In the case of the current education system, the educational requirements are too demanding to meet the needs of every student. Exploding populations force more students into every school which in turn forces more students in each classroom. The majority of the time, students of all ability levels are in the same class and receive the same lessons. This forces some to be bored and others to have suffering grades. Parents may argue that teachers need to teach better, but to resolve deficits education funds are one of the first to be cut. The people that would be great teachers frequently leave teaching because of the stress, lack of respect, and little pay. Yes, lack of respect, because for some reason, when a child is involved, conversations get personal. The comment about little pay deserves some actual numbers because it is all readily available on that great Book of Knowledge called the internet. The US entered the recession around 2008. The graphs below show North Carolina teacher salary schedules for that period (page 2 if you actually do the search).
From the charts, notice how the years were grouped together to cut costs. Also note the the first interval shows a salary increase while the following years decreased dramatically. That was during a recession, if you want to dispute their salaries in positive times refer to this article by the NEA which conveniently describes the salaries before the recession following the trend for a decade. It shows that the increases do not keep up with inflation.
Even if you do not have children, this should be important to you. The reason is that each year a good 1/4 of the material is revisited the following year. If there is mastery of the previous year's material more time can be devoted to the new. If there is repeated mastery there is likely good study habits. This carries over the 12 years and into college. 1/4 is my own personal observation; of course the figure varies. It implies that to have the most educated work force and therefore most innovative economy, funding should focus on elementary ed., then middle and high school, and then college; not the other way around. Without a devotion to education in the developmental years other nations will surpass our economy. Technical positions will increasingly be found overseas rather than at home. This is how the decline of the American economy will occur unless action is taken. On CNN, Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square: Fixing Education touches on these points.
That is my rant that assumes traditional answers. If you want to take traditional actions contact your representatives in congress. OpenCongress.org makes it easy for people to find their representatives and their contact information. If you have an Android powered smart phone or tablet you can download the Congress app. Another source of useful information is by the Sunlight Foundation. The name makes it sound like a religious cult, but it is actually a project dedicated to transparency in government. Since this is a big political season, I will cover the tools on their website in a future post (mostly for my own voting awareness).
The problem is that budgets have to be balanced some how. If money does not get cut from education, where does it come from. Some industry has to be hurt. So, we look beyond traditional answers. The science-fiction book set in 2044, Ready Player One, examines educational structures by following Wade through his school experiences. Wade started in a school system similar to our present day ones, but then became eligible to join a virtual classroom. He received a state funded Augmented Reality (AR) headset and AR gloves. Ernest Cline, the author, contrasts the two experiences. In the former educational setting Wade gets bullied routinely. His family lacked the finances for the latest fashions and other students found this as an easy target. On top of that he was picked on because he had a pension for playing video games and an aversion to exercise which led him to be over-weight.
Wade is a geek; well versed in the latest technologies. So the transition to a virtual classroom was perfectly suited to him, but in the real world he was routinely pushed around because of his abilities. In the virtual classroom his avatar still only had the most basic clothes (accessories and customizations had to be purchased), but if someone tried to taunt him his aggressor could be muted. There could be no physical assault. There is finally a safe learning environment.
Every school has issues getting new equipment, and the facilities are routinely put through a gauntlet of structural, chemical, and aesthetic tests by the students. In the virtual classroom the facilities are all digital so it did not cost any extra to have them look like palaces. There are no heavy book bags to lug around; only goggles and gloves. As Wade points out, the digital domain contains the absolute largest up-to-date library. As classes would start, the software prevented distractions from other students. The programming optimized the learning experience. There were many benefits described to having a completely virtual classroom.
On the other hand, there are many logistical nightmares to resolve before it can be practical. Wade looked forward to logging in to school as an escape from reality. His home and social lives were at best abysmal. The average student would not be nearly so inclined to regularly maintain their attendance. How do you handle the interactivity? What if the student has a question?
To resolve those issues, set aside the ideological school system proposed in Ready Player One, and consider an option that is outside the traditional realm of teaching. There are a number of online sites developing to provide supplemental educational resources. Khan Academy has developed from a single person trying to tutor his friends into several educational videos on many topics.
The Khan Academy introduction video is given as a TED Talk. The slogan for TED Talks is "Ideas Worth Spreading". Khan Academy certainly falls into that category. There are several TED Talks but there are also other TED initiatives. TEDx is a locally produced TED conference. It allows a group of people that are geographically located close to each other the chance to host their own TED event. TEDed is focused on educational videos.
One of the videos I remember watching in school was pure genius. Donald in Mathmagic Land inspired much interest in math that carried me through months of drudgery. And, as luck would have it, can still be found.
This is a nascent industry which can readily be adapted into an official education and is already sprawling with competition. These are only a few resources. I have been told of others that are already paid subscription services.
How do these resources get incorporated? All teachers should begin recording their lessons now. Eventually a company, perhaps one that already acts as a repository for videos (ahem, You, cough, Tube) will organize the educational ones and allow a system of ranking their quality based on each individual states' standards. Whatever service this is (hack, YouTube, wheeze) would need to get the teachers involved and registered so their vote counts and also so that the teachers can receive monetary rewards as other teachers show their video.
NOTE: As I venture down this speculative future classroom you will likely see several details left out. "Where will the funding come from?", for instance. It is all gut reactions to these ideas. Off the top of your head you can likely come up with several answers for each potential reason not to follow through with this proposed change. I discuss what I see as the big picture details.
The rewards system provides incentive for teachers to make great lessons. Students will end up watching the best ranked videos which would likely be better than the lessons they would receive from today's system. Teachers go from a phase of teaching to facilitating. Teachers at this point would answer the students' questions directly.
Eventually, as all students get rid of those ridiculous over-stuffed book bags for simple tablets (just a guess that we will entirely skip giving laptops on a large scale to students. I know laptops are given in some schools, but again, in the large scale tablets will win) the first place teachers will direct students to their answers is in their device. Go to that topic's FAQ or Help menu or whatever other interface is decided at the time. If that question is not listed and the teacher cannot find it, the question gets added to the ever expanding compendium. The answers then get ranked, reviewed, and sorted. Because most questions will be the same, after a few years most will be answered. Finding the answers will be a developed skill. After school, in the so called real world if such a thing exists, they will be less devoted to asking for answers and perfectly able to consult the Book of Knowledge (aka, the internet) for their answers; partly because of years of practice finding their answers and partly because such an interface would propagate through all of society.
Next step: At this point, students are getting great lessons and teachers teach less. They would still conduct demonstrations and teach topics that they believe can be presented better. However, there are still distractions in the classroom. Students disrupt other students, the vibrating of cell phones in their pockets. Who just texted me? It is so nice outside! What time is it? Ready Player One. Now it is time for the AR headsets and gloves. New technology invites teachers to try new ways of teaching their lessons to impact their monetary reward. Not only do lessons get recorded and rewarded, but also the accompanying demonstrations.
With students fully attentive, with few questions that cannot be answered online, teachers are left to supervise at their desks, while wearing their very own headset and gloves. The student to teacher ratio will comfortably increase as software allows better interaction and people become accustomed to the new augmented lifestyle.
This is when people generally get upset at these ideas. They argue that I am eliminating jobs. Well, yes, I think I would be. But there is little improvement that can be made in the current standard. Talk to one side and hear, "People only want to pay for a baby sitter. No wonder it is difficult to get quality teachers to stay in the industry." Talk to the other side and hear, "The teachers available are horrible. They get months off for vacation and don't even teach worth a damn." The proposal is a resolution to a contradiction. It is a fore drawn conclusion. In some form, this is where the industry is heading.


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Q: Triggering a Thyristor I am trying to model a thyristor DC switch but I am having problems with properly turning "ON" the SCR that is used as the switch. I am using a 2N1595 SCR and I've looked at its datasheet and it seems like the parameters I have for my gate current source and gate resistance should trigger the SCR. However, it seems the thyristor continues blocking the current in the circuit even after the gate current gets applied. How can I fix this?
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This is the current/time graph of R6:

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A: It looks like your voltage source is backwards for the gate drive to the SCR, the gate voltage for an SCR needs to positive, you are giving it a negative voltage. Here is a good reference for SCR's

A: Your gate voltage is inverted. Also, you should use a higher voltage in the gate as per the datasheet it should be, at least 3V (10V maximum.) The gate current should be limited to 0.1A.
Note that the main power voltage is 50. According to the datasheet that is the maximum forward blocking voltage. This means that in a real component, the SCR could trigger without gate pulse.

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Electronic signatures in Chile – When you can use them and when you can't?
Paulina Silva and Elías Mohor
The pandemic revealed a great need to remotely execute acts and contracts, avoiding the need to meet to sign the documents or appear before a notary. This increased the doubts about the regulation on electronic signatures, especially in order to understand under what circumstances they can be used and when not.
In this article, we will briefly explain: (i) how electronic signatures are regulated in Chile; (ii) which acts may and may not be executed through electronic signatures; (iii) the bill of law that aims to expand the number of acts that may be executed with electronic signatures; and (iv) proposals for changes to the bill in order to extend the usefulness of electronic signatures.
REGULATION OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN CHILE
Electronic signatures are regulated by Law Nº 19,799 about Electronic Documents, Electronic Signatures and Certification Services of such Signature ("LFE", by their initials in Spanish), and its Regulations .
1.1. Principle of equivalence between electronic and paper documents. As a general rule, acts and contracts executed by means of electronic signatures are valid in the same way and produce the same effects as those executed in writing and on paper. For all legal purposes, these acts and contracts are deemed to be in writing and their signature is regarded as a handwritten signature, whatever its nature.
1.2 Types of electronic signature. The LFE recognizes two types of signatures, the simple electronic signature ("SES") and the advanced electronic signature ("AES").
(i) Simple electronic signature. A simple electronic signature is "any type of sound, symbol or electronic process that enables the recipient of an electronic document to identify, at least formally, its author".
Therefore, the following can be an SES: the incorporation of a person's name at the end of an e-mail or even the mere act of sending that e-mail from her/his personal mailbox; the scanned image of a handwritten signature incorporated at the end of an electronic document; a biometric sign (e.g. fingerprint); the marking of a checkbox on an electronic form; or other electronic processes that allow the identification, at least formally, of the author of an electronic document. A mechanism that is not compatible with the concept of an electronic document could not be considered a simple electronic signature.
In accordance with the principle of equivalence of the medium, a contract signed by SES will have the same legal value as a contract signed with a handwritten signature.
(ii) Advanced electronic signature. An advanced electronic signature is a signature "certified by an accredited provider and which has been created using means that the holder keeps under her/his exclusive control, so that it is linked only to the holder and the data to which it refers, allowing the subsequent detection of any modification, verifying the identity of the holder and preventing her/him from being unaware of the integrity of the document and its authorship".
The Under-Secretariat for the Economy and Smaller Businesses, through the Accreditation Body, is responsible for accrediting the providers of advanced electronic signature certification services and keeping their records up to date.
1.3. Restrictions on the use of electronic signatures. The general rule is that simple and advanced electronic signatures can be used without distinction to execute all kinds of acts and contracts, with the exception of the following:
(a) SES cannot be used where the law expressly requires the use of AES, for example:
(i) Public instruments in electronic form must bear the AES of the issuing official: an authorized electronic copy of a public document must bear the AES of the authorizing notary; a certificate of the civil registry must bear the AES of the issuing official, etc.
(ii) Judicial powers-of-attorney granted in an electronic document must be signed with the AES of the principal.
(iii) The forms for the constitution, modification, dissolution or annotations of companies from the Registry of Companies and Corporations must be signed with the AES of the constituents, partners or shareholders; or with the AES of the notary who authorizes the act if they do not have their own AES.
b) An electronic signature (FES or FEA) cannot be used when the LFE or other laws forbid the use of an electronic signature:
i) When the law requires a solemnity that cannot be complied with by electronic document
ii) When the law requires the personal attendance of any of the parties
iii) In acts and contracts related to family law
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THESE RULES
2.1 Acts that must be executed by public deed cannot be executed with an electronic signature
The executing of acts for which the law requires the formality of a public deed (e.g. the sale of real estate or easements or the granting of mortgages ) cannot be executed by electronic signature, neither AES nor SES, since this formality is not susceptible to be fulfilled by means of an electronic document, as it can be seen from articles 403 and following of the Chilean Organic Courts Code ("COT").
According to those rules, the granting of a public deed requires (i) the personal appearance of the parties before the notary (article 405) and (ii) the fulfilment of a series of formalities that are incompatible with the notion of electronic signature and electronic document .
Articles 4 and 5 number 2 of the LFE often create confusion on this matter: article 4 provides that "electronic documents that have the quality of public instruments must be signed by means of an advanced electronic signature". Because of its concise wording, this provision could lead to the misconception that a public instrument -such as a public deed- could be created directly by the contracting parties if they execute it using their advanced electronic signatures. But that conclusion is not correct.
To understand the true meaning of this rule, we must bear in mind the definition of "public instrument" in Article 1699 of the Civil Code:
"Public or authentic instrument is the one authorized with the legal solemnities by the competent official.
Granted before a notary public and incorporated in a protocol or public registry, it is called a public document".
As can be seen, the public instrument is always authorized by "the competent official", which in the case of the public deed is the notary. However much private individuals may sign their private documents with an advanced electronic signature, they cannot give it the status of a public instrument, since that can only be done by the official who has the legal power to authorize it (e.g. the Civil Registry and Custodians of Real Estates are empowered to issue certain certificates within their sphere of competence; notaries may authorize copies of public deeds, etc.). The meaning of this rule, then, is that those officials are obliged to use AES to authorize this type of instrument.
Article 5 No. 2 of the LFE could also lead to some confusion, as it gives private documents signed with AES the same evidential value as public documents. This rule does not make both instruments equivalent in terms of their legal value, since the evidential value at trial is not the same as the absolute legal value of a document. To illustrate: the declarations on facts that are contained in a private instrument of sale of real estate subscribed with AES may have the same probative value that if they had been formulated in a public deed, but this does not mean that that private instrument will be accepted by the Real Estate Custodian to carry out the tradition of the real estate, since such instrument does not comply with the requirement that the law demands for the valid sale of a real estate, which is the execution of the act by public deed.
A very recent case illustrates this very well. In consideration of the constitutional state of catastrophe affecting our country, on April 7 of this year the 11th Civil Court of Santiago, in case C-6045-2018, resolved to sign a public deed of award of an auction sale using an advanced electronic signature and then to send it digitally to the respective notary's office. However, when required to register this document, the Real Estate Custodian of Santiago refused to do so, noting that the instrument in question would not be a true public deed.
In view of this refusal, the interested party requested the court to order the Custodian to practice the registration anyway. Based on articles 3° and 4° of the LFE, which we have already analyzed, on April 30, 2020 the 11th Civil Court of Santiago ordered the Custodian to register the instrument of award signed with AES. In response, on May 11, 2020, the Custodian informed the court about the grounds for its decision, explaining that the instrument in question could not be registered because it was not a true public deed:
"So that we compare the provisions relating to the public deed contained in Articles 403, 405, 426 No. 5 and 401 No. 7 of the Organic Code of Courts and Articles 1699 and 1770 of the Civil Code with the document accompanied for registration dated April 8 of the notary's office of Ms. Valeria Ronchera, it is possible to conclude that it is not a public deed as a public or authentic instrument that meets the requirements of the above-mentioned articles, but an electronic document whose original is in a repository for verification and the wording and expressions used in its drafting appear to be a public deed without being so".
Resolving this controversy, on June 23, 2020, the plenary of the Court of Appeals of Santiago ordered to leave the instrument of award without effect, requiring the court to execute the award by true public deed ("the Judge of the Eleventh Civil Court of Santiago is instructed to arrange for the necessary actions to be taken so that an instrument in material form is granted for this purpose"). In addition, and evidencing a clear concern with what happened, the plenary of the Court ordered all civil courts in Santiago to report on how they are proceeding with the public auctions and officiated its decision to the Supreme Court and to all those involved in the dispute (the court, the notary who authorized the instrument and the Real Estate Custodian of Santiago).
2.2 The acts that must be granted by private instrument subscribed before a notary admit the use of electronic signature, but appearing before a notary
The acts or contracts that the law requires to be signed by private instrument granted before a notary will not produce their effects if they are only signed by means of an electronic signature, for the same reasons we have given for the case of public deeds.
However, unlike the case of public deeds, the use of electronic signatures is not totally prohibited for this type of acts and is possible under the following circumstances: if the parties agree to sign the electronic document in the presence of the notary, who in turn certifies the granting of the document using her/his own advanced electronic signature.
This possibility is recognized in the fourth and eighth agreements of the Auto Acordado (Court Agreement) on the use of documents and electronic signatures by notaries, custodians and judicial archivists adopted by the Supreme Court in 2006:
"Fourth: Holders of electronic signatures, within the scope of their functions and competence, may electronically issue, through the use of advanced electronic signatures, all documents that the law allows, especially authorized copies of public and private instruments, notarized documents, certifications of digital signatures stamped in their presence, protests and findings of fact and certifications referring to records and proceedings.
Eighth: In cases in which the Notary authorizes a digital signature stamped in his presence, he must attest to the identity of the signatory as laid down in the Organic Courts Code ".
The practical usefulness of this method is very low, since it still requires the presence of a notary, so that the most important advantage of electronic signatures, which is the possibility of concluding a contract remotely, is not exploited.
Some examples of acts and contracts that the law requires to be notarized are the assignment of copyrights , the granting of a pledge without conveyance or the incorporation of a non-profit association or foundation .
2.3 The possibility and usefulness of issuing promissory notes in electronic form is controversial
The possibility of subscribing to a promissory note in electronic form faces two difficulties:
(i) Can a promissory note be signed by electronic signature? Part of the legal scholars hold that the legal nature of the promissory note is intrinsically related to its uniqueness and materiality: the promissory note is a physical document, not an abstract obligation that can subsist intellectually regardless of the medium on which it is recorded. For this position, the electronic promissory note would be no more than a private instrument in which a debt is recognized, but it would not be a promissory note itself, to which the rules that are specific to it could be applied (Law 18,092).
Against this position, it has been argued that the existence of an electronic promissory note would be possible in accordance with the principle of equivalence between supports embodied in the LFE, and that being this law later and more specific, it should prevail over the classic and previous scholar notions on the matter.
(ii) For the promissory note to have "executive merit" (i.e. direct enforceability as a judgment debt), the participation of a notary is also required, either for the protest procedure or at the time of its granting. Even overcoming the previous scholar debate, there is still another inconvenience for the electronic promissory note: in order for a promissory note to have executive merit -which is one of its main advantages- it must (i) undergo the protest procedure regulated in article 60 and following of Law 18,092, which implies the intervention of a notary or a civil registry official; or (ii) have been subscribed to before a notary , either by handwritten or electronic signature, as explained in section 2.2. As shown, both requirements involve the intervention of a notary, either to authorize the document or to make the protest, which makes the practical usefulness of an electronic promissory note considerably less than it is intended to be.
Due to these considerations, in 2012 the President presented a bill (bulletin 8466-07) to modify the rules regarding the promissory note -to which we refer below- expressly recognizing the possibility of its granting by advanced electronic signature and timestamping and granting it with executive merit under such circumstances.
2.4 Examples of acts and contracts that can be concluded by electronic signature
(i) Simple mandate agreement. There have been divided positions between legal scholars and court rulings on the need for the mandate to have the same formalities as the law requires for the act entrusted . This debate becomes relevant in determining whether or not a mandate can be held in electronic form. If it were accepted that the formality of the mandate should be the same as that of the act entrusted, a mandate for acts that, for example, require a public deed, could not be concluded by means of an electronic signature.
(ii) Contracts for the authorization or licensing of works protected by copyright or industrial privilege.
(iii) Acceptance of terms and conditions of use on an electronic commerce website.
(iv) Assignments of industrial property rights.
(v) Authorizations for the processing of personal data.
(vi) Commercial agreements, such as distribution contracts, franchises, etc. (insofar as they do not contain acts that cannot be concluded by electronic signature, such as the sale of real estate, for example).
(vii) Confidentiality agreements.
(viii) Subscription of minutes of Board meetings (see NCG 434/2020 of the Financial Market Commission).
BILL TO AMMEND THE LAW ON ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES
As we have shown, there are still several impediments to adopting the mass use of electronic signatures. There are acts and contracts that must necessarily be concluded by public documents and others that, although they can be concluded by electronic signature, they still require that the signature is made in the presence of a notary, thus losing the usefulness of electronic means.
In order to eliminate some of these impediments and promote the mass use of electronic signatures, in 2012 the President presented a bill (bulletin 8466-07) which currently is in its third constitutional stage, and that intends to introduce a set of improvements to the LFE and other regulations, among which we will highlight three:
(i) The concept of "time stamping" is introduced, which is defined as the "assignment by electronic means of the date and time when an electronic document is signed with the intervention of a certified certification service provider, who attests to the accuracy and integrity of the document's time stamp". This concept is then required to replace the work of the notary in the granting of certain acts.
(ii) The possibility that the use of AES and time stamping replace the legal requirement to authorize an act before a notary: "In all cases where the legal system requires that the signatures of the grantors of a given legal act must be authorized before a notary, either as a formality of the act or as a requirement to make it effective against third parties or for any other legal effect, such requirement or solemnity shall be deemed to be fulfilled by the sole fact that the act is recorded in an electronic document signed by the grantor or the parties, as the case may be, with an advanced electronic signature and time stamp".
(iii) Law No. 18,092 is amended to expressly provide that the bill of exchange and the promissory note may be issued in an electronic document and signed with AES and time stamped, and that they will have executive merit under such circumstance. It is also stated explicitly that the protest of these documents may be made by means of an electronic document, in which case the officer carrying out the procedure must sign it with AES and stamp it with a time stamp.
These modifications are a great contribution to overcome some of the obstacles that the electronic signature faces today and that have been felt so much in these times of pandemic that demand the possibility of executing acts and contracts remotely. However, the bill leaves a major issue pending: to introduce facilities so that acts and contracts that require the solemnity of a public deed can also be performed remotely.
In fact, the possibility of satisfying this solemnity by means of AES and time stamp was expressly forbidden in the project, through the following rule "The provisions of paragraph four shall not apply to public deeds."
We understand that acts that require the formality of a public document are of great importance and that it would be imprudent or reckless to allow them to take place without making an exhaustive verification of the identity of the contracting parties, as allows the appearance before a notary. However, we believe that the legislator could find ways to reconcile the formality of these acts with the pressing social need to facilitate their remote execution.
One possible way could be to modify the rules of the Organic Courts Code in order to allow public deeds to be granted remotely as well, requiring the executing parties to appear before the notary by means of some technological tool (for example, by video conference) to verbally ratify their willingness to execute the act, and to sign the electronic document at that precise moment, using their advanced electronic signature and time stamp. As an additional safeguard, technical and organizational security measures associated with the use of the tool by the parties and notaries could be required; and strict storage obligations could be created for notaries (e.g., keeping a recording of the video appearance).
Current legislation does not allow electronic signatures to be used for the conclusion of all types of acts and contracts, considering that electronic signatures, especially in their simple form, can easily allow identity fraud. In that context, it is understandable that the legislator may wish to protect certain acts by requiring the parties to appear in person.
However, the use of technological means and the need for appropriate verification of the identity of the contracting parties are not mutually exclusive. The pandemic that hits us today has made it clear how urgent it is to modernize our legislation in order to design creative ways that allow us to execute the most solemn acts by remote means, but with robust mechanisms for the authentication of the contracting parties.
Paulina Silva
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Horsehead Nebula – Facts and Info
The Horsehead nebula is one among the foremost well-known celestial objects within the night sky and a favourite among amateur astronomers. As you would possibly guess, this dark nebula got its name because it resembles the form of a horse's head. It is alittle nebula located within the Orion constellation just south of the eastern-most star in Orion's belt, Alnitak.
The Horsehead Nebula is about 1400 light-years away from Earth, which means it takes 1400 years for light to travel from the nebula to our home planet. A light-year is a unit for measuring very long distances. One light-year is nearly six trillion miles, and it's the most common unit of measure for distances of objects in outer space because most of them are extremely far away.
Nebulae are gigantic clouds formed out of gas and dust. Some interesting-looking nebulae are formed after a star dies in an explosion called a supernova. The Horsehead nebula has a dark color that features some deep red hues that are created by ionized hydrogen gas. Nebulae are also birthplaces for new stars that form out of the tremendous amounts of gaseous material that tend to condense into stars due to gravity.
Horse head nebula
The dark shape of the nebula is caused by thick dust that blocks the light of stars that lie beyond it. The head emerges from a large gas complex that is an active site for the formation of new, small stars. There are a number of bright spots at the base of the Horsehead nebula where new stars have been born.
History Of The Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead nebula was officially discovered in 1888 by a Scottish astronomer named Williamina Flemming. She was at the Harvard College Observatory when she spotted the nebula, and she recorded its image on a photographic plate. The nebula was given the name Barnard 33 at that time, and it was described as a dark mass.
There was some controversy surrounding the discovery of the nebula. There were several different names given to it, and the credit for its discovery has been debated throughout the years. The first person to catalog the nebula was an American astronomer named Edward Emerson Barnard. He found it in 1913 using a telescope at the University of Chicago. Even further back in the 1800s, astronomer William Herschel reported seeing what he described as a hole in the heavens. Some astronomers believe this might have been the first sighting of the nebula because it occurred before its official discovery date of 1888.
It can be somewhat tricky to actually see the Horsehead nebula with your own eyes. It's easy to find the belt in the constellation Orion, but you need to look for it on a dark clear night to make out the silhouette of the nebula in that region of the sky. If there is light pollution from nearby street lights or buildings, you might not be able to see the nebula.
How Big Is The Horsehead Nebula
It's huge! Current estimates put it at 4 light years tall by 3 light years wide.
In miles its around 24 trillion miles tall by 18 trillion miles wide.
Summary of facts about the Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead nebula is about 1400 light years distant from Earth.
It can be found just south of the belt in the constellation Orion.
The Horsehead nebula is one of the most well-known astronomical objects because of its interesting shape.
The nebula has a dark appearance because of dense dust and hydrogen gas that block other stars behind it.
The iconic horse head image stands out because it is surrounded by the bright IC 434 nebula that is part of a larger nebula construct.
The Horsehead nebula is about 4 light years tall and 3 light years across.
In time, the nebula will be dispersed by ultraviolet light from stars in the vicinity.
A 2001 poll of amateur astronomers revealed that it was their favorite celestial object.
Horsehead Nebula – Facts and Info
Stewart, Suzy. "Horsehead Nebula – Facts and Info". The Planets. Accessed on January 21, 2022. https://theplanets.org/nebula-facts/horsehead-nebula/.
Stewart, Suzy. "Horsehead Nebula – Facts and Info". The Planets, https://theplanets.org/nebula-facts/horsehead-nebula/. Accessed 21 January, 2022.
Stewart, Suzy. Horsehead Nebula – Facts and Info. The Planets. Retrieved from https://theplanets.org/nebula-facts/horsehead-nebula/.


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Harvey Clark (4 de outubro de 1885 – 19 de julho de 1938) foi um ator de teatro e cinema norte-americano. Ele atuou em 198 filmes mudos entre 1915 e 1938.

Filmografia selecionada
 Shifting Sands (1918)
 Love's Prisoner (1919)
 He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
 The Fighting Heart (1925)
 Blue Blood (1925)
 The Frontier Trail (1926)
 Midnight Lovers (1926)
 Rose of the Golden West (1927)
 Putting Pants on Philip (1927)
 A Dama das Camélias (1926)
 The Magic Flame (1927)
 In Old Kentucky (1927)
 What a Man! (1930)
 A Woman of Experience (1931)
 The Deceiver (1931)
 Those We Love (1932)
 A Shriek in the Night (1933)
 Empty Saddles (1936)
 Sitting on the Moon (1936)
 Blonde Trouble (1937)
 Counsel for Crime (1937)

Ligações externas

 Harvey Clarke  no British Film Institute

Atores dos Estados Unidos
Atores de cinema
Cinema mudo
Atores de teatro
Mortes por infarto agudo do miocárdio

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The public transport authority that manages bus, train, and ferry services throughout NSW is building a responsive and innovative transport network that really listens to its 600 million annual customers, and gives them the services they need, when they need them.
To reach its goal of delivering truly connected customer experiences—and to transform its public image from being an organisation that merely 'moves metal boxes around'—Transport for NSW is using Salesforce.
With the rise and rise of apps like Uber and AirBnB, customer expectations around digital services are higher than ever. Customers rely on apps for everything from banking to paying for their morning coffee—they expect convenient apps to exist for all their day-to-day services.
"Commuter expectations are set not by their last transport experience, but their last digital experience. As a key part of commuters' daily life, Transport for NSW needs to be up there with the best digital experiences that are provided to customers across all platforms," said Tony Braxton-Smith, Deputy Secretary – Customer Services, Transport for NSW.
To kick-start its digital transformation, Transport for NSW sought a cloud-based platform to replace a range of disconnected systems—including customer service, operations, third parties at various transport stops, and maintenance. The platform would give Transport for NSW real-time access to the data and insights needed to drive innovation.
As well, the platform would need to give customers a voice—making it easier than ever for them make contact, provide feedback, and get useful information about the transport services they use every day.
A feedback system has been designed on Salesforce, built around Transport for NSW's nine customer satisfaction drivers. Transport for NSW is using the rich, real-time feedback to better understand the customer experience and find ways to serve customers better.
"Salesforce brings together all channels—trains, buses, ferries—into one place. As a management team, we can look at all feedback from our customers across all their transport modes, at any point in time," said Bennetts.
"For example, one of our drivers is timeliness, so how late was the bus this morning? Another one is cleanliness, so when I got on the bus, was there a dripping coffee cup on my seat? Was there graffiti on the side of the bus? Another one is convenience. How easy was it to get from my bus onto the train? All this feedback is captured in Salesforce," Bennetts said.
Transport for NSW is using the customer feedback captured in Salesforce, overlaid with other data sources such as journey times and ticketing systems, to prioritise actions that will improve its services. For example, they may identify that more bus services are needed in a particular area; or that engineers are required to improve the reliability of a particular train service.
Transport for NSW is committed to building the most innovative, customer-centric transport network that Australia has seen—and understands that this innovation comes from all stakeholders, not just from within. Using Wave Analytics, Transport for NSW can view customer insights in real time from its Feedback2go app, allowing their contact centre to receive feedback from commuters and respond instantly.
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"The great thing about all these insights is that it reshapes the way we do transport planning. We can make more effective use of the transport network that we have," said Bennetts.
There are now many real-time transport apps available on the Transport for NSW website, all designed to create more connected customer experiences. Apps like these, together with the authority's ongoing commitment to use customer insights to drive innovation, have set Transport NSW up for an exciting future.
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"For the people of NSW, this level of innovation could deliver a real sense of pride that government transport services are changing forever … and that we are leading the way," said Braxton-Smith.
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This retailer used Salesforce to build apps that give online shoppers a highly personalised experience. By getting to know customers in the digital space, ALDO makes in-store visits more personal, too.


This one seems like it'll last longer. The rebrand to the [CHALLENGE] logo was Sky making its mark IIRC after it acquired the channel from Virgin, so I can understand that one. The refresh from that one to the characters is one I can't understand because I didn't see a problem with it. The characters tired quickly and I felt it cheapened the brand by having what were essentially goofy cartoons promoting the channel. Now we have presentation that seems far more sensible and appropriate, and will hopefully last a bit longer.
My point is, of the four rebrands they've had, I think at least two of them were necessary.
Sky continued with the Virgin Media branding for a year or so as I recall. Certainly it launched on Freeview with that branding. I think that branding was probably the worst to be honest - it said nothing about the content of the channel. I agree the retro look was good - but I think this new look probably beats it.
I immediately thought of Trivial Pursuit on seeing the new logo.
^That's probably deliberate, considering that Trivial Pursuit is a quiz game and Challenge airs quiz shows.
How so? It's quoting Bullseye.
Can anyone work our what the first gameshow in that ident Rob has posted is meant to be? Ninja Warrior?
Edit - clue is right there in the title!


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using NUnit.Framework;
using StructureMap.Graph;
using StructureMap.Source;
using StructureMap.Testing.TestData;
using StructureMap.Testing.Widget;

namespace StructureMap.Testing.Graph
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class IntegratedTester
    {
        #region Setup/Teardown

        [SetUp]
        public void SetUp()
        {
            var graph = new PluginGraph();

            graph.Scan(x => x.Assembly("StructureMap.Testing.Widget"));

            DataMother.WriteDocument("IntegratedTest.XML");
            MementoSource source1 =
                new XmlFileMementoSource("IntegratedTest.XML", "GrandChildren", "GrandChild");

            MementoSource source2 = new XmlFileMementoSource("IntegratedTest.XML", "Children", "Child");
            MementoSource source3 = new XmlFileMementoSource("IntegratedTest.XML", "Parents", "Parent");

            graph.FindFamily(typeof (GrandChild)).AddMementoSource(source1);
            graph.FindFamily(typeof (Child)).AddMementoSource(source2);
            graph.FindFamily(typeof (Parent)).AddMementoSource(source3);

            container = new Container(graph);
        }

        #endregion

        private Container container;

        [Test]
        public void GetChildWithDefinedGrandChild()
        {
            var child = container.GetInstance(typeof (Child), "Tom") as Child;
            Assert.IsNotNull(child);
            Assert.AreEqual("Tom", child.Name);

            GrandChild grandChild = child.MyGrandChild;
            Assert.IsNotNull(grandChild);
            Assert.AreEqual(1984, grandChild.BirthYear, "Has correct BirthYear");
            Assert.IsTrue(grandChild is LeftieGrandChild, "Correct type?");
        }

        [Test, ExpectedException(typeof (StructureMapException))]
        public void GetChildWithInvalidGrandChild()
        {
            var child = container.GetInstance(typeof (Child), "Monte") as Child;
        }

        [Test]
        public void GetChildWithReferencedGrandChild()
        {
            var child = container.GetInstance(typeof (Child), "Marsha") as Child;
            Assert.IsNotNull(child);
            Assert.AreEqual("Marsha", child.Name);

            GrandChild grandChild = child.MyGrandChild;
            Assert.IsNotNull(grandChild);
            Assert.AreEqual(1972, grandChild.BirthYear, "Has correct BirthYear");
            Assert.AreEqual(true, grandChild.RightHanded, "Is Right-Handed?");
        }

        [Test]
        public void GetParentWithDefaultChildWhenChildIsNotReferenced()
        {
            container.Configure(x => x.ForRequestedType<Child>().TheDefault.Is.TheInstanceNamed("Marsha"));

            var parentOfMarsha = (Parent) container.GetInstance(typeof (Parent), "ImplicitChild");

            // This Parent does not have a Child specified, therefore return the default Child -- Marsha
            Assert.IsNotNull(parentOfMarsha);
            Assert.AreEqual("Marsha", parentOfMarsha.MyChild.Name);
        }

        [Test]
        public void GetParentWithDefinedChild()
        {
            var parent = container.GetInstance(typeof (Parent), "Jackie") as Parent;
            Assert.IsNotNull(parent);
            Assert.AreEqual(70, parent.Age, "Age = 70");
            Assert.AreEqual("Green", parent.EyeColor);

            Child child = parent.MyChild;
            Assert.IsNotNull(child);
            Assert.AreEqual("Elizabeth", child.Name);

            GrandChild grandChild = child.MyGrandChild;
            Assert.IsNotNull(grandChild);
            Assert.AreEqual(1992, grandChild.BirthYear, "Has correct BirthYear");
            Assert.IsTrue(grandChild is LeftieGrandChild, "Is a Leftie?");
        }

        [Test]
        public void GetParentWithReferencedChild()
        {
            var parent = container.GetInstance(typeof (Parent), "Jerry") as Parent;
            Assert.IsNotNull(parent);
            Assert.AreEqual(72, parent.Age, "Age = 72");
            Assert.AreEqual("Blue", parent.EyeColor);

            Child child = parent.MyChild;
            Assert.IsNotNull(child);
            Assert.AreEqual("Marsha", child.Name);

            GrandChild grandChild = child.MyGrandChild;
            Assert.IsNotNull(grandChild);
            Assert.AreEqual(1972, grandChild.BirthYear, "Has correct BirthYear");
            Assert.AreEqual(true, grandChild.RightHanded, "Is Right-Handed?");
        }

        [Test]
        public void GetParentWithReferenceToDefaultGrandChild()
        {
            container.Configure(x => x.ForRequestedType<GrandChild>().TheDefault.Is.TheInstanceNamed("Trevor"));
            var child = container.GetInstance(typeof (Child), "Jessica") as Child;
            Assert.IsNotNull(child);
            Assert.AreEqual("Jessica", child.Name);

            GrandChild grandChild = child.MyGrandChild;
            Assert.IsNotNull(grandChild);
            Assert.AreEqual(1979, grandChild.BirthYear, "Has correct BirthYear");
            Assert.IsTrue(grandChild is LeftieGrandChild, "Is a Leftie?");
        }
    }
}

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Events in the year 1976 in Israel.

Incumbents
 President of Israel – Ephraim Katzir
 Prime Minister of Israel – Yitzhak Rabin (Alignment)
 President of the Supreme Court – Shimon Agranat; Yoel Zussman
 Chief of General Staff – Mordechai Gur
 Government of Israel – 17th Government of Israel

Events

 3 April – Shokolad, Menta, Mastik represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Emor Shalom" ("Say Hello"), achieving sixth place.
 11 July – Miss Israel, Rina Mor, wins the title of Miss Universe 1976 becoming the first Israeli to win one of the most publicized international beauty contest.
 10 December – The first F-15 fighter aircraft arrive in Israel. The fact that they landed in Israel on a Friday evening, after the start of Sabbath, causes a political crisis and prompts the religious parties in the Knesset to topple the first Rabin government.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1976 include:

Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets

The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1976 include:

 4 July – Operation Entebbe: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian Arab and German hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
 22 October – An Israeli naval commando raids a harbor in Tyre and sinks a terrorist ship.

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1976 include:
 27 June – Air France Flight 139, originating in Tel Aviv and carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12 takes off from Athens, Greece, headed for Paris, France. The flight is hijacked by Palestinian Arab assailants with German Revolutionäre Zellen supporters and flown to Entebbe Airport (now known as Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda. Shortly after landing, all non-Jewish passengers were released. The hijacking of this flight leads to the IDF hostage-rescue mission "Operation Entebbe" carried out in the Entebbe Airport seven days later (see details above).

Unknown dates
 The founding of the kibbutz Samar.

Notable births
 5 April – Sendi Bar, Israeli actress and model.
 25 April – Amir Fay Guttman, Israeli singer and actor.
 18 September – Guri Alfi, Israeli actor and stand-up comedian.

Notable deaths

 24 January – Pinhas Lavon (born 1910), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair.
 15 April – David Elazar (born 1925), Yugoslav (Bosnia)-born Israeli military officer, the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
 25 April – Markus Reiner (born 1886), Austro-Hungarian (Bukovina)-born Israeli scientist.
 4 July – Yonatan Netanyahu (born 1946), U.S.-born commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal, killed during Operation Entebbe.
 19 September – Yehezkel Abramsky (born 1886), Russian (Belarus)-born eminent Israeli Orthodox rabbi.

Major public holidays

See also
 1976 in Israeli film
 1976 in Israeli television
 1976 in Israeli music
 1976 in Israeli sport
 Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976
 Israel at the 1976 Summer Olympics

References

External links


I have two datasets and I'm trying to determine the extent of their spatial relationship. I suspect they are closely related but I would like to produce a map output to illustrate this relationship.
I don't know which technique will provide me with what I want. i have been reading about Geostatistical Analyst tool, but i didn't find what i have to use.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can investigate and represent this relationship in Arcgis?
Two options - If you are doing a global correlation (between all points or cells in your study area) then extract values to points and you can use the OLS tools in the Spatial Statistics toolbox. Then you can plot the residuals. You can view this as deviation from the line of fit.
If, on the otherhand, you are interested in performing the correlation locally in a moving window fashion then take a look at my Topography Toolbox - moving window correlation - http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b13b3b40fa3c43d4a23a1a09c5fe96b9 . This approach was used in Bill Peterman's dissertation Figure 3c for example. This maps the degree of correlation between two variables across a landscape.
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Testing for spatial correlation using two point layers in QGIS?


Swimming is a great way to relax your mind from the stresses of school. Competitive swimming requires a huge amount of dedication with most swimmers in our school training between 10-20 hours a week.
In Muckross we have competitive swimmers in most year groups.
Every year in January we are represented in the Leinster Senior Schools Gala by our swimmers, it is their only chance to represent their school in their sport.


Dean Torrence joining Mike's band?
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Re: Dean Torrence joining Mike's band?
I was surprised to find this, and I immediately sent it to Custom Machine and other fan friends! I guess I wrote a review on Rateyourmusic.com back in 2003, and someone was inspired by the review and made this video! I happened upon it accidentally, when a Facebook friend posted a different video from the channel on their timeline. So crazy how I found it!
Re: "The Locomotion" as recorded by Mike Love for that first Radio Shack/Hitbound release "Rock And Roll City".
Just listen to it. And consider how any business interest, Radio Shack or any record company, would give the green light to fund and promote more of the same from Mike or anyone else.
Then consider how Mike Love thought his version of "The Locomotion" was an improvement over the Little Eva original.
That's not the only one.
Enjoyed SBonilla's Youtube comment, concerning Caroline No segued into The Locomotion, "One of these recordings was born on the wrong side of the tracks."
do you think an idiot fair security guard would actually admit me back with this?
There's a one-off appearance of Dean with Mike & Bruce coming up on May 4th in Oklahoma City. It's a benefit show at The Civic Center Music Hall.
Thanks for the update. I hope some videos of the event show up online!
Mike Love's fake Beach Boys Tribute, juke box band can use all the help they can get. Since there's very little originality going on, why not? It would be appropriate for Dean to join such a band but why go out on a low note with Mike Love grabbing for straws? Such an embarrassing way to end a career with a copy band that has no business being able to sell out the BB name which only coincides with Mike Love's philosophy of anything for a buck.
Many of us are excited for the shows!


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Samuel Johannes baron Sandberg, heer van Essenburg (Zwolle, 22 januari 1778 - Nunspeet, 16 mei 1854) was een Nederlands politicus.

Sandberg, lid van de familie Sandberg, was een Zwolse advocaat en rechter. Hij was buitengewoon lid van de dubbele vergadering van de Staten-Generaal der Verenigde Nederlanden (8 tot 19 augustus 1815) die moest beslissen over de grondwet van 1815.
In de eerste jaren van het koninkrijk, van 1815 tot 1828, was hij een vooraanstaand, actief en geacht Tweede Kamerlid. Hij behoorde tot de meer vooruitstrevende leden. In 1823 en 1825 werd hij tot Tweede Kamervoorzitter gekozen. Toen hij in 1828 de Kamer verliet, volgde zijn negen jaar oudere broer Albertus Sandberg hem op.

In 1828 benoemde de koning hem tot gouverneur van Luik, maar na de Opstand van 1830 moest hij uitwijken naar Maastricht. Hij vestigde zich toen in Harderwijk en was enige tijd lid van de Raad van State, tot hem het reizen naar Den Haag te zwaar viel.

Regeringsgezind
Tweede Kamervoorzitter
Tweede Kamerlid
Gouverneur van Luik
Provinciaal gouverneur
Nederlandse adel in de 19e eeuw
Nederlands staatsraad
Buitengewoon lid van de Staten-Generaal der Verenigde Nederlanden
Samuel Johannes


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How Amir Khan Prepares To Be Mentally Strong For His ONE Championship Bouts
Despite being relatively young, Amir Khan has a wealth of experience in ONE Championship's talent-filled lightweight division.
The 23-year-old Singaporean contender has competed on the global stage for martial arts, turning in spectacular performances as he has risen from hot prospect to legitimate World Title contender.
Such a swift rise to the top could be too much to handle for some young athletes, but not Khan, who has taken everything in his stride so far.
"Honestly, the pressure does not bother me. I chose this path and chose to have this pressure on me, so I have learned to embrace it. I take that as motivation instead, rather than feeling the weight on my shoulders," he says.
"I embrace the pressure to motivate me to do my best. I believe when I'm at my best, I can achieve great things, so I don't feel the pressure. I just need to learn how to take it the right way."
Khan's next matchup sees him share the cage with Team Lakay's former ONE Featherweight World Champion Honorio "The Rock" Banario at ONE: BEYOND THE HORIZON on 8 September in Shanghai, China.
It is yet another high-profile bout for the Singaporean striker, and one in which he will need to call on all the experience he has accrued so far in his mixed martial arts career.
One aspect of being a high-profile figure is the fact that you have to deal with the increased media attention. Khan admits it is something he has had to work on during his career.
"Initially, [the learning curve] was really steep, I sounded really weird, and I didn't like the way I saw myself in the media," Khan says.
"I feel like when the camera's on you, you kind of stiffen up your shoulders and you get a weird feeling because people are watching, so you can't mess it up. I have to worry about my choice of words too, so, obviously, I have to think about what I say before it comes out of my mouth.
"It takes practice – more TV shows, more times in front of the camera. One day, I'll be completely natural.
"Just keep at it with whatever you do – in sport or in life. If you suck at something, keep doing it until you succeed. If you give up, that's when you really fail."
Khan hails from Singapore, the home of ONE Championship, and trains out of the country's leading gym, Evolve MMA. That, coupled with his impressive career record, means the expectation levels are high whenever he steps into the cage to compete.
"When we fight in Singapore, everyone expects you to kick butt," he explains.
"They say: 'Okay, Amir's going to dominate the guy and it'll be easy for him.' There's a lot of pressure on me for that, because I cannot lose in front of my home crowd. No one likes to lose in front of their home crowd, because it's a big embarrassment.
"I try to just be in my head and not pay attention to what's going on out there in the media. I keep my head down and focus on my opponent. I focus on my job.
"I do what I can control. Whatever comes up, it was meant to be. I can't change if I win or lose.
"If I think of other factors like what my friends think if I don't perform or I don't knock him out – it's just additional stress I don't want in fight week."
Khan admits to suffering from nerves ahead of his bouts, when the hard work of dealing with media obligations are over, and the focus turns solely to the contest ahead.
"The week of the fight, the nerves start kicking in – maybe one or two days before. On fight day, when I wake up, I feel the most nervous of all," he says.
To better cope with the pre-bout butterflies, Khan has put in place a regular routine to help him get into the right frame of mind before making his walk to the cage.
"I get a workout in the morning – kind of a shakeout – get a shower, have a nap, then when I wake up I shower again, and I'm ready to go. I visualise what I want to do, and the nerves go away," he explains.
"As soon as a know I have a fight, I'm visualising the movements every day – how I will feel on fight day, how I will feel in the ring or cage, how my emotions will be. I visualise my emotions so when the day comes, they all seem natural, so my body is not in a shocked state.
"If you don't visualise all the emotions – the pain and the fear – on fight day your body will get a shock. 'What is this feeling?' You will be really uncomfortable. I go deep into my visualisation of the fear, the nervousness, the anxiety – every single detail.
"I try not to miss anything out so when it finally comes, it feels completely natural and all these are normal for me."
When he is backstage and warmed up, Khan says the nerves start to fall away as his excitement level builds ahead of the contest.
"Backstage, at the arena, I don't really feel nervous – more excited," he says.
"I want to get it done and fight as soon as possible, finish it, and celebrate."
That preparation has helped propel him to 10 wins so far in his impressive young career. Victory number 11 could come against Banario in Shanghai, and could push him closer to his ultimate dream – the ONE Lightweight World Title.


In 2010, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) increased the requirements for reporting Uncertain Tax Positions (UTP). After a thorough comment period, the IRS had finalized its requirements with a gradual phase-in based on total corporate assets. The company's UTPs must be ranked by size with a concise description of the material facts.
The UTP represents an established reserve created by a taxpayer in an audited financial statement or an expectation for litigation concerning a potential tax liability. During the comment period, the litigation issue required the IRS to relax its demands. The IRS recognized the need to protect information, which might be part of litigation. Furthermore, companies could not adequately calculate potential liabilities when a third-party authority could modify the parameters of the position.
For many corporations, the UTP reserve is established due to questions over an affiliate status or future litigation. Accountants, advisers, attorneys and independent auditors noted that attorney-client privilege would prevent them from making more complete disclosure of the specifics of their UTP. There was concern over whether the UTP would be used by the IRS to determine which companies to audit.
pass-through Entity EIN, major tax position and ranking of said tax position. The UTP ranking is based on the size of the financial account in reserve using an annual basis.
Corporations must make their concise description of the UTP on the last page of the schedule. This is a brief statement with relevant facts explaining "What" and "Why."
Positions taken on pre-2010 year tax returns need not be disclosed. Reserve amounts include estimated income taxes, interest and penalties. Transfer pricing positions must be specifically identified.
Who Must File UTP Schedule?
The IRS agreed to a five-year phase-in for the UTP in order to assist in its implementation. In 2010, any corporation with total world assets over $100 million with uncertain tax positions must file this schedule. In 2012, the, corporations with assets over $50 million must file. In 2014, this total asset threshold is reduced to $10 million.


Build a strong foundation for your yoga practice. This class is a slow and gentle series to learn the basics of moving from pose to pose, linking each movement with your breath. Deepen your practice with a focus on the basic structure of poses as you develop flexibility, move through stagnation, energize and relax. Breath work and meditations will be included to energize and to awaken more body awareness.
Vinyasa Yoga is an upbeat, athletic style of yoga that unites breath with movement in a dance-like flow. Appropriate for those with prior yoga experience due to accelerated pace of class. This class will focus on increasing strength, flexibility, balance and mindfulness. Each class will include breathwork (pranayama) and ends with a blissful Shavasana (Meditation).


Land of Midnight Sun offers unique experiences. Norway is a land of traditions, represented by rustic wooden churches and folk dances. The children grow up listening to stories about trolls and fairies, and some adults, who don't recognize, still believe in these fabulous creatures. Norway is also a land of waterfalls, rapid rivers, majestic mountains and glaciers, crystal-clear lakes, villages of fishermen and quiet fjords.
Norway is a mixture of ancient and modern. It's strange and also a common thing to see a Lapp grandmother dressed in a colorful outfit with reindeer leather loafers, waiting for the plane in the Tromso airport to land. The midnight sun is famous – the city of Tromso is above the Arctic Circle where the sun never rises during winter, and never sets during summer.
Each of the four major cities offer a special charm – Oslo is the capital and the financial center, Bergen is the former Hanseatic port and the gateway to the land of fjords, Stavanger is the central point of the oil industry and Trondheim is an old center of Christianity and, more recently, of the technical research.
In the wilds of the great urban centers are rare beauties like Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier in Europe. Activities that can take place outdoors are skiing, fishing and climbing.
If you are invited for dinner, be sure you leave your shoes in the hallway, especially during winter and early spring. Also they care about a tradition according to which guests must not eat or drink until they are invited by the host. Politeness in Norway is more than a matter of linguistic behavior. For example "please" is a term, which is rarely used in Norwegian. Not speaking loudly and keeping your calm is a sign of virtue.
Life in Norway may seem a little bit expensive. Remember though that the average income of the residents is very high compared to the other developed countries.


My immune system is compromised and I seem to catch everything lil bug that goes around and I seem to stay sicker longer than I should be. I need some ideas for some immune boosters that will help fight the bugs and viruses.
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Some Novel Ideas for the Months Ahead!
Faithful readers of my column, as well as friends and family, all know that this is my favourite time of the year. I love the autumn – its colors, its general feel, and its journey into the winter months where we get to have toasty fires, hot beverages, and snowy afternoons filled with long movies and great books. I love literature and promoting stellar reading material. For as long as I am on this planet, reading will not become a forgotten pastime. This article might seem seasonally early but you have to admit, that on these cold mornings, it's beginning to feel pretty Fallish out there!
Using the shelves at the fabulous Box of Delights in Wolfville, the Book Review section of the Globe and Mail, The Atlantic Books magazine and my own know-how, here is a list of fantastic reads for the upcoming season. And remember to pass books and recommendations along to those nearest to you, as there's nothing like sharing a book and then chatting about it over coffee and carrot cake at the Il Dolce Far Niente Espresso Bar in Wolfville (nice plug eh?)
Let's start with local fare. Check out 'Grey Eyes' by Frank Busch, 'Sweetland' by Michael Crummey, and a wonderful collection of poetry by Acadia Professor Sylvia Hamilton called 'And I Alone Escaped to Tell You'. A few more local selections that have peaked my interest for the autumn are Jan L. Coates' 'Rocket Man', B.R. Myers' 'Butterflies Don't Lie', 'Crimes Against My Brother' by David Adams Richards and 'How Loveta got her Baby' by Nicholas Ruddock. For the history buff, check out 'The Lynching of Peter Wheeler' by Debra Komar – the true story of the murder of Annie Kempton in Bear River, Nova Scotia. It's a very gripping novel.
Recognizable names have new novels out for your pleasure including Margaret Atwood's new collection of short stories called 'Stone Mattress'. Ian McEwan, one of my favorite authors of all time (he wrote 'Atonement', 'Saturday', 'Amsterdam' and 'Sweet Tooth'), has a new novel out called 'The Children Act', which is easily at the top of my reading list. Stephen King has released a great novel recently called 'Mister Mercedes', and Ken Follett has put out the third novel in his Century Trilogy called 'Edge of Eternity'. And you should all definitely add Mette Jakobson's 'The Vanishing Act', Alissa York's 'Fauna', Ania Szado's 'Studio Saint-Ex' and Neil Gaiman's 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane' to your reading lists for this fall!
If you are looking to introduce young adults to great novels, I recommend S. E. Hinton's classic 'The Outsiders', Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', Daniel Dafoe's 'Robinson Crusoe', Jules Verne's 'Around the World in Eighty Days', Betty Smith's 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn', Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird', John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men', or try Neil Gaiman's 'The Graveyard Book'!
Other selections for the chilly months ahead are 'Bleeding Egde' by Thomas Pynchon, 'The Lewis Man' by Peter May, 'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn, 'The Long Way Home' by Louise Penny, 'The Bone Clocks' by David Mitchell, 'Strangers on a Train' by Patricia Highsmith, or 'The Paying Guests' by Sarah Waters.
Recommendations that have come my way from friends include 'The End of Your Life Book Club' by Will Schwalbe, 'The Far Side of the Sky' by Daniel Kalla, 'Spanish Fly' by Will Ferguson, 'The Marlowe Papers' by Ros Barber, 'Transatlantic' by Colum McCain, and the newly discovered and released 'The Fall of Arthur' by J.R.R Tolkien (Thanks Ian!).
Besides novels, I am guilty of reading Plays! It's a lot of fun to grab some friends and read a classic stage play out loud and play out (no pun intended) all the classic characters of the stage. Pick up a Tennessee Williams classic like 'Streetcar Named Desire' or 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', a Neil Simon comedy like 'The Sunshine Boys' or 'The Goodbye Girl', Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', Oscar Wilde's 'Importance of Being Earnest' or a Shakespeare play like 'The Tempest', 'The Taming of the Shrew' or 'Romeo and Juliet'.
One more grouping of considerations include 'The Garden of Letters' by Alyson Richman, 'Big Little Lies' by Liane Moriarty, 'Upside Down' by Fern Michaels, 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt, 'Sycamore Row' by John Grisham, 'We Are Not Ourselves' by Matthew Thomas, and 'Orphan Train' by Christina Baker Kline.
We are lucky to have THREE stores in Wolfville that sell new and used books and I spread the wealth to all of them. Enjoy these selections and others you come across. Have an incredible experience of opening your mind, expanding your imagination and welcoming new characters into your life. Enjoy!
AND A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY NEPHEW TANNER (SEE PHOTO!)
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Wilran Joseph netted a hat-trick as R & R Construction Transport and Works thumped SVG Post, 3-nil yesterday in the Firms Division of the DIGICEL/St. Vincent Brewery Breakaway Masters Invitational Football Championship at the Grammar School Playing Field.
Earlier, in the Agricultural Input Warehouse Under-16 Division, Je Belles beat Largo Height 3-nil. The goals were scored by O-SAI-E Delpeche (2) and Bert Bowens (1).
At the same venue this afternoon, K & R Strikers will meet Belfongo in the Agricultural Input Warehouse Under-16 Division at 3:00, and at 4:30, Textile Sports Ministry of Education will lock horns with Toni Combined Stores in the Firms Division.


The Ministry of Home Affairs has directed ZESCO Limited, Zambia's sole supplier of electricity to install pre-paid energy metres in police camps in a move aimed at saving government money.
However, scores of police officers have protested saying they cannot manage to pay electricity bills from their meager salaries.
But Minister Edgar Lungu has said the installation of pre-paid electricity metres was not meant to punish police officers without explaining why the government wants the police to pay for their own electricity bills.
The Zambia Police Service and other defence force wings are entitled to free mealie-meal rations, water, housing and electricity.
When President Michael assumed power, he directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to stop giving mealie-meal rations to the police and defence force wings because the government would start paying an allowance for the food. The police officers and their counterparts in the defence force wings are now receiving a paltry K50,000 (USD10) for mealie-meal.
The move to install pre-paid metres in police camps means the police will have to foot their own electricity bills, which is unprecedented.
Lungu has said the government is engaged in talks with the police command to address the officer's complaints.
Lungu said the police in Kabwe must not panic because the PF was a listening government and it was doing its best to improve their conditions of service.
"The officers must relax and not panic because their concerns are being taken care of and this is the reason why we are already talking with police command," he said.
In Central province, police officers are worried about the government's decision installation of ZESCO Limited prepaid meters in their houses.
"Our salaries have not been increased for a long time. We have seen politicians increasing their salaries, but why are they neglecting us in the service. This is not what they promised us," said a policeman who sought anonymity.
Some police officers interviewed said it was unfair to install the meters before adjusting their salaries.
Typically, a police officer's average take home pay is K1.5 million (300).
Some police officers said the government pronouncement to fight corruption in the police service would remain a pipe dream officers would always remain susceptible to bribes and other forms of graft.
Last week ZESCO started installing pre-paid electricity metres in Kabwe but there is resistance by police officers and their families who could not allow engineers to install the metres.
The installation programme only resumed after a directive from the police command was issued to allow the fitting.


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Rafael Lechowski (Breslavia, Polonia, 13 de febrero 1985) es un escritor, músico y editor aragonés de ascendencia polaca. En un inicio se hizo conocido por ser miembro del grupo de rap zaragozano Flowklorikos, principalmente por su último álbum junto a ellos que luego fue reinterpretado con una banda de jazz, Donde duele inspira.

Biografía
Nació en la ciudad polaca de Breslavia, y a la edad de 4 años emigró junto a sus padres a España, huyendo de la represión política de la Polonia del momento. Con tan solo 11 años fallece su padre en un accidente de tráfico y empieza a acercarse a la escritura a través de las páginas de un diario personal para consolarse y reflexionar sobre las nuevas sensaciones en él. Dos años después comienza a acercarse al rap y aquellos escritos comienzan a tomar una forma artística. A la corta edad de 14 años empieza a grabar sus primeros temas en una maqueta con su grupo de rap llamado Flowklorikos. En el año 2002 sacan Zerdos y diamantes, maqueta que se convertiría en la primera en ser llevada a una discográfica y la última del grupo, llevando a Rafael a firmar un contrato con tan solo 17 años y convirtiéndose en un hito en el rap hispano. Comenzó a dar conciertos por salas de todo el país, y su habilidad para improvisar versos llegó a hacerse muy famosa. Incluso llegó a improvisar 40 minutos de rimas sin pausa en un concierto en Lugo en el año 2003.

Tras aquello hubo una larga pausa en la carrera del artista, que terminaría en el año 2007 con Donde duele, inspira, un cambio completo en la manera de enfocar el rap que se hacía en el país hasta el momento. Claramente distinguida por un gran sentimiento y una visión más cercana del Mc, desconocidas hasta aquella fecha. La obra podría incluso ser poesía si fuese escrita sobre un papel, cargada de máximas en clave pesimista; silencio solo roto, por momentos, por largos solos de instrumentos vinculados al sonido soul jazz. Aquel mismo año, Rafael Lechowski decide amplificar aquel cambio y adapta Donde duele, inspira, en Bum festival 07 y televisión española, acompañándose de un quinteto de Jazz; acción que supuso una gran influencia sobre el género, y que modificaría la filosofía de puesta en escena. Todo esto provocó que, por primera vez, un artista de rap se presentase a un Festival de Jazz, a las programaciones de los teatros nacionales o a un festival literario de prestigio internacional como Literaktum o Gutun Zuria, alcanzando la vasta cifra de 120 conciertos de un mismo álbum. El periodista y crítico, Santiago Alcanda, definió públicamente el trabajo Donde duele, inspira como «un ensayo en verso sobre la inspiración, y como mejor álbum de Rap europeo de 2007». Se afirma que es el disco que el género Rap esperaba tras dos décadas de crecimiento. Tras todo esto fue editada una revisión de Donde duele, inspira, grabada íntegramente con el quinteto valenciano de jazz, Glaç, bajo el título Rafael Lechowski – Donde duele, inspira (2007-2011), lanzado gratuitamente. Inmediatamente fue incluida entre las mejores obras del año por los principales medios Nacionales y latinomaericanos.

Tras esta etapa de su vida, decide dedicarse realmente a la poesía, y en el año 2014 lanza, con la editorial Lapsus Calami, su primer libro: Larga brevedad, dividido en dos partes (Diario de un asceta urbano y El arte de borrar) que se acompaña con un disco de varios poemas y aforismos recitados y que llegó a colarse entre las listas de los libros más vendidos en España.

Otras obras relacionadas con el artista son Iola (2008): recopilación soul dedicada a su madre, y I´ll take care of you (2010): compilación centrada en el Bluesman norteamericano, Bobby Blue Bland. Dichos trabajos también fueron lanzados de forma gratuita como señal de compromiso con la cultura. En la primavera de 2010, Rafael Lechowski emprende un exilio voluntario que lo llevará al aislamiento en un pueblo del pirineo aragonés, donde se recoge para crear la que será su nueva obra: Quarcissus el arte de desamar.

Después de un tiempo sin sacar nuevos temas de rap a la luz, en 2015 colabora con Sharif Fernández, en su disco Bajo el rayo que no cesa con Cantar y coser y en el disco de Iván Abando, Hablando claro se torna oscuro, en el tema Débil fuego.

En 2016, finalmente ve la luz el primer Acto (de cinco) de la obra en la que Rafael Lechowski trabaja desde 2009: Quarcissus: El Arte de Desamar, titulándose este primer Acto La traición. Se trata de una obra de difícil calificación, entre la ópera rap, el poema narrativo o el teatro en verso. El primer acto, que consta de 3 pistas (Introducción, La Traición y Acto I) consta de 17 minutos sobre una pieza musical del compositor aragonés Luis Giménez. Dicha obra es editada por Arscesis en formato libro + CD.

En mayo de 2017 Lechowski lanza el segundo acto de su obra Quarcissus, titulado "La descreencia" el cual es un desesperado y furioso diálogo con lo divino, con una duración de 17 minutos, asimismo la obra es editada por Arscesis en formato libro + CD, cuya portada es ilustrada por el mismo Lechowski y Maria Poddubnaya.

Fue hasta enero de 2019 que Lechowski lanza los actos III ("El diario") y IV ("La carta") de su obra Quarcissus, con los cuales concluye la obra, pues se había previsto que originalmente la obra contase con 5 actos. Ambos actos se presentan juntos en una misma edición en un pack único e indivisible. La obra es editada por Arscesis.

Después de 11 meses e inspiración continua, Lechowski lanza el álbum El Canto de Amor a la Vida en enero de 2020. Su sonido es un regreso al origen a la vez que el origen de algo completamente nuevo. Arropado por músicos de renombre internacional, la obra es un homenaje a la vida y a la grandeza de las cosas sencillas. El autor afirma con rotundidad que esta es su mayor obra, porque este es el momento más grande de su vida. La obra puede ser adquirida en Arscesis e incluye un libro con las letras de las canciones y un conjunto de fotogramas inéditos.

Pasados dos años, en febrero de 2022 la fasceta del escritor desembocaria en el libro "El artesano de la calle oviedo" en este estudio empírico poético de la vida y el mundo, en un intenso viaje de ida y vuelta, abierto, asistemático, plural. El artesano de la calle Oviedo —el padre, el hijo, el amante, el amigo, el asceta— nos brinda la oportunidad de volver a atender, de la escucha como una emocionante manera de atrapar el mundo líquido y fugitivo que habitamos.

Discografía

Con Flowklorikos

 In extremis (Maqueta) (Independiente) (2001)
 Intro
 Otro flow
 Vida jeroglífica (con El Puto Shark)
 Nací pa ser estrella
 Interludio
 Hundir la flota
 Entristefonk
 Swing con flow (con FueTheFirst y Dani Ro)
 Rap por entorno
 Interludio 2
 Cuantos tantos
 MC's de mierda
 Eljazzdelborrachoimprovisado
 Jazz por entorno (con Allen Beller)
 Outro

 Zerdos y diamantes (Maqueta-Posteriormente reeditado como LP) (Independiente-Divucsa Music/Estilo Hip Hop) (2002)

 Intro
 Zerdos y diamantes
 Me gustan gordas
 En busca & captura
 Simplemente R.A.P.
 Interludio
 Cae de trago (con Hate)
 Volví a ser…
 Acomplejadores a sueldo
 Deja de mirarme así
 Mensaje en una botella
 Días grises
 Kloroformo en el entorno (con Shotta)

 Donde duele inspira (LP) (Divucsa/Estilo Hip-Hop) (2007)
 Uno
 Lluvia y fuego
 Donde duele inspira
 Por amor al odio (con Gregory Isaacs)
 Soy loco por ti
 Desde el barro (con Carlos Talavera)
 Folio en blanco (improvisación)
 In-extremis
 Sucio (con Carlos Talavera)
 Artesano del arte insano
 Cosquijazz
 Mis ego-depresiones
 13

En solitario
 Iola (con la ayuda de DJ D-Beam) (maqueta autoeditada) (2008)

 Sam Cooke - A change is gonna come (1964) - Janis Joplin - Work me lord (1969) - Aaron Neville - Tell it Like it is (1966) - Syl Johnson - Is it because i'm black (1969)
 Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (1965) - Otis Redding - These arms of mine (1964) - Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (1966)
 Barbara Mason - A good man is gone (1975) - David Porter - I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over (1971) - Betty Lavette - Let me down easy (1965/1969) - Bobby Byrd - I'm not to blame (1970) - The Persuaders - thin line between love and hate (1971)
 Curtis Mayfield - Move on up (1970) - Curtis Mayfield - little child runnin' wild (1972) - Curtis Mayfield - People get ready (1971) - Curtis Mayfield - The makings of you (1971)
 William Bell - I forgot to be your lover (1968) - Aretha Franklin - One step ahead (1965) - Nina Simone - Don't Let me be Misunderstood (1964) - Marvin Gaye - What's going on (1971) - Ray Charles - I believe to my soul (1959)
 Isaac Hayes - The look of love (1970) - Isaac Hayes - If loving you is wrong (1973) - Isaac Hayes - walk on by (1969)
 Al Green - Love and happiness (1972)- Let's stay together (1972)- Simply beautiful (1972)

 I'll take care of you (con la ayuda de DJ D-Beam) (Maqueta autoeditada) (2010)

 I'll take care of you (Yo cuidaré de ti)
 Ask 'bout nothing but the blues
 Deep in my soul
 This time I'm gone for good
 I'm on my way
 Dear Bobby (The note)
 To late for tears
 St. James Infirmary
 Blind Man
 How does a cheatin' feel
 I've been wrong so long
 3 o'clock Blues
 Stormy monday Blues
 Ain't no love in the heart of the city
 Help me through the day
 The end of the road
 Lovin' on barrowed time
 Five long years
 Lead me on
 It's All Over
 Where do I go from here
 Twenty-four hour blues

 Larga brevedad (Antología) (CD incluido con el libro Larga Brevedad) (2014)
Los temas marcados con (*) no se encontraban en el libro.

 Lo sé
 Lenguaje
 Infancia*
 El cuento más corto del mundo
 Herida
 Mi soledad y yo
 Rumor
 Amor en la distancia
 ¿Qué es el amor?
 Saudade
 Ahora ya
 Adivinanza
 Autor de culto
 Testamento
 El artista y el representante
 El genio
 Fin
 Espejismo
 Realidad
 Me basta
 Belleza
 Evocación*
 Hogar
 El patriota
 Destierro*
 Artimaña
 Rezo del ateo
 Salvación

 El canto de amor a la vida (LP) (2020)

 Treinta y tres años muerto
 Precios
 Desear lo que ya es nuestro (Respira)
 Fausto y el mundo sin alma
 Vislumbre (Cantar y coser, 2015)
 Canción de gratitud
 De paso por lo eterno (Canción del extranjero)
 Himno de vivir
 El viejo y el pajarillo
 Contra el yo

Como Rafael Lechowski & Glaç
 Donde duele, inspira (2007-2011) (LP) (2011)
 "La nada eterna"
 "Trece"
 "Caviar"
 "Soy loco por ti (fleurette africaine)"
 "Por amor al odio (el mar)" 2011
 "Entre molinos y campos de olivo"
 "36500 días (and i love him)"
 "El artesano del arte insano"
 "La eterna esencia"
 "De paso por lo eterno"

Bibliografía
 Larga brevedad (2013, Lapsus Calami)
 Quarcissus: el arte de desamar. Acto I: La traición (2016, Arscesis)
 Quarcissus: el arte de desamar. Acto II: La descreencia (2017, Arscesis)
 ''Quarcissus: el arte de desamar. Obra Completa (2019, Arscesis)
 "El artesano de la calle Oviedo" (2022, Arcesis)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
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Raperos de la provincia de Zaragoza
Escritores de España del siglo XXI
Nacidos en Breslavia