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Nike missiles were Milwaukee's and Chicago's line of defense against Soviet attack
Efforts to build a Cold War Museum in Waukesha in need of funds
Nike missiles were Milwaukee's and Chicago's line of defense against Soviet attack Efforts to build a Cold War Museum in Waukesha in need of funds Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2wyGYJG
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Colin Sandell, a veteran who worked at the radar base in Waukesha, is trying to generate interest in building a Cold War Museum to help residents remember scenes like this.(Photo: Submitted)
Escalating tensions between President Trump and the dictator of North Korea over that country's nuclear capabilities have recently stoked fear, but there was a time the threat of nuclear annihilation was so great warheads were ready to launch essentially from the backyards of Waukesha homes, and other locations ringing the Milwaukee area.
"For someone today who didn't grow up during the Cold War that has no idea what the Berlin Wall was, that doesn't understand what the ramifications were if we lost the Cold War: We would have had Russian sickles on our flag," said Chris Sturdevant, the Cold War Museum's Midwest chapter chairman. "It's that simple."
Sturdevant wants to build a Midwest Cold War museum and he thinks the ideal location is at Hillcrest Park, 2119 Davidson Road, where the remnants stand of a radar site that was once considered by the federal government to be the first line of defense against a nuclear attack.
Today, not much remains of the missile installation. But there's an ongoing effort to remember the history of the site and the realities of the Cold War era.
The fallout shelters door stands open at Hillcrest Park in Waukesha. The shelter was built in the early 1970s when the Wisconsin National Guard took control of operations from the U.S. Army. (Photo: Patrick Calvert/Now News Group)
The First Line of Defense
The 13-day standoff, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, began on Oct. 16, 1962 when President John F. Kennedy was briefed about a Soviet-backed nuclear arms build-up in Cuba.
"We came as close that week to nuclear war than we have ever had before or since and, if you can imagine what it was like, we were the last line of defense established to protect the metropolitan areas of Milwaukee, Chicago and Gary, Indiana," said Colin Sandell, a veteran who worked at the radar base in Waukesha.
Sandell's first day on the job was Oct. 19 of that year – squarely in the middle the Crisis. He started as a range operator at the facility, which was used to detect squadrons of Soviet bombers, and later worked with the missile tracking radar.
When he was sent to the radar installation, now Hillcrest Park, the base was on high alert.
Concerns of nuclear war shot across the country, and the base was "locked and loaded," Sandell said.
"If the Russian long range bombers were coming over the poles we'd be the first guys to have a chance to knock them down and we were … ready to fire."
"It was a really tense time for that first week in October of 1962," he said.
The shelter in Waukesha had computers that could be used to launch nuclear missiles in the middle of a nuclear war. The structure could keep its occupants alive for three days. (Photo: Patrick Calvert/Now News Group)
Missile defense system
In 1956, the AJAX Nike Missiles were brought to the Milwaukee area where eight missile bases – in Waukesha, River Hills, Cudahy, Franklin, Muskego, Lannon, one on Silver Spring Drive and Sherman Boulevard and one on the current Summerfest grounds – were established to defend the area's population and industry.
The missile defense system was divided essentially into three parts: defense rockets, which would be launched against attacking intercontinental ballistic missiles; radar equipment that would find incoming warheads and plot their trajectory; and the computers that would make the rapid calculations to intercept the warheads.
The eight bases were reduced to three in 1959 – Waukesha, River Hills along Brown Deer Road, and the Summerfest grounds – and the Ajax Nike missiles were replaced with Nike Hercules Missiles capable of carrying nuclear payloads.
Sturdevant, the midwest chapter chairman of the Cold War Museum, said the army realized conventional warheads wouldn't be effective against a formation of Soviet bombers.
"They needed a heavier payload, so to speak, to take on such a big squadron of fighters or bombers should they have gotten through. That was the reasoning or rationale of deploying nuclear missiles because they could indeed take out several (bombers) at a time," he said.
Remnants of the M-74 Integrated Fire Control site stands at Hillcrest Park in Waukesha. Ground-based radars, to detect Soviet aircraft, were located here and the missile launch site was about a mile south. (Photo: Patrick Calvert/Now News Group)
Consequences of nuclear defense
If Soviet bombers flew over the Arctic en route to bomb the U.S., the fight would have likely taken place in Canada "where there is a very low population," Sturdevant continued.
"(The North American Aerospace Defense Command) called it the distant early warning line. Then they also had the Canada line. If the (Soviets) got beyond those two points that meant they were over our airspace here in southeast Wisconsin," he said.
If the bombers ever did manage to fly into or near U.S. territory, it could have been disastrous for communities caught in the middle of the conflict.
The nuclear payload attached to a Hercules missile would be similar to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII.
"The missiles themselves were aimed at areas like Oshkosh (and) Appleton so again the fight would have been further north of southeast Wisconsin," Sturdevant said. "But nonetheless, if you're talking about a 15 kiloton weapon (to) 30 kiloton nuclear bomb then (the U.S. would have to deal with) the radiation and the fallout that would have occurred over our own territory."
Sandell, the former Waukesha base operator, said he believes a launch of the defensive missiles would have exploded somewhere over Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac or Oshkosh 20,000 feet to 30,000 feet above ground.
"A nuclear explosion would pretty much destroy everything underneath it," Sandell said.
A fallout shelter can still be seen at Hillcrest Park in Waukesha (Photo: Patrick Calvert/Now News Group)
He said the aftermath of using the defense system was something nobody ever talked about, not even in the communities where the bases were stationed.
"There is no way I could see the communities tolerating having those kinds of weapons in their backyards anymore …. It shows you how concerned people were about being attacked by the Soviet Union.
"Even if they thought about it they didn't say anything," he said, "they didn't object."
Relevance of the Cold War
So why does all this matter now?
Perhaps because history in the U.S. is too easily forgotten and too infrequently instructive, said Francis Gary Powers Jr., the founder of the Cold War Museum in Warrenton, Virginia.
"I would be giving lectures in high schools in the mid 90s before the founding of the museum," Powers recalled. "I'd walk into a classroom to give a talk on the U-2 incident. (I'd) get blank stares from the kids, they thought I was there to talk about the U-2 rock band."
His father, Francis Gary Powers, was a U-2 pilot who was shot down over the former Soviet Union on May 1, 1960.
"So that was the catalyst for the creation of the museum," Powers said. "(It) was to honor our veterans, preserve the history and educate the students who didn't really know anything about the Cold War and it was only four or five years from being over."
Four Nike Hercules missiles were poised, at the lakefront site where the Summerfest grounds are now located, in 1965. Radar facility for this site was in Lake Park, about a mile north. (Photo: submitted)
Powers stressed that it is important for people today to learn about the Cold War because the aftermath of that era is still impacting the world.
One example he cited was the so-called war on terror that the U.S. has been fighting for more than 15 years.
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and the CIA supported indigenous rebel fighters against the invasion. The kicker: One of those rebels was Osama bin Laden.
"History is not just a period of time between point A and point B or time period A and time period B," Powers said. "It is the evolution of events over time."
The threat of nuclear annihilation was something people learned to live with during that era, but Sandell believes those attitudes are no longer holding.
"In the old days in the Cold War it was mutually assured destruction. That's what kept each other from pushing a nuclear launch button," Sandell said. "When you are dealing with people like Iran and North Korea they don't seem to be concerned about being obliterated. The Soviet Union (Russia) does. They have a lot to lose, so does China, but these other countries don't."
For Sturdevant, the Cold War and the local Nike missile sites are worth remembering because the era was the "longest and costliest conflict in our history."
Not only was the Cold War expensive, but it also led to inventions and innovations that have changed the U.S. and the world forever.
"The biggest reminder of the Cold War that we have … (is) the U.S. interstate highway system. . .. The internet is a function of the Cold War. It was initially tracking nuclear weapons out in the bay area in the 1960s," Sturdevant said.
"(The history) is right in front of our noses."
The M-74 Integrated Fire Control site in Waukesha (shown circa 1963) today is a public park. (Photo: Submitted)
Throughout the last decade, Sturdevant and the museum have presented the city of Waukesha with two proposals for building a Cold War museum at the former radar site.
What's primarily halted its creation, he said, is cost.
"The big problem continues to be how do we reach that $300,000 price tag, and I think eventually it can happen, but it's going to take a little bit more planning on our part," Sturdevant said.
He contends the radar site in Waukesha is an ideal spot for the museum because hundreds of veterans spent time at the base at one time or another and because of the role it played in "fighting to protect (the U.S.) and prevent World War III."
"The fact that we had nuclear weapons here in southeast Wisconsin is amazing," Sturdevant said. "It makes sense to have it on a heritage site that would be becoming of preserving veterans efforts and the community during the Cold War."
Sturdevant says the next step in opening a Cold War museum in Waukesha is to create a committee to look into future and current options of displaying artifacts at the radar installation.
Regardless, he said, the Cold War Museum will continue to host educational programs throughout the Midwest.
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Unite secure £4m for remaining blacklisted workers
Open-access content 9th May 2016
Legal action was taken against 30 construction contractors who had funded a secret database to blacklist workers. The database, collated by the Consulting Association (TCA), contained details of workers' trade union activities and past employment conduct, including those who had raised health and safety issues.
Last week the UCATT and GMB unions and solicitors GCR announced that they had reached an out of court settlement for their affected members.
In total, £10.4 million has been secured for 256 workers represented by Unite. The union says payouts could range from £200,000 to £250,000 per-claimant, dependent on factors such as loss of earnings and reputational damage suffered by individuals.
Speaking about the settlement, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: "The sums to be paid out go a considerable way to acknowledge the hurt, suffering and loss of income our members and their families have been through over many years.
This final tranche of compensation concludes a process that began in 2009 when the Information Commissioner's Office closed down and seized records from the TCA's West Midlands office.
In July 2014, unions felt that the Construction Workers Compensation Scheme (TCWCS), a compensation package for blacklisted workers created by Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and Vinci in July 2014, was inadequate.
In October 2015, the eight contractors who had launched the TCWCS, accepted responsibility for defamation and in January 2016, as the date for the high court approached, offers of compensation to blacklisted workers increased significantly.
According to the GMB, today's settlement, along with last week's payout to workers, brings the total compensation to £75 million.

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MPs resign in protest over "unjustifiable" vice-chancellor pay
by Tom Allingham in Student News
A total of four MPs have resigned from their roles at the University of Bath in protest over the pay of the vice-chancellor, Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell.
This week three Labour MPs announced that they would be standing down from their positions as members of the Court of Bath University – a body that is meant to represent the interests of the university's stakeholders.
Kerry McCarthy (MP for Bristol East), Darren Jones (Bristol North West) and David Drew (Stroud) all feel that the vice-chancellor's £451,000 a year salary is excessively high, particularly amid rising fees for students.
Their resignations follow that of the Conservative MP for South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison, who stepped down from the same role two weeks ago over what he described as an "eye-watering" pay packet for the VC.
Why are people so angry?
Dame Glynis' £451,000 pay packet makes her the highest paid VC in the UK. The figure is comprises a base salary of £434,000 plus an extra £17,000 in other allowances – a wage she's been since 2015–16 when Bath gave her an 11% pay rise (up from around £390,000).
As we've reported, this year is the first in which tuition fees will rise from the already-controversial £9,000 a year to £9,250, and they're set to increase each year until 2020. Kerry McCarthy MP believes it isn't "sustainable" or "fair" that vice-chancellors are paid as much as they are while "students are struggling".
Many have also highlighted the huge gap in pay between the VC and those at the lower end of the university's pay scale, with staff on the lowest pay grade earning approximately £15,000 a year (less than 4% of the VC's salary). In fact, in December 2016 some Bath students called for the uni to adopt a 5:1 pay ratio, meaning no employee could earn more than five times what the lowest-paid worker received.
Is it just Bath?
Earlier this year we reported that the average salary for a UK vice-chancellor was a whopping £277,000 a year. The findings came courtesy of a report by the University and College Union (UCU), and while no VC received as much as Bath's, there were still some eye-watering figures on show.
The average VC salary stands at over 6.5 times that of teaching staff, with 24 universities electing to increase their VC's pay by 10%. Many received a far bigger pay rise, with Professor Debra Humphries of the University of Brighton seeing her wage boosted by 31%.
The University of Bournemouth's Professor John Vinney also took a sizeable increase in pay (up by 20%, taking his salary to £305,000), despite many of his uni's staff being told that they could only have a 1% rise. The most shocking numbers may be yet to come, as a number of institutions refused to disclose details on their spending.
In defence of the VCs
Despite the widespread furore, some high-profile figures have come out in defence of vice-chancellor's salaries. While discussing the pay of Bath's VC, the executive director of Bath Chamber of Commerce, Ian Bell, said:
The university is massively important to the economy of Bath... by any measurement this is a Premier League university doing incredibly well.
I don't think it's unreasonable that if an organisation is performing at a very high level in a national and international context, that the people running the organisation shouldn't be rewarded accordingly.
But perhaps the most notable argument in favour of vice-chancellor has come from the University of Bolton's very own VC. Professor George Holmes (or, to give him his full name as used by the media, yacht/Bentley-owning George Holmes) made the following controversial remarks to The Financial Times earlier this month:
Those at the top end of the sector are not paid enough. Nine Australian VCs earn more than A$1 million [about £615,000] a year. 30 university presidents in the US do.
I have had a very successful career. I hope students use their education to get a good job and then they can have a Bentley. Do you want to be taught by someone who is successful or a failure?
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What everyone really wants to know is who won the award for a complete lack of subtly or self-control, also known as "best heat"?
You are right, I should have put full results in! I'll make that edit.
Your coworkers were not the only ones who regretted your weekend choices. I think Shaggy the dog is still suffering from shell shock.


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Archive for Month: February 2014
20MPH ZONES
There is a lot of interest in the Council's proposals for 20mph zones. The Council are rolling these out firstly to streets surrounding schools. All the schools in Leeds are on a list to be done. The zone takes in a school and up to a 1km buffer around the boundary. The zones are prioritised according to the…
CHANGES TO BULKY HOUSEHOLD WASTE COLLECTION
A recent report to the Council's Executive Board sought approval to make changes to the Bulky Waste collection service by way of providing only 3 free collections per year as opposed to the existing 13 with a potential future option for the Council to charge for additional collections. A limit of four items per collection…
RESUMPTION OF BROWN BIN COLLECTION
Please find below information I have been sent in respect of the resumption of the brown bin garden waste collection service which starts again from 3rd March. "Dear Councillor I am writing to advise you that the fortnightly garden waste (brown bin) collection service will resume on existing routes across two weeks from 3March 2014.…
I have been advised of the following information from Leeds City Council this afternoon: "We just had the latest from the Met Office who have issued a Yellow warning for snow that captures Leeds http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&regionName=yh. Valid from Friday afternoon until midnight Friday with around 5cm sounding possible. This is accompanied by more rain prior and…
INSPECTOR'S REPORT ON LEEDS CITY COUNCIL'S CORE STRATEGY
The Planning Inspector who was asked to examine the Leeds City Council Core Strategy has now submitted his report which can be accessed by clicking on the link further down Then, going down the page until you reach Examination News dated 5th February 2014, then click the coloured text which reads Examination Documents list Then…
DAVID WILSON HOMES – SIGNAGE OPPOSITE LAWNSWOOD ARMS
Please find below the latest update on the signage that DWH have put up on the A660 Otley Road. "In relation to service request 14/06505/H_IADD concerning sign advertising on highways land on Otley Road Adel advertising David Wilson Homes. To confirm I have spoken to the company and explained it was in an illegal position and…
Update on Moseley Wood Bottom
I have today received confirmation that this application WILL NOT be taken to the Plans Panel on Thursday, 13th February. The meeting will now be held on Thursday 27th February at the same time. As soon as the report becomes available I will ensure that I forward the information on to you. If you haven't…
Holt Lane – proposal for 30mph speed limit
I refer to the above. I have received the following information from the Assistant Engineer, Traffic Management West advising me in respect of progress with the scheme: "The scheme proposal is to reduce the speed limit on Holt Lane from its junction with Cookridge Lane/Otley Old Road, which currently has a speed limit of 40mph…
Lower Old Pool Bank, Pool – proposal for 30mph speed limit
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UPDATE ON DYNELEY ARMS TRAFFIC LIGHTS – PROPOSED CHANGES ARE VERY WELCOME
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Desert Radiology adds new advanced CT scanner to Palomino facility
New CT Scanner will Provide Superior Imaging Results and Improve Radiation Safety
Desert Radiology, a premier diagnostic imaging company that has served Southern Nevada for more than 50 years, acquired a new CT scanner equipped with radiation dose reduction software packages that will be used at the Palomino facility.
CT, or computed tomography, is a scan that allows physicians to see inside a patient's body to help diagnose injury or disease. The new Canon Aquilion Prime SP 80 detector row CT scanner is comprised of two dose reduction software packages, AIDR 3D and Sure Exposure, that maintain high quality image detail of imaging results while lowering radiation dosages specific to each patient's body type.
Additionally, the new scanner comes equipped with software which significantly reduces metal artifact for complex musculoskeletal exams. The equipment also features a wide entry to easily accommodate patients of all sizes.
This latest acquisition is a continuation of Desert Radiology's commitment to advanced high-quality patient care, as it provides the most state-of-the-art radiology procedures and diagnostic imaging available.
The new CT scanner was installed in late January at the practice's Palomino location, in the heart of the Las Vegas Medical District, with patient examinations already underway. The practice has plans of installing a second Aquilion Prime CT in March at its location in northwest Las Vegas.
"Our team continually studies and researches the best tools available to help improve patient care," said Vicki Thornhill, Imaging Facility Manager at Desert Radiology. "Our new CT scanners will help our physicians deliver the most accurate results possible."
Desert Radiology is Southern Nevada's largest resource for diagnostic care with more than 80 experienced radiologists. The practice operates 11 outpatient imaging centers and works closely with 12 area hospitals to deliver leading-edge services that include diagnostic and interventional radiology.
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Photo: Courtesy of Desert Radiology – new CT scanner available at Palomino location


After many years of commissioned weavings, painting murals for homes and restaurants as well as painting sets for drama productions, I moved to painting with acrylics on canvas in 2005.
My inspiration is gathered from nature, especially flowers. Flowers have always fascinated me with their inherent variety of beauty, colour and form.


Originally, I had named this Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered, as I was having a hard time improvising a chevron design. I finally found a pattern and modified it for my use. Once I started to see the pattern, it reminded me of Cupid's arrows.
The pattern was easy to follow. I did not want to make one as wide as the pattern indicated, so it took some time to figure out my starting chain number. After that, I had the pattern in my head by the second row.
Loved the new seaming idea.
I have a friend that expressed interest in this cowl, as I was making it. If she doesn't want it, it will be donated to charity.
Formerly known as Magnificent Seven until I realized a killer queen would be more likely to employ a henchman that would actually have cause to wear an executioner's hood.
I have been wanting a hood for a long time, as it keeps me warm during these freezing months in my un-insulated home. And this one certainly works just fine for me. I had started a project like this previously, but I had started at the neck and it was not snug, and an ugly color, and I just didn't like it, and I finally donated to charity. Anyway, I started this one with the hood which I intentionally made extra deep and big. I used the moss stitch because I really like that one.
The collar was a bit tricky, not knowing whether to start from the beginning of a standard circle formula or to work into the circle pattern, as if continuing. I made the right choice in continuing, but only complicated things by trying to continue working in moss stitch. Working one side removed all the desired texture. Did the last row in half-double-crochet, hoping to round the points and relieve the curl.
The collar is a different color, as I had been working with scrap yarn to get the design down.
The collar is most likely Homespun also, but without a label, I can't be sure.
I saw the Caron Big Cake Carry-All Bag One Skein Wonder pattern in my All Crochet Patterns eNewsletter last week and really liked the design technique, involving a little bit of origami.
I dive into my stash revealed some acrylic rug yarn, most likely super bulky weight. Good opportunity to rid myself of it, but unsure about amount of super bulky yarns in my stash. I know I have some Lion Brand Homespun, but I think that is bulky. Oh well, I can always leave as a UFO until such time I acquire more super bulky yarns. It could happen…just read what happened with Like A Prayer.
I am crocheting this using a US K, which seems smaller than what one would normally use for super bulky; this leads me to believe I can use the LB Homespun, without checking.
Final distribution of this project remains undetermined, as to gift, self or charity.
This yarn crocheted into a pattern that reminds me of the cobblestone streets of Philadelphia.
There is no pattern…improvised. Foundation chain of twenty on a J hook. Row 1 for each ball of yarn was double crochet, followed by single crochet. Ended with a slip stitch seam.
I could add a border, but I thing without a "fun" border, the cowl is more unisex in design.
It reminded me of Lion Brand Homespun, so I looked up their tool recommendations and used that to select my hook size. The yarn works up well on a Susan Bates hook, used because of the thread used to contain the ply.
The second of fraternal twins made from the same set of oddballs.
Anna Sun represents the use of all my heavier, bulky-weight yarns. Again, because there are different weights of yarn with different fiber contents (man-made and natural, all per burn test), there is some cinching of the width in some places, and again, if the cowl is doubled- or triple-wrapped during wear, the cinching becomes unnoticeable.
I was able to identify the Lion Brand Homespun because I like it so much for it's color. The Trendsetter Blossom.
* Yarn color unidentifiable due to missing information and/or label.


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\section{Introduction.}

The {\bf chromatic index} $\chi'(G)$ of a
multigraph $G(V,E)$ is the minimal number of colors that can be assigned
to the edges of $G$ so that no two adjacent edges receive the same color.
Clearly, $$ \Delta (G)\leq \chi'(G),$$
where $\Delta(G)$ is the maximal vertex degree in $G$.
The famous result by Vizing (\cite{V-65}) establishes
$\chi' =\chi'(G) \leq \Delta(G) + p(G)$, where $p(G)$ is the
maximal number of parallel edges in $G$.
In particular, for graphs, $\Delta(G) \leq \chi'(G)\leq \Delta(G) +1$.
A polynomial algorithm to determine the exact value of the chromatic index
is unlikely to exist, as
the problem was proved by Holyer (\cite{Ho-81}) to be NP-hard even
for cubic graphs.
It is suspected that for every multigraph with $\chi' > \Delta +1$,
its chromatic index is determined by the parameter $\omega(G)$ called the
multigraph {\bf density}:
$$
\omega(G)=\max_{H \subseteq G}\lceil\frac{e(H)}{\lfloor v(H)/2\rfloor}\rceil ,
$$
where $H$ is a sub-multigraph of $G$,  and $v(H)$ (resp. $e(H)$) denotes the
number of vertices (resp. edges) in $H$.
It is easy to see that $\omega(G) \leq \chi' (G)$ for every multigraph $G$.
A conjecture connecting $\chi', \omega$, and $\Delta$ was independently
proposed by
Goldberg (\cite{G-73}), Gupta(\cite{Gupta}), and Seymour (\cite{S-79}) more
than 40 years ago (see \cite{TheBook}): if $\chi' > \Delta+1$, then
$\chi' = \omega$.
In (\cite{G-84}), it was additionally conjectured that if $\Delta > \omega$,
then $\chi' = \Delta$.
The value $\max\{\Delta, \omega\}$ is the polynomially computable
fractional chromatic index of $G$ (\cite{C-Y-Z-09, Sch-2003, S-79}).
See  \cite{C-Y-Z-09, G-84, HaxKier, K-96, N-90, TheBook, T-00}
for some partial results towards the proof.
All these results are obtained by using algorithms that are based on the
recoloring of  maximal two-colored chains and the operation of fan-recoloring
discovered by Vizing and by Gupta.
In this paper, we present a different type of an algorithm which colors the
edges in a pre-determined
sequence so that every intermediate partial edge-coloring is
{\bf admissible.}
Proving that the algorithm colors all edges would imply  the conjecture above.\\

{\bf Notations}.
Given set $S \subseteq V(G)$, $G[S]$ denotes the subgraph induced on $S$.
For $S,T \subseteq V(G)$, $deg(S,T)$ denotes the number of edges $xy$
such that $x \in S$ and $y \in T$.
The degree of $x$ is  $deg(x) = deg(\{x\}, V - x);$
if $x \in S$, the degree of $x$ in $G[S]$ is denoted $deg_S(x)$;
$\delta_S(x)=deg(x) - deg_S(x)$;
$\delta(S) = deg(S, V- S)= \sum_{x \in S} \delta_S(x).$
We say that edge $e= xy$ {\bf crosses} set $S \subseteq V$,
if $|\{x, y\} \cap S| = 1$.

The multigraphs considered in this paper are connected and have
more than one vertex; thus, the degree of every vertex is positive.
The colors used for edge-colorings are  always
integers from the interval $[1,k]$, for some $k \geq 1$;
such colorings are called $k$-edge-colorings. Obviously, every
$k$-edge-coloring is also a $(k+1)$-edge-coloring.

A coloring for which all edges are colored is called {\bf complete}.
A {\bf partial} edge-coloring may have edges that are not colored;
it is still required that any two adjacent colored edges
have distinct colors. If $\phi$ is a partial edge-coloring
and edge $e$ is not colored by $\phi$, then we write $\phi(e) = \emptyset$.
Given two partial $k$-colorings
$\phi_1$ and $\phi_2$, we say that $\phi_2$ is an
extension of $\phi_1$, denoted $\phi_1 \preceq \phi_2$,
if for every edge $xy$ which is $\phi_1$-colored,
$\phi_2(xy) = \phi_1(xy)$.
If coloring $\phi_2$ is obtained from $\phi_1$ by coloring an edge $e$
using color $i$, we  write $\phi_2 = ext(\phi_1, e, i)$.

Let $\phi$ be a partial $k$-edge-coloring of $G$ and $S \subseteq V(G)$.
Then
$E_{\phi}^{(un)}(S)$ denotes the set of all edges in $E(S)$
that are not colored.
For $i \in [1,k]$, an edge is called $i$-{\bf free}, if it is not colored and
it is not adjacent to any edge colored $i$.
A vertex $x$ is called $i$-{\bf free},
if it is incident to an $i$-free edge.
The set of all $i$-free vertices in $S$ is denoted $S_{\phi}^{(i)}$.
The cover value of $S$ by $\phi$ is defined as
$$
cov_{\phi}(S) = \sum_{i = 1}^k\lfloor \frac{|S_{\phi}^{(i)}|}{2}\rfloor.
$$
A partial coloring $\phi$ is said to  cover set $S \subseteq V(G)$, if
$cov_{\phi}(S) \geq |E_{\phi}^{(un)}(S)|.$ A partial coloring is called
{\bf admissible}, if it covers every subset $S \subseteq V$.

Further in the paper, $k = \omega(G)$.

\section{Edge-coloring algorithm}

The algorithm Conditional\_Greedy presented below colors the edges
one-by-one using the smallest
available colors so that the resulting partial colorings are admissible.
The edges are colored in the order developed by procedure {\it Reorder},
which first sorts out the vertices and then the edges.

{\bf Procedure Reorder $G$;}\\ {\bf Input:} A connected graph $G$;\\
{\bf Output:} An ordered sequence $\{e_1,\ldots, e_m\}$ of the edges in
$G$.
\begin{itemize}
\item let $|V(G)| = n$;\\
select $x_1$ as a vertex of the maximal degree in $G$;
\item
for every $i \in [2,n]$, select $x_i$ as a
vertex $z\in V-\{x_1, \ldots, x_{i-1}\}$ which maximizes\\
$deg(\{z\}, \{x_1, \ldots, x_{i-1}\})$;
\item
the edges are sorted lexicographically:
for any two edges $e_a =x_i x_j$ and $e_b = x_k x_l$, where
$i < j$ and $k < l$, $e_a$ precedes $e_b$ if either $i < k$,
or $i=k$ and $j < l$  (the equality for parallel edges is broken arbitrary).
\end{itemize}

{\bf Procedure Conditional\_Greedy;}\\
{\bf Input:} A connected multigraph $G$; colors $1,2, \ldots, \omega$;
{\bf Output:} An edge-coloring $\phi$.
\begin{enumerate}
\item
{\it Reorder}($G$);
let $e_1, e_2, \ldots, e_m$ be the output order of the edges;

\item
For $i =1, \ldots, m$, set $\phi(e_i) = \emptyset$;
\item
for  $i = 1, \ldots, m$, \\
\hspace*{0.2in} \{find the smallest $c \in [1, \omega]$,
for which $ext(\phi, e_i, c)$ is admissible;\\
\hspace*{0.3in}if such a color does not exist,\\
\hspace*{0.6in} halt and output $\phi$;\\
\hspace*{0.3in}else $\phi = ext(\phi, e_i, c);$\}
\item output $\phi$.
\end{enumerate}

\begin{conj}
If $\chi^{\prime}(G) > \Delta(G) +1$, then Conditional\_Greedy
outputs a complete $\omega$-edge-coloring.
\end{conj}
{\bf Acknowledgment.} The author is grateful to Prof. B. Toft for help with
references.
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}

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Toronto family faces charges in $1M life-insurance fraud
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Admin
A former Toronto resident, found living in California, is accused of faking his death five years ago with help from his wife and son to collect more than $1 million in life insurance, Toronto Police said Friday.
The trio were arrested on the west coast by U.S. Marshals Feb. 11 and extradited to Canada Thursday to face fraud charges, police said.
"It's alleged the man purchased several life insurance policies totalling $3.525 million while living in the Toronto area," Const. Tony Vella said.
Because the couple's son, now 20, was under 18 at the time and is accused of uttering a forged document and four counts of fraud over $5,000, the Youth Criminal Justice Act prohibits the naming of anyone in the family.
The couple travelled to Iran in 2008 and, when the wife returned to Toronto, she allegedly claimed she had been widowed during the trip.
"It's alleged the wife falsely claimed her husband died of a heart attack while in Iran," Vella said.
The woman and her son "initiated the death-claims process" with each insurance company in order to receive the benefits of her husband's policies.
The couple, who were living in Mission Viejo, Calif., are charged with four counts of fraud over $5,000.
The wife also faces nine counts of uttering a forged document.
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Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar is not the central character in its action; he appears in only three scenes, and is killed at the beginning of the third act. The protagonist of the play is Marcus Brutus, and the central psychological drama is his struggle between the conflicting demands of honour, patriotism, and friendship.
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How Does the Court Decide a Bond Motion in Fairfax County?
Upon a new arrest, folks may be held in jail until a Judge or magistrate sets bond. For more serious charges, the court will require certain assurances to protect the public and to make sure the client comes to court for his trial.
Certain offenses will have a "presumption" of no bond, but the Court will consider many factors in determining bond.
The statute below describes the presumptions against Bond, but experienced Virginia Criminal Defense Attorneys will always remind the Court of the Constitutional right to a reasonable bond pending trial, based on the presumption of innocence.
§ 19.2-120. Admission to bail
Prior to conducting any hearing on the issue of bail, release or detention, the judicial officer shall, to the extent feasible, obtain the person's criminal history.
A. A person who is held in custody pending trial or hearing for an offense, civil or criminal contempt, or otherwise shall be admitted to bail by a judicial officer, unless there is probable cause to believe that:
1. He will not appear for trial or hearing or at such other time and place as may be directed, or
2. His liberty will constitute an unreasonable danger to himself or the public.
B. The judicial officer shall presume, subject to rebuttal, that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the appearance of the person or the safety of the public if the person is currently charged with:
1. An act of violence as defined in § 19.2-297.1;
2. An offense for which the maximum sentence is life imprisonment or death;
3. A violation of § 18.2-248, 18.2-248.01, 18.2-255, or 18.2-255.2 involving a Schedule I or II controlled substance if (i) the maximum term of imprisonment is 10 years or more and the person was previously convicted of a like offense or (ii) the person was previously convicted as a "drug kingpin" as defined in § 18.2-248;
An attorney preparing for a bond motion will want to consider many factors that may be of interest to the Court, including the client's work history, stability in the community. Here are the factors the court looks at when determining when to reconsider bond:
D. The court shall consider the following factors and such others as it deems appropriate in determining, for the purpose of rebuttal of the presumption against bail described in subsection B, whether there are conditions of release that will reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required and the safety of the public:
1. The nature and circumstances of the offense charged;
2. The history and characteristics of the person, including his character, physical and mental condition, family ties, employment, financial resources, length of residence in the community, community ties, past conduct, history relating to drug or alcohol abuse, criminal history, membership in a criminal street gang as defined in § 18.2-46.1, and record concerning appearance at court proceedings; and
3. The nature and seriousness of the danger to any person or the community that would be posed by the person's release.
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Q: Rust: Using structs that contain a f32 field in a hashmap I am quite new to rust and am working on a small makrov chain cli. I am running into a problem with using structs, that contain a field: f32 in hashtables.
Given a struct like this:
struct MyStruct {
    field1: customType,
    field2: f32,
    field3: customType2,
}

I want to generate a hashmap like this:
{
    (MyStruct, MyStruct): Vec<MyStruct>,
    (MyStruct, MyStruct): Vec<MyStruct>,
}

To use a tuple of the struct as a key in the hashmap, I need to implement Eq and Hash for the struct and all custom types. Deriving these traits for my types fails because of the use of f32.
What is the most sensible solution for this problem? Do I have to implement the traits for f32? All I could find on this where workarounds that where strongly discouraged.

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The 1991 Dunhill Cup was the seventh Dunhill Cup. It was a team tournament featuring 16 countries, each represented by three players. The Cup was played 10–13 October at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. The sponsor was the Alfred Dunhill company. The Swedish team of Anders Forsbrand, Per-Ulrik Johansson, and Mats Lanner beat the South African team of John Bland, David Frost, and Gary Player in the final. The final match was scheduled to consist of six individual matches (as in 1989 and 1990) but was reduced to three matches (as from 1985 to 1988) due to weather.

Format
The Cup was played as a single-elimination, match play event played over four days. The top eight teams were seeded with the remaining teams randomly placed in the bracket. In each match, the three players were paired with their opponents and played 18 holes at medal match play. Tied matches were extended to a sudden-death playoff only if they affected the outcome between the two teams.

Bracket

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Lanner won on the first playoff hole.

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Scythian Burial Sites in the North Black Sea Region
by Simeon Netchev
A map illustrating the current archeological evidence for the spread of the Scythians in the northern Black Sea region. It shows the distribution of the most notable 'kurgans' and monumental burial sites of the riding nomads of the Scythian period alongside the Ancient Greeks settlements along the coasts.
Special thanks to Patrick Scott Smith for his research and input.
Simeon Netchev
Simeon is a freelance visual designer with a deep interest in the human side of history. He believes that every image should be an interaction, a commentary, and a narrative, and every map should lead on an exciting journey of exploration and discovery.
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Rethinking what Happiness and Success means..
Everyone dreams to be successful and happy. But try to visualize what it really means to be "happy and successful". You'll see a conflict of views. Not only there are differences in personal opinions as to what is "success and happiness" but also between that of society's expectations and individual aspirations.
So once in a while, you'll have doubts. You'll be counting what you have with what you want and Social Perception of what more you should acquire. You face chaos and confusion, not knowing which path leads to true "success and happiness". So let us show you the way.
Be creative. Especially, if you do a job, you're creating business for them. Sure it helps your career but they own it. Think of an original idea. Dig up your thoughts and diaries from school days. There's always something special you can create. Your own personal project will go a long way in changing your life, your thoughts and may be even the world if it turns out to be a great concept. Creation is true "success and happiness".
Food and Exercise are cornerstones of staying physically fit and mentally balanced. You'll find yourself confident and positive even in most adverse and stressful conditions. These habits will prepare you for any challenges and demands life can throw at you.
Read books. Watch informative content like videos, news on your topics of interest. Learn new skills. Do whatever it takes, but motivate yourself every day.
Focus on now. Do what you can, now. Putting of things so they pile up is the biggest downer. However, don't try to tackle everything and everywhere at once.
There's no harm to pause and review your plan. It may be working well or not. Either ways it can be improved. Why should you do things the old way? Think out of the box. Brainstorm with like-minded people. Never be rigid or stuck in a zone of thought or belief.
"success and happiness" relates to neither overconfidence nor procrastination.
Focus on creating relationships which are not based on monetary benefits. Relationships based on mutual trust, respect and care will be most satisfying and beneficial for you overall. Call people on their birthday. Don't just text them or send them a card.
Be stubborn and never give up. Keep doing it till you don't get it to work. Just break down big tasks into pieces you can do one at a time. Re-invent ways to do things and find solutions.
You'll get nowhere, unless you ask yourself where you want to be. Aim for what you want, not what you can have. Organize your life actions around achievement of your goals. Have both long term and short term goals.
True "success and happiness" is not an unattainable higher consciousness or a religious concept. It's a doable reality. But the doer has to be you.


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104. Malcolm Nance. The Nostradamus of National Security Returns for a Threat Analysis World Tour. Will Extremists and QAnon Hit Again This Week? Biden Hits Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Fox News' Laura Ingraham Hits Malcolm. Malcolm hits back.
Independent Americans is your trusted, independent source for news, politics, culture and inspiration. It's a smart, fresh, candid perspective you won't find anywhere else in the media. And we'll always be grounded in a focus on national security, foreign affairs and domestic threats.
Despite the lack of media coverage, America is still very much at war. While the rest of the media obsesses over Trump's CPAC appearance, Ted Cruz's travel, and changes to Mr Potato Head and Dr Seuss, we're digging into the real and urgent threats facing you, your family and our country.
Why are defense leaders guarding against extremists strikes again this week on/around March 4th? Why that date? What's the story behind the recent missile strikes in Syria ordered by Biden? What will happen next with Russia after new sanctions? With our country slammed by COVID, will our enemies use this opportunity to strike? Where's the next hot spot in the world for the US military? Why did Laura Ingraham and Fox News put a target on the back of one of our frequent guests and a decorated Navy veteran?
Our host, Army combat veteran and author Paul Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) is bringing his extensive national security and political expertise to focus this vital episode on the under-reported national security threats that should keep all Americans up at night. It's a look into the stories that aren't on the front pages, but probably should be.
And we're doing a rapid-fire tour of the global landscape with one of our most popular guests of all time: Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance). America's favorite terrorism expert, Malcolm is a decorated military veteran, an astute analyst, and a truth teller, MSNBC's Terrorism Analysts and a NY Times Bestselling author, the retired Navy Master Chief served as a specialist in Naval Cryptology and was involved in counter-terrorism, intelligence, and combat operations around the world and served as an instructor in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. He's also one of the most interesting guys anywhere. The man has stories–and enemies foreign and domestic. That now includes Fox News primetime host, Laura Ingraham.
Last fall, Malcolm joined this show and predicted the kind of post-election violence we saw in Washington on January 6th. Back in Episode 13 and Episode 94, he also predicted national security threats to come. And he joins Independent Americans again now to share some new predictions.
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Reading FC head to Wembley on Monday, May 29 to take on Huddersfield Town in the Championship play-off final.
Both sides are battling it our for a prized place in the Premier League, which could be worth up to £290 million.
Jaap Stam's side have no new injury concerns as they prepare for the showpiece fixture .
Jordan Obita is set to return to the squad after missing the semi-final second-leg against Fulham at Madejski Stadium with an ankle injury sustained in the first leg.
He also scored Reading's goal in the 1-1 first-leg draw against the Whites.
But Royals will be without suspended captain Paul McShane, who was shown a straight red card at Craven Cottage and is serving his three-match ban.
As we build up to the big game, here is some key info about following the game live.
The game is being televised on Sky Sports 1.
But if you are unable to watch the game you can follow all the action in getreading's live blog which will include text commentary and post-match reaction.
We'll get the blog going from 9am and have comprehensive coverage throughout the day of the match and all of the reaction.


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Cloud Ring-Naver Cloud Data Center
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As the largest internet enterprise in Korea, Naver has an increasing demand of cloud services. The new generation of data center is located in a unique mountainous site in Sejong city. We are inspired by the World Heritage Site of Korea, the Hahoe folk village, which was built within the embracement of mountains. The scheme takes the metaphor of the village, and develops into a "learning community" protected by the data. Cooperating with consultants, we take on the technical challenges of data center creatively to achieve an integrated solution that is efficient and sustainable.
One of the challenges of the project is to overcome a drastic topography of a height difference of over 50 m. We proposed a scheme titled "Cloud Ring". It is made up by two parts: the outer ring and the inner ring. The outer ring is hovering above the valley like a cloud. It houses the server rooms and their mechanical space. The inner ring is formed like a village by a cluster of amenity buildings cascading down the valley- a control center, a conference center, a learning center and exhibition space. By lifting up the outer ring, the layout of server rooms become straightforward and efficient, as it avoid the disadvantage of the topography. By breaking down the scale of the masses of inner ring, they easily adapt to the topography and minimize the groundwork of the project.
The material choices also enhance the duality. A delicate multi-layer curtain wall is applied to the outer ring. An elegantly patterned screen, with perforations of the geometry of the overall footprint of the project, makes a powerful statement of the enterprise. It also works as a purification mechanism. The air gets purified and cooled down when it flows through the integrated water curtain system before entering the server room. On the other hand, tinted concrete is used on the "village" of the inner ring. The humble and solid material makes them blend in the landscape perfectly, like rocks growing from the earth, paying tribute to the rustic quality of traditional Korean residence. The stepping plazas between them become the setting for public events.
The planning framework of the ring is divided into three curvy parts to meet the requirement of construction phasing. In the joint areas of two curvy spaces a series of vertical biological gardens, office, maintenance space and storage are placed in supporting the server rooms. Because its high efficiency of vertical and horizontal circulation, it is perfectly suitable for operation of many kinds of robotic equipment.
Site Area: 100,000sqm
Gross Floor Area: 250,000sqm
Partners in Charge: Darcy Chang, Rachael Ouyang
Team Members: Jinwen Shanguan, Yijun Chen, Stanley Chuang, Tianye Zhou
Local Design Institute: Shinhan Architects & Engineers Co., Ltd.
Landscape Design: BEHIVE Architects
Sustainability: Environmental Market Solutions Inc., Shanghai
Structure: Samoo Structural Consultants
Electrical: SamooTEC
Mechanical: Samoo M.E.P Consultant
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Cloud Ring-Naver Cloud Data Center by BEHIVE Architects in Korea, South won the WA Award Cycle 35. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.
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Ever find yourself looking for that showstopper exploit in a Web-app, and forgetting to check out all the low-hanging fruit? That's intitially why Casaba Security created Watcher. For one thing, Watcher provides this level of security analysis, plus provides hot-spot detection to help pen-testers focus in on the spots that will lead to that showstopper exploit.
Force: Leashed is a free first person gravity fiddler game in which, in order to advance, you need to guide rockets to their targets using spherical potential fields. You will be using the crystal weight and position to hit the targets in order to open the door to the next level.


St Patty's day is behind us and so is the fall MCF Awards banquet, which for some reason was held in March of 2013 celebrating the 2012 season, so the first of my road rides should be complete and I should be looking forward to that first track day at the end of the month. Should be is the right phrase because all I hear from bike riders and actually just about anyone living in MN is "It's cold", "It was 80 degrees last year" "When is spring coming", "We should be out riding", "I wish I was out riding", "Riding the trainer is really getting old", and any number of other comments on the continuation of winter. It is March however and as I remember, we usually get lots of snow, the days get longer, the sun is out more and all that snow melts a lot faster. As I see it, kind of a normal March, not that I really like it but I really don't mind. Readjust the brain some and realize when the real ride and race season will be here.
Next week, Tuesday the 26th to be exact, is the TCN Chamber Expo at the Mermaid and Tim the Chamber President asked if PJW Auto was going to promote the NSC Velodrome again with riders on rollers. Well of course we are. It is a bit of my spring ritual. Charlie from the Speedfix team will be my helper this year, replacing Jen who escaped to CO during the past year. We might even have a chance to show off the Competition Roller set if there is room.
Winter endurance training is continuing and now transitioning away from weight room work into more and more on the bike time on rollers and last night in a Spinning class. I used to be addicted to Spin classes and they kept me on schedule all winter long in the past. Last night was very strange but so very familiar. Only the trainer and co riders were the variables. 75 minute spin class and today I don't feel any worse and actually less tired than my usual Wednesday weight room routine. Now, I just need to figure out how to fit at least one lift session in during a week of riding. The 5 A.M. weight room session every Monday morning the last two summers is interesting but there must be a better way that doesn't involve going to bed at 9 and getting up at or before 5 in the morning to push heavy weights around. I've got a week or so to figure that out.


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May 2019 Media
Let's Praise Ourselves for the Worst Reporting of the Decade!
Washington Commentary
by Matthew Continetti
It's an epic saga, Trump and Russia. The tale predated his election, marred his presidential transition, dogged his first months in office, and obsessed the media from May 17, 2017—when Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government—to March 22, 2019. That was the day Attorney General William Barr notified Congress that Mueller had filed his report and closed the investigation. And the air started whooshing out of the media's giant Vladimir Putin–shaped balloon.
"The Special Counsel's investigation," Barr wrote, "did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election." Mueller's team appears to have been divided over whether a president can obstruct justice by exercising his official duties, and so punted on this important question to Barr, whose word is final. As far as Robert Mueller is concerned, Donald Trump is clear.
There are no final endings in Washington, of course, no definitive settlements to public controversies, ultimate resolutions to scandal, or authoritative judgments on public officials. It would have been foolish to believe that the official end of the Mueller investigation would conclude the myriad speculations into Trump's relationship with Putin and satiate the appetites of cable anchors and Democratic congressmen for accusations of Trump malfeasance.
If this truly were the end of the Russia saga, half of CNN and MSNBC would have to be reprogrammed, and conservatives would have few excuses to talk about the Deep State. With the Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, the infrastructure is in place to keep the investigations and conspiracy theories going indefinitely. It's not like coverage of the Russia probe ever relied overmuch on evidence anyway.
"It's important to acknowledge the value of the serious journalism," pleaded Margaret Sullivan in a recent Washington Post column, "because there's a real risk that news organizations will take the edges off their coverage of this subject now." You've got to be delusional to believe that the Post and the Times would ever dial back their reporting on President Trump, since it's the best business decision they've made in decades. Also, isn't coverage with "edges" supposed to cut against the subject of one's reporting, not the reporter himself? I'm trying to think of articles and columns in elite media institutions that treated this story with the full degree of objectivity, empiricism, detachment, documentation, and dispassion the subject deserved.
It's a strain.
Surely Sullivan can't be holding up as "serious" the October 31, 2016, Slate article that asked, "Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?" The piece was a textbook example of the Russia recipe: Take an intriguing but inconclusive detail, stir vigorously with assumptions of bad faith, add a dash of sources both named and anonymous, and knead the copy until the only possible conclusion the reader can draw is that Donald Trump is up to some very, very bad things with the authoritarian ruler in Moscow. Doesn't matter if the worst implications of the story don't pan out.
"With some regrettable and damning exceptions," Sullivan wrote, "individual stories that seemingly went too far—reality-based news outlets have done quite well on this story." One marvels at a sentence like this, dripping as it is with self-satisfaction and condescension while acknowledging and diminishing the significance of "individual stories" that "seemingly went too far" by being, you know…wrong.
When Brian Ross falsely reported in December 2017 that President Trump ordered Michael Flynn to contact Russia before Election Day, he was just pushing the envelope, doing his job. It was a job he lost after ABC News retracted the story. Or when, the same month, CNN said WikiLeaks had given Donald Trump Jr. a heads-up about the Democratic National Committee emails it obtained, and this news, too, was soon falsified—well, we can't let that be the skunk at the garden party.
About that April 2018 McClatchy story headlined, "Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier," something no one else has been able to prove and that Michael Cohen, having turned state's evidence, continues to deny: You can't expect everyone to abide by the same standards as Margaret Sullivan's friends, can you?
Same with the November 2018 ABC News story wondering, "There are dozens of sealed criminal indictments on the D.C. docket. Are they from Mueller?" That was just asking questions. Sure, the "sealed indictments" that a few cable anchors thought would be broken, in an act of almost biblical revelation, accompanied by white horses and earthquakes, the day Mueller filed his report—these turned out not to exist. But the piece was well sourced—it even had a quote from Barack Obama's former Justice Department spokesman!
Or that time in December 2018 when the Guardian said Paul Manafort visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London during the 2016 campaign—a story no other organization corroborated—that was just part of the "aggressive coverage of Trump" Sullivan says is so important. Or the January 2019 Buzzfeed story that claimed Robert Mueller had evidence Donald Trump asked Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the (since abandoned) Trump Tower Moscow—a story so incendiary that the normally tightlipped Mueller actually denied it. Or the Vanity Fair stories detailing how, "according to three sources…Don Jr. has been telling friends he is worried about being indicted" by Mueller. All of this was performance, playacting, a way to embellish a few connections, a couple of intimations and confidences, into a privileged status of being "in the know," when no one really knows anything.
How is journalism produced in our nation's capital? Partial disclosure, innuendo, gossip, rumor, some enticing nugget that somebody heard from someone else. The best reporters do not relent until these wisps of information are substantiated, pinned down, confirmed in ways that will withstand scrutiny, and thus become news. The best are few and far between. The Trump era has instead put a premium on sensation, immediacy, prurience, exclusivity, and sympathy with the #Resistance.
Two weeks after Barr summarized the Mueller report's findings to Congress, both the New York Times and Washington Post published stories exemplifying the Russia recipe. "Some on Mueller's Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed," read the headline of a New York Times piece. "Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller's team," was the headline for the same article in the Post.
Nowhere in either story was an actual member of Mueller's team quoted directly. "We're not getting this directly from people who worked for Robert Mueller," NBC's Ken Dilanian said on the April 4 Meet the Press Daily. "We're getting this from people who spoke to those people." Oh, so it must be reliable then.
Wouldn't it be unsurprising that "some on Mueller's team" might disagree with Barr? He's a Republican. By the end of the probe, the special counsel's office included some 19 lawyers and twice as many FBI agents. Most of the lawyers working for Mueller were registered Democrats, not one was a registered Republican, many had donated to Democratic campaigns, Mueller's deputy Andrew Weissmann attended Hillary Clinton's Election Night party in 2016 and sent a congratulatory email to former acting attorney general Sally Yates after she refused to implement the president's travel ban in January 2017, and another wrote op-eds for HuffPost.
A game of telephone—that's what Washington has been playing since we first learned of Donald Trump's possible connections to Russia. The latest round has taken us from the Trump-Russia conspiracy to the Trump-Barr conspiracy. Is this progress? The saga continues.
Matthew Continetti is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
The Making of a Misogynist
by Joseph Epstein
The Media Have Been Doing Exactly What They Condemn Trump for Doing


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Q: How to call a function inside an append? I have an append
$("#accordionWiki").append("

 FUNCTION

"
);

and a function like
function wikiText() {
  $.getJSON("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text&callback=?", {..
}

I tried to put wikiText(); inside the append where I wrote FUNCTION but I got something wrong, maybe concatenation, not sure.

A: You can't append the results of your function because you use a ajax call in that function which is asynchronous, just call it after the append:
 function(data) {
              $("#accordionWiki").empty();
              $.each(data.query.search, function(i, item) {
                $("#accordionWiki").append("

"+ item.title.replace(" ", "_") + "
" + item.snippet + "

");
                 wikiText('headingWiki_'+i);
              });

change  the wiki function to update only the current element in the loop:
function wikiText(el) {
            $el = $('#'+el);
            $.getJSON("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text&callback=?", {
                page: $(e.relatedTarget).find('h4').text()
            }, function(data) {
              var markup = data.parse.text["*"];
              var blurb = $('

').html(markup);
              blurb.find('a').each(function() {
                  $(this).replaceWith($(this).html());
              });
              blurb.find(".mw-editsection, #toc, .noprint, .thumb, img, table").remove();
              $(el).find(".panel-title").html(articleName);
               $(el).find(".panel-body").html($(blurb));
               $(el).find(".panel-body").promise().done(function(){
                $('.panel-body *[style]').attr('style', '');
                 $(el).find("table").addClass("table table-striped table-hover table-responsive").wrapAll('
');
                 $(el).find("table, td, tr, th").removeAttr("style");
                 $(el).find("img").addClass("img-responsive");
                 $(el).find(".panel-body").css({opacity: 0.0, visibility: "visible"}).animate({opacity: 1.0});
                saveWiki();
                 $(el).find(".panel-body div *").attr("contenteditable", "true");
              });
            });
          };

A:

$("body").append("

 "+wikiText()+"

"
);

function wikiText() {
  return "asd";
}

Something like this

A: Have you tried this:
function wikiText() {
   var returnHTML=""+
 "
 "+
  "
 FUNCTION
 "+
 "
";

 return returnHTML;
}

$("#accordionWiki").append(wikiText());

I guess you need your I as parameter for wikiText(I) function


Ever since NASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered the water of Enceladus in 2005, the moon has intrigued scientists. The moon's underground ocean appears to have geysers which shoot out an "organic brew" of carbonated water with an essence of natural gas. Scientists at Johns Hopkins have developed a idea as to how they formed in the first place: something big hit Enceladus.
Led by researcher Kate Craft, the study looks closely at the fractures along the moon's south pole, colloquially referred to as "tiger stripes." Enceladus is small—it's Saturn's sixth largest moon, with a radius of 157 miles. It wouldn't take much for an asteroid to shatter the planet's exterior, which would then subsequently refreeze in the vacuum of space. "During and post-impact fracturing would occur," Craft and her team say in their presentation of their theory, "the crater would collapse, water would begin to refreeze and subsequent fluid exchange would occur."
"The impact could have happened anywhere and then Enceladus would have rolled over until the impact point ended up at whichever pole happened to be nearest," co-author Francis Nimmo from the University of California Santa Cruz tells New Scientist, meaning that the impact could have knocked enough mass off the moon to change it permanently by causing a gravitational anomaly.
Enceladus doesn't operate alone, however. The moon is strongly affected by Saturn's gravitational pull, and once that water appeared, it began to feel tidal pulls, much like the Earth's moon creates waves here. If Craft is right then those tidal stresses have been pushing at the surface of Enceladus for a long, long time, possibly 100 million years. Long enough for the stresses to make themselves visible on the surface, at least.
Cassini's information is useful, but a landing on the moon could give a fuller understanding of its underground ocean, including the tantalizing possibility that the geysers, which might share similarities with Earth's deep sea hydrothermal vents, have brought forth life. That's the question that surrounds not just Enceladus, but another moon of Saturn as well: Europa.
Cassini is scheduled to destroy itself by spiraling into Saturn in September. Whenever humanity's next trip out there is, it will certainly have its hands, robotic or human, full.


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The Oracle at Delphi: To float or not.. redux..
The comments on my last post were all very good. There's a few, however, I figured I'd address with another entry since some folks don't nessesarily read the comments.
What I always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask: Why is the default Form position poDesigned and not poDefault?
This will take a bit of a history lesson. When we were designing Delphi (back in, oh, 1993), we had already chosen the "floating" designer as the design-time model. We had a specific design goal for the user experience that when they hit the "run" button, it simply felt like the application simply "switched" from design-mode to run mode. We used the high-speed compilation to our advantage. By defaulting to poDesigned, the application would simply have the appearance of simply "turning-on" since it didn't appear to physically move on the screen. There was a lot of internal debate on this very topic, but frankly, the product demoed *very* well with the poDesigned. In fact sometimes it was actually difficult to convince folks that we had actually compiled the application and that there is now a stand-alone .EXE on disk.
Sure. However, one thing you have to remember is that a design-form is a live instance of a VCL form. So, when you set the Left/Top properties, the form will physically move on the screen, and the module is marked as modified. We go to tremendous lengths to not modify any file as a side-effect of opening it in the IDE. Of course there are potential solutions, but few are minimal, or non-invasive.
Thanks for the feedback on the look of the blog. I'll still be tweaking it as I can get to it.
One thing that would be very, very helpful in the embedded designer model is to display hash marks showing common screen resolutions such as VGA, SVGA, XGA, and so forth.
That way, while working on the design canvas (for lack of a better term. No doubt there is an approved technical term for it) you have some idea of where in the real estate you're moving around. This has always been a bit of disadvantage when working in a floating design model.
I recall having such a feature way back in my 4th Dimension days on my Mac SE/30 and it made form layout much simpler, knowing were the 7" and 12" screen boundaries were.


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Alaska officials are calling for less intrusion into wildlife management by agencies within the U.S Department of the Interior.
Acting Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang in a 41-page memo says federal officials should stop ignoring state comments on managing wildlife on federal lands.
He says the state had repeatedly sought resolutions without success on topics such endangered species, marine mammals and hunting within national wildlife refuges.
Vincent-Lang's suggestions were strongly criticized by a representative of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
Rick Steiner says the list could have been compiled by Exxon, the Resource Development Council of Alaska or the Safari Club.
He says the state has litigated many of the issues over the years and lost and now wants the Trump administration and Congress to fix it.


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Fibreglass GRP tubes are stocked in a number of diameters and wall thickness. They are all made by the pultrusion process so have high glass contents and excellent mechanical properties. All of the tubes have a corrosion/weathering barrier built into the surface to give the maximum long-term performance in the most demanding environments.
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Q: typeerror string indices must be integers not str python I have defined a function get_class_average() having one argument "students". students is a list of 3 students: lloyd, alice, tyler, which are indirectly dictionaries. get_average() is a function that calculates average and it works fine. When I try to call the function get_class_average() I'm getting error:
typeerror string indices must be integers not str

My code
lloyd = {
    "name": "Lloyd",
    "homework": [90.0, 97.0, 75.0, 92.0],
    "quizzes": [88.0, 40.0, 94.0],
    "tests": [75.0, 90.0]
}
alice = {
    "name": "Alice",
    "homework": [100.0, 92.0, 98.0, 100.0],
    "quizzes": [82.0, 83.0, 91.0],
    "tests": [89.0, 97.0]
}
tyler = {
    "name": "Tyler",
    "homework": [0.0, 87.0, 75.0, 22.0],
    "quizzes": [0.0, 75.0, 78.0],
    "tests": [100.0, 100.0]
}

# Add your function below!
from math import *
def average(numbers):
    total = sum(numbers)
    total = float(total)
    ans = total / len(numbers)
    return ans
num = [1,2,4,5,6]
a = average(num)
print a

def get_average(student):
    homework = average(student["homework"])
    quizzes = average(student["quizzes"])
    tests = average(student["tests"])
    sum = (0.1*homework) + (0.3 * quizzes) + (0.6 * tests)
    return sum

student = [lloyd, alice, tyler]
for key in student:
    a = get_average(key)
    print a

def get_letter_grade(score):
    if score >= 90:
        return "A"
    elif score >= 80:
        return "B"
    elif score >= 70:
        return "C"
    elif score >= 60:
        return "D"
    else:
        return "F"

avg = get_average(lloyd)
t = get_letter_grade(avg)
print t

def get_class_average(students):
    results = []
    students = [lloyd, alice, tyler]
    a= get_average(students)
    r= results.append(a)
    return r

student = [lloyd, alice, tyler]
for key in student:
    a = get_class_average(key)

print a

A: Your get_class_average() function expects to be passed the whole list of students, not each individual student.
Remove your for key in student: loop:
students = [lloyd, alice, tyler]
a = get_class_average(students)

Within the get_class_average() function you appear to be returning too early; unindent the return to not be part of the loop. results.append() returns None as it alters results in-place:
def get_class_average(students):
    results = []
    for key in students:
        a= get_average(key)
        results.append(a)
    return results

This still doesn't calculate the average for the whole class, however; it just collects the averages for each student into a list.


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Q: Remove XML namespaces in all nodes but the root node I want to remove the namespaces in all the nodes but leaving ths namespace in the root node.
Do you know how can I do it?
I'm using this XSLT but it's removing the namespaces in all the nodes.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" />
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:element name="{local-name()}" >
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks in advance.

A: The simple way to keep an element in its namespace is to copy it:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<!-- remove namespaces -->
<xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:element name="{local-name()}" >
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<!-- keep namespace of root element -->
<xsl:template match="/*">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Note that this does not handle attributes (neither does your version).

A: Your first approach seems very well aimed to me. You just have to:

*

*Add a template to match the root node, which won't drop off the namespace:

<xsl:template match="/*">
      <xsl:element name="{name()}" >
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
      </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

*

*Include in the XSL the root namespace definition:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:rootns="..." >