text:
Наталия Ивановна Тере́нтьева (8 сентября 1926, Москва — 18 февраля 2019, там же) — советская и российская театральная актриса; актриса Театра драмы имени Ф. Г. Волкова с 1956 года; народная артистка РСФСР (10.04.1980).

Биография
Родилась 8 сентября 1926 года в Москве в театральной семье. В годы Великой Отечественной войны была санитаркой военно-санитарного поезда, медсестрой военного госпиталя.

В 1949 году окончила Московское городское театральное училище (руководитель курса В. В. Готовцев). Вышла замуж за актёра, впоследствии Народного артиста СССР Сергея Константиновича Тихонова (1921—1992).

В 1950—1953 годах артистка Иркутского областного театра юного зрителя. В 1953—1956 годах артистка Псковского областного драмтеатра им. А. С. Пушкина.

С 1956 года артистка Ярославского драматического театра имени Ф. Г. Волкова. В 1963—1976 годах педагог курса «Сценическая речь» в Ярославском театральном училище.

В 1955—1956 годах депутат Псковского городского совета депутатов трудящихся. В 1959—1963 и 1973—1984 годах депутат Кировского районного совета депутатов трудящихся. В 1985—1986 годах член Ярославского городского совета народных депутатов.

С 1951 года член Союза театральных деятелей, член правления Ярославской организации СТД РФ.

Мать режиссёра документального кино и телевидения Никиты Тихонова (род. 1952).

Наталья Ивановна умерла 18 февраля 2019 года. Похоронена на Леонтьевском кладбище в Ярославле. 20 июня 2022г. на могиле установлен памятник    (скульпторы А. Рукавишников , А. Свиязов, архитектор С. Шаров).

В марте 2021 родственниками артиста учреждена региональная театральная "Премия Народного артиста СССР Сергея Тихонова и Народной артистки РСФСР Наталии Терентьевой"  за лучшую мужскую и женскую роль в сезоне.

Звания и награды
 Заслуженный артист РСФСР (10.01.1966)
 Народный артист РСФСР (10.04.1980)
 Орден Почёта (1996)
 Премия Золотая Маска (2005) — в номинации «За честь и достоинство».

Роли

Иркутский областной театр юного зрителя
 Мария Александровна Ульянова — «Семья» А. Попова
 Поликсена — «Правда хорошо, а счастье лучше» А. Островского
 Людмила — «Поздняя любовь» А. Островского
 Рассаба — «Волынщик из Стракониц» Й. Тыла

Псковский академический театр драмы имени А. С. Пушкина
 Мария Александровна Ульянова — «Семья» А. Попова
 Лариса — «Бесприданница» А. Островского
 Комиссар — «Оптимистическая трагедия» В. Вишневского
 Фосфорическая женщина — «Клоп» В. Маяковского
 Софья — «Последние» М. Горького

Российский государственный академический театр драмы имени Фёдора Волкова

 Ганка, Дульская — «Мораль пани Дульской» Г. Запольской
 Грета — «Последняя остановка» Э.-М. Ремарка
 Лида — «Такая любовь» П. Когоута
 Ламбрини — «Остров Афродиты» А. Парниса
 Матильда — «Физики» Ф. Дюрренматта
 Миссис Уоррен — «Профессия миссис Уоррен» Б. Шоу
 Манефа, Турусина — «На всякого мудреца довольно простоты» А. Островского
 Герцогиня Мальборо — «Стакан воды» Э. Скриба
 Рашель — «Васса Железнова» М. Горького
 Бернарда — «Дом Бернарды Альбы» Ф.-Г. Лорки
 Клеопатра — «Враги» М. Горького
 Дорина — «Тартюф» Ж.-Б. Мольера
 Кукушкина — «Доходное место» А. Островского
 Баронесса — «Самый правдивый» Г. Горина
 Толгонай — «Материнское поле» Ч. Айтматова
 Памела — «Дорогая Памела» Д. Патрика
 Фёкла — «Женитьба» Н. Гоголя
 Степанида — «Кавказский роман» Л. Толстого
 Генеральша — «Фома» Ф. Достоевского
 Лолита — «Честный авантюрист» К. Гольдони
 Софья Ивановна — «Рождественские грёзы» Н. Птушкиной
 Антонида Васильевна — «Игрок» Ф. Достоевского
 Мурзавецкая — «Волки и овцы» А. Островского
 Пани Конти — «Соло для часов с боем» О. Заградника
 Княгиня Тугоуховская — «Горе от ума» А. Грибоедова
 Суворова — «Чёртова дюжина» А. Аверченко

Примечания

Ссылки
 Терентьева Наталья Ивановна. Российский академический театр драмы им. Ф. Волкова [с библиографией]
 Празднование 90-летия Терентьевой Н. И. в Ярославском театре им. Ф. Г. Волкова.
 ЛИЧНОЕ ВРЕМЯ. НАТАЛИЯ ТЕРЕНТЬЕВА.
 ЖЕНЩИНА В ПРОФИЛЬ. Наталия Терентьева.
 Наталья Терентьева. Золотая маска.
 На 93-м году жизни скончалась народная артистка России Наталия Терентьева.
 Народная артистка России Наталия Терентьева: вспоминаем, какой она была.
 Мир, легенды и мифы Наталии Терентьевой.
 Театральная премия Народного артиста СССР Сергея Тихонова иНародной артистки РСФСР Натальи Терентьевой.

Персоналии:Иркутский ТЮЗ
Актёры Псковского драматического театра имени А. С. Пушкина
Персоналии:Театр драмы имени Фёдора Волкова
Преподаватели ЯГТИ
Лауреаты премии «Золотая маска»
Депутаты Псковского городского совета
Депутаты районных (в городах) советов СССР


are much sought after by Sports Memorabilia collectors.
All prints are approx 35cm x 25cm (14" x 10") & unframed ... unless otherwise stated.
taken from a cricket magazine.
Signed John Ireland cricket print.
taken from a John Ireland book.
signed John Ireland print / pic taken from a John Ireland book.
Signed John Ireland book page pic.
of a John Ireland print.
Signed by both player Campese and artist Ireland.
Signed by both player Sella and artist Ireland.
As Framed under glass please CONTACT US for price & delivery options.
Overseas buyers can purchase print without the frame.
Signed John Ireland boxing print.
Welcome to Uniquely Sporting's sports shop / store page for JOHN IRELAND sports artwork & sporting memorabilia.


They killed that young man.
Of course they did. You know it. I know it. And somewhere, deep down maybe in their heart of hearts, even they have to know it, too.
I knew from the moment they charged former Fullerton police officers Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli for the beating death of Kelly Thomas that there wasn't a jury in Orange County, or anywhere in this country, that would ever convict them.
Involuntary manslaughter? Not the slightest chance.
I have seen this movie way too many times.
Over 36 years in this business I have covered and written numerous times of the heart-wrenching sorrow and, later, the red-hot outrage of the families of the dead.
The saddest and, perhaps, most fascinating aspect of each killing is that the dead was never, say, holding up a bank, laying out dynamite in a mall or even punching a kid. They get killed over the simplest of things.
Exactly what did Kelly Thomas do?
Yes, someone put a call in to police saying someone was pulling on car door handles in a parking lot. Read that again.
When Manuel Ramos and his co-workers got there, they found Kelly Thomas.
And they beat him to death.
They didn't even bother to ask him about the door handles. Manual Ramos just pulled on gloves, threatened the young man and went to work.
We simply will not believe police officers who are charged with protecting us, who we might need when someone pulls on our car door handle, would ever do such a thing.
We cannot countenance it. To think a police officer would kill us simply on the suspicion of one of us pulling a door handle – my goodness! – that would flat out terrify us.
No, no, we say, that young man must have done something for those poor, poor officers to react the way they did.
The dead people in every case I have covered were alleged to have been "overly combative." This is always so and oft-repeated, just as Ramos and Cicinelli's defense counsel last week incessantly told the Thomas jury.
The dead, were it actually possible for them to testify, I am almost certain would say they were not being combative, only writhing wildly from the awful pain of being Tasered, beaten with batons and that very same Taser gun while at the same time having their windpipe and fragile skull crushed.
"Dad, they're killing me, Dad!
Those final words of Kelly Thomas seem hardly the menacing taunts of a combative homeless man who needed a squad of police officers to be subdued and arrested as the defense preached to the jury, which bought it.
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckus saw what I saw on video, what you saw, what the jury saw time and time again.
It sickened him so badly he decided not to pawn the prosecution off on some deputy. No, he would go after the cops himself.
Give the man credit. All the DAs I have ever known over the years would rather, I am certain, prosecute their own mother than bring a case against a police officer. Yet Tony Rackauckus saw what you and I saw, and couldn't shake it.
"An utter disregard for human life," he said, accurately summing up his case to the jury. "This didn't have to happen," he followed up even more accurately.
Videotape. I learned a long time ago, that it matters not one whit.
You might simply be a motorist with a tail light out and get savaged, every stomp, baton swing and blow to the skull all on tape.
It always comes down in court to whether the jury is going to believe the good officer or their lying eyes.
Not guilty verdicts all around. Every time.
You, too, could be Marvin Booker. I will be quick with his story. I stood with and wrote about his grieving family, too, not long ago.
What happened to the middle-aged, homeless street preacher three years ago is every reason why I believe everything I have just told you. You can even look up on your computer what happened to him.
He was already in jail on a relatively minor drug paraphernalia charge. In fact, he was there so long he had taken off his shoes.
When they finally came for Marvin, he stood up and began walking for a bit before remembering his shoes.
In what seemed like an instant, Marvin was Tasered. He soon disappeared under a pile of other deputies. His arms were wrenched, his neck was choked. Only when Marvin stopped moving did the deputies get off of him. He stopped moving because he was dead.
Though the coroner classified Marvin's death a homicide, not a single criminal charge was brought.
Marvin – remember, he was already in jail and the entire beating was on videotape – was combative and posed a threat to the deputies, it was ruled.
He hadn't pulled on a car door.
Marvin just wanted his shoes.


text:
Copy and paste: baseball RedHawks write same story of dominance
By Chris Vinel, Sports Editor | Apr 16, 2019 | Men's, Sports
Zach Reichman | The Miami Student
Another three games and another three wins.
Miami baseball traveled to Bowling Green and swept the Falcons (12-19, 5-7 Mid-American) this weekend, giving the RedHawks their fifth sweep in nine series this season. They've won 11 of their last 12 contests and hold a 29-6 (10-2 MAC) record.
The RedHawks breezed through Friday's game 12-4, before pending inclement weather forced Sunday's game to be pushed up to Saturday afternoon and gave Miami its sixth doubleheader of the season.
It won game one 15-2 and game two 10-8.
With the victories, the RedHawks cracked the top 30 teams in the Collegiate Baseball Poll, checking in at No. 28.
Dinger derby
Well, the weather is heating up, folks.
Scientifically-speaking, a baseball travels farther in warmer temperatures than cooler ones, and the RedHawks took advantage of that this weekend.
Homers, nukes, tanks, bombs, dingers, big flies – it doesn't matter what you call home runs. Just know Miami hit a lot of them against the Falcons.
In 35 games, the RedHawks have hit 26 home runs. Five of those came against Bowling Green.
Junior catcher Cal Elvers established a firm affinity for the fences, going yard once in each of the three games. He upped his season home run total to five, claiming sole possession of the team lead in that category. He rests ahead of junior third baseman Landon Stephens and redshirt junior outfielder Kyle Winkler, who each have four.
Winkler and sophomore right fielder Parker Massman were the two other RedHawks to join Elvers in the long-ball barrage, as each hit one home run.
Miami continued its season-long offensive explosion by combining for 37 runs this weekend. The RedHawks have averaged more than eight runs per game in 2019. They put up an average of 5.5 last season.
Spencer Mraz flirts with a no-hitter
Through seven innings of Saturday's first game, junior starter Spencer Mraz proved to be literally unhittable.
The only two baserunners he allowed had reached on walks, and he had already struck out 12 Falcon batters.
After returning to the mound to pitch the eighth inning, Mraz surrendered a leadoff double to shortstop Neil Lambert to end the no-hit bid. It was Bowling Green's only hit of the game.
Mraz allowed a walk before striking out his 13th victim of the afternoon. Sophomore reliever Logan Schmitt then came on to end Mraz's day of work.
Though Mraz left two runners on base for Schmitt, leading to two earned runs later in the inning, he had fallen just six outs short of Miami's first no-hitter since 1980.
Mraz (W, 5-2) got his fifth win of the season for his efforts.
With another road game slated for tonight at 6 p.m. against Cincinnati (16-19, 7-5 American), the RedHawks won't return home to Hayden Park until Friday, marking more than two and a half weeks since their last home game.
The first series back, against the Ball State Cardinals (23-12, 7-3 MAC), will kick off at 5 p.m. on Friday.
Their last homestand ended with a 7-3 victory over Northern Kentucky on April 3, making this Miami's longest road trip of the season.
While a home ballpark is typically referred to as "friendly confines," it hasn't mattered where the RedHawks have played this season. They're a perfect 14-0 at home and 15-6 away or at a neutral site.
vinelca@miamioh.edu
@ChrisAVinel
PreviousSustainability committee to review student demand for carbon neutrality
NextA conversation with Miami alum, screenwriter Dave Kajganich
Men's hoops wins home opener
2017 NFL Scouting Combine: A Preview
Made-Up Mailbag
Let the madness begin: College basketball is here

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Q: Multiple threads writing on same file I would like to know if we can use multiple threads to write binary data on the same file.
FILE *fd = openfile("test");
int SIZE = 1000000000;
int * table = malloc(sizeof(int) * SIZE);
// .. filling the table
fwrite(table, sizeof(*table), SIZE, fd);

so I wonder if i can use threads,and each thread calls fssek to seek to a different location to write in the same file.
Any idea ?

A: fwrite should be thread safe, but you'll need a mutex anyway, because you need the seek and the write to be atomic.  Depending on your platform, you might have a write function that takes an offset, or you might be able to open the file in each thread.  A better option if you have everything in memory anyway as your code suggests, would just be for each thread to fill into a single large array and then write that out when everything is done.

A: While fread() and fwrite() are thread safe, the stream buffer represented by the FILE* is not.  So you can have multiple threads accessing the same file, but not via the same FILE* - each thread must have its own, and the file to which they refer must be shareable - which is OS dependent.
An alternative and possibly simpler approach is to use a memory mapped file, so that each thread treats the file as shared memory, and you let the OS deal with the file I/O.  This has a significant advantage over normal file I/O as it is truly random access, so you don't need to worry about fseek() and sequential read/writes etc.

A: fseek and fwrite are thread-safe so you can use them without additional synchronization.

A: Let each thread open the file, and make sure they write to different positions, finally let each thread close the file and your done.
Update:
This works on IX'ish systems, at least.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Readers give the Frog Park the thumbs up!
Readers of Australian Traveller magazine have given BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday the 'thumbs up' as the best tourist park in Australia. Known affectionately as the "Frog Park', this tropical oasis is located in Airlie Beach and is a well-known award-winning resort and almost a destination unto itself. The Whitsundays walked away with 4 awards with Queensland winning the most awards of any state.
The Readers' Choice Awards are the only consumer awards for tourism in Australia. More than 1000 Australian Travellermagazine readers nominated their all-time favourite travel destinations and experiences throughout the country in a survey comprising twenty-two categories conducted by the magazine over the past four months. The bi-monthly magazine is the most authoritative, accessible and informative source for Australians committed to travelling and conducts the Reader's Choice Awards on an annual basis.
The McKinnon's believe the secret to their multi-award winning business includes providing superior customer service, maintaining a focus on the guest, paying attention to the little things and empowering their staff. The McKinnon family have owned the resort for over 19 years and they have received a total of 29 tourism-related awards in that time. The family remains totally committed and involved in the day to day management of the business.
Set amongst 10 hectares of landscaped gardens, Adventure Whitsunday offers guests the ultimate relaxed Australian family holiday. The resort includes Airlie Beach's largest heated lagoon-style swimming pool, water slides, a full-size tennis court, an impressive 18-hole mini-golf course, outdoor movies, organized social events, modern amenities, free BBQs, camp kitchen, games and recreation room and wireless internet. Kids are kept busy outside with games and activities and making new friends while parents enjoy the friendly social atmosphere. Offering the only mainland resort Kid's Club and a full-time Activities Co-ordinator, there's a year-round Activity Program and special holiday workshops to ensure there is plenty to do for every age and visitor.
This entry was posted in Media Release. Bookmark the permalink.


text:
Q: Как понять что происходит буферизация при воспроизведении звука со стороннего сервера с помощью AVPlayer? Воспроизведение звука с некоего урла в приложении происходит так:
var player: AVPlayer?

...

func play(fromUrl: String) {

    do {
        let url = NSURL(string: fromUrl)
        let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(url: url as! URL)

        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.playerDidFinishPlaying(_:)), name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: playerItem)

        self.player = try AVPlayer(playerItem:playerItem)
        self.player?.volume = 1.0

        self.player?.play()

    } catch let error as NSError {
        self.player = nil
        print(error.localizedDescription)
    } catch {
        print("AVAudioPlayer init failed")
    }
}

Вопрос: каким образом можно отлавливать состояние буферизации, чтобы показывать значок буферизации на кнопке вместо значка пауза и снова показывать значок паузы на кнопке, как только буферизация закончится и снова начнется воспроизведение звука?

A: Нужно добавить в класс методы активации и деактивации "PeriodicTimeObserver". Подробнее тут: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayer/1385829-addperiodictimeobserver
private func configurePeriodicTimeObserver() {

    playerObserver = player?.addPeriodicTimeObserver(forInterval: CMTimeMake(1, 10), queue: DispatchQueue.main) { [weak self] time in

        guard let strongSelf = self else {
            return
        }

        let sliderValue = Float(CMTimeGetSeconds(time)) // this is the slider value update if you are using UISlider.

        self?.playingTime = sliderValue
        NotificationCenter.default.post(name: .playerTimer, object: ["time": sliderValue])

        // https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayeritem/1390348-isplaybacklikelytokeepup
        let playbackLikelyToKeepUp = strongSelf.player?.currentItem?.isPlaybackLikelyToKeepUp
        if playbackLikelyToKeepUp == false {

            // Показываем значок буферизации
            print("* buffering ...")

        } else {

            // Скрываем значок буферизации
            print("> playing ...")
        }
    }
}

private func deactivatePeriodicTimeObserver() {
    if let playerObserver = self.playerObserver {
        player?.removeTimeObserver(playerObserver)
        self.playerObserver = nil
    }
}

Использование
После запуска плеера, активируем PeriodicTimeObserver:
player?.play()
configurePeriodicTimeObserver()

Перед остановкой плеера, деактивируем PeriodicTimeObserver:
deactivatePeriodicTimeObserver()
player?.pause()
player = nil

Решение взял отсюда: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51302214
Проверил - работает.


Elizabeth A. Vanner, M.S., Pamela Block, Ph.D., Christopher C. Christodoulou, Ph.D., Beverly P. Horowitz, Ph.D., Lauren B. Krupp, M.D.
We sought to assess how impairment (physiological/psychological) and disability (social/environmental) are associated with physical and leisure/recreation activity levels and quality of life (QOL) in people with moderate/severe multiple sclerosis (MS). We conducted a cross-sectional survey at the MS Comprehensive Care Center, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, of a convenience sample of 43 people (50 eligible) with MS and Expanded Disability Status Scale scores of 6.0 to 8.0. The main outcome measures were QOL measured by MSQOL-54, physical activity measured by Physical Activity Disability Scale, and leisure/recreation activity measured by Nottingham Leisure Questionnaire. We analyzed the canonical correlations among physical and leisure/recreation activity levels and (1) impairment and (2) QOL.
Higher levels of physical and leisure/recreation activity were associated with lower levels of apathy and depression and higher levels of cognition, self-efficacy, and QOL (physical and mental). Major barriers reported included fatigue, lack of motivation, and cost.
Impairments and social/environmental disabilities create barriers to physical and leisure/recreation activity. Additional research is needed to determine, for people with MS, what supports might increase participation in physical and leisure/recreation activities and whether this increase yields improved QOL.


Popping Culture: Now, I'M the one in a Huff!
Now, I'M the one in a Huff!
Huff, new from Showtime, premiered on Sunday night. The trailer teasers leading up to the premiere were just outstanding, and the show looks edgy, funny and interesting.
The show itself seems to focus on a mental health professional (Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt) whose life takes a turn when a patient commits suicide during a session. He comes to realize how he has been "mailing in" his own life and that even though he sees himself as an "eternal caretaker," he can't save everyone. The strength of the show, like Seinfeld, seems to be in the ensemble cast, replete with an alcoholic best friend (the wonderful Oliver Platt) and a catty, possessive mother (Blythe Danner - always a winner) to annoy the wife (Paget Brewster).
The Homeless Hungarian (JACK LAUFER) is a homeless man who Huff encounters. He always asks Huff for help, but not necessarily with a handout. He appears and disappears quickly, and Huff is not really sure if this guy exists in the real world.
Another strength will be the string of celebs making appearances. This week has Lara Flynn Boyle as a patient.
I haven't seen it yet (I'm out of town), but it's on tape, so no spoilage, please. Still, it looks like it might be worth the effort.
Hank Azaria always does a fine job and I'm glad to see him move out of the shadows of the Flaming Moe.
Did anyone see the premiere? Any immediate reactions?


We spent 27 hours on research, videography, and editing, to review the top choices for this wiki. When you got married, you promised to stay with your partner for better or worse — but that was before you realized he or she could peel the paint off the walls with loud snoring noises. If you want to finally get some rest, you need a good pair of earplugs. The options on this list are comfortable enough to wear all night, so you can wake up refreshed, not irritated. When users buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn commissions to support our work. Skip to the best earplugs for sleeping with a snorer on Amazon.
The Peace&Quiet Sleep are designed to stay in place even if your head is in constant motion, so they're a smart choice for users who toss and turn. That means they're also useful for athletes, as you can run and jump to your heart's content without sending them flying.
The BetterSleep Moldable are reusable, so you can use them every night without having to spring for a new set constantly. If they start to get a little grungy, you can scrub them with some soap and water, and they'll be good as new.
The Mpow Super Soft are designed to return to their original shape extremely slowly, taking 45 seconds to fully expand. That gives you plenty of time to situate them, reducing the likelihood that you'll have to suffer an uncomfortable fit all night.
Flents Quiet Contour are latex-free, so anyone with an allergy should consider investing in a jar. They're shaped to fit deep into your ears, while the flared end makes them easy to remove when you're done — even if you're still half-asleep at the time.
Each pair from Harris Health & Home has been individually sealed, making them easy to pack for traveling and reassuring you that you're always wearing a fresh set. They're a smart choice for worksites or anywhere else there's a need for group ear protection.
These models from Better Sleep are capable of blocking out up to 34 decibels of noise. That should be enough to quieten the loudest snorer, as well as tame the cacophony of trucks, lawnmowers, and construction equipment that interrupts your slumber every Saturday morning.
Made with something called Comfy Cush Comfort Foam, Mack's Ultra Soft manage to live up to their lofty name. They're easy to squeeze in, and they'll keep you comfortable all evening long, allowing you to get an uninterrupted night's sleep.
The Junhua Reusable are waterproof, so you can take them into the pool to reduce the likelihood of swimmer's ear. Or you can simply wear them in the shower, if your partner's noises are loud enough that they manage to penetrate bathroom walls.
If you have sensitive skin, the Hearos Ultimate Softness are made from hypoallergenic polyurethane foam, so you don't need to worry about irritation. The beige color should blend in well on many, enabling you to wear them out and about without anyone being the wiser.
The Honeywell Laser Lite come in a bright yellow and pink color combination, which enables supervisors to determine if their employees are following OSHA guidelines. Of course, if OSHA's getting involved with your partner's snoring, you have serious problems, indeed.
One thing users might not think to consider before making a purchase is how visible the ear plugs are. In some cases, you'll want to find a pair that are brightly colored, as they're harder to lose (and seeing them will make your partner feel guilty for snoring). However, if you plan to wear these outside your home and you don't want people to know about it, a more flesh-colored option may be appropriate.


text:
Sei in: Home » Chi siamo » Il network
L'UVI ha contatti e collaborazioni con centri di ricerca, centri di documentazione e organismi di valutazione in tutto il mondo:
Associazione per lo Sviluppo della Valutazione e l'Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche (ASVAPP), Istituto per la Ricerca Valutativa sulle politiche pubbliche (IRVAPP), Istituto Nazionale per l'Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche (INAPP), Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Università Ca' Foscari, Banca d'Italia, Scuola Nazionale dell'Amministrazione (SNA), MEF - Dipartimento delle finanze, ISTAT, IFEL-fondazione ANCI, Servizio studi del Parlamento europeo, Joint Research Center della Commissione europea (JRC), United Nations Evaluation Office (UNEG), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), World Bank Group, OCSE, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), National Assembly Research Service (NARS), Nationaler Normenkontrolrat (NKR), National Audit Office (NAO), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Research Service (CRS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) .
L'aggiornamento è continuo. I suoi esperti sono presenti ai più importanti incontri internazionali in materia di valutazione delle politiche pubbliche e di documentazione parlamentare organizzati, tra gli altri, da:
Banca mondiale, Fondo monetario internazionale, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), Society on Research of Educational Effectivness (SREE), European Evaluation Conference, Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation ed EvalPartners.
The Impact Assessment Office cooperates with research centres, documentation centres and assessment bodies throughout the world:
Association for the Development of Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies (ASVAPP), Institute for Evaluation Research on Public Policies (IRVAPP), National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies (INAPP), National Research Centre (CNR), Ca' Foscari University, Bank of Italy, National Administration School (SNA), Economy and Finance Ministry (MEF - Finance Dept.), ISTAT national statistics bureau, IFEL-fondazione ANCI (national association of municipalities), European Parliament Research Service, Joint European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), United Nations Evaluation Office (UNEG), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), World Bank Group, OCSE, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), National Assembly Research Service (NARS), Nationaler Normenkontrolrat (NKR), National Audit Office (NAO), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Research Service (CRS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) .
The Impact Assessment Office constantly keeps itself up-to-date. Its evaluators attend the foremost international events on the evaluation of public policies and parliament documentation, organised by, among others:
the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), Society on Research of Educational Effectiveness (SREE), European Evaluation Conference, Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation and EvalPartners


text:
ABMA Meets with Legislators on Priority Issues
Pat Rita
ABMA met with the office of Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) to discuss the Senator's interest in leading the Employer-Directed Skills Act in the upper chamber. The legislation is one of ABMA's legislative priorities as it would leverage private sector investment in workforce development (WFD) and align efforts to reskill the workforce to better match the specific needs of employers. The bill is already pending in the House, but its prospects for ultimately becoming enacted are improved considerably if there is companion legislation in the Senate that has bipartisan support. To that end, Senator Scott and his staff are enthusiastic about this measure and are actively seeking a Democrat cosponsor prior to introducing the companion bill. ABMA is working with Senate Democrat offices in hopes of soon securing a Democrat co-lead. Our goal is to build bipartisan support for the measure so that it will be a strong candidate for inclusion in more comprehensive legislation reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Efforts to reauthorize WIOA fell apart this year, but it is expected that reauthorizing WIOA will be a priority in the next Congress.
Democrat Senators on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee are our priorities as this is the committee to which the bill would be referred. However, Senator John Ossoff (D-GA) has worked with Senator Scott on other issues and we intend to approach Senator Ossoff's staff and gauge his interest in the bill. We will keep you regularly apprised of our progress.
ABMA visited with staff for Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) to discuss a path forward for her legislation, the Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-Takers Now Safely and Efficiently (LICENSE) Act. This bill is another of ABMA's policy priorities, as it would extend a couple of waivers that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued during the course of the pandemic to facilitate commercial drivers license (CDL) issuance. Those waivers are set to expire at the end of August, and while we believe they will be extended by the Administration, the permanence this bill would offers is important.
Enactment of this proposal this year is facing some headwinds as highway safety groups are opposing the measure as is organized labor. However, the bill has bipartisan support in the Senate as does companion legislation in the House. ABMA will continue to seek cosponsors to the measure and work with allied groups to address highway safety concerns with the bill that were raised when it was considered in the Senate Commerce Committee earlier this year. On another of our transportation priorities, ABMA met with Rep. Abigail Spanberger's (D-VA) team to discuss her bill to provide refundable tax credits to truck drivers and those that are interested in becoming a truck driver. The Strengthening Supply Chains Through Truck Driver Incentives Act (H.R. 7348) authorizes a $7,500 tax credit for current CDL holders and a $10,000 credit for new truck drivers or those that are enrolled in a trucking apprenticeship program. Spanberger's team has had conversations with the House Ways and Means Committee staff that have expressed concern about the ability to implement this tax credit if it were enacted. Committee staff are concerned that the IRS simply does not have the data to properly administer this credit, which could lead to fraud and other problems. ABMA is following up with Ways and Means staff to further discuss this proposal and better understand their concerns.
CDL, Legislative Priorities, Legislative Update, Meetings with Gov. Officials, Safety, Transportation, Workforce Development
ABMA & Workforce Development
Pat Rita February 3, 2023
ABMA's First Meeting of 2023
ABMA Priority Bill Reintroduction, Employer Directed Skills Act


Weyerhaeuser said third-quarter net income fell to $180 million, or 35 cents a share, from a year-earlier profit of $1.15 billion, or $2.15 a share. The third quarter of 2014 included post-tax gains of $975 million from discontinued operations and special items, primarily related to the divestiture of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Co. In the latest quarter, sales fell nearly 5% to $1.8 billion from $1.92 billion a year earlier, the timber company said Friday. Analysts, according to Thomson One Analytics, had expected earnings of 27 cents a share and sales of $1.833 billion. Weyerhaeuser also raised its quarterly dividend by 7% to 31 cents and said it had completed a $700 million share repurchase plan. The company also said it had authorized a new $500 million share repurchase program. Net sales for the company's timberlands segment were $326 million in the latest quarter, down $10 million from the preceding quarter. The company expects comparable earnings in the fourth quarter from the segment. Weyerhaeuser expects lower earnings from its cellulose fibers segment in the fourth quarter. The company also expects lower average pulp sales realizations, increased scheduled maintenance and seasonally higher fiber costs. It expects significantly lower earnings from its wood products segment in the fourth quarter.


The mattress "Piyma", with 25cm. thickness is the flagship of TAILORBED. While lying, you will feel like you are on a "bottomless" mattress. This sensation is provided by seven layers of natural materials.
It has exceptional support, due to the 2 layers of rubberized coir with 6cm thickness. What prevails though, are the 4 layers of natural rubber of approximately 17cm thickness, that make the mattress snuggle the body and follow all its curves.
There is a rubberized horsehair layer in between, that functions as a buffer on the humidity and completes the impressive set. The 100% double knitted cotton cover, with the practical zipper, complements the ideal set.


text:
Q: Extjs 6 cartesian chart yFields label right align Fiddle here
how do i align the yFields [Comedy, action, Thriller ] etc to the right of the chart
I have tried this
label : {
          'text-anchor': 'right',
           x:55
        }

and legend{position: 'right'}
but is not working

A: You can use config docked
legend: {
     docked: 'right'
},

https://fiddle.sencha.com/#fiddle/1rgg&view/editor


One of the key aims of Higher Education is to develop students' ability to become 'critical reflective thinkers'. This is typically private and ignores the benefits of collaboration. Our project extends innovative reflective techniques to students collaborating at two universities. At Southampton Solent University (SSU), reflective practice is focused on learning, structured in an adaptable spreadsheet via the virtual learning environment (VLE). At Bournemouth University (BU), the VLE Discussion Board facilitates asynchronous online discussion; during which students are encouraged to reflect. This paper describes a project designed to enable users to learn from others' as well as their own reflections. Participants completed a 52-item Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) and a semi-structured questionnaire on their reflective practice, before being randomly assigned to groups comprising students from a single university or both universities. Via the VLE, participants watched a 20-minute video and then engaged in critical discussion of the content, prompted by four discussion points over a 2-week period. Simultaneously, they recorded reflections on an individual online reflection sheet at least once every other day. At the end of this period, participants were asked to share and discuss their online reflections for a further week. Finally, the MAI and the reflection questionnaire were re-administered. The data are currently being analysed using both quantitative methods (frequency and quantity of posts, changes in scores) and qualitative methods (depth of critical discussion). The results will have both practical and research-focussed outputs.


Michael Dower is Visiting Professor of European Rural Development at the University of Gloucestershire. He has a long career in civil society and in government in England. For the last 30 years, he has also been actively involved in rural affairs in Europe, as a consultant to governments, as a teacher, as an adviser, and as a leader of civil society movements - ECOVAST, PREPARE, ARC2020, Euracademy and others.
He is a former coordinator of, and currently active within, the PREPARE Partnership for Rural Europe, which works to strengthen civil society in the 'new' Member States and accession and neighbouring countries of the European Union.


text:
«Праздник» — короткометражный фильм. Был снят в качестве курсовой работы в 1988 году.

Сюжет

Обычный праздничный день. За окнами грохочет музыка, провозглашаются лозунги. А в жизни свои комедии и трагедии.

Время и место действия

 СССР.

Съёмочная группа

 Авторы сценария: Толкачиков, Владимир Александрович. Смирнов, Андрей Николаевич
 Режиссёр: Толкачиков, Владимир Александрович
 Оператор: Бондарев, Сергей Тарасович
 Художник: Перевеслов, Александр Львович

Призы

 Приз зрительских симпатий на кинофестивале «Молодость» в Киеве (1988).

Короткометражные фильмы СССР 1988 года
Короткометражные фильмы студии «Беларусьфильм»
Фильмы Владимира Толкачикова

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


New Year's Eve in Yakima!
Aaron Returns from Santiago to Yakima!
I am so grateful for all my friends who help with this project. Thank you, each of you!
Celebrating 25 Years of Sticky Buns on Christmas Morning!


Sample Reflective Essays. View Sample Reflective Essay #1. View Sample Reflective Essay #2. Want to become a better writer? CI's Student Writing web site has how-to videos, writing samples for different subjects, and many other resources to help with your writing.
Using a reflective essay outline can help your writing in a few ways. An outline can help lay out exactly what details you want to use before you start writing. An essay on "My Summer Vacation" could be a reflective essay. However, a reflective essay is not to be confused with an informative essay. While an informative essay relates facts like where you went, what you did, and how much things cost, a reflective essay .


text:
11/28/11 Nov. 23, 2011: Pres Obama Signs Bill to Rename Woburn Post Office for Fallen Officer, Jack Maguire
11/22/11 Nov. 22, 2011: Markey: Who Is Trying to Sabotage International Climate Talks?
11/22/11 Nov. 22, 2011: Possible Whistleblower Retaliation, Unsafe Operations at Hanford Nuclear Waste Plant
11/22/11 Nov. 22, 2011: Markey Reacts to FCC Action on AT&T - T Mobile Merger
11/21/11 Nov. 21, 2011: Markey Statement on Congressional Super Committee on Deficit Reduction
11/18/11 Nov. 18, 2011: As for balancing the budget, Markey tells GOP to: "Do it now!"
11/18/11 Nov. 18, 2011: Markey: Extreme Weather and Extreme Costs Require Extreme Urgency
11/17/11 Nov. 17, 2011: Markey: Solar is the fastest growing energy industry in the world
11/16/11 Nov. 16, 2011: Markey Hails 54.5 MPG Fuel Economy Standard For America
11/16/11 Nov. 16, 2011: MARKEY:
11/16/11 Nov. 16, 2011: Markey on Johnson & Johnson Decision to Remove Carcinogens from Baby Products
11/15/11 Nov. 15, 2011: 111 House Democrats Support Fuel Econ Standards; Proposed Regulations Expected Soon
11/15/11 Nov. 15, 2011: Markey Calls on NRC
11/15/11 Nov. 15, 2011: PATRICK-MURRAY ADMIN RENEWS REQUEST FOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR MASS FISHING INDUSTRY
11/14/11 Nov. 14, 2011: Reps. Waxman, Markey, and DeGette Call For Hearing on Shale Gas Production Report
11/14/11 Nov. 14, 2011: Congressional Climate Briefing to Push
11/14/11 Nov. 11, 2011: Markey Commemorates Veteran
11/14/11 Nov. 14, 2011: Markey, Kerry, Brown Bills Rename Woburn Post Office for Fallen Woburn Police Officer
11/10/11 Nov. 10, 2011: Markey, Barton to Facebook: Are You Tracking Internet Users?
11/10/11 Nov. 10, 2011: Markey Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Route


On this day the 16th Ohio remained in camp near Tazewell, Tennessee. The soldiers were due a good rest and would need their energy for events to come the next day. Other elements of Col. John F. DeCourcey's brigade were more active along the Knoxville Road, heading south out of Tazewell, defending against Confederates probing the Union defenses in the area.


Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein talks with CNN.com about her campaign and her differences with Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's tweets this week regarding a collaboration with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders were covered by Boston.com, the website of The Boston Globe.
RT America writes that Sanders "needs all the support he can get," and "Stein has an offer that would be unprecedented if accepted. Stein is running for president just like Sanders is, but their 'shared goals' could be enough for them to work together, the Green Party candidate tweeted. … What Stein's idea of a collaboration would include remains elusive, and with Sanders more or less ignoring the olive branch, it currently is serving more as a preemptive offer to collaborate with those who 'feel the Bern' should they find themselves dissatisfied" with a Hillary Clinton nomination.
On its website, teleSUR interviews Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein about her campaign.
Darryl Cherney, who is exploring a Green Party presidential run, wrote and recorded a song criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, for his remarks last week about late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez.
Myles Hoenig, writing at Dissident Voice, argues that though many pundits have called newly elected British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn the UK equivalent of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sanders has little in common with Corbyn and other European progressives who have made progress over the past year.
Stephanie Piddock, the coordinator for Sen. Bernie Sanders's Democratic presidential campaign in Connecticut's Fifth District and a local Occupy organizer, says she plans to seek the U.S. House seat in the district as a Green Party candidate next year.
Democratic incumbent Elizabeth Esty is expected to seek a third term in 2016. The last Green candidate in the district was Harold Burbank, who received 0.8% of the vote in his 2008 run.
In his New York Daily News column, Denis Hamill recounts a conversation with his 16-year-old son about the 2016 presidential race.
There has been little discussion of a Sanders candidacy among Greens on social media, where the independent, currently seeking the Democratic nomination, is often criticized for his positions on guns, foreign policy, and immigration. Sanders has ruled out a third-party run.


The Minister for Transport, Seamus Brennan, has announced that the frequency of Luas tram services on the Sandyford-St Stephen's Green Line will be increased to every five minutes from the start of August.
Minister Brennan said the increased frequency would meet overwhelming demand.
He was speaking at a ceremony in Dundrum where the bridge built for the Luas system was officially named 'The William Dargan Bridge'.
The name, chosen from suggestions submitted by the public, is in honour of the famous Carlow railway engineer.


text:
black-sabbath in - News, CD Reviews, DVD Reviews
MESHUGGAH Releases New Single 'The Abysmal Eye' From Upcoming 'Immutable' Album
Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH have released "The Abysmal Eye", the first single from their upcoming ninth studio album, "Immutable". You can now listen to the song below. Due on April 1 via Atomic Fire, the follow-up to 2016's "The Violent Sleep Of Reason" was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden; mixed by Rickard ...
METALLICA Releases MetOnTour Video Edit Of 'Trapped Under Ice' Performance From First 40th-Anniversary Concert
A MetOnTour video edit of METALLICA performing the song "Trapped Under Ice" on December 17, 2021 at Chase Center in San Francisco, California can be seen below. The show was the first of METALLICA's two 40th-anniversary concerts which featured different setlists. They were part of METALLICA's "San Francisco Takeover", a four-day citywide celebration of the ...
JASON NEWSTED Says He's Been 'Really, Really Frugal' With His METALLICA Earnings: 'That's Why I Still Have Them'
In a recent interview with the METALLICA fan-club magazine So What!, the band's former bassist Jason Newsted was asked how he dealt with the huge commercial success of METALLICA's 1991 self-titled album — better known as the "Black Album" — when it first happened. He said: "All of us experienced some kind of swelly head ...
Stellar Stream Obscured - SARCASM
Veterans of the Swedish death metal underground, SARCASM first formed in 1990, split in 1994 and re-emerged in 2015 with a revamped sound and Hell's flames blazing in their eyes. Three albums later and it seems likely that "Stellar Stream Obscured" is exactly the record the band would have dreamt about making back in the ...
Posted in: CD Reviews
Ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE Singer CHRIS BARNES Became 'Physically Ill' After Watching 'Death Metal Round Table' Featuring CORPSEGRINDER
Former CANNIBAL CORPSE singer Chris Barnes says that watching a recent video discussion about the state of death metal featuring some of the genre's top vocalists, including his CC replacement, George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, made him "physically ill." On January 19, Knotfest livestreamed "A Death Metal Round Table" hosted by Staypuft Mallow and featuring appearances by ...
Watch ADRIAN SMITH + RICHIE KOTZEN Perform In Roseville, California
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen's project SMITH/KOTZEN played the fourth show of its U.S. West Coast tour last night (Wednesday, January 26) at Goldfield Trading Post in Roseville, California. Joining Smith and Kotzen as part of their touring band is Richie's wife, internationally acclaimed bass player Julia Lage, formerly of the Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian rock ...
ARCH ENEMY Announces New Album 'Deceivers'; 'Handshake With Hell' Single To Arrive Next Week
On July 29, Swedish/Canadian/American melodic death metallers ARCH ENEMY will release their 11th studio album, "Deceivers", via Century Media Records. A collection of 11 tracks that are ruthlessly catchy and mercilessly violent, "Deceivers" stands toe to toe with the highlights of the band's storied catalog. Fans can expect the new single "Handshake With Hell" to ...
ALICE COOPER Releases 'Alice Cooper And The Tome Of Madness' Spoken-Word Record
Metal Department has announced the release of the "Alice Cooper And The Tome Of Madness" 12-inch vinyl single. "Alice Cooper And The Tome Of Madness" is the perfect companion piece to the official Alice Cooper slot game that Metal Department released in 2021. The back story of that game is Cooper writing his memoirs in ...
The largest three-day rock music and camping event in the U.S. has announced next summer's lineup. Rock Fest 2022 will feature headliners SHINEDOWN, DISTURBED and EVANESCENCE and will take place on July 14, July 15 and July 16 in Cadott, Wisconsin. MUDVAYNE, HALESTORM and LAMB OF GOD will also perform alongside more than 70 bands ...
GHOST kicked off its co-headlining tour with VOLBEAT this past Tuesday night (January 25) at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. During its 16-song set, GHOST debuted another song from its upcoming "Impera" album, called "Kaisarion". Multi-camera fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below. GHOST leader Tobias Forge told
KITTIE Announces Band Lineup For Reunion Shows
Canadian all-girl metallers KITTIE have confirmed the lineup of the band that will perform at Las Vegas's When We Were Young festival this fall. Joining vocalist/guitarist Morgan Lander and drummer Mercedes Lander will be guitarist Tara McLeod and bassist Ivana "Ivy" Vujic. A member of KITTIE singer 2005, McLeod told Premier Guitar about her role ...
BRUCE DICKINSON Admits He Gets Nervous Before IRON MAIDEN Concerts: 'I Keep A Copy Of The Lyric Sheet Backstage'
During an appearance on a recent episode of the "Talk Is Jericho" podcast, hosted by FOZZY frontman and wrestling superstar Chris Jericho, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson admitted that he still suffers performance anxiety, or "stage fright" as it is more commonly known. "I get nervous right before I go on stage with IRON MAIDEN, ...
JOAN JETT Collaborates With EPIPHONE On Olympic Special Guitar
Epiphone, the accessible brand for every stage, has released the new Joan Jett Olympic Special electric guitar. A legendary musician and member of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Joan Jett's artistic vision and pioneering spirit has inspired countless musicians of all ages worldwide. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of her landmark albums "Bad ...
Assassine(s) - CELESTE
Having walked a singular path since 2005, CELESTE are long overdue some attention. Purveyors of a scabrous, cross-pollinated sound that hinges on the darkest of sludgy hardcore and the blistered-retina aggression of black metal, they have released five previous albums and earned a solid reputation as one of the European underground's most intense propositions. Pleasingly, ...
ALDO NOVA To Release 'The Life And Times Of Eddie Gage' EP And 'Aldo Nova 2.0 Reloaded' Three-Disc Set
Multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Aldo Nova has set April 1 as the release date for the first chapter of his larger-than-life rock opera, a 10-song EP titled "The Life And Times Of Eddie Gage". The iconic Montreal maverick will subsequently release the triple disc "Aldo Nova 2.0 Reloaded" on April ...
GHOST Debuts New Song 'Kaisarion' At First Show Of U.S. Tour With VOLBEAT (Video)
GHOST kicked off its co-headlining tour with VOLBEAT last night (Tuesday, January 25) at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. During its 16-song set, GHOST performed the recently released single "Hunter's Moon", a cover of METALLICA's "Enter Sandman" and debuted another song from its upcoming "Impera" album, called "Kaisarion". The band's setlist was as ...
GWAR To Release 'The New Dark Ages' Album In June
GWAR will release its ambitious new album, "The New Dark Ages", on June 3 on CD and digital, and on September 16 on vinyl and cassette via GWAR's own label Pit Records. Pre-orders are available at this location. The album concept is tied to a companion graphic novel, "GWAR In The Duoverse Of Absurdity", which ...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Announces May/June 2022 U.S. Tour Dates
Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen has announced a new batch of U.S. tour dates for May and June. The details are as follows: May 03 – Patchogue Theater – Patchogue, NY May 04 – Tally Ho Theater – Leesburg, VA May 06 – Wall St Theater – Norwalk, CT May 08 – M3 Rock Festival ...
Alteration Through Possession - VICIOUS KNIGHTS
Greek trio VICIOUS KNIGHTS rest firmly on the thrash end of the metal spectrum. Whereas the majority of newer bands walking along those paths are content with recycling riffs from EXODUS's "Bonded By Blood" era, "Alteration Through Possession", the act's debut full-length, takes its inspiration from the darker and more sinister cornerstones of thrash metal's ...
CANNIBAL CORPSE Frontman Says CHUCK SCHULDINER Inspired Him To Become Death Metal Singer
In a new Revolver "Fan First" interview, CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher shares his personal journey as a fan, from discovering BLACK SABBATH to a seismic moment watching DEATH's Chuck Schuldiner to his experiences in the early Florida death metal scene and his upcoming solo album. Speaking about how Schuldiner ...
SUICIDE SILENCE Returns To CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS
California metallers SUICIDE SILENCE have come full circle and returned to their original label home, Century Media Records. With nearly two decades of non-stop touring around the globe, hundreds of thousands of records sold and cementing themselves as a lynchpin band in modern extreme metal, the Riverside quintet has rejoined the label that released the ...
BEARTOOTH Postpones European Tour With MOTIONLESS IN WHITE And STRAY FROM THE PATH
BEARTOOTH has postponed its previously announced European tour with MOTIONLESS IN WHITE and STRAY FROM THE PATH to next year due to the ongoing restrictions resulting from the recent COVID-19 surge. The trek, which was originally scheduled to kick off next month, will now take place in March and April 2023. All original tickets remain ...
During an appearance on "The Ron Keel Podcast", former BLACK SABBATH singer Tony Martin confirmed that a new record deal has been secured to reissue the albums he recorded with the band. "I only found out yesterday," he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "I had no idea. You don't get information very much from the ...
K.K. DOWNING: How I Came Up With Idea For JUDAS PRIEST's Twin-Guitar Sound
Former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing spoke to "The Rock Show With Lee Graham" about how he came up with the idea of adding a second guitarist to the band's early lineup, thereby creating the legendary twin-guitar sound that is synonymous with the Rob Halford-fronted outfit. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We were just ...
Watch ADRIAN SMITH + RICHIE KOTZEN Perform In Las Vegas
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen's project SMITH/KOTZEN played the second show of its U.S. West Coast tour last night (Saturday, January 22) at Count's Vamp'd in Las Vegas, Nevada. Joining Smith and Kotzen as part of their touring band is Richie's wife, internationally acclaimed bass player Julia Lage, formerly of the Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian rock ...
BLACK VEIL BRIDES' ANDY BIERSACK Opens Up About Getting Sober More Than Six Years Ago
During an appearance on MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn's "No Fuckin' Regrets With Robb Flynn" podcast, BLACK VEIL BRIDES singer Andy Biersack spoke about his decision to get sober more than six years ago. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It was just one of those situations where I was so young. All I wanted ...
TWISTED SISTER's JAY JAY FRENCH Defends Producer TOM WERMAN's Work On 'Stay Hungry': 'I Don't Wanna Smear' Him
In a new interview with "Heritage Musicians In Conversation With Joe Matera", TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French was asked how important veteran hard rock producer Tom Werman was to the commercial success of the band's triple-platinum "Stay Hungry" album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Boy, that's a complicated answer. ...


text:
Q: Problem with using NDSolve on wave PDE on string I am trying to verify my hand solution for wave PDE in 1D, on a string. The solution I get from NDSolve does not match the analytical solution.
This is a string, fixed on left end, and free to move on the right. There is damping involved. (from air motion). The damping is set to be critical for mode 1 only.  The string is pulled up for initial position, but has zero initial velocity:
Solving the wave PDE on string $t>0,0<x<L$
$$
u_{tt}+bu_{t}=c^{2}u_{xx}\qquad0<x<L,t>0
$$
Boundary conditions
\begin{align*}
u\left(  0,t\right)   &  =0\\
\left.  \frac{\partial u}{\partial x}\right\vert _{x=L} &  =0
\end{align*}
Initial conditions, $t=0$
\begin{align*}
u_{t}\left(  x,0\right)   &  =0\\
u\left(  x,0\right)   &  =f\left(  x\right)
\end{align*}
Using
\begin{align*}
f\left(  x\right)   &  =\left\{
\begin{array}
[c]{ccc}
\frac{3h}{L}x &  & 0<x<\frac{L}{3}\\
h &  & \frac{L}{3}<x<L
\end{array}
\right.  \\
b &  =\frac{4\pi}{3}\\
c &  =4\\
L &  =3\\
h &  =\frac{1}{10}
\end{align*}
Hence the PDE becomes $u_{tt}+\frac{4\pi}{3}u_{t}=16u_{xx}$.
I get warnings from NDSolve which I need help to get rid of them. I think they are what cause the numerical solution not to look the same as the analytical.
Here is what I tried
ClearAll[x, t, f];
L = 3; c = 4; h = 1/10; b = Pi*c/L;
f[x_] := Piecewise[{{3*h/L*x, 0 < x < L/3}, {h, L/3 < x < L}}];
Plot[f[x], {x, 0, L}]  (*Initial position*)

pde = D[u[x, t], {t, 2}] + b D[u[x, t], t] == c^2* D[u[x, t], {x, 2}];
bc = {u[0, t] == 0, Derivative[1, 0][u][L, t] == 0};
ic = {Derivative[0, 1][u][x, 0] == 0, u[x, 0] == f[x]};

Now, if I just type
numericalSol = NDSolve[{pde, ic, bc}, u, {x, 0, L}, {t, 0, 2}]

It hangs and I get

Using
numericalSol =
 NDSolve[{pde, ic, bc}, u, {x, 0, L}, {t, 0, 2},
  Method -> {"MethodOfLines",
    "SpatialDiscretization" -> {"TensorProductGrid", "MaxPoints" -> 200}}]

It does not hang, and gives solution with these warnings

But the solution when animated does not look correct:
Manipulate[
 Quiet@Chop@Plot[Evaluate[u[x, t] /. numericalSol], {x, 0, L},
    BaseStyle -> 15,
    ImageMargins -> 3,
    PerformanceGoal -> "Speed",
    PlotRange -> {{0, L}, {-0.1, 0.11}},
    ImageSize -> 500,
    AxesLabel -> {"x", "U"}
    ],
 {{t, 0, "time"}, 0, 2, 0.01}
 ]

Here is the animation from the analytical solution to compare with

I understand that NDSolve gives Warning: boundary and initial conditions are inconsistent. but I do not see why, as I think they are consistent. Free right end mean $u_x(L)=0$ and that is what I used.
Note that DSolve can't solve this PDE in V 12:
pde = D[u[x, t], {t, 2}] + b D[u[x, t], t] == c^2* D[u[x, t], {x, 2}];
bc = {u[0, t] == 0, Derivative[1, 0][u][L, t] == 0};
ic = {Derivative[0, 1][u][x, 0] == 0, u[x, 0] == f[x]};
DSolve[{pde, ic, bc}, u[x, t], {x, t}]

(no solution)
Question is: What option to use to make NDSolve remove these warning with the hope the result will look like my solution (I think the analytical solution is correct, but there is of course  possibility I made error, that is why I was trying to verify it with NDSolve)

A: This problem is related to this one. The definition for f is improper, because the default value of Piecewise is 0, which leads to $f(L)=0$. Modifying it to
f[x_] = Piecewise[{{3 h/L x,  x < L/3}}, h]

will remove the ibcinc warning and make NDSolve produce the expected result. (It's still necessary to control the spatial grid size as you've already done, of course. )


text:
Turnovers cost Jackets dearly
By Jacob Myers GateHouse Media Ohio
Feb 18, 2019 at 10:54 PM Feb 18, 2019 at 10:54 PM
Two turnovers were the difference between a stellar first period and a death knell for the Blue Jackets against the best team in the NHL on Monday night.
Then it got ugly in Nationwide Arena.
Twice, Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov, the league's points leader, raced ahead of the Jackets' defense after a turnover, went to his backhand and beat goaltender Joonas Korpisalo after the hosts were in control for much of the first period.
By the time the Lightning had a 3-0 lead entering the third period, the Jackets had played well enough that a comeback didn't seem impossible. Then — twice — Tampa Bay center Brayden Point scored in the first minute of the period to cap the Blue Jackets' 5-1 loss.
The Jackets outshot Tampa Bay 19-6 after one period, only to bow out with another blowout loss to the Stanley Cup favorite. The Blue Jackets ended the season being outscored 17-3 in the season series.
Lukas Sedlak scored with 1:45 remaining for the Jackets' lone tally.
The Jackets played all but six-plus minutes of the game with five defensemen. Ryan Murray had just five shifts before he left in the first period with an upper-body injury.
The Jackets had the clear advantage early, snapping off numerous high-danger scoring chances on Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy. After seven unanswered shots on goal, Artemi Panarin carried the puck to the Lightning's blue line and passed it off to Pierre-Luc Dubois, who turned it over off a poke check.
Halfway into his own zone, Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev fired the puck off the boards to Yanni Gourde at the Jackets blue line. Gourde landed the puck in front of Kucherov, who beat Seth Jones on the rush and flipped it into the top shelf with 8:42 remaining in the first period.
Three minutes later, Nick Foligno lost the puck near the Lightning blue line and it was poked back to the Jackets own zone, where Kucherov picked it up. Kucherov easily sped past Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski and beat Korpisalo through the five-hole.
Twice in the second period, the Jackets were called for questionable penalties that led to a final nail in the coffin.
With 1:41 left in the period, Josh Anderson received the puck near the Lightning blue line and flew in from the right wing toward the net. He tried to get around Coburn — who appeared to push Anderson — rammed into Vasilevskiy and was called for interference.
Then a minute later, Boone Jenner led a short-handed rush down the left wing as Foligno was a skate away from entering the bench and the Jackets were called for too many men. Four seconds into the 5-on-3, Steven Stamkos ripped his signature slap shot from the left circle to beat Korpisalo.
Korpisalo made his first start Monday since Feb. 2 against St. Louis. He ended the night with 15 saves.
The Blue Jackets now head to Montreal to play the Canadiens on Tuesday on the end of back-to-back games. The two are tied in points with 69.
The Daily Record ~ 212 E. Liberty St., Wooster, OH 44691 ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Cookie Policy ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service ~ Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy


text:
AL SHIRAA Control Devices Tr. is an Authorized Partner and GOLD Distributor for HIKVISION to all resellers across UAE specially Northern Emirates . We are located beside Sh Mohammed Bin Zayed Rd , Sharjah ( OLD Emirates Rd).
Hikvision products, as up to 5MP HD network cameras, analog cameras, newest hybrid DVR, NVR and DVS for serving and recording up to 5MP resolutions cameras, mobile DVR and many other product can be offered for customers different demands for administration, education, energy, entertainment, financial institutions, gaming, healthcare, military, residential, retail, sport/stadium, transportation. HIKVISION products using more than 100 countries.
The portfolio includes high-tech surveillance solutions, HD IP cameras, speed domes, digital video server and much more Hikvision has placed at the head of the producers of monitoring systems and is represented worldwide.
Our success is built on innovation and ingenuity in creating a strong competitive advantage for now and for the future. Our company provides nationwide distribution and implementation of the equipment's through the offices opened Northern Emirates.
Official UAE GOLD Distributors of Hikvision CCTV Products
AL SHIRAA is an Authorised GOLD Distributor of Hikvision, one of the worlds leading authorities CCTV and IP Cameras, NVRs, HD-TVI and DVRs.
AL SHIRAA is extremely proud to work with Hikvision, a world leading authority in CCTV surveillance technologies. Over the past 5 years, both companies have focused on creating an exciting and dynamic product ranges for the UAE market, and as such technologically advanced products are now available at competitive prices.
With a service portfolio expanding at a rapid rate, Hikvision surveillance technologies now include; innovative recording solutions, high-definition IP CCTV product lines and IR surveillance solutions.
AL SHIRAA stock a full range of Hikvision NVRs, HD-TVI, DVRs and Hybrids. Ranges include IP Cameras, IR Cameras, PTZ Cameras and IP Surveillance Kits.
About Hikvision
Established in 2001, Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. has grown from a small company with 28 people, into a global enterprise with more than 8,000 employees – including 3,000 R&D engineers, making it the largest R&D team in the industry.
Headquartered in Hangzhou, China, Hikvision has expanded to a global operation with regional branch offices in Los Angeles covering the Americas; Amsterdam covering Europe; Dubai for the Middle East; joint ventures in India and Russia; as well as a maintenance centre in Hong Kong.
Dynamic growth and exceptional products have seen Hikvision recognised as the number one global vendor of CCTV and video surveillance equipment – according to IMS Research's World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment Report 2012, and listed for four years in a row in Security 50 – a market survey recognising the top 50 security vendors in the global security market (No. 5 in 2011). Hikvision is now publicly listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange with market capitalisation of US $16.5 billion.
For more information, please visit www.hikvision.com
DS-2CD2083G0-I
8 MP(4K) IR Fixed Bullet Network Camera
DS-2CD2183G0-I(S)
8 MP(4K) IR Fixed Dome Network Camera
8 MP(4K) IR Fixed Turret Network Camera
DS-2CD2T83G0-I5/I8


Economists in the nineteenth century borrowed the word equilibrium from chemists and physicists. It comes from the Latin phrase aequa libra, which means "balanced scales." When the forces pushing price up and the forces pushing price down are equal, the scales are balanced and the market is in equilibrium.
An apple at the bottom of a bowl, for example, is "in equilibrium."


1 Position pharmacists as the conduit of information flow between providers and patients, enhancing their role as providers of asthma management services that augment newly established asthma clinics within 20 local physicians offices. 2 Define the pharmacists leadership role within the asthma coalition that administrates asthma management clinics. 3 Train pharmacists in NIH and NAEPP guidelines for patient counceling and form a network of certified asthma educators to perform comprehensive asthma training. 4 Market the enhanced role of pharmacists to key members of the community asthma management team. 5 Evaluate outcomes using survey data collected at participating pharmacy sites.


Wonder Kapinda is a Zimbabwean footballer who was born on 15 July 1988. He is a former player for Black Rhinos Football Club as a midfielder.
Please visit the following to contribute to the profile of Wonder Kapinda.


What next for Australian refugee policy?
IT IS my intention to look to the future; to assess the directions that the refugee debate and refugee policy might take in Australia and elsewhere in coming months and years. But before looking forward, it is important to remind ourselves of the point we have reached in Australia. Since late 2001, in the wake of the Tampa, the unauthorised arrival of boats carrying asylum seekers to Australian shores has stopped. Why?
There are many contributing factors: the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan has reversed the flow of refugees out of that tortured country; Indonesia has stepped up its cooperation with Australia to smash a number of major smuggling rackets; and there's the demonstration effect of the boat known as SIEV X - suspected illegal entry vessel X - which went down en route to Australia and took the lives of 353 people, most of them women and children. All these things play a part; but most important in my view, has been the 'success' of the federal government's shift from a policy of 'deterrence by example' to a policy of 'deterrence by force'.
I am drawing here on the writing of Robert Manne, who argues that prior to the Tampa Australia constructed 'the most brutal anti-asylum-seeker policy edifice found anywhere in the West'. In an effort to deter further arrivals it constructed a regime 'harsh enough to wreak havoc on the lives of those it touched' . In other words 'deterrence by example'.
Mandatory detention is a key element of that regime. The current government rarely justifies detention in these terms, asserting rather that detention is necessary for health and character checks and for administrative purposes - to ensure that asylum seekers do not abscond while their cases are being assessed. But there is no doubt that deterrence was the driving motivation when a Labor government establishing the detention system in the early 1990s, when boat people were arriving from countries in Southeast Asia rather than the Middle East. As Tim Fischer once said in a typically colourful if somewhat confused metaphor, it was essential to 'send a message up the bamboo grapevine' that Australia was not a soft touch.
Another aspect of 'deterrence by example' was the introduction of temporary protection visas or TPVs in October 1999. According to the fact sheet on TPVs on the Immigration Department's website, this category of visa was introduced to remove 'the additional benefits that had been encouraging misuse of the protection process by unauthorised arrivals and [encouraging] the use of people smugglers to assist people to travel unlawfully to Australia' . Those 'additional benefits' were such things as the right to be reunited with your immediately family. Again the intention of the TPV was to make Australia less attractive to refugees and asylum seekers arriving without authorisation, to deter future arrivals by placing harsh conditions on those who actually make it here.
But these measures failed to produce the desired effect; and so the government upped the ante - moving from 'deterrence by example' to 'deterrence by force' - using Australia's military to intercept the boats and return them to Indonesia.
This, in my view, is the essential reason why the boats have stopped coming. Think for a moment about the options for asylum seekers who might want to use the maritime route to reach Australia from Indonesia. They basically have two choices: either they must travel in a vessel that is so unseaworthy that it cannot be forced back to Indonesia - and so risk the fate of those aboard the SIEV X - or they must immediately sabotage their boat after reaching Australian waters and render it irreparable, in order to force a rescue at sea by the Australian navy. Under either scenario, the best that they can then hope for is to be despatched to Nauru or Papua New Guinea to face a long and uncertain detention.
Acknowledging that the government has succeeded in cutting off the maritime route from Indonesia does not mean that there will be no more asylum seekers coming to Australia. The majority of asylum seekers in Australia never came by boat in any case; they came on planes, with visas, as visiting students or tourists or business people - and then sought asylum after clearing immigration, or when it came time to go home again. Even at the height of the 'boat people crisis', these 'lawful' asylum seekers outnumbered the 'unlawful' arrivals by at least two to one. They were not detained and lived amongst us in the community; they were rarely a topic of media attention and never a cause for public panic, even though they were, statistically speaking, far less likely to be refugees in need of protection than their counterparts on the boats. But the debate about refugees and asylum seekers in Australia has never been particularly rational because it is driven by fear. The boat arrivals awakened deep anxieties in the collective psyche; perhaps because they remind a settler society of its own roots; remind us that our tenure in this land is not itself built on legal treaty, so much as the weight of historical circumstance. Do we perhaps worry that we could be displaced from this land as easily as our forebears displaced others?
Having said that, the fact that the boats have stopped arriving, means that visceral fear is reduced - and it may open the way for more reasoned debate. It also means that the focus has shifted from preventing new boat arrivals to resolving the fate of those refugees and asylum seekers who are already here. I am thinking of three groups in particular - refugees from Afghanistan who no longer fear persecution by the Taliban, refugees from Iraq who no longer fear persecution by Saddam Hussein, and asylum seekers from Iran whose claims for refugee status have been rejected.
This raises a number of issues and dilemmas. On the one hand, refugee advocates must acknowledge that the return of non-refugees to their homeland will at times be necessary to maintain an international system of refugee protection. If everyone is allowed to stay, refugee and non-refugee alike, then the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees is rendered meaningless - it is nothing more than a back-door for migration. On the other hand, if returns are to take place, it is essential that they are carried out with respect for the dignity, welfare and fundamental rights of the individual.
The government has made clear that it wants to send home as many people as it can, as quickly as it can. It hastened to declare post-Taliban Afghanistan 'safe' for returns and we can only anticipate the same eagerness to make a similar declaration in respect of Iraq.
But it is important to distinguish between whether or not an individual is a refugee, and whether or not it is safe for them to return home. Philip Ruddock may be technically correct in asserting that refugees from the Taliban no longer fear persecution in Afghanistan, or that refugees from Iraq no longer fear persecution by Saddam Hussein. But this is not the same as saying it is safe for them to return. A refugee is a person who fears persecution on the basis of their race, nationality, religious belief, political views or membership of a particular social group; the general threat posed by such things as land-mines, unexploded ordinance, armed criminal gangs, lawlessness, political upheaval and drought does not amount to persecution but it does make life unsafe.
In Australia we have an all or nothing refugee determination system. An applicant either meets the Convention definition of a refugee or they do not; and if they do not then they are out. In most comparable jurisdictions there is a fallback humanitarian category, that allows a person to stay for other than convention reasons; and the lawless tribal gun-culture of Afghanistan might provide just such a circumstance. In Australia, as we now know only too well, ministerial discretion under section 417 of the Migration Act provides the only safety net for the protection of non-refugees who nevertheless face risks on return to their homeland and the current questions about the use of ministerial discretion only serve to highlight this gap in Australia's protection mechanisms.
While the Minister has looked favourably on 105 visa applicants from Lebanon since 1999, some 260 'failed' asylum seekers from Iran have been unable to invoke his discretion. These Iranians have all been detention now for at least two years, and the Minister says he has struck a deal with the leaders Iran's theocracy to allow their forced return. Radio National's Background Briefing program asked the Immigration Minister whether he would seek assurances from Iran that those returnees would not be subjected to arrest, detention or other abuses; he answered that it would be 'highly offensive' to require such assurances of any country. Nor was it necessary to monitor what happens to those returnees once they get back home .
Let's reflect on this for a moment; the assertion that it is unreasonable to ask a country to provide guarantees about the safety of its returning nationals, and unnecessary to monitor people after their return. Cast your mind back to one of the great human movements of recent times - the flow of boat people out of Indochina, and in particular Vietnam. The resolution of that crisis came about through the so-called Comprehensive Plan of Action, an international agreement that included at its core, the return of non-refugees to their homeland from detention centres and camps in Hong Kong and South East Asia. Fundamental to that agreement were two things: Vietnam's public promise not to persecute returnees and a monitoring program carried out the United Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees to ensure that the promise was kept. Is the regime of the Mullahs in Tehran really so much more benign than that of the Communists in Hanoi that returns to Iran can be carried out without any such safeguards, without any such public guarantees?
Surely the lesson of history is the opposite; the lesson must be that return agreements are possible and can work, but that they need to be constructed carefully and transparently and cooperatively. It could even be argued that negotiating the Comprehensive Plan of Action contributed to the process of drawing Vietnam out of its diplomatic and economic isolation, engaging it with the international community and its neighbours and so added to the security and stability of South East Asia. Perhaps a serious attempt to engage with Tehran to construct a multilateral, supervised return agreement might prove to have similar diplomatic spin-offs.
So along with continued concern about those still in detention after two years or more, the immediate future of the refugee debate in Australia looks set to focus on the question of returns of failed asylum seekers and temporary refugees who are deemed to be no longer in need of protection. Howard Glenn, national director of the refugee advocacy group, A Just Australia, anticipates a scenario in which we will see picket lines surrounding churches providing sanctuary to families facing deportation. We can expect to see increased use of chemical and physical restraints to ensure that people go quietly. It could get quite ugly.
But it does not have to be that way - and I return here to the arguments of Robert Manne. As he has pointed out, the original policy of deterrence by example 'lost its purpose at the moment the government replaced it with the idea of naval deterrence at the border', replaced it with 'deterrence by force'. In other words, the government could afford to be magnanimous and allow those 9000 or so refugees on temporary protection visas to stay permanently in Australia, without jeopardising its policy of border protection. It could also release from detention those non-refugees who nevertheless cannot be returned to their homelands, and those asylum seekers whose claims are still being processed. It would be a decent and humane thing to do, and it might also spare this country a great deal of trouble, expense and social conflict.
TO CONCLUDE, I want to turn from the domestic situation in Australia, to the international scene, because in many ways Australia has been setting the pace on new approaches to questions of refugee protection. While Australia is a step ahead of other developed nations, it is not necessarily out of step with them. Attempts to 'deter' asylum seekers and 'contain' the refugee problem can be discerned around the world.
Right now, in a village about 50 kilometres from Zagreb, workers are putting the finishing touches to a 'camp' designed to hold up to 800 people. Construction is being funded by the European Commission, and Britain had hoped to use the camp to hold asylum seekers from the Balkans and Eastern Europe who arrive at British ports and airports. Instead of having their applications for refugee assessed in Britain, the asylum seekers would be sent to this new 'transit processing centre' in Croatia. Britain wanted the International Organisation for Migration to manage the camps, and it wanted the UNHCR to process the refugee applications. You might call it 'The Balkan Solution'. Opposition within the EU, from countries like Sweden and Germany, has blocked for the plan now but it is likely to resurface. Britain intended the Croatian camp to be the first a network of 'transit processing centres' set up in countries outside the EU's borders, creating a 'buffer zone', where asylum seekers can be detained and processed .
In Denmark, the first country to sign the 1951 Refugee Convention, a new conservative government has introduced changes similar to Australia's temporary protection visas - delaying the right of refugees to seek permanent residency, restricting access to welfare and curtailing family reunion .
The present push to force 'failed' Iranian asylum seekers back to their homeland can be seen as part of a concerted effort by Australia (in league with some other western nations like the UK), to introduce a much more tougher and more rigorous system of refugee management worldwide. Other countries, hosting much larger numbers of displaced Iranians, are watching intently to see what happens. This coincides with general pressure on the UNHCR, to participate in the process of returning non-refugees to their home countries.
Another measure being sought is the establishment of a central database, which would be used to store biometric information such as iris or retina scans, to identify every refugee registered with the UNHCR, around the world. (Iris recognition technology has already been trialled on refugees returning to Afghanistan). A central database could be used to prevent so-called 'secondary movement', when a refugee moves on from a country of first asylum to seek protection further afield (often in a developed country like Australia). They would be identified on arrival and immediately returned.
In the words of Philip Ruddock, people who engage in secondary movement seek 'a migration outcome' and 'jump the queue' of refugee protection. He says that countering secondary movement is an essential part of maintaining the international system of refugee protection and that such an approach 'saves lives' because 'it removes the incentive for people to leave places of protection and risk their lives in dangerous journeys with people smugglers.' Secondly, he says, it 'saves space' in the resettlement system, for 'refugees who have no capacity to move' .
These arguments are not without substance; refugee advocates and government critics must confront the issue of people smuggling and where we stand in relation to it. Are we happy for the refugee protection system to be run largely by criminal syndicates who exploit and endanger vulnerable people for massive profit? We must acknowledge that while unauthorised movement enables some persecuted people to seek safety, it is not a 'fair' system for protecting refugees.
Nevertheless, the enthusiasm of developed nations for controls on secondary movement does not spring from a desire to ensure that protection is meted out in just and equal measure to vulnerable people around the world. It is the product of a drive to deter asylum seekers from seeking protection in rich countries and contain the refugee problem to the developing world (where it is already far more acute than in the West).
The push for such things as controls on 'secondary movement' reflect the intensified focus on abuse of the international protection system by some asylum seekers, rather than the abuse of fundamental rights by some nation states. The UNHCR is being pressured to redefine its role. Rather than a primary responsibility of providing care and protection to displaced people, there is a growing expectation that the UNHCR should also act as the world's refugee policeman, patrolling the actions of refugees and asylum seekers and restricting their movements.
Unless rich countries like Australia are willing to take significant countervailing measures - such as increasing our resettlement quotas, boosting support for countries of first asylum, and increasing migration opportunities generally - then the world's refugee crisis is only likely to deepen and become more confrontational.


The history of mosaic goes back some 4,000 years or more, with the use of terracotta cones pushed point-first into a background to give decoration. By the eighth century BC, there were pebble pavements, using different colored stones to create patterns, although these tended to be unstructured decoration. It was the Greeks, in the fourth century BC, who raised the pebble technique to an art form, with precise geometric patterns and detailed scenes of people and animals.
By 200 BC, specially manufactured pieces ("tesserae") were being used to give extra detail and range of color to the work. Using small tesserae, sometimes only a few millimetres in size, meant that mosaics could imitate paintings. Many of the mosaics preserved at, for example, Pompeii were the work of Greek artists.
The mosaic here shows the god Neptune with Amphitrite (on the right) and is in Herculaneum, Italy. It is a wall mosaic which uses pieces of glass to give the vivid colors and reflect light. Glass was not suitable for floor mosaics. Here, the tesserae were mainly small cubes of marble or other stone. Sometimes bits of pottery, such as terracotta, or brick were used to provide a range of colors.
The expansion of the Roman Empire took mosaics further afield, although the level of skill and artistry was diluted. If you compare mosaics from Roman Britain with Italian ones you will notice that the British examples are simpler in design and less accomplished in technique.
Typically Roman subjects were scenes celebrating their gods, domestic themes and geometric designs. The inter-twined rope border effect here is called "guilloche".
With the rise of the Byzantine Empire from the 5th century onwards, centered on Byzantium (now Istanbul, Turkey), the art form took on new characteristics. These included Eastern influences in style and the use of special glass tesserae called smalti, manufactured in northern Italy. These were made from thick sheets of colored glass. Smalti have a rough surface and contain tiny air bubbles. They are sometimes backed with reflective silver or gold leaf.
The mosaic below is from the ceiling of the baptistery in Florence, Italy. Other spectacular examples can be found in Ravenna, Venice and Sicily and in Istanbul.
Whereas Roman mosaics were mostly used as floors, the Byzantines specialized in covering walls and ceilings. The smalti were ungrouted, allowing light to reflect and refract within the glass. Also, they were set at slight angles to the wall, so that they caught the light in different ways. The gold tesserae sparkle as the viewer moves around within the building.
Roman images were absorbed into the typical Christian themes of the Byzantine mosaics, although some work is decorative and some incorporates portraits of Emperors and Empresses.


text:
Q: How do I implement a Vlookup using a variable declared as Variant? I extract a bug number from a column in sheet1.
I then try to look up the associated estimated time in sheet3 (Bug Estimates) via a vLookup. I get Error 2042 (x3 for each value in my loop).
I tried hardcoding the value I'm looking up via the vLookup e.g. 1234.
I tried adding .Value when setting the Range object.
I tried activating the sheet with the lookup data first.
I tried using Application.WorksheetFunction.VLookup.
    Dim BugID As Variant
    Dim BugNumber As String
    Dim BugRange As Variant
    Dim Points As Variant

    For Each BugID In BugMatches
       BugID = StrConv(BugID, vbLowerCase)
       BugNumber = Trim(Replace(BugID, "bug", ""))
       Set BugRange = Worksheets("Bug Estimates").Range("A2:C5")
       Points = Application.VLookup(BugNumber, BugRange, 1, False)
    Next

A: I think @ Foxfire And Burns And Burns is right - it seemed to work for me if I used Cint to make sure your are doing a lookup on a number:
For Each BugID In BugMatches
       BugID = StrConv(BugID, vbLowerCase)
       BugNumber = Trim(Replace(BugID, "bug", ""))
       Set BugRange = Worksheets("Bug Estimates").Range("A2:C5")
       Points = Application.VLookup(CInt(BugNumber), BugRange, 2, False)
       Debug.Print ("Points=" & Points)
Next

but I was only guessing what the data might look like.


Whenever possible, we ship same day Monday - Friday for orders placed before 12pm PST.
We'll ship your order FREE of charge via UPS, USPS or DHL within the contiguous United States. As soon as the shipment is deployed, you will receive a tracking number to the email address associated with your order.
We do not ship to Hawaii, Alaska or internationally.
If a billing address does not match a shipping address, we may call to confirm your order.
Some orders will require a signature on delivery. We will notify you if you will need to sign for delivery.
Your order may be split and divided between carriers and therefore have separate delivery dates. This occurs when we ship from multiple warehouses in the same order.


Published on January 25, 2015 in Elections, General T&T, Media, Parliament and Politics. 6 Comments Tags: Jamille Broome, Newsday, Politics, T&T Govt.
For years, political parties have promulgated change on their campaign platforms. Looking back, they've all purported to know what and how to change the problems within our once peaceful and thriving society, but at the end of the day, we're always left with nothing more than exchange. Every election, our parties mount platforms to engage in negative campaigning in order to convince the populace why NOT to vote for the opposing side(s), rather than emphasising their own positive attributes or preferred policies. Of course, this is effective in Trinidad and Tobago because we are a society of bacchanal. Remind us of how much money was stolen and how ineffective the last crime strategy was and you will definitely be the next party in power.


text:
Why Chawton is the most treasured Jane Austen site in the world
It is where she wrote some of her most famous novels
Laura NightingaleLife Writer
16:25, 29 NOV 2020
Jane Austen's house, Chawton, Alton (Image: Stephen Barnes/Alamy Stock Photo)
For all the latest food and drink, arts, culture and entertainment news directly to your inbox sign up to our What's On newsletter
Chawton is a very special place for English literature fans.
Located just outside Alton, north of the county, it is home to a charming Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen revised, wrote and had published her treasured novels.
It is where she spent the last eight years of her life and produced Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
She moved there in 1809 with her mother, sister Cassandra and friend Martha Lloyd.
In May 1817, after a period of ill health, Austen left the village to seek medical treatment in Winchester but died two months later on July 18, 1817.
Jane's mother and sister continued to live at the house for the rest of their lives.
Find out how you can get more news from HampshireLive straight to your inbox HERE
A signpost pointing to Jane Austen's House, Chawton (Image: Peter Thompson/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
In 1845 the house was split into three to provide homes for staff on the Chawton estate and the building remained in this state until it was put up for sale in 1947.
Today, it is know as Jane Austen's House and members of the public can visit and step back in time to 1816 and follow in her footsteps as she composed her books and created her timeless characters, exploring her home, discovering her belongings and wandering in the beautiful garden.
The Grade I listed building is one of the most important literary sites in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors each year.
The museum holds an important collection of objects associated with Austen, including letters she wrote and personal belongings such as jewellery, first editions of her books, furniture, textiles and the table at which she wrote her world famous novels.
The house is currently closed due to lockdown restrictions, but is expected to re-open in December with Christmas decorations, carols, extracts from Austen's novels and letters and the mince pie recipe she would have known.
Just down the road from it is Chawton House, a grade ll listed Elizabethan manor house set in gardens and parkland.
It was the home of Austen's brother and she visited the house and gardens on a regular basis.
Chawton House (Image: Getty Images)
Highlights associated with Austen include a reading alcove in the Oak Room where, according to Knight family legend, she liked to sit; the same room also features a miniature portrait of her beloved niece, Fanny Knight.
There is also a family dining table at which Jane dined with her brothers and sisters.
The house has a library called the Reading Room which has a remarkable collection of women's literature during 1600-1830, including rare early editions and some unique books.
Fans can visit the historic site, but currently only the gardens are open.
Like Jane Austen's House, Chawton House is expected to reopen to the public in December.
Find Chawton House and Jane Austen's House:
Chawton House, Chawton, near Alton, GU34 1SJ.
Jane Austen's House, Winchester Road, Chawton, near Alton, GU34 1SD.
Food & DrinkThe best Hampshire bakeries according to TripAdvisor including in the New Forest and PortsmouthThere are a whole host of options in Andover, Farnborough, Ringwood and more
Seven romantic getaways as Hampshire village named among best UK honeymoon spots
Beaulieu has also been previously been voted 'prettiest in the UK' and 'poshest village' in the county' twice
Portsmouth's Ricky Martin most successful winner of The Apprentice with company worth over 2 million
Ricky's first ever job was as a paper boy for the Portsmouth News and he was a student at Gosport's St Vincent College
Former Hampshire ticket office reopens as cafe commuters and community
New facility welcomed by rail users, local groups, as well as cyclists and walkers
SouthamptonSouthampton fundraisers to walk over hot coals for charityFire Walk will raise money for cancer centre based in hospital gounds
Southampton Bike Park reopens as part of multi-million-pound improvement programme
Facility will now be better for cyclists to use all year round
Southampton FCNathan Jones explains Southampton team selection vs Newcastle as James Bree makes full debutSouthampton take on Newcastle United on Tuesday night in the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final tie at St James' Park, with Nathan Jones making four changes to his team


The fully rugged Toughpad FZ-G1 tablet sets the benchmark for outdoor viewable tablets making it ideal for field workforces in outdoor scenarios. With its capacitive, 10-finger touch display and digitizer pen and flexible configurable ports this Windows 8 device can be used to view high definition documentation and images in the field whilst benefiting from connectivity options to ensure data is always available when needed. The flexible configuration port gives business users the legacy port options they require in a compact, fully rugged and lightweight form factor.
This page was printed on 4/19/2019 4:07:00 PM.


jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007 I posted a blog earlier after I heard from her, it was very short. She did not have the biopsies, they did not think it was necessary. They did some blood work and only ONE nodule was of any concern and it is smaller than one cm. If it gets to two cm by winter, THEN they will biopsy. She wrote a very short text because "company is here." I told her I posted and she said thank you.
Hopefully, she is on her way home now.
Prayers and good thoughts for Missy.
Loving God we pray for your blessings for Missy.


Currently we do not have any Michigan Indy 400 tickets available. Sometimes an event may have been announced, but tickets may not yet be available to anyone.
Be The First To Know When Michigan Indy 400 Tickets Are Available!
If you would like us to notify you when tickets for Michigan Indy 400 become available, fill in the form below. All fields are required.
Before placing your order please review our Michigan Indy 400 ticket ordering policies.
Team One Tickets is a privately owned agency that buys and resells Michigan Indy 400 tickets on the secondary market. We are not Ticketmaster, LiveNation, StubHub or the official Michigan Indy 400 box office nor are we affiliated with Michigan Indy 400 or any professional sporting organization, performer, or venue. Our ticket prices reflect the cost of obtaining premium seating and are usually sold above "face value".