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2023 Becomes a Dark Year, Head of BIN Explains Various Predictions of the World Economy
By CIDISS Copywriter Last updated Jan 20, 2023
Bogor – Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN), General Police ( Ret .) Budi Gunawan explained the results of the analysis related to the world economic situation in 2023.
He explained that the results of analysis from world intelligence revealed that 2023 would be a dark and uncertain year.
" Foresight (foresight) from world intelligence describes that 2023 is a dark and full of uncertainty. The term intelligence is called winter is coming ," he said.
Not only that, but according to him, this year the world will continue to be haunted by the threat of recession and inflation. In fact, all of them will have an impact on many sectors to remote villages.
"There are also those who describe that 2023 is a year that will be haunted by the threat of recession and inflation. The impact will affect areas that hit and are felt by the household economy in corners of cities, districts and remote villages," he continued. .
Furthermore, General Pol ( Retired ) Budi Gunawan added that from the results of the analysis of world intelligence, there are several potential global threats in 2023 that must be considered.
According to him, the first potential threat is due to the prediction that geopolitical conflicts in Russia and Ukraine will continue for a long time and this will be exacerbated by the emergence of other potential disturbances such as the use of nuclear weapons.
It is clear that the Head of BIN considers that the conflict between the two countries has seriously disrupted the supply of energy and food in the world.
Not to mention, General Pol ( Retired ) Budi Gunawan added that conditions in 2011 were also exacerbated by conflicts in China and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait which would affect world logistics routes.
As a result of the many hampered world supplies, according to him, countries in the world have finally implemented narrow nationalism and protectionism to safeguard various needs for their respective countries.
"As a result, many countries are forced to apply narrow nationalism or protectionism measures in order to secure and meet their respective domestic needs," said KaBIN Budi Gunawan.
Furthermore, another potential threat to the world comes from the many abandoned infrastructures in European countries as a result of a lack of funds due to inflation.
He gave the example that Italy is currently experiencing a crisis of electricity and food shortages, just like Africa because it depends on imports of wheat from Russia and Ukraine which are in conflict, so they are threatened with starvation.
"Meanwhile, some African countries are very dependent on 90% of imports of wheat from Russia and Ukraine. Therefore, they are currently threatened with extreme hunger and poverty," he said.
Therefore, the Head of BIN considers that the role of the Regional Government is very important.
"Therefore the role of the regional government is really needed to overcome the potential for a food crisis," he said.
It's not enough to get there, there is still the threat of a livelihood crisis by increasing layoff activities (PHK) so that the global unemployment rate is increasing.
It is known that layoffs have started to appear a lot due to swelling in financing the state and corporate budgets because there have been many applications of the green economy concept.
In fact, because the world is now starting to switch to a green economy, General Pol ( Retired ) Budi Gunawan believes that there are still many local governments in Indonesia who are not really ready for this scheme. So that if one applies it, it will actually increase the debt burden.
"If we mismanage it, it will have the potential to increase the debt burden and be vulnerable to technological changes," he said.
Then the threat that will make 2023 another dark year is the weakening of the rupiah exchange rate against the US dollar due to high global inflation rates, which will also increase the burden on imports.
According to him, this could reduce people's purchasing power, even though there are actually predictions that the Indonesian economy will not be affected by the recession, nevertheless, national economic growth in 2023 is expected to only be in the range of 4.7% to 5.3%.
Due to the same world inflation problem, the Head of BIN explained that there would be an even higher gap between groups in society. "The results of world intelligence foresight show that there will be regional and inter-group disparities in an area that are getting higher. So this has the potential to reduce growth in the area by approximately 1.2%," he said.
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Private Dinner with Dr. James Zogby
Posted on October 12, 2010 in Arab American Institute
I'm writing to invite you to a private dinner on October 20 at the Long Beach Airport Marriott. Dr. James Zogby, founder and President of the Arab American Institute, host of "Viewpoint with James Zogby," and author of Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters, will be in the Los Angeles area, and we are hosting an event for a few select friends.
Let me tell you why: Last weekend, the Arab American Institute hosted a Summit in Washington, DC. AAI brought together representatives from Capitol Hill and the White House, as well as national and community leaders, to establish consensus on key foreign and domestic policy issues that impact our community most directly — including immigration reform, civil liberties protection, support for Lebanon, halting settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and so much more.
It was a critical meeting at a crucial time for our community. In the media, in campaign ads, and on the street, Arab Americans are being vilified for their heritage. There are some legislators on Capitol Hill who listen to our community, who vote for peace and justice —votes that take a good deal of courage, because political opponents will use those votes against them.
My co-hosts and I want you to know what's at stake and what you can do. So we invited Dr. Zogby to an intimate, off-the-record evening, where we can talk freely about:
•	Two just-released polls* — one surveying American attitudes towards Arabs, Islam, and the Middle East; the other a survey of Arab Americans, profiling how we see ourselves, our heritage, and our place in the fabric of American society. These are incredibly telling resources — illustrating why it's so important that our community mobilize now to quell the anti-Arab sentiment sweeping through the media and politics.
•	His book Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters*, which has garnered tremendous critical praise. He draws not just on facts and figures, but conversations and insights, and on his 30-years as the voice of reason in debates filled with misconceptions, bias, and bigotry.
•	Lessons from the Leadership Summit, and how our community mobilizing not just in the next month, but throughout the coming years — to ensure our voice and our impact in the 2012 elections.
Please plan to join us on October 20 (reception at 6:00, dinner served at 7:00, followed by Dr. Zogby's talk and book signing). Space is limited, so I urge you to click here and make your reservations now. If you'd prefer to write a check, please contact AAI's Director of Development, Jane Kaddouri, at 202-429-9214 to be sure your seat is reserved before we fill up.
We look forward to seeing you in a few weeks,
Ahmad Husami
Sami Khalil
Mike Malley
Azeez Malley
Sami Mashney, Esq.
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Hundreds of Palm Springs vacation rental properties sit on the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians checkerboard-shaped reservation.
Palm Springs voters will head to the polls June 5 to decide if they should ban short-term vacation rentals in the city's residential neighborhoods.
A hot-button issue, many of its opponents and proponents agree that a final decision must be made.
But for more than a third of the city's vacation rentals, the outcome of this referendum might not actually matter.
Hundreds of Palm Springs vacation rental properties sit on the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians' checkerboard-patterned reservation. The tribe has already told the city it opposes the ban. And as a sovereign nation, the tribe doesn't have to follow Palm Springs ordinances.
So, even if the city's voters approve a ballot initiative calling for a ban on rentals of less than 28 days in residential neighborhoods, the tribe could choose to allow rental owners with properties on the reservation to continue renting out their home.
At a Palm Springs council meeting Wednesday, City Manager David Ready confirmed that the tribe could choose to ignore the ballot initiative if it passes. He said about 770 of the city's estimated 1,800 permitted short-term vacation rental homes sit on tribal land.
"It would create a significant problem for us in terms of enforcement," he said.
Half of Palm Springs sits on what is essentially rented land. Every other square mile of the city is tribal land, setting up a checkerboard-like pattern of land ownership.
"The tribe is concerned that this ban is an onerous and unnecessary restriction on the use of allotted trust land that will further restrict allottees from achieving 'highest and best use' of their trust land," he wrote.
Allotted land is land owned by tribal members which can be leased out to other individuals or companies. Davis said the ban was "extreme" and that vacation rentals would likely continue to operate without city permits or oversight.
Ready said if the measure were adopted by the voters, the city would be issuing so few vacation rental permits that the city's vacation rental compliance department, which is funded by permit fees, would go away. Palm Springs police would then have to respond to any calls for service arising from illegal rental properties or rentals on tribal land.
At a previous meeting, a representative of PSPD said since the rental enforcement department came into existence, officers have had to respond to fewer calls regarding vacation rentals.
At Wednesday's meeting, Council members also discussed drafting an argument against the ballot initiative to go in the voter guide and language in the initiative that had caused some consternation.
City Attorney Ed Kotkin said language in the ballot initiative regarding home sharingsomeone renting a room in their home or casita while they are at the property–contradicted itself, seeming to allow home sharing in some sections and prohibit it in others.
In response to public comments and a question from Council member Geoff Kors, Kotkin said the city legally could not make changes to the ballot language and if the measure is approved, it would have to go back to the voters again to change any contradictory wording.
Council members also voted 4-0 to have the Palm Springs Hospitality Association draft the official rebuttal to the measure.
Robert Grimm, campaign manager of the group that circulated the petition that led to the ballot measure, said the city was operating with a lack of "ethics, truth and fairness" and said a letter included in the city staff report was written by a realtor whose firm had sold vacation rental properties and was part of a group behind a petition drive that overturned a previous, more strict, vacation rental ordinance.
He said the letter was filled with vague language and guesses about how the real estate market could be negatively impacted if the ballot measure were adopted.
Jim Franklin of the Palm Springs Regional Association of Realtors, who wrote the letter Grimm took issue with, said the future of the real estate market was always uncertain.
Franklin said Palm Springs was the only city in the valley where home prices had surpassed pre-recession levels and he and other realtors were concerned that shuttering the vacation rental industry in the city could lead to a drop in home values.


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Raise Your Standards celebrates the songs and musical stylings that have stood the test of time and become go-to standards for Broadway's Erika Henningsen. From Julie Andrews to Olivia Rodrigo, Rat Pack to Rock-N-Roll, Cole Porter to Claude-Michel Schonberg, Erika seeks to redefine what a classic means to her and, hopefully, to you. She was most recently seen starring as Cady Heron in the Tony-nominated hit musical Mean Girls. She made her Broadway debut as the youngest Fantine in history in the latest revival of Les Misérables after making her New York debut as Kim Ravenal in the PBS Live from Lincoln Center production of Show Boat.
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Republicans have managed to craft a tax plan that incurs all the political liabilities of a tax cut and almost none of the policy and political advantages of actually passing one. In fact, they are getting hit with headlines that their plan raises taxes on some.
In the process of getting rid of broad-based and ubiquitous tax deductions, the GOP is going to anger many constituencies and lobbies. But at the same time, as we've explained, the rates are not coming down enough for many families — and some will actually get a tax increase. Some will get a slight increase and others, although they might secure a minor cut, will have the political perception of losing out because of eliminated deductions.
The core of the problem revolves around the GOP change to the state and local tax deduction (SALT). There are two conservative counterarguments for and against getting rid of this deduction, and the way Republicans dealt with this debate secured the liabilities of both and the benefits of neither.
On the one hand, we should never have crafted a federal tax code that incentivizes states to be shielded from the political backlash of high taxes. Allowing individuals to deduct all state and local income and property taxes distorts the tax "market" among the states and helps fuel the tax bubble of liberal states.
On the other hand, given that the deduction has been in place for many years, we don't want to raise taxes on anybody without a clear across-the-board tax cut. This is especially true of most home-owning families in most every major metro area. They are paying a lot in taxes, even after SALT; these are not the people on Medicaid or getting Obamacare subsidies. They are getting hosed by Obamacare.
The second problem with getting rid of SALT is that once families can no longer deduct local taxes, in conjunction with the doubling of the standard deduction under the new plan, the deductions for charity and home ownership are essentially gone.
For all but those with massive mortgages on large homes, most upper-middle-income families will consequently take the standard deduction. Thus, even though the charitable deduction is not directly touched and mortgage interest is only tweaked for future homes with a fairly generous cap of $500,000, they will become irrelevant.
Do we really want to go after charity … of all the things we socially engineer through taxes and statute?
And while most conservatives believe the mortgage interest deduction is an odious market-distorter that should never have gotten off the ground (I personally think it would be better to incentivize the down payment, not debt), it is politically perilous to go after it, particularly without a massive tax cut.
In other words, the rate cuts must be so advantageous that it's worth the political liability of going up against these constituencies. As we've noted before, the chained CPI, the bait-and-switch on different provisions, and the fact that the personal exemption (which is abolished) is worth more over time than the expanded child tax credit all make the attack on these deductions not worth the benefit.
In come the Republicans and the worst possible plan. Had they simply abolished SALT, we'd be better off. Instead, they cap SALT at $10,000, but in a very uneven way. Absolutely no state income or sales taxes may be deducted, but the real estate tax can be deducted all the way to $10,000.
Remember, except for a few states, almost everyone pays income or sales taxes. And some are quite high (not just in states like New York and California). The red state of South Carolina, for example, has a seven percent income tax.
On the other hand, most people only pay between $3,000 and $6,000 in real estate taxes. The lavish $10,000 max deduction for real estate taxes was a shout-out to the parochial and outrageous real estate taxes of New Jersey and Long Island, N.Y. But by completely abolishing the much more broad-based state income tax deduction, the GOP plan will cause many people — not just residents of New York and California — to pay more in taxes, while ruining itemization of charity and mortgage.
I would pay $169 more in taxes under this plan. While my home state of Maryland has an above-average income tax, it's not as high as California, and my real estate taxes are very reasonable. Yet by abolishing SALT, it will force me into the standard deduction and void out any tax cut. And I have a very middle-of-the-road home of $350,000 with a very low mortgage interest rate.
My family pays $9,300 in state and local income taxes but only $4,700 in real estate taxes. Under the GOP plan, the larger number cannot be deducted. I would surmise that more people are in situations similar to mine — wherein they pay more in state income taxes (which, again, cannot be deducted under this plan) than they pay in real estate taxes.
The better solution would be a flat cap of $10,000 on SALT, which could be used for any mix of income, sales, and property taxes. This would curtail any subsidization of runaway state taxes but at the same time ensure that there is no net tax increase on a broad array of individuals throughout the country.
Also, many more people would still be able to take the full $10,000 in deduction and still itemize, thereby saving the current level of incentives for charity. The GOP is now raising taxes while also subsidizing the most out-of-control property tax jurisdictions.
This is why Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J., said he is "thrilled" with the deduction compromise and found that "of the 151,000 people in his district that benefited from the state and local deduction last year, all but 3,000 of them would fit under the $10,000 cap, and most were subject to the [alternative minimum tax] anyway." Yet people in my home state of Maryland or in South Carolina — where income taxes are at least average and property taxes are reasonable — will lose out.
This system also creates a massive market distortion with housing and charity. The only people among those earning under the AMT level who will itemize are those living in high real estate tax areas. At present, many families who own a home itemize their deductions. This will essentially distort the entire incentive of charitable giving toward those in random locations rather than on income level.
To review, with this tax reform plan, the GOP will anger the housing industry, dismay charitable foundations, and raise taxes on many families (and not just in New York and California), while still keeping the parochial handouts for New York and New Jersey — all for a muddled tax plan that is, at best, a wash.
Congratulations, GOP: You have now messed up the only remaining issue on which Republicans have always been righteous. And while they continue funding every penny of Obamacare, Medicaid, and Planned Parenthood, they have a message for middle-income families seeking to adopt children: Save your money.
Editor's note: This article has been updated to note that the author's state and local taxes are $9,300, not his state taxes only.


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Researchers Develop Drug-Targeting Molecules to Improve Cancer Treatment
Matthew Webber in the lab.
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have developed small drug-targeting molecules that may be hundreds to thousands of times more effective at delivering potent drugs to desired sites of disease, including cancer.
According to the study published in ACS Central Science, a compound was developed from a new material, described as an easily injected hydrogel, which acts as a "homing" cue to attract drug molecules to sites bearing a tumor. By this method, the same sites can also be re-targeted for repeat dosing of chemotherapy or other treatments as needed.
"Common strategies, including several clinically approved therapeutics, use antibodies to direct a drug to its target. While offering biological recognition, these approaches only deliver a very small percentage of the drug to the site where it is needed while the remainder of the drug may circulate in the body for a very long time and cause increased toxicity," said Matthew Webber, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and senior author on the study. "As toxic as chemotherapy is, accurate drug-targeting paradigms are key to improving both the effectiveness of treatment as well as the quality of life for patients."
Instead of large protein-based targeting, Notre Dame researchers opted to use a small molecule. The size of the molecule is intended to improve tissue distribution and enable access to the desired site. In the case that the molecules do not make it to their target, their size also allows them to clear rapidly from the body, helping limit toxicity from chemotherapy.
"Our goal was to think about drug targeting in a new way," said Lei Zou, postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering and lead author on the study. "This approach has allowed us to create something very different from what is currently available in the market, with the potential to improve the chemotherapy treatment experience for cancer patients."
The study was co-authored by Adam Braegelman, graduate student in the Bioengineering Graduate Program, and was funded by an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant through Notre Dame's Harper Cancer Research Institute. Webber is an affiliated member of the Harper Cancer Research Institute, Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics at Notre Dame, the Notre Dame Center for Nanoscience and Technology and the Warren Center for Drug Discovery.
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Johann Ehrenreich Fichtel, magyarosan: Fichtel János Ehrenreich (Pozsony, 1732. szeptember 29. – Bécs, 1795. február 4.) osztrák születésű erdélyi kormányszéki tanácsos.

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A gimnáziumot szülővárosában végezte. Apja korán meghalt. Középiskoláinak végeztével a jogi tudományoknak adta magát; ügyvéd lett és nyolc évig volt ezen a pályán. Erdélyben tett utazása közben Nagyszebenben keresett hivatalt, melyet 1759-ben az ott újonnan alakult gazdasági igazgatóságnál mint segédhivatalnok el is nyert. 1762-ig, amikor ezen igazgatóság feloszlott, fölváltva Nagyszebenben és Bécsben, 1787-től mint kormányszéki tanácsos állandóan Erdélyben élt. II. József császár megbízásából a vámügyekben két nagyobb utazást tett Szlavóniában és a Tengermellékén. 1794 októberében és novemberében a horvát-török határon tett utazásakor, a rossz időjárás és a kényelem hiánya okozta nélkülözések aláásták egészségét. Az ásványtan körül szerzett érdemeiért 1775-ben a berlini természettudósok társasága tiszteletbeli tagjának választotta meg; 1781-ben a lipcsei gazdasági egyletnek és a bányászegyesületnek is tagja lett. Az erdélyi paleontológiának ő volt a megalapítója.

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 Physikalisch-metallurgische Abhandlung über die Gebirge und Bergwerke in Ungarn. Berlin u. Stettin, 1780.
 Nachricht von den Versteinerungen des Grossfürstenthums Siebenbürgen, mit einem Anhange und beygefügter Tabelle über die sämmtlichen Mineralien und Fossilien dieses Landes. Nürnberg, 1780.
 Beitrag zur Mineralgeschichte von Siebenbürgen. Nürnberg, 1780. Két rész. (I. Nachricht von den Versteinerungen des Grossfürstenthums Siebenbürgen, II. Geschichte des Steinsalzes und der Salzgruben im Grossfürstenthum Siebenbürgen.)
 Mineralogische Bemerkungen von den Karpathen. Wien, 1791. Két kötet. (2. cimkiadás Wien, 1816.)
 Nachricht von einem in Ungarn entdeckten ausgebrannten Vulkan. Berlin, 1793. (A Schriften der Gesellschaft naturforschen- der Freunde zu Berlin cz. folyóiratban is.)
 Mineralogische Aufsätze. Wien, 1794.
 I. E. Fichtel et Mole, Testacea microscopica aliaque mineralogica. Wien, 1803. (E munkában F. részvételét azonban Neugeboren kétségbe vonja.)

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View Full Version : Which team will having the longest winning streak to start the season?
Then it's eithr GS or Okc for me.
sixers.... but only if you count the games embiid starts.
Bulls....... Oh wait you said winning streak not loosing streak.
The Warriors ... or not. They have had bad losses early or been dominant for a record number of games. They seems to like long runs of wins and occasionally not showing up for games (they didn't show up for 2 games in the playoffs and thanks to Kawhi's ankle only lost 1 of them). It could be either one this year too.
I reckon the Thunder may start hot out the gate. Rockets are very streaky, but they could go undefeated for a while possibly. Just depends. Lots of factors. Even the Bulls beat the Cavs on opening night in Cleveland. Spurs could also be strong early, but depends on what strategy they're going for this season. Pop might play the youngins more, which could mean growing pains and we still don't know the real status of Parker & Kawhi. Nuggets and Wolves, maybe.
They can easily puke up a game. I have no idea how they'll play ... they've been mostly sleep walking through the preseason.
If the Cavs can beat the C's on opening night, they have a pretty easy schedule until Houston on Nov 9th.
Also play some good teams in Milwaukee and Washington though, so who knows.
Golden State Warriors. Has to be. If there was a second choice, i'd go Thunder.
I'll take Golden State with a nine-game win streak. They go on a three-game road trip games 8-10. They'll pull a close one out in San Antonio Nov. 2, and lose Nov. 4 in Denver.
We play the Warriors on opening night so ummmmm.....Hey, that's a shootout. We all know THAT. In theory, the Rockets could win. Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson are capable of hitting anything from anywhere.
Bucks schedule looks pretty brutal in the early goings.
We play the Warriors on opening night so ummmmm.....See! All that negativity! And look what happened!
The New York knicks !
Oh wait I thought the question was who will lose the most games to start the season and to finish the season .
The real answer is going to be the cavs .


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Bad news for everyone who got a real kick out of watching Sean Penn act so goddamn sad about having to go to stupid, majestic Mars: Hulu has canceled Penn's TV series The First, possibly because they, like the rest of us, kind of, sort of, forgot that it exists. (A non-trivial portion of us may or may not have gotten it twisted with First Man, also about extremely serous men in space.) According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Beau Willimon-created show won't be back for a second season, meaning we'll never get to watch Penn be sad on Mars, instead of simply sad at it, as promised in its first-season finale.
Hulu, of course, doesn't release viewership numbers, but it's pretty obvious that the show—which mostly concerned itself with Penn's character's relationship with his daughter, rather than piddly little stuff like conquering the grand, sprawling abyss of the cosmos—didn't makes nearly as much of an impact as the service was hoping a collaboration between an Oscar-winning actor and the creator of the U.S. version of House Of Cards might. The First wasn't all bad, mind you—Anna Jacoby-Heron and Natascha McElhone both gave fantastic, complicated performances—but ultimately, it just couldn't survive that initial burst of ignition, it seems.


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UPDATE: Grad Students Petition for Employee Status; Labor Board Rules
Graduate students are considered "students," not "employees" so they can't unionize. But, many are hoping to change this with a new petition.
For most graduate students, teaching undergraduates, research and grading can take up long hours. But, they're still considered students, not employees. Most of these students, however, will tell you that this is, in fact, work and would like to be considered employees by universities rather than students. While many graduate students are given a stipend and some even have the benefit of health insurance, being classified as a "student" rather than an "employee" puts them in a sticky situation. Living on a small graduate stipend isn't realistic and, as a result, many graduate students in this particular conundrum at private universities are hoping to change that. Employees have rights and can form unions, which students aren't able to do. So, there's not much these students can do about their current situations. NPR reports that there are around 1.7 million, only about 2 percent of which are represented by unions. The majority of these represented students are at public universities governed by the state – not by federal and labor laws. Until now, that is – or, at least, potentially. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently decided to review this issue. The board previously held a decision that students were not employees, however flip-flopped this within a case in 2000. Then, under new administration, the board reversed itself yet again, falling back on the original decision four years later. These changes, according to a labor and employment professor interviewed by NPR, are mainly tied to a current board's political makeup.
But, recently, students at Columbia and The New School petitioned for a change. They're hoping to convince the National Labor Relations Board to allow them to be considered employees and, therefore, unionize as such. However, not everyone seems to agree on this issue which has long sparked debate. According to NPR's report, many argue that "unions in higher education are increasingly necessary, as universities — like private corporations — rely more on cheaper labor." Columbia University also responded to this within an emailed statement by spokesperson, Caroline Adelman, stating that graduate students have long been involved in teaching and research – it's simply a part of postdoctoral training. According to Adelman's statement, graduate students relationships with their teaching mentors are ""unlike typical employer-employee relationships and not well served by a one-size-fits-all collective bargaining process." Furthermore, the general counsel for the American Council on Education, Peter McDonough echoed this stance. "Graduate students are students — students first," he told NPR. NPR reported that McDonough went into detail regarding this issue and that "research universities in particular give their faculty wide latitude in setting up grad student work hours and schedules. He says losing that flexibility might jeopardize some kinds of research. He also says the process has become very politicized, and current labor board members are reconsidering this issue for political, instead of policy reasons. Even if his side loses this decision, he says, it could always change back when the composition of the labor board changes again," as related by NPR.
Last April, the above issue of employee status for graduate students was under review. According to the Washington Post, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that "graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities are school employees, clearing the way for them to join or form unions that administrators must recognize." The 3-to-1 ruling overturned a previous 2004 ruling from Brown University which determined that " grad students engaging in collective bargaining would undermine the nature and purpose of graduate education." This is a huge change in terms of graduate students' lifestyles because it means that graduate students across the country now have a bargaining tool for larger stipends, compensation and health coverage. So, graduate students, rejoice: life's about to get a lot better.
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Epicureans, skeptics, and stoics on epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and psychology.
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(Formerly 121/221.) Descartes's philosophical writings on rules for the direction of the mind, method, innate ideas and ideas of the senses, mind, God, eternal truths, and the material world.
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Developments in 17th-century continental philosophy. Descartes's views on mind, necessity, and knowledge. Spinoza and Leibniz emphazing their own doctrines and their criticism of their predecessors. Prerequisite: 102.
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A polymath, Leibniz invented the calculus independently of Newton and made major contributions to virtually every science, including logic and computer science. In this course, we investigate Leibniz's philosophical system and its metaphysics: that God created the best of all possible worlds; that humans freely choose actions that are nevertheless pre-established; that space and time are idealizations and `imaginary'; and that true, fundamental reality consists of minds.
PHIL 122: Hume (PHIL 222)
(Formerly 120/220; graduate students enroll in 222.) Hume's theoretical philosophy, in particular, skepticism and naturalism, the theory of ideas and belief, space and time, causation and necessity, induction and laws of nature, miracles, a priori reasoning, the external world, and the identity of the self.
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Philosophical views of the highly influential rationalist philosophers Benedict (or Baruch) Spinoza (1632-1677) and G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716). Topics to be treated include: the nature of God and the question of his providential care for human beings, the concept of substance and its extension, the ontological relation of finite beings to God, the mental and its relation to the corporeal, and the nature of human freedom.
PHIL 125: Kant's First Critique (PHIL 225)
(Graduate students register for 225.) The founding work of Kant's critical philosophy emphasizing his contributions to metaphysics and epistemology. His attempts to limit metaphysics to the objects of experience. Prerequisite: course dealing with systematic issues in metaphysics or epistemology, or with the history of modern philosophy.
Instructors: De Pierris, G. (PI)
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PHIL 126B: Kant's Ethical Theory (PHIL 226B)
(Graduate students register for 226B.) Kant's moral philosophy based primarily on the Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals.
PHIL 127A: Kant's Value Theory (PHIL 227A)
(Graduate students register for 227A.) The role of autonomy, principled rational self-governance, in Kant's account of the norms to which human beings are answerable as moral agents, citizens, empirical inquirers, and religious believers. Relations between moral values (goodness, rightness) and aesthetic values (beauty, sublimity).
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Q: Steps to run a bash script from Android app remotely I have a Redhat box with a few simple scripts on it. I'd like to run these scripts on that box remotely via an Android application.
Would I need to set up a webserver on the box and call these scripts over HTTP?

A: Calling these scripts over HTTP would be your best option. Set up Apache + PHP, then make a PHP file with passthru() function, which calls a script and passes script output back to the Android app. Just make sure your scripts are safely stored on server and you don't try to send script content over HTTP -- that might be a big security hole.

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Today I finally managed to find the monument to the kamikaze pilots. Last time when I went to search for it I was really close - it's just that it's hidden behind a kindergarten. I find a bit scary that in the yard of the kindergarten they have an airplane od display. I just hope it's because the airport is really nearby, not that they try to educate kids to become kamikaze. Not even for peace (Kamikaze Peace Monument is the official name of the monument).
Last week the weather was perfect for humans and for plants.
Had a nice chase across the island, me the runaway on tractor, Taka pursuing me with his pickup. He was faster, but I was hiding better.
The predecessor of all vending machines. At least this is how they call them here. Have no clue what I'm talking about? Do you see a small thing with a blueish roof near the road, on the left of the truck? That's a vending machine for vegetables.
Zoomed in. There's nobody. Just vegetables packed in bags, each worth 100 yen. And a wooden box that accepts money. For a gaijin this concept of trust must be laughable, naive and/or stupid. For the Japanese it's something ususal. For them is laughable (and scary) the idea that there are places (also in Japan) where people lock the doors of their homes and cars.
From the mountain nearby. Yes, mountain. I wanted to write hill, but on the map it says "something"-山.
Burning the fields after the harvest.
No bananas for me this year. These will ripe sometime in May.
On a cloudy morning I took some pics of a funny cloud. It's the same cloud even in the third picture, a few hours later.
This afternoon there was not just one cloud and it wasn't funny at all. I barely managed to return home with my clothes dry.


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I'm aware that it's only September, but I'm going to go ahead and call it. Best social media video of the year goes to Jimmy Kimmel. His prank video Worst Twerk Fail EVER – Girl Catches Fire! scored over 12 million views in less than a fortnight. And what's better, his reveal video has nearly 15 million views on YouTube in less than one week.
Kimmel told The New York Times that he and his team came up with idea and shot it several months ago, well before Miley Cyrus's infamous twerking performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Kimmel said he divided his writers into three teams and asked them to "come up with a video idea that would make national news without using the muscle of the show, our Facebook page, Twitter or YouTube channel."
In Improv, Late Night, Public Speaking
Improv Rules for the Conference Call – #INBOUND13
I studied improv under Amy Poehler at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater for two years before she joined SNL. While she's the most brilliant improviser I've ever witnessed, she's also one of the best teachers I've ever had, following only Ms. Reed, my sophomore Latin teacher in the stack rankings. She has the gift of encouragement, and when you're learning to perform The Harold — a long form improv format where a troupe perform a 30 minute show based on a single audience suggestion — encouragement is needed.
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Oliver outlined his process for preparing to take on the big role. These steps in FastCompany Co.Create should be used for anyone taking on a big endeavor in business, sports, life or baking, especially "Be ready to fail." and also "watch unedited tapes of Stephen Colbert interviews.'
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WSJ All Things Digital reports that comedy actor Bill Hader, who recently announced he's retiring from Saturday Night Live after his ninth season, will be the new spokesman for the mobile telecom brand. Hader got his big break when Megan Mullally saw him perform at an improv show and introduced him to Lorne Michaels. For his SNL audition, Hader relied on the ol' standby scene — James Mason ordering donuts with an expired gift certificate.
The funniest commercial in the series is "Rice," which co-stars Brian Huskey, who was in my first improv class at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater.
I say bring back Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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I was scheduled to play the presidential debate moderator in a sketch with David Letterman tonight. But the show ran over the scheduled 46 minutes thanks to an extended funny segment by Stephen Colbert who was promoting his new book "America Again" (tune into his interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross on NPR) , so the sketch was bumped. The good news is that I picked up a few fashion tips for the Cirque guys, and plan to update more of my after-six wardrobe with sequins. I had a blast at the Ed Sullivan Theater getting to work with the team. Everyone I've met there is incredibly friendly. I rode the elevator with Paul Shaffer and had the chance to congratulate him on the 30 year anniversary of the hit he co-wrote, "It's Raining Men," which the show was celebrating that evening.
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Wydział Pedagogiczny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego – jeden z 20 wydziałów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Został założony w 1953.

Struktura
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 Prodziekan ds.finansowych –  prof. dr hab. Anna Wiłkomirska
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 1996–2002: Alicja Siemak-Tylikowska
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 Elżbieta Putkiewicz
 Bogdan Suchodolski
 Danuta Świerczyńska-Jelonek
 Tadeusz Tomaszewski
 Barbara Wilgocka-Okoń
 Irena Wojnar
 Władysław Zaczyński

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Acoustic phonetics
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Acoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics, which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates time domain features such as the mean squared amplitude of a waveform, its duration, its fundamental frequency, or frequency domain features such as the frequency spectrum, or even combined spectrotemporal features and the relationship of these properties to other branches of phonetics (e.g. articulatory or auditory phonetics), and to abstract linguistic concepts such as phonemes, phrases, or utterances.
The study of acoustic phonetics was greatly enhanced in the late 19th century by the invention of the Edison phonograph. The phonograph allowed the speech signal to be recorded and then later processed and analyzed. By replaying the same speech signal from the phonograph several times, filtering it each time with a different band-pass filter, a spectrogram of the speech utterance could be built up. A series of papers by Ludimar Hermann published in Pflügers Archiv in the last two decades of the 19th century investigated the spectral properties of vowels and consonants using the Edison phonograph, and it was in these papers that the term formant was first introduced. Hermann also played back vowel recordings made with the Edison phonograph at different speeds to distinguish between Willis' and Wheatstone's theories of vowel production.
Further advances in acoustic phonetics were made possible by the development of the telephone industry. (Incidentally, Alexander Graham Bell's father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a phonetician.) During World War II, work at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (which invented the spectrograph) greatly facilitated the systematic study of the spectral properties of periodic and aperiodic speech sounds, vocal tract resonances and vowel formants, voice quality, prosody, etc.
Integrated linear prediction residuals (ILPR) was an effective feature proposed by T V Ananthapadmanabha in 1995, which closely approximates the voice source signal.[1] This proved to be very effective in accurate estimation of the epochs or the glottal closure instant.[2] A G Ramakrishnan et al. showed in 2015 that the discrete cosine transform coefficients of the ILPR contains speaker information that supplements the mel frequency cepstral coefficients.[3] Plosion index is another scalar, time-domain feature that was introduced by T V Ananthapadmanabha et al. for characterizing the closure-burst transition of stop consonants.[4]
On a theoretical level, speech acoustics can be modeled in a way analogous to electrical circuits. Lord Rayleigh was among the first to recognize that the new electric theory could be used in acoustics, but it was not until 1941 that the circuit model was effectively used, in a book by Chiba and Kajiyama called "The Vowel: Its Nature and Structure". (This book by Japanese authors working in Japan was published in English at the height of World War II.) In 1952, Roman Jakobson, Gunnar Fant, and Morris Halle wrote "Preliminaries to Speech Analysis", a seminal work tying acoustic phonetics and phonological theory together. This little book was followed in 1960 by Fant "Acoustic Theory of Speech Production", which has remained the major theoretical foundation for speech acoustic research in both the academy and industry. (Fant was himself very involved in the telephone industry.) Other important framers of the field include Kenneth N. Stevens who wrote "Acoustic Phonetics", Osamu Fujimura, and Peter Ladefoged.
List of phonetics topics
Human voice
BibliographyEdit
Clark, John; & Yallop, Colin. (1995). An introduction to phonetics and phonology (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19452-5.
Johnson, Keith (2003). Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics (Illustrated). 2nd edition by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-4051-0122-9 (hardback: alkaline paper); ISBN 1-4051-0123-7 (paperback: alkaline paper).
Ladefoged, Peter (1996). Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (2nd ed.). The University of Chicago Press, Ltd. London. ISBN 0-226-46763-5 (cloth); ISBN 0-226-46764-3 (paper).
Fant, Gunnar. (1960). Acoustic theory of speech production, with calculations based on X-ray studies of Russian articulations. Description and analysis of contemporary standard Russian (No. 2). s'Gravenhage: Mouton. (2nd ed. published in 1970).
Hardcastle, William J.; & Laver, John (Eds.). (1997). The handbook of phonetic sciences. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-18848-7.
Hermann, L. (1890) "Phonophotographische Untersuchungen". Pflüger's Archiv. f. d. ges Physiol. LXXIV.
Jakobson, Roman; Fant, Gunnar; & Halle, Morris. (1952). Preliminaries to speech analysis: The distinctive features and their correlates. MIT acoustics laboratory technical report (No. 13). Cambridge, MA: MIT.
Flanagan, James L. (1972). Speech analysis, synthesis, and perception (2nd ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-05561-4.
Kent, Raymond D.; & Read, Charles. (1992). The acoustic analysis of speech. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. ISBN 1-879105-43-8.
Pisoni, David B.; & Remez, Robert E. (Eds.). (2004). The handbook of speech perception. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-22927-2.
Stevens, Kenneth N. (2000). Acoustic Phonetics. Current Studies in Linguistics (No. 30). Cambridge, MA: MIT. ISBN 0-262-69250-3.
Stevens, Kenneth N. (2002). "Toward a model for lexical access based on acoustic landmarks and distinctive features". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 111 (4): 1872–1891. doi:10.1121/1.1458026. PMID 12002871.
^ T. V. Ananthapadmanabha, "Acoustic factors determining perceived voice quality," in Vocal fold Physiology - Voice quality control, O.Fujimura and M. Hirano, Eds. San Diego, Cal.: Singualr publishing group, 1995, ch. 7, pp. 113–126.
^ A. P. Prathosh, T. V. Ananthapadmanabha, and A. G. Ramakrishnan, "Epoch extraction based on integrated linear prediction residual using plosion index," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2013, Vol. 21, Iss. 12, pp. 2471-2480.
^ A G Ramakrishnan, B Abhiram and S R Mahadeva Prasanna, "Voice source characterization using pitch synchronous discrete cosine transform for speaker identification," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, Vol. 137(), pp., 2015.
^ T V Ananthapadmanabha, A P Prathosh, A G Ramakrishnan, "Detection of the closure-burst transitions of stops and affricates in continuous speech using the plosion index," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 137, 2015.
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Big Movers in the Stock Market
Stocks that were moving substantially or trading heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market.
Energen Corp., up $1.39 at $26
Energen raised its 2002 earnings estimate to a range of $1.85 to $1.95 a share, up from earlier expectations of $1.80 to $1.90. The company credited its oil and gas acquisition and exploitation unit.
Waste Management Inc., down 66 cents at $26.23
The Securities and Exchange commission is suing the company's founder and five other former officials for fraud. In a civil suit filed Tuesday, the SEC alleged that the executives inflated earnings by $1.7 billion in an accounting scheme in which they profited. The SEC says the "massive earnings management fraud" from 1992 to 1997 cost shareholders more than $6 billion.
Adolph Coors Co., up 66 cents at $66.14; Anheuser-Busch Cos., up 65 cents at $52.73
Adolph Coors will spend $300 million during the next five years to be known as the official beer of the National Football League, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal. Adolph Coors will oust longtime sponsors Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing.
Manugistics Group Inc., up $2.22 at $20.45
Manugistics increased its forecast for fiscal 2003, expecting to earn 10 cents a share and post revenue growth of 15 percent. Analysts had expected profits of 6 cents a share and revenue growth of 11 percent.
Dell Computer Corp., down 24 cents at $25.95; Royal Philips Electronics NV, up 55 cents at $29.48 (Royal Philips Electronics is traded on the NYSE.)
Dell Computer and Royal Philips, a Dutch electronics maker, signed a five-year agreement in which Royal Philips will supply components to Dell. Royal Philips said the deal could raise its sales by $5 billion over the next five years.
Interwoven Inc., up 29 cents at $5.04
Interwoven, which makes Web software, business will suffer through the first half of 2002 and possibly longer, and likewise expects only modest annual growth.


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Babiy Yar Memorial and Museum WWII
Refundable
Adult(s) x (Age 0 To 99)
Stop At: Great Patriotic War Museum, Kiev
There was a time when Babi Yar was just a deep ravine on the outskirts of Kiev. Occupying German forces changed all that September 1941 when they ordered 35000 of Kiev's Jewish residents to gather their belongings and march to Babi Yar. Thinking they would be transported to another location, they did as they were told lined up along the ravine where Nazi firing squads proceeded to execute them. Their bodies were thrown into the ravine below. Throughout the Nazi occupation of Kiev, Babi Yar was used for mass killings. In all, over 100000 people including partisans and members of the underground, but mostly Jews, were killed here. In 1991, a monument was erected near the site. Excursion is provided with visiting to the Museum of the World War II.
Private guided tour
Tour includes transportation by private vehicle or minivan, minibus and pickup and hotel drop-off
Private 3 hours tour of the Babiy Yar and Museum of WWII from Kiev.
Explore the History of the WWII 1941-1945 on the territory of Ukraine.
Visiting the Museum of WWII.
Entrance fees to the Museum of WWII (about 2 US$ per person)
Souvenirs and photos are available to purchase
Entry/Admission - Great Patriotic War Museum
Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 1 day of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
Another language speaking guide is on request.
Infants must sit on laps
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Q: how to unblocked by CORS policy i tried apiurl in post method for signup page…
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Headers, HttpModule } from '@angular/http';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';

  let apiUrl = 'http://aaaaa.in/outfit/index.php/api/v1/';

  @Injectable()
 export class AuthServiceProvider {

   constructor(public http: Http) {
   console.log('Hello AuthServiceProvider Provider');
 }
 public register(data){
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
  let headers = new Headers();
  alert('11');
    headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
     headers.append( 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Authorization, Content-Type' );

    //headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Origin',
 'http://localhost:8100');
 //headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', 'true');

    alert(apiUrl);
    this.http.post(apiUrl+'account', JSON.stringify(data), {headers: headers})

      .subscribe(res => {
        resolve(res.json());
       alert(Response);
      }, (err) => {
        reject(err);
      });
});

  }

}

it shows the error like this…"Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'http://aaaaa.in/outfit/index.php/api/v1/account' from origin 'http://localhost:8100' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: It does not have HTTP ok status."
Thanks in advance..

A: Are you trying to run the application on chrome? If you are running the application on chrome, it usually happens and I don't even know why but it works fine if you try it on an actual device. I encountered the same problem and I overcome it with the help of a chrome extension which is Allow-Control-Allow-Origin. I don't know if there is a proper way to solve this but this might help you

A: Method 1:
Install "Allow-Control-Allow-Origin" extension in chrome to resolve this issue for developing.
Method 2:
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{
  "name": "foresight",
  "app_id": "47182aef",
  "type": "angular",
  "integrations": {
    "cordova": {}
  },
  "proxies": [
    {
      "path":"/account",
      "proxyUrl": "https://api-foresight.castingapi.in/account"
    }
  ]
}

you can call your external service using the below code
headers = new Headers({'key': '12345678'});
options = new RequestOptions ({headers: this.headers});
return this.http.get('/account/?fields=name', this.options)

Remember to ionic serve or ionic lab after making changes in the ionic.config.js


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Pennsylvania among 3 states where GOP won state House but lost popular vote
By Christopher Ingraham
The Washington Post |
People protest gerrymandering outside the Supreme Court on Oct. 3, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Bill O'Leary / The Washington Post)
Majorities of voters in at least three battleground states — Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina — chose a Democrat to represent them in the state's House of Representatives. Yet in all three states, Republicans maintained majority control over the chamber despite winning only a minority of votes.
For that, you can thank gerrymandering – the process by which partisan lawmakers draw legislative districts in a way to disadvantage their opponents. Its effects are well-documented at the federal level: In states like North Carolina, U.S. House delegations feature huge Republican majorities, even when the majority of voters choose a Democratic representative.
But gerrymandering is just as much of an issue at the state government level, as the cases of Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina illustrate.
In Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates won 54 percent of the statewide House popular vote but walked away with just 45 percent, or 92 seats, of the 203-seat state Legislature.
This disparity is largely due to how the districts were drawn. Pennsylvania is unique in that its state legislative districts are drawn by a commission consisting of the majority and minority leaders of the state House and Senate, as well as a commission chair typically appointed by the state Supreme Court.
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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is a partisan institution, with Democratic and Republican judges vying for election to 10-year terms. Whichever party controls the Supreme Court, then, controls redistricting.
In 2011, when state legislative districts were drawn following the 2010 Census, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court happened to have a majority of conservatives on its bench.
In 2011 the Court appointed Stephen McEwen, a well-respected conservative judge who unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Republican in 1974, to serve as the commission's chairman.
The maps drawn up by that commission remain in effect this year, ensuring Republicans hold on to the House majority despite losing the statewide popular vote by more than 370,000 ballots.
Michigan and North Carolina are more straightforward cases. The states draw their legislative districts by passing bills in the legislature. Whichever party controls the legislature controls the redistricting, and Republicans happened to be in charge of both legislatures following the 2010 Census.
In 2018, both states saw a six percentage-point gap between Democrats' share of the popular vote, and the share of state House seats they won. Michigan Democrats won 200,000 more votes statewide than Republicans did but will get 52 out of 110 seats. North Carolina Democrats prevailed in the popular vote by 79,000 votes but won 54 out of 120 seats.
More races go to Democrats, including Senate seat in Arizona
As vote counting presses on, the Democrats have steadily chalked up victories across the country, firming up their grip on the U.S. House and statehouses
By Steve Peoples
Democrats have been known to indulge in the occasional gerrymander when they're in power, as the case of Maryland so vividly illustrates.
Yet in the run-up to the 2010 Census, it was Republicans who realized that the pathway to power ran through the nation's statehouses, where most districts are drawn.
They weren't exactly subtle about this - their redistricting initiative had a name (REDMAP), and a public website where, in 2013, they boasted that "Republicans enjoy a 33-seat margin in the U.S. House . . . having endured Democratic successes atop the ticket and over one million more votes cast for Democratic House candidates than Republicans."
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Meanwhile, one unintended consequence of Republicans' 2010 successes is increased public awareness of gerrymandering and the ways in which it skews representative democracy. To that end, voters have been busy approving ballot measures that take redistricting control out of the hands of lawmakers entirely.
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So I thought I'd assemble and install my brilliant PTC heating system. It consist of three 500W elements meant for 110VAC, a fuse and one of the temperature monitoring relays that came with the elements. Seemed to work really nicely like this, with no air flow going throught them. Almost scary even, because the elements quickly shot up to 100 degrees Celsius and kept on going until 200 degrees.
Imagine my disasppointment when I had them installed and found out they made nearly zero heat once in action. Oh, if I put the blower on first setting there was a little bit of heat, but not nearly enough to clear the windshield. I suppose I just have to give up and find a liquid tank heater to get the job done. Meh.
It wasn't a complete waste of time though, because now I have the wiring ready for whatever heating system I end up with. The smallish 80 amp contactor in the right is what controls it. The DC/DC converter wires come in from the left. The Kelly controller is sticking in from the top and motor wires go out to the left. That throttle pot system is a bit flimsy still and it will need another spring, but that's another improvement that might have to wait until later.
I was tying some loose ends today. Not that I'd run out anytime soon. One of them was tying down the battery box. I decided to do it this way for now and maybe change it later. Hopefully the inspector won't have a problem with this approach. Then again, it's not a huge issue, if I have to go for a more permanent fix. The thick black wire in the picture grounds the battery box into the chassis. It's not very pretty, but gets the job done. Another little thing to tidy up later, if there's time and interest.
As is usually the case with French cars, my Xsara also had it's spare tire under the boot, outside the car. I believe it's not required to have a spare wheel anymore, a lot of new cars don't, so I figured I'd take it out. It was a full sized wheel with sturdy mounting system, but I was still suprised to find out the pile of crap came in at a hefty 20 kg! Very nice weight savings indeed. Almost half the weight of my batteries.
I also picked up the Power Steering pump which had the piece from the old pump fitted into it's now stubby pipe, making it compatible with the plumbing in the car. This is to me the most favored solution since now I can keep buying Xsara plumbing and 307 pumps as long as I like, if they break.
A problem surfaced regarding the VAG vacuum pump. I don't know if it's by design or if the pump is broken, I'm guessing the latter, but once I got everything put together and running otherwise fine, the vacuum would escape through the hole in the pump which it uses to blow out extra air from the vacuum side. Bloody annoying. I took the cap of the pump and found a couple of seals, which seemed fine, and nothing else broken either. Maybe I can find a one-way valve that would keep the vacuum from escaping? That would fix the issue. The vacuum relay I got from ebay works as advertised.
Not much to be told at this time I'm afraid. The lack of a warm, clean garage is slowing me down. I did get the Power Steering pump working though thanks to this blog post I found. It was just as simple as they told. Just connect the two big wires to the 12 volt supply and two of the control pins to plus and it ran. Ran quiet too. I think it will make for some excellent power steering. Possibly even better than what the car originally had. Now I'll just have to get the piping fitted.
Still trying to find an electrician who would check my high voltage connections. Well, it's not even high voltage really. It's really, really low voltage at around 80 volts DC, but the rules say they must be inspected. Apparently it's enought though that the eletrician checks just the high voltage circuit and general installation of high voltage components and the rest of the E100 paper can be dealt with at the inspection. That means I'm pretty much ready for the inspection. Well, maybe I need to install those charging plugs and bolt the battery box to the car, but other than that it should be all good.
The rest of the components for the brakes and heat did also arrive. I should now be able to construct the vacuum assembly for the brakes. Not expecting any problems there. Just a matter of some tubing, a relay and a piece of aluminium to keep them in place. I'm kind of hoping to get that done within the next week. Either that or the heat, which will consist of three 500 watt PTC elements. I will replace the pollen filter in the car with those elements and see if the result is sufficient heat to pass the inspection. Fingers crossed.
I'm also constantly thinking about replacing my expertly welded motor to transmission adapter with an industrial flexible joint. It may have to wait until later though. The thought of once again removing the motor is not extremely appealing at this point. I will need to improve the motor mounts though. Oh, such a long list of little things to do here and there.


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Boat Harbour cleanup expected to start in 2021
Returning a former tidal estuary to nature after 50 years of contamination a 'big, complex project,' says project leader.
$217M cleanup faces regulatory, environmental challenges
Paul Withers · CBC News · Posted: Jan 16, 2019 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 16
This image shows a dredge being used to remove contaminated sediment at the Boat Harbour remediation pilot project. (Nova Scotia Government)
The start date to clean up Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia's biggest environmentally contaminated site, may be pushed back by a year to 2021.
The remediation project at the pulp mill effluent facility, and its timetable, is separate from a new treatment system that is being proposed by Northern Pulp to replace Boat Harbour.
But the cleanup is facing its own regulatory and environmental challenges.
"It's a big, complex problem," said Ken Swain, a project leader. "It's a pretty complicated solution."
Nova Scotia on the hook
Since 1967, lagoons adjacent to the Pictou Landing First Nation have received tens of millions of litres of wastewater effluent per day from a nearby pulp mill.
Nova Scotia is testing techniques to remove and treat up to 500,000 cubic metres of contaminated sediment of pulp mill effluent accumulated over five decades. In this image, the geotube system of textiles are separating liquids from solids. (Nova Scotia Government)
The Boat Harbour treatment facility is owned by the provincial government, which is on the hook for the cleanup once the facility closes. The cost is forecast at $217 million.
Not the pipe in the Northumberland Strait project
Controversy swirls over where the mill's latest owner, Northern Pulp, plans to discharge treated effluent when Boat Harbour closes.
Swain said the remediation is proceeding on the assumption Boat Harbour will close by Jan. 31, 2020 — as required under the 2015 Boat Harbour Act — even if the Boat Harbour cleanup is not ready to proceed.
"We're probably gonna have to push that back," Swain said.
Cleanup expected to start in 2021
Swain points to the environmental assessment process. The cleanup project will undergo a Tier II provincial environmental assessment, which includes an independent review panel and public hearings. It can last up to 275 days.
Last week, the province submitted its plans to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. The agency will decide in February whether the project should undergo a federal assessment.
Procurement will follow regulatory approval and take months longer.
"So what we would probably see in that instance is not being able to have the full-scale implementation started until perhaps early 2021," Swain said.
The Boat Harbour cleanup plan
The plan is to dredge up to a million cubic metres of contaminated, watery sediment and pipe it to a pad where water will be removed for treatment.
Up to 500,000 cubic metres of solids will be moved to an existing and expanded containment cell on site.
"The biggest technical challenge is effectively removing that material off the bottom of Boat Harbour," said Swain.
"We want to figure out the most efficient and effective way of getting the lens of contaminated sludge off the bottom and taking as little as possible of the clean underlying harbour bottom."
Why a key pilot project was suspended
They are still looking for the right solution.
An aerial view of the Boat Harbour remediation pilot project. (Nova Scotia Government)
Last October, dredging began to test techniques, but the pilot project was suspended in December because cold weather froze pipes.
The pilot project will resume sometime in April or May.
What's in raw mill effluent?
In May 2017, the province awarded a $6.7-million contract to GHD, an international consulting firm, to come up with the detailed plan for the cleanup.
The plan submitted to the federal government on Jan. 7 is from GHD and Nova Scotia Lands, a provincial agency charged with environmental cleanup.
GHD determined the nature and extent of contamination.
It also compared raw effluent with provincial and federal standards.
"Results indicated both PCBs and dioxins and furans were below the applicable criteria, while metals exceed the marine criteria for barium, boron, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, and zinc. Metals parameters reported to exceed the Provincial human health criteria were sodium and vanadium," the project description stated.
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The contaminated sludge is 10 per cent solids and 90 per cent water. The goal is remove between 50 to 70 per cent of the water.
The good news so far is water removed from the sludge is relatively clean.
"It will need some treatment, but not to the extent that we initially were envisioning," Swain said.
"We know we have to deal with in excess of five million cubic metres of water during the full-scale implementation of the remediation, which is several thousand Olympic-size swimming pools. So it's a large volume, a big-cost driver."
How the forecast cost has increased
In 2018, the cost of the full cleanup was estimated at $217 million.
It has risen steadily since the initial estimate of $52 million in 2015, $88 million in 2016 and $133 million in 2017.
A new forecast is expected in mid-2019 after the pilot project is completed.
The goal of the cleanup is to return Boat Harbour to a tidal estuary — its original condition in 1967 — which means removing all the contaminated sediment.
"We'll have to be clean," said Swain.
"At the end of the day what goes out needs to be in compliance with the Fisheries Act. So we cannot release any deleterious substances into the environment so we've got to get it all."
Paul Withers
Paul Withers is an award-winning journalist whose career started in the 1970s as a cartoonist. He has been covering Nova Scotia politics for more than 20 years.


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Surf Air: Will this Californian flying club take off in the UK"
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New private jet option for ?an all-you-can-fly aviation buffet? ? at £3,150 per month
From the public entrance at London City airport, it?s an eight-minute walk along the airfield perimeter to the private jet terminal opposite the Travelodge. When I went to check it out early on Friday morning, the main point of interest en route was a group of five young men sharing a joint. Fortunately they did not appear to be pilots.
I wanted to take a look at the business aviation terminal because it is about to become a hub for an intriguing new enterprise: Surf Air.
The premise of this Californian start-up is that travellers don?t much like busy airports and crowds, and the way that time is devoured at either end of the journey. Surf Air offers the well-heeled (or generously expensed) the chance to join a handful of other elite passengers at an executive aviation terminal, depart speedily and, on arrival, leave the airport while those of us on normal commercial flights are still waiting for the person blocking the aisle to sort out their implausible expansive cabin baggage from the overhead locker. With a maximum of eight passengers flying from London City to Zurich (and incurring £76 each in Air Passenger Duty), it sounds expensive. But that all depends how much you use it. Because Surf Air isn?t so much an airline as a club, which offers unlimited flights to members: an all-you-can-fly aviation buffet.
Surf Air began in California in 2013, and now operates in Europe as well. The ...
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