We had another good day with another set of volunteers. The area is now largely cleared and almost all the tree work is done. The final group are coming tomorrow to finish this session off. Thanks to everyone!
We began to clear the kitchen garden yesterday. We first removed useful plants, to recycle in the garden, then the weeds and then cut backoverhanging branches from the trees by the little stream. It was a lovely hot day though fortunately for us, we were working in the shade. The next work day is Thursday (tomorrow).
Saltaire and a less than respectable family!
Now is the time to enjoy the old variety roses and other cottage flowers at the Pendle Heritage Centre gardens. We've started pinning some photos but better still, spend some time at the centre one morning or afternoon while the garden is in full bloom. There is plenty to see and enjoy.


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Bromium Research Highlights Increasing Concerns around End User Security Risk
February 2015 by Bromium
Bromium®, Inc. announced the results of "Endpoint Protection: Attitudes and Trends 2015," a survey of more than 100 information security practitioners focused on the greatest challenges and risks facing their organisations today. The results of the survey indicate that the overwhelming majority of information security professionals believe end users are their biggest security headache, largely due to their tendency to click on suspicious and malicious e-mails and URLs.
Additionally, the survey highlights the operational challenges information security professionals face as they struggle to manage multiple point solutions, to respond to the security alerts, and to detect and remediate compromised endpoints.
"When you have more than 70 percent of breaches begin at the endpoint and nearly 80 percent of information security professionals stating that users are their biggest security headache, it becomes overwhelmingly apparent that traditional endpoint protection is a spectacular failure," said Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO, Bromium. "We are witnessing the start of a new era of proactive protection, now that the majority of information security professionals have lost confidence in detection-based solutions, such as anti-virus."
Key findings from "Endpoint Protection: Attitudes and Trends 2015" include:
End Users Are Information Security Professionals' Biggest Headache – Nearly 80 percent of respondents believe that end users are their biggest security headache, a modest increase from similar research in 2014 with a result of 72 percent.
End User Tendency to Click on Malicious Internet Content Increases Risk – More than 63 percent of respondents believe that clicking on malicious Internet content by end users introduces the most security risk (43 percent URLs/20 percent e-mails).
Responding to Security Alerts and Compromised Endpoints is Costly and Complex –Manual and reactive processes, such as investigating security alerts and the detection and remediation of compromised endpoints each account for 20 percent of the responses. Additional results from the survey found that only 15 percent of organizations are able to respond to 90 percent or more of their security alerts, which represents an alarming security gap.
Security Professionals Have Lost Faith in Legacy Security Solutions – When asked to rate their confidence in a variety of information security solutions, only 31 percent responded that they were confident in antivirus and only 37 percent responded that they were confident in next-generation firewalls.
Even as the information security market has grown to $70B, the magnitude and frequency of data breaches has been increasing. Information security professionals are drowning in the rising tide of security alerts generated by end users connecting to untrusted networks in coffee shops or clicking on suspicious content, but as attacks outpace defense, the traditional models of information security are broken.

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Djambi is a game information page. It is categorized as: Orthodox chess, . This item is located on a site outside of chessvariants.org.
A four-player, all-against-all game with such unusual pieces Assassins, Reporters, Provocateurs, Militants and Necromobiles. This game is also known as Machiavellian Chess. Invented by Jean Anesto, published by Impense Radicale. Site in French.
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So what if the player can't move but the chief is neither captured nor surrounded by corpses? What if the chief is penned in by his own pieces, who are penned in by corpses? And has no necromobile or the one that moves live pieces. I've just started trying to learn this and have had this twice in two games. Does the player just try to convince someone to let them out or are they out of the game? Whats the rules on that? Its kind of a stalemate.
An English explanantion of the game can be found in the second half of this page. A picture of the board can be found here.
Djambi is a four-player game on a 9x9 Board. Each player plays alone, but temporary alliances are encouraged, and the players are allowed to 'counsel' (promise, threat, supplicate...) one another.
A player has nine pieces: a Chief, an Assassin, a Reporter, a Provocator, a Necromobile and four Militants. The Militants move as two-square Queens, the other pieces as full Queens. When a Chief is killed, his owner is eliminated from the game and the killer takes over all his remaining pieces.
All killed pieces (the pieces are flat disks with one black face) remain on the Board and hamper the moves of the living pieces.
The Chief, the Assassin and the Militants capture by replacement, but a piece captured by the Chief or the Militants is dropped on any empty square while a piece captured by the Assassin is dropped on the Assassin's departure square. The Reporter captures by orthogonal contact after moving, which sounds like it should unbalance the game. The Provocator and the Necromobile do not kill. The Provocator can replace any enemy living piece and place it anywhere on the board (excepted on the central square, if that piece isn't a Chief). The Necromobile can replace any dead piece and place it anywhere on the board (same exception).
A player whose Chief stands on the the central square, or Labyrinth, plays at every other turn. The Labyrinth can be occupied only by a Chief, though an Assassin, a Militant, a Provocator or a Necromobile can go on the Labyrinth to kill or move a Chief (in the latter case, a dead Chief killed by the Reporter) and move away immediately, by playing again in the same turn.
A Chief whose all neighbors are dead is killed, unless he stands on the Labyrinth.

You can download the rules (in French, but with graphics) there.
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Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Danny Kirwan dies at age 68
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Courtney Love shares tribute on what would have Been Kurt Cobain's 51st Birthday
"God I miss you." - by Stephanie Petit
Courtney Love shared a heartbreaking tribute to late husband Kurt Cobain on what would've been the Nirvana frontman's 51st birthday.
The 53-year-old singer posted a throwback black and white photo on Tuesday, showing her cuddled into the chest of Cobain, who wrapped his arm around her in the candid shot.
"Happy birthday baby," she captioned the image on Instagram. "God I miss you."
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On April 5, 1994, Cobain committed suicide at his Seattle home with a 20-gauge shotgun after a lengthy battle with drugs and depression. He was 27.
He left a suicide note. At the end, he wrote, "Please keep going Courtney for Frances," referring to the couple's then 1½-year-old daughter Frances Bean. "For her life will be so much happier without me. I love you. I love you."
After both her parents struggled with drug abuse, Frances, now 25, shared an Instagram post last week from the island of Oahu in Hawaii celebrating her second anniversary of being sober.
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I thought I would start this post by sharing a pure moment in Oahu surrounded by nature, with my love. This moment is a representation of who I am on February 13th, 2018. It feels significant here & now because it's my 2nd sober birthday. It's an interesting and kaleidoscopic decision to share my feelings about something so intimate in a public forum . The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately. But I think it's more important to put aside my fear about being judged or misunderstood or typecast as one specific thing. I want to have the capacity to recognize & observe that my journey might be informative, even helpful to other people who are going through something similar or different. It is an everyday battle to be in attendance for all the painful, bazaar, uncomfortable, tragic, fucked up things that have ever happened or will ever happen. Self destruction, toxic consumption and deliverance from pain is a lot easier to adhere to. Undeniably, for myself and those around me choosing to be present is the best decision I have ever made. How we treat our bodies directly correlates to how we treat our souls. It's all interconnected. It has to be. So I'm gonna take today to celebrate my vibrant health and the abundance of happiness, gratitude, awareness, compassion, strength, fear, loss, wisdom, and the myriad of other messy, raw emotions I feel constantly. They inform who I am, what my intentions are, who i want to be and they force me to acknowledge my boundaries/limitations. I claim my mistakes as my own because I believe them to be a contribution to a higher education. I am constantly evolving. The moment any evolution ceases is the moment I disservice myself and ultimately those I love. As cheesy and cornball as it sounds life does get better, if you want it to. I'll never claim I know something other people don't. I only know what works for me and seeking to escape my life no longer works for me. Peace, love, empathy (I'm going to reclaim this phrase and redefine it as something that's filled with hope and goodness and health, because I want to ) Frances Bean Cobain
"I thought I would start this post by using a pure moment in Oahu amongst nature, with my love," she wrote in the caption, referring to boyfriend Matthew Cook. "This moment is a representation of who I am on February 13th, 2018. It feels significant here, now because it's my 2nd sober birthday."
"It's an interesting and kaleidoscopic decision to share my feelings about something so intimate in a public forum," she added. "The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately. But I think it's more important to put aside my fear about being judged or misunderstood or typecast as one specific thing."
I hope they don't have the internet wherever you are. I feel like that would be counterproductive. Regardless, Happy Birthday to an angel 
During an appearance on Good Morning America last year, Love said Frances reminds her of her late husband.
"She looks a lot like him," the rocker said. "She's enigmatic like he was. She's got a very dry, kind of, sick sense of humor that he had. I mean, he had a really sick sense of humor, but dry."
She added of Frances, "She's able to cut people down with one line like he was able to do."
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ABC Extends 'George Lopez,' 'Jim'
By Brian Ford Sullivan (TFC)
CHICAGO (thefutoncritic.com) -- ABC has picked up two additional episodes of "The George Lopez Show" as well as four extra installments of its veteran comedy "According to Jim."
Both orders bring each series' respective season total above the traditional 22-episode order for a full season, a growing trend among ABC's comedies. Last season the Alphabet asked for 28 episodes of "Jim" and 24 episodes of "Lopez" as well as 28 episodes of "Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" and 27 episodes of "My Wife and Kids."
"Lopez" has averaged a solid 8.2 million viewers this season on Friday nights including a 2.9 rating/11 share among adults 18-49 while "Jim" has averaged 11.6 million viewers on Tuesdays.
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LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 12, 2012) - Seven Arts Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: SAPX) ("Seven Arts" or the "Company") announced today that it has released in the United States and Canada multi-platinum recording artist DMX's new album "Undisputed." Seven Arts has received orders for more than 150,000 physical copies of "Undisputed" and expects to sell through 75,000 to 100,000 copies in the first week of sales, based on distribution estimates. Seven Arts expects "Undisputed" to debut at No. 1 on the Rap, R&B and Indie charts and in the top 3 on the Top 200 chart. Consumer interest as shown in internet and "tweets" has been very encouraging.
Seven Arts Music CEO David Michery stated, "We are seeing very strong consumer interest in DMX's 'Undisputed,' confirming our belief that DMX, as one of the legends of urban music, maintains a large committed audience. We are very encouraged by substantial pre-orders and retail interest. The wait is over: DMX is back!"
Seven Arts Music intends to develop new talent and label-establishing artists in the genres of hip hop, R&B, pop, dance and rock. David Michery's prominent career includes the production of numerous platinum albums and an executive role as Head of Urban Music for All American Communication, d/b/a Scotti Bros. Records, A&R for MCA Records and Zoo/BMG, and founder of Breakaway Entertainment and American Music Corporation.
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After a few years of less then stellar trips to Cayuga my son and I finally had a great couple day out there. I owe it all the lurking I have done on this site. Thanks to all that share information. We started out yesterday from the camp site on the north end. Trolled to long point with copper and dipsy's dipsy's on mono and downrigger. Caught fish on all. Lost almost all that hit the mono because we couldn't trip the dipsy. Ran to bass pro and picked up some braid. Today was rough. We ran up the long point and trolled south back to camp. Yesterday's total was 4 small rainbows 1 26" rainbow, 3 short salmon, and 2 keeper lakers. Today was 1 keeper salmon 3 shorts salmon and 5 keeper lakers. Only iced 1. All lures and techniques worked. Best lure was blueberry muffin but anything chartreuse worked well. Fished from 40 to 70 ft down over 100-120 fow.
Awesome. Thanks for the ideas. I was just afraid to mess up the copper. Thanks again.
Do any of you know if there is an easy way to stole copper line off of reels? I have 2 copper line set ups but I only use them once or twice a year. Is there any good way to remove and store until the next time I need it? Seems like I am wasting those two set ups in the garage all summer only using them a couple times. Thanks in advance.
Got out this morning. 1 24" laker. Good day out w my boy and buddy. Couple of minor issues tangled one leadcore w copper rig and one of my new poles just broke after three hours of trolling. It just snapped but Cabelas is going to replace it. Hardly any weeds or fleas on the north east side. Can't wait to get back and try it again.
Thanks for the info. Hopefully will be posting pics of my boy holding some fish. This is all pretty new to me. I have learned a lot from this site. Great that everyone is so willing to share intell.
So my son and I r heading to owasco Friday am. I think I have everything. 2 wire dipsey, 2 10 core lead, and 2 riggers. Going to get some purple spoons and green dodger and fly. Am missing anything? Should we go out from north or south end? Hoping set up through out the column in 100 fow at first. Then move around until we mark fish. It's our maiden voyage on owasco and forts time w copper. Anyone want to share some tips to help us hook up? Thanks!
I went with the 8'6" medium rod and a 30 reel. It should work for the amount trolling I do. I fish Oneida mostly so they should be ok for the eyes. Hope to get them delivered so I can test them out on owasco Friday.
Does anyone have issues viewing posts on their iPhone 4? Mine locks up every time is read a post. I am new to trolling and there is so much info on here I can't read enough. But it is frustrating when whenever I open a post it locks up on me and I have to turn my phone off to unlock it.
Nice fish and a nice story. Congrats to him.
Giant slugs. Google them they r pretty common but hide well.
Best way to do pickerel is to fillet and skin it. Then throw it in the food processor Y bones and all grind it up add chopped bell peppers onion eggs bread crumbs and old bay. Make into a patty and fry in a skillet like a crab cake. It is awesome. My pops told me to never throw one away again.
From what I have been reading and talking to guys about we need to invest on some poles to run wire. We meet get away running braid and dipsy's as long as the fleas aren't bad. I think more time is needed on boneparte to figure it out.


The development model of the architectural and town planning agency Cardete Huet, including its observation of changes in commissioning, led to it joining the Kardham group in 2014.
This well-developed business structure is perfectly placed to respond to changes in construction which now require a comprehensive approach to projects.
Initially founded in Toulouse, the Cardete Huet agency was commissioned by Airbus to develop the huge A330/A340, A380 and A350 assembly plants, resulting in a prime example of a large scale and superior project.
Over its 40 years' experience, Cardete Huet has aimed for constant improvement in large projects in numerous fields: aeronautics, space, industry, health, without forgetting sport, culture and residential.
Its know-how has allowed it to widen its field of activities from national to an international level – Morocco, Indian Ocean, French Guiana, Spain, Iraq, Colombia… from Toulouse, of course, but also from Marseille, and finally Paris.
This maturity is demonstrated in each project. Firstly, with a permanent dialogue within the teams as well as with the contracting authority, which the Kardham Cardete Huet Architecture agency cultivates as a vital requirement. And, in a second place, in a capacity to learn from group skills: interior designers, designers, sociologist, … or through outside collaborations with colleagues and partners, as around all other disciplinary and/or cultural fields.
This communal ability to embrace challenges has encouraged the agency to widen its field of intervention as a « generalist practice ». The role of these exchanges is not pure form; they are rooted in the reality of projects.
Kardham Cardete Huet Architecture brings together a solid network of 80 architects and engineers, in Toulouse, Paris and Marseille. This structure, whose efficiency is ISO 9001 certified since 2011, has worked for several years in accordance with the BIM process, which promotes an innovative collaborative system.
Whether a large-scale project, or a smaller operation, every constituent part is drawn to the last detail on 3D models.
The analysis of the first steps of the initial program, trademark of Cardete Huet, remains also essential to Kardham Cardete Huet Architecture.
Our creed is to dissect the orientations of the program, to recover the expectations of the owner, and thus to analyse the conditions of their ranking, in favour of an increased valorisation.
Accessing procurement mainly by way of competitions, Kardham Cardete Huet Architecture works happily for both the private and public sectors, and tackles all kinds of programs, varying by their functional contents (large-scaled hospital projects from 300 to 700 beds, or "next generation" 38,000 seater stadiums, for the Euro 2016 football championship), their sizes (a 63,000 sqm university or a 200,000 sqm factory), and their contracting authorities.
It is important to look behind this eminently varied range of work and see how the Agency brings together a rare multiplicity of skills, how its organisation is based around a creative hub and the specific expertise of its teams, supplemented by its own engineering, thereby turning the collaboration with technical research partners' offices into a reality.


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Visually Impaired Student Finds New Life Through Rio Salado
By David Staudacher, Rio Salado College PR Manager
"I quit high school because I was embarrassed about my vision problems," said Deitrick Fields "I wore big glasses and I was still bumping in to things and people. I was too embarrassed to ask for help, and chose to quit school instead."
That was the attitude Fields had when he was a freshman in high school. Today, Fields, 32, has a more positive attitude toward school and life.
"Now, I'm loving school. I earned my GED (General Education Development certificate) and I'm starting college classes," said Fields. "My goal is to get a degree in broadcasting."
Like thousands of students, Fields' path to earning his GED started at Tempe-based Rio Salado College. The majority of students who turn to Rio Salado for help preparing for the GED exam have obstacles to overcome that have kept them from completing high school. For Fields, the obstacle is blindness.
Finding a school that could cater to his disability added an extra obstacle. He tried one school, but found the technology outdated and the lack of instructor support daunting. On the verge of giving up again, he found Rio Salado College, where he got the help he needed with online classes.
"I started with a different school, but it wasn't keeping my attention," said Fields. "I contacted other schools, but they didn't know what to do with me. I looked into Rio Salado and they got me started in classes immediately."
The prompt help came from Rio's Disability Resources and Services department, which is set up to help students like Fields.
"We provide a variety of resources and services to promote a successful learning experience for students with disabilities," said Terry Ferra, Disability Resources and Services manager at Rio Salado College. "Depending upon the disability and the resources we have available, students with documented disabilities may receive accommodations such as sign language interpreters, text in alternative format, and extended test taking time, to name a few."
Material resources were only part of the support he received from the college.
"Rio's classes were great," said Fields. "And, anytime I needed Terry's help, she was a simple phone call away. I also found tutoring help, and the teachers were easy to talk too. I found the classes very accommodating to my needs."
While Fields is proud to say he earned his degree, he isn't afraid to talk about his experience. He is using it to help motivate people in his situation.
"I try to motivate others like me," said Fields. I meet a lot of people who are visually impaired and want to give up. But I tell them they can't quit. There is a help out there and anything is possible."
In the last two years, Fields turned his life around by earning his high school diploma, which led to a new job, and he's starting college with a very positive outlook on life.
"I have a new attitude toward school and life and there is nothing I can't accomplish," said Fields. "Things are coming together the way I always wanted them to be."
For more information about Rio Salado College's Disability Services, visit http://www.riosalado.edu/disability_services/Pages/default.aspx.


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Mariano Rivera saw Rob Thomson jog out to talk things over with two out in the top of the ninth, the potential winning run on third and Manny Ramirez coming up as a pinch hitter.
But there was never any debate about what he was going to do.
Though it may have seemed a reasonable option, considering what Ramirez has done to the Yankees and Rivera in the past, the closer seemed baffled by the notion of giving him a free pass.
So a day after hitting two batters for the first time in his career and having to escape a bases-loaded no out jam to pick up the save, Rivera was as confident as ever.
It paid off. Rivera threw Ramirez three fastballs, the first on the inside corner, the second two on the outside corner – and the slugger never swung. Just like that, the threat was over.
Even Rivera was baffled by Ramirez's lack of action.
On Saturday, it took Rivera until a run was in and the bases were loaded with one out to return to form.
And that's Rivera. He threw two scoreless innings, retiring five straight after Sean Casey's bloop single to center to start the ninth. He didn't provide quite the drama he did in the win on Friday, which was fine with him.
"Tonight was more where I wanted to put the ball," Rivera said.
The Yankees were glad to see it.


It says beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, this is indeed true and at the same time a beautiful picture created in once mind. India is a very warm country, but at the same time miscellaneous in its skin type and complexion, People belonging to different region have different climatic conditions and so do they have a complexion accordingly.
Beauty lies in the way we like to project and we carry our self.
There is no particular definition of beauty.
Beauty lies in everything it's our perception.
Beauty may be in a flower, in a grandmother's face, in a baby or in a luxurious car.
From decades, women are functioning firm in their external beautiful and looks, one can actually look excellent if they feel well from within.
In India we follow the natural methods as a beauty treatment beginning from our kitchen itself. This is the easiest method to take care of our looks and beauty.
May be a beauty parlor or a beauty salon, the main intention is related towards the beauty. The more comprehensive service of a beauty salon is related to the skin health and its treatment, face aesthetics, foot care, hand manicure, Aroma therapy, Mud therapy, treatment through fruits, Oxygen therapy, and Meditation, Color therapy, Sun Ray therapy etc.
There is something about learning beauty secrets from other ethnicity that makes our heart beat faster. "Ever since I was little my mother always encouraged me to use natural things at home to enhance the beauty of the skin and hair." Of course, as a kid I was always fascinated towards the beauty products sold at the market." I was strictly restricted to use them.
Rose Water: It is one of the main natural and suits all the skin types, the soothing effect and the mild aroma activates our nerve and has a fresh effect on the skin. It is used as the cleansing and toning effect which brightens, softens and refreshes the skin. It can be stored easily in the fridge which enhances the soothing effect.
Turmeric: The next in the row is turmeric it is the most important part of the Indian wedding tradition. Turmeric is all the way skin beneficial, it cleans, soften, brightens and antiseptic for the skin. The generous amount of turmeric powder added in milk and boiled with sugar has a miraculous effect on the skin as well as on the body from within.
Lemon: Every home must grow at least one lemon tree, it has several benefits, as an Exfoliate the lemon rind is a natural skin brightener; the acid in lemon is the perfect skin booster. Drink a glass of water with a few drops of lemon every morning will benefit the whole body. The lemon peel can be rubbed on the skin to remove the tanning and dirt from the skin.
Mustard oil or seed: apply on the skin or hair helps in conditioner, shining and healthy growth. Selenium, an antioxidant that protects your cells. Omega-3 fatty acid, which nourishes your strands from inside out. Protein that helps in hair growth. Half a teaspoon of mustard oil and a pinch of salt rub on your teeth and gums prevent all kinds of gum and tooth problems.
Coconut oil: A scoop of coconut oil, warm it up and apply it on your skin or hair and take a sun bath for a few minutes, it nourishes the skin and thickens the hair. The shining skin looks attractive and so do the shining hair. It prevents the growth of dandruff in the hair if use with lemon juice.
Henna: the most vital part of Indian beauty treatment, to beautify the hands and feet of the brides and the guests and used as a conditioner to the hair and also to color the hair. I remember my mom use to color and treat her hair with henna instead of chemicals.
Drinking lots of water is just unavoidable to enhance the inner and outer beauty. The inner polish reflects on our skin and hair. Drinking water every morning empty stomach flushes all the toxins from the body, nourishes the body and skin, provides moisture to the skin.
Rumination: with all the natural beauty tips and rumination (meditation) the inner beauty of the skin and hair can be maintained throughout the life. Meditation activates all the nervous system and organs of the body and provides energy. A person can feel beautiful from within if practice a regular mediation.


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The First-Year Experience
Introduction & Curriculum Overview
The Core Requirement
The Writing Competence Requirement
The Major Requirement
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The First Year Experience
Foundation for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (FURSCA)
Institutes, Programs, and Centers
Other Internship Opportunities
Preprofessional Health Programs and Internships
Combined Preprofessional Courses
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Academic Honors and Activities
General Academic Regulations
Social Studies Major for Elementary
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Integrated Science Major for Elementary
Engineering, Dual Degree Program
Requirements for Human Services Concentration
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Requirements for Concentration in Law, Justice, and Society
Liberal Arts Core Courses
Modern Languages and Cultures
Requirements For Neuroscience Concentration
Admission to Albion
Financial Aid and Student Employment
The Albion Campus
Albion College's Mission
Purpose of the College
Albion History
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The William Atwell Brown, Jr., and Mary Brown Vacin First-Year Experience assists students in making the transition from high school to college. Through a broad array of academic and co-curricular programs, the First-Year Experience provides a foundation for students that will sustain them throughout their undergraduate years and that will enable them to achieve their academic and personal goals. The principal features of the program are described below.
Academic and General Advising -- The advising process begins during new student orientation and continues in periodic meetings with faculty advisers and Student Affairs staff during the first year.
First-Year Seminar (LA 101) -- Designed to introduce entering students to the liberal arts tradition, the First-Year Seminars nurture academic skills, creativity and active inquiry. Small class sizes ensure constant interaction among faculty and students. The seminars often address cutting-edge topics, and most include research projects or other hands-on learning experiences. Some feature an extended field trip, to a location in the U.S. or overseas, to give students a firsthand look at the issues they are studying.
Recent seminar topics have included: Genes and Society, Justice, Art in the Environment, Water: Science and Policy, the Holocaust, and Albion and the American Dream. The class schedule, available at www.albion.edu/registrar/, lists the seminars offered for the current academic year.
Seminar Associations -- The students enrolled in a First-Year Seminar also come together as a Seminar Association. Led by a peer mentor, the association members will participate as a group in the Learning Strategies Workshops during the fall semester and continue to meet for both academic and social events during the spring semester of the first year.
Learning Strategies Workshops -- Running in tandem with the First-Year Seminars, the Learning Strategies sessions are geared to helping first-year students succeed at Albion. They introduce students to campus support services, equip them with time-management and other decision-making skills, and assist them with academic and personal goal-setting.
In the Richard M. Smith Common Reading Experience, offered as one of the Learning Strategies sessions, students and faculty discuss a book they have read during the preceding summer. Past Common Reading Experience selections have included Ron Suskind's A Hope in the Unseen, Debra Dickerson's An American Story, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project. The Richard M. Smith Common Reading Experience is designed to establish the ideas of scholarship and academic expectations through a common learning experience, begin student understanding of differences in the context of the Albion College community, and provide an entry for students into the ideas of global citizenship.
Academic Planning -- Throughout their four years at Albion, students are encouraged to think about their career and personal goals, as well as the academic experiences that will enable them to reach those goals. After completing a self-assessment, students create a digital portfolio, which will eventually reflect their academic achievements; internship, research and other practical experiences; leadership accomplishments; and community service. Students maintain their portfolios on the World Wide Web so that they may be easily shared with prospective employers and graduate schools.
For more information on the First-Year Experience, contact the First-Year Experience office.


New Delhi: After introducing popular BBM to Android and iOS users, BlackBerry said it will partner handset makers from India, like Micromax, Spice and Zen, other nations to pre-install the popular messaging app on their smartphones.
With the BBM app coming pre-installed, users can directly engage with other BBM users without having to download the app or incurring download charges.
"BBM will soon come preinstalled on a variety of Android-based smartphones from leading OEMs across Africa, India, Indonesia, Latin America and the Middle East," BlackBerry said in a statement.
Beginning next month, Android smartphones from Be, Brightstar, Celkon, EVERCOSS, IMO, Micromax, Mito, Snexian, Spice, TECNO, TiPhone and Zen will include BBM preinstalled, it added.
BBM will continue to be available as a free download from Android app stores, including Google Play.
"It is clear that smartphone customers see BBM as a must have app for active conversations. The uptake we have seen for BBM since the launch on Android and iPhone is amazing," BlackBerry Executive Vice President (BBM) Andrew Bocking said.
BBM is already available pre-loaded on Micromax's Canvas Turbo and will now be preloaded in the entire forthcoming range of Canvas phones.
BlackBerry today also launched its BBM Channels, which will allow brands to engage with people and communities.


Family Court mediation can be an excellent method of resolving family law disputes. Most people consider their children and their marriage to be of utmost importance, providing structure and meaning to their lives. Litigation means losing control of decisions regarding marriage and children, which is frightening. Rather than engaging in adversarial litigation and ultimately letting a judge decide issues of child custody, child and spousal support, and property division, parties can use mediator services to reach agreements on these significant and emotional issues.
Mr. Forman's hourly rate for court-appointed mediation is $175.00. For all other mediations, his hourly mediation service rate is $250.00. For co-mediation with his wife, Karen Klickstein-Forman, who is a Licensed Social Worker and a Certified Family Court Mediator, the rate is $250.00 per hour on. Saturdays (four hour minimum) and $300.00 per hour on weekdays. Ms. Forman's solo mediation services rate is $100.00 per hour. Both Mr. Forman and Ms. Klickstein-Forman have undertaken Advanced Family Law Mediation training. To contact Ms. Forman directly you may email her or call her at (843) 224-8010.
Mediation not only allows the spouses and parents to control the ultimate resolution of their disputes but also enables them to control the process by which these resolutions are reached. Because the parties control the process, their views and concerns are heard and acknowledged. Rather than operating in an atmosphere of fear and threat, mediation allows parties to resolve disputes through cooperation and mutual understanding. Mediation helps the parties to reach resolutions that they may not have considered in litigation but which leave both of them better off. It also enables the parties to move forward in a spirit of cooperation. Often agreements reached through litigation are causes of endless friction because one or both parties feels that the agreement was imposed upon them. In mediation, both parties "own their agreement," greatly reducing the likelihood and amount of future problems. Finally, a successful mediation can result in a quicker resolution of disputes (because parties do not have to wait for limited court docket time to have their case tried) at a lower cost (because they avoid the substantial costs of contested litigation).
Mediation can be undertaken with or without attorneys, at any step in the litigation process, and can be used to resolve temporary or permanent issues. Often spouses use family mediation services when they decide to separate to resolve the immediate concerns surrounding the separation. Mediation can also be used to resolve permanent disputes over child custody, support, alimony, and property division or when modification of child custody, support or alimony is at issue. Mediation can be attempted before a lawsuit is filed, before the first temporary hearing, or at any time prior to trial.
Mr. Forman has years of experience providing family court mediator services, representing numerous parents and spouses in the mediation process. In 2009 he undertook a formal 40-hour program in Family Law Mediation Training offered by the South Carolina Bar and is certified as a Family Court Mediator with the State of South Carolina. In 2012, Mr. Forman joined the Board of Directors of the Mediation and Meeting Center of Charleston. That year he also attended Advanced Family Law Mediation training.
If you are interested in hiring Gregory Forman as your family mediator attorney, please contact this office. Let Mr. Forman put his experience to work for you in helping you resolve your most important domestic issues. If you wish for Mr. Forman's family court mediator services, or represent you as your mediation attorney, you are welcome to click here to contact his office.
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Mr. Forman's current family mediation services agreement can be downloaded here.


Have you ever wanted your story to be told but never been given the opportunity? Well now is your chance! During our 20th Anniversary we are going to reflect on the last 20 years and celebrate how we have supported carers such as yourself.
Please note: We are happy to change names of those who would prefer this.


Working for one of the UK's leading financial services providers we have a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious and confident HR Business Partner with strong Organisational Design experience to be based in London on an interim basis.
As HR Business Partner the main purpose of your role is to work closely with senior stakeholders and people managers to roll out people programmes (specifically around the design and implementation of organisational design) and provide support and guidance on all aspects of the partner life cycle.
The role requires the ability to think and plan strategically, shape projects and deliver to agreed timelines. Individuals must have a communication style and gravitas that allows them to coach, influence and integrate at a senior level through strong relationships.
Influence and deliver HR strategy into specific business areas.
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Stephen Green: referee and FA tutor about managing corner kicks.
Take up a position with as many players in view as possible.
Make sure that you have an unobstructed view of the goalkeeper – he is the player most likely to be fouled.
Give the players a loud verbal warning to keep their arms down, even though they may not be doing anything. It makes them aware of what you are looking for.
Deal with any jostling or pushing before the kick is taken if you can. Warn the players clearly so if they are then penalised there is credibility for your decision and they can't really complain – although they probably still will!
Vary your position so that your position doesn't become predictable and so the players won't be sure of where you are. A good time to do this is just as the corner kick is being taken as the players will now be concentrating on the ball rather than you.
Look where the attacking players are positioning themselves. This will give you an idea of where the ball is going to be played.
Look at whether the kicker is right or left footed. A right footed kicker taking a corner from the right means it is almost certain to swing out. Similarly, a left-footed kicker from the right will almost certainly swing it in towards the goal with greater likelihood of a foul on the goalkeeper.
If you don't have qualified Assistant Referees then don't position yourself too far out from the goal-line because you will need to be goal judge and most goal-line clearances happen at corner kicks.
Don't worry about quick breaks. This is low on your list of priorities and you will hopefully catch up with play in time.
I hope you could learn something from these tips for Managing Corner Kicks. Have one yourself? Please it below in the comments.
Posted in Blog, tips & tricks and tagged corner kick, Stephen Green.


You know, I've been wishing I asked if they hopped the beer. I'm guessing no - in fact I smelled the fermenting stout wash and didn't smell hops. They may just be using the grain bill from those beers. I can imagine that bitterness would be weird after distillation. The dry hopped whiskey is dry hopped after distillation (I think anyway) - It's a pretty fresh hop flavor.
I agree with how you set priorities. Why waste money on something as superficial as drywall when it is much better spent on spirits!
The hops do not come across as bitter. It is a funky flavor that comes from the part of hops that volatilize at the same temperature as ethanol in the distillation process. The flavor does not diminish with successive distillations either. That's what makes me think the flavor component has the same vapor pressure as ethanol.
Dry hopped after distillation... Hmmm... Interesting idea. I'm gonna have to give that a try.
This is my cellar where all of the Zymurgical wonders occur.
Whiskey = Instant heartburn for me. I wish I could enjoy it, my brother is a huge whiskey fan and would like to join in.
Me too. I just power through it though. Whiskey's just too damn good.
Thanks for the recommendation Hoosier, this will be my tasting for the evening. Also trying out the new glass and whiskey stones. Personally, I'm guessing the stones are going to end up being gimmicky but I'll use them proudly as it was a really thoughtful gift. Cheers!
PS- This stuff aint cheap in Oregon, $59 for the bottle. Thank you Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Yeah, I have the stones and they don't do much for me. I either go neat with about two straws full of cold, filtered water or with one or two ice cubes. I enjoy seeing how the flavors change as the ice slowly melts and progressively dilutes the Scotch.
The tasting glass, on the other hand is a fantastic investment. Love mine.
Finally cracked a bottle of Old Bardstown. And I mean cracked. F'ing wax on a screw-cap. Honestly it was a messy struggle to open the bottle.
Anyway. Nice bourbon and really smooth at 101 proof. To me it is kinda like Scotch. Think this one will be savored.
Just kegged my Bourbon Porter today. I used Old Bardstown for 5 gal, and Buffalo Trace for the other 5 gal. I consider these very solid bourbons. I think both will be great.
I wonder how that Maker's bottle is going to appear when the label is in Japanese?
Whiskey is getting very big in Japan. Wasn't expecting it but am not surprised it happened. 13 Billion is a lot of dough.


An illustrated rhyme for children, in praise of creation. 32pp.
Illustrated Bible stories for very young readers, 32pp.
An Activity Book to accompany A Bible Alphabetwith 26 tear-out sheets for colouring-in and completing. 32pp. & 64pp.
Short extracts from Rutherford's Letters, providing much to strengthen faith, with spiritual comfort and wise counsel. 128pp.
Conveys the vital importance of the Ten Commandments and demonstrates the contemporary church's need to understand God's moral law. Includes a guide for individual and group study. 128pp.
Book Description Este es el segundo de una serie de tomos que recogen la predicación del Dr. Lloyd-Jones sobre Hechos de los Apóstoles. Incluye textos de los capítulos 4 y 5 de este libro, que, según él, presentan el 'cristianismo auténtico y nada más'.
Book Description Este es el primero de una serie de tomos que recogen la predicación del Dr. Lloyd-Jones sobre Hechos 39de los Apóstoles. Incluye textos de los tres primeros capítulos, que, según él, presentan el 'cristianismo auténtico y nada más'.
Contains much valuable first-hand material from Newton himself. Formerly published as But Now I See. 432pp.
Perhaps the best one-volume account of the life of the great evangelist of the 18th century. 608pp.
Shows how Calvin's teaching centred on Christ — his Word, Person, Grace and Life. Includes a brief outline of Calvin's life. 80pp.


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Apartments, Short-Term Rentals in Lavaca Heading to City Council Vote
By Iris Dimmick | December 19, 2019
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The City Council delayed a zoning decision on this mixed-use development in the 1700 block of South St. Mary's Street.
A developer's plan to upgrade and build on several properties in the Lavaca neighborhood received final approval from San Antonio's Historic and Design Review Commission on Wednesday, but the fate of the project hinges on a City Council vote on new zoning rules for the properties.
The project – which involves preserving historic facades, building behind them, and erecting two new buildings – would bring up to 39 residential units to the area near Brackenridge High School and the San Antonio River just south of downtown.
City Council is slated to consider the zoning changes on Jan. 16.
After receiving conceptual approval from HDRC in November and listening to feedback from commissioners and the neighborhood, designers reduced the tallest structure from four stories to three and the building designs were altered to appear less modern.
However, Lavaca Neighborhood Association is opposed to a zoning change that would allow that many units and allow the complex to function as a hotel.
Aspire Multifamily, a company created by the California-based real estate investor Harris Bay, wants the property to be mixed-use but flexible, said local attorney Patrick Christensen, who is representing Aspire.
"It's difficult to rehab old, abandoned warehouses," Christensen told the Rivard Report. Most of the structures located at the northeast corner of South St. Mary's and Jacobs streets are vacant, but there are some occupied residential units in one building. "It's a tough site."
Aspire would agree to a limitation that would allow for a maximum of eight short-term rental (STR) units at a time, he said. The current STR ordinance, which allows for 12.5 percent of housing per block to become short-term rentals, would allow for four units to essentially function as hotel rooms.
Cherise Rohr-Allegrini, president of the Lavaca Neighborhood Association, said the association board has not yet met to consider that proposal, but generally, the neighborhood is opposed to allowing more hotel uses in the area.
Related: New Housing Projects in Historic Tobin Hill and Lavaca Neighborhoods Advance
"I'd prefer no [STRs], but we would accept what they're legally allowed to have," Rohr-Allegrini said. "If they want more, they can go to the [Board of Adjustment to plead their case]."
As the project is developed in phases, Aspire will start working to develop the units from the "top down" and try to lease the ground floor to low-traffic commercial uses such as a coffee shop or yoga studio, Christensen said. If it can't find a commercial tenant, Aspire will consider turning the ground floor into residential units.
The current zoning does not allow for that many residential units, but plans for the area call for high-density mixed-use, he said. "We're not outside the boundaries [of those]."
City staff recommended approval of the zoning request and the Zoning Commission gave it the green light in October.
Rohr-Allegrini acknowledged that plans call for higher density housing in that area, but not that high – and STRs aren't homes.
Related: SA Housing Authority Plans 215-Unit Apartment Complex in Lavaca Neighborhood
"We need housing, we don't need more hotels," said Rohr-Allegrini, who also sits on the City's Planning Commission. "We are going to fight for slightly more moderate density and fewer hotel units."
The Lavaca Neighborhood Association board was supportive of the project until it found out that it wanted hotel zoning, she said.
City Council was originally slated to vote on the zoning change last week, but Christensen asked for a continuance to allow for more time to negotiate with the neighborhood, he said.
Jefferson Bank Approved, Boutique Hotel Rejected
Christensen also represented two other clients on projects of note Wednesday. HDRC approved plans to demolish what is now Still Golden Social House on Broadway Street near the Pearl to construct a 10-story office building to house Jefferson Bank, but it rejected plans for an eight-story boutique hotel on a small sliver of land next to the River Walk.
The hotel at 151 Travis St. would have included an overhang of 3 feet to 11 feet out over the San Antonio River Walk, 24 feet above the sidewalk. HDRC unanimously rejected the encroachment of public right of way.
Christensen said the developers of the Artista Hotel are considering options; including whether to continue to pursue the project.
Cherise Rohr-Allegrini
HDRC


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package vpp2001

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"net"
	"os"
	"time"

	govppapi "git.fd.io/govpp.git/api"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"

	vpp_dhcp "github.com/ligato/vpp-agent/plugins/vpp/binapi/vpp2001/dhcp"
	vpp_ifs "github.com/ligato/vpp-agent/plugins/vpp/binapi/vpp2001/interfaces"
	"github.com/ligato/vpp-agent/plugins/vpp/ifplugin/vppcalls"
)

var InterfaceEventTimeout = time.Second

func (h *InterfaceVppHandler) WatchInterfaceEvents(events chan<- *vppcalls.InterfaceEvent) error {
	notifChan := make(chan govppapi.Message, 10)

	// subscribe for receiving SwInterfaceEvents notifications
	vppNotifSubs, err := h.callsChannel.SubscribeNotification(notifChan, &vpp_ifs.SwInterfaceEvent{})
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Errorf("failed to subscribe VPP notification (sw_interface_event): %v", err)
	}
	_ = vppNotifSubs

	go func() {
		for {
			select {
			case e, ok := <-notifChan:
				if !ok {
					h.log.Debugf("interface notification channel was closed")
					return
				}
				ifEvent, ok := e.(*vpp_ifs.SwInterfaceEvent)
				if !ok {
					continue
				}
				event := &vppcalls.InterfaceEvent{
					SwIfIndex:  uint32(ifEvent.SwIfIndex),
					AdminState: boolToUint(ifEvent.Flags > 0),
					LinkState:  boolToUint(ifEvent.Flags > 1),
					Deleted:    ifEvent.Deleted,
				}
				// send event in goroutine for quick processing
				go func() {
					select {
					case events <- event:
						// sent ok
					case <-time.After(InterfaceEventTimeout):
						h.log.Warnf("unable to deliver interface event, dropping it")
					}
				}()
			}
		}
	}()

	// enable interface state notifications from VPP
	wantIfEventsReply := &vpp_ifs.WantInterfaceEventsReply{}
	err = h.callsChannel.SendRequest(&vpp_ifs.WantInterfaceEvents{
		PID:           uint32(os.Getpid()),
		EnableDisable: 1,
	}).ReceiveReply(wantIfEventsReply)
	if err != nil {
		if err == govppapi.VPPApiError(govppapi.INVALID_REGISTRATION) {
			h.log.Warnf("already registered for watch interface events: %v", err)
			return nil
		}
		return errors.Errorf("failed to watch interface events: %v", err)
	}

	return nil
}

func (h *InterfaceVppHandler) WatchDHCPLeases(leasesCh chan<- *vppcalls.Lease) error {
	notifChan := make(chan govppapi.Message)

	// subscribe for receiving SwInterfaceEvents notifications
	vppNotifSubs, err := h.callsChannel.SubscribeNotification(notifChan, &vpp_dhcp.DHCPComplEvent{})
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Errorf("failed to subscribe VPP notification (sw_interface_event): %v", err)
	}
	_ = vppNotifSubs

	go func() {
		for {
			select {
			case e := <-notifChan:
				dhcpEvent, ok := e.(*vpp_dhcp.DHCPComplEvent)
				if !ok {
					continue
				}
				lease := dhcpEvent.Lease
				var hostAddr, routerAddr string
				if uintToBool(lease.IsIPv6) {
					hostAddr = fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", net.IP(lease.HostAddress).To16().String(), uint32(lease.MaskWidth))
					routerAddr = fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", net.IP(lease.RouterAddress).To16().String(), uint32(lease.MaskWidth))
				} else {
					hostAddr = fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", net.IP(lease.HostAddress[:4]).To4().String(), uint32(lease.MaskWidth))
					routerAddr = fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", net.IP(lease.RouterAddress[:4]).To4().String(), uint32(lease.MaskWidth))
				}
				leasesCh <- &vppcalls.Lease{
					SwIfIndex:     lease.SwIfIndex,
					State:         lease.State,
					Hostname:      string(bytes.SplitN(lease.Hostname, []byte{0x00}, 2)[0]),
					IsIPv6:        uintToBool(lease.IsIPv6),
					HostAddress:   hostAddr,
					RouterAddress: routerAddr,
					HostMac:       net.HardwareAddr(lease.HostMac).String(),
				}
			}
		}
	}()

	return nil
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Montclair Library was built in 1930, a gift from philanthropist Chauncey Gibson to the community. Over the years, many people have admired the library's charming Storybook style architecture.
At some point, the library's original schoolhouse-style lights (seen in this photo of people unpacking books onto the shelves in the brand-new library in 1930) were replaced with banks of fluorescent lights, which at the time were the most efficient option.
On December 8, we're kicking off a campaign to raise funds to replace the fluorescents with new energy-efficient, warm lighting LEDs made in a style that closely matches the library's original lighting, and which provide a nicer light for reading and working – see the mock-up below.
Help us restore the branch to its original splendor with a donation toward the new lighting! The Friends of Montclair Library have made a $4000 grant towards the project, and we're looking for community donations to meet the other $4000 required to make the lighting upgrade happen.
If you have happy memories of time spent in the Montclair Library, please consider donating towards our campaign. Checks of any amount can be made out to the Friends of Oakland Public Library (FOPL) and are tax deductible.
Thank you for helping restore your community library!


From August 26-31, 2016, the 25th Anniversary of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) will take place at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Sandra Okita of the CMLTD Program in MST is the General Chair of the conference. For more information, please visit http://www.ro-man2016.org/.


How about this great vehicle! It offers the latest in technological innovation and style. A turbocharger further enhances performance, while also preserving fuel economy. Chevrolet prioritized comfort and style by including: a rear step bumper, telescoping steering wheel, and a split folding rear seat. Smooth gearshifts are achieved thanks to the powerful 8 cylinder engine, and for added security, dynamic Stability Control supplements the drivetrain. Our sales reps are extremely helpful knowledgeable. We'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Stop by our dealership or give us a call for more information.


Despite the bill's preamble noting that of at least 30 US states which have considered assisted suicide laws, only 5 have approved them, legislators in Honolulu have passed a law providing for physician-assisted suicide, based on the Oregon model. Hawaii's House of Representatives voted 39-12 in favour on 6 March, and the Senate voted 23-2 on the 29th to send it to the Governor. Governor Ige is set to sign it into law today (5 April).
The law is a deeply political text: in denoting 'the right to choose to avoid an unnecessarily prolonged life of pain and suffering', the framers wilfully conflated interventionist, life-prolonging care with allowing for natural death, often including the cessation or withdrawal of certain treatments alongside ever-evolving palliative care options. The law also requires that the underlying illness be recorded as the 'immediate' cause of death. Terms such as 'assisted dying' and 'aid in dying' might be considered examples of extreme poetic licence, but to register cancer (for example) as the 'immediate' cause of death when the heart stopped beating that day entirely as a result of ingesting a barbiturate is not only a lie, but one now mandated by state law.
They identify the failure to supply all patients with care which we know substantially improves quality of life in most terminally ill patients, but instead of addressing that gap, jump straight to a solution involving doctors helping patients end their lives.
The law is also likely to operate as does Oregon's with regard to the assessment of terminal illness, which is described as 'an incurable and irreversible disease that has been medically confirmed and will, within reasonable medical judgment, produce death within six months. "Terminal disease" does not include age or any physical disability or condition that is not likely to, by itself, cause death within six months.' There are many conditions which would not obviously be considered terminal but which could be if the patient discontinued particular treatment, and Oregon health officials have freely conceded that these would be eligible for assisted suicide. The above quoted legal text goes out of its way to suggest the law will not threaten disabled people, but many have noted that without mechanical and medicinal interventions which have not only sustained but maintained the quality of their lives, they would quite likely become considered terminally ill. The elasticity of the term is extraordinary.
One little curiosity of the law is the requirement that applicants be assessed by a psychiatrist, psychologist, or clinical social worker - an assessment which it is explicitly stated can take place by 'telehealth'. Hawaii law defines telehealth as 'the use of telecommunications... including but not limited to real-time video conferencing-based communication, secure interactive and non-interactive web-based communication, and secure asynchronous information exchange, to transmit patient medical information'. So if you are concerned that, as if often the case, the doctors signing off on applications might be relative strangers who can't well attest to the patient's condition (link - see point 9), you can take reassurance from a Skype counselling session ruling out depression or coercion.
Not counting the District of Columbia, Hawaii is now the sixth state to have legislated for assisted suicide. The Oregon model may have travelled 2,500 miles, but it still hasn't come that far: quite aside from most proposals still failing in the weight of evidence-based arguments against (since 1997, more laws have been passed explicitly prohibiting assisted suicide than allowing it), there is also the fact that the model's weaknesses have never been adequately addressed. To take just one example, every year in Oregon and Washington, patients die after surviving more than twice as long as two physicians signed to say they could do - how many who didn't wait missed out on precious time? Hawaii will soon be faced with the same question, and many others.
© Image copyright of Loren Javier and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.


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Albania picks group led by India Power for solar plant
Benet Koleka
(Reuters) - Albania's government picked a group led by India Power Corporation Ltd. to build the Adriatic country's first solar power station worth 70 million euros ($79.34 million) with a capacity of 100 MW, the Energy Ministry said on Saturday.
An employee from the Electrical Manufacturing Company Ltd. (EMC) walks through the installed solar modules at the Naini solar power plant in Allahabad, March 21, 2012. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash/File Photo
The offer by India Power, Mining Resources FZE based in the United Arab Emirates and the Hong Kong-based Midami Ltd. was the one out of three with the best combination of "technical and financial credibility, price and additional capacity", it added.
"This project will be an important step in diversifying energy resources in Albania and lead the way in turning Albania into a centre of solar power in the Balkans," said the ministry.
The Socialist government of Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to install 120 megawatts of solar and 70 MW of wind power capacity by 2020, since more than 90 percent of Albania's power is produced from rivers and a newly built power plant, beset by a cooling problem, does not work.
Once the solar plant has been built in 18 months, it will sell power to the local distributor at 59.9 Euro per MW for 15 years out of its 50 first MW. Energy from the other 50 MW will be sold at market prices.
The ministry hailed the auction as a success because it secures "one of the lowest energy prices in the region". The price "is lower than the 63 Euro/MW in Greece and Turkey and also below the average import price", it said.
Albania believes the record of India Power, "a 100-year-old company with a 1,500 MW capacity of thermal, wind and solar power owned by the Kanoria Foundation Group" provided enough assurance for the project.
Now Albania and the group led by India Power will negotiate the contract. If finalised, this would be the first major investment by an Asian company to Albania since two Chinese companies bought its crude extraction firm and an airport concession from their respective Canadian and German owners around two years ago.
The ministry said the outcome of solar plant contract will encourage them to hold similar auctions in other parts of the sun-kissed country on the shores of the Adriatic Sea.
($1 = 0.8823 euros)
Reporting by Benet Koleka,; Editing by Clelia Oziel


Every home and public building today has several utilities at work to keep it functional and comfortable, from the electric wires in the walls to insulation to natural gas that flows to gas-powered stoves. The plumbing, meanwhile, handles all fresh water going into the home and all sewage flowing from it, and sewage disposal can be done either with a public sewage system or, in the case of more remote and rural locations, a septic disposal system. A plumber can help any homeowner repair problems with the pipes, valves, or utilities such as the sink or toilet, and plumbers can quickly diagnose a problem and offer a fix. Plumbers can replace pipes or seal leaks that homeowners may not have the skills or tools to deal with, and plumbers can even remove old, leaky toilets or showers and put in newer models. Hiring a plumbing company can save a home from wasteful water loss every year, and plumbers are always ready and willing to help out.
Water is a vital resource for any society, even one as advanced as the United States, and it should be treated carefully. The bad news is that often, huge amounts of water are simply wasted across the United States, which not only strains natural water sources like aquifers, but also cranks up the water bill in households that are wasting water every year. How much water is being lost due to leaking pipes or outdated toilets and sinks? A lot, in fact. About 10% of all American homes that have leaks waste about 90 gallons of water per day, and this can add up fast to many billions of gallons being wasted across the United States per year, water that could have otherwise been put to good use. An average person today uses about 70 gallons of water per day anyway, and if more water on top of that is being wasted, this strains the plumbing system and water sources. Leaking pipes lose a lot of water every time they are used, and old toilets, showers and bathtubs, and faucets are not up to modern standards of water efficiency. They use more water than they should even if they are in good condition, and leaking or damaged ones are going to leak even more.
The good news is that it is never too late to fix leaking pipes, unclog drains or pipes, or replace old toilets and showers with newer models. This can also save a lot of money, such as with low flush toilets that limit their water use. The EPA, for example, has estimated that an average household may save around $90 per year with a low flush toilet in place, and these toilets use only 1.3 gallons per flush, which compares favorably to older models. And some leaks are easy even for homeowners to fix. Fixing them can save homeowners around 10% on the water bills even if plumbers are not called in. Some homeowners have the tools and the skills needed to fix minor plumbing issues such as the pipes under the sink or a leaking shower head, but bigger problems will definitely need a plumber's attention.
Bigger problems, such as an old toilet or leaks in the larger pipes deeper in the system, definitely call for a plumber's help, and concerned homeowners can reach out to local plumbing services if they suspect a problem. Issues such as a strangely high water bill, water damage on drywall, hearing drips, or clogged toilets all call for plumbers, and a person can look up local crews and compare and contrast their fees and availability, and choose a crew to hire. On the site, plumbers will diagnose the problems and effect repairs, and they may seal up or even replace pipes in the walls or under the home to fix leaks that are wasting a lot of water. They can also fix clogs deeper in the sewage system, and if need be, they can also replace an old faucet, toilet, or shower or even bath tub with a newer one that works better and conserves water with its everyday use. This can save a lot on the water bill, too.


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(Step) Moms Panel
Fourth Stacey clone debuts
No one person can be that perky for 14 years.
WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — She's been a fixture on Walt Disney World resort room televisions since 2005, as the perky and popular host of "Must Do Disney." She's Stacey, and she's about to be replaced.
It's not the first time.
I want to be a clone
"Stacey's great," says George Kalogridis, President of the Walt Disney World Resort and Spa, "but she's so cheerful and animated in her appearances. She's bubblier than anyone I know on camera, but no one can keep up that pace. It just wears you down. So every four to five years, we replace her with a clone.
"And Stacey #3 is getting kind of grouchy off-camera, which means it's time to swap in Number Four."
I think I'm a clone now
So far, regular Disney guests haven't seemed to notice the changes.
"We want to keep Stacey around as long as possible," Kalogridis says. "The cloning technology is letting us do that for now, and no one seems the wiser.
"Eventually we'll have to figure something else out, of course. Folks might get suspicious if Stacey's still doing 'Must Do Disney' in 2055 and hasn't aged."
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Song Weilong Asked if He is Dating Victoria Song in Real Life
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Everyone is getting into Song Weilong (宋威龙) mania due to his character, "Yuan Song", in the hit drama, "Find Yourself" (下一站是幸福). Song Weilong has a 10 year age difference in a "jiedi lian" (姐弟恋, older woman-younger man relationship) with Victoria Song (宋茜) in the series. Many fans have fell for the onscreen couple due to their sweet interactions in the series. Perhaps their acting is too believable as a particular celebrity's mother asked the burning question that has been on the mind of many fans. She asked Song Weilong if he is dating Victoria Song in real life.
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Hunan TV aired a new show today translated as "Hey! What Are You Doing?" (嘿!你在干嘛呢) that is hosted by the "Happy Camp" hosts. During Li Weijia's (李维嘉) segment, he and his mother had a video chat with Song Weilong. Li Weijia's mother is a big fan of "Find Yourself". So when they connected with Song Weilong, the first thing she said was, "In the series, you guys are a couple. In real life, are you guys also a couple? Are you guys dating?". Song Weilong shyly responds, "In real life, no. Good friends. In real life, we are good friends."
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Mama Li was persistent and continued to ask him, "Is there a possibility of you guys becoming a couple? Will definitely become a couple. I'm guessing. A lot of people act as couples in the series and afterwards become a real life couple." Li Weijia is having the time of his life seeing his mother fan girl and put Song Weilong on the spot. Song Weilong laughs and once again shakes his head and says, "No, no. Just good friends."
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Li Weijia then says to Song Weilong, "My mother says "jiedi lian" is specially trendy nowadays." Mama Lee adds, "Jiedi (lian) is popular." Song Weilong then responds back in a serious tone, "Right. Actually, I think if you like it, anything is fine. Age doesn't matter. I think if you like a person, it doesn't matter."
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So ladies, if you are older than Song Weilong (b. 1999), you have a chance. Although he is rumored to be dating a model right now, Song Weilong seems to be a lady killer of all ages.
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3 thoughts on "Song Weilong Asked if He is Dating Victoria Song in Real Life"
Connie ruffin says:
Will they make any more moves together
Navaporn Noi Daad says:
Song Wei Long and Victoria Song seems like they have good chemistry together, act well, fooled us lol, thought they are a real couple, or can be lol xxxx
angi moreno rodrigo says:
Me gustaria ,pero vic necesita un hombre de su edad o unos añitos mas mia tiam
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Long Before Sanctuary Cities, Here's How Black Americans Protected Fugitive Slaves
Barbara Krauthamer,
Over the past few weeks, the national climate has grown increasingly tense over the issue of "sanctuary" cities and states. Local communities, including some college and university campuses, have pledged to shield undocumented children and adults from President Donald Trump's proposals for deportation. Municipalities and campuses remain steadfast even in the face of the president's threats to withhold federal funding from these communities.
This opposition between federal authorities and local communities is hardly new. As a scholar of slavery and emancipation, I have studied the long history of African-American communities and how they offered sanctuary or protection to the most vulnerable among them.
In particular, I have looked at how in the 19th century, before the abolition of slavery in the United States, free black people openly defied the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that sanctioned slavery over the human rights of enslaved people.
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The Law That Supported Rights to Slaves
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 built on provisions in the Constitution and a 1793 law that barred slaves from escaping from a state where slavery was legal to one where it had been banned.
While the Constitution mainly called for the return of runaway slaves, the 1850 law vastly expanded the authority of federal law enforcement officials. The law criminalized helping or harboring a runaway slave and denied the accused person the right to offer testimony in her or his own defense.
The 1850 law confirmed what generations of enslaved African-Americans knew too well: They existed as property, not persons, in the eyes of the law.
Enslaved women and men could not enter legal marriages because slaveholders claimed their bodies, time, movement and even reproductive capacity. Law and custom dictated that enslaved women gave birth to enslaved children.
Constant Threat of Enslavement
Freedom was always precarious for black Americans who stood on the legal margins of society. Blackness and enslavement were so firmly connected in antebellum America that to be free and black was to exist as a civic anomaly.
Free black people were recognized as citizens, though with limited rights, in the states in which they lived. Their standing as citizens of the nation remained ambiguous until after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States.
The threat of enslavement stalked many free black people. Solomon Northup, for example, was a free man who lived in upstate New York; in 1841 he was abducted and sold into slavery in Louisiana. The 1850 law made it worse. Those who had seized their freedom by running away became more vulnerable to kidnapping and enslavement.
Slaveholders advertised widely for the return of their property — the runaway slaves — and often hired men to track and capture fugitives. Newspaper reports and broadsides announced the arrival of slave catchers, warning free black people to remain vigilant especially in their interactions with the police.
On Nov. 1, 1850, the Liberator, the Boston anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, a radical white abolitionist, alerted local residents to the presence of "two prowling villains." It said that the two slave catchers had come to Boston from Macon, Georgia, with the aim of capturing William and Ellen Craft, a runaway slave couple, "under the infernal Fugitive Slave Bill, and carrying them back to the hell of Slavery."
Prompted to action by the Crafts' plight, Boston's black community gathered to plan their opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law. They adopted a set of resolutions, including a pledge "to resist oppression" and any attacks on their freedom.
Escaping Bondage
Many prominent black activists gained their freedom by running away. Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are among the best-known fugitive slaves. After liberating themselves, they continued to challenge the laws and customs that stripped black people of their freedom.
After the 1850 law was enacted, many black people set their sights on Canada, convinced they could find safety only outside of the United States. Harriet Tubman was among them. She shepherded runaways from Maryland through New York and Pennsylvania to Canada, where slavery had been abolished in 1834.
Frederick Douglass, perhaps the most widely known self-liberated slave, also left the United States to safeguard his freedom. Douglass had escaped from bondage in Maryland in 1838 and then traveled to England and Ireland.
The 1845 publication of his "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself" placed him in danger of being captured. Douglass returned to the U.S. in 1847 only after his English supporters negotiated with his owner to purchase his freedom.
Experiences of escape and exile prompted free black women and men to lament America's denial of their humanity but also invigorated their determination to bring slavery to an end.
Fighting for Freedom
In the wake of the 1850 law, many black people openly engaged in physical confrontations with law enforcement. Tubman, for example, fought the arrest and detainment of accused fugitives.
Almost immediately after the 1850 law was enacted, Frederick Douglass quickly organized a mass gathering in protest. In September 1850, hundreds of black and white opponents of slavery gathered in Cazenovia, New York to hear Douglass and other prominent abolitionists, some of them former slaves, speak out against the law.
In his published summary of the Cazenovia meeting, Douglass charged, "slave laws should be held in perfect contempt." He also maintained that enslaved people should defy the laws of slavery and liberate themselves by escaping from their owners whenever they could.
In short, Douglass called on free people, black and white, as well as enslaved people to defy state and federal laws that protected slavery.
African-American history is American history. Black people's lives, their words and actions, including their commitment to defying the laws of slavery, helped define the meanings of freedom and citizenship in the United States.
Barbara Krauthamer
Barbara Krauthamer is an associate professor of History at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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2.3.15 Binary representation. Write a program that takes a positive integer n (in decimal) as a command-line argument and prints its binary representation. Recall, in PROGRAM 1.3.7, that we used the method of subtracting out powers of 2. Now, use the following simpler method: repeatedly divide 2 into n and read the remainders backward. First, write a while loop to carry out this computation and print the bits in the wrong order. Then, use recursion to print the bits in the correct order.
2.3.16 A4 paper. The width-to-height ratio of paper in the ISO format is the square root of 2 to 1. Format A0 has an area of 1 square meter. Format A1 is A0 cut with a vertical line into two equal halves, A2 is A1 cut with a horizontal line into two halves, and so on. Write a program that takes an integer command-line argument n and uses StdDraw to show how to cut a sheet of A0 paper into 2n pieces.
2.3.17 Permutations. Write a program Permutations that takes an integer command-line argument n and prints all n ! permutations of the n letters starting at a (assume that n is no greater than 26). A permutation of n elements is one of the n ! possible orderings of the elements. As an example, when n = 3, you should get the following output (but do not worry about the order in which you enumerate them):
bca cba cab acb bac abc
2.3.18 Permutations of size k. Modify Permutations from the previous exercise so that it takes two command-line arguments n and k, and prints all P(n, k) = n ! / (n–k)! permutations that contain exactly k of the n elements. Below is the desired output when k = 2 and n = 4 (again, do not worry about the order):
ab ac ad ba bc bd ca cb cd da db dc
2.3.19 Combinations. Write a program Combinations that takes an integer command-line argument n and prints all 2n combinations of any size. A combination is a subset of the n elements, independent of order. As an example, when n = 3, you should get the following output:
a ab abc ac b bc c
Note that your program needs to print the empty string (subset of size 0).
2.3.20 Combinations of size k. Modify Combinations from the previous exercise so that it takes two integer command-line arguments n and k, and prints all C(n, k) = n ! / (k !(n–k)!) combinations of size k. For example, when n = 5 and k = 3, you should get the following output:
abc abd abe acd ace ade bcd bce bde cde
2.3.21 Hamming distance. The Hamming distance between two bit strings of length n is equal to the number of bits in which the two strings differ. Write a program that reads in an integer k and a bit string s from the command line, and prints all bit strings that have Hamming distance at most k from s. For example, if k is 2 and s is 0000, then your program should print
Hint: Choose k of the bits in s to flip.
2.3.22 Recursive squares. Write a program to produce each of the following recursive patterns. The ratio of the sizes of the squares is 2.2:1. To draw a shaded square, draw a filled gray square, then an unfilled black square.
2.3.23 Pancake flipping. You have a stack of n pancakes of varying sizes on a griddle. Your goal is to rearrange the stack in order so that the largest pancake is on the bottom and the smallest one is on top. You are only permitted to flip the top k pancakes, thereby reversing their order. Devise a recursive scheme to arrange the pancakes in the proper order that uses at most 2n – 3 flips.
2.3.24 Gray code. Modify Beckett (PROGRAM 2.3.3) to print the Gray code (not just the sequence of bit positions that change).
2.3.25 Towers of Hanoi variant. Consider the following variant of the towers of Hanoi problem. There are 2n discs of increasing size stored on three poles. Initially all of the discs with odd size (1, 3, ..., 2n-1) are piled on the left pole from top to bottom in increasing order of size; all of the discs with even size (2, 4, ..., 2n) are piled on the right pole. Write a program to provide instructions for moving the odd discs to the right pole and the even discs to the left pole, obeying the same rules as for towers of Hanoi.
2.3.26 Animated towers of Hanoi. Use StdDraw to animate a solution to the towers of Hanoi problem, moving the discs at a rate of approximately 1 per second.
2.3.27 Sierpinski triangles. Write a recursive program to draw Sierpinski triangles (see PROGRAM 2.2.3). As with Htree, use a command-line argument to control the depth of the recursion.
2.3.28 Binomial distribution. Estimate the number of recursive calls that would be used by the code
public static double binomial(int n, int k)
if ((n == 0) && (k == 0)) return 1.0;
if ((n < 0) || (k < 0))   return 0.0;
return (binomial(n-1, k) + binomial(n-1, k-1))/2.0;
to compute binomial(100, 50). Develop a better implementation that is based on dynamic programming. Hint: See EXERCISE 1.4.41.
2.3.29 Collatz function. Consider the following recursive function, which is related to a famous unsolved problem in number theory, known as the Collatz problem, or the 3n+1 problem:
public static void collatz(int n)
StdOut.print(n + " ");
if (n == 1) return;
if (n % 2 == 0) collatz(n / 2);
else            collatz(3*n + 1);
For example, a call to collatz(7) prints the sequence
7 22 11 34 17 52 26 13 40 20 10 5 16 8 4 2 1
as a consequence of 17 recursive calls. Write a program that takes a command-line argument n and returns the value of i < n for which the number of recursive calls for collatz(i) is maximized. The unsolved problem is that no one knows whether the function terminates for all integers (mathematical induction is no help, because one of the recursive calls is for a larger value of the argument).
2.3.30 Brownian island. B. Mandelbrot asked the famous question How long is the coast of Britain? Modify Brownian to get a program BrownianIsland that plots Brownian islands, whose coastlines resemble that of Great Britain. The modifications are simple: first, change curve() to add a random Gaussian to the x-coordinate as well as to the y-coordinate; second, change main() to draw a curve from the point at the center of the canvas back to itself. Experiment with various values of the parameters to get your program to produce islands with a realistic look.
2.3.31 Plasma clouds. Write a recursive program to draw plasma clouds, using the method suggested in the text.
2.3.32 A strange function. Consider McCarthy's 91 function:
public static int mcCarthy(int n)
if (n > 100) return n - 10;
return mcCarthy(mcCarthy(n+11));
Determine the value of mcCarthy(50) without using a computer. Give the number of recursive calls used by mcCarthy() to compute this result. Prove that the base case is reached for all positive integers n or find a value of n for which this function goes into an infinite recursive loop.
2.3.33 Recursive tree. Write a program Tree that takes a command-line argument n and produces the following recursive patterns for n equal to 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8.
2.3.34 Longest palindromic subsequence. Write a program LongestPalindromicSubsequence that takes a string as a command-line argument and determines the longest subsequence of the string that is a palindrome (the same when read forward or backward). Hint: Compute the longest common subsequence of the string and its reverse.