Working on your computer will never be smooth at all times. Especially when searching the net, it is very possible for you to come across different errors which you have no idea about. Vb Runtime Libraries Windows 7 is not a thing to worry about since it is a normal thing. There is no reason to stress because this only tells you that there's something that requires attention or fixation. All you should do is to investigate so as to learn why an error is happening. Learning the root of the problem will help you prevent any spread of damage.
It's possible that you may encounter this Vb Runtime Libraries Windows 7 if you have a faulty driver or an incompatible application, but there are lots of other causes other than that. Nothing is better than knowing how to troubleshoot it yourself. In this way, you can save more resources and don't have to worry about having a new device. This article will offer you a highlight of the usual computer errors and the solutions to fix it, you could find it below.
Regardless of what operating system a computer has, this Vb Runtime Libraries Windows 7 can happen. Simple computer processes such as ESC and Ctrl + Alt + Del will not help to eliminate this error. The problem is either a recent change of the software of hardware on your computer. The best thing to do is open the computer in safe mode so that you are able to uninstall the software recently added, also take away any hardware devices attached to it.
Some other computer error lies to the RAM space of your PC. In some cases the RAM space is not enough since we like to install new apps that need a huge memory. Due to this, a low virtual memory problem may arise. The main cause of its error will serve as your basis on which among the two troubleshoot options you must take into consideration. Adding up an additional RAM space is among the solution you can have and this is by adding RAM chips. Having said that, if your RAM is still workable, then you just need to boost the size of your page file. All you need to do to make the procedure work is to go over the advance system setting via user interface.
In order for some programs to run, certain files are required. If these files went missing, this may serve as the main reason why DLL files gets lost. The common cause of these errors are virus. Setting up a new and updated good antivirus will do well for you. If in case the problem doesn't fall to existence of some virus, you must take into consideration another solution which is to reinstall system file or software that is not running. One thing that you need to make sure when the solution needs you to download something is that to be vigilant about the reputation of the host. The rate of success that downloaded files have isn't always 100% so failure can sometimes occur.
It will always be a great thing if you recognize how to troubleshoot such computer errors. Apart from the benefit of not spending money, it will also enhance your technical skills. It is now easy to solve those Vb Runtime Libraries Windows 7 on your own the next time they pop up.


The unrefined gray blurs might cause some confusion, still, it's decent enough.
It seems like there are random debris mixed within the orb, why is that?
Where do you see these? you mean the dark grey areas?
Yeah, judging your reaction I realize it's probably empty spaces with some low opacity lightning.
Yeah just areas with low opacity, kinda like fill in spots, didnt wanna crowd the whole thing with lightning so some areas are just blank.


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The article investigates the way in which the author of Revelation composed the seven seals: Formal elements group the seals in smaller patterns. It then explains how this reading of the composition contributes to the process of interpretation by analysing the Rider on the white horse as first seal. Other aspects of the author's compositional skills are brought into discussion in a last part of the article where the meaning of the Rider on the white horse and the ambiguity of the symbols are discussed.


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Microsoft® Office 2010 Group Policy Deployment
How to deploy Microsoft Office 2010 by using Group Policy computer startup scripts?
You can use Group Policy to assign computer startup scripts to deploy Microsoft Office 2010. The startup script can be written in any language that is supported by the client computer. Windows Script Host-supported languages, such as VBScript and Jscript,, and command files are the most common languages used to write scripts. Leverages Active Directory Domain Services (AD-DS) handles the elevation of privileges required for application installation. You can use a similar scripting process to apply security updates and service packs for each computer in the domain or organizational unit. Group Policy startup scripts are a solution for organizations that do not have a desktop management application, such as Microsoft System Center Essentials or System Center Configuration Manager, but that needs an automated way to deploy Office 2010 to many computers.
The different deployment options for Microsoft Office 2010 are as follows:
Presentation virtualization (Remote desktop services)
A simple way to deploy Office 2010 is through the network share. You can share files quickly and efficiently over your home network by setting up a network share. It is very simple to deploy Office 2010 with network share. You need to create a network installation point and copy the content of the Office CD onto the network share. It is easier for smaller IT departments to implement, as it needs only network share and network access as requirement and is highly flexible too.
You can use configuration management software, such as Microsoft System Center Essentials and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, to deploy Office 2010 applications. The default settings can be customized and configured to suit your needs. It helps to manage network bandwidth easier. You can have a centralized control over the network. Monitoring, reporting and issue resolution, can be done over the entire network.
It means thinking of the client in terms of a user's needs--deploying to an individual, not to a client machine. You can use Application Virtualization as a deployment option to allow users to run Office 2010 applications on their workstations. You can control application usage and license metering, which can help to ensure compliance. It allows multiple versions of Office to run on the workstation and can run both virtual applications and installed applications.
Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services can be used as a deployment option to allow users to operate the Office 2010 applications from their workstations. Terminal Services is run on a shared server and presents the application user interface on a remote system, such as a local workstation. It provides thin-client support and reduces network traffic since only the keyboard, mouse, and display information are transmitted.
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Research pioneers across the nation are working to unlock the vast hidden potential of stem cells, the body's building blocks with the power to transform into nearly any kind of cell. This year leading investigators from top institutions converged in Ithaca to present their research, exchange ideas, and discuss the wide frontier of stem cell research at Cornell University's Third Annual Stem Cell Symposium.
Speakers from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and the University of British Columbia joined faculty and students from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine and other institutions on October 30, 2010 at the Alice Statler Auditorium for an intensive day of presentations, posters, and discussion. The event included three lecture sessions and a poster competition for students and post-docs offering prizes of up to $1,000 to the three best presentations. Over 180 people attended, including faculty from the College of Veterinary Medicine, members of their labs, researchers from outside institutions, and industry scientists, collectively embodying the symposium's goals to stimulate exchange between researchers inside and outside Cornell, enhance interactions within Cornell, and promote stem cell research and education.
Samantha Palmaccio, senior undergraduate student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received the first place award for $1000 for best poster presentation. "My project revolves around the Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis, the theory that a very small population of cells with stem cell characteristics exist in cancer tumors," says Palmaccio, who conducted the study in the lab of Dr. Nikitin.
"Cancer Stem Cells can resist traditional cancer therapies, so although tumors might initially regress after treatment, if only a few of these cells survive they can completely regenerate the tumor. My work looks at a pathway to potentially regulate Cancer Stem Cells, which if manipulated can also be used to kill them. We're hoping to find ways to target all cancer cells in a tumor for a longer lasting, more effective treatment.
The second award ($600) went to Ying Zhang (Tudorita Tumbar Lab) in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics for his presentation on the role of GATA6 in progenitor cell survival, proliferation and differentiation in mouse skin epithelium. The third award ($400) went to Bo Ri Seo (Claudia Fischbach-Teschl Lab) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering for her work on innate potential of obesity-associated adipose stromal cells in breast tumor stiffness. The prize money will support training activities, purchase of lab reagents, specialty books or computers, and travel to scientific conferences on stem cell research. The three winners also had the opportunity to attend dinner with the symposium speakers.
The three lecture sessions each centered on a different area of stem cell research. The first featured embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells, which have the greatest potential to become any kind of cell. Dr. Rick Young from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT spoke about his research on the factors influencing how genes program embryonic stem cells differentiation. Dr. Angela Christiano of Columbia University's Center for Human Genetics followed with a talk on using adult stem cells to form keratinocytes: cells that make up the skin, hair, nails, and mucus linings in the esophagus and mouth.
The second session focused on the use of stem cells from adult tissues. Harvard Medical School's Dr. Amy Wagers spoke on the use of skeletal muscle stem cells to repair muscle damage and treat disease. Dr. Peter Lansdorp of the University of British Columbia Cancer Research Centre spoke about non-random segregation of sister chromatids, which may represent a key feature of stem cell division.
The relationship between stem cells and cancer provided the locus of the last session, featuring Cornell's Nikitin and Dr. Julien Sage of Stanford University School of Medicine. In his talk Nikitin overviewed applications of genetically modified mice to address the role of stem cell compartments in cancer formation. He also discussed the promise of microRNAs for developing therapeutics targeting stem cell properties of cancer cells. Sage spoke about role of tumor suppressor genes of retinoblastoma family in adult stem cells and shown how abrogation of cell regulation provided by these genes may lead to cancer.
In just three years the annual symposium has already established a history of garnering a rich diversity of contributors. Past presenters hailed from Harvard, Yale, University of Washington, Baylor College of Medicine, and many of the top medical and cancer research institutes. Topics covered have included the mechanisms by which stem cells regulate and renew themselves, the unique characteristics and uses of adult tissue stem cells derived from hair, skin, lungs, mammary glands, and brains, and the application of stem cells in creating and repairing tissues.
The greatest potential of stem cells lies not only in their latent transformative powers, but in their myriad applications to human and animal medicine. Stem cell research may have a major impact in understanding and preventing cancer and birth defects, treating diseases such as Parkinsons, diabetes, heart problems, and arthritis, and handling injuries to almost any part of the body. Cross-pollination of ideas and discoveries will help the scientific and medical communities move towards these goals. Cornell's Stem Cell Research Program will continue to sponsor activities including symposiums, stem cell seminars, and research progress reports, all of which will help make these valuable exchanges possible.
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After thirteen years of service at Cornell University, wildlife specialist Dr. Noha Abou-Madi has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. As a member of Section of Zoological Medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences, she has seen the wildlife specialty within the College grow over the years. Services offered by this section have expanded since its inception, and now include teaching, research, clinical service, and consultations involving all aspects of conservation medicine.
Abou-Madi earned her DVM in 1984 and her MSc in Veterinary Clinical Sciences in 1986 from the University of Montreal, and completed residencies in Veterinary Anesthesiology and Zoological and Wildlife Medicine at the University of Florida from 1986-1991. She joined Cornell in 1997 after working at the Busch Gardens Inc. in Tampa, Florida for five years and became a Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine in 2004.
Along with her colleagues, Abou-Madi is teaching one of the most extensive curricula in zoological medicine in North America, offering courses ranging from Conservation Medicine to Amphibian and Reptile Medicine and Surgery. She shares clinical duties at the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center and at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo with Dr. George V. Kollias, Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife. These ties provide unique opportunities to teach the practice of conservation medicine for free-ranging and captive animals.
At the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center, graduate and undergraduate students, residents, and interns provide state-of-the-art veterinary care to injured native wild animals, under the direction of the clinicians. Students and residents benefit from the rare opportunity to participate in the care of endangered and threatened animals housed at the zoo, including programs for red pandas, Asian elephants, snow leopards, and Humboldt penguins.
Ties to the zoo have fostered Abou-Madi's own continued work in conservation medicine. After the loss of one of the zoo's baby elephant to the Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus, one of the leading causes of juvenile mortality in Asian elephants, Abou-Madi began an intensive research effort studying the disease that may one day lead to a greater understanding of the virus and the possible development of a vaccine.
From teaching and clinical work to specialized zoological training and outreach, Abou-Madi will continue expanding the College's contributions to wildlife and conservation in her new role as Senior Lecturer.


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Ben Lummis , Music Video – 2004
from the single One Road (2021)
In 2004 teens across Aotearoa were stealing flip phones off their parents and using all their credit to vote for Ben Lummis to win New Zealand Idol. All was not in vain with Ben Lummis releasing 'They Can't Take That Away' after he won the inaugural singing competition. From his first audition with Brian McKnight's 'Back at One' to this track, Lummis' voice captured a nation. In just five months, the former teacher aide soared to the top of NZ's music charts, with 'They Can't Take That Away' spending seven weeks at number one. After a national tour with Idol singers, Lummis released his debut album One Road in mid 2004.
It was the best experience of my life. Lots of great memories [which] also opened a lot of doors and opportunities for myself that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't on the show. Everything comes with its ups and downs …. you take the good with the bad, the positives with the negatives. But no, I thoroughly enjoyed my time on there and I wouldn't be where I am today, or the person I am today, if it wasn't for that part of my journey in life.
– Ben Lummis on appearing on New Zealand Idol, The Spinoff, 19 September 2018
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The Turning Of The Tide
Since mid-June 1918, the 11th Battalion had occupied the front line in the St. Floris sector. Casualties had been slight in July with just 2 Other Ranks killed and 3 wounded, however for all this stagnation, the enemy was still very much active.
The dark days of the March Offensive behind them, the Battalion had been in and out of the line the previous weeks, occupied in much training. The War Diary noted a routine of training and fatigues, intermingled with 'recreational training' Lewis gun drills and 'forming up at night.'
By the 6th August after a farewell Church Parade at the training camp at Linghem, they were back in the line behind the village of La Lacque, north west of Bethune. Upon their arrival, they remained in Divisional Reserve, but all around them, the front line was buzzing with activity. Something was going to happen soon.
The intent training of the previous weeks was the preliminary stage to the next great Allied offensive on the Western Front. Upon arrival in the front line, the brigade bombers had already pushed out on reconnaissance and had established the enemy strength on the left of the village. Soon orders were received for them to move in the early hours of the 8th August into their frontal positions.
"Surplus personnel" were left behind in La Lacque as at 2.ooam, the Battalion moved from the Assembly Point to form and advance guard to the 61st Division. Reports duly came in from the bombers that the enemy appeared to have retired from their positions but they could not accurately confirm this. The Battalion now waited for the order to advance.
At 6.20am, the Battalion set off. "Bn. proceeds 'over the top'" wrote the entry in the Battalion War Diary, "to get in touch with enemy, going through the 2/6th R.Waricks. The lads occupied the enemy front line . Le Sart occupied without resistance at 7.30am. D Coy and A Coy on the right established a line approx. K32 - K27 (map references) C Coy and B Coy on left held line approx. K27 - K28. Loxton Farm was occupied by enemy"
Here the enemy chose to fight. B Company tried unsuccessfully to press forward to take it, but it was hopeless without artillery support. 7 Other Ranks were wounded and despite a supporting barrage that lasted for seven minutes, the enemy held firm. "Touch was kept with the emery throughout the day but he did not retire further. No counter attack by enemy. Active patrolling by all Coys and 2 Coys of the 9/N.F. (Northumberland Fusiliers) who had relieved B and C Coys during the night."
The enemy were still holding their sections of the line between 'Loxton House' and 'Flagon Farm' and there was much movement on the road towards 'Loxton Farm', but just after midnight the Battalion was relieved by 2/8th Worcesters.
The first day of the battle was not one of great glory for the Battalion, but they had continued in a long line of tradition in 'being there' on the first day of yet another great offensive. Here, and along the British front line, the Allies, now well recovered from the hammer blow of the German offensive, started that day in their final great push to defeat the German Armies in the field.
This was the first day of what would be later called the "Battle of the Last Hundred Days" - a campaign where more ground would be taken, more prisoners be captured and more Battle Honours be awarded than in any other campaign in the history of the British Army.


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How to Automate Enterprise Application Monitoring with Ansible – Part II
Martin Etmajer Application performance management · April 23, 2015
In the first part of this series, I shared practical advice on how to automatically deploy OneAgents into distributed enterprise applications using Ansible in less than 60 seconds. While we had conveniently assumed its presence back then, we will today address the automated installation of our Dynatrace Application Monitoring solution comprising Clients, Collectors and a Server into a production environment.
The Dynatrace Application Monitoring Architecture
Components of a Dynatrace installation: Client, Collector and Server
An installation of our Dynatrace Application Monitoring solution consists of an arbitrary number of Clients, multiple Collectors and a Server. Performance data are stored in an external Performance Warehouse database. If you want to know more about the various components, please refer to our Dynatrace Community.
With the upcoming release of Dynatrace 6.2, you have the possibility to tie together your Dynatrace installation with an existing Performance Warehouse database via a REST API which has been integrated into our Ansible deployment scripts for your convenience. In the following example, I assume the presence of a PostgreSQL database named dynatrace-pwh on a host of the same name that is accessible via the user dynatrace. Of course, you may as well choose from the many available roles on Ansible Galaxy for automatically provisioning Postgres.
Automated Deployment of Dynatrace
Now, let's have a look at how the automated installation of Dynatrace could be enforced. If you are new to Ansible, please stop now and read about the basic concepts in my previous article.
#1: Define an Ansible Inventory
#2: Define an Ansible Playbook
#3: Get Roles from Ansible Galaxy
Create a file requirements.txt with the content below and download the dependencies into the roles directory via ansible-galaxy install -p roles -r requirements.txt:
#4: Run the Ansible Playbook
Finally, we execute our playbook via ansible-playbook -i production playbook.yml. At the end of the run, Ansible will present you an overview of actions taken and any errors which have occurred:
ansible-playbook –i production playbook.yml
PLAY [dynatrace-server] *************************************************************
PLAY [dynatrace-collectors] *********************************************************
PLAY [dynatrace-clients] ************************************************************
PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************
dynatrace.example.com: ok=39 changed=25 unreachable=0   failed=0
workstation0:          ok=14 changed=13 unreachable=0   failed=0
workstation99:         ok=14 changed=13 unreachable=0   failed=0
www.example.com:       ok=25 changed=15 unreachable=0   failed=0
At this point, we have successfully deployed the Dynatrace Application Monitoring solution into a production environment and have configured it to connect to a particular Performance Warehouse database. We are now ready to receive data from the OneAgents and can almost instantaneously look at a wealth of out-of-the-box insights in a Dynatrace Client:
Example of an Out-Of-The-Box Dashboard in Dynatrace: A PurePath
Please note that the Ansible roles we used in our examples support a variety of variables whose default values you will typically want to override to suit your environment. More in-depth information on the available roles can be found in our Tutorials on Automated Deployments with Ansible.
Configuration management and deployment of a full-fledged application monitoring solution that delivers actionable insights at enterprise scale has never been easier. Keep watching out for further updates as we keep improving automated installations and configurations of our solution. If you are new to Dynatrace, check out the Dynatrace Free Trial.
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Leveraging his outstanding technical skills as a lead software engineer, Martin has been a key contributor to a number of large-scale systems across a range of industries. Martin is as passionate about great software as he is about applying Lean Startup principles to the development of products that customers love. Martin is a life-long learner who frequently speaks at international conferences and meet-ups. When not spending time with family, Martin enjoys swimming and Yoga. He holds a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, with a focus on dependable distributed real-time systems. Follow him @metmajer.
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Let's Stop Sexual Violence
Ministry of Social Development's Social Change Team have launched a new campaign aimed at helping stop sexual violence as part of the Government's broader sexual violence prevention strategy.
Are you that Some1? aims to equip young people (16-21 years) with the confidence and knowledge to safely speak up and step in to prevent sexual violence.
To develop the campaign we've pulled from overseas initiatives, and advice from contacts both in New Zealand and overseas. We've worked with a number of key people in the sexual violence prevention sector, who have provided valuable advice and feedback and helped shape the campaign and its messages. We've also worked with focus groups in the target audience to test and re-test the messages and visuals to ensure we get the approach right.
The campaign focusses on four different posters, where someone is at risk of sexual violence or unwanted sexual contact is taking place. Each poster is clear that the behaviour is not OK and prompts the bystander to safely intervene by posing the question "Are you that someone?, with the call to action on each "Let's stop sexual violence".
You can also view and download all four posters here to www.msd.govt.nz/areyouthatsome1
Here is one of the four posters available
The overall aim of the campaign is to:
Create awareness and engage with the target audience about what constitutes sexual violence or harassment and how people can safely take action
Address the norms that minimise sexual violence and encourage young people to look out for and challenge their mates and peers
Generate positive media coverage and conversation on the campaign and more widely on sexual violence prevention.
A key part of the campaign is the engagement with the target audience on social media, through a dedicated Facebook and Twitter page. We'll be sharing posters, information and encouraging conversation about how to prevent sexual violence on these pages. We'll also be encouraging them to visit youth-based campaigns such as Who are You? and Sex 'n Respect for more information on safe sex, consent and how to prevent sexual violence.
While the campaign does not explicitly encourage people to seek help if they have experienced sexual violence, our social media moderators are trained to respond quickly and sensitively to any disclosures and refer people on to those who can help. We will have information on helping services on the Facebook page and the page will be moderated with any disclosures or sensitive questions being referred to Youthline's 0800 number and the TOAHNNEST website, which lists a range of support services.
How can you be a part of it?
You can like the official campaign page on https://www.facebook.com/AreYouThatSome1? We welcome any comments or contributions to the conversation you may have.
You can follow us on the official campaign Twitter profile on https://twitter.com/AreYouThatSome1. We would be pleased to chat with you online and tweet about the campaign to your followers.
We have a limited number of printed posters, however are happy to supply you with a set to display. To arrange for a set to be sent to you, please contact some1@msd.govt.nz
Alternatively, you can download the posters and print them yourself – they're available on the MSD website here www.msd.govt.nz/areyouthatsome1
If you are displaying the posters, we'd encourage you to take a photo of your display and share it with us on social media.
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8000ERS TEAM PRESS
K2: Help for Dignified burial for Matthew Eakin
Posted on Thursday November 17th, 2022 Wednesday November 30th, 2022 by federico
Matthew Eakin was an experienced aussie climber. He died, while descending from K2 after having stood on the summit. His body, spotted around ABC, was covered by a small avalanche while a team was trying to recover him. Now a GoFundme is raised for giving him a dignified burial . MONTAGNAMAGICA support this goal. PLEASE,DEAR FOLLOWERS OF THIS PAGE, CONSIDER DONING TO HELP REALISE THIS !
When my dear friend Louis Rousseau (*), respected and experienced climber, photographer,contacted me about the story of his friend Matthew Eakin , asking me to share the GoFundMe raised by friends&family , I wasn't surprised to learn that he share the goal of financing a Winter Expedition aimed to recover Matt body and give him a dignified burial. He told me that it wasn't important write his name – he's an incredible humble man, a kind and emphatic human , with a bucket of life's and climbing's values that I share with him and my respect and trust for him is total.
Someone asked "Why going up to recover a body on the mountain? isn't better to leave him in the place he loved to be doing what he dreamed ?" The answer was simple: Matthew body is located in a precise and known location near the Abruzzi Spur "normal" route, and the probability that in Spring his remains could be exposed to people climbing there is high.
"a dignified burial is something written since thousands years. A desire of the family that should be shared with empathy by anyone.
Press Release on GoFundMe
Matthew Eakin died on July 25, 2022, on his descent from the summit of K2, the world's second highest mountain, in Pakistan. It's unlikely the exact circumstances of his death will ever be known, but he fell on the Abruzzi route and was found just a few metres above Advance Base Camp.
Matt was found by two men, and just after they left to get help a small avalanche struck and buried him. Over the following two days, teams attempted to dig Matt out of the snow and ice, but despite their very best efforts were unsuccessful at that time. Matt remains buried, but his location is well known.
An expedition is now being organised from with climbers from Australia and Canada to attempt to find Matt and bring him home. "A very generous group of Matt's close friends has offered to go to Pakistan to attempt to retrieve him, so that he may be buried with respect and dignity", explained Matthew's sister, Danielle Bonnington.
"Usually following an avalanche, a deceased person's location is unknown. But in this case, Matt's location is known, and the geography of that location means that his body can't move far from where he was found. Given this, we have an opportunity to retrieve and bury him with dignity, rather than risk the possibility of snow melt uncovering his body sometime in the future. Our family, understandably, doesn't want this for Matt," Ms Bonnington added.
"If it is safe for members of a search team, we believe that all climbers who die in the mountains while pursuing their passion should have a chance to be found and buried, to ease the grieving process for families and friends. Our family is incredibly humbled by the offer of Matt's friends to help to lay him to rest with dignity. We know their offer to help reflects their love for him.
The small team plans to head to Pakistan over a 3-week period in February 2023. This is when it is expected that conditions are most optimal and safest. Matt's location has been marked by GPS so the chances that he can be found are high. The team also plan to use a ground-penetrating radar to improve those chances even further.
"As far as we are aware, this type of operation to retrieve a loved one several months or years after the incident, has only been carried out on very rare occasions in the history of mountaineering. Deceased climbers are often left on the mountain where they died if they aren't recovered straight away," Ms Bonnington said.
K2 is located in the Karakoram region of Pakistan. It is an isolated area in the north-east of the country, bordering China. The operation won't be an easy task. Just trekking to K2 Base Camp from the nearest village will take 7 days as there are no roads.
Funds raised will help to pay for the trekking permits, local trekking operator fees, flights, and hire of equipment needed to help recover Matt. Matt's family has advised that any funds raised that aren't used for the expedition will be donated to the Black Dog Institute.
About Matthew:
Matthew grew up on a farm at Cumnock, in central west NSW. He has family connections in Orange and Gilgandra.
He spent his high school years at Red Bend Catholic College, Forbes, and St Joseph's College Hunters Hill. At university, he studied law and finance and was a highly regarded business tax lawyer in Sydney.
Matt was an avid adventurer and lover of the outdoors, getting his adrenalin hit through mountain biking, skydiving, BASE jumping, and rock and high-altitude mountain climbing.
Matt was also the co-founder of Mountaineers Down Under, an online community with over 3000 members aiming to connect Australians passionate about climbing.
Matt was particularly passionate about high altitude mountaineering, and successfully climbed and lead expeditions in Nepal and Pakistan over the past eight years.
Among the mountains Matt successfully summitted are K2 8611m (Pakistan), Broad Peak 8051m (Pakistan), Manaslu 8163m (Nepal); and Cholatse 6501m (Nepal).
Matt was a much-loved son, brother, uncle and dear friend, with a zest for life like no other. He lived life to its fullest.
"We have been left with a massive Matt-sized hole in our family," Ms Bonnington said. "The tributes and immense outpourings of grief from his friends and communities he was involved with has helped us realise the impact his life had on so many people right across the world. He considered these friends his family too. His death has left a hole in their worlds too."
– Family would like burial rather than risk Matt's body being uncovered through snowmelt.
– Matt's final location is known, and his body is unlikely to have moved.
– Matt's family want him to be buried at the base of K2, alongside his team-mate who was killed in a separate incident.
– Six of Matt's closest mountaineering friends will make the attempt to retrieve him, led by alpinists experienced in the Karakoram region.
– Team members are from Canada and Australia.
– A retrieval operation of this kind is rare in the mountaineering world.
(*) Louis Rousseau, Quebec/Canadian alpinist, ice climber, videophotographer, writer and more.
– climbed,opened technical ice routes in Canada
– opened a new route and summited Nanga Parbat in 2009 [ https://gripped.com/…/victory-and-tragedy-on-nanga-parbat/ ]
– climbed also Gasherbrum II,Broad Peak
– climbing expeditions on Gasherbrum I , K2, Cho Oyu, Annapurna NW with partners like Gerfried Göschl, Alex Txikon, Adam Bielecki and others
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From 6th April 2013, employers had to start reporting PAYE information to HMRC in real time. You may see this referred to as Real Time Information - or RTI. This means that you as employers, or via your accountants, bookkeepers or payroll providers, have to send details of all payments to employees electronically using payroll software to HMRC on or before the day that you pay them.
You will use a Full Payment Submission (FPS) to do this. Your payroll software will generate the new reports that you need, including details such as amount paid, deductions such as Income Tax and NICs, and starter and leaver dates if these are applicable. You need to include all of the employees that you pay, even those who earn below the NICs Lower Earnings Limit.
If you run your own payroll system, you need payroll software that is ready for RTI in order to send your PAYE information to HMRC online, every time you pay an employee. You can do this in one of three ways – using commercial payroll software, using a payroll service provider, such as an accountant or a payroll bureau, who will do it for you, or, if you employ nine or fewer people, you can use one of the free payroll software packages or HMRC's free Basic PAYE Tool.
You also need to make sure that you are registered for PAYE Online, and that you have accurate and current information about all of your employees, verified against their birth certificate, passport or other HMRC-approved document.
As an aside, the good news is that this change to FPS will make a lot of your reporting more straightforward and streamlined – no P14 or P35 will be needed at the Tax year end (your 2012-13 P35 Return will have been the last one), no P45s sent to HMRC but only to be used for employees' own records, no P46, P46(Pen) or P46(Expat), no CA6855 and no P38(S).
And note that many aspects of HMRC dealings will remain the same. PAYE indeed remains the same; it is only the reporting of it that changes. Coding notices, payment dates, reporting a change to HMRC, P60s, the reporting of expenses and benefits, and the CIS process will not change.
If you are still struggling to get to grips with RTI then please let us know asap. For the moment, HMRC are adopting a "light touch" approach to employers who are not yet operating RTI correctly but, needless to say, this will not last for long!!


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Q: JSON object issue: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token I'm trying to make a variable using data from a JSON file, though it keeps showing as undefined. inspection shows the options object with the following error:
The goal from this code is to configure a product using the first JSON object and then pull in extra information about the product options using the second json object.
The code should output the title of
"cover-silk": ["150gsm-silk-cover"]

which is stored in the second JSON object
The variable childTitle should = "150gsm"

productData = {
  "product": [{
    "name": "booklet",
    "section": [{
      "coverStock": {
        "cover-silk": ["150gsm-silk-cover"]
      }
    }]
  }]
}, {
  "section2": {
    "coverStock": [{
      "title": "Cover Stock",
      "options": [{
        "cover-silk": {
          "title": "Silk",
          "childOptions": {
            "150gsm-silk-cover": {
              "title": "150gsm"
            }
          }
        }
      }]
    }]
  }
};

var key = productData.product[0].section[0];
var keys = [];
for (var k in key) keys.push(k);

var len = keys.length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {

var option = productData.product[0].section[0][keys[i]];

  var secObj = (option);
  var secObjArray = [];
  for (var k2 in secObj) secObjArray.push(k2);

  var len2 = secObjArray.length;

  for (var j = 0; j < len2; j++) {

    var childTitle = productData.section2[keys[i]][0].options[0][secObjArray][j].title;
    console.log(childTitle);

  }
};

A: I have made a lot of changes. The whole structure wasn't right. Check out the comments below and working snippet too:

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*The indices are all wrong.

*The original JSON was wrong.

*Changed a lot. Better to use Diff.

Snippet

var productData = {
  "product": [{
    "name": "booklet",
    "section": [{
      "coverStock": {
        "cover-silk": ["200gsm-silk-cover", "250gsm-silk-cover"],
        "cover-gloss": ["300gsm-gloss-cover", "250gsm-gloss-cover"]
      }
    }],
    "section2": {
      "coverStock": [{
        "title": "Cover Stock",
        "options": [{
          "cover-silk": {
            "title": "Silk",
            "childOptions": {
              "150gsm-silk-cover": {
                "title": "150gsm"
              }
            }
          }
        }]
      }]
    }
  }]
};

var key = productData.product[0].section[0];
var keys = [];
for (var k in key)
  keys.push(k);
var len = keys.length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
  var option = productData.product[0].section[0][keys[i]];
  var secObj = option;
  var secObjArray = [];
  for (var k2 in secObj)
    secObjArray.push(k2);
  var len2 = secObjArray.length;
  for (j = 0; j < len2; j++) {
    var childTitle = productData.product[0].section[0][keys[i]][secObjArray[j]][0];
    console.log(childTitle);
  }
}

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They make me think, they provide emotional stimuli, they provide facts and ideas and change me. They are proof that I am more than myself. I am me, but I am also part of a community of knowledge and inspiration.
I am me. Or am I?
I am me, but my behaviour is decided by so much more. I exist in society. I go about my business, but with every movement I make I observe things. I hear things. I smell things. I feel things. And these provide impulses that affect me.
They make me think, they provide emotional stimuli. And I experience people, and someone does something and I relate to it, and I change because of it. I am me, but I am also part of a community, of humanity and interaction.
And this knowledge becomes part of me and changes me. Every time I interact, I can never be the same again. Humanity – the environment – has touched me and changed me.
Facts have built upon facts and I am more. I am more than just me, more than just my individuality. I am reborn every second of every day. For I have experienced life. But maybe I have done much more.
Why have I experienced this?
Because I have placed my attention upon the world that is not me but becomes me. But what is this attention? It is my will to notice things; my ability to turn consciousness into a thin beam of attention and prize knowledge from the world about me. But that world goes on also beyond my attention, beyond what I consciously notice. What happens to this information?
It does not just not exist. It enters me, too. But it enters without my conscious attention. But it enters me nonetheless and it is in my mind, in my unconscious mind, entering with the same speed, the same efficiency and it revolves around my mind looking for a place.
Neurons buzz within my brain, unnoticed.
But my unconscious noticed. It heard that conversation between two people passing, and it does this hundreds, maybe thousands of times a day, and the continual build up of information swirls and the neurons burn.
On an average day, in an average city, I have paid unconscious witness to thousands of people close by but unnoticed, and the next day thousands more and the next, thousands more, until millions of conversations and actions exist in the maze of my mind – unnoticed.
And suddenly something happens. It may be so unimportant to my conscious mind, but the unconscious goes 'Aha!' as it remembers that conversation two months ago, and a thought enters consciousness and I know!
I have had a thought that I shouldn't know. I know something of someone's intention and it coincides with a thought in that unknown person's head providing action that marries to my thought and I'm telepathic!
Facts have built upon facts and extrasensory is rubbish! It was there all along, and had emerged. But so much more.
Facts build upon facts, and scenarios are intuited upon scenarios, and a thought enters consciousness and I predict! But it was there all along, buried in the inattentive unconscious, until something happens to make it emerge.
And I am paranormal. And I am paranormal because we become One.
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Room magazine's inaugural literary festival marks both International Women's Day (March 8) and the publication of "Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine", an anthology of writing by Canadian women and genderqueer writers from the 1975 - 2016.
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The festival features more than 40 writers and artists in more than 20 events. Among the line-up are acclaimed writers Amber Dawn, Evelyn Lau, Lorna Crozier, Audrey Thomas, Jen Sookfong Lee, Hiromi Goto, Betsy Warlan, and Rachel Hartman, sharing the stage with a host of other established and up-and-coming names.
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March 11 & 12
Panels and readings will cover topics such as community building ("Writing in (the) Community"), feminist humour ("Funny Feminists"), writing about pregnancy ("Character Development") and more. Low-cost writing workshops with veteran writers such as Ontario-based Marianne Apostolides or Kwantlen Polytechnic's Jen Currin will help aspiring writers gain valuable skills.
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Q: Fixed point system convergence I am writing a computer program that solves a fixed-point system and I need to determine the convergence criteria. I am implementing an algorithm from a journal article, and the author states the following:

...we suggest to cast [the] system as a fixed-point
system, u=g(u), with the requirement for convergence being that the
eigenvalue of $ G = [∂g_i/∂u_j]$ of the largest modulus must satisfy
$|λ_i|<1$.

The author cites the book Iterative Solutions of Nonlinear Equations in Several Variables by Ortega and Rheinboldt.
I am an engineer, not a mathematician, and I am really out of my depth here. I found a copy of the Ortega text, but it's a very dense book and since I don't know what page is being cited it has not been much of a help.
I have the Jacobian and have calculated its eigenvalues.
I am confused  because I have replicated the example the author gives in the paper, and the system takes several iterations to converge - but at each iteration, even the first, $|λ_i|<1$! I am unable to reconcile this with the excerpt from the article I posted above.
I suppose what I am asking is this: is there something special about the largest absolute value of an eigenvalue being less than 1 when solving a fixed point system? I have found several 'oblique' references to this idea, but nothing concrete. It may just be the case that I lack the vocabulary to search properly. Or is it possible that, depending on the application, another convergence criterion may be necessary and that $|λ_i|<1$ does not necessarily guarantee convergence?
In case anyone is curious, the paper is A Note on the Analytical Solution of Cubic Equations of State in Process Simulation by Rosendo Monroy-Loperena, 2012.

A: When you are solving a system of $n$ equations in the form $x = G(x)$, Banach's fixed point theorem in $\mathbb{R}^n$ states that if $G$ is contractive in some norm (all norms in a finite-dimensional space are equivalent), the fixed point method will converge. When $G$ is differentiable, the contractivity can be analysed in terms of the norm of the Jacobian matrix.
So, why the eigenvalues? When you consider a matrix norm induced by some vector norm, you have that
$$
\|A\| = \sup_{x\ne 0} \dfrac{\|Ax \|}{\|x\|}.
$$
If $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of $A$ and $v\ne 0$ is an associated eigenvector, you have that $A v = \lambda v$ and so,
$$
\|A\| = \sup_{x\ne 0}\dfrac{\|A x\|}{\|x\|} \ge \dfrac{\|Av\|}{\|v\|} = \dfrac{\|\lambda v\|}{\|v\|} = |\lambda|$$
This way you see that the absolute value of any eigenvalue is a lower bound for any matrix norm. When all eigenvalues are smaller than 1 (in absolute value), there is some matrix norm for which $\|J_G\|<1$ and, as a consequence, the fixed point method will converge.


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I voted for that onion ring thingy in another TD. However for this particular TD, I see a Dilly Bar in his future.
This is my entry. - Double Smash Burger with smoked maple bacon!
OK all, I just saw this throwdown as I was making dinner. Here is a quick photo of my burger. With chipotle cheddar cheese and a jalapeno slaw. I know this won't score well, but I felt I should post something and get back into these competitions.
That is a very creative entry!
You do realize, however, that's NOT a burger, right?
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This is an entry for Blackstone Bacon Onion Smash Burgers.
Entry #2 the Wagyu burger. Please accept the below as my 2nd entry to the Burger Blowout TD.
Hmmmm, now that I have the Baby Blackstone, might be time to revive and update the Robles Doble!
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The Hong Kong actuarial professional body was first formed in 1968 as the Actuarial Association of Hong Kong. 26 years later, its successor, the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong (ASHK) was duly incorporated in January 1994. The ASHK is a membership organization for actuaries in the industries of insurance, consultancy, finance, education institutes and government. Since 1999, the ASHK has become a full member of the International Actuarial Association. The ASHK is governed by an elected Council with a President, an Immediate Past President, a Vice President and 10 Council Members.
The Articles of Association (revised on 1 January 2019) of the ASHK are available for download.
in Hong Kong to serve the public interest"
The Council of the ASHK consists of not less than 7 or more than 13 Fellow Members. The term of office of the President is one year and afterwards in the capacity of Immediate Past President for another year, term of office of the Vice President is one year, and that of each Council Member is two years.


WITH ONLY SO MANY days of summer left, now is the perfect time to get out in the beautiful weather for lunch. Be it a quick hike or a day in the park, picnics are a fun, relaxing way to be one with nature.
But so many well-meaning picnics end with a pile of Ziploc bags, paper plates and plastic forks headed to a landfill. Take some easy steps to make your afternoon outside just as green as the grass you're lying in.
Rid your pantry of those wasteful, not to mention flimsy, plastic utensils and invest in a set of biodegradable bamboo plates and utensils. Made by Bambu, these dishes are free of bleach, dyes, pesticides and other chemicals, FDA-approved food-safe and made from 100 percent organically grown bamboo. The plates come in packs of eight, utensils in packs of 24, for $10 each, and can be reused if you drag them home. If not, they biodegrade in four to six months, so you can feel good about limiting your waste. Find them at .
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And for that moment where juice and water just aren't cutting it anymore, kick back on your all-natural picnic blanket with a certified organic beer in hand. Seattle's Elliott Bay Brewing Company has you covered with 11 organic beers available year-round and more cycling through seasonally. These eco-friendly sips aren't available just anywhere, but hit one of the brewery's three locations and fill up a reusable half-gallon growler to tote on your trip. Bringing friends along? Check out keg sizes at .
Grab some more local food items from your area farmers market and you have a green outing to enjoy before you're cooped up indoors for another Pacific Northwest winter.
Paige Collins is a Seattle Times news producer.


According to the legends, the Evil Queen managed to know all of her tricks thanks to that Magic Mirror. She'd ask it some nasty question about who is the prettiest and where she was and probably even asked it where to find the best free range apples that she could do her evil magic upon. Fortunately, we all know how the story ended. The Queen's nasty plot really just ended up giving Snow White a nice nap and she revealed she's not much of a climber!
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A grain is a unit of measurement of mass, and in the troy weight, avoirdupois, and Apothecaries' system, equal to exactly 7001647989100000000♠64.79891 milligrams. It is nominally based upon the mass of a single virtual ideal seed of a cereal. From the Bronze Age into the Renaissance the average masses of wheat and barley grains were part of the legal definitions of units of mass. Rather, expressions such as "thirty-two grains of wheat, taken from the middle of the ear" appear to have been ritualistic formulas, essentially the premodern equivalent of legal boilerplate.:27 Another source states that it was defined as the weight needed for 252.458 units to balance a cubic inch of distilled water at 30 inches of mercury pressure and 62 degrees Fahrenheit for both the air and water. Another book states that Captain Henry Kater, of the British Standards Commission, arrived at this value experimentally.
Since the implementation of the international yard and pound agreement of 1 July 1959, the grain or troy grain (symbol: gr) measure has been defined in terms of units of mass in the International System of Units as precisely 7001647989100000000♠64.79891 milligrams.:C-19 7000100000000000000♠1 gram is approximately 7001154323600000000♠15.43236 grains.:C-13 The unit formerly used by jewellers to measure pearls, diamonds, or other precious stones, called the jeweller's grain or pearl grain, is equal to 1⁄4 of a carat, or 6995499999999999999♠50 mg (~ 6995499988389559999♠0.7716 gr). The grain was also the name of a traditional French unit equal to 6995531150000000000♠53.115 mg.
The grain is commonly used to measure the mass of bullets and propellants. The term also refers to a single particle of gunpowder, the size of which varies according to requirements. In archery, the grain is the standard unit used to weigh arrows.
In dentistry, gold foil, used as a material to restore teeth, is measured in grains.
In North America, the hardness of water is often measured in grains per US gallon (gpg) of calcium carbonate equivalents. Otherwise, water hardness is measured in the metric unit parts per million (ppm), equivalent to mg/L. One grain per US gallon is approximately 6995171000000000000♠17.1 ppm.[note] Soft water contains 1–4 gpg of calcium carbonate equivalents, while hard water contains 11–20 gpg.
Though no longer recommended, grains are still used occasionally in medicine as part of the apothecaries' system, especially in prescriptions for older medicines such as aspirin or phenobarbital. For example, the dosage of a standard 6996325000000000000♠325 mg tablet of aspirin is sometimes given as 7000500000000000000♠5 grains. In that example the grain is approximated to 6995650000000000000♠65 mg, though the grain can also be approximated to 6995600000000000000♠60 mg, depending on the medication and manufacturer. The apothecaries system has its own system of notation, in which the unit's symbol or abbreviation is followed by the quantity in lower case Roman numerals. For amounts less than one, the quantity is written as a fraction, or for one half, ss (or variations such as ss., ṡṡ, or s̅s̅).:263 Therefore, a prescription for tablets containing 325 mg of aspirin and 30 mg of codeine can be written "ASA gr. v c̄ cod. gr. ss tablets" (using the medical abbreviations ASA for aspirin,:34:8 c̄ for "with",:56:14 and cod. for codeine).:70:19 The apothecaries' system has gradually been replaced by the metric system, and the use of the grain in prescriptions is now rare.
The history of the modern British grain can be traced back to a royal decree in thirteenth century England, re-iterating decrees that go back as far as King Offa (eighth century). The tower pound was one of many monetary pounds of 240 silver pennies.
By consent of the whole Realm the King's Measure was made, so that an English Penny, which is called the Sterling, round without clipping, shall weigh Thirty-two Grains of Wheat dry in the midst of the Ear; Twenty pennies make an Ounce; and Twelve Ounces make a Pound.
Physical grain weights were made and sold commercially at least as late as the early 1900s, and took various forms, from squares of sheet metal to manufactured wire shapes and coin-like weights.
The troy pound was only "the pound of Pence, Spices, Confections, as of Electuaries", as such goods might be measured by a troi or small balance. The old troy standard was set by King Offa's currency reform, was in full use in 1284 (Assize of Weights and Measures, King Edward I), but was restricted to currency (the pound of pennies) until it was abolished in 1527. This pound was progressively replaced by a new pound, based on the weight of 120 gold dirhems of 48 grains. The new pound used a barley-corn grain, rather than the wheat grain.
Avoirdupois (goods of weight) refers to those things measured by the lesser but quicker balances: the bismar or uncel, the Roman balance, and the steelyard. The original mercantile pound of 25 shillings or 15 (tower) ounces was displaced by variously the pound of the Hanseatic League (16 tower ounces) and by the pound of the then-important wool trade (16 ounces of 437 grains). A new pound of 7003768000000000000♠7680 grains was inadvertently created as 16 troy ounces, referring to the new troy rather than the old troy. Eventually, the wool pound won out.
The avoirdupois pound was defined in prototype, rated as 7003699200000000000♠6992 to 7003700400000000000♠7004 grains. In the Imperial Weights and Measures Act of 1824, the avoirdupois pound was defined as 7003700000000000000♠7000 grains exactly. The act of 1855 authorised Miller's new standards to replace those lost in the fire that destroyed the Houses of Parliament. The standard was an avoirdupois pound, the grain being defined as 1/7003700000000000000♠7000 of it.
The division of the carat into four grains survives in both senses well into the early twentieth century. For pearls and diamonds, weight is quoted in carats, divided into four grains. The carat was eventually set to 205 milligrams (1877), and later 200 milligrams. For touch or fineness of gold, the fraction of gold was given as a weight, the total being a solidus of 24 carats or 96 grains.
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Marc Levinson is an economist and historian specializing in business and finance. He was formerly finance and economics editor of The Economist, worked as an economist for 10 years at JP Morgan in New York, and served as senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Marc has penned several books including Guide to the Financial Markets, The Box - How the Shipping Container Made The World Smaller and the Economy Bigger, and most recently An Extraordinary Time, which explores the end of the postwar boom and the return to the ordinary economy.
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Radio Derb Is On The Air: Zuckerberg Pledges Millions For "Diverse" Schools, But When Will Facebook Employees Be "Diverse"?
As a podcast on iTunes, listenable/downloadable onscreen at Taki's Magazine, or as a transcript here.
This week I make sport with Mark Zuckerberg, who is either a dumb credulous adherent of utopian egalitarianism, or else crazy like a fox. My guess is the former … but we'll have to wait for the memoirs.
This one comes under the heading "triumph of hope over experience." Or possibly under the heading "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook billionaire, has pledged $120 million to help schools near Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, northern California.
Hm, why would they need helping? Let's take a look at some of those schools.
As always in these cases, I look up the breakdowns for the student body given on the GreatSchools.org website. Let's see.
Belle Haven Elementary, Menlo Park, grades K-8: 80 percent Hispanic, ten percent black, zero percent white.
Ronald McNair Academy, East Palo Alto, 6-8: 75 percent Hispanic, 11 percent black, one percent white.
Cesar Chavez Elementary, East Palo Alto, 6-8: 83 percent Hispanic, four percent black, zero percent white.
Stanford New, Menlo Park, K-12 (charter): 77 percent Hispanic, 13 percent black, zero percent white.
Am I seeing a pattern here? Where are all the white kids in Menlo Park? Why are U.S. taxpayers educating half the population of Mexico?
The triumph-of-hope-over-experience angle here is that four years ago Zuckerberg gave $100 million to the public-school system of Newark, New Jersey, following appeals by charismatic Magic Negro Corey Booker, then-Mayor of Newark. Now, four years on, Zuck's hundred million has all disappeared into the pockets of consultants and teacher union officials, with no detectable improvement in Newark's schools. This was all reported on at length in New Yorker magazine back in mid-May this year, and more briefly by myself here at Taki's Magazine a few days later. Corey Booker, in case you're wondering, is now a U.S. Senator.
The old wives' tale got it right, Zuck: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. There aren't any bad schools, only bad students.
Show me the worst school in the country, allow me to swap out the student body for an equal number of white kids from Idaho and Utah, seasoned perhaps with a few off-the-boat immigrants from Vietnam and Korea, and pretty soon the test scores will be going through the roof and recruiters from Stanford and Yale will be banging on the doors.
At this point a very dark thought occurs to me …
The full Radio Derb playbill:
Afghanistan: please make it stop. (I'm angried out.)
Nietzsche not so pietzsche. (At my alma mater.)
Thank you for your service. (The VA jobs program hospital system lumbers on.)
Zuck doubles down. (Big dumb heart or defensive maneuver?)
The slow-rising floodwaters. (The U.S.A. double up on underage illegals.)
Why can't we have a secure border? (Cheaper than playing kindergarten to the world.)
9/11 museum now less cheesy. (But you can still get an FDNY dog vest.)
A stumble, a fall on kabarogoya. (One of the stranger ethnic specialties.)
Weapons of cultural mass destruction. (Muslims have sex lives too.)
It's all there at Taki's Magazine.


In an Australian-first, Queensland Police will deploy drones to help document crime scenes.
Two Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) have been assigned to the QPS Photographics Section, ready to be sent anywhere in Queensland.
They were officially launched on Thursday although one was first used after the fatal house fire at Beenleigh on May 14.
Police Minister Jo-Anne Miller said the drones will allow forensic investigators to survey crime scenes from overhead for the first time.
"The images the drones can capture will be invaluable when it comes to presenting evidence in court," she said.
Costing more than $23,000, the drones are made of carbon fibre, with one fitted with four motors and the other eight motors.
"Both drones are fitted with high resolution cameras capable of capturing stills, videos and 3D images," Ms Miller said.
The QPS began investigating options for the use of RPAs in 2010 and was granted formal approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in December 2013.
Sergeant Clint Hanson from the Photographic Section completed CASA training in December 2014 in order to pilot the drones.