Following is a letter from Paul Grubach. I asked him to go ahead.
History News Network is a Web site sponsored by George Mason University, created "By professors, for professors."
I was just looking over your Dec. 2005 newsletter and saw your very interesting debate with the History News Network.
Those guys you are debating are putting forth a bunch of fallacies. Some examples.
1. Cravatts says: "Some truths are absolute and do not require a fair and balanced measurement against some contradictory body of thought. An entire intellectual 'industry' of Holocaust denial research has many fervent followers...but few sentient school boards would find it palatable or reasonable to have students exposed to the 'theory' that the Holocaust never occurred along with history lessons expressing the verifiable and incontrovertible fact that it did."
Cravatts contradicts himself. On the one hand, he criticizes Intelligent Design as "non- science," and unscientific, and then he goes on to make a very fallacious, unscientific defense of the Holocaust ideology.
First of all, there are no absolute truths in science. All scientific claims must be open to rebuttal, reinvestigation, and reevaluation. What separates a scientific theory from a nonscientific theory is that a scientific theory must be open to empirical falsification at all times.
By claiming that the Holocaust ideology is an "absolute truth" and "does not require a fair and balanced measurement against some contradictory body of thought," he is claiming the Holocaust ideology must be accepted a priori--period!!! Therefore, it can never be open to empirical falsification and it is not a scientific theory. By forcing people to accept it a priori, they make the Holocaust ideology unfalsifiable and self-perpetuting. Exactly what the Holocaust ideologists want.
2. John Beatty wrote: "Why is it a criminal offense? Simple: 'Never Again!' By denying the truth of industrialized genocide it becomes possible again. Personally I don't care if you deny the Earth beneath your feet. But doing that will not enable systematic murder again."
He is saying that if you deny the Holocaust ideology, you make is possible that the Holocaust will happen again. So therefore, "holocaust denial" should be banned.
To show the fallacy in this argument. Suppose group of left-wing historians came forward and said that "Stalin's genocidal crimes are vastly exaggerated and we can prove it."
The historical community would not say: "Oh, you cannot deny or minimize Stalin's crimes, because then they will happen again. So we will not listen to your evidence. You must accept Stalin's crimes as fact and that is it. And all questioning or reevaluation of Stalin's crimes will be banned."
No, the historical community would quietly listen to the arguments and evidence of those who claim that Stalin's crimes of genocide are vastly exaggerated. It is only in the case of the Holocaust ideology do intellectuals come forth with pseudo-intellectual defenses like Beatty's to protect the ideology.
Would you like me to write a short article showing the fallacies in your opponent's arguments, and then you could put this in your next newsletter?
"Suppose group of left-wing historians came forward and said that "Stalin's genocidal crimes are vastly exaggerated and we can prove it."
This analogy falls flat due to the fact that deniers can *not* prove if, after decades of trying. All you lot can offer is laughable pseudo-science like the leuchter report as an excuse for your irrational hatred.
An interesting note on the Leuchter Report is that when a young chemist at the Max Planck Institute first read it, he found parts of the Report unconvincing. He decided to do his own investigation of the Auschwitz "gas chambers." He subsequently discovered that while the Leuchter Report was wrong at several places, the drift of it was on the mark. The young chemist was Germar Rudolf. He subsequently published The Rudolf Report, which is online at VHO for anyone to read.
For his troubles, Rudolf was sentenced to prison for revisonist thought crimes, fled the land of his birth, ended up in Chicago, developed his Web site (you can google it) and applied for asylum as a political refugee -- disagreeing with German State policy on a historical issue.
In November the American Government collaborated with the German State in extraditing Rudolf to Germany where he is now in prison for revisionist thought crimes.
There may be errors of fact in the Rudolf Report, there may be faulty judgements -- but where is the academic paper that tells us what they are? The Deborah Lipstadts of the world would never dare to publish a paper on it.


When the Rob Ford/Mary Walsh story broke, I was waiting to see if and when the story would turn from focusing on Ford's 911 call and what was said, to Ford's lack of knowledge of who Mary Walsh is.
However, the tweet goes beyond an expectation. It says that the real story (i.e., what we should take away from the whole incident) is that Rob Ford doesn't know who Mary Walsh is. So what? Why is this important? How many Canadians know who Mary Walsh is? How many would recognize Marg Delahunty if she came powering up their driveway? I have no idea, but I do know lots of people who have never watched 22 Minutes and would not have the foggiest notion who Mary Walsh, Rick Mercer or any of the other cast members are. Does that disqualify them from public office? Would it make them less effective as mayors, MPs or whatever? Who says so?
I have asked myself why I feel so strongly about this, and I guess the answer is that I really hate elitism. I hate the fact that some people feel superior to others based on such arbitrary measures. And it's the implicit elitism in Gregg's tweet that set me off. Does the type of wine you drink, the type of TV shows you watch, the type of books you read, the type of music you prefer say anything about your value as a person, or your suitability for public life? Is Allan Gregg better than Rob Ford because he would recognize Marg Delahunty?
The more I write, the more ridiculous this all sounds. But Allan Gregg tells us that the real story of the 911 incident is that Rob Ford has no clue who May Walsh is. Rob Ford should know who Mary Walsh is. He should know because…well, why exactly? He managed to get elected as mayor without knowing who she is. He managed to get elected to Toronto city council three times without knowing who Marg Delahunty is. I guess if people had only known that Rob Ford doesn't watch This Hour Has 22 Minutes, they would have known that he is not good/smart/sophisticated enough to be elected to public office and they would have elected someone else. Right.
In case you think I am writing this because I am a conservative or anti-intellectual, I am not. I am a liberal, born and bred. But if there's one thing I really dislike about many liberals, it's their snooty elitism. As much as there is to dislike about the Tea Party movement in the U.S., I find it refreshing that people exist who don't care about what the elites think, don't believe something just because someone tells them they should, and don't give a crap what's written in the New York Times or what someone says on NPR.
Look, if you don't like Mayor Ford's policies, say so. If you think he's doing harm, write about it. Mobilize people so that they will turf him out next election. But don't try to tell me that the fact that Rob Ford doesn't have a clue about Mary Walsh is important in any significant way.
Most fans are optimistic about their team's future at the beginning of the season and I was no different concerning the Canadiens. I was one of those who looked at how well they played the (eventual Cup winning) Bruins in the playoffs last year and felt that team, with another season of experience for the youngsters and (one hopes) fewer injuries to key players, should easily make the playoffs this year.
And I didn't worry that the Habs did not look all that impressive in the preseason. I don't care much about the preseason any year because so much time is spent evaluating prospects that we do not see much of the team that will hit the ice opening day. And the last game of the exhibition season saw more-or-less the opening day roster perform in a very impressive manner.
So here we are seven games into the season and things don't look all that rosy. What's going on? Like all fans, I don't really know. But a few things have struck me in the first couple of weeks of the Habs' season.
First, the team has more often than not played very well, outshooting and outchancing the opposition. They have had leads in a number of the games they lost. So their play is not pathetically bad, even if their record is one of the worst in the league at this early juncture.
Second (and as usual for this team in recent years), scoring 5-on-5 is a problem. The few times they have scored multiple 5-on-5 goals in a game, so has the opposition en route to a victory. This leads me to the next observation. Carey Price has shown disturbing signs of something that was the case in the couple of seasons before his great campaign last year. I'm referring to his inability to "shut the door" after his team takes the lead. It seems that, whenever the Habs score to take the lead or tie a game they have been down in, Price gives up a goal not long after. Although these goals have by no means been all his fault, the fact remains that he has not been able to keep the opposition off the board when his team needs it. If this keeps up, the team in front of him will lose faith in him over time, as they did before. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to a team to have faith in their goaltender. They play with more confidence if they do not have to worry that a mistake will end up in their net.
In addition, I have also sometimes thought that JM's focus on defensive responsibility and special teams play is more geared to giving poor or mediocre teams a shot at some success than to taking a good team to the next level.
The reader may note that I have not talked about the team's special-teams play. That's because I think that those issues will sort themselves out and the team will eventually return to its usual position among the league's elite PP and PK units.
I've had my Motorola Atrix now for seven months and I am pretty happy with it. I have the standard, car and multimedia docks and use them all every day. Other than a few niggles, they work pretty well and do what I want them to do.
However, there is one facet of integrating your smartphone into your life that continues to frustrate me, and that is voice-activation and -response. Back when I owned my first smartphone (a BlackBerry Storm), I began to use Vlingo. In fact, Vlingo is the ONLY app I have ever paid for (and I paid handsomely – $14.99 on sale). When I first got Vlingo, I loved it. I was amazed at how well it worked in terms of voice recognition and response.
After a short time, however, I began to realize that Vlingo's only real value was as a "toy". When you're playing with your phone in your backyard, the fact that Vlingo gets 80% of your dictated message correct is impressive. When you're driving somewhere and want to send a text message and Vlingo messes up 20% of what you are saying, it's annoying. You can't edit via voice. After awhile, I basically stopped using it.
When I got my Atrix (an Android phone) a year later, I discovered that Vlingo was available for Android and was free! So I got the app again and went about seeing whether it had advanced in the intervening year. What I found was that Vlingo had grown and improved in some ways but, ultimately, it is still not ready for primetime (at least in my life).
The old problem (imperfect voice recognition) remained, and a new one appeared: Vlingo for my BlackBerry could read back emails and ignore HTML coding, whereas Vlingo for Android reads back every character of the HTML coding – every bracket, every slash, everything. And while it truncated regular text emails, it would go on and on reading out the HTML.
Vlingo for Android also had a new feature – InCar. This was meant to be a total solution for hands-free use while driving. However, using this feature also causes nothing but frustration. First, Vlingo can only read back your emails/texts to a Bluetooth headset if the headset is A2DP compliant. That's fine (though not ideal), but if you use an A2DP headset, the music you are playing through your phone also comes through the headset, rather than the car stereo I have plugged my phone into via the car dock. Don't want that.
Another issue is getting Vlingo's attention. With InCar, you can have Vlingo listen all the time and respond to "Hey, Vlingo!" This works even if you have music playing. However, if you are using any music app other than the native one, the music will continue to play while you are conversing with Vlingo. Getting Vlingo's attention is better when using the native music app, as Vlingo pauses the music when it opens. However, it doesn't restart the music after it has responded to your request or while it awaits the next command.
This all may sound somewhat esoteric, but what it all comes down to is that, while I'm driving down the road listening to my music, I can't wake Vlingo with a voice command, have it pause the music, make a call and then restart the music after. I think that is a pretty fundamental problem. And now that the police are cracking down on drivers using hand-held devices, the ability to really go hands-free is more important than ever.
I should point out that, when I am using my Atrix in the car dock, I can voicedial using Bluetooth, while playing music from my phone through the car speakers, with no problem using the native Atrix Android functionality. The music pauses while the call is active and restarts after the call. If Vlingo can't even do that, how can it bill itself as a hands-free solution? And for me, if it is not a hands-free solution, it is of no value…except as a toy.


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Build UConn
BUILD UConn is empowering UConn students, staff, and faculty to create solutions to problems in academia today. The challenge will provide participants with an entrepreneurial "tool belt" and a pathway to critically think about and design interventions to improve the education experience. There are four teams each looking for three students.
Students engaging with Build UConn will ...
Apply to one of the four teams
Earn internship credit
Use the Design Thinking Process
Create solutions to current UConn problems
BUILD the UConn you want to see!
1. Students apply to ONE of the teams below
2. Submit Resume
3. Submit a creative deliverable which includes:
Your initial ideas to the challenges
The value you would bring to the team
The Four Teams
Meet the Teams
Click on the teams below to find about their mission and leadership information. Applications are now closed for the semester.
Every student has a talent. For first-year students who come to UConn with all those talents and passions, our responsibility is to build a culture of leaning into exploration. Our challenge is to map student potential and interests onto opportunities to transform their education during their first year. Going beyond the GPA, we will find a way to prioritize individual success to BUILD a UConn of transformation for every student.
Team Lead:
Helena DeBald
First Year Programs & Learning Opportunities
Imagine and create cultural and affinity-based innovation spaces (physical and/or virtual) at regional campuses for students to connect and build community.
Leslie Williams
Racial Equity and Inclusion Research Fellow
Jim Long, Student Services Program Coordinator, Waterbury
jim.long@uconn.edu
Noemi Maldonado-Picardi, Academic Advisor, Avery Point
noemi.maldonado@uconn.edu
Tamara O'Day-Stevens, Student Services Program Manager, Stamford
tamara.o'day-stevens@uconn.edu
Kim Schwarz, Educational Program Manager, Hartford
kim.schwarz@uconn.edu
To better understand the techniques, modalities, and preferences of our faculty and our students. The culmination of the project will be recommendations for how to enhance the distance learning classroom.
Aynsley Diamond
Director, Faculty Outreach & Engagement
Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
It has become evident from our National Alumni Career Mobility survey that the majority of students seek career advice from faculty first, staff second, and then the Career Center. As part of the Career Center's Career Everywhere Initiative and in response to the NACM survey results, we are charging the BUILD UConn team to expand and enhance staff and faculty's ability to advise students around career planning.
Jennifer Mathieu
CT Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Jennifer is the Director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UConn. In her role, Jennifer has developed numerous programs and initiatives including the Get Seeded program where students with ideas are connected with seed funding and mentorship. In addition, Jennifer spearheaded the InsurTech Initiative that connects students with practical experiences in insurance and risk management and immerses them in the technologies and startups disrupting this space. Jennifer is passionate about supporting women entrepreneurs and helped to redesign the xCITE: Women in Entrepreneurship Network hosted by the School of Business at UConn.
Jennifer is a member of the MedTech Advisory Board as part of a Hartford HealthCare initiative and helped to launch a new Digital Health accelerator. She is a mentor for entrepreneurs within community organizations and groups including reSET and HAYVN and serves on several advisory boards for local startups. Because of her work within the University and in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, Jennifer received an honorable mention for Community Builder of the Year at the CT Entrepreneur Awards in 2019.
In addition, Jennifer founded Jennifer Elizabeth Design Studio, an inspirational carded jewelry company. She sells her designs to customers across the world and is available in over 60 retail locations nationwide. Jennifer Elizabeth Design Studio was featured in Connecticut Magazine and in other holiday gift guides featuring small businesses. Jennifer earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Connecticut and a M.Ed. In Higher
Education Administration from Springfield College.
David Noble
The Werth Institute
David was appointed the inaugural Director of the Werth Institute in January 2018, and previously he served as the co-director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Consortium and the Xcite: Women in Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Conference. As a faculty member in the School of Business, he teaches courses on technology innovation and entrepreneurship. David is an active mentor at UConn and has recently founded Zatoichi Co., a blockchain-based startup.
Prior to UConn, David was a securities and corporate finance attorney, with experience representing startups from formation through the IPO process. He has extensive non-profit board experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Alabama, a J.D. from the University of Miami, an M.B.A. from Elon University, and a B.S. in Political Science from Northeastern University.
Kathy Rocha
Kathy F. Rocha's professional experience encompasses higher education entrepreneurship and innovation programs, leadership positions with prominent computer networking companies, and consulting and mentoring startups and small businesses. Her expertise includes producing operational excellence, creating viable business models and funding strategies, and developing strong partnerships.
Kathy is currently operations director for the Peter J. Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UConn. The mission is to be the platform that leads an interdisciplinary and pervasive cultural shift that inspires students, faculty, and programs to integrate innovative thinking and entrepreneurial activity throughout UConn. She also leads the Evaluation Board which provides UConn Innovation Fund with recommendations for investments in startups with ties to UConn.
David Bruno
David Bruno was Head of Innovation at UBS Wealth Management globally, responsible for developing multiple products in the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland and putting UBS on the map as an industry thought leader. He built the digital & innovation unit for the Swiss Stock Exchange including being head startup coach at its F10 Accelerator with cohorts of 15 startups every six months.
He is now a Venture Builder working with startup founders building new businesses cross-vertical, including NVISO, KEYNO, RIKOR, SIGO SEGUROS. Dave is the UCONN Werth Institute's Venture Builder helping student founders found, accelerate and commercialize their first businesses. David is also a mentor at various startup programs including Startup Bootcamp and Techstars. Dave has experience working across 20 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and is proud to have visited Morocco and climbed to the summit of Jebel Toubkal.

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Report on Phoenix Sol 8 activities: An extra day to learn how to use the arm
I've generally been posting twice a day on Phoenix: one post about the morning press briefing, which is based on the night's work done by the science team and which includes information about the commands that have been sent up to Phoenix for its day of operations, and then once in the evening, when Phoenix' images hit the ground. But with the Mars day being 40 minutes longer than the Earth day, that evening downlink has been getting later and later. I did see new images last night, but not until nearly midnight, way too late for me to think coherently about them, much less write. So, for a while anyway, I'll be seeing Phoenix' downlinked images for the first time in the morning, rather than in the evening.
The slipping of Mars time means that today the science team is reporting for the day's duty at 10:45 pm local time. That's gotta be hard on the brain. Today's press briefing featured only Peter Smith, and he sounded upbeat and excited but also made several remarks indicating that he's suffering the kinds of problems anyone has when they are sleep-deprived -- such as more trouble with recall, both short- and long-term. I hope Peter plans to take a couple of days off soon -- Phoenix must go on but he won't be doing any service to the mission by working himself into incoherence. Back when they were preparing for the Mars Exploration Rovers to land, Steve Squyres required all the mission personnel to take seminars about sleep issues, how to deal with sleep deprivation, and what happens if you don't, and he instituted fairly draconian policies to require people to take time off to get proper rest. I hope they are doing the same for Phoenix.
Anyway, getting on to today's activities. It's sol 9 for Phoenix now. Yesterday, they had said their sol 8 plan included the completion of the opening up of the TEGA instrument; the first sample acquisition; and stereo imaging of "Holy Cow," the bright, white, tabular material that might be ice seen underneath the lander. Well, after seeing the downlink from yesterday, they changed their minds a bit. They decided, Peter said, that "the team is not yet comfortable with the digging and dumping process." He said they want to do another test dig and dump and document it better with the camera this time, "so we feel more comfortable with how material is interacting with the scoop, and how the scoop is interacting with the soil." I asked about the clod of dirt seen above the TEGA instrument on the deck, and he said that that was part of the issues that they were working out. Apparently, Peter said, after their test dig and dump, some dirt remained (unbeknownst to them), lodged in the scoop. Then, when they moved the arm into position for the arm camera to photograph the opening of TEGA, and they moved the scoop out of the way in order to take pictures, the dirt fell out onto their deck. "We need to be more careful when we take pictures" of stuff on the deck, Peter said.
Another thing he mentioned is that after they did their test dig and dump, they had a terrible time locating the dumped pile of sediment in their images; it was only after they'd made a blink comparison image that they could spot the new little pile.
Phoenix' first dump
A blink animation, before and after, shows the spot on Mars where Phoenix dumped its first scoop of soil.
However, there was a new, minor problem with TEGA today. The last step in preparing TEGA to receive a sample is to open the doors, like a set of shutters, over one of the sample ovens. When they got their picture back, showing TEGA after the door opening command, one of the doors had clearly failed to open completely. Peter said that this is "not what we expected" but that he had every reason to expect that once the lander warmed up during the day, the spring mechanism should pop the door completely open. Even if it doesn't, he said they tested the sample delivery process (presumably using the engineering model in their sandbox at Arizona) with partially open doors, and "we know we can get a sample into our oven even with the doors partially open." He stated that "this is not a serious problem."
Partially opened oven door on TEGA
On sol 8, Phoenix was commanded to open the first of eight sample ovens on the TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer) instrument. The shutters covering the first oven only partially opened: the right side shutter opened completely, but the left side shutter opened only partially. The team believes that even if the doors remain only partially open, they are wide enough for a sample to be delivered successfully to the sample chamber, which is covered by a screen.
Here was an interesting one. Remember that spring or pin visible lying on the ground near one of the footpads? Peter said that they haven't figured out what it is yet. "Nobody's laying claim to it. It obviously came from the spacecraft. Spacecraft are usually designed not to drop things. We've asked the spacecraft team where it came from; they say it probably came from the science payload." And, conversely, the science team is saying, no way that the object could possibly have come from any of their instruments. "We're trying to get someone to fess up here, but they're reluctant."
Many people have asked me where the temperature measurements are coming from -- the deck? The mast? The surface? So I asked Peter that question and he said, "We have not measured the surface temperature. There's three thermocouples [on the mast] from about a meter above the surface to about two meters over the surface, and the temperature at the top of the mast is coldest and bottom is hottest. The hottest temperature is next to the deck itself, extra heat coming from the spacecraft. We see a gradient. Late in the afternoon there's a lot of fluctuation, as cells of heat blow by the lander, hot - cold - hot - cold very rapidly. You're heating the surface, hot air is rising, cool air is coming down to replace it. The surface temperature we are anxious to determine."
One more fun picture came down last night. Captured on Sol 8, it shows part of Mars, the lander deck, the robotic arm scoop, a bit of solar panel, and the DVD. And, if you look closely at the DVD, you can see that the messy robotic arm has dropped a clod of dirt on it, too. Stuart Atkinson joked that "our names are on Mars, and now Mars is on our names!"
Phoenix DVD
This image, from sol 8 of Phoenix' mission to the Martian northern plains, shows the Phoenix DVD sitting on the deck of the lander. The robotic arm scoop, visible in the top of the image, has inadvertently dropped a clod of dirt onto the DVD.


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Merry Christmas and all the best for 2021!
We wish you and your team a healthy and relaxed time over the Christmas period. In times like these, it's important to think about positive things. That's why we'd like to put you in the right frame of mind for the new year with lots of interesting design news and information! We've got another fascinating Design Story for you: in our latest interview Alexander Schlag, CEO of yellow design, talks about its three-axis design process, brand experiences and how design is changing in an age when digitalisation is causing products to disappear. The call for entries for our international design award Focus Open will be announced in January 2021, and you'll find some impressions of our current Entdeckt! exhibition on our website – take a look! Plus, we've got some great tips for you too: the aed neuland 2021 competition and the Ulm School of Design anniversary. Find out more below!
With all good wishes for the festive season,
The Design Center team
YELLOW DESIGN GmbH
Without strategy, design is just short-lived superficiality
In 2004, yellow design was responsible for designing the first mobile navigation devices. And for Japanese air-conditioning giant Daikin, the Pforzheim-based company developed a comprehensive product language. We spoke to the firm's CEO Alexander Schlag about its three-axis design process, brand experiences and how design is changing in an age when digitalisation is causing products to disappear.
FOCUS OPEN 2021
Baden-Württemberg International Design Award
SHINE A SPOTLIGHT ON YOUR PRODUCT!
WIN GOOD ARGUMENTS FOR YOUR COMMUNICATIONS AND PERFECT PUBLICITY!
Never before has professional design been so important and so much a matter of course as it is today. The Baden-Württemberg state award Focus Open provides an annual and transparent roundup of what's state of the art when it comes to design, innovation and sustainability. In 2021, Focus Open will once again be rewarding new products, services and concepts for their innovativeness and design quality.
With Focus Open, startups, newcomers and founders have the same chances of winning an award for their exciting projects as established design agencies and companies do!
Win Gold, Silver, Special Mention – or Meta – plus feedback from an independent jury and a publicity boost in the form of our yearbook, exhibition and online presentation.
The call for entries opens in mid-January and closes on 1 April 2021.
The Focus Open 2020 yearbook
A comprehensive yearbook that presents all the award-winning products from this year's exhibition in both German and English is out now. The top-quality images and detailed product descriptions are supplemented by vivid commentary from the jury.
The yearbook is available from retailers.
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ENTDECKT!
The exhibition brochure is now available!
The ENTDECKT! exhibition is complete. Unfortunately, due to corona-related restrictions, the exhibition is not open to the public. However, you can click here to see some impressions of the remarkable works by talented young designers from Baden-Württemberg. The brochure is also now available – as a download or in print. Just send a mail to: design@rps.bwl.de
ENTDECKT! is a very special initiative by the Design Center Baden-Württemberg.
The intention: to track down design talents from Baden-Württemberg and give them the opportunity to present themselves to a broad public at the Haus der Wirtschaft, right in the heart of Stuttgart.
The prerequisite: the participating designers have their studio in Baden-Württemberg and can present a compelling portfolio and exceptional projects!
aed neuland 2021 – call for entries
In 2021 aed Stuttgart e.V. is calling for entries for the eighth edition of its interdisciplinary "neuland" competition for young talent, which is organised with the support of the Karl Schlecht Foundation. Students and graduates of universities, academies and colleges who are no older than 28 when the call for entries closes on 31 March 2021 are eligible to participate. There will be one gold prize winner in each of the five categories, each of whom will receive prize money of €2,000. In addition, there will be up to four silver prizes per category, as well as five special mentions – a distinction that will be awarded for the first time this coming year. The prize winners and special mentions will be announced in early July 2021.
In 2021, the aed's "neuland" sponsorship prize will be presented in the following categories:
• Architecture + Engineering
• Exhibition Design + Interior Design
• Product Design
• Communication Design
• Interaction Design
In early May 2021, an independent jury consisting of 20 experts from the fields of architecture, engineering and design will decide which entrants will be awarded the "neuland" prize. The winners of each category will be presented at www.aed-neuland.de, together with the corresponding jury statements. As a result, students are already able to list competition achievements when they start making applications.
… nothing should be too much for us when it comes to turning the plan into reality.
Inge Scholl to Max Bill, 1950
Ulm School of Design – Anniversary!
70 years ago: foundation of the Geschwister-Scholl-Stiftung on 5 December 1950
"Now that the foundation is sorted, we ought to celebrate somehow. Then again, the entire endowment capital could easily end up going down the drain," wrote Max Bill from Zurich on 7 December 1950 in a letter to Inge Scholl in Ulm.
But while that might still have been the case in early December 1950, things soon changed: John J. McCloy, the US High Commissioner for Germany, had promised her a donation of 1,000,000 Deutschmarks for her project to establish a "Geschwister-Scholl School", which later became the HfG Ulm (Ulm School of Design). However, the pledge came with a condition: the founders had to raise the same sum of money from donations and grants.
Inge Scholl and her staff set to work immediately: they negotiated, travelled, made phone calls, wrote letters – and established a foundation that the money for their project could be paid in to. So it was the Geschwister-Scholl-Stiftung (GSS) that provided the funding for the HfG – and continued to exist after the school had closed.
Now called the HfG Ulm Foundation, it continues to this very day to promote the science, research and development of design and preserve the listed HfG buildings on the slopes of Kuhberg Hill in Ulm.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the GSS foundation's creation, the Ulm foundation and the HfG Archive Ulm have recorded a podcast with excerpts from original letters that bring the exciting period of raising donations and establishing the foundation to life.
Link to podcast: www.hfg-ulm.de
Link to participating institutions: www.hfg-ulm.de and www.hfg-archiv.museumulm.de
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We are excited for another year of STEM Technology Student Association (TSA)! TSA is a national organization that gives students the opportunity to explore science, technology, engineering, and math fields through exciting competitive events and leadership opportunities. There is a wide variety of events to prepare and compete in, from Underwater ROV to Biotechnology to Catapult Design to Fashion Design to Forensic Technology to Career Prep - there is something for everyone! Not only does our STEM TSA team have a blast learning and making friends, but we also work hard. In February 2017, both our middle school and high school chapters won Chapter of the Year in Colorado!
The annual cost of TSA membership for middle or high school students is $125. This fee will cover affiliation fees with TSA, some minimal materials, club shirt, and teacher stipends. Students need to plan on buying their own supplies and paying for the state conference if they choose to attend, which will be between $200-$250 per student, depending on fundraising efforts. The conference will be the weekend of February 21st - 23rd, 2019. Please let us know if financial assistance is needed.
With your registration, your student will also receive a TSA t-shirt. Golf/Polo shirts will be provided for those students going to the State TSA competition.


The idea of combining sports, culture with education put forward by the pioneer of the modern the Olympic Games Pierre de coubertin is the essence of the worldwide sports events. Therefore, "humanistic Olympic Games" will be taken for one of important issues in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It is exactly the Year of Olympic Culture and Education. We think that it is necessary for us to begin with culture and education if we'd like to find the very point of Wushu being consistent with spirit of the Olympic Games and to realize the breakthrough of theory and practice.
This paper performs a study on the process of Chinese Wushu being from uncivilized to civilized by the method of historically caparison and points out that Wushu immerging into Olympic games a step of transcending high civilization and is a inexorable trend of history evolution.; this paper makes a further study on the common points between Wushu that is permeated Chinese traditional culture and the modern Olympic games from the view of culture; Basing on the idea of pedagogy, this paper demonstrates the five points of culture education of Wushu techniques permeating into the Olympic games by the method of elements analyzing.
We observe the evolution of Wushu being civilized: material changes has taken place since the modern times and it hasn't been complete Chinese style any longer. "Blending of Chinese and the west" is the new pattern of Wushu being civilized. Nowadays, Wushu has completed the process of becoming physical education and sports gradually, and the level of internationalization has been improving continuously with the Reforming and Opening, which is the new trend and character of Wushu being civilized in recent times. However it's not enough to emphasize on the sports competition if Wushu wants to being integrated with the humane atmosphere of Olympics. The study thinks that People pay much attention to humanity, morality and rationality in ancient china, so the highest level of Wushu is "accomplishment of mind", that is from external practice to the distillation of internal essence. The distillation of internal essence is conducted by Wushu culture education. If there isn't Wushu culture education, it is difficult to reach higher state. The first task of modern Wushu being civilized is to call for Olympic games culture education of Wushu. The results is: Chinese traditional ideas pursuit of harmony such as "the world flow into humanity", "being different under peace", "mean" have immerging into Wushu, which is perfect harmony with the Olympic games, and Wushu has owned ideological basis of being harmony with the Olympic Games. So we put forward "five transformation" centering on competitive Wushu routines technique. (1)Techniques getting ethical; (2) Techniques getting regular;(3) Technique getting high quality and difficult;(4) Techniques getting artistic;(5) Techniques getting theoretical.
The paper includes three pieces of important theories: firstly, the process of ancient and modern Wushu being civilized stays the stage of transcending, that is to say, from international Wushu sports up to Olympic Wushu competition; secondly, the transcending contains special contents: techniques getting ethical, techniques getting regular, Technique getting high quality and difficult, techniques getting artistic, and techniques getting theoretical, and on the basis we can try to establish a basic theory sketch of Wushu Olympic culture education; thirdly, the breakthrough of competitive Wushu routines theory should make Olympic culture become the nature of society, be accepted by the society and be fixed as the consciousness and feelings of people taking part in the Olympic Games.


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The World's Largest Pizza
Pizza is undoubtedly one of the most delightful pleasures in the world. To pizza lovers, it's the best gift humanity has given the entire world. It has also made the history of being one of the most popular and most ordered food in American history. When it comes to being the world's largest pizza ever made, there are disputes but one thing is for sure. Making a dish that is so delicious and big isn't an easy task.
The world's largest pizza ever made is called Ottavia from the hometown of pizza, Italy. It crushed the previous record of the pizza made in Johannesburg South Africa topping the list and breaking the world record as the largest pizza ever made.
For pizza lovers, the size of this pizza comes as a shock. It's scary to think of all the ingredients, time, and energy spent on making such a big pizza. The size of the pizza is another shocking thing. Remember the pizza was round in shape and all we can do is wonder, how did they achieve that? What ingredients were used and how was this record broken. Let's dive into details.
Ottavia the Pizza
Ottavia was made by several Italian chefs. These are Dovilio Nardi, Marco Nardi, Andrea Mannocchi, Mattero Giannotte, and Matteo Nardi. It's the world's largest pizza and it was made in Rome, Italy on 13th December 2012 by the group of chefs. It took the chefs a total of 48 hours continuous to make the pizza.
Putting the size into perspective, Ottavia the pizza measured 131 (40 meters) feet in diameter. The pizza covered an estimated area of around 13,580 sq. Ft. which is approximately 1261 sq. Meters. They named the pizza Ottavia representing an ancient roman emperor. He was the first Roman emperor who brought epic change in the history of the Roman empire. He was honored so many times as he brought the roman empire into a period of cultural and economic stability. Ottavia the pizza became the largest gluten-free pizza following the line of healthy food.
Ottavia was made using more than 1,500lbs of margarine, 420lbs of vegetable oil, 550lbs of rock salt and 50lbs of balsamic vinegar. The taste of the pizza, according to the public was as authentic as they come. The authenticity counted since it had to taste like real pizza instead of a giant baked dough with toppings and margarine.
Ottavia is currently the world record holder as the World's Largest pizza. However, there have been attempts by other people to create the biggest pizza, longest pizza, and the world's commercially available pizza.
Ottavia was created with a purpose not just to break the world record. Being gluten-free, the pizza was made to bring awareness to the celiac diseases which is the most common food intolerance in the globe. This is after the team of chefs noted that more than 135,000 people in Italy have the disease. On the other hand, they made the pizza for a great cause.
The pizza was not to be sold not even one piece. The entire pizza was distributed to the public and the leftover pizza (which was a lot) was then distributed to various charities in the country. The other purpose of cooking the Ottavia was to encourage people who are gluten intolerant. Cooking gluten-free food doesn't mean these people have to give up tasty and delightful food such as pizza.
Come to think of it. It was fitting that the world's largest pizza comes from Italy which is where pizza originates from. No other pizza tastes as authentic and delightful as pizza made in Italy.
World's Largest Commercially Available Pizza
As anyone would guess, Ottavia was one of a kind pizza. No one else has attempted to make such a huge pizza and that also means you can't have a bite of Ottavia today. This brings in the world's largest and, commercially available pizza.
In Texas, a restaurant called the Moontower Pizza Bar created the largest ever commercially available pizza. Imagine having a pizza measuring 8ft by 2ft delivered to your door.
The pizza popularly known as The Bus for its rectangular shape can be delivered to your door after 48 hours' notice. The pizza with one layer of toppings is going to cost you $300 together with tax. The Bus takes 30 minutes to bake and its made using dough whipped up from scratch and sauce. It's then put inside a rotating oven where it is baked then delivered in a custom made box.
The Bus was made with spectacular awe. Before rolling the entire pizza into the oven, more than ten pounds of cheese and toppings are added. The toppings are, but not limited to mushrooms, onions, pepperoni, and green pepper. The amazing bit of this pizza is that it can be ordered and you can have a slice of the pizza today.
The World's Longest Pizza
It doesn't come close to the size of Ottavia the World's Largest Pizza but it gives Ottavia a run for the record. The world's longest pizza is a record out of the ordinary. The pizza didn't have the regular circular pizza shape but it was rectangular. Spanning 6333 feet (1930 meters) and 3.6 inches long, it holds the record for being the world's longest pizza.
The pizza is almost 17 football fields long and it was made using 17,700 pounds of dough and 3900 pounds of mozzarella cheese. The long pizza was cooked by a team of more than one hundred people and it was made within 54 hours. After the adjudicator from the Guinness world record affirmed its length and record, the public was given a taste of the pizza. The leftovers, which were a lot, were then distributed to charities locally.
The World's Largest Pizza Ottavia was made as an inspiration. Imagine a pizza covered with 8,800 lbs. of tomato sauce and 19,800lbs of mozzarella. There's no way they could bake the pizza dough altogether at once. To manage this size, the chefs had to bake the dough in more than 5,230 separate batches.
Hope you enjoyed blog and if you are want to see the rest of the worlds largest, check out the biggest bat, largest peanut to worlds largest insect


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Since 2004 Eliska Weissova is a permanent member at the Praque Czech National Theatre and the Prague State Opera.In both opera houses she is singing innumberable roles.
The Highlight of this season will be her Ortrud at the National Theatre Prague in a production by Katharina Wagner.
Eliska Weissova was born in Moravska Trebová ( Czech Republic) and gained her Masters Degrese in Music at the Prague's Academy of Performing Arts. Her teacher was the famous Czech baryton René Tucek. In the past she attended master-classes by Nadezda Kniplova and Peter Dvorsky.


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Freecom Mobile Drive Mg 1TB
With both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 on board
By Nick Peers 2013-10-01T16:58:00.273Z Disk drives (HDD & SSD)
Thunderbolt-like performance in a tiny, portable-friendly chassis
If you're happy to pay a large premium for a tiny performance gain over USB 3.0, then the Freecom Mobile Drive Mg will appeal, but we'd suggest looking at the USB 3.0-only model, which is much cheaper.
Slimline chassis and elegant design
Reasonably quick performance, particularly with small files
2.5-inch drive fails to make the most of Thunderbolt's capabilities
Very expensive for little performance gain
On the surface, Freecom's Thunderbolt and USB 3.0-equipped Mobile Drive Mg seems to provide the perfect blend of portability, performance and versatility. There are no design surprises sprung, the drive is essentially an update of a previous dual-port model (Firewire 800 and USB 2.0), and sports the same slim magnesium case and lightweight pocket-friendly chassis. To be fair, there's no real need to update this basic design as it still complements the Mac perfectly, and won't look out of place next to PCs either.
Freecom claims the magnesium design ensures the drive stays cool, and judging by the heat emanating from it after even a relatively short period, it appears it's doing its job as a glorified heatsink.
1TB Thunderbolt in the palm of your hand
As the drive is self-powered, you'll only find the two connectors – one USB 3.0, the other Thunderbolt – on the back of the drive. Surprisingly, though, the drive indicator light is also housed here, which is a strange choice. Thankfully, cables for both ports are provided.
The drive is pre-formatted ready for use on the Mac, which means it'll work out of the box with Time Machine, but there is a hidden partition containing the necessary software to reformat the drive for PC use too. Other included software includes an energy saving tool called Green Button that puts the drive to sleep after a specified period.
The key issue with the Mobile Drive Mg, as it would be with any Thunderbolt-equipped drive that works with the smaller 2.5-inch hard drive, is that you'll never get to utilise the full bandwidth of the Thunderbolt interface. That's most evident when benchmarking the drive in QuickBench, its peak read/write figures of 106/102MB/s in Thunderbolt mode similar to its USB 3.0 figures.
1,000 megabytes - does it get smaller?
You'll be similarly disappointed if you plan to copy large files to the drive, as speeds max out well below their potential. However, we were pleased to see the drive perform much quicker in our small-file test, copying a 36.5GB folder containing over 60,000 files in just 11 minutes and 30 seconds, which is half the time it took to copy the same folder to similar portable drives sporting the USB 3.0 interface.
We liked
The drive is undoubtedly well designed and sits neatly alongside modern Macs. It's slim, light and pocket-friendly too, something not usually associated with Thunderbolt drives. Performance – particularly with smaller files – was impressive as well. If you're running an older Mac with Thunderbolt, but not USB 3.0, then this drive will make a big difference.
We didn't like
The relatively slow transfer speeds using Thunderbolt make us question the point of paying a hefty premium for that interface when you can get broadly similar performance for much less from a USB 3.0-only portable drive. We were also unimpressed with the drive's USB 3.0 performance when connected to a PC.


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Dauber boxes are the most efficient method to store fingertip daubers. Without storage too many get lost or wasted. Each box holds forty daubers and the box's hinged lid with fail-safe sliding locks keeps contents secure. Includes one box that measures approximately 7.5" x 4.75" x 1.5". Many scrapbookers own two or more and just add more boxes as their ink pad and chalk palette collections expand. The boxes store great and look good. Consider labeling your sponge daubers and storing them alphabetically and by medium.. The boxes are large enough to store your daubers comfortably, yet small enough to carry to crops without drama - it's impossible for the box to open by accident because of the fail-safe clasps!


This course is designed to present advanced methods of understanding the function of behavior and planning effective means to identify potential problems and prevent the likelihood of negative behaviors in students. Students will learn how to observe, reflect, and evaluate the numerous educational environments and situations in which students are expected to learn (identifying potential triggers and barriers), planning (gaining specific knowledge of student strengths and needs through Functional Behavior Assessment), instruction (teaching strategies and self-monitoring to students), and the importance of consistent plan delivery and evaluation. Unique and effective methods and interventions under ongoing research for students diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Social-Emotional Disturbance, Mental Health and complex issues related to Traumatic Brain Injury will be explored in this course.


We see and meet the nicest people but we also see and meet the meanest people in Palestine. Every day here is an experience in extremes. We contrast an activist for peace in her 20s who speaks many languages with a settler who (joined by other settlers) attacks people picking their own olive trees (because he is brainwashed to believe Palestinians are not a "chosen people"). We contrast a young man getting up at 3AM to try and cross the countless hurdles to make a trek to make a living for his family with elites like Netanyahu who told members of his cabinet that "our challenge is to delegitimize the continuous attempt to delegitimize the State of Israel. The most important arena where we need to act in this context is in the arena of public opinion, which is crucial in the democratic world." We contrast the niece of Tony Blair who sacrificed so much to join and understand and sympathize with Palestinian suffering with her uncle who cares little about people and prefers to keep his VIP photo-ops tightly controlled .
We see a woman trying to sell a few olives which she gathered with much hard labor from a few trees after their owners had finished harvesting them (a process we call tsayyef). We contrast that with billionaire Zionist (Russian-Israeli) tycoon sentenced in France for arms dealings worth hundreds of millions of dollars (but of course he will for now escape justice just like Sharon, Olmert, Netanyahu and Barak). Israelis who are getting rich of selling weapons and training others to kill contrast with impoverished masses of gathered Jews from around the world tricked into coming to a land that belongs to others under myths of Jewish nationhood . Israel now having destroyed Palestine is merely a vehicle for elites to make billions exporting death and destruction in the Middle East and beyond while the gathered masses of Jews suffer from "what next" syndrome. What next to distract the masses with (another war, another terror incident, another attack on AlAqsa mosque..). Colonial settlers squat in Palestinian homes in Jerusalem while owner families are made homeless as part of the ethnic cleansing that is Israeli policy since its inception. We see Israeli soldiers and officers in smug uniforms and smiles demolishing Palestinian homes . We see Israeli officers starve 1.5 million Palestinians in the largest concentration camp in history called Gaza . But we also see Israeli citizens like Ezra Nawi sentenced to prison for supporting Palestinians being ethnically cleansed  or Shir Hever writing and speaking out about the colonial oppression that is being done in their name . We see Matzpen, Zochrot, and brave Israelis like Neve Gordon and Ilan Pappe expose ethnic cleansing and racism and support the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions. We see internationals in Palestine like Kristel who helped spawn a movement. We see Majd who helped mobilize Palestinian youth around the world. Jamal Juma'a, Eyad Burnat, Mohammed Othman (now languishing in an Israeli jail) and hundreds more who mobilized against the apartheid wall .
In one day in Palestine (in 24 hours to 8 AM Oct 26): Medics obstructed and injured as Israeli troops wound and beat people defending the Al Aqsa Mosque; Israeli soldiers abduct two 15-year-olds; Zionist fanatics attack olive harvesters and set fire to olive trees; Israeli F-16s terrorize Rafah; Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 5 towns and villages; 3 attacks – 19 raids – 11 beaten – 16 injured-21 taken prisoner – 17 detained – 80 restrictions of movement… .
We could list tens of thousands of idiotic fools going with the systems of oppression of many backgrounds (yes including some Arabs and some Palestinians). We could list tens of thousands of brilliant activists everywhere who (had we lived in a fair world) should be political leaders. We indeed have had a less violent and more just society precisely because the former idiotic group is challenged at every turn. It has always been like this (think struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, think civil rights, think labor struggles etc). The real struggle we have and we have always had is clear to anyone with eyes to see. It was said that only dead fish go with the flow. So this is not a tribal conflict but a conflict between dead fish (or living dead as it were) that go with the flow and the living diverse population who swim against the current. What always gives us hope and energy is the beauty and diversity of the activist community seeking peace. They are non-conformist, diverse, and do not march to anyone's orders (except their conscience to do what is right). Actions and the company of nice peole give us hope and energy to work for a just world. Come visit us in Palestine!
I have been scanning for any condemnation from your spineless donkeys as leaders. why do I not hear about any demostration regarding this sham election which is called by the PA. My attitude is you get what you deserve!
Hans, elections are a thing of the past, particularly in the US. We've already seen the 2000 and 2004 elections stolen. They are little more than placebos now that computers control the outcomes. Afterall, who can question a computer? But the real question should be, 'who can PROGRAM a computer'.


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El municipio de Jefferson (en inglés: Jefferson Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Montgomery en el estado estadounidense de Ohio. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 6972 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 105,96 personas por km².

Geografía
El municipio de Jefferson se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 65.8 km², de la cual 65,8 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0 %) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 6972 personas residiendo en el municipio de Jefferson. La densidad de población era de 105,96 hab./km². De los 6972 habitantes, el municipio de Jefferson estaba compuesto por el 42,04 % blancos, el 54,92 % eran afroamericanos, el 0,3 % eran amerindios, el 0,13 % eran asiáticos, el 0,43 % eran de otras razas y el 2,18 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 2,09 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Municipios de Ohio
Localidades del condado de Montgomery (Ohio)

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Laura Gibson's 'Goners' Ruminates On A Distant Past And Uncertain Future On her gripping new album, Gibson diversifies her arrangements to allow for everything from barren ballads to grandiose stormers that boom and swirl.
First Listen
Hear upcoming albums in their entirety
Laura Gibson's 'Goners' Ruminates On A Distant Past And Uncertain Future
Laura Gibson's new album, Goners, comes out Oct. 26 on Barsuk Records. Parker Fitzgerald/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Laura Gibson's new album, Goners, comes out Oct. 26 on Barsuk Records.
Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple playlists at the bottom of the page.
Laura Gibson made her name in music's eerily quiet places, through creaky whispers and dusty, inward-facing laments. She's always sung with deep restraint and deeper warmth, all the better to draw you in and compel you to don headphones and drown out the world. But she's also grown bolder as she's transformed from lone acoustic singer-songwriter to full-blown bandleader, while taking on worldlier themes and ever-grander instrumentation.
Gibson's fifth solo album, Goners, continues in that direction: In a gripping collection of songs about accountability and grief, she's diversified her arrangements to allow for everything from barren ballads to grandiose stormers that boom and swirl. "Domestication," the album's first single, is a thematically and sonically bold mission statement about getting along in the world as a woman, and it's surrounded by songs that can be brooding and haunting or lilting and sweet, sometimes all at once. (This is Gibson's first record since she got her MFA in writing, and it shows in her vivid and evocative lyrics.)
The singer wrote and recorded Goners during a time of turmoil and transition, both in her life and in the world at large, and the album carries the weight of some serious rumination about her distant past and uncertain future: "If we're already goners," she sings in the title track, "Why wait any longer for something to crack open?" But Gibson remains a boundlessly wise and warm interrogator, shining a light bright enough to lead out of even Goners' darkest depths.
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Q: How to query complex structures in MongoDB? I persist my Python classes to JSON and write them to MongoDB. I'm using a JSON Encoder which has been presented here. This results in a slight complex JSON structure which does not follow the simple "string" key/values in all the MongoDB tutorials. Here is an excerpt of a class written to JSON:
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("51f2397c86a49a5e6dec4633"),
    "__module__" : "experiment.experimentmanager",
    "experiments" : {
        "FOO" : [
            {
                "__module__" : "experiment.experiment",
                "enable_routing_table_trace" : false,
                "__class__" : "Experiment",
                "scenario_name" : "foobar",
                "enable_network_visualize" : false
            },
}

I'm wondering how I could check for example if there is a key "FOO" in experiments using MongoDBs find? Thanks in advance!

A: To check if field exists use$exists operator.
To access complex structures use dot notation. For example:
db.inventory.find( { "experiments.FOO": { $exists: true} } )

A: This query should work:
db.collection.find({
    "experiments.FOO": {
        $exists:true
    }
});

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New Way to the Wharf / Merchants hope F-Market line will draw locals to tourist attractions
US & World // News
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Staff Writer March 2, 2000
New Way to the Wharf / Merchants hope F-Market line will...
2000-03-02 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco -- Equal parts mass transit, tourist attraction and moving historic trolley festival, the Municipal Railway's F-Market line extension to Fisherman's Wharf begins service before dawn Saturday.
The $140 million extension will pick up at First and Market streets, near where the old-time streetcars now leave off, and head east to the foot of Market. There, it will make a zig and a zag, turn north on the Embarcadero and take passengers all the way to Beach and Jones streets in the heart of the busy wharf area, where cioppino and cracked crab await.
"We've waited for this for five years," said Art Michel, president of the Market Street Railway, an all- volunteer nonprofit group that lobbied the city to build the existing F line on Market Street and helps the Muni maintain the 5-year-old line's historic rolling stock.
"This will offer people an interesting alternative to the cable cars," Michel said. "Tourists and local people will use it in droves."
The new F-Market & Wharves Line also marks a big step forward in the rebirth of the Embarcadero, once home to one of the busiest ports in the world, then covered over by an ele-
vated freeway that came down after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The streetcar line, along with a boom in construction highlighted by the Giants' new Pacific Bell Park south of the extension and the mid- Embarcadero roadway project, opens a whole new vista.
"It's pretty," said Muni's Maggie Lynch, looking at the brightly painted streetcars, antique-style lampposts and cobblestone roadbed, "and the waterfront is really beautiful now."
Michel and Lynch aren't the only ones who are excited. Fisherman's Wharf restaurateurs and merchants had to put up with two years of construction that saw Jefferson and Beach streets ripped up.
"This is going to be delightful," said Alessandro Baccari, executive secretary of the Fisherman's Wharf Merchants Association. The group hopes that the line will not only bring in vacationing sightseers, but that it will also appeal to jaded locals who turn up their noses at the touristy wharf.
"This will create a whole new discovery of the wharf by local people," Baccari said.
At the other end of the line in the Castro, the extension has turned out to be pretty much a nonevent, since the F-Market line has run there for five years, said Patrick Batt, president of Merchants of the Upper Market and Castro.
Some gay activists in the Castro had spoken out against the extension, fearing it would bring more straight people into their neighborhood. But Batt said he wonders how many tourists will ride the long line from end to end in city traffic.
And even if they do, "if people want to come see the Castro, let them," he said.
"Straight people's money is just as green as gay people's money," Batt said, adding that plenty of tourists already come to the neighborhood.
For San Francisco old-timers, the F-Market extension represents a return of streetcar service to the Ferry Building -- once one of the busiest streetcar terminals in the world -- after a half-century hiatus.
And to show that there are new things even in the world of San Francisco's old streetcar service, the new line will be the first time that the cars have gone right to the heart of the wharf. Both Muni and the old Market Street Railway operated long-abandoned lines that skirted the area.
The new line will carry passengers to the Ferry Building and up the Embarcadero to destinations like Pier 39, the Alcatraz tour piers, restaurant row along the wharf, and on to shopping centers like the Anchorage, the Cannery and Ghirardelli Square.
The Muni uses a fleet of 17 so- called Presidents Conference Committee streetcars on the current F line, which carries about 10,000 passengers daily. In planning for the extension, the Muni bought nine so- called Peter Witt cars two years ago from Milan, Italy, for the bargain price of $30,000 each.
The sleek orange cars with elegant hardwood interiors are named for the Cleveland transit engineer who designed them in the 1920s. They are now 72 years old and have run for untold miles, but they are still considered workhorses with lots of service in them.
So far, the Muni has refitted four of the cars, doing things like grinding the wheels because San Francisco's rail gauge is slightly different from Milan's, and putting on new trolley poles. It plans to upgrade the five others before long.
"I'm very confident. . . . I think it's going to be extremely busy," Steve Clark of the Muni's rail operations staff said as he tested a Witt car on a ride down the Embarcadero.
The railway plans a quiet opening Saturday, with the first train pulling out of the F-Market's line's western terminal at 17th and Castro streets near Market Street at 5:42 a.m. It should reach the end of the line at Beach and Jones streets at 6:10 a.m. before heading back.
Service is planned roughly every 10 minutes until midnight. On weekdays, the first service will be at 5:11 a.m.
Other changes will accompany the new service. The F-Line will no longer stop at the Transbay Terminal, so instead Muni will end the 6- Parnassus trolley bus line at the terminal. The 32-Embarcadero bus line will die and a bit of the 39-Coit service will be cut out.
The Muni agrees that the new scenic line along the Embarcadero will be a hit, and that's one reason it plans to keep this weekend's opening low-key. Festivities will wait a few months, until the Muni sees how the line operates and what kind of passenger loads build up. Muni will also wait until the city's mid- Embarcadero roadway project in front of the Ferry Building is done.
Muni General Manager Michael Burns figures that the F-Market line service will divert some tourists from the long lines they endure to get on the Beach and Hyde and the Bay and Taylor cable car lines.
"I think people will take the F- Line one way and the cable car the other to see different things," he said. "And besides, it's half the fare."
For non-Fast Pass holders, regular Muni fares of $1 for adults and 35 cents for youth and seniors apply on the F-Market line. Cable cars cost $2 for everyone per ride, unless you buy a pass.
For Muni, the new extension is actually an interim step toward eventually creating yet another line, the E-Embarcadero, which would run from Fisherman's Wharf south to the Giants' ballpark and the Caltrain station.
Burns is wary of running the historic cars to the ballpark, which is expected to draw more than 3 million fans this season. For this season at least, streetcar service to the ballpark will be on the N-Judah extension, which people can board at regular Muni Metro stations.
A RIDERS' GUIDE TO THE MUNI'S NEW F-MARKET & WHARVES STREETCAR
The new route, a five-mile extension of the current F-Line, will run from First and Market streets to Beach and Jones streets in Fisherman's Wharf, via the Embarcadero.
PCC streetcar 17 cars painted in the old-time colors of transit systems from around the country Peter Witt Streetcar A small fleet of 72-year-old streetcars, bought by the city two years ago from Milan, Italy.
Service: The first car pulls out of the F-Line's depot at 17th and Castro streets at Market Street at 5:42 a.m. Saturday. Service is planned roughly every 10 minutes until about midnight. A round-trip is scheduled to take 105 minutes.
Fares: Regular Muni fares apply -- $1 for adults and 35 cents for seniors, youths and the disabled, with Fast Passes accepted.
Where it doesn't go: Service south of Mission Street on the Embarcadero isn't planned yet. Streetcar service to the Giants' new Pacific Bell Park and the Caltrain Station is provided by N-Judah trains.
Sources: MUNI; map image courtesy of Department of Public Works.
State skims from school funds to pay for trial courts
49ers ride a wave of exuberant moves all the way to the Super Bowl


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Q: Which one is the suitable Debian iso for desktop? There are so many iso files in Debian website that I am really getting confused. How do I choose from them?

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*I used Ubuntu before.

*I want to install Debian to my desktop

*I want Gnome or KDE to be my DE

*I downloaded a version called xxxxxxx-CD-1.iso but it doesnt seem to have a GUI

A: Use netinst, you can choose desktop environment at the end of install.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/


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All events delivered through the Excellence Hub for Yorkshire and Humber are open to students from across the UK who have been identified by their school or college as being high achieving.
Please note that there are additional eligibility criteria and a set application process for applying for both the subject taster and IAG events. Please read our Guidance notes (PDF , 349kb) before applying for any events.


This item is a custom made bottle stopper. This one is turned by myself and with Red and Black Spectraply wood. Very unique wood! It is finished in a Lacquer finish for years of use. The metal part is chrome plated with a real cork seal on the bottom. The stopper in the photo is the one you will receive.
As with all wood products colors may very from computer to computer, so the photo may not be the exact color of the piece.
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  <title>EXPORT CSV Statement</title>

<tt>EXPORT</tt> <tt>CSV</tt> Statement
Exports a script, table, or view to a CSV (comma-separated values)
  file. This statement is the scripting equivalent of the visual export wizard accessed via the Export menu.

Syntax

Parameters

filename: text

    The absolute path to the text file to write. The file does not need to exist. If it does exist, by default new
    lines will be appended to it. Use the TRUNCATE_EXISTING_FILE option to overwrite the existing
    file.

table-name: text or identifier (optional)

    If provided, this is the name of a table or view in the notebook to export.

script-name: text or identifier (optional)

    If provided, this is the name of a script in the notebook to export. The script will be executed and then its
    results will be written to the file. If the script produces multiple data tables, then only the first is
    exported.

select-statement: statement (optional)

    If provided, this is a SELECT statement that provides the rows to write to the file.

Options

<tt>HEADER_ROW</tt>: integer (0-1, default: 1)

    Indicates whether the first row of the file should be a column header row.

<tt>SEPARATOR</tt>: text (default: <tt>','</tt>)

    Allows separators other than commas. The separator must be a single character (specifically, a single UTF-16 code
    unit). To specify a tab separator, use <tt>CHAR(9)</tt> which uses the ASCII code 9 to produce the tab
    character.

      TRUNCATE_EXISTING_FILE: integer (0-1, default: 0)

      If the output file exists, this option indicates whether the existing file contents should be deleted.

0 = Keep existing file data and append new lines

1 = Delete existing file data

FILE_ENCODING: integer (0-65535, default: 0)

    Indicates the text encoding to use when writing the text file. Specify 0 to use UTF-8. Any nonzero integer is
    treated as a Windows code page number. See Character Encodings in CSV and
    Text Files for a list of these code page numbers.

Example

-- In most cases, this is all that is required.
EXPORT CSV 'C:\file.csv' FROM TABLE my_table;

-- Use the SEPARATOR option to write tab-separated files.
EXPORT CSV 'C:\file.tsv' FROM TABLE my_table OPTIONS (SEPARATOR: CHAR(9));

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Jim Hunter was a British boxer who was Scottish lightweight champion between 1930 and 1933. He held residence in Dunfermline, Scotland.

Career
Jim Hunter made his professional boxing debut in 1919, defeating fellow debutant Billy Jones by KO. Hunter defeated Alistair McInroy in 1930 to become Scottish area lightweight. He went on to fight Johnny Cuthbert for the British lightweight title in 1932 at the White City Stadium in Glasgow but lost by KO in the tenth round. In 1933 he lost the Scottish lightweight title to Tommy Spiers in a rematch.

His last fight was in 1934, losing to Pat Slavin by points.

References

External links
Scotland Area Title Bouts 1929-79 at boxinghistory.org.uk

Sportspeople from Dunfermline
Scottish male boxers
Lightweight boxers


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Tex in a Can
Everything posted by Tex in a Can
Clowney and Texans Standoff
Tex in a Can replied to AussieTitanFan08's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
The Clowney show continues over at Texans headquarters... lol
I'm thinking the Texans are banking that they'll get another 2-3 years from Watt. If Watt is not 100% this year, I bet the Texans will sign Clowney after the season is over for more money (assuming he has a similar year to last year).
I love the media
Tex in a Can replied to Callidus's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
Cletus is also a synonym for dumb ass.
Cletus is the nickname the fans gave Cal McNair, owner of the Texans.
Texans Fire GM
Tex in a Can replied to BudAdams's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
What a clown show. Either pay a 1st round draft choice or wait until the end of the season for Caserio. This narrow focus on New England people is sure fire disaster. You fire your GM after you tamper with really YOUR ONE AND ONLY target candidate, and he was unavailable due to a contract clause. Now, due to your narrow focus, you wait until the end of the season without a GM or you pony up NE's ransom. If they stay without a GM, they will keep Brian Gaine's scouts and the rest of player personnel intact. What a clown show, totally loving it!
Currently, Bill O'Brian is the defacto GM. It has been 2 weeks since they fired Brian Gaine, the longer it goes, the more likely they will wait until after the season to hire a GM. So the following is speculation. Why do I care? I find it interesting since I just love a clown show on another team in the division and I think this is a 31 clown car VW Beetle at a 3 ring circus. Bill O'Brian is the GM until the end of the season. What can he do? Make a few waiver claims, maybe a trade. Basically nothing. The players are pretty much set for 2019. And there are big holes on the offensive line and defensive secondary. He will be in charge of everything, head coach and GM and still offensive coordinator. No way he's up for this. Sooo It all goes to shambles (hooray!) They fire Bill at the end of the season, hire a GM and then a new coach. (probably not good for us but puts Texans in for at least another year of transition.)
WE THE NORTH!! Okaaay.
Tex in a Can replied to Number9's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
Toronto is very conservative. Really good restaurants, though and lots of up and coming bands. Montreal is much more fun but not as fun as Nashville which is not as fun as New Orleans.
totally agree, going to all the different ethnic stops and the food!
"we the north" is still way better than TitanUp. PK has an article on this topic.
I'm on IR
Tex in a Can replied to JoelinBellevue's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
So that's why you're in Bellevue Hospital! You labelled this thread Titans? Shouldn't it be in the other forum? Isn't Joelin a girl's name? Wasn't there a Dolly Parton song about Joelin?
No new candidates have been interviewed since last week, looks like the Texans may ride with current staff. O'Brian will likely have a larger if not overall say. I think this is very good for the rest of the division, BoB is stretched pretty thin being the HC and OC, now he could also be the defacto GM.
Bad Situation
Thanks for that recap, Oman, it really is quite an amazing, real life tale of a bulletin board fabricated persona. The other tidbit I can remember was legal sneaking off to an empty conference room and taking a selfie of himself with his shirt off during an office work day, I think it was to prove he was in good shape. The last couple of years CTF was here it was clear he wasn't even following the team, I think what he would do he is get high, dredge up an old Oiler's article, post it here and then try to start an argument about it.
Nick Caserio will remain in New England, apparently ending a league tampering investigation against the Texans. Texans CEO Cal McNair said today that he was not aware of all the relevant language in Caserio's contract with the Patriots but once he became aware, he pledged to Patriots owner Robert Kraft that the Texans wouldn't ask Caserio to leave New England. "When we started the process to interview Nick Caserio for our EVP/GM position, we consulted the League office on numerous occasions, followed the procedures outlined in the League's rules and believed we were in full compliance," McNair said in a statement. "We have now been made aware of certain terms in Nick's contract with the Patriots. Once we were made aware of these contract terms, I informed Mr. Kraft that we would stop pursuing Nick." John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reports that the Patriots have agreed to drop their tampering case. So this story appears to be over, with Caserio still in New England and the Texans still looking for a new G.M.
Interesting information (misinformation?) floating around the media here. One source says the Texans did not tamper before they fired Gaine. After the firing they asked permission to interview Cesario and were immediately denied by the Patriots. They ignored the denial and continued to contact Cesario to try to bring him to Houston, and this is the tampering. It will be interesting to find out what was going on. Tampering is prevalent in the NFL but flagrant tampering could wind up with a draft pick penalty.
Saints sign Rishard Matthews
Tex in a Can posted a topic in Titans and NFL Talk
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001033752/article/saints-sign-rishard-matthews-after-minicamp-tryout wonder if he negotiated his own contract.
The clown show continues. If you're in the front office of a team wanting a guy for their new GM, you make sure no one in said office is seen during a filmed public event talking to the guy the day before you fire the old GM. You tell Easterly to not bee seen talking to Caserio at the function or even better you ask him to not attend. If you need him to make contact you do it in private or over the phone, not in front of cameras.
Titans To Officially Retire #9 and #27
Tex in a Can replied to Jonboy's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
We need to show the team Reggie Wayne's draft speech before the game. Hell, show it on the jumbo-tron before kick off, get the crowd into it.
I plan on being there, will be a great 1/2 time, need to get my beer fill up b4 1/2 time...
I wonder if the Ravens phoned Gaine before they traded with Philly.
Let's hope they don't land Nick Cesario.
Steve McNair's First Career Start
Tex in a Can replied to scine09's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
Saw this one in person, everyone in the dome was excited to see McNair in action.
Charley Caserly is available...
Was worst GM in the division, so was Rick Smith. Good luck finding a GM in June...
Most Improved AFC South team this off season
Tex in a Can replied to Tex in a Can's topic in Titans and NFL Talk
For sure it's a hypothetical, you don't know how your FA acquisitions will play out either, there's often a reason another team let them walk. I hear a lot of chatter that Indy hit a home run with all 3 of their second rounders, we'll see.


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Alexander Acosta Bio, Age, Wife, Jeffrey Epstein, Resigns, Net Worth
Alexander Acosta Biography
A native of Miami, Florida, Alexander Acosta is an American attorney, academic, and politician who was the 27th United States Secretary of Labor.
Acosta was the first and only Hispanic person to serve in Trump's cabinet as of January 2019. He had been appointed to the National Labor Relations Board by President George W. Bush. He later served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida.
Alexander Acosta Age
Acosta is 53 years old as of 2022. He was born on January 16, 1969. His full name is Rene Alexander Acosta.
Alexander Acosta Family
As for Alexander's family, nothing much is known except that his parents are Cuban immigrants.
Alexander Acosta Wife
Acosta is married to Jan Acosta. The couple has two children.
Alexander Acosta Photo
Alexander Acosta Net Worth
Acosta has an estimated net worth of around $400,000.
Alexander Acosta Jeffrey Epstein
While serving as the U.S. attorney for Southern Florida in 2007, Alexander approved a controversial plea agreement with billionaire serial child molester Jeffrey Epstein. In late 2018, Alexander's name was being circulated as a possible successor to Trump Administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Epstein case became a focus of Congressional concern.
Later after, Miami Herald published a detailed report critical of Alexander's work on the case in which Jeffrey Epstein, was said to have recruited minor girls from Palm Beach County middle schools and high schools for paid sexual activities at his Florida mansion.
Alexander had approved a federal non-prosecution agreement under which Epstein, along with four co-conspirators and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators", were granted immunity from all federal criminal charges. In order to avoid prosecution, Jeffrey Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two state prostitution charges, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI.
He was thereafter sentenced by the state court to 18 months' incarceration, and he served 13 months, followed by a year of probation.
Jeffrey served his sentence in a private wing of the Palm Beach County jail, with work release to his office allowed for up to 12 hours a day six days a week.
While on probation, Jeffrey Epstein was allowed numerous trips on his corporate jet to his homes in Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Later in 2011, in a public letter regarding the case, Alexander himself seemed to express dissatisfaction with the terms of Epstein's incarceration, stating: "Epstein appears to have received highly unusual treatment while in jail. Although the terms of confinement in a state prison are a matter appropriately left to the State of Florida, and not federal authorities, without doubt, the treatment that he received while in state custody undermined the purpose of a jail sentence." The immunity agreement and Jeffrey Epstein's lenient treatment while incarcerated were the subjects of ongoing controversy, with the Miami Herald saying in 2018 that Alexander Acosta gave Epstein "the deal of a lifetime".
Alexander Acosta Resigns
On Friday, 12, July 2019, Alexander said that he will resign. He is resigning amid controversy over the way he handled a sex crimes case against wealthy businessman Jeffrey Epstein a decade ago when he was U.S. attorney for southern Florida. He made the announcement to reporters while standing next to President Donald Trump outside the White House. Trump said Alexander had called him Friday morning and that it was his decision to quit.
"This was him, not me, because I'm with him," Donald Trump said in a lengthy exchange with the press before departing the White House en route to events in Wisconsin and Ohio. "I said, 'You don't have to do this.'"
His resignation letter to President Trump, read in part, "It has meant so much to me that you have offered your steadfast support in our private discussions and in your public remarks." But "your agenda, putting the American people first, must avoid any distractions."
Below is his resignation letter;
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Syrian Rebel Delegation In Washington Seeking Revival Of CIA Aid
An opposition fighter fires a gun from a village near al-Tamanah during ongoing battles with government forces in Syria's Idlib province, January 11, 2018
(Reuters) - Free Syrian Army envoys have urged U.S. officials at talks in Washington to resume a suspended CIA program of military aid if it is serious about challenging growing Iranian influence in Syria, according to Syrian opposition figures.
Mustafa Sejari, a senior official in Syria's mainstream rebel group, said the envoys described to U.S. officials the damaging impact of President Donald Trump's decision last year to stop equipping and training certain rebel groups.
Trump's move was driven by a wish to focus on fighting Islamic State militants and to improve relations with Russia, as well as a lack of results from the CIA's support of the FSA, U.S. officials suggested.
"We endorse President Trump's statements about the need to confront Iranian hegemony in the region. It is time to turn words into action. Until now on the ground it's the Iranian militias that are expanding without serious resistance," Sejari told Reuters by telephone from Washington.
"With every U.S. statement about the need to confront Iran's influence, Iran has been expanding in Syria while moderate forces that are backed by Washington see aid being dried up and are weakened," Sejari said.
"We asked for the resumption of aid and explained the dangers of leaving moderate FSA forces without support."
Sejari said the delegation's meetings had included members of the U.S. Congress and officials from the White House, and they hoped for sessions with Defense Department and State Department officials as well.
IRANIAN PRESENCE IN FOCUS
The White House and Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The FSA delegation, Sejari said, included recipients of the CIA-led program, which began in 2013 and funnelled, via Jordan and Turkey, weapons, cash and trainers to vetted FSA groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
Sejari said his delegation had briefed U.S. officials on Iran's "destructive" role in Syria, where Shi'ite Muslim militias led by Lebanon's Hezbollah have, along with Russian air power, have turned the tide of the conflict in Assad's favor.
The FSA also says that Iranian Shi'ite militia fighting in Syria have stoked wider sectarian conflict in which mainly Sunni Muslims have been driven out of former opposition strongholds.
"In all our talks with U.S. officials there was common ground, and on top of the matters discussed was the war on terrorism, (and) expelling Hezbollah and Iranian militias from Syria," Sejari said.
Another delegation member who requested anonymity told Reuters they told officials U.S. inaction in Syria would only allow Iran and its regional allies to recreate a land corridor linking Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut - often termed the "Shi'ite crescent" by Iran's regional enemies.
The Syrian opposition said the previous U.S. administration of President Barack Obama had given "Iran a free ride" in Syria.
FSA rebels have long complained that U.S. support has fallen well short of what they needed to make a decisive difference in the war against Assad's army and the Iran-backed militias helping it, including Lebanon's Hezbollah.
While cutting support to Syrian rebel groups that have fought Assad, the United States has deepened ties with a Kurdish-led militia alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces, with which it partnered against Islamic State.
The SDF is spearheaded by the Kurdish YPG militia, and has mostly avoided conflict with the Syrian government while seeking to entrench Kurdish autonomy over regions of northern Syria.


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You will automatically receive it.
If you do NOT receive this exemption now through the town and/or county, then you need to complete paperwork by March 1 at the town assessor's office in order to receive it.
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Miserables is an acceptable word in Scrabble with 14 points. Miserables is an accepted word in Word with Friends having 17 points. Miserables is a 10 letter long Word starting with M and ending with S. Below are Total 618 words made out of this word.
Note: There are 1 anagrams of the word miserables. Anagrams are meaningful words made after rearranging all the letters of the word.
Note There are 4 vowel letters and 6 consonant letters in the word miserables. M is 13th, I is 9th, S is 19th, E is 5th, R is 18th, A is 1st, B is 2nd, L is 12th, Letter of Alphabet series.


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Germany's Second Reich
Germany's Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways
by James Retallack
Series: German and European Studies
Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire's modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany's stony soil? In Germany's Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II with a wide-ranging reassessment of the period and its connections with past traditions and future possibilities.
In this volume, Retallack reveals the complex and contradictory nature of the Second Reich, presenting Imperial Germany as it was seen by outsiders and insiders as well as by historians, political scientists, and sociologists ever since.
James Retallack is a University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
Preface: The Kaleidoscope of German History
1. Forging an Empire: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics, 1866–1890
2. British Views of Germany, 1815–1914
3. Digital History Anthologies on the Web
4. King Johann of Saxony and the German Civil War of 1866
5. Julian Hawthorne's Saxon Studies
6. Bismarck and Engels: The Role of Force in History
7. Heydebrand and Westarp: Leaving Behind the Second Reich
8. Get Out the Vote! Electioneering without Democracy
9. The Authoritarian State and the Political Mass Market
10. Society and Democracy in Germany: Why Dahrendorf Still Matters
11. Democracy in Disappearing Ink: Suffrage Robbery as Coup d'Etat
'This sparkling collection of essays focuses on the acute political and social tensions that wracked Germany from 1866 to 1918… This is a work in which a leading scholar brings fresh analytical insights to bear on the age of Bismarck and Wilhelm… Highly recommended.'
S. Bailey, Choice Magazine vol 53:06:2016
'This volume is a sprightly, critical introduction to the recent historiography of imperial Germany's domestic politics.'
Isabel V. Hull, German Studies Review vol 40:01:2017
"Retallack's collection of essays is marked by sharp and thoughtful analytical distinction, judicious and critical reflections on the work of colleagues in the field, and beautiful, clear writing."
Helmut Walser Smith, Central European History Vol 51: 2018
"One of the profession's leading experts on the Second Reich, James Retallack writes with a grace and clarity that showcases his broad knowledge, judicious reading, and generosity of spirit. Both newcomers and experts alike will benefit from these essays."
James Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor of History, University of Delaware
"This lively and very wide-ranging essay collection makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Imperial Germany and its place in the trajectory of modern German history. James Retallack deals as confidently with authoritarianism as he does with popular politics, both of them very evident in the Germany of Bismarck and the Kaiser, and his book has the virtue of including views of Germany by British and American observers."
David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
"Have historians been too quick to abandon the Sonderweg thesis? When one of the world's foremost experts on the German Kaiserreich plays the devil's advocate and proposes a re-evaluation of the topic, scholars should sit up and take notice. In these chapters Retallack invites readers to revisit the nature of Germany's journey into modernity."
Ute Planert, Professor of Modern History and History Education, University of Wuppertal
German Studies / German History
History / Modern History


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