky, futuristic moviehouse", but praised the character of Cutler and Hartnell's Doctor. Den of Geek named the cliffhanger of Episode 4 as one of the programme's ten "classic" cliffhangers. Alasdair Wilkins of io9 described it as "a very solid, at times excellent story" and noted "The Cybermen have possibly been more intimidating in other stories, but they have never been creepier than they are here". He named it the fourth best regeneration and regeneration story. DVD Talk's John Sinnott gave the story four and a half out of five stars. He praised Hartnell's performance and the Cybermen. Ian Berriman of SFX was more mixed, giving the serial three out of five stars. He praised the Cybermen and the "palpable tension", but felt that the regeneration was tacked on and not enough background was given to make Mondas believable.

Analysis

The Cybermen were conceived for The Tenth Planet by scientist and writer Kit Pedler and screenwriter Gerry Davis as a depiction of the ultimate outcome of biomechatronic and prosthetic technology in medical science. The writer John Kenneth Muir has noted that Pedler and Davis had previously written about dystopian scientific themes, and would later collaborate on Doomwatch, a speculative fiction BBC TV drama series. Muir suggests that the concept of the Cybermen may have been the inspiration behind a later popular science-fiction cyborg race, the Borg, which first featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Q Who") in 1989.

The writer Kevin S. Decker has evaluated the role of the Cybermen introduced in The Tenth Planet in terms of the traditions of continental philosophy, and considers that they have been deliberately crafted by Davis and Pedler to symbolise the Others in opposition to the human race. Decker states that this sense of Otherness is achieved by Pedler's focus on the theme of "dehumanising medicine" by presenting a race of humans who have replaced most of their flesh and organs with cybernetic parts. Decker also observes that The Tenth Planet plot is based on the "base under siege" scenario, a popular science-fiction device that has been reused in many subsequent Doctor Who stories, and that this serves as a metaphor for evil.

Graham Sleight notes that The Tenth Planet was produced at a time when modern medicine was pioneering transplant surgery, lending a sense of topicality to Davis and Pedler's concept for malevolent cyborgs. He also finds contemporary significance with the 1960s rocket programmes, and notes that the multinational makeup of the Antarctic base crew is particularly noteworthy, having no precedent in earlier Doctor Who stories. However, he is disappointed by the overall execution of The Tenth Planet serial, finding the Cybermen "dull, stereotyped villains" and the portrayal of the Antarctic base staff dependent on "national stereotypes".

The introduction of the concept of regeneration in The Tenth Planet is noted as a landmark in the show's history, and it has been credited with establishing the longevity of the television series by ensuring the survival of the character of The Doctor. Accounts differ as to the reason for Hartnell's departure from the programme; the actor's poor health is often cited, while other claims state that he was dissatisfied with the increasingly "adult" nature of the programme's scripts. Regardless of Hartnell's reasons to quit, Muir notes that while Hartnell's departure initially created a serious problem for the production team, they took the opportunity to create "an elegant, inspired solution to a casting problem" that has endured in the programme's folklore.

Commercial releases

In print

A novelisation of this serial, written by Gerry Davis, was published by Target Books in February 1976. It was the first Hartnell-era serial novelisation to be commissioned by Target, and the first new adaptation of a Hartnell adventure to be published in nearly ten years.

The novelisation largely follows the original script, but places the action in the year 2000 rather than 1986, as well as restoring the Doctor to the third episode. Also, in the first scene in which the Doctor, Ben and Polly appear (in the TARDIS), the Doctor is beginning to show signs of his failing health; sometimes mistakenly addressing Ben and Polly as "Ian" and "Barbara", thereby revealing signs that all is not as it should be. Also, the regeneration of the Doctor occurs in the TARDIS differently. The Doctor uses what appears to be a rejuvenation chamber that assists him in his regeneration.

Home media
The story was released on VHS in the UK in 2000 from BBC Video, with the fourth episode reconstructed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team using still photos, existing clips and the surviving audio soundtrack. This release was a double-tape set entitled "Doctor Who: The Cybermen Box Set: The Tenth Planet and Attack of the Cybermen". In the U.S. and Canada both stories were released individually in 2001. The existing clips from the missing final episode – 8 mm film recordings made by an unknown Australian fan, and a 16mm film clip of the regeneration (from a 1973 edition of Blue Peter) – were included in the DVD release Lost in Time in 2004. The only surviving clip of the regeneration was also released as a special feature on the DVD releases for The Three Doctors and Castrovalva.

The story was individually released on DVD on 14 October 2013, with the missing fourth episode animated along with additional extra features, including the original reconstruction of episode four from the 2000 VHS release, and a special documentary, Frozen Out, on the making of the story. The serial, along with the newly-animated fourth episode, is also contained on the "Regenerations" box set, released on 24 June 2013.

Music release

The soundtracks for The Tenth Planet and The Invasion, put together from fan-made recordings, along with a bonus disc, The Origins of the Cybermen, an audio essay by Cyberman actor David Banks, were released on CD in a collector's tin called Doctor Who: Cybermen.

A CD of stock music used in this serial was released in 2000. It was mastered from 1960s vinyl records rather than original archive tapes, resulting in reduced dynamic range with crackle and rumble present throughout. The release contains numerous cues that were not used in the story, and is missing one track that was used.

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Doctor Who missing episodes
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1966 British television episodes
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Television episodes set in Antarctica
Doctor Who serials novelised by Gerry Davis
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Ben Moreell
naval officer business executive
Designer resident, engineering construction projects, St. Louis, 1913-1917; appointed Lieutenant, Civil Engineer Corps, United States Navy, 1917; advanced through grades to admiral, United States Navy, 1946; chief Bureau Yards asnd Docks, chief civil engineers, United States Navy, 1937-1945; chief material division, Navy Department, 1945-1946; retired, 1946; president, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 1947-1952; chief Executive officer, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 1947-1957; Chairman of the Board, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 1947-1958; director, member Executive Committee, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 1947-1965.
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Ben Moreell, naval officer, business executive. Decorated World War I Medal with star, Distinguished Service Medal with gold star, Legion of Merit (United States), Medal Honor and Merit (Haiti), Commander Order British Empire; recipient numerous medals, awards from American Concrete Institute, Freedoms Foundation, others, from 1934; honorary vice president Naval History Foundation.
Moreell, Ben was born on September 14, 1892 in Salt Lake City. Son of Samuel and Sophia (Sossnitz) Moreell.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, 1913. Doctor of Engineering, Washington University, 1942. Student, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, 1933.
Doctor of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1944. Other honorary degrees, latest being Doctor of Laws, Grove City College, 1966.
Ben Moreell has been listed as a noteworthy naval officer, business executive by Marquis Who's Who.
Chairman task force water resources and power 2d Hoover Commission, 1953-1955;board visitors United States Naval Academy, 1953-1955, Chairman of the Board, 1955, chairman Special Advisory Commission Future Development Academy Facilities, from 1961. Member of national strategy committee American Security Council. Chairman of the Board emeritus Americans for Constitutional Action.
Member American Iron and Steel Institute (honorary vice president), American Society of Civil Engineers (honorary), American Concrete Institute (honorary, past president), Society American Military Engineers (honorary member, past president), Military Order World Wars (life), U.A. Naval Academy Alumni Association (honorary), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (honorary), Newcomen Society England, Army-Navy Club (past president) (Washington). Army-Navy Country Club (Arlington, Virginia). Duquesne Club (Pittsburgh).
Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Clara Klinksick, October 19, 1923 (deceased 1958). Children: Marion, Patricia. Married second, Mistress Harry Anderson, December 12, 1960 (deceased 1971): married 3d, Jessie Grimm, July 14, 1971.
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The Community Infrastructure Levy will largely replace section 106 (s106) developer contributions, although these can still be used, in particular for site-specific infrastructure and to provide affordable housing.
Because of the complexity of the Community Infrastructure Levy, the resources needed to establish a charge and to implement it and the likelihood of no financial advantage towards the funding of infrastructure in the borough, our Cabinet agreed in 2014 that until we have greater certainty about the future of the Community Infrastructure Levy under the current, or a future, government, we should delay the introduction of a Community Infrastructure Levy charging schedule.
You can find more details about this in the Cabinet report of July 2014 about the Community Infrastructure Levy [196kb].
The government carried out a consultation on reforming developer contributions, including proposed changes to the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 (as amended). The consultation closed on 31 January.
We will be considering the implications of these proposals and reviewing the previous decision we made to put the Community Infrastructure Levy on hold. The viability evidence that we prepared to support the Local Plan in 2017 has taken into account potential future Community Infrastructure Levy rates. This evidence will be available to inform an emerging Community Infrastructure Levy charge, subject to the need to update it to take into account of any changes the government proposes to the Community Infrastructure Levy.
We can only introduce the levy once we have prepared and adopted a Community Infrastructure Levy charging schedule. This must go through a process of consultation and independent examination before we can adopt it.
You can find out more information about the Community Infrastructure Levy on the GOV.UK website.


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Some of these weapons are meant to inhibit the enemy by destroying their weapons and other equipment. While there are some of these devices that can cause injury to human adversaries, many of these modern developments are capable of completely annihilating a group of soldiers. A lot of these things look like props out of an alien invasion movie. With our new weapon technology, we are able to boldly go where no man has gone before in warfare.
Back in the early days of guns, the weapons and munitions were quite simplistic and the shooter was lucky to come close to the target. Our weaponry development has been upgraded a lot since those times and is now implementing laser technology.
Experts in our American military have designed a bullet that follows the path of a laser. The bullet even has tiny wings that helps it stay on course or even change directions to hit the desired target. They hit with deadly precision and the shooter does not have to worry about missing anymore. These specialized bullets are being used in guns and larger weapons.


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Arthur Hayes' 'Coconut Bribery Comment' Blocked by Judge
A US District Judge blocked prosecutors from presenting the so-called "coconut comment" during the criminal trial of BitMEX Co-founder Arthur Hayes and other crypto exchange executives. The government will not be able to use this argument during the trial in March, District Judge John Koeltl...
Thai ruling party MP calls for due diligence from Excise Department to study the crypto market carefully before imposing any tax
Difficulty follows hash rate to hit levels never seen before, underscoring miners' faith in long-term profitability
US online trading platform Robinhood has launched a beta program for its crypto wallet, and it began to roll out the wallets to 1,000 customers from the top of its WenWallets waitlist. By March, the program is set to cover 10,000 customers before the feature is activated for the rest of...
Web 3.0 Conference Will Explore the Future Capabilities of Web 3.0 and How It Will Revolutionize the Internet
Web 3.0 online event will take place from 26th-27th January with 50+ of the world's leading Web 3.0 innovators, building the future of the decentralized web. Over two days, we will explore the new technologies enabling the Web 3.0 revolution, to understand the philosophical and societal...
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Let's talk about the future of the internet. It is not solidified, and open internet is far from guaranteed. The future of the internet is being molded, shaped, & developed through a series of cascading steps that will either help or hinder the future. Take the Web 3.0 movement as...
The social media giant Twitter has taken further tentative steps into the world of Ethereum (ETH) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – by moving to allow some users to use verified NFTs as their profile pictures. And the firm has also apparently created an account on the invite-only ethereum-based...
Medical professionals have developed ways to track and store personal health data securely within the blockchain
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Questions ranged from whether Bitcoin (BTC) could potentially transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, to whether crypto mining can be considered "wasteful," as lawmakers in the US House of Representatives discussed the energy impact of crypto mining during a hearing...
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Having a storage unit is useful for storing a wide variety of different things. Need to store a lot of lumber between building projects? A storage unit is the perfect solution. However, if you plan on keeping your lumber in self-storage, you need to make sure you're storing it properly. Today in the Affordable Family Storage blog, we'll give you some advice on storing your lumber.
If you're storing lumber in a storage unit for a long period of time, you want it to be as dry as possible. If you're storing wood that's holding moisture, you risk the lumber getting ruined. Make sure that your lumber is dry before putting it away.
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For first time ever, Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh will all have floats in Vancouver's Pride Parade
By Tessa VikanderStarMetro Vancouver
Mon., July 2, 2018timer4 min. read
VANCOUVER—This summer, for the first time ever, the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations will all have their own floats in Vancouver's Pride Parade, and six of the parade's seven grand marshals are Indigenous.
The Aug. 5 parade, organized by the Vancouver Pride Society, is a cornerstone event in the city's LGBTQ culture and community. The Indigenous nations on whose unceded land the city sits will be full participants in the parade, marking its 40th anniversary.
Orene Askew, councillor with the Squamish Nation and a member of the nation's Pride team, said her community's participation in the parade means Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ people can no longer be ignored. This year is the first time the nation will have a float in the parade.
"When you go to events in Vancouver, they do the traditional territory acknowledgement and it almost feels like it's scripted, they have to say it, but by us being in it now ... we want to be at the table, we just want to be included," she said.
Askew — also known as DJ O Show — is a performer and youth worker. She wouldn't say what she and the team are planning for the parade other than that "it's really cool, and it really represents the Squamish Nation" and that she would be DJing on the float.
She said she's hoping for 100 people on the float, and that as parade day draws closer, more people are coming out to the Squamish Pride team's bi-weekly planning meetings.
At the last meeting, she said, when people were introducing themselves, many said they weren't even two-spirited or LGBTQ. Askew recalls many saying, "We are here because we want to support our Two Spirited members and the ones who are afraid to come out."
The term "Two Spirit" is used by some Indigenous people to describe the fluidity of their gender and sexuality and its interconnectedness with their spirituality.
Laurie McDonald, founder and director of the Greater Vancouver Native Cultural Society, was chosen as a grand marshal and will help lead the parade. He's Two Spirit and from the Enoch Cree nation near Edmonton. McDonald has been involved with the parade since its inception, but this is the first time he recalls there being an Indigenous grand marshal.
"I think it's awesome that the nomination came from someone in the community," he said. "It's awesome for the fact that we finally have an Indigenous person or Indigenous organization recognized."
McDonald remembers the 1970s and '80s, when many queer and Two Spirit Indigenous people fled their reserves due to homophobia, only to come to Vancouver and find themselves the targets of racism. Two Spirit people were well respected in Indigenous communities before they were colonized, he said.
"A lot of us came in there as young people with degrees etc., but you go into one of the gay clubs (and) they were always saying, 'Oh, there comes one of the squaws, there comes one of the drunk squaws,'" he recalled. Sometimes, to fit in with the broader queer community, queer Indigenous or Two Spirit people would pretend to be Chinese or Filipino, he said.
To address the homophobia, McDonald organized with other Indigenous people to form the Greater Vancouver Native Cultural Society. The name, was purposefully vague about its association with the queer community, because he and his fellow organizers didn't want their families to know they were LGBTQ or Two Spirit.
But today things are different. People can be out as Two Spirit and still live in their communities, he said.
"This is what we try to work for, all the time, is for our nations to accept them," McDonald said. "Now they don't have to leave the reserves in order to live, work and play and get married. They can go home and do that, they don't have to hide in the cities. That's why I'm so happy this is out in front right now."
The other parade grand marshals who are Indigenous are a collective of youth who live with HIV. According to Pride's website, they created a film and speaking series called A Mile in Our Moccasins to provide information about HIV and sexual health that they felt was lacking for queer youth.
Andrea Arnot, executive director of the Vancouver Pride Society, said these young people are "a nod to looking towards the future."
The Musqueam Nation has had floats in the parade for the past two years, Arnot said, but it's the first time that the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Squamish Nation have floats.
"It's an important representation for their own communities ... but also (the floats will be) representing where we live and where the parade is held."
Tessa Vikander is a Vancouver-based reporter covering identity and inequality. Follow her on Twitter: @tessavikander
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Сомалійське повстання або Англо-сомалійська війна — військові дії між Державою дервішів та Британською імперією за підтримки Італії та Ефіопії у 1899–1920 роках. В період Першої Світової війни дервішам допомагали Німецька імперія та Туреччина.
Повстання припинилося після того як Британська авіація розбомбила столицю повстанців Талех у лютому 1920 року.

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Agriculture, Food Security
Poverty in Zimbabwe
Poverty in Zimbabwe seems like a fact of life. However, Zimbabwe used to have some of the best health and education statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, political and economic crises in recent years have exacerbated poverty and brought with it a host of social problems. Between 1990 and 2003 the poverty rate rose from 25 % to 63%. Deterioration of infrastructure has isolated rural communities and led to a high poverty rate in these rural areas. This isolation has also contributed to a decrease in farm income and production as a result of inaccessibility to markets. As such, food shortages in the country are rising. HIV infection, though declining, remains at 18 percent, one of the highest rates of infection in the world.
As a result of the poverty in Zimbabwe, which is concentrated in the Matabeleland North where 70 percent of inhabitants are classified as poor, migration of male heads-of-household has increased the number of female-led families. Since women typically have less access to economic opportunity and credit, these households are incredibly disadvantaged, as many of them are also in arid areas without irrigation.
Before independence and the shift towards smallholder agriculture in the country, Zimbabwe relied upon two sectors of agriculture: large scale commercial cash crops and small scale food production. But land reforms by the government have forced a transition to small scale agriculture across the board, which has led to much unemployment and a difficult changeover process. Capital investment is almost nonexistent in Zimbabwe because of sanctions and economic crises, further hindering economic growth.
One key to fighting poverty in Zimbabwe is stimulating agricultural growth through investment in basic infrastructure. Nearly 40 percent of the country's roads are in poor condition; fixing them will provide rural areas with better access to water, seeds, fertilizer and other basic agricultural supplies. Such a move would also give the country's farmers better access to markets. Other infrastructure investments along this line could include irrigation systems, water sanitation, and railway access.
Like several other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Zimbabwe needs to become more politically and economically stable if any progress is to be achieved in the region. Ultimately, if political stability is achieved there, new investments in infrastructure could be made, stimulating economic growth and helping to decrease poverty rates. Western markets could also begin to reap the benefits of raw materials from one of the most resource-rich regions in the world.
– Martin Drake
Source: Rural Poverty Project, World Bank
Photo: Action Aid
July 10, 2014 /by Borgen Project
Tags: Poverty, Poverty in Zimbabwe, Resources, Rural, Stability, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zimbabwe
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Let your ears take a breather from that bass and feast your eyes and mind instead on a screening about music. MEOKO recommends a film for your movie night or Sunday lie in, starting off with a documentary that captures the music and party scene in one country: Belgium.
Although 'The Sound of Belgium' does focus on one country, topical themes in the universal clubbing and music spheres do play a major part in the film. Topics that are current in today's landscape include the effects of gentrification on clubs, commercialisation of underground music styles, and the race to find the most rare records.
BELGIUM: WWII to TODAY
"Belgium. The Battlefield of Europe. The place where, in 1815, Napoleon would meet his defeat. The Battle at Waterloo would become the foundation of modern Europe. Napoleon was not the first to seek rule over the territory that would later become Belgium. To keep the warring nations apart, Belgium was founded in 1830, to form a buffer. To conquer Europe, one had to go through Belgium. A country for people that had been ruled and conquered so often, that these people did not really care who was in charge, anymore. They would just do as they had always done. Work the land, work hard and then... party harder".
The 'Sound of Belgium' shows the way Belgians partied since World War II. Little do people know, Belgium played a key role in the electronic music scene with artists and labels of the past that are still having a big influence on artists today. This film focuses mainly on the eighties and nineties of the past centuries, during the time when Belgium was at the forefront of the electronic music scene.
Exclusive images from the eighties and nineties are interspersed with interviews of interesting and influential people that have meant something in Belgian music history. Among them, Renaat Vandepapeliere, who is the founder of the acclaimed R&S Records, and Dan Lacksman, a Belgian sound engineer, most famous for being one third of the synthpop group, Telex. Also Herman Gillis, who is the founder of a real analogue, solid hardware instrument, the Sherman Filterbank, and above that a gifted producer in the new-beat era has several interesting remarks. Besides them, legendary producers such as CJ Bolland, Eddy De Clercq, Lou Deprijck, Nikkie Van Lierop and many more appear in this film. Even interviews of non-Belgians such as The Advent, Joey Beltram and 808 State are shown.
INNOVATORS OF SOUND: THE DARKER SIDE OF BELGIUM
These legendary music maniacs explain why Belgium has developed their own scene and sound for many years, starting in the mid-eighties. Belgian music was typically characterised as a marching sound, which was much more aggressive in comparison to the typical happier sounds coming from the States, such as eighties band Front 242 and The Neon Judgement.
All these interviewees were the forerunners of a typical electronic music genre and culture that lasted for several years. DJ Dikke Ronny (DJ Fat Ronny) accidentally invented a brand new genre, New Beat, which put Belgium on the worldwide electronic music map. In the nightclub Ancienne Belgique in Antwerp he played the 45-rpm EBM record "Flesh" by A Split-Second at 33-rpm, with the pitch control set to +8. This created an odd but cool and danceable vibe. From this day, in the late eighties, New Beat was born.
HIGHWAY CLUBS
New Beat was a success and during the nineties, people would come from all over Europe to experience the club culture with evocative names such as Boccaccio, Extreme, Cherry Moon, Balmoral and At the Villa. Here is when Sunday day clubbing became popular amongst clubbers. During the weekend, when one club closed, people would continue the party, driving to the next club located in another town, stopping by at gas stations to take their morning showers along the way.
DOWNFALL AND FUTURE
Further in this documentary, you can see this incredible music genre infiltrate in the commercial pop music. The honesty of the legendary new beat artists is remarkable. You can see the comparison with several music genres today. For example the typical minimal sound invented by M_nus came up incredibly fast, but also disappeared after several years as a popular genre amongst clubbers.
This downfall did not mean the end of the Belgian story. These big nightclubs did still exist and the music evaluated to a forerunner of techno, house and trance music. Several years this mega clubbing experienced glory days in Belgium. Unfortunately for these clubs, their longevity did not last until today, due to clashes with the police and authorities. Gentrification and the war on drugs were main reasons behind the closure of these clubs. A story all too familiar, nowadays.
Music, nightlife, clubs, artists, producers, hardware, fashion and even drugs. 'The Sound of Belgium' covers it all. If you want to experience the Belgian music scene that influenced the whole electronic music world, you should definitely watch this documentary and be surprised about the legacy that Belgium has left behind. This is also a must-see for every electronic music lover, as it covers topics that are all too current in today's landscape.
New Beat Anthems:
A Split Second - Flesh: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKp9AADua0
101 - Rock to the Beat: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YdtxmzUwqQ
2 Bodys - Astoria: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baKsAlzQCf4
Public Relation - Eighty Eight: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeX7skgO4U
Two DJ's - The Creation: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYVCKkzR63Q
90s Belgian sound:
Lords of Acid - Is It On Acid: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hkwtZ29uFc
T99 - Anasthasia: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLWzFda6C60
The Mackenzie - Higher in the Sky: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxbTF1dl2Vw
At the Villa People - Open Your Eyes: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu9j3k8p5Mg
Spokesman - Acid Creak: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9K8qlGmLXA
Cherry Moon Trax - The House of House: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZMf716hCZw
Afterboys - Welcom To The Afterclub: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDiw84ZBJuw
The Movie: https://watch.tsob.be/
The Trailer: httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaBDLS6sYPs
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