Discussion in 'Full Timers' started by zaskar, Nov 14, 2007.
My limit is already running down and its only the 14th - been a tad busy!
So, everybody is always talikg about free wifi hotspots but I've never used one and wouldn't know how.
I know that people have been prosecuted for linking onto unsecure conections but if it's advertised as a free wifi hotspot (like the one I've found at my local Mcdonalds in Congleton) , can I just go down there and fire up my lap top at thier expense and if so how would I do it?
I would, of course, feel obliged to go in and at least have a coffee (even if I hate thier carpet burgers!)............besides, it's nippy in the car at this time of year!
Hi Zaskar go in and ask for a leaflet, it has the passwords on it, sit down fire up, connect to their wi-fi, fire up your webbrowser and you are taken to a websign in page, enter the passwords and away you go. Until your battery goes flat anyway.
, enter the passwords and away you go. Until your battery goes flat anyway.
have you seen Mickey D's car park in Congleton?!!!!!!!
Hi jim with the amount of interest shown in us in Lisbon when we used it (Zilch) and with all the seating they had outside, possibly.
I was think of buying a motorcycle battery and 150watt inverter, but the wife vetoed that idea.
Don't you think it might cause a bit of a panic if you walked in wired up like a suicide bomber..
:Cool: Hi zaskar. You would be FAR better off going to the USB Three. Son and Daughter have both gone that route. Mandy was surfing and emailing from the Lake District last week.
BTW, You can also find FREE Wifi connections at Airports.
I believe here in Spain? Many of the local Councils are providing FREE Wifi.
Hi Jim no way, knotted handkerchief on my head, string vest, Hawaiian shorts, sandals and socks, got to be an Englishman on holiday.
snap at Dylans Jim !
:Cool: It can be free on some Camp sites in Spain too.
There is free Wifi at Camping Memling in Bruges ? and outside of a lot of the B&B hotel chain, certainly within France ?
This site might be useful http://www.totalhotspots.com/ I've used it a couple of times.
Here is another for you Little Chefs.
Hi - free wifi at Parc Verger in the Limousin in France too. Come visit soon - there's a 10% discount off of pitch prices for MHFun members too!
All Weatherspoons pubs and lloyds bars have free wifi and dont mind you plugging into their mains. Buy a coffee and you have 30 mins free, meals are two for around £5.50 - £6.50 depending on which area you are in. You are disconected after 30 mins, just disconnect, retype the same password in and hey presto !
A couple of places in Wales I go past I have stopped in the past, searched and found any number of unsecured wifi connections. All I do is late night surfing to read emails, unlikely to interfere with users connection and I head on my way, been doing that for in excess of 3 years with no probs.
Some Caravan Club sites have free wifi I know Sheepcote near Brighton has so has Cakes and Ale site Leiston and Herston near Swanage!


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There's no city in the country that's associated with incomparable entertainment more than Miami.
If you live in New York City, then you're pretty accustomed to having an epic night out when New Year's Eve rolls around.
Whether you're cooking in the kitchen, playing on your weekend basketball team, or even sitting at your desk, there's always a countdown involved. But the most important countdown of all takes place on the last day of the year; New Year's Eve.
On any given night of the week, Miami's bound to have an epic party. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...those days that we're far too used to staying shacked up at home preparing for work the next day, well, those are the best nights of the week to go out in Miami.
When the lights go down in the city, Harrah's Resort comes alive. The heart-pounding atmosphere consumes you when you step through the door. Ring in the New Year at the hottest spot on the East Coast - Swim, Drink, Dance.
There are you typical nightlife experiences, and then there are those special nights that you don't expect.
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With a new year just around the corner, it can only mean that the biggest party of the year is upon us. There's truly nothing like New Year's Eve 2013 in Boston.
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Real story behind The Crown's 'love quadrangle' – Princess Anne, Camilla, Andrew Parker Bowles and Prince Charles
Did Lord Mountbatten and the royal family try to split up Charles and Camilla? And what happened between Anne and Andrew?
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The Crown season three puts the spotlight on the next generation – and, in particular, their love lives.
You've got a love triangle between Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) and Camilla Shand (Emerald Fennell) and Andrew Parker Bowles (Andrew Buchan), with the added involvement of Princess Anne (Erin Doherty).
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So what are the real-life events behind the Netflix drama? Here's what you need to know:
How did Prince Charles meet Camilla?
By the time Camilla Shand and Prince Charles were formally introduced, the two of them were already moving in the same social circles and attending some of the same events; Camilla had been dating Charles's fellow polo-player Andrew Parker Bowles, but their relationship ended (temporarily) in 1970.
It's commonly thought that Charles and Camilla met at a polo match, but biographer Gyles Brandreth says they actually met at the home of their mutual friend, Lucia Santa Cruz. Whatever the case, we do know that they soon began a romantic relationship.
Camilla, who is 18 months older than Charles, was born to Major Bruce Shand and Rosalind Cubitt – the daughter of a baroness. She was educated in England, attended a finishing school in Switzerland, and briefly studied in France. Like many of the upper-class set, she developed a passion for horse-riding; by the time we meet her in season three of The Crown (where she's played by Emerald Fennell), Camilla is in her early 20s and hanging out in London.
Once she and Charles got together, they met regularly at polo matches and socialised as a couple; they also met each other's families and seemed to be getting serious.
Charles And Camilla at the Polo around 1970 (Getty)
Did Princess Anne date Camilla's ex-boyfriend, Andrew Parker Bowles?
In The Crown, we see Andrew Parker Bowles (Andrew Buchan) and Princess Anne (Erin Doherty) flirting at a party – and then we see Anne enjoying a post-coital Bloody Mary in bed while Andrew wanders around topless.
The storyline has surprised many fans of The Crown, but it hasn't come out of nowhere! After breaking up with on-off girlfriend Camilla, Andrew did have a brief relationship with Princess Anne – and seeing as Camilla then got together with Anne's older brother Prince Charles, it all turned into a bit of a love 'quadrangle'.
Some have speculated that Camilla's interest in Charles may have been retaliation against her ex-boyfriend – at least, initially. That's the version of events hinted at in The Crown.
Either way, the relationship between Andrew and Anne never got really serious. He did accompany the Princess during Royal Ascot Week one year, but it was unlikely to progress much further for them; Andrew was Catholic, and Anne's mum was the head of the Church of England, so she couldn't marry him without renouncing her right to the throne.
Nevertheless, Andrew and Anne remained friends even after they both married other people – with Andrew even becoming a godfather of Princess Anne's daughter, Zara.
In 1973, Anne married Mark Phillips. They divorced in 1992, and in the same year she married her second husband: Timothy Laurence, who had previously served as her mother's equerry.
Did the royal family try to stop Camilla and Charles from marrying?
It's hard to say for certain, but it seems Charles's family did get involved.
Following royal tradition, Charles had signed up for military service in 1971, remaining with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force until 1977. During this time he trained as a jet pilot, was sent to the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, and then served on a guided missile destroyer, two frigates and an aircraft carrier. So, in early 1973, he found himself sent overseas.
At this point, his relationship with Camilla was put on hold – and then came to an abrupt end when Camilla accepted a marriage proposal from Andrew Parker Bowles, her on-off boyfriend of around seven years. They married in July of the same year.
So, did Lord Mountbatten (played by Charles Dance) and the Queen Mother (played by Marion Bailey) conspire to split Charles and Camilla up and prevent their marriage?
One possibility, as suggested by Robert Lacey in his 2008 book 'Royal', is that Charles had failed to ask Camilla to wait for him when he went overseas with the Navy. Perhaps Charles wasn't ready to commit to marriage, considering himself too young; perhaps the simple truth is that Camilla preferred to marry Andrew.
Andrew and Camilla on their wedding day (Getty)
The other possibility, suggested by Sarah Bradford in her 2007 biography of Princess Diana, is that Charles's great-uncle Mountbatten (a powerful and well-connected military man) arranged for Charles to be taken overseas to sever that relationship with Camilla.
After all, Lord Mountbatten wasn't impressed with the idea of a woman like Camilla marrying the heir to the throne. In February 1974, when it was all over, he wrote to Charles: "In a case like yours, the man should sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down, but for a wife he should choose a suitable, attractive, and sweet-charactered girl before she has met anyone else she might fall for … It is disturbing for women to have experiences if they have to remain on a pedestal after marriage."
In Mountbatten's eyes, getting rid of Camilla might pave the way for an engagement to a more 'suitable' woman: ideally Amanda Knatchbull (Mountbatten's pick, who also happened to be his own granddaughter), or one of the Spencer sisters (the Queen Mother's pick).
In support of the theory that Mountbatten and the Queen Mum meddled in the affair, Sally Bedell Smith argues that Andrew's proposal was orchestrated by the Shand and the Parker Bowles families. The two dads apparently placing an engagement notice in The Times ahead of time, publicly forcing Andrew's hand.
It's possible there was royal pressure for them to get Camilla and Andrew safely married.
After Camilla married Andrew in 1973, they had two children: the food writer Tom Parker Bowles (who is actually Prince Charles's godson), and art curator Laura Lopes. The couple divorced in 1995, by which point they'd been living apart for two years. The reason for their separation was explained with the statement: "There is little of common interest between us."
Charles remained unmarried for some years – though there were some romantic entanglements, including a rumoured (rejected) marriage proposal to Mountbatten's favoured candidate Amanda Knatchbull. Other potential matches under Charles's consideration were Lady Jane Wellesley and Lady Sarah Spencer.
Then in 1981, he married Lady Diana Spencer after a speedy courtship and a brief engagement. He was now 32; she was just 20 years old.
Princess Diana soon gave birth to sons Prince William and Prince Harry, but it was not a happy marriage and they formally separated in 1992, divorcing in 1996.
The following year, Diana died in a shocking car crash in France.
When did Camilla and Charles get back together?
Charles had been heartbroken when Camilla married another man, writing to Mountbatten: "I suppose the feeling of emptiness will pass eventually." But he does not seem to have ever moved on from his first love.
It's hard to put an exact date on when Charles and Camilla rekindled their relationship. It's been suggested that they got back together soon after August 1979, when Charles's beloved great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA – and the Prince turned to his married ex-girlfriend for solace; others have suggested that their romantic reunion occurred earlier, or later.
At this point Charles was still unmarried, while Andrew Parker Bowles reportedly had numerous lovers of his own and turned a blind eye (or even approved of) his wife's infidelity. But the affair with Camilla Parker Bowles continued even after Charles married Diana.
Diana and Camilla in 1980 (Getty)
Charles and Diana's relationship was difficult from the start. Asked about being in love during their engagement in 1981, Diana replied "of course" – while Charles famously replied, "whatever 'in love' means." They were nicknamed "The Glums" and seemed unhappy in each other's company; by the late 80s the marriage had broken down entirely.
There were accusations of infidelity, a tell-all book from Diana, a televised interview with Charles, the "Camillagate" tape scandal, and finally the divorces of both couples. Then came Diana's death in 1997.
Camilla later moved in with Charles, but they did not officially marry until 2005. With Camilla a divorcée, they had a civil marriage at Windsor Guildhall (without either of Charles's parents present), followed by an Anglican blessing at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. Camilla was given the courtesy title of Duchess of Cornwall.
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In my most recent review here on Lambda Literary, I considered the late Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's posthumous book The Weather in Proust and mourned the loss of one of our greatest queer scholars. In hindsight, I wish I had come across Jane Gallop's latest book The Deaths of the Author (Duke University Press) beforehand, because Gallop meticulously yet gracefully analyzes the complicated relationship between a devoted reader and the author that inspires them. After reading these essays on Jacques Derrida's memorial to Roland Barthes, Sedgwick's elegies for two writers dying of AIDS, and Gayatri Spivak's writing before the specter of Karl Marx, Gallop has given me a new language with which to speak about the passing of queer writers.
Amid the political turmoil and cultural revolutions of the late 60s, two gay French philosophers, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, forever changed the study of literature by proclaiming the death of the author. Much like Nietzsche's announcement that "God is dead," Barthes' statement sought to demystify the "author-god" as a social construction and to emphasize the reader's own interpretive powers. Gallop uses this statement as an inspiration to consider not just the figurative death of the author once we view him as a mere conduit of tradition and culture but also the literal death of an author when we are forced to reconcile the real life of the person with the literary persona they left behind.


Lots has been written about how high health care costs in the US are, and how mediocre outcomes are relative to those high costs. The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Lessoffers a new way of looking at the issue.
Health reform efforts have emphasized health insurance and medicine, sidelining social service programs like nutritional support and housing assistance — programs that can be influential for keeping people healthy andproducing health, instead of just reacting when people fall ill, like the health care system often does.
Ignoring the social side of health is a problem, and it's a problem that's been plaguing the United States for decades.
Elizabeth Bradley, a professor at Yale University, and Lauren Taylor, a Presidential Scholar at Harvard Divinity School, examined this at length in their book. I spoke with the authors about the issues they see in the current system, what lessons we might draw from other nations, and what policymakers should think about next.
What follows is a transcript of our conversation, edited for clarity and length.
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority has received a nearly $30 million federal grant that will help transform the site of a former public-housing complex and the surrounding Near East Side neighborhood.
Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, made the announcement today at the site of the now-demolished Poindexter Village along N. Champion Avenue.
HOME OWNERSHIP + NEIGHBORHOODS. They are inextricably linked. When considering buying a home, regardless of whether you are a first-time home buyer, or a second or third-time home buyer, we all ask the same questions: "What's the price?" "What does it look like?" And of course, "Where's it located?", also known as, the neighborhood. Generally, buying a home is a very personal decision, centered on the needs of the family and personal preference. For some, a home must have a dishwasher, but for others it is the yard that is the selling point. Beyond this though, you could also look at home ownership from the community perspective. As a home owner, you are choosing a neighborhood to become a part of.
Consider what that means. Neighborhoods are made up of people, therefore the decisions individuals make about how they interact in their neighborhoods makes a direct impact – for good or for bad. What does it mean to you when people litter in front of your home? How do simple smiles and a warm hello affect the feel of your street? Your decisions define the neighborhood. And truthfully, these questions are not just for home owners. Whether you are renting or buying, we all make up neighborhoods – each of us as individuals – and you have the power to make your neighborhood better.
Here at Homeport, our vision is that every person lives in a vibrant community where they are empowered to dream and shape their future. That is why we strive to create homes people can afford in communities like these. So, how will you contribute as a part of the neighborhood? Are you going to participate in the neighborhood clean-up, join in with the annual block party, or attend the civic/resident association meeting? I know what you are thinking, "When am I going to have time for that?" A few hours a month can go a long way towards enhancing your relationship with your neighbors and the improving the community.
Take the leap! Get involved! For your efforts, you will be rewarded with a strong, vibrant neighborhood that you call home.
In just a few months it may get a little easier to find affordable housing in downtown Austin.
Capitol Studios will be the first affordable housing community built downtown in 45 years. Affordable housing management company Foundation Communities already operates 14 properties in Austin. Evan Johns credits them with helping him get his life together.
"I wouldn't have anything, probably still be drinking too," said Johns who lives at a Foundation Communities property.
Before moving into an affordable housing community, Johns was homeless because he couldn't stop drinking. After getting out of rehab, Johns didn't have anywhere to go.
"I also couldn't afford to live in the city anymore," said Johns.
Homeport is working to make sure an affordable home is available to families throughout Central Ohio.
Introduction by Managing Editor Laura Trujillo: On March 21, 14-year-old Jashawn Martin was shot as he passed by a fight on his way to see a friend. Eight days later – a day after she attended Jashawn's funeral – 14-year-old Tyann Adkins was shot to death as she waited to get her nails done. The boy who shot her was 14, as was the boy who called 911 and tried to save her. Not long after, a 14-year-old was part of a robbery at DeSales Market in Walnut Hills that left a father of two begging for his life.
In the newsroom, we routinely deal with crime – shootings and robberies, death and grief. But somehow these violent episodes crept into our heads and we couldn't get them out.
It was the number 14.
Medical professionals are now looking "upstream" to determine, based on research, how to improve children's health through housing, Dr. Megan Sandel, associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, told attendees at the ULI Housing Opportunity conference held May 14-16 in Denver.


Laughing Buddha is an energizing strain so using too much can cause panic and the ubiquitous cotton mouth. Growing difficulty Growing Laughing Buddha plants is of high difficulty.... Laughing Buddha is a Sativa marijuana strain with a potent, energetic high. Pick up this strain if you're looking to hang out with friends — it'll leave you feeling giggly and talkative.
Laughing Buddha: sativa heavy strain that energies the mind. Laughing Buddha is a sativa heavy strain that is the result of the crossbreeding of parent strains Thai and Jamaican.... Laughing Buddha, as everyone knows, brings good fortunes, satisfaction and wealth in one's life. It delineates abundance of whatever one wishes for – be it riches, joy or fulfillment.
Laughing Buddha statue is popularly known as 'Pu-Tai' in China and 'Hotai' in Japan. Laughing Buddha has now become an integral part of the Chinese pseudoscience – Feng Shui . This Happy Buddha statue is recognized as a symbol of happiness, positivity and prosperity.
Laughing Buddha certainly does not fall under this category, even if it is a sativa. This marijuana type has some surprising effects on its user, bringing about concentration, focus and productivity, but in a manner that is not only effortless, but also organic.
Laughing Buddha statues depict a stout, smiling or laughing bald man in robes with a largely exposed pot belly stomach, which symbolizes happiness, good luck, and plenitude. Some sculpture has small children at his feet.


So thrilled with this, I wanted to share with everyone!!
If you were at the Reunion on Oct. 1, you may have heard my name was the second one called for a door prize! I had a choice of 3 prizes and chose the beautiful framed picture of an AA DC3!
I was thrilled because my Dad started flying for AA in 1944 on the DC3! When I got home and looked closer at the picture, I saw it was the Flagship Tulsa! I looked on Google for the aircraft number. Found out the number was NC18141!
Looked through my Dad's log books and saw he flew Flagship Tulsa on December 2, 1946 & December 18, 1946!!!
So now I have a framed picture of a DC3 that my Dad flew for AA!!
I am so thrilled my name was drawn!!
Thanks again for a GREAT Reunion and donation of a GREAT photo that now has significant meaning to me!!
I wish my Dad were here to see this!!
He retired as Captain on the B707 in 1975 and passed away in 1980!
Here is a photo of me holding the picture and my Dad's log book showing NC18141 on Dec. 2 & 18! Notice it took 4:22 hrs to fly from BUR to ELP and 4:11 hrs from LAX to ELP!
Don Herbert and JoAnne Gonzalez. Our thanks and appreciation to Don Herbert for providing door prizes!
Philip and JoAnne Gonzalez in foreground, Bill Burnette and Regina Gonzalez in background.
Sharon O'Boyle, winner of the 50/50 raffle, next to Reunion Co-Chair Bob Alexander. Dan Keller, program emcee, in the right background. Congratulations, Sharon!


A holiday to Bel Ombre will allow you to unwind in one of the most stunning settings. Admire the wonderful scenery, stroll along the white sandy beaches and swim in the warm turquoise waters.
Be surrounded by natural splendour that Bel Ombre has to offer. It is an ideal holiday for honeymoons and couples thanks to its peaceful and serene atmosphere.
For the ultimate in what Bel Ombre has to offer, you will have to take a visit to Domaine de Bel Ombre. Here you will encounter a wonderful estate filled with greenery stretched over 2,500 hectares. Stay at some of the most opulent accommodations here such as Heritage Le Telfair Golf and Spa Resort, Heritage Awali Golf and Spa Resort or Tamassa Hotel Bel Ombre.
Dining options will at Domaine de Bel Ombre will satisfy you with its diverse choices from around the world. Discover Mauritian cuisine and eat until your heart's content!
Whilst this holiday will undoubtedly offer relaxation, for even more try out the spas here which promote natural products which will rejuvenate your senses! Wellness and a holistic experience are actively encouraged during your stay.
For adventure, Bel Ombre offers plenty of water sports activities such as windsurfing, kayaking and waterskiing to name but a few! For something a bit different why not try a glass bottom boat trip? You will get to see marine life from another perspective!
Discover Bel Ombre's rich history influenced by a mix of European, Asian and African culture. The blend of cultures has come together and is evident in the Mauritius way of life. The people are hospitable and welcoming.
Whether a relaxing beach holiday is what you are looking for, or adventure, Bel Ombre will definitely appeal to you. So what are you waiting for? Enquire with us now and we will get back to you!


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Google refuses legal request to share pay records in gender discrimination case
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Google is resisting a legal request to disclose salary records in a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit, marking the technology company's latest efforts to prevent scrutiny of how much it pays its female employees.
Google attorneys argued in court on Friday that a judge should block a suit brought by former employees alleging systematic pay disparities on behalf of all women at the company. The company is also arguing that it should not have to provide information on the salaries of men and women or disclose wage policy documents until a first ruling on the class-action status.
The judge has not yet made an official decision but on Friday appeared to side with the tech giant on a number of issues.
The class-action complaint filed in September provided the most detailed formal accounts to date of gender discrimination at Google, alleging that the company denies promotions and career opportunities to qualified women and "segregates" them into lower-paying positions. Google's latest efforts to thwart the lawsuit and avoid disclosures come at a time when the tech industry is reeling over allegations of misogyny, sexual harassment and an overall lack of diversity.
"Clearly the data is not good for them, and they don't want to turn it over," James Finberg, a civil rights attorney representing the employees, said after the hearing in San Francisco. "Eventually, the truth will come out, and the truth will show that they do in fact pay women less than men in the same job title in nearly every job."
The suit – which provides accounts of alleged discrimination against a former engineer, business manager and sales employee – builds on claims by the US Department of Labor (DoL). Earlier this year, the federal regulator alleged "extreme" pay discrimination in positions and departments throughout Google and sued the Mountain View, California-based company for salary records as part of its audit.
Google has publicly insisted that it has no gender pay gap and is a leader on diversity and inclusion. But the company has also repeatedly resisted efforts to open its books to the government, has tried to block media coverage of its DoL dispute and has faced accusations that its strict confidentiality policies silence whistleblowers. In July, a judge ultimately forced the company to disclose certain compensation documents to federal investigators.
In court on Friday, Google's lawyers argued that it was overly broad to file a complaint on behalf of all women employed by the company in California over the last four years and that the allegations of discrimination extended beyond applicable fair pay laws.
"It's just an open-ended probe into the job duties of every employee in the entire company," said the Google attorney Zachary Hutton. Later, referencing the plaintiffs' requests for salary records, he said: "I cannot conceive of a more probing, more onerous set of discovery."
Google faced backlash earlier this year when it argued it was too financially burdensome and challenging to compile the compensation data that the federal government had requested.
On Friday, after the plaintiffs' attorneys argued that Google should turn over policy records and salary data the company had already disclosed to the DoL, the Google attorney Felicia Davis argued that the request was premature and that it should come after a ruling on the class-action status of the case.
Davis also said some of what the lawyers had requested was too expansive and not relevant, adding: "It's just a lot of extra work."
Judge Mary Wiss responded: "I don't know that because it's a lot of work it shouldn't be produced."
But the judge questioned the scope of the class-action case and seemed to agree with Google on some matters. She issued no formal ruling, but said she believed there were "deficiencies" in the plaintiffs' claims, called the suit "overly broad" and said she was inclined to rule in favor of Google in its initial pleadings to limit the class-action scope of the case. She also said Google did not yet have to provide any of the broader documents and records at this preliminary stage.
Hutton also repeatedly argued that even if there was a wage gap at the company, it was not necessarily illegal: "Pay disparity by itself does not establish a violation. You have to examine the reasons the disparity exists."
The class-action attorneys argued that, based on the DoL's investigation and the claims of their plaintiffs, the pay gaps were widespread and unlawful at Google.
"There is a serious problem at Google of paying women less," testified Kelly Dermody, another lawyer representing the employees. "This is a critical cutting-edge matter in society."
Google initially declined to provide a comment. However, following publication of the article, a Google spokesperson, Gina Scigliano, emphasized in a statement to the Guardian that the judge's tentative ruling had sided with the company.
"The plaintiffs want class-wide discovery but haven't provided the facts to support that. We argued that discovery should therefore be on hold until that's resolved. The Judge agreed," she said. "We believe the data makes our case and have agreed to produce compensation policies and practices, as well as additional compensation data once their pleadings are finalized."
When the case was filed, the company defended its pay practices in a statement: "Job levels and promotions are determined through rigorous hiring and promotion committees, and must pass multiple levels of review, including checks to make sure there is no gender bias in these decisions."
After the hearing, Finberg noted that Google's attorneys did not deny there was a pay disparity and criticized the corporation for a lack of transparency: "They fought hard against the DoL. They fought hard against us. To me, it's an indication they have something to hide."
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The Turin collective Project-TO, composed by Riccardo Mazza and Laura Pol, after exploring with the successful double debut album in 2016 "The White Side, The Black Side", the duality between a more open style with Big Beat sounds in the style of Chemical Brothers (The White Side) and a more techno-ambient mood (The Black Side). After declaring in 2017, with the album "Black Revised", that it belonged to the dark side by producing a dark tones vinyl album, electronic, with a huge use of synthesisers, now presents its third IRO work. IRO in Japanese means "colour" and the tracks making up the album, which are 6 as in every Project-TO release, a sort of symbolic number, introduce the vocal element through the Japanese language. After choosing the black and white of the previous albums, which are only instrumental, it is the voice that represents the chromatic turning point. The tempo is pulsating, always marked by a deep, hammering speaker, while the sounds are more experimental and evolve continuously, synthesising with voices to turn into a pure noise, of which stylistic references can be found in the latest works by Alva Noto, Bjork, Andy Stott and Beytone. Produced and recorded in Turin at Riccardo Mazza's new Experimental Studios, one of the most technologically advanced studios in Europe for experimental and electronic music, IRO is inspired by haiku, a poetic composition that started in Japan in the seventeenth century. Among the reflections that Roland Barthes wrote in his book "The Empire of Signs", haiku is not a rich thought reduced to a short form, but a short event that suddenly finds its exact form; it has the purity, sphericity and emptiness of a musical note itself. Each track in the album is dedicated to a different haiku, where the theme of the seasons is characterised by at least one word representing them, from which research on the musicality of the verse starts. The pure essentiality of these poems, which express concepts and images referring to nature and semantic reversals giving rise to a leap in the imagination between apparently distant ideas and images, is also the inspiration behind the work of Laura Pol who, mixing photography and video, has created a language that is an integral part of the project for the new Live Audio-Visual Project-TO, just as in the two previous albums.


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Q: Sum of rows of different columns in mysql In my table columns are domain, Prog_StdName, Jul, Aug, Sep, where Prog_StdName is dependent on domain, I have tried the following query to display unique data from the table as in the below image:
 SELECT DISTINCT domain
               , Prog_StdName FROM cf_1ls
                 WHERE ls_no = 1234

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I want to sum of columns (Jul+Aug+Sep) for each unique row for particular ls_no=1234 ID  as in the below image, for that I have the below query SELECT DISTINCTdomain,Prog_StdName, sum(Jul+Aug+Sep) FROMcf_1lsWHEREls_no='1234'
But is displays
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A: This will work :)
SELECT domain, Prog_StdName,SUM(Jul+Aug+Sep) AS total
FROM cf_1ls
GROUP BY domain
HAVING ls_no='1234'

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Het oog van de Minotaurus is het 40ste stripalbum uit de reeks Alex, bedacht door Jacques Martin, geschreven door Valérie Mangin en getekend door Chrys Millien. De inkleuring werd eveneens verzorgd door Millien.

De eerste publicatie was ook meteen het eerste album. Het album werd op 8 december 2021 uitgegeven door uitgeverij Casterman als softcover met nummer 40 in de serie Alex.

Dit verhaal krijgt in 2022 een los te lezen vervolg in de spin-off reeks Alex senator getiteld Het hol van de Minotaurus.

Het verhaal

In Rome sterft Servilia, minnares van Julius Caesar en moeder van Brutus. Brutus is ervan overtuigd dat haar dood komt door het dragen van een zwarte parel die Caesar haar geschonken heeft. Caesar vermoedt dat hij het eigenlijke doelwit was. Hij stuurt Alex en Enak samen met Brutus naar Massalia in Gallië, waar hij de parel kocht, om uit te zoeken hoe het zit. Ze komen op het spoor van de Griek Sebraca die de parel had aangeleverd. Maar dan steelt een jonge dief van Kreta de parel, maar verliest een amulet met daarop afgebeeld een minotaurus. Het gezelschap reist naar Kreta, waar ze ontdekken dat de dief Deucalian heet en woont in een dorp nabij het labyrint waar de Minotaurus zou zijn opgesloten geweest. Zijn moeder vertelt dat haar zoon de heiligschennis die zijn vader heeft begaan wil rechtzetten. Zijn vader Sebraca stal namelijk de parel van de Minotaurus. Als Deucalion zich verstopt in het labyrint zijn Alex en Enak de enigen die het labyrint in durven te gaan. Ze krijgen hem te pakken, waarop de jongen uitlegt dat de parel terug moet naar de ondergrondse tempel waar de Minotaurus aanbeden werd. Alex besluit hem te helpen en het gezelschap reist naar de archipel van Thera, dat ooit door een vulkaanuitbarsting en een daarop volgende aardbeving en vloedgolf grotendeels werd vernietigd. Via een ondergrondse tunnel bereikt het gezelschap zwemmend de tempel, waar Deucalion, uitgeput door het dragen van de parel, deze terugplaatst in het oog van een groot beeld van de Minotaurus. Ondanks een aardbeving en hallucinaties weet het gezelschap weer veilig uit de tempel te komen.

Stripverhaal van Alex
Stripalbum uit 2021
Stripverhaal uit 2021

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AIDS Agency Chief Says 1 Out Of 100 Persons Positive In Kaduna
The Executive Secretary of Kaduna State Aids Control Agency (KADSACA), Dr Isa Baka has said a survey had revealed that one out of 100 people is positive to the AIDS disease in the state.
Baka disclosed this speaking shortly after a walk in commemoration of the World AIDS Day, on Thursday in Kaduna.
The theme of the year's' World AIDS Day is "Equalise to End AIDS: Equal Access to Treatment and Prevention Services''.
He said the present statistics was a remarkable development against previous survey which gave 11 of every 100 people in the state.
Baka added that the AIDS prevalence in Kaduna, which is at 1.1, being a survey carried out by the state government itself, was later done at the national level, where that of Kaduna was confirmed as very accurate.
"At the national level, the prevalence of the virus (AIDS) was at 1.4 (four people out of 100 test positive), while that of Kaduna is confirmed to be 1.1, was in determination of the state government and KADSACA's efforts to ensure minimal prevalence of the virus," he said.
He said as part of efforts to continue reducing the prevalence of AIDS in the state, government initiated programmes across the 23 LGAs.
He said one of the UNICEF anchored programmes, which is the 'Adolescent and Youths Living With HIV and AIDS' programme, was present and effective in at least, 18 LGAs and 24 sites in the state.
F.G Inaugurates Emergency Responders In Abuja
Malawi Commences Large Scale Malaria Vaccination- First In The World
Health Minister Khumbize Chiponda has revealed that despite hospitalization numbers reaching 30, 621, Malawi's deadliest cholera outbreak on record has killed over 1,000 people.
According to the World Health Organization, the death toll on Tuesday eclipsed the biggest documented outbreak, which killed 968 people between 2001 and 2002. (WHO).
Chiponda urged people to exercise extreme caution when handling the bodies of cholera victims before funerals.
"People who are dying from cholera may be washed by family members who then prepare funeral feasts… outbreaks of cholera commonly follow these feasts," the minister said on Wednesday.
She urged people to use proper disinfection methods such as chlorine and plastic body bags.
The majority of the deaths happened in the two main cities of Lilongwe and Blantyre, where students had recently returned to school after schools were closed to try to contain the spread.
Cholera strikes the southern African country on a regular basis during the rainy season, from November to March, with deaths often hovering around 100.
However, pollution levels were unusually high during and after the holiday season in 2022.
Malawi got over three million doses of oral cholera vaccine from the UN in November 2022 to boost its immunization program, but case numbers continue to grow.
Adrian Chikumbe, a spokesman for the health ministry, told AFP that all dosages had been utilized.
He went on to say that "the fact that there is only one cholera vaccine manufacturer worldwide makes acquiring the life-saving medicine tough," fostering rivalry between countries in need.
Cholera, which causes diarrhoea and vomiting, is caused by a bacterium that is usually spread by contaminated food or water.
According to George Jobe, director of the organization Malawi Health Equity Network, falsehoods and disinformation flowing online are exacerbating an already terrible situation.
"Most people don't believe we have cholera," he told AFP. Additionally, "some religions do not permit their [sick] members to go to the hospital".
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The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has cautioned Nigerians against excessive fasting, saying it can cause kidney problems.
Speaking on Monday at a media briefing in Abuja, Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC director-general, advised Nigerians to fast "with common sense".
"We are a very religious country – Muslims and Christians, we fast a lot and it is part of the kidney problem. Your body has to have homeostatic balance, meaning the water level in your body must be enough to make your organs function," she said.
"Some people will fast for 20 days or 10 days without drinking even a little bit of water and the kidney is being punished and it can damage your kidney because the kidney does not have water to dilute and filter, that is what some of us do.
"I fast but I fast with common sense. You have to fast with common sense or else you pay with your kidney."
Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General says the only way out of COVID-19 pandemic and out of unjustly distribution of vaccines is through a global vaccination plan.
Guterres spoke to a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Group of 77 developing nations (G77) and China on Tuesday at UN headquarters, New York.
According to him, pandemic continues to wreak havoc on developed and developing countries alike.
He said that the UN backed the vaccination strategy set out by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The goal of the vaccination strategy is to get vaccines into the arms of 40 per cent of people in all countries by the end of 2021 and 70 per cent by the middle of 2022.
"Everyone, everywhere, must have access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatment," the secretary-general said, asking for support for the ACT-accelerator and the COVAX facility.
Guterres also warned that the world economy is projected to grow by 5.9 per cent in 2021 but the pace of recovery, according to him, is extremely uneven.
For him, this is not surprising, when developed economies are investing 28 per cent of their Gross Domestic Product in recovery, middle-income countries are investing 6.5 per cent, and the least developed nations are investing just 1.8 per cent.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that cumulative economic growth per capita over the next five years will be 75 per cent less than the rest of the world.
"This dangerous divergence threatens to widen as growth rates are expected to decrease in 2022. Rising inflation could also have a negative impact on the cost of borrowing and servicing debt," he warned.
The UN chief also addressed the climate crisis, unsustainable levels of inequality, and the development of new technologies, asking for "a quantum leap in unity and solidarity to make collective decisions" on these global challenges.
On multilateralism and the importance of the United Nations, the secretary-general stressed the role of the organisation during the pandemic.
UN Country Teams rolled out socio-economic response plans covering 139 countries and territories. More than US$3 billion was repurposed, and an additional US$2 billion was mobilised to prioritise immediate support.
For Guterres, it was recent reforms that enabled the organisation to adjust and respond quickly.
"As a result, more than 90 per cent of host governments have indicated that the United Nations today is more relevant to their country's development needs when compared to three years ago," he said.


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Witches of East End RECAP 10/27/13: Season 1 Episode 4 "A Few Good Talismen"
BY Yellow J on October 27, 2013 | Comments: one comment
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Tonight on Lifetime, WITCHES OF EAST END continues with another new episode. The show is inspired by Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times best-selling novel, Witches of East End, and centers around the mysterious Beauchamp family. On tonight's show, called "A Few Good Talismen," Joanna and Harrison try to protect Principal Redmond from the shifter. Did you watch last week's premiere episode? We did and we recapped it right here for you.
On last week's episode Ingrid struggled with the consequences of the resurrection spell. Joanna tried to figure out which of her many former enemies might be responsible for framing her. Wendy taught Ingrid and Freya how to use their powers. Freya got a new co-worker at the bar.
On tonight's episode Joanna's immortal attorney Harrison prepares for her murder trial. Afraid for Adam's safety, Ingrid re-evaluates her relationship with him. Penelope recruits Freya to help her mend the rift between Dash and Killian. Wendy seduces an entomologist (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) while trying to gather ingredients for a spell. Joanna and Harrison try to protect Principal Redmond from the shifter.
Tonight's series premiere is going to be great and you won't want to miss it. So be sure to tune in for our live coverage of Lifetime's Witches of East End Season Premiere tonight at 10PM EST! Remember also to bookmark Celeb Dirty Laundry and check back here for our live Witches of East End recaps, reviews, news, and spoilers!
RECAP:
The show opens up with a flashback to 1693. Joanna is running through a meadow and she stumbles across two burning bodies — Freya and Ingrid. Apparently, some man turned in her daughters for witchcraft because they were "reckless."
Joanna is with her lawyer and they're going to the courthouse with the principal (of the school she works at). Freya and Dash are talking, and they discuss Dash's past relationships. He says he wants them to be honest with each other about everything. No secrets.
Meanwhile, at the library, Ingrid's friend is super excited about her pregnancy. She asks Ingrid to be the baby's godmother.
Freya walks in to have a chat with Dash's mother. They chat about the woman that came between Dash and Killian. Dash's mother wants her family to be whole again, and begs that she invite both of her sons to dinner.
Joanna and her lawyer visit the scene of the crime — where the man was killed, and the crime she's being accused of committing. Joanna channels the dark energy and discovers the Shifter's next move: it seems as if its going to target Joanna's principal.
Joanna plans on using the principal as bait to catch the Shifter. Ingrid and Adam's relationship continue to advance romantically. Freya is happy that her sister's finding love, but Ingrid continues to be skeptical about Adam's romantic intentions.
Freya finds Killian and invites him to the family dinner, but Killian says he has a date.
Wendy is researching butterflies and pulls up an entomologist's profile on the internet; Freya walks in and Wendy immediately closes her computer. Freya wants help bringing Killian and Dash to dinner — using magic.
Wendy, in cat form, sees the entomologist she was researching come home. She runs down the hallways and turns into her human form, naked, and she's successfully captured his attentions.
Wendy says sorry. She says that she just moved in upstairs and got locked out of her apartment.
Meanwhile, Joanna and her lawyer are trying to protect the principal — but she has a vision and the story seems to be changing. She says, "Tonight will need a new ending."
Adam throws Ingrid a surprise, romantic dinner in the Library, and she says her life is extremely complicated right now and she can't be involved with him.
Freya tries to complete her beacon spell — which will, supposedly, draw both Dash and Killian to the same dinner.
Wendy, still in the entomologist's apartment, is being shown his butterfly collection. He shows her a special butterfly — the one she was researching online. She appears to want it/need it, but before she runs away with it she hooks up with the entomologist.
Back at the principal's house, Joanna's lawyer finds a room that the Shifter's been using to work his magic. He can't believe his eyes and, before long, is attacked.
Freya's spell seems to have been successful. She arrives at Dash's mansion and hears Killian playing piano. Dash arrives as well, but Killian can't stand seeing Freya and Dash together.
Ingrid is walking home from the library with her newly pregnant friend, but her friend grabs her stomach; it seems as if she's having a miscarriage.
Joanna calls for her lawyer, but she finds the dead principal instead. The Shifter comes out and reveals his true form. She calls him Theodore, and he uses the doll to drain her of her powers. Hey says, "This time I came prepared."
Freya and Dash's mother have an awkward dinner alone because both Killian and Dash left.
Joanna is helpless on the floor. Theodore says he's waited a long time for this. Theodore is the man who burned her daughters at the stake all those years ago — the scene we witnessed in the flashback. Theodore gabs a hot fork from the fire place and burns her ear.
Joanna's lawyer comes to and, when Theodore is about to kill Joanna, he finds the power-draining doll and throws it in the fireplace. With her powers restored, Joanna gets up and pushes Theodore to the ground. She jabs the fireplace fork into his stomach. He begs to be spared and, in the process, says that he's not the Shifter that framed her for murder. More will come.
Wendy sneaks into the hospital to see the woman who's blaming Joanna for the murder. Wendy, with the butterfly she stole from the entomologist, whispers a spell. The dead butterfly comes to life and flies into the woman's ear. She wakes up but Wendy is gone.
As Ingrid continues to worry about her sick friend, Barb, Adam arrives at the hospital. They kiss passionately. Ingrid receives a phone call saying that Barb and her baby are okay. But just as she thinks all is well, Adam collapses with a bleeding nose. Paramedics rush to his aid, but it doesn't look good.
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Catalytic domain of Cyclin-Dependent protein Kinase-like Serine/Threonine Kinases. Serine/Threonine Kinases (STKs), Cyclin-Dependent protein Kinase (CDK)-like subfamily, catalytic (c) domain. STKs catalyze the transfer of the gamma-phosphoryl group from ATP to serine/threonine residues on protein substrates. The CDK-like subfamily is part of a larger superfamily that includes the catalytic domains of other protein STKs, protein tyrosine kinases, RIO kinases, aminoglycoside phosphotransferase, choline kinase, and phosphoinositide 3-kinase. CDKs belong to a large family of STKs that are regulated by their cognate cyclins. Together, they are involved in the control of cell-cycle progression, transcription, and neuronal function. CDKs are partly regulated by their subcellular localization, which defines substrate phosphorylation and the resulting specific function. CDK1, CDK2, CDK4, and CDK6 have well-defined functions in the cell cycle, such as the regulation of the early G1 phase by CDK4 or CDK6, the G1/S phase transition by CDK2, or the entry of mitosis by CDK1. They also exhibit overlapping cyclin specificity and functions in certain conditions. Knockout mice with a single CDK deleted remain viable with specific phenotypes, showing that some CDKs can compensate for each other. For example, CDK4 can compensate for the loss of CDK6, however, double knockout mice with both CDK4 and CDK6 deleted die in utero. CDK8 and CDK9 are mainly involved in transcription while CDK5 is implicated in neuronal function. CDK7 plays essential roles in both the cell cycle as a CDK-Activating Kinase (CAK) and in transcription as a component of the general transcription factor TFIIH.
This domain occurred 449 times on human genes (1031 proteins).


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Dolly Parton became a member of the Grand Ole Opry on January 4th, 1969. Fifty years later, she'll celebrate that golden anniversary on October 12th with an all-star concert on the Opry stage in Nashville. The show has long been sold out, but fans of Dolly can now catch the concert when it airs on NBC during Thanksgiving week.
Titled Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Grand Ole Opry, the TV special premieres Tuesday, November 26th, and features highlights from this weekend's Opry tribute. Emmylou Harris, Toby Keith, and Hank Williams Jr. are among the veteran artists paying tribute to Parton, along with contemporary stars like Dierks Bentley, Margo Price, Lady Antebellum, and Chris Janson.
"I'm so thrilled to be celebrating my 50-year anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry," Parton said in a statement. "I'm also excited that NBC wanted to share in this milestone with me. Together we hope to entertain a broader audience on what the Grand Ole Opry is and what it means to me."
Parton has been the focus of a number of projects of late, from the Opry recognition to the subject of a new podcast titled Dolly Parton's America, which debuts this fall. She also cameos in the holiday film Christmas at Dollywood, premiering on the Hallmark Channel in December.
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Extra time for charity over �200k grant
Published: 5:29 AM February 24, 2009 Updated: 9:34 PM October 10, 2020
A charity which has been told to pay back nearly �200,000 in grants has been given extra time by the government to piece together missing financial records.
The Aid and Assist project, which repairs and restores furniture for low-income families in Lowestoft and Oulton Broad, has been ordered to pay back a European grant after failing an audit because important invoices had been lost in a flood.
The charity told the government earlier this month that it could not afford to pay back the grant but yesterday the project was given more time to prove that the money was not misused.
Aid and Assist, which has been working in the town since 1983, was awarded �185,000 of European Social Fund money in 2000 to set up a workshop in Rotterdam Road, Lowestoft, where adults with learning difficulties were given training in repairing and restoring furniture. The extra time should allow the charity to provide evidence of its work and to piece together records showing the qualifications which people have gained under its supervision and evidence of trainees who have gone on to get jobs as a result.
MEP Richard Howitt, pictured, who has been helping the charity fight for time to reassemble its missing records, said: "I am relieved that any action which could lead to the closure of the charity has been averted for now.
"I will do my utmost to work with Suffolk County Council and the government offices to try to find some of the missing evidence so that the debt can be written off once and for all. This stay of execution means that the charity can continue to operate, providing this invaluable service for the Lowestoft community, which is especially important in these financially difficult times."
Some archive documents have already come to light from a Suffolk County Council-supported project which worked in partnership with Aid and Assist and it is hoped that they could go some way to prove that the grant money was spent properly.


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CATA Temporary Workers Advocacy Initiative: LegacyNEXT CEO Adds to Call for Adoption of Desired Changes
++ Action Item: Please review the details of the CATA Temporary Workers Advocacy Initiative below, and then benefit from additional insights and rationale for adoption of desired changes provided by Legacy NEXT, CEO, Susan Dineen. See presentation materials, including audio commentary on-line at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxDKnRH5nv2uMDVIdmk3VFBWZHc/view?usp=sharing
Major Industry Group Calls for Return to Three-Year Work Permits for Temporary Technology Workers to Help Ease Industry Skill Shortage: Add Your Support!
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Ottawa, ON – CATAAlliance (www.cata.ca), Canada's One Voice for Innovation Lobby Group, is calling on the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship to return to their previous guideline of three-year work permits issued under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). The immigration department recently moved to issuing temporary work permits to foreign workers -- who are needed to address labour market shortages and to provide other economic opportunities for Canadians – for only one year, instead of the standard three years.
Previous guidelines for temporary foreign workers were for three-year terms which allowed companies to gain the full value of adding international technology specialists on a temporary basis. But now the immigration department favors one-year work permits which means that temporary employees have a reduced time to add value to Canadian technology companies and the companies need to spend valuable resources to start the process over again with new workers.
CATA CEO John Reid said "At a time when Canada needs to increase the pool of key technology talent, the immigration department is now making it more difficult and more expensive for technology companies to hire enough highly skilled technical workers. We're asking for the Department of Immigration to return to its three-year guideline for work permits, develop nationwide programs for better assimilation into the Canadian workforce and lifestyle, and to open up the opportunity for citizenship for these technology workers."
A report released by the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) suggests the expected growth of smart and hyper connected marketplace mean that cumulative hiring requirements in Canada for ICT Talent are expected to be over 182,000 by 2019. Experts agree that Canada will be hard pressed to meet the demand for workers with ICT skills and thus suffer productivity declines.
"In the long term the Canadian government needs to support the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) initiatives in order to develop a stronger technology labour force, and in the mid-term, Canada needs to retrain employees who have been displaced from the workforce due to reduction in oil industry demands. But in the short term, Canada needs to expedite the process to bring qualified technology workers into Canada from other countries. It's not about replacing Canadian workers, but rather to add specialists with skills that we don't currently have enough of in our labour force," Reid added.
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Committee Asks Feds to Ban Windows 95
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December 4, 1995 1:00 PM PST
The Committee to Fight Microsoft, an independent consumer advocacy organization, held a press conference in New York City today calling for a worldwide boycott of Microsoft's Windows 95 and demanding that the Justice Department ban sales of the product.
According to committee spokesperson Anthony R. Martin, this morning's Wall Street Journal report that the Justice Department has issued subpoenas as part of an investigation into antitrust charges concerning Windows 95 is a clear sign that the government has at last realized the seriousness of the charges leveled against Microsoft by its competitors and by consumers.
"There's no secret that there's been this erasure problem," said Martin. "The fact that the Justice Department has known about it since August and is only doing something about it now in December indicates they were hoping it would go away. It's not going away."
This isn't the first run-in the committee has had with the computer industry titan. In August, Martin wrote a guest column for the San Francisco Examiner urging readers not to buy Windows 95. Martin cited the expense some users would incur upgrading their machines to handle the new operating system, decried its registration wizard as an invasion of privacy, and stated that Microsoft's formation of a Windows 95 bug squad early on indicated that the product was being shipped prematurely.
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6 ways to delete yourself from the internet: Finally ready to get off the grid? It's not quite as simple as it should be, but here are a few easy-to-follow steps that should point you in the right direction.
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Armstrong Whitworth F.K.5 / F.K.6
F.K.6
In 1915, Frederick Koolhoven, the chief designer of Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, initiated work on a three-seat triplane powered by a 250hp Rolls-Royce 12-cylinder water-cooled engine. It was intended to accommodate two gunners each with a 7.7mm machine gun in shallow nacelles mounted above the centre wing on each side of the fuselage, the gunners being seated ahead of the propeller plane of the tractor engine. Although a prototype was completed and allegedly designated F.K.5, this was never flown, being extensively damaged as a result of a ground loop during its first take-off attempt. The design was extensively revised early in 1916 to meet an RFC requirement for an airship interceptor and long-range escort fighter.
The revised design is believed to have been designated F.K.6 and four examples were ordered, two of these being intended for the RNAS. In the event, only one F.K.6 was built. The gunners' nacelles were underslung on the central mainplane, armament remained two 7.7mm Lewis guns and the 250hp Rolls-Royce engine was retained. It is believed that relatively limited flight testing was undertaken. And no armament was actually fitted.
The middle wing was much longer than the others, but the other wings were equal span.
Engine: 1 x 250hp Rolls-Royce piston
Wingspan: 19.14 m / 62 ft 10 in
Length: 11.29 m / 37 ft 0 in
Height: 5.18 m / 16 ft 12 in
Max. speed: 160 km/h / 99 mph


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The World's Chaos Intercedes: Zia Anger's My First Film by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
The detritus of a filmmaking career becomes an immersive work of autofiction.
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While dramatic narrative typically follows a standard three-act form, human life does not adhere to precise lines of logic. People do not follow mathematical formulae when making decisions or pursuing goals. And while characters have desires and needs that can feel linear in their urgency, the world's chaos intercedes. Contingencies veer into a character's path. They've either got to dodge the obstacles or turn their roadblocks into ladders. The drama gives us a taste of a character's emotional chaos while showing us their ingenuity and promising restitution for their trials, restitution that arrives in a form of love, sometimes as romantic satisfaction, almost always as mercy or justice.
Zia Anger's first film, Always All Ways, Anne Marie (2012), draws influence from her life as a young woman eager to direct films, fall in love, and understand her complicated family. Raised by two sets of parents, a gay and a lesbian couple, in rural upstate New York, Anger's autobiographical script depicted her friends and family and the quasi-gothic strategies they enacted to survive the landscape that birthed them. Anger drew from her peer group to assemble her cast and crew. She funded the film herself through day jobs and a crowdfunding campaign, and she filmed the feature on borrowed locations in her hometown. After editing the film, she submitted Always All Ways to festivals and was rejected by all of them.
The second act in a narrative drama typically splits into two threads of rising action: in one thread, the "A story," the character's driving need escalates as obstacles complicate their path; in the second thread, the "B story," subplot develops, providing an opportunity to deepen an understanding of the lead character. Some screenwriters refer to the "B story" as a film's "fun and games," a recreational diversion from the lead storyline where the character's pursuits can develop in partnership with others as the protagonist builds relationships that reveal the versatility of their character.
After submitting Always All Ways to festivals and being roundly rejected, Anger continued to develop short arthouse films. She directed music videos for acclaimed indie artists including Mitski, Angel Olson, and Maggie Rogers, and toured as a performing artist with musician Jenny Hval's stage show. Over time, producers began to encourage Anger to make a first feature film and were surprised to discover that she'd already produced and directed one. Hoping to clear the slate, Anger asked IMDb to remove Always All Ways from its website where the film's listing was frozen in production; instead of removing the film, IMDb changed its status to "Abandoned."
The project had not been abandoned. It had simply lacked festival screenings and had not been purchased by a distributor for theatrical release. Anger wondered how she would proceed with a second first film when her first first film was listed as "Abandoned," like a bad grade she didn't deserve on an otherwise stellar report card. The achievement of producing and directing a feature now presented a burden when pitching herself as a director for hire; it also prevented her from starting over. Emerging filmmakers can often only take advantage of nonprofit development and educational opportunities when they are first-time filmmakers. Confronted with the dilemma she faced in her career, Anger partnered with production company MEMORY and developed My First Film, a stage show adaptation of her story.
In a theatrical performance of My First Film, Anger sits with her back to the audience, facing a screen onto which her laptop desktop is projected. She is silent, her voiceover monologue delivered not through a microphone but through a stream of continuous type that she enters into text documents while playing excerpts from Always All Ways along with failed commercial pitches, videos of her parents, emails, and screen grabs. As Anger sorts through what she presents as the detritus of her career, it becomes apparent that archives exist so that future selves can make meaning from them. Archives exist to be witnessed as evidence.
At moments, My First Film feels like watching a YouTube tutorial, only instead of watching a gamer lead their avatar through a tricky patch of an invented world, Anger's lessons accrue through fictions and anecdotes, disclosing the story of a young woman coming into her own as a filmmaker in a world that is not always receptive to women and their creative genius. Anger does not shy from discussing her abortions, gender politics in romantic and professional relationships, and the humiliations of living in a female body while seeking emotional and financial support for her dreams. She speaks openly of the budgetary constraints of independent filmmaking, and expertly of the Russian anamorphic lenses she chose with director of photography Ashley Connor, lenses that require close-range shooting, a constraint that evokes a sense of equality between the crew and cast. A clip of an early crowdfunding video betrays a vulnerability and an eagerness that penetrates the facade of Anger's deadpan humor, endearing her to her audience and earning an honest laugh from the crowd. By the end of the performance, Anne Marie, the protagonist of Anger's first film, and Anger herself become a cyborg heroine.
In the third act of a dramatic narrative, the protagonist experiences a major crisis.
The Covid-19 pandemic is the crisis inserted into all storylines; it has radically altered the ways that people on Earth relate to each other, effecting change in a way that is real and measurable and not fictive, although the messages broadcast through our screens contain varying levels and combinations of truth and fiction. As coronavirus caused closures of theaters and film houses across the country, Anger responded to the cancellations and postponements by adapting My First Film for livestream. In lieu of watching Anger's desktop projected live in a theatre, viewers access a link and load her desktop virtually on their own computers or smartphones, the theatrical screen now a glowing portal in the palm of each hand.
The livestream offers an experience of astonishing closeness, reminding us how filmmaking, on a granular level, is a medium in which distance and time are manipulated to create enduring intimacy that is both personal and replicable. As crisis looms and people everywhere gaze into their screens, it seems inevitable that My First Film would foment from dashed hopes into a social medium. Society may atomize, but people cannot abandon their need for proximity. For togetherness. At a moment like this, the busy silence in My First Film's livestream can feel merciful. Each time Anger adapts her story—from film, to live performance, to livestream—she comes closer to her audience.
Zia Anger's My First Film livestream dates and times will be released via Anger's Twitter feed in the coming weeks.
Jasmine Dreame Wagner is a writer, artist, and musician. She is the author of the collections On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press, 2017) and Rings, and six chapbooks. An EP, Switchblade Moon, will be out in June 2020.
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The artist-filmmaker on his prescient collage film, featuring the jetsam and flotsam of global supply chains and a prophecy of the coming pandemic.
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When I was showing the Sensual Seasons Series to a friend, he commented that even though there are only three colors in each piece, he could almost smell the subtle differences in the leaves of Spring, Summer and Autumn and even feel the crisp icy chill of Winter.
The "Sensual" refers to the senses, and is not necessarily a sexual reference.
Yes. Each of these prints are printed on handmade paper, made from meticulously selected junk mail. Only the good stuff was used; tearing cellophane windows from envelopes, removing staples and adhesive strips and collecting it all became a daily ritual for about six months. During this time, I designed and color separated the artwork for the series. Finally, after the art was completed, all the junk mail scraps were ground into pulp and made good use of.
The Series was developed and produced in two sizes. The larger 16x16s and a smaller 8×8-inch version.


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Chaotic magnetic field lines may answer the coronal heating problem
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It is known that the sun's corona — the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere — is roughly 100 times hotter than its photosphere — the sun's visible layer. The reason for this mysterious heating of the solar coronal plasma, however, is not yet entirely understood. A research team in India has developed a set of numerical computations to shed light on this phenomenon, and present this week in Physics of Plasmas, from AIP Publishing, analysis examining the role of chaotic magnetic fields in potential heating mechanisms.
Operating under the idea that chaotically tangled magnetic field lines exist throughout astrophysical plasmas, the team used high-performance computer simulation to gain an understanding of these chaotic field lines. Specifically, they investigated conditions that create ribbons of intense electric current, known as current sheets.
The current sheets, believed to be produced in the coronal plasma, are potential sites for magnetic reconnections, which provide a mechanism for extreme heating of the corona. Moreover, within the current sheets, the electric field peaks up and accelerates charged particles.
"We want to go one step forward to explain the spontaneous generation of these current sheets," said Sanjay Kumar, a member of the research team.
The research method focused on allowing an incompressible, thermally homogeneous magnetofluid with infinite electrical conductivity to relax via viscous dissipation, toward a characterized final state. The computations were made consistent with well-accepted magnetostatic theory and resulted in spontaneous current sheet development, making them relevant for the study of particle acceleration in astrophysical plasmas.
Using Vikram-100, the 100TF High Performance Computing facility at the Physical Research Laboratory, the researchers simulated the viscous relaxation and verified accurate flux-freezing, a conservative behavior a reliable simulation must demonstrate. The team plotted the maximal intensities of volume current densities for specific trends of increasing magnetic field chaos, which provided a measure of the production of current sheets. Additionally, the maximal magnitudes of volume current density were found to scale with the numerical resolution used in the computer simulation, which showed the expected scaling of current sheet development.
The simple fact that the maximum value of volume current density was increased with increasing magnetic field line chaos, called "chaoticity," suggests a direct proportionality between the intensity of the current sheet and chaoticity.
In the three cases studied, the researchers found the formation of two different sets of current sheets. One set was arranged along the y-axis, while the second formed in a different location and at a time later than the first. From their analysis of this occurrence, the team determined that a favorable evolution bring non-parallel magnetic field lines into close proximity and intensify current sheets.
These simulations provide new and novel insight regarding the influence of chaotic magnetic field lines on the spontaneous development of current sheets, and hence potential places of particle acceleration.
"This is the first time we have explained the role of chaotic field line in generating these spontaneous current sheets," Kumar said, referring to the scientific community as a whole.
The article, "Chaotic magnetic field lines and spontaneous development of current sheets," is authored by Sanjay Kumar, R. Bhattacharyya, B. Dasgupta and M.S. Janaki. The article appeared in the journal Physics of Plasmas August 8, 2017 (DOI: 10.1063/1.4996013) and can be accessed at http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4996013.


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Second interview by Brunel with Michelle Inniss and Cathy Tyson
A 20-year friendship between celebrated actress Cathy Tyson and creative writing student Michelle Inniss has blossomed into a new theatrical project after the pair's paths crossed once again at Brunel University London.
Michelle, who is completing her two-year, part-time Master's degree in Creative Writing the Novel at Brunel, has secured funding from Black Theatre Live for a UK tour of her play 'She Called Me Mother', about an elderly homeless Trinidadian woman who sells the Big Issue.
The role is played by Cathy and based on a real Caribbean woman who Michelle used to see and talk to at London Bridge station when she took the train to visit her own mother in South East London.
Cathy, who is well-known for her starring roles in the film Mona Lisa (1986) with Bob Hoskins, for which she won two US film critics' awards and was nominated for a BAFTA and Golden Globe, and the ITV series Band of Gold (1995-1997), graduated from Brunel in 2013 with a degree in English and Drama.
Cathy and Michelle's friendship dates back to the 1970s when they were both school students at the Catholic girls' school, St Winifred's, in Dingle, Liverpool, where they both grew up.
"We'd kept in touch for over 20 years," explained Michelle. "So I sent Cathy my play and she read it and liked it." The drama was originally written as a poetic monologue in vernacular Trinidadian, highly challenging for a performer but a voice familiar to Michelle, whose parents are from Trinidad.
"I have that voice situated very well within. I've lived in Liverpool, and then London. I've been exposed to so many different cultures," she added.
When Michelle used to see the homeless woman —in the play she is called Evangeline Josephina Gardner — "she was always talking".
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