There are many books on the market aimed at helping CELTA candidates and English teachers who are new to the profession. Books like Jim Scrivener's Learning Teaching, Penny Ur's A Course in Language Teaching and Jeremy Harmer's The Practice of English Language Teaching are thorough explorations of the theory and practice of English language teaching, covering everything from the teaching of the language systems (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, discourse) and the language skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) to the different teaching methodologies and the theories behind them.
These books are often prescribed as pre-course reading for the CELTA trainee but, in my experience, very few trainees actually come onto a course having read even part of them. When asked why this is, some trainees say that trying to read these books pre-CELTA is like trying to read Greek before learning it. Once the course begins, it's simply a question of time: particularly in the case of the intensive one-month CELTA, there is hardly any time for any serious reading.
The CELTA Teaching Compendium is an e-book which puts together all the practical advice that a novice English teacher would need in a straightforward and easily-understandable way, while providing clear examples of best practice and common pitfalls. The book is divided into 33 sections, organised in alphabetical order, and each section is only one to two pages long, ensuring that the reader gets what they need without too much theory or backstory.
Readers are meant to dip in and out of the sections needed, using the contents page as a map with links to their areas of interest. The 33 sections include the problematic areas of a lesson plan, eg anticipated problems, learning objectives, stage aims, timing; classroom management techniques, eg building rapport, remembering names, instructions, fast finishers; and teaching techniques, eg drilling, checking understanding, eliciting and error correction.
The author is established ELT materials writer Rachael Roberts, the SIG coordinator of IATEFL's MaWSIG (the group for materials writers) and an experienced teacher and teacher trainer with over 20 years' experience. And this experience is evident throughout the book, as the tips and advice are clear and useful, without overcomplicating matters for the novice teacher. Yet the book avoids oversimplification and manages to be quite thorough in the practical advice it gives. In the section on concept checking questions for vocabulary, for example, the reader is told also to look out for false friends, words with different semantic boundaries and the different connotations of words; in the section exploring pace, Roberts warns the reader of the danger zones when dealing with pacing, eg warmers that go on for too long and teacher-centred whole-class feedback.
It would have been easy for a CELTA trainer to write a book solely based on her view of the CELTA and how she does things. But in the section on stage aims, Roberts recognises the fact that different CELTA tutors have different preferences and tendencies, and she acknowledges that some prefer the candidates to word their stage aims from the point of view of the learner, eg 'For students to review and revise vocabulary from the previous lesson', while others prefer the stage aims to be worded from the point of the view of the teacher, eg 'To pre-teach words from a reading/listening text that might block comprehension'.
It was also reassuring to see a whole section dedicated to 'wait time', encouraging teachers to allow more thinking time before nominating a student to answer a question, and a section that provided a balanced view of the use of the mother tongue in the classroom, with the advice to use English when it is practical to do so but to recognise that there may be times when the use of mother tongue is more practical.
However, for me, the winning formula of this book lies in its tone. In some ways, The CELTA Teaching Compendium feels like a caring trainer's diary entry to their trainee. Never once preachy, overly academic or condescending, this teacher trainer offers you insights into the practical aspects of CELTA by sharing her experience and advice in a friendly and helpful fashion, and regardless of which of the 33 sections you decide to dip into, it always feels like you're speaking directly to a mentor who is letting you pick their brains about English language teaching. This is a worthwhile book for anyone undertaking the CELTA or Cert TESOL to have – or for anyone who is simply new to language teaching.


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package de.prim.comm.event;

import de.prim.avilight.utils.HexUtils;

public class CommEventControllingChannel extends CommEvent
{
  private byte controllingChannel[];

  public CommEventControllingChannel( byte buffer[] )
  {
    super( buffer[0] );

    controllingChannel = new byte[buffer[1]];
    for ( int i = 0; i < buffer[1]; i++ )
    {
      controllingChannel[i] = buffer[2 + i];
    }

  }

  public byte[] getControllingChannel()
  {
    return controllingChannel;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString()
  {
    return "CommEventControllingChannel [controllingChannel=" + HexUtils.toHex( controllingChannel )
        + "]";
  }

}

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Pumps in series double the head at the same flow condition point. One pump discharge is piped into the suction of the second pump producing twice the head capability of each pump separately. The second pump however must be capable of operating at the higher suction pressure which is produced by pump number one.
This mode of operation is a very cost effective way of overcoming high discharge heads when the flow requirement remains the same. As a matter of fact that is exactly how multi-stage pumps, such as vertical turbine types operate.


Lights out over the audience. Light on central stage. Two boys (or 2 girls) walk onto center stage from door left and stand near the Christmas tree.
1st boy: Are you coming to the Christmas program at our church?
2nd boy: I wouldn't miss it for anything. It's the story of giving and I want to make sure I get all the gifts that are coming to me. What do you suppose they'll give us?
1st boy: Oh, we won't get presents.
2nd boy: You mean they're going to talk to our parents and tell them to give us plenty of presents? I'll make sure my parents come.
1st boy: No, no! You don't understand at all! We're going to hear about all the gifts God gave us.
2nd boy: He hasn't given me anything lately.
1st boy: You'd be surprised. He has been giving gifts since the beginning of time.
2nd boy: I want my gifts right now – and lots of them! I got cheated last year because the fishing was bad, so Dad didn't make much money. But he got a good catch this year, so I hope he makes it up to me for last year.
1st boy: God has gifts for us right now, too.
2nd boy: Yeah, like what?
1st boy: The gift of His Son can make life better for everyone.
2nd boy: It hasn't done much for me.
1st boy: But it can.
2nd boy: I don't know. I think I may as well stay home. I don't think I'd get anything out of the program.
1st boy: Why don't you come and see? I promise you'll get something out of it if you listen.
2nd boy: Well… okay. I don't have anything else to do anyway.
Boys exit through door right.
Song leaders leads in "Silent Night." Rear lights on in the sanctuary. Front lights off. Stage hands set up scene during singing.
Small "bonfire" (logs attached together and lighted from below with a red light bulb). Five or more boys (representing Haida warriors) sit on floor around the campfire, dressed in traditional clothes (or in shorts). All other lights are off.
1st warrior: It's really been blowing for days. We must have had the worst storm of this winter.
2nd warrior: Yes, I sure don't like being stuck on shore. We spent all summer building the best dugout canoe our village has ever had, and now we get stuck on shore for days on end.
3rd warrior: Hey, we shouldn't complain so much. The Creator knows what He's doing.
4th warrior: What do you mean? I can't see any good in these endless winter storms!
3rd warrior: What about all the cockles that were washed ashore by the storm? The Creator really does care about us. We rarely go hungry here on Haida Gwaii.
5th warrior: That's right! Even winter storms bring us food.
2nd warrior: Well, I still want to get out in the new canoe and see how seaworthy it is. A good long trip is what I wish for.
1st warrior: Well, the storm has died down now. And look how clear the sky is. You can see the countless numbers of stars.
2nd warrior: And it's really cold. When it gets this clear and cold, it's usually calm for many days. I wish we had a good excuse to get in the canoe and go somewhere.
3rd warrior: Hey! Look over there!
4th warrior: What is it? It looks like a moving star!
5th warrior: Stars don't move!
1st warrior: Say, don't you remember the story my Chinny told us once? He said that there is a very old story among our people that someday a special child will be born who will be sent from Salanna, our Creator!
5th warrior: That's right! And the story says that when the baby is born, a star will lead the people to the baby.
2nd warrior: Look, the star is moving out to sea! I'm going to follow it. Who's with me?
3rd warrior: I'll come along!
1st warrior: So will I!
Children's choir stands at front of center stage, entering from left. While they sing (light on only at back of sanctuary) stage hands remove the campfire. Children representing Mary and Joseph, with a doll for baby Jesus, sit together on the step at center stage. Boys in "canoe" wait at back of center aisle. "Baby" is wrapped in ragged piece of fur.
Lights out, except on small light behind Mary and Joseph. The "star" moves slowly up the center aisle. The warriors in the canoe follow it (they may either continue to paddle, OR may do and sing the paddle dance, accompanied by drums and singers). The "star" stops when it reaches the middle of center stage. The canoeists immediately stop.
2nd warrior: (pointing) Look! The star has gone back to shore and has stopped.
3rd warrior: And listen! What is that I hear?
1st warrior: It sounds like singing! But it's coming from the sky! And look at the bright light filling the sky.
2nd warrior: I heard the elders speak of the music of the heavens. Could it be the spirits of light singing praises to Salanna?
3rd warrior: Look! The star is moving again. Quick, let's go ashore and follow the light! (Warriors "land" the "canoe" and climb ashore).
1st warrior: What a barren, rocky shore this is. Who would want to live in a place like this? Surely the parents of a great new chief would be from a noble family and live in a huge longhouse in a big village with a good harbor. The shore would be crowded with totem poles and big canoes.
2nd warrior: And many great chiefs would gather from villages all through Haida Gwaii, and even from the tribes with whom we trade for oolichan grease and other valuables.
1st warrior: But here there is only quietness and dark, and the crash of the waves on the rocky shore. Have we made a mistake in following this star?
(The "star" moves over behind Mary and Joseph and again stands still).
2nd warrior: Look, the star has moved again. Now it's standing still just over there.
3rd warrior: And there is a hut below it, there, under the trees!
1st warrior: Let's go and see what's there!
(The warriors walk over to Mary and Joseph and pretend to stoop low, as if entering through a low doorway).
2nd warrior: and a newborn baby — wrapped in a ragged scrap of fur!
3rd warrior: Could this really be the great chief Salanna promised to send?
1st warrior: Yes! And the singing in the sky! This child must be the promised chief that will lead all people to Salanna.
(The three warriors sink to their knees before Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus).
"Jesus, your chief, is born.
Choir moves to stage right and waits.
1st warrior: (stands up before Mary and Joseph) Here — for the great chief child — my most precious possession — this paddle carved by my great grandfather and presented to me at the end of my coming-of-age rituals.
2nd warrior: (stands, gestures toward the shore) — And this new canoe, from myself and all the people of my village.
3rd warrior: (removes his button blanket) — and this warm blanket, decorated with the symbols of our Haida people.
(All three warriors once again sink to their knees, bowling before the baby. The choir moves back to center stage).
(Choir members form a wide semi-circle — open at the front — around Mary, Joseph, and the warriors. The "star" uses his candle to light the candle of the first choir member, and so each member's candle is lit in turn. Stage hands, and all cast members, join the circle.
OPTIONAL: Haida dancers and singers come up the center aisle, doing the chief dance. Dancers join the warriors kneeling before the baby).
(Choir, dancers, actors remain in their places. Only light is from candles).
Minister stands at pulpit, with a small light. Minister reads the Christmas story from: Luke 2:1-19; Matthew 2:1-11.


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Volume 17 No.5
2007 the year for final decisions
During 1984, the year providing the title for perhaps the best known futuristic dystopia in the English novel, numerous social, political and literary commentators compared George Orwell's projected world with the one that had come into being. Orwell wrote his political science fiction around 1948 and discrepancies between the apparent realities of life in 1984 and his rigidly controlled system are understandable given the rapidity and depth of social and technological developments in the intervening thirty-six years.
In 2001, despite acknowledging that 'fiction is a foolhardy venture', Australia's Robyn Williams, afforded 'national treasure' status as a science broadcaster, produced a novel that is set in 2007. The casting of his characters only six years into the future suggests that change is occurring with exponential speed, and that our opportunities for altering course are dwindling numerically, shrinking in size and diluting in quality.
Julian Griffin, his twelve year old daughter Louise and their border collie Jez, live at a meteorological station on the north west coast of Tasmania. They are flown to Washington where Griffin participates in a television discussion with three prominent environmentalists (all named David and somehow familiar) and Kate Schumpeter, an 'events analyst' from the Simon Institute, a think tank with Future Options as its 'premier remit'. There and at the United Nations, Griffin attempts to explain the latest ecological catastrophe. Worldwide, animals both wild and domestic have begun a 'bestial insurrection', sinking whaling boats, closing airports, strangling drivers of bulldozers in rainforests, savaging packs of beagles and smothering expressways in heaps of manure.
Comparatively few humans have died in this catastrophe and the closure of facilities seems to be 'selective', as though the animals were issuing a warning. Griffin explains that nature is fighting back against its impending destruction by human exploitation. The animals face the 'obliteration of their entire habitat', something like the biggest earthquake ever. The problem for humans is that they want the immediate threat to be removed without 'sacrificing the conveniences of twenty-first century life'.
Williams has a keen eye for the ironies in debates over the fate of the earth. He notes that at the end of last century, ministers presented 'their total ignorance of science as a natural asset, even a badge of honour. Now it was seen to be otherwise'. When governments looked for experts to explain what was happening, most of the candidates were 'wildly green.
You couldn't possibly have the minister sitting next to some hirsute Jeremiah telling the world's press grimly that it's all our own fault and we should dismantle Greed City'. The 'Pontiff', who heads the Simon Institute, recommends faunicide, a scorched earth response that will extinguish all species of animals. Coincidentally he has an interest in a biotechnology firm waiting to replace them with their own designer animals.
The politicians are condemned for their short-sightedness and self interest:
"It is one of the rules of politics that tomorrow is a better time to take action than today. Next year is even better. It is the job of the politician to sow doubt, to cloud the issue, to encourage fudge, to greet every revelation with studious doubt, diminish it and claim it to be but part of a complex web of uncertainty with which experts are battling."
As a result, it is not the politicians who make the necessary decisions, but Louise, as she mobilises the world's children to support their pets.
There are echoes here of the Gaia theory that sees the earth as a single complex organism whose instinct for survival advises it to turn against any threatening organism. Williams raises serious questions about the purpose of life and our responsibility to the planet. Julian's friend and colleague Cyril Ampleforth quotes Gerard Manley Hopkins:
O let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Clearly, we need to learn to listen to the animals and nature in general. We are after all, part of the system, and our arrogant refusal to acknowledge this can only be destructive.
Distasteful enough are the Australian Government's refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol on the grounds that it would be a futile gesture, and its failure to design a viable strategy for dealing with global warming. The Prime Minister's decision to push nuclear power rather than potentially small scale alternatives to fossil fuels suggests that the Government too is beholden to those big businesses which might profit from the catastrophes of climate change.
If he manages to prevail politically in spite of the advice of scientists and the pleas of those who are concerned about the environment we are leaving to future generations, history will regard his mastery as absolute. How it will judge the world we leave behind is another matter altogether. Robyn Williams' prediction was accurate in that 2007 is a year for absolutely vital and final decisions.
Robyn Williams' novel was titled 2007: A True Story, Waiting to Happen. It was published by Hodder in 2001 (ISBN 0-7336-1424-8)
Recent articles by Tony Smith.
A life in song for the working class
Market thinking is not the way to improve prison education
Rise of the corporate cowboys
Australia's ten wasted years of war
Trust is shot for cynical NSW Premier

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package org.apache.dubbo.configcenter.support.etcd;

import io.etcd.jetcd.ByteSequence;
import io.etcd.jetcd.Client;
import org.apache.dubbo.common.Constants;
import org.apache.dubbo.common.URL;
import org.apache.dubbo.configcenter.ConfigChangeEvent;
import org.apache.dubbo.configcenter.ConfigurationListener;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

/**
 * Unit test for etcd config center support
 * TODO Integrate with https://github.com/etcd-io/jetcd#launcher or using mock data.
 */
@Disabled
public class EtcdDynamicConfigurationTest {

    private static final String ENDPOINT = "http://127.0.0.1:2379";

    private static EtcdDynamicConfiguration config;

    private static Client etcdClient;

    @Test
    public void testGetConfig() {
        put("/dubbo/config/org.apache.dubbo.etcd.testService/configurators", "hello");
        put("/dubbo/config/test/dubbo.properties", "aaa=bbb");
        Assertions.assertEquals("hello", config.getConfig("org.apache.dubbo.etcd.testService.configurators"));
        Assertions.assertEquals("aaa=bbb", config.getConfig("dubbo.properties", "test"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testAddListener() throws Exception {
        CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(4);
        TestListener listener1 = new TestListener(latch);
        TestListener listener2 = new TestListener(latch);
        TestListener listener3 = new TestListener(latch);
        TestListener listener4 = new TestListener(latch);
        config.addListener("AService.configurators", listener1);
        config.addListener("AService.configurators", listener2);
        config.addListener("testapp.tagrouters", listener3);
        config.addListener("testapp.tagrouters", listener4);

        put("/dubbo/config/AService/configurators", "new value1");
        Thread.sleep(200);
        put("/dubbo/config/testapp/tagrouters", "new value2");
        Thread.sleep(200);
        put("/dubbo/config/testapp", "new value3");

        Thread.sleep(1000);

        Assertions.assertTrue(latch.await(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
        Assertions.assertEquals(1, listener1.getCount("/dubbo/config/AService/configurators"));
        Assertions.assertEquals(1, listener2.getCount("/dubbo/config/AService/configurators"));
        Assertions.assertEquals(1, listener3.getCount("/dubbo/config/testapp/tagrouters"));
        Assertions.assertEquals(1, listener4.getCount("/dubbo/config/testapp/tagrouters"));

        Assertions.assertEquals("new value1", listener1.getValue());
        Assertions.assertEquals("new value1", listener2.getValue());
        Assertions.assertEquals("new value2", listener3.getValue());
        Assertions.assertEquals("new value2", listener4.getValue());
    }

    private class TestListener implements ConfigurationListener {
        private CountDownLatch latch;
        private String value;
        private Map<String, Integer> countMap = new HashMap<>();

        public TestListener(CountDownLatch latch) {
            this.latch = latch;
        }

        @Override
        public void process(ConfigChangeEvent event) {
            Integer count = countMap.computeIfAbsent(event.getKey(), k -> 0);
            countMap.put(event.getKey(), ++count);
            value = event.getValue();
            latch.countDown();
        }

        public int getCount(String key) {
            return countMap.get(key);
        }

        public String getValue() {
            return value;
        }
    }

    static void put(String key, String value) {
        try {
            etcdClient.getKVClient()
                    .put(ByteSequence.from(key, UTF_8), ByteSequence.from(value, UTF_8))
                    .get();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Error put value to etcd.");
        }
    }

    @BeforeAll
    static void setUp() {
        etcdClient = Client.builder().endpoints(ENDPOINT).build();
        // timeout in 15 seconds.
        URL url = URL.valueOf("etcd3://127.0.0.1:2379/org.apache.dubbo.etcd.testService")
                .addParameter(Constants.SESSION_TIMEOUT_KEY, 15000);
        config = new EtcdDynamicConfiguration(url);
    }

    @AfterAll
    static void tearDown() {
        etcdClient.close();
    }
}


Ando Drom (On the Road) Gypsy folklore group was founded in Budapest in 1984. Since the members come from different segments of the Hungarian Gypsy (Roma) population, the group presents a wide range of styles and variations within gypsy music and culture.
They perform on a high artistic level and present the traditional music and dances of the Gypsy people in an authentic, at the same time modern way. They also make arrangements and new compositions in order to introduce the feelings and life of today's Gypsies, representing therefore a living and original folklore. The songs are sung in Gypsy language, accompanied by guitar, mandolin and tambura: for percussion they use spoons, jugs, wooden through and oral bass.
The group generally performs with 6 members, but for their concerts they also often invite young talented Gypsy musicians as special guests. Between 1987 and 2005 they visited many European countries and participated at many international festivals.
At the beginning of 1996 they participated at the opening ceremony honoring Copenhagen (in 1998 in London) as that Year's "Cultural Capital of Europe". In 1998 Radio France broadcast the one-hour long concert of Ando Drom. That same year the Italian chanel TV1 and the BBC made and broadcast a program about the group. It is the second year that Ando Drom has had a successful concert series at the Worldfestival in Edinburgh.
In addition to their concert tours abroad, they often perform in Hungary, where Ando Drom is considered to be one of the most renowned Gypsy folklore groups. They were honored two times with the prestigious Hungarian Nivo musical award. They also won first and second prizes at several international festivals (Germany, Sweden).
In 1992, French label Planett released the first cassette and CD Chants Tziganes de Hongrie. One song from the CD written by band leader Jenő Zsigó can be heard in the movie Latcho Drom and on its CD as well. In 1994 they participated in the recording of a CD of the group Chico and the Gypsies as special guests.
In 1995, Ando Drom released a second CD titled Kai Phirel O Del which was selected, best Hungarian CD in world music of the year 1995 by a popular Hungarian weekly magazine. Since the beginning of 1997 this CD was released and distributed in the US by North Pacific Music under the title Gypsy Life On the Road.
Also in 1997, German label Network Medien released another CD by Ando Drom titled Phari Mamo, with guest musicians from the French group Bratsch. Songs from the CD Phari Mamo can be heard on the compilation Gypsy Caravan released by Putumayo, on the Gypsy Road album by Alula Records and the gypsy collection called Road of the Gypsies by Network Medien.
In 1998 Ando Drom participated in the successful album by Bratsch.
The group released Live '99 in 2000 then took part at a two-month long tour in Japan. In the same year a biographical film was made about the group.
Under the guidance of Jenő Zsigó, Ando Drom recreated Gypsy music. The group served as an incubator of talented gypsy musicians. Several well-known Gypsy acts came out of Gypsy Drom: Mitsou, the members of Romano Drom, Romano Glaso, Lindri, Rom Som, and The Szilvasi Gypsy Folk Band.
In November 2005 Ando Drom released the fifth CD, titled Muro Nav.


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Welcome to the Pacific Coast Horse Shows Association
View Awards Gala Photos
Learn About Safe Sport
Get to know your PCHA Board of Directors
The Pacific Coast Horse Shows Association
The Pacific Coast Horse Shows Association (PCHA), a non-profit corporation, has as its main purpose the promotion and development of the sport of horse showing, primarily in the Hunter/Jumper, Western and Reining disciplines. These objectives are accomplished by setting the standards for showing on the West Coast and approving shows that meet these criteria.
The Pacific Coast Horse Shows Association offers year-end awards in many of the divisions offered at PCHA-sanctioned shows for members and horses that are registered with the Association. When show results are received by the PCHA office, (within 10 days following the close of a show), point standings are updated within 48 hours and are posted on the website. Every January, at the PCHA Annual Awards Banquet, approximately 300 Year-End Championship Awards are given.
Founded in 1946, the Pacific Coast Horse Shows Association promotes the interests of owners and exhibitors, cooperates with exhibitors, officials, and management of competition, publicizes and advertises PCHA sanctioned shows, encourages and assists owners, exhibitors, and breeders of horses to maintain, develop and improve the quality of horses of the Hunter, Jumper, Western and Reining divisions.
2022 Medal Finals Dates
PCHA Rulebook
Classic Ranch Riding Horsemanship Class 2022
Portuguese Bend Prize List
2022 Baker Reining Classic
Perpetual Trophies
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 5570 ,Glendale, CA 91221-5570


- there's more work to be done on the app if I want to be able to take daylight photos. I only want them to be recognizable, not museum-quality, but most of the ones outside are super overexposed. Even if I Feel them Lucky on Picasa, they're white-outs.
- nobody- nobody!- looks at you weird if you have goggles, duct tape, and a phone that goes "click" every minute on your forehead. This was probably the most surprising thing I learned.
- the photos (the ones that are visible) are really interesting to look at. It gives you a very real sense of time. The walk felt like it took longer than the grocery shopping, but they were about the same amount of time; the photos prove it.
Anyway: the photos! In two parts because I paused it for a few minutes in between.
Hope you find these as marginally interesting as I did!


We'd like to give thanks to everyone who participated in the Election of the Student Representatives 2017. You can find the results here (German only, last page).
What and who can you vote for?
What is FSDR doing for you?
The next election of the student representatives at TU Wien takes place in the summer term 2019. Make use of your right to vote, thus support the PhD student representative body and make your voice heard! Below we want to sum up what the accomplishments of our work during the last two years were. Furthermore, we describe what we want to achieve during the next two years. You will also find all relevant information about where and how you can vote on this site.
You can vote the representatives for the PhD Programme Representation, the Students' Union at the TU Wien and the Austrian Students' Union.
Further information is available in German on www.htu.at/wahl and on https://www.tuwien.ac.at/de/lehre/oeh_wahl_2019/.
The PhD Programme Representation represents the interests of all PhD students at TU Wien. The election of the student representatives is an election of persons. You may elect zero to five representatives (you may mark up to five crosses on the ballot).
The Fachschaft Doktorat encourages you to vote for ALL FIVE of them. This ensures that your interests can be represented properly and effectively.
The students' representatives are at the same time members of the Fachschaft Doktorat, which is open for all doctoral candidates. Decisions are made by everyone participating in the Fachschaft, not only by the elected representatives. The elections legitimise the representatives, which makes the described decision making process possible.
The Students' Union represents the interests of all students at TU Wien. You may vote for one party.
Depending on the votes for each party, the 19 seats are allocated.
The Austrian Students' Union represents the interests of all students in Austria. You may vote for one party, just like for the Students' Union at TU Wien. Depending on the votes for each party, the 55 seats are allocated.
Every PhD student, whose payment tuition fee/students' union fee has been registered before the deadline of March 28th of March 2017, is entitled to vote.
Getreidemarkt 9 (Plus Energie Bürohochhaus 1st basement floor in front of Audi Max).


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» Places
» Facilities
» Burbank Lockheed Aircraft Factory
Burbank Lockheed Aircraft Factory
Type Factory
Historical Name of Location Burbank, California, United States
ww2dbaseThe Lockheed Aircraft Company, in existence under various names since 1912, relocated to Burbank, California, United States in 1928 next to the Union Airport (which the company would purchase in 1940). In 1929, the company was sold to Detroit Aircraft, but Detroit Aircraft's bankruptcy during the Great Depression led to it becoming independent once again in 1932, emerging as the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. From the 1930s and into the war, the Plant B-1 complex (which were the first buildings set up when Lockheed relocated to Burbank in 1928) at the eastern side of the Lockheed complex in Burbank built the pre-war Vega transports, Hudson bombers (which was based on Lockheed's Model 14 Super Electra civilian transport design), and P-38 Lightning fighters. The Plant A-1 complex to the west and near the airport built 2,750 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers during the war; the B-17 bombers were built under license from Boeing. The Plant B-6 complex to the north supported manufacturing efforts during WW2, and would later gain greater fame as the location of the assembling area for U-2, SR-71, and F-117 aircraft of a later era. During the war, fearful that the Burbank facilities would come under Japanese air attack, the entire area was camouflaged under a very large burlap tarp. An intricate scene of suburban life, complete with painted homes, false trees, and even fire hydrants. When the war ended in 1945, Lockheed (including its Vega subsidiary, which was merged into Lockheed in 1943) had built 19,278 aircraft, which was about 6% of the total American aircraft production between 1941 and 1945. After the war, the Lockheed facilities in Burbank continued to play a role in supporting the US military, including the P-80 (later, F-80) Shooting Star project and the Plant B-6 projects noted earlier. The Burbank facilities stopped producing aerospace products in 1992.
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Burbank Lockheed Aircraft Factory Timeline
9 Jan 1943 Commandeered for USAAF service as the C-69, the Lockheed Model L-049 Constellation aircraft made its first flight from Burbank, California, United States to nearby Muroc Army Air Field.
18 Jun 1943 Aircraft designer Clarence Johnson met with Lockheed President Robert Gross and chief engineer Hal Hibbard at the company's headquarters in Burbank, California, United States. Johnson informed the two that US Army Air Force representatives from Wright Field had requested Lockheed to design a jet fighter.
20 Jul 1943 Lockheed and USAAF began a three day evaluation of a full scale mock up of a XP-80 jet fighter.
22 Jul 1943 Lockheed and USAAF completed a three day evaluation of a full scale mock up of a XP-80 jet fighter.
20 Oct 1944 Test pilot Milo Burcham was killed when the YP-80A jet aircraft he piloted crashed shortly after takeoff in Burbank, California, United States.
6 Aug 1945 Major Dick Bong, with 40 kills to his credit over the Pacific and his country's top scoring fighter ace of the war, and the holder of the Medal of Honor, was killed at the age of 24 when the Lockheed Shooting Star in which he was carrying out test flights stalled on takeoff and crashed in Burbank, California, United States.
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1. Stephen Reiss says:
14 Jul 2017 08:32:20 PM
My father, Irwin H. Reiss, worked at Lockheed Burbank in May 1945 after serving 4.5 years in the US Army. I recently flew on a B17 Bomber built in Burbank in May 1945. It was operated by the EAA on their Aluminum Overcast project. How can I learn what my dad's job was at Lockheed Burbank? I can provide his paycheck stubs. Thanks,
26 May 2018 06:24:59 PM
I worked at the B1,A1, and B6 plants in the mic 1960's as a blue print deliverer. We rode bicycles and walked to drop off sites, I had a ball and loved every moment of my experience
3. R.Fields says:
27 Nov 2018 09:58:11 AM
my father worked here for 49 yrs. His life Insurance policy went to my mother. There are issues regarding this transaction; who do I contact to get information
4. richard h rosswurm says:
11 Apr 2019 11:30:49 AM
My uncle, Nolon E Zinn, worked at Lockheed Burbank at least from 1940 to his death in October 1947. What year did he start work there? Thanks.
5. Matt says:
7 Jul 2019 02:00:59 AM
Please need assistance on varifying this Lockheed module
21 Nov 2019 06:44:20 PM
how big was the Burbank plant?
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WW2-Era Place Name Burbank, California, United States
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60 Villagers Release Pro-Fracking Statement
A pro-fracking letter has been signed by 60 residents of a village at the centre of an ongoing protest against the practice.
Protesters have been in Balcombe, West Sussex, since energy firm Caudrilla was granted permission to begin work on exploratory oil drilling.
The company are not carrying out any fracking, the common term for hydraulic fracturing, stating that the permission granted to them does not cover the activity. Protesters however, fear that the current test drilling could lead to fracking.
A total of 60 village residents have now released a letter stating that the "new technology" of fracking should be "facilitated".
The letter reads: "Let other communities be warned that our hitherto friendly village has suffered not only from the protesting crowds but prior to that from the intemperance of self-appointed 'activists', unfair abuse of our parish council, politicisation of the village fete, unsightly banners and, above all, spreading of unwarranted fear."
It continues: "We deplore the abuse suffered by employees of the drilling company, and the police, extended trespass, and the establishment of a semi-permanent protest camp on hitherto beautiful road verges, actions which add up to an abuse of the undoubted right to peaceful protest,"
Another village resident opposed to the oil drilling has however dismissed the letter, saying the residents who signed were an "extreme minority", representing just 30 or fewer households, according to the BBC.
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Sex and the City's Willie Garson addresses drama over Kim Cattrall, third movie
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Sex and the City's Willie Garson is adding his voice to reports that Kim Cattrall was behind the cancellation of Sex and the City 3.
Garson, who played Carrie Bradshaw's friend Stanford Blanch in the series and subsequent two films, implied in a tweet on Wednesday that Cattrall wasn't being entirely truthful about her claims that she never wanted to do a third film.
"Dear fans, because I'm 'toxic', I'm going to negotiate a contract for 6 months, not come to terms, then say I never wanted to do it anyway," he wrote.
Cattrall, who played Samantha on the popular HBO series, has previously slammed reports that her demands led to the movie being shelved.
But a source close to the situation maintains to PEOPLE that Cattrall was a key factor in the movie being shelved. "Kim is trying to distract from what this is about — which is this: Kim killed the movie," says the source. Cattrall has claimed that she has refused to board a third film since 2016, but the source tells PEOPLE she "was negotiating as recently as this summer" to join the movie. (Studio Warner Bros. has not commented.)
A second source also told PEOPLE that the cast "have had their issues over the years."
During a sitdown with Piers Morgan for ITV's series Life Stories, Cattrall, 61, said that she had refused to board the movie multiple times throughout the past year. She also bashed reports by DailyMailTV that claimed the third movie was shelved because of Cattrall's "outrageous demands" to the studio to produce other movies she had in development.
"It's quite extraordinary to get any kind of negative press about something that I've been saying for almost a year of 'no' that I'm demanding or a diva," Cattrall said, according to the Daily Mail. "The answer was always no and a respectful, firm, no."
"I never asked for any money, I never asked for any projects," she continued. "To be thought of as some kind of diva is absolutely ridiculous."
Cattrall then called out Parker — who would have been a producer on the film: "And this is really where I take to task the people from Sex and the City and specifically Sarah Jessica Parker in that I think she could have been nicer."
Cattrall and Parker's reps have not responded to a request for comment.
Parker told Extra that Sex and the City 3 had a "beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, joyful, very relatable script and story."
"It's not just disappointing that we don't get to tell the story and have that experience, but more so for that audience that has been so vocal in wanting another movie," she said.
Rumors that Samantha, Carrie, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) were reuniting for a new film — which would follow 2008's Sex and the City and 2010's Sex and the City 2 — had long swirled before Parker's announcement that the movie was off.
Parker wasn't the only one feeling regret for Sex and the City's end. Garson also previously tweeted that he was "disappointed" for the crew members who counted on working on the third installment.
"Disappointed for all crew holding on for negotiations to conclude for their jobs, and of course, for the fans. Leave it at that," he wrote.
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Ben Coates (left), Ty Law (middle) and Willie McGinest (right).
Analysts and fans put tons of effort into evaluating the careers of professional football players, making lists and writing thinkpieces and comparing achievements -- but no outside observer can ever hope to match the intimate knowledge shared by those who actually spent time on an NFL field together.
In this series, former players who work for NFL Network will name the five best players they each individually played with in their careers. Note that these lists are completely subjective, based on factors that only contemporary colleagues could fairly evaluate, like locker-room influence and impact as a teammate, in addition to skill-sets and in-game production. Which means they will be packed with surprises -- and they'll be more interesting than a simple recitation of the most obviously accomplished past teammates. (Note also that the personal nature of this exercise means the absence of a high-profile ex-teammate or two SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS A SNUB.)
Below, former NFL outside linebacker Willie McGinest (New England Patriots, 1994-2005; Cleveland Browns, 2006-08) provides his ranking of the top players he played with, listed in reverse order:
5) Ben Coates, tight end, retired
Coates was McGinest's teammate from 1994 to '99 with the New England Patriots.
So many praise Rob Gronkowski for what he does on the football field, and rightfully so. He's a terror in one-on-one coverage, a great pass catcher and a willing blocker. To me, Gronk is the latest version of Ben Coates. He was the first tight end who could do everything well. He was an absolute monster as a pass catcher because of his superior route running and body control. Against me in practice, Coates knew how to lean into me to create space and get into good position to catch the ball. He also has the best hands of any tight end that I've ever seen. Quarterback Drew Bledsoe could throw the ball anywhere -- literally anywhere -- and Coates would catch it, whether in traffic, against double coverage or down the sideline. He rarely fumbled, made Superman-esque catches and took (and delivered) big hits.
As an outside linebacker, I faced him almost every day. He taught me a lot about covering tight ends in space and how to use my hands to create leverage when rushing the quarterback. A five-time Pro Bowler and two-time All-Pro, Coates was a complete tight end.
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New England Patriots defensive ends Richard Seymour (98) and Willie McGinest (55) stop St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner (13) during an NFL Super Bowl XXXVI game in New Orleans at the Louisiana Superdome on Feb. 3, 2002. The Patriots defeated the Rams 20-17. (Allen Kee via AP)
New York Giants quarterback Kerry Collins holds his head after being hit by New England Patriots defensive lineman Richard Seymour (93) during the fourth quarter at Gillette Stadium Sunday, Oct. 12, 2003, in Foxboro, Mass. The Patriots were given a penalty for roughing the passer but won 17-6. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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4) Richard Seymour, defensive lineman, retired
Seymour was McGinest's teammate from 2001 to '05 with the New England Patriots.
Seymour was one of the most mature rookies I had ever seen, from a mental standpoint. At 6-foot-6, 317 pounds, Seymour was a true defensive end in our scheme, but he could also play defensive tackle with no problem. He was on the field no matter what package we played. He was great at making adjustments; when one pass-rush move didn't work, he used another from his repertoire. And for a big man, he could sure move. His explosive get-off and violent hands made it nearly impossible for linemen to block him in the passing game or against the run. Handling double teams easily, he'd just manhandle his opponents; we called him "the Hulk." Seriously, it felt like this scene at times. It's rare when a player has ALL of these qualities, and it's why Seymour made seven trips to the Pro Bowl, earned three first-team All-Pro selections and won three Super Bowls.
Seymour was a little brother to me when he came into the league, and he still is; we bonded instantly. More than just a teammate, we spent plenty of offseasons together training and hanging out with our families.
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3) Joe Thomas, offensive tackle, retired
Thomas was McGinest's teammate from 2007 to '08 with the Cleveland Browns.
Left tackles are usually really physical or technical, and it's rare to find a guy who's both. Joe Thomas was just that. The Browns great had excellent hands, feet and body awareness, but more importantly, he was so calculated in the way he prepared. Thomas had the ability to break down and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different pass rushers he faced. As a true student of the game, he knew what his opponent was going to do before he crossed the line. I also really enjoyed working on my pass-rush drills against him, because he truly was the best competition. I constantly had a live look of what I would get in the game.
Longevity is so important and tough to obtain in this league, and Thomas was one of the best. He recorded over 10,000 consecutive snaps during his career and did it with a lot of different quarterbacks. A lot of people don't give him credit for the latter, but Thomas had to constantly make adjustments based on who was under center. Think about that. Some QBs sit in the pocket while others get the ball out quickly, and there are those who escape the pocket and throw on the run. According to Pro Football Focus, Thomas allowed just 31 sacks on 6,685 pass-blocking snaps in his career. Thomas, a future Hall of Famer, was the ultimate protector.
2) Ty Law, cornerback, Hall of Famer
Law was McGinest's teammate from 1995 to 2004 with the New England Patriots.
Introducing Mr. Take Away Your Best Receiver. That was Ty Law. He wanted the challenge of facing the very best receiver, whether it was within the game plan or not. He was strong at the line of scrimmage, had great ball awareness and worked for everything he got. He did a lot of conditioning before, during and after practice, and he always wanted to hold up his end. I have no doubt that Ty Law was the best cornerback of his era; he led the NFL in interceptions twice and led the Patriots in INTs six times. Always attacking the ball, he became a receiver when the ball was in the air, often preventing the receiver from making a play.
But Law's best attribute was his confidence. No one could tell him he wasn't the best CB in the NFL or that he couldn't cover the league's top receiver. He thrived off those comments and could play man or zone extremely well, allowing him to play in a lot of systems if needed. With confidence through the roof and no fear, Law made one helluva career for himself.
1) Tom Brady, quarterback, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Brady was McGinest's teammate from 2000 to '05 with the New England Patriots
I've known Brady a long time, and there's not much I haven't already said. His competitive nature, work ethic and ability to perform at the highest level in the most pressure-packed situations are why he's considered the best to ever play our game. It's why he's won three league MVP awards. It's why he's won SIX Lombardi Trophies. It's why he's still playing at 42 years old (he'll turn 43 in August). The one thing I'll point out in this piece is that Brady can work in any system and with anyone. He's always been about the success of the team, so I can't wait to watch how this new chapter unfolds in Tampa. His competitive nature won't let him fail.
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NOTE: This article orginally appeared on NFL.com on June 15, 2020. Link to the original article can be found here.
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Q: How to open/close android Coordinator layout programmatically I need to open/close a CoordinatorLayout in android programmatically, aswell as keep the sliding movement.
When a user clicks on a button the layout should open up between two layouts, then when clicked again should close the coordinatorLayout bringing the other two layouts back together.
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CoordinatorLayout coordinatorLayout = (CoordinatorLayout) inflate.findViewById(R.id.coordinate_main);

Is there some method I can call with the coordinatorLayout? such as coordinatorLayout.open.
I can't find anything on the web about this, not sure if it is even possible.

A: To achieve the effect you desire simply enable Layout animations on <toolbar> or the surrounding layout and set the visibility of the CoordinatorLayout to View.GONE / View.VISIBLE when due.
Example on a RelativeLayout (should work with any Layout type):
<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/lyt_background"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:animateLayoutChanges="true" >
    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/myTopLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true">
    ...
    </LinearLayout>
    <CoordinatorLayout android:id="@+id/myToggleLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="id/myTopLayout"
        android:layout_above="id/myBottomLayout"
        android:visibility="gone">
    ...
    </CoordinatorLayout>
    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/myBottomLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true">
    ...
    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

When myToggleLayout becomes visible, both LinearLayouts should make room in an animation while CoordinatorLayout blends in. Should myToggleLayout be gone, the LinearLayouts should animate in place.
I didn't test this layout in particular, but it should give you the idea. It's even possible to use Custom Transitions on each of the elements, like a resize transition on the LinearLayouts and fade in / fade out on the CoordinatorLayout.
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A growing body of evidence suggests that Voyager 1 is flying through interstellar space.
Earlier this year, scientists at NASA started speculating about how close the 35 year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft was to crossing the border between our solar system and interstellar space. Now, barely a few months after those talks, scientists have revealed something really exciting: Voyager 1 is sending home data that suggests it may already be flying through interstellar space.
The science of distinguishing interstellar space from our-solar-system-space is still in its infancy (when Voyager 1 leaves our system, it will be the first human-made object in history to do so). To try and predict when Voyager might make the leap, NASA scientists set about investigating what kind of conditions the craft could encounter beyond our solar system, basing much of their hypothesis on how they expected our sun's solar wind (the tiny charged particles it spends its life spraying across the sky) to smash into the edge of the system and spin sideways, leaving Voyager well alone. If the craft was still picking up the solar wind, cool, it was still in our little corner of space. If not, it had crossed the border into the great unknown.
But, hey, this is science. Instead of finding a neat solar wind barrier, Voyager 1 discovered that once you get close to the edge of interstellar space, our sun's solar wind just sort of tapers off and then stops dead. While fascinating, the discovery of this "stagnation zone" (as described in Nature) managed to scupper most of NASA's preconceptions about day-to-day conditions in interstellar space.
"There is no well-established criteria of what constitutes exit from [our solar system]," said Stamatios Krimigis, NASA principal investigator in charge of Voyager 1's Low-Energy Charged Particle instrument, in an interview. "All theoretical models have been found wanting."
Despite this, there are still three factors that most scientists agree would consitute evidence of an exit from our solar system if a craft experienced them in tandem. First, the craft would have to experience an increase in collisions from charged particles found in interstellar space. Second, the rate at which solar particles collided with it, irrespective of where these particles might be going, would have to drop dramatically. Finally, the craft must be able to detect a change in the direction of the magnetic fields surrounding it; once the craft is beyond the grasp of our sun, the fields around it should shift to reflect the direction of magnetic fields in interstellar space.
"Most scientists involved with Voyager 1 would agree that [criteria one and two] have been sufficiently satisfied," said Ed Roelof, a scientist at Johns Hopkins who works with Voyager 1 data. "[The change in magnetic field direction to that of the interstellar field beyond the influence of the sun] is critical because, even though there is debate among astrophysicists as to what direction the field will lie in, it seems unlikely that it is the direction that we have been seeing at Voyager 1 throughout the most recent years."
"That is why we are all awaiting the analysis of the most recent magnetic field measurements from Voyager 1. We will be looking for the expected change to a new and steady direction. That would drop the third independent piece of evidence into place - if indeed that's what will be seen," concluded Roelof.
"Once we have a consensus within the team we will inform NASA for a proper announcement," added Krimigis, commenting on how the agency will go about telling the world of Voyager 1's exit if the data is confirmed in the coming weeks.
What we can gather from this is that is it the case, or will in all likelihood soon be the case, that something built by the hands of humans is ready to explore the universe beyond our solar system. Although most of its highly sensitive sensors were shut down years ago to conserve energy, Voyager 1 is still packing enough functioning equipment to send back some data on real conditions outside our pocket of space. How will magnetic fields behave beyond the reach of our sun? What's the deal with the solar wind getting to the edge of our system and then stagnating? The mind boggles both at what Voyager 1 might find, and what effects its discoveries might have on any number of standing preconceptions in astrophysics. Way to go, little guy. Way to go.


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After the Sports & Cultural Meet on Jan 11, 2012, the following days witnessed a series of Cultural Presentations by different campuses, exhibiting rich repertoire of talent among students. Students from the Brindavan Campus, Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School, Sri Sathya Sai Mirupuri College of Music, Anantapur Campus and finally Prasanthi Nilayam Campus presented cultural programmes on 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of January. Read on our report on these fascinating cultural presentations.
Using the creative methodology of Shadow Play, an ancient Indian art dating back to the Harappa Civilization, students from the Brindavan Campus presented an innovative programme on the Life and Message of Bhagawan on 12 Jan evening in Sai Kulwant Hall.
The programme commenced with the Cosmic Dance of Shiva which leads to creation, going on to promise of Lord Shiva to Sage Bharadwaja which leads to the Birth of Sathyanarayana who was to be known, loved and adored as Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Beautifully shifting between the childhood incidents of young Sathya and how they got projected into the massive projects of His trust, the students presented a wonderful collage of the Divine Advent.
With very little use of props, they made all the formations including the grand structure of the University Building, the Super Speciality Hospitals and the Sarva Dharma Sthupa by human formations.
It was a performance which earned a long hard applause at the end of the presentation…It was a performance which provided pride to everyone associated with Bhagawan's Institutions…It was a performance which filled one and all with gratitude to Bhagawan for moulding such children of skill, character and dedication.
Second in the series of Cultural Festival, on 13th January evening students from Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School, Prasanthi Nilayam presented a drama entitled God is good…Hold on to Him!
The presentation revolved around the protagonist Vishwas who questioned God's intentions after failing to convince himself of the suffering that plagues the world around.
The presentation began with a conversation between the father and son duo, both holding opposite views about the 'bone of contention', God and His motives. As father's repeated promptings to trust God at all time fails to convince the son, the scene shifts to the illustrious Krishna-Sudhama story presenting the theory that God is there every time for His devotees, ever ready to respond to a call from within.
Ruminating over and over again about God and His style of dealing as Vishwas gets lost in thoughts, he receives a call from one of his friends informing of an accident involving his father. With father admitted in the ICU, Vishwas turns more panicky and to assuage his tension a friend of his father narrates an anecdote from the times of Shirdi Sai Baba trying to instill greater faith in the boy.
The story was that of Shama who was saved by Baba after being bitten by a snake, and subsequently saved by Baba at Dwarakamai with assurance of protection.
The final episode depicted a Rama Navami celebration by the devotees of Bhagawan. The famous Bhadrachala Ramadas episode where in Lord Rama saves His dearest devotees, coming in the guise of 'Ram and Lakshman' paying debt to King Taneshah was depicted as a part of the presentation.
As the presentation portrayed Bhagawan as the Elixir Divine, The Ultimate Refuge, greater faith dawns upon the young lad finally making him turn to Bhagawan imploring His interference to save his father.
The one hour presentation was intertwined with beautiful songs and dances ending with a melodious group song of love and gratitude to Bhagawan.
The fourth day of Annual Sports and Cultural Festival was a musical treat in Prasanthi Nilayam. Senior students from the Sri Sathya Sai Mirpuri College of Music commenced with 'Sri Ganapathi Nee Sevimpa'. They performed a few Thyagaraja Kirtis including Jagadanandakaraka, sahasinche oh manasa, upacharamulanu chekonavayya and a Hindustani number, " Japath Prabhu Ramachandra" before concluding auspiciously with "Jaya Mangalam, Nitya Shuba Mangalam".
The vocal concert also featured some stirring solo performances on the Veena and the Percussions. The backdrop was also befitting the occasion featuring an Idol of Lord Rama and a portrait of Saint Thyagaraja immersed in music.
This was followed by a fusion music presentation by the Anantapur Campus of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. Members of the Institute Brass Band and the Panchavadyam group together with traditional instruments like Violin and Tabla presented a Jugalbandi in the Divine Presence. Starting with Stotrams like Vakratunda and Shantakaram, they went on to the genres of carnatic music with "Raghuvamsa sudha" and western with "Heal the World" before concluding with Sri Sathya Sai Bhajans.
To the final song the students worshiped Bhagawan with many traditional forms of lamps . One of the visually challenged teachers of the campus presented an autobiographical book documenting her experiences with Bhagawan while the students performed Bhajans from an Audio CD they released. Another significant feature was the exquisite backdrop that was made for the occasion in the form of a grand mandapam with many lamps.
On the final evening of Annual Sports & Cultural Festival 2012, students from the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus presented a drama entitled 'Gautam Buddha'. The presentation sought to take the audience to a journey through the life of prince born Siddharth to the enlightened Master Gautam Buddha showing highlights from his illustrious life in a nutshell.
Depiction of his encounter with Mara, the Buddhist devil, who represents temptation, sin and death was depicted beautifully, innovatively and convincingly inciting applause from the audience. When Mara returned to Buddha repeatedly, right from his infant stage influencing his father King Suddhodhana and subsequently at every interval trying to delude him into passion and temptation, the encounter between the 'evil' and the one who is 'full' became a royal treat for the august audience who sat in pin drop silence immersed watching the evolution.


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In Biblical times, the heart was considered the hub of our lives; Decisions, emotions and being. After Greek Dualistic ways of thinking were introduced, we now separate our hearts and minds as two different things. Our hearts for emotions and minds for thinking, acting and contemplating. Yet according to the writer of today's key verse, all that we do, the very core of our lives, flows from our hearts. When we ignore our heart's voice, as mere emotion, we ignore the very core of who we are. Our hearts are not just, physically speaking, pumping blood around our bodies. Our heart is the center of our lives.
If the above is correct, then why do we give our hearts out so cheaply, make rash decisions, leave it open and don't protect the one thing we should guard above all else? Guarding our hearts, isn't simply just inviting Christ to live in it and that's it. It is a daily discipline of surrendering, and asking God to protect it. It is like your house. You might care about what's inside, but if you don't lock the door, you are open and vulnerable to a burglary or so much worse. You need to shut and lock the door, so no unwanted person can enter. The same is with our hearts. Although Christ lives in it, we still need to put disciplines in our lives to make sure, He is the sole resident and ruler of it.
When we do this, Christ's peace will fill us, and this peace 'will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus1'. Our daily surrendering to Jesus, will protect our hearts from the storms around us, keep us safe from the distractions that want to enter it and fill us with Heavenly peace, blessing and direction.


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Last week, a firm contacted me to see if I could do some contract writing for them.Since such work is part of my business model, I responded.However, I responded with a vendor-focused sales letter that was all about me.
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From the prospect: We are in the process of identifying potential freelance resources to write white papers and key articles that can be used for lead generation and PR purposes. Potential topics might include: leadership development, talent management, sales performance, entrepreneurship, change management and risk, and innovation and creativity.***** thought your interview process was very efficient and we both appreciated your writing style. Any information you can provide on your services would be appreciated.
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Curium (chemical symbol Cm, atomic number 96) is a radioactive, metallic, transuranic element of the actinide series. It is produced synthetically by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles (helium ions). It was named after Marie Curie and her husband Pierre.
Two isotopes of curium (curium-242 and curium-244) can be produced in multigram amounts, making it feasible to study the element's chemical properties. The isotope curium-242 is the precursor to plutonium-238, the most common fuel for radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) that have been used to power certain space probes. Other curium isotopes (Cu-243, Cu-244) are also being investigated for their potential as fuels for RTGs.
Curium was first synthesized at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso in 1944. The team named the new element after Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, who are famous for their work on radioactivity and the discovery of radium and polonium.
Curium was the third transuranic element to be discovered. The isotope curium-242 (half-life 163 days) was made by bombarding a plutonium-239 target with alpha particles in the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley. The element was chemically identified at the Metallurgical Laboratory (now Argonne National Laboratory) at the University of Chicago.
Louis Werner and Isadore Perlman created a visible sample of curium-242 hydroxide at the University of California in 1947 by bombarding americium-241 with neutrons. The elemental form of curium was prepared for the first time in 1951.
Curium is an inner transition metal of the actinide series, located in period seven of the periodic table, between americium and berkelium. It does not occur in nature.
The isotope curium-248 has been synthesized only in milligram quantities, but curium-242 and curium-244 are made in multigram amounts, which allows for the determination of some of the element's properties. Curium-244 can be made in quantity by subjecting plutonium to neutron bombardment.
A rare earth homolog, curium is somewhat chemically similar to gadolinium but with a more complex crystal structure. Chemically reactive, its metal is silvery-white in color and the element is more electropositive than aluminum (most trivalent curium compounds are slightly yellow).
Many radioisotopes of curium have been characterized, with the most stable being Cm-247, with a half-life of 1.56 × 107 years; Cm-248, with a half-life of 3.40 × 105 years; Cm-250, with a half-life of 9000 years; and Cm-245, with a half-life of 8500 years. All the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives of less than 30 years, and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than 33 days. This element also has four meta states, with the most stable being Cm-244m (t½ 34 ms). The isotopes of curium range in atomic weight from 233.051 amu (Cm-233) to 252.085 amu (Cm-252).
Curium has been studied extensively as a potential fuel for Radioisotope thermoelectric generators that could be used to power space probes. Curium-242 can generate up to 120 watts of thermal energy per gram (W/g). Its very short half-life, however, makes it unsuitable as a power source for long-term use. Curium-242 is the precursor to plutonium-238, which is the most common fuel for RTGs. Curium-244 has also been studied as an energy source for RTGs having a maximum energy density about three W/g, but produces a large amount of neutron radiation from spontaneous fission. Curium-243, with a roughly 30-year half-life and good energy density (about 1.6 W/g), would seem to make an ideal fuel, but it produces significant amounts of gamma and beta radiation from radioactive decay products.
If MOX nuclear fuel is to be used in nuclear power reactors, it should contain little or no curium, because neutron activation of this element will create californium, a strong neutron emitter. The californium would pollute the back end of the fuel cycle and increase the dose to workers.
Curium bio-accumulates in bone tissue where its radiation destroys bone marrow and thus stops the production of red blood cells.
↑ "MOX" (mixed oxide) nuclear fuel is a blend of plutonium with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. Its behavior is similar to that of low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel, and it is an alternative to the LEU used in the light water reactors that predominate nuclear power generation.
All links retrieved November 22, 2017.
It's Elemental: Curium Jefferson Lab.
Curium. The University of Sheffield and WebElements Ltd.
Curium, Radioactive TOXNET, National Library of Medicine.
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require 'faraday'
require 'hashie'
require 'github_api/mash'

module Github
  class Response::Mashify < Response
    define_parser do |body|
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    end

    def parse(body)
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  end # Response::Mashify
end # Github


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To improve the livelihood and protection needs of vulnerable families and their children, FSCE has endeavoured to give all the necessary support in terms of: trainings (business management, life skills, and cooperative management); development of business plan and provision of start-up finance ; and counselling, coaching, mentoring and follow-up of targets. Hence, all the seven APOs have done their best to realize this objective. In the reporting period 440 poor families have been given business and cooperative management training and seed capital. Nine hundred and twenty marginalized youths and elder siblings have been given business management, cooperative management, and skills trainings. Moreover, the area program offices have been highly engaged in creating linkages between vocational trainees and the job market while providing others with seed capital to start up their own business as long as the business venture is viable and marketable. For instance, under the Bahir Dar area program office alone, a total of 802 marginalized children and youths were provided with short-term basic business skills, cooperative management and vocational trainings, which helped to improve their livelihood. Following the example of Tokuma Bikiltu Savings & Credit Cooperative, which was established in Dire Dawa and has become successful, another association of poor mothers called Sele-Enat Abay Mothers' Savings and Credit Cooperative has been set up and shown remarkable progress with a capital in bank of Birr 84,367.33. The same practice is being emulated in Adama, Addis Ketema, and Dessie.
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• The incomes (the target beneficiaries were able to double their income in three months' time), capacities, and capabilities of target beneficiaries have increased.
• Access to decent, sustainable employment has been created for most vulnerable and marginalized families and children.
• Beneficiaries have been exposed to irreversible positive life experience.
• Hence, due to their parents'/elder siblings' increased income, the children have been able to get better care and support, which in turn has been made possible by the livelihood promotion program of FSCE.
Apart from this, the self-help group is organized as a strategy to enhance the livelihood status of poor households and prevent their children from different abuses. FSCE adopted the self-help approach in 2013. Under this approach, women of the same living status and location and know each other are organized under one group so that they can save a small amount of money they can afford every week and start taking internal loans to raise their income by supplementing their petty business, to increase their social participation in the community they live in, and to be beneficiaries of basic services without discrimination. This would also help them to uphold their common interests and to be heard, thereby empowering. Members of the self-help groups are equipped with trainings (business management, positive parenting styles, self-help group formation, and cooperative management) and undertake community conversations and exposure visits in their peers.
The self-help approach (SHG) has been successfully utilized under the Dire Dawa and Akaki Kaliti area program offices. Currently, in the two area program offices 26 self-help groups have been set up and have 445 members. This scheme envisages helping 1001 children of the target beneficiaries, of which 530 are females. Moreover, members are able to send their children to school, fulfilling school materials, so that the children are prevented them from child labor exploitation. As a result of supporting the communities to be organized in self-help groups, the following outcomes have been realized: All the SHGs have continued to meet weekly and save fixed amounts of money, discuss their social problems, and share experiences. As a result of this, in Dire Dawa, their total capital has risen to birr 36,760.00 and one group has accumulated a capital of birr 7,425.00. Their total internal loan has reached birr 14,497.00. In Akaki Kaliti, their total capital has reached birr 41, 980 and one group has accumulated a capital of birr 7,080.00. Their total internal loan has reached birr 27,000.00. The trainings and community conversations have helped them to better understand the self-help approach and participate actively in their groups. It has also helped them to raise their children in such a way that they are protected from abuses and are given proper parental treatment. One such group have, in fact, managed to establish a water point in their locality in Dire Dawa and they are now able to get water easily and to save their time and labor. The attendance and achievements of their children at schools have also greatly improved.  In general, their social awareness has increased and, at the same time, they have been economically empowered and are able to win their daily bread.