Following is a summary, by Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, chairman of the National Governors' Association, of the organization's report "Time for Results: The Governors' 1991 Report on Education."
It's It's Time for Results: The Governors' 1991 Report on Education, a conversation among governors with the rest of the world welcome to listen in.
It asks seven of the toughest questions that can be asked about education in the U.S.A., questions that must be answered if there are to be better schools. It sets up ways to keep up with what states do with the answers to these questions for the next five years, until 1991.
Better schools mean better jobs. Unless states face these questions, Americans won't keep our high standard of living. To meet stiff competition from workers in the rest of the world, we must educate ourselves and our children as we never have before.
So What Were The Tough Questions?
Why not pay teachers more for teaching well?
What can be done to attract, train, and reward excellent school leaders?
Why not let parents choose the schools their children attend?
Aren't there ways to help poor children with weak preparation succeed in school?
Why are expensive school buildings closed half the year when children are behind in their studies and many classrooms are overcrowded?
Why shouldn't schools use the newest technologies for learning?
How much are college students really learning?
How Did You Find the Answers?
At our Idaho meeting in August 1985, the governors divided into seven task forces, one for each question. For the past 12 months, governors have led hearings around the country. We have talked with hundreds of parents, students, decisionmakers, and scholars. More than 1,000 people sent in written suggestions and testimony. Individuals and educational groups all participated .
The governors' advice doesn't beat around the bush. Here are some of the recommendations that attracted my attention.
Now is the time to work out a fair, affordable career-ladder salary system that recognizes real differences in function, competence, and performance of teachers.
States should create leadership programs for school leaders.
Parents should have more choice in the public schools their children attend.
The nation-and the states and school districts-need better report cards about results, about what students know and can do.
School districts and schools that don't make the grade should be declared bankrupt, taken over by the state and reorganized.
It makes no sense to keep closed half a year the school buildings in which America has invested a quarter of a trillion dollars while we are undereducated and overcrowded.
States should work with 4- and 5-year-olds from poor families to help them get ready for school and to decrease the chances that they will drop out later.
Better use of technologies through proper planning and training for use of videodiscs, computers, and robotics is an important way to give teachers more time to teach.
States should insist that colleges assess what students actually learn while in college.
These are only some of the most important ideas.
But Was There No Common Thread?
Yes, there was. This sums it up: The governors are ready for some old-fashioned horse-trading. We'll regulate less, if schools and school districts will produce better results.
The kind of horse-trading we're talking about will change dramatically the way most American schools work. First, the governors want to help establish clear goals and better report cards, ways to measure what students know and can do. Then, we're ready to give up a lot of state regulatory control-even to fight for changes in the law to make that happen- if schools and school districts will be accountable for the results. We invite educators to show us where less regulation makes the most sense. These changes will require more rewards for success and consequences for failure for teachers, school leaders, schools, and school districts. It will mean giving parents more choice of the public schools their children attend as one way of assuring higher quality without heavy-handed state control.
We don't want to be misunderstood here. We're not ready to bargain away minimum standards that some states are just now setting. But we have learned that real excellence can't be imposed from a distance. Governors don't create excellent schools; communities--local school leaders, teachers, parents, and citizens- do.
Reading through the reports reminded me of the best advice of a famous Tennessean, guitarist Chet Atkins, who says: "In this life, you have be mighty careful where you aim because you're likely to get there." Governors have confidence that if we can agree with schools and school districts on the right goals and give them enough authority to do what they need to do, then they can take American schools and their students where America wants them to go.
All the Governors Have Agreed On All of This?
No, this report is for the sole purpose of helping governors be better governors. It is our best advice to each other. We have not tried to develop a consensus on every issue, as we do when we speak as an association to the President or to Congress. Each report reflects the views of the governors who served on that task force. We hope it will be used to build the consensus that counts-in states, in school districts, and in individual school buildings.
What Makes This Report Different From All the Other Education Reports We've Seen?
The governors themselves are doing it.
We're tackling seven tough issues that professional educators usually skirt.
We're setting up a way to keep up with results for five years.
Why Is Getting the Governors Involved Such a Big Deal?
Because without the governors' leadership, most of what needs to be done won't get done.
Here's what H. Ross Perot--who's done a few difficult things in his life--had to say about his yearlong fight to reform the Texas public schools: "It was the hardest, meanest, bloodiest thing I've ever been in." Mr Perot added: "People have been to see me about how to do what we've done in their states. I tell them, unless you can get the governor involved, don't even start. It will be a waste of your time."
American public education has fallen into some deep ruts. Some of the changes that need to be made are so deep and will take so long that unless the governors push, small changes will be labeled reforms and nothing much will happen except spending more money.
No one else can set the agenda in a state the way the governor can. The governor's agenda becomes the state's agenda and the state's agenda is the nation's agenda, especially on education, which is the responsibility of states.
If the Governors Are So Crucial to Education, How Did They Let the Schools Get Into This Shape?
The governors have been helping, especially for the past four or five years. Almost any governor will tell you that his or her state has "the finest new education-reform program in America," most of them enacted since 1982. Most states have initiatives like the ones we have in Tennessee: basic skills first; computer skills next; summer schools for gifted children in the sciences, the humanities, and international studies; more pay for outstanding teachers and school leaders; more language requirements; a longer school year; chairs and centers of excellence at the universities; and more help for adults who need basic skills, computer skills, and new job skills.
But before 1982, governors were less involved. Most states had moved their top education officials away from the governor's direct control. The federal government, the federal courts, and the teachers' unions increased their say about policy and management of public schools.
Still, state constitutions and laws establish the basic framework for how we operate our schools. So, we can change the way our colleges educate our future principals and teachers, and the way we certify that they are ready to go into the classroom-and remain there-and we can change the way we assess their performance. We can find new ways to let parents be involved more in their children's education.
Well, What Has Gotten The Governors' Attention?
Jobs. More than anything, it is the threat to the jobs of the people who elect us.
The one thing that has brought it home to most of us is that we have been traveling. Mike Mansfield told me in June that Governors from 49 states have been to Japan since he has been ambassador, some of them many times. What we see when we go are children who learn more languages and go to school more days than our children. In Korea we see people in one of the most literate nations working seven days a week for $3,000 a year. Even in the poorest parts of China, we find children studying English.
When Japanese plants come to our states, we have to set up Saturday schools because the Japanese want their children to learn more math than we teach during the week.
U.S. 8th graders' math skills rank 9th among 12 major industrialized countries of the world.
It's not unusual for one-third of the college freshmen in the U.s. to read below a 7th-grade level.
Between 1971 and 1982, there was a net loss of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds' knowledge about and ability to use scientific principles. And there has been no improvement in advanced mathematical problem-solving ability.
In our jobs as governors, we also see firsthand that high school dropouts are three times more likely to be unemployed than high-school graduates.
And we see every day how huge changes in the structure of America, its families and population, make our crusade for better schools even harder. In 1985, just 7 percent of our households had a working father, a mother who stayed home, and two or more children. Of all the children born in 1983, 59 percent will live with one parent before reaching age 18. We are told that by the year 2000, approximately one-third of our population will be "minority." Already more than half the students in many of the nation's largest public schools are non-white, and this percentage is certain to increase.
What this means to us is that while competition overseas is getting stiffer, getting results at home is getting harder-and more urgent-because children from low-income, single-parent, and minority families are more likely to be poor, more likely to drop out of school and, therefore, less likely to develop the strong skills needed to find and keep a good job.
Our report is named the governors' "1991 Report" because it looks ahead for five years, but it will take keeping better schools on the front burner for longer than that.
The governors are in this for the long haul. This year we are giving schools more attention than we ever have in the 78-year history of our association. Our concern is bipartisan. The co-chairmen of this report are Bill Clinton of Arkansas, a Democrat who is vice chairman of both the National Governors' Association and the Education Commission of the States this year and will be chairman of both next year, and Tom Kean of New Jersey, a Republican who is chairman of ECS this year. Governor Kean's task force on teaching has reminded us of some good common-sense advice: "Follow through is everything." Change is going to take commitment, bard work, and cooperation.
And we know it takes money. Education is the number one expense for every state. States now pay more than 50 percent of the total spending for public schools, and nearly one-third of the cost is in higher education. This past year, education spending in the states increased faster than ever. We have found raising new funds for better schools is easier than raising it for more of the same.
So the Governors Themselves Are Going To Do All of This?
Absolutely not. That is another major thread that weaves through these reports. We know we need help. We can set the agenda, rally the troops, provide the leadership, but we must have help from professional educators to design the strategies and achieve the results.
Tho many of us have spent too much time during the last few years battling with educators to secure real reforms. The battles were necessary. But they took time that could have been spent working with educators to develop even better strategies and even more support.
Governors want a new compact with professional educators in America so we can lead a coalition of everyone interested in better schools. We want to take the next steps together.
That is why we are joining with the Education Commission of the States and the Council of Chief State School Officers to devise a system to keep up with the results of this report on a yearly basis. That is why we have invited to our Hilton Head meeting leaders of the major professional associations and unions. We want them to know we are ready to lead ... and to listen.
Will You Have a Report Card Every Year Comparing One State to Another?
No. We won't be giving grades. But we will report what is happening in each of the seven areas in each state. That should help set the nation's agenda for what is important and successful--and unsuccessful-- making schools better. It is up to each state what each state does.
Again, What Is Really So Different About This Report?
The governors are ready to provide the leadership needed to get results on the hard issues that confront the better schools movement. We are ready to lead the second wave of reform in American public education.
The Governors' 1991 Report is not a clarion call like A Nation at Risk, or a comprehensive survey like E.C.S.'S Report of the Task Force on Education for Economic Growth, or a single bold strategy, like A Nation Prepared, Carnegie's report on teaching.
Governors, preparing to lead a coalition to persuade citizens that better schools--created by the strategies in this report--mean better jobs.


Because I don't like MyISM tables. Or, I like MyISM tables less.
But are you actually using transactions in the database (or MySQL's attempt at foreign keys)? Else it's just a world of DBA pain you're entering for no gain.
If you're switching to InnoDB and you expect your tables to significantly shrink in size sometime, do make sure that you have innodb_file_per_table enabled, or you won't be able to recover any of your freed space. I'm experiencing this problem first-hand at the moment.
IMNSHO, MySQL is just a glorified flat-file interface and only really good for quick and dirty hack jobs. It's a real shame that PostgreSQL isn't more ubiquitous.
A few years ago I ran into similar issues with InnoDB. I had a 20G partition (I'll never need more than that, right?!) that I had put MySQL on, only to later discover the evil single ibdata1 file. It wasn't until I couldn't write to the database anymore that I noticed that it filled!
I will say though, that I was glad that I had went to InnoDB in the end. The FKey integrity saved my but on a few occasions. That being said, referential integrity doesn't exactly speed things up, nor is it even the default in some of the PHP applications out there. In the context of a wiki though, I think it just might be worthwhile though since on a large wiki with constant use, a daily cronjob backup, combined with table locks on MyISAM tables, is just as painful. Innodb with the –single-transaction switch to mysqldump I think is probably worth the extra overhead. Also, if you don't have stable power, I wouldn't go near MyISAM with a 10ft. pole.
At one point, I even went through the hassle of setting up master/slave. Another fresh new hell 😉 I swear, even with the master having filesystem/hdd caching disabled, sync mounted volumes etc, the master would fall behind the slave (heterogeneous machines in almost every way) probably 80% of the time the power kicked out. And of course, every time the slave was ahead of the master, I had to dump/restore and replay the binlogs (as opposed to going in and hand fixing rows, resetting autoincrement counters, etc.).
Personally, I would just suggest backing up the entire database, and test blowing away the MySQL data directory in a VM to get a feel for the commands, and restoring your setup to a nice clean setup with the split table InnoDB option. It will help with table lock issues, and give you a more reliable mysqldump, IMHO. Just make sure to leave the MediaWiki tables that need MyISAM alone (ie: counters and fulltext tables). Another nice trick, if memory serves me, was that TRUNCATE with split InnoDB tables will actually reclaim space and be very quick compared to deleting all rows, which just marks the space as free in the tables on disk files.


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The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group in Britain which existed from 1956 to 1964, when it became Militant, an entryist group in the Labour Party.

Formation

After the dissolution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Ted Grant and his supporters were expelled from the RCP's successor The Club in 1950 and formed the International Socialist Group.   They went on to fuse with supporters of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International in Britain as the Revolutionary Socialist League in 1956 and were recognised as the official British section at its fifth world congress in 1957. The RSL held its first congress in 1957.

It was an entryist group within the Labour Party that published Socialist Fight. In 1958 the group was recognised as the British section of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International and, after the reunification in 1963, the British section of the Fourth International. However, the League registered substantial political differences at the 1965 World Congress, and failed to integrate other supporters of the International in Britain. The Congress recognised two sympathising sections in Britain: the RSL and what became the International Marxist Group, prompting the RSL to turn its back on the International. In 1964, the RSL founded the newspaper Militant and the group itself soon became known by this name, although the official name was still used internally.

References

External links
Catalogue of the RSL archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Political parties established in 1957
Political parties disestablished in 1964
Defunct Trotskyist organisations in the United Kingdom
Fourth International (post-reunification)
Entryists
1957 establishments in the United Kingdom
1964 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

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Q: jQuery bind to toggle opacity on elements I have the following JS which uses fadeToggle() which works fine however it does a display:none so the 3rd element which I always display jumps up so wondering if its possible to change to change the opacity to 0 so in theory the block is still there and nothing moves.
JS
$('.ty-banner__image-item.gt-banner').bind('touchstart touchend', function(e) {
    $(this).find('div.image .banner-overlay').fadeToggle('fade');
    $(this).find('.content h2, .content p:first-child, .content p:eq(1)').fadeToggle();
});

Can I toggle to set opacity to  0 on a toggle?
updated to use toggle class to add class fade which just changes opacity: 0 but need to fade it some how.
// mobile touch rubbish
    $('.ty-banner__image-item.gt-banner').bind('touchstart touchend', function(e) {
        $(this).find('div.image .banner-overlay').toggleClass('fade');
        $(this).find('.content h2, .content p:not(".button")').toggleClass('fade');
    });

A: You're right it sets display:none and the element space vanishes making the element after it takes its place, instead you need to use opacity with animate() function, just like this:
JS Fiddle 1

var toggleFlag = true;

$('#btn').on('click', function() {

  // if the toggle flag is true, we set the opacity to 0,
  // else we set it to 1, and animate the opacity property
  var op = (toggleFlag) ? 0 : 1;
  $('#second-div').stop().animate({'opacity': op}, 500);

  // finally we switch the toggle flag value to keep in control
  toggleFlag = !toggleFlag;
});
.divs {
  display: block;
  width: 150px;
  height: 100px;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
  background-color: orange;
}
#second-div {
  background-color: tomato;
}
#third-div {
  background-color: skyblue;
}

<button id="btn">animate</button>

Alternatively you can use .css() function with CSS transition like this:
JS Fiddle 2
var toggleFlag = true;

$('#btn').on('click', function() {
  var op = (toggleFlag) ? 0 : 1;
  $('#second-div').css({'opacity': op, 'transition': 'opacity 0.5s'});
  toggleFlag = !toggleFlag;
});

UPDATE:
You need to bind it on either touchstart or touchend but not both because it'll response to both events and toggle its opacity too fast that the fade effect won't be noticeable.
JS Fiddle 3

A: AFAIK, this is the behaviour of fadeToggle and you can't do much about it, but you can use an alternative method such as fadeTo which better fits your needs.
fadeTo only changes the opacity of an element, while the toggling part is something that you'll have to implement by yourself, but it shouldn't be complicated.

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Can A Clean Label Help You Achieve Brand Love?

Cleaning up a food label can be a good start, but it may not go far enough to elevate a brand.

Ben Finch, Bill Sherman | Sep 05, 2017
We are in the midst of a food renaissance. Food is no longer just an aspect of our individual lives; it's increasingly a central part of our culture. It's being used to help define who we are and the values important to us. The signs are everywhere—from celebrity chefs to bloggers to popular media covering all things food, all day, all night.
For a brand to succeed in today's fickle food culture, it needs to go beyond just being on the shopping list. The strongest brands MUST be within arm's reach or else a consumer's world is not right. According to recent Foodmix research, 58 percent of consumers admit to being a bit of a "hoarder" when it comes to having enough of a loved food brand on hand. Winning brands today understand how to create Brand Love.
But are clean label benefits the path to Brand Love? It depends. "Cleaning up" a label can be a good start, but it may not go far enough to elevate a brand. Consumers' fundamental relationship with food has shifted dramatically in the last 10 years. Foodmix's series of Brand Love studies highlights those shifts and outlines what it takes to create Brand Love in the food renaissance.
The days of simple, singularly-focused claims are seemingly over. When asked what bonds a consumer to a food brand, it's typically not that it is "fat free," "gluten free" or free from anything else, nor fortified with calcium, fiber or other functionally beneficial ingredients. That's not to say these claims and attributes don't serve a purpose or play a role. But like clean labels, chances are they are only part of the brand story—literally.
And a brand story matters—not just part of it—but the entire story. Often that story is about the journey from farm to table, but it could be from "founder to table" or "cause to table" or any other story that is true, unique and relevant to an increasingly discerning market.
Consumers are seeking food brands that are consistent with their own values, reflecting their definition of who they are or aspire to be. Our Brand Love research shows qualities strongly associated with loved food brands include "authentic" (41 percent) and "trustworthy" (39 percent). Transparency is becoming essential because truths will be discovered, so using vague or misleading health claims and buzzwords is a no-win game.
Clean labels can feed resonant brand stories. More than ever, consumers want to know and understand what they put in their bodies and feed to their families. Simple, familiar ingredients are increasingly becoming table stakes—meaning, you may not win with them, but you will almost certainly lose without them. As part of a broader story, a clean label can be a powerful tool. But the spirit of cleaning up the label must be consistent with the larger brand narrative—or it becomes another "claim" that forces a natural scrutiny by label-reading consumers.
A clean label for an over-packaged product, or for a package not using eco-friendly materials, are examples of not taking the spirit of a clean label far enough. Ingredients sourced from regions known for poor treatment of workers is another example of not completing the brand story in a meaningful manner.
In addition to a clean label being a key component of a winning brand story, a clean label needs to deliver on taste expectations. Eliminating multi-syllable ingredients at the expense of taste or satiation is a slippery slope. Consumers may be able to accept a shorter shelf life in exchange for a funky-named ingredient, but taste is another matter. No one likes the taste of medicine; and when food crosses under the line of great taste, or just familiar taste, even in the service of better nutrition, there is no turning back—the damage done to the brand can be irreversible.
Kraft cleaned up the label for its iconic mac & cheese and no one noticed. That, we believe, speaks to two dynamics. First, Kraft kept the taste profile remarkably similar. Second, clean labels alone do not create Brand Love. Consumers love Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for a lot of reasons—with or without a clean label.
Learn more about developing and delivering clean label branding from Ben Finch and Bill Sherman during the Developing and Delivering Clean Label Messaging workshop on Friday, Sept. 29 at 8:30 a.m. at SupplySide West in Las Vegas. The Workshop is underwritten by Cargill, Synergy and Tate and Lyle.
Ben Finch is vice president of new business development at Foodmix (foodmix.net). Finch has extensive experience within the agency and beverage channels. Before coming to Foodmix he served as founding partner and managing director of The Killswitch Collective for nine years, a Chicago-based creative and digital agency that combined creative energy and aesthetic diversity with an intimate, collaborative vibe. In addition to his agency background, Finch founded and served as managing member of Finch Beer Co., a production brewery offering a variety of specialty and seasonal beers throughout the year.
Bill Sherman is research director for Foodmix. Sherman has more than 30 years of experience designing and conducting consumer and B2B market research studies for food, CPG and business services companies, including numerous Fortune 100 firms. He has extensive experience in both qualitative and quantitative primary research, as well as secondary research.
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Excellent, Intermediate, Young Adult, Lynne Rae Perkins, Teens, Friendship, Love
Criss Cross is the story of several young teenagers whose paths cross over the course of a few months. Hector, Phil, Debbie, and Lenny are neighbors who like listening to their favorite radio show together. Debbie meets Peter through a housekeeping job. Hector meets Meadow and Russell in a group guitar lesson. This group of teenagers learn about friendship, growing up, and love while breaking the rules, saving lives, and finding themselves at the same time. Criss Cross focuses on the small moments that make up the people we become. The descriptive language, similes, metaphors, and figurative language that Lynne Rae Perkins uses in Criss Cross makes each character come alive for the reader. Every new chapter is the chance to step into a different character's shoes. For example, Hector talks about how Russell's thoughts were probably "wandering through his head like lurching strangers on a moving train." This Newbery Award book may be difficult for readers who prefer storytelling and plot over prose, but its simple message and insight to young adulthood will be appreciated by a more subtle audience.
Hinckley, Kristie (2017) "Criss Cross," Children's Book and Media Review: Vol. 38 : Iss. 5 , Article 51.


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Busing, No; School Choice, Yes
By Stephen Moore | July 9, 2019 | 8:40am EDT
Sen. and Democratic presidential primary candidate Kamala Harris (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
In the first Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Kamala Harris of California defended forced busing back in the 1970s as a civil rights triumph and criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for racial insensitivity for once opposing the policy.
We all want great schools for children of all racial groups and all income levels. But those of us who lived through this era know the reality of forced busing was quite different from the depiction of a civil rights triumph that Harris now says it was.
In the 1970s, this heavy-handed school integration policy — implemented across the country in cities from Boston to Milwaukee — was wildly unpopular with white and black parents. Fewer than 10% of parents of either race supported cramming 7- and 8-year-olds in crowded yellow buses and zigzagging them across cities and suburbs far away from their neighborhood schools.
You can Google busing maps in major cities in this era and you will see that the routes go here, there and everywhere as if they were designed by a drunken Soviet Politburo central planner.
The purpose was to ensure that black children in terrible neighborhoods could sit next to white kids in public schools. But it turned out the white inner-city schools that black children were shipped off to weren't too good either. And white parents were none too happy that the courts were busing their kids out of their neighborhoods as if they were laboratory rats in a social science experiment.
At that time, the social engineers — judges, politicians and political activists — thought that the quality of the school, the level of community involvement and the excellence of the teachers were less important than the racial composition of the classrooms. When you really think about it, that's a pretty racist position in and of itself.
Amazingly, and as is typical with liberal social planning, no one in government ever bothered to ask the families and communities affected what they thought about the policy.
But it soon became abundantly clear what people thought of the idea. This tumultuous era of forced busing caused widespread protests in the streets, a worsening of racial tensions and no improvement in student achievement or inner-city school performance. In my hometown of Chicago, race relations deteriorated, and the issue became a powder keg.
The goal, racial equality in education, was well-meaning, but the real-life policy outcomes were a setback for racial integration.
Today, some 40 years later, we know there is a better way to make schools colorblind — and improve student learning — without forcing kids to attend schools they don't want to. That is to expand parental choice options that include public, private and parochial schools and let the education dollars follow the children. I have visited and seen firsthand school voucher programs in Washington, D.C., and other cities benefit thousands of mostly black and Hispanic children. It is a glorious sight to see happy kids of different races and income groups together in schools that perform.
Sadly, many of the same politicians who still defend mandatory desegregation through busing of children also vehemently oppose allowing kids to get on a bus and attend schools — public or parochial or private — that parents do want for their kids. Isn't voluntary busing superior to forced busing?
Most liberals now oppose school vouchers, tax credit scholarship programs and even charter schools that allow the parents to have far more options in what schools their children attend. The political clout wielded by teachers unions has blocked school choice programs that would let minority parents have the choices that wealthier white parents do.
My former Wall Street Journal colleague Holman Jenkins reminds us in his latest column that during the height of the school busing experiment, rich white liberals pulled their kids out of the public schools entirely to avoid the turmoil that the politicians they voted for caused. Busing was for other parents' kids.
Herein lies the hypocrisy. Liberal politicians keep promising to give voice to the poor, the disadvantaged, the people of color, but they won't trust them to make decisions for themselves. They sing "power to the people" at their rallies, but they resist policies that would empower them. That is the real problem with our school system, and it is so easy to have superior and integrated classrooms if we would just give choice a chance.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. He is the co-author of "Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive the American Economy."


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Joe Manchin is a senator from West Virginia, a state of about 1.8 million people. In his last election he received around 290 thousand votes. Compare that number against the 81 million voters who elected a different Joe. Thus, the Joe that is the President has a electoral constituency nearly 280 times that of Manchin. But it's the Joe with a huge yacht and a Maserati, and who is bought and paid for by Big Energy, who actually dictates socio-economic policy. He has just today stated he will not vote for the Build Back Better legislation–which would be an enormous benefit to many, especially his own state that ranks near the bottom of socio-economic rankings. Is that what the 290K who last voted for him were hoping for? Non-representation? Go figure, but the 81 million who voted for the other Joe voted for, among other things, Medicare for all, affordable education, serious climate action, paid parental leave, voting rights, reproductive rights for women, and raising the minimum wage.
Never mind, though. Joe Coal says no to the vital BBB proposals. And his "no" vote essentially dooms the legislation. He seems constantly concerned about spending and how we can pay for the needed things addressed in BBB. Never mind that the congress again just routinely granted the Pentagon another 780 billion dollars for…uh…well…not sure for what, as we're not even in Afghanistan any longer. But that kind of scratch seems not to bother Maserati Manchin. Or, to be fair, most other members of congress as well. Again, go figure.
So, while we the people keep waiting for some payback for those 81 million votes that rid us of a piece of racist, homophobic, misogynistic, flim-flamish feces, in hopes of a better USA, it comes down to another piece of political scum who blatantly serves his corporate masters while acting as though he stands for something other than greed. In your face!
Time for that revolt, no? No, not the ballot box kind. That revolt already occurred in 2020. However, because of the corporatist government (that's "both sides of the isle", boys and girls) that clearly is blocking common sense legislation, doubtlessly killing people in the process by propping up a for-profit healthcare system, it would seem that other action need be taken. Use your imagination. With blatant voter suppression laws going unchallenged by our corrupted Supreme Court (among other SCOTUS outrages, like backing the Handmaid's Tale Texas anti-abortion abomination) I'd rule out the vote-em-out option.
Or maybe it's too late anyway–even for Maserati Manchin and his gazillions of donated dollars from his venal handlers. With a never-ending pandemic, increasing climate chaos and looming authoritarianism/fascism right in front of our faces, it would appear possibly that we have crossed a point of no return. The system is beyond repair, beyond redemption. Joe Manchin is 1/333,839, 503 of our country's population. Can you see how rotten a system it is?!
For those of you who think the system can be salvaged, the congressional switchboard number is 202-224-3121. No matter what state you're living in. But regardless do dial up the yachtsman, too, he who worries about how our tax dollars should be spent. Give him an earful. Or rant on his his office secretary who will forward the complaint to some staffer. Who will forward it to an intern. Who may be out to lunch. Be patient. The system will eventually get back to you…


Like "Get Out," Peele will write and direct the film, as well as produce alongside Sean McKittrick and Jason Blum. Peele will produce through his Monkeypaw Productions banner alongside Ian Cooper. Universal will release the film on March 15, 2019.
Universal will distribute "Us" as part of a first-look deal the studio signed with Peele last year following the success of "Get Out," which received critical acclaim and grossed $255 million worldwide against a production budget of just $4.5 million. When the deal was signed, it was reported that "Us" would have a larger budget than "Get Out," though Peele was also signed on to work on more microbudget projects with Blum.


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Kuwait expels Lebanese envoy following minister's comments on Yemen
BEIRUT (AP) – Kuwait followed Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in ordering the Lebanese charge d'affaires on Saturday to leave the emirate within two days following comments by a Lebanese minister regarding the war in Yemen. Kuwait also recalled its ambassador from Beirut.
The move came as the Arab League chief worried about the deterioration of relations between Lebanon and the rich Gulf countries following statements by Information Minister George Kordahi.
Kordahi described the war in Yemen as aggression from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He added that the war in Yemen is "absurd" and must stop because he is opposed to wars between Arabs.
Yemen has been in the throes of civil war since 2014, when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured the capital, Sana'a, and much of the country's north. This forced the internationally recognized government to flee south and then to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-led coalition went to war in March 2015, backed by the United States, in an attempt to bring the government back to power. Despite a relentless air campaign and fighting on the ground, the war has largely deteriorated to a stalemate and created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
In Beirut, several government officials met on Saturday to discuss the crisis that is likely to have major repercussions on Lebanon, which is experiencing the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history.
Besides the expulsion of the Lebanese ambassador and the recall of his envoy to Beirut, Saudi Arabia has also banned all imports from Lebanon.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib canceled his visit to Glasgow, Scotland, where he was due to attend a United Nations climate summit, to deal with the crisis with oil-rich Gulf countries.
On Friday evening, the prime minister and the Lebanese president discussed the Saudi decision and called on Kordahi to make the "appropriate decision," an apparent call for him to resign in the hope that it will ease tension.
Kordahi, a former TV show host, made the comments on a TV show before being selected for the job in September. Kordahi is close to the Christian Marada Movement, an ally of the militant group Hezbollah.
Marada leader Sleiman Frangieh told reporters on Saturday that it was up to Kordahi to decide whether or not to resign. He added that Kordahi contacted him and asked him if he should resign "but I refused because he made no mistake. I'm still with whatever decision he makes.
In Cairo, the secretary general of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, declared that the crisis provoked by Kordahi's remarks had caused a "big setback" in Lebanon's relations with the Gulf countries.
He urged the Lebanese president and prime minister to take "the necessary steps" to ease tensions, especially with Saudi Arabia. He did not specify what steps should be taken.
Aboul-Gheit also called on Gulf officials to review measures that could have negative consequences for Lebanon's already battered economy.
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A dark amber beer with a full malty palate. Slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste, and a superbly smoky flavour. A staple of Bonfire Night festivities.
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There's nothing quite like drinking the right beer at the right time. And with the wintry evenings once more settling about us and a hint of gunpowder on the breeze, what could be better than a dark British ale with its own hint of smoke to warm you as you sit by a fire?
Harvey's Brewery in Sussex
Bonfire Boy, from Harvey's brewery in Lewes, is a seasonal beer that you will only find on draught during the month of November. "The rationale behind doing seasonal brews for one month only was that they couldn't dwindle," explains Harvey's legendary head brewer, Miles Jenner.
"People waited for them to come along, they drank them in prime condition, we sold out and we moved on to the next one. You've got to have it in peak condition for that month so that people are looking forward to it the following year."
The original Harvey's Brewery drawings from 1790
Bonfire Boy was originally called Firecracker and was brewed as a tribute to the fire services who had extinguished an enormous conflagration that consumed the brewery's offices and shop in 1996. "Firecracker seemed a good name. It was a double entendre as far they'd extinguished the fire and it was a firework." But a few years and one trademark dispute later it became Bonfire Boy. "The name is given to people who march in the processions, they're Bonfire Boys and Girls. And there was one section who actually dressed as Victorian firemen, so it all worked quite well. We had Bonfire Boy with a picture of the guy in his Victorian fire brigade outfit and it was far more pertinent really than Firecracker, so I was quite pleased. It gave me an opportunity to celebrate the future rather than looking back to a fire in the past."
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The beer itself is slightly sweet but also burnt and smoky. "We're using a good percentage of crystal malt and some black malt to give it a burnt quality but hopefully not too acrid. [It has] a rounded, very full malty palate with the slight sort of burnt quality in the background."
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WARHOLIK, Joe
On December 10, 2021, Mr. Joe Warholik of St. Paul passed away at the age of 89 years. He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Evangeline; son, Ken (Deziree); 5 grandchildren…
LAMOUREUX, Philip
On December 9, 2021, Mr. Philip Lamoureux of Mallaig passed away at the age of 90 years. He is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Cecile; 4 children, Doris (Kevin) Folkes…
PELECH, Zxayven
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CARDINAL, Gregory "Robyn"
October 6, 1961 - December 7, 2021
With heartfelt sorrow the family of Gregory "Robyn" Cardinal of Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Alberta announce his passing in Edmonton on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at 60 years…
CARDINAL, Rachel
June 10, 1958 - December 6, 2021
On December 6, 2021, Rachel Cardinal of Saddle Lake, Alberta passed away at the age of 63 years. She is survived by her children, Beverly, Becky (Nathan) & Jesse; father…
PASQUAYAK, Walter
July 9, 1944 - December 6, 2021
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CRYER, Albert
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Magniac, Charles, 1776-1824 (merchant)
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Agreement of Oswald Magniac and others, 1892
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/F1/99
Scope and Contents A wrapper containing a draft and a copy of an agreement between Oswald Cecil Magniac of Hay's Wharf, Surrey, administrator of the estate and effects of Charles Magniac, deceased; Smith, Payne & Smiths of London, bankers; Samuel Whitbread M.P.; and Matheson & Co., regarding the settlement of the estate of Charles Magniac, who died intestate, 2 September 1892. There is also a second copy of the agreement, which includes schedules not found in the other versions, and four draft letters...
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson & Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_permission_form.pdf. Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers. Access to some records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS JM, Jardine Matheson Archive / Legal documents / Agreements and contracts
Bond of Charles Magniac, 1822-1823
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/F5/7
A bond (in Portuguese) of Charles Magniac to Joaquim de Souza for the sum of 12,000 patacas, dated Macao, 26 November 1822. A note added to the bond on 21 November 1823 records that the debt been settled. An English note on the back of the document describes it as a bond to the Bishop of Macao.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS JM, Jardine Matheson Archive / Legal documents / Bonds
Business letters: America, 1821-1898
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/B6/2
Scope and Contents Letters from the United States, comprised of 4,296 principal letters and 176 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Alexander G. Abell; F. Alger; Allan and Hogg; Richard Alsop; Alsop and Co.; American Guano Co.; American Watch Co.; Ammon, Caspari and Co.; Dr Alexander Anderson; J.E. Anderson; Anderson and Co.; Anderson, Weller and Co.; G.S. de Angelini (Captain of the 'Marinus'); John T. Archer; F. Argenti and Co.; Arkell, Tufts and Co.; Nicolas Tanco...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 477 (letters nos 1-347), 478 (347*-725), 479 (726-1145), 480 (1146-1513), 481 (1514-1892), 482 (1893-2169), 483 (2170-2324), 484 (2325-2531), 485 (2532-2687), 486 (2688-3061), 487 (3062-3339), 488 (3340-3450), 489 (3451-3783), 490 (3784-4149), 491 (4150-4496), 492 (4497-4926 and S1-118) and 493 (S119-176).
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Business letters: Bombay, 1822-1881
Scope and Contents There are 13,160 principal letters and 31 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Ponsonby Adair; Adam, Skinner & Co.; Peter Adams; Aga Abdool Khaluck Cazarany (also Abdool Khalie Cazarani and Hajee Adbul Khaluck Cazarany); Aga Ali Kashanee (Hajee Ali Cashanee); Aga Mahmed Cazroony (Mahmed Cazroony); Aga Mohamed Hajee Abdul Russool Cazarani; J.C. Aguiar; Rufina Angelica C. Aguiar; Alexander Mackintosh & Co.; James Allan (Magniac & Co.);...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 17 (letters nos 1-271), 18 (272-582), 19 (583-868), 20 (869-1172), 21 (1173-1492), 22 (1493-1826), 23 (1827-2033), 24 (2034-2394), 25 (2395-2623), 26 (2624-2829), 27 (2830-3200), 33 (3201-3499), 34 (3500-3826), 35 (3827-4038), 36 (4039-4319), 37 (4320-4800), 38 (4801-5178), 39 (5179-5604), 40 (5605-6039), 41 (6040-6492), 42 (6493-6885), 43 (6886-7491), 44 (7492-7983), 45 (7984-8425), 46 (8426-9001), 47 (9002-9421), 48 (9422-9884), 49 (9885-10276), 50 (10277-10794), 51 (10795-11132), 52 (11133-11544), 53 (11545-11981), 54 (11982-12164), 55 (12165-12574), 56 (12574*-12868), 57 (12869-13160 and S1-31).
Business letters: Calcutta, 1818-1893
Scope and Contents There are 8,540 principal letters and 20 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:H.W. Abbott; J. Abbott; Abdool Raxlee Isabhoy; George Ure Adam; Aga Mirza Sherazie; Aga Syed Ally; Aga Syed Saduck; Agabeg Brothers; Agricultural & Horticultural Society, Calcutta; M. di Aguiar; Agurchund Hurrukchund; Ahmuty & Co.; William Ainslie (of Shaw, Ainslie & Co. and Colvin, Ainslie, Cowie & Co.); John Alexander (of Canton); Alexander & Co.;...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 61 (letters nos 1-309), 62 (310-659), 63 (660-1010), 64 (1011-1242), 65 (1243-1519), 66 (1520-1756), 67 (1757-1979), 68 (1980-2298), 69 (2299-2756), 70 (2757-3245), 71 (3246-3776), 72 (3777-4131), 73 (4132-4562), 74 (4563-4903), 75 (4904-5285), 76 (5286-5731), 77 (5732-5938), 78 (5939-6170), 79 (6171-6369), 80 (6370-6698), 81 (6699-7095), 82 (7096-7409), 83 (7410-7706), 84 (7707-7998), 85 (7999-8310) and 86 (8311-8540 and S1-20).
Business letters: Canton, 1814-1904
Scope and Contents There are 12,706 principal letters and 218 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Abdollally Ebrahim Co. (also Abdolally Ebrahim & Co.; Abdoolally, Ebrahim & Co.; and A. Ebrahim & Co.); Acow & Co. (also Akoe & Co. and Akow & Co.); Aga Ahmed; A. and G.L. Agabeg; G.L. Agabeg & Co.; Arthur Agassiz; Aga Mahomed Ally; Agra & United Service Bank Ltd; Ahmedbhoy Rahamtoolla; William Ainslie (Shaw, Ainslie & Co. and Colvin,...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 2 (letters nos 1-321), 3 (322-563), 4 (564-844), 5 (845-946), 6 (947-1318), 7 (1319-1678), 207 (1678-2023), 208 (2024-2319), 209 (2320-2549), 210 (2550-2897), 211 (2897-3294), 212 (3296-3619), 213 (3620-3989), 214 (3989-4233), 215 (4234-4565), 216 (4566-4745), 217 (4746-5110), 218 (5111-5311), 219 (5312-5651), 220 (5652-5943), 221 (5944-6209), 222 (6210-6511), 223 (6512-6798), 224 (6796-7087), 225 (7088-7410), 226 (7410-7759), 227 (7760-8051), 228 (8052-8359), 229 (8360-8625), 230 (8626-8952), 231 (8953-8971), 232 (8971-9075), 233 (9076-9229), 234 (9230-9413), 235 (9414-9570), 236 (9571-10018), 237 (10019-10234), 238 (10235-10396), 239 (10397-10760), 240 (10761-11176), 241 (11176-11518), 242 (11519-11624), 243 (11625-11919), 244 (11920-12012), 245 (12013-12187), 246 (12188-12362), 247 (12363-12706) and 248 (S1-218). Letter no. 3295 has not been microfilmed.
Business letters: East Indies, Siam and Malaya, 1821-1898
Scope and Contents There are 11,133 principal letters and 33 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Fabian de Abaroa; G.E. Adams (Captain of the 'Reunion'); Abdool Allie; Abdool Rhamma Ben Mahomed; Abdul Rassool; Abed ben Sakur; H.E.C. Abendroth; Ackland & Boyd; Lim Acquay; [ ] Adam; J.L. Adam; William Adam (of the 'Swallow'); Adam & Co.; William Adamson; [ ] Afoune; Aga Abdul Rahim Bin Hajee Abdul Rasool (Abdul Rahim); Henry Alabaster; Major Edward Aldrich...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 87 (letters nos 1-240), 88 (241-567), 89 (568-899), 90 (900-1271), 91 (1272-1504), 92 (1505-1769), 93 (1770-2082), 94 (2083-2353), 95 (2354-2663), 96 (2664-2956), 97 (2957-3311), 98 (3312-3728), 99 (3729-3821), 100 (3822-4232), 101 (4233-4671), 102 (4672-5184), 103 (5185-5559), 103A (5560-5713), 104 (5714-6240), 105 (6241-6324), 106 (6325-6819*), 107 (6819**-7280), 108 (7281-7671), 109 (7671*-8088), 110 (8089-8496), 111 (8497-8730), 112 (8731-9348), 113 (9348*-9845), 114 (9846-10014), 115 (10015-10602) and 116 (10603-11133 and S1-33).
Business letters: Europe, 1820-1891
Scope and Contents Letters from places in Europe other than Great Britain, including Turkey, with some from Egypt. There are 6,020 principal letters and 148 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:R.B. Abbott; L.G. Adam; A.K. Agélasto; Aguirravengoa fils y Uribarren; Charles Alexander & Co.; S. Aliotti; Aliotti Frères; J. Allard; A. Allievi; Captain George Cobham Anderson (Marine Superintendent, Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong); Anderson, Höber & Co.; Jean Baptiste...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 118 (letters nos 1-332) 119 (333-800), 161 (801-970), 162 (970-1136), 163 (1137-1553), 164 (1554-1640), 165 (1641-1954), 166 (1954-2138), 167 (2139-2542), 168 (2543-2737), 169 (2738-3097), 170 (3098-3251), 171 (3252-3547), 172 (3547-3662), 173 (3662*-3813), 174 (3814-4027*), 175 (4027**-4243), 176 (4244-4454), 177 (4454*-4581), 178 (4582-4663), 179 (4664-4761), 180 (4762-4581), 181 (4582-4950), 182 (4951-5049), 183 (5050-5140), 184 (5141-5224), 185 (5224-5331), 186 (5332-5458), 187 (5459-5577), 188 (5578-5679), 189 (5680-5786), 190 (5787-5883) and 191 (5884-6020 and S1-148).
Business letters: Great Britain, 1822-1898
Scope and Contents Letters from places in Great Britain (excluding London), comprised of 8,130 principal letters and 62 secondary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Edwin Morton Abbott; J.W. Abraham; Ponsonby Adair; John Adam; Daniel D. Adamson; Henry Adamson; J.L. Adamson; J.H. Agnew; James Aikin; John Aikin; Thomas Aitken; J. Aikin, Son & Co.; William Aitchison (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); James Akroyd & Son; James Akroyd & Son Ltd; Albion Shipping Company;...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 249 (letters nos 1-260), 250 (260-436), 251 (437-666), 252 (667-914), 253 (914-1054), 254 (1055-1333), 255 (1334-1526), 256 (1527-1853), 257 (1854-2102), 258 (2103-2331), 259 (2332-2555), 260 (2556-2867), 261 (2868-3122*), 262 (3123-3377), 263 (3378-3704*), 264 (3705-3960), 265 (3961-4145), 266 (4146-4401), 267 (4402-4534), 268 (4534*-4840), 269 (4841-5073), 270 (5074-5345), 271 (5346-5642), 272 (5643-5920), 273 (5921-6166), 274 (6167-6386), 275 (6387-6614), 276 (6615-6922), 277 (6923-7158), 278 (7159-7455), 279 (7456-7708), 280 (7709-7950) and 281 (7949-8130 and S1-62).
Business letters: India, 1819-1898
Scope and Contents Letters from India (excluding Bombay, Calcutta and Madras), with some from Ceylon, Persia and Burma. There are 1,595 principal letters and 9 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Abraham & Co.; Ackland & Boyd; Robert Abercrombie; Peter Adams; Aga Mohamad Jaffer bin Mohamad Ali Saffer; Aga Mohamad Rahim Sapper; J.C. Aguiar; Richard Alexander; Amerchund Dramochande (Amarchande Dramochande); P. Anstruther; T.M. Appavoopillay & Co.; Arbuthnot...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 496 (letters nos 1-447), 497 (448-1000), 498 (1001-1466) and 499 (1467-1595 and S1-9).
Business letters: London, 1814-1898
Scope and Contents There are 20,751 principal letters and 63 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Edwin Morton Abbott; R.B. Abbott; Aberdare Patent Steam Fuel Company Ltd; Acclimatisation Society of Great Britain; William Edward Acraman; Acraman & Co.; Acraman, Thorne & Co.; Adam, Skinner & Co.; E.L. Adams; Henry Adams; Alexander Adamson; J.L. Adamson; William Adamson; Adamson & Ronaldson; Henry Unwin Addington; Aders & Hogg; Agie & Insinger,...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 287 (letters nos 1-173), 288 (174-304), 289 (305-413), 290 (414-590), 291 (591-845), 292 (846-1162), 293 (1163-1482), 294 (1483-1738), 295 (1739-1936), 296 (1937-2155), 297 (2156-2458), 298 (2459-2756), 299 (2756-3049), 300 (3050-3336), 301 (3337-3624), 302 (3625-4014), 303 (4015-4410), 304 (4411-4695), 305 (4696-4943), 306 (4944-5153), 307 (5154-5356), 308 (5357-5529), 309 (5530-5700), 310 (5701-5954), 311 (5955-6179), 312 (6180-6370), 313 (6371-6622), 314 (6623-6884), 315 (6885-7230), 316 (7231-7455), 317 (7456-7757), 318 (7759-8016), 319 (8016-8269), 320 (8270-8504), 321 (8505-8736), 322 (8737-9032), 323 (9033-9350), 324 (9350*-9661), 325 (9662-10027), 326 (10028-10408), 327 (10409-10802), 328 (10803-11098), 329 (11099-11424), 330 (11425-11682), 331 (11683-11925), 332 (11925*-12209), 333 (12210-12501), 334 (12502-12817), 335 (12818-13147), 336 (13148-13393), 337 (13394-13636), 338 (13637-13923), 339 (13924-14181), 340 (14182-14395), 341 (14396-14594*), 342 (14595-14797), 343 (14798-15004), 344 (15005-15211), 345 (15212-15437), 346 (15438-15668), 347 (15669-15881), 348 (15882-16078), 349 (16079-16266), 350 (16267-16456), 351 (16457-16672), 352 (16673-16880), 353 (16881-17099), 354 (17100-17321), 355 (17322-17551), 356 (17552-17786), 357 (17787-18030), 358 (18031-18271), 359 (18272-18499), 360 (18501-18761), 361 (18762-18996), 362 (18997-19259), 363 (19260-19514), 364 (19515-19747), 365 (19748-19774), 366 (19975-20208), 367 (20209-20443), 368 (20444-20664), and 369 (20665-20751 and S1-63). Letters nos 7758 and 18500 have not been microfilmed.
Business letters: Macao, 1813-1898
Scope and Contents There are 8,263 principal letters and 50 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Acow (Akow); Acow & Co. (also Akoe & Co. and Akow & Co.); William Adam (of the 'Swallow'); Affo; Revd José Joaquim d'Afonseca Mattos (Professor at Seminario de S. Jose, Macao); A.V. de R. Aggersborg; C. Agnew; Fernando Aguirre; Ahmed Hajee Esaac; H. Alexander; Alisch & Co.; William Allen (Captain of the 'Ann'); Frederick P. Alleyn; Angel Almeda (Captain of...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 8 (letters nos 1-79), 9 (80-406), 10 (407-675), 11 (676-928), 12 (929-1206), 13 (1207-1552), 14 (1553-1998), 15 (1999-2323), 16 (2324-2660), 192 (2661-2907), 193 (2908-3266), 194 (3267-3604), 195 (3605-4117), 196 (4118-4639), 197 (4640-5179), 198 (5180-5501), 199 (5502-5919), 200 (5920-6358), 201 (6359-6615), 202 (6616-6825), 203 (6826-7290), 204 (7291-7765), 205 (7766-8135) and 206 (8136-8263 and S1-50).
Business letters: unplaced, 1813-1900
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/B11
Scope and Contents Business letters sent from unknown places, comprised of 5,690 principal letters and 33 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:Abdool; H.H. Abercrombie; Edward James Ackroyd (Register, Supreme Court); A.E. Abraham; Achim; Acow & Co. (Akoe & Co. or Akow & Co.); James Adams (Chief Mate, 'Equestrian'); William Stanley Adams M.D. (of Glasgow); C. Murray Adamson; William Adamson; R.F. Addyman; Aderjee Sapoorjee; Afong; A.L. Agabeg Jnr; A.V. de...
Conditions Governing Access: The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 571 (letters nos 1-440), 572 (441-1141), 573 (1142-1930), 574 (1931-2607), 575 (2608-3172), 576 (3173-3902), 577 (3903-4542), 578 (4543-5197) and 579 (5198-5690 and S1-33).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS JM, Jardine Matheson Archive / In-correspondence
Declaration of Alexander Shank, 1815
A declaration by Alexander Shank that he delivered to Charles Magniac in Canton on 24 November a packet containing the last will and testament of Thomas Charles Pattle, which he had received from Pattle at Macao on 21 or 22 November 1815, dated Canton, 29 November 1815.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS JM, Jardine Matheson Archive / Legal documents / Declarations
Declaration of Charles Hope, 1854
A sworn declaration made by Charles Hope of London, tea broker, at Mansion House, London, 7 April 1854, attesting that he was acquainted with Charles Magniac, that he is also acquainted with Hollingworth Magniac of London, he being one of the executors and the sole residuary legatee named in Charles Magniac's will, and that Hollingworth Magniac is the same person mentioned in the exemplification of that will.
Lease of the Creek Hong, 1823
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/F14/3
A duplicate of a lease (in English and Chinese) by Mowqua, Hong merchant, to Charles Magniac of Buildings Nos 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Creek Hong, Canton, dated Canton, 1 November 1823. A note on the reverse of the document records that the lease has been cancelled.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS JM, Jardine Matheson Archive / Legal documents / Leases
Lease of the Imperial Hong, 1823
A copy of a lease by Charles Magniac to Robert Edwards, Richard Markwick, William Lane and Aming, the English Company's Compradore, of a factory or houses to be rebuilt at Magniac's expense on the ground formerly occupied by Factories Nos 2, 3 and 4 of the Imperial Hong, Canton, for a period of ten years from the completion of the building(s), 6 February 1823.
A copy of a lease by Charles Magniac to Xavier Yrisarri and James Matheson of Yrissari & Co. of Factory No. 7 of the Imperial Hong, Canton, with the ground of No. 6, for a period of ten years from the completion of the factory, dated Canton, 24 March 1823.
A renewal of the lease (in English and Chinese) of the Imperial Hong, Canton, of 1 July 1823, supended by war, previously letting the property from Howqua to Charles Magniac, now leasing the property from Young Howqua, heir of Howqua, Hong merchant, to Alexander Matheson, representative of Hollingworth Magniac, heir of the late Charles Magniac, dated Canton, 18 March 1845.
Ledger of Charles and Hollingworth Magniac, 1817-1818
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A1/23
General ledger 'S' of Charles and Hollingworth Magniac, Canton, including an index.
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Some of the records are unavailable due to their poor physical condition.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS JM, Jardine Matheson Archive / Accounting and related papers / Ledgers
General ledger 'T' of Charles and Hollingworth Magniac, Canton.
The general ledger of Charles and Hollingworth Magniac, Canton.
The general ledger of Charles and Hollingworth Magniac, Canton, including an index. Pages 1-17 are missing.


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Q: Cauchy-Kovalevsky Theorem: Application question I'm reading Zachmanoglou's book, and I'm having trouble interpreting how they conclude that $F(t,x,u,p)$ is analytic in their example:

Example. Let
$$
\begin{align}
u_t &= uu_x \\
u(0,x) &= 1 + x^2 \tag{$\star$}.
\end{align}
$$
Use the Cauchy-Kovalevsky Theorem to find all terms $\leq 3$ in the Taylor series about the origin.

So, for a single variable function $f$, we say it is analytic about $x_0$ if
$$f(x) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{f^{(n)}(x_0)}{n!}(x - x_0)^n. \tag{1}$$
Clearly, $f(x) = 1 + x^2$, is analytic about the origin.
They then state that, $F(t,x,u,p) = up$, is analytic about the the neighborhood $(0,0,1,0)$, and so we can apply C-K. But what is the Taylor series analog of $(1)$ to actually show this? I don't yet see how this is trivial?

Edit 1: I will include the C-K Theorem here for reference.
Theorem. Suppose that $\phi$ is analytic in a neighborhood of the origin of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and suppose that the function $F$ is analytic in a neighborhood of the point
$$(0, 0, \dots, \phi(0, \dots, 0), \phi_{x_1}(0, \dots, 0), \dots, \phi_{x_n}(0, \dots, 0))$$
of $\mathbb{R}^{2n + 2}$. Then the Cauchy problem $(\star)$ (it's really $\mathbb{R}^4$ for the example above) has a solution $u(t,x_1, \dots, x_n)$ which is defined and analytic in a neighborhood of the origin of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ and this solution is unique in the class of analytic functions.


If you ask Thon Maker, there's really no secret to these surprising postseason performances early in his NBA career.
Auburn Hills — There's no phone booth where he changes uniforms. There's no magic formula, either.
And if you ask Thon Maker, there's really no secret to these surprising postseason performances early in his NBA career.
Maybe he's right. But amid all the guesswork surrounding Blake Griffin's injury status heading into Game 1 against the Bucks, go ahead and mark Maker down as a player to watch as the Pistons prepare for a daunting task against his former team.
Acquired from the Bucks in a trade-deadline deal for Stanley Johnson two months ago, the spindly, 7-foot-1 Maker just might play an outsized role in this series, whether as a starter in place of Griffin — as he was a handful of times down the stretch in the regular season — or in his more customary role as a high-energy reserve off the bench.
Whatever the case, Maker figures to draw the unenviable task of guarding his close friend and budding NBA superstar, Giannis Antetokounmpo, in Milwaukee. And whenever he's on the court, he'll have an opportunity to remind the Bucks what they gave up on when they finally agreed to ship the former lottery pick to Detroit.
Not that he's admitting to that last part serving as any kind of added incentive, mind you.
Don't bother asking him about the series as a whole, either. Because if there's one thing that Maker has discovered about playoff basketball his first two years in the league — including last year's seven-game tug-of-war with the Boston Celtics — it's probably this: When the stakes go up, the focus has to narrow.
"This is the best time of the year," said Maker, one of only four Pistons — Zaza Pachulia, Glenn Robinson III and Jose Calderon are the others — to have played in the playoffs each of the last two seasons. "There's no injuries, there's no holding back. You literally have to leave everything on the floor.
So what does he think about the task of guarding Antetokounmpo? The NBA's leading MVP candidate averaged nearly 28 points, 13 rebounds and six assists this season while leading the Bucks to a league-best 60 wins. He also spent countless hours the last few years working out with Maker and Pistons assistant coach Sean Sweeney when both were in Milwaukee.
Still, it says plenty about Maker's unique skill set that this is even a conversation.
Maker's not an elite shooter, but his ability to knock down 3-pointers from the corner, and the mere threat he provides as a 7-footer away from the basket, helps space the floor and, at times, alters opposing lineups. He also alters shots at the rim, and what Maker lacks in strength and rebounding — his rebounding percentage is less than half of Andre Drummond's — he makes up for with his frenetic energy, particularly at the defensive end.
Drafted 10th overall out of high school in 2016, Maker, who was born in South Sudan, raised as a refugee in Australia and prepped for the NBA in North America, barely saw the court the first half of his rookie season in Milwaukee. But then-coach Jason Kidd found a spark when he inserted Maker into the lineup later that winter, and when the playoffs rolled around, the rookie seemed to thrive.
Casey saw that firsthand in a first-round matchup that spring, as Maker played a key role in sixth-seeded Milwaukee jumping to a 2-1 series lead against Casey's Toronto Raptors. His shot-blocking ability — denying All-Stars DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry at the rim — helped turn the opener in the Bucks' favor. Then in Game 3, his 11-point night, which included another 3-pointer to bury the Raptors early in the second half, effectively played Jonas Valanciunas out of Casey's lineup.
Maker forced Boston to make similar adjustments last spring, but only after sitting the first two games — both Milwaukee losses — in that first-round series. His breakout performance in Game 3 — 14 points (three 3-pointers), five rebounds and five blocked shots in 24 minutes — turned the tables. It also effectively knocked Greg Monroe out of the Celtics' rotation, as Brad Stevens went to a small-ball lineup to match Maker and the Bucks. Maker's net rating of plus-27.5 points per 100 possessions over a two-game span was a huge reason Milwaukee took the Celtics to a Game 7 last April.
The chances of that happening in this series are unlikely. Unfathomable, really, unless there's a miraculous recovery by Griffin from that knee injury. Still, that underdog role the Pistons were busy touting Friday is one that suits Maker just fine.


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Today, operators need to read code in order to completely understand what a specific policy rule actually does. This results in terrible user experience for deployers and operators. This specification aims to address this by adding very detailed descriptions for every policy rule.
Having a detailed understanding of the project's source is a requirement in order to understand policy. This results in operators having to parse source code in order to audit default policy rules, grant access to a particular API to a set of users, or restrict access to a particular API.
We could attempt to document all of the information in the policy files like we have in the past, but that is harder to maintain and not automated or enforced via code.
A better understanding of what each rule means can only help operators and developer get the policy configuration correct.
Deployers will now be able to generate a policy file that contains well written descriptions for each operation.
Developers must provide descriptions when implementing new APIs or changing RBAC for existing ones. We can add hacking check to make sure catching these gaps is automated.
This work requires implementing Policy in Code.
This work also requires extending the oslo.policy library to include descriptions and rendering of policy defaults.
By doing this, we will be providing operators with be documentation out-of-the-box. We need to ensure that all installation guides and administrator guides reference policy files with rendered descriptions.


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Francis Audiences 2015
Remarks at the beginning of the General Audience:
In these days the Church of Italy is celebrating its National Conference in Florence; cardinals, bishops, consecrated men and women, lay people, all together. I invite you to pray to Our Lady, to say a Hail Mary for them. [Hail Mary....]
CATECHESIS OF THE HOLY FATHER
Family - 32. Conviviality
Today we will reflect upon a distinctive quality of family life which is learned in the very first years of life: conviviality, in other words the attitude of sharing life's goods and being happy to be able to do so. Sharing and knowing how to share is a precious virtue! Its symbol, its "icon", is the family gathered around the dinner table. The sharing of meals — and thus, in addition to food, also of affection, of stories, of events — is a common experience. When there is a celebration, a birthday, an anniversary, we gather around the table. In some cultures it is also customary to do so at times of bereavement, to be close to those who are suffering the loss of a family member.
Conviviality is a sure barometer for measuring the health of relationships: if in a family something has gone awry, or there is some hidden wound, it is immediately understood at the table. A family that hardly ever eats together, or that does not talk at the table but watches television, or looks at a smartphone, is a "barely familial" family. When children are engrossed with a computer at the table, or a mobile phone, and do not talk to each other, this is not a family, it is like a boarding house.
Christianity has a special gift for conviviality, everyone knows this. The Lord Jesus gladly taught at the table, and sometimes portrayed the Kingdom of God as a festive banquet. Jesus also chose meal time to consign to his disciples his spiritual testament — he did so at supper — embodied in the memorial gesture of his Sacrifice: the gift of his Body and of his Blood as salvific Food and Drink, which nourish true and lasting love.
In this perspective we can rightly say that the family is "at home" at Mass, precisely because it brings to the Eucharist its own experience of conviviality and opens it up to the grace of universal conviviality, to God's love for the world. By partaking of the Eucharist, the family, purified of the temptation to close in on itself, is strengthened in love and fidelity, and broadens the borders of its fraternity in accordance with the heart of Christ.
In our time, marked by so much closure and by too many walls, conviviality, created by the family and expanded by the Eucharist, becomes crucial. The Eucharist and the families it nourishes can overcome closure and build bridges of acceptance and charity. Yes, the Eucharist of a Church of families, capable of restoring to the community the effective leaven of conviviality and mutual hospitality, is a school of human inclusion that does not fear confrontation! There are no little ones, orphans, defenseless, wounded and disappointed, desperate and abandoned, whom the eucharistic conviviality of the family cannot nourish, refresh, protect and harbour.
Recalling family virtues helps us to understand. We too have known and still know, what miracles can happen when a mother fixes her gaze and attention, protection and care on the children of others, in addition to her own. Until recently, one mother was enough for all the children in the courtyard! Indeed, we are well aware what strength is acquired by a people whose fathers are ready to go to protect everyone's children, because they consider children an undivided gift, that they are happy and proud to protect.
Today many social contexts create obstacles to familial conviviality. It's true, today it is not easy. We have to find a way to recover it. At the table we talk, at the table we listen. No silence, that silence that is not the silence of monks, but the silence of selfishness, where each one is focused on himself, or the television, or the computer ... and does not talk. No, not silence. It is important to recover that familial conviviality and adapt it to the times. Conviviality seems to have become something that is bought and sold, but it is something else this way. Food does not always represent a fair sharing of goods, that can reach those who have neither bread nor affection. In wealthy countries we are prompted to purchase an excess of food, and now we need to rectify that once again. And this meaningless "business" diverts our attention from the true hunger of the body and of the soul. When there is no conviviality there is selfishness, each one thinks of him- or herself. All the more so because advertising has channeled people to yearn for snacks and desire sweets. Meanwhile so many, too many brothers and sisters do not have access to the table. It is rather shameful!
Let us look to the mystery of the Eucharistic Banquet. The Lord breaks his Body and pours out his Blood for all. Truly no division can withstand this Sacrifice of communion; only the attitude of falsehood, of complicity with the evil one can exclude one from it. No other indefensible gap can withstand the power of this broken Bread and this shed Blood, the Sacrament of the One Body of the Lord. The living and vital covenant of Christian families, which precedes, supports and embraces in the dynamism of its hospitality the toil and joy every day and cooperates with the grace of the Eucharist, which is able to create communion ever anew with its power which includes and saves.
Precisely in this way the Christian family will show the breadth of its true horizon, which is the horizon of the Church, Mother of all mankind, of all the abandoned and the excluded, in all peoples. Let us pray that this familial conviviality may grow and mature in the time of grace of the forthcoming Jubilee of Mercy.
Special greetings:
I greet the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors taking part in today's Audience, including those from the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ghana, Japan, Korea and the United States of America. Upon you and your families I invoke the Lord's blessings of joy and peace. God bless you all!
I direct a greeting to young people, to the sick and to newlyweds. May the Lord help you, dear young people, to foster mercy and reconciliation; may he support you, dear sick people, so as not to lose trust, even in difficult moments of trial; and may he allow you, dear newlyweds, to find in the Gospel the joy to welcome every human life, especially the weak and helpless.