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Andy Slavitt, Medicare, Optum, UnitedHealth Group
Andy Slavitt during a speech. US Capitol Dome by Brandon Hirsch/Flickr
Many of us cheered in January of this year when Marilyn Tavenner, the woman who headed the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, announced she'd be stepping down from her position as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). At the time, we weren't too focused on who would be replacing her.
Waiting in the wings was Andrew M. Slavitt, now Acting Medicare Chief, who had been biding his time as CMS' deputy administrator since July 2014. Even though he's been accused of possible cronyism and conflicts of interest, Andy Slavitt has a special brand of insurance that shields him—protection only provided to those with powerful connections and the right pedigree. Why would a man with two successful decades in the private sector want to join such a bloated bureaucracy? Maybe because a dear friend called. Or maybe because he had $4.8 million tax free reasons.
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In June 2014, Sylvia Mathews Burwell had just been sworn in as the 22nd Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS), the position that Marilyn Tavenner reported to as CMS administrator. Almost immediately after Burwell took her oath, she tapped Slavitt to become Tavenner's deputy administrator, replacing Jonathan Blum. In "response to lessons learned from the rollout," Burwell had high confidence that Andy Slavitt was the man to help fix healthcare.gov.
Slavitt left his investment banker practice at Goldman Sachs to become a top executive at UnitedHealth Group, where he was responsible for both its Ingenix and Optum divisions. Ingenix had been sued and kicked out of New York in 2011 for price fixing and fraud over flawed calculating algorithms on short payments on claims. Why would Burwell name a tainted executive from a tainted insurance giant to run the largest government agency in the world?
As Tavenner was taking a lot of hits from the Obama administration for the dysfunctional site launch she wasn't surprised that Slavitt was coming on board to provide more cover. Like her, he'd been berated in front of Congress as United was one of the contractors responsible for building the site. How astonishing that no one was going to fire her, even when it was blatantly evident costs were going to end up being $2 billion to basically create a system to process applications online. On the announcement of his hiring as her deputy in July 2014 she said Slavitt, "will focus on managing day-to-day operational issues across all of our programs and be a key part of our leadership team."
Six months later, when the site was still plagued with glitches, it was clear that Tavenner would have to be the fall gal. She resigned in January 2015 and Slavitt immediately moved up from deputy into her place as acting administrator, where he sits now. Today, with his nomination on the horizon to become CMS' head, some are taking much more interest in exactly who Slavitt is, and how he fits into Medicare's overall landscape.
As for Ms. Tavenner, we needn't worry. She just snapped up the job of CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, a powerful lobbying group that needed a CMS insider. She is now personally making big dollars in the Medicare to Millions Club.
Strangers in the Night?
So where did Burwell and Slavitt meet? Maybe at the Harvard Club? It turns out Burwell and Slavitt are also both "alumni" of McKinsey & Company, Slavitt (LAN 93-95) and Burwell (NYO 90-93), where they learned management jargon par excellence. McKinsey is the biggest strategy adviser for governments and corporations worldwide.
James O. McKinsey, a University of Chicago professor and expert on management accounting, founded the consulting firm in 1926. Their About Us page today is quite a heady reading experience. Insiders say that it's a classy, cool place to work because you feel as though you're in with the smart guys, the powerful and the elite—but they also admit the real world doesn't work like McKinsey. One thing is for sure, they are a major establishment player that opens golden doors.
(As an aside, McKinsey is at the top of the Common Core State Standard Initiative and the Council on Foreign Relations is at the bottom, as seen in this great flow chart assembled by Morna McDermott for the site TruthOut.org.)
Burwell—who served in the Clinton administration and later as Obama's Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)—is one smart cookie, being Harvard educated followed by a Rhodes Scholar designation at Oxford. Burwell ran two charities: the Walmart Foundation in Arkansas where she oversaw more than $1 billion in giving and she was the first COO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle.
As if that weren't enough places to peddle influence, she also became a member of the aforementioned Council on Foreign Relations. When she became Secretary of HHS, her buddy, and Council Adjunct Senior Fellow, Peter R. Orszag had high praise for her. He said if she took bold steps to transform HHS she would "drastically alter prospects for everything from the federal budget to state and local priorities (including education) and the take-home pay of America's workers." So far, our take-home pay seems to be drastically altered in the negative.
Setting her sights even higher, Burwell is also a member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, (Orszag's there, too) along with other Obama notables including Tim Geithner, Susan Rice and Paul Volker. How tight can you get? The real world looks much different for those in this cozy club.
The Sad Tale of How UnitedHealth Bought Medicare
Slavitt, who we've written about before, formerly served as group executive vice president at UnitedHealth's Optum and was CEO of OptumInsight, Optum's health information technology division. Don't forget that it was Ingenix that became OptumInsight. Our article on Optum put the Ingenix fraud into perspective with Governor Andrew Cuomo, then New York's Attorney General, describing Ingenix and UnitedHealth's use of data as "deception, manipulation of data and outright fraud."
As Slavitt stepped into Tavenner's pumps, we were told he was to be our champion for combatting healthcare fraud while improving health outcomes. Right. We wonder what Governor Cuomo has to say about this fox guarding the Medicare hen house.
While at Ingenix/OptumInsight, Slavitt was hunkered down, devising the way electronic health records and evidence-based medicine would overtake the technology and operational sides of delivering patient care (really, the self-interested manipulation of insurance dollars). There is no reason to believe that Slavitt will not ram this pseudoscience he hatched at United down the throats of the public through the Medicare programs for which he is slated to become its imperial director, should his ominous appointment be confirmed by Congress.
Slavitt ran one of Optum's subsidiaries, the blandly-named company, Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI), one of the main contractors hired by CMS to build the healthcare.gov hub and registration tool (the Canadian firm CGI Federal was the main contractor, earning at least $93.7 million for the job).
UnitedHealth acquired QSSI in 2012, about a year before healthcare.gov launched. The contract awarded to QSSI received considerable media attention because of the fact that the QSSI acquisition by United was suspiciously made only months after HHS had awarded the contract to QSSI. United now had a huge financial stake in the operation of the healthcare.gov exchange.
When the website launched on October 1, 2013, QSSI's tool was totally obliterated by a bottleneck. When Slavitt and the other government contractors testified before a House Energy and Commerce Committee on October 22, 2013, their finger pointing was laughable. We were shaking our heads listening to their incredible and shameful ineptness. They had testified before the same Committee on September 10 that they were totally ready to handle the October 1 surge of users.
Caught in that lie, Slavitt blamed all the problems on CMS—the government division he's now tapped to run. He blamed the problems on CMS's decision to ask users to register for an account before browsing for health plans. He testified he had pushed CMS for more time to do end-to-end testing, but all that was out of his hands.
Would any reasonable person believe that a deliberate cover-up of the cozy arrangement between CMS and UnitedHealth could be disguised by trying to hide that United was really the force behind and owner of Quality Software Services?
Then, even after this United subsidiary completely botched the rollout, CMS gave QSSI yet ANOTHER contract to fix the site. And still the site lagged and spewed. Finally, in July 2014, Burwell told Slavitt to come on over to the public side to fix the darn thing, and to "help solidify leadership and decision-making" under Tavenner. He was now the single point of contact for the marketplace.
QSSI, owned by United, made millions for screwing up. In September 2014, just two months after Slavitt left, they were awarded an eight-month contract extension worth up to $29 million. Such a deal!
Soldier On Andy: $4.8 Million in One Day
In January 2015, after Tavenner was toast (seeing as she's now heading up the country's biggest healthcare lobbyist that's not exactly toast) Slavitt moved into her place on an acting basis and is now expected to be confirmed as her permanent replacement.
Some started objecting. A red flag was raised over Slavitt's ethics waiver. Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Ralph Nader-founded Public Citizen, said Slavitt's nomination is "highly inappropriate," because when he took Burwell up on her job offer in July 2014 as deputy, he was issued an ethics waiver that allowed him to be exempt from Obama's executive order on ethics in government that would bar federal appointees from working on issues related to a former employer—in Slavitt's case that would be anything related to UnitedHealth—for two years after leaving that company.
With Slavitt's waiver, he could immediately work on any projects or policy decisions that involved UnitedHealth, or any of the other insurance cartel members for that matter, all who use the same industry lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans, now run by none other than his old boss, CMS' former head, Ms. Marilyn Tavenner.
During Slavitt's transition from United to CMS in 2014, some very interesting transactions took place. Slavitt, thanks to the federal government and his old friend and colleague, Secretary Burwell, had an extremely handsome payday.
A Daily Caller article exclusive revealed that shortly after Slavitt stepped in as acting administrator of CMS in June 2014, he pocketed at least $4.8 million in income—made tax free—by the government-issued special waiver.
Though first denied by the CMS, it was later confirmed that Slavitt sought and received a special "certificate of divestiture," which is a loophole that allowed him to indefinitely defer capital gains taxes on the sale of millions of dollars in equities. He was allowed to sell 23,711 shares of his UnitedHealth Group stock while avoiding any capital gains taxes on the transaction. The day he sold, United's stock price was $82.72.
On the same day, Slavitt sold 11,670 additional shares of Partners Group Private Equity, which, according to an Office of Government Ethics official, included underlying health-care investments. The stock was at a whopping $249 a share.
Slavitt sold additional stock he personally held, raising his total windfall from the health industry to $7.2 million. His days as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs certainly paid off.
$4.8 million in a day. Tax free. Here's how that played out for Andy on that infamous day, July 9, 2014:
Certificates of Divesture issued to Slavitt
Sells 23,711 shares of UnitedHealth Group's stock priced at $82.72/share
Pockets $1.96 million in tax-free income
Sells 11,670 shares in Partners Group Private Equity at $249/share
Pockets $2.9 million in tax-free income
The article closes on this pitiful note: "Holman believes the administration awarded the waiver because Slavitt would have faced so many conflicts he would be continually recusing himself and could not do his job."
Senate Finance Hearing TBD
The Senate Finance Committee has not scheduled a date for his appointment hearing. A call to their office confirmed they will be in recess from August 10 to September 8, 2015 but they will not say if Slavitt's hearing will be held before or after the break. Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said, "Mr. Slavitt will need to answer a number of tough questions regarding his former employer and their relationship with the agency."
Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) has weighed in, saying, "The head of the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid should be focused on what the American people expect him to do: administer these important programs, not allow his attention to be diverted instead to the implementation of some gigantic, unworkable health care law that hurts hardworking Americans."
In effect, Slavitt has been imposing standards on the industry through Medicare—and previously through United—for the practice of medicine. He's dictating standards of medical care to doctors and patients, making him tantamount to practicing medicine without a license.
Back in April, Senators Hatch and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) raised red flags in a letter to Burwell. They grumbled about possible cronyism and conflicts of interest, but do you think the Secretary will be objective when it comes to her old pal Andy?
Who will hold Slavitt accountable? What will he do to bend Medicare to the self-inuring models of "accountable" and "value based care" he designed at United? These models help to explain why the consolidated health insurance players—now soon to be three in number—have never been more profitable while simultaneously paying out record low amounts of patient, physician and hospital claims.
If Andy Slavitt is a great pick to head up Medicare, who is the real beneficiary? Where will his past allegiances lie? What of those allegiances that made him a rich man? And what of the allegiances which are now poised to place their industry's own man to take, arguably, one of the most powerful positions on the planet?
Is Andy Slavitt's nomination consistent with what our Founders envisioned as the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people? Hopefully, the bright light we have shed on this web of intrigue will help our readers decide for themselves and spread the word that Slavitt is not the man to run Medicare.
Senators Hatch and Grassley have a right to be concerned. We should all share their concern!
Please call your Congressional representatives repeatedly and plead with them to deny the appointment of Andy Slavitt.
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INCIDENT: SCR 35 is a resolution that would "urge each University of California campus to adopt a resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and racism, and would condemn any act of anti-Semitism augmenting education programs at all publicly funded schools in the State of California." Some groups are determined to remove from the resolution any reference to the U.S. State Department's definition of anti-Semitism, or worse, to replace it with the Merriam Webster dictionary definition, which is vague and not applicable in many instances to modern manifestations of antisemitism.
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Actor and hockey player Michael Mantenuto, best known for his role in Disney's 2004 sports drama "Miracle," has died. He was 35.
Mantenuto was found in his car by police after reportedly sustaining a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Monday afternoon in Des Moines, Washington, according to TMZ. Seattle's King County medical examiner's office told People that Mantenuto took his own life.
Mantenuto, a former University of Maine hockey player, got his big break playing the real-life figure Jack O'Callahan in "Miracle," which depicts the events surrounding 1980 Winter Olympics. O'Callahan was part of the winning American hockey team that unexpectedly bested the Soviet Union in a game that became known as the "Miracle on Ice."
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"Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop you get off." Any party that rules street and square makes its own "democratic" rules. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's Islamist prime minister
Don't console yourself with hope that Egypt will remain a responsible, status quo player on the international scene. By degrees, Egypt under the Brotherhood will seek to arm Hamas and remilitarize the Sinai. By degrees, it will seek to extract concessions from the U.S. as the price of its good behavior. By degrees, it will make radical alliances in the Middle East and beyond. – Bret Stephens
Democracy and "liberal abdicators", Stephens continues, "is a catch-all term for anyone who believes the result of any free election is ipso facto legitimate and that the world's responsibility toward Egyptians' democracy is to preserve a studied neutrality about their political choices. But a democratic election that yields a totalitarian result isn't "legitimate," except in the most cramped sense of the word. In reality, it's a double-barreled catastrophe: a stain on democracy's good name and a recipe for turbocharged political extremism.
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Q: Binding a customized DataGridView with SQL Server database I'm currently writing a WinForms application and I want to use a DataGridView. I know how to bind the DataGridView with a table in database like this:
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(WF_AbsPres.Properties.Settings.Default.DbConnectionString))
{
    SqlDataAdapter a = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM DevInOut", con);
    SqlCommandBuilder comdBuilder = new SqlCommandBuilder(a);

    DataTable t = new DataTable();
    //t.Locale = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
    a.Fill(t);

    //dataGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = false;

    bindingSource1.DataSource = t;

    /// bind the grid view with binding source
    dataGridView1.AutoResizeColumns(DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.AllCellsExceptHeader);
    dataGridView1.ReadOnly = true;
    dataGridView1.DataSource = bindingSource1;

    dataGridView1.DataSource = t;
    con.Close();
}

But the thing is in this way the dataGridView shows all the columns of the table. I want to add the columns in dataGridViewmanually and bind each one to a specific column in the database table. It means I don't want some columns to be shown.
How can I do that? Thanks

A: Hello for hiding columns in dataGridView you can use for example this code:
 for (int i = 0; i < (TotalNumberOfColumnsInYourTable; i++)
        {

            {
                dataGridView1.Columns[i].Visible = false;

            }

        }

            //visible columns
        dataGridView1.Columns["ColumnName"].Visible = true;

For changing header text you can use this:
dataGridView1.Columns["OriginalColumnName"].HeaderText = "YourNewName";

If you would like to improve only SqlDataAdapter just change it to this:
 SqlDataAdapter a = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT column1,column2,column3.. FROM DevInOut", con);

But this means that future work with columns which aren't selected wouldn¨t be possible through datagridview. I wouldn't recommend it to you.

A: Several options:

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*Select only data you need from database

*Copy data into another data source that only has columns you want to see displayed

*Customized the grid view (there should be AutoGenerateColumns property you need to set to False) and manually set column names for each column

*Set some columns as invisible like Marek already suggested

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Cobblers defender David Buchanan has called on his fellow players to step up and take responsibility for the team's ongoing struggles after giving his complete backing to Dean Austin, describing the under-pressure manager as 'first-class' and 'on a par' with Chris Wilder.
Town's sluggish start to the season had already created a few murmurs of discontent among supporters before they were humbled 3-1 at home by previously out-of-form and currently managerless Cheltenham Town on Saturday afternoon.
The nature of the defeat only served to create further angst and frustration in the stands at the PTS Academy Stadium following on from last season's relegation, placing more pressure on Austin and his team to turn their fortunes around.
Saturday's loss means the Cobblers are languishing down in 20th in Sky Bet League Two with just six points from seven games so far ahead of this weekend's trip to 17th-placed Port Vale.
Austin has taken much of the flak for the defeat and Town's general indifferent form but Buchanan, who made his 150th Northampton appearance against Cheltenham, gave a strong defence of his manager and insisted the onus is on the players to put things right.
"The players have to take responsibility because the gaffer gives us everything," he said in the aftermath of Saturday's defeat.
Buchanan has seen it all during his three years at Northampton having played a key role in the title success under Wilder in 2015/16 before enduring two tough League One campaigns with neither Rob Page, Justin Edinburgh nor Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink lasting more than nine months in charge.
Austin is the latest to feel the heat and some fans have already called for his head even at this early stage of the season, however Buchanan feels it would be a mistake to change managers once again, especially given the encouraging manner of previous performances prior to Saturday.
"The gaffer's the only man I want at this football club," insisted the 32-year-old. "I've been here for four years now, Saturday was my 150th appearance for the club and he's the best manager I've worked with apart from Chris Wilder and Alan Knill – and he's on a par with those two.
The gaffer's the only man I want at this football club. I've been here for four years now and he's the best manager I've worked with apart from Chris Wilder and Alan Knill – and he's on a par with those two.
But the left-back also conceded that results must improve sooner rather than later, adding: "It needs to change quickly. What are we going to do about it? Are we going to sulk? Or are we going to come back next week, have our chests out and work harder? That's all we can do.


Four different museums and one church will host Slow Art Day across Belgium this Saturday, April 14, 2018.
Katrijn D 'Hammers, writing in Dutch on the Blog for Faro, a nonprofit cultural center in Brussells that supports museums throughout the country, outlines what's happening and directs Belgians to go look at art slowly this Saturday.
Sounds like a great Slow Art Day across Belgium. If you are in Antwerp, Brussels, or Bruges, I hope you go slow down at one of these events.
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Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers. Kim Barnes and Mary Clearman Blew, editors. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994; Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
Periodicals and Anthologies:
"Spokane Is a Coat: 1978" (essay), Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, Winter 2015; and Brief Encounters (an anthology of short nonfiction), edited by Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney, W. W. Norton, 2015.
"The Art and Absence of Reflection in Personal Nonfiction: Or, What is the Why?" (essay), The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, edited by Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins, Michigan State University Press, 2014.
"On Covering" (essay), The Los Angeles Review, Fall, 2013.
"At the Eye" (essay), Humanities Washington, September, 2012; Iron Horse Literary Review, 2014.
"Why I Fish" (essay), Astream: American Writers on Fly Fishing, edited by Robert Demott, Skyhorse Publishing, June, 2012.
"What Mad Men Means to Me," Wall Street Journal Online, April 22, 2012.
"That Fragile Membrane, the Heart" (essay), The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2009.
"Contemporary Notes from the Last American Frontier (essay), forthcoming in West of 98, an anthology edited by Russell Rowland Lynn Stegner, 2010-2011.
"Mad in Love" (essay), forthcoming in O Magazine, October 2009.
Tribute to Carol Houck Smith, The Idaho Review, 2009.
"The Ashes of August" (with interview) in Creating Nonfiction: A Guide and Anthology (eds. Becky Bradway and Doug Hesse, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009).
"The Wages of Sin: A Personal History of Economics," an essay in The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships (ed. Hilary Black, William Morrow Publishers, 2009).
Original essay on influence of Toni Morrison and excerpt from A Country Called Home in The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Women Writers on Forerunners in Fiction (eds. Jacqueline Kolosov and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Lewis-Clark Press, 2008).
"On Place," The Writer, November 2007.
"My Fair Student," an essay in The Honeymoon's Over: Women on Love and Marriage (eds. Sally Wofford-Girand and Andrea Chapin, Warner Books, 2007)
"Work," an essay in Short Takes (ed. Judith Kitchen, Norton, 2005) and Iron Horse Literary Review (2006).
"An Apartment of Her Own," an essay MORE Magazine (July/August 2006) and Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty, Doubleday, 2006.
"Almost Paradise," an essay in High Desert Journal (Spring 2005);Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place (Robert Root, editor, University of Nebraska); and Borne on Air (Mary Clearman Blew and Phil Druker, editors) Eastern Washington University Press, 2009.
PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction 2009 (A Country Called Home)
Marie Claire magazine: November Book Club pick, 2009 (A Country Called Home)
The Washington Post: Best Books of 2008 (A Country Called Home)
The Oregonian: Best Northwest Books of 2008 (A Country Called Home)
Kansas City Star: Best Books of 2008 (A Country Called Home)
Book-of-the-Month Club main selection/100 Bestsellers, Fall 2009(A Country Called Home)
Idaho Writer-in-Residence, 2004-2007
KTVB "Seven's Selections": Finding Caruso, 2003
Pushcart Prize for "The Ashes of August" (essay), 2002
Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship, 2001
Borders Books New Voices selection, Hungry for the World, 2001
Finalist, Heekin Group Foundation Fellowship for a novel-in-progress, 1998
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize (Autobiography/Biography), 1997
Finalist, PEN/Martha Albrand Award, 1995
New Visions Award Finalist for In the Wilderness, Quality Paperback Book Club, 1997
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for In the Wilderness, 1997
Idaho Library Association, Honorable Mention for Literary Merit/Idaho Book Award, 1997
Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Montana, 1995
PEN/Jerard Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, 1995
Teaching Honors and Awards:
Award of Excellence, University of Idaho Alumni Association, 2006.
Honorary Distinguished Visiting Professor, Oregon State University-Cascades, 2006.
Lewis-Clark State Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997.
Curriculum Vitae docx


Bag from Recycled Old Jeans ~ DIY Tutorial Ideas!
Tutorial: Recycled jeans messenger bag with Zipper. Idea to sew!
linda adorei,vou fazer uma para mim!XO!
Awesome bag! Can I ask how p, or where, you got the prints for the bag?


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#include "config.h"
#include "core/css/CSSSegmentedFontFace.h"

#include "RuntimeEnabledFeatures.h"
#include "core/css/CSSFontFace.h"
#include "platform/fonts/FontCache.h"
#include "platform/fonts/FontDescription.h"
#include "platform/fonts/SegmentedFontData.h"
#include "platform/fonts/SimpleFontData.h"

namespace WebCore {

CSSSegmentedFontFace::CSSSegmentedFontFace(CSSFontSelector* fontSelector, FontTraitsMask traitsMask)
    : m_fontSelector(fontSelector)
    , m_traitsMask(traitsMask)
{
}

CSSSegmentedFontFace::~CSSSegmentedFontFace()
{
    pruneTable();
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++)
        m_fontFaces[i]->clearSegmentedFontFace();
}

void CSSSegmentedFontFace::pruneTable()
{
    // Make sure the glyph page tree prunes out all uses of this custom font.
    if (m_fontDataTable.isEmpty())
        return;

    m_fontDataTable.clear();
}

bool CSSSegmentedFontFace::isValid() const
{
    // Valid if at least one font face is valid.
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (m_fontFaces[i]->isValid())
            return true;
    }
    return false;
}

void CSSSegmentedFontFace::fontLoaded(CSSFontFace*)
{
    pruneTable();

    if (RuntimeEnabledFeatures::fontLoadEventsEnabled() && !isLoading()) {
        Vector<RefPtr<LoadFontCallback> > callbacks;
        m_callbacks.swap(callbacks);
        for (size_t index = 0; index < callbacks.size(); ++index) {
            if (isLoaded())
                callbacks[index]->notifyLoaded(this);
            else
                callbacks[index]->notifyError(this);
        }
    }
}

void CSSSegmentedFontFace::appendFontFace(PassRefPtr<CSSFontFace> fontFace)
{
    pruneTable();
    fontFace->setSegmentedFontFace(this);
    m_fontFaces.append(fontFace);
}

void CSSSegmentedFontFace::removeFontFace(PassRefPtr<CSSFontFace> fontFace)
{
    size_t index = m_fontFaces.find(fontFace);
    if (index != kNotFound) {
        pruneTable();
        m_fontFaces.remove(index);
        fontFace->clearSegmentedFontFace();
    }
}

static void appendFontData(SegmentedFontData* newFontData, PassRefPtr<SimpleFontData> prpFaceFontData, const CSSFontFace::UnicodeRangeSet& ranges)
{
    RefPtr<SimpleFontData> faceFontData = prpFaceFontData;
    unsigned numRanges = ranges.size();
    if (!numRanges) {
        newFontData->appendRange(FontDataRange(0, 0x7FFFFFFF, faceFontData));
        return;
    }

    for (unsigned j = 0; j < numRanges; ++j)
        newFontData->appendRange(FontDataRange(ranges.rangeAt(j).from(), ranges.rangeAt(j).to(), faceFontData));
}

PassRefPtr<FontData> CSSSegmentedFontFace::getFontData(const FontDescription& fontDescription)
{
    if (!isValid())
        return 0;

    FontTraitsMask desiredTraitsMask = fontDescription.traitsMask();
    AtomicString emptyFontFamily = "";
    FontCacheKey key = fontDescription.cacheKey(emptyFontFamily, desiredTraitsMask);

    RefPtr<SegmentedFontData>& fontData = m_fontDataTable.add(key.hash(), 0).iterator->value;
    if (fontData && fontData->numRanges())
        return fontData; // No release, we have a reference to an object in the cache which should retain the ref count it has.

    if (!fontData)
        fontData = SegmentedFontData::create();

    FontDescription requestedFontDescription(fontDescription);
    requestedFontDescription.setTraitsMask(m_traitsMask);
    requestedFontDescription.setSyntheticBold(!(m_traitsMask & (FontWeight600Mask | FontWeight700Mask | FontWeight800Mask | FontWeight900Mask)) && (desiredTraitsMask & (FontWeight600Mask | FontWeight700Mask | FontWeight800Mask | FontWeight900Mask)));
    requestedFontDescription.setSyntheticItalic(!(m_traitsMask & FontStyleItalicMask) && (desiredTraitsMask & FontStyleItalicMask));

    for (int i = m_fontFaces.size() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
        if (!m_fontFaces[i]->isValid())
            continue;
        if (RefPtr<SimpleFontData> faceFontData = m_fontFaces[i]->getFontData(requestedFontDescription)) {
            ASSERT(!faceFontData->isSegmented());
#if ENABLE(SVG_FONTS)
            // For SVG Fonts that specify that they only support the "normal" variant, we will assume they are incapable
            // of small-caps synthesis and just ignore the font face.
            if (faceFontData->isSVGFont() && (desiredTraitsMask & FontVariantSmallCapsMask) && !(m_traitsMask & FontVariantSmallCapsMask))
                continue;
#endif
            appendFontData(fontData.get(), faceFontData.release(), m_fontFaces[i]->ranges());
        }
    }
    if (fontData->numRanges())
        return fontData; // No release, we have a reference to an object in the cache which should retain the ref count it has.

    return 0;
}

bool CSSSegmentedFontFace::isLoading() const
{
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (m_fontFaces[i]->loadStatus() == FontFace::Loading)
            return true;
    }
    return false;
}

bool CSSSegmentedFontFace::isLoaded() const
{
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (m_fontFaces[i]->loadStatus() != FontFace::Loaded)
            return false;
    }
    return true;
}

void CSSSegmentedFontFace::willUseFontData(const FontDescription& fontDescription)
{
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++)
        m_fontFaces[i]->willUseFontData(fontDescription);
}

bool CSSSegmentedFontFace::checkFont(const String& text) const
{
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (m_fontFaces[i]->loadStatus() != FontFace::Loaded && m_fontFaces[i]->ranges().intersectsWith(text))
            return false;
    }
    return true;
}

void CSSSegmentedFontFace::loadFont(const FontDescription& fontDescription, const String& text, PassRefPtr<LoadFontCallback> callback)
{
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (m_fontFaces[i]->loadStatus() == FontFace::Unloaded && m_fontFaces[i]->ranges().intersectsWith(text)) {
            RefPtr<SimpleFontData> fontData = m_fontFaces[i]->getFontData(fontDescription);
            if (fontData->customFontData())
                fontData->customFontData()->beginLoadIfNeeded();
        }
    }

    if (callback) {
        if (isLoading())
            m_callbacks.append(callback);
        else if (isLoaded())
            callback->notifyLoaded(this);
        else
            callback->notifyError(this);
    }
}

Vector<RefPtr<FontFace> > CSSSegmentedFontFace::fontFaces(const String& text) const
{
    Vector<RefPtr<FontFace> > fontFaces;
    unsigned size = m_fontFaces.size();
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (m_fontFaces[i]->ranges().intersectsWith(text))
            fontFaces.append(m_fontFaces[i]->fontFace());
    }
    return fontFaces;
}

}

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Overkill are an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They are often called "the Motörhead of thrash metal";, based on their unique playing style, which was influenced by punk rock and the new wave of British heavy metal. They were also one of the first thrash metal bands to sign to a major label (having signed to Atlantic Records in 1986), and rose to fame as part of the genre's movement of the mid-to-late 1980s, along with the big four; (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax) as well as Exodus and Testament. Overkill achieved their first mainstream success with their second studio album and Atlantic debut, Taking Over (1987) which acclaimed global praise. The band's next five studio albums were also on Atlantic —Under the Influence (1988), The Years of Decay (1989), Horrorscope (1991), I Hear Black (1993) and W.F.O. (1994) and were also successful on a global scale, making them one of the most successful East Coast thrash metal bands. Overkill now have nineteen studio albums under their belt and continue to tour the world to huge audiences still to this day.
Dreaming In Colombian
I Hear Black
World Of Hurt
Feed My Head
Spiritual Void
Weight Of The World
Ignorance & Innocence
Deny The Cross
Wrecking Crew
Fear His Name
Use Your Head
Fatal If Swallowed
Powersurge
In Union We Stand
Electro-Violence
Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues)
Thanx For Nothin'
Horrorscope
Live Young, Die Free
Nice Day…For A Funeral
Soulitude
Time To Kill
I Hate
Nothing To Die For
Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher
Birth Of Tension
Who Tends The Fire
The Years Of Decay
E.vil N.ever D.ies
Hello From The Gutter
Mad Gone World
Brainfade
Drunken Wisdom
Head First
Overkill III (Under The Influence)
Where It Hurts
Fast Junkie
The Wait-New High In Lows
They Eat Their Young
Under One
Supersonic Hate
R.I.P. (Undone)
Up To Zero
Bastard Nation
Gasoline Dream


Snail Bob is here with a 5th addition to the awesome Snail Bob games series at Cool Math Games! In this new installment called Love Story, you will be helping Bob on his adventure to meet his love, a beautiful snail singer. Move Bob around the map and collect stars. You can collect up to 3 stars in each level. Reach the end of each level to advance into the next one. Solve various puzzles to overcome obstacles. Click on Bob to make him move, click on him again to make him stop. Push buttons and levers to activate mechanisms that will help you reach the exit. There are 25 levels and 4 mini-games in this game. You need to collect a specific amount of stars to unlock the mini-games. The maximum number of stars that can be collected in this game is 75, can you get them all? Let's find out in Snail Bob 5 Love Story game online at Cool Math Games!


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Susquehanna Council
Support Scouting
A Scout is Reverent
Scouting Safety
Advancement Headlines
The Merit Badge Program
Information and Resources for Life to Eagle Advancement
Sea Scouts
Advancement Resources
Home > Advancement > Scouts BSA > Information and Resources for Life to Eagle Advancement
Since 1912, the Eagle Scout rank has represented a milestone of accomplishment – perhaps without equal – that is recognized across the country and even the world. Those who have earned the Eagle Scout rank count it among their most treasured achievements. "Eagle Scout" is not just an award; it is a state of being. Those who earned it as youth continue to earn it every day as adults. That is why an Eagle Scout IS an Eagle Scout – not was.
As Scouting's highest rank and the culmination of the advancement program, attaining the Eagle rank requires the Scout to plan, prepare, and lead at a higher level than expected for other ranks, thus demonstrating and adding to the knowledge and experience developed in those areas during his/her scouting career.
The following sections provide information and resources to guide and assist the Scout in achieving the Eagle rank. As a Scout navigates his/her way towards completion of the requirements for the Eagle rank, the Scout will have numerous opportunities to demonstrate the application of Scouting's motto: Be Prepared. Scouts, unit leaders, and parents are encouraged to use all of the following resources to help the Scout truly Be Prepared throughout his/her journey to attaining the rank of Eagle.
Information to assist Life Scouts to plan and complete the requirements for Eagle – Please read and utilize all the below.
Please read the council's policies and procedures that apply to Advancement to Eagle, Section 4. {click here}
Instructions from the Chair, Council Advancement Committee. {click here}
*Eagle Project and Application Guide*. A phase-by-phase guide to provide information to assist Scouts and adult leaders in the Susquehanna Council to properly complete an Eagle Scout service project and submit a complete packet for application for the rank of Eagle Scout. {click here}
Letter of information to give to each of your references. {click here}
BSA's guidance for earning the Eagle Scout rank can be found in the Guide to Advancement – The Eagle Scout Rank
Workbook and Application
Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, No 512-927. Scroll down to find under Rank Advancement. {click here}
The Scout must use the workbook and utilize the most current version of the workbook available at the time he/she begins planning for the project.
Before the Scout even begins to develop ideas for his project, he/she must carefully read all of the information in the workbook, carefully pages 2 through 6, Proposal page A, and Fund Raising Application page B, and Navigating the Eagle Scout Project (last two pages of the workbook).
Eagle Scout Rank Application, No 512-728. Scroll down to find under Rank Advancement. {click here}
A complete application includes the submission of a separate self-statement. The desired contents of the self-statement are described in the Note on the second page of the application, below Requirement 6.
Approval of service project
Synopsis: The development and approval of a proposal for the service project is the first step towards completion of a project. A proposal for the service project must be approved by a council advancement committee before the Scout can begin any work on the project. The Scout must complete the first section of the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, Eagle Scout Service Project Proposal, and obtain all signatures from the beneficiary and unit leaders. Once the proposal is complete, including all signatures, the proposal must be reviewed by the District Advancement Committee with the Eagle Scout candidate. Arrangements for the review must be made between the Eagle Scout candidate, his/her unit leader, and the District Advancement Committee. Provided that the project meets all necessary standards, the Eagle Scout candidate may proceed with his/her project once the proposal is approved by the committee's representative.
For review of a proposal in Bald Eagle District contact:
Chuck Mertes @ 570-971-1312
Email Chuck Mertes
For review of a proposal in Seven Bridges District contact: Steve Guthrie Email Steve Guthrie
Submission of packet for award of the Eagle rank
Synopsis: Once a Scout has completed all requirements for the Eagle rank, including completion of the project, the Scout's unit must submit all required documentation for his/her Eagle packet to the Susquehanna Council Service Center. The required documentation includes: Eagle Scout Rank Application, Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook (in entirety), a self-statement, and reference letters. The documentation must be submitted all together, all at once. It will not be accepted at the Service Center in pieces. Upon receipt by the Council Service Center, the Registrar (Janis Smith) will review it for completeness. It is the responsibility of the Scout and his/her unit to satisfactorily manage the Scout's required documentation for his/her Eagle packet.
If the documentation in the packet is complete, the Registrar will give the complete packet to the District Advancement Committee for the scheduling of an Eagle Scout Board of Review. A member of that committee will contact the Scout to schedule the board of review. If the packet is not complete, the Registrar will notify the unit of any discrepancies that require correction before the packet will be given to the advancement committee.
If the application is approved by the board, the Eagle Scout Application will be signed by the board and returned to the Registrar. The registrar will subsequently send the application to the National Service Center for final approval. Upon approval at the National Service Center, an Eagle Award Presentation Kit, complete with the Eagle Scout Award pin and patch, will arrive for the Eagle Scout at the Council Service Center about two to three weeks later. The Presentation Kit is made available for free to the Scouts via a generous annual donation. Upon notification of receipt of the kit at the Council Service Center, the kit may be picked up by a unit leader or a family member from the Service Center at the front desk. A signature is required from the individual that picks up the kit to acknowledge its receipt.
Eagle Scout Service Project Summary
In order to preserve a record of the Scout's achievement in striving to attain the rank of Eagle Scout, the Susquehanna Council requests that each Scout provide some basic information on their project. The Scout should fill out the form before attending their Eagle Board of Review and bring it with them to submit at the board. A printable version of the form is available at this link. A fillable version of the form is available at this link.
Extension of time to complete the Eagle Scout rank requirements
If a Scout foresees that due to no fault or choice of his or her own, it will be impossible to complete the Eagle Scout rank requirements before age 18, the Scout may apply to the local council for a limited time extension. A document is available with information and instructions for Scouts, parents, and/or unit leaders to guide/help them in considering whether or not to submit a request for an extension of time to complete Eagle and the steps to submit such a request within the council. Scouts, parents, and/or unit leaders are highly encouraged to read that document as the first step in considering whether or not to submit a request for an extension. The document is available at this link.
Eagle Palm Application. Please read the council's policies and procedures that apply to Eagle Palms, Section 4.6. {click for application} {click for policy and procedure}
Request for Extension of Time to Earn Eagle Scout Rank. Scroll down to find under Rank Advancement. {click here}
Application for Alternative Eagle Scout Rank Merit Badges. Scroll down to find under Rank Advancement. {click here}
The Court of Honor for Eagle Scout
Ceremony suggestions from the National Eagle Scout Association. {click here}
© 2019 Boy Scouts of America – All Rights Reserved
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I normally only use these ashtrays as promotional items and raffle prizes, but if anyone is interested in purchasing one for their mancave or deck I am making them available to Geeks with a slight discount.
The current retail price for these ashtrays (that B&M's are selling them at) is $59.95 and they will only fit in Medium flat rate or larger which is $13.60 (in continental US). These are quality solid crystal ashtrays that weigh about 5 pounds each and measure 8"X 8".
They are not recommended for dishwashers or to be left outside in the rain for prolonged periods due to the graphics printed on the bottom.
Hey look, no warning label. Maybe Curtis should get one of these.
ntanner - 8/24/2017 11:25 AM Hey look, no warning label. Maybe Curtis should get one of these.
We've got one here at The Cigar Vault...its a great looking ashtray, with lots of heft! Git ya one brothers!!
Felt the love and got one of these from Brad. They are huge!! Brad also added a few Xiphos cigars to break it in as well. Thank you so very much.
Nice. I always find it kind of cool to smoke a cigar and be able to use the same brand ashtray with it.
I have a My Father, Oliva, and Liga Privada ashtray.
Nice job Curtis and enjoy breaking it in with those smokes.
Totally forgot about this, looks great!


COOKEVILLE – Cookeville city leaders are considering a possible realignment of the utility rate structure impacting water, sewer, gas and electric customers.
Utility consultants presented their findings to the councilmen and city officials at a work session held at the Cookeville Gas Department.
Warmer winters, planned capital projects and the nationwide trend in declining consumption are all factors that have a direct impact on utility revenue. Consultant's advised that the city's current rate structure needs to be adjusted to reflect these factors.
Water and sewer rates are most affected by planned capital improvement projects (CIP). These CIPs are projects that are necessary infrastructure needs. These include a water plant expansion, a sewer plant rehabilitation, the Capshaw sewer rehab, the Double Springs customer acquisition and routine water and sewer rehabs.
Other projects, such as the proposed widening of South Jefferson from I-40 to Highway 111, also have utility costs that must be passed along to all customers. TDOT is requiring the city to contribute $1 million for relocating the utilities for this project due in the next fiscal year.
Consultants suggested rate adjustments that included slight increases from year to year through the 2023 fiscal year.
For water customers, the average customer who uses 5,000 gallons of water per month would see their bill increase slightly each year, rising from $20.40 to $29.14 per month over the six-year period.
Sewer customers would see a slightly larger increase due to the increasing costs of treating wastewater. The customer using 5,000 gallons would see an increase from $28.05 to $40.89 per month over six years.
Consultants suggested that the current gas rate structure be adjusted to a more "revenue neutral" structure that would increase the stability of gas revenues.
The changes that the consultants suggested involve changing the volume rates that gas customers pay. The end result for a typical user would be less than a $2 increase in the summer months with an over $3 decrease during the winter months.
The gas department, under the current rate structure, has actually lost money for the past two years because of the mild winter weather. This change would help balance revenues and make them less dependent on winter temperatures.
The Tennessee Valley Authority conducts rate studies on behalf of the Cookeville Electric Department.
The current electric utility cost structure is very similar to the gas departments rate structure. Increasing the fixed volume cost and lowering the variable cost for higher volumes of consumption was suggested to make this rate structure revenue neutral also.
These proposed rate structure changes were presented to the council members for their evaluation. No rate changes will go into effect until they are discussed and voted on in a formal council meeting. Officials have indicated that a decision on these changes could be made this spring or summer.


The datasheets of all the modules are availble on the products webpage.
Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium – December 10th, 2015.
CISSOID, the leader in high temperature semiconductor solutions, extends its family of high temperature Silicon Carbide (SiC) power modules dedicated to power conversion and motor drive applications: CHT-PLUTO SiC MOSFET modules and CHT-EUROPA SiC Schottky diodes modules are rated for operation between -55°C and +225°C.
CHT-PLUTO and CHT-EUROPA power modules are available in hermetically sealed 8 pins proprietary "HM8A" metal package with dimensions of 18mm x 29mm excluding mounting tabs. The devices are electrically isolated from the case of the package. These new components benefit from CISSOID long experience in the manufacturing, packaging, testing and qualifying of high temperature semiconductors.
Depending on the converter (DC-DC/AC-DC/DC-AC, isolated/non-isolated, step-up/step-down), the user can choose between different topologies: dual SiC MOSFET, with or without embedded freewheeling SiC Schottky diode; Buck or Boost configuration featuring independent SiC MOSFET and SiC Schottky Diode; or a dual SiC Schottky diode. CHT-PLUTO and CHT-EUROPA modules allow designers to address current ratings from 20A up to 60A, using 2 devices of a single module in parallel. Selecting the right current rating offers the optimal trade-off between conduction and switching losses as well as the right cost for the application.
The On-resistance and thermal resistance of CHT-PLUTO SiC MOSFET modules directly scale with the current rating, respectively from 90mOhms down to 23mOhms at VGS=20V and from 1.2°C/W down to 0.35°C/W. This allows for the optimal selection of the module rating depending on total losses and the temperature mission profile of the power converter. The high operating junction temperature, up to 225°C, and the low switching energies of SiC MOSFET's, which are lower than 600µJ at 20A, offers further design headroom. All the modules are rated with a breakdown voltage in excess of 1200V at 225°C.


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Airbus confirms 'core' partnership with SmartSat CRC
Max Blenkin
Airbus has announced it is backing the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) as a core partner in a seven-year research program to develop and strengthen space technologies in Australia.
Last Updated: 14 April 2020 Published: 25 February 2020
Airbus said in teaming with Airbus, SmartSat CRC would capitalise on the company's expertise and funding to strengthen sovereign space capabilities, unlocking significant opportunities to generate new space technologies.
"By supporting the Smartsat CRC as a core partner, we want to assist Australia in enhancing its space capabilities and competitiveness," said Thomas Pfister, head of Airbus Defence and Space, Australasia.
"Our investment and first-class knowledge sharing will ensure opportunities are created for the next generation of space companies across Australia."
The SmartSat CRC was launched last year and officially launched in Adelaide this week.
It's the largest space industry-research collaboration in Australia's history with the objective of developing the county's space industry.
It's already raised $245 million from more than 100 research organisations, the Australian government and from industry funding.
This investment is targeted at advanced telecommunications, intelligent satellite systems, Earth observation and remote sensing analytics.
The aim is to enable Australia to benefit from the 9.5 per cent growth rate across the global space industry, compared with the global economy growth of 2.5 per cent.
A key aim for the Airbus partnership with the SmartSat CRC is to help develop small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in space and to contribute to achieving the Australian Space Agency's goal of generating an extra 20,000 jobs by 2030.
This week, the SmartSat CRC announced its priority research areas, with development of accurate, reliable communications technology for disaster management following the disastrous summer of bushfires.
That will see SmartSat collaborate with NASA, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and local industry partner, Safety from Space, on a project with broad international implications.
In another project, SmartSat will work with partners and relevant agencies to establish a national network to monitor the quality and quantity of surface and ground water.
Called the AquaWatch Australia Mission, this project is to be undertaken in partnership with the CSIRO. It will feature a national mission to establish a mini constellation of dedicated AquaWatch satellites, complemented by a network of thousands of terrestrial water sensors uploading data continuously in near real-time.
SmartSat CRC to prioritise disaster communications research
WA set to be centre of innovation for lunar, Martian mining tech


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Mullaperiyar: SC wants Kerala, TN to be like normal litigant
One-liner: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the govts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu might have political compulsion outside but both states should behave like any normal litigant before the court in the matter related to the 126-year-old Mullaperiyar dam.
Court not concerned: The apex court observed that these states are making statements and political observations against each other but the court is not concerned with that.
A bench said that before making any grievances in the court, the parties must first approach the supervisory committee before taking any step for the release of water from the dam, built on the Periyar river in Idukki district of Kerala
The top court was hearing an application filed by Kerala govt, which was seeking a direction to Tamil Nadu not to release a huge quantity of water in the wee hours from the dam saying it causes a huge impact on the people living downstream of the dam
Who is the best judge: The bench observed that the supervisory committee is the best judge to take a call on this aspect and it would take into account the request for release of water and also on whether there is a need for that.
The bench observed that the matter related to the day-to-day management of the dam should not come before the top court and the parties should resolve the issues before the committee
The apex court said that the pleas raising issues related to the dam would come up for hearing on Jan 11
What TN govt says: The Tamil Nadu govt had told the apex court that repeated assertion by Kerala to seek decommissioning of the dam is wholly impermissible as the dam is hydrologically, structurally, and seismically safe.


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Comau to Build EV Battery Production Lines for ACC
Comau has been selected by Automotive Cells Company (ACC) to design and develop a highly integrated battery module production line for its future Gigafactory in Billy-Bercalu Douvrain, in the north of France. ACC is a joint venture between Stellantis, TotalEnergies/Saft and Mercedes-Benz. The Gigafactory's projected capacity is planned to ultimately ramp up to 40GWh. With this, ACC is set to become a European leader in enabling cleaner, efficient mobility for all.
ACC's Gigafactory. Comau will supply ACC with the expertise and equipment needed to automate manufacturing of the next-generation EV batteries.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Comau will supply ACC with the expertise and equipment needed to automate manufacturing of the next-generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Comau-designed lines featuring the inherent flexibility to handle both 8- and 16-cell modules. They will allow ACC to produce up to 8 Gigawatt hours (GWh) annually by the end of 2024. Furthermore, the comprehensive solution leverages Comau's extended European network. It thus guarantees local sourcing of technology, auxiliary equipment and components for the five manufacturing lines; three of which produce both models while two are dedicated 8-cell MEB lines.
One of the unique elements of the project was the requirement to employ a stacking force of 300 to 500 decanewtons. This range can produce the two distinct module formats compared to the industry average of around 100 decanewtons. To meet this challenge, Comau and ACC engineers worked in tandem to tailor the process in order to guarantee the intended product geometry and battery characteristics. This simultaneous engineering approach has also enabled Comau to remove one of the originally designed lines. Consequently, it improves the process dynamics and helps ACC optimize its CAPEX investments.
The project, which highlights Comau's continued investments in the electrification sector, also leverages the company's 45+ years of expertise in automation and digitalization technologies. Indeed, Comau has both provided ACC with the necessary technology and know-how to automate the entire end-to-end production process. This includes prismatic cell preparation and testing, the stacking, welding and final assembly, all the way to the final end-of-line testing. The complete setup, which integrates a mix of proprietary and non-Comau products, features Comau's innovative stacking process in addition to its welding, wrapping and electrical testing technologies.
As a first step in the multi-phase project, the joint engineering team will deploy and optimize the pilot line at ACC's plant in Nersac, France, before rolling out the full-scale manufacturing line at the company's Gigafactory in Billy-Bercalu Douvrain. It has an estimated production rate of 53 JPH (jobs per hour). At this level, the Comau-designed solution both meets the customer's near-term manufacturing objectives while delivering the possibility for future expansion as needed.
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Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya line
The Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya line (Russian: Серпухо́вско-Тимиря́зевская ли́ния, IPA: [sʲɪrpʊˈxofskə tʲɪmʲɪˈrʲazʲɪfskəjə ˈlʲinʲɪjə], Line 9), sometimes colloquially referred to as Grey Line (Russian: серая линия), is a line of the Moscow Metro. Originally opened in 1983, it was extended throughout the 1980s and early 90s and again in the early 2000s. With its current length of 41.2 km, it among the longest lines of the Moscow Metro (all underground making it the world's 8th longest rapid transit tunnel). There are 25 stations on the line.
Altufyevo (north)
Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo (south)
Moscow Metro
Operator(s)
Moskovsky Metropoliten
81-760A/761A/763A
Daily ridership
41.2 kilometres (25.6 mi)
Track gauge
1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
Altufyevo
Bibirevo
Vladykino yard
Vladykino
Petrovsko-Razumovskaya
Timiryazevskaya
Dmitrovskaya
Savyolovskaya
Mendeleyevskaya
Tsvetnoy Bulvar
Chekhovskaya
Borovitskaya
Moskva River
Polyanka
Serpukhovskaya
Tulskaya
Nagatinskaya
Nagornaya
Nakhimovsky Prospekt
Sevastopolskaya
Chertanovskaya
Varshavskoye yard
Yuzhnaya
Prazhskaya
Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya
Annino
MKAD
Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
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3 Rolling stock
4 Recent events and future plans
The project of a north-south diameter was finalised in the 1971 Moscow General Development Plan, and construction began in the mid-1970s. The first stage, the southern Serpukhovsky radius, was opened in 1983 which brought the Metro to the southern districts of Danilovsky, Nagorny, Ziuzino and Chertanovo. Starting at Serpukhovskaya square the radius follows the Varshavskoye avenue, twice contacts the Moscow–Pavelets line, afterwards it deviates slightly westwards passing Azovskaya street, where it meets the then terminus of the Gorkovsko–Zamoskvoretskaya line, Kakhovskaya station. Afterwards, the line crosses back across northern Chertanovo's main intersection (Balaklavsky avenue and Sevastopolsky Bulvar).
Some of the new technical methods employed in the construction of this section included passing from deep alignment to shallow in water-carrying soils. A new technique of contour freezing was applied, which then used explosives to bore through the unstable region. The stretch between Serpukhovskaya and Tulskaya was further made difficult due gasoline leaks from an above petrol station over the years sufficiently absorbed by the soil such that the high concentration of fumes caused a fire in the unfinished tunnel, this introduced a new practice of adding additional boreholes in areas of difficult ventilation.
In November 1985 the line had its first extension southwards to Prazhskaya. This station was designed by Czechoslovak engineers and specialists from the Prague Metro. Simultaneously the station Moskevská was built in Prague by Soviet engineers.
Beginning in the mid-1980s work started on extending the system northwards through the city centre. This very deep section passed the areas of Yakimanka and Arbat where the first in Moscow 4 station transfer was set up in 1986. In 1987 this was followed by the station Chekhovskaya located near the Pushkin Square. In 1988 the final extension through the centre first deviated eastwards to include Tsvetnoy Boulevard and then crossed the ring at Novoslobodskaya before continuing northwards to Savyolovsky Rail Terminal.
Afterwards, construction of the Timiryazevsky radius followed and in 1991 the major five station extension brought the line to the northern districts of Timiryazvesky, Butyrsky, Marfino and Otradnoye itself. Also, the line had interchanges with three major railway lines. The unique station Timiryazveskaya is the only one in Moscow built to the Deep single-vault (Leningrad) design. The Timiryazevsky radius had two more extensions, Biberevo in 1992 and Altufyevo in 1994 making it the northernmost in the system.
On the opposite Serpukhovsky end, in the early 2000s three extensions were built: Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya (2000), Annino (2001) and Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo (2002). The latter carried the line into Severnoye Butovo District, making it the first line to cross the MKAD beltway. Today the line is the only one in Moscow for which no extension plans or proposals exist.
TimelineEdit
Serpukhovskaya–Yuzhnaya November 11, 1983 13.0 km
Yuzhnaya–Prazhskaya November 6, 1985 1.1 km
Serpukhovskaya–Borovitskaya January 23, 1986 2.8 km
Borovitskaya–Chekhovskaya December 31, 1987 1.6 km
Chekhovskaya–Savyolovskaya December 31, 1988 4.2 km
Savyolovskaya–Otradnoye March 3, 1991 8.5 km
Otradnoye–Bibirevo December 31, 1992 2.6 km
Bibirevo–Altufyevo July 15, 1994 2.0 km
Prazhskaya–Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya August 31, 2000 2.0 km
Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya–Annino December 12, 2001 1.4 km
Annino–Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo December 26, 2002 2.0 km
Total: 25 stations 41.5 km
TransfersEdit
Sokolnicheskaya line Borovitskaya
Zamoskvoretskaya line Chekhovskaya
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line Borovitskaya
Koltsevaya line Serpukhovskaya, Mendeleyevskaya
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Chekhovskaya
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line Tsvetnoy Bulvar
Bolshaya Koltsevaya line Sevastopolskaya
Butovskaya line Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
Solntsevskaya Line / Bolshaya Koltsevaya line Savyolovskaya
Rolling stockEdit
The line is served by the Varshavskoe (№ 8) and Vladykino (№ 14) depots. In 2005 it began a slow transition to eight carriage trains. As of November 2005, Vladykino completed its transition and presently has 43 eight-carriage trains assigned to them. Varshavskoe began later and completed its transition in March 2006 with 38 eight-carriage trains. The line received new 81-714/717 trains upon its opening in 1983. Due to its recent extensions various trains were added to its ever-growing stock, some surplus from other depots, others factory fresh 81-714.5/717.5 and 81-714.5M/717.5M.
Starting 2012, the line began receiving new 81-760/761 trains. 81-717/714 trains have been completely withdrawn and scrapped, 81-717.5/714.5 and 81-717.5M/714.5M were transferred to other lines where additional trains were needed. In November 2013, the Varshavskoe depot was fully upgraded to new trains, there were only a few old 81-717/714 carriages, which formed about three trains. Vladykino, as of November 2013, only had two new trains, but additional 81-760/761s came from the Varshavskoe depot in December 2013.
Subway car types used on the line over the years:
-Series 81-717: 1983 - March 2015
-Series 81-717.5: 1994 - March 2015
-Series 81-717.5M: 2003 - March 2015
-Series 81-760/761: 26th of December 2012 - present
Recent events and future plansEdit
Second exits at Petrovsko-Razumovskaya, Savyolovskaya and Timiryazevskaya stations are planned. However, in terms of extensions, the line is considered to be complete. Although there is some need of connection to the south border parts of Moscow, it was decided that Butovskaya Light Metro Line will fulfil this need.
^ Пассажиропотоки 2009 год. Олимп (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
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Grover's Corners, the fictional New Hampshire community of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," uncannily resembles our neck of the woods in David Cromer's starkly sublime and strikingly unsentimental revival, which opened Wednesday at the Broad Stage with Oscar-winner Helen Hunt assuming the role of the Stage Manager.
It's a safe bet that Chicago and New York audiences saw their own reflections when incarnations of this purposefully unadorned production took those cities by storm. Landscape obviously has nothing to do with it. This is a play that has forsworn realistic scenery and props, so there are no purple sunsets or hints of the San Gabriel Mountains off in the distance.
How then does Cromer make us believe that this "Our Town" is really our own? For one thing, you can't help being aware of your fellow theatergoers. The house lights are blazing throughout much of the show and the rectangular playing area, lying between two opposing sets of bleachers and chairs (the Broad has been especially reconfigured for this production), has the effect of subtly incorporating the audience into the acting company.
For another, the production is performed in contemporary clothing you might throw on for a trip to the mall or a movie. There's no striving for early 20th century New England manners or mores. The Gibbs and Webb families, whose interwoven fate makes up this three-act drama about the mournful beauty of everyday life, wouldn't seem out of place at Olive Garden or P.F. Chang's.
There's certainly nothing old-fashioned about the way the siblings scream and tussle — or how their parents reprimand them. Lori Myers, one of several original cast members, lends Mrs. Gibbs a contemporary Midwestern tone that recalls Laurie Metcalf at her most exasperated. And Jeff Still as Doc Gibbs and Tim Curtis as Editor Webb might very well be standing on line with you at Home Depot.
In short, there's no escape from the familiarity and immediacy of this world.
Although there are several sharply distinctive performances (James McMenamin's sweet but slightly slow George Gibbs being the most original), the acting isn't what distinguishes Cromer's production. In fact, the roughness of the playing style can take some getting used to. When Myers' Mrs. Gibbs and Kati Brazda's Mrs. Webb busily and rather bafflingly mime their household chores early in the first act, I was reminded of Wilder's suggestion that the actors in these roles turn their backs to the audience so as not to "distract and provoke" with their puzzling displays of cooking and washing up.
Cromer, for the most part, takes what Wilder describes as the play's "scorn of verisimilitude" quite seriously. Emily, the notably bright Webb daughter whose romance with George is recollected in the second act, is played by Jennifer Grace, an astringent actress who hardly seems like a teenager. The piano used in the raucous choir practice scene is called an organ. And there's little attempt, beyond the presence of two wooden tables, of establishing an interior outline of these domestic lives.
Somewhat more daringly, the director stands behind Wilder's belief that the occasional amateur note can deepen the artistic experience. Several of the supporting performers, for instance, have a raw quality that dissolves the distinction between us (the audience) and them (the actors). Wilder, who set out to show "the life of the village against the life of the stars," wants us to feel implicated in this story, and Cromer employs a new palette to achieve this end.
No one thinks of "Our Town" as avant-garde anymore. How could this homespun staple of American drama, so beloved by community and student theater groups, be remotely considered experimental? Yet when the play first appeared in 1938 at Princeton's McCarter Theatre, it was thought to be groundbreaking, and Wilder himself was aware that the "new bold effect in presentation-methods" was a crucial part of its interest.
Cromer comes up with surprises that may startle traditionalists. The casting of Hunt — one of several replacements for Cromer, who initially played the part of the Stage Manager during the production's record-breaking New York run as well as during its world premiere in Chicago — is the least of them. Hunt's manner is so confident and smooth as she strides about the length of the stage playing, pausing and fast-forwarding the action that gender never becomes an issue.
The final act, however, contains a theatrical coup that, while flying in the face of the stage directions, presses upon us with new weight the haunting grace of the play's postmortem ending. It would be unfair to give this away, but let me just say that the actors who portray the assembled graveyard dead are positioned in such a way to magnificently symbolize the background of patient eternity on which our lives fleetingly unfold.
But perhaps the biggest shocker of this "Our Town" is its refusal to bask in amber glows, wallow in folksy sentiments or indulge in shopworn sermonizing. Admittedly, the production's power would be greater in a more intimate space. Still, this is a stunning theatrical achievement. Cromer throws dazzlingly harsh light on the truth that's been there all along yet is always such a challenge to see.


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1. "For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness."
Author: Andy Rooney
2. "My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even."
Author: Anne Tyler
3. "There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed."
Author: Boris Yeltsin
4. "It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive."
Author: C.W. Leadbeater
5. "Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom."
Author: Cat Cora
6. "Our marriage lasted a few months. Once you left, what remained faded faster than the ink on the license. And what's left..well, it could blow away in one tiny puff of wind.""Well,then." he spoke with an air of certainty. "I'll try not to exhale.""Don't bother. I stopped holding my breath years before."
Author: Courtney Milan
7. "Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes."
Author: Danny Wallace
8. "Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst."
Author: Eric Ries
9. "I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team."
Author: Gary Neville
10. "I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms."
Author: Heather Dubrow
11. "I am gradually learning that the call to gratitude asks us to say, "Everything is grace." As long as we remain resentful about things we wish had not happened, about relationships that we wish had turned out differently, mistakes we wish we had not made, part of our heart remains isolated, unable to bear fruit in the new life ahead of us. It is a way we hold part of ourselves apart from God."
Author: Henri J.M. Nouwen
12. "Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew."
Author: Ibrahim Babangida
13. "I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
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14. "You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch. Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame."
15. "The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention."
Author: James Toback
16. "If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight."
Author: John Brockman
17. "You would think, wouldn't you, that if you were the childof a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better thanaverage marriage yourself – either through some geneticinheritance or because you'd learnt from example? But itdoesn't seem to work like that. So perhaps you need theopposite example – to see mistakes in order not to makethem yourself. Except this would mean that the best way forparents to ensure their children have happy marriageswould be to have unhappy ones themselves. So what's theanswer?"
Author: Julian Barnes
18. "For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."
Author: Mary Augusta Ward
19. "I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear."
Author: Mike Birbiglia
20. "Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead."
Author: Nicholas Evans
21. "Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal."
Author: Peter Slipper
22. "Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. "You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves."
Author: Rose Wynters
23. "The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you."
Author: Sarah Dessen
24. "At that moment he understood, far better than he had before when he studied their histories and their political structures before he arrived, what it was to be human. Their whole existence was centered upon suffering. That was the first time he considered humanity's massive potential. They made frequent mistakes, yes, but if those mistakes were adequately painful they made every effort to avoid repeating them, to improve upon their errors. To be more careful so they didn't catch their thumb under the hammerhead."
Author: Sean DeLauder
25. "How is it you've never married?" A soft splash. "It's an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down."
Author: Tessa Dare
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Q: Ubuntu doesnt use the FGRLX graphics driver? I have got the Ubuntu 12.04 64 Bit LTS Version and I want to play games with Steam. I tried out TF2 and it runs and has decent (not good) performance. I believe that my drivers are still running on the standard driver and not the AMD proprietary one.
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