The iPad is an almost perfect travel computer. It's easy to carry, works as a guide, a map, a book and it's crazy-long battery life will let you sit back and watch another movie while your laptop-toting companions search for a power outlet. But as convenient as it is, a little preparation will make things even smoother. Here are some things you should do before you leave the house.
A 3G iPad is a wonderfully useful machine, but outside of your home country, unless you're willing to pay extra for roaming or a new, local micro-SIM, you'll be back on Wi-Fi. Get ready for this by preparing a few apps.
OffMaps is an iPad (and iPhone) app which lets you download city maps for offline use. This lets you use the GPS (or Wi-Fi triangulation) on your iPad without an internet connection. City-specific versions of OffMaps are free, but a master version costs just $2 and lets you grab any map, for free, from within the app.
Maps are organized by country and then city, and are sourced from OpenStreetMaps, the crowd-sourced map project. There are also city guides which can be downloaded, and these not only give tourist hints and tips, but add a user-built database of restaurant, hotels, tourist-spots and so on. This makes searching the map double-useful. The guides cost around 30-cents each, and are paid for by buying tokens from within the app. Three free guides are included with the purchase.
One way to get online in a foreign city is to find some free Wi-Fi. But if you don't have an internet connection, you can't download a hotspot database. Do this before you leave. There are several free and paid apps in the store, although I couldn't find anything good for the iPad, so I just picked the free Wi-Fi Finder for iPhone and use it pixel-doubled.
If you're spending your days outside, a weather app is pretty essential. You'll need a connection to use it, but a once-a-day update should be enough. I use Weather Pro for iPad, which costs $5. It's uncannily accurate and easy to read, and yet offers an embarrassment of detail, from animated weather-radar charts to an hour-by-hour breakdown of rainfall predictions. It also works worldwide, unlike some rather short-sighted U.S-only apps.
Which one you choose depends on where you are going, and quality is astonishingly variable. For vacations, though, you should opt for a travel-guide app rather than a full-on dictionary, as these will have useful phrases grouped together. Try learning the numbers one to ten by looking them up individually in a dictionary instead of together on a page and you'll see why.
Why bother? Because if you are like most native English-speakers, you are an arrogant traveler, and you assume that you can just start talking English at somebody and they'll understand. They probably will, as these foreigners are smart enough to learn another language, but they'll hate you. You'd be amazed how far the local words for "hello", "please", "thank you", and "do you speak English?" will get you. I tried it in jaw-crunching Polish this past weekend and the helpful, warm smiles I got betrayed just how few people bother. This happened despite my truly dreadful pronunciation.
Wherever you store them, you should put your useful travel information in PDF-format for your travels. Well known guides are available as apps for some cities, but some of you may have illegitimate copies of the paper versions, or even saved Wikipedia articles. Convert to PDF and store on the iPad for fast, offline retrieval.
You don't want to stand out as a tourist, and in some areas you won't even want to pull out your iPad. To help, you'll need a case. It should be quick-access, as you'll likely be consulting the various guides and maps pretty often. The best kind is probably the flip-open type which makes your iPad look like a book. Failing this, a slim slip-cover will work, although you'll have to hold it as you read. Avoid anything big or bulky, and above all don't use something that looks like a computer bag.
If you're really not comfortable pulling out your iPad, or you just must consult the paper guide-book, cover that book in something. Do not wander the streets with a Lonely Planet book in hand. It screams "mug me" and makes you look like a dork. Best of all, try the little Moleskine City Guides, the most covert maps you can buy.
As you won't be using 3G, you should switch it off. The same goes for Wi-Fi, most of the time. The iPad has a great battery life, but you can extend it further by switching off unnecessary radios, especially if you are in an area with no 3G coverage (the constant search for a network will drain juice double-quick).
Don't do it right away, though: The GPS will grab its initial location much faster if it can use local cell-towers and Wi-Fi signals to give it a rough idea first. After initial acquisition, you can turn them off. Don't use airplane mode, though, as this also kills the GPS.
You can load the iPad up with the Lord of the Rings trilogy (books and movies) and the latest RPGs from Square, but won't you please think about the children? Or at least consider your non-nerd fellow travelers. Before you leave, download some multi-player and family-friendly games (Labyrinth 2 HD is a great choice, and has a free lite version). Also, consider short, throwaway TV-shows that everyone will like, and that can be watched in half-hour chunks. Think less "The Wire" and more "30 Rock". And don't forget a cheap, two-way headphone splitter for shared movie-watching.
And if you're sharing, there will come a point when you're left staring out the train window, bored to death. This is where you pull out your secret weapon: Your iPhone or iPod Touch, loaded up with all the same goodies. And one more thing: Put all the above apps on your first home screen. You'll thank me for it.
There must be plenty more great ways you can use your iPad when traveling, especially the online services I haven't covered here. Got any apps, accessories or general tips? Leave them, as ever, in the comments.


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Glorious Advent Celebration and Retirement Reception Honor the GIfts of Music and Teaching of Wesley Professor of Church Music Dr. Eileen Guenther
From the mass choir of 70-plus graduates, current students and friends, to the preaching of Dr. William Bobby McClain and the liturgical dance of Rev. J. Bruce Stewart, the annual Advent Service of Lessons and Carols not only celebrated the coming of the Lord Jesus, but was a fitting tribute to the 30 plus years of the ministry of music gifted to Wesley by Dr. Guenther.
And yet, while this service was meant to offer the opportunity for a community to share one more moment of music making with Dr. Guenther, she couldn't pass up a chance to use the power of music to offer praise to God and to shine a light upon some of the many injustices found within our world today.
In rehearsals prior to the service, Dr. Guenther made certain that the assembled musicians understood that the songs selected, particularly one piece, were more than just good music. "Canticle of the Turning (an Irish melody arranged by Hal Hopson) is perhaps the greatest social justice text ever written!," she said.
Justice was in Dr. Guenther's choice of communion celebrant: former student The Reverend Billy Kluttz. Dr. Guenther recounted how she was touched by hearing a eucharistic prayer he composed and asked him to adapt it specifically for this occasion. In part, the liturgy read: "There are a lot of folks who think that this is their table, who think that they control its bounty, its beauty, even its crumbs. But here's the good news, they couldn't be more wrong. This is Christ's table."
In reflecting on Dr.Guenther's contributions to Wesley and her impact upon him specifically, Rev. Kluttz recalled "Dr. Guenther made it clear that LGBTQ seminarians were welcome in her classroom (no matter what the broader church said); she taught us that we have to learn the context, culture, and history of the songs we sing in worship (and teach that to our churches, as well); and, I will never forget her course in South Africa and our time there together."
Guenther's passion for the African continent and its music is well known by all who know her. She roots her attraction to that music for its " depth of spirituality." "That is what draws us to any music," she said. "It has an engaging rhythm and a melody that does what the text says. It just draws you in and for me it's very approachable."
Her passion found expression in the final worship response entitled Njalo.
This rousing song of joyous worship, led by Ian Urriola (M. Div. Class of 2018), got the entire congregation on its feet, clapping and singing with obvious joy. Reflecting on his experiences with Dr. Guenther, Urriola offered: "she was a constant presence, force, and comfort during my time as a Wesley student. I carry her convictions surrounding worship planning, the necessity for a collegial relationship between musician and worship leader/pastor, and the pastoral role and function music plays in the life of a worshipping community every time I find myself stepping into a leadership role in a space of worship."
Yet, not just graduates and students were a part of this celebration. Many of Dr. Guenther's faculty colleagues and Wesley staff were present and participated as readers, including Dr. Lucy Hogan, Dr. Bruce Birch, Rev. Drema McAllister-Wilson, Dr. Deryl Davis, Sara Shepherd, Dr. Deborah Sokolove, Dr. Beverly Mitchell and Diane Wogaman, with the Rev. Dr. McClain offering the sermon.
In addition to offering praise to God and celebrating Dr. Guenther's ministry, Dr McClain challenged the assembled congregants with the observation that: "God used a woman to bring salvation into the world and yet, in the 21stcentury, there are still those who believe that women should not serve in positions of leadership within the church. Thank God that Wesley Seminary was not one of those places."
Yet, for all the gathered students, alumni and faculty, there were also many friends from outside the WTS community, particularly many who have previously worked with Dr. Guenther during her time at Foundry United Methodist Church.
Speaking for many of these friends, Ellen Bachman, who has known Eileen Guenther for over forty years, shared that "I was delighted to participate in the choir for the celebration of Eileen Guenther's retirement from music ministry at Wesley. I appreciated the many reflections on Eileen's contributions as professor and as musician to the WTS students and community, and to musical culture in our city. It is no surprise to me that Eileen made clear that our musical offerings were chosen as reflections God's call to Justice."
Following the worship service, many of the gathered friends, family members, students, alumni and colleagues adjourned to the Refectory to share a meal and offer remembrances of a legacy of teaching, scholarship and ministry.
Wesley President David McAllister-Wilson offered: "We recognize here a faculty member uniquely suited to be at a seminary that aspires to be a church-based seminary. I can think of only a handful of people who, in my lifetime, have had such a big impact on the practice of ministry, in congregations across the United States and around the world, than Eileen Guenther."
"Eileen Guenther has been much more than a Professor of Church Music at Wesley Theological Seminary. She has formed, literally, a part of this seminary's identity. I can't think of this seminary without thinking of Eileen Guenther," said Dr. Denise Dombkowski Hopkins.
This impact on the identity of WTS is evident, not just to long time students and colleagues but even to those who are new faces on the Wesley campus. Rashawn Hall, a first year M.Div. student, shared that "Dr. Guenther has been a joy to know even as a 1st Year M. Div student. Each choir rehearsal and chapel service revealed a glimpse of her extensive work and gifts that make her ministry of music incomparable. Dr. Guenther will be truly missed at Wesley!"
You can experience the sights and sounds of this special day honoring Dr. Eileen Guenther on December 3, 2019, both our Advent service of Carols and Lessons and retirement reception, via a video recording available now on www.facebook.com/wesleyseminary. The full recording will be uploaded to the Wesley YouTube channel shortly.

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I grew up in New York. As a child I greatly enjoyed playing sports, especially ice hockey and tennis. I loved to compete. Growing up I had the mind of an entrepreneur. Creating businesses and always looking for opportunities to make things better. I knew at a young age that I wanted to create something that was going to change the world.
The first time I visited San Francisco I immediately fell in love with the place and what was going on out there. How people shared ideas and encouraged each other to create. After returning to New York, I relocated out to San Francisco within a few months.
Today I am a veteran algo trader and experienced founder in the financial services and technology industry. A self taught programmer and systems architecture designer. I studied at Mount Angel Seminary and St. Joseph's College. I have lived abroad in Argentina, Mexico and Bosnia-Herzegovina. I actually met my wife while volunteering in Bosnia in a small village called Medjugorje. She was also volunteering there and at first we became best friends until we realized best friends do not think of each other twenty four hours a day seven days a week. Needless to day we fell in love, got married and now have three beautiful daughters.
What is a recent idea you had and how did you bring it to life?
I had finished coding an algorithm in 2Q17 using the MQL4 language on the Metatrader 4 platform. This algorithm trades in the foreign exchange markets which is the largest market in the world. Over five trillion dollars a day is traded between countries, central banks, corporations and banks. This algorithm was highly successful but I then had an idea on how to take something good and make it great.
I realized that by creating my own cryptocurrency and using the algorithm to create demand for this token within a platform via the age old principle of supply and demand it would cause the token to appreciate in value.
I launched a successful crowdsale in 3Q17 for Nucleus token on the Waves platform. The bot was also launched in 3Q17 ahead of schedule and is the first third party verified algorithm in the cryptocurrency markets. I am currently working with a development team building the back end framework of the site and preparing for the platform launch.
What's your favorite thing about your past job?
Learning how to be a leader and run a team. A team must have two things to be successful. First it must have trust and the second is friction. The friction is what causes solutions and trust to develop over time.
It is important to be able to delegate responsibility and build up those you place in leadership positions. You have to resist the urge to micro managing them. This can be difficult for an entrepreneur since. Allow them to flourish by allowing them to take the lead and have creative input into the project. I feel like this was the most important lesson I learned on my last project.
I have discovered the key to productivity comes from planning ahead and then following through on accomplishing my tasks with determination. Some people work better by writing down a list of what needs to be done. I have found what works best for me is to each day mentally visualize what I need to accomplish and prioritize each task mentally. I begin with tackling the most important tasks each day. What works best for me is to start early in the day and to take few breaks. Once my workflow is broken up by something it is difficult to get back into it. I am aware of this personal obstacle so I take steps to prevent it.
Personal health is critical to productivity. When I am eating well and exercising my brain is focused I am at peak productivity.
My dream is to create a self funding charity that gives to those who have taken the vow of poverty themselves and serve the poor. That is my goal. To help as many people as possible live better lives.
Education is important. It is critical to our future that everyone has access to the proper resources needed to learn and thrive. Our children need to be taught how to think for themselves and think critically. We spend a lot of time on our screens and viewing media. This media forms and shapes our ideas and persona. I would like to create a means of having good clean content and wonderful educational programs available for all of us and our children.
The most valuable lesson I have learned is that as an entrepreneur you only need to be right once. Failure can lead to your success. If you stay in your comfort zone two things are going to happen. Number one you are not going to grow. You are going probably going to do well at being mediocre. But if you are not pushing yourself beyond your limits and trying new things you are going to stay at the level where you are currently comfortable. Number two if you don't get out of your comfort zone you are not going to fail. If you don't fail you are not going to learn. Often times our failures lead to our greatest successes. And that is the what I have learned as an entrepreneur. It doesn't matter how many times you fail because you only need to be right once. To not be afraid to fail but go for it and give everything to building your dreams.
You have to learn to think for yourself, be creative, resourceful and always be very flexible. An entrepreneur has to be ready to pivot on a moments notice which means you no matter how hard you have worked on something you have to be ready to let it go.
Family. My wife and our marriage is the single most important thing in my life. We have three daughters and they are our joy. Being among the craziness of life is where happiness is found. I once heard as a parent the best thing that you can do is "waste time with your children" and I have taken that to heart. It is important to be there as much as possible spending time with them helping form them and at the same time learning from them how to have the heart of a child.
You have to learn from everything and everyone all the time. The advertisements you see on all mediums from the subway to luxury magazines. What are they saying and how are they reaching you? What emotions are they playing to inside you? When you watch a Ted Talk that is captivating you have to be asking yourself how is the presenter telling the story and why is it so effective that it has your full attention. When you met someone that makes an impression on you reflect on that and why. Use everything all the time to influence you and take the good from what you learn, make it your own, and make it great.
Entrepreneurs need to be unconventional. During my last creative phase to unwind every once in a while I would watch the movie "Jobs." I would watch twenty minutes here and there over and over again. My wife thought I was crazy. Steve Jobs was a visionary and he was the only person in this moment I wanted to study. This went on for months. There is one scene in the movie when Apple goes public and Steve walks into the office. Everybody is celebrating popping champagne and enjoying their success. Steve is as serious as can be and walks right past everyone into his office. He knows that right now all the work begins. When I successful funded my company I had the same attitude. Even though I had put in years of hard work already, I knew the real work was just beginning. My wife asked me why are you not happy? I told her I am overjoyed but now the work begins and that is what I am focused on.
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British rock band reveals nervous excitement about Seoul concert
From left to right, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane from Mumford & Sons/ Courtesy of Live Nation Kra
By Jung Hae-myoung
Mumford & Sons, a British folk rock band that performs with various musical instruments, will have its first performance in Korea this November. Prior to their visit, Ben Lovett ― who plays accordion as well as piano, synthesizers and sometimes vocals in the band ― had an interview with The Korea Times to give a sneak peek into their Seoul concert.
Lovett said the band was thrilled to be able to tour Asia. He said the members of Mumford & Sons love traveling which was also a big reason why they set up the band in the first place.
"I don't believe any of us have ever been to Korea, let alone play a show, so there's that nervous excitement about what it's going to be like," Lovett said.
Mumford & Sons will perform at MUV Hall near Hongik University in western Seoul, Nov. 15, as part of their Asian Tour 2019. / Courtesy of Live Nation Korea
Mumford & Sons was founded back in December 2007 in the U.K. by Marcus Mumford. After playing in all sorts of bands, Mumford had a handful of songs to start the band. The band members are good friends with each other as some of them go way back 25 years. Lovett said now they feel like brothers.
"Mumford & Sons was supposed to resemble four brothers rather than father and sons. Funnily enough, we never thought we'd do much more than play a handful of gigs opening up for other bands, and then things started to take off, and we didn't get round to changing the name," he said. He added that sometimes they regret it, but now it is just who they are.
Since their debut, their unique selection of instruments, such as banjo and mandolin, has grabbed a lot of attention from listeners. Then for their third album "Wilder mind," they boldly left out acoustic sounds ― which had been deemed as part of their core identity ― and opted for synthesizers and electric guitar.
With such experiments, Mumford and Son's music is known as "West London Folk" rather than traditional folk music. Lovett says they have never felt like they sat comfortably in a traditional genre since they were just experimenting with different kinds of instruments.
"We just were interested in these instruments at the time we started the band," he said. "If Mumford & Sons had started five years earlier, I think we could have been a punk band!"
The multi-talented members also swap roles when they make tracks, rather than sticking to one instrument. Mumford is usually the main vocalist yet he also plays guitars and drums. Winston Marshall, playing banjo, also takes bass guitar, and Ted Dwane plays double bass as well as drums and bass guitar too.
"If someone has an idea, and they can play it on the instrument, then they will often be the one to record it," Lovett said.
Recently, they have been experimenting more with a drum machine.
"We technically don't have a drummer in our band, although we all play a bit of drums," he said. "Sometimes we like to setup a drum machine loop and play together over it. I could see us doing more of that in the future."
Experimenting with different instruments, they also take many references from other kinds of music. For their third album "Delta," they went from listening to folk records to dance, from heavy rock to R&B.
Paul Epworth, who produce the record, has encyclopedic knowledge of music and would reference sections of all sorts of pieces of music, and they would take his advice for their own music.
With a variety of instruments, the band often sings about love. Although a broad subject, Lovett said love in his book is being "selfless" and a "willingness to give over to another."
"Therefore it is very exposing and dangerous as if you love someone without a backup plan ― if you trust them fully, then you are empowering them to either reciprocate or let you down," he said. He added songwriting can be a great outlet when one may experience love and loss, hope and hopelessness.
Mumford & Sons won "British Album of the Year" at the Brit Awards in 2009. The band then won "Album of the Year" at the Grammy Awards in 2013, and their second album "Babel" made top of the U.K. album chart and Billboard chart.
hmjung@koreatimes.co.kr More articles by this reporter


Feds Demand Info on Child Safety Seat Recall - South Carolina Personal Injury Attorneys | Strom Law Firm, L.L.C.
In February of this year, Graco, a child safety seat manufacturer owned by Newell Rubbermaid Inc, issued the largest child safety seat recall in the last five years, spurred by a demand from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. However, the NHTSA demanded the company recall more models of car seat than the company announced.
Now, federal regulators are demanding information from Graco to determine why the company failed to recall specifically-requested infant safety seats in the child safety seat recall.
However, the NHTSA said that the product recall issued by Graco does not cover 7 other models of child safety seat that the agency requested.
On Thursday, March 6th, the NHTSA demanded more information from the company to prove that the child safety seats were safe for use.
When you are expecting a child, purchasing a child safety seat is one of the most important decisions to consider. There are a variety of options to choose from, and although protecting your child is foremost in your mind, he or she may not be as safe in the back seat of your vehicle as you think.
The federal government mandated an attachment system, known as LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children) to be put in place after inspections found child-safety seats were frequently installed incorrectly.
A 2004 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that belt buckles and other seat hardware could get in the way of the child seat connectors, and that the anchors could become buried in the seat and therefore be out of reach. Consistent problems with belts and buckles on child safety seats can lead to product recalls to improve safety conditions for children; however, manufacturers are consistently on the defensive regarding their products, sometimes compromising child safety for profit margins.
If you or someone you know has been injured by defective or dangerous product , such as an inadequate child safety seat, and feel that you may be owed financial compensation, we urge you to contact one of our lawyers as soon as possible. The attorneys at the Strom Law Firm offer free, confidential consultations to discuss the facts of your case. 803.252.4800.


Inspired by a geometric model of the fourth dimension where space and time are unified—The Hyper-Cube adapts the concept into a geometric design expression of a cube within a cube. Translating the four-dimensional form into a three-dimensional object expands the boundaries of our perception of space, and blurs the line between the conceptual and the functional.
In this initial series of four unique designs—one of which was acquired by The Pompidou Center in Paris for their permanent collection in 2016—a blackened steel hyper-cube envelope surrounds a walnut cube, accentuating its duality: the materiality of the 200-year-old American walnut and the immateriality of the geometric theory that inspired its form.
The perception of form and dimension is heightened with an origami-like construction of the curving drawer faces, where a single wooden slab seems to have been "folded" to form each half of a bisected cube, the natural edge of the slab creating an organic fissure between the removable drawers.
The Hyper-Cubes, designed simultaneously by Aharoni in a set of four as a reference to the square, were conceived in 2012, and completed in 2014. The Hyper-Cube exemplifies Aharoni's design work through its combination of natural and industrial materials; the integration of geometric form and functional object; the contrast of wide and slender silhouettes; the juxtaposition of warm and cool palettes; and the integrity of craftsmanship and detail.


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El Tractat de Fort Adams va ser signat el 17 de desembre de 1801 entre els choctaws (una de les nacions ameríndies) i el govern dels Estats Units. El tractat cedit 2.641.920 acres (10.691,5 km²) de terres choctaw. Els comissionats informaren al president Thomas Jefferson que "per primera vegada, la generositat dels Estats Units va ser implorada, i ens suplicaven materials, eines, instruments i instructors, per ajudar els seus esforços, i per dirigir els seus treballs ... esperem, que per l'atenció liberal i ben dirigida del Govern, aquestes persones puguin ser felices i útils; i que els Estats Units puguin guarir el dolor i evitar expulsar-los o destruir-los."

Significància per a la Nació Choctaw
Encara que el tractat va ser dissenyat originalment per a la creació del Natchez Trace, que seria el primer d'una sèrie de tractats que eventualment portarien a l'expulsió de la Nació Choctaw l'est del riu Mississipí.

Termes

El preàmbul comença amb,

1. Pau i amistat
2. Camí de carros pel territori choctaw
3. Definició de fronteres
4. Notificació de topografia
5. Compensacions financeres
6. Quan el tractat sigui efectgiu

Signataris
James Wilkinson, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, Buckshun Nubby, Mingo Hom Massatubby.

Vegeu també
 Llista de tractats choctaw
 Tractat de Hopewell
 Tractat de Fort Confederation
 Tractat de Hoe Buckintoopa
 Tractat de Mount Dexter
 Tractat de Fort St. Stephens
 Tractat de Doak's Stand
 Tractat de Washington City
 Tractat de Dancing Rabbit Creek
 Llista dels tractats

Referències

Enllaços externs
 (Tractat amb els Choctaw, 1801)

Fort Adams
Esdeveniments de la dècada del 1800
1801

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Dream Catcher (eerder Zwunka) was een Vliegend tapijt in het Nederlandse Attractiepark Slagharen. Per uur konden er 860 personen in de attractie en per rit is er plaats voor 40 personen.

Dream Catcher stond naast White Water, achteraan aan de rand van het park.

50 jaar Slagharen
Het attractiepark maakte in 2012 bekend dat dat het laatste jaar zou worden van deze attractie. Er moest plaats worden gemaakt voor nieuwe attracties. Toenmalig directrice Angelique Klar wou van enkele klassiekers af en wilde nieuwe attracties plaatsen ter ere van het vijftigjarig bestaan van het park. Eind dat seizoen werd Dream Catcher dus afgebroken, en werd het Looping Schip Flying Cloud naar deze plaats verhuisd. Zo kwam vooraan het park plaats vrij voor wat nieuws.

Als reden voor de keuze voor Dream Catcher om het park te verlaten gaf Klar onder andere zeer hoge onderhoudskosten op.

Op de plaats van Flying Cloud voor in het park werd een Rockin' Tug gebouwd met de naam Fogg's Trouble.

Twee jaar later werd Flying Cloud echter opnieuw afgebroken, omdat zich daar tegenwoordig het buitengedeelte van het zwemcomplex Aqua Mexicana bevindt. (Noot: White Water behoort sindsdien ook tot het waterpark en is niet meer toegankelijk voor pretparkbezoekers).

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First Bull Run
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Burnside was a brigadier general in the Rhode Island Militia. He raised a regiment, the 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and was appointed its colonel on May 2, 1861. Within a month, he ascended to brigade command in the Department of Northeast Virginia. He commanded the brigade without distinction at the First Battle of Bull Run in July, committing his troops piecemeal, and took over division command temporarily for wounded Brig. Gen. David Hunter. After his 90-day regiment was mustered out of service, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on August 6, and was assigned to train provisional brigades in the nascent Army of the Potomac.[4]
Burnside (seated, center) and officers of the 1st Rhode Island at Camp Sprague, Rhode Island, 1861.
[edit] North Carolina
Burnside commanded the Coast Division, or North Carolina Expeditionary Force—three brigades assembled in Annapolis, Maryland, which formed the nucleus for his future IX Corps—and the Department of North Carolina, from September 1861 until July 1862. He conducted a successful amphibious campaign that closed over 80% of the North Carolina sea coast to Confederate shipping for the remainder of the war.[7] For his successes at the battles of Roanoke Island and New Bern, the first significant Union victories in the Eastern Theater, he was promoted to major general on March 18. In July, his forces were transported north to Newport News, Virginia, and became the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac.[4]
Following Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's failure in the Peninsula Campaign, Burnside was offered command of the Army of the Potomac. Refusing this opportunity—because of his loyalty to McClellan and because he understood his own lack of military experience— he detached part of his corps in support of Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia in the Northern Virginia Campaign. Telegrams extremely critical of Pope's abilities as a commander from Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter that he received at this time and forwarded on to his superiors in concurrence would later play a significant role in Porter's court-martial, in which Burnside would appear as a star witness.
Burnside again declined command following Pope's debacle at Second Bull Run.[8]
[edit] Antietam
Burnside Bridge at Antietam in 2005
Burnside was given command of the "Right Wing" of the Army of the Potomac (the I Corps and IX Corps) at the start of the Maryland Campaign for the Battle of South Mountain, but McClellan separated the two corps at the Battle of Antietam, placing them on opposite ends of the Union battle line, returning Burnside to command of just the IX Corps. Implicitly refusing to give up his higher authority, Burnside treated first Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno (killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox as the corps commander, funneling orders to the corps through them. This cumbersome arrangement contributed to his slowness in attacking and crossing what is now called "Burnside's Bridge" on the southern flank of the Union line.[9]
Burnside did not perform adequate reconnaissance of the area, and instead of taking advantage of several easy fording sites out of range of the enemy, his troops were forced into repeated assaults across the narrow bridge which was dominated by Confederate sharpshooters on high ground. By noon, McClellan was losing patience. He sent a succession of couriers to motivate Burnside to move forward. He ordered one aide, "Tell him if it costs 10,000 men he must go now." He increased the pressure by sending his inspector general to confront Burnside, who reacted indignantly: "McClellan appears to think I am not trying my best to carry this bridge; you are the third or fourth one who has been to me this morning with similar orders."[10] The delay allowed Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill's Confederate division to come up from Harpers Ferry and repulse the Union breakthrough. McClellan refused Burnside's requests for reinforcements, and the battle ended in a tactical stalemate.[11]
[edit] Fredericksburg
Main article: Battle of Fredericksburg Union General Ambrose Burnside, 1862.
McClellan was removed after failing to pursue General Robert E. Lee's retreat from Antietam, and Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac on November 7, 1862. He reluctantly obeyed this order, the third such in his brief career. President Abraham Lincoln pressured Burnside to take aggressive action and on November 14 approved his plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. This plan led to a humiliating and costly Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13. His advance upon Fredericksburg was rapid, but planning in marshaling pontoon bridges for crossing the Rappahannock River and his own reluctance to deploy portions of his army across fording points later delayed the attack. This allowed Gen. Lee to concentrate along Marye's Heights just west of town and easily repulse the Union attacks. Assaults south of town, which were supposed to be the main avenue of attack, were also mismanaged, and initial Union breakthroughs went unsupported. Upset by the failure of his plan and by the enormous casualties of his repeated, futile frontal assaults, Burnside declared that he would lead an assault by his old corps. His corps commanders talked him out of it, but relations between the commander and his subordinates were strained. Accepting full blame, he offered to retire from the U.S. Army, but this was refused.
In January 1863, Burnside launched a second offensive against Lee, but it bogged down in winter rains before it accomplished anything and has been derisively called the Mud March. In its wake, he asked that several officers, who were openly insubordinate, be relieved of duty and court-martialed; he also offered to resign. Lincoln chose the latter option on January 26 and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, one of the officers who had conspired against Burnside.[12]
[edit] East Tennessee
Lincoln was unwilling to lose Burnside from the Army and assigned him to command the Department of the Ohio and his old IX Corps. In Ohio, Burnside issued his controversial General Order Number 38, making it a crime to express any kind of opposition to the war. Burnside used it to arrest former Ohio congressman and candidate for governor of Ohio, Clement Vallandigham, a prominent leader in the copperhead peace movement, and try him in a military court (despite the fact that he was a civilian).[13] Burnside also dealt with Confederate raiders such as John Hunt Morgan.
In the Knoxville Campaign, Burnside advanced to Knoxville, Tennessee, first bypassing the Confederate-held Cumberland Gap. After occupying Knoxville unopposed, he sent troops back to the Cumberland Gap. Brig. Gen. John W. Frazer, the Confederate commander, refused to surrender in the face of two Union brigades and Burnside arrived with a third, forcing the surrender of Frazer and 2,300 Confederates.[14] After Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans was defeated at the Battle of Chickamauga, Burnside was pursued by Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, against whose troops he had battled at Marye's Heights. Burnside skillfully outmaneuvered Longstreet at the Battle of Campbell's Station and was able to reach his entrenchments and safety in Knoxville, where he was briefly besieged until the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Fort Sanders outside the city. Tying down Longstreet's corps at Knoxville contributed to Gen. Braxton Bragg's defeat by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga. Troops under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman marched to Burnside's aid, but the siege had already been lifted; Longstreet withdrew, eventually returning to Virginia.[12]
[edit] Overland Campaign
Burnside was ordered to take the IX Corps back to the Eastern Theater, where, in Annapolis, Maryland, he built it up to a strength of over 21,000 effectives.[15] The IX Corps fought in the Overland Campaign of May 1864 as an independent command, reporting initially to Grant; his corps was not assigned to the Army of the Potomac because Burnside outranked its commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, who had been a division commander under Burnside at Fredericksburg. This cumbersome arrangement was rectified on May 24 just before the Battle of North Anna, when Burnside agreed to waive his precedence of rank and was placed under Meade's direct command.[16]
Burnside fought at the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, where he did not perform in a distinguished manner,[17] attacking piecemeal and appearing reluctant to commit his troops to the frontal assaults that characterized these battles. After North Anna and Cold Harbor, he took his place in the siege lines at Petersburg.[18]
[edit] The Crater
Petersburg Crater with Union soldier in 1865
As the two armies faced the stalemate of trench warfare at Petersburg in July 1864, Burnside agreed to a plan suggested by a regiment of Pennsylvania coal miners in his corps: dig a mine under a fort in the Confederate entrenchments and ignite explosives there to achieve a surprise breakthrough. The fort was destroyed on July 30 in what is known as the Battle of the Crater. Because of interference from Meade, Burnside was ordered, only hours before the infantry attack, not to use his division of black troops, which had been specially trained for this mission. He was forced to use untrained white troops instead. He could not decide which division to choose as a replacement, so he had his three subordinate commanders draw lots. The division chosen by chance was that commanded by Brig. Gen. James H. Ledlie, who failed to brief the men on what was expected of them and was reported during the battle to be drunk well behind the lines, providing no leadership. Ledlie's men entered the huge crater instead of going around it, becoming trapped, and were subjected to murderous fire from Confederates around the rim, resulting in high casualties.
Burnside was relieved of command on August 14 and sent on leave by Grant; Meade never recalled him to duty. A court of inquiry later placed the blame for the Crater fiasco on Burnside and his subordinates. In December, Burnside met with President Lincoln and General Grant about his future. He was contemplating resignation, but Lincoln and Grant requested that he remain in the Army. At the end of the interview, Burnside wrote, "I was not informed of any duty upon which I am to be placed." He finally resigned his commission on April 15, 1865.
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Can you believe it's December? Wow. December is always such a crazy month for me. I rarely get any writing done because of all the shopping and decorating, baking, wrapping, and now with my granddaughter to take care of.
Speaking of... Isn't she adorable?
Now add to all of that craziness, I'll be taking care of my husband after eye surgery. He's off work the entire month and has to remain in one position. Yikes!
Anyway, I'm giving away TWO FREE Audio versions of The Ransom !! That's a $21 value each! All I require is that if you win, you will tell your friends how marvelous it was and leave a review of the Audio version on Amazon. If you want to listen to a sample of the narrator, click to go to Amazon and press Play Sample underneath the book picture. The narrator's name is Fiona Hardingham. She's a British actress who is positively fabulous!
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To enter, leave a comment telling me what your December is usually like and please include your email address. I will pick a winner next week!
Every Scene should have a purpose. If you've been writing awhile, you probably know this, but you'd be surprised how many books I read (by best-selling authors) that have multiple scenes where nothing is really happening and nothing is accomplished. There are book goals (Things you want to accomplish through the entire story. This could be themes, lessons, morals or just a satisfying conclusion) And there are chapter goals and scene goals. Each scene should do one of the following: Move the story along in the plot, introduce vital information or a new character, deepen character relationships, make things worse for the characters (introduce insurmountable problems), or address the overall theme or moral of the story. The BEST Scenes combine more than one of these things.
First off, I hope the surgery went well for your husband ! Remaining in 'one position', and for an entire month .... wow, that's an extremely tall order ! Hopefully the month will pass by quickly, with good healing results ! Glad the surgery is over.
My December .... hmmmmm. Well, if I "thought" my brain was in revved-up-mode for the other eleven months of the year .... not so compared to December ! Cannot stop all the thinking, pre-planning, pondering, etc, swirling around in my mind. Do not like what we (as a people) have created Christmas into becoming .... hustle and bustle, with barely taking time and thought to remember 'the reason for the season'.
It's past time, once again, to think on my favourite Scripture verse: "Be still, and know, that I Am God." Psalm 46:10.
Blessings and well wishes to your husband, MaryLu.
Have a good wknd everyone.
Ahh..December...it's like I blink and suddenly we're already a week into it, and I have a lot of presents left to get, even though I usually start looking in August :). I would absolutely love to win a copy of the audiobook; I'm a huge audiobook fan because it helps me finish a lot of books even when I don't have the time to sit down and read. Thanks so much for going through all the work to produce one!
My december is all about birthdays, decorating the house. Baking cookies, listening to christmas music and watching christmas movies.
December used to be busy for us but the past year or two things have actually slowed down. Lots of carols. And I always read Dickens to the boys. :) you have my email already and I'd love to hear your book!
Oh my goodness! Your hubby has to stay like that for an entire MONTH? Gracious! Praying for healing and God's strength to endure the time he has to stay in that one position. I hope he's figured out something he can do to occupy his time. My Decembers are somewhat busy with shopping and watching Christmas movies and such. But I always try to keep the true meaning of Christmas at the forefront of my mind. As the song goes, "What is Christmas without Christ?" Would love to hear the audio version of "The Ransom". Christmas Blessings to you, MaryLu!
Our December is usually chaotic. Seems more so this year, since my daughter is now in school and clubs. We try to get the tree up after Thanksgiving. Once the decorating done, the kids pretend to wrap presents and give them to each other. Yes, we waste a LOT of wrapping paper, but it's all fun.
Thank you, MaryLu! Enjoy your first Christmas with that precious baby girl.
Your granddaughter is so delightful! What a treasure!!
SO sorry to hear about your husband's surgery, MaryLu - I'm praying for him a rapid, complete and comfortable recovery and a stress-free, peaceful time for both of you!!
Yes, Andrea IS adorable - bet she loves all the Christmas decor!!
Love the narrator's voice in the audio version of "The Ransom" and looking forward to hearing the entire novel!!
My December should be less stressful now that I am retired and buy gifts during the year, however, no matter how much time there is to prepare - it seems there are always things that don't get done as there are always new situations to consume time. But - I've learned not to stress out during the Christmas season as I once did, accept my limitations and concentrate on the most important tasks, enjoy simple pleasures (such as a new Christmas novel, movie and/or music CD - in my recliner by the window, with blanket - hot tea and a snack, in front of my faux fireplace and watching the snow), count my blessings and concentrate on the real meaning of Christmas - Christ!!
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Usually our Christmas is pretty quiet. Our children all have jobs they have to work the day before & after and are hours away. This year will be a little busier. 2 families are coming to Grandma's house.. Going to be a wonderful Christmas. I'll put up the big tree this year!
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December is so busy for me! I'm seven months pregnant but am going to be busy all the way up until Christmas!
I'm finishing my second to last semester earning my Master of Arts in English Studies. I have three research papers, two finals, a final portfolio consisting of two revised creative short stories, a book review, a cover letter about our revisions, and a cover letter for submitting the stories for publication! In addition I have to read two 200 - page books for classes, take a quiz, and find a published journal article! That's just for classes!
Then my husband wants to have his family over for Christmas so that will involve decorating, cleaning, and food prep. And I'm still planning to bake some treats for my husband and I! I also have two part time Jobs to help make ends meet that I still have to go to!
Hello, I'm a landlocked freebooter, and I'm starting a new tradition this year... handmade Christmas presents. My allowance is limited and I won't know when my next fiduciary influx will be, so d.i.y. it is. And since I am a crafty pirate by nature, (wink,wink) I thought I would put my skills to good use and surprise my aunties with Naalbound hot pads. (break for etymology lesson) "Naalbinding" is Danish for "needle binding", and is not to be mistaken for knitting or crocheting. (Question: Why is a pirate interested in fiber crafts? Isn't that for Renaisssance fair-goers and Mennonite wives?) While this particular fiber craft has appeared in numerous cultures over the decades, (it's at least as old as the 4th century BC; because archeologists in Egypt found a pair of funky two-toed socks made by Coptic Christians that they believe to be that old) it was the Vikings; those brawny, bearded, Chris Hemsworth-y pirates of the Hinterlands, who lovingly adopted this fiber craft into their culture. They made socks, mittens, hats; even those smart looking woolen hoods under their helmets were made using needle binding; very effective against that cold North wind and the prospect of chafing. If you want a more contemporary example, watch the Disney film Frozen and take special notice of Anna's mittens. Yeah, I'm weird enough to notice things like that. (okay, research overload) I must confess, though, that my skills in this given area are infantile at best. Out of the one thousand twenty-four stitches there are to master, I've learned...maybe...two. Which is why aunties get pot holders; I don't trust myself to adeptly make anything bigger in a hurry.
Is this what I usually do for Christmas? No. Normally, my Christmases are about me getting presents. And I've never given a handmade gift to anyone. Enough is enough! Within the last few years, I've turned over a new leaf and decided it's better to give than to receive.
Anyway, audio entertainment is much appreciated when one has to sit still for long periods of time. Because I don't like to sit still for more than five seconds, listening to a gripping adventure/drama while I craft is ideal.
Wait a minute! Isn't asking for a free audiobook totally contradicting my resolution?
Blessings for the New Year from the Dread Pirate Priss.
Dec? creating a new Advent 'wreath' expression, lighting each candle with anticipation and hope, taking time to still and listen with my <3 - decorating with small tabletop trees now that I'm in an apartment - and of course a welcoming wreath on the door. New this year will be having my 1st grandchild here as my son has moved back to our home city with his family in his phD work - excited for storytimes with wee babe ;) and dinner and family and friends. more involved in relationally lifegiving activities at this time of celebration of God's relationally lifegiving Gift !


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While the smash-hit musical follows the lead character's search for her father, in real life ABBA singer Frida didn't know of her father's existence until she skyrocketed to fame in her 30s.
Her father was actually a Nazi, and she was actually conceived as part of Hitler's program to propagate the Aryan race.
Her shocking story, brought to you by The Jewish Channel.
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Y'all, it seems that my scrapbooking days have come into my present day because the latest trend in the lettering world is embossing your lettering – so of course I'm going to emboss my bullet journal.
I wanted to spiff up my Leuchtturm cover for my lettering business, so why not share the video on how I did it?
What a beautiful and simple way to customize your journal! Thanks for sharing.
There's a lot of learning, failing, and experimenting for sure! Do you have a favorite page or function?
Has it lasted on the journal?


This appears to be an Italian group, recorded in Switzerland with a Cuban trumpet player by a Scandinavian record company. Having got that out of the way the music is fairly high intensity hard bop with contemporary overtones. Pianist/leader DeFinti drives hard on the opening track but plays with great delicacy and lyricism on the three ballads on offer. His chime-like introduction on "The Day I Will See You Again" is reminiscent of the best of Bill Evans in style. The rhythm players are all highly skilled and inventive and Mela has a wide range on trumpet and flugel to offer. The programme consists of originals and is interesting although the tracks are not exactly memorable as compositions.
De Finti (p); Stefano Dall'Ora (b); Marco Castiglioni (d); Gendrickson Mela (t, flh) 24, 25 February & 13 May 2018.


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Drivers Talk on Phones Less but Surf Internet and Social Media More, Study Finds
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BLOOMINGTON, Illinois – Drivers are talking on phones behind the wheel less frequently but surfing the Internet and connecting to social media more often, according to a new study from State Farm.
The insurance provider's annual Distracted Driving Survey questioned 1,000 U.S. adults about their driving behavior and found that while holding phone conversations has decreased by 14 percent since 2009, using a smartphone to surf the Web and access social media has more than doubled.
Meanwhile, the study determined that texting while driving has stayed relatively constant over the same period of time.
Of those surveyed, 51 percent said they talk on the phone while operating a vehicle, compared to 65 percent in 2009; 29 percent connect to the Internet, up from 13 percent; and 36 percent admit to texting, compared to 31 percent in the 2009 study.
Despite a significant number of respondents engaging in these behaviors behind the wheel, 95 percent of them said they find surfing the Web at least somewhat distracting, and 94 percent said the same thing about texting.
"It's interesting to observe how the number and types of distractions available on cellphones have grown over the years we have conducted this annual survey," said Chris Mullen, director of Technology Research for State Farm, in a statement. "We want to remind people that despite these and other demands on your attention when driving, please stay 100 percent focused on your drive."
According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, 3,154 people were killed and 424,000 injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers in the most recent year for which data are available.
Concluded Mullen: "Potential solutions lie in a combination of education and awareness, technology, regulation and enforcement."
Edmunds says: Distraction behind the wheel remains a serious problem, yet surveys like this indicate that large numbers of drivers continue to engage in this careless behavior.
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Securex South Africa 2018 is launching a new Cyber Lab feature this year, the first one of its kind to be introduced at the expo.
Powered by XGRC Software, a range of integrated management system solutions designed to meet a company's governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) strategy available locally through Strategix Application Solutions, the goal of the new Cyber Lab is to create an area where awareness of information security can be raised, through an interactive approach.
Jacob O'Brien, Strategix MD, explains: "Information security is an extremely hot topic both within Africa and the rest of the world – and for good reason. In this information age, information assets are incredibly valuable to any business.
The Cyber Lab will showcase a stereotypical 'hacker's bedroom' setup, taking visitors through a number of practical scenarios that could affect both work and home life. There will also be an interactive demo area, where attendees can review and get to grips with a real-life example of an information security management system (ISMS).
Furthermore, aside from the more than 20 highly topical seminar sessions to be covered at the Securex 2018 free-to-attend seminar theatre, the Cyber Lab will feature a number of specialist speakers, covering topics including 'Social Engineering' (which will incorporate and interactive real life scenario), 'Cloud Safety', and 'What is an ISMS?'.
"In addition, we will dive into the intricacies of the ISO 27001:2013 standard, the only auditable international standard for ISMSes. Here, we will address the legal implications of the standard and look at why organisations need to assess risks associated with their information assets, and how these risks can be mitigated," O'Brien continues.


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Collateral Consequences and Reentry Needs
The term "collateral consequences" refers to restrictions that follow the completion of a criminal sentence. Throughout European and early American history, these revocations of civil rights were viewed as the civil death of those who experienced them. Historically, this applied primarily to rights related to inheritance and property, and was utilized alongside capital punishment to settle the affairs of someone who committed a serious felony.1 Modern collateral consequences began to appear in 1898 with the case of Hawker v. New York, in which the Court upheld the state's exclusion of those with felonious records from the practice of medicine.2 Restrictions such as this, combined with the expansion of government welfare programs from the 1960s onward, led to an increasing number of benefits withheld from those who have committed crime. The American Bar Association has identified over 44,000 legal collateral consequences in existence today.3
Federal law prohibits those with a felony on their criminal record from some significant welfare programs and benefits. For example, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) automatically bans those with a record of certain sex or drug offenses from living in public housing.4 HUD also grants broad authority to local public housing authorities (PHAs) to deny housing to those with a criminal record. PHAs do not have to prove this criminal activity, and can rely solely on record of arrest to justify exclusion.5 HUD secretary Julian Castro has encouraged local PHAs to loosen such restrictions, and some major cities such as Chicago and New York City have developed pilot programs to allow those who have committed a felony to participate in public housing.6
A federal law, passed in 1996, also bars those who have committed certain drug offenses from receiving welfare funds including the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).7 However, states are permitted to opt out of this exclusion. By 2015, 14 states had chosen to opt out of the restriction on TANF recipients, while 23 states retained a partial ban, and 13 states retained the full restrictions of the federal law.8 More states have opted out the exclusion as it relates to SNAP, with 18 states lifting the restriction fully, and 25 states retaining only a partial ban on assistance to those with a criminal history.9 The U.S. House Judiciary Committee called attention to the vast number and impact of collateral consequences during a hearing devoted to the topic in January 2014.10
Even after paying their debt to society, the 65 million men and women with criminal records in America continue to face the "second prison," systematic and often life-long barriers to second chance opportunities. After someone has completed their traditional sentence, Prison Fellowship believes only restrictions to personal liberty that have a demonstrated and substantial link to protecting public safety should be permissible. Even in these limited cases, the restrictions should be anticipated at the time of sentencing as part of the defendant's proportional punishment and notification of all such consequences should be given to the defendant during the trial process. Accordingly, Prison Fellowship has supported advocacy campaigns to lift bans on access to nutrition assistance and housing access. We played a leading role in passage of the Second Chance Act, which provides funding for reentry programs like mentoring and job training, and we continue to advocate for its reauthorization. Prison Fellowship also directly ministers to men and women returning from prison to the community through faithful church partners and volunteer mentors across the country.
We ought to celebrate redemption and allow people to give back to society at their highest potential. That's why Prison Fellowship started The Second Prison Project campaign to raise awareness about the barriers people face after leaving prison and to fight the culture stigma that comes with a criminal record. The campaign also exists to engage those with criminal records and who have served time to pour their experience back into those who are returning now. In this way, we following the tradition of many addiction recovery groups who have mentors who are clean and sober helping newcomers get clean and sober. We have seen time and again how sharing what God did to change a person can be used to attract more people to the same solution we share in Christ.
1 Rebecca Beitsch, States Rethink Restrictions on Food Stamps, Welfare for Drug Felons, PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS, Jul.30, 2015, http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2015/07/30/states-rethink-restrictions-on-food-stamps-welfare-for-drug-felons.
2 170 U.S. 189 (1898).
3 AM. BAR ASS'N CRIM. JUST. SECTION, NAT'L INVENTORY OF THE COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF CONVICTION (2013), http://www.abacollateralconsequences.org/map/.
4 42 U.S.C. § 13663(a) (2000), 42 C.F.R. § 960.204(a)(3)-(4) (2005).
5 Dᴇᴘ'ᴛ OF Hᴏᴜ. & Uʀʙ. Dᴇᴠ., Public Housing Occupancy Guidebook, (June 2003).
6 Brentin Mock, Should People With Criminal Histories Be Banned From Public Housing?, CITYLAB, Sep. 18, 2015, http://www.citylab.com/crime/2015/09/should-people-with-criminal-histories-be-banned-from-public-housing/406015/.
7 Ben Geiger, The Case for Treating Ex-Offenders as a Suspect Class 94 CALIF.L.REV 78, at 1205 (2006).
9 Id.
10 Collateral Consequences: Hearing Before the Over-criminalization Task Force of the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 113th Cong. (2014), https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/113-100_88438.pdf.
Second Chance Reauthorization Act legislative primer: Prison Fellowship believes each person impacted by crime and incarceration has intrinsic value and the capacity for change. Because a restorative approach is the key to building a better criminal justice system, we have defined a justice framework to guide our nation's efforts to reform our ineffective, expensive, and broken criminal justice system.
Locked Out: Voices from America's Second Prison is a book of compiled testimonies of people who have experienced the impact of collateral consequences as a result of their criminal record
Written Testimony submitted by Prison Fellowship's Jesse Wiese to the House Judiciary Over-Criminalization Task Force for June 2014 Hearing on Collateral Consequences
Ten Most Outrageous Restrictions on People with a Criminal Record: There are 44,000 legal restrictions on those with criminal records. Here's ten we find to be the most outrageous. Do you agree?
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Sierra Wireless Readies HSPA+ Modules for Laptops
Novatel Plans to Ship 42M Bps HSPA+ Modem By Year-End
On the Streets of Stockholm with LTE
Telstra Becomes First to Offer HSPA+ At 42M Bps
Australian mobile network operator Telstra has become the first operator to launch a mobile broadband service using HSPA+ at 42M bps (bits per second), it said on Monday.
The 42M bps performance is only theoretical, however: users can expect "typical download speeds ranging from 1.1M bps to 20M bps," according to Telstra, while the manufacturer of the HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access+) equipment, Ericsson, said users can expect peak speeds of up to 30M bps.
To get to 42M bps from 21M bps, the fastest theoretical speed operators could offer using previous HSPA+ equipment, modem and mobile network vendors are implementing a technology called dual carrier, which allows networks to send and receive wireless data using two channels simultaneously.
The roll out of HSPA+ using dual carriers is held back by the availability of modems. Telstra has managed to get its hands on 2,000 Sierra Wireless modems based on a chipset from Qualcomm. Telstra will sell them to its business customers under the "Ultimate USB Modem" brand, and expects to offer the modem more widely later this year.
Other operators are also planning to launch mobile broadband services using HSPA+ at 42M bps, but are still waiting for modems. Recently, Peder Ramel, CEO at 3 Scandinavia, said he is expecting the first modems to arrive sometime in the fourth quarter.
Telstra's Ultimate USB Modem can be purchased with a number of different mobile broadband plans, including paying nothing up-front if they commit to a A$69 (US$62) monthly plan for 24 months.


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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1)
Mathematika (1)
Pair correlation of sequences $(\lbrace a_n \alpha \rbrace)_{n \in {\mathbb N}}$ with maximal additive energy
GERHARD LARCHER, WOLFGANG STOCKINGER
Journal: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018, pp. 1-7
We show for sequences $\left(a_{n}\right)_{n \in \mathbb N}$ of distinct positive integers with maximal order of additive energy, that the sequence $\left(\left\{a_{n} \alpha\right\}\right)_{n \in \mathbb N}$ does not have Poissonian pair correlations for any α. This result essentially sharpens a result obtained by J. Bourgain on this topic.
METRIC RESULTS ON THE DISCREPANCY OF SEQUENCES $(a_{n}{\it\alpha})_{n\geqslant 1}$ MODULO ONE FOR INTEGER SEQUENCES $(a_{n})_{n\geqslant 1}$ OF POLYNOMIAL GROWTH
Probabilistic theory: distribution modulo $1$; metric theory of algorithms
Exponential sums and character sums
Christoph Aistleitner, Gerhard Larcher
Journal: Mathematika / Volume 62 / Issue 2 / 2016
An important result of Weyl states that for every sequence $(a_{n})_{n\geqslant 1}$ of distinct positive integers the sequence of fractional parts of $(a_{n}{\it\alpha})_{n\geqslant 1}$ is uniformly distributed modulo one for almost all ${\it\alpha}$ . However, in general it is a very hard problem to calculate the precise order of convergence of the discrepancy of $(\{a_{n}{\it\alpha}\})_{n\geqslant 1}$ for almost all ${\it\alpha}$ . In particular, it is very difficult to give sharp lower bounds for the speed of convergence. Until now this was only carried out for lacunary sequences $(a_{n})_{n\geqslant 1}$ and for some special cases such as the Kronecker sequence $(\{n{\it\alpha}\})_{n\geqslant 1}$ or the sequence $(\{n^{2}{\it\alpha}\})_{n\geqslant 1}$ . In the present paper we answer the question for a large class of sequences $(a_{n})_{n\geqslant 1}$ including as a special case all polynomials $a_{n}=P(n)$ with $P\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ of degree at least 2.
Edited by Gerhard Larcher, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Friedrich Pillichshammer, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Arne Winterhof, Chaoping Xing, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Book: Applied Algebra and Number Theory
Published online: 18 December 2014
Print publication: 11 December 2014, pp i-iv
1 - Some highlights of Harald Niederreiter's work
By Gerhard Larcher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Friedrich Pillichshammer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Arne Winterhof, Austrian Acadamy of Sciences, Linz, Chaoping Xing, Nanyang Techological University, Singapore
Print publication: 11 December 2014, pp 1-21
Dedicated to our teacher, colleague and friend, Harald Niederreiter, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
In this paper we give a short biography of Harald Niederreiter and we spotlight some cornerstones from his wide-ranging work. We focus on his results on uniform distribution, algebraic curves, polynomials and quasi-Monte Carlo methods. In the flavor of Harald's work we also mention some applications including numerical integration, coding theory and cryptography.
A short biography
Harald Niederreiter was born in Vienna in 1944 on June 7 and spent his childhood in Salzburg. In 1963 he returned to Vienna to study at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Vienna, where he finished his PhD thesis entitled "Discrepancy in compact Abelian groups" sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae under the supervision of Edmund Hlawka in 1969. From 1969 to 1978 he worked as scientist and professor in the USA at four different institutes: Southern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University of California at Los Angeles. From 1978 to 1981 he was Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of the West Indies in Kingston (Jamaica). He returned to Austria and served as director of two institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, of the Institute for Information Processing until 1999 and then of the Institute of Discrete Mathematics. From 2001 to 2009 he was professor at the National University of Singapore. Since 2009 he has been located at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics in Linz. From 2010 to 2011 he was professor at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran (Saudi Arabia).
Harald Niederreiter's research areas include numerical analysis, pseudorandom number generation, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, cryptology, finite fields, applied algebra, algorithms, number theory and coding theory. He has published more than 350 research papers and several books, including the following.
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Print publication: 11 December 2014, pp -
Applied Algebra and Number Theory
Edited by Gerhard Larcher, Friedrich Pillichshammer, Arne Winterhof, Chaoping Xing
Print publication: 11 December 2014
Harald Niederreiter's pioneering research in the field of applied algebra and number theory has led to important and substantial breakthroughs in many areas. This collection of survey articles has been authored by close colleagues and leading experts to mark the occasion of his 70th birthday. The book provides a modern overview of different research areas, covering uniform distribution and quasi-Monte Carlo methods as well as finite fields and their applications, in particular, cryptography and pseudorandom number generation. Many results are published here for the first time. The book serves as a useful starting point for graduate students new to these areas or as a refresher for researchers wanting to follow recent trends.
Print publication: 11 December 2014, pp v-x


Drug rehab centers have come about as a true blessing, not just for the sinking addict, but for the society as a whole. Reforming and releasing individuals is a godly act. Not all can delight in such activities. These centers are not like healthcare facilities or resorts in the true sense. They have to work with unforeseeable humans who sometimes can even turn violent.
The issue with drug dependency is that it is a slow procedure. When they might become all reliant on drugs, individuals do not understand. They might believe that they can give it up whenever but the more time passes it become harder to come over it. Nowadays, individuals are using pain reliever for drugs while in the previous drugs such as drug, heroin, and so on were in usage. Pain reliever also include the very same component which is present in the other drugs. It is called Opiate. Opiate is stemmed from the poppy plant. It affects the brain that controls the sensations of satisfaction. Unlike the other drugs, the percentage of opiate in the pain medication is lower yet it gives comparable enjoyment.
If for some factor, you needed to take a long break, try to begin all over. So, if you were utilized to walking for 45 minutes a day, thrice a week and you had to break off from this routine, don't try to walk for 45 minutes when you reboot. Start off with a 20 min walk and after that slowly develop it up. This once again, is something that works from my own experience.
A choice to take legal action against somebody isn't about whether you're popular or whether somebody will or will not like you. It's about your fundamental right to be paid back something that is owed to you. When a criminal triggers damage, he becomes obligated to pay you for your damage and the impairment that he has actually caused. That's a commitment we as a society acknowledge, not simply in New York, but throughout the United States.
Going to a inpatient rehabilitation centers is a terrific option if you can get the time away and have somebody to look after animals for you. In rehab you will be offered medication integrated with other kinds of therapy which will assist you on your method to healing.
I am early into my healing, however taking a drink or doing drugs is not a choice to me anymore. The hardest part of healing is altering your social practices. I don't go to bars or socialize with individuals who would activate me to drink. You will probably feel separated initially, however support groups help. You will begin to surround yourself with individuals who care and comprehend you. This is a VALUABLE gift. Do not feel embarrassed! Everyone has skeletons in their demons and closets to handle. There will be small-minded individuals who chatter and talk, however time will pass and you will develop deep friendship with people who have your benefits at heart. You will begin to feel a sense of stability, peace and hope.
These questions are not clinical, and everybody's circumstance is different. However if much of these questions set off alarm bells for you, then you may want to seriously think about going into an inpatient drug rehab center. Take the step today while it is on your mind and your will is strong. The minute you feel the time is right is the best time to proceed and take the leap. Talk to your physician if you are not sure where to begin. Any relied on doctor or even an interventionist can assist you with which center can best accommodate your situation. Remember that you are not alone and there are always people to assist.
Why? Since you'll go through regressions, and every regression will be more and more challenging to obtain from, so, you're beginning to consider outpatient inpatient rehab. You are thinking that perhaps they'll help you, maybe not.
State, 'I'm here. I wish to be involved.' "A great deal of brand-new dads feel like the mom knows whatever, and they don't have a location, so they back off," Dr. Warner states. "What that seems like to the lady is the dad does not wish to be involved." Keep in mind: your involvement may include doing laundry, washing dishes, or taking the 2 a.m. diaper shift.
Everybody has his or her own personal rock bottom, and, unfortunately, in some cases that bottom IS the intense pits of hell. Pray they decide to connect and touch faith by discovering their own personal Jesus prior to they strike that eternal bottom. He will offer them peace, serenity, strength and hope to sustain enduring recovery. You can count of it!


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Home > Kolkata > GST & note ban: People of India will give befitting reply, says Mitra
GST & note ban: People of India will give befitting reply, says Mitra
Team MP24 Oct 2017 4:44 PM GMT
Kolkata: Criticising the hasty step of the Modi government in implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the state Finance minister Amit Mitra said: "People of India will give a suitable answer at the right time for the consequences they faced due to demonetisation and implementation of GST without developing proper infrastructure."
Mitra was speaking at a programme organised by six chambers of commerce of the state to highlight the economic and infrastructural development Bengal has witnessed in the past few years.
Partha Chatterjee, the state Education, Parliamentary Affairs and Science and Technology and Biotechnology minister, was also present in the programme.
Mitra said people from across the country had suffered due to demonetisation. It had even claimed several lives and it had badly hit the country's GDP.
"So the people of the country will give appropriate answer to all these at the right time," said Mitra adding that the GST was basically for the benefits mainly of the medium scale enterprises. But the way it has been implemented has left a deep negative impact on them instead of helping them out.
When asked that the Modi government would celebrate their decision of demonetising high value notes, Chatterjee said: "Hasty implementation of GST and demonetisation led to the loss of common people. So the people will mourn on the day instead of celebrating."
It may be mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had criticised the Centre's decision of demonetisation on the same day it was announced.
Team MP


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