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Fantasy Masterworks #43: Geoff Ryman, WAS
Hell was full of the souls of children. They were made to sing merry school songs, chained to desks. They were drilled by tormenting demons in gray clothes with spectacles and fangs and rulers that beat wrists until hands dropped off.
There was a race of dwarves in Hell. They wore black leather harnesses, just like in certain L.A. bars. They had interesting deformities that took the better part of a day to create in makeup, and they flayed people alive. They sang and danced as they worked, like a Disney movie played backward. At the climax, Hell was harrowed by a visiting priest, and Mortimer escaped in a blaze of fire, out into the real world, an eternal spirit, to kill again and again in a chain of sequels. Mort was the wounded spirit of the eternal hatred of children. (p. 284)
Geoff Ryman's WAS is perhaps the black sheep of the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks list. Unlike every other book that was republished under this banner, WAS contains no overt or even subvert "fantastical" elements to it. Instead, it is more a story about how fantasies can shape people's lives. But even that barely gets at the heart of this rather "mundane" tale.
WAS contains three main threads. The first is set in Manhattan, Kansas in the 1880s and revolves around Dorothy Gael, presumably the main influence for Frank Baum's original Oz stories. While there is a Toto and an Uncle Henry and Auntie Em, Dorothy does not lead a happy life. Orphaned at the age of five and condemned to a life of harsh mistreatment at the hands of her aunt and uncle, Dorothy becomes a painful figure to read. I had to stop reading at times because it was getting too close to my professional life (working with abused and troubled male teens), because Ryman did an excellent job of showing how such abused children often will flee into an imagined world in which they yearn for a release from the toils and trammels of everyday existence (not life, as for some, "life" has "died" when the traumas began). The climactic part of this thread is when Baum comes to meet Dorothy and he takes her misery and her almost-crushed hopes and he spins something from that to give back to her to cherish.
The second thread concerns Jonathan, a horror actor and The Wizard of Oz aficionado who is now dying of advanced AIDS. Jonathan himself comes from a troubled background and he finds himself wanting to know in his dying days just what can be found over the rainbow, whether or not Baum's Dorothy has a basis in real life. While his thread is not as painful to read as the Dorothy Gael one, there are certain uncomfortable moments about how Jonathan's own fantasies are both sustaining him and driving him deeper into a form of madness.
The third and unifying thread belongs to Bill, Jonathan's therapist, who also happens to have encountered someone else with a deep connection to the world of Oz. Bill's cheerful approach to life, tested many times (as seen in one important flashback), serves to bind the threads together in a way that illustrates how fantasizing can be a consoling and healing process. His thread, although by far the shortest of the three, serves to balance out the raw emotions of the other two threads and to help fashion an ending that while true to the notion that fantasies are not "real," appears to provide some form of reconciliation between Desire and Reality.
Is WAS worthy of being called a "Fantasy Masterwork?" Only in the most broad, vaguest sense. In many ways (the author's afterward is pretty explicit about this), the book was written to showcase the perceived conflicts between fantasizing and everyday reality and how the former can have deleterious (and occasionally meloriating) effects on the latter. Yet despite the author's attempt to wrest interpretation duties from the reader, I found the book to be engaging and thoughtful on several levels. The three threads did mesh well at the end, even if the first half was hard to follow the connections at times. The characterizations hit a little too close to home for me, but I do not regret having read such painful passages. But for me, this book does not sit well next to the genre fictions surrounding it on the Gollancz list. It is at least near a masterwork in terms of prose, chacterization, and thematic development, but the themes just seem to be at such odds with those contained in the other 49 books of the Fantasy Masterworks list that I am uncertain if many genre-mostly readers will warm to this novel as much as I did.
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This Week In Cinema: February 19-25, 2012
Posted on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
Peace is a great concept, but the idea of peace in my time is inconceivable!
Animated shorts are the main course this week,
You Ought To Be In Pictures (1940, Friz Freleng, United States Of America) ***
I was never as big of a fan of Porky Pig as I was of the rest of the Looney Tunes gang. He's funny, but compared to the likes of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, or Marvin the Martian he's just not as funny or endearing. You Ought To Be In Pictures is an example of some of the early attempts to mix animation with live action, and while the animation looks pretty good it never completely gels with the live action and that has an alienating effect. You Ought To Be In Pictures is a cute little adventure for Porky Pig, but it's not top flight Looney Tunes and later attempts at a mixture of live action and animation would yield far better results.
About Schmidt (2002, Alexander Payne, United States Of America) ***
Somewhere along the way Alexander Payne's third feature film lost me. I still enjoyed my time with the film, I found a lot to like in About Schmidt. But, I also lost interest and didn't care much for what happened to the main character or any of the side characters. The characters simply weren't all that compelling to me, and that's why for all the good writing and the quality direction I was never that interested in what was happening on screen. About Schmidt is a well made film, it just so happens to be a film that meanders about so much that I never had much reason to care for where it was meandering to.
Ali Baba Bunny (1957, Chuck Jones, United States Of America) ***1/2
So far out of all the Chuck Jones I've seen it's true that any Chuck Jones is good Chuck Jones. That being said, there's no denying that Ali Baba Bunny is lower tier Chuck Jones. The animation is lovely, the story is lively, and the slapstick is very funny. But, Ali Baba Bunny is missing that extra something special that is found in the very best work of Chuck Jones. In this case that extra something special is a bit of heft, in the form of the short being meta or prescient in some way. Ali Baba Bunny is a really good short bordering on great, but it's of the slighter variety and that's why it's good fun but not top tier Chuck Jones.
The Machinist (2004, Brad Anderson, Spain) ***
Brad Anderson's film is visually compelling, and it does feature very good performances from Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The handling of the story is a shade too Memento-ish, but luckily there is actually some meat to the story of The Machinist and it never falls into the trap of being pure gimmick like Memento did. Mr. Bale's physical transformation is impressive, although truth to be told I found his acting more impressive than any body theatrics he performed for the role. The Machinist is a solid bit of filmmaking from Brad Anderson, a suspenseful thriller that reaches a cathartic payoff that is well earned.
Bimbo's Initiation (1931, Dave Fleischer, United States Of America) ***1/2
Dave Fleischer's Betty Boop shorts have, thus far, been about using the format of animation to explore the surreal. Bimbo's Initiation is a continuation of that exploration, as there is no discernible rhyme or reason behind what happens to Bimbo during this short. The only actual story, that of a Mickey Mouse looking fellow shoving Bimbo down a manhole where he's met by a cult that wants him to join and won't take no for an answer, is one that is only going to work for people who understand the monopolistic tendencies of Disney. Either way, I don't think the film is about Disney at all, it's out Mr. Fleischer putting Bimbo in a scenario where the form and structure of animation can be toyed with to present a surrealist wet dream.
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969, Marv Newland, Canada) ***
An absurdest piece that is quite funny. This short clocks in at around a minute and a half, and yet in that short time frame Marv Newland manages to crack off a few jokes that are all funny. The biggest joke is that the film ends as soon as the opening credits are over, and it ends with an authoritative stomp and a mighty chuckle. Bambi Meets Godzilla is funny, and since that's all I think it was aiming to be, kudos to Mr. Newland for his short.
Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944, Friz Freleng, United States Of America) ***
My second encounter with Friz Freleng, and the second short that shows a lot of promise but doesn't ultimately come together. Mr. Freleng's film is gorgeously animated, but that is pretty much a given with a golden era Looney Tunes production. The story is charming and I like the spin put on the character of Red Riding Hood and how that played into a very unconventional ending. The short as a whole feels like it's lacking in definition, the slapstick is funny but at the same time it's aimless slapstick as opposed to the purposeful slapstick of a Tex Avery or Chuck Jones Looney Tunes short.
Peace On Earth (1939, Hugh Harman, United States Of America) ***1/2
An animated short made at the genesis of World War II that predicted the downward spiral of man. When Hugh Harman's short most hits home is when we see the animals rebuilding after the death of mankind. They use the same tools that man used, yet they seem to avoid the warring nature that has always plagued mankind. The evil isn't in the tools, the evil is in the people. The animation is eerie, fluctuating between the light colors of the post-apocalyptic world and the drab colors of a world at war. Peace On Earth is a timely film, perhaps now more than ever.
Rooty Toot Toot (1951, John Hubley, United States Of America) ***1/2
John Hubley's short owes as much to the works of Jacques Demy as it does to the American Jazz movement in the 1900s. The characters sing every line, yes, that could be the basis of a tenuous connection to Monsieur Demy However, the real connection comes in the emotion of the lyrical words. The lawyer is a rat and that comes through in how he chooses to sing. The accused female is a jilted lover, that much comes through every time she speaks. The story is a bit slight, but the structure of the animated format is experimented with in a most delicious manner.
The Barber Of Seville (1944, Shamus Culhane, United States Of America) **
The animation in The Barber Of Seville is quite often very clever, but it cannot overcome two massive problems with the short. First is the character of Woody Woodpecker. I have no great affinity for that character. I've always thought of Woody Woodpecker as an annoying throwaway character, and that's exactly what he is in The Barber Of Seville. Second, and the most glaring problem with the film, is that it is unrelentingly racist. There are two human characters in the short, both of which are mocked and made fun of for their ethnicity, and I didn't find that funny in the slightest.
Book Revue (1946, Robert Clampett, United States Of America) ***
The more of Robert Clampett's work that I discover the more I am convinced that he may have been the most experimental animated director that film has ever seen. Others would go further with the format of animation, but Mr. Clampett consistently used mainstream vehicles to push the envelope of experimental animation. Book Revue is another entry in Mr. Clampett's surreal catalog, a short more interested in the craziness of what can be done with animation than anything else. I enjoy Mr. Clampett's works, and I appreciate his experimentation. But like most of his work Book Revue is an interesting oddity that that is an experiment unfinished.
Quasi At The Quackadero (1976, Sally Cruikshank, United States Of America) ***1/2
Continuing where Book Revue left off comes a film like Quasi At The Quackadero. This 1976 short from Sally Cruikshank is a surrealist's wonderland. Dreams are the catch of the day, and Miss Cruikshank uses a simple, and slightly crude, animation style to explore the immense unknown that dreams represent. I do believe that Miss Cruikshank is also saying something about the idea of people chasing their metaphorical dreams, and how we may be chasing something that we don't want to catch or can't be caught at all. It's not for everyone, but I got a kick out of Quasi At The Quackadero.
Wrap-Up:
Another week with a lot of shorts, almost all of which ended up being worthwhile. There were a lot of great contenders this week, but Hugh Harman's haunting Peace On Earth takes home movie of the week honors. Until next week, watch more movies!
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New Delhi - India for the fourth time deferred the deadline to impose retaliatory customs duties on 29 US products, including almond, walnut and pulses, by another 45 days, the government has said.
The duty hike move by India was in retaliation to US President Donald Trump's March 9 decision to impose heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminium items.
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Joanna Dufrat – historyk, dr hab. adiunkt w Zakładzie Historii Polski i Powszechnej XIX i XX wieku w Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego.

Życiorys
Zajmuje się historią społeczno-polityczną I wojny światowej i dwudziestolecia międzywojennego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem politycznej aktywności kobiet i przemian obyczajowych.

Opracowany wspólnie z Piotrem Cichorackim Dziennik wydarzeń 1939-1944 Jędrzeja Moraczewskiego uzyskał w 2017 r. tytuł Książka Historyczna Roku w kategorii "Najlepsze wspomnienia dotyczące historii Polski i Polaków w XX wieku" oraz Nagrodę Historyczną Polityki w kategorii pamiętniki i wspomnienia.

Wybrane publikacje
 Kobiety w kręgu lewicy niepodległościowej. Od Ligi Kobiet Pogotowia Wojennego do Ochotniczej Legii Kobiet (1908-1918/1919), Toruń 2001.
W trosce o zdrowie moralne społeczeństwa – organizacje kobiece wobec prostytucji w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym, [w:] Kobieta i rewolucja obyczajowa. Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualności. Wiek XIX i XX, red. A. Żarnowska, A. Szwarc, Warszawa 2006,
Migracje Polek do Francji w okresie międzywojennym,[w:] Kobiety i procesy migracyjne, red. A. Chlebowska, K. Sierakowska Warszawa 2010.
W służbie obozu marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego. Związek Pracy Obywatelskiej Kobiet (1928-1939), Kraków-Wrocław 2013, ,
P. Cichoracki, J. Dufrat, J. Mierzwa, Oblicza buntu społecznego w II Rzeczypospolitej doby wielkiego kryzysu (1930-1935). Uwarunkowania, skala, konsekwencje, Kraków 2019, ,
 Rzeczpospolita niedoskonała. Dokumenty do historii buntu społecznego w latach 1930–1935, opracowane wspólnie z Piotrem Cichorackim, Januszem Mierzwą i Piotrem Rucińskim, Łomianki-Kraków 2019, , ,
 Zofia Moraczewska, Listy do siostry 1896-1933. Dziennik 1891-1895 (1950), opracowane wspólnie z Piotrem Cichorackim, Łomianki 2018, ,
 Zofia i Jędrzej Moraczewscy, Korespondencja czasu przełomu 1916-1918, opracowane wspólnie z Piotrem Cichorackim, Łomianki 2017, ,
 Jędrzej Moraczewski, Dziennik wydarzeń 1939-1944, opracowane wspólnie z Piotrem Cichorackim, Łomianki 2016, ,
 Leon Wasilewski, Wspomnienia 1870-1904 (1914). Fragmenty dziennika 1916-1926. Diariusz podróży po kresach 1927, opracowane wspólnie z Piotrem Cichorackim, Łomianki 2014,

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Dime Novels and Series Books
Popular Fiction and the Expansion of Reading
"Books for the Million!"
Series Books, Stratemeyer, and the Fifty-center
We Owe It All to You, Nancy Drew
Scorned Literature and Pernicious Reading
Authored by: Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Fittingly, Catherine Ross's chapter on the history of dime novels and series books follows Deborah Stevenson's chapter on the history of children's and young adult literature, as the relationship between series books and children's literature is symbiotic. Despite the concerns of educators, librarians, and parents voice over children's active and abiding interest in what adults consider junk food for the mind, series books commonly provide the newly literate with compelling stories and fast-paced reading experience that enable them to become fluent readers. Although often dismissed as the products of "fiction factories," series books are in fact created by writers who fashion stories in the manner of professional journalists. As a young reader, Point of Departure author Candice Ransom was inspired by Trixie Belden mysteries to write the adventure stories she loved to read. She is still writing them; her 100+ titles include more than a dozen in the perennially popular Boxcar Children series.


DIY Income Investor: It Costs How Much?
The basis of the DIY Income Investor approach is to keep firm control of your expenditure. This might not seem like much fun - until you can retire early, that is!
Of course, you should be looking for the best value for all of your purchases - 'comparison shopping' and looking for discounts. Sometimes you just need to control the 'urge to splurge' and hold off the purchase decision. Once you overcome that urge to buy, you may well be innoculated against the spending disease.
So here is a useful mind-trick to help you make a decision about that next purchase.
The trick involves a bit of mental arithmetic: you need to work out how much you would have to save to earn the purchase cost in annual interest (or dividends).
Let's keep it simple and use a 5% interest/yield rate; this means you have to multiply the purchase price by 20. A mental shortcut is to double the price and add a zero.
So something that costs £5 (or $5) would require: 5 x 2 x 10 = £100 (or $100) in the bank to generate the same amount of interest over a year. How much effort would it be to save £100 ($100)? Not negligible, is it?
Try a bigger purchase, say a new TV for £400/$400. That purchase price would be equivalent to the interest on 400 x 2 x 10 = £8,000/$8000. How much effort would it be to save that amount of money?
Once you have grasped this simple conversion logic of purchase price versus interest equivalent, a sobering truth hits you: NOT buying something is equivalent to saving the 'dividend-equivalent' lump sum.
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Do let me know if this helps your budgeting!
I like the dual emphasis on investments and expenditure control - these approaches are rarely combine because they require thinking about different things. Your trick is a worthy attempt to combine them ... though it works best for recurrent spending and is best seen as a means to *avoid the need to save* the equivalent amount.
This is a nice little trick and something I sort of already do occasionally. The only problem is that it is addictive!
The compounding affect of dividend income makes it impossible for me to use/spend any of the income. When I think about using some of the income, I find i calculate the opportunity cost of losing the compounding effect which puts me off spending it!
I say i'm a wise investor, my wife just says i'm tight!
I've actually been using this system myself for about a year now. And a a direct result my spending has decreased significantly and my available funds for investing have increased too. So it's a win win situation.
My system is slightly different though, as I also factor in how much money I would have to earn (gross).
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Wow! How can you bear to spend anything! Well done.


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RPG Die Roller
Written by David "Nighthawk" Flor
(c) 2010-2020, Darklight Interactive - All Rights Reserved
What makes this die rolling system so special?
The traditional generation of random numbers isn't exactly "random"... Most code-based random number generators use complex mathematical functions in order to generate what is sometimes referred to as pseudo-random numbers. They may appear to be random, but over time consistant patterns do appear.
In the world of d20, one could argue that the same patterns appear on physical dice. Some players have their own "lucky" dice that favor high rolls, or dice that are "cursed" because of low rolls.
This system has been designed to level the playing field and provide rolls that are as close to random as physically possible.
For each signed on user, the system retrieves die rolls in batches of 1000 from RANDOM.ORG, automatically and as needed. It maintains a separate die pool for each type of die commonly used in RPGs (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 and even d100), and once the pool runs out will automatically access the RANDOM.ORG site and retrieve another batch of 1000. Only in case of a failure in retrieval (for example, if RANDOM.ORG is down or inaccessible when a die pool runs out) will it resort to the traditional method of generating random numbers (if you must know, that means using the "System.Random" class in the .NET 3.5 Framework), and even then it will attempt to replenish the die pool the first chance it gets.
Each user's pool is separate and only for them, ensuring the degree of randomness in one's own rolls. If one person rolls more than the other, it won't adversely affect someone else's pool. Put in layman terms, you use your own dice and nobody else's.
We know that, at least from a mathematical and logical point of view, the above doesn't make sense. But some people believe that the evil dice that they or their DM may be using might want their characters dead. If anything, our system provides plausible deniability.
This system is currently in "Beta", in the hopes that people will experiment with it and use it more and more. If you do find any issues with it, please contact me and we'll see what we can do.
We are currently developing other tools for use by the RPG community. Stay tuned for further information on that.


I recently returned from working in Burma with peace activists and for Partners Asia, supporting schools, shelters for orphans and battered women, HIV programs, rural clinics, and other amazing projects across the land. I found amid the positive changes and slow movement toward democracy a growing religious and ethnic intolerance and conflict.
News reports show monks crisscrossing Burma using Buddhist teachings to encourage violence and the passage of inhumane laws. Here in the West, people are shocked. Isn't Buddhism the religion that preaches against violence and killing? Are these stories true? How can we understand them?
In past months, I organized a group of concerned Buddhist elders, including the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, to publish a full-page letter in Burmese newspapers encouraging the Burmese to stand up for their noble tradition of respect and nonviolence.
This is an excerpt of a piece published originally in Lion's Roar. You can read the full piece here.


PMS International Group has appointed Ruth Leonard as the firm's new head of brand and licensing.
Leonard will be responsible for the marketing of existing licences and the development of a new licensing and marketing strategy for the business, working with Steve Beverley, head of licensing product, and John Costi-Mouyia, export business development manager.
Leonard joins from Carte Blanche Greetings, where she was director of marketing and business development, overseeing marketing activity of the company's flagship Me to You brand. Prior to this, Leonard was entertainment marketing director at Topps Europe, working across a portfolio of entertainment, character and media brands.
"I am so excited to get my teeth into such a wonderful role, the opportunity at PMS International is staggering, offering a world of opportunity with such vast capabilities across design, development and distribution," said Leonard.
"I'm looking forward to developing a stronger licensed portfolio, harnessing our expertise and re-energising our licensing division."
Steve Beverley added: "This is a strategic role for our business, as we want to further invest in marketing and shaping the global growth of our licensing and GOSH! Designs division.
"For the last 40 years we have built an industry reputation for quality and service and it is time to consolidate and deploy our wealth of expertise within our licensing division with a new dedicated team."


Traditional hub-and-spoke networking architectures, and the castle-and-moat they utilize, aren't amenable for today's burgeoning cloud-and-mobile world.
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UCLA students received three of the top national transportation research awards by the Council of University Transportation Centers.
The CUTC was established in 1979 to represent transportation research centers and organizations across the country and connect their research to government and industry. Each year, students from across the country are recognized for best doctoral dissertations, master's theses, master's projects and overall accomplishment.
During a Jan. 7 ceremony in Washington, D.C., Julene Paul, doctoral candidate in urban planning, was recognized as the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) UTC Outstanding Student of the Year; Miriam Pinski Ph.D. '22 received the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award for best dissertation; and Nataly Rios Gutierrez MURP '22 was awarded the Neville A. Parker Award for best master's project.
Julene Paul — Outstanding Student of the Year
Julene Paul
The Outstanding Student of the Year award is based on students' overall research and academic accomplishments as well as professional and leadership qualities. Paul's research focuses primarily on multimodal transportation access and informal carsharing. She has written and published research articles on transit ridership patterns in California, spatial mismatch, and work-from-home behaviors for urban and rural residents, among other topics.
"Over the past few years, I've enjoyed working and collaborating with researchers from throughout our UTC," she said. "The PSR UTC has provided opportunities to present research — in my case, on different aspects of transportation equity and informal vehicle-sharing — to a larger academic and policy community.
"As researchers, we're lucky to have partners from other universities studying similar issues while using different methods and approaches. Working across the UTC provides the opportunity to share knowledge and enhance our policy impacts," she said.
Miriam Pinski — Best Dissertation
Miriam Pinski
Pinski received the Wootan Award for best doctoral dissertation in the field of transportation policy and planning for her work delving into the history of the driver's license in California and how license suspensions have become a tool for enforcing certain rules and generating revenue. Her research showed that while the average driver is able to avoid these punitive measures and suspensions, there is a hidden license regime that overwhelmingly affects low-income drivers of color. Their licenses can be suspended due to a variety of non-driving-related violations (e.g., truancy, vandalism, child support delinquency).
A suspended license often exacerbates existing issues and financial burdens. In her dissertation, Pinski also noted that California and other states have historically relied on individual license suspensions as a response to traffic violations instead of prioritizing widespread traffic-calming and safety measures.
"I truly enjoyed working on my dissertation, both because the history of driver's license policy is so relevant to our current approach to road safety, public finance, and so much else, and because it gave me the opportunity to collaborate with experts in various fields," Pinski said. "I appreciate my committee's support, as well as UCLA ITS and the CUTC for this recognition."
This is the fourth time a UCLA student has won the Wootan dissertation award since 2001.
Nataly Rios Gutierrez — Best Master's Project
Nataly Rios Gutierrez
The Parker Award is handed out annually to two students with the best non-thesis master's project in either transportation policy and planning, or science and technology. Rios Gutierrez took this year's planning prize. Her capstone project focused on the transportation patterns of un/underinsured patients of the Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles, which serves a predominantly Latino population.
She used spatial analysis to examine patients' residential locations and their transportation needs and barriers, uncovering that patients with unreliable transportation access (e.g., those who rely on public transportation or being driven by someone else) are more likely to delay or miss important services, often exacerbating health and financial issues. She also conducted patient surveys and evaluated the clinic's ride-hailing program. Rios Gutierrez discussed several recommendations to mitigate these challenges, including increased appointment flexibility and coordinated efforts between the clinic and local transportation providers.
"Clinics and transit operators both have a responsibility to help patients get to and from their health care appointments reliably and inexpensively," Rios Gutierrez said. "Moving forward, I hope that these providers and agencies can work together to better understand the needs of their low-income patients, advocate for increased funding for transit operations, and create programs to overcome these barriers."
This is the twelfth time a UCLA student has won the Parker Award since 2002.
This article originally appeared on the UCLA ITS website.
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News / India questions composition of UN panel to draft SDG report
India questions composition of UN panel to draft SDG report
India has raised questions on the composition of UN panel to draft sustainable development goals as no major emerging economy like Russia, China or India is represented in the panel.
India has questioned whether an independent group of experts appointed to draft the global sustainable development report is "equitable", citing inadequate representation from developing nations on the key UN panel.
Before leaving office, former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed 15 eminent scientists and experts to draft the Global Sustainable Development Report.
The experts are from countries such as Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Jordan, South Korea, Switzerland and US but no representation from key emerging countries such as India, China or Russia.
"Equitable? 10 of the 15 members of UN panel on Sustainable Development are from 35-member OECD," India's Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin tweeted, referring to the high-income economy organisation.
Endah Murniningtyas (Indonesia) and Peter Messerli (Switzerland) will serve as co-chairs of the group, which will draft the report that is a key component of the mechanism to follow up and review progress on the recently agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It aims to strengthen the science-policy interface and provide a strong evidence-based instrument to support policymakers in promoting poverty eradication and sustainable development.
The next Global Sustainable Development Report will be published in 2019 and will be the first of a quadrennial series that will inform the high-level global reviews of the 2030 Agenda at the UN in those years.
When asked at the daily press briefing about whether the composition of the panel is equitable, Secretary General's Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said the decision was taken by the Secretary-General in line with the mandates that were given in terms of reporting on this particular topic.
"So, he was following up essentially on the request of member states. Regarding the specific membership, the effort was made to reach out to people across a variety of regions. I wouldn't have anything further to say about how the different members were chosen," he said.
The UN said in a press statement announcing the panel that member states requested the formation of this independent group to draft the report in 2016, and the 15 individuals were appointed after an "extensive consultation process" with member states and relevant UN organisations.
"The group is diverse, seeking to balance a wide range of relevant scientific disciplines, expertise and regional perspectives," the release said.
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on my local webserver everything works fine.
But on the live server it does not work.
The website is 1:1 the same.
My Problem is: if a user is logged in and wants to edit his profile, he will get a dropdownlist of all the timezones, so he can select his preferred timezone. The default select item should be blank but instead there is as follow:
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The problem with that is, that it will store JOPTION_USE_DEFAULT into my database on the live server (on my local server it works perfectly). When you will go back to yoour profile, Joomla wants to convert JOPTION_USE_DEFAULT back to a timezone, which of course does not exist... so I will get an error page.
I saw that there is no default timezone set on the live server in the php.ini, but I do not have access to the php.ini file, so I tried with a .htaccess solution, which di not make any difference: php_value date.timezone "Europe/Zurich".

A: I think there is something wrong with your profile.xml / frontend.xml file. (I did not understand where you are editing).
Option value should be "" and not JOPTION_USE_DEFAULT.
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Tom Turpin was a composer of Ragtime who lived 1873-1922. He is credited with publishing the first rag by an African-American, the "Harlem Rag" of 1897. He also published the Bowery Buck, Ragtime Nightmare, St. Louis Rag, Pan Am Rag and The Buffalo Rag.
He was the owner of the Rosebud saloon in St. Louis, Missouri. He was also friends with Scott Joplin and other early rag composers.
Turpin's rags are all very catchy. Although he didn't write a lot, he left a mark on the Ragtime world. Almost all of his rags are in C so if you're a budding ragtimer, these are a good introduction to this style.
I've played all of Turpin's rags over the years and I just recorded my favourite, the Ragtime Nightmare. Gary Barratt(Dr. Drums) accompanied me as did double Bass player Bob Arlidge. It's a short and fast rag that's musically accessible to just about anyone. He calls it the "Nightmare" because there are a few "crazy chords" near the start of the piece. By today's standards they're not very crazy. If you only want to learn one Turpin rag, I recommend this one.
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Microfinance Fosters the Development of a Local Leader
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Genet Mosa is a 37-year-old woman living in Limich Meqicho kebele (ward) in Ethiopia and a partner at Mesqan Epicenter. She lives with her husband and five children, two girls and three boys. One of her daughters has completed tenth grade while the other attends third grade. Two of her sons are in ninth and second grade respectively and the third is just two years old.
Genet is a dynamic woman who continually strives to improve her family life by embracing every new opportunity. So, when The Hunger Project (THP)-Ethiopia invited her community to a Vision, Commitment and Action Workshop (VCAW) in order to introduce THP's objectives, methodologies, principles and programs of development intervention, Genet attended as a representative from her kebele. She was so enthusiastic about THP-Ethiopia's objectives that she was eventually elected as Vice Chairperson of Mesqan Epicenter Committee by the community members.
When THP-Ethiopia organized a VCAW focused on microfinance at her kebele, Genet was the one who mobilized the women to attend the workshop. She actively participated in the workshop and was later elected as chairperson of the African Women Food Farmers Initiative (now titled the Microfinance Program). After organizing her fellow women to successfully meet the requirements of loan partners, she attended pre-loan trainings for both saving and credit management and income-generating activities. In September 2010, the MFP at Mesqan Epicenter was recognized by the local government as an official Rural Bank and named Addis Alem Saving and Credit Cooperative (SACCO). Genet is now a chairperson of the SACCO.
Genet participated in the Microfinance Program not only as a leader, but also as a loan partner. Her first loan was for birr 300 (about US$18), which she used to purchase a calf and improve her existing petty trade income-generating activities. She saved any profits weekly as a form of iqub (a traditional way of saving). When the loan repayment date approached, she had over birr 400 (about US$24) saved in her iqub and made the repayment on time.
After successfully repaying her first loan, Genet felt empowered to expand her income-generating activities and proceeded to take out a series of loans, all of which she repaid in full and on time, building her credit and strength as a business woman.
Genet's second loan of birr 600 (about US$36) was used to engage in the trade of pepper in the markets. She and her fellow MFP partners were successful enough at this point to engage in their own weekly savings group in addition to the loan partners' monthly group savings through the MFP. Genet was saving birr 48 (about US $3) each week and, by the time the loan repayment was due, had made a personal profit of over birr 1,200 (about US $71).
A third round loan of birr 800 (about US $48), expanded Genet's pepper trade and allowed her to engage in handicraft trade. Genet's income was now able to cover household expenses including her children's school materials and clothing. She was also able to save birr 500 for a holiday and retained a profit of birr 600 (about US$36) after loan repayment.
A fourth round loan of birr 1,000 (about US$60) allowed her to continue to diversify her income-generating activities. In addition to her pepper and handicraft trading, Genet rented land and began to cultivate wheat. She purchased 50 kg of fertilizer and will be able to obtain three to four quintals of wheat from her crops, estimated to sell for birr 2,000 (about US$120) in current crop market price.
Recently, following the successful repayment of her fourth round loan, Genet took a fifth round loan of birr 1,200 (about US$71) and continues to engage in pepper and handicraft trade. The calf purchased with her first round loan is now a full-grown ox used to plough the wheat crops, which are plentiful enough for both her family's consumption and for sale.
Genet's savings both within her microfinance group and her traditional iqub have allowed her to build a pit latrine in her compound for sanitation, make plans to build an iron-roofed house and begin establishing her own grain-mill, shop and restaurant.
In addition to her extensive savings and credit activities, Genet has attended various trainings conducted by the THP's Microfinance Program with various government sectors and non-governmental organizations. She has participated in trainings on leadership, nutrition, environmental sanitation, HIV/AIDS and gender, legal rights of women, family planning and traditional birth attendants.
Eager to empower the women in her community, Genet has engaged in voluntary activities in her kebele teaching women in literacy classes. She has also reached out to other communities and participated in experience sharing events at Debre Libanos and Jaldu Epicenters, spreading her enthusiasm to other communities in THP-Ethiopia.
Genet is very happy and proud of how well she has managed her income-generating activities and improved the lives of her family and community.
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Woodburn Presbyterian Church
Celebrating Over 150 Years of Praise & Worship
In 1863 Mr Hans McCoubry Douglas (lic. Athlone) an agent of the Belfast Town mission, visited Carrickfergus and felt that there was a need for a church between Carrickfergus and Ballynure. Woodburn Presbyterian Church was built on the Bryangtang Road in the area known as Aldoo, four miles north of Carrickfergus and Mr Douglas was ordained as minister there on the 2nd January 1866.
Rev Douglas ministered there for forty three years and was responsible for building primary schools at Knockagh and Commons. He retired in 1904 and died on 4th November 1915 aged 94 years. In his later years he had an assistant the Rev Henry James Eakins who was installed as minister of Woodburn on the 16th April 1908 and resigned when called to Newmills, Co Tyrone on 28th June 1927. The Rev Samuel Hopkins, who was doing temporary duty in Katesbridge was called and installed on 24th February 1928.
In its early years the congregation had two hundred families but when the surrounding land was bought by the Belfast Water commissioners in 1903 that number was reduced by about 100. The congregation has remained about the same since then. When Rev Hopkins died suddenly on 6th June 1947, Rev John Mcfall (lic. Coleraine) was called. He was installed on 11th May 1948. On the 1st July 1957 he was also installed in Loughmourne when the two churches became a joint charge.
Our present minister is the Rev Robert James Mccullough. His home congregation is in Kells, County Antrim, home of the 1859 revival. Before becoming the minister of Woodburn and Loughmourne in May 1990 he was Assistant Minister in Carnmoney Presbyterian Church. Prior to that he served as the Summer Assistant in the Dunlop Memorial Church and in Crumlin Road Prison. He is a graduate of the Belfast College, Queen's University, University of Ulster at Jordanstown and Union Theological College.
The next chapter of the history of Woodburn Presbyterian Church, Co Antrim started on 16th November 2002. This date was the opening of the church hall. The attending Ministers were Rev R J McCullough, Rev G Preston (Moderator of Synod) Rev R Graham (Moderator of Presbytery), Right Rev Dr Russell Birney (Moderator of the General Assembly) and Rev J McFall (Senior Minister)
Woodburn Presbyterian Church was built in 1865
The names of the previous Ministers and the time they served in Woodburn are as follows;
Rev. Hans McCoubry Douglas was installed on 2nd January 1866 and served until his retirement in 1904
Rev. Henry James Eakins was installed on 16th April 1908 until 28th June 1927
Rev. Samuel Hopkins was installed on 24th February 1928 until his sudden death on 6th June 1947
Rev. John Alexander McFall was installed on 11 May 1948 and he served until his retirement on 1st January 1989
Rev. Robert James McCullough was installed on 25th May 1990
On the 1st July 1947 the Rev. John McFall took joint charge of Woodburn and Loughmourne Presbyterian Church. The union between the two churches has been very successful with the congregations continuing to support each other.
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The following extract is taken from a local paper;
The foundation stone of a new Presbyterian church was laid by the Woodburn Road at Slievetrue in July 1865.
A new meeting house was commissioned following the presentation of a petition to the Synod in Belfast calling for a place of worship to be provided in the area.
Campaigners argued that the catchment area for the new church would contain around 200 families, most of them Presbyterian.
With the site then three and a half miles outside Carrickfergus, it was argued that many had difficulty getting to church, particularly during the winter months.
The problem was said to have worsened on the death of scripture reader David weatherup, who had led prayers in local houses when bad weather or illness preventing residents attending services.
When the Synod gave the green light for the new church, land was donated free of charge by Lord Downshire on a hill with a long history of ecclesiastic importance."
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418 Search and Rescue Operational Training Squadron is a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force, formed during World War II.

History

418 Squadron RCAF was Canada's highest-scoring squadron in World War II, in terms of both air-to-air and air-to-ground kills, and in terms of both day and night operations. The squadron's most active period was 1944, when assigned to Intruder and Ranger sorties across occupied Europe.

The squadron was re-formed in 1946 flying the B-25 Mitchell in the tactical bomber role from the Edmonton Municipal Airport. It moved to RCAF Station Namao in 1955. In 1958, 418 was redesignated as a light transport and search and rescue unit. Aircraft assigned included the de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter and Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor from RCAF Station Namao. Its duties ranged from aid to the civil power to aerial resupply.

Upon unification of the forces the squadron converted to the De Havilland Twin Otter. The squadron was disbanded in 1994, and its aircraft were shifted to 440 Transport Squadron in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The unit is featured in exhibits at the Alberta Aviation Museum on Kingsway Avenue in Edmonton.

418 Squadron was re-formed on March 13, 2019, with Lieutenant-Colonel Jeffers as commanding officer. The unit is based at 19 Wing Comox, as 418 Search and Rescue Operational Training Squadron, training aircrew and maintenance personnel on the CC-295 Kingfisher, using simulators and aircraft.

Aircraft operated
Douglas Boston III
de Havilland Mosquito Mk. II
de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VII
North American Harvard Mk II
North American B-25 Mitchell
Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor
Lockheed T-33 Silver Star
de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
CC-295 Kingfisher

References

External links

Squadron history at Canadian Wings

Canadian Article XV squadrons of World War II
Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons
Military units and formations established in the 1940s
Military units and formations established in 2019


Things don't change. 50 years ago I chief of NASA Houston's Space Physics Division, responsible for protection of the astronauts from space radiation. First, fission electrons from the Air Force's Project Starfish nuclear explosion at 200 miles altitude produced an artificial Van Allen belt at the altitude of Scott Carpenter's upcoming MA-9 flight. There was a clamor, mostly by people opposed to the manned space program, to cancel the flight. I showed the interaction of the electrons with the atmosphere would reduce their energy to effectively remove the artificial belt. The President's Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAT) agreed and Carpenter flew with no problems. This was before Nixon abolished PSAT. Then solar flare particle events would kill the Apollo astronauts. We installed a 24/7 system of solar optical and radio telescopes to provide warnings of such events. In the event, the Apollo missions were flown in a quiet solar cycle, projections notwithstanding. The major use of the solar watch was to fight off scientists with political influence trying to stop the Apollo missions.
I am a meteorologist with 17 years of forecasting under my belt and I would dare offer an opinion based on all the modeling I have made or used. Any "day to climate" scenario , while very interesting to explore, will offer monumental challenges at the transition of scale, both temporal and geographical.
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In this matter it's the road that matters much more than the final result as an application. In the end.. science is just another language.
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Diversity & Inclusion, Social Equity, Black Austin Democrats View All Reponses >>
A respected University of Texas study has found that Austin is the only high-growth city that is losing African Americans, both in terms of numbers and percentage of the total population. Do you consider this a problem? If so, what would you do to reverse or stabilize the decline?
Kathie Tovo
City Council, District 9
Yes. This is a serious problem and a moral imperative. I believe it reflects the city's failure to both listen to our African American residents and to work together to address the issues they raise.
One of the most critical steps we can take to move forward is actively and purposefully fostering an environment that invites more voices of color into decision-making roles at the city – and that works to keep them here. Ultimately, our policies and programs can only be truly successful in addressing our residents' needs if they are designed and implemented with an eye toward the lived experiences of the many diverse residents who these programs will serve.
As a Council Member, I have sought to foster an inviting and protective environment and improve how our programs serve our diverse communities in a number of ways, including by sponsoring or co-sponsoring initiatives to:
Direct the City Manager to work with the Equity Office to research best practices for hiring executive-level positions in a way that reflects Austin's diversity.
Create an Equity Assessment Tool for city staff to use to evaluate how city policies and programs impact socio-economic and race-based inequities.
Update the city's non-discrimination policies.
Establish a third-party appeals process for discrimination, retaliation, and harassment cases.
Update the city's benchmark data on disparities in our community, including a revised assessment of our African American Quality of Life scorecard.
I also believe it is important that we recognize that the inequities of past Council decisions continue to impact our communities today. For instance, past Council policy to locate industrial uses and underinvest in African American communities, followed later by "urban renewal" projects and other policies that encouraged redevelopment by expanding land use entitlements, have contributed to the ongoing gentrification and displacement crises we are now facing in many historically African American neighborhoods.
I have fought to recognize and address these issues by:
Co-sponsoring the effort to successfully repeal a policy that incentivized redevelopment in parts of East Austin.
Leading resolution to explore enactment of a "right to return" policy for long-term residents displaced or at risk of displacement.
Leading resolution to create a "strike fund" to purchase naturally occurring affordable housing to ensure it remains affordable for residents.
Serving as Council representative on Austin's Anti-Displacement Team as part of the PolicyLink grant.
Leading on a number of affordable housing initiatives, such as expanding the amount of money transferred to the Housing Trust Fund and identifying underutilized city property that can be developed for affordable housing, among others.
The continued loss of our African American communities is a major problem facing Austin – and I will continue working with community leaders to address it by fostering a more inclusive environment at the city and recognizing the inequities in many of the city's decisions.
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In feminine vibe we learn dance choreographies that focuses on highlighting female body expressions. The style is expressed by sassy, "girly" or just cocky moves applied in your personal way. Lessons are based primarily on the style "commercial". Feminine Vibe can also involve elements of hip-hop, jazz and dancehall. Each teacher puts his/hers own flare on the movements and the music used. Feminine vibe is often seen in music videos and typical artists are, for example Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.


The 2018 Breeders Cup Classic will take place this year on November 3, 2018, at beautiful Churchill Downs located in Louisville, Kentucky. The Breeders Cup Classic is a huge betting race and the average payout for the superfecta bet in the Breeders Cup Classic has averaged a whopping $38,222 for each winning $1 ticket since the bet was introduced in 1997.
Listed below are the ten highest payouts for the superfecta bet at the Breeders Cup Classic since 1997. The years are listed by the highest payouts to the lowest.
All payouts since the superfecta bet was introduced in 1997 for the Breeders Cup Classic are included in the average payout of $38,222. The average payout of the ten highest years listed below is $79,343.
Will the superfecta bet on the Breeders Cup Classic in 2018 match those lofty payouts? If history is any guide the answer is yes and do not be surprised if the payout for the superfecta bet at the 2018 Breeders Cup Classic sets a new record high.


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Drug trafficking in the Sahel
21 Apr Drug trafficking in the Sahel
By Stijn Gabriël
In November 2009, a burned-out Boeing 727 was found in the desert of Northern Mali. It had departed from Venezuela and carried vast amounts of cocaine, before it was set on fire by the traffickers to eradicate the evidence. This marked a profound shift in cocaine trafficking routes, as nowadays, vast amounts of cocaine arriving in Europe come through West Africa. It often arrives in the ports of coastal states, as Guinea Bissau, where it is allowed into the country by corrupt officials before it is trafficked further up north.
Trafficking cocaine and cannabis
The Sahel is often considered a 'grey zone', because of the lack of government control in many of the remote areas and the region's porous borders. The transnational tribal links and the (sometimes centuries-old) trafficking routes facilitate parts of the trafficking that the region sees today. Along these routes, cocaine transfers from coasts up to cities in Northern Mali such as Gao or Timbuktu, or through the Nigerian trade hub Agadez, before it is taken to North Africa and makes its way to the streets of Europe. Estimates on the volume of the cocaine trade vary greatly, ranging anywhere from 50 to 200 tons per year. Cannabis is another important product that is smuggled through the Sahel, but not in the same direction as cocaine. Originating from Morocco, large amounts of cannabis resin are trafficked through Western Sahara and the Sahel to end up in Libya, Egypt or the Arabian Peninsula.
In December last year, the Nigerian drug enforcement agency uncovered a so-called "super lab". Built with help from chemists from the Mexican drug cartels, these labs allow for the mass-production of methamphetamine, which will in turn largely enrich the Nigerian crime syndicates. If their resources increase, so will their power, with the potential of creating domestic, or even regional instability in the near future.
Impact on the local economy and population
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concluded that the vast money flows stemming from illicit activities in West Africa strongly undermine the capacity of the state to govern effectively. Paired with a pre-existing lack of government control in many of the remote areas of the Sahel, criminal groups and networks can roam freely across the permeable borders. Revenues from the illicit drug trade are often used by traffickers to provide basic services to the local population – something the central government is incapable of. This presents these groups as an alternative government authority, enhancing their legitimacy to the local population and thereby simplifying trafficking activities.
"Narco-Jihadism?"
While some analysts argue that a strong link exists between the active terrorist groups in the region (specifically Al-Qaeda) and drug trafficking groups, no convincing evidence can be presented for the existence of such links. The terrorist groups acquire the majority of their funding from kidnapping for ransom, contributions from Islamic NGOs and zakat, the obligations to donate part of one's revenue to charity.
In general, there are four levels on which organized crime groups and terrorist groups can interact when they operate in the same region: competition, coexistence, coordination or cooperation. Whereas in the first situation they compete for dominance in the same area, in the second scenario they merely occupy the same space. They actively coordinate in the third. In the case of cooperation between groups, scenarios arise where the terrorists protect the traffickers. The eventual outcome could even be a merging of the two actors, which would create "narco-terrorist" groups. Again, it is essential to understand that this has not been the case in the Sahel, although it is not entirely unthinkable for the future.
Role of the international community
The United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has a strong presence in West Africa, but has so far not been capable of countering drug trafficking and organized crime in the Sahel. The international community, and the Sahel countries alike, focus strongly on combating terrorism. The urgency of these challenges is easier defined, but that does not mean that other problems do not require attention. The Sahelian governments must be assisted by the European Union, the UN and individual states to also tackle this problem. The adoption of anti-trafficking laws in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali are a good start, but much work remains to be done.
Cocaine trafficking routes pass through West Africa.


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Cantes valientes es el cuarto álbum publicado por el músico sevillano de rock Poncho K.

Fue lanzado al mercado en 2007 editado por la multinacional discográfica Sony BMG.

Lista de canciones
 Corrientes Demolientes
 Al Loro
 Frontera
 Pescaitos
 Mentiras De Sal (junto a Evaristo)
 La Tarde Viajera
 Carnívoro Cuchillo
 Mientras Tanto
 La Cuenca
 Te Digo Ke No Te Quedes
 Nana A Un Cocodrilo

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 coveralia.com Ficha del disco

Álbumes de 2007
Álbumes de Poncho K
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#Probe hoisted aboard launcher to leave Earth next week on asteroid adventure
File photo of Atlas payload lift and mate. Credit: United Launch Alliance
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft today moved a step closer to starting a voyage to explore an uncharted world in our solar system — the mountain-sized Asteroid Bennu — by joining the booster rocket that will propel it from Earth next week.
Liftoff from Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket remains on schedule for Thursday, Sept. 8 at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT). Launch will be possible at every five-minute interval for two hours till the window closes at 9:05 p.m. EDT (0105 GMT).
The $800 million OSIRIS-REx project is the first U.S.-led asteroid sample return mission, a 7-year trek to grab a piece of Bennu and bring it back to Earth for study.
"We're interested in material from the earliest stages of solar system formation," said Dante Lauretta, the OSIRIS-REx principal investigator.
"We started out as a giant molecular cloud that collapsed down, conservation of angular momentum caused that material that didn't fall down into the proto-sun at the center to spin out into a disk. Inside that disk is where the planets formed, but before that could happen, material condensed into very tiny grains, dust, ice and organic molecules. We think those organic molecules were critical for the origin of life on our planet, and tantalizing clues are provided as to the possibility of the origin of life on other planets."
Like a time capsule, the primitive Bennu holds an unspoiled record of the conditions that existed during the solar system's formation 4.5 billion years ago. OSIRIS-REx will collect up to four mounds of that material and return it in a pristine canister, landing in Utah on Sept. 24, 2023.
"I've been interested in phosphorus compounds, and trace phosphates, which may be critical for DNA, RNA, ATP, critical molecules for our genetic information and for our energy in our cells. It's only by getting these samples into laboratories on Earth that we can address the fundamental science questions that we're interested in," Lauretta said.
In preparation for the mission, the spacecraft was driven from Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 before dawn today, pulling up to the doorway of the Vertical Integration Facility where the Atlas 5 rocket was assembled aboard a mobile launch platform.
Already hidden from view inside the rocket's aluminium nose cone, the satellite was hoisted from its transporter by an overhead crane and maneuvered atop the Centaur upper stage for mating.
The payload connection tops off the rocket at 189 feet tall.
The mission poster. Credit: United Launch Alliance
The Integrated Systems Test — a tip-to-tail electrical checkout of the combined satellite and launch vehicle — will be performed later this week, followed by holding the Flight Readiness Review.
After a quiet three-day holiday weekend, the Launch Readiness Review will be conducted next Tuesday and the rocket rolls out to the pad next Wednesday, the day before liftoff.
Here's a look at some stats about the AV-067 launch. This will be:
The 647th launch for Atlas program since 1957
The 352nd Atlas launch from Cape Canaveral
The 236th mission of a Centaur upper stage
The 213th use of Centaur by an Atlas rocket
The 472nd production RL10 engine to be launched
The 71st flight of an RD-180 main engine
The 65th launch of an Atlas 5 since 2002
The 13th NASA use of Atlas 5
The 54th launch of an Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral
The 5th Atlas 5 launch of 2016
The 98th Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle flight
The 111th United Launch Alliance flight overall
The 57th Atlas 5 under United Launch Alliance
The 26th NASA launch by United Launch Alliance
The 80th United Launch Alliance flight from Cape Canaveral
The 44th 400-series flight of the Atlas 5
The 4th Atlas 5 to fly in the 411 configuration
The 81st launch from Complex 41
The 54th Atlas 5 to use Complex 41
See earlier OSIRIS-REx coverage.
Our Atlas archive.
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Family of officer Lesley Zerebny grapples with loss a year after deadly shooting
Barrett Newkirk
Toward the end of the summer last year, Britta Boyer traveled back to her hometown of Hemet, Calif., to spend a week with her family and meet her newborn niece, Cora, for the first time.
Britta and her younger sister, Lesley Zerebny, were remarkably close. Friends in high school said it was unnatural how the two sisters got along so well. Now they were both in their 20s, married, and living more than 1,200 miles apart. Still, they talked constantly. Britta might call Lesley, or vise versa, and discover they'd been doing or thinking the same thing. They were connected like twins.
Britta worked as a court reporter in North Dakota. Lesley stayed in Hemet, was a police officer in Palm Springs not too far away and had just had her first child.
On the trip, Britta stayed with Lesley and her husband, Zack. One August evening, with the three adults relaxing in the Jacuzzi tub and baby Cora asleep inside, Lesley broke down crying. Her sister sometimes teased her for showing the emotions of a robot, but Lesley's tough persona had cracked. She couldn't believe how much love she felt for her daughter, who was then only a couple of months old.
More:Officer Gilbert Vega's death is 'still an open wound' for his close-knit family
"She was the happiest and most complete I'd ever seen her in our 27 years together," Britta said. "She had everything in August and September."
Then on Oct. 8, 2016, while responding to a call about a domestic disturbance at a Palm Springs home, Lesley and another officer, Jose "Gil" Vega, were shot and killed. She had just returned from maternity leave.
It happened on a Saturday afternoon. In North Dakota, Britta was barbecuing chicken for dinner when she got a call from the wife of her and Lesley's older brother, Peter. There had been a shooting and Lesley was somehow involved.
"How bad is it?" Britta asked.
"It's bad."
Britta immediately called her parents, David and Luanne Kling, who were at home in Hemet. David and Luanne knew they wanted to get to Palm Springs, about 90 minutes away, as soon as they could.
More:Palm Springs police shooting suspect captured after 12-hour 'nightmare' for community
They took a moment to pray and were about to leave their house when the phone rang again. It was Britta.
"She's gone," she told her father.
The Klings could no longer bring themselves to leave their house, where they had lived since 1997 and raised three children. Britta and her husband left North Dakota that night and took turns driving nonstop, making it to California 29 hours later.
Much of the next week was a blur.
"I remember the quiet times were the hardest," Britta said. "When things would kind of slow down and you'd run through everything in your head a hundred times over."
Palm Springs Police Chief Bryan Reyes visited the Klings at home, spending hours in their living room grieving and sharing stories about Lesley.
David had retired after a full career as an officer with the California Highway Patrol. His family was used to hearing his stories about the characters he met watching over Southern California freeways.
When Lesley joined the Palm Springs police, their roles reversed. She told him about how after she injured her eardrum, other officers made a video joking around that she was now hard of hearing. David knew it was a good sign.
"I told her, you're one of the guys now, honey, believe me," he said.
Lesley always had been one of the guys. In middle school, she tried out for the boys' football team, and it never bothered her that she was the only girl on camping trips with her father and his CHP buddies.
More:One year ago, Palm Springs police lost two officers. They're 'still struggling'
More:The fatal Palm Springs police shooting began with an argument over a TV remote
She loved the outdoors and exploring the landscape around the family's home in the hills south of Hemet, often in bare feet.
"She was our little pioneer girl," David said.
"She was a little bit of a pistol for teachers, especially in the Christian school," where Lesley went for her first years of grade school, Luanne said. "She wasn't quiet and she wasn't a real rule follower, especially if she thought the rule was dumb."
In high school, Lesley was a star student and played multiple sports. She didn't talk about going into law enforcement until later, and David naturally encouraged her to join the Highway Patrol.
She applied and was rejected. Lesley came home furious after an officer told her she needed more life experience and suggested she build her credit by getting a credit card and buying a pair of pants.
Update:Palm Springs cop shooter suspect John Felix declared competent to stand trial
The inspiration to try the Palm Springs Police Department came from an episode of "Cops" Lesley and her father caught one day at home. David was familiar with the city's police department from his time at CHP and thought his daughter would fit in well there. He encouraged her to apply, and three months later she was enrolled in the training academy.
"She was a phenomenal officer, and she would have been a fantastic Highway Patrol officer," David said.
The family said the past 12 months have been constant grief and that the approaching one-year anniversary has amplified the feeling of loss.
Cora has started to walk, and Zack Zerebny continues to work as a deputy with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Zack has done few interviews out of a desire to maintain some privacy for him and Cora, said his father, Matt Zerebny.
"We're just taking every day moment by moment," Matt said. "It's so hard looking forward or looking back, because you look forward and you look at all the milestones that Cora's going to have that her mom's not here to experience. That's going to be the rest of their lives."
Matt Zerebny, a chiropractor in Hemet, has started several endeavors to support law enforcement officers or their families, including a clothing line named after Cora that donates a portion of its profits to the families of killed officers.
Lesley and Zack met after high school and dated for a few years before they got married. The two had an instant connection, bonding over a love of the outdoors and mutual desires to work in law enforcement.
They got married at the Klings' home with Lesley designing the look and lighting.
"She just had it in her mind how she wanted it and then she got to work," Matt said. "It was beautiful."
More:Palm Springs police ambush: A timeline of a terrible day
Half of the Klings' living room is now a memorial to their slain daughter. There are photos and baby shoes, a stuffed owl she loved as a child and her police badge. Britta had all of Lesley's Instagram photos published in a book that sits on the Klings' coffee table. The last post, of a tree in Oak Glen, came two days before she died.
"There's not a single day goes by that we don't think about her and cry because we miss her so much," David said. "It's horrible, but you make the best you can of every day. What are you going to do? We have to be here for each other, for our other children, for Cora, for Zack."
About a month after the killings, David began stringing blue lights outside their home as a personal memorial to his daughter. An American Flag and the Thin Blue Line flag honoring police officers hang from their front porch.
David has spent parts of the past year traveling to police memorial events around the country, including Washington, DC, where he bonded with the family of a 9/11 first responder. His family and the family of officer Vega have also become close, texting with each other often.
"We all lost somebody that day, but we also gained a family that day," Britta said.
The man accused of killing the two police officers, John Hernandez Felix, is awaiting trial for charges that could bring the death penalty. The Klings have not attended court hearings but get updates from others who have gone. They said they will be there every day for Felix's trial.
The family will participate in the memorial events planned for Palm Springs on the anniversary. David said it will be a chance for him to express his gratitude for the support his family has received.
Britta will be traveling from North Dakota for the anniversary, flying most of the way this time. Living so far away from the family has made the past year especially difficult for her. The loss is never not there, she said, but sometimes it takes her a moment to remember that she can't simply call or text her sister. Just a year ago, it happened all of the time without hesitation.
"It doesn't feel like it's been a year. It feels like it's a couple of months still," Britta said. "I couldn't tell you things I did this winter or spring. It's like the timeline is gone."
Reporter Barrett Newkirk can be reached at (760)778-4767 or barrett.newkirk@desertsun.com.


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You can't say 'kak' or 'koek' while kids may be watching, ad regulator rules against Pudo
Ntando Thukwana , Business Insider SA
A still of the Pudo advert where the words "koek" and "kak" are made.
South Africa's advertising watchdog has barred Courier Guy from airing some of its ads during family viewing times, because they use the words such as "kak" and "koek".
While the regulator found that undeniable sexual innuendo in the ads, it was more concerned by the use of "kak", which means "shit" in Afrikaans.
The same company landed itself in trouble last year when it aired a controversial advert that used the word "doos", a vulgar reference to vagina as well as a shipping box.
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South Africa's ad regulator has barred Courier Guy from airing five of its PUDO ads while children may be watching, because they contain the words "kak" and "koek".
In a recent complaint, the adverts were blasted for using foul language, and references to sex, during family viewing time.
South Africa's advertising watchdog, the Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB), explicitly ordered Courier Guy only to air its Pudo adverts during watershed periods, or between 21:00 and 05:00, when they are unlikely to reach children.
Courier Guy denied any innuendo or vulgarity in its response, saying that the complainant's interpretation was based on their perspective and not its intended messaging.
But the innuendoes are palpable and undeniable, the ARB said.
All five adverts also feature a payoff line; "Sending stuff can be a bit kak, but with Pudo, it's kak easy!"), which formed part of the ARB's reasons for the sanction against Courier Guy, Pudo's parent company.
It's not the first time Pudo, the courier service that allows customers to send and receive parcels from designated lockers, has landed in trouble for its adverts.
In August last year, its commercial featuring the word "doos", (an Afrikaans vulgar slang word meaning vagina, as well as a standard reference to a shipping box) was barred from being aired in family viewing times. At the time, the ARB said parents would not want their kids to make use of the word. The ARB used that ruling to guide its decision in the latest ads.
In the first advert, a couple is seen in a bedroom, and they are dressed in leather clothing and masks. A whip is seen on the floor, and the man's hand is handcuffed to a bed while the woman handcuffs the other hand, just as a Pudo package arrives, prompted by the ringing doorbell.
In its ruling, the advertising regulator said the presence of the sexual innuendo did not warrant the removal of the commercial. It said the couple did not behave in a way that would cause offence or harm children because they were neither fondling one another nor engaged in a passionate embrace.
In another of the adverts, a Pudo deliveryman arrives at a door to collect a parcel and rings the doorbell. A female voice answers from inside, "One second please, I'm just busy with my koek". When the door is eventually opened, the deliveryman notices a table full of boxed cakes and then remarks, "Oh, koek" as he walks away.
In this ad, Courier Guy denied sexual innuendo and said the "koek" commercial merely references a person baking cakes while mixing her languages.
In contrast, the regulator said adults are likely to realise that the pun is intended to be tongue in cheek, given that the female character is baking cakes and said even kids understood it, it would not cause harm to them.
According to the Afrikaans dictionary, koek is an obscene reference to female genitalia.
"This, coupled with the background noises and her exclamation "... I'm coming!" plays on the notion of masturbation."
In a separate ad, a lady receives a package from "adulttoybox.com" while she is at the office; she then says, "getting stuff delivered to work can be a bit kak", and is then seen in a different scene collecting a similar package from a locker. She then says, "with Pudo, it's kak easy," and the scene closes with the delivery box vibrating.
In its argument, Courier Guy said the vibrating delivery is never referenced as a vibrator.
It is disingenuous to deny the innuendo in this ad as it leads the viewer to conclude that the content of the package is an adult toy, the ad regulator said.
"In a society based on dignity, equality, and freedom, it would be unreasonable to order the withdrawal of this commercial based only on the fact that some viewers find its content discomforting," the regulator said.
It said children who can make sense of the ad are not likely to be adversely affected, and those who can't spot the innuendo would not be harmed by the commercial.
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Q: Laptop with integrated and discrete card I want to buy Lenovo yoga 710. I am concerned about general compatibility of this laptop with Linux especially graphics card. It has two graphics card. One is integrated with Intel processor other is discrete Nvidia 940MX. On windows Nvidia switches off when it is not needed and activates when it is needed (optimus technology). Does it work same on Linux?

A: I can tell you about my experiences so far. I got a Acer Aspire V5 Nitro with an i5 and nvidia 940m. I'm using Fedora 25 with the default nouveau driver. Maybe that nouveau lacks in performance, but it handles dynamic switches very well. Mostly i have it off power saving, even hdmi is working.