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Transport Canada mum on rail safety rules
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Transport Canada refuses to disclose minimum requirements rail companies must comply with when parking an unattended train, nor will it hand over rules for rail operators ensuring dangerous goods are kept safe while parked on a train.
Companies won't share details following Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
John Nicol Dave Seglins and Jeremy McDonald · CBC News · Posted: Jul 18, 2013 8:03 PM ET | Last Updated: July 19, 2013
CP and CN review and toughen safety procedures. The CBC's Havard Gould reports. 2:38
Transport Canada won't say what the minimum requirements are for making sure a parked train won't roll away and it won't disclose the rules set by the rail companies for keeping unattended trains with potentially dangerous goods stationary.
The CBC asked Transport Canada to clarify the rules for tying down a train a few days after the Lac Megantic tragedy. More than two days later, the response ignored the specific request for minimum requirements and referred to the Canadian Rail Operating Rules.
Lac-Mégantic toll rises to 42
Tearful officer describes 'hole' at centre of Lac-Mégantic
The guidelines in the CROR, however, lack specificity on parking trains.
Section 112, on "Securing Equipment", says: "When equipment is left at any point a sufficient number of hand brakes must be applied to prevent it from moving. Special instructions will indicate the minimum hand brake requirements for all locations where equipment is left."
The section goes on to discuss parking a train on a siding, and to specify that hand brakes need to be fully tested before they can be used to secure equipment.
Eight days after the initial request, Transport Canada continues to rebuff CBC's inquiries with vague answers.
"The rules provide specific instructions for the use of hand brakes to prevent the train from moving when equipment is not in use," it said in an email to CBC.
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"Each railway has instructions that further specify how many handbrakes are applied. These instructions also govern special circumstances such as a grade. The handbrake requirements are not load specific. Requirements are determined by the amount of cars, terrain, etc."
NDP MP Olivia Chow said that's not good enough.
"Canadians need to know that the trains coming through their neighbourhoods are safe," Chow said on Thursday.
That's why the Conservatives should not hide the operations of these trains, said Chow, vice chair of the House of Commons transport committee.
Chow and three other transport committee members have signed a letter requesting a special public committee meeting to examine what can be done to make sure past rail safety recommendations from both the TSB and the auditor general are implemented.
"We're not tackling the precise cause of [the] Lac-Mégantic tragedy. We'll wait for that," Chow said.
"But what we do know is that Transportation Safety Board's previous recommendations on various derailments and how to prevent future derailments have not been implemented completely," Chow told CBC News.
With the four signatures, the committee is now required to hold a session to determine whether a broader public meeting should be convened.
"If there's nothing to hide, come clean. Tell Canadians what the operations are and whether they are safe or not."
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In the early morning of July 6 a Montreal, Maine and Atlantic train, which included five engines, a boxcar and 72 cars of crude oil, left its parking spot in Nantes, Que., near the Maine border, and rumbled downhill into Lac-Mégantic. The crude oil cars separated from the engines and boxcar, and two explosions and a fire engulfed the town of 6,000.
Rescue officials have recovered 42 bodies and at least eight people are still believed missing.
Faces of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy
Lac-Mégantic: before and after photos
The causes of the explosions are still a mystery, but what has consumed rail experts is what precautions did MMA locomotive engineer Tom Harding take to secure the train. Did he comply with MMA's own internal special instructions for that stretch of rail? Did the MMA guidelines meet the requirements of Transport Canada?
The company originally said after the accident that Harding had put on the air brakes and left the engine running when he jumped in a taxi to go to a hotel for the night. It also said that Harding applied the appropriate number of hand brakes. A fire started in the main engine, and the firefighters who extinguished the fire were accused of shutting down the engine, which released the brakes.
A fire burned for nearly 24 hours after a train derailment in downtown Lac-Mégantic, Que., on July 6 after a train operated by MMA railways came off the tracks, spilling crude oil and causing explosions in the town of 6000. 42 bodies have been recovered. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
Last Wednesday, MMA chairman Ed Burkhardt confused the debate by saying Harding "told us he applied 11 hand brakes and our general feeling is that now, that is not true."
That the CROR allows individual companies to set their own special instructions creates confusion, says Ian Naish, a consultant with 27 years in transportation safety.
"The rules that are applied by Transport Canada, Rule 112, says that sufficient number of hand brakes must be applied when you are stopping a train and leaving it for a bit," explained Naish. "Well how do you define that? Various railways have defined it different ways for various types of grades, or types of trains.
"The way the regulatory system has operated for the last 20 to 25 years is, basically, the railways are responsible to regulate themselves, and the federal government is the overseer, the watcher of the way they operate."
CN and CP tighten safety rules after Lac-Mégantic disaster
TIMELINE: Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
Train wheels slip off MMA track southeast of Montreal
Canadian Pacific, which has traditionally had the strictest rules on securing trains because of the risks of having steeper lines through the Canadian Rockies, sent out new general operating instructions to its employees last week in anticipation of stricter Transport Canada rules.
On Thursday morning, new Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said if there are going to be any new rules coming from Transport Canada, "I'll be the one announcing them. As for Canadian Pacific, I'm very pleased to see they're taking a look at theirs and I spoke to CN this week and they're doing the same."
Company rules on 'braking, securement' kept secret
The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, CN and CP have refused to share their special instructions with the CBC, calling them proprietary, and Transport Canada said they can't release it because "this type of information is not in the public domain, as it involves a third-party."
But an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board, which has looked at a long list of runaway trains, derailments and crashes, told the CBC that the rules are "vague and unclear."
The investigator, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited the 13 CN coal cars that slid downhill last year in Hanlon, Alta., crashing into a parked train.
The TSB concluded the rules were unclear, CN's standards were inadequate and the staff had problems calculating just how many cars need to be locked down by hand.
Chow argues that Transport Canada has ignored too many recommendations, not only from the Transportation Safety Board but also a scathing report by the Auditor General in 2011 which says alarm bells were raised in 2005 about transporting dangerous goods.
"Transport Canada said it would take a year or two to implement the auditor general's recommendations, but these are not new problems," said Chow.
"It's been eight years that they had no comprehensive list of what's being transported, what's the performance standard and what's the quality assurance program" for transporting dangerous goods.
"That's not acceptable."
The answer, says Chow, is not a public inquiry, but transparency and strong government.
"Without transparency we don't know who is accountable," she told CBC Thursday. "Why do we need a government if they don't regulate?"
Train wheels slip off MM&A track southeast of Montreal
Transportation Safety Board of Canada


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Can you live on five or six teaspoons of sugar PER DAY? Not per hour. Per DAY?
Well, if Connie Bennett and her anti-sugar crusaders have anything to say about it, you can and you will.
Sugar is bad for you. I think we all know that. We – or at least most Americans – consume too much sugar, which puts our health at great risk. And contrary to what we may believe, we do not need sugar to survive. Bennett tells us that we get all the glucose we need from stuff like vegetables, fruits, seeds, whole grains and nuts.
Does that sound like fun eating to anyone? Sure, I may not NEED sugar to survive, but believe me when I tell you that the people in my house are a whole lot happier when I've consumed some dark chocolate (preferably dark chocolate covered caramels, my FAVORITE, but please don't tell Connie Bennett, because she undoubtedly will tell me how awful that is for me and how I have one foot in a cardiac arrest unit and the other on a banana peel).
Sugar can trigger – or at least encourage – cancer, weight gain, obesity, diabetes and osteoporosis. We eat a lot of food with high fructose levels, and even I can admit that fructose is Bad. It is no mere coincidence that obesity rates rise in tandem with the amounts of fructose we consume.
So after Bennett scares you to death (or "into action," as she puts it), she gets down to the good stuff: what do we do now? She acknowledges that for some of us, the mental hurdle is as tough as the physical, as she points out that there is "no lasting comfort" in comfort foods. Sigh. But they taste so GOOD, Connie Barrett.
The Negative Abyss: in which we alternate between the 10 Stages of Sugar Complaints – anger, defiance, resistance, resentment, guilt, self-blame, self-pity, self-hate, self-criticism, and why me?
Insecurity and Self-Doubt: can we succeed? Can we be free at last?
You're On Your Way: we are filled with curiosity, we accept our sugarless fate, we have self-pride, and we are determined, confident and committed to being sugar-free.
The good news is that Connie Barrett is not a sadistic task master. She does give us weekends off, limiting us to four main steps per week during the first three weeks of our new lives. She is big on motivation, giving us little pep talks about how great we're doing and how fabulous we look and feel. Like a lot of self-help practitioners, she also has us write down all sorts of affirmations and responses, and she peppers her book with testimony from former sugar addicts, including HLN correspondent Jane Velez Mitchell.
Some of her tips include dreaming up a music playlist for yourself (I'm sorry, but that seems kind of silly to me; then again, I skipped this step entirely, so maybe I owe Connie Barrett an apology). She also provides a template for writing down your daily sugar intake – what time did you eat it? Why? How did you feel before and after, both physically and mentally? That was far more helpful for me than the playlist thing. I knew I was an emotional eater, but seeing it written down in my handwriting was sobering, to say the least.
The problem with this book, though, is that you do not get to substantive help until page 100 or so. Up until then, Bennett's advice and guidelines are typical for any weight loss book out there. When she gives you tips on sugar substitutes, though, that's helpful. Going cold turkey won't work for all of us. She exposes hidden sugars in some of the stuff we eat, and she also provides exercise tips.
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Most of this book is common sense and offers nothing that I haven't already heard or read. Maybe for some people, focusing solely on the detrimental effects of sugar is what it will take to start their path to a "slimmer, sexier and sweeter" them. But I felt like I'd read all this before.


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Sian holds a Bachelor of Mass Communication from the Queensland University of Technology and a Master of International Development Practice from Monash University. She has a keen interest in how policy can drive social change, and improve the wellbeing and livelihoods of vulnerable and marginalised groups within our communities.


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Q: texture is flipped and upside down I am trying to draw a simple texture on top of simple square .
However, the texture image is seen flipped and Upside down . I think I have all the texture definitions correct so I have no idea what's the problem .
here is my texture loading code :
final int[] textureObjectIds = new int[1];
        GLES20.glGenTextures(1 , textureObjectIds , 0);
        if (textureObjectIds[0] == 0){
            Logger.Log( TAG , "Unable to generate new texture object");
        }

        //define options for decoding
        final BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();

        options.inScaled = true ;

        final Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources() , resourceId , options); //decode texture resource to bitmap
        if (bitmap == null){
            Logger.Log(TAG, "Resource ID " + resourceId + " Could not be decoded");
            GLES20.glDeleteTextures(1 , textureObjectIds , 0);
            return 0;
        }

        GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureObjectIds[0]); //bind texture to our texture object

        // define magnify and minimize filters
        GLES20.glTexParameteri(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D , GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER , GLES20.GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);
        GLES20.glTexParameteri(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D , GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER , GLES20.GL_LINEAR);

        //GLES20.glTexParameterf(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D , GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GLES20.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
        //GLES20.glTexParameterf(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D , GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T , GLES20.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);

        GLUtils.texImage2D(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, bitmap, 0); // load bitmap data to texture

        bitmap.recycle(); // release recycle

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        GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D , 0); //unbind from the texture

        return textureObjectIds[0];

Coordinates of my square and texture :
private static final float TEXTURE_FLOOR  = 0.0f;
private static final float TEXTURE_CEIL= 2.0f;

private static final float[] VERTEX_DATA  = {
                                                                        //Coordinates : X , Y , Z , S , T
                                                                        //Triangle1
                                                                        -0.5f , -0.5f   , 0.0f , TEXTURE_FLOOR , TEXTURE_CEIL  ,
                                                                         0.5f , -0.5f   , 0.0f , TEXTURE_CEIL  , TEXTURE_CEIL ,
                                                                        -0.5f ,  0.5f   , 0.0f , TEXTURE_FLOOR , TEXTURE_FLOOR ,

                                                                        //Triangle2
                                                                         0.5f  , -0.5f  , 0.0f , TEXTURE_CEIL , TEXTURE_CEIL ,
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                                                                      };

More info from the code :
private static final int     POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT               = 3 ;
private static final int     TEXTURE_COORDINATES_COMPONENT_COUNT    = 2 ;
private static final int     STRIDE                                 =  (POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT + TEXTURE_COORDINATES_COMPONENT_COUNT)
                                                                        * BYTES_PER_FLOAT ;

vertexArray.setVertexAttribPointer(0 , textureShaderProgram.getPositionAttributeLocation() , POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT , STRIDE);
vertexArray.setVertexAttribPointer(POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT, textureShaderProgram.getTextureCoordinatesAttributeLocation(), TEXTURE_COORDINATES_COMPONENT_COUNT, STRIDE);

where :
public void setVertexAttribPointer(int dataOffset , int attributeLocation , int componentCount , int stride){
    floatBuffer.position(0);
    GLES20.glVertexAttribPointer(attributeLocation, componentCount, GLES20.GL_FLOAT, false, stride, floatBuffer);
    GLES20.glEnableVertexAttribArray(attributeLocation);
    floatBuffer.position(0);

example image of my problem with a waze icon :

A: Your texture coordinates are off. Please refer to How do opengl texture coordinates work? as to how texture coordinates work, and set them properly.
Besides that, you forget to use the dataOffset argument in your setVertexAttribPointer function.
public void setVertexAttribPointer(int dataOffset , int attributeLocation , int componentCount , int stride) {
  floatBuffer.position(0);
  GLES20.glVertexAttribPointer(attributeLocation, componentCount, GLES20.GL_FLOAT, false, stride, floatBuffer);
  GLES20.glEnableVertexAttribArray(attributeLocation);
  floatBuffer.position(0);
}

Causing your vertex position values to be used for the texture coordinates. You should set your floatBuffer to start at the first texture coordinate, which is the dataOffset.
public void setVertexAttribPointer(int dataOffset , int attributeLocation , int componentCount , int stride) {
    floatBuffer.position(dataOffset);
    GLES20.glVertexAttribPointer(attributeLocation, componentCount, GLES20.GL_FLOAT, false, stride, floatBuffer);
    GLES20.glEnableVertexAttribArray(attributeLocation);
    floatBuffer.position(0);
}

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BTS taking extended break | The Music Universe
Label has announced the group's hiatus
K-pop (Korean pop) superstars BTS are taking an extended break for the first time since the group's formation. Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook have gained popularity around the world while breaking many records, including scoring a GRAMMY nomination. The group's label, Big Hit Entertainment, shared the message over the weekend, claiming the group needs some time away.
"We would like to announce that for the first time since their debut, BTS will be going on an ficial and extended period rest and relaxation," the label shares Twitter.
"This period rest will be an opportunity for the members BTS, who have relentless sic] driven themselves towards their goal since their debut, to recharge and prepare to present themselves anew as musicians and creators. This will also provide them with a chance to enjoy the ordinary lives young people in their 20s, albeit briefly."
The group's final performance before their hiatus was the Lotte Duty Free Family Concert in Korea over the weekend. Individual member plans have not been shared, but the label assures fans the group will return when it's "refreshed and recharged."
The statement also requests that fans "show consideration" for the members as they "enjoy their private time f" from the spotlight should any encounters happen.
Since their debut in 2013, the group has gained recognition from their authentic, self-produced music and top-notch performances to the way they interact with their fans. While imparting a positive influence through activities such as the Love Myself campaign and the UN 'Speak Yourself' speech, BTS has mobilized millions fans across the world (named ARMY), topped prominent music charts, sold out worldwide tours including stadiums, have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards like the Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards and a GRAMMY nomination, released three feature films, launched a mobile game and more.
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The confirmation about timing for the new guidance occurred during a debate on school attendance in the House of Lords on January 24 2018.
I thank the noble Lord. I am sure he agrees that the majority of parents who home-educate do an excellent job and work with their local authorities. I appreciate that the new Minister has barely got his feet under the desk, but could he assure us that he will work with us to put in place robust procedures which will ensure that all children are safeguarded and that children are not taught a narrow religious curriculum at home or indeed radicalised at home, so that we know that the millions of children who go missing from our school system will be safe?
The minister replied that the government did have concerns about unregistered schools and was in the process of creating guidance on how to tackle unsuitable out-of-school settings and unregistered independent schools.
I agree with the noble Lord. Much home education is very good, and we welcome the dedication of parents who take on that responsibility and do it well. However, we have concerns about unregistered schools. We have provided additional resources to Ofsted, including by creating a new team of dedicated inspectors to inspect suspected unregistered independent schools. They and the DfE have been taking action to make sure that these settings cease to operate unlawfully. We are also creating guidance for local authorities on how to tackle unsuitable out-of-school settings and unregistered independent schools, including on how to use their existing powers. We hope to publish this guidance as soon as possible.
My Lords, does the Minister agree that the number of children who are out of school is increasing? Some may be receiving very good education but we do not know that, and we suspect that quite a substantial number of these children are beyond the reach of either the local authority or the safeguarding arrangements. By definition therefore these children are extremely vulnerable, and it is our responsibility to protect them.
I agree, but the important thing to stress is that local authorities have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in their area, regardless of where they are educated. This includes home education and unregistered schools. A survey of the Association of Directors of Children's Services indicates that some 80% to 90% of home-educated children had been in school before being removed into home education by their parents, so they were already known to the local authority. The initial priority though is to provide clarity on what powers local authorities have to investigate unsafe or unsuitable home education and to take action.
My Lords, does the Minister accept that my home education Bill, which is about to go into Committee, will give Parliament an opportunity not only to discuss the support that we can give to parents who are home-educating but to make sure that we protect vulnerable children?
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for introducing his Bill and putting these issues before the House. I look forward to the debate when the Bill moves into Committee, which will give us an opportunity to discuss these matters in greater depth. I am aware that the number of children entering home education has increased. Following the Bill's Second Reading we commissioned fresh legal advice, which we have just received. It indicates that local authorities' powers in relation to home education often go further than is appreciated. We are updating our guidance to local authorities on home education, and will reflect this new advice in the guidance. We expect to produce these drafts for consultation in the next few weeks.
My Lords, are there any statistics that indicate how children educated at home compare with those educated at school in public examinations? As a former general secretary of the Independent Schools Council, I add how much I welcome the Government's crackdown on unregistered independent schools.
My Lords, there are no specific statistics on the outcome of home-educated children, but one of the issues that I would like to look at in our discussions on the home education Bill introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Soley, is making examination facilities available more easily for children who are home-educated. At the moment it can be difficult for them to find a setting where they can do their exams, which makes their education more difficult.
Lord Warner asked about the number of children in unregistered schools in Hackney and the lack of government powers.
My Lords, has the Minister seen the report by the London Borough of Hackney that there are 1,500 boys in the borough in unregistered schools? Does he accept what the report also says, which is that the local authority's powers to deal with this problem are inadequate? Is he aware that no operator of an unregistered school has been successfully prosecuted since that legislation was passed in 2008?
My Lords, we are aware of the recent report from Hackney, which refers to between 1,000 and 1,500 Haredi boys attending out-of-school settings in the borough. The report made it clear that they are yeshivas offering religious teaching in settings that do not meet the criteria to register as independent schools, but they are operating as out-of-school settings. We are conscious of this, but we have to be careful because out-of-school settings can include things like Sunday schools and even sports clubs. We have been working with some of these religious groups to encourage them to offer a broader form of education, and recently we managed to persuade the Haredi schools in Manchester to adjust their curriculum to offer a broader education. We will continue to do that.
Lord Watson said that current government home education guidelines obviously needed updating as they were 11 years old. Lord Watson was critical that the government has "no idea how many children are out of school at the moment" and said that registering home educated children was "an urgent necessity.
My Lords, it is symptomatic of the Government's complacency on this issue that the current document, Elective Home Education: Guidelines for Local Authorities, contains a ministerial foreword signed by Mr Jim Knight, the Minister of State, and Mr Andrew Adonis, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary. I have no idea what became of them, but that was 11 years ago and it has never been updated so I am very pleased that the Minister has announced today that he plans to update that document. The fact is that the Government have no idea how many children are out of school at the moment. They do not collect the figures, as we have heard, and local authorities are not obliged to do so either. How can anyone safeguard a child if they do not know about them? Does the Minister accept that a register of home-educated children, which is a provision in my noble friend Lord Soley's Bill, is now an urgent necessity? Will he urge the new Secretary of State to make that one of his first priorities?
My Lords, I think I can reassure the House that quite a lot of activity has occurred in the last four or five years. For example, we updated the statutory guidance, Children Missing Education, in September 2016 and Keeping Children Safe in Education, and introduced the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, which particularly required any child leaving a school and going into home education to register with the local authority. We have tackled the out-of-school settings through the recruitment of Prevent education officers and, as I mentioned earlier, Ofsted has been given increasing powers. Lastly, as I referred to in an earlier answer, the legal advice we are receiving at the moment clarifies a lot of the powers available to local authorities, and we will seek to make them aware of those powers. We are keeping an open mind on the Bill sponsored by the noble Lord, Lord Soley, but I am certainly working with him collaboratively on this.
Since the powers in the 1996 are so well known I speculate that they have done an audit of other legislation and case law in order to lower the threshold for legal action. This would tie in with the comment that the "gov view is that LA's need to stretch the guidance and they want case law to be tested".
In the absence of an amendment to primary legislation I don't see how they could trigger a mandatory requirement for a report from home educating parents. Some LA's do use the lack of response to an enquiry as the trigger for a school attendance order. This is obviously not legal but is an area which could trigger a legal fight and case law test. That, frankly, could go either way depending on what evidence is presented to the Court of a suitable education. Both sides could provoke this situation to achieve their ends.
The consultation will need to be very closely examined.
I don't think the 1996 act powers ARE well understood. But we will have to see.
They're well understood by us, but I suspect not by a lot of LA employees who really ought to understand them.


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Genesis' Three (Or Four) Sides Live
Alan Caylow | USA | 06/26/2003
"There are two versions of Genesis' 1982 mostly-or-fully live release, "Three Sides Live." The *original US release* of this double-album is, indeed, 3/4 live recordings taken from the band's 1981 tour for "Abacab," with the fourth quarter comprising of five studio leftovers from the "Duke" & "Abacab" sessions (including the Top 40 hit, "Paperlate"). Europe, however, got the five studio tracks released on a separate EP (also called "Paperlate"), with THEIR fourth quarter of "Three Sides Live" filled with more live stuff taken from the "Duke" and "Trick Of The Tail" tours. Got it? Good.If you're a diehard Genesis fan, then both versions of "Three Sides Live" are worth having in your collection. The first 3/4's live that *everybody* gets is an excellent document of the band in 1981, and shows just how powerfully Phil Collins, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and live co-horts Daryl Stuermer & Chester Thompson can rock in concert, and how commanding a singer & frontman Collins certainly is. GREAT performances are everywhere of Genesis favorites such as "Turn It On Again," "Abacab," "Dodo/Lurker," "Follow You Follow Me," "Misunderstanding," and the Peter Gabriel-era classic "In The Cage." If you buy the original US version, then the five studio songs comprising the last quarter of the album will greatly impress: "Paperlate," "You Might Recall," "Me & Virgil," "Evidence Of Autumn" & "Open Door" are all fantastic Genesis songs. These are no inferior outtakes, and they were only left off the original "Duke" & "Abacab" albums simply because there wasn't room for them. If you buy the European version of the album, then the fourth quarter has brilliant, barnburning concert performances of the Genesis prog-rock classics "One For The Vine," "Fountain Of Salmacis," and a glorious two-in-one rendition of "It" & "Watcher Of The Skies" (closing section). So, for the devoted Genesis fan, "Three Sides Live" is a can't-lose purchase either way.Sadly, "Three Sides Live" appears to be temporarily out-of-print (and I DO hope it's only temporary). Still, there are some used copies of both versions that are still available and floating about. Happy hunting, and long live Genesis."
Genesis' overlooked live album
Manny Hernandez | Bay Area, CA | 07/23/2004
"Somehow, this album always manages to slip under the radar. Other live Genesis recordings make it to the top of the stack, and so we've got 'Seconds Out', the two volumes of 'The Way We Walk' (otherwise known as the last breath of life that Genesis exhaled on the stage) and even the classic 'Genesis Live' from 1972. Yet the oddly named 'Three Sides Live' always falls through the cracks and hardly ever makes it to the top of anyone's "live recordings" list. Yet it's an extraordinary compilation of their live work with an impeccable sound and production. Let me tell you a small story about it, so you'll be left with some treasure hunting to do.
Here's the scoop: two version of this album were released. The review you're reading is for the US version, which had three sides (out of the four in the double vynil album) recorded live. The fourth side was recorded in the studio. As it stands, this version is very solid, and it captures Genesis at its live best (1982), right before they turned into a more commercial band (early eighties) and Phil Collins started sounding more like a TV Show host than a frontman for the band. However, if you somehow manage to get your hands on the UK version (which has all "four sides" recorded live), you will appreciate my advice: it comes loaded with a soup for the soul of the classic Genesis fan. Besides the mindwarping "In The Cage Medley", and the best from the 'Duke' and the 'Abacab' albums, it carries "One For The Vine" parts 1 and 2, and a medley of "Fountain of Salmacis", "It" and "Watcher of the skies". It really doesn't get any better than this... well, maybe... but still you ought to get a copy."
Really, the best Gensis concert ever. Mindblowing.
Kasper Michelsen | Copenhagen, Denmark. | 08/27/2003
"Ok, I have not heard all Genesis' concerts, but I have heard a great many, and none of them surpass the November 29 1981 Nassau concert, which delivers the majority of the material for this live release. Granted, the songs might not be as good as those included on the 1977 'Seconds Out' release, but then again, they might be - more justice might be done by saying that these are just a different kind of songs. Because songs like 'Behind The Lines', 'Duchess', 'Abacab', 'Dodo/Lurker' and 'Me And Sarah Jane' are masterpieces in their own right, as they are delivered here.The change that has come to songs like 'Abacab', 'Me And Sarah Jane', and 'Dodo', as compaired to the studio versions, is none less than incredible. Frankly, the Abacab album was a rather miserable experience in my oppinion, with the title track containing an absolutely pointless and longwinded instrumental outtro and the nearly off-tune keyboards of Dodo/Lurker [not to mention that this album spawned everybody's most hated Genesis song, 'Who Dunnit?'!].But in this live recording, thesse songs are completely transformed. The band plays with all the energy they lacked on the studio recordings, 'Abacab' roaring into it's completion (which was faded out on the album version!), delivering master double-guitar work as well as keaybord play and drumming. Suddenly the keabord parts of 'Dodo' swings like nothing else. 'Me And Sarah Jane' suddenly grooves along with reagae feel and a charm and at the same time loneliness the album version was completely devoid of.Similarly, 'Behind The Lines' is delivered with an energy that leaves you quite breathless once it fades into 'Duchess', which is delivered with an intensity that is impressive. On both tracks Phil delivers his very best vocal performance, and even though both tracks were great on the Duke album, these versions outrank them in any way. Also the version of 'Turn It On Again' is very impressive - somewhat different than the album version in arrangement, Phil's vocal isn't perfect, but this is compensated by the explosiveness of this performance of the track. Also 'Misunderstanding', never a favorite, is presented in a version better than the album version. Also, the only song from ... And Then There Were Three ..., 'Follow You Follow Me' is played in a lovely version (recorded in 1980).The only older song on the regular set of this recording is the medley featuring 'In The Cage' and keyboard solos from 'Cinema Show', 'Riding The Scree', 'The Colony Of Slippermen (Raven)' and finally a complete version of 'Afterglow'. This is by many considered on of the best live performances from the entire Gensis career, and not without reason. 'In The Cage' is one of Phil's trademark vocal performances, from the frantic, panicked sound of the main part of the song, to the soaring mid section. Anyone who have watched the concert video from the 1983/84 tour (sadly deleted) will remember the stage at this point being covered in a bright white light, focusing on Phil standing on a glass platform above the scene - most spectacular, and performed with a power and intensity I have experienced from no other band. The instrumental medley is crafted with and incredible skill, one breathtaking solo flow into the next, and you won't notice the transition if you fon't know the tracks. Finally, the frantic 'Raven' solo fades into the beautiful 'Afterglow', here delivered in probably the most beautiful version ever. Phil's vocal is beyond believe, and the musical outro is much more powerfull than the old version. I would give almost anything to have experienced this myself!A note on the track-list. The show has been partly re-mixed, as the original set-list was as follows: Behind The Lines / Duchess / The Lamb Lies Down On Boadway - Dodo/Lurker - Abacab - Carpet Crawlers - Me And Sarah Jane - Misunderstanding - No Reply At All - Firth Of Fifth - Man On The Corner - Who Dunnit? - In The Cage / Cinema Show/Riding The Scree/Raven / Afterglow - Turn It On Again - Dance On A Volcano/Drum Sole/Los Endos - I Know What I Like.Sadly, they've left out so many highlights from the show. 'Firth Of Fifth' and 'Dance On A Volcano/Los Endos' from this show are among the best versions ever (the former available on the somewhat rare compilation 'Turn It On Again - best of 1981-83' (NOT the new compilation, an old release, CD from 1991)). 'Man On The Corner' has become available on the Archive 2 (and is stunning), 'No Reply At All' is available from the Savoy show the following night on the same boxset (and is superb). 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' was played in probably the best version ever on this tour, but is not available, the same is sadly true for 'Carpet Crawlers' and 'I Know What I Like'.A note on the recording dates. The major set is taken from the Nassau Colliseum november 29 show. 'Follow You, Follow Me' is probably recorded in the Lyceum, London, may 7 1980, and 'Turn It On Again' might be recorded in Birmingham, december 23 1981.There exist two versions of this recording, why Amazon only list the original U.S. version (featuring 5 superb B-sides) is a wonder to me; in Europe the remaster version (similar to original UK release) is available everywhere. I can recommend both versions, but the remaster includes a stunning recording of 'One For The Vine' (from Drury Lane, London, may 5 1980), a fantastic recording of 'The Fountain Of Salmacis' (from 1978, possibly from Houston) and a medley of 'It' and the instrumental parts of 'Watcher Of The Skies'. All live recordings I wouldn't miss."
Get the British version!
Michael Slusher | NM, United States | 02/14/2005
"The UK releases is still in print and if you only plan to get one of the two, that is the one to get. I had that version on cassette (I borrowed it from a girlfriend and forgot to return it after we broke up - how SHE got the import is still a mystery to me) and wore the thing out! I had to track down the CD and it was easier than I thought:
Go to http://www.amazon.co.uk and enter your normal login that you use for the US Amazon site. Then search on "three sides live" and presto! They take your regular credit card, and although free shipping is not an option to the US, the conversion rate brings the total to about $26 - still a bargain, since you can't even GET the US release anymore and you are getting FOUR sides live with this one anyway ;-)"
The second disc (sides 3 and 4) make this album worth it.
Michael Slusher | 08/07/1999
"This is a rather schizophrenic album--the stark differences between the "pop" Genesis and "prog" Genesis are most apparent on this double disc live album. The first disc is all devoted to 1978--1981 material, with some of the better "Abacab" songs and good "Duke" songs making better live appearances. (The title track is much improved from the sterile studio version, and "Dodo/Lurker" is excellent.) However, to an old Genesis fan like me, the second disc is absolutely thrilling--after starting with a bland version of "Misunderstanding," it goes into a full blown version of "In the Cage," an extremely energetic reprise of instrumental Lamb sections and the end of "The Cinema Show," ending with "Afterglow." And the brilliant rendition of "One For The Vine" is worth the price of admission alone, as well as the tight performance of "Fountain of Salmacis." All these progressive songs were sung at Phil's vocal peak, where he finally was confident enough to deliver to goods, which makes Peter's raspy vocals pale by comparison . . . it's sad that many of these songs were never heard from again in a live Genesis performance."


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Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded Dahl-Nygaard Prize
Written by Sue Gee
Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, is the 2015 recipient of the Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize, considered the most prestigious prize in object-oriented computer science.
Awarded annually to two individuals that have made significant technical contributions to the field of Object-Orientation, this prize is administered by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) and is presented at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming.
Established in 2005 it honors the pioneering work on object-orientation of Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard who, designed Simula, the original object-oriented language and are remembered as "colorful characters".
Dahl and Nygaard at the time of Simula's development
There is the story of a new employee at the NCC (the Norwegian Computing Center) running into the telephone exchange to report that
"there are two men fighting in front of a blackboard on the first floor corridor!".
The operator listened for a few moments and then said,
"Relax - it's only Ole-Johan (Dahl) and Kristen (Nygaard) discussing Simula!"
To be eligible for the senior prize an individual must have made a
"significant long-term contribution to the field of Object-Orientation"
and this year it goes to Bjarne Stoustrup for the design, implementation and evolution of the C++ programming language. You can't argue with that.
C++, which was developed at A&T Bell Labs by Stroustrup, was strongly influenced by Simula and Stroustrup is on record as saying:
"My initial aim for C++ was a language where I could write programs that were as elegant as Simula programs, yet as efficient as C programs."
The first C++ language reference manual was published internally at Bell Labs in 1984, and the C++ language was released commercially in 1985. Having become the dominant object-oriented programming language in the 1990s. C++ is still widely used and the ISO C++ 14 standard was approved in August 2014. Just in case you didn't know!
The second edition of Stroustrup's Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ was published in September 2014, brought up to date to cover C++11 and C++14.
This year's Junior Prize was awarded to postdoctoral researcher Alex Summers who has worked at Imperial College London and at ETH Zurich. According to the AITO:
Alex's research contributions span the fundamentals of Computer Science (the Curry-Howard isomorphism for classical logic), the design of programming languages (committed types for object initialization), models underpinning program reasoning (invariants for program verification, permission logics, the connection between implicit dynamic frames and separation logics), new approaches to reasoning (considerate reasoning, abstract read permissions), and tool development for reasoning.
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In the summer of 2010, I traveled through the French Riviera, looking for inspiration. When walking the narrow streets of the old district of Antibes, I looked up and saw this striking view. This painting is based on the photograph I took at that moment. I later learned that a horse head such as this marks a shop that sells horse meat!


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Ethics commission or Integrity Commission?
by @ifaisa | Oct 4, 2017 | General, Integrity Commission | 0 comments
The problem at the core of the cancer of corruption currently choking the prospects of peace, progress and prosperity in South Africa is that the incidence of the malady increases in direct proportion to the chances of not being caught.
Ismail Lagardien, writing for Daily Maverick, raises some vital questions and interesting comparative law in his gloomy piece on an ethics inquiry.
In the SA context , it is important to distinguish between a commission of inquiry and a standing constitutional commission such as the SAHRC or IEC. It is for this reason that the latter gets the capital "C" and the former the small "c" in the headline to this comment. The standing commissions have powers given to them by law; they cannot simply be closed down or diverted from the mandates given them in the Constitution. They are answerable and account to Parliament and not the executive branch of government.
A commission of inquiry on the other hand is in essence an instrument of policy, called into existence by the executive, on terms determined by the executive and confined to the ever variable mandate given it by the executive branch of government. The findings of a commission of inquiry bind no one; they are essentially advice to the executive on complex or controversial issues, advice given on a "take it or leave it" basis.
The ethics commission referred to by Lagardien falls into the latter category, a body capable in the context of corruption to expose a great deal about which it would not have the power to do anything due to its essentially advisory nature.
The problem at the core of the cancer of corruption currently choking the prospects of peace, progress and prosperity in SA is that the incidence of the malady increases in direct proportion to the chances of not being caught. The culture of impunity abroad in the land fuels the increase in corruption, the diversion of professionals into questionable activity a la KPMG and the burgeoning quantum of the theft from the poor that is at the heart of much of the corruption in the public procurement system at present.
With the Hawks in such disarray that they are not even able to file their annual report to Parliament timeously, coupled with the general state of dysfunction in the criminal justice administration, it is small wonder that the ever greater numbers of those who have become corrupt have embarked on a multibillion-rand feeding frenzy. This proves that when the anti-corruption cat is away, the corrupt mice will not only play but also proliferate, with consequences that threaten the continuation of the constitutional project in SA.
As far as the substantive law against corruption in SA is concerned, two points need to be made. First, there is nothing wrong with the breadth and scope of PRECCA – the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, our premier law on the topic. Definitions are sufficiently broad to cut down wriggle room and prescribed punishments are a suitable deterrent. Second, while the Scorpions were allowed to function in an operationally and structurally independent space as a unit within the NPA, the efficiency of the anti-corruption machinery of state in SA was not questioned. Indeed, the devastatingly effective investigations of the TravelGate fraudsters and of private citizens Schabir Shaik and Jacob Zuma, among other politically well connected players in the corruption space, actually sealed the fate of the Scorpions. They were dissolved before they were able to go after those who think that "it's our turn to eat" actually means "it is our turn to steal from the public purse".
The weakness of the Scorpions that will have to be properly addressed, if the SA anti-corruption entity is to be a future success, was their vulnerability to being closed down by a simple majority in Parliament. As mere creatures of an ordinary statute, the Scorpions could be, and were, closed down by the ANC majority elected in 2009. Had the Scorpions been housed in a constitutional commission under Chapter Nine of the Constitution (like the Auditor General, the Public Protector and the SAHRC) it would have required a two-thirds majority to close them down as summarily as they were in fact dissolved.
In these circumstances it is appropriate to give consideration to the establishment of an Integrity Commission under Chapter Nine as a means of addressing the culture of impunity and of eradicating the unacceptable prevalence of corruption in SA.
The mandate of the Integrity Commission should cover all aspects of the challenge of corruption from prevention and combating to investigation and prosecution before the criminal courts. Public education, dedicated specialised investigators, properly trained prosecutors and forensic experts are needed, full-time, to cope with the crisis that the corrupt have created, a crisis which "threatens to fell at the knees virtually everything we hold dear", as the Constitutional Court has warned.
This innovation requires a constitutional amendment by Parliament and appropriate enabling legislation. The National Assembly has a Constitutional Review Committee which is currently mulling the creation of an Integrity Commission. Accountability Now has made submissions to the committee and has published, inter alia on its website, the necessary amendment and draft legislation for consideration by the committee and all who are concerned that corruption is strangling constitutionalism in SA.
Lagardien does not touch on the difference between a commission and a Commission in general nor the contrast between an ethics commission of inquiry and an Integrity Commission under Chapter Nine. While there is no silver bullet solution to corruption, it is submitted that the proposed Integrity Commission is the best practice solution available for SA, given the current dispensation and the criteria laid down by the courts for effective and efficient ant-corruption machinery of state, criteria that bind the state but are currently honoured in the breach due to the character of the Zuma administration. DM
Paul Hoffman
Article published in the Daily Maverick on 4 October 2017


If GSW win game 4 do you think they win big Game 5?
You admit you are fanboy biased right?
Then they said Heat in 6.
Then they said Cavs sweep?
CBS didn't even include us in the polls.
How do you assume the crowd is not going to be fired up? This is the first conference finals for the city, 6th court player will show up, I guarantee that.
You posted that like you believe Kerber is going to log on to covers and read it.
I believe what shrimpy said.
Minus the start playing part of your statement. This is why I'd guess its a head/neck injury. If it was life threatening, my assumption is there would have been more urgency in getting him out of there.
Nothing should take this long (heart attack, head injury etc.), just scoop, and go.


In a small saucepan combine sugar, water, vanilla seeds and pod. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Let steep for 15 minutes. Strain mixture and discard vanilla bean.
Pour 1 cup almond milk, 3/4 cup brandy and half of the vanilla syrup into a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake cocktail until ice cold and then carefully pour into rocks glasses. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Garnish with nutmeg and enjoy!
**What makes this sing: This is the classic hair of the dog in New Orleans. Most bartenders have their own version, but any of them will do the trick.
**Want to really indulge? Whip some cream up with a little superfine sugar and dollop on top. Want to cut some calories? Try making this with almond milk.


Presentation: 1 hour 30 min.
read the 5.7. Imagine your business. Business Model Canvas, and watch the short video presentation of the business model canvas.
using sticky notes, prepare the presentation of a project / business idea (choose a simple one that people from your group might be familiar with!) following the nine areas from the canvas; use at least two type of clients, so that people can understand how clients can become key partners or provide key resources to the project, when other clients' segment is discussed on the canvas.
Exemplify the usage of the business model canvas with the project / business idea you prepared before the workshop. Present how the model works for at least two different clients' segments. Show how the nine elements are related and explain each component: clients / customer segments,value propositions, customer relationships, channels, revenue streams, key activities, key resources, key partners, and cost structure.
Split the participants in groups of five, and give each group a flip-chart paper.
Ask each group to prepare the flip-chart paper with a business model canvas.
Ask each group to come up with an idea of project they would like to implement in the community / in their school / in their neighborhood, and to prepare a presentation of the project using the business model canvas.
Each group has to present in 5 to 7 min. their project idea.
You should give feedback on each project idea. Focus not on the idea of the project, but on how the project was planned using the business model canvas.
How did your project idea develop during the exercise?
What are the new aspects / new ideas or the new questions you raised in regards to your project using the business model canvas?
What can you say about the sustainability of your project, looking to the business model you developed?
For step 6., to make it easier for the participants or to shorten the exercise, you can prepare one or more short descriptions of different projects, and ask them to translate those projects in the business model canvas.


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152: Permission to Evolve w/ Steph Gaudreau
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I am so honored to have Steph Gaudreau back on the Grace & Grit Podcast to expand the conversation around "Embracing Resistance", which is the theme on the podcast this month.
I have watched Steph's business and message spread like wildfire over the past few years, and I know that the growth she has experienced has not come without a fair share of challenges.
In this episode, Steph graciously shares what it took for her to move through resistance along the path to growth, how she gave herself permission to evolve, even when it felt there was a lot at stake, and how she gracefully handles resistance when it shows up in her own health journey.
Lots of good stuff here! Have a listen and share your thoughts.
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Steph Gaudreau's mission is to help 40-something women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out.
She's a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo.
Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner's Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Her latest book, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne).
Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. To date, it's had over 1.5 million downloads. She's also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women's Strength Summit.
Steph's an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications.
In addition, Steph's an international speaker on the subjects of nutrition and strength training, giving talks at PaleoFX, AHS, and AHS New Zealand. Steph's been recognized in the media by publications such as Outside Magazine, Triathlete and SELF, has appeared on ESPN Radio, and her blog was named by Greatist as one of its 15 Must-Read Health and Happiness blogs of 2016. Scroll down to see more media appearances.
She lives in San Diego with the loves of her life, her Scottish husband Z and her cat Ellie. When she's not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her garden, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, getting her ass kicked at Brazilian jiu jitsu, and reading about how to be a better human.
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On November 2, FNS approved Georgia's request to operate a D-SNAP Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Crisp, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Laurens, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Randolph, Seminole, Sumter, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Turner and Worth counties starting on November 7. FNS also approved Georgia's request to allow for the expungement of unused D-SNAP benefits 90 days after the date the benefits become available. The waiver will take effect upon approval and will remain in effect until all benefits issued for the disaster benefit period of November 7, 2018, through November 19, 2018, have been expunged. Look for specific information regarding D-SNAP eligibility and operations on state web pages or call the State's D-SNAP hotline.
If you need assistance with or a replacement of your EBT card, please call the State's EBT customer service number at: 888-421-3281.
On November 2, 2018, FNS approved Georgia's request to allow schools in Baker, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Seminole, Calhoun, Clay, Laurens, Randolph, Sumter, Tift and Turner counties to serve meals that do not meet the school lunch and breakfast program meal pattern requirements, effective October 25 through November 30, 2018.
On November 2, 2018, FNS approved Georgia's request to allow schools in Baker, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Seminole, Calhoun, Clay, Laurens, Randolph, Sumter, Tift and Turner counties to use the same location and count and claim school lunch and breakfast meals separately for more than one school, effective October 25, 2018, through November 30, 2018.
Note: Retailers may need as much as 24-36 hours to make changes that will allow for sale of hot foods.
On Oct. 17, 2018, FNS approved Georgia's request to waive timely reporting of food loss to households in 92 impacted counties listed below. This waiver approval will allow households in these affected counties to make a request for replacement of SNAP benefits through Oct. 31, 2018.
On Oct. 14, 2018, Georgia issued remaining October SNAP benefits.
FNS approved the State's request to issue automatic, mass replacements of 45 percent of September 2017 SNAP benefits to SNAP households in the following 71 counties. The mass replacement benefits were issued to replace food that was purchased with September 2017 SNAP benefits that was destroyed due to the disaster. Replacement benefits were automatically issued to all regular SNAP households in the affected counties, by means of an automated credit to their Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards. Households that had already received replacement benefits based on a signed affidavit of loss were excluded from the mass replacement process. Furthermore, if a client submitted an affidavit after receiving a mass replacement and requested an amount greater than the replacement benefit amount received, the household was only entitled to receive the difference between the requested amount and the amount previously replaced. Replacement benefits cannot exceed the maximum monthly allotment for the household.
FNS approved the State's request to extend the time period households had to report food loss through individual affidavit. Households had until Oct. 2, 2017, to submit such affidavits to their local offices.
Due to the approach of Hurricane Irma, Georgia issued all remaining September 2017 SNAP benefits, early, on Sept. 10, 2017, to clients statewide.
On October 20, FNS approved the State of Georgia's request to extend Hurricane Irma-related waivers in 4 counties that were set to expire on October 20. These waivers applied to schools and residential child care institutions that operated the NSLP and SBP. The 4 counties were: Camden, Chatham, Glynn, and Hall counties. These waivers were previously approved by FNS on September 16 and 29. All students in these 4 counties in GA could continue to receive free school meals through the National School Lunch Program through October 31. Schools will be reimbursed at the free rate for all meals served.
-- All students in affected disaster areas in Georgia continued to receive free school meals through the National School Lunch Program through October 20. Schools will be reimbursed at the free rate for all meals served.
--Schools were able to serve meals through October 20 that did not meet the menu planning or meal pattern requirements for schools and institutions in the affected areas.
-- All students in affected disaster areas in Georgia were able to enjoy free school meals through the National School Lunch Program through Sept. 29, 2017.
-- Schools were able to serve meals through Sept. 29, 2017, that did not meet the menu planning or meal pattern requirements for schools and institutions in the affected areas.
-- Schools had the option to operate the NSLP's Seamless Summer Option during the school year when schools had unanticipated closures.
-- Schools not directly impacted by the hurricane may have used their commodity foods to provide plated meals to shelters or other school food service operations.
-- Other flexibilities included: allowing two schools to utilize the same location and claim meals separately through NSLP and SBP; and several waivers and extensions of timelines related to administrative and operational activities.
FNS approved the State's request for timely reporting of SNAP food losses and requests for replacement benefits in the following counties: Berrien, Cook, Crisp, Doughertry, Turner and Wilcox. Affected households in the above counties had until Feb. 11, 2017, to report SNAP food loss and request replacement benefits due to the tornadoes and severe weather that impacted the area from January 21 though January 22. Replacements were authorized for the amount of the loss, not to exceed the monthly allotment for the household.
If you think you may be eligible for disaster food assistance in your State, please contact your local State office.


Fast growing computing power on commodity parallel hardware makes it both an opportunity and a challenge to use modern hardware for large-scale data management. While GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) computing is conceptually an excellent match for spatial data management which is both data and computing intensive, the complexity of multi-dimensional spatial indexing and query processing techniques has made it difficult to port existing serial algorithms to GPUs. In this study, we propose a parallel primitives based strategy for spatial data management. We present data parallel designs for polygon decomposition, quadtree construction and spatial query processing. These designs can be realized on both GPUs and multi-core CPUs as well as future generation hardware when parallel libraries that support the primitives are available. Using a large-scale geo-referenced species distribution dataset as an example, the GPU-based implementations can achieve up to 190X speedups over serial CPU implementations and 14X speedups over 16-core CPU implementations for polygon decomposition, which is the most computing intensive module in the end-to-end spatial data management solution we have provided. For quadtree constructions and spatial range/polygon query modules, which are more data intensive, the speedups over single and multi-core CPUs are up to 27X and 2X, respectively, depending on workloads. Comparing with a similar technique on polygon decomposition that is realized using a native parallel programming language, our parallel primitives based implementation is up to 3X faster on the species distribution dataset. The results may suggest that simplicity and efficiency can be achieved simultaneously using the data parallel design strategy by identifying the inherent data parallelisms in application domains.


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Label: Ponderosa Music Records
Website: https://www.rickykej.com
https://www.stewartcopeland.net
This year, there was quite a buzz about Divine Tides from the Stewart Copeland and Ricky Kej collaboration. Stewart is a renowned drummer with The Police and many other projects over the years. Ricky Kej has made his impressions in the new age realm with award winning releases. I was about to experience what all the excitement was about…
Divine Tides brings the color of humanity and all its cultures into the album covers artwork. It is one of the more imaginative, eye-catching works of art I have viewed this year.
The nine tracks encompassing this recording is a new age world montage with superb vocals from a range of talented individuals, including Rasika Shekar, Varijashree Venugopal, Sangeeta Kaur, Vidhi Sharma, Salim Merchant, and Charanraj MR. These are the lead vocalist on the tracks.
There are several other key contributors on backing vocals, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs on "A Prayer," which is a fantastic track. It is full of uplifting energy and color, much like the artwork depicted on the cover. I have to say, even though I could not understand the language they were singing in, I found it very enjoyable and spiritually moving. The entire album is a masterpiece of new age world, and I would expect it to win a Grammy in the new age or world category for 2021. I have heard some incredible music this year that would be difficult to displace on my top 10 for the year in the new age genre; however, I have to say this one just moved into the #1 spot for me.
The previously mentioned attributes, such as the artwork, is the first aspect then from there are the superb arrangements from Ricky Kej and the incredible percussive elements from Stewart Copeland. Stewart mentioned that he harnessed his aggressive drum playing into a gentle beauty. That was quite a transition for him, and I can imagine a life-changing experience.
The production of each track is outstanding; it is bright, flows well, and gets your attention from start to finish. The musicianship is unparalleled. The CD comes housed in a tri-fold cardboard case with a booklet in the adjacent sleeve to the clear CD tray, which has a picture of the percussion instruments with a kaleidoscope of color emerging from it. That description would express all the music and artwork in this package and how it intersects into a beautiful work of all-encompassing art.
Here is the message from Kej regarding the title: ONE WITH SELF, ONE WITH TIME, ONE WITH OUR PLANET. Is that the reason we are all here? Is it to become one, merge with our fellow humans, and find peace and harmony for all? Imagine a world with no wars, no starvation, or diseases?
It could happen if we listen to these enlightened artists and follow the music to realize a new reality; we all can have it.
The Divine Tides of nature, the planet, humanity, and the innate goodness within our hearts will help us find our way back to oneness. Together with all the elements around us, we can positively influence life now and in the future. This music is awe-inspiring, and it delivers the truth and spirit of us all directly to our ears and then to our souls. Listen to Divine Tides, and I am confident you will agree.
Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck-New Age Music Reviews Founder
1. Wonders Of Life
2. Himalayas
3. Our Home
4. Art Of Devotion
5. Pastoral India
6. I Am Change (2021 Remastered)
7. A Prayer
8. Gandhi
By Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck at December 17, 2021
Labels: Divine Tides, Indie Music Reviews, Music Reviews, MuzikMan.net, New Age Music Reviews, New Age World Reviews, Stewart Copeland and Ricky Kej