Exploit the virtues of immutability. Design your application around stateless abstractions interacting with each other through asynchronous message passing. These are some of the mantras that I have been trying to grok recently. In a typical Java EE application, we design the service layer to be maximally stateless. What this means is that each individual service has localized mutability interacting with other services on a shared-nothing basis. Asynchronous message passing offers some interesting avenues towards scaling up the throughput of such service layers in an application.
Imagine the service layer of your domain model has the following API ..
The method processCompletion() takes a collection of Settlement objects and for each of them does pretty complex business logic processing before returning the collection of completed settlements. We are talking about settlement of trades as part of back office processing logic of financial services.
The API was fine and worked perfectly during all demo sessions and the prototypes that we did. The client was happy that all of his settlements were being processed correctly and within perfectly acceptable limits of latency.
One day the stock exchange had a great day, the traders were happy and the market saw a phenomenal upsurge of trading volumes. Accordingly our back-office solution also received part of the sunshine and all numbers started moving up. Lots of trades to process, lots of settlements to complete, and this is exactly when latency reared it's ugly head. A detailed profiling revealed the bottleneck in the call of processCompletion() trying to complete lots of settlements synchronously and the entire user experience sucked big time.
Asynchronous APIs scale, asynchronous interactions can be parallelized, asynchronous communication model encourages loose coupling between the producer and the consumer entities. Elsewhere I have documented usage of actor based modeling for asynchronous processing. Actors provide natural asynchrony, and Erlang is a great testimony to the fact that asynchronous message passing based systems scale easily, offer better approaches towards distribution, reliability and fault tolerance. And if you can parallelize your business process, then you can allocate each isolation unit to a separate actor that can run concurrently over all the cores of your system. Though this is only feasible for languages or runtime that can create processes on the cheap. Erlang does it with green threads, Scala does it through some form of continuations on the JVM.
In the above example, processing of every settlement completion for a unique combination of client account and security can be considered as an isolated task that can be safely allocated to an actor. The following snippet is a transformation of the above code that incorporates asynchrony using Scala actors. For brevity and simplicity of code, I have ignored the business constraint of uniqueness depending on client account and security, and allocated every completion processing to a separate actor.
The above code snippet uses Scala's future method that invokes the actor behind the scenes ..
The actors are scheduled asynchronously in parallel and block the underlying thread only during the time slice when a received Scala message matches the pattern specified in the partial function that forms the react block. Scala actors are not implemented on a thread-per-actor model - hence invoking actors are way cheaper than starting JVM threads. Scala actors are threadless, event based and can be forked in thousands on a commodity machine.
What the actor model offers ..
The actor model is all about immutability and a shared-nothing paradigm and encourages a programming style where you can think of modeling your interactions in terms of immutable messages. Service layers of an application are always meant to be stateless, and the actor model makes you think more deeply on this aspect. And once you have statelessness you can achieve concurrency by distributing the stateless components amongst the actors.
Making your Infrastructure Stack Lighter ..
In many cases, asynchronous messaging libraries also help getting rid of additional heavyweight infrastructures from the application stack. In one of our applications, we were using JMS to handle priority messages. Scala and Erlang both support prioritizing messages through timeouts in the receive loop. Consider a scenario from the above application domain, where the system receives Trade messages from all over the places, that need to be processed in the back-office solution before it can be forwarded to the Settlement component. And the business rule mandates that trades for FixedIncome type of securities need to have higher priority in processing than those for Equity instruments. We can have this requirement modeled using the following Scala snippet of actor code (simplified for brevity) ..
With a timeout value of 0 in reactWithin, the function first removes all FixedIncome trade messages from the mailbox before entering the inner react loop. Hence Equity trade messages will be processed only when there are no pending FixedIncome trade messages in the mailbox of the actor.
Asynchronous messaging is here ..
People are talking about it, open source implementations of messaging protocols like AMQP and XMPP are also available now. Erlang has demonstrated how to design and implement fault tolerant, distributed systems using the shared nothing, immutable message based programming model. Scala has started imbibing many of the goodness from Erlang/OTP platforms. And Scala runs on the JVM - it is far too natural that I have been thinking of replacing most of my synchronous interfaces at the service layer with Scala actors. Recently I have been experimenting with Erlang based RabbitMQ clusters as the messaging middleware, and got the application layer to scale pretty well with Scala actors.
The Web layer is also getting async support from the upcoming JSR 315 and Servlet 3.0 spec about to hit the ground. Thanks to some great stuff from Greg Wilkins of Webtide, async servlets will allow applications to suspend and resume request processing and enable and disable the response - a direct support for writing comet style applications. Till date we have been using Jetty continuations and Scala's event based actors for asynchronous processing .. Web applications are definitely going to get a big scaling boost with support for asynchronous servlets.
Jason Sobel has an interesting post on scaling out of Facebook on to a new data center in the East Coast at Virginia. A really interesting insight into some of the design decisions that have given us one of the most trafficked sites on the face of the planet today.
Here are two points that struck me on reading the post ..
Changing the sql grammar in the replication stream to incorporate eviction of expired items from memcached looks like a hack. A more traditional implementation could have been using triggers or MySQL UDFs to atomicize the entire transaction. But generic solutions always come ironclad with some performance overhead. It's no wonder that Facebook needs to do all specializations, even if that amounts to no ceremony and all hack.
Just wondering that Facebook still writes in one data center. With all the CAP theorem and eventual consistency stuff being solved by Amazon, why does Facebook still have this limitation ?
In my last post on Scala actors, I had mentioned about the actor code being side-effect-free and referentially transparent. James Iry correctly pointed out that Scala react is side-effected, since the partial function that it takes processes a message which is neither a parameter to react nor a value in the lexical scope.
Sure! I should have been more careful to articulate my thoughts. The side-effect that react induces can be a problem if the messages that it processes are not immutable, do share mutable state either amongst themselves or with the actor. In fact concurrency oriented programming is all about side-effects, the better models provide more manageable semantics to abstract them away from the client programmers. Abstracting out the concurrency oriented parts of a large software system is one of the biggest challenges that the industry has been trying to solve for years. And this is where asynchronous message passing model shines, and modules like gen_server of Erlang/OTP provides convenience and correctness. The bottomline is that we can avoid unwanted side-effects and difficult to debug concurrency issues if we keep all messaages immutable without any sharing of mutable state. Thanks James for correcting the thought!
In both Scala and Erlang, the underlying actor model has to deal with concurrency explicitly, manage synchronization of actor mailboxes and deal with issues of message ordering and potential dead- or live-lock problems. If we were to write the threaded versions of the actor code ourselves, we would need to manage the stateful mailboxes of individual actors as blocking queues. With Scala's actor model, this pattern is subsumed within the implementation, thereby ensuring racefree communication between concurrent actors.
Once we play to the rules of the game, we need not have to bother about the side-effect that react induces.
The following code fragment is from an earlier post on using Scala actors and AMQP. I thought I would bring this snippet up once again to highlight some of the goodness that functional Scala offers in modeling actor model of concurrent computation.
An implementation of the Observer design pattern using message passing. Interested traders can register as observers and observe every trade that takes place. But without any mutable state for maintaining the list of observers. Not a very familiar paradigm to the programmers of an imperative language. The trick is to have the list of observers as an argument to the loop() function which is tail called.
Nice .. asynchronous, referentially transparent, side-effect-free functional code. No mutable state, no need of explicit synchronization, no fear of race conditions or deadlocks, since no shared data are being processed concurrently by multiple threads of execution.


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Dr. Oz announces bid for US Senate seat in Pennsylvania
By Michael Warren, CNN
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, is running for the US Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, according to an op-ed published Tuesday in the conservative Washington Examiner.
"During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions. That's why I am running for the U.S. Senate: to help fix the problems and to help us heal," Oz wrote.
The 61-year-old Oz will join a Republican primary field that already includes Philadelphia-area businessman (and 2018 lieutenant governor nominee) Jeff Bartos and Carla Sands, who served as US ambassador to Denmark in the Trump administration. Another potential Republican candidate is David McCormick, a former official in the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush.
The race in Pennsylvania to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey has been shaken up in recent weeks, primarily by the departure of GOP candidate Sean Parnell, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
"Pennsylvania needs a conservative who will put America first," Oz said in a 60-second video on his campaign website.
Oz is an Ohio native who attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He rose to fame as a frequent guest of Oprah Winfrey, eventually launching his own syndicated daytime TV talk show in 2009.
Representatives for Oz did not return CNN's request for comment.
Oz's interest in the Senate race was first reported earlier this year in the Washington Free Beacon and Politico. Oz said in a 2007 interview that he would "consider" running for office someday, calling himself a "moderate Republican."
He also has connections to Trump. In 2018, Trump appointed Oz to the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, reappointing him to the position in 2020.
In his campaign video, Oz criticized the federal response to Covid-19, saying that "Washington got it wrong."
"They took away our freedom without making us safer," he said.

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Tokyo, Japan – Sony Corporation ("Sony") is announcing that it has reached an agreement with Altair Semiconductor ("Altair") and its major shareholders to acquire the company. The purchase price is $212 million USD. Sony expects to complete the acquisition in early February, 2016.
Altair, an Israel-based company, owns modem chip technology and related software for LTE (Long Term Evolution), a 4G cellular standard for mobile devices. Altair develops and sells products focused on LTE technology, and its modem chips stand out for their low power consumption, high performance and competitive cost.
LTE is already widely used in data communication for mobile phones, and is also expected to play a pivotal role in the interconnection of the Internet of Things ("IoT"). Going forward, more and more "things" are expected to be equipped with cellular chipsets, realizing a connected environment in which "things" can reliably and securely access network services that leverage the power of cloud computing.
With the acquisition of Altair, Sony aims to not only expand Altair's existing business, but also to move forward with research on and development of new sensing technologies. By combining Sony's sensing technologies – such as GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and image sensors – with Altair's high-performance, low power consumption and cost-competitive modem chip technology, and by further evolving both, Sony will strive to develop a new breed of cellular-connected, sensing component devices.
With the markets for wearable and IoT devices expected to continue to expand, Sony aims to deliver component devices that feature both sensing and communication capabilities, as well as new LTE solutions that leverage the strengths of these component devices.


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Exactly two years ago Belarus opened visa-free entry to citizens of 80 countries via Minsk National Airport. The news came as a bombshell and spread like a wildfire.
As early as 12 February, the first visa-free tourists landed in Minsk. They were heartily greeted with flowers and smiling journalists.
Officials called it a real breakthrough, predicting a 15–20% increase in tourist inflows. A year later visa-free stay was extended to up to 30 days. Did Belarus see crowds of tourists? How did they arrive and where did they come from?
Two years of visa-free travel via the airport brought the country 189,000 tourists or about 2% of all foreigners who visited Belarus during this period.
An interesting fact, a temporary visa-free entry for the World Cup in 2014 brought more guests to Belarus than a permanent visa-waiver programme.
Then over 5.3 million guests visited the country, for comparison, there were 4.7 million tourists in 2018.
Most foreigners who used the Minsk airport visa-free option came from Germany, Italy and Poland. The same can not be said about tourists from neighboring Latvia and Lithuania.
This may be due to the fact it is easier for them to go to Belarus by road, even though this way of entering the country is available only in Grodno and Brest at the moment.


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Martin is a small village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 866.  It lies approximately  west from Woodhall Spa and  east from Metheringham. The village of Timberland is just to the south.

The village is on the western edge of the fen through which the River Witham runs. Martin Moor is a drained area to the east of the village, where there is a golf course and a koi carp farm.

Martin has a primary school and a church. The public house is the Royal Oak. The village shop also serves as the post office. A small reservoir lies  north-east from the village.

History
The name Martin is Old English mere+tun for "farmstead near a pool". In the 12th century, the village name is recorded as Martona. It is also often listed as Merton in older records, reflecting Old English origins of the name. The Fynes family, a cadet branch of the Earls of Lincoln, were seated at White Hall, or Martin Grange, until the 18th century.

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Published: 26th November 2022
Kerala launches 9000 robotic labs for 1.2 million school students
Through the Little KITES programme, students in public schools will get hands-on training in the latest technologies areas such as robotics, IoT and Artificial Intelligence
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Robotic labs are being set up by the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), the EdTech arm of the state government, in 2000 high schools from December 2022. The scheme, which will benefit 1.2 million school children, is the first of its kind in India.
According to a report by IANS, V Sivankutty, Kerala's Minister for General Education, on Saturday, November 26, said this will facilitate innovative ways for increasing the knowledge skills of students through fun learning and the inauguration of 9000 Robotic Labs through Little KITEs, the largest ICT Network of students in India, will be done by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on December 8.
"Robotics is an important training component under the Little KITES programme, through which, students in public schools will get hands-on training in the latest technologies areas such as robotics, IoT and Artificial Intelligence. Moreover, the programming training as part of this would help in the enhancement of creative thinking and problem-solving ability of students, which would help them in the learning of all subjects," said Sivankutty.
K Anvar Sadath, Chief Executive Officer of KITE, said each robotic kit deployed to school comprises of Arduino Uno Rev3, LEDs, SG90 Mini Servo Motor, LDR light sensor module, IR sensor module, active buzzer module, push button, bread button, jumper wires and resistors.
What's on the agenda?
"KITE will provide further support to schools to source additional spares, if required, from the local market by using the funds provided for Little KITEs units," said Sadath. In addition to the deployment of robotic kits in schools, 4000 KITE Masters would also be trained using a specific training module on how to use this equipment in schools.
Using these KITE Masters, KITE is imparting training directly to 60,000 students. The Little KITES members thus trained, would, in turn, train other students which would directly benefit over 12 lakh students through this initiative. Students will also be trained in various activities, including the development of traffic signals, automatic street lights activated through light sensing, electronic dios, automatic door and security alarm.
Among the other training sessions that would be imparted would be on electronic voting machines, audio-controlled home automation (IoT) and walking sticks for the visually challenged. Further, the creation of computer games using Scratch, the development of mobile apps using App Inventor by the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Artificial Intelligence-based activities are also planned for students as part of this programme.
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Q: disk and network calculations, 1000 vs 1024 I have a .tar file that is 2.3TB as reported by du -sh
I want to reasonably calculate the time it will take to transfer over a 1gbps network where I routinely average 102 MB/sec.
Which is the correct math below, #1 or #2 ?

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*2.3tb * 1000 * 1000 = 2300000 mb; divide by 102 MB/s = 22549 seconds = 6.26 hrs

*2.3tb * 1024 * 1024 = 2411724.8 mb; divide by 102 MB/s = 23644 seconds = 6.56 hs

A: At least on my system (Debian 10), man du says the -h option will use powers of 1024 and you would have to use --si instead to get powers of 1000.
However, since data transfer speeds tend to use powers of 1000, and du is using 1024-based megabytes, you might have to go all the way to bytes to get the absolutely correct value:
2.3 TiB * (1024^4 bytes/TiB) / 102 000 000 bytes/s = 24973 seconds = 6.89 hrs

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There are tropical forests in many Spanish-speaking countries. As kids learn about the rainforest, they explore geography and culture, as well as learn language. These rainforest activities are part of the Easy Spanish-Easy Yoga series. You can find more information about the series at the end of the post.
Mis Cositas has an entire thematic unit on the rainforest available as a free download. The unit is designed for beginning Spanish learners. There are 13 lesson plans with rainforest activities, worksheets, games and resources.
Yoga is an excellent Spanish learning activity. Kids Yoga Stories has a new post on rainforest yoga with a 3 pose yoga flow. In this yoga flow, kids act out a toucan, a waterfall and a monkey. See the rainforest post on Kids Yoga Stories for how to do the poses. Say the Spanish words or use them in sentences as you do the poses: el tucán, la cascada, el mono. Soy un tucán. Ahora soy una cascada. Tú también eres una cascada. Soy un mono.
Kids Yoga Stories has a wonderful book about the rainforest. Sofía en una aventura en la selva is a yoga story. Children learn about the rainforest as they read the story and do yoga poses. Doing the poses, kids act out animals and other natural elements. The movement, story and illustrations all contribute to language learning as you do this rainforest activity.
Kids Yoga Stories also has a Spanish coloring book of Sofía en una aventura por la selva and a set of yoga cards for the story. The cards are in English, but once a child has read the book, you could certainly use the yoga cards in either language.
There are many songs about animals that live in the rainforest, such as la rana, la tortuga or el mono. One of my favorites is La Guacamaya (macaw) by Spanish Together. You can hear a clip of the song and purchase it on iTunes.
(The iguana and the sloth) by Canticuentos. This song is a classic and one that schools sing and act out. There are many videos of the song on YouTube and quite a few have the lyrics on the screen. You can hear the song in this video.
You can do lots of rainforest activities using books. Barefoot Books has several beautiful Spanish language picture books about the rainforest. De paseo por la selva, and Cha-cha-cha en la selva both are available with a CD. Un recorrido por la selva is also about rainforest adventures. All three books are excellent choices for Spanish learners.
If you are looking for rainforest activities to engage kids with lots of language, try a craft. There are many crafts related to the animals and birds of the rainforest. Two of my favorites are by Learn Create Love. Check out the easy-to-make snake craft. I also love the free printable quetzal craft and you can find facts about this beautiful bird in the post.
Video and photos are an important resource to give kids a better sense of what a rainforest is like.
Lola Aventuras: En el corazón de la selva is a short video, where Lola travels to la Selva Amazónica de Colombia. The video focuses on how all animals have a heart that beats and uses the animals of the rainforest as examples.
Un viaje a la selva para los más chiquitos is another short video to introduce kids to the rainforest. There is a lot of repetition of key words and clear footage of animals.
National Geographic has galleries of tropical rainforest wildlife photos and tropical rainforest pictures. Rainforest Education also has photos sorted into categories.
Finally, Kitu Kids has a two bilingual apps about the rainforest. Amazon Rainforest Discovery and Deep in the Rainforest can both be used successfully with children learning Spanish. Read my detailed review of the Kitu Kids apps with suggestions for using them with Spanish learners.
These rainforest activities are part of the Easy Spanish-Easy Yoga series. At Spanish Playground, we are working with Kids Yoga Stories to create activities to teach children Spanish and yoga through basic concepts. In a series of monthly posts, we give you simple activities that you can work into a busy schedule. In addition to yoga, you will find other language activities you can do with Spanish learners related to the theme of the month.


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Critical hole in popular WordPress SEO plugin allows SQLi, site hijacking
Another highly popular WordPress plugin has been found sporting a cross-site request forgery flaw that can be exploited to mount a blind SQL injection attack, and could also lead to an attacker gaining complete control of the site by adding his own administrative user to it.
The WordPress SEO plugin developed by Yoast has been installed and is actively used on more than a million WordPress sites. As its name says, the plugin is used to improve the Search Engine Optimization of WordPress sites.
"The one sentence explanation for the not so technical: by having a logged-in author, editor or admin visit a malformed URL a malicious hacker could change your database," Joost de Valk, the company's owner explained. "While this does not allow mass hacking of installs using this hole, it does allow direct targeting of a user on a website. This is a serious issue, which is why we immediately set to work to fix it when we were notified of the issue."
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The British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR) Scientific Meeting 2015 will be held in Cardiff, Wales, from 14-16th September. The Meeting is being hosted by the School of Dentistry/Cardiff University and will make its first return to the City since it hosted the inaugural meeting of the Pan European Federation (PEF) in 2002.
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At the meeting, not only will there be the opportunity to disseminate research findings with fellow researchers in Oral and Dental Research, but also the opportunity to interact with associated industrial sponsors.
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divided into four separate areas of protection.
field boundary wall at the western end.
ESE boundaries as far as the head of a stream gully at the top of Silpho Brow.
as a crop mark on aerial photographs.
open `U' shaped profiles, and measure up to 3m across and up to 0.6m deep.
from the medieval period onwards, and perhaps earlier.
has been truncated by one of the hollow ways.
boundaries for lands belonging to Whitby Abbey.
distinguishable from earlier Bronze Age round barrows by their smaller size.
unusual burial ritual of `spearing the corpse'.
mound and within the buried ditch.
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I know you wanted to see the first Avengers 4 trailer this week. We all did. But that didn't happen, as Disney and Marvel have other plans for revealing the film's title and trailer. Delaying the reveal isn't such a bad play, considering that Avengers 4 practically sells itself. That doesn't mean we won't have a trailer by the end of the year, however. While we wait, we have other exciting trailers to watch, including Artemis Fowl, which Disney dropped this week.
I did mention Disney's first trailer for Artemis Fowl, which arrived earlier this week, just as we were waiting for something else. The fantasy adventure launches on August 9th, with Kenneth Branagh at the helm. I'm definitely excited about this one, although I have to say I'm not familiar with the book the film is based on.
Remember last year's Happy Death Day? A horror story about a college student who had to relive her death day over and over until she was able to identify her killer? Well, what do you think Happy Death Day 2U is about? The sequel premieres on Valentine's Day and has the same premise as the original.
If you're going to the movies on Christmas Day looking for new things to watch, then look for If Beale Street Could Talk too. It's a crime story about a pregnant woman in Harlem looking to prove her fiancé is innocent.
The more Into the Spider-Verse clips I see, the more I want to watch this thing. It's an animated Spider-Man feature where a team of Spider-People coming from various dimensions team up to fight evil. It's like a super Avengers team made of different versions of Spider-Man.
What do you do when you find out that your now-dead famous husband had a double life he kept secret from you? That's what State Like Sleep will tell us come early January. The film stars Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman, Luke Evans, and Michael Shannon.
If you're into movies about music, then you must have seen A Star Is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody already. Also on your list should be Vox Lux, starring Natalie Portman as a signer who's looking to restore her fortune following a scandal-ridden career that started back when she was only a teenager. Vox Lux opens on December 7th.


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Conf/CfP - Art of Communication International Conference, 24-25 March 2017, Warsaw, Poland
The English language has become nowadays the world's universal language. It is the most used language in international business, science, medicine, trade and cultural relations. Any linguistic discussions or debates involve the issue of the language change. It is generally known that languages develop rapidly nowadays, due to a variety of reasons, both internal and external. The observation of a language inside the society might also reveal origins and outcomes of its organization. Social, political, economic and cultural extra-linguistic factors, reflected in the language, add significantly to the national identity of any society. They play a significant role in perception of local traditions and communicators.
Conference panels will be related, but not limited, to:
Semiotics (literary studies, discourse analysis, text linguistics, and philosophy of language)
Language documentation (sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and linguistic anthropology)
Translation (including computational linguistics)
Biolinguistics (biology and evolution of language)
Clinical linguistics (curing communication disorders)
Forensic linguistics
The conference will bring together scholars from different fields including philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, linguistics, architecture, geography and others.
The language of the conference is English.
Proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 20 December, 2016 to: communication@irf-network.org. Download paper proposal form.
Selected papers will be published in the post-conference volume.
Full registration fee – 150 € Student registration fee – 115 €
Conference venue: Wilcza Conference Centre, ul. Wilcza 9, Warsaw
Aniela Korzeniowska is Professor in Translation Studies and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics. Over the years, her teaching and research have mainly centred around issues concerning the theory and practice of translation, both from a historical and contemporary perspective. To date she has supervised 120 MA dissertations and at present also conducts a PhD seminar in this field of studies. She is also a professional translator, specialising in the translation of Polish academic texts into English.
Her second field of interest is Scotland's languages and literature, which has resulted in a correspondence with and overlapping of Scottish Studies with the above Translation Studies. This has found its own characteristic reflection in her teaching and a great deal of her most recent publications.
For more information click "Further official information" below.
Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021, Africa
frican Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Fellowships 2021
Reuters Institute Journalism Fellowships 2021 at Oxford, UK
Summer School - Interviewing Your Data: Tools and Methods for Data Journalists, 14 - 18 June 2021, Hungary
Summer School - Disruptive Narratives: Re-Constructing the Truth in the Age of Multimodal Propaganda, 21 - 25 June 2021, Hungary


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Die Legana war ein persisches Volumenmaß für Getreide und trockene Früchte. Neben dem wichtigen Maß, das die Artaba war, gab es die Legana  und die Sabbitha für das gleiche Einsatzgebiet. Alle drei Maße galten nebeneinander. Die Ware wurde aber nach dem Gewicht verkauft.
 1 Legana = 15 Capichas = 30 Chenicas = 120 Sextarios = 39,3 Liter
 1 Artaba = 1 ⅔ Leganas = 3288,8 Pariser Kubikzoll = 65,238 Liter

Literatur
 Christian Noback, Friedrich Noback: Vollständiges Taschenbuch der Münz-, Maß- und Gewichts-Verhältnisse, der Staatspapiere, des Wechsel- und Bankwesens und der Usancen aller Länder und Handelsplätze. Band 1, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1850, S. 883.

Altes Maß oder Gewicht (Iran)
Volumeneinheit
Getreidemaß (Iran)
Hohlmaß (Früchte)
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Mark Edward Nero covers the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles for the Southern California News Group. He first came to the Long Beach Press-Telegram as the newspaper's trade and transportation reporter in 2002. After leaving for a time, he returned in July 2018. In addition to the ports, he also covers the Palos Verdes Peninsula, including the cities of Palos Verdes, Palo Verdes Estates, Rolling Hills and Rolling Hills Estates.
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Port truckers misclassified as contractors awarded nearly $1.3 million in lost wages
The highest individual payout is $243,578.33 while the average is $128,562.90.
Nurses to conduct one-day strike at San Pedro medical center
Little Company of Mary Medical Center will be the subject of a one-day strike by registered nurses beginning at 7 am Tuesday, Nov. 27.
RNs to strike over patient care conditions at hospitals in San Pedro, Santa Monica
Registered nurses will hold a one-day strike on Tuesday, Nov. 27 to protest declining patient care conditions at the Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro and St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica.
LA, Long Beach ports poised to give up to $100,000 each to truck drivers for cleaner rigs
A total of $14 million could be made available for truckers who haul goods through the LA and Long Beach ports to buy lower emissions, natural gas-powered trucks.
Dozens of Teamsters and their supporters were arrested while protesting near the ports of L.A., Long Beach. This is why
They were protesting what they say is the wrongful classification of port truck drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
This is how one photographer is honoring veterans of World War II and Korea, one senior living facility at a time
Over the past 10 years, Bay Area photographer Thomas Sanders has been photographing veterans living at the 30-plus Belmont Village Senior Living homes across the country.
Legislature passes bill that penalizes retailers hiring rule-breaking trucking companies
Under SB 1402, when retailers hire trucking companies that have unpaid legal judgments against them, those retailers become jointly liable if and when the trucking companies commit new violations of...
Tariffs could hit L.A., Long Beach ports hard, analysis and experts say
The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, the largest in North America, could be the hardest hit by the $200 billion of tariffs and Chinese retaliation, experts say.
Tarzana man will swim from Catalina Island to Rancho Palos Verdes to raise money for leukemia organization
After his father-in-law died, Stan Kurtz had an idea in mind: swimming from Catalina Island to the public beach at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes in order to...


Is a fine example of a Victorian municipal park and was one of the best in the country to set a trend for the provision of areas for specific sporting activities (originally bowls and archery). The park is considered to be one of the best, unspoilt examples of a Victorian park left in England and is Wolverhampton's premier open space.
West Park provide a range of play equipment to cater for all ages and to provide stimulating, challenging apparatus to help keep Wolverhampton's children fit and healthy.
Efforts are made to provide play opportunities for children with disabilities as well as able-bodied children. Level approach pathways, wheelchair accessible gateways and the use of appropriate contrasting colours for ease of visibility are all important factors in ensuring accessibility for children with disabilities. For more information about accessible play areas in Wolverhampton please click here.


also identified as WIIFM, is a simple way of factoring in a user's mindset when visiting a business's website. When users visit a site, they typically have a goal — or something they want to accomplish during their time there. Successful online businesses are able to quickly show visitors what they have to offer. When a site visitor asks, "What's in it for me to join this business's mailing list?" successful businesses shows them what they have to offer.
Users require incentives to give their information. Ethical bribes can convert a visitor to a subscriber; many businesses offer new subscribers discounts when they join a mailing list, or provide downloads of whitepapers or other valuable material.


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GITIT SHOVAL, Connected
Released late in a year in which our individual and collective feeling of connection to other people and especially loved ones has been physically and emotionally challenged and frayed like never before, Israeli singer Gitit Shoval's Connected arrives as the solace, comfort, healing, hope and courage to carry on that our weary bodies and souls have been longing for.
Just as secular folks and nonbelievers can joyfully sing Christmas hymns and groove on gospel music, listeners need not be of the Jewish faith to appreciate and take to heart the veteran Israeli singer's engaging, infectious and ultimately soul-stirring musical journey into Jewish Prayers. Nor does one need to literally understand the 12 mostly Hebrew prayer texts set to music to appreciate the emotional/spiritual depth of the collection as Shoval – leading a large ensemble featuring vocals by her husband Ron Druyan (who also plays piano) and their daughter Tutti Druyan – leads us from the soaring, ethereal opener "R'Tzei (featuring a hypnotic bass solo by jazz great John Patitucci) to "Oseh Shalom," a lush, easy flowing pop duet with a male singer she calls "our dear friend from Iran."
Though she's been recording for decades, Shoval released her first English language EP Autumn Leaves a few years ago, so she may be new on your radar. A little background: Considered on of Israel's musical treasures she was first discovered at 13 at a pre-Eurovision contest. She became an overnight sensation and spent her teens touring her home country, releasing her debut solo album Taklit Rishon at 16. As part of her service for the Israeli Defense Force, she performed extensively, lifting the spirits of every soldier.
Around the time she completed her army service, she met Ron, a music producer and Berklee College of Music graduate. Over the years, in addition to a multitude of solo albums, Shoval and Ron opened Tomitoot Productions, which became one of Israeli's top studios, catering mainly with cartoon voice overs. Shoval provided the Hebrew voices for numerous iconic cartoon characters, including Smurfette from the Smurfs and Barbie from the Barbie direct-to-DVD movie series. In addition, the studios produced four platinum selling holiday albums in Hebrew featuring Shoval.
While her deep family and musical connections (including a five piece string section) lay the foundations, the album, above all, expresses her feeling of being more deeply connected to her faith tradition and its divinely inspired prayers and musical traditions than at any point in her career. As she explains on her Kickstarter page for Connected, over the past few years, she began serving as a cantorial singer at Temple Emanuel in Andover, MA. "I do not come from a religious family," she says, "but excellent music and beautiful lyrics always spoke to me. I do not think that I have ever come across music that affected me as much as the music at the Temple does. It deepens my ability to be emotional and vulnerable.
"Through this music," Shoval adds, "I learned that it's okay to break my walls in front of the world and to open a window to my soul. And this is where the name for this album came from, - because this is simply the truth, this is truly what happened to me, I became connected. And if you ask me what to, my answer is - to everything. It started with myself and continued to my surroundings, to a connection to my being which could be called the universe. A connection stemming from an emotional strength, that isn't religious, it is spiritual."
In essence, Connected is one extraordinarily talented, keenly intuitive artist's ultimate gift of expression via a vibrant fusion of ancient texts and contemporary music styles ranging from pop, jazz and folk to classical, electronica, orchestral, dance and intricately textured vocal harmony music.
Shoval shares the breath of life on the lyrical acoustic ballad "Elohai N'Shama," exhorts us to guard our tongues from evil, turn away from bad and do good on the hypnotic triple vocal harmony showcase "Mi Ha'ish," blesses us with a prayer for God to grant peace, goodness and compassion over the sweeping strings of "Sim Shalom" and creates the Hebrew equivalent of a down home, Americana styled gospel song with "Adonai S'fatai Tifach," complete with a vocal choir and the beautiful harmonica lacings of Roni Eytan. A dashing violin invites us into and offers kind harmonic caress for Shoval's stirring vocals on one of the project's centerpieces "Avinu Malkeinu," the familiar prayer that is sung during the sacred period between Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur. It's a request made to God to "deal kindly and gently with us/And save our people" especially during those days of self-reflection.
Whether one chooses to listen to Connected all the way through, or a few triumphant musical pieces at a time, it will offer an exquisite and uplifting musical path to peace that transcends a literal understanding of the text – and will hopefully inspire the adventurous listener to take a deeper dive into the dynamic history of one of Israel's most groundbreaking artists.


You may think this lady is just making dinner. She has some amazing talent. Instead of just cooking, she adds some flair to her stove-top duties. Watch as she grooves along to "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. This Grandma even spins as she opens the fridge. This is hilarious!


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May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022 Dallas Brown #OregonMade, Film and Media Industry, Independent Films, Movies, Oregon Film, Television filming in Oregon, Jefferson County, Locations, Oregon FilmLeave a Comment on Historic Jefferson County Courthouse and Jail – Restored and Ready for Your Next Film View 10
Historic Jefferson County Courthouse and Jail – Restored and Ready for Your Next Film
The Historic Jefferson County Courthouse and Jail in Madras, OR has now been restored and is ready for you to film your next project there. Today, the 6,500-square-foot courthouse features offices on the first floor for a property management company and two law firms. The second floor, which was used for trials and still has its original jury chairs, is open for events like weddings and anniversaries. Outside the courthouse has a landscaped lawn and a gazebo. The current owner is even open to renting out their classic cars. Continue reading... "Historic Jefferson County Courthouse and Jail – Restored and Ready for Your Next Film"
November 4, 2014 November 5, 2014 Oregon Film Featured Locations, Incentives, Movies, Oregon Film, Resources, Talent, Uncategorized filming in Oregon, Locations, Movies, Oregon Film, Oregon film industry, Reese Witherspoon, WildLeave a Comment on WILD Contest Has Oregon Covered View 8
WILD Contest Has Oregon Covered
Fox Searchlight unveiled the #LifeisWILD contest this week as a headliner in promoting Reese Witherspoon's WILD. Oregon Film was approached by Fox Searchlight to help put this contest together as an interactive and creative way to bring attention to the movie, and in so doing, the Pacific Crest Trail, and Oregon simultaneously. Oregon Film collaborated with Travel Oregon to pull together a fantastic Grand Prize package of a week long trip to Oregon for the winner and a friend. Continue reading... "WILD Contest Has Oregon Covered"
June 5, 2014 Oregon Film Featured Locations, Featured Videos, Film and Media Industry, Oregon Film, Uncategorized Back O'Er Oregon, filming in Oregon, Locations, oregon, Oregon Film, Slater Smith, State Park Day, The Weather MachineLeave a Comment on Go "Back O'er Oregon" On State Park Day, June 7th View 6
Go "Back O'er Oregon" On State Park Day, June 7th
June 7th is a celebration for Oregon's huge array of state parks. State Park Day is offering free camping and day use as way to thank the public and welcome use of these beautiful areas.
You can catch a glimpse of Oregon's many state parks on the "Back O'er Oregon" music video that Slater Smith and his band The Weather Machine debuted last year on Rainn Wilson's website Soul Pancake. The project was a creative collaboration between Oregon Parks and Recreation and the Governor's Office of Film and Television. Continue reading... "Go "Back O'er Oregon" On State Park Day, June 7th"
April 9, 2014 April 9, 2014 Oregon Film Film and Media Industry, Independent Films, Movies, Oregon Film, Uncategorized Brittany Murphy, Eugene, filming in Oregon, Locations, Movies, Oregon Film, Oregon film industry, Shantel Vansanten, Something WickedLeave a Comment on Brittany Murphy's "Something Wicked", Begins Its Run In Oregon, April 11th. View 8
Brittany Murphy's "Something Wicked", Begins Its Run In Oregon, April 11th.
We are excited to see "Something Wicked" roll out in Oregon next week (after it's premiere April 4th in Eugene) before a wider release in coming weeks.
Below is the press release:
"SOMETHING WICKED" STARRING SHANTEL VANSANTEN, BRITTANY MURPHY, TO HIT THEATERS IN PORTLAND METRO BEGINNING APRIL 11
Pacific Northwest Regal Cinemas Sees First Rollout Of Psychological Thriller
April 8, 2014 – Portland, OR – The long-awaited final film of the late actress Brittany Murphy will hit theaters in Portland, Salem, and Bend beginning April 11, 2014, with more than 15 additional regional Regal Cinema theaters to follow weekly. Continue reading... "Brittany Murphy's "Something Wicked", Begins Its Run In Oregon, April 11th."
January 30, 2014 January 31, 2014 Oregon Film Award, Film and Media Industry, Film Festivals, Incentives, Independent Films, Locations, Movies, Resources, Uncategorized AIFF, Ashland, film festivals, filming in Oregon, Locations, Moviemaker Magazine, Oregon film industry, SOFAT, Top places To Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014Leave a Comment on Moviemaker Magazine Awards Two Oregon Cities With Honors For "Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2014"! View 4
Moviemaker Magazine Awards Two Oregon Cities With Honors For "Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2014"!
In years gone by, Moviemaker Magazine lumped together big city and small town to compete for the sought after title of, "Best Places To Live and Work as a Moviemaker". This year, the magazine has split their list into three components:
Top Big Cities (they define as more than 50,000 residents)
Top Small Cities (100,000)
Top Towns (under 100,000)
We are excited to see that two Oregon cities took honors in the Big City and Town categories – Portland and Ashland! Continue reading... "Moviemaker Magazine Awards Two Oregon Cities With Honors For "Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2014"!"
September 18, 2012 September 18, 2012 Katherine Wilson Documentary, Film Festivals Crew, documentary, Eugene, film festival, filming in Oregon, Locations, Movies, oregon, Oregon Film, Oregon film industry5 Comments on Animal House of Blues View 10
Animal House of Blues
'Animal House': Our Alma Mater
"Animal House of Blues": has been announced today as an Official Selection of the Eugene International Film Festival October 18th- 21st, 2012. Directed by Jay Richardson, class of 2012; with the help of fellow graduating filmmakers.
Subtitled "How an Oregon Community Helped Create a Hollywood Blockbuster (or Two) On a 'B' Drive-In Movie Budget"; this next generation of young Oregon filmmakers, formerly from the University of Oregon, stepped up and optioned, filmed and edited Katherine Wilson's documentary screenplay, as well as licensed her Oregon Film Factory Movie Museum images and artifacts. Continue reading... "Animal House of Blues"
September 4, 2012 September 4, 2012 Green Production environmental, Green, Portland, Television, Uncategorized Locations, Oregon film industry, Television, Top Gear, Top Gear Oregon, Top Gear USALeave a Comment on Top Gear USA – Can You Get From Portland to San Francisco On Just One Tank Of Gas? View 9
Top Gear USA – Can You Get From Portland to San Francisco On Just One Tank Of Gas?
Top Gear USA
We will find out tonight if it's possible to drive from Portland to San Fransisco on just one tank of gas. The History Channel's Top Gear USA series, modeled after the UK BBC series of the same name, has a similar set up with weekly car challenges and rewards. Tonight's challenge takes presenters, Tanner Foust, Adam Ferrara and Rutledge Wood from Portland to San Francisco without being allowed to fill up. Whomever makes it closest to San Francisco wins the chance to drive the "toughest off road machine in the world" in a race in the Colorado mountains. Continue reading... "Top Gear USA – Can You Get From Portland to San Francisco On Just One Tank Of Gas?"
August 16, 2012 August 31, 2012 Oregon Film Film and Media Industry, Incentives, Independent Films, Jobs, Movies, Oregon Film, Uncategorized Crew, incentives, indie, iOPIF, Locations, Movies, Talent, The A list3 Comments on Independent Feature, "The A-List" Wraps View 14
Independent Feature, "The A-List" Wraps
"The A List", On Location In Beaverton
We stopped by the set last week on the penultimate day of shooting for "The A-List", an independent comedy feature about a high school senior who is "coerced by his guidance counselor into fulfilling a list of all of her high school fantasies in order for him to graduate". This is a first feature to be produced for writer D.J. Halferty and produced by; Ian Rao, Brett Cranford, Matthew Karchesky, Kevin Callies and directed by Will Bigham. Continue reading... "Independent Feature, "The A-List" Wraps"
August 8, 2011 August 8, 2011 Katherine Wilson Economic Impact, Film and Media Industry, Locations, Movies, Oregon Film Film History, Locations, Movies, Stand by Me1 Comment on 25th Anniversary of Oregon's Own "Stand by Me' View 12
25th Anniversary of Oregon's Own "Stand by Me'
Searching for Adventure and "the body".
25 years ago, on August 8th, a film shot in Oregon was released nationwide in the theatres. It hasn't stopped playing since. It is currently #175 on IMDB's top 250 list, above "Avatar" and "Gandhi". It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay from Stephen Kings' novella "The Body"; the Japanese Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; and won the Jackie Coogan Youth Award for the cast of River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell and Corey Feldman. Continue reading... "25th Anniversary of Oregon's Own "Stand by Me'"


The British designer Daniel Lee has some big shoes to fill: Tomas Maier was the head of design at Bottega Veneta for 17 years, and now the 32-year-old Brit is taking the reins as an up-and-coming talent, as it were.
A graduate of the acclaimed Central St. Martins elite training facility, Lee was previously employed at Céline for six years, most recently as head of the ready-to-wear collection. He has also worked for Maison Margiela, Donna Karan and Balenciaga. Interestingly, not a lot is known about the designer – he has always stayed out of the spotlight until now.
"I look forward to evolving what has gone before, while contributing a new perspective and modernity," he explains in a press release. He will have to prove himself in his first show in September. For which he will certainly be needing his passion for materials.
His predecessor Tomas Maier established Bottega Veneta as a brand that is known for understated luxury.


SCR ELEKTRONIKS have developed 4 STATIONS ENDURANCE TEST SETUP FOR THERMOSTAT OF IRONwhich is used for carrying out endurance test for thermostat of iron for the required amount of time It is very useful and handy in line testing on Mass production line as well as type Testing. It consists of Voltmeter, Wattmeter, Programmable Logic Controller( PLC ). The equipment continuously monitors faults like Contact weld and Contact Open. The other important feature is we can operate the panel in Auto Mode or Manual mode. User friendly operations make the equipment to be handled easier for any operator. This manual contains information about operating instructions and maintenance of the equipment.
Micro Controller based programmable timer.
TEST OVER indication with Alarm at the end of the tests.
Digital Voltmeter – 0 to 300V AC – 4 Nos.
Digital Ammeter – 0 to 10.00Amp AC – 4 Nos.
Digital Wattmeter - 0 to 2000W AC. - 4 Nos.
Digital Timer to set ON time and to store ON/OFF cycles of the thermostat. - 1 No.
The ON/OFF operation of iron will be detected by current sensing and the cycles will be displayed on Digital Display. One can set maximum no, of cycles (0 to 9999) or ON Time, after this the test will be terminated. Incase the welding of contact i.e. It is on for long time without OFF condition or for contact i.e. No current for long time. The test will be terminated declaring Fail.
Contact Weld & Open Detection and indication circuits – 4 sets.
Input supply 240V AC (From Mains Supply directly) with MCB protection.
Output on 6 pin 16A sockets with 1 pole MCB protection. - 4 Nos.
Contactors for making ON/OFF the output – 4 Nos.


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The popularity of low-FODMAP foods has soared over the past few years and food manufacturers are tapping into growing demand – but are such gut-friendly claims just a fad or a long-term trend?
Caroline Macdonald | May 12, 2020
FODMAPs (Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides and Polyols) are short-chain carbohydrates found in many fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy foods and sweeteners. For some people, they are fermented by gut bacteria and cause excess water to be drawn into the stomach and intestines, causing the gastrointestinal distress and bloating associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The exact prevalence of IBS is difficult to pin down, but researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia who developed the low-FODMAP diet suggest it affects as many as one in seven people globally.
"We are very concerned that the FODMAP diet does not become the next fad diet," said Associate Professor Jane Muir, Head of Translational Nutrition Science at the university's Department of Gastroenterology. "The Monash University FODMAP team are working hard to provide credible and reliable information, based on good science rather than pseudo-science, about when, for whom and for how long this diet should be applied."
Unlike many other diets used for particular health conditions – such as a gluten-free diet for coeliac disease or a lactose-free diet for lactose intolerance – the low-FODMAP diet does not demand a full-time, permanent dietary change. Instead, it is a three-phased diet that IBS sufferers are advised to follow for two to six weeks to allow the gut to heal, before returning to their usual eating habits, while avoiding specific high-FODMAP foods. Results from randomised clinical trials suggest this approach is effective for three-quarters of those with IBS.
Low-FODMAP certification
According to Innova Market Insights, the number of new food and drink product launches with a low-FODMAP claim has grown by more than 130% a year from 2014 to 2018, and it is a trend across global regions. Sauces and seasonings are the top category for such claims, accounting for 40% of all new low-FODMAP products in 2018. In the same period, the proportion of claims in the bakery category grew from zero in 2014 to 15% of the total.
Monash University has developed a database and app featuring foods that are low-FODMAP certified, working with food manufacturers to identify and certify food options that are suitable for this group of consumers.
"Demand for this type of programme was driven initially by our patients, who were finding it difficult to find manufactured foods that they could tolerate," said Muir. "…Initially, demand was strongest in Australia, where the diet was developed. We have, however, now seen very strong interest in the US, Canada and now Europe and the UK."
Gluten or fructan?
According to Innova, 86% of foods launched with a low-FODMAP claim in 2018 also carried a gluten-free claim. Finnish company Fazer Mills is among those suggesting the claim could take market share from the gluten-free sector, pointing to a growing body of research linking fructan, rather than gluten, as the compound in grains like wheat and rye that triggers symptoms in people with non-coeliac gluten sensitivity.
Muir agrees that there are links between FODMAPs and the demand for gluten-free foods, particularly for this group of consumers, who may identify as gluten- or wheat-sensitive, when they are actually reacting to grains' fructan component.
"Gluten may not be the culprit and these people may achieve greater symptom relief from their symptoms through following a low FODMAP diet," she said. "This means that people can enjoy popular gluten-containing foods such as bread – as long as the bread is low FODMAP."
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Week 41 – In which bones are broken.
Week 42 – In which randomness occurred.
Week 43 – In which a costume was created for the Client From Hell.
Week 44 – In which school holidays were enjoyed. By some.
Week 45 – In which Christmas was celebrated and the end of the world happened. Again.
Week 46 – In which holidays ended. For some.
Week 47 – In which mischief was managed.
Week 48 – In which assistance was required for a fix it project.
Week 49 – In which a new school year begins and routines are followed.
Week 50 – In which there were opportunities to escape.
Week 51 – In which there was concern over people's abilities to perform.
Tie-ins, Nom, Counter, Pontificate, Ewww, Bang!
Week 52 – In which it all comes to a close.


Welcome to AISC's Student Steel Bridge Competition (SSBC) website! Here, you will find information you need to know about the 2019 Regional Events and the National Finals. AISC has also developed additional resources for teams, faculty, hosts and sponsors, all of which are accessible by clicking the side links.
We look forward to a great year of competition in 2019!


A few days ago, the BitShares committee received an invitation from the Bitshares Blockchain Foundation to form the advisory board of the BBF.
The relevant announcement by the BBF and the full text of the invitation can be seen here.
After careful deliberations by the Committee members, the Committee has chosen to ACCEPT this invitation.
Furthermore, the Committee members have recently been working on formulating a number of proposals that will soon be put forward for the approval of BitShares holders, so the BBF's invitation could not have come at a better time.
Coordinating and working closely with the Spokesperson/BBF as well as the various worker teams, the Committee will be working to bring BitShares to its rightful place as one of the most advanced and stable blockchain platforms currently deployed.
More detailed announcements regarding the Committee's future plans will be made soon.


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CNET: RFID Passports Arrive for Americans
The U.S. State Department is about to begin handing out RFID-equipped passports, despite lingering security and privacy concerns.
By Anne Broache
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: August 16, 2006, 4:43 PM PDT
"A first wave of U.S. passports implanted with radio tags will soon begin making their way into the hands of American travelers despite lingering privacy and security concerns, federal officials said Monday.
Not long after researchers at a pair of security conferences in Las Vegas demonstrated potential risks associated with the new documents, the U.S. State Department insisted the documents are tamperproof and said it had begun producing them at the Colorado Passport Agency, which serves applicants from that state and the Rocky Mountain region.
The agency said it plans to issue the documents through the nation's other passport facilities within the next few months, as part of its original plan to make all future passports electronic by October. It was unclear how many e-passports would be mailed out this year, although a State Department representative said Monday that the agency expects to distribute a total of 13 million passports by year's end.
The new passports, which have been undergoing testing for several months and have already been issued to some U.S. diplomats, will be equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that can transmit personal information including the name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth and digitized photograph of the passport holder. They employ a "multilayered approach" to protect privacy and reduce the possibility that passersby can skim data from the books, the agency said.
"The Department of State is confident that the new e-passport, including biometrics and other improvements, will take security and travel facilitation to a new level," the agency said in a statement.
State Department officials claim that a layer of metallic antiskimming material in the front cover and spine of the book can prevent information from being read from a distance, provided that the book is fully closed. The document will also employ a cryptographic technique called Basic Access Control, which means the RFID chip unveils its contents only after a reader successfully authenticates itself as being authorized to receive that information.
State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper dismissed recent concerns raised by security researchers that the passports could nevertheless be "cloned"--that is, copied and used in a forged passport. The agency is confident that other security features built into the book would foil would-be imposters, he said.
The cloning technique demonstrated at the Las Vegas events is simple: It requires only a laptop equipped with a $200 RFID reader and a smart card programmer. The laptop's software scanned information from the RFID chip and wrote it to the smart card, which can then be embedded in a fake passport.
Security researchers have not, however, figured out how to alter the personal information, which is protected with a digital signature designed to enable unauthorized changes to be detected. Creating a fake passport therefore would be most useful to anyone who can forge the physical document and resembles the actual passport holder.
"The digital photograph of the passport holder embedded in the data page and the digital signature on the data, combined with our human U.S. border inspection process, would prevent someone from using a forged passport to gain entry into the United States," Cooper said in a telephone interview."
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Both the Hopewell Township Committee meeting and the Hopewell Valley Regional School District meetings have been cancelled tonight February 9, 2015 due to icy road conditions.
A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect until 6 AM tomorrow morning.
Freezing rain, sleet and snow are predicted for this evening.
There is potential for up to an inch of snow and sleet accumulations.
There is also the potential for a trace to one tenth inch of ice between now and midnight.
Periods of light freezing rain and sleet will probably become steadier for a time this evening and eventually change to snow by midnight.
***Travel may prove difficult. Citizens are encouraged to stay home this evening if possible.
Temperatures are expected to be in the mid to upper 20's.
There are no major incidents to report at this time and all roadways are open.
***The Hopewell Valley Regional School District will be closing all buildings this evening at 5 pm.
Please report any hazardous conditions to the Hopewell Township Police Department at 609-737-3100 ext. 0.


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Partly to mostly cloudy. Low 41F. Winds light and variable.
1969 — The Port of Astoria is negotiating a management agreement with Kerr Grain to take over operation of the port's grain elevator. The elevator has been operated by the Export-Pacific Corp., before which it was run, in turn, by North Pacific Grain Growers, Pillsbury Flour and an Astoria flouring firm.
Water Under the Bridge: Air service returns to North Coast (2009)
From the pages of Astoria's daily newspapers
Bob Duke
10 years ago this week — 2009
After a 10-year absence, daily direct commercial air service between the North Coast and Portland returned Sunday. As the tiny nine-passenger, single-engine Pilatus PC-12 plane touched down at the Astoria Regional Airport, the crowd of approximately 150 that showed up to greet the SeaPort Airlines inaugural flight from Portland International Airport erupted into applause and cheers.
With the Columbia River in all its majesty as a backdrop, members of the steering committee for the Astoria Riverfront Vision Plan gathered Friday afternoon in the Kern Room of the Columbia river Maritime Museum to continue deliberating the fate of the riverfront. Their goal is to come up with a workable plan to guide development on shore and over the water that will win the support of Astoria residents.
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has seized more than two dozen logs it says a timber crew featured on the History Channel's reality show 'Ax Men' salvaged illegally.
Officers were tipped off after watching the popular series, which chronicles the lives of Pacific Northwest timber cutters, including a father-son team from Aberdeen-based S&S Aqua Logging.
When spring breaks in Seaside, everyone is ready.
The pool is primed, the skateboard park gets busy and the Seaside Civic and Convention Center buzzes with activity.
After a winter of rain, snow and wind, spring break means just that – a break from bleakness and a time to have fun.
But not too much fun.
50 years ago — 1969
If you want to get into a fight with coast property owners, just use the words "vegetation line."
Gov. Tom McCall's committee on Natural Resources did Monday, and two longtime opponents of beach bills came out swinging.
Kessler Cannon, the committee's administrative assistant, submitted amendments proposed for a new beach bill, intended to strengthen the one passed two years ago to assert public rights on the ocean shore.
The 1967 bill did not make it clear how far inland the public rights go. It just said the public had acquired rights there.
It also zoned the beaches against construction below a point 16 feet in elevation above mean sea level. That coincides generally with the vegetation line.
Many persons have accepted the 16-foot line as the limit of public claims to the beach, but Cannon and others say the public has a claim to many areas inland of 16 feet. These are areas where the vegetation line is east of the 16-foot line.
The president of the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce said today the first Pioneer Days celebration was "a great success" and the chamber is thinking of making it an annual event.
Some 250 people were served at the pioneer supper held at the conference grounds Saturday night in conjunction with the celebration, held Friday evening through Sunday.
The three-day event was officially proclaimed as Pioneer Days by Mayor Gerald R. Gower, noting that the celebration was to acknowledge and recognize the early residents and pioneers of the Cannon Beach area.
The Port of Astoria Commission and the port manager reportedly held a meeting Monday night at which Manager C.E. Hodges said he would go to Salem next Monday to testify "as a private citizen" in favor of the port-merger bill, which the commissioners oppose.
Three hundred guests in one evening is the highest record in the guest book of the Blue Room, Tri-Y sponsored teenage recreation center in the YMCA basement, according to Mrs. John Trullinger, president of the YMCA board.
The record was set during the early days of the club, which has been open weekend nights and after games. Attendance on regular nights, open to all teenage girls and boys, has averaged about 45.
Congressman James W. Mott, in a special release received here today, announced this week passage by the house naval affairs committee of a new naval shore station bill, authorizing $800,000 for construction and development of facilities for training navy personnel at the U.S. Naval Air Station here.
Mrs. L.R. Rogers recently returned to her old home at Cannon Beach, after an absence of 40 years. Her husband is an artist and they have returned to the west to paint scenes along the Oregon coast. She is a sister of Lieutenant Adair, for whom Camp Adair is named, and her grandfather was Gen. John Adair, a prominent figure in the early history of Oregon.
Purchase of all assets of the old Columbia Transportation company ferry service between Astoria and the north shore was announced today by Capt. F.S. Elfving of the Astoria-North Beach Ferry company. The 140-foot waterfront property immediately east of Fourteenth Street between the Columbia River and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad right of way, the Megler station landing on the Washington side of the river and the old ferry boat North are included in the sale, Elfving said.
Kessler Cannon
James W. Mott
Bob Duke is the author of the weekly Water Under the Bridge column in The Astorian. Contact him at beachduke@gmail.com
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Bangalore: RVM Foundation Shiv Temple on Old Airport Road, Bangalore celebrated "Maha Shivarathri 2015 – A Day of Gratitude" on Tuesday, 17th, February 2015 with great excitement and enthusiasm. Lakhs of devotees from all walks of life thronged the Shiva Temple to get a glimpse of "The Most Powerful Shiv Statue in the World" and performed the "MahaYagna of MahaShivratri" for the very first time in the temple.
The main and biggest highlight of this year was, "MAHA YAGNA OF MAHA SHIVRATRI". The 24 hours MahaYagna, was performed for the very first time in the Shiv temple. The YagnaKund standing at 6 feet is one of the tallest yagna structures in the world. A 24-hour auspicious Yagna ritual was performed by lakhs of devotees, which inspired them to surrender themselves to God through Arpanam and got the divine blessings of Lord Shiv. The Devotees experienced a sense of liberation as the flames from holy Yagna soared to the heavens.
On this occasion, musical CD of "RVM Shiv Bhajans Golden Collection", sung by RVM and India's 15 best singers, including Javed Ali, Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Roop Kumar, AlkaYagnik, Udit Narayan, S.P. Balasubramaniam, SadhnaSargam, Harshdeep Kaur and many more was released and was being played in the background which created a sense of Bhakthi to all devotees present at the Celebrations.
"Like every year, lakhs and lakhs of Shiv devotees thronged the Shiv temple. It looked like a miracle! We don't know from where these people have come but every year they land up waiting for hours together in the queue to come and get the Darshan. God lives in every devotee and it is this joint power of God that comes to the temple and creates the miraculous energy that the Shiv Statue radiates to become the most powerful statue in the world. , said RVM, Visionary & founder of the RVM Foundation & temple. "MahaYagna was perfomed to make devotees experience the magical feeling that rishis and maharajas used to get thousands of years ago. It was spirituality at its peak." said RVM.
The Temple's unique spiritual place, 'Shiv Gufa', took devotees to a multi-phased spiritual journey where they got a glimpse of the 12 Jyothirlings at one place. A Unique mindboggling Light and Sound show which was a combination of colourful lights, mellow music & thought provoking dialogues. This time, the special MahaShivarathri Light and Sound show was based on the theme "Believe in God and stay connected to God". An Aarthi was organized at an interval of every two hours where devotees got to perform Aarti to Lord Shiva.
Each devotee was given 108 "Om NamahShivaya" coins. With every coin the devotee droped in a brass pot while chanting "OM NAMAH SHIVAYA", they drew a special energy within.
Abhishek is an act of symbolically cleansing and purifying one's inner self with‑Water to cleanse, Milk to purify, Curd to transform, Sugar to sweeten, Honey to connect with God and Ghee to seek God's blessing.
The Navahgrahpooja is a prayer to the creator of the entire universe and the nine planets. By performing the pooja, a devotee symbolically and humbly submitted himself to God.
· Special Aarti at an interval of every 2 hours started from 6 A.M. on 17th February and went on till 4 A.M. on 18th February.
· Midnight competitions like Shiv SA RE GA MA, Shiv Anatakshari, Shiv Idol, Shiv Dhuni Sangam were organised specially for the devotees and attractive prizes were given out.
· A Jagran program was held, wherein all the devotees stayed awake for the night, singing praises for the lord.


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Cokie Roberts facts for kids
Cokie Roberts
Roberts at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2017
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
September 17, 2019(2019-09-17) (aged 75)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Wellesley College
Journalist, author
NPR, ABC, PBS
Journalist, author, pundit, television
Contributing Senior News Analyst
Steven V. Roberts (m. 1966)
Rebecca Roberts
Lee Roberts
Parent(s)
Hale Boggs
Lindy Boggs
Barbara Boggs Sigmund (Sister, deceased)
Tommy Boggs (Brother, deceased)
William C. C. Claiborne (ancestor)
DeLesseps Story Morrison (second cousin, once removed)
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019), known as Cokie Roberts, was an American journalist, political commentator and bestselling author.
Her career as a political reporter and analyst included working for National Public Radio and ABC News. She also appeared on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week.
In 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died from problems of the disease in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 2019 at the age of 75.
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