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Reports Signal Vigorous Economy : Indicators: Sales of new homes climb 3.3% in September. Employment costs and manufacturing also make good showings.
Nov. 1, 1995 12 AM PT
From Times Wire Services
Fresh signs of economic vitality without inflation appeared Tuesday as the government reported the second-highest new home sales of the year and the smallest employment cost increase on record.
Two private reports appeared to confirm a vigorous economy, with one reporting an expanding manufacturing sector and the other strong consumer confidence.
"Without inflation, the economy is encountering no real impediments and can continue on its present growth path indefinitely," said economist Eugene Sherman of M.A. Schapiro & Co. in New York.
The reports "show solid growth without inflation and that consumers are feeling pretty good about it," said economist David F. Seiders of the National Assn. of Home Builders.
The government had reported Friday that the economy grew at a 4.2% annual rate during July, August and September, about three times the pace of the previous three months.
The Commerce Department said Tuesday that sales of new homes rose 3.3% in September, to 727,000 at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, from 704,000 in August.
The total was second in 1995 only to the 792,000 rate in July. It marked the first time in nearly two years that sales topped 700,000 for four straight months.
The housing industry went into a slump earlier this year after mortgage rates topped 9%. But it has rebounded recently; rates had dropped to 7.5% as of last week. (That would mean a savings of more than $100 a month on a $100,000 mortgage.)
But most analysts expect sales to level off for the remainder of the year, and the regional sales mix appeared to suggest such a plateau. Sales were up in the Midwest and West but fell in the Northeast and South.
Still, observers noted that sales remained at relatively high levels.
In a second report, the Labor Department said U.S. workers' wages, salaries and benefits rose 2.7% in the year ended Sept. 30, the tiniest increase since it began tracking compensation in 1981.
The employment cost index is considered one of the best gauges of wage inflation pressures because compensation represents about two-thirds of a product's cost.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Purchasing Management Assn.'s index of business activity rose to 53.4 this month, up from 49.0 in September. A reading above 50 denotes expansion in the manufacturing sector.
Many analysts see the Chicago index as a preview of the national manufacturing survey that comes out today.
Although the Conference Board's measure of consumer confidence fell marginally in October, it remained at a level depicting healthy economic growth. The New York business research group said its index was 97 this month, down from 97.3 in September.
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Seasonally adjusted annual rate, in thousands of units:
Sept. 1995: 727
Source: Commerce Department


FORNEY, Texas - The Forney High School softball team will honor a teammate killed in a car accident a year ago.
The Lady Jackrabbits are on a mission. They're strong bond and skills on the field have earned them a trip to the state playoffs.
The players have grown in strength as a team over the past year, especially for 14-year-old Emily Galiano's twin sister and the teammate who caused a crash that claimed her life.
Galiano died a year ago after being accidentally struck by a vehicle following a team dinner. Her death resulted in an overwhelming show of fortitude.
The team, including Galiano's twin sister, told FOX 4's Lori Brown earlier this week that they are drawing inspiration from the faith she always had.
"Just to do life without her is not easy because I've had her with me since I was born, like in the womb together. I haven't gone a day without her," said Madison Galiano.
"I know she would be proud of where we are today, and I know we will see her again one day," Trinity Cannon added.
The team said whatever the outcome of the tournament, it is clear the victory is already theirs.
They'll wear tribute shirts as they depart Thursday morning. They play their first game Friday at noon.


Mazel gallery, invite Damien Gernay to present his latest experiments.
« BLANC CASSÉ » will be representing an overview of new creations that explores the notion of the white colour, which a physical alteration will render functional.
The white colour as original colour, as a reference to the painter's canvas or to the writer's blank sheet from which the act becomes object.
Puzzling and intricate, Damien Gernay's work celebrates paradox in an offbeat and refreshing way. The Brussels-based designer has been crafting his own singular voice, challenging the boundaries between design and art. Whether he's working on a lamp, a table, a stool or a mirror, Gernay manages to combine control with spontaneity, mixing the smooth with the rough. His creative gestures are inspiring and generous, without being obvious.


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Morphological and molecular characterization of Colletotrichum species from herbaceous plants in Thailand
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ชื่อเรื่อง : Morphological and molecular characterization of Colletotrichum species from herbaceous plants in Thailand
นักวิจัย : Photita W. , Taylor P.W.J. , Ford R. , Hyde K.D. , Lumyong S.
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Thirty-four isolates of Colletotrichum spp. were isolated from banana, ginger, Euphatorium thymifolia, soybean, longan, mango and Draceana sanderiana. They included endophytes from healthy plants and probable pathogens from disease lesions. Isolates were identified and grouped based on colony morphology, and size and shape of appressoria and conidia. Molecular analysis based on sequences of the rDNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2), indicated that the Colletotrichum isolates comprised four clades that paralleled the morphological groupings. Most isolates clustered within three distinct clades which potentially represented different species. Endophytes isolated from different hosts are more likely to be the same species. Colletotrichum musae was positioned close to the C. gloeosporioides clades. Morphological and phylogenetic analysis of Colletotrichum pathogens and endophytes showed that endophytic isolates were most similar to C. gloeosporioides however, no pathogenic isolates clustered with endophytic isolates. The correlation between morphological and molecular-based clustering demonstrated the genetic relationships among the isolates and species of Colletotrichum and indicated that ITS rDNA sequence data were potentially useful in taxonomic species determination.
Photita W. , Taylor P.W.J. , Ford R. , Hyde K.D. , Lumyong S. . (2548). Morphological and molecular characterization of Colletotrichum species from herbaceous plants in Thailand.
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Photita W. , Taylor P.W.J. , Ford R. , Hyde K.D. , Lumyong S. . 2548. "Morphological and molecular characterization of Colletotrichum species from herbaceous plants in Thailand".
Photita W. , Taylor P.W.J. , Ford R. , Hyde K.D. , Lumyong S. . "Morphological and molecular characterization of Colletotrichum species from herbaceous plants in Thailand."
เชียงใหม่ : มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่ , 2548. Print.
Photita W. , Taylor P.W.J. , Ford R. , Hyde K.D. , Lumyong S. . Morphological and molecular characterization of Colletotrichum species from herbaceous plants in Thailand. เชียงใหม่ : มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่ ; 2548.
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Emeli Sande's New Song "Here It Comes" Will Put You in the Best Possible Trance
You already know we love Emeli Sande. Even fellow Obsesser Megan admitted that she could not stop bopping along to Emeli's irresistible rhythms on last year's Our Version of Events. (And if seeing Emeli live is not on your to-do list, I suggest getting on that inmediatamente, por favor.) Well, I've got another great new track for you to get addicted to: Emeli's powerhouse voice uplifts "Here It Comes," a collaboration with Rick Smith. Seriously, it's basically a time-stopping electronic power ballad if there ever was one, and it's on the soundtrack to the new Danny Boyle-directed movie, Trance. Enjoy... And that's the Morning Jam for your toast, darlings. What do y'all think of Emeli Sande's "Here It Comes"?
By Mickey Woods
You already know we love Emeli Sande. Even fellow Obsesser Megan admitted that she could not stop bopping along to Emeli's irresistible rhythms on last year's Our Version of Events. (And if seeing Emeli live is not on your to-do list, I suggest getting on that inmediatamente, por favor.)
Well, I've got another great new track for you to get addicted to: Emeli's powerhouse voice uplifts "Here It Comes," a collaboration with Rick Smith. Seriously, it's basically a time-stopping electronic power ballad if there ever was one, and it's on the soundtrack to the new Danny Boyle-directed movie, Trance. Enjoy...
And that's the Morning Jam for your toast, darlings. What do y'all think of Emeli Sande's "Here It Comes"?
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Somebody suffering from arthritis can experience such pain that it can sometimes feel overwhelming. In some cases, traditional medicines and surgeries can do little to aid in the relief of this dreaded disease. Thankfully, there are innovative techniques that have great promise to relieve some forms of arthritis which do not respond well to other types of treatment. One of these treatments is Stem Cell Injection.
Unlike the more controversial method of using embryonic stem cells, this type of arthritic treatment uses either amniotic stem cells or stem cells taken from the patient's own bone marrow. In this regard, there are no moral or ethical dilemmas to consider. This type of therapy has proven to be both safe and effective in relieving pain. Some patients have reported themselves to be pain-free years after only a few treatments. The stem cells are injected directly into the area where the pain is felt.
The Stem Cell Injection treatment lasts only about 90 minutes in total. Aside from the minor prick of the needle going in, there is no invasive procedure at all. The patient can leave the clinic immediately afterward and resume their normal daily routine. They will start to feel lasting relief after only a few weeks. The patient will progress into a pain-free life they actually enjoy, rather than just endure.
Yes, it has been proven to be very safe. Unlike pharmaceutical options, there is no risk of becoming addicted to anything. Stem cell therapy is also far less invasive than corrective surgery, which relies on slicing the patient open and often times leaving permanent scarring. STem cell therapy is a completely natural way to treat arthritis. It is used on thousands of patients every year.
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TIP! Give vinyl flooring a shot to get rid of any bubbles. If a bubble exists in an old vinyl floor, it is easy to slice into it and release the air.
When thinking about a home improvement project, do you find that you don't know where to begin? If you have no idea how to make home improvements, you're not the only one. There is nothing strange about that, but there are things that can help. Read below to get the information you need to begin a home project.
TIP! If you wish to redo a tile floor, consider getting radiant heat tiles. These tiles are very attractive and produce heat with your electricity.
TIP! Have you considered a second bathroom? A second bathroom, particularly if it is on a different floor from the first bathroom, is really helpful for family and guests. Having two will reduce fighting over bathroom privileges and create a happier household.
When it comes to home improvement, be sure that you take note of your surroundings and only make improvements that make sense. Doing something strange like an uninsulated sun room at a high northern latitude might make potential homeowners scratch their heads and hesitate to make you an offer. Add value to your home, not negative features.
TIP! Turn off the plumbing if any home improvement projects will take place in the bathroom or kitchen. Find the shutoff for water in your home before you begin any kind of work on rooms that use water.
If you're unable to find an adequately fitting window screen, you can easily make your own. Frame kits are customizable to various sizes and are inexpensive to use. Although some windows may use special screens, they can still use an external screen thanks to adapters.
TIP! Any bedroom can look better through the use of throw pillows. Use some old clothing, such as t-shirts or jeans and cut the fabric to make custom covers for your existing pillows.
Downspouts, chimneys and gutters often get overlooked when it comes to home improvements and as well as yearly updating. These elements of the house must be examined often to ensure they are always in good working order. If you do not clean out your chimney regularly, it can cause a fire; if you do not clean your gutters, it may cause water to overflow and flood your home.
Before painting or staining a wooden object you should use sandpaper to smooth the surface of the wood and then wipe the object off with a damp rag. Using a fine sandpaper on the surface will smooth it to an even finish. When you use a damp rag to wipe the wood off, you also get rid of dust, helping the finish stay smooth.
Chair cushions inevitably grow flatter with use. To restore them, put the cushions outside in the sun. When cushions are placed in direct sunlight, they regain their bounce as moisture evaporates from the fillings inside the cushions. Be sure to turn the cushions over and do not leave them in the sun too long to avoid fading of the fabric.
TIP! Most supplies for home improvement projects tend to be items that would be valuable theft targets. It is important to lock up all building supplies at night.
A coat rack mounted to the wall can be an elegant way to display your jewelry. Never hang your more valuable jewelry, of course, but hanging costume jewelry is a great way to organize it while adding interest to a room. A jewelry display will help to avoid tangles in your collection. Keep your favorite necklaces within easy reach.
TIP! It's always important to check that any new lighting added to bathrooms is as bright as you need it to be. It's common to pay more attention to bathroom features than to lighting when remodeling, but it's a mistake.
If you are a homeowner, you shouldn't hire any contractors who don't have licenses to work on your home. Every state requires you to possess some kind of certification if you're a general contractor or a sub-contractor. Keep in mind that these certifications cannot be used to measure the talent of your contractor. Do not hire anyone without a license or certification, since they might not have a professional insurance, which would become a huge problem if the job goes wrong.
TIP! To give the appropriate rooms in your home a soothing feel, paint them in analogous colors. Analogous colors are located beside each other on the color wheel.
Tackling home improvement tasks doesn't have to be as complicated as they are sometimes portrayed. It requires hard work, but that effort can be made easier with the right information. There are small jobs to be done, as well. Try it now that you have a fuller understanding of what you should do and how to go about it.


Methodology is the process used to gather and analyze data needed to answer the research questions guiding a study. Strive for clarity and accuracy when describing each step of the methods you used when conducting your research and explain why you chose certain methods over others. A detailed methodology is critical to other researchers who may wish to replicate your work or expand upon it. Ensure you write the methodology section in past tense when submitting your final paper.
Specify whether you used a quantitative approach to measure data, a qualitative approach to describe phenomenon or both methods to frame your study. Explain how the framework chosen aligned with your research questions. For example, if you studied whether a new behavior modification program in the school district reduced disruptive classroom behavior, mention that you used a quantitative approach to explore a cause and effect relationship between the intervention and frequency of student misconduct.
Indicate how you collected original data or retrieved archival information. If your study involved human subjects or animals, state how and when you obtained permission from your school's institutional review board. In a quantitative study, you would also explain what experiments, tests or surveys were administered, including a subsection on sampling procedures. Also cite the reliability and validity of data-collection instruments. If you conducted a qualitative study, explain how data were acquired through inquiry techniques such as case studies, participant observation, journal analysis or focus groups. Use references to add credibility to your writing.
Summarize the strategies used to analyze empirical data or make meaning out of subjective reports gathered during the course of the study. For example, if you investigated whether students who work under 20 hours per week have higher GPAs than students who work 20 hours or more, you might write about using a chi-squared test to compare the GPAs of the two groups. If describing the analysis of qualitative findings, reveal any personal biases that affected your interpretation and mention use of software tools such as NVivo, a computer program that identifies themes and trends in narratives.
Disclose any weaknesses in the study that might have confounded the results. Examples of limitations include: low survey return rate, small sample size, interjection of unforeseen variables or poorly attended focus groups. Comment on how the limitations could have skewed the data or the conclusions. Acknowledging limitations doesn't necessarily affect the validity of the paper. Instead, it acts as a way to identify areas for further research and study.
Mary, Dr.. "How to Write a Research Methodology." Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/write-research-methodology-4597601.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.


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The Evolution Music Festival on the banks of the River Tyne has been going in various guises for nearly 20 years now and while the musical fashions may change year by year on the main stages the one constant is the prime quality Roots Music that the Jumping Hot Club present every year.
Teesside's nu-folk popstars, Cattle & Cane got the Festival off to a great start with a delightful dreamy lo-fi sound that mixed piano, violin and gorgeous harmonies. They were soon followed by The Good Lovelies from Toronto who lived up to their name with some very good and lovely Bluegrass tunes about the Trans-Canada Highway and the like while also slipping in a little known Gram Parsons tune; Juanita for good measure.
Next on stage was Karima Francis and her unfeasibly large Afro hair. The young lady from Blackpool went on to wow the crowded tent with a short set of intimate love songs.
The Circus tent was pretty full for the flamboyant Pete Molinari who sang an hour's worth of sweet Country based songs that included a couple of pertinent anti-war songs; Lest We Forget and Anthem for a Doomed Youth which is a new song based on a Wilfred Owen WWI poem. It's amazing the power that something as simple as one man and an acoustic guitar can project.
The Smoke Fairies wistful folk songs made them sound like a very English Cowboy Junkies and their 45 minute set was well received; as was the magnificently attired Australian C W Stoneking's 1920's style earthy Delta Blues which pleasantly surprised a lot of people.
At 9pm Billy Bragg received a hero's welcome and went on to play a brilliant set of songs that criss-crossed his long career including his classics, Greetings to the New Brunette, A New England and Sexuality; none of which had aged one iota which is more than can be said for his over simplistic anti-Tory Socialist rants which the rest of us have grown out of.
Young Liverpudlian Country-Blues singer Delta Maid opened the show at 1pm on Sunday and those who missed her set missed a star in the making. Katie Foulkes (her real name) is the real deal and combines the best in British Folk with an Alt-Country attitude and a basket full of tip-top songs.
Katie was followed by BBC Folk Award winning Sam Carter who sings about very modern subjects in a Classic folk style and also plays a 'mean guitar.' I was feeling pretty smug by the time Sam finished his set, as there were still less than 100 people present; but those of us who had made the effort to get to the far side of Newcastle by public transport on a Sunday lunchtime had been very well rewarded as these two young musicians are the reason why I love Music Festivals. Plus they are heralding a new dawn in British Roots music which is all too easily overlooked.
Hurray for Riff Raff's Gypsy flavoured New Orleans country Blues won them a host of new fans; as did folk rockers Ellen & the Escapades and Scottish folk singer James Yorkston but there was a total surprise as the sun was setting, that had people Twittering their friends about a band that had 3 or 4 generations dancing like dervishes. Mama Rosin are three guys from Switzerland who play Cajun music and they have to be seen and heard to be believed; they absolutely stole the show!
The guys were in the right place at the right time and began their set playing to about 200 people but by the time they finished the beer tents were empty and the main tent full beyond capacity and I could see people at the back jumping up and down to see what all of the fuss was about.
Headliners and current stars of the British Folk scene ; Bellowhead defy description as they play very English folk music but add in Brass band structures, polkas and possibly even some modern jazz and that's only part of the story. There appeared to be at least a dozen people on stage playing an assortment of odd instruments including a tuba and some Northumbrian pipes and the cacophony they create is simply stunning and had the packed tent dancing well into the night.
Roll on the Sage Summertyne Festival in July.


Luck Starwalker needs your help! Gather enough coins to free his friends. Be quick and avoid all the angry space troopers! Mini o Wars is a simple and challenging ping pong-style game. There are 4 additional fun characters to unlock!


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Q: How to transpile ES6 code to ES5 java script in eclipse with watcher I want to use ES6 in production environment, but IE11 and safari doesn't support these features.
So I want to setup any transpiler in eclipse which convert ES6 code to plain javascript every time when I update js files in project.
I also tried babel, but didn't find any suitable documentation to do this setup.

A: You can try invoking the necessary command line as an External Tool, and then make that a Builder on the project as @howlger directed you. Note that while this can address the integration issue, the underlying transpiling issue would still need to be solved. Maybe https://babeljs.io/ ?
https://help.eclipse.org/2018-12/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/concepts/concepts-exttools.htm

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At AZPTS, our goal is to optimize movement and performance for people of all ages and walks of life. We expect every patient to leave each session better than when they walked in.
Ryan moved his practice to AZPTS to work alongside friend and mentor Tim Fearon. Ryan received his undergraduate degree from Arizona State University and then moved to the west coast to pursue his professional goals. After 8 years, he returned to Arizona where he attended Northern Arizona University's Physical Therapy Program and completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. He has attended numerous post-doctoral level courses in manual therapy including spinal and peripheral manipulation, management of cervicogenic headache, shoulder and knee rehabilitation for athletes. He is a board certified specialist in orthopedic physical Therapy.
Ryan believes deeply in the power of the human body and mind to heal itself if it receives the right input and guidance He has a particular interest in treatment of acute and chronic neck and back pain, shoulder pain, hip pain and knee pain. He has also developed dance injury prevention programs, taught anatomy courses for yoga teachers and developed a program focusing on strength and wellness for women during pregnancy.
He is an avid golfer, volleyball player, and loves spending time with his wife, daughter and son.


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An Ancient Carved Snake Was Found In Finland!
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Finland is a country that usually makes news for promoting women in the main fray of politics and leadership. You hear about its premier institutions and academic centres as being benchmarks for young, inquisitive and cerebral minds. Honestly, there's a lot more to the country that's famous for its prowess in Formula 1, World Rallying Championship and Ice Hockey. And at the same time, there's more to Finland that its engineering might and talent.
Recently, the country known popularly as the 'happiest' in the world made news about a rather strange development. Rather, make that finding. So what was so strange that popped eyeballs into a state of perpetual inquisition, so to speak. Well, actually it was news pertaining to the discovery of an ancient carved snake.
Yes, you read that right sans any errors.
Actually, an ancient carved snake discovered in Finland made news and so much so that the news quickly snowballed into being a sensation of sorts where European news updates were concerned.
Here's what a publication based in Europe had to say about a discovery that dates, god knows how many years back in time:
A pair of researchers from the University of Turku and the University of Helsinki, respectively, both in Finland, has found a well-preserved ancient carved snake at Järvensuo 1, a dig site in south-west Finland. In their paper published on the Cambridge University Press site Cambridge Core, Satu Koivisto and Antti Lahelma describe where the artifact was found, its condition, its age and its possible purpose.
The dig site Järvensuo 1 was discovered back in the 1950s, but little digging was done until recently. Items such as wooden utensils (including a large scoop with a handle whittled to resemble a bear's head) and pieces of fishing gear have been found. In this new find, the research pair have found a life-size carved wooden snake. They describe it as being in excellent condition. It is dark brown and very much resembles a snake as it is traveling or swimming. And its head shape indicates it was meant to resemble a viper—an adder perhaps or maybe a grass snake. The figure is approximately 53 centimeters in length and 2.5 cm thick and was made from a single piece of wood. Dating showed it to be approximately 4,400 years old.
The above told, what is rather fantastic- as the researchers studying the subject put it- is the fact that the shape of the snake is still in great form, albeit it being wooden in nature. And as a matter of fact, the exact spot where the ancient carved snake of Finland was found was right next to a lake. And moreover, the place is considered to be a wetland.
Also Read: Germany And Switzerland Lashed By Brutal Summer Storms!
Well, who knew that the land known for its remarkable Reindeers and the famous Finnish Spitz would one day make news for an ancient carved snake!
But then, expect nothing less than eclectic and dramatic pieces of news from a country where the Prime Minister's Breakfast bills can be subjected to scrutiny and whose premier Formula 1 export- Kimi Raikkonen- considers the very sport in which he's the most experienced man on the grid, no more than a 'hobby!'
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And defined-contribution plans, unlike public pensions, have no protection against inflation. It's just too bad: Maybe some seniors will have to switch from filet mignon to dog food.
Most public employees, if they hang around to retirement, can count on pensions equal to 75% to 90% of their pay in their highest-earning years. And many public employees earn even more in retirement than their best year's base compensation as a result of "spiking" their last year's income by working ferocious amounts of overtime and rolling in years of unused sick and vacation days into their final-year pay computation.
A survey by the watchdog group California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility found that some 15,000 Golden State public employees are knocking down $100,000 or more, while some 200, mostly police and fire chiefs and school administrators, are members of the $200,000-a-year-and-up club.
THE PROSPECTS ARE BLEAK for many state and local governments as a result of all this. According to a survey last month by the Pew Center on the States, a nonpartisan research group, eight states -- Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and West Virginia -- lack funding for more than a third of their pension liabilities. Thirteen others are less than 80% funded.
Governments could fill that gap by raising property, sales and income taxes, but most are wrestling with huge revenue shortfalls in trying to balance their budgets.
The more likely outcome is dramatic cuts in essential services, such as police and fire protection, health spending, education and infrastructure improvements, in order to cover ballooning pension payments. State and municipalities, after all, must do something: Most have a legal obligation to pay out earned pension benefits. And some don't even have the courage to switch new teachers, bureaucrats and police to a defined-contribution system, to prevent the funding problem from worsening as time rolls on.
THUS, MORE DEBT DEFAULTS and bankruptcy filings probably lie ahead, unsettling the $2.7 trillion municipal-bond market. The possibility of taxpayer revolts and likely insolvencies has shaken some investors' confidence in general-obligation bonds -- those backed by the "full faith and credit" of the states or localities. Once the gold standard for munis, GOs are under a cloud in financially troubled areas.
The size of the legacy-pension hole is a matter of debate. The Pew report puts it at $452 billion. But the survey captured only about 85% of the universe and relied mostly on midyear 2008 numbers, missing much of the impact of the vicious bear market of 2008 and early 2009. That lopped about $1 trillion from public pension-fund asset values, driving down their total holdings to around $2.7 trillion.
Other observers think the eventual bill due on state pension funds will be multiples of the Pew number. Hedge-fund manager Orin Kramer, who is also chairman of the badly underfunded New Jersey retirement system, insists the gap is at least $2 trillion, if assets were recorded at market value and other pension-accounting practices common in Corporate America were adopted.
This establishes a "false equivalence" between pension liabilities and the likely investment outcomes of state investment portfolios, which are increasingly taking on more risk by beefing up their exposure to stocks, private-equity deals, hedge funds and real estate. Using a much lower expected return -- say, one at least partially based on the riskless rate of return on government securities -- would both properly and dramatically boost the present value of the pensions' liabilities while decreasing their likely ability to meet them. The academic pair, using modern portfolio theory, claim that state funds, as currently configured, have only a one-in-20 chance of meeting their obligations 15 years out.
MAKING THE STATE AND local pension problem all the more trying is that government entities can do little to wriggle out of their exposure, even if spending on essential services is threatened. The constitutions of nine states, including beleaguered California and Illinois, guarantee public-pension payments. And most other states have strong statutory or case-law protections for these obligations. "One shouldn't be surprised by this, since state legislators, state and local judges and the state attorneys general are beneficiaries of the self-same public pension funds that they've done so much to promote and protect," Orin Kramer notes wryly.
True, a dozen or so states, including New York, Nevada, Nebraska, Rhode Island and New Jersey, are attempting reforms such as raising retirement ages, cutting pension-benefit formulas, boosting employee contributions, curbing income "spiking" and partially switching employees to less costly defined-contribution plans. But these changes affect almost exclusively new employees and do little to solve the existing funding gap.
Jim Spiotto, a muni-bond restructuring expert at the Chicago law firm Chapman & Cutler, argues the pension crisis is quickly reaching a tipping point after being ignored for years.
"I just can't believe that any bond issuer would be willing to suffer the stigma of defaulting on their general-obligation debt as a result of having to fund future pension obligations, but such a situation is no longer beyond the realm of possibility," he observes.
For proof, look no further than the San Francisco Bay city of Vallejo, which filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2008 as a result of insolvency.
The California municipality, which has 120,000 residents, is proposing a three-year moratorium on all interest and principal payments on the $53 million of municipal debt that is backed by its general fund. But it is keeping fully intact its $84 million in pension-fund obligations.
SOVEREIGN DEFAULT IS A hot topic these days. With Greece tottering and other European countries in fiscal distress, some have even voiced the possibility that a U.S. state -- also considered a sovereign entity -- could suffer a general-obligation debt default.
Says Todd Zywicki, a law professor at George Mason University: "In many ways, some of our states are like General Motors before its bankruptcy, suffering from falling revenue, borrowing money to cover operating expenses and operating under crushing legacy health and pension liabilities. It's entirely possible, given the gigantic size of the pension liabilities, that some states might do what was once the unthinkable at GM and default."
Such assessments might be alarmist. A rebound in the U.S. economy and a continued rally in stocks would do a world of good for ailing public pension funds. And only one state -- Arkansas in 1934 -- has defaulted on its GO bonds in the past century with their holders suffering losses. Arkansas, however, was a special case. In addition to the Great Depression, it was ailing from large local debts it had assumed as a result of catastrophic floods in the 1920s.
But what if the stock-market rally falters, the economy doesn't return to full health, jobs remain scarce and tax revenues remain depressed?
According to muni-bond expert Spiotto, most defaults at the municipal level have come as a result of shortfalls in the revenue generated by quasi-public projects, such as hospital additions, sports facilities, housing-development infrastructure, giant garbage incinerators and the like, rather than systemic financial failures of major localities like Vallejo. And even after New York City's debt default in 1975, municipal-debt holders were ultimately made whole.
NONETHELESS, SOME MAJOR BOND investors are altering their strategies in light of the impending pension crisis.
John Cummings, the executive vice president in charge of the $27 billion muni portfolio at giant fixed-income house Pimco, says it is underweighting the GOs of the "poster boys" of debt problems and pension under- funding -- California, Illinois, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Revenue bonds -- those backed by the money generated by a specific source -- have become more attractive to Pimco, particularly if they're backed by essential services like water authorities, sewer systems or school districts and have dedicated, stable revenue streams that can't be diverted to other uses. Revenue bonds funding new projects could be considerably more risky.
Says Cummings: "We want to stay as far away as possible from bonds that depend on the politicians and general funds of financially shaky states and smaller issuers unless the price is right. You ask California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, one of the greatest bond salesman ever, about the state's pension situation and all you get back is a thousand-yard stare and a quick change of subject. That's concerning."
A spokesman for Lockyer told Barron's that the treasurer "realizes that the pension-underfunding problem is serious, unsustainable and therefore needs to be fixed. He wants to ensure that any reform is fair to all stakeholders, including the state, public employees and taxpayers."
No one, of course, would dispute that public servants deserve adequate retirements, particularly the 25% to 30% that lack Social Security coverage. But the old saw that rich retirement packages are a necessary inducement to attract good employees to public payrolls because of below-average pay scales no longer is true.
According to the latest compensation survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average state and local employee outearns his counterpart in the private economy with an hourly wage of $26.11, versus $19.41. That's before benefits (pensions, health care, paid vacations and sick days and leaves) drive the disparity even higher, to $39.60 an hour for public employees and $27.42 for private workers.
Even if one looks at pay received by so-called management and professional employees in each realm, fat benefits in the public sector drive the total compensation received by state and local managers to almost dead-even with private-sector managers -- $48.15 versus $48.17.
THE CURRENT STATE AND local pension crisis has many fathers. State and local governments have been under-funding their pension systems for a decade or more, under the misapprehension that the stock-market boom of the 1990s would continue and bail out any shortfalls. The underfunding has continued with a vengeance over the past two years as budgets were slashed to eliminate deficits.
For example, last year New Jersey, under Gov. Jon Corzine -- a financially savvy former Goldman Sachs chief -- contributed only $105 million, instead of an actuarially determined $2.3 billion. In all, states and localities kicked in $72 billion in fiscal 2008, far short of adequate funding levels of $108 billion, according to the recent Pew study.
Such behavior is only encouraged by the fact that state and local governments are allowed as much as 30 years to close funding gaps. So it's easy for politicians to kick the can forward, avoiding the pain of boosting taxes and making hard spending decisions. The 30-year amortization periods have an evergreen nature, being renewed and invoked almost every year as the compounding of pension obligations works relentlessly against units of government.
Then, too, pension funds are being hit by baby-boomer retirements. A report from the National Association of State Retirement Administrators underlines this impact: It found that in 2008, for every state retiree collecting benefits, only 2.02 current workers were contributing to pension systems, compared with 2.45 in 2001.
Besides the politicians, the primary culprits are the public-employee unions, which have used their growing power to dramatically enhance pension benefits. They curry favor with sympathetic politicians, lavishing them with large donations and manning campaign phone banks. They also engage in full-court-press lobbying at all levels of state and local government.
One would think legislators or managers in state, county and local governments would protect the taxpayer by bargaining hard. But they clearly don't, because of inherent conflicts of interest.
Nearly all public employers, regardless of their position, benefit from the very same pension programs, either directly or indirectly. Legislators in the main receive the same pension benefits that they lavish on other public employees. And administrators, though subject to independently negotiated contracts, use enriched union pension plans as a valuable bargaining wedge. So there's little incentive to fight the unions with much vigor.
In fact, bad behavior abounds on both sides of the table when it comes to pensions. Plunder!, a recently published book by California journalist Steven Greenhut, details a number of ploys that both workers and management employ to goose their retirement checks. A favorite, he asserts, is income spiking. In the year before they retire, California police, firefighters and prison guards typically start notching hours and hours of overtime that has been reserved for them by less senior colleagues. Whatever they make in that final year is used in the formula that determines the monthly retirement check. Golden State, indeed.
OTHER ABUSES DETAILED in the book include widespread "double-dipping." Public employees can start collecting their full pensions while returning to their old job as consultants. Alternatively, they can take another public-sector job to earn credit toward yet another pension.
Stories are rife around the country of various pension hijinks by public employees. A Contra Costa Times article bemoaned the artistry of a retired local fire chief in San Ramon, Calif., who boosted his annual pension from $221,000 a year to $284,000 by getting credit in his final earnings for unused vacation and sick leave.
In Illinois, veteran police with more than 12 years of service receive annual longevity pay boosts of 4% to 5% in addition to other salary increases. In some local departments, these boosts are all awarded as a 20% bump-up in the first couple months of the year, rather than prorated evenly throughout the year. This, of course, helps police in those jurisdictions get a 20% jump in their presumed compensation -- and, therefore, their pensions -- if they time their retirement date properly.
VALLEJO, CALIF., HAD NO CHOICE but to file a Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2008 after property-tax revenue collapsed in the housing bust and a major employer -- the U.S. government's Mare Island Ship- yard -- closed. With the tax base hammered, rich public-employee contracts granted in better times were devouring more than 90% of the city's budget.
Though Vallejo is still months away from getting a court decision on whether it can go ahead with its debt-adjustment plan, it has succeeded through contract renegotiations and major layoffs in cutting its employee costs by nearly a quarter.
But the fallout has been brutal. Employee health-care benefits have been decimated. Holders of the city's municipal bonds are unlikely to get all their money back. And violent crime rates have shot up dramatically as a result of reductions in its police force from 158 to 104 officers.
The only thing that will be left untouched? The very thing that tipped the California city into Chapter 9 -- its $84 million in future pension obligations.


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Q: Multiply pandas dataframe as mask I have 2 pandas dataframes like the following:
occurrences
doc    0    1    2    ...    1809(=n)
  0    0    0    1    ...       1
  1    0    0    1    ...       0
  2    0    0    1    ...       0
  ..  ..    ..   ..   ...       .
  m   ......................... 0

dictionary
id    term
 0     foo
 1     bar
 2     lorem
 ..    ..
 n     ipsum

What I am trying to do is retrieve, for each row of 'occurrences', the terms (through the id, that is the column header in the first dataframe) that has '1' as cell value.
In my example, considering the first row of occurrences, I would have: ['lorem','ipsum']
Thank you

A: Here's an idea with np.where
occurrences = pd.DataFrame([[0,0,1,1],[0,1,0,1], [1,0,1,0]])
dictionary=pd.DataFrame({'term':['foo','bar', 'lorem', 'ipsum']})

idx = np.where(occurrences)
(pd.Series(dictionary.values[idx[1]].ravel())
   .groupby(idx[0]).agg(list)
)

Output:
0    [lorem, ipsum]
1      [bar, ipsum]
2      [foo, lorem]
dtype: object

A: After some attempts I got it working in this way (maybe not so cool..)
def get_vocabulary(occurences, dictionary):
    for index, row in dtm_.iterrows():
        # iterate on each row == each document
        doc = row.values.tolist() # convert row to list
        ngrams = []
        for i in range(len(doc)): # for each element
            if doc[i] != 0:
                ngrams.append(dictionary.iloc[i, 1]) # match from vocabulary the term with positional index
    return ngrams

The final output is:
['scheduling', 'distributed', 'deadline', .... , 'rate monotonic scheduling algorithm']


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Angus Robertson: An t-Ogha Mór: No, Am Fear-Sgeòil air Uilinn (The Ogha Mor)
This is the first novel on my website translated from the Scots Gaelic and the first novel ever translated from Gaelic into English. It was not the first novel written in Gaelic (that was John MacCormick's Dùn-Àluinn, never translated into English) but the second. It is long since out of print in English, though still available in Gaelic. Though I have novels translated from Breton, Irish and Welsh under review, there are far more of these novels than of those written in Scots Gaelic, both then and now, not least because there are fewer Gaelic speakers than Breton, Irish and Welsh speakers. In the last census 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population) claimed that they were able to speak Gaelic and only about half were literate in the language.
This novel is not one of the greats of European literature. The style of the English translation is stilted and deliberately archaic, making it awkward to read for modern readers. Nevertheless it is an interesting read as a historical novel with clan rivalry, tales of love (and love thwarted), treachery and other dirty deeds. It is set sometime after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 and continues up to the 1745 Rebellion.
We start with Iarlom Mackenzie, a young clan leader who is in love with Una Tolmie and she is in love with him. He is on the way to the Broadford Fair, where he hopes to meet her but is aware of many enemies. Indeed, when he is attacked, we get a rare appearance from the eponymous Ogha Mor (it means Big Grandson though we learn much later that his name is Nicolson and he is Laird of Ardnish), who defends him. However, Una's father is dead and she is beholden to her brother, Ridire Tolmie (ridire means something like noble man). He wants the islands of Scalpay and Pabbay, which are owned by Godfrey Rankin. Rankin wants to marry Una, so a deal is made. Una is not averse to Rankin – she knows him well – but he is much older than her. However, she follows her brother's orders and marries Rankin.
However, the Mackenzie clan does not take this well and, eventually, they attack Rankin's castle. Una has just given birth to a baby when the attack takes place. Rankin instructs Ealasaid, Una's maid, to take the baby and make sure that he is saved. Una dies, possibly from some post-partum complications, and the castle is attacked and, we assume, Rankin is killed. We later learn that he escaped and essentially lived alone in the forest for twenty years, unaware of the fate of his wife and child. By a strange coincidence Lady Mackenzie is also about to give birth and her maid is Ealasaid's sister. The two sisters swap the babies and kill Lady Mackenzie. Ealasaid arranges for Lady Mackenzie's daughter to be adopted by a friend of her brother-in-law-law (her husband is dead), Dr Kennedy, a renowned doctor. The girl grows up to be Margaret Kennedy. Dr. Kennedy is so renowned that he is summoned to London where he attends King George II and Queen Caroline.
Margaret grows up to be a beautiful woman, so beautiful in fact, that the Prince of Wales is taken with her. However, Dr Kennedy, now a widower, is having success treating the Queen, making the other doctors jealous. Lord Godo, the Prince's confidant, hatches a plot to make it look as though Kennedy poisoned the Queen. The Prince, who is in dispute with both of his parents, primarily over money, is happy for her to be murdered.
It is at this point that we meet a man who will be key to the rest of the book: John Tolmie aka Alexander Macdonald aka Iain Ruairi (these may be two different people – the narrator is not sure). Iain Ruairi is the name primary used in this book so I shall use that. He gets wind of the plot hatched by the Prince and Godo and hastens to the Kennedy house, where he finds Margaret Kennedy, apparently on her own. She is not on her own, as the Prince and Godo are hiding and listening to his conversation. When they become aware that Iain Ruairi is aware of the plot, they threaten him but he is quite capable of defending himself. However, he is attacked on his away home and is only rescued by another appearance from our eponymous Ogha Mor. Iain Ruairi is so annoyed by events that he decides to return to Scotland.
The novel moves forward to 1745, the year of the Uprising and the return to Scotland of Charles Edward Stuart aka The Young Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie, who is seeking to claim the British throne which he feels, with considerable justification, that he is entitled to. While we never meet Bonnie Prince Charlie, we follow the story of those in favour of the Stuart restoration and those against, with clan rivalry, treachery and so on. Iain Ruairi and Margaret Kennedy figure strongly, while others, such as Rankin and Ogha Mor, all play a role. Obviously, for those favouring the Stuart cause, things do not turn out well.
Frankly, this is not a very good book, though certainly an interesting read. Plot lines are started and then are abandoned. The eponymous Ogha Mor plays a relatively minor role, though the narrator claims he is getting his information from two main sources, an oral account by someone called Iain Piobaire and the written record of Ogha Mor. Most of the characters are noble, fearless and brave (pro-Stuart) or base, treacherous and evil (anti-Stuart, particularly the English). There is no in-between. We follow a very small part of the 1745 Rebellion, the book finishing before the Battle of Culloden, the conclusive part of the Rebellion. Presumably this is because Culloden is too painful for most pro-Stuart Scots, even now.
Despite these criticisms, it is an interesting read, if only for its historical interest and to get a glimpse of the Scots Gaelic view of the world and, in particular, of the dastardly English, though, historically, it is probably no more accurate than Braveheart.
First published 1913 by MacDhonnachaidh, Weir & Co
First English translation by Gowans and Gray in 1924


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Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Leptoctenus. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1878 door Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.

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" Hardknott and the Eskdale Needle "
Date & start time: Thursday 14th April 2016, 10.30 am start.
Walk details : 3.2 mls, 750 feet of ascent, 1300 feet of descent, 3 hour 30 mins.
Walk two : 2.1 mls, 300 feet of ascent / descent, 1 hour 30 mins.
Highest point : Hard Knott Fell, 1784 ft - 549 m.
Walked with : Hilary and Richard, Ann and our dogs, Harry and Dylan.
Weather : Overcast with good sun to start.
We are with Richard and Hilary today, who have travelled over from their holiday caravan sited at Coniston.
and ends up at Mediobogdvm, the Roman Fort.
We meet at the railway station but have arrived from different directions by car.
Still it doesn't stop you enjoying coffee and biscuits at the cafe and having a look around at the steam train that has just arrived from Ravenglass.
The River Irt loco at Dalegarth station . . .
. . . all turned round and ready for the return trip.
Our walk starts at the top of the pass . . . most easily climbed in the car !
Our companions today . . . Richard and Hilary.
The clothing shows the variable nature of the weather today . . . warm sunshine but with the occasional cool breeze.
Looking east along the Wrynose Valley to the Kentmere fells the other side of Wrynose Pass.
Closer at hand are Cold Fell on the left and Great Carrs on the right.
( Parking for three or four up here in this pull off just beyond the summit).
Harry and Dylan have definitely decided it is a warm day.
Harry sits fair and square in the mountain stream part way up the first short climb.
The top of Hard knott is quite undulating but the views from any of the summits are superb today.
Why wait till you get to the actual summit ?
Here's the view from our first piece of high ground between Border End on one side and the true summit on the other.
Dylan . . . first as ever to the main cairn on Hardknott Fell.
Behind him is the sweep of the Scafells . . . from Slightside round to Esk Pike.
Group photo using the self-timer and a pebble or two to level the camera.
'Twas breezy on top . . . so we dropped down the western side of the fell until we found a sheltered spot for lunch.
The view over lunchtime was of the high fells and passing clouds . . . Scafell Pike being the one centre left.
To the extreme left is Sampson's Stones and Cam Spout Crags plus the start of the route up to Mickledore.
To the right is Little Narrow Cove and the scramble route up to Broad Crag and the pointed Ill Crag summit.
Sunshine on the Upper Esk river and the falls above Lingcove Bridge.
The wider (taller) picture to include the Scafells.
As lunch progresses so did the weather . . . unfortunately the cloud was gathering and the sunshine was becoming more intermittent.
Our onward route took us across the western side of the fell as we would like to find the Eskdale Needle if we could.
All the steep drops and scrambles can be avoided . . . unless you want to have a go of course !
Ann and the dogs looking down on the lower Eskdale Valley.
Below is there was a significantly loud double bird song that caught our attention . . .
On the rock below a 'blackbird' sized bird, with a black coat too . . .
Down below two Herdwick sheep . . . and perhaps the slightly illusive Eskdale Needle . . . pretending to be just another rock outcrop.
|No more than a few feet high . . . by comparison to Dylan . . .
But when you get up close and personal it is much larger . . . a thirty foot pinnacle standing out from the side of the fell.
Here it is to true scale.
The view north to the cloudy Scafells.
Richard threading the Eskdale Needle.
cast down by some earthquake or by heavy winter frost loosening the rock and gravity doing the rest.
We take a route almost due south west as it turns out.
In practice we just worked our way down the side of the fell side, under Border End, heading for Mediobogdvm.
Conveniently . . . there it was ahead . . . Mediobogdvm, the Roman Fort.
On the end of this spur you can see the greener grass enclosed by the walls, with the north gate inviting us in to explore.
In close up and from a little further down.
was the pile of stones this side of the low crag.
which seemed to be an artificial mound with a hollow in the centre of the top.
perhaps the site of a hill fort or oversized cairn marking a burial site perhaps . . . no mention in the local literature or on the maps.
Ann took a direct route down to that north gate.
The recent history of the impressive Roman walls.
so this fort remains more intact than some other Roman fort sites.
A young sentinel patrols the walls.
The west gate with the classic view of the high fells . . . slightly muted by the cloud and overcast nature of the day.
A wider shot taken from the top corner tower position . . . looking across to Harter Fell.
The fort certainly commanded a good strategic position at the foot of Hard Knott Pass.
The Esk Valley provided an important trading and defensive route through the fells from Ravenglass on the coast to the Roman fort at Ambleside.
These consisted of the Granary (food store) and the Commandant's residence.
The Roman soldiers would have lived in wooded buildings that have not survived the passage of time.
Harry taking time out in front of the Commandant's House.
Has it been that hard a day ?
which zig-zags up the steepest road climb in the Lakes.
and would end it down here at the second car.
One last piece in the jigsaw is the external Roman bath house, sited between the fort and the road.
The building would have housed a sauna and three different temperature rooms with under-floor heating and a wood fire at the far end.
patiently waiting at one of the off road areas down below the main fort parking.
This was a great three hour walk (plus lunch) and all the easier for walking downhill most of the way.
and often there are no real paths at all.
Find your own way on this one.
to show Richard and Hilary another local beauty spot.
This site best viewed with . . . lunch in the sunshine overlooking the high fells.


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By Johannah Grenaway
Prowse was the actor, though not the voice, of Darth Vader.
British weightlifter-turned-actor, Dave Prowse, has died at 85 years old.
He was the body, though not the voice, of Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
Prowse died Saturday after a short illness, according to his agent.
The three-time British weightlifting champion was initially asked to audition for either Wookie Chewbacca or Darth Vader. Prowse later told BBC he chose Darth Vader because "you always remember the bad guys."
Physically, Prowse was perfect for the part, but his English West Country accent was considered less ideal so his lines were dubbed by James Earl Jones.
Additional reporting by Jill Lawless of The Associated Press.


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JULIANNA GAROFALO
Covering TIFF 2016
Go inside the premieres of "Snowden," "The King of the Dance Hall" and "Sing"
Between September 8 and 18, 2016, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took over the city. This year, I was lucky enough to cover three film gala premieres on behalf of RU Student Life. On the red carpets, we chatted with Nick Cannon, Kreesha Turner, Shailene Woodley, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Nick Kroll + more!
WATCH THE RED CARPET INTERVIEWS BELOW...
Snowden (ft. Shailene Woodley, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Melissa Leo and Oliver Stone)
The King Of The Dancehall (ft. Nick Cannon, Kreesha Turner, Kardinal Officiall and Louis Gossett Jr.)
Sing (ft. Scarlett Johansson, Nick Kroll and Jennifer Hudson)
Getting My Grease On
My First Kids Choice Awards
33 Questions with Me
© 2018 BY JULIANNA GAROFALO. PROUDLY CREATED WITH WIX.


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Yoga is a full-circle practice of breathing, movement, and sound. The poses, vinyasa (sequence of asana), and accompanying breathing serve to address the physical and emotional aspects in the practicing individual.
Yoga has the ability to benefit a person's mind and body, but it also can benefit kids with special needs, who may have additional physical and emotional symptoms to address, such as motor development, sensory integration and confidence. Modifications are to be expected and embraced.
Here are the top FIVE ways kids with special needs can benefit from yoga practice.
When kids become aware of their breath, they can then begin to understand how breathing impacts their body, noticeably the respiratory, cardiovascular, muscular and nervous systems.
Breath is a great coping technique for kids with special needs. Kids can be taught how to manage breath, moving it through their bodies in such a way to self-calm and balance emotions, invigorate their body and movement, or cleanse the mind-body complex. They discover that breathing is a tool and something they can control.
Yoga tones muscles, and improves stability and balance. Along with these benefits comes body awareness and enhanced coordination. Standing poses, such as Mountain and Warrior II, improve muscle tone, stability and balance. The flowing postures of Sun Salutations practiced slowly and with breathing, stretch and strengthen all of the body's major muscle groups while also helping kids increase focus and coordination.
Kids with special needs can refine their social skills and grow confidence in their interactions upon learning self-regulation, self-calming, and improving their motor skills and coordination.
Ideally, you will want to schedule your child's yoga practice during the same day and time. Consistency helps. Use the same mat layout, same opening and closing, the same vinyasa sequence, and perhaps the same music, as this can help your child focus and feel in control.
They will develop a greater sense of their physical self in relation to others, as well as within the space they practice. Eventually, they transfer this awareness to the world outside and not just during yoga.
Kids with autism and kids who have been diagnosed with sensory processing disorder might benefit from yoga's gentle environment.
The dim lights, soft music, smooth mats, and the quiet instruction of the teacher often is a staple in the yoga class. The comforting and low-stimulation environment is calming and allows for nervous energy to be released in a controlled way during the asana practice.
Yoga encompasses movement, breath work, visualization, storytelling and music. This combination activates the emotional part of the brain, encouraging the kids to be aware of what their senses tell them and to focus in class.
The parent can connect with and support their child with special needs through your own consistent yoga practice. You will find that as a parent, too, receive numerous benefits from yoga practice, particularly the awareness of your sensory system in relation to stress and how to use breathing as a coping mechanism.
Yoga can take place anywhere — all that is needed is a mat and uninterrupted time.


The indoor environmental quality is of major interest for occupants in office buildings. This study is to identify the benchmarking values of physical parameters for indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of office buildings and explore the influences of outer climate conditions on the perceived IEQ. The recommended values from selected research articles are compared and classified in different hierarchies against thermal environment satisfaction level, air quality, illuminance and acoustic. A case study in five office buildings carried out in Switzerland is analysed from onsite physical measurements and occupant questionnaires. The results summarize the optimal ranges of selected physical parameters with three IEQ comfort levels. The differential and consistent outcomes in previous studies are verified. Outer climate parameters show potential correlations and influences with the satisfaction of IEQ aspects and weighting factors. In conclusion, it is lacking a standardized index and clear benchmarking values regarding both criteria requirements and local information.


There were contrasting fortunes for Saturday's hosts in the Eastern Conference. Torpedo breathed fresh life into its series against Barys when it came from behind to win 3-1 and make it 2-1 overall. Traktor, meanwhile, produced an improved performance but lost out in overtime to Avtomobilist. The Yekaterinburg team leads 3-0 and is one game away from its first ever KHL playoff series victory.
An overtime victory secured by a Vyacheslav Litovchenko goal saw Avtomobilist take a 3-0 lead in this series. The Yekaterinburg team, which has never previously won a KHL playoff series, is poised to end that unhappy record and could settle this one as early as Monday when game four takes place in Chelyabinsk.
Litovchenko, 29, got his first goal of the series in the first minute of overtime when his low, angled shot went through Alexander Sudnitsin's five-hole. Dan Sexton started the move, sending the former Amur man away down the left channel.
It was a tough blow for Sudnitsin, who had made 31 saves in regulation to get his team into overtime. The goalie lay face down on the ice as the visiting players rushed to celebrate with the army of travelling supporters; goaltending errors are often costly, but this one had the feel of a series decider.
Traktor, too, gave a much better account of itself on home ice after losing out twice on the road. From the start, the home team played a disciplined game. Neither team enjoyed many opportunities to roll out the power play. The host also worked hard to lock down Avto's star forwards and in the first period the likes of Sexton and Stephane Da Costa were largely neutralized. Finally, there was plenty of patience on display as Alexei Tertyshny's men calmly awaited their chance in front of Jakub Kovar's net.
That chance arrived at the start of the second period. Jonas Enlund took the puck behind the net before teeing up Igor Polygalov. His shot was saved but the rebound went straight to Christian Thomas who tucked away his first KHL playoff goal. Traktor continued to press Avtomobilist hard and held its advantage until the second intermission with relatively few alarms.
It took something unexpected to bring the scores level and Andrei Obidin provided that two minutes after the restart. Nikita Tryamkin's pass found the forward in center ice, Obidin advanced from the boards and surprised Sudnitsin with a shot from the top of the circle to make it 1-1. After working so hard to silence Avto's renowned goalscorers, Traktor fell to a sucker punch from one of the team's less familiar faces. Obidin almost added a second moments later when an error on the Avto blue line allowed him to race up the ice and take on Sudnitsin once again. This time, though, the goalie was equal to the challenge and the chance was saved. Traktor had one power play chance midway through the third period but the closing stages of regulation were marked by cautious hockey of the type more often associated with overtime.
When the extras came around, though, there was no time to be cautious. Litovchenko's goal arrived after just 54 seconds to put Avtomobilist on the cusp of the second round.
First of all I'd like to thank our travelling fans for their magnificent support. And the home fans too, they created a great hockey atmosphere. Unfortunately, the game didn't work out like we planned it. In the first two periods Traktor played some really aggressive hockey and seized the initiative. In the second intermission I talked with the team and we changed a couple of things. The next goal was always going to be vital and we managed to score it.
They played differently against our first line today. I saw a lot of hits on Dawes, a lot of aggressive play on da Costa and Golyshev. Every team will work hard against the opponent's key players, everyone was doing his job. Just because our top line didn't score today doesn't mean they played badly. Hockey's a team game; an individual might influence a game but it's always the team that wins.
I thought it was a good game from us. The guys played with a good attitude, we got a lot of things right out there. But somewhere, luck was against us. So we move on to the next game and, if we keep playing like that, we're capable of getting something.
It's hard to say how we'll play in the next game. But I'll repeat, if we play the way we did in the second and third games, we definitely still have a chance. So now our task is to recover from today and work on our mistakes.
This is proving to be a bad series in which to score the first goal. Twice, Torpedo broke the deadlock in Astana only to finish on the losing side. Today, with the action moving to Nizhny Novgorod, Matthew Frattin put Barys ahead only to see the host hit back for the win.
The first period was dominated by a series of penalties. The most significant infringements saw Barys lose Darren Dietz and Andre Petersson on 10-minute misconduct calls after separate incidents late in the frame. That robbed the visitor of its two leading scorers from regular season but did not stop Frattin from opening the scoring midway through the game.
That goal came on the power play – the procession of minor penalties continued throughout this game – when Brandon Bochenski's enormous experience quarterbacked the play. He exchanged passes with Viktor Svedberg before firing the puck to the slot where Frattin was ready to stuff it home from close range. Ahead in the series and now ahead in the game, Barys looked well set to claim a commanding 3-0 lead.
However, this series has been dominated by fightbacks. In game one, Barys cancelled out an early Torpedo goal to win 4-1; last time out, spectacularly, the Kazakhs rallied from 0-4 to win in overtime. Now it was Torpedo's turn. Another string of penalties saw the host briefly enjoy a 5-on-3 advantage before the game fell into a 4-on-4 format. And that was when Torpedo tied the scores. Denis Barantsev's first shot was a wild effort that flashed into the glass. The rebound, though, came back in front of the net and while Henrik Karlsson groped for the puck, Barantsev calmly slotted it home.
Five minutes later, Torpedo was ahead thanks to a short-handed goal. Swedish defenseman Philip Holm broke up a Barys attack and stormed up the ice. Dmitry Semin went alongside him, putting doubt into Karlsson's mind, but the finish was emphatic as Holm smashed the puck into the far corner with Karlsson unable to react.
Barys sought to retrieve the situation in the third period and had good reason for optimism. In the past two games, Andrei Skabelka's team had scored five without reply in the final frame. This time, though, its prospects were hampered when Maxim Semyonov was ejected from the game for spearing. The visitor killed that major penalty and even enjoyed a commanding lead on the shot count, but could not find a tying goal. Barantsev ended the contest when he put his second goal of the night into an empty net.
It was a great atmosphere and a great crowd, but it wasn't a game the reached the level of playoff hockey. Neither team had much discipline, both forgot the responsibilities they have to their clubs. With discipline like that, any team could win or be beaten.
It didn't feel like a playoff game, there were a lot of penalties and both teams had problems with discipline. I'd like to thank my team for its attitude, its determination and willingness to work. We couldn't give up, we had to take an example from our opponent, which recovered from 0-4 in the previous game. If we keep that attitude, that fight, we will always have a chance.


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Chinese Journalist Held For Filming School Campaign
Dissident Zhang Lin (l) and his daughter Zhang Anni (r) in undated photos.
Photos courtesy of HRIC
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui have refused to release a journalist who shot video of a campaign to allow the daughter of a local dissident to attend school, his relatives said on Thursday.
Sun Lin, a reporter for the overseas-based Chinese-language news site Boxun, was initially sentenced to 10 days' administrative detention after taking part in protests in support of dissident Zhang Lin and his 10-year-old daughter Zhang Anni.
Anni was taken by police from a school in the provincial capital Hefei in February and barred from returning, prompting a campaign by activists to get her back in the school.
Sun's wife Gao Xiaojun said the authorities had since declined to release her husband, however.
"They said he won't get out," Gao said in an interview on Thursday. "They will probably change his status to criminal detention on April 30."
She said Sun's lawyer had visited him in detention for two hours on Saturday.
"His reporting has been having an impact for many years now," Gao said. "So he is probably going to be suppressed by the authorities."
"I thought things were looking dangerous, so I hired him two lawyers ... in case one of them is subjected to [official] controls."
Sun's detention came after more than 30 supporters of veteran pro-democracy activist Zhang gathered in the provincial capital Hefei earlier this month to protest the Feb. 27 removal of the dissident's daughter Anni from the Hupo Elementary School in the city by police.
Anni has since been denied permission to return by the school's principal, and the family has now returned to their hometown of Bengbu, a smaller city in Anhui, and enrolled her in a local school there.
Criminal detention
Gao said the police had already set up a committee to transfer Sun's case to criminal detention and that things didn't look good for her husband.
"As soon as we got inside the detention center, they sent someone to meet us and show us around, including two state security police ... who were trailing around in front of us and behind us," she said.
"After the meeting with the lawyers, when I visited [Sun], they were still there, coming and going."
Online outcry
Anni's case sparked an outcry among Chinese netizens, with her story and photograph trending regularly on the popular microblogging site Sina Weibo in recent weeks.
On April 8, activists from around the country converged on Hefei in a bid to escort Anni to school.
Some were set upon by unidentified men near the school gates, while others have volunteered to teach Anni and staged relay hunger strikes in support of the family.
'Blowing up' the campaign
One of the lawyers, Guangzhou rights attorney Sui Muqing, said Sun had been beaten by police while in detention.
"They beat him up after they detained him, and they didn't specify under what charges he was being held," Sui said. "All he got was a so-called verbal communication that he was being held under administrative detention."
"They never sent out a notice of detention to his family, so the way the police handled this case was clearly illegal," he said.
Sui said police had accused Sun of "blowing up" the campaign in support of Zhang Lin and Anni.
"They asked him why he took part in blowing up the Anni affair, saying he was suspected of transmission of information, and threatening him by saying it depended on his attitude."
"They said his [video reports] had created a bad impression overseas, but Sun Lin refused to sign the form when they detained him," Sui added.
Zhang home under surveillance
Back in Bengbu, Zhang Lin, 50, said last week that his home had been under tight police surveillance since the detentions of his fellow activists.
China's nationwide "stability maintenance" system, which now costs more than the People's Liberation Army, tracks the movements and activities of anyone engaged in political or rights activism across the country.
Under this system, activists and outspoken intellectuals are routinely put under house arrest or other forms of surveillance at politically sensitive times.
Zhang, a veteran of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Anhui, has served more than 13 years in prison on subversion charges for his political activities since the banning of the opposition China Democracy Party (CDP) in 1998.
Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
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Op het toernooi van Wimbledon in 1995 speelden de mannen en vrouwen de wedstrijden in het gemengd dubbelspel van 28 juni tot en met 9 juli 1995.

Toernooisamenvatting
Titelverdedigers Helena Suková en Todd Woodbridge kwamen niet verder dan de tweede ronde.

Het eerste reekshoofd, Larisa Neiland en Mark Woodforde, bereikte de halve finale. Daarin werden zij uitgeschakeld door de latere winnaars.

Het als derde geplaatste Amerikaanse duo Martina Navrátilová / Jonathan Stark won het toernooi. In de finale versloegen zij het als vierde geplaatste koppel Gigi Fernández en Cyril Suk in twee sets. Het was hun eerste (en enige) gezamenlijke titel. Navrátilová had daarnaast al zeven eerdere dubbelspeltitels met andere partners; Stark geen.

Belgische en Nederlandse deelnemers
Zes Belgen speelden mee:
 Sabine Appelmans en Dick Norman bereikten de derde ronde, waarin zij verloren van het vierde reekshoofd Fernández/Suk.
 Els Callens en de Nederlander Stephen Noteboom kwamen niet verder dan de tweede ronde.
 Ook Dominique Monami en Leonardo Lavalle uit Mexico hadden de tweede ronde als eindstation.
 Voor Nancy Feber en Libor Pimek viel het doek al na hun eerste optreden.

Er waren elf Nederlandse deelnemers:
 Tom Nijssen speelde samen met de Duitse Claudia Porwik – zij bereikten de kwartfinale, waarin zij werden geklopt door het vierde reekshoofd Fernández/Suk.
 Kristie Boogert en Menno Oosting waren het dertiende reekshoofd – zij kwamen niet verder dan de tweede ronde.
 Brenda Schultz en de Amerikaan Murphy Jensen, als veertiende geplaatst, bereikten eveneens de tweede ronde, maar lieten daar (om onbekende reden) verstek gaan.
 Ook voor Stephen Noteboom en Els Callens uit België viel het doek na de tweede ronde.
 Manon Bollegraf en John Fitzgerald (Australië) waren het elfde reekshoofd, maar verloren meteen hun openingspartij.
 Miriam Oremans en Hendrik Jan Davids strandden eveneens in de eerste ronde.
 Ook Nicole Muns-Jagerman en de Zuid-Afrikaan Marius Barnard konden na hun eerste optreden huiswaarts keren.
 Hetzelfde gebeurde Caroline Vis en Tom Kempers.

Geplaatste teams

Toernooischema

Eindfase

Deel 1

Deel 2

Deel 3

Deel 4

Externe links

 Toernooischema WTA (pag.9+10)

Wimbledon
ITF-toernooi in 1995


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'Aquaman' screenwriter says the most fun action takes place on land
/Film caught up with Aquaman screenwriter Will Beall at an event last week, and asked a few questions about Jason Momoa's upcoming superhero movie.
Beall couldn't comment on the report that says Black Manta is the villain, but did reveal some cool info about the movie's setting.
"I can tell you that not all of the action takes place underwater," Beall said. "Some of the most fun action in the movie actually takes place on dry land."
Beall also revealed that the script isn't done yet. He said he's still working on it with Geoff Johns and director James Wan.
He has plenty of time. Aquaman isn't scheduled to hit theaters until July 27, 2018, so it probably won't start shooting until the spring or summer of next year.
SOURCE: /Film


Northern German software developer strengthens position as expert developer of digitalized business processes. Leading strategy: the cloud.
Ahrensburg, Germany, March 15, 2019 --(PR.com)-- The WMD Group is entering its 25th year as a company specializing in ECM, workflows, and archiving. For years, the enterprise has experienced continual growth in its revenue, its staff and its customer base, in particular in international markets. In the process, WMD Vertrieb, founded in 1994, became WMD Group (2017). This anniversary year will be a dynamic one, marked by the significant development of cloud services. "It's simple – it's digital!" With this claim, customers are to use standard digital processes on a central, safe, cloud platform, increasing speed and saving company resources.
In 2016, the new company headquarters building was constructed for WMD. In the same year of its expansion, subsidiaries in Slovakia and the U.S.A. joined those existing in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Singapore. In 2018, yet another followed in Spain.
2019 is the year of the cloud for WMD. The declared goal is to provide automated, standardized digital processes for organizations on a fast, secure, centralized WMD cloud platform without necessitating setup of company resources for it. These standard processes include products for mailroom, data capture, and archiving. The shift to the cloud significantly simplifies work processes for different departments. As digitalization and linked processes take hold, manufacturers of ERP systems are increasingly opening up their systems to adjacent IT solutions, sensors and machines, and adding functionalities from the cloud. WMD cloud applications interface seamlessly and offer full availability.
Matthias Lemenkühler (50), Managing Director at WMD: "Monolithic systems are no longer with the times. Nowadays we need flexible services for specialized atomic processes which can be integrated speedily and flexibly into the company ERP landscape. We want to continue automating and standardizing the processes of our customers in the global markets, to increase our customers' competitive edge. The cloud services are an important step in this direction." Lemenkühler has been with WMD since 1997, and has served as a managing director since 2003. As part of succession arrangements, he began heading the business with Thomas Radestock (48) in 2018. In 2018, WMD joined with majority shareholder PINOVA Capital, creating a basis for continued expansion.
WMD's core technology is xSuite—an information management platform allowing organizations to connect single work steps to end-to-end processes—for outbound purchase orders, incoming invoices, incoming orders, folder and contract management, and archiving. xSuite either works integrated into SAP or connected to other ERP and ECM systems. Usability, mobile access and app technology, and the alignment of xSuite with the SAP innovations S/4HANA, HANA database, Fiori, and cloud scenarios are also important subjects for WMD in 2019 and beyond.
Thomas Radestock: "It is our ambition to use xSuite to digitalize the critical work processes, to support the interchange between man and technology in the simplest way possible, staying at the edge of changes taking place in the world of processes. One of these developments is, for instance, our special solution for the public sector for the receipt and processing of invoices in XML format."