Gavin: Hello. Welcome to episode 41 of "The Board." I'm Gavin Coughlan, Agile Coach here at Boost. We are broadcasting live from the Boost Headquarters. Today we're going to be talking about velocity and what it means to us.
If anybody's watching, you can let us know what it means to you as well.
Jesse: Cool. Hi, and I'm Jesse. I'm another Agile Coach here at Boost.
Gavin: We're both wearing the Agile Coach uniform of blue-checked shirts today. We're going to talk about velocity, and what it means to us. This is something that comes up a lot for us. People ask us about velocity. We've seen velocity used well, I'd say, and we've also seen velocity misused as well. So it's something I thought was worth discussing.
Gavin: For me, it's come up because recently I saw a company who have a velocity but the management project how many story points they need completed each quarter and they expect that amount of story points to be completed. If that's not met, there are lots of difficult questions asked.
For me, that's not the best use of a team's velocity. For me, a team's velocity is for the team itself, but taken out of that context, it loses it's value and it's just putting the team under undue pressure. If you ask the team if said to the team we need 20 points this sprint and they've only been doing 12 points, that's their average velocity, well then, they're going to whether it's conscious or unconscious, they're going to gain the system a little bit and start estimating.
Jesse: Yeah, overestimating stories to get that velocity up.
Jesse: I think, should we take a step back quickly and just explain what Velocity is, I suppose, just for anyone who doesn't know what we're talking about?
Gavin: That's probably an excellent idea. Actually, I'm making a few assumptions there.
Jesse: Velocity, the way we calculate that is taking an average of the points that a team delivers and sprints. If your team, over five sprints, had managed to deliver 50 points, the velocity would be 10 points a sprint, whether they had managed.
The actual spread numbers may not reflect that. They may have delivered five points in one sprint and 20 points in the next, but we look at the average over time.
I think your point there about management imposing a sort of a goal for the team of an unreasonable amount of points is something we see quite a bit. Your team might be tracking well nicely, tracking along at sort of 15 points a sprint.
Then all of a sudden, they're like, "OK, well, you guys, just work harder and we'll just get 20 points done." That often results in sort of all kinds of issues and never, you never reach a goal of 20 points, and often you fall well short.
I think that's interesting. Their people sort of misuse it rather than, yeah.
Gavin: Yeah, and I've also seen situations where if a team has a velocity of, say, 15 points. In our situation, we'll have a client and the client will say, "Well, the team's getting through 15 points per sprint and we're spending roughly this much per sprint, so therefore, each point equals that amount of money." Then they'll project how many points the team might get through in the next six months, based on their velocity. They'll use that to, you'll come up with a budget.
Which is fine in some ways, but also, if that's, if they're going to hold to that and stick firm to that, that's problematic. Because it doesn't, a point shouldn't be equated to time or money, explicitly, I don't feel.
Jesse: No, and I think, again, it comes into this, back to sort of those principles of, it's the team managing their workload. Points are really for the team to decide how much if is involved in developing a certain feature.
It's not about giving the product owner some sense of, "This feature is going to cost me $1,000 or $10,000." Yes, they can use that to points to estimate that kind of thing. But it's not a tool, I don't think, to be used to hold the team to account.
Gavin: Well, what do you think velocity is useful for?
Jesse: Well, so, I read an interesting blog from Mike Cohen recently talking about story points from the team's point of view. Saying that a point is not about how many hours something will take.
I say, "OK, well, this trail's going to take me an hour to run." We can sit and argue who's right forever, but actually, we're both right. You're a better runner than I am, it's going to take you half an hour.
Gavin: I am a better runner.
Jesse: I'm not a great runner, [chuckles] it's going to take me an hour. What we should be doing and where story points come in is talking about distance. We can both say, "All right. This trail is 1.5 case long." Both of us know how much is required to complete the trail.
Maybe you're going to take half an hour. You're a more experienced developer. I'm not an experienced developer so it's going to take me longer. But the story points give us a way of having a useful conversation about work and how much effort is required.
Gavin: When you're estimating stories, as with many things in Agile, the best thing to come out of it is the conversation that's had around it. I know I've mentioned this before but to just to go over quickly again, if somebody estimates something, says "This is a size eight in terms of complexity and effort." Then, somebody says, "It's a size three." Then, obviously, a bit of disparity there.
Jesse: …We'll have to see.
Gavin: We'll have a go after this. As long as it's not larger or longer than 20 yards because I get quite tired quite fast.
Gavin: Anyway, that's going off point slightly. If two team members size something that has large disparity in size, then, the conversation that comes out of that is really, for me, the valuable part because you find out if somebody has completely different ideas. If they know something that their team member doesn't know vice versa.
Then, you have conversation. Hopefully, you'll get to some consensus at that point. That's one sizing. It's really fantastic thing.
I had a team recently. This is a two person team because it's a smallish project. We have a designer and we have a developer. It's for a mobile app. They were some sizing stories.
That made a lot of sense to me and had a discussion about what impacts they thought we'll have if they dropped estimating [inaudible 8:36] . Would there be any negative impacts? They both seem to agree with it, so we didn't estimate the next sprint to see how that would affect things.
They've been working on Scrum teams for a long time so they have a good sense when the story is too big and when this be broken down without actually estimating it. That's fine.
That's one project were we've just done away with it estimating. We still talk about the stories as per planning. We still talk about what needs to be done but we have done away with the planning [inaudible 9:03] that we actually used to use.
Jesse: When during sprint planning, when they're laying out the stories, do they just stop their gut feel?
They can compare it to the work from the previous sprint but they're not looking at the story points themselves. It has worked out remarkably well.
I just feel that estimating in that two persons team might have been unnecessary overhead. Perhaps, estimating isn't always necessary in a Scrum team. Then, again, I find in larger teams, it's a really valuable exercise.
Jesse: I was just going to say so often, as a Scrum Master, I might use the team's velocity just to help them out during the sprint planning. Especially with new teams where maybe I can sort of have a sense that it looks like they're over committing.
Just to kind of coach them and say, "How do you guys feel about this? Do you realize last sprint where your velocity has been 10 points and the sprint you're committing to 25? Are you happy with that? Is that something you think you can achieve?
Gavin: Velocity is a tool for sprint planning and just a gauge, a guide for the team really.
I wouldn't want the team to start committing purely based on their velocity, but I find it has been very useful for teams to use as a guide. Maybe if they've got a couple of complex stories, they might choose to estimate slightly below their velocity because they aren't sure about those stories. If the backlog is full of really easy, small, well-defined stories, they might choose to go over.
Gavin: In that situation, it's really a fantastic team, too?
Gavin: Then we have an interesting question here from Nathan Donaldson, "How does a business owner know whether the team is working hard enough?" That's a good question. My first point is, does velocity help a business owner know if a team is working hard enough? Does that really have any bearing on how hard the team is working?
Like we mentioned earlier, a team could easily game the system subconsciously or unconsciously to make it look like they're working harder. I suppose, based on that question, you get into the idea of what metrics do you actually use within Scrum and within Agile to look at how hard the team was working, or how productive the team is, or whatever you want to actually call it.
Gavin: Because people put too much weight on metrics, I feel, at times, whether it's lines of code written. We've talked about that before. That's ludicrous measure.
Gavin: "Of lines of code written." It's not really the output, in terms of lines of code, that you're looking for. It's the value that the team has actually created within the sprint.
Jesse: Again, what we tend to see in Agile teams is if you empower the team to manage their work, and estimated how much can be achieved, and engage them, you don't get into that situation where people doing a job, if they enjoy what they're doing and working in a team that they enjoy, they don't spend their time trying to slack off and do other things. They're truly invested in the product and delivering value to a business owner. In teams that we've worked with that worked with Agile, it has not been a problem that we've encountered.
Gavin: No. The more metrics you throw at an Agile team, the more you crush the soul of Agile, in a way.
A lot of Agile has to do with trust, in many ways, which makes it difficult to talk to, say, people who are new to Agile about it. If you do work with the business owner daily, which you should be doing, them they will know that the team is actually working hard, and the team is proving value, hopefully, each and every day.
They'll also have an awareness from going to stand-ups and just talking to the team throughout the day when things are going off track a little bit, or if they start to go off track, hopefully, they'll know straight away so that can be put back on track really, really quickly.
Jesse: I think also in Agile teams you find, because a team has committed to delivering some work, if there is one member of a team that their team is underperforming or slacking off, often other team members will hold them to account rather than a business owner having to step in and, I suppose, crack the whip.
It does actually brings that discussion around value — a business owner getting value does raise an interesting point that we've sort of been looking at recently with our teams around velocity — and whether you include bug fixes in your velocity or sort of maintenance-type work that doesn't actually deliver new business value.
It's an interesting thing that a team can look at on a case-by-case basis. The premise of it is that Scrum is all about delivering value, and so your velocity should be a measure or could be a measure of the new value that you deliver to a product every sprint.
For example, if you had a sprint that had 10 points of work, and 8 points of that was bug fixing, the total points would be 2 points that would contribute to your velocity.
Gavin: At the moment, the teams that you're Scrum master for, are they including their bug fixes in their velocity?
Jesse: They are. I suppose what their velocity represents is the amount of work they get through in a sprint, not the amount of value that they deliver in a sprint.
It's a team-by-team decision, but it's an interesting one to discuss with your teams and the product owner as well because if you're at a new product that you're developing, and delivering value is the most important thing, maybe having that velocity that measures value would be more useful.
Gavin: That's interesting because obviously we're talking about measuring value and delivering value, and that's a bit of an airy-fairy term in lots of ways. How do you actually measure that? That's possibly a good way to try to at least get close to.
Jesse: It would be something none of the teams that I'm working with, I suppose, have wanted to use that way, and that's the product owners as well, because they didn't feel like that measure was useful to them. It would be really interesting to try it with a team and see how that changes and changes the way that they work. Definitely something to try.
Gavin: I've seen people would rather than count story points, they count the amount of stories that are actually being completed within the sprint, because each story itself, if written correctly, and done correctly, and meeting the invest model, is going to be creating better value. If you get through 10 stories in a sprint, that's a weight countered.
Obviously, stories are going to be of a wide variety of sizes, but, over a period of time, you'll get an average amount of stories that you might expect to get through in the sprint length.
I suppose, personally, in the teams that I run, we like to just bring the whole story across, and so the eight points carries the next sprint. One sprint has very low points completed, but the next one will have lots. Your velocity, because it's an average, it balances out over time.
The product owner though, "Yeah, OK. That's a good idea. Even though they are of lesser priority, we can't get any of the stories above it done in this sprint, so we'll take them in" and thought that was pretty interesting to watch happen. That was also based just completely off gut felling, without using the actual points system and all.
Jesse: I suppose another good use of velocity is trying to see, "Well, you know, maybe we haven't got the capacity to take on this really big story, but we feel, you know, that there is space in this sprint for more work, and can we bring in something smaller?" Having that discussion with the product owner about those sort of things is always really useful.
Gavin: It's interesting. I been reading obviously about velocity and this sort of stuff. The more that I work with Scrum teams, the more I feel when the best…To sort of go back to that earlier question about the business owner and, "Are the team working hard enough?", measuring team happiness sounds like a very happy-clappy sort of a thing to do. In many ways, it might be.
But any time that a team isn't delivering what they feel they can deliver, if not delivering to the best of their abilities, they're just not happy. You can sense it usually if you're fully involved with that team.
You can usually get a feeling for if they're not happy, and if the product owner is not happy, and if they are producing at the best of their ability, if they're really a self-organized and high-performing team there that really loves coming to work, and the mood is really fantastic all the time. Measuring team happiness might be the most valuable metric.
I'll be willing to throw every other metric out the window and just have that one, actually.
Jesse: That's a really good point. When you've got a happy team, then, generally, the product owner is happy as well, and they do deliver consistently. That metric is probably far more valuable than velocity.
Gavin: What impacts do you think it would have, for example, on your biggest Scrum team at the moment? I don't want to put you on the spot or anything, but what impacts do you think it would have if you remove velocity from that team altogether?
Jesse: I don't think it would be a huge issue. The product owner would have a problem with it because they do use velocity as a planning tool in the short term to sort of gauge how much or where work fits and prioritize work.
For the team itself, I don't think that they would feel like they'd lost a lot. They've been going out, as they've been an established team for months now. They're quite happy with committing and don't really use velocity as a tool to sort of check their commitment. They'd be quite happy to do away with it.
Gavin: That's an interesting point that you brought up about the product owner. It would have an impact on the product owner because they use it for planning. That's an excellent point, because it is very useful for release planning. That would have quite a detrimental effect to remove velocity in that situation. I suppose you have to gauge things on a case-by-case basis.
Just one answer. We have another question here. We have two questions. We'll answer the first one. How do you measure and reflect happiness?
Gavin: There was a meh face, a happy face, and a outright sad face.
Jesse: You'd come in the morning and drop your ball in wherever you were feeling. If you were stoked to come to work, you'd say, "Yup. I'm feeling happy." Someone would take a tally, once everyone was in the office, of how many happy, meh, and sad faces there were.
Then leaving again, on your way out in the evening, you'd do the same thing. If you'd had a really terrible day, maybe you'd drop one in the sad face. We just kind of kept to running tally of those measures.
Gavin: I thought that was OK. I thought we made that a bit more complex than it needed to be. We've based that sort off the Niko-niko chart. The Niko-niko chart is a chart that you can use for measuring team happiness.
At the end of every day, you have this chart up on the wall, big visible chart. People put either a sad face or a happy face by their name in that calendar date and over a period of time. Then you can see where the team has been feeling happy, where the team hasn't been feeling happy. That can point to a lot of things.
For example, if a team is really happy, but not delivering, and if you feel they're not delivering, and they're really happy, there's obviously a problem there. Maybe people just don't care about what they're doing. Also, if they're really sad, but delivery seems to be high, there's something to investigate there.
It's a really good way of seeing the team happiness over a period of time. It's a very visual way. Usually, there's going to be sad faces when there's big problems, and happy faces when everything goes along really nicely. But you never know. You can get different information from that chart.
I thought the Niko-niko chart was a simplified version of what you described because it just asks people to do one thing per day. It's not giving you three options, because that middle option "Oh, do I just feel OK?", which is melancholic.
Gavin: You want to make is a easy as [inaudible 27:11] possible to actually measure their happiness. If you haven't looked at the Niko-niko chart, we'll put a link under the live stream video at the end, as well. I think it's a really good way of measuring happiness. Nathan also asked, "Did the balls and buckets stick?" No. It didn't.
Gavin: That's because we made it too complicated. That's something that we need to revisit. I feel — who knows, we'll experiment — if we simplify it, it might be more successful.
Jesse: The other thing that you can do, I suppose, as a Scrum master, if you feel that happiness is a problem, and you just want to explore that, is maybe run a few retrospectives consecutively and activities within the retrospective that give you an idea of what the team is feeling.
Mood lines is quite a good one for that. I recently had a sprint where we had a deadline, and things got a bit stressful. We did mood lines in the retrospective.
Jesse: You could see everyone was really happy as a project, that the team is very happy. But as it went along, there was this massive dip around the release point. Then we came back up after the release. Mood lines is a great one.
Gavin: We ran that recently, you and I, for an external team. It was the first time they'd ever done anything like that. It was over the course of six months. There was massive mood line, took up the whole wall.
It was fantastic. The amount of honesty that came of that was great. People heard points and feelings said from people that they never knew existed for the very first time. It was quite amazing to watch. Mood lines is a good one.
Jesse: You could even run that same exercise for three or four retrospectives.
Gavin: Just a mood line, just to quickly describe this for us. Say you have a board here. You'd have a horizontal axis which will be the times that it might be your sprint, so you might have week one or week two. Then, on your vertical here, you have a happy face up here and a sad face down here.
People will literally get a pen, and talk about their sprint, and draw a line along the timeline, and go down if they were feeling pretty bad, and they'd go up here if they were feeling good. You'd get sort of a graph of how they generally felt throughout the two weeks.
I suppose we already answered that, Tony, but that bucket system we had did become ignored. It's just something that we want to revisit and look for a better way to do it because, obviously, if people aren't using it, it's just not an useful thing to have around.
Personally, I walked by that bucket of balls every morning. I saw that it wasn't been used, and I found it actually slightly depressing to walk by it.
Gavin: It was actually detrimental in a way, I felt.
Jesse: To touch on Tony's point, and Gavin's team where they sort of did away with sizing, whatever metrics of measurement you're using, if the team doesn't find it useful, and it is boring and being ignored, it's time to change it up.
If happiness worked for you, and your team find it useful, and you're displaying it somewhere that's visible to the whole team, and they take ownership of it, great. Obviously, for us at Boost, the buckets and measuring happiness didn't resonate with the team, so stop doing it and move on to something else.
Gavin: That's one of the key elements of Agile. It's not resting on your laurels and not just being content with things the way they are. It's always thinking of new ways to approach things and new ways to do things. I think that's a challenge for a Scrum master around the team, really?
Gavin: We're just out of time in there. Thank you very much. That was episode 41. We've been through quite a few episodes. If anybody has any ideas or comments, please let us know. If you have something that you'd like us to discuss in the next episode of The Board, please let us know, as well. Thanks for watching today.


We took this long weekend as an opportunity to get out of town and reunite with two of our closest friends. We're also taking this as a time to prioritize down time and to fully allow ourselves to relax. It's so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day rhythm of things that we tend to forget to stop, take a breath, and truly let go of any little thing spinning about in our minds.
We've been loving our little getaway from the responsibilities at home — and we encourage you to take time for yourself as well! Whether it's an afternoon at the spa, or a leisurely walk in the sun, if you give your mind that break you'll return to reality feeling refreshed and prepared to take on anything.


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+1 Exactly same question came to my mind.
Havent you read Cobrapost's sting on paytm..?
Paytm may be sponsoring a part of this Rs 5 that is why. Hope someone files a RTI for details.
Paytm is giving 5 Rs from its pocket…..
Q ? Bahat sari bottle collect karliye ho kya?
Ok..good intiative..they should also start giving Paytm for using toilets..
😂😂 I also have many Railway bottles stored.
When i verified my aadhar , after otp verification of Aadhar,paytm wanted to know my full biography including my mother father dob etc etc , whivh defeats the purpose of aadhar aal together.
I dont know but i have a suspicion, that paytm is partly owned by BJP or one of its elements. They are collecting crucial data to analyse the voter bank which will help them in next election.
Bro relax. Kyc is mandatory by the govt.
Never underestimate your grand parents.
You dont need to be a lawyer to file pil you can HIRE a lawyer advocate solicitor .
Aadhaar is not mandatory as per rules set by SC. Paytm's Full KYC does not make Aadhaar mandatory either. I have done Full KYC on Paytm without disclosing Aadhaar number. I have only given PAN copy, photograph (taken on the spot in their mobile) and signature on a paper form. Representative had come to house when I had requested for KYC verification through the app. He insisted on Aadhaar, but I was strictly against it. So this was the alternative.
Only Railneer bottles or all?
I would prefer if it dispense 5/- cash so the beggars or poor can deposit 5-10 bottles and get at least some money to eat something decent. Instead of begging they can earn money by cleaning platforms.
And then they would start fightinh over the areas to find bottles and make more havoc!
Beggars earn more than enigneer ..


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version and os he is using.
but reading, especially exporting data should always work.
Table version is in the .frm file normally.
> but reading, especially exporting data should always work.
> Table version is in the .frm file normally.
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going to later versions doesn't always work, either.
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> It's a good concept. But it doesn't always work in practice.
> files, especially between OS's and versions.
> going to later versions doesn't always work, either.
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The Perelandra Boost / Overdrive is a recreation of the Xotic BB Preamp, a flexible tone machine that takes you from a clean volume boost to a nice smooth overdrive with a 2-band EQ to shape the tone. It was first released in 2005, a few years after the AC Booster and RC Booster, and the "BB" refers to the Marshall Bluesbreaker amplifier.
Despite the name, the BB Preamp has nothing to do with the Bluesbreaker pedal. In fact, like the AC/RC Booster, it's very similar to the Ibanez Tube Screamer, but with an active Baxandall tone control added before the output buffer so that the treble and bass can be independently boosted or cut.
In fact, if you look at the schematic for the BB Preamp, you can see that the original Tube Screamer tone control stage is left intact, but with the tone knob is fixed at 5% rotation (i.e. almost fully to the dark side of the control) by using a 1k and a 18k resistor. The main difference between the BB Preamp and the AC or RC Booster is the presence of this Tube Screamer tone control stage to shape the tone going into the Baxandall EQ.
Version 2 of the Perelandra is a full redesign based on traces of several versions of the BB Preamp in 2021. The PCB supports the standard BB Preamp (called the "version 1.5"), the AT (Andy Timmons) model, and the Bass BB Preamp. The documentation includes instructions for each variant. The default is version 1.5, the current production model.
The Perelandra Deluxe is a hot-rodded version that incorporates modifications from the two Custom Shop models of the BB Preamp, the "MB" (mid boost) and "Comp" versions. Since it's a lot more complex, we've split it off into a separate project. While the Deluxe version can emulate either the 1.5 or AT with the right control settings, the bass version is not supported and can only be built on this PCB.
Build Documentation (V2, current)	pdf
Build Documentation (V1)	pdf
Mouser parts list	google
Circuit history
The BB Preamp was first released in 2002, and Andy Timmons was an early and enthusiastic adopter. Xotic revised the circuit in April 2007 (serial 3643 and higher) to add a second clipping diode in each direction, which has the effect of making it a little more crunchy and transparent and less compressed and gainy.
Since Andy preferred the original circuit, Xotic released the Andy Timmons Signature version of the BB Preamp in 2009, often abbreviated as the AT or BB-AT. The post-2007 circuit was later renamed the "Version 1.5" to avoid confusion with the AT model. (Note that there is nothing that is officially called version 2. The "1.5" is just to indicate that it's been slightly updated from Version 1, which is the AT circuit.)
Also in 2009, Xotic released the Custom Shop "MB" version of the BB Preamp. Based on the marketing copy and photos of the interior, it's clear that this model just restores the original Tube Screamer tone control, which due to the addition of dedicated bass & treble controls later in the circuit, mainly impacts the lower and upper mids.
In 2012, Xotic released a second Custom Shop model called the "Comp". Again, based on marketing copy and photos, this model just puts the clipping diodes on a switch, selecting between AT (one diode in each direction) and 1.5 (two diodes in each direction) as well as a diode-lift mode in the middle.
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Hell, that goes back to Marx himself. He believed that Communism was where economies would ultimately evolve to and that Sociaism was bUt a transitional phase.
Why? Because I hate Commies, that's why! With all the socialist cheerleaders in America these days, this comment still is valid.
Definitely check this guys life out, he started off at at age 12 fighting nazis (probably earlier but was orphaned in 44′ after loosing both parents fighting the Germans) until the soviets took over Poland, then he switched to fighting communists from Poland to the African bush wars to Afghanistan! The successes he had over the years were truly outstanding.
SDD, this guy might make a good profile for a future Cold War history piece.
I was a Cold War guy working on spy planes and my dad did two tours in Korean War supporting CIA ops.
"Kill a Commie for Mommy" has always been a favorite!
Awesome, just awesome. With Antifa, Venezuela, the ANC in South Africa, and editor's of the New York Times preaching anti-white hate rherotic, this school is a necessary requirement for the perpetuation of free men.
Them fuckheads are a dangerous lot, and are little more than Maoists IMO. The commie idiots admitted to a sofrep journalist that privately owned firearms make their revolution impossible. Gee you think!?


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Q: Question in multivariable calculus about global minimum Suppose
(i)   $G:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}$ is a $C^{1}$ function;   and that
(ii)  $\frac{G(x)}{|x|}\to\infty$ as $|x|\to\infty$; and that
(iii) $\nabla G = 0 $ has precisely one solution (called $x_{0}$).
My question is, do (i) - (iii) imply that $x_{0}$ is a strict global minimum of $G$?
I think this is true, but how do I prove it?

A: I think hypothesis (ii) can be weakened as $G(x)\to+\infty$ as $|x|\to+\infty$. In fact this implies that for every $M\in\mathbb R$ the function $G(x)$ is greater than $M$ out of a certain ball $B(0,r)$ with $r=r(M)$.
Let $M$ be big enough so that $G(x)\leq M$ has non-empty solution, and consider $r=r(M)$. Then $G(x)>M$ out of $B(0,r)$; since $\overline{B(0,r)}$ is a compact set, $G$ restricted to this closed ball has a global maximum and a global minimum. Note that the global minimum is at most $M$, therefore it is a global minimum of $G(x)$ on $\mathbb R^n$ too (remember that $G(x)$ is greater than $M$ out of the ball).
Since $\mathbb R^n$ is open, a global minimum is also a local minimum and consequently - by hypothesis (i) - the gradient is the null vector on it. By uniqueness stated in (iii), it follows that $G(x)$ has a global minimum in $x_0$ and nowhere else.


Yesterday I headed to London to run a LazyTown Sports Club activity at a School and Church May Fair prior to Sportacus' arrival.
The children had lots of fun and lots of Sports Candy was eaten.
Tomorrow I am off to meet lots of Children at St Peter's Eaton Square School and Church May Fair, 119 Eaton Square, SW1W 9AL. I will be getting the children jumping around with the moves from The LazyTown Sports Club prior to Sportacus'* arrival. The children are in for a great treat with a special performance from Sportacus* and will be able to show him his special moves they have learnt prior to his arrival. This is a not to be missed event, so come on down, jump around with the LazyTown Sports Club powered by FitKid and Sportacus* and have fun at the May Fayre. I have heard there are some fantastic prizes in the raffle. To find out more about running a FitKid and LazyTown Sports Club franchise in your community, please contact me on nicky@fitkid.co.uk We are actively looking for new franchisees to assist us to encourage children to move more while having fun.
It was the day of the Sports Relief mile, We awoke to a lovely sunny day and the children were very excited to be going to London.
We were running as The LazyTown Sports Club Team to show our support for charity. The children were excited to be seeing Sportacus to show him the moves they have been learning at the LazyTown Sports Club powered by FitKid.
We started the journey in the car and then transferred to the train for the last bit of the journey. It was very busy in London, with lots of excitement for Sports relief.
However just before we started the run I received a message from Sportacus that a volcano had erupted in Iceland and he had to go and help to ensure everyone was ok. Sadly it also meant he would not be able to make it to Sports Relief in London as once he had ensured everyone was ok, the airspace above Iceland was closed due to the volcano and he was unable to fly his airship out of LazyTown. But well done to Sportacus for helping everyone to ensure they were ok. I hope Robbie rotten wasnt up to his tricks again.
He was very sad to be unable to make the run but I have told him everyone had a great time and lots of money was raised for charity and that is the most important part of this special day. The children loved their medals and goodie bags.
To everyone who ran for Sports Relief, congratulations and well done to you all.


Fast moving: dozens of positions available, many for renowned companies, with several job offers at once closing in about a month!
Relocation challenges: the Internet is worldwide, so is this job market, relocation is often a challenge (compensations, insecurity).
Bonus! getting a sign-in bonus is getting more frequent.
Cross-industry (horizontal skills): web analytics is universal, regardless of the actual field of expertise of the employer. Of course, knowing what it's all about helps, but changing industry type is frequent.
Compensations: from entry at $50,000 up to director/vp over $125,000. The most frequently sought positions, such as senior analyst, range from $60k to $85k.
Over the past few weeks I've been receiving emails from people seeking consultants or employees to fill web analytics positions, but I guess it's the same here as anywhere: it's hard to find experienced analysts! If you are in Canada and involved in web analytics, I would appreciate your input about the job market.
If your looking for a job in this field, check out the Web Analytics Association job board, or the job postings of the Association of Internet Marketing.


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September 26, 2016 Report
"This Crooked System"
Summary I have no hope of getting justice in this crooked system. —Umar Daraz, Karachi, January 2016 How do you expect us to recover stolen items from hardened criminals? Do you think they will agree if we say, 'Be nice to us and return…
Summary We have followed the law in striking out and relentlessly pounding at illegal organizations and key figures, and resolutely followed the law in striking at the illegal organizations and key figures who follow the 14th…
"How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?"
"How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?" Child Marriage in Yemen Summary Key Recommendations…
July 28, 2011 Report
"We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years"
"We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years" Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan Map of Balochistan Summary Key Recommendations Methodology Background: Conflict and Abuses in…
March 28, 2009 Report
No Direction Home
No Direction Home Returns from Guantanamo to Yemen Summary Recommendations To the Government of the United States To the Government of Yemen To the League of Arab States, Member States of the European…
Suspicious Sweeps
Suspicious Sweeps The General Intelligence Department and Jordan's Rule of Law Problem I. Summary II. Recommendations To the Government of Jordan.. To the Jordanian parliament III. Background: The General Intelligence Department and…
The United States' "Disappeared": The CIA's Long-Term "Ghost Detainees"
Morocco/Western Sahara


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Station Shinobugaoka  (忍ヶ丘駅,  Shinobugaoka-eki) is een spoorwegstation in de Japanse stad  Shijōnawate. Het wordt aangedaan door de Gakkentoshi-lijn. Het station heeft twee sporen, gelegen aan twee zijperrons.

Treindienst

JR West

Geschiedenis
Het station werd geopend in 1953. In 1979 werd het station vernieuwd.

Overig openbaar vervoer
Er bevindt zich een busstation nabij het station. Er vertrekken bussen van Kintetsu en Keihan.

Stationsomgeving
 Ninryō-schrijn
Gourmet City (supermarkt)
 Gusto (restaurantketen)
 lawson

Shinobugaoka

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Image credit: (1) Courtesy of Igor Shpilenok (2) Creative Commons.
Caspian Lowland Desert
Bioregion: Caspian Sea, Coastal Deserts & Kopet Dagh Mountain Woodlands (PA33)
Realm: Central Eurasia
States: Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Iran
Glittering saltpans and wind-rippled dunes typify the Caspian Desert. These lowland plains border the illustrious Caspian Sea, the largest salt lake in the world and a trove of endemism. The endemic Caspian seal is the only mammal to swim these waters, and the only seal in the world to reproduce on both ice and land. Sand cat, corsac fox, and short-toed snake eagle inhabit the deserts, whilst coastlines are a paradise for birdlife.
The flagship species of the Caspian Lowland Desert ecoregion is the Caspian seal.
The Caspian Lowland Desert lies on the northern and eastern shores of the Caspian Sea at elevations between -28 to 100 m, following the coastlines of Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran. The average annual temperature of this ecoregion is 15.4°C, and the annual precipitation is around 150 mm, with a frostless period of about 260 days. Coastal deserts of sand dunes, clay takyrs, and immense saltpans fringe the shoreline.
Marine eelgrass and algae grow in shallow waters, which yield to largely impoverished deserts that only support plants highly specialized for salinity and drought: sagebrush, tetyr, and sarsazan. The ecoregion sweeps inland in the North, where the desert is interrupted by feather grass steppes and deltas. Russia's Samur River Delta harbors a unique vine forest that dates back to the Tertiary Period at least 2.6 million years ago, whilst the waters of the Volga Delta blossom with lotuses.
Saiga antelope. Image credit: Andrey Giljov, Creative Commons
The Caspian Sea is famed for harbouring numerous critically endangered sturgeon species, including Russian sturgeon, ship sturgeon, beluga, and the near-endemic Persian sturgeon. Other Caspian Sea endemics include the Caspian tadpole goby, Caspian roach, and the jellyfish Moerisia pallasi, whilst on land, the endemic Caspian cricket is known only from one locality near the Volga Delta. Wetlands are critical for migrating and wintering birds, hosting extensive flocks of greater flamingos, common coot, goldeneye, mute swan, and various diving ducks. The desert in the northwest of the ecoregion hosts one of Kazakhstan's three populations of Saiga antelope. Once widely hunted, the now protected Caspian seal faces modern threats from viral disease and water pollution; it is listed as endangered by IUCN, with a most recent population estimate of 68,000 individuals.
Wild horses. Image credit: Oleg Mileev, Creative Commons
Recent years have seen a drastic expansion in the extent of uranium mining and oil and gas production across the region.i The Caspian Sea is hugely important as a commercial fishery; it is a source of kilka, carp, bream, roach, and 90% of the world's sturgeon, a fish that is revered for caviar. Most protected areas focus on coastal and delta regions. Russia's Volga Delta is a Ramsar Site Wetland of International Importance and includes the Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve. In Turkmenistan, the vast Hazar Nature Reserve is an Important Bird Area, encompassing the large island of the Ogurchinskiy Sanctuary in the Caspian Sea.
Greater flamingo. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
The development of offshore oil and gas fields has led to pollution, groundwater depletion, and poisoning of flora and fauna. Marine life is threatened by overexploitation of fish stocks due to widespread illegal fishing, and the invasive sea walnut is a pervasive alien species that is disrupting native ecosystems. Rising sea levels has reduced the area of coastal ecosystems, whilst intensified land use in the Caspian lowlands has caused desertification, salinization, and swamping, with some salt marshes subject to total loss of vegetation.
Transnational approaches to resource use of the region are being coordinated through the recently signed Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. Invasive species monitoring is a priority, and environmental assessments are now mandatory before new oil and gas projects can be developed. Captive breeding programs and anti-poaching efforts seek to restore populations of sturgeon and other rare fish species.
The priority conservation actions for the next decade are: 1) expand species protection efforts to beyond those that are most economically important; 2) strengthen legal enforcement of management of fisheries and protected areas; and 3) widen a network of protected areas that traverses national boundaries and ensures all ecosystems are represented.
1. Ministry of Environment and Water Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2014). The Fifth National Report on Progress in Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
2. Ministry of Nature Protection of Turkmenistan (2014). Turkmenistan Fifth Report to Implement UN Biodiversity Conservation Decisions at a National Level. Ashgabat.
3. WWF. 2018. Western Asia: Along the coast of the Caspian Sea in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran. [Online]. [Accessed 30th April 2019]. Available from: https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/pa1308


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Q: How to copy sms database from rooted phone to sd card programatically I have rooted phone.
I want to copy data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
file to sd card programatically.
I am getting error like
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db (Permission denied)
Please help me....
Thanking you in advance...
I am using below code to copy database in sd card
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try {
            File sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
            String path = Environment.getDataDirectory().getAbsolutePath();
            File data = Environment.getDataDirectory();
            String currentDBPath = "/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db";
            String backupDBPath = "/bkup/mmssms.db";
            File currentDB = new File(data, currentDBPath);
            File backupDB = new File(sd, backupDBPath);
            // Local database
            InputStream input = new FileInputStream(currentDB);

            // Path to the external backup
            OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(backupDB);

            // transfer bytes from the Input File to the Output File
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int length;
            while ((length = input.read(buffer))>0) {
                output.write(buffer, 0, length);
            }

            output.flush();
            output.close();
            input.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
        Toast.makeText(this, e.getMessage().toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }`

A: You're trying to copy the database from other application. It's not allowed. Even your phone is rooted, your application is not granted the root permission yet.
String currentDBPath = "/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db";

You need to grant the root permission first, and use the shell commands to copy file, like this (cp /data/..../xxx.db /sdcard/xxx.db)
Read command output inside su process
Just use the method in this post and change the shell command to ...
stdin.writeBytes("cp /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db /sdcard/\n"); // \n executes the command


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Home > Community > Moving ceremony pays tribute to veterans
Moving ceremony pays tribute to veterans
by Beverly Bidney - November 26, 2013 April 9, 2015
BRIGHTON — Emotions brimmed Nov. 7 during the Seminole Veterans Day event in Brighton as Tribal members and guests paid homage to those who served their country.
One by one, dignitaries thanked the veterans, expressing their gratitude to those, past and present, who protect the nation's freedom.
"Several of us served and experienced the heartache of being away from home," said Stephen Bowers, master of ceremonies. "We're all back and that's why we have this event every year – so people know Florida Seminoles served in all branches of the military."
Since World War II, 72 Tribal members have served in the military. Twenty-four have passed on, but all were honored at the ceremony.
Tribal member and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gabriel Coppedge, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2006-2008 and continues to serve in the Army Reserve infantry, was the guest speaker. He joined the army in 2004.
"That's where I first learned about brotherhood," said Coppedge, who served in the Alpha Company 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry. "You learned things about people and shared your hopes, dreams and aspirations; everything that brought you to this point in your life. We relied on and trusted each other unquestionably."
After his tour in Afghanistan, Coppedge thought he would go home but instead was sent to Iraq as part of the stop-loss policy, or the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service. He said it was one of the best things to happen to him.
"I could have come home earlier, but I stayed because I had soldiers who were going there," said Coppedge, who was responsible for nine soldiers at the time. "I wanted to go lead them. I felt it was selfish to go home and start my life; it would have been wrong of me to go home."
He and his soldiers served together in Afghanistan and Iraq for three and a half years. Although most of his group survived the perils of war, one was killed by a suicide bomber.
"I was happy to be able to contribute to those who made it home; we brought each other home," he said. "But PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) took some guys."
Currently a student at University of Phoenix, Coppedge plans to become a psychologist so he can help veterans cope with their struggles.
"Family members are the ones who are left out and don't understand, but they are an integral part of the recovery process," he said. "I want to bring assistance to those guys."
Staff Sgt. Coppedge, a member of the Seminole and Pima Indians of Gila River Tribes, grew up and lives in Arizona with his children, but he spent summers in Big Cypress with his father, Gene Coppedge.
The event included Brighton preschoolers reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School fifth-graders sang God Bless America in Creek and recited the preamble to the Constitution. Fifth-graders Rudy Juarez and Aiyana Tommie read essays they wrote for the occasion.
Aiyana quoted a popular credo from the Vietnam War era to describe what soldiers must do: "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful."
"Today we need to encourage the younger generation to join the military," said veteran Mitchell Cypress. "We all enjoy our freedom; they need to go out and see what the military is all about. Freedom is earned, not given to us. We need to protect that."
Tributes were made to Harley Jumper, who served in the National Guard, U.S. Army and U.S. Marines, and to Timmy Johns, who served in the U.S. Army. A roll call of Seminole veterans, alive and deceased, ensued, followed by a moving rendition of Taps that ended the ceremony.
Fast and furious on three wheels
Brighton sheds 288 pounds through Seminole Pathways program


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Timing when you die and the Will to Live for a Special Moment
Posted on July 23, 2019 by markinaustin
Last night in my Monday night group Dave Heath, who is 80, reported on his weekend in Houston for NASA's 50th fete for Apollo 11. Dave was a control room guy back then; a re-entry engineering specialist. One of his remarks was about how Chris Kraft, at 95, was eagerly greeting everyone and having a great time. Only about a third of that control room crew live, but there was Chris, their leader, hearty if not hale.
Chris died Monday. News broke this morning.
Spell ck H/T to JNC!
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Posted on April 19, 2018 by markinaustin
The San Francisco Earthquake destroyed much of the city and left thousands homeless.
There is a website devoted to "What if it happened now?"
https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/science-application-risk-reduction/science/haywired-scenario?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
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March 31, 1968.
Posted on April 1, 2018 by markinaustin
LBJ announced on national TV and radio that he would not run for President in 1968.
I heard the news with 31 other sailors and marines in the orthopedic ward of Newport Naval Hospital. I was one of two patients who had not been wounded in combat. The other was a sailor who had fallen from the mast in a storm. I had reinjured a herniated disc that I first crushed working in a factory in high school.
The Army had rejected me as 1Y but I thought my back was cured and I passed my somewhat less rigorous Navy OCS physical, for which I volunteered. Unfortunately I only made it about ten days through OCS when a 4 AM calisthenics workout completely buckled my back sometime between sit-up 72 and 75. My squad leader, a Stanford PhD, gently kicked me in the ribs and told me to get moving. I told him I couldn't even get up. I was carried to the hospital.
Doctors made rounds in the orthopedic ward on Wednesdays. Our daily contact was (Nurse) Commander Jensen. She ordered me to strict bed rest and gave me pain killers. I couldn't actually walk. Had to yell for an orderly to get a bedpan. One night, maybe the third or fourth, I had to piss at midnight. I yelled for a bedpan. The giant Marine sergeant across from me who had one leg blown off growled "Pipe down, OC."
I climbed out of bed and crawled on fours to the head, pulled myself semi-erect on the porcelain, and pissed. I crawled back to my bed. Commander Jensen was waiting for me. I don't know why. She reminded me brusquely that I had been ordered to strict bedrest. When I started to respond she pointedly told me that she had not asked me a question. Then she had an orderly pump me full of something that knocked me out for 30 hours.
The stay at NNH was the closest thing to living in Yossarian's world I could have imagined. Second Wednesday on rounds, the Marine sergeant reported a seaman for uncontrollable farting [true] even in the face of having been ordered by the big Marine to control himself. The seaman was moved out on doctor's orders and we were told he was moved to Section 8 [psych ward] for evaluation.
Third Wednesday on rounds a USN Regular doc suggested fusion surgery, but I asked him if traction were available as an alternative because it had worked nine years before. He told me the surgery was no big deal and moved on. A trailing doc came over to me and whispered that he was a Reservist and a surgeon. He whispered "Did that monkey say he wanted to operate?" I nodded. He said "Don't let those monkeys touch you."
When I told Commander Jensen that I refused surgery she came back with forms for me to sign. Waiver of Vet bennies. My thought was that because I had passed the OCS physical the Navy could not rely on pre-existing condition. Well, we all know the Navy wins that one and I had no ability to get to a law book from strict bed rest, anyway. So eventually I signed the waiver.
On my last Wednesday the docs gave me the going away present of 400+ horse pill sized Darvons in a gallon jug.
Lady Madonna was the most played song on the radio. Nobody in the ward wanted LBJ to quit. And that's how it was 50 years ago this weekend.
Posted on December 25, 2017 by ScottC
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Copy-Paste for the Reading by all your BBQ Guests
Posted on July 3, 2017 by markinaustin
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
Posted on August 2, 2016 by markinaustin
UT map
I had just walked out of the Law School.
A chunk of limestone chipped off Townes Hall 30' over my right shoulder and then I heard the c-r-a-c-k. Bullet had beaten the sound.
I had no idea what was happening. Went to my junkie little '62 Falcon, turned on the radio, got an earful. Drove out of range to a girlfriend's apartment where we listened for more than an hour.
Later I learned that folks I knew had been under direct fire – nobody got hit when he shot to the northeast, where I had exited Townes Hall, only on the Mall and on Guadalupe {the Drag].
An acquaintance who later became a friend was then a grad student and a USAF Captain at Bergstrom. He walked out of the then grad library in the Tower and immediately realized what was happening. He ducked back into the doorway and listened to the shots and figured out the timing as Whitman moved around the parapet. He ran out, and pulled someone who was alive into the bushes in front of the plaza. He stayed down. I think he pulled four living victims into the shrubs over the 90 minutes. Later he was stationed in Germany and got his PhD in German military history at Heidelberg, came back to UT and went to law school, and became a lawyer in Austin as a civilian.
My later law partner's wife was shopping on the Drag when the shooting and the panic ensued. She thought it was "The Revolution". They owned an old black '51 Mercedes which looked like a limo. It was 98F or so, typical August 1 in Austin. It was parked on the Drag. She got in and lay down on the floor board for more than an hour. Scared and dehydrated.
That night, at Scholz's, the famous biergarten a few blocks south of campus, our group of law students drank under the oak tree. She downed a pitcher by herself in half an hour, and couldn't stop shaking. Rifle shots. People running, screaming, some obviously in pain, and she too scared to get up from the floorboard, unable to help, not actually knowing if it would ever end, or what was actually happening.
Texas Independence Day
Posted on March 3, 2016 by markinaustin
In 1824, Stephen Austin drafted the Mexican Constitution, which framed the most liberal representative governmental system the world had known until then. Other Texans and Tejanos were instrumental in its passage. See:
http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/constit1824.htm
But the United States of Mexico was short lived as a democratic republic. Santa Ana seized dictatorial power by military coup in 1833 after he had been elected President. Soon Texas had no reason to stay in and every reason to get out of the Mexican Union.
The leading Tejano signatory to the 1824 Constitution was also a signatory to the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence.
The Texas Declaration of Independence was produced, literally, overnight, from March 1 to March 2, 1836. Its urgency was paramount, because while it was being prepared, the Alamo in San Antonio was under seige by Santa Anna's Army of Mexico.
As seen from the transcription below, the document parallels somewhat that of the United States, signed almost sixty years earlier. It contains statements on the function and responsibility of government, followed by a list of grievances. Finally, it concludes by declaring Texas a free and independent republic.
The full text follows:
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.
The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.
It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government.
It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.
It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.
It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power.
It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation.
It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution.
It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey the property of our citizens to far distant ports for confiscation.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.
It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.
It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.
It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless frontiers.
It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.
These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.
The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.
We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.


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I'd just as soon they take the stinking money and go back to Washington with it. -- Utah State Representative Steve Mascaro.
This is my third column on the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The first column (March 7, 05) detailed the problems that NCLB presents to the states, and how Utah specifically was dealing with the issue. The second column, (March 14) was basically an interview with Utah's State Representative Margaret Dayton who sponsored H.B.135, which instructed that school officials "…shall [provide] first priority to meeting state goals…and [provide] second priority to implementing federal goals…"
Several interesting things have happened lately. Knowing that Utah was going to consider passing Rep. Dayton's Bill at a special session on April 19 and 20, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings reacted by offering some flexibility. On April 11, the Salt Lake Tribune reported: "The Education Department plans to give some states more freedom in how they test hundreds of thousands of children with milder disabilities. But only states that can prove progress or a strong commitment to improve will be seriously considered for that flexibility." The response was that Utah Superintendent of Education Patti Harrington and many legislators including Rep. Dayton didn't think the flexibility went far enough. The plan to present H.B. 135, now called H.B. 1001, at the special session, was not altered.
(Now, I have no idea if Margaret Spellings was in a "snit," but I like to think she was.) In a snit, Secretary Spellings wrote a threatening letter to U.S. Senator from Utah Orrin Hatch. (I have the full letter in front of me courtesy of Rep. Dayton.) Speaking of H.B. 1001, Spellings wrote (April 18), sniffing, "The Department generally does not offer its views on pending state legislation; however, I am concerned that the consequences of enacting and implementing this bill would be so detrimental to students." (Always appeal to the effects on "children.") "While the enactment of the bill itself does not guarantee noncompliance with NCLB, the implementation of a number of its provisions is likely (my emphasis) to cause conflicts and trigger the consequences discussed below." The consequences, of course, are the loss of money: Spellings threatened the loss of at least 76 million dollars.
So, the day before Utah's special session, Spellings warned the legislature, "Don't mess with the feds." How did the legislature react? According to the Tribune on April 20, "Saying they don't take kindly to federal threats, Utah legislators defied President Bush on Tuesday and approved a measure that challenges his NCLB education initiative… House Bill 1001 cleared the House 66-7 and the Senate 25-3…" The governor signed it on May 2 and on May 3, the SLT headlined: "Utahns cheer as guv signs NCLB protest." The article goes on: "…for half an hour Monday, the crowded library of Provo's Amelia Earhart Elementary was a picture of celebration, even proud defiance…Dozens of onlookers - including Provo officials, local parents and children – packed the room to witness the signing. Robert McBride sat in the back with his 11-year-old son and spoke for many when he touted the judgment of his own community and its teachers. 'Let them do their jobs and get out of their way,' he said, not hiding his frustration with the feds."
Remember when Republicans were the party of small government? When the 10th Amendment was basic to that philosophy? Remember when part of their agenda was to eliminate the Department of Education? Now, at least in Utah, the Republicans are identified "with the feds" and are using the same bullying tactics we used to accuse the Democrats of using when they were the majority party. Even the Heritage Foundation has gotten on the new Republican-big-government bandwagon. In a 3/2/05 Education Notebook, the commentator criticized Utah and Rep. Dayton (calling them the "new federalists.") for their legislation. In a beautiful email to the Foundation, Rep. Dayton pointed out "…that federal law establishing the Dept. of Education states that 'the establishment of the Dept. of Education shall not increase the authority of the Federal government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the states.'" Could anything be clearer?
While there are several other states and the National Education Association suing the feds over NCLB funding, Utah has passed legislation directly in conflict with the federal Act. Of course there is still a chance that even with H.B. 1001, Utah will comply with NCLB. Or there's the chance that Spellings and the feds will back down and give Utah the flexibility they need to stay in compliance. I secretly like the idea that there's the chance that the feds will "take their stinking money back to Washington."
The war between Utah and the federal government over the No Child Left Behind Act is continuing to heat up, reports Robert S. Sargent, Jr.
There are a few states, such as Utah, that believe the No Child Left Behind Act interferes with their constitutional responsibilities, writes Robert S. Sargent, Jr.


why is my snug piercing swollen?
ok so i got my snug pierced about 2 weeks ago. it was perfectly fine until 2 days ago i got pushed into my friends pool. now its so red swollen and the pain is unbearable. i clean it with the solution twice a day everyday and soak it in salt water also. so im hoping this is a temporary thing. can sumone tell me if anything is wrong or if its normal.
does a snug hurt worse than an industrial?


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Fernando Tambroni-Armaroli (Ascoli Piceno, 25 november 1901 - Rome, 18 februari 1963) was een Italiaans eerste minister.

Hij was advocaat en een prominente voorstander van een wettelijke en ordelijke politiek, die in 1960 voor korte tijd premier van Italië was.

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Hij was een lid van de Italiaanse Grondwetgevende Assemblee, waarna hij van 1948 tot 1958 zetelde in de Kamer van Afgevaardigden. In 1953 werd hij minister van Koopvaardijmarine, welke functie hij tot in 1954 uitoefende in twee regeringen. In de regeringen onder leiding van Antonio Segni, Adone Zoli en Amintore Fanfani was vanaf 1955 minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, waarna hij in 1959 minister van Economie werd.

Na de val van het kabinet-Segni in februari 1960, verzocht president Giovanni Gronchi, de christendemocraat Tambroni om een kabinet te vormen. Het lukte Tambroni niet om een coalitie te vormen met linkse of rechtse partijen en hij vormde daarop op 25 maart 1960 een homogeen christendemocratisch kabinet waar alleen Tambroni's Democrazia Cristiana deel van uitmaakte. Onder de drang van de dreiging van de radicalisering van zowel rechts (neo-fascisten) en links (linkse socialisten en communisten) bood Tambroni op 19 juli 1960 zijn ontslag aan. Op 26 juli 1960 werd hij opgevolgd door Amintore Fanfani, die een kabinet vormde bestaande uit de Democrazia Cristiana, de republikeinen en sociaaldemocraten.

Fernando Tambroni-Armaroli overleed in 1963 in Rome.

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This is our modern take on the traditional Japanese Zen Garden. It is so much fun to have an interactive decoration in our work space. It helps to freshen your mind when playing with it. With just a pen or any objects with a pointy tip you can use to draw in the sand.
Choose an indoor succulent for this projects that will grow slowly and maintain a tidy shape.
Transfer your small succulent plant to a paper cup. I had to trim my cup to be slightly shorter so that the plant wouldn't stick out too much from where I wanted to place it in the bowl.
Add some sand to the bottom of the bowl and nestle your plant into place.
Then fill the bowl up with sand.
Add a few natural rocks for decoration around your succulent and then use a chopstick or other 'drawing' tool to doodle a design into the sand.