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Afghans Among Unaccompanied Children Evacuated From Greek Refugee Camps To Germany
By RFE/RL
FILE: An Afghan woman holds her child upon their arrival from Lesbos island to the port of Piraeus, near Athens in October 2019.
A group of 47 unaccompanied children evacuated from refugee camps in Greece arrived in Germany on April 18, German officials said.
The children come from Afghanistan, Syria, and Eritrea. Four are girls and there are several siblings among the group. Some of them have families waiting for them in Germany.
They were previously housed at refugee camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos, and Chios that have been criticized by rights activists as unsuitable for children.
Germany's Interior Ministry said the children arrived in Hanover, Germany early on April 18 on a flight from Athens.
The ministry said they were all tested for the coronavirus before departure and would remain in a two-week quarantine before moving on to other parts of Germany.
Germany's interior minister, Horst Seehofer, said the evacuation was "the result of months of preparation and intense talks with our European partners."
Seehofer expressed hope that other countries would also begin taking in refugee children soon.
"The Greek government has been trying to sensitize other EU countries to the plight of the young children, who have fled war and persecution, to find new families and start a new life," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotsakis told reporters at the Athens airport where he met the departing children.
"I'm glad this program is finally being implemented," Mitsotsakis said, adding that he hopes more than 1,500 children would be relocated from Greek refugee camps during the coming months.
Germany pledged in March to take in at least 350 children living in Greek refugee camps as part of a joint European effort.
But the plan has stalled in some countries due to the pandemic.
The flight to Germany was the second airplane that carried unaccompanied refugee children to another European country. On April 15, 12 children traveled from Greece to Luxembourg.
Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, said in early April that there were more than 5,200 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Greece.
Dujarric said the children were "in urgent need of durable solutions, including expedited registration, family reunification, and relocation."
With reporting by Reuters and AP
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DALLAS (CBS 11 News) A North Texas man has been found not guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of a child. Now, he and his wife are fighting to get their children back.
Douglas Buchar was a successful custom homebuilder when he received a phone call two years ago, almost to the day. Child Protective Services called to inform him that they had taken away his kids. "My secretary got a phone call at the office and said, 'You need to take this, it's CPS,'" Buchar recalled. "And I got on the phone and it was just like, what? And they said they took all our kids."
The children, 4-year-old Megan and 11-year-old Justin, were picked up at school and placed in foster care on January 20, 2006. This all came after the couple's 12-year-old adopted child accused Buchar of sexual assault.
"I couldn't," Buchar started, "the whole thing didn't make no sense. It wasn't logical, the charges they had. It just couldn't have happened."
Over the next two years, the couple lost their business, their house and their children.
Buchar's wife, Joy, was arrested as well, but the charges were later dropped. "It's like someone just took all my guts out," she said.
The kids lived in foster care for a year and a half. Six months ago, they were given permission to live with Buchar's sister in New York.
Earlier this week, Buchar faced his accuser during the criminal trial. "Looking at her in court and what not, it was just, she had no clue of the repercussions she has done," he said. "She doesn't realize what she has caused, nor do I think she really cares what she has caused. Yes, we do feel sorry for her."
But most of all, the Buchars said that they miss their biological children.
On Wednesday, a Collin County jury found Buchar not guilty of the crime.
"One thing I learned from all this," Buchar said, "I was a workaholic and I was working six, seven days a week, 12, 13, 14 hours a day, and I learned now. I promised Justin I'd go fishing with him so many times before. Everytime, it would be like, oh, something's come up. I got to go. That's all changed now. I'm going to definitely have weekends off, and definitely spend time with him."
The Buchars have terminated their parental rights to the adopted girl.
Kelly Davis is Buchar's lawyer who is trying to get the couple's biological children back home. She said that she never doubted their innocence. "I think that Doug was able to prove to everybody else that he was innocent by performing all the different types of polygraph and tests that they required, and performing in order to prove his innocence."
Although Buchar was found not guilty, the nightmare continues. The couple said that they will not stop until they can bring Justin and Megan back home.


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Q: Facebook graph API not showing links/photo's shared on timeline I am experimenting with the Facebook Graph API on the Facebook developer page to see how it works, and I have something strange.
I only need read access but I want to retrieve everything posted on my wall except for my own posts. I asked 2 friends to post on my wall to see what it looked like. One of them posted a simple "test" message and I found it by calling:
me/feed?fields=id,created_time,from

This returns me a JSON object (also) containing the post I just talked about.
The other friend however shared a photo on my wall. I checked a lot of links when using me?metadata=1 to browse through the content but I do not seem to find the right call which shows me the fact that someone shared a photo with me.
Does anyone know:
- why that photo share isn't just appearing in the feed api call?
- where I can find it?
- Did I maybe forgot to add a certain permission to my auth token?
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Friday lunchtime, my boss treated us lunch to Mann Hann at MegaMall. We were supposed to have it last week, but since my other officemate is on official business, it did not push through. My boss jokingly offered to eat at Jollibee, Kenny Rogers, Mc Donald's or any fast-food chain that serves chicken. My boss knows that I don't like chicken.
My boss and her friend went first to MegaMall, 30 minutes before lunchtime. My officemates and I just followed them by lunchtime. When we arrived Mann Hann, only the broccoli with oyster sauce is served. We can't help not to eat and treated the broccoli as appetizer. After a short while the fish fillet, yong chow rice and other viands arrived. We left Mann Hann at around 1:15 P.M. and arrived the office by 1:30 P.M. I was so full that I missed my coffee break at 4 P.M.
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One of the first times I sat down with intention was when I was working as an outdoor school naturalist with WOLF School in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.
A part of the curriculum was to highlight heightened senses that different animals possess. Many animals have very good sense of hearing, so I had my students sit down alone for 10 minutes, close their eyes and listen to the different sounds around them. This activity was called sound mapping. Sometimes we would hear bugs, a stream in the distance, birds or footsteps. The instructions were not to look for what was making the sound, but try to decipher where the sound was coming from in relationship to them.
Previously, when I had gone on hikes, I had listened to nature as a whole entity. The birds, the wind, bugs humming past, the crunching of leaves or sticks under my feet were all the "sounds of nature", not singular sounds or experiences. Creating a sound map allowed me to view each animal, even plants as singular beings, all with their own energies and purposes.
Sitting for these 10 minutes was really was the first time I sat and had been mindful. Bringing attention to a sound and then coming back to your body was the first time I truly played with the concept of awareness. To bring your full attention to where the sound was coming from until it completely dissipated into the surrounding forest felt powerful. When the sound had gone, the only place to bring your attention was back to yourself, to your breathing, or your seat upon the ground. Every detail that was felt or heard felt amplified, including emotions.
For some children this activity was accompanied by fear. I did sound mapping a lot during our night hikes. I would have them sit along the trail at least 15ft apart. Of course this could be frightening for a child who has not spent evenings in the forest. Before we set off on our dark journey, (if they were scared) I would ask them to question why they were afraid. Or if they found sitting boring, why did they find it boring. If they could not put their energy into listening, then at least they could use this time to ask themselves larger questions; for example, their roles as humans in nature, or how they interact with things like TV and electronics back at home. Having them explore their relationship (or lack of a relationship) with nature was important to me.
This is a great practice to do while out on a hike, or even during a normal sitting practice. Acknowledgement of sounds is something that is inevitable during a meditation practice, it brings you to the here and now. One of the special things about this activity is that it reminds you that we are magnificent individual beings—and so are the animals and plants that surround us. Together we are all connected in a large web of life, interdependent on each other and the different communities we are a part of.


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The new head of Hong Kong's Bar Association pledged on Thursday to defend the Chinese-ruled territory's vaunted rule of law amid concerns over the impact of a Beijing-imposed national security law on the Asian financial hub. Commercial law specialist and senior counsel Victor Dawes was elected unopposed at an annual meeting of the group, which represents 1,500 barristers. Some lawyers see Dawes as a low-profile, pro-establishment choice after several years of strong stances by the association in the former British colony whose robust legal system helped make it an attractive international financial centre.
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A high quality portfolio consisting of 15 North American Financial Services CompaniesTORONTO, Jan. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- North American Financial 15 Split Corp. (the "Company") is pleased to announce it has completed the overnight marketing of Preferred Shares and Class A Shares of the Company. Total gross proceeds of the offering are expected to be approximately $87.7 million. The offering is being led by National Bank Financial Inc. The sales period of the overnight offering has now end
BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that there would be a "swift, severe" response from the United States and its allies if Russia sends military forces into Ukraine. Blinken's comments in Berlin appeared to be another effort to clear up any confusion about the position of the U.S. and its NATO allies after U.S. President Joe Biden was heavily criticized for saying a "minor incursion" by Russia would elicit a lesser response. "If any Russian military forces move
The Taliban stormed an apartment in Kabul after sundown, smashing the door in and arresting a woman rights activist and her three sisters, an eyewitness said Thursday. A Taliban statement appeared to blame the incident on a recent women's protest, saying insulting Afghan values will no longer be tolerated. The activist, Tamana Zaryabi Paryani, was among about 25 women who took part in an anti-Taliban protest on Sunday against the compulsory Islamic headscarf, or hijab, for women.
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Second Securitization Continues Strategic Focus for Golden Pear Funding OpCo, LLC
The company's second securitization represents $121.7 million of litigation finance receivables JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Golden Pear Funding OpCo, LLC announced Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigned ratings to two classes of notes from PEAR 2021-1, LLC - an $121.7 million litigation finance asset backed security (ABS) transaction. The PEAR 2021-1, LLC transaction represents Golden Pear's second rated security collateralized by litigation finance receivables, follow
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Q: What is the difference between Swift 2.0 do-try-catch and regular Java/C#/C++ exceptions It seems that Swift 2.0 has changed from traditional ObjC (NSError returning) and Swift 1.X (Success/Failure optionals) conventions of runtime error handling, to something that looks very similar to exception handling in languages like Java/C#/C++/etc.
Apple has traditionally emphasized use of NSError instead of throwing NSException for runtime errors (vs programmer errors), as NSException stack unwinding could cause memory leaks with default ObjC compiler settings.
Now they have however devised something that looks very, very similar to traditional exceptions. My question is:
Are there any real differences between Swift 2.0 error handling and traditional exception handling beside nomenclature (error vs exception) and syntax (do-catch, instead of try-catch, try used before method call, etc).

A: There are 3 major differences I have found:

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*It is not necessary to list all errors a function can throw, only a throws keyword is needed.

*There is no significant slowdown when using these errors, while Java and other languages need to construct an Exception object and unwind the stack. In Swift a throws keyword can be viewed as the function returning an Either-object, with one being the original return type, and the other being an ErrorType value.

*In Swift all errors need to be handled or declared to be thrown, it is impossible to get an error from a method that does not state it is throwing an error. (in Java terms, all errors are "checked exceptions")


Tripods are necessary for so many reasons, all boiling down to the need for producing tack sharp images. Long exposure night photography is no exception. You've most likely seen images of flaming orbs, rings of fire and raining sparks. How in the world are photographers getting these results? Is this just a trick in post production? That can be the case, but there is a more natural way to get these shots with one click of the shutter.
The answer is quite simple: steel wool.
Burning steel wool will create a multitude of sparks. Spinning steel wool at the end of a cord will create a shower of sparks. The process is very easy and you'll only need a couple cheap items. The first item will be steel wool. We recommend you use steel wool with grades ranging from 0-0000. Grades 1 and up won't produce the optimal amount of sparks. You can get packs of steel wool pads at just about any hardware store. The next item you'll need is the steel wool holster—no need to get extravagant here—a basic kitchen whisk with a hole in the handle will do the trick. Once you have the whisk you'll need to attach it to the end of a non-flammable cord (this is why the whisk needs to have a hole in the handle). Only a couple feet of cord will be necessary as you'll want to be mobile while spinning the steel wool. Some type of handle on the end of the chord is also optimal, both to protect your hands and to prevent accidentally letting go of the rig. As for lighting the steel wool a lighter or 9-volt battery will do the trick (obviously you'll want to keep the battery or lighter away from the steel wool when you aren't intending to light it). If you opt to use a 9-volt battery keep in mind all it takes is one rub of the battery onto the steel wool to get it to light.
The best time for steel wool photography is at night but we've also found the dim hours after sunset and around sunrise can produce some interesting results. When using neutral density filters we've found less sparks will show up in the image but the spinning ring (or whatever shape you make while spinning) can still appear. Shooting filter-free right after sunset or right before sunrise will also work and you'll be able to see sparks—just make sure to stop down to a small aperture during the long exposure.
When shooting after dark we've experimented with several camera settings and some of our best results have come with ISO 100 or 200, apertures from f4-f8 and shutter speeds 30 seconds and above. We've also found that really stretching the steel wool to spread the threads will let the steel breathe best (for most spark production).
While this is a very simple process the most important part of this tutorial is SAFETY. It is imperative you try these shots with at least one other person. We recommend you bring a small fire extinguisher. You may also consider carrying a bucket of water to put out any residual steel wool that might still be burning within your whisk—both for safety and to ensure not leaving any behind. It is crucial all parties involved wear the following: gloves, long pants, long sleeves, a hat, something with a hood and goggles (again, nothing flammable).
We've now touched on personal safety but let's go even further. DO NOT try these shots ANYWHERE THAT MIGHT CARRY A RISK OF CATCHING ON FIRE. We like doing these shots on beaches with no vegetation, so there's no chance of starting a fire. We also refrain from attempting these shots during windy conditions. Please keep in mind this is all for a photo — while your image at the lake in front of famous Maroon Bells in Colorado might be jaw-dropping, it will mean nothing if you start a fire and ruin such a special place.
This brings us to another good point: always practice a pack-it-in, pack-it-out procedure when shooting anywhere on location. Any wool that's not burned, your whisk, your cord, etc. should NEVER be left behind. Naturally beautiful places make great photographic subjects, but if the result is undue damage or contamination then that beauty cannot be enjoyed by those who follow. Just remember: Leave No Trace.
Get creative—you're in no way limited to the single image approach, here. Going HDR to get your background and adding your fiery subject in post can create some tremendous results. While your colors will be quite vibrant we also recommend some black and white conversions as those results can be extremely dramatic. Many photographers are now using these techniques in portrait work with strobes on their subjects. Your opportunities are endless. Just remember SAFETY FIRST.
Great Post, I have never used steel wool and I have seen Mark post his images with this technique before. I am going to have to get down the the store and pick up these supplies. Cant wait to give this a try.
I wonder what it would look like in the snow?
Between grade 0-0000 which one produce more sparks?


Although Freddie Mac may have had more loans last year, Fannie Mae is also a heavy hitter in multifamily financing. That's why the announcement early this month may make a big difference for the millions seeking affordable housing options. Per a press release on the Fannie Mae news page, the finance company announced they would be increasing the small loan limit from $3 million (or less) nationwide and $5 million (or less) in high-cost markets to $6 million. The press release notes that the change would be effective immediately and the higher loan amount would be available nationwide.
The press release also quotes Fannie Mae VP, Multifamily Customer Engagement, Michael Winters, as saying that Fannie Mae believes increasing the small loan limit will help address the affordable/workforce housing shortage that the industry is dealing with. He also said it would provide more capital and liquidity to the small loan marketplace.
The Fannie Mae press piece further states that they have added new pricing and underwriting benefits to specific markets, like: Denver, Miami, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake. These cities have seen economic and credit performance making them eligible for these changes.
As we've written before, although there is new inventory in development and being delivered in markets across the country, the majority of new inventory is Class A, or luxury properties. There remains a shortage of workforce housing; this asset class is in high demand. According to some stats, multifamily assets make up the brunt of where this demographic call home, which helps ensure consistent demand. With factors like rising costs for first-time homes, the workforce multifamily assets remain a popular alternative to home buying.
Fannie Mae isn't the only one making efforts to address the housing situation. As we wrote about in this article, Freddie Mac has also rolled out new non-LIHTC forwards. Freddie designed the product to help with workforce housing supply by creating available funds for both construction or major renovation. It's offered to both profits and non-profits, offers up to 80% leverage for eligible properties, and can hedge interest rate risk, among other features. Freddie had publicly announced a major project underway using the new financing: a mixed-use workforce housing project in Massachusetts. The project was a massive renovation of an old chocolate factory and used a $26.7 million dollar loan, 36-month forward that converts to a fixed-rate 10-year loan. The planned units will meet Freddie's rental rate and income requirements, ensuring workforce housing availability.
Now, with Fannie Mae increasing the small loan limit and providing more available funding to the multifamily market, affordable housing will have another option that will hopefully lead to increased inventory. Different markets are taking steps to increase workforce housing, and lenders like Fannie and Freddie are playing an important role in trying to improve the affordable housing shortage.


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Vlachorraptis (, also Βλαχορράφτης - Vlachorraftis) is a village in western Arcadia, Greece. It is situated on a hill above the right bank of the river Alfeios, at about 650 m elevation. It is 2 km southeast of Sarakini, 2 km west of Atsicholos, 6 km northwest of Karytaina and 7 km southwest of Stemnitsa. In 2011 Vlachorraptis had a population of 40.

According to the ancient geographer Pausanias the city of Maratha (Μάραθα) was located on the site of the modern village. The modern settlement however was founded in ca. 1600.

Population

Notable people
Theodore Angelopoulos (b. 1943), businessman

See also
List of settlements in Arcadia

References

External links
History and information about Vlachorraptis
 Vlachorraptis on the GTP Travel Pages

Gortyna, Arcadia
Populated places in Arcadia, Peloponnese

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Author Archives: Harold Galley
Article author Harold Galley
National Skipping Day 2018
National Skipping Day 2018 (23rd March) was a great success with 172 schools and 42,350 children enjoying healthy exercise through skipping. We are grateful to the many schools who gave us positive feedback. Special thanks go to St John's Primary School in Kingston-upon-Thames for a range of superb photos and The Tower School in West…
April 8, 2018 Leave a commentNational Skipping DayBy Harold Galley
School Sports Premium Funding: a visit from Skipping Workshops
Earlier in 2016, Farncombe C of E Infant School used some of their School Sports Premium money to arrange a visit from Skipping Workshops. After the day of skipping, in which each class learnt a variety of skipping-skills, the staff saw a remarkable impact in two key areas: An increase in activity among pupils. An…
December 2, 2016 UncategorizedBy Harold Galley
Skipping Workshops visit to Sandwich Junior School
As anyone who has taken part in one of our Skipping Workshops will know, one of the highlights of the event is the whole school demonstration at the end of the day. It's a celebration of skipping, showing many of the different skipping skills and games that our coaches have taught during the day. Recently…
September 25, 2016 UncategorizedBy Harold Galley
National Skipping Challenge 2015/16
Congratulations to the winners of this year's National Skipping Challenge. This week we presented the Challenge Cups to the Individual Winner and the Team Winners. Our individual winner of the National Skipping Challenge 2015/16 is Sophie Froggatt, from Malden Parochial Primary School in Worcester Park, Surrey. Sophie proved to be an outstanding all-round skipper, managing…
July 14, 2016 National Skipping ChallengeBy Harold Galley
National Skipping Day 2016 took place on Friday 18th March with 35,910 children from 144 different schools taking part. Thanks to everyone who took part, and to all of the people who sent us photos and posted photos and videos on twitter about their National Skipping Day experience! One highlight of National Skipping Day 2016…
March 27, 2016 National Skipping DayBy Harold Galley
Hall School pupil smashes Double Unders high score
Ken Tezuka from Hall School, Wimbledon, last week skipped 100 Double Unders, scoring more than double the previous high score of 47. Last year's overall high score in the Double Unders category was 100. Ken has already equalled that score, and still has plenty of time to improve. Double Unders have long been one of…
February 17, 2016 National Skipping ChallengeBy Harold Galley
National Skipping Challenge 2015 Winners
Congratulations to National Skipping Challenge 2015 winners St John's Primary School and Emilia Chittenden. National Skipping Challenge School Cup St John's Primary School in Kingston-upon-Thames won the National Skipping Challenge School competition, just beating last year's winners, Rushen Primary School, from the Isle of Man, and previous winners Watermore Primary from Bristol. Other schools…


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"Webcam" for battery production
"Webcam" for battery production
Radiography of pouchcell battery during filling The radiography shows the electrolyte liquid (dark) during filling. © FRM II / TUM
The radiography shows the electrolyte liquid (dark) during filling. © FRM II / TUM
Lithium-ion batteries are more than 20 years in the market and work well. In recent times however, the demands on their performance and service life are increased dramatically, because they are used by the energy transition for electro mobility and in large stationary power storage devices. Therefore, they are now worldwide intensively researched in all facets – also at the MLZ. A substantial research is also needed in terms of cost reduction. In addition to use cheaper materials, the costs can be reduced by more efficient production processes. As a difficult and critical step of the battery production, a uniform filling with electrolytic liquid has asserted itself. This procedure cannot be simply transferred to the necessary large-scale exposure, but it is a step, by which enormous costs can be saved to foster, for example, the market success of electric cars. Thomas Knoche and his colleagues of the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management of TUM and the MLZ have focused on the so-called pouch cells and examined their filling by means of neutron radiography.
Usually, the battery cells are filled in vacuum, sealed and then stored until the electrolyte is evenly distributed. In the much larger pouch cells, this process takes much more time than it takes for the usual small household batteries, firstly because of the longer flow paths; the other is the risk of more air pockets by the greater volume. Here money can be saved, if the process can be made more efficient through better distribution of liquid and if thus allows a shorter storage period. "Although this process is not at all unknown and some patents have been applied to it, it is scientifically not really understood. Previously, we only could speculate about what happens inside the cell during the filling" says Thomas Knoche. "We wanted to change that, especially as we found across the street on the campus the right neutron instrument: ANTARES." In the frame work of the BMBF project ExZellTUM engineers and physicists at ANTARES have built an automatic filling system and were using neutron radiography to watch the pouch cell's filling. They were able to directly observe how the electrolyte is distributed between the electrodes. The battery cells were made at iwb in a production line specially established for research purposes.
The neutron radiography has been found as extremely helpful for these experiments. The scientists were able to draw valuable conclusions on the production process. The electrolyte must flow into the cell in one direction, so that the risk of gas inclusions is reduced. Removing air bubbles after the electrolyte filling process is associated with considerable technical effort. Moreover, air bubbles can be hardly detected except by neutron radiography. The exact position of the filling needle and the applied pressure play an important role for the exact filling. Ralph Gilles from MLZ explains this effect: "We were able to find out that by lowering and increasing the pressure the electrolyte fluid distributes better between the electrodes." Engineer Thomas Knoche adds: "This result is very important for the development of process technology and can definitely reduce the manufacturing costs of such batteries."
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Thomas Knoche, Veronika Zinth, Michael Schulz, Joscha Schnell, Ralph Gilles, Gunther Reinhart;
In situ visualization of the electrolyte solvent filling process by neutron radiography;
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Q: "width: -moz-fit-content" doesn't work in Firefox? Expected behavior (happens in Chrome):

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*If the window size is wide enough, there is space between left and right content without the grey background

*If the window size is narrow, there's grey background on top and on the bottom of image
What happens in Firefox: When the window size is wide, there's grey background between left and right content
On #detail-image-container I've tried using display: inline-element and float: left, but neither worked. Display:table made it so that there's no space between left and right content, also the image overflows. Any suggestion on how to make the expected behavior work in Firefox?
The code can be viewed here: https://jsfiddle.net/7k3rtnom/1/
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        display: flex;
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    #detail-container-left {
        max-height: 100%;
        width: 55%;
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    #detail-image-container {
        width: -moz-fit-content;
        width: fit-content;
        block-size: fit-content;
        height: 100%;
        background-color: #3b3f3e;
        display: flex;
        align-items: center;
    }

    #detail-image {
        max-width: 100%;
        max-height: 100%;
        aspect-ratio: 1/1;
        align-self: center;
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    #detail-container-right {
        width: 45%;
        max-height: 100%;
        background-color: white;
        padding: 20px;
        overflow-y: scroll;
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For little ones who love to give puppy dog eyes. A soft crib shoe with an adorable puppy dog face design to celebrate Year of the Dog, these Classics are sure to be a favorite in homes with pets. A small-batch, limited edition shoe.


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Types of grief you may experience along your carer journey
There can be unexpected challenges associated with becoming a carer which often go unrecognised. Here, experts share some common things you may grieve during your carer journey, and offer advice on how to manage.
Because the transition into the role of carer seemingly happens overnight, there can be unexpected challenges associated with this life change which often go unrecognised by the carer or people around them.
Experiencing loss and grieving isn't confined to the loss of the person you're caring for. In fact, it's a very common experience amongst carers given the many changes that can go along with providing care. "It was exhausting," Beate confesses, who cared for mother with pancreatic cancer. "So was the anticipatory grief - that sense things are going to change, but you don't know when - and the emotions that come with it."
It is important to acknowledge and accept the challenges that come with caring for a loved one and find a way to process them. Here, experts share some common things you may grieve, and offer advice on how to cope with this.
What might grief look like?
Grief presents differently in different people. It can look like exhaustion, feeling flat, numb, overwhelmed, frustrated, more irritable or angry, wanting to withdraw, or feeling like you don't have time for yourself.
There may also be a sense of guilt and sometimes shame for feeling this grief or loss, says Dr. Phoebe Lau, a clinical psychologist in Melbourne, Victoria. Or guilt for wanting the whole thing to be over because you're so tired of it, adds Rose Merifield, a grieve and bereavement counsellor in Point Cook, Victoria.
These emotions can translate physically. For instance, you might experience changes to your appetite or sleep.
What might you grieve as you step into a carer role?
Your identity
When all you do is look after or think about the wellbeing of your loved one, you may feel like your identity has suddenly morphed into 'carer', leaving little room for other aspects of your life to inform your sense of self, says Dr Lau.
Your previous life
How your day-to-day life was like, being able to go out to dinner whenever you like, socialise with friends, go on holidays, all of these have to be altered, says Lau and Merifield. You might also find yourself reducing work hours or quitting a job you loved, and needing to live on less income.
You may experience anticipatory grief around the loss of the future you imagined with this person, says Dr. Aspasia Karageorge, a clinical psychologist in Sydney, NSW. If they are your partner, you might have been planning and anticipating a grand retirement trip or a new home, and now with their illness this may look different.
Your relationships
You lose the way you used to relate with the person, says Karageorge. If you're caring for a parent, you may grieve being in the role of the child in the relationship, and if you're looking after your spouse, you grieve just being a spouse and having a spouse, especially if you assume almost a parental role.
Also, friends and family may drift away, not wanting to be confronted with the inevitability of death, says Merifield, so you can be left with a smaller support network.
How can you process grief?
Carers may not realise or wish to acknowledge their own grief, especially when it feels like their losses fail to compare to their loved one losing their health and independence. But your grief is important, too.
Here, experts share a few ways of coping. Remember, "every single person experiences grief in their own unique way, there are tools that you can utilise, but these may not help every single person," says Merifield.
Every day, reflect on your experience, and choose to step into your role
Check in with yourself for a few minutes each day, noticing what's happening in your body and in your mind, without judgement. Then, do something to redirect your focus onto what matters to you today, who you want to be for the person today. Some people like to listen to an inspiring piece of music to refocus, or read a passage, go for a stroll, or write in a journal.
"It can be useful to acknowledge that this is something that matters to us and we're choosing to do this today," says Karageorge. "And that can help bring back a little more of a sense of control." Even if you feel resentful or apathetic that day, remind yourself it is okay to still make that choice.
Reach out to people you trust
Talk about your experience with a friend or support group, as putting it into words "helps the brain structure that information and process what is going on," says Lau. You might want to seek a psychologist or counsellor who would be able to provide additional tools to cope.
Carve out time for pleasurable activities
Lau suggests thinking about your non-negotiables, things which bring you pleasure and tell you you're worthy of care. It might be coffee once a week with a friend or attending a gym class you really love. Determine how you will arrange for these to happen, so it doesn't end up falling through the cracks. "It's a way of reminding yourself that you are more than just a carer," says Karageorge.
What is it like to die of old age?
We are no longer allowed to write 'old age' as a reason for dying on a death certificate. However, becoming frailer with age makes people more vulnerable to life ending threats. People become more frail with age. The severity and timing of this process is unpredictable. It is largely determined by genes and lifestyle. Apoptosis is a process ...
How to handle the finances when a loved one can't
Violet Guide Marian York, who worked in palliative care for 14 years, says this scenario is all too common. "I've repeatedly seen cases where caregivers have had to take over the financial affairs, in addition to caring for the loved one who used to manage these things," she says. Taking over finances can add to the stress of caring As an example, ...
How to manage family tension when one of you needs care
As parents grow older or if someone gets sick, families often must make decisions about residential aged care and end of life plans. These situations can flare up underlying family tensions that have been brewing for years. We talk to Violet Guide, Rose Dillon as well Violet Clinical Committee member and palliative care social worker, Jo Wood ...


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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 42) Winter 2001/2 Last | Contents | Next Issue 42 The TWA Flight 800 crash: was it missiles?Gavin Phillips 'The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ' - Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island. There were no survivors. Immediately afterwards many eyewitnesses stated that they had seen a firework ...
2. A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises - with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident [Lobster #28 (Dec 1994)]
... from various sources, but I thought it best to include all this, as some of the ways I've used to get information will be familiar to many readers working in related fields. It is written as a result of several recent promptings. The first is that it is clear that the plans to fit a small warhead to Britain's Trident missile system will result in Trident having a tactical (or 'sub-strategic') as well as strategic capability. This came home to me quite forcibly last year when I had an after-dinner conversation with an admiral at a defence studies conference and he discussed in great detail the advantages that a suitably equipped Trident system would have over ...
3. Anti-totalitarianism: The left-wing case for a neo-conservative foreign policy (Book review) [Lobster #51 (Summer 2006)]
... foreign policy since the founding of Nato'. Kamm takes us through a cartoon-simple version of the Cold War in which America and Britain resisted the Soviet menace and tried to spread freedom. ( [6 ] ) Along the way he revisits old arguments. Take the opposition in the early 1980s to the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. For Kamm, these reflected'....a curious belief reinforced by loose talk from a new President, Ronald Reagan that a new generation of intermediate missiles was being deployed in order to fight a "limited" nuclear war in Europe. The notion was preposterous. The rationale for Nato's deployment was the opposite ...
4. The dark side of Washington: Seymour Hersh and the Kennedy legacy (Book review) [Lobster #38 (Winter 1999)]
... .381) and thus was out of the loop as far as Cuba operations were concerned. Anthony Summers has Harvey in Florida for much of July of that year,(3 ) allegedly visiting clandestine training camps that the White House had ordered closed down. Hersh does not cover the administration's tentative moves toward rapprochement with Castro after the 1962 missile crisis and closedown of 'Operation Mongoose'. But evidence of deep disagreement with Kennedy's emerging detente with both Cuba and the USSR in the CIA and Pentagon can be found in the bizarre Life Magazine effort of June 7 1963 to prove that the missiles were still there.(4 ) Hersh's reading of JFK's November 18 1963 speech to the ...
5. KAL 007 and Overhead Surveillance [Lobster #16 (Jun 1988)]
... one new generation of nuclear weapons and the encryption of data that could conceal such developments ( 'Verification of the Salt 2 treaty' in 1980 SIPRI Yearbook pp286-303). In order to maximise the size and lethality of this new generation of weapons and conceal its development, both superpowers opted for MIRVing, concealing multiple warheads inside their missiles (Prins, G. Defended to Death, Penguin, Harmonsworth, 1983, p158). In order to monitor nuclear capabilities, US attention had to be transferred from watching Krasnoyarsk alone to full-scale monitoring of flight tests of missiles between the launch site to the impact site in Kamchatka. As will be explained below, technical ...
6. Socialist Renewal publications [Lobster #42 (Winter 2001/2)]
... Contents | Next Issue 42 Socialist Renewal publications Straw Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy Jack Straw's briefing with a response by Ken Coates Socialist Renewal, new series, number 8, 3.00 'Jack Straw's briefing' is a document, written by a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official, justifying UK support for the US 'star wars' missile defence system. Coates' title comes from current US military 'doctrine', which is encapsulated in the phrase 'full spectrum dominance'. As Coates has no difficulty showing in a paragraph by paragraph refutation, the entire briefing is baloney; a poorly argued rationale at best; forelock-tugging at worst. Indeed, the FCO briefing paper ...
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7. Reflections on the 'cult of the offensive' [Lobster #57 (Summer 2009)]
... the nuclear threat from the Soviet Union by pre-emptive first strike on Soviet nuclear facilities, before they were fully operational. Although subject to highly detailed planning, however, the protagonists of 'Operation Dropshot' were restrained by more rational voices in their aim to 'reduce the Soviet Union to a smouldering, irradiated ruin. ' The 1962 Cuba missile crisis – during which US president Kennedy's successful efforts to rein in the pre-emptive arguments of airforce chief (and 'Dropshot' author) Curtis LeMay were mirrored in the removal of operational missile control from local field commanders by Soviet leader Khrushchev – inaugurated a new era of nuclear restraint between the superpowers. In some ways technology itself had ...
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... the Naval Space Command, and Army Space Command; the Space Surveillance Centre (SSC), the Alternative Space Surveillance Centre (ASSC); and the SSN sensors except RAF Fylingdales. RAF Fylingdales follows guidance specified in SR55-122/88771/1 /GE(s ), Joint USAF/RAF Operations Manual (JOM) Ballistic Missiles Early Warning System (BMEWS) Site III, RAF, England. '( 7 ) In conjunction with this regulation exists US Space Command Regulation 55-20, Warning Verification of Hostile Space Events, dated 31 January 1990, classified secret. 'This regulation establishes procedures to provide timely and accurate status reporting, warning and verification of hostile ...
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UAW delays ratification of GM contract as it attempts to ram through deal at Ford
Joseph Kishore@jkishore
The United Auto Workers announced on Friday that it is postponing a final decision on ratification of its pro-company deal with General Motors until November 20, after completion of votes on a similar agreement with Ford.
Last week, the UAW declared that the contract at GM had been approved by a narrow majority of 55 percent of all workers, but that it had been rejected by nearly 60 percent of skilled trades workers. According to the union's constitutional bylaws, any contract must be approved by both skilled trades workers and production workers for it to pass.
For the past week, the union has been going through the motions of "interviewing" skilled trades workers on the grounds that if it determines that the "no" vote was motivated by issues not relating to the skilled trades portion of the contract, then the deal can be ratified. Facing a similar situation at Chrysler in 2011, the UAW simply overrode a rejection by skilled trades workers.
In a vaguely worded statement, UAW Vice President for the General Motors Department Cindy Estrada said that following interviews with workers the UAW International Executive Board had determined that "further discussion with the company was needed to clarify and address these issues" raised by skilled trades workers. She did not indicate what issues that UAW was planning on "discussing" with the company.
Estrada said that the new deadline for ratification of the agreement was November 20.
Earlier in the week, there were indications that the UAW was preparing to ratify the contract immediately despite the "no" vote by skilled trades workers, with Estrada in particular pushing for such a move. A source quoted by the industry publication Automotive News reported on Thursday that Estrada believed that the UAW had "addressed all the key issues that could hold up" ratification.
In behind-the-scenes discussions, however, the executives decided to delay action. The ongoing vote at Ford likely played into its calculations, as the UAW is wary of taking action that will provoke more opposition. Voting at Ford is due to be complete by November 18.
The UAW has given no indication that it plans on holding another vote after its discussions with GM. "You would think at a minimum that they would have a second vote for skilled trades," a skilled trades worker at GM told the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, "but it looks like they are not going to do that, not for skilled trades, not for skilled trades and production, which is what they are supposed to do."
The "no" vote from skilled trades workers was motivated by deep opposition to the ongoing attempts by the company, with the collaboration of the UAW, to reduce the number of its skilled trades workers by pushing out older workers through increased workloads, mandatory overtime and other measures. The company has plans to slash its overall skilled trades workforce by 15 percent over the next several years.
The attack on skilled trades workers has already had a significant impact on safety for production workers. "One of GM's famous tricks is making safety cards disappear," the skilled trades worker said. "If you have written up a safety issue, it might disappear. Then there is no record of who did what and what happened."
The worker added, "At Lordstown [Assembly Plant] they have this new program where if there is a fault on a robot and there is something wrong, they now have production employees resetting the faults. When you have a robot or a heavy industrial piece of equipment fault, there is a reason why. If you just keep resetting the fault, that is potentially dangerous. People could get hurt."
Early voting at Ford has been split based on the handful of plants that have reported totals so far. The UAW has trumpeted its claim that the deal was backed by more than 80 percent of workers at Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant outside of Detroit in the hope that this will influence other plants. However, the contract was rejected at Rawsonville Powertrain and Sterling Axle, two of three plants where, under the terms of the new deal, all workers will be capped at a wage far below the tier-two rate companywide.
One Sterling worker told the WSWS that opposition was overwhelming at the plant, though the UAW reported that the contract was rejected by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin.
"It's an insult to the American dream that we were taught growing up. Most of tier-two folks that weren't [Automotive Components Holdings], or formerly Visteon, came to Ford, GM, and (Fiat-) Chrysler and the UAW in hopes of a better life, a life where one could provide a comfortable standard of living for themselves and their families. As for tier-one, they gave concessions to their companies to keep them from going under.
"Now, when there's expectations of seeing these concessions repaid, this is what the companies offer them? It's appalling! It gives new meaning to the adage that no good deed goes unpunished."
The contracts at Ford, GM and FCA are aimed at permanently lowering the base wage and benefit rate of autoworkers, including by eliminating any cap on second-tier workers (now dubbed "in progression") and implementing plans to push out better paid, tier-one workers. With the collaboration of the UAW, the companies are also planning on slashing health care for senior workers as part of the overall strategy of the Obama administration to reduce costs for companies and shift the burden of health care onto the backs of workers.
As it did at Fiat Chrysler and GM, the UAW is hoping that it can use a combination of threats, lies and economic blackmail to push the deal through. To the extent that workers are voting "yes"—and the figures released by the UAW must be treated with suspicion—it is motivated largely by the understanding that the UAW will not fight for anything better, a fact that has been demonstrated by the UAW's actions throughout the contract struggle.
From start to finish, the UAW has approached the contract fight not as an ally of workers, but as their enemy, working in an alliance with the profit-rich auto companies. The UAW has proven time and time again that it does not even function as a "union" in the sense that its primary goal is not to unite workers, but to divide them and prevent them from fighting back. Because of this, workers must take matters into their own hands by building democratically elected factory committees to prosecute the class struggle and defend their interests.
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NCERT - Physics Part-I
8. Electromagnetic Waves
1. Electric Charges and Fields
2. Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
3. Current Electricity
4. Moving Charges and Magnetism
5. Magnetism and Matter
6. Electromagnetic Induction
7. Alternating Current
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Q. 34.2( 25 Votes )
What physical quantity is the same for X-rays of wavelength 10–10 m, red light of wavelength 6800 Å and radio waves of wavelength 500m?
Class 12thNCERT - Physics Part-I8. Electromagnetic Waves
The physical quantity which is same for X-rays of wavelength 10–10 m, red light of wavelength 6800 Å and radio waves of wavelength 500 m is the speed of light in vacuum which is equal to 3×108 m/s. The speed of light in vacuum remains same for all wavelengths. This is because speed of light is independent of wavelength in the vacuum.
PREVIOUSA parallel plate capacitor (Fig. 8.7) made of circular plates each of radius R = 6.0 cm has a capacitance C = 100 pF. The capacitor is connected to a 230 V ac supply with a (angular) frequency of 300 rad s–1.(a) What is the rms value of the conduction current?(b) Is the conduction current equal to the displacement current?(c) Determine the amplitude of B at a point 3.0 cm from the axis between the plates.NEXTA plane electromagnetic wave travels in vacuum along z-direction. What can you say about the directions of its electric and magnetic field vectors? If the frequency of the wave is 30 MHz, what is its wavelength?
Source of Electromagnetic wave6 mins
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Which mode of propagation is used by short wave broadcast services ?
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Which basic mode of communication is used in satellite communication? What type of wave propagation is used in this mode? Write, giving reason, the frequency range used in this mode of propagation.
(a) Why are infra-red waves often called heat waves ? Explain.
(b) What do you understand by the statement, ''Electromagnetic waves transport momentum'' ?
A laser beam has intensity 2.5 × 1014 W m–2. Find the amplitudes of electric and magnetic fields in the beam.
HC Verma - Concepts of Physics Part 2
Which of the following have zero average value in a plane electromagnetic wave?
Speed of electromagnetic waves is the same
Consider the following two statements regarding a linearly polarized, plane electromagnetic wave:
(A) The electric field and the magnetic field have equal average values.
(B) The electric energy and the magnetic energy have equal average values.
An electric field and a magnetic field exist in a region. The fields are not perpendicular to each other.
(a) Identify the part of the electromagnetic spectrum used in (i) radar and (ii) eye surgery. Write their frequency range.
(b) Prove that the average energy density of the oscillating electric field is equal to that of the oscillating magnetic field.
How is the speed of em-waves in vacuum determined by the electric and magnetic fields?
Maximise Z = 5x + 3y subject to 3x + 5y ≤ 15, 5x + 2y ≤ 10, x ≥ 0, y ≥ 0.
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(b) strictly decreasing in
(c) neither increasing nor decreasing in (0, π)
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A&M Climbs in Law School Rankings, UT Remains High
by Jamie Lovegrove March 16, 2016 12:01 AM
By Jamie Lovegrove, The Texas Tribune March 16, 2016
"A&M Climbs in Law School Rankings, UT Remains High" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
*Correction appended
Texas A&M moved up 38 spots in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report law school rankings released Wednesday, marking the biggest improvement among any graduate school in the state, but still not making it into the nation's top 100 law schools.
The University of Texas at Austin remained by far the state's highest ranked law school, holding on to 15th place. The University of Houston also received a notable bump, moving up nine spots to 50th. A&M's boost takes it to 111th, cracking the list of top 60 public law schools for the first time.
"This is an extraordinary achievement, especially given the fact that we weren't even on the list in 2014," A&M System Chancellor John Sharp said in a statement.
On intellectual property law, Texas A&M's primary focus, the school moved up to 14th, tied with the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University of the Ivy League.
"Chancellor Sharp announced that this would be an intellectual property law school when he held his first press conference in our lobby announcing the acquisition," said law school Dean Andrew Morriss in a statement. "Now that is true — less than three years later."
UT-Austin also led the pack in graduate engineering and business rankings at 10th and 16th respectively, and the UT system's flagship school boasts the highest ranked graduate accounting program in the country. Texas A&M's engineering graduate program is just one place behind UT-Austin at 11th. Rice University moved up eight spots in the business school rankings, coming in at 25th.
Law Schools (Previous)
15. University of Texas at Austin (15)
45. Southern Methodist University (46)
50. University of Houston (59)
55. Baylor University (56)
111. Texas A&M University (149)
123. Texas Tech University (118)
25. Rice University (33)
31. Texas A&M University (27)
37. University of Texas at Dallas (33)
63. Texas Christian University (63)
82. University of Texas at Arlington (90)
92. Texas Tech University (94)
Correction: A previous version of this story gave incorrect rankings for UT-Austin's business and engineering schools.
Disclosure: The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are corporate sponsors of The Texas Tribune. The University of Houston was a corporate sponsor in 2013. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.

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A&M Climbs in Law School Rankings, UT Remains High By Jamie Lovegrove March 16, 2016 *Correction appended Texas A&M; moved up 38 spots in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report law school rankings released Wednesday, marking the biggest improvement among any graduate school in the state, but still not making it into the nation's top 100 law schools. The University of Texas at Austin remained by far the state's highest ranked law school, holding on to 15th place. The University of Houston also received a notable bump, moving up nine spots to 50th. A&M;'s boost takes it to 111th, cracking the list of top 60 public law schools for the first time. "This is an extraordinary achievement, especially given the fact that we weren't even on the list in 2014," A&M; System Chancellor John Sharp said in a statement. On intellectual property law, Texas A&M;'s primary focus, the school moved up to 14th, tied with the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University of the Ivy League. "Chancellor Sharp announced that this would be an intellectual property law school when he held his first press conference in our lobby announcing the acquisition," said law school Dean Andrew Morriss in a statement. "Now that is true — less than three years later." UT-Austin also led the pack in graduate engineering and business rankings at 10th and 16th respectively, and the UT system's flagship school boasts the highest ranked graduate accounting program in the country. Texas A&M;'s engineering graduate program is just one place behind UT-Austin at 11th. Rice University moved up eight spots in the business school rankings, coming in at 25th. Law Schools (Previous) 15. University of Texas at Austin (15) 45. Southern Methodist University (46) 50. University of Houston (59) 55. Baylor University (56) 111. Texas A&M; University (149) 123. Texas Tech University (118) Business Schools 16. University of Texas at Austin (17) 25. Rice University (33) 31. Texas A&M; University (27) 37. University of Texas at Dallas (33) 48. Southern Methodist University (48) 57. Baylor University (58) 63. Texas Christian University (63) Engineering Schools 10. University of Texas at Austin (10) 11. Texas A&M; University (12) 31. Rice University (31) 73. University of Houston (76) 73. University of Texas at Dallas (76) 82. University of Texas at Arlington (90) 92. Texas Tech University (94) Correction: A previous version of this story gave incorrect rankings for UT-Austin's business and engineering schools. Disclosure: The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M; University are corporate sponsors of The Texas Tribune. The University of Houston was a corporate sponsor in 2013. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here. "A&M Climbs in Law School Rankings, UT Remains High" was first published at by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
Link back to the original article, which is located at https://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/16/m-climbs-law-school-rankings-ut-remains-high/.


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FII RISC-V3.01 on FII-PRX100-S (ARTIX-7, XC7A100T) XILINX FPGA Board Evaluation
Version Date Description
1.0 09/29/2020 Initial Release
1.1 10/07/2020 Add Description of PRX100 and Comparison Plots
© 2020 Fraser Innovation Inc ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Without written permission of Fraser Innovation Inc, no unit or individual may extract or modify part of or all the contents of this manual. Offenders will be held liable for their legal responsibility.
Thank you for purchasing the FPGA development board. Please read the manual carefully before using the product and make sure that you know how to use the product correctly. Improper operation may damage the development board. This manual is constantly updated, and it is recommended that you download the latest version when using.
Official Shopping Website:
https://fpgamarketing.com/FII-PRX100-D-ARTIX-100T-XC7A100T-RISC-V-FPGA-Board-PRX100-D-1.htm
FII mainly uses Coremark and Dhrystone Benchmarks to evaluate the RISC-V3.01 CPU (Central Processing Units) performance on FII-PRX100-S (ARTIX-7, XC7A100T) XILINX FPGA Board (https://fpgamarketing.com/FII-PRX100-S-ARTIX-100T-XC7A100T-Xilinx-RISC-V-FPGA-Board-FII-PRX100-S-1.htm).
Coremark has been EEMBC's CPU evaluation standard since 2009. EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) is a non-profit organization with members including Huawei, Intel, ARM and Analog Devices. EEMBC is an important standard for evaluating embedded processors and compilers [1].
Coremark mainly detects ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit), memory reference, pipeline and branch operations. It is designed to make it impossible for the CPU to run benchmark tests in advance, thus ensuring its fairness. During the specified test time, Coremark does not allow invoking third-party library, and the results are completely based on the optimization of the compiler and the execution processing time of the CPU. Because Coremark mainly provides testing of the CPU architecture, in order to abandon the superiority of the hardware manufacturing process, the final test results of Coremark will be normalized, that is to say, the final test results will be evenly divided into the system clock and the unit is Coremark/MHz. Coremark's main code is written in C language, including list processing (find and sort), matrix manipulation (common matrix operations), state machine (determine if an input stream contains valid numbers), and CRC (cyclic redundancy check) [2].
The FII RISC-V3.01 system clock is 50MHz, and the Coremark test score shown in Figure 1 is 3.38 (169/50 Coremark/MHz).
Figure 1 FII RISC-V Coremark
Figure 2 is a screenshot of some other CPU Coremarks provided on the EEMBC website.
Figure 2 Part of the CPU Coremark result of EEMBC
Figure 3 CPU Coremark Comparison
FII RISC-V3.01 is a single-core, a mix of 2-stage and 3-stage pipeline CPU. Figure 3 lists some other single-core CPUs' Coremark being certified by EEMBC. FII RISC-V3.01 has been highlighted using red strokes. It can be seen that FII RISC-V3.01 Coremark is above the average Coremark among the listed 15 CPUs. For the three CPUs which have obviously higher Coremark, they are STMicroelectronics STM32H72x/73x rev Z (highlight as blue), STMicroelectronics STM32H7B3 rev Z (highlight as blue) and Renesas Electronics RX66T (highlight as blue). From the official manual by STMicroelectronics , STM32H72x/73x rev Z and STMicroelectronics STM32H7B3 rev Z both use Cortex-M7, which has a 6-stage super scalar pipeline. Renesas Electronics RX66T uses RXv3 core, which has improved 5-stage pipeline. Since with more stages of pipeline, undoubtedly the better performance of CPU is, to make the comparison of performance more fair, compared with Texas Stellaris Cortex-M3 (highlight as blue), which is also a 3-pipeline processor as FII RISC-V3.01. Nevertheless, FII RISC-V's Coremark is greatly larger than theirs, even more than two times. Compared with another processor, Microchip ATSAML21J18B (highlight as blue), which is also a three-stage pipeline, the Coremark of FII RISC-V3.01 is still much higher.To conclude, with the same amount core stages of pipeline constrained, FII-RISCV3.01 performs outstandingly and is favourable.
Dhrystone was also a universally recognized benchmark for evaluating CPU performance before Coremark appeared. It was invented by Reinhold Weicker in 1984. It is collectively called the "classic benchmark" with Livermore, Whetstone and Linpack, and was popular at 70-80s in last century. Each of these four benchmarks has a biased focus. While Dhrystone tests the integer operation for UNIX systems, Whetstone tests the floating point operations for minicomputers, Linpack tests the floating point operations for workstation, and Livermore tests the numeric operations for supercomputers [3]. There are two main versions of Dhrystone, Dhrystone 1.1 and 2.1. Dhrystone2.1 has been improved on the basis of Dhrystone1.1, so that part of the code will not be disabled due to optimization, thereby affecting the accuracy of the evaluation. The main code of Dhrystone is written in C language, and its performance is tested on the CPU's Millions of Instructions Per Second (MIPS). The final result needs to be normalized and divided by 1757. This is because historically the Dhrystone test result of 1977 Digital Vax 11/780 was 1757 Dhrystone/s (it can execute 1757 times Dhrystone benchmark per second), which was considered the world's first microcomputer with a computing level of one million instructions per second. Therefore, Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) tested on other platforms will be normalized. The limitation of Dhrystone is that it invokes some library functions to perform iteration, and the compiler usually optimizes it and converts it into assembly language for execution, so in fact Dhrystone is also testing the degree of optimization of the compiler to the C library functions of a specific CPU . As shown in Figure 4, the test score of FII RISC-V3.01 Dhrystone 2.1 is 98360 Dhrystone/s, 55.98 DMIPS (98360/1757), and 1.12 DMIPS/MHz (55.98/50MHz).
Figure 4 Dhrystone test results
Figure 5 CPU Dhrystone plot
Figure 5 shows some CPU Dhrystone results provided by ARM official website. FII RISC-V3.01 has been red highlighted. It can be seen that the CORTEX-M7 (marked blue) has the highest Dhrystone among the 10 CPUs. From the ARM official website, CORTEX-M7, CORTEX-R4 (marked blue), and CORTEX-A5 (marked blue) all have more than 3-stage pipelines. CORTEX-R4, and CORTEX-A5 have more than one core. Same as before, to make the comparison of performance more fair, FII RISC-V3.01 is compared with CORTEX-M3 (marked blue), which is also a single-core and has a 3-stage pipeline. From Figure 5, Dhrystone of CORTEX-M3 is slightly higher than FII RISC-V3.01's. It could be true since during Dhrystone testing, a universal compiler is used to test FII RISC-V3.01. While Dhrystone relies heavily on standard library functions, and compiler vendors usually optimizes these functions in assembly language. In other saying, Dhrystone test largely depends on the level of the optimization of the compiler instead of the actual hardware operation ability [4]. A specialized compiler could significantly improve the Dhrystone result. It can be proved that by experiments that with specially designed compiler, Dhrystone marks could be even 4 times higher [5]. To conclude, FII RISC-V behaves middling when comparing with the CPU that has the same amount of core and stages of pipeline. Besides, Dhrystone results are frequently quoted and used by many people in the industry, but they do not withstand scrutiny. Without authoritative organizations to certify the test result, Dhrystone is sometimes misused. Although, Dhrystone benchmark has its limitation, it is still a good self-estimation tool as a reference.
In addition to Coremark and Dhrystone, there are many other open source benchmarks, such as AIM Multiuser Benchmark, Embench, HINT, etc., and non-free industry standard, such as SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation), BAPCo (Business Application Performance Corporation) that provide benchmarks that can be audited and verified [6].
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